In the dark, people can often see more clearly, and my panic is gradually replaced by composure.

Lao Xu was the captain of the criminal investigation brigade earlier, and later because of a case, he was demoted by others and sent to the police station to be the director of the scattered immortals, from whom I learned a lot, including self-help.

A small scimitar in southern Xinjiang was a self-defense gift given to me by him on a business trip when I was a child, and every time I went out, I pressed it under the pillow. A few coins are a sharp tool for sharpening the rope, and the flexibility maintained by years of exercise is also very important at this time, and it took me about half an hour to get out.

After a few sips of water, inhaling, and leaving the window open for some air, I calmed down and put everything in the room back in place, giving the illusion that no one had ever returned.

Going downstairs through the safe passage, I blended into the crowd and walked out of the hotel inadvertently, already an hour later.

As the afternoon sun scorched the earth, I wiped the sweat from my forehead, found a secluded place, and called the hotel front desk.

Said that I lost my key card, and I went back to the field if I was in a hurry. They helped me check and said that there was still one day before it expired, I was stunned for a moment, and then I thought about it, it should be Qu Xiran who renewed it for me until the day after tomorrow, and then breathed a sigh of relief to buffer the nervous emotions, feeling that he would not come back soon.

The deposit will be deducted from the compensation room card, and the rest will be refunded to my card from their hotel system in a few business days.

Got everything done, the phone provided me with basic information to check on and check out directly.

I booked a ticket for the nearest flight back to the original city in the afternoon, and immediately beckoned to take a taxi, and when I looked back, I felt that Qu Xiran was not so terrible, at least it gave me a loophole to drill.

I searched for his information on Baidu, and it was very simple, and then the front photos were all with black super and baseball caps. Facebook found his homepage, which is roughly a variety of intimate photos of beautiful women and handsome men at various parties, and it can be seen that this guy is a typical bisexual.

There was no other information about him, so I searched for his behavior and preliminarily estimated that he should have a split personality.

When I boarded the plane, my heart was finally solid but inexplicably empty, as if the experience of the past few days was so unreal.

Looking back, why is it that every time I run away like I am in the wilderness, and the parties are leisurely, I feel inexplicably ridiculous.

***

As soon as she entered the house, she received a call from Ms. Yuan, who said that she had recently figured it out and decided to walk around in the past few months, and it happened that her former classmates had organized a group of elderly donkey friends to invite her to join her.

Coming, I was instructed that her former colleague who had a good relationship, and now Aunt Wei, who is the principal, will have a wedding banquet when the child comes back from the United States and let me go to the ceremony.

Then he reminded me that Kari sent me money.

I went out to work for so many years, and she always maintained the habit of me when I was in college, and gave me some money every three months, but then I said no, and she changed to sending money from time to time.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, I walked back and forth, up and down, all over the house.

This was the residence of my grandfather before, and after Lao Xu went, they died of illness in the next two years, and the dormitory that Lao Xu had was sold by his mother, so I had a down payment for my house in Kyoto.

The original city is a basin city, surrounded by mountains, spring, summer and autumn are not very obvious, the temperature in autumn is still relatively warm and humid, the osmanthus flowers in the yard are blooming luxuriantly, and the fragrance of Ran is soaked in the whole house with the breeze of the window.

The house was very clean and tidy, my mother's best friend often helped clean it, and the old wooden clock creaked and walked, bringing me back to the carefree days of my youth.

Under the trees in the backyard, there is also a swing that Lao Xu made for me with waste car tires, and the green plants in the yard grow more than half a person tall, except for the three closest people missing, this yard is where my heart takes root.

***

The next morning, I rode my bicycle and wandered the streets of the old town. I ate the old tofu fritters early, the authentic taste of the original city, and treated my stomach and intestines that had been blown away by various northwest winds for nearly a month, and my mood improved.

Near noon, I rode to my original home, on the small street near the public security dormitory, and smelled the aroma of baked old bread that I had not seen for a long time, which aroused my cravings.

I kicked a few times, leaned the car against the small tree next to me, bought a few freshly baked bread and held it in my hand, and then turned to the familiar time-honored store at the entrance of the alley inside, bought fresh milk and old yogurt, and drank it while biting into the bread in large pieces.

