I fumbled, Zhou Wu's paper bag was gone, I hurriedly put my face on the ground, turned on the light of my phone, and looked into the gap in the garbage heap.

It was an item that Zhou Wu asked me to keep, and if it wasn't important to Zhou Wu, he wouldn't have handed it over to me so solemnly.

And now, when I almost kicked over the garbage heap to no avail, I realized in a panic that the paper bag I had hidden was indeed gone!

"Don't panic, calm down and think about it, how can this be!"

I sat on the ground and patted my head, telling myself to calm down and that something must be wrong.

After a few minutes, I was completely calm, and my mind remembered what had happened at the dump this morning.

Gradually, my eyes lit up, and I remembered the image of the teenage boy picking up garbage in the morning.

I'm very sure that when Zhou Wu stuffed the paper bag to me with his own hands, except for the boy who was far away from the two of us, even the staff at the garbage station didn't notice the two of us.

As I struggled to recall, I remembered that the boy glanced at the place where Zhou Wu and I were squatting.

Also, when the police came to the door, I immediately stuffed the paper bag under the garbage heap and covered it with other garbage, and the police definitely didn't find the paper bag.

I couldn't possibly have lost my memory, so it was only possible that the boy had taken the paper bag.

After all, it's a child, he saw me squatting with Zhou Wu, and then the police appeared, that boy would definitely be curious, he just squatted here, with his experience in picking up garbage, it wouldn't take long to find that gap.

"Absolutely!"

It dawned on me that I got up from the ground and went straight to the garbage station staff who were already asleep.

This man has been collecting waste here for years, and he immediately remembered me when I mentioned that I picked up garbage a few years ago.

After some pleasantries, I gave the man 20 yuan and asked him about the boy who came to the garbage station around 8 a.m. to sell scrap.

The staff remembered the boy, who said that the boy's nickname was Gouzi, and that he lived in a grass hut area not far from the garbage dump in the north, and the staff did not know exactly where he lived.

I know that the grass hut to the north is a deserted hut area, and the shanty houses that lived there moved many years ago, and only some homeless people will live in the leaky grass hut.

I also stayed there for one night before, and that was when Zhou Wu left Xihe City, and I went to the grass shed area when I was in a hurry to find Brother Wu.

As a result, it rained so hard that night that I couldn't go home, so I had to spend the night in a grass hut.

Coming out of the garbage dump, I rushed to the grass shed area overnight.

I was alone in the middle of the night, but I didn't feel any fear, and I began to experience this kind of solitary night walk in the wilderness when I was six years old.

There is nothing wrong with saying that the children of the poor are in charge of the house early!

When I came to the shantytown in the north, the night breeze was blowing, and the wind diffused a strong smell of dampness and decay.

Looking at this ruined and ruined shack area, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart.

Under the bright future, it seems that there are high-rise buildings everywhere, and everywhere seems to be full of wealth and enjoyment, but poverty is derived here.

In the night of this wilderness, at least a few destitute people dwell in this area.

Each of them wants to live a life without food and clothing, but the poverty of reality often forces them to bow their heads.

I even wondered why no one from the builders had paid attention to this area, and why after all these years, this grass shed area still existed.

Of course, the purpose of my visit tonight is not to delve into these great truths, but to find the little boy.

I took a deep breath, gathered the thousands of emotions in my heart, and began to search for the first straw hut in the west.

I searched for more than ten minutes, and in a straw hut that was still able to lie down, I found that there was a living man, but it was not the little boy I was looking for, he was a beggar.

I didn't bother the beggar who could fall asleep in this environment, he had his predicaments and troubles, and I couldn't help him with any of them now.

After a little more searching, in another hut with old canvas, I found the little boy I had seen in the morning.

He hadn't even fallen asleep, lit a candle and sat on the floor like a kennel, and watched me walk in with curiosity.

"Brother, I knew that you would definitely find it."

The little boy was not timid at all, he faced me directly when he spoke, his eyes did not dodge at all, and he took the initiative to take out a paper bag from his arms: "In the morning, I saw you and another brother wearing a mask mysteriously, and I knew that there was something wrong with the two of you. ”

I smiled and didn't rush over to grab the paper bag, but sat down on the spot without disgust.

The ground was cold, but my heart was warm, and from the friendly gaze of this little boy, I seemed to see my past self.

"After the police left, I went to find this paper bag." The little boy smiled happily when he saw that I was not restrained here: "I opened it and saw that it was a worthless counterfeit jade pendant." I knew that although it was not valuable, it might be important to you, brother, and I was worried that someone would take it later, so I took it home. ”

He called this broken grass hut that rats might dislike home!

I listened a little distraught, and dug out all my cash from my trouser pocket, less than a hundred dollars in total, and handed it to the little boy: "Son, brother, thank you for your kindness." This jade pendant is really important to me, this little money is not much, just as my brother thanked you, go buy some meat buns to eat in the morning. ”

The little boy shook his head and refused: "Brother, I don't want your money, I can see that it was not easy for you before, brother." You call me a dog, my parents died early, I lost my name. ”

I reached out and rubbed the little boy's head, and took the jade pendant from his hand, I didn't say anything to cheer the dog, and I could see that he didn't need the encouragement.

The current dog is my former shadow, and I didn't need others to pity me before, because I know very well with the dog that if you want to live, you can only rely on yourself!

I didn't linger long, said thank you to the dog, and got up and got out of the hut.

As I was leaving, I quietly used a stone to weigh the fifty dollars worth of the largest ticket in my cash under a stone.

Fifty yuan is not much, but it counts as my gratitude to the dog, and if he refuses to admit that he got the jade pendant, I will not take him.

Riding a bicycle from the shantytown directly back to the wedding room, Han Xiaoyue still slept soundly, I returned to the guest room, turned on the lamp and carefully observed the jade pendant in the paper bag.

This jade pendant is about the same size as the one that ordinary people hang on their chests, there is no rope to pull it, and it is bare and has no lines.

I've been picking up garbage for years, and I can tell the real and fake items at a glance. After my repeated confirmation, it was indeed a worthless and uncarved fake jade pendant.

To be exact, this is a plastic so-called jade pendant, I looked at it over and over for a long time, and I couldn't understand why Zhou Wu would give it to me for safekeeping.

"Forget it, I don't want to, I think about it too much, anyway, when Brother Wu contacts me, I'll return the jade pendant to him."

I rubbed my temples, did a downward stretch, and wrapped the jade pendant in a cardboard box and put it in the middle of the mattress in the guest room.

On Monday morning, I woke up early and made breakfast for Han Xiaoyue in the kitchen, trying to ease the tension between the two of us.

After Han Xiaoyue got up, she didn't appreciate it, she didn't even look at my breakfast, and left directly with her bag after washing.

I had to finish breakfast alone, and when I ate breakfast, I thought of the jade pendant again, and felt that it was best to wear the jade pendant close to my body, although it was only worth one yuan, but after all, it was entrusted to me by Brother Wu.

Taking the jade pendant out of the mattress, I spent five yuan to make a red rope at a small gift shop on the way to the piano shop, and hung the fake jade pendant around my neck.

When I came to the piano shop before nine o'clock, I started to clean, and when Ding Qian came, I found that Boss Ding's face was a little cold when he looked at me.

I didn't think much about it, thinking that Ding Qian was dissatisfied that I didn't come to work for two days in a row.

After I finished cleaning, Ding Qian walked up to me, gave me two hundred-yuan bills, and then said to me: "The small shop doesn't raise a big god, I'm sorry, you better find another job!" ”