The streets were still in chaos, and there was so much talk that they didn't even have time to pay attention to the ceremony.

Liu Yanshi panted out of the crowd, rushed to the scene of the closing ceremony, saw Shi Zuocai from afar, and shouted:

"Shi Zuocai! What happened? ”

Shi Zuocai shook his head, but suddenly raised his hand and pointed at a man in sunglasses who was lurking in the crowd and was about to sneak away, and made a "keep him" mouth.

Liu Yanshi was stunned for half a second, and then reacted instantly, stepped forward in three steps and two steps, hugged the man directly, and cried with Oscar-level acting skills.

"Brother! You bad guy! How could you just leave me and my mother alone! What's so good about that woman, my sister-in-law pours tea and water in the teahouse every day for you, and she has to go home to take the children at night, how can you be like this......"

Liu Yanshi cried pear blossoms with rain, it was pitiful, the surrounding crowd quickly surrounded him, the man wearing sunglasses was full of embarrassment, desperately explaining his whiteness, Liu Yanshi cried and cried to count this "brother" into a human shape, and even his deeds of stepping on eighteen boats were made up vividly, and the masses who were coaxed around were angry, and the man who was dragged was speechless, and was directly beaten by the people who rushed up and escorted to the police station.

Shi Zuocai ignored all this, he walked through the crowd, walking slowly along the street where An Yiwen had run, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his head.

Walking into the busy fast lane, where traffic is jammed, a hurrying ambulance is emerging from the ambulance carrying the stretcher. The body on the stretcher was wrapped in a white cloth, and the blood quickly soaked the white cloth.

He watched it all calmly, without much expression on his face.

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Everything has come to an end, even if it is not as perfect as it could have been.

The plan to kidnap the city of Anhe was disrupted. The city of Anhe was also escorted back home by the police. When the mother heard what had happened, she hugged her daughter worriedly, and both mother and daughter cried. The daughter promised her mother to quit her part-time job at a convenience store.

The innocent man who was pitted into the police station by Liu Yanshi was interrogated by the police and honestly explained what happened, and the entire debt collection organization was greatly damaged because of this, I am afraid that there is no way to take care of the mother and daughter of Anhe City anymore.

Everything is back to a peaceful routine. A few days later, the daughter who has adjusted her mentality will return to Xiaoguang to study in her third year of high school, and her father wants her to be admitted to a better university, and she has always kept in mind the words of advice. Every night, the master's seat at the dinner table is still empty.

The price of this daily sacrifice is simply too much. Who is right and who is really wrong, in the end, no one can say.

……

On September 25, an unnamed town in the wilderness of Panyu.

The yellow dog in the neighboring yard barked violently. Father Jiang raised his head and saw that outside the iron gate, a beautiful girl carrying a box shrank her shoulders in fright.

"The dog recognizes life, and when it sees someone it doesn't know, it barks."

Father Jiang explained, reluctantly standing up on crutches:

"Little girl, are you looking for someone?"

The girl looked at the old man's slightly lame legs, a little distracted, shook her head, and squeezed out a smile:

"I'm Miss Jiang's...... Secretary, come and see you on her behalf. ”

The old man was stunned, looked at the girl, and squeezed out the corners of his eyes with kind smile lines.

"That's it."

The dishes on the table were still steaming. The chicken that I bought from the market is cooked at just the right time. There is also fried pork liver, a plate of green peppers, a plate of sauerkraut, and a pot of soup. They are all very home-cooked dishes and full of warm flavors.

"The little girl looks so smart, she needs to eat more to replenish her body, so it's good." Mother Jiang diligently served vegetables to the girl, and the girl was a little embarrassed:

"I'll do it myself, so I don't have to bother you."

Father Jiang took off his reading glasses, put the newspaper on the bookcase behind him, and scolded with a smile:

"She's like this, and the country lady doesn't know what etiquette is."

Mother Jiang glanced at him angrily: "Eat well, you have to read some newspaper." ”

The girl behaved a little restrained, and when she saw the two old men choking, she couldn't help but have a sweet smile on her face.

"Oh...... That's right. ”

She stood up and opened the suitcase in the chair next to her:

"Uncle Jiang, this is the money that Manager Jiang entrusted me to bring to your second elder, 300,000 yuan is the construction money that I promised to pave the road in the town, and this 200,000 yuan is the living expenses for the two of you......"

