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However, on the seventh day, she still took the initiative to send a message to Chen Dao.

When she did this, she felt a little excited and a little nervous, and her heart beat much faster, beating against her chest, making her arms weak and full of strength.

Although they didn't do anything when they met, they just chatted casually and had a drink for two or three hours.But beyond these two or three hours, her fantasies took up a lot of free time.

She already knew Chen Dao very well.Chen Dao’s family is from a rural area. He finished high school in the county and was admitted to a junior college. He didn’t go to school because he couldn’t afford the tuition. He worked as a part-time job in the county for three years, and went to a technical school for two years with the money he saved. He came to Shanghai on 23. This year is fourth year.

After graduating from high school, Pan Shi worked as a cashier in a supermarket for two years, and then switched to her current job.When she heard Chen talk about the hardships of working in the county, the scenes of gang fights in the technical school, how many jobs she had had after she came to Shanghai, and the quarrel with her male colleagues that made her face blush and her neck thick. Same again.

For so many years, no one noticed the unruly agitation she swallowed in her heart, but Chen Dao provoked them all.

Why hasn't such an exciting person appeared before!Pan Shi felt that she needed Chen Dao.

She returned home from work this day without waiting for Pan's mother's order. She took the initiative to stand in front of the mirror, put on light pink eyeshadow, squinted her eyes and carefully lined her eyeliner, and gently patted her blush away with her fingers.Glittering gold sequins were added to the lip gloss. She pursed her lips evenly, couldn't help but murmured in the mirror, and then smiled a little shyly.

After putting on her makeup, she put 500 yuan in her wallet and went out in an apricot printed long dress.

Mother Pan said, "If he doesn't give you anything, you don't want to meet him anymore. What kind of wife is such a stingy man?"

Pan Shi agreed, and walked briskly on the road.

When we met at 08:30, Pan Shi noticed at a glance that Chen Dao was not in a good mood today, but the moment he saw himself, Chen Dao's expression was only amazed, and that expression lasted for two seconds. Pan Shi was secretly happy, but Still looked embarrassed by her.

Pan Shi asked, "What's wrong with you? Are you in a bad mood?"

Chen Dao: "I had a conflict with my colleagues. It's okay, it will be fine in two days."

Seeing that her attitude towards her was the same as usual, Pan Shi didn't care, and said, "Will you go shopping with me today? I want to buy a bag."

"Okay." Chen Dao didn't hesitate.

Pan Shi seldom does shopping, and only remembers the few small shops she visited with her friends. In the first two stores, Pan Shi didn't find anything she liked and was cheap. When she found the third store, it was already past nine o'clock and the store was closed.

Seeing her disappointed, Chen Dao said, "There is a shopping mall nearby, and it closes at ten o'clock. Let's go there and have a look."

Pan Shi hesitated. She only had 500 yuan, so she didn't know if she could buy the bag inside, but she could only try her luck at such a late hour.

The light in the shopping mall splashed out through the floor-to-ceiling glass, so bright, like a sacred place, Pan Shi subconsciously felt timid, and Chen Dao pulled her arm gently before walking in.

Chen Dao said in a relaxed tone, "I can't afford the ones on the first floor, so let's go to the second floor."

Pan Shi has no objection.Ever since she came in here, she has always felt a sense of panic. The bright light seems to be able to penetrate her body and illuminate her thoroughly.She doesn't like to come to such a place. When she was in the third year of high school, she was dragged into a luxury store on the first floor of a shopping mall by her classmates. However, the courage of her classmates was leaked the moment she stepped into the magnificent storefront, and she was as restrained as she was. stand up.

Those luxury goods don't even have a price tag, and they are sure they can't afford them, and they themselves know that they must not be able to afford them.At that time, a well-dressed aunt next to me asked, "How much is this bag?"

How much?Pan Shiji is not accurate, it seems to be more than 2 yuan.Such a small bag with two compartments can just fit 2 yuan in it, so it costs [-] yuan.Her schoolbag is so big, it's less than a hundred.Pan Shi is terrified of this kind of place.

She followed Chen Dao up the escalator and stood on the next floor of Chen Dao.She looked up at Chen Dao's head. Chen Dao's hair was short and refreshing, and his neck was completely exposed.Why isn't Chen Dao afraid of this place at all?The economic situation of Chen Dao's family is not as good as hers.But Chen Dao was very at ease, and Pan Shi looked a little envious.

The things on the second floor are still very expensive. Pan Shi asked the price, and some of them were less than 500 yuan, which she could afford, but felt that it was not worth it.

At this time, Chen Dao picked up a small beige bag and said, "Don't just ask about the price, try it."

This bag was asked just now, more than 700, and the skirt on her was only 65.Pan Shi put the small bag on her back, looked in the full-length mirror, and turned her body left and right.

"It looks good." Chen Dao said with a smile.

