When Aoki returned to the hall, Yu Mei and Lao Enkun were eating porridge, while Shi Dazhuang had just woken up with his sleepy eyes.

The poppy saw the empty bowl in Aoki's hand and asked curiously, "Did Le Mauye eat it?" ”

Aoki smiled, put the bowl on the table, stretched and said, "Forget it!" ”

The poppy didn't understand what it meant to "count" and eat, but she never said much, so she didn't ask again.

Old Enkun drank the porridge, picked up the cigarette stick again, knocked it on the table a few times, poured out the ashes inside, filled it with new tobacco, lit the fire and took a sip, and said, "Dogs can't change their!" ”

Shi Dazhuang didn't know why, and asked, "What happened?" ”

Old Enkun didn't speak, and Aoki only smiled slightly.

The poppy looked left and right, and found that no one explained to the big daddy, so she leaned into Shi Dazhuang's ear and said a few words.

Shi Dazhuang looked at Aoki in shock as if he had found a treasure and said, "You can even cure drug addiction?" ”

Aoki shook his head and said, "I don't carry this pot!" ”

At this time, Le Mao came in with a thin bamboo pole-like body, glanced at everyone, did not speak, lowered his head and took the empty bowl, and went to the stove room to scoop a bowl of porridge.

The dining table in the hall is a boxy table of eight immortals.

The poppy quickly stood up and gave way to Lemao. But Le Mao didn't sit down, took the chopsticks, picked the chopsticks and pickles, and squatted in the corner alone to eat.

He finished his meal, put the bowl down, wiped his mouth, and still crouched there, hugging his knees, staring blankly at his feet, not knowing what he was thinking.

Old Enkun puffed out a cigarette and said, "Modified mile? ”

Shi Dazhuang also said: "Yes! Aoki, what tricks did you use? If you have a good trick, you have to contribute to the country, which is a great merit! ”

Aoki shook his head and smiled bitterly: "What's the matter with drug addiction, you have been an anti-drug police officer for so many years, you should know better than me." I just helped him overcome some of the obstacles psychologically and gave him a little bit of confidence to quit. As for whether he can quit or not, it depends on himself. ”

Old Enkun nodded: "That's such a reason!" ”

He puffed out his cigarette and looked at Aoki with a little more gratitude in his eyes.

The poppy suddenly cried out: "Ah, Lemauille! ”

When they looked over, they found that Le Mao's tears and snot had come down together at this time, and in a few moments they were convulsed, and lay there looking at his old father with pleading eyes, and some inaudible words were trembling in his mouth.

Old Enkun shook his head and sighed: "It's difficult! ”

Shi Dazhuang said: "No, we still have to tie him up." He asked the beauty to find a rope, and in three strokes and two strokes he tied up the hair.

When Le Mao's condition improved a little, Aoki said to Shi Dazhuang: "The air here is good, go outside for a walk." ”

Shi Dazhuang said: "It's okay, I'll take you to see the evening scene in the mountains." ”

It was already dark, and the people of the dam were used to going to bed early, except for the occasional barking of the dogs in the dam, the whole dam was quiet. The stars in the sky were so low that they could be touched, and the starlight fell, covering the surrounding mountains with a silver veil.

Shi Dazhuang pointed to the sky at the mouth of the dam and said, "You can't see such a low starry sky in the city." ”

Aoki smiled, "Do the police also like to look at the stars?" ”

Shi Dazhuang said: "Every creature on the earth has the right to look up at the starry sky, even if it is a mouse living in the gutter. ”

"Mouse?" Aoki glanced at Shi Dazhuang suspiciously, not understanding why he was making such an emotion. In his mind, apart from philosophers and artists, the only people who are interested in the starry sky are children.

Shi Dazhuang said: "Although I am only a policeman, I also know that the earth is rotting, and only the starry sky is the hope of mankind in the future, but most people only care about the land under their feet and whether the desires of this life can be satisfied, as for the future - that is the future!" In reality, humans are not much more noble than rats in the gutter. ”

Aoki said, "I'll admit you have a point, but are you too partial to the rat species?" Even if you use ants or bed bugs as metaphors, they are no worse than mice. ”

Shi Dazhuang took out a cigarette, lit it for Aoki and himself, and then said: "I used to break into the drug cartel like Yu Gang, you are used to calling us 'undercover', but here, everyone calls us people - rats!" ”

Aoki suddenly said, "No wonder! So you're a rat looking up at the stars! ”

A person who has been working undercover in a criminal syndicate all year round, if he does not have a firm faith, if he does not look up to the stars, if his heart is not full of hope, how can he survive in a dark, dirty, and decaying environment.

He could imagine that Shi Dazhuang and Yu Gang must have often been in the smoke fields of Masuba or lying on the roof of a truck full of opium on nights similar to today, smelling the smell of smoke while looking up at the starry sky, longing for a world free of drugs and crime.

Now one of them has been transferred to the north, and the other is lying in the ground.

The old sins are diminished by their bravery and sacrifice, and new sins are growing.

Aoki took out the small note and handed it to Shi Dazhuang.

Shi Dazhuang glanced at Aoki suspiciously, then lit a lighter, and read the words on the note by the light of the fire. He was a police officer, the head of the criminal investigation detachment who had handled countless cases, and with just one glance, he immediately understood what was going on.

"Where did it come from?" Shi Dazhuang asked.

Aoki said, "The white woman put it in my meal." ”

Shi Dazhuang immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed a call: "Check for me about the missing people case in Sanwu and Shenzhou nearby cities, female, in her twenties, about 1.6 meters tall, about two years ago, the keyword 'Wutong 9' may be a place name, or other iconic things, such as plane trees or buildings related to plane trees." Send me a message right away if you find out! ”

After hanging up the phone, Shi Dazhuang stepped on the cigarette butt on the ground and was silent for a long time in the dark night of the mountain shadow.

Aoki knew that Shi Dazhuang was very embarrassed, handed over a cigarette, and said, "There is a police station in Mangdian, right?" ”

Shi Dazhuang took a puff of cigarette and said, "She has already asked for help from you, a stranger, and it is impossible that she has not tried other ways to escape." The dam is not a cage, although there are only two ways to enter and exit the dam, but it is not very difficult for a big living person to run out......"

Shi Dazhuang's words were not finished, but Aoki understood what he meant.

A woman who has been abducted and trafficked into the mountains, who is not familiar with the place, and when she is penniless, the first thing she must do when she escapes is to go to the police station and ask the police for help.

But for two years, she didn't escape, but could only use this method to ask Aoki, a stranger, for help, which shows that what is self-evident.

At this time, Shi Dazhuang's mobile phone rang.

Shi Dazhuang picked it up and listened to a few words, hung up with a bang, and then opened the WeChat of the mobile phone and took a look, then handed the mobile phone to Aoki and said: "No. 9 Wutong Road, Jin'an District, Shenzhou, the missing woman was named Yang Lijuan in the missing case two years ago. ”

On the screen of the mobile phone is a photo of a woman, although she looks younger and fashionable, but she is still recognizable at a glance, this is the white woman who served Aoki a meal at noon.

"What should I do?" Aoki asked.

"What to do? Save people, of course! Shi Dazhuang straightened his chest and turned to walk back, "I'm a policeman!" ”