pretend to be poor

The ferocious Sanhua cat disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a pinch of hair.

Feeling guilty, Tong Huai didn't sleep well, had a nightmare all night, and woke up at seven o'clock the next morning.

On a rare weekend, he didn't sleep in late, washed and dressed, watered some water on the flowers on the balcony, and went out, ready to start a search centering on that alley.

When he arrived, Xue Ting had just arrived, and when he saw Tong Huai, he raised his eyebrows, and his face was full of ghosts: "You can get up so early for Xiao Hua?"

"..." Tong Huai was lazy and annoyed, "Who made it look good, I've become a dog."

nice?

Xue Ting was thoughtful: "So you are so unprincipled."

"You should be glad that I am such an unprincipled person," Tong Huai ground his teeth, "If it weren't for your face, you would have been beaten by me."

Xue Ting: "Oh."

He added flatly: "You can't beat me."

"..."

Grass.

The two began to search the nearby streets and alleys.

No one brought breakfast to his lips, Tong Huai didn't know how to eat breakfast. After walking for a long time, his stomach, which had been tossed enough, began to feel uncomfortable.Avoiding Xue Ting's sight, he rubbed his stomach imperceptibly.

Xue Ting's eyes didn't move, he stopped, his eyes wandered around, and he said: "Wait for me here."

Tong Huai groaned in a daze, watching Xue Ting cross the zebra crossing and turn a corner, not knowing where he went.

After waiting for another 5 minutes, Xue Ting came back with some buns and two cups of soy milk.

Tong Huai knew that his little tricks had been discovered, touched the tip of his nose and smiled dryly, leaned over and lowered his head, and sniffed at Xue Ting's hand.

Xue Ting: "...what are you doing?"

Tong Huai's straight nose wrinkled, and he raised his face: "I don't eat carrots."

There were only three kinds of steamed buns left, and Xue Ting bought two of each, which were red bean paste buns, fresh meat buns, and mushroom carrots.

Seeing Tong Huai nimbly taking away a red bean paste bun and fresh meat bun, he wordlessly opened the remaining one and saw that it was really stuffed with mushrooms and carrots. He was angry and funny at once: "You are a dog, right?"

"It's called a principle."

Xue Ting straightly pursed his lips all morning and loosened them, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and he passed the soy milk.

Tong Huai was embarrassed to say that he only drank milk in the morning, and if he had to drink soy milk, he only drank hand-ground soy milk.

The people in Wangzhen District sell real soy milk.

Xue Ting didn't notice his sneaky little moves, and looked at the disgusted mushroom and carrot bun: "What if this is a good-looking bun?"

Tong Huai wiped the soy milk stains on the corners of his lips, and replied coldly: "I can't betray my principles for carrots."

Xue Ting: "..."

Then you are quite principled.

After breakfast, the two searched separately.

It's a pity that I searched all morning, but I didn't find another cat hair.

Tong Huai posted a cat-hunting revelation when he got home last night, but found nothing.

At noon, the two made an appointment to meet at Chaiji restaurant, planning to continue looking for Xiaohua after dinner.

Aunt Chai has already been discharged from the hospital and returned to the restaurant. When she saw Tong Huai, she said, "Old Chai! Come out and have a look, there is a treasure outside!"

Chai Liguo always listened to his wife, so he poked his head out of the kitchen and said, "Yo, what a treasure."

With that said, he wiped his hands and walked out, clearing an empty table for Tong Huai.Half a minute later, Xue Ting also came, walked up to Tong Huai, and politely called Uncle Chai.

Chai Liguo looked at the listless Tong Huai, and then at Xue Ting, who was much more tense than usual, with a puzzled face: "What's wrong with you two?"

Of course, Xue Ting couldn't open his mouth. Tong Huai took the water from Aunt Chai, moistened his throat, and roughly explained the cause of the incident.

Originally, he had no hope, but as soon as he finished speaking, Chai Liguo frowned: "Do you have a picture of that cat?"

Tong Huai and Xue Ting looked at each other, quickly took out the phone, and showed him the photos.