"Ordinary." Pan Shiyan said insincerely.She looked at the bag in the mirror, and thought that the 700-odd bag was really different. The leather was very bright and soft, comfortable to the touch, and looked good on the back. The metal buckle on the strap was also very delicate.

"Just buy this." Chen Dao suddenly said affirmatively.

Pan Shi turned her head and saw Chen Dao walking towards the checkout counter with the salesperson with a wallet in his hand.

"Chen Dao!" Pan Shi was taken aback, and after chasing her, she had no time to think, "I brought the money!"

"No, I'll give you something." Chen Dao smiled and said, "I haven't given you anything since I've known each other for so long."

This sentence accidentally overlapped with the one that Pan's mother said, which made Pan Shi's heart beat hard, and she couldn't say any words of rejection.On this day, Pan Shi came home with a new bag on her back, and her faded old bag was carried back in a paper bag.

Chen Dao was also very happy today.

Since listening to that song by Pan Shi's side last night, her heart has been feeling very uncomfortable. Walking alone on the street in the early morning, she stopped several times. The heavy things on her shoulders made her extremely tired every step she took. Want to stop, but can't.She didn't find a suitable place until four o'clock in the morning, and the sanitation workers had already started working when she returned.

For the first time in so many days, she felt at a loss about what she had done.She hated this emotion but couldn't control herself. She couldn't sleep well during the day, and she couldn't remember what dream she had when she woke up.

It's not a good dream after all.

In the past twenty years or so, she had nothing worth dreaming about.She used to try to imagine her future life, and only at this moment could she feel a sense of happiness in her heart.

Finally, seeing the beautifully dressed Pan Shi today, the feeling of confusion eased.After buying something for Pan Shi, that feeling disappeared quickly.She, a person rotten in the mud, can actually make others happy. When she found out this fact, she herself was happier than Pan Shi.

At night, she took out a bag of things from the refrigerator in the rented room and put it in her backpack, and continued on her way.

In this way, she got to know the city road by road and memorized many road names.

She came here for her mother, whom she hadn't seen in more than ten years. In fact, she didn't have a strong desire to see her mother. She was afraid that she would disturb her mother's life.But in case mother doesn't have a new family, in case mother still remembers her, and has thought of her in the past ten years, in case she also wants to see her, in that case, she also wants to reunite with her mother.

But when she came, she didn't have time to look for it. She worked from morning to night every day, and she needed money to support her life. When she returned to the rental house at night, she was too tired to go out again, and fell asleep.After four years, she has only figured out a corner of this city.

She also thought that maybe her mother remarried, maybe she married out of town and gave birth to other children, so she had long been forgotten.She knew it was possible.Just forget it, she doesn't blame her mother.It's just that she didn't find anyone for a day, so she was still here as a mother, and she still remembered herself.

On the eighth day, before the meeting, Chen Dao went to the mall and bought a dress worth more than 300 yuan.However, Pan Shi unfolded the light blue floral chiffon skirt, without showing the expression of liking she imagined.

"Don't you like it? It doesn't look good?" Chen Dao asked, she bought it according to the style of Pan Shi's four skirts.

"I like it." Pan Shi frowned when she said the first sentence, but she said the latter sentence sincerely, "It looks good."

Chen Dao couldn't understand, and looked at her with a questioning expression.

Pan Shi's eyes flickered for a moment before she said, "It's pretty, but this skirt is too short."

"It's down to the knees, so it's short?" Chen Dao didn't notice that Pan Shi only wears long skirts. She thinks that Pan Shi's legs must look good when she shows them. It's so hot in summer, so the skirt should be shorter. She said, "The salesperson told me This skirt is not easy to be blown up by the wind, so you don't have to worry about it being lost."

Pan Shi smiled reluctantly, and said, "No. I have scars on my legs." As she spoke, she pulled up her long skirt, exposing her knees.

Chen Dao was surprised and said, "How did you do this?"

Each of the two knees has a scar left by the burn, the color is almost pink, the skin in some parts is abnormally tight, smooth and hairless, and around these parts, the flesh is in the shape of irregular bumps.It extends down to the middle of the calf at the longest, and only a little clue can be seen when it goes up into the skirt, maybe a larger area.

The originally slender calf made people afraid to look at it because of the existence of large scars.

Pan Shi put down her skirt: "There was an accident while eating hot pot, and I got burned. It's been several years."

Chen Dao was silent. When she suddenly saw such a pair of legs just now, she couldn't help being terrified. Now that she thought about it, those scars were actually not that scary.She asked, "Did you wear short skirts and shorts again after the burn?"

"That's right." Pan Shi said, "If it's scary to be exposed, I don't want others to stare at me."

Chen Dao was silent again, she felt very sorry for Pan Shi.