I was so happy to eat, and across the alley more than ten meters away, I heard a familiar voice: "Xiaoyin, this bread you loved to eat before is about to be baked, Mom will buy you some." ”

Reflexively, I put down the yogurt bottle and hid myself in the small doorway on the side of the store.

"Okay, whatever you say is what you say....." Gu Yin's tone suppressed the impatience in his heart, but he was very cooperative with his mother, Aunt Fang Bizhen.

"By the way, what's wrong with that girl from the Xu family lately, she didn't call me to greet me, and I can't remember her number even after I changed my phone?"

Waiting for the bread to come out, the two of them chatted.

"She's busy," he said plainly.

From the gap in the door, it can be seen that Gu Yin is still as handsome and free as usual in casual sportswear.

His hair is not as meticulous as he usually combs, but it is the fluffiness that makes him a little younger, so he is in his memory a long time ago.

"Some time ago, I met Teacher Yuan, such a tall person pulled down his face and asked me, when will it be done, or don't delay each other, I was stunned, you are a small acquaintance, to be honest, the girl of the Xu family is more than less than the above, you see that her family is still a little bit of a family, although there is less strength of girls, and the work ability is still worse than our Xiaoyin......." The conversation box opened, Gu Yin cooperated from time to time, frowning and frequently flipping through the mobile phone.

I feel sad in my heart, it turns out that after so many years, I have been asking for warmth, and I am just a marriage partner who is more than enough than the above.

"Mom...... I went abroad for three months this time and got a girlfriend....." Gu Yin paused and replied.

Their family is special, his father is a surgeon in the public security hospital, when he was a teenager, he went to the countryside to support, found a little nurse in the township hospital, and abandoned their mother and son, so Aunt Fang has a very strong desire to control in this regard.

"What? Gu Yin, let me tell you, don't you learn from those people who are looking for an old woman for money, what is the little fresh meat with the old gang dishes, and said to my mother, is it the girl of the Xu family who doesn't want you first, she still really has a face, if I hadn't watched it since I was a child, I wouldn't have looked down on ....." Later, his mother was a little hysterical.

She used to be a doctor at the health center of the Public Security Bureau, but since Gu Yin's father cheated and got divorced, the whole person became more and more anxious, and later said that she retired early for physical reasons.

The little affection I had was polished away by Gu Yin without opening his mouth to deny it, his mother was called to the front by an acquaintance to chat, and he was still waiting for the baked bread there, and I unconsciously walked out from behind the door.

The sun was shining through the trees near noon, and I was dappled with time, and in the distance, he seemed to have a premonition, and turned his head in the light and shadow.

The eyebrows and eyes were so familiar, and they would have seemed so unreal, and we looked at each other for a long time, as the bikers and walkers who went back and forth to and from school and after work passed by.

I couldn't read his face clearly, and I knew he wasn't coming.

I don't know how long it took, Aunt Fang beckoned him to hurry home and cook and eat.

When he turned around first, I turned around and walked into the shop, I wouldn't give him a chance, and then watch him go first.

***

In the afternoon, I went to Ms. Yuan's original school, and did some of her things according to her instructions, such as medical insurance subsidies, etc., and I didn't find her good colleague Aunt Wei, but I took an invitation to the wedding banquet, and I decided to go to the wedding banquet tomorrow to send red envelopes.

When I got home in the evening, I fell asleep in bed after a busy day, and I heard the doorbell ring twice in the chaos, and I rubbed my eyes and looked out the window through the red of the sunset.

Unexpectedly, a tall and tall figure paused for a moment, did not ring the doorbell again, and turned to leave. It was dark, the street lamp on the corner was lit, I turned on the computer and looked at the web page casually, occasionally glancing at the window, under the orange light, the man kept smoking, and the smoke enveloped him, like in a dream.

One after another, until late at night, I fell asleep again.

Early in the morning, I went out to buy breakfast and saw a pile of cigarette butts on the grass next to the street lamp.

Gu Yin, you will always be inconsistent with what you are on the outside, and you will never dare to take responsibility, so why should you come!