"...I'm not sure if it's this cat," Chai Liguo observed for a while, and in his world view, all the three flowers look the same, "but when I closed the shop last night and left, I saw a crippled cat. The cat with legs is very fierce, I wanted to feed some ham sausage, but I ignored it and ran away."

Vicious Sanhua!

Tong Huai felt that Xiao Hua hadn't run away: "Uncle, where did you see it?"

"It's not far from your home." Chai Liguo pointed in the direction.

Tong Huai was overjoyed, and immediately wanted to leave, but Xue Ting held onto the back of his neck and pushed him back to his seat.

Xue Ting's face was pale, and he ordered some Yangzhou fried rice that Aunt Chai had just brought to the table: "Eat first and then look for it. Don't be in a hurry for a few minutes."

Tong Huai was not as strong as him, so he didn't protest, and was suppressed again, so he had to sit back honestly and stuff food into his mouth in a hurry.

Chai Liguo and his wife looked at each other.

The two of them watched Tong Huai grow up, and they had never seen Tong Huai listen to outsiders like this.

Tong Huai didn't like to eat, and was a little skinny. The T-shirt he grabbed when he went out had a large neckline. When he sat down and lowered his head, the neckline was empty, and a small piece of the back of the neck protruded, which was especially obvious.

Xue Ting restrained his eyes and rubbed his fingertips unconsciously.

In just a few seconds of contact, the temperature and touch of the opponent's skin and bones are like sticking to the hand, which is hard to ignore.

He closed his eyes, upset, and exhaled slowly.

inexplicably.

Terrible.

Tong Huai focused on finishing half a bowl of fried rice, couldn't eat any more, got up and dragged Xue Ting to run away.

Chai Liguo and his wife were talking in the back kitchen, and noticed that they had run away. They looked at the tall and thin backs of the two teenagers, and shook their heads.

Chai Liguo dragged his voice, tut-tsk said: "He also said that we are not friends."

The alley that Lao Chai pointed to was just across the street from the old house, surrounded by low and scattered houses, dilapidated, and it was said that it would be demolished next year, and now there were few people living here.

There is a small supermarket nearby. Occasionally Tong Huai gets lazy and doesn't want to go all the way to Hehele, so he comes here to buy things.

There are many such alleys in Wangzhen District. Some are wide and some are narrow. The wide ones can be entered by a car, while the narrow ones are hard to squeeze in. The people who live there are all kinds of people.

Tong Huai and Xue Ting took Xiaohua's favorite can and searched carefully.

However, until the climax of the moon, the two still found nothing.

After searching for a whole day, the physical exhaustion was not as good as the mental loss and worry. Tong Huai frowned and asked in a low voice, "Xue Ting, do you think Xiaohua will..."

Xue Ting looked into his eyes, his dark pupils were calm and deep, like a deep water that would never make waves: "I will find it."

His tone was very firm, and Tong Huai felt that Brother Xue had never been unreliable, so he nodded confidently.

The two walked out of the alley side by side in silence. In a trance, Tong Huai seemed to hear a cat meowing. Looking back, there was nothing behind him, as if it was just an illusion.

Before parting ways, Xue Ting held Tong Huai back and said in a serious tone, "Don't sneak here alone at night, it's not safe."

"Well," Tong Huai replied sullenly, "I'm not stupid, it's so chaotic here at night."

He lived here during the summer vacation, and Chai Liguo told him many stories about Wangzhen District in order to keep him from running around at night.

What ghosts in the alleys late at night, gangsters with machetes, old ladies patrolling the streets late at night with sticks made of human bones...

Although it was mostly made up by Lao Chai, Tong Huai was still fluffy and tried not to go out at night.

When he got home, Tong Huai took a shower and changed his clothes. There was a meal from Aunt Chen on the table, just pop it in the microwave.

He finished his meal slowly, his hair was dried by the air conditioner, and he walked around the room for a while, fidgeting.

After thinking for a while, Tong Huai clicked on Weibo and Moments, and looked at the private messages and comments on Weibo one by one, trying to get some useful information.

