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Xu Yanwen stood outside the door of the bookstore, looking at Axiu through the glass.

Axiu waved to him, but after waiting for a long time, he still didn't come in, she jumped out, Xu Yanwen felt a pain in his heart when he saw him, he had seen this posture before.

This is how Xiaoyan walks when she is happy, and Axiu is imitating Xiaoyan to express her joy.

When Axiu came out, she felt that Xu Yanwen was very weird today. Although he usually didn't talk much when he saw her, he always laughed. Why didn't he laugh today.

Axiu stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Xu Yanwen, as if asking him "what's the matter with you".

Xu Yanwen came back to his senses, he wanted to twitch his mouth, but he couldn't, Axiu took out his notebook and wrote the word "photo" on it.

They want to see the photos today, they made an appointment.

The photo was in Xu Yanwen's briefcase, and he tightly gripped the handle of the briefcase: "That store washed the photos, and we both blurred."

Axiu opened her mouth, sighed in disappointment, she really wanted to see what she looked like in the photo.

Xu Yanwen looked at her face, trying to find some evidence from her face that she was not a living person, but he couldn't find it. Bai Zhun's skills are extraordinary, so how could he see through it.

"We can take another photo next time and choose a better photo studio."

He still couldn't bear to let her down, even if she was a paper doll.

She doesn't smile, eat, or even drink water.Knowing the truth and looking back, there are reminders everywhere, but he just turned a blind eye.

Axiu nodded in agreement, she stretched out her hand to hold Xu Yanwen's arm, this is what she learned in the movie, walking on the street is to hold hands!

Axiu's forearm nimbly got into Xu Yanwen's arm.

Xu Yanwen didn't dodge this time, he thought it was impolite, he and Axiu hadn't reached that point yet, but he was presumptuous this time.

Xu Yanwen of that upright mother-in-law got out of her shell.

They walked on the street arm in arm, turning around to stare at Axiu's face. He should be afraid, but he was more happy than afraid.

Walking on the bustling road without knowing the purpose, the lights and neon lights, the traffic is busy, confused and happy.

"Axiu, do you have any wishes?" He asked.

Axiu was in a daze. No one had ever asked her what her wish was.

She couldn't speak for a moment, so she asked Xu Yanwen: What do you wish for?

Xu Yanwen's wish was too clear, he didn't even want Axiu to like him a little bit, he hoped that Axiu was a real person, but he couldn't say it.

He lowered his head, and the neon lights in his eyes, which were still full just now, suddenly paled: "My wish, my wish is... that you can laugh."

If you can laugh, you are a real person.

Axiu didn't understand the bitterness in his voice, but she thought it was not a difficult task, so she generously agreed and wrote the word "good" on the palm of his hand.

Xu Yanwen stood still under the street lamp, with an expression on his face that seemed to be either smiling or crying. He would never be able to open his mouth at this moment.

Axiu brought back some snacks for Bai Zhun, which were fried chestnuts sold at the stalls in the old city. The chestnuts were soft and waxy, sweet and delicious, and Bai Zhun liked to eat them very much.

But only in late autumn and early winter, chestnut sellers will set up stalls in the alleys.

"You bought this for me?" Bai Zhun smelled the scent of chestnuts and thought it was Huo Zhenye who came back.

Axiu nodded cheerfully, the money to buy the chestnuts was also her own, it was given to her by Mr. Huo, and she saved it.

She put the chestnuts on the table, took out a copy of "Movie Pictorial" from her bag, and looked at Bai Zhun with dark almond eyes, eyes full of longing.

"What do you want?" Bai Zhun looked at Axiu.

Axiu pointed to her own face, and then pointed to the female star in the pictorial.

Bai Zhun thought that Axiu fell in love with the female celebrity's dress: "What's so beautiful about this dress, it's very cumbersome." Such layers of layers are wasteful and ugly.

Of course, the cheongsam is good-looking, plain and elegant, gorgeous and rich, and it is much more beautiful than a yarn dress with a bow in the east and a bow in the west.

Axiu shook her head, and she pointed at the female star's face.

Several female stars in "Movie Pictorial" were smiling, either showing their teeth or pursing their lips, Bai Zhun understood, Ah Xiu wanted a smiling face.

Bai Zhun's eyes were dim, and Axiu was still looking at him ignorantly. She didn't even understand what it meant for her to want a smiling face.

The door was pushed open, and Huo Zhenye's voice filled the small building of the Bai family: "I bought mutton soup, it's still hot, come and drink some."

Axiu immediately slipped out of the inner room, and she gestured to tell Huo Zhenye that his eldest brother was coming.

She flexibly imitated Huo Zhenye's elder brother, and Secretary He, she circled her thumb and index finger, and drew a circle on her eyes.

"Secretary He is here too?"

Bai Zhun turned out from the inner room, rolled the wheelchair to the dining table, and nonchalantly tapped the brick floor with his bamboo stick: "Hurry up, I'm hungry."

Huo Zhenye walked to the table, looked at Bai Zhun's face, felt that he didn't look angry, and asked, "What did my elder brother say?"

Bai Zhun frowned: "I'm hungry."

Huo Zhenye had no choice but to pay tribute to Bai Qiye's Wuzang Temple first. The thin slices of mutton were stacked on a plate, and the store also gave him pickled sour radish slices.

