Thunder can't catch fire

After Han Zheng left, Zhou Yan waited at the bus station for a long time without even seeing the bus. When he got a little discouraged and his phone ran out of battery, he just looked at the road signs, groped all the way with his mouth, and asked Then, walk back on two legs.

The "No. 11 bus" is very easy to use, but when I touch it home, I am almost tired and paralyzed.

Zhou Yan didn't know whether his legs and feet hadn't fully recovered, or he was old and lacked strength. In short, he only walked for half an hour, and his face was covered in sweat.

When I got downstairs, I accidentally ran into Xiaozhen, carrying a plastic bag in her hand. When she saw Zhou Yan, she was taken aback for a moment, then immediately burst into a smile, revealing two small canine teeth, opened the bag in her hand, and said: "Brother Zhou Yan, come eat from the freezer!"

Xiaozhen is a cute and silly girl, and Zhou Yan has a good impression of her.It happened that he was so hot that he was not polite, and said "thank you", then took out a mung bean popsicle from the bag, rolled up his sleeves and sat by the well platform to chew.

The popsicles are very firm and hard. Zhou Yan wanted to take a bite, but his teeth were not good enough to bite.

Sitting next to him, Xiao Zhen obediently took a sip of the vanilla-flavored cream ice cream, and a circle of white milk immediately stained her lips. Zhou Yan glanced at her, then took out a pack of tissues from his pocket and threw it to her.

"Scrub."

"Ah, you still have a tissue." Xiaozhen took the tissue, bit the ice cream in her mouth, freed her other hand, pulled out a tissue, took the ice cream out of her mouth, wiped her lips, and muttered With a cry, "the lipstick is gone."

Zhou Yan looked at her mouth when he heard this, and was amused.Indeed, half of the plum red on the lower lip has faded, but the upper lip is still bright red, which is funny to watch.

"Don't laugh at me." Xiaozhen patted Zhou Yan's arm coquettishly and angrily. Just as Zhou Yan was about to say something, a roar came from not far away.

——"Sun Xiaozhen, why don't you get out of here!!!"

Zhou Yan frowned, subconsciously looked back, but saw nothing.

And when he turned his head again, Xiaozhen's complexion changed, she jumped up, stroked her skirt, and hurriedly said: "I'm leaving first!" She ran away quickly without looking back.

With this episode, Xiaozhen and Zhou Yan "encountered" more and more times. The two commute to and from get off work at about the same time. Later, they even got together when they went out and went home.Xiaozhen has a cheerful personality, always chattering behind Zhou Yan, and occasionally giving him some homemade dumplings, zongzi, and noodle cakes.

The noodles were made by Xiaozhen herself, and the dumplings and zongzi were made by Xiaozhen's mother.Xiaozhen's father passed away not long after she was born, and Xiaozhen's mother only had one leg, and she was brought up by working as a female worker. Life was hard, but she depended on each other and relied on her neighbors to help her, and she survived until now.

Xiaozhen didn't feel how hard her life was. She told Zhou Yan that she didn't have any pursuits in this life. She hoped to find an honest man to marry in a few years. That person didn't need a big house or much money, as long as she could bear Just live with her mother.

People living in this area are all poor, but the poor also have the way of the poor. They still live their lives. If they have no spare money to watch movies, they dance in the square every day after dinner.Now that the weather is warm, playing chess under the tree in the evening, Zhang San Li Si in the past said this and that, and the sound of the news broadcast came from somewhere not far away, resounding through the entire old building; old women were on the sidelines Moving a small bench to eat watermelon and chatting, occasionally beating and scolding naughty children, speaking vulgarly, and not necessarily being serious...

Small bits and pieces constitute the normal state of life.Sometimes Zhou Yan felt in a daze that it would be good to live like this.

After delivering Xiaozhen’s bread for three days in a row, Xiaozhen’s mother finally couldn’t take it anymore, and when she was about to sneak out with the lunch box for the fourth time, she held her ears and scolded in a shrill voice: “You eat all the food! Damn girl! Where can I feed this wild man with this cake?! Ah?!"

Xiaozhen screamed in pain, begging for mercy: "Not a wild man! Brother Zhou Yan is not a wild man!"

Misfortune came out of her mouth, and Xiaozhen also regretted it afterwards, why she couldn't stand it so much and recruited.If it was during the Anti-Japanese War, she would definitely be a traitor, and she would be recruited without fighting.