"How can this work?" Jiang Mu hurriedly stood up:

"This money is too much, little girl, you have to get it back quickly, our family doesn't need so much money......" Jiang Mu stood up in a panic and held the girl's hand.

The girl pursed her lips, and a distressed look appeared on her face:

"Auntie, this is what Manager Jiang asked me to bring here, if you refuse to accept it, I have to carry it back the same way, and I will definitely be given a lesson."

"If you want to take it, you can take it, and then find a way to return the extra 200,000 yuan." Father Jiang picked up the rice bowl and glanced at Mother Jiang dissatisfied.

"This ...... How can this be good......" Jiang Mu looked at it and was a little worried. The girl stood up with a smile, respectfully helped her back into her chair, and served her some more food.

"It's good for you to take it, Manager Jiang is also kind-hearted, what is there for the family to shirk - come, auntie, you also have to eat more, I can't eat too much."

This lunch was very warm. The little girl is smart, polite in her speech, and even more well-behaved. Jiang's mother liked her very much in her heart, and she simply treated her as a granddaughter, and praised the girl's face frequently.

After eating, the girl took the initiative to walk into the kitchen, regardless of the dissuasion of Jiang's father and Jiang's mother, washed the dishes, and told Jiang's father a few words to pay attention to lumbar muscle strain, bad legs, squat less, and let people help Yunyun when planting vegetables, and finally walked to the gate of the yard.

Father Jiang had to come out to see off the guests, but the girl didn't follow, but he couldn't resist him. Before opening the iron door, the girl turned around again and bowed to Father Jiang seriously:

"Uncle Jiang, I will come to see you again when I have a chance."

"Well said, well said."

The girl turned around and was about to leave, when she heard Father Jiang's voice again.

"Girl......"

The girl turned her head and looked at Father Jiang, blinking her eyes, waiting for his next step.

Father Jiang's lips opened slightly, and he stopped talking a few more times, and shook his head gently:

"Say hello to Arin on my behalf."

The girl nodded and agreed. After a pause, the old man said in a very soft, weak voice:

"—tell her again, and we'll live until she returns."

The girl froze.

After saying that, in just a moment, Father Jiang's face seemed to be ten years old.

She was speechless, and looked beyond the courtyard door to the back room. At the dining table in the room, Jiang Zhilin's mother was lying on the table, crying very sadly.

……

Walking out from the other side of the town, along the meandering river to the west, to the upstream, where the slope gradually gentle, there is a lone camphor tree.

The stuffy oil bottle leaned against the root of the tree, with a blade of grass in his mouth, and stared nonchalantly at the clouds in the sky.

Light footsteps filled the meadow. Liu Yanshi sat next to him, put the satchel over his face, and sighed melancholy.

"Messed up ......"

The stuffy oil bottle glanced at her with his peripheral vision, continued to look at the clouds, and did not speak.

Liu Yanshi said:

"Jiang Zhilin's parents seem to have known that she is in prison."

The stuffy oil bottle let out a calm "um".

Liu Yanshi said again:

"It seems to have been published in yesterday's newspaper, and Dad Jiang has been reading that edition over and over again."

The stuffy oil bottle made another "um".

Liu Yan glanced at him obliquely, and said angrily:

"You've known that for a long time, haven't you?"

Shi Zuocai glanced at her again, and that look seemed to say that if I hadn't known it a long time ago, how could I be waiting here for you to let you go alone.

"Ahhhh Shi Zuocai: I hate you! ”

Liu Yanshi was very angry, and there was nowhere to vent, so he shouted for no reason under the roots of the tree, and the sound spread far away in the open grass.

The stuffy oil bottle frowned and sat a little farther away without a trace.

After venting, Liu Yanshi lowered his head again, curled up, rested his chin on his knees, and muttered:

"Still, it's not that annoying...... At the beginning, I always felt that none of Shi Zuocai were good things, and so did Mr. Demon, and so did you. Now I'm slowly discovering that an elm head like yours has a bit of a conscience. ”

Talking to herself, her eyes smiled like a crescent moon:

"300,000 yuan for the project, plus 200,000 for the living expenses of the two old people, and 1.5 million for the family in Anhe City, in this way, the total expenditure is 2 million - this is your own proposal, from now on, I am your creditor, and the 200,000 yuan owed to me can be repaid slowly."

