Twilight

The conditions of Huangcheng Yedian and the hotel are naturally not good.

Yan Duo is a cleanliness patient with a special obsessive-compulsive disorder. When he was in the office, whether colleagues or students came to talk to him, if his cup was not covered, he would definitely pour the tea in the cup when the person left. Throw it away, take the cup to rinse it, make tea again, and if his sleeves happen to be rolled up when he talks, he will feel the pain and have to rinse his arm.So he didn't sleep well that night. Although he slept with his clothes on, he still felt surrounded by dust and mold, and couldn't sleep.

People sometimes say that they have to go forward bravely and work hard, but many times they fail not because they are stupid or afraid of suffering, but because they cannot change their thinking.

How terrible are dust and mold?Yan Duo didn't feel that he was afraid of them, but his brain tried his best to imagine some corresponding things, such as dirt and horror, which tormented his nerves repeatedly and caused him endless pain.

He has analyzed his own behavior. If it is dirty, isn't the human body dirty?When you dislike foreign objects being unclean, can you ensure that you are spotless?But this is an unsolvable problem, and he can't even bear the hair touching the pillow. He feels that it is not the body that dominates him, but the thinking and imagination of the brain. Carbon-based creatures are really sad.

"What's wrong with you?" Huang Wenxuan turned over and put his hands on his waist.

"Can't sleep." Yan Duo held his hand.

"Are you uncomfortable?"

Just as Huang Wenxuan was about to lift the quilt and sit up, Yan Duo quickly pushed him back, "It's not uncomfortable, it's quite cold here at night, don't freeze, go to sleep, I just choose a bed, I'll be fine in a while gone."

Dislike of dirty hotel beds is also a form of bed selection.

Huang Wenxuan suddenly raised his hand and patted him lightly, followed the beat and murmured indistinctly: "Pan Pan Pan'er, foot plate is on top of the dustpan, the red glutinous rice in the dustpan is dried in the dustpan. Make wine with flowers, ten bowls and eight buckets, golden pigeons, silver pigeons, chains, small feet..."①

Yan Duo heard that he was reading it like a nursery rhyme, and asked curiously, "What do you mean by reading it?"

Huang Wenxuan said: "I don't know. I don't remember many things in the orphanage when I was a child. I only wrote down this nursery rhyme. It seems that the aunt who took care of us read it every night when she put the children in the house to sleep. Follow her silently in my heart and remember it.”

"Then do you remember what that aunt looked like?"

Huang Wenxuan thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don't remember." He was silent for a while, then raised his hand to pat Yan Duo again, reciting a song vaguely while patting.

I don't know how long it took, Yan Duo actually fell into a deep sleep, and Huang Wenxuan still has the effect of sleeping, he thought.

The next day, the two caught the earliest bus to Los Angeles, and finally returned to Tongcheng in the evening. As soon as Huang Wenxuan turned on the phone, he received a notification from the team that there was an impromptu meeting and asked him to go back to the club. Yan Duo planned to go back to himself. They took some stomach medicine at home, and the two parted at the airport, each took a taxi and left.

I haven't been home for several days, and the flowers on the balcony are all wilted. Yan Duo watered them, but I don't know if they can survive.He packed up a few books, took stomach medicine, thought for a while, and was about to leave when he closed the door when he heard someone say hello, "Hi, I'm Zhao Jianfei's mother, he lives in 2901, I'll be in touch these few days Not to him, I wonder if you have seen him?"

"Hello, Auntie. It's a coincidence that I haven't been home these days." Yan Duo looked at the person in front of him. She was about 50 years old, of medium build, and had almost the same facial features as Zhao Jianfei. The same facial features were on Zhao Jianfei's face. He looked handsome, but when he appeared on her face, there was a bit of heroism from between the brows.The last time Yan Duo saw Zhao Jianfei was last Wednesday. Since then, he has not been at home, and he has not received a call from Zhao Jianfei in the past few days. He frowned and thought about it, and asked, "What happened?"

"I can't be sure yet, thank you." Chen Wen subconsciously said thank you, thinking about something, his face became more and more ugly.

