Home may not be a place, maybe it is just a feeling of warmth and comfort related to someone, home may be there, or it may not be anywhere but in the heart.

"Did you feel anything unusual when you were in the Aikang Group?" Before leaving, I pulled Dong Jian to the corner of the garage of the office building and whispered a question.

Dong Jian carefully recalled the recent past, and slowly shook his head, "It's not particularly unusual, but it doesn't mean that the target of the person in Lao Di's video is not Li Xiaoai, in short, you usually pay more attention, if you really can't do it, call Liu Lian and ask her to help you keep an eye on it." ”

After saying that, Dong Jian drove away from the exit of the underground garage to meet with the group, and the recent business has been so busy that everyone has to run at full capacity.

"Where do you go next?" Back at the exit on the first floor of the office building, Li Xiaoai was a little confused.

"Go back to the Aikang Park or find a place to stay?" Li Xiaoai's eyes looked a little dazed, "It doesn't seem to be useful, and no one seems to have figured out what happened recently." ”

"Doesn't that mean you can find a random inn every day?" As far as the eye can see, the streets that usually come and go are already sparsely populated, and it is almost the New Year.

After more than a month of private security work, I am now the only one left by Li Xiaoai's side, during which countless questions have been haunting my mind, but I don't know where to start, "Do you have a clue about you or Aikang or your father?" Maybe the police can help you stop hiding from the rest of the day. ”

Li Xiaoai turned her head, as if answering my question with a look that I couldn't understand at all, a little panicked, a little lost, and faintly seemed to be hiding some secrets.

She shook her head silently, and answered my question, "Let's go have a meal first, it's really suffocating to death in Aikang's cafeteria all day." Suddenly, she seemed to regain that fresh breath, and turned around with the corners of her mouth slightly bent to leave her troubles behind.

That fresh smile was like a mask, which could hide her restlessness so that no one would notice, but the mask in front of me was like a thin veil, and once upon a time I wore a mask and smiled at everyone like her. I want to numb myself with alcohol all the time, just like the one in front of me. Later, I gradually realized that most of the suffering in everyone's heart is difficult for others to understand, unless they have experienced it.

Li Xiaoai's back is silent and lonely, like a willow tree in the winter sea breeze, which looks a little slender, and it looks a little out of place in this special zone without willows. A festive festival like the Spring Festival makes people feel surprisingly deserted, with closed restaurant doors, the sea breeze, and few pedestrians, it can be a bit difficult to find a decent restaurant.

"It seems that everyone has gone home for the holidays, and I wanted to invite you to a meal to repay the grace of saving your life, but it seems that there is no chance." After walking some distance, Li Xiaoai turned around and sighed, and then showed her masked smile again.

The reluctant smile is like a cherry blossom falling in the winter sea breeze, beautiful but not real.

"Why didn't you think about going to your mother? She should be able to help you. "Sitting side by side on a bench in the coastal park, Li Xiaoai and I held freshly baked octopus balls, the only food we could find in the neighborhood that would fill our stomachs.

Li Xiaoai buried her head again and fell silent, the bamboo sticks in her hand kept piercing holes in the octopus balls, but she didn't see her put them in her mouth, "She just gave me life, that's all, I shouldn't disturb her life, she definitely doesn't want me to break in and mess up everything like this." ”

The voice was as soft as an exhale, and if you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't know what she was muttering.

The waves are constantly lapping on the shore, the warm light shines on the rolling waves, reflecting the irregular crystal, everything is so calm and peaceful, the Spring Festival is finally coming. Husbands hug their wives, mothers cook fragrant hometown dishes in front of the stove, children chase and play in the fields, and the air in front of the temple is filled with the smell of incense. No one cares about those who are lonely, and the feeling of ice may not come from the cold wind, but from the bottom of their hearts.

Looking at the girl curled up next to her who still keeps tying octopus balls with bamboo sticks, does no one really care about her?

"So how will this Spring Festival be celebrated? You don't want to go back to that empty office building to spend the Spring Festival, do you? I deliberately amplified my voice to pull her back from her thoughts.

"Huh?" Li Xiaoai looked at me with wide eyes, "Then how are you doing?" ”

"I was going to take two days to go home for the Spring Festival, but it seems that I have to work overtime, but fortunately, the overtime salary is not low, and it will be easy to explain to my family in the future." I looked at the sea and stuffed a whole octopus ball into my mouth, thinking that the life of an ordinary person should be very different from the life of her former eldest lady.

"Do you have a family?" Li Xiaoai showed an incredible question, but she quickly reacted that it was a little inappropriate to ask this question, "Eh, I mean where is your family?" ”

"Not in the SAR." The answer, which is not an answer, "Do you have any other relatives?" There were so many people at your father's funeral, and they all looked like people of great stature. ”

She buried her head, still silent, and resumed the movement in her hand, "I don't know those people, maybe they just know my father, right?" Relatives ~ Relatives can't talk about relatives at all ~"

Once again, countless questions arose in my mind, how did she live so big?

"That?" We spit out a word at the same time.

After a pause, the two men on the bench looked at each other.

"Just~" is still the same word, and we even feel incredible when we open our eyes.

After another pause, I wasn't sure if the faint heartbeat was coming from me or from her next to me, except for the sound of the waves.

"Let's talk first." I turned my head and politely invited.

"Then go to your house, shall we? Don't delay work, don't delay family reunions. Li Xiaoai pursed her lips and let out a soft laugh, and finally sent the punctured octopus balls into her mouth.

Actually, what I want to say is, then stay and go home with you to see, because I clearly remember that she said that Li Shukang left her a word before she died, "home". Li Xiaoai should have a family, even if she doesn't have a family.

"What? Don't you want to go back? Seeing that I was a little hesitant, Li Xiaoai continued to ask.

I was not prepared to mix the two in my work and life, and I did not think about bringing danger to my family, and security work is not suitable for involving my family. Even after half a year, my mother only knew a little about the work I was doing, thinking that it was just similar to those glamorous security guards of large companies, but with a slightly higher income.

"Then ~ just ~ forget it." Her tone was a little lost, and the corners of her eyes sank.

"Where are you going?" Li Xiaoai stood up, and I didn't have time to ask before I took a step.

"I don't know~" She got up and walked along the road inside the coastal park, the sea breeze blew her already somewhat messy hair in the wind, and there was a kind of unstoppable depression.

There was a faint scent of lavender in the wind, but once upon a time the faint scent of gardenia in the sea breeze passed the tip of my nose. I don't know why I actually remembered Xinrui, why the back is so familiar.