"Hello, I'm Mao Daxin, who contacted you before."

The door was opened by a chubby middle-aged woman, wearing a favorite rainbow striped shirt of her age, with no wrinkles on her round face, and she seemed to be kind and kind-eyed, and when she saw Mao Daxin, she warmly invited them in.

Mao Daxin and Ah Moon entered the house and looked around the living room, just the layout of ordinary people's homes, and the group photo of a family of three at the entrance, it can be seen that the middle-aged woman's son is in his twenties.

"Excuse me, are you Ms. Liu Qiongbao?" Mao Daxin asked while sitting on the sofa.

"Yes, yes, I am." The middle-aged woman named Liu Qiongbao replied with a smile, she poured two cups of herbal tea for the two, sat on the sofa, and looked at the two with a smile: "I don't know what Comrade Xiaomao is looking for me?" ”

"Well, that's the case, I want to ask, do you know a person named Qi Ming?" Mao Daxin asked straight questions.

Liu Qiongbao was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Mao Daxin to suddenly mention this childhood playmate, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, she lowered her head and said a little sadly: "Well, I know, he is my younger brother, uh no, I treat him as my own brother." ”

"Well, but he's been dead for a long time, so why are you suddenly asking about him?" Liu Qiongbao raised her head nervously, stared at Mao Daxin and asked.

"Oh no, we... We have cases involving him ... Mao Daxin saw that Liu Qiongbao's face was even more nervous, and hurriedly explained: "Oh, it has nothing to do with him, uh... We just want to know about Qi Ming's situation. ”

"Oh, that's good, that's good. Ah Ming will not do anything illegal, he is very timid, and he will never go out if he can usually go out. In today's terms, what did my son say that day... Oh, otaku, standard otaku. ”

"Otaku?" Mao Daxin was a little surprised: "Isn't he doing engineering drawing work?" ”

"Yes, he's very afraid of dealing with people, those drawings are drawn at home, and the engineering team sent someone to pick them up after painting, the engineering team was brought by my husband's brother, so he is more tolerant, and he is really powerful, according to my husband, those engineering drawings are so full of rules and regulations, and what is the proportion, he didn't miss it again." Liu Qiongbao recalled the events of that year, with a smile on her face, and that time should have been very beautiful in her mind.

"Then he's all at home, how can he live, there shouldn't be any takeaway or anything like that at that time." Ah Moon asked curiously.

"Oh, he lives not very far from me, I gave him three meals a day, and I bought his clothes for him, and this kid doesn't know what's going on, he's very scared."

Liu Qiongbao was still embarrassed when she talked about what happened back then, she suddenly remembered something, and said: "Oh, by the way, he is also very afraid of the dark and fire." So he never went into the kitchen, and all the lights were on in the house, day or night. ”

"Afraid of people, afraid of the dark, afraid of fire?" Mao Daxin frowned: "Did he encounter anything big when he was a child?" ”

"I don't know about this, he didn't say it, but when I met him, he was still very normal, like other boys, he loves to play, loves to make trouble, and is very lively." Liu Qiongbao also shook his head suspiciously.

"When did you first meet?" Mao Daxin asked.

"We grew up in the same orphanage. I was three years older than him, and when he arrived at the orphanage, he was already 7 years old, and no one would like to adopt such a big child, and so did I, so we orphans who had no one to adopt stayed in the orphanage and grew up together. Liu Qiongbao said.

"And then?" Mao Daxin asked.

"Later, he boy is very naughty, often climb out of the wall to play outside, our orphanage is the entrance of the road, there are a lot of cars, people, etc., but behind it is a mountain, called Wushan, not particularly high, it is more remote, but the children in the orphanage like to go up the mountain to play, because there are more things to play on the mountain than in the orphanage."

"I remember one time, they made an appointment to go out over the wall together, but later, Ah Ming didn't come back for a long time, and then the teacher in the orphanage went to look for him and found him in a low-lying place on the mountain, it was raining heavily that day, he was drenched all night, and when he came back, he had a fever."

"He was sick for several days, and the doctors who came said that there was no help, and it was also his life that he survived. At that time, I was taking care of him, we were from the same place, and I was my sister, so the dean filmed me taking care of him. Maybe it was because the first person he saw when he opened his eyes was me, so he relied on me very much later. ”

Liu Qiongbao said as he pulled out a photo album from the drawer, and at the end of the album there was a yellowed photo, which was a group photo, with more than a dozen children and several teachers, Liu Qiongbao pointed to one of the little boys and said, "This is the only photo we took in the orphanage at that time." ”

"Alas, it's also the only photo of me and Ah Ming, and then he didn't want to see people or go out, so we never took pictures again, alas, I regret it." Mao Daxin took the album from Liu Qiongbao's hand and looked at the position she pointed.

The age of the photo is a long time ago, everyone's appearance is a little blurred, the little boy Liu Qiongbao pointed to is hiding behind a little girl who is a head taller than him, pulling the corners of her clothes with both hands, only half of his face is exposed, and he looks really timid and cowardly.

"Did he become so afraid of people, fire, and the dark after he got sick that time? Did he say anything about what he went through after he went out? Mao Daxin took a photo of the mobile phone bar and returned it to Liu Qiongbao.

Liu Qiongbao carefully took the photo back into the album, closed it and hugged it to his chest, and continued: "We asked him after he got better, and he said he didn't remember. We didn't ask again, but it was true that since then, his personality has changed, and he has been bullied by other children, saying that he is as timid as a girl, and I protect him. ”

"I sometimes get angry when I see him like that, worrying about what I will do with him when I am not there, but I didn't expect him to leave so much earlier than me." Liu Qiongbao's depressed voice became lower and lower.

"How did he get into trouble?" Mao Daxin asked.

"Blame me, something happened to my family at that time, I was too busy, I didn't go to see him for several days, and then he may have been hungry at home, so he walked out by himself, but he didn't expect to have an accident on the road, and was hit by a novice car, and when he woke up, he suddenly lost his brain." Liu Qiongbao frowned reproachfully.

"He kept shouting, death is coming, what hell, what eyes, uh... And what, oh yes, he said that the people who were already dead came back to life, oh yes, and the red devil. ”