There wasn't much money in Xiao Man's piggy bank, only two or three hundred yuan, but it still allowed Xu Mo to get through the current difficulties. For a long time after that, Xu Mo's life did not change much, until this day, he received a call from Luo Ci.

Luo Ci seems to have news from Luo Shi and invites him to meet.

When Xu Mo heard the news, he hesitated for a long time, he and Luo Shi Pingshui met, the so-called friendship was just that they met on the bus that day, and Luo Shi asked himself for a favor, so he didn't want to get involved in this matter.

But remembering the disappearance of Xiaoman's father, it seems that it is also related to the person who kidnapped Luo Shi. Xiao Man's weight in his heart is naturally not comparable to Luo Shi, so he finally agreed.

Things are a little strange, and Luo Zi invites him to meet at his home.

Luo Ci lives in the community in the north of the city, Xu Mo took the bus over, and Luo Ci picked him up at the bus stop. The two made an appointment, and as soon as Xu Mo got off the train, he saw an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl standing on the edge of the platform, waving to him.

Xu Mo walked over, and the girl glanced at him, and asked, "Is it Brother Xu?"

Xu Mo nodded slightly, in response.

Luo Ci's appearance is slightly similar to her sister's, but it is very different. She feels like her voice, not aggressive, her skin is delicate, and the tip of her nose is slightly flattened, giving her a dull sense of awkwardness.

This kind of dullness appears in adult women, and when interacting with the opposite sex, they will take advantage of it, so that the other party can't help but want to let her.

But for Xu Mo, it didn't have much impact. He glanced at Luo Ci and asked, "What's the news?"

Luo Ci looked serious, "Things are a little complicated, Brother Xu, let's talk about it when we get to the place." ”

When Xu Mo heard her say this, he didn't ask any more questions, followed Luo Ci, and walked all the way to her house.

The house rented by Luo Ci is a one-room apartment building, and the accommodation conditions are slightly better than Xu Mo, but it is not much better.

On the first floor of the apartment building is a supermarket, next to the supermarket, on the side of the apartment building, there is a staircase that leads to the outer door of the apartment building on the second floor.

Luo Ci walked out of the door with Xu Mo, stretched out his hand and touched his body, and was suddenly stunned.

"What's wrong?" asked Xu Mo.

"Forgot to bring the key. Luo Ci smiled embarrassedly.

Xu Mo frowned, and thought to himself: "If you don't have a key, how can you get in?" ”

Luo Zi suddenly raised his head and called upstairs a few times, "Sakura-chan, Sakura-chan." ”

"It turned out that she lived with someone else. Seeing this, Xu Mo immediately understood, "I remember that she once said before that the reason why Luo Shi separated from her was because she had a boyfriend. Could this Sakura be her boyfriend? But it's not often for a man to have such a feminine name. Is it Ei, Kitty, or Sakura?"

He has an excellent memory, and he has never forgotten the fact that he heard Luo Zi mention her boyfriend once five months ago.

In the midst of his doubts, he suddenly heard the sound of wings vibrating, and a brown-headed peony parrot fell from the sky and landed on Luo Ci's shoulder.

The peony parrot also has another name, called 'Love Bird', but Xu Mo has limited knowledge in this regard and does not know the way.

Luo Ci smiled at Xu Mo, "Brother Xu, this is Xiao Sakura, the cherry of the cherry, homonym with 'parrot', the parrot I raised, it is very smart, but it can't speak." After a pause, he said, "Brother Xu, do you have a key to borrow from me?" ”

"What's the use of my key?" Xu Mo thought, but still took out his key and handed it to Luo Ci, while looking at the parrot on Luo Ci's shoulder.

The parrot seemed to be a little scared, and when it made eye contact with him, it turned its head.

Luo Ci took Xu Mo's key, shook it in front of the parrot, and then said, "Sakura-chan, I lost my key in the house, you go and help me get it back." ”

Then he was worried that the parrot would not understand, so he deliberately emphasized it several times, and said, "Key, key." He kept shaking the key in his hand.

Xu Mo was surprised: "It's... Does it understand you?"

It's no wonder that Xu Mo was surprised, to know the Dao, the reason why the parrot can learn the tongue is only because its vocal organs are relatively powerful, as for what it means, but he doesn't know the Dao, when it comes to wisdom, it is far worse than a dog.

Luo Ci smiled: "Sakura is very smart, some simple meanings can still be understood, whether you can understand my words is not easy to say, but I keep shaking the key to it, it must know what I want it to do." ”

Before he could finish speaking, the parrot flew up, into the air, and through the window of a house.

Luo Ci kept paying attention to the parrot's movements, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, returned Xu Mo's key, and continued: "My key has been placed on the table next to the window, and Sakura often plays on that table, now it's okay, it must have understood what I meant and went to get the key." ”

He was full of confidence in saying this, but Xu Mo was a little incredulous.

