For many years, I thought that the silverfish given by Uncle Xiu was a token, like the kind of bridge that is often found in martial arts novels, one day in the future, three people with silverfish met, hugged their heads and cried, it turned out that we were brothers and sisters who had been separated for many years.

Based on this fantasy, it is believed that Xiaohai should also have one. I hesitated to find an opportunity for her to accidentally see my whitebait.

After hesitating for a long time, I felt that it was better to wait and see.

I'm so worried about the world, I'm afraid something will go wrong.

I thought about it, I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and many pictures in my mind were not good, especially the fierce and unlucky dream related to Uncle Xiu that I had on the night of the Lantern Festival, and I felt more and more that something was going to happen, or it was happening, or it had happened.

Xiaohai also didn't sleep until late, half leaning on the bedside to watch TV, as if she hadn't watched TV in her life, she was so greedy, in order not to make noise to me, she turned the volume down very low.

I tried to talk to her, but she ignored her. It was almost midnight when she turned off the TV and the headlights above her head and lay down to sleep.

I felt like a chubby, warm, soft silkworm baby, and I suddenly felt kind in my heart.

I opened my eyes in the dim light and said, "Xiaohai, don't go back, stay." ”

She doesn't ring.

I said, "The house is so big, I'm alone in and out, it's lonely." ”

She still didn't make a sound.

I thought she had fallen asleep like lightning, and turned sideways to look at her by the light of a small nightlight in the corner of the room, only to see her looking at me with a pair of big eyes burning open. I kicked her inside the quilt: "Can you talk to you?" ”

She still didn't make a sound, just looked at me so burningly.

I lay on my side, put my hands under my cheeks, looked at her and smiled, and persuaded: "Look, you don't have a job in the country, and you don't have anything to be nostalgic about, why don't you stay here and live with me, anyway, I have a bite to eat, and you must not starve, okay?" ”

She still didn't ring.

I felt that I was completely talking to a cloud of air, so I kicked her again, and said, "You also saw today's incident, someone slipped through the empty door, and hid in the car, it's weird and scary, and I'm not so scared to be here with you." ”

This time she finally spoke, in a very light tone, and said, "You may not be afraid if I am not there. ”

She knows me!

So I didn't have much to say.

Then the two of them stared at me with wide eyes, you look at me, I look at you, and after looking at it for a while, I said angrily: "I lack a nanny, I hire you, can I pay you a salary for food and accommodation?" There is not much work and no heavy work, just cook and clean up, and if you want to do it, you can stay, and if you don't do it, you can do it. I'm going to bed, and I've got to wake up early tomorrow. ”

She looked at me with a pair of beautiful eyes.

I felt discouraged, and I was ready to close my eyes and go to sleep after speaking, about the nanny's stubble was really just a joke with nothing to say, but Xiaohai took this seriously, and suddenly asked me how much I would pay a month.

I thought she was talking back and mocking me, but the tone was not like it, and her expression was even more different, and I felt as if there was a door, so I quickly asked her if she had worked elsewhere before, and how much she was paid.

She said: "I used to work in a small restaurant in the town, managing two meals a day and opening 600 yuan at the end of the month. ”

This number is completely within my psychological capacity, and I feel that it is too little, I was speechless for a while, and swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva to discuss with her: "I will give you 1,005 at the end of the month, and I will pay a bonus at the end of the year and buy new clothes, do you think it's okay?" ”

She looked at me quietly, blinked, and then turned away and gave me a chubby, wide back.

I don't know what she thinks, and I'm afraid that she will be annoyed if I ask too much, so I have to forget it, thinking that I will persuade her when it is dawn.

I slept well that night and didn't have any dreams. I woke up in the middle and knew that Xiaohai was sleeping next to me, so I felt that my heart was steady, so I smiled in silence and fell asleep again.

I didn't know that Xiaohai hadn't slept much all night.

Her worries were heavier than mine, and she spent the night almost with her eyes open, getting up at dawn and going downstairs to watch TV.

When Xiaohai got up, I heard the movement in a daze, hesitated for a few seconds, ignored her, and fell asleep by myself, slept for two more hours, and when the time was almost over, I got up slowly, and went downstairs to see if she was still there.

She was sitting on the sofa staring at the cartoons on the TV and laughing, the flesh on her body trembled so much, like jelly, it was very funny. I stood on the edge of the stairs and watched her smile, and she smiled beautifully, with a childish and innocent expression.

But as soon as she saw me standing on the side of the stairs watching her, she immediately stopped laughing, and became the same as yesterday, rejecting the indifference of a few meters away, and got up and went to the kitchen, and stopped watching the TV. I was puzzled, so I chased after her and asked her why she looked like this. She threw over half-lukewarmly: "I'm not familiar with you." ”

I was speechless.