Knowing Zhao Jianfei's occupation, Yan Duo had an inexplicably bad premonition in his heart, "Auntie, can you tell me why I can't get in touch with him? Have you called his unit to ask? His colleagues , friend, have you asked? By the way, there is also his girlfriend, I remember her name is Lu Yuan."

Chen Wen hesitated for a moment, "Since you know Lu Yuan, has he told you that they broke up?"

Yan Duo was a little surprised, "He only said that they had a quarrel, but he didn't mention the breakup. The last time I saw him was last Wednesday night. That day he sat for a while and left without saying anything."

Chen Wen saw the worry expressed by Yan Duo, gave him a grateful glance, and started chatting in a casual manner, "The thing is like this, you just said that the last time you saw him was last Wednesday night, and he returned it at eleven o'clock that day. His father made a phone call. After he worked, as long as he was not at home, he would call us every day. Even if he forgot that day, he would call us the next morning. It just so happened that his father was away on a business trip these days, so I thought He called his dad, and the old dad thought he called me. It wasn't until today when his dad came back from a business trip that we realized that he hadn't called for four or five days. We called him, but his phone has been turned off We asked his unit and said that he asked for leave. The reason for the leave was only a personal matter. We also asked some of his close friends just now, and they didn't know much about it. As for Lu Yuan, we also asked, and she didn't Know."

Yan Duo tried hard to recall what happened last Wednesday night, "He looked very tired that day, and his mental state was very poor." The possibility of sudden death from overwork cannot be ruled out.

Chen Wen nodded, "We were also worried about this, so we didn't call the police, so we came here to take a look. But without his room key, his father went to the property to see if he could pry the door open."

Yan Duo stuffed the car keys into his trouser pocket, walked to the door of 2901, and looked in through the cat's eye, but he couldn't see anything clearly. He remembered that because he was inexperienced, he spent a lot of time when he came to feed the cat for the first time. Only then did Jin open the lock, "This kind of lock may be difficult to pry open, why not call the police, the fire department should have a way to open the door."

Chen Wen hesitated, "Wait for his father to come up, I'll discuss it with him."

While the two were talking, the security guards of the two properties and a man with half-white hair came over. The man was obviously Zhao Jianfei's father, Zhao Wunan. They got out of the elevator and were still discussing about finding a lock-picking company.

Chen Wen went up to meet him, and told Zhao Wunan Yan Duo's suggestion. Zhao Wunan nodded at Yan Duo invisibly. Chen Wen turned his back to where Yan Duo was standing, and did not see it.

Even though he already knew that Zhao Wunan was Zhao Jianfei's father, Yan Duo still felt a little uncomfortable when he saw him again.

After discussing with his wife, Zhao Wunan finally chose to call the police first.After making the phone call, he walked straight towards Yan Duo, "Xiao Duo, is it convenient for us to come in and sit down for a while?"

Xiao Duo, hearing that Lao Zhao knew him, Chen Wen was a little puzzled.

Yan Duo looked at Chen Wen's probing eyes, a little confused, so, has he been hiding it from his wife?That's right, if I had done such a shameless thing, I wouldn't have the face to mention it to others.

But Zhao Wunan didn't allow him to think too much, and walked up to him, because of nervousness and excessive force, the more Zhao Wunan wanted to act as a kind and easy-going elder in front of Yan Duo, the more it backfired, the smile on his face was forced, look Yan Duo's eyes were full of oppression, Yan Duo looked at Zhao Jianfei's face and had no choice but to turn around and open the door, "Come in."

Chen Wen really didn't know anything about what happened to Yan Gu back then, she followed her husband into Yan Duo's house, although she was puzzled, she couldn't find out.

Yan Duo asked the couple to sit down on the sofa in the living room and get up to make tea. Zhao Wunan stopped him with his eyes, and then signaled his wife, "Go and pour some water. I'll ask Xiao Duo for some information."

This was in someone else's home. Chen Wen was a little puzzled by her husband's anti-client behavior, but he did it anyway.

