Chapter 4: I am Xiaolian
Lee Ka Lok feels the same way as me.
He said that there were many people around him, and many things were obviously around him, and it was obvious that they had just happened.
However, inexplicably it disappeared.
When I heard this, I felt a chuckle in my heart.
The old Lu couple I met in the rental house before, Wang Jia and Deng Guihua, and Mei Mei. They had all been with me before, but it seemed that in an instant, they were all gone.
The only one who can remember them is me.
After the beginning of autumn, it gets dark very early, and it is not cold or hot weather, and it is very pastime to visit the night market.
Most of the people who came to us had similar expressions.
When I looked at them, I suddenly felt that everyone was so familiar.
Qingshen County is not big, there are a total of three or four hundred thousand people, I grew up here, I have opened a noodle shop over the years, and I have seen countless faces with my father.
But not every single one of them I've seen.
Why, do I think everyone is familiar?
Not only do they look familiar, but their expressions, the demeanor and movements they speak, and the way they walk, all seem to be engraved in my mind, and I can imagine their living habits, attitudes, and ways of speaking at a glance.
So, I asked Li Jiale if he felt this way.
Li Jiale said: "Of course, I am more serious than you, not only do I know all of them, I can even guess their voices." ”
That's when I was hit from behind.
When I turned around, I saw a little girl pounce on me, and when I flicked her body, she didn't stand firmly, and she was about to fall backwards.
I grabbed her arm.
As the girl stabilized, she smiled at me and said thank you.
After seeing her clearly, I was stunned.
This girl who bumped into me from behind was actually Meimei.
"Meimei!"
I grabbed her arm, widened my eyes and shouted, "Why are you here, aren't you in the welfare home, and since you are on Huaihua Street, why didn't you come to me?" ”
As he was talking, an uncle next to him walked over.
When he saw me pulling the girl, he hurriedly said to me: "The child didn't mean to bump into you just now, she wanted to eat the sugar and oil fruit in the front stall, and she ran too fast, so I didn't hold her ......"
I stared at the uncle and asked, "Is this your granddaughter?" ”
Uncle hmmmmmmmm
Li Jiale saw that my expression was not natural, and he didn't say anything, but stood aside and looked at me.
I glanced at Li Jiale.
After a while, he lowered his head and asked the girl, "Meimei, you really don't know me anymore?" I'm Sister Xiaofan, you forgot me, in the attic of the chicken noodle shop, let's sleep in the same bed......"
The mole on the girl's eyebrows is clearly visible.
When she smiled at me, the dimples on her face were very familiar to me.
This girl, how do you look at it, how is Meimei.
At this time, I suddenly thought of the aunt I met at the entrance of the fried chicken restaurant just now, so I asked the girl, "Are you really not Meimei?" ”
"Yes."
"Then ......," I said carefully, "are you quiet?" You're separated from my grandmother, she's waiting for you in front of the fried chicken restaurant, you go over quickly, or she'll die in a hurry."
Seeing that my expression was serious, the girl was a little scared.
She let go of my hand at once, leaned over to the old man's side, and heard the girl say in a trembling voice: "My name is Xiaolian, I am not Meimei, nor Jingjing, I went out with my grandfather to eat sugar and oil fruits." Sister, what the hell are you talking about, I can't understand it......"
Xiaolian?
Why did a little lotus come out again?
Just when I was wondering, Li Jiale came over and patted me on the shoulder: "Tang Xiaofan, you must have recognized the wrong person, children, they all look similar, what should you do if you are so startled and scared of children?" ”
The girl hid behind the uncle.
She poked her head out slightly to look at me, the uncle seemed to be an honest man, for fear that I would blame the child, he tried his best to protect the child, and after touching it in his pocket for a while, he took out a hundred yuan and handed it to me:
"This money, pay you for it, if it's enough, I'll bring so much, if it's really not good, I'll go back and get you the money......"
There were a few people around.
They looked at me with disdain.
It's as if I'm a villain who doesn't forgive this pair of grandchildren and grandchildren, and even they onlookers can't stand it. I was about to say something, when Li Jiale came over and pushed the money away from the uncle's hand:
"Okay, children are just playing, what kind of money to accompany them, but let me remind you, you have to be optimistic, recently there have been losing children everywhere, just now there was a fried chicken restaurant lost one, that child is about the same age as your granddaughter, and he looks very similar."
Uncle, oh oh a few times.
He looked down at his daughter Su and grabbed her hand:
"I lost the child over there, go back with my grandfather, or I'll be arrested by the traffickers!"
Xiaolian looked up at her grandfather:
"Where's the grab?"
"Grab and sell!"
"Where do you sell it?"
"Sell ......" The uncle suddenly stopped, he looked around, and then suddenly asked me: "Yes, human traffickers, why do you want to catch children, and you finally caught children, why do you still sell them?" ”
That's a baffling question.
It's true that a child can ask that, but you are an old man, shouldn't you have a lot of life experience, how can you not even understand the question of why traffickers sell children.
Without waiting for me to say anything, Li Jiale stepped forward again and said:
"Okay, don't be so clear about this problem, just do what you need to do."
Li Jiale said these words, not very polite.
I thought the uncle was going to be angry, but he nodded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, I don't know why I want to discuss this issue with you, there has never been such a thing before, I'm all messed up!" ”
After saying that, he pulled the girl and turned around and left.
The people around me gradually dispersed, but I saw a face in the crowd, she was none other than the aunt who had just lost her granddaughter and was sitting in front of the fried chicken restaurant crying.
She just lost her granddaughter, but now she looks like a person who has nothing to do.
After staring at us for a while, the expression on her face was also very disdainful, and I saw the corners of her mouth open slightly a few times, and spit out such a sentence: "Bullying the elderly, this is not good." ”
As soon as she said this, she saw a little girl running up to her.
The girl called "Grandma," and I saw her holding a bunch of smoking sugar and butter berries in her hand.
What shocked me was that this kid actually looked exactly the same as Mei Mei......