He said while ordering noodles: "I'm going to find Datou, the stall that Datou took me to, I think it's quite clean and tastes good, so I brought some back for you."

He wanted to invite Da Tou to a restaurant for dinner, but Da Tou only craved a mouthful of mutton noodles, the two of them found the small stall after turning around, and smelled the aroma of mutton soup before they got close.

There is warmth in the cold wind.

Before the noodles were ready, Bai Zhun took a piece of mutton with bamboo chopsticks and put it into his mouth together with slices of sour radish. The sour taste made the mutton even more delicious.

"My elder brother didn't say anything, did he?" Huo Zhenye poured water into the pot, because Bai Zhun liked to eat noodles that were a bit rotten.

"I didn't say anything." Bai Zhun held his chopsticks again, "I just said that you died or lived for a girl in the nursing home when you were young."

The word "girl" is accented.

Huo Zhenye took a deep breath in his heart, and complained that the elder brother would not open the pot and carry the pot, how could he bring up the matter of men and women in front of Bai Zhun.

Just as he was about to coax Bai Zhun a few words, his face changed slightly: "But... But there is no girl in my dream, only you?"

Bai Zhun immediately kept silent.

But with Huo Zhenye's intelligence, the relationship between the two sides is clear. Of course, he heard the servants who waited on him talk about his illness, and he couldn't spell the girl in his memory just by scattered words and phrases.

"How dare you!" Bai Zhun poked the mutton with his bamboo chopsticks and looked at him, if he dared to say a word!Just throw him out!

With a "poof", the water in the pot rushed out, extinguishing the fire in the briquette stove, and Huo Zhenye fished out the noodles while fanning the black smoke.

He coughed and handed the face to Bai Zhun, making a gesture of please.

Say silently in your heart, hold back, absolutely hold back, never laugh, never complacent.

The two paper servants "cracked" Huo Zhenye up, pushed him to the door, Huo Zhenye turned his head and shouted: "I didn't say anything."

What a shame!

"You're talking in your heart, your eyes are talking, and your whole body is talking!" The man almost laughed like a trumpet flower.

"You can see this." Huo Zhenye's heart fluttered. Before he could shake his feet twice, his feet were lifted up, and the door opened a crack. He hurriedly begged for mercy, "Hey, hey, don't throw it away, I have Hongyang news."

The paper servant stopped, and Huo Zhenye returned to the table. The dizziness on Bai Zhun's face did not fade, and he said angrily, "Say."

"Hongyang is hiding in the concession." Huo Zhenye's eyes sparkled. When he met Datou, he first thanked him for sending him home last time, and secondly, he asked him about Taoism.

Yiguandao opened a Taoist altar in Hongkou, which is not very popular in the French Concession and the Public Concession.

There is no other reason, because except for the Japanese Concession, other foreign consuls have their own beliefs. They believe in God, not in the Holy Spirit.

They gave the green light to build a church and opened an altar. How could foreigners and consuls agree.

One is that the inspections in the concession are strict, and the other is that most of the original Taoists in Yiguandao are afraid of foreigners, and Yiguandao has not prevailed in the concession.

Bai Zhun frowned: "You found him?"

After releasing so many paper birds, Hongyang was not found, so why did Huo Zhenye find his whereabouts as soon as he went out?

"It's not me, it's Datou." For this, he asked Datou to eat mutton noodles for a month.

The big head didn't intend to check Yiguan Dao, he was a policeman in the concession, and he had never even heard of Yiguan Dao's reputation.He was just patrolling the street, and when he came to a house, he saw many children of five or six years old inside.

This is neither a private school nor a foster home, where do these children come from.

Another question, most of these children were sent here this month. At first they were all boys, and later there were many girls.

Neighbors in the neighborhood said that they occasionally saw these children standing in the garden.

A group of three, they wear the same clothes, and the words "heaven, earth and man" are embroidered on the clothes. The big head doesn't understand these things, so he just told Huo Zhenye about this weird thing.

"Mr. Huo, what is this family doing with so many children?" Datou was alert to the police, although he was fine, he would go around every day to see if there was anything unusual.

When Huo Zhenye heard it, he thought of those children in the Taoist altar.

The three holy spirits are three children, three in each altar, one child supports the spirit, another child copies, and one child proclaims the mandate of heaven.

It turned out that these kids were all training in one house.

"A lot of people came in and out a few days ago. These children couldn't even get out of the door. I occasionally rode by and saw them looking out the window."

A few days ago, when Hongyang disappeared, could it be that he was hiding here?

"Do you want me to send Jin Chi to take a look?" Bai Zhun mentioned Jin Chi, the little squirrel didn't recover for a moment, it fluttered a bit before realizing that Jin Chi was talking about it, straightening up its white fluff His chest hair fell onto the table.

"No need." Huo Zhenye also chewed a piece of sour radish, and drank mutton soup with mutton, "Where did all these children come from?"

"Tomorrow the big head will take the brothers to investigate the trafficking." The big head will use the case as an excuse to go in and search. Huo Zhenye wants to get mixed up in it, but some of the Taoist disciples have seen his appearance.

"Tomorrow, I'll change into my patrol clothes first, and then I'll find a way to put on makeup."

Huo Zhenye even prepared the tools for Qiao's makeup, Bai Zhun put down his chopsticks, took out a silk handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and said proudly, "What kind of face do you want?"

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