At 9:30 p.m., the taxi with the number FT1237 stopped on the side of the road, and the customer paid and got off.

Bai Qiu drove the car into the parking lot area on the side of the road in front, more than 20 years of driving habits, civilized driving, civilized parking is the most basic principle he adheres to.

It's not bad tonight, I took over the shift at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and now I've almost earned the money for the shift.

In other words, every job pulled next is purely earned.

As the pillar of the family, for more than 20 years, he has relied on him to drive a taxi to support the family.

A few years ago, it was better, but since the emergence of online car-hailing, taxi work has become more and more difficult, and income has directly decreased sharply.

The burden of life on your shoulders is getting heavier and heavier.

My son graduated from college this year and was admitted to graduate school, and my daughter is about to go to college after graduating from high school. The burden on the family is getting heavier and heavier, and it is really sad for him, the head of the family.

It turned out that the head of the family was so difficult to be, and he wanted Dean Bai to manage so many children in the welfare home back then. Every day, when I wake up, there are dozens of mouths waiting to eat. Although they are all coarse tea and light rice, it is not easy.

After the car was parked, I went to the supermarket to use a toilet.

I went back to the car and called home, and went to the appointment with Officer Yi, and the time was just right.

Punctuality, a habit he has developed over the years, is another principle he adheres to.

His daughter has been nervous about studying recently, and he insists on making this phone call every day, firstly to cheer up his daughter, and secondly, to let her rest and relax after she has been immersed in reviewing her homework.

After hanging up his daughter's phone, someone opened the back door of the car and sat up directly, there was not much time left before the appointment with Officer Yi, and he didn't want to be late.

"I'm sorry, sir, I have something to do, I can't pull customers, you can take another taxi!"

The people who came did not get out of the car.

"Master, the car here is not easy to fight, I have an emergency, please send me to Xiaohe Town in the suburbs."

"No, sir, I have an appointment here, I can't miss the appointment!"

"Master, I'll give you a hundred yuan, you should do a good deed, I really have a life-threatening matter here, and I can't delay it at all!"

He is very stubborn, although he has been an orphan since he was a child, Dean Bai often teaches him to be honest and trustworthy.

Money can be earned again, but integrity cannot be lost.

"I'm sorry, sir, I won't pull you even if you give me more money. Why don't I pull you to the intersection in front of you to take a taxi! ”

The person in the back was silent, probably acquiescing.

The car started up and drove forward in the night.

The car stopped in the shadow of a street tree, and the man in the back seat did not get out of the car, but only sighed and said a word.

"Why are you doing this? Whether you pull or not, it can only be one ending. ”

A pungent smell hit, and the last image in his eyes was that person, with a white face, particularly indifferent.

When he woke up, he didn't know where it was.

But the man in front of him was still there, dressed as a clown.

A face stained with oil paint without leaving a single gap, and a big mouth painted red and pulled, it is impossible to tell whether he is smiling or not.

But those eyes, he knew that the clown had been staring at him, and his heart was furious.

He struggled to move himself behind him, trying to distance himself from the menacing figure.

But soon, he found out that he couldn't. He was chained to the bathroom pipe.

The bathroom is not big, but the decoration is still good, at least in his opinion, it is the best toilet he has ever seen. To put it mildly, it's much better than the cramped and cramped kitchen of his house.

The streamlined design and stark black and white accents add to a mystical touch.

It looks out of place with the colorful clown in front of him.

He wanted to shout, but when he saw the situation clearly, he decided to wait and see.

The bathroom was brightly lit, but there were no windows, not even a ventilated window. Even if he shouted in his throat, no one would hear him.

Instead, it will anger the person in front of him, although he doesn't know what the purpose of this clown is?

He took his nerve and spoke.

"Who are you? What are you doing? ”

The clown smiled, and his voice seemed to come from another world, a particularly ugly sound.

"Don't ask me who I am? Sometimes I don't even know who I am, and I hate it when people ask me that. ”

When the last word was spoken, the lines of the oil paint muscles on the clown's face were exaggeratedly pulled, and he clearly felt the anger of the other party.

He didn't want to provoke him, that would be of no use to himself.

"Alright! What do you want me to do? ”

He understood that he was nothing more than a taxi driver, and that the clown had brought himself to such a place, apparently not for robbery, but for another purpose.

The clown's big mouth grinned again.

"Well, you're pretty practical. Unfortunately, I don't want you to do anything? You just have to stay here quietly. ”

He couldn't figure out why this clown had brought himself to this place, since he had always been humble and obedient, and had not offended anyone.

Is it just because I refuse to take the car?

He hoped for good words and persuasion, and let the clown let him go.

"I'm sorry sir, it was my fault that I refused to carry you, and here I sincerely apologize to you. I don't know what time it is, but if I don't go home for a long time, my family will be worried, and the police officer, who has made an appointment with me, and if I don't get to that place on time, he will be suspicious. So sir, if you let me go, I'll act as if nothing happened. ”

The clown laughed, he laughed a little presumptuously.

"Haha, Bai Qiu, you are a lot old, how can you be naïve? I've gone to great lengths to get you, do you think I'll let you go easily? ”

"Well, I don't understand, why you got me here."

"Alright! Let me ask you, did you grow up in the Tin Fook Tong Welfare Institute? ”

"yes, what's wrong?"

"That's right, do you remember 38 years ago, there was a pair of twin brothers in the welfare home who were adopted by two couples abroad?"

"You're talking about the twin brothers?"

"Yes, do you remember their names?"

He thought for a long time: "Time is too long, but I remember their nicknames, and the dean gave them two particularly cute nicknames, Huanhuan and Xixi. What a pair of lovely twins, who always followed me and called me Brother Tian, and when they left, I was very reluctant to cry secretly. ”

The clown's face was heavily painted, and he couldn't tell his age, but he wanted to ask himself about the two orphans back then, why did they do it in this way?

"Well, good, good. Do you remember who the family that adopted them was? ”

He shook his head: "I only know that they were adopted by foreigners, as for who they are, I think only the dean knows, foreigners' names are very long, it is difficult to remember." ”