My house is a top floor with an attic, a south-facing terrace, the neighbors have planted some flowers and plants, and there are sunrooms, only my family, the terrace is full of decoration garbage, wooden tables and chairs are stacked very high, at night by the moonlight, the shadow dangles on the window, strange and infiltrating.

The sky was covered with goose feathers and heavy snow, falling quietly, this scene was very strange, the snow was falling one by one, and it fell very quickly, but there was no sound at all.

Although it was not too late, just a little after 7 o'clock, it was already very dark, and with the heavy snow, there were no people on the road.

Before I knew it, I had arrived home, standing in the courtyard of the community in a daze, looking up at my home, and the window was shining a faint light.

Suddenly I felt in a trance, everything was so strange.

Well, what should be faced, sooner or later, will have to be faced.

The house is still so chaotic, even more chaotic than before, I think that Lu Xu's medicine has not played the slightest role, and I still can't tell which ones are real and which ones are my own hallucinations.

Since the events of November 18 passed, I have become more puzzled and helpless about my illness, thinking that only mental insanity will hallucinate, but November 18, a repeat day, makes it difficult for me to convince myself with delusions.

Although I was slowly relieved later, after all, I have been so much for more than 20 years, and I have already developed a special skill that can accept it calmly no matter how ridiculous things occur.

When I get home, I still feel familiar when I see the garbage and clutter that can never be cleaned up.

There are still so many snack bags on the glass coffee table, no different from before, and the reddish-brown big-faced dog pillow on the sofa has never been moved.

It seems that these are still hallucinations.

"Big camel, what are you looking at?" Ling Long walked over.

She is no longer the little girl I remember dragging me to accompany her for June 1st, although she is still only 16 years old, still a child, but at least 170cm tall, tall and slender, a lot more mature.

I flickered, and she didn't ask me any more questions, and turned and went into the kitchen.

"Have you eaten?" She asked casually.

I didn't know how to communicate with her, how to deal with her.

"No, what about you?"

"I didn't eat either." She opened the fridge and didn't look at me.

She's avoiding me, too.

"I think this has a quick hot meal, let's deal with it." She said so, take out the instant rice and put it in the microwave. "Both of them are black pepper chicken cutlets, I love them."

I leaned against the kitchen door frame and looked at Ling Long's back in a daze.

Why did Ling Youjiang entrust his daughter to me?

6 years ago, after he lost his wife, he came to City C and opened a jewelry store, he has a lot of contacts in his hands, and there are more or less people who can talk in the major business fields, and I, who have no power and no power, can I entrust my daughter and Wanguan's family wealth just because I am more close to Ling Youjiang?

This Ling Youjiang is too unreliable, right? I'm only 26 years old, how can I raise such a daughter? I'm too busy to take care of myself, where can he see that I have the potential to be a father?

It doesn't make sense at all. There must be some clues, Ling Youjiang's move, there must be a reason that I don't understand yet.

"Ding~" The microwave oven is ready.

I came back to my senses and sat down at the table, thinking about how to speak.

Ling Long didn't let this embarrassment last, she tasted the black pepper chicken steak rice first.

"Hmm~ You bought this meal, it's not bad, do the people's police often have to eat these processed foods?" She lowered her head and ate.

It was only then that I noticed that her eyes were red and swollen, and I suddenly felt like a huge fleshy thorn growing in my heart.

"Hmm...... Oh, yes. "I also took a bite and it tasted like chewing wax.

……

"By the way, I was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Brigade today." I paused, and with a ruthless heart, I continued, "Take charge of your dad's case." ”

A few seconds of silence made me feel like I couldn't breathe.

"Oh," she responded, "it's hard for you, to have me as a drag bottle." ”

The flesh thorns in my heart pierced deeper again, as if I was determined to pierce the deepest part.

I knew earlier that Ling Long had been by his father's side since he was a child, she was an empathetic girl, she never let her father worry about it, and every time Ling Youjiang mentioned his baby daughter, she was proud. "I'm really blessed to have cultivated in several lifetimes, to have such a sensible girl."