Shi Zuocai was silent for a few seconds, and said coldly:

"In six hundred installments, I will pay you three hundred and thirty-three every month, and fifty years to pay it off, is it okay?"

Originally, this was just to anger Liu Yanshi, but who expected Liu Yanshi to laugh sweetly:

"Okay—"

"Then I can be your creditor for fifty years."

Shi Zuocai pulled the corners of his mouth, knowing that he was deflated this time, so he didn't reply again. The two looked at the clouds together in silence in a daze, without saying anything for a long time, and without embarrassment.

After a while, Liu Yanshi said softly:

"Shi Zuo is ...... Actually, I've been thinking about one thing all along. You say, so much has happened these days, who is the one who is doing the wrong? ”

She muttered:

"The person who ruined An Yiwen is Jiang Zhilin, and it stands to reason that she is the culprit. However, Jiang Zhilin is actually very miserable - I don't mean to pity her, I just think it...... If she hadn't been cornered by her own family and fled from the town, she wouldn't have become a fraudster, right? So, is it really the people of this town who are wrong? ”

Shi Zuocai was silent for a while and said:

"It's wrong that her son is sick."

Liu Yanshi was stunned, and at first he felt that this answer was very ridiculous, and this guy was afraid that he was talking nonsense. When I thought about it again, there seemed to be a lot of expressions flashing on my face for a moment, but in the end, I just pouted, as if I was petty, and said:

"yes."

After a pause, Liu Yanshi curled up a little tighter, and his voice became very soft, very soft:

"You say, if Anhe City's father didn't choose to die, but confessed all this to his daughter, would their family be reunited?"

This time, Shi Zuocai was silent for a long time, as if he was not sure of the answer to this question.

Eventually, he said:

"Perhaps, for An Yiwen, Anhe City's father died half a year ago."

Liu Yan saw this, his eyes were touched, his eyes moistened slightly, and he lost his mind and said:

"Yes. Enobayashi ...... He also died seven years ago. ”

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September 26, Green Garden.

In the early morning, there are many elderly people exercising in the community. When I saw Anhe sitting on a swing, I would say hello with a smile. Neighbors and neighbors all know Anhe City, and everyone has watched this girl grow up, from a shy and crying little doll to a delicate and well-behaved girl, and they all like her very much.

The city of Anhe also greets neighbors who know each other well. The smile is a bit far-fetched.

With a towel around his neck, Mr. Demon trotted all the way over, threw a bottle of cold Coke in his hand into Anhe City's arms, wiped the sweat on his face with a towel, and grinned with a mouthful of clean white teeth:

"Drink. Fat house happy water, race over the living immortals. ”

Anhe City held the cola in his arms, said "thank you" a little stiffly, paused, lowered his head again, and was a little embarrassed:

"Well, I didn't bring the money out, I'll pay you back when I get home......"

"You don't have to pay it back. You can use it as a token of love, and if you are reluctant to drink it, you can offer it to the altar at home. Mr. Demon sat down on the swing beside her with a big grin, but there was no right shape on his mouth, Anhe City couldn't help such teasing, and his face turned red in an instant.

Shi Zuocai opened the can of Coke in his hand, poured most of it with a bang, and let out a long sigh. He was as leisurely as ever, but Anhe City, who was sitting next to him, kept wringing his fingers, looking embarrassed.

After a while, she plucked up her courage and whispered again:

"Thank you."

"Huh? What did you say? I can't hear you. ”

"Thank you." Anhe City's voice was a little louder, and his face was even redder.

"Didn't you say that it would be good to ask you to make offerings on the altar, what is there to thank."

"It's not about this ......" Anheshi pursed his lips:

"I mean yesterday...... Dad transferred the money and asked classmate Shi to collect it on his behalf, it's really troublesome for you......"

"It's just a matter of effort." Mr. Demon lazily replied:

"So you called me out for this? Someone is so angry that they are disturbed because of their beautiful early sleep. ”

Mr. Demon's words were ironic about the stuffy oil bottle that instantly blackened her face when she received the call this morning, but Anhe City naturally couldn't understand it, she blushed and apologized repeatedly, paused, and whispered:

"Actually, when Zuo Cai came out, he had something to ask you......"