Now that technology is so advanced, what laser treatment, what surgical repair, even if it can't be completely removed, at least it will be flatter, lighter and less conspicuous than it is now.But I also know that the operation will be a lot of expenses. Pan Shi's family situation is doomed that she will always live with the scars on her legs.

Pan Shi remembered the experience of being injured, and stopped talking.

The dark clouds, which were darker than the night sky, were also silent and endured, until a bolt of lightning pierced the night sky, and the thunder roared!Both of them were startled and looked up to the sky.

Thunderstorm is coming.

Pedestrians moved quickly, and after a while, there were not many people left on the road.Chen Dao and Pan Shi also hid under the eaves of the roadside shops.

Soon, there was another booming thunder, which made people's hearts jump a few times, and the shower came as promised.

The rain fell fiercely, and the sound was as loud as hundreds of slaps.Pan Shi stared at the increasingly dense rain outside, thinking of the day when she lost consciousness in pain, it was also a rainy day.

The scene in my memory was very chaotic that day. People at the two tables of the hot pot restaurant fought. Pan Kai, who was eating, reprimanded loudly and got up to fight. Later, he seemed to move his hands, and was pushed to the ground next to Pan Shi's stool. Then The table was overturned, and the boiling hot soup slanted down towards Pan Kai who was on the ground, and finally splashed on Pan Shi's legs.

unbearable pain.She screamed and cried and thought she was going to die.

During the long days in the hospital, she didn't dare to ask, as if she knew subconsciously that once she asked the answer, her heart would really die.

The hand that pushed her out from behind, that familiar hand, cannot be the mother's hand, then it should be the hand of fate, it can only be the hand of fate.

"The rain has become heavier." Chen Dao said.

When Pan Shi came back to the present, she looked at the black sky with some concern, and said, "It may take a long time. But it can stop in an hour at most."

Chen Dao looked around and said, "Shall we wait until the rain stops? There's an express hotel over there." She turned to look at Pan Shi.

There was an eerie silence for a moment.

Pan Shi's heart was beating fast, she felt something, and she thought Chen Dao felt it too.

Chen Dao continued nonchalantly, "Open an hourly room to chat?"

Pan Shi didn't speak.

Chen Dao: "Just chatting."

Huh, let out a sigh of relief, I didn't notice the unhappiness flashing through my heart.

After entering the room, Chen Dao sat at the end of the bed and lifted the paper bag in his hand: "Can you try it? No one here is looking at you now, I've already seen it, so it's okay."

Pan Shi shook her head.

"Don't be afraid. Try it." Chen Dao refused to let go of his hand.

Pan Shi hesitated.

Chen Dao put the light blue chiffon skirt on the snow-white quilt, stood up: "I'll wait in the bathroom, call me after you change."

The bathroom door was closed, and there was only Pan Shi in the room.She walked to the bed and touched the skirt lightly, with a pious gesture.This dress is very beautiful. Not only is it beautiful, but she looked at the price on the tag, and it was very expensive.

She didn't dare to wear it. After a few minutes, she looked in the direction of the bathroom before slowly changing into the new skirt.

There is a full-length mirror on the wall at the entrance, facing the bathroom door.Standing in front of the mirror, she looked so strange, it didn't look like her skirt.She tugged the hem of the skirt down, but it still couldn't cover the scar on her calf, then she squatted down slightly, covering it this time, but when she stood up again, the ugly scar appeared in the mirror again.Pan Shi's eyes were red.

"Have you changed it?" Chen Dao asked.From the frosted glass door of the bathroom, she saw a figure shaking outside.

"Okay!" Pan Shi pulled the hem of her skirt for the last time, turned around and faced Chen Dao who opened the door.

Chen Dao looked at it carefully from top to bottom, and nodded seriously: "It looks good, it suits you."

"Really?" Pan Shi turned her head to look at herself in the mirror.

"Really." Chen Dao was very sincere.

Pan Shi smiled at the mirror.

Returning to the bed, before sitting down, Pan Shi held the hem of the skirt with both hands to prevent it from being crumpled.

"Your legs are beautiful." Sitting beside her, Chen Dao said, "You are beautiful even with scars."

Pan Shi lowered her head slightly, raised the corners of her mouth, inadvertently conveying a hint: "Whoever is with you must be very happy."

Chen Dao said, "You guessed wrong about this."

Pan Shi regained consciousness, tilted her head to look at her, and said, "Whoever is your sister must be very happy."

Then Pan Shi saw that the smile on Chen Dao's face disappeared.

"I have a younger sister." After Chen Dao said this, his expression could already be described as gloomy.

Pan Shi was a little flustered in a daze, not knowing what she said was wrong.

"Yes." Chen Dao added, she met Pan Shi's eyes, stared at her, and decided whether to tell this person.

Pan Shi was just beginning to get scared, but Chen Dao turned his eyes away, looked at the TV on the cabinet in front of him, and his eyes became distant.

"She's dead, and I know who killed her."