I really don't know each other.

But I don't know you well, so I'll let you come to my house for the night, and let you sleep in the same bed with me, and I want to be good to you.

I only thought about this in my heart, and I didn't say it outside.

She has changed into the new clothes she bought yesterday, a light gray loose turtleneck, jeans, sneakers, a crisp fit, if it weren't for the pink hairpin pinned to her hair, it would really be a rebirth.

I rummaged through the drawer of the TV cabinet, pulled out a brown fishbone hairpin, took it into the kitchen and replaced the one on her head, and then looked up and down, there was no problem at all, beautiful, foreign, with the almost brutal indifference on her face, it actually had a bit of a queen's taste.

I leaned against the door frame and looked at her and smiled, and said, "Hey, this outfit on you is my money, why don't you give me a smile?" ”

She turned her back to me to see if the porridge in the pot was cooked, and threw it over: "Go away, I don't sell my body." ”

Listening to such a funny sentence from the mouth of such a serious person, I almost laughed to death, I laughed and laughed and went back upstairs to wash, thinking that if she was willing to stay, I would take her out to buy bedding or something today, and then come back to clean the room and come out for her to live. If you don't stay, take her to the mall, buy something that is not very available in the countryside and give her a gift, if there is nothing to do, just drive her back, anyway, Huaqiao Town is not very far, take a trip, recognize the door, it is easy to find in the future, she is Uncle Xiu's daughter, even if I have no blood relationship with Uncle Xiu, she is also my relative.

I was brushing my teeth, my phone rang, it was an unfamiliar number, I picked it up and listened, and the voice over there was lazily like it hadn't woken up yet.

It's Tan Zhongxia.

He asked me when I was going to be in the bureau.

I bit my mouth full of toothpaste foam and said, "Hey, you're rude, I'm not a police officer, I have to step on the dots to go to work?" ”

As soon as the words came out, I regretted it a little, he was the new vice-captain, and he could be regarded as half of my boss, and it seemed that joking like this all the time before understanding his temper and understanding his character was not conducive to unity and cooperation in the future. But the water spilled by the words could not be recovered at all, so I had to laugh dryly to relieve myself.

Fortunately, he didn't seem to care too much about me, and only told me that the report of yesterday's "disembowelment case" scene investigation and the victim's background investigation materials had come out, and if he wanted to see it, he could go at any time, and if he didn't want to go, he could send someone to send a copy.

Although his tone was lazy and lackluster, he didn't have much emotion, but at least he said it with a good attitude, and he didn't mean to be arrogant to me, which made me feel very comfortable.

I thought for a moment and said, "I may not be able to come today, and I don't need to send a copy here, if you find anything special, just call me and let me know." ”

He snorted, and stopped talking.

I thought it was time to hang up when I was done, but he suddenly called me again. I rinsed my mouth and asked him what else he was told. He said: "Can you tell me what strange smell you smelled at the scene of the 'disembowelment' yesterday?" ”

I said, "Forget it, tell you you don't understand either." ”

He smiled and said, "If you understand it or not, I don't know until you tell me." ”

I put my phone on the shelf next to me, rinsed my mouth, washed my toothbrush and tooth cup, put it away, then washed my face with cold water, shook my head to shake off the water stains, breathed very hard, picked up my phone again, and honestly told Tan Zhongxia that I smelled the smell of silver shell terriers at the scene yesterday.

He doesn't speak.

I felt something was wrong, paused for a few seconds, and asked him if he had ever heard of such a thing.

He still didn't speak, but his breathing was noticeably heavier than before.

It took about seven or eight seconds before he suddenly replied, "I haven't heard of it." ”

I looked at myself in the mirror and froze.

He's lying.

Just now he must have asked me what I smelled at the scene of the "disembowelment case", I think this kind of thing is not very necessary, so I answered truthfully, and then casually asked him if he had ever heard of such a thing as a silver shell terrier, in my heart he must have never heard of it, because that kind of thing is very rare, beyond the scope of ordinary people's cognition, but his sudden chaotic rhythm of breathing made me understand that he must know such a thing as a silver shell terrier.

But he lied to me.

First of all, he will know that the existence of such a thing is already rare, and then he knows it but has to pretend not to know, what does this mean?

There was silence on both ends of the phone, which was embarrassing. Luckily, someone on his side called out to him, and he hurriedly said yes and told me that he was going to have a meeting, and hung up the phone.

I stayed for a while, and then left a mind, thinking about going back and carefully checking this kind of thing, to see if it would have something to do with yesterday's murder, and if so, what link would it be related to.

But I don't understand why Tan Zhongxia lied to me on this issue.

I have so many shady secrets, and I can answer his question truthfully on this issue, and he wants to lie to me instead, what is the reason?

Could it be that he has more secrets than I do?