But a short time later, the parrot flew back, carrying a bunch of keys in its mouth, and landed on Luozi's left shoulder.

Luo Zi reached out and took the key, touched the feathers of the parrot lovingly, and said approvingly, "Sakura is so smart." ”

As he spoke, he took out a small glass bottle from his body, which contained more than half a bottle of chocolate beans the size of mung beans, Luo Zi unscrewed the lid of the glass bottle, poured a few chocolate beans out of the bottle, spread them in the palm of his hand, and handed them to the parrot.

The parrot lowered its head and quickly pecked clean.

Luo Ci put away the bottle and smiled at Xu Mo, "Sakura is a picky eater, I once tried feeding it with parrot feed, and it didn't taste it." ”

Xu Mo let out an 'oh', not paying much attention to a parrot's eating habits, and suddenly remembered what Luo Ci had just said, and asked, "Since it is so smart, why don't you teach it to speak?"

Luo Ci said frustratedly: "I tried, but I can't teach." With that, he opened the door and asked Xu Mo to go in.

Xu Mo said strangely as he walked towards the apartment building: "Can you teach it to hold things, but how can you teach it to speak?" Compared with these two things, it seems that the former is more difficult. ”

Luo Ci said ashamedly: "Sakura can take things, in fact, I didn't teach it, when I got it, it was already like this." ”

"Oh?" Xu Mo stopped and looked at her suspiciously.

Luo Zi reached out and stroked the parrot's feathers gently, and continued, "Sakura was picked up by me, about two months ago, one night, it flew through the window into my house, and it never left. I thought it was fed by a nearby family, and posted a notice to go out, but no one claimed it, and over time, it became mine. ”

Xu Mo glanced at the parrot again, but found that the parrot was also secretly looking at him, and when he looked over, he was suddenly frightened and immediately turned his head away.

Xu Mo felt funny in his heart, and said to Luo Ci: "Your parrot, Sakura... It's lovely. ”

Luo Ci smiled: "Sakura is more afraid of life, for strangers, it has always been like this, it's good to be cooked, you touch it, it doesn't matter." ”

As she spoke, her left shoulder turned to Xu Mo's side, so that Xu Mo could touch the parrot on her shoulder.

Because of Xiaoqing, Xu Mo has a little more love for small animals, and when he heard this, he said, "Will it scare it?" He saw that the parrot was more afraid of life, so he was worried.

Luo Ci pointed at him, "Sakura is more easily frightened, normally, but now that I'm here, it doesn't matter, you slow down." ”

Xu Mo listened to her words, slowly stretched out his hand, and touched the parrot's feathers a few times. The parrot did not dodge, but somehow, it kept its head down.

Luo Ci glanced at the parrot and said strangely: "It's strange, Sakura wasn't like this before, why is she listless today, did she eat something bad?"

After a while, she frowned and said to herself, "Chocolate beans are good, and Sakura never eats what others feed, is it because she is sick?"

She was obviously very experienced in feeding parrots, and she touched the parrot's body, and checked its beak and toes, but she never came to any conclusions, and finally muttered, "It seems that I need to find a time to take Sakura to the doctor." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Xu Mo and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Brother Xu, I saw that Sakura was abnormal, and I was in a hurry, and I forgot that you were in front of me for a while." ”

Xu Mo said indifferently: "It doesn't matter. ”

While the two were talking, they had already arrived at the door of Luo Shi's room, Luo Shi invited Xu Mo in, let him sit down on an old sofa against the wall, and poured him a glass of water.

Xu Mo drank water and looked at her room.

Luozi's room is also not big, just a house of more than ten square meters, a large bed occupies almost half of the room, in addition to a folding wardrobe, two tables, a small table is placed in the middle of the old sofa and the big bed, and the other is placed under the window.

The house was very clean, with a few wall calendars on the walls and posters of online games distributed on the street.

There was a sweet and greasy fragrance in the whole room, and I don't know if it was smoked mosquito coils, or the smell of perfume or shampoo used by Luozi.

Xu Mo glanced at the big bed, it was a double bed, but the quilts, mattresses, and sheets were all single, so that a large bed was half empty.

Xu Moqi said: "Doesn't your boyfriend live here?"

Luo Ci said lightly: "Since my sister disappeared, we broke up." ”

Xu Mo nodded, then stopped asking, thought for a while, and continued: "You said that there is news about your sister, what happened?"

Luo Ci sat down on the bed, then took out a bank card from his wallet, put it on the table, and pushed it towards Xu Mo, "Brother Xu, look." ”

Xu Mo picked up the bank card and glanced at it, it was a China Merchants Bank credit card, and the name of Luo Shi was printed on the card with a steel seal.

Xu Mo was puzzled: "This is your sister's credit card?" but he didn't understand why Luo Ci was going to take out such a bank card to show himself.

Luo Ci nodded, and continued: "Brother Xu, my sister entrusted me with a dream, and she gave me this bank card in her dream. ”