I didn't know how long I looked at it, and when I looked up again, my head was a little dizzy, and the wall clock had already pointed to 11:30.

Tong Huai yawned, went to open the refrigerator door, and realized that he forgot to replenish the milk, and the refrigerator was empty.

As a result of years of habit, he couldn't fall asleep without drinking milk, clicked his tongue, slammed the refrigerator door, and went downstairs with his coat on to buy it at a nearby small supermarket.

Coincidentally, before the cashier left, Tong Huai bought the last box of room-temperature milk. Pulling on his slippers, he thought about asking Secretary Lin for help, and went home with it.

As he passed the alley he had searched in the evening, he heard another cat meowing.

This time it was much more real, not like a hallucination.

Tong Huai has always been keen, and instantly sensed that something was wrong, hesitated, put the milk by the intersection, and walked into the alley following the sound.

The empty alley echoed with the sound of slippers stepping on the ground, patter, patter, and the sound was longer than the sound.He was a little hairy, holding back his fear, turned a corner, and looked around darkly, like the shooting scene of a horror movie.

The faint meowing became clearer.

Tong Huai bit the bullet, summoned up his courage, and stopped in front of a family's courtyard wall.

Seeing that the door was closed tightly, he swallowed, took out his ability to climb over the wall when skipping class, found an angle that he could step on, stepped on his slippers, climbed up, leaned on the wall and looked inside——

The little flower is inside.

The thin cat was strangled by a thin wire and hung on the clothesline. The cat's fur was deeply and slightly wet with blood. If it weren't for the occasional weak cry, one would even doubt whether it was dead.

Tong Huai opened his eyes wide in an instant, his heart locked up suddenly, and there was a bang in his head, and three words jumped out:

Cat sadist?

He had never seen this kind of scene since he was a child. He let go of his hand and almost fell it. He suppressed the urge to shout, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

The room over there was pitch black, he quickly took out his phone, pointed at Xiaohua, took a photo, sent it to Xue Ting along with the location, and sent a voice: "I found Xiaohua!"

Then Tong Huai glanced at the small courtyard—a pile of beer bottles was under the wall of the courtyard. Looking inside, the entire small courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and the big jar at the other corner was covered with dust, and even the windows were covered with dust. There is a thick layer of mud floating on them, and they don't look like they are inhabited.

He turned over and jumped into this very narrow courtyard. He was unable to move around while wearing slippers, and almost tripped over a beer bottle. He stabilized his body and rushed over in two or three steps, his slender fingers trembling, cautiously. Carefully untie the thin wire that had been pierced into Xiaohua's flesh and blood.

Xiaohua opened her eyes, cried out weakly again, and looked at him half-dead, as if she recognized him.

The cat, which was usually fierce to him, blinked hard, leaned into his arms, and the blood on its fur immediately rubbed onto his clothes.

During the day, Tong Huai and Xue Ting passed by here and called Xiao Hua's name.

But they didn't expect that Xiaohua was tied up in such a cruel way just across the wall.

If Tong Huai had come a step later, Xiao Hua might have died.

This is definitely not something that a few brats can do.

Tong Huai's heart was burning with anger, and he suppressed it. Just as he removed the thin wire, the door behind him suddenly creaked.

His back felt cold, the hair on his head was about to explode, he hugged Xiaohua and threw himself forward as hard as he could.

With a bang behind him, Tong Huai intuitively felt that the gangsters he had fought with were different, so he restrained his fear and looked back.

There was a broken beer bottle on the ground. A tall, muscular man came out of the house with unsteady steps. Before he got close, a strong smell of wine came to his face. He was holding another bottle Walking out of the vagueness, the eyes looking over are abnormally fierce.

"Where the hell did you come from, a little thief, who dares to steal from me."

After finishing speaking, he squinted at the little flower in Tong Huai's arms, and showed a bloodthirsty smile: "Oh... so this little beast belongs to you, damn it, little beast, if you dare to bite me, I will hang it here to dry No!"