Although he knew that Ling Long was so sensible, he never thought that she was such a cautious girl.

Now that she has no parents and relatives, her father entrusted herself to a friend, and the property was transferred to someone else's name, Ling Long's heart must be extremely uneasy at this time, but she can still say this kind of "embarrassed you" words.

"I won't touch any of your father's money, and I'll give it to you when you become an adult." I said lightly.

Even though I love her in my heart, I still don't know if I can grasp the scale and take care of her, and I am really confused about this newly established relationship.

Ling Long listened to my words, suddenly raised his head, and looked straight at me with an unpredictable expression.

I was a dignified young man, and she looked at her, "What's wrong?" ”

Her brows tightened, her eyes widened, as if she was smiling, thoughtful, "If you don't give it to me, are you still going to swallow it yourself?" Then he sneered.

That's when I realized that I was talking stupidly. Then he laughed.

"Who dares to embezzle your money, right, eldest lady."

Chinese people may have a breeze in their bones, and mentioning money will hurt feelings, and mentioning money will always make the other party not know how to answer, and the atmosphere will become very embarrassing.

It was me who was too negligent about her feelings, but Ling Long's reaction made people feel very comfortable, and the familiar feeling from before returned.

Her reaction was to tell me that she had never doubted me.

Good trust is the foundation of a new relationship, and having such a 'daughter' with high emotional intelligence gives me confidence in this relationship.

"However, I'll take care of you for nothing, do you want to pay me some salary?" I continued to quip.

"Are you embarrassed, I'll take care of you pretty much." Ling Long gave me a blank look and continued to eat.

Perhaps, grief can be hidden.

But it won't go away.

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Later in the evening, Ling Long slept in the upstairs bedroom, and I slept in the second bedroom downstairs.

Suddenly, she knocked on my door in her pajamas with long sleeves and long pants.

"Big camel, on the balcony outside, seems to have ...... There is something. Ling Long said tremblingly.

I rolled over and got up, took a few steps to the attic, and asked her to wait downstairs.

The door of the balcony is made of ordinary broken bridge aluminum, and the door is a handle lock, which saves money when decorating, and the safety factor is indeed lower.

I came to hit the balcony, and the street lamp downstairs swayed so hard that I couldn't see what was on the balcony, and it was pitch black, so I turned on the flashlight and looked carefully at the traces of snow on the ground.

It's messy, as if someone has just cleaned up the footprints quickly in order to erase the traces.

But it's more like the wind is too strong, and there are a lot of items piled up on the balcony, and the direction of the wind is constantly changing, so the snow marks are messy.

I scanned my surroundings again, thinking that maybe I was thinking too much. After all, occupational diseases are a bit serious, especially when something has happened recently, and there is a lot of pressure.

When he came downstairs, he asked Ling Long what he saw.

"Didn't you see anything? That...... Maybe it's a mouse. Ling Long said hesitantly.

No, not rats.

It is said that the little girl's reaction when she sees the mouse should be screaming and running wildly, but Ling Long is so calm, it can only show that there is not really a mouse, but what she is afraid of, maybe she is afraid of sleeping upstairs alone, she has just changed the environment, and something like that happened at home.

But the girl's family didn't want to tell me directly that I was afraid, so I made up a set of rhetoric like a mouse, so that both sides had steps.

Thinking about it, I probably thought I understood.

"Then you sleep in my room, I sleep in the living room, you open the door, and if there are mice, you call me."

However, out of an abundance of caution, I locked the attic door.

Linglong nodded, quickly slipped into my room, and then walked out with my quilt in her arms and put it on the sofa with a grin.

"Then it's hard for you to sleep on the sofa~"

After that, he picked up the reddish-brown dog's pillow on the sofa, pointed to the snacks on the table and said, "I bought these snacks, if you are hungry in the middle of the night, eat some." ”

She waved her hand at the stunned me, "Good night." ”