Knowing that Zhao Wunan wanted to dismiss his wife, Yan Duo cooperated with him, pointing to the kitchen on the side of the living room and said, "I've run out of hot water at home, please trouble Auntie to boil another pot."

Zhao Wunan watched Chen Wen go away, then turned his head to look at Yan Duo, "At first I didn't know you lived next door to Jianfei."

Yan Duo's eyes were a little cold, "When did you know that? Let me guess. Zhao Jianfei told me that he had checked the property under my name. I think he should have seen some in my files. If you have doubts, and then ran to ask you for permission, did you tell him?"

Zhao Wunan nodded.

Yan Duo looked at him playfully, with a teasing tone, "You probably didn't tell him everything, did you?"

"Yes." Zhao Wunan glanced towards the kitchen and saw that Chen Wen was talking on the phone while looking out the window with his back turned to him. He adjusted his sitting posture, "I only told him that your father died, not that we The two acted together, and at a critical moment, I ran away to save my life and left him to the drug dealer."

Yan Duo unconsciously knocked on the armrest of the sofa with his left hand, "Let's find Zhao Jianfei first. As long as you are not at home, you have to call every day to report that you are safe. These years, you should be quite worried about what happened to your son again."

Zhao Wunan bit his head and nodded, bowed his head in silence for a while, and then asked: "Is your mother okay? I remember your aunt's family is in Tongcheng, are they all okay?"

Yan Duo stared at him quietly, and said in a low voice: "Thank you for your concern, they are all fine. If you just want to talk about the old days, I have something to do, so I have to go first. If you want to know the situation from me, I just told you Auntie said that the last time I saw Zhao Jianfei was last Wednesday night. I haven’t been here since Thursday. I don’t know if he has come back, or you can check the surveillance in the guard room. You are not the leader of the Municipal Bureau Isn't it convenient to retrieve Zhao Jianfei's driving records for the surveillance around the community?"

Zhao Wunan struggled for a while, "I, I know, I have already called the police and asked them to investigate... I actually want to tell you that the suspect who tortured and killed your father back then came to Tongcheng recently."

As if something exploded in Yan Duo's ear, he suddenly felt deaf, and there was buzzing in his ears, which lasted for a long time.

"Didn't you catch it?" Yan Duo asked with a sneer before he came back to his senses after a long time.

Zhao Wunan nodded awkwardly, "His anti-reconnaissance awareness is very strong, let him run away."

"Any clues?"

"The clues are all broken, but I won't give up."

Yan Duo's eyes were a little empty, he tilted his head unconsciously, and saw Chen Wen walking from the kitchen, he could only see a vague figure, and he couldn't concentrate on her face no matter what.

Chen Wen glanced at Yan Duo, who looked like a blind person, but said nothing. She bent down to put down the teacup with doubts, and said in a low voice: "Just now Lu Yuan called to say that she is coming, she should be here soon, I'll go out and have a look. "

Zhao Wunan gave Yan Duo a complicated look, got up and said, "I'll go and have a look too."

It wasn't until the two of them walked out of the living room that Yan Duo cheered up and said to each other, "Walk slowly, both of you."

After sitting quietly for a while, he got up and closed the door. The sound of footsteps and voices outside was very noisy. Their son was nowhere to be found, but what does it have to do with me?Although he is my classmate and my neighbor, but I have so many classmates and so many neighbors, how can I take care of their affairs?Thinking this way, Yan Duo walked towards the balcony. He didn't find the ashtray in the original place. After thinking about it in his heart, he remembered that Huang Wenxuan had put it away last time. He touched his trouser pocket, but the cigarette was not there. He even lost his lighter, and left it in Los Angeles when he went through the security check.

Yan Duo didn't know how long he sat there until the phone rang.

Huang Wenxuan's voice rang in his ears: "Honey, I'm home, why haven't you come back yet?"

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Plates and feet, feet on top of a dustpan, red glutinous rice dried in the dustpan, flowers tied to make wine, ten bowls and eight buckets, golden pigeons, silver pigeons, chains, small feet... ① — Nursery rhymes, all over the place There may be slight differences in content.