She quietly raised her head, bit her lip, and asked:

"Daddy he'...... Now it's on the New Zealand side...... How's it going? ”

"How do I know?" Shi Zuocai pouted:

"I told you, your father is studying in a foreign country, and he specially asked someone to contact my distant cousin, so he asked me to transfer this 1.5 million yuan to you, I am just an errand runner, where do I know that so many parents are short...... If there's anything you can ask when he comes back. ”

"That's right...... I'm sorry......" Anhe's mood was always a little low, and he wrung his fingers uneasily, and fell silent again. Shi Zuo drank a full can of Coke and aimed at the trash can in the distance and threw it.

After a while, Anhe City said softly:

"I don't know if these words are appropriate to say to classmate Shi...... Because I think my mother will be very worried when she hears it......"

Shi Zuocai glanced at her lazily: "If you have something, just say it." Listen. ”

An Heshi nodded and took another breath:

"Actually, I've been restless for the past two days...... Although I was very happy to learn the news of my father yesterday, I still felt that something was strange...... If you think about it, it should be the day before yesterday, that ...... Beggar...... What happened ......"

When he heard this, Shi Zuocai frowned without a trace.

Anhe continued:

"At that time, classmate Shi was also there, right? When I saw the beggar, I don't know why, but I always had a very familiar feeling, but I couldn't say it...... Later, when he pounced, I was really scared...... However, when he finally had a car accident, I don't know why, I always felt so uncomfortable......"

Shi Zuocai's heartbeat quietly missed half a beat, and he secretly sighed in his heart that this Nizi behaved so slowly on weekdays, but her intuition was a little scary when it was critical, but she was talking haha:

"What's so strange about that, aren't you scared when you walk down the road and see a small animal hit by a car and die? Normal ......"

An Heshi pursed her lips, clasped her hands together, and squeezed them very tightly, she slowly turned her head, plucked up her courage, and looked straight at Shi Zuocai:

"Student Shi ......"

"Can you tell me...... What the hell happened to my dad? Is he alive? If he's still alive, why don't you contact me and my mom? Obviously, we are waiting for him to come home every day, and my mother's health is getting worse and worse...... But he ......"

The more Anhe City spoke, the more excited he became, the speed of his speech became faster and faster, and his eyes unconsciously became rosy, and when he got to the back, he couldn't speak anymore, he choked lightly twice, and tried hard to stop crying, wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, with a thick nasal voice:

"Sorry...... It's that I'm so excited......"

Mr. Demon was stunned. Confident as he is, he never feels that there is anything in the world that he can't solve. Even a seasoned fraudster like Jiang Zhilin was easily toyed with by him between applause.

Only this time, faced with a girl's longing for her relatives, he found that he had nothing to do.

How?

Tell her the truth?

Or continue to perfunctory her with ambiguous words, and comfort her with another sentence of "everything will be fine" - in his own capacity as a "Kyogen Master"?

Either way, at this moment, it's a bit ridiculous.

Mr. Demon was silent for a few seconds. After a few seconds, Shi Zuo made his own decision.

He closed his eyes. Rubbed his face. When I opened it again, my expression was the same as before.

Stuffy oil bottles.

He slowly stood up, trying his best to endure the sharp pain caused by the personality switch, resisting the deep resistance to communication in his heart, and forcing himself to walk step by step towards Anhe City beside him. An Heshi looked at him stunned. Shi Zuocai took a deep breath and said to himself in his heart that this was what he had to do.

He stiffly stretched out his hand and placed it on top of Anhe City's head. The action was ridiculously stiff, and it couldn't even be called "stroking" at all, because it was never him who had a bad habit of touching his head on weekdays.

He struggled to open his mouth and said:

"Your dad will always be with you, and there is no hurdle that you can't overcome."

Anhe City was stunned.

Shi Zuocai covered his face and muttered depressedly: "Messed up." ”

……

The first rule of the Kyogen Master: Personality, never lie.

……

In the small town of Panyu, two old people will wait for a long time for their errant daughter to return from prison, for them, it is a race against life. No one knows who will come first, the daughter or the death.

In the apartment in Guangzhou, a mother and son will also wait for a long time for the return of their husband and father who are on a business trip abroad, and what they may or may not know is that the man named An Yiwen will never come back.

In the end, and perhaps the best outcome, we will never see each other.