Although Xiaohua is fierce, she doesn't bite people randomly.

However, without waiting for Tong Huai to think about it, the man couldn't help but throw another beer bottle cursing, and the angle was also tricky and sophisticated. He knew he was an old hand at a glance, with great strength.

Tong Huai hurriedly dodged with Xiaohua in his arms, but it was difficult to fight back with the cat, and he was even more worried about putting the cat down.

Fortunately, the man was drunk and his movements were a little slow, but even so, he was soon cornered.

The wine bottle burst in his ears with a "bang", and the shattered glass flew past, bringing a bone-piercing chill, and a piece of shattered glass seemed to scratch his cheek, causing a slight pain.

Tong Huai was forced to exert all his strength, and without even thinking about it, he kicked his lower three legs hard. The man avoided, but was kicked in the thigh, and staggered back a few steps.

Taking the opportunity, he flexibly lowered his body and rushed towards the door.

The moment he approached the gate, there was a sound of breaking through the air behind him, and before he could dodge in time, his calf hurt sharply.

Tong Huai gritted his teeth and did not make a sound. He hastily lowered his head and glanced, and found that his white trousers had been soaked in blood. I staggered under my feet.

Click.

Sprained foot.

Grass, so non.

Tong Huai's heart beeped, and he endured the severe pain, and with red eyes, he pulled the door latch and rushed out.

It's a pity that his leg was injured, and Tong Huai was caught up before he could run a few steps.

He was breathing lightly, holding the dying little flower, and confronting the man face to face, with countless thoughts spinning in his mind.

There was no life in that yard. He didn't expect that there were people in the house, and they were so cruel.

If I had known before I went in, I would have called the police and asked Xue Ting to help me.

It's also strange, the moment he found Xiaohua, his first reaction was to look for Xue Ting, and his only thought was to tell Xue Ting.

The sky was dotted with cold stars, the alley was deep and dead silent, and the atmosphere was deadlocked.

The man seemed very satisfied with the fact that he had pushed people into a corner, and he showed a very interesting expression.

At this moment, a shadow suddenly flew over, so fast that Tong Huai didn't even see it clearly.

The next moment, the man was punched hard in the face, his nose was bleeding profusely, and he bent down screaming "Aww".

The sound of footsteps came from outside the alley, a strong flashlight came, and a stern shout rang out: "Don't move! Police!"

saved.

This thought flashed through Tong Huai's mind, and his whole body relaxed immediately, his back was still sweating, his feet felt severe pain, and he couldn't stand firmly.

Xue Ting shook his hands, ignored the man, strode over with a sullen face, grabbed Tong Huai's waist, and leaned on him with strength.

His hair was disheveled, his breath was very unstable, and he was still panting slightly, as if he had come running, and he hugged Tong Huai with great strength, his usual calm expression turned into a violent storm.

Having known each other for so long, Tong Huai has never seen Xue Ting show such a terrifying expression.

"Are you stupid? Didn't I tell you not to come out alone? Can't I just wait for a while before I act!"

"I was wrong..." Tong Huai was in so much pain, knowing that he was wrong, he lowered his voice and raised his hands in surrender, "Didn't I see Xiao Hua dying soon... how can I sit still."

His voice became weaker and weaker in Xue Ting's cold eyes, he shrank his neck cowardly, and tugged at his sleeves flatteringly: "Brother Ting, don't get angry, there are still two wounds waiting for you to adopt. "

Xiao Hua, who was carefully protected by him in his arms, lived up to expectations and meowed weakly towards Xue Ting.

Before arriving, Xue Ting had a tense tendon in his head, jumping non-stop, causing him a headache and wanting to grab the disobedient Tong Huai and whip him hard.

But seeing people in such a mess, he felt a little distressed again.

Xue Ting lowered his eyes and met Tong Huaiqing's lingering gaze, and the anger that made him panic and fly around disappeared most of the time.

He pursed his lips tightly, his black eyebrows still calm, turned around without saying a word, and knelt down in front of Tong Huai: "Come up."