Because of Comrade Sun Xiaozhen's "betrayal", Zhou Yan was "invited" to the house by Xiaozhen's mother.

After eating so many zongzi and dumplings, Zhou Yan was a little surprised when he saw her for the first time.A middle-aged woman in a wheelchair was wearing black trousers. One trouser leg was completely rolled up and empty, making the other leg look extra long. Her feet touched the ground, and her slippers tapped the ground one after another.

Sun Xiaozhen is pretty good-looking, with double eyelids, phoenix eyes, oval face, and delicate features; but Xiaozhen's mother looks very fierce, with triangular eyes and sky-high eyebrows, and her expression is exaggerated when she speaks, as if her whole face is about to fall off; Sometimes it's also scary, the black pupils stare straight at you, as if you can see to the end at a glance.

But Zhou Yan could tell that Xiaozhen's mother...was trying her best to appear gentle.

When she was talking to Zhou Yan, she lowered her voice very low. It was so different from her usual loud voice that it sounded stiff and awkward. Her tone was flattering, and every movement was very slow, turning the wheelchair. When she was going to pour water for Zhou Yan, something happened to the wheelchair suddenly. She lowered her head and fiddled with it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. It's old, it's broken, and it's long overdue to replace it."

"Change?!" Xiaozhen's mother suddenly raised her head, her expression suddenly changed, "You have money to change!"

After she finished speaking, she realized that there was an outsider next to her, so she quickly restrained her sharp expression, smiled at Zhou Yan, and Zhou Yan also smiled, but at that moment, the indescribable embarrassment, she knew it well and said nothing. Metaphor.

At the strong invitation of Xiaozhen's mother, Zhou Yan had dinner at a neighbor's house for the first time.

"My girl can't do anything else, cooking is delicious."

Her tone was very proud, and Xiao Zhen was so embarrassed and flustered, she blushed and said, "Brother Zhou Yan is the chef of our restaurant, mom, you call it 'playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong'!"

"What is Guan Gong's big sword, I don't understand." Xiaozhen's mother waved her hand, ignored Xiaozhen, and just smiled directly at Zhou Yan, "My girl, except for being a little stupid, is good everywhere."

Xiaozhen's cooking skills are really good, not even inferior to Zhou Yan, who almost hiccupped after eating.

Xiaozhen's mother was very enthusiastic, but she didn't want to drink too much, and she was "selling" her daughter from the beginning to the end of the meal. With that posture, Xiaozhen wished to make a lifelong appointment with Zhou Yan on the spot.

Poor parents all over the world, Zhou Yan thought, just nodded like a gag, and felt a little guilty in his heart. The feeling was not very strong, but it was like stealing a few Chinese cabbages from an unowned field, with a little guilty conscience.

One night before, Xiaozhen asked him if he had a girlfriend, and he answered "there is someone he likes". Looking back now, he was still too vague and not decisive enough.To sum it up, he still has the potential to be a scumbag.

So in order to successfully get rid of this "glorious" title, after dinner, Zhou Yan took advantage of the time when he was going home and Xiaozhen was going out to take out the trash, and was going to make it clear to her.

It was the first time for Zhou Yan to do this kind of thing, he was always afraid of hurting others unintentionally, so he was very careful with his words and words, and sent out good person cards with some hypocrisy, such as "You are a good girl", "I will definitely find a super good boy in the future" some type of.

Xiaozhen was still looking at him at the beginning, but gradually her face turned redder and redder, her head lowered lower and lower, and finally interrupted him in a low voice: "Actually, I know. I'm not good enough for you..."

Xiaozhen looked very depressed, and she was a different person in peacetime. Zhou Yan was her little sister on weekdays, and now she felt distressed, but she didn't know what to say. Finally, Xiaozhen turned around and left. He still couldn't say a word. Did not pop out.

Zhou Yan is a little emotionally numb, and he feels that this is largely "attributable" to his mother who never gave him much "maternal love" when he was a child, and who "sold" him when he grew up.

This incident made Zhou Yan depressed for several hours, he was absent-minded when watching TV, and frequently looked at the clock to get ready for sleep at any time.

But when it was finally time, before he got up from the sofa, the doorbell rang.

Zhou Yan's doorbell seldom rang, except for Han Zheng and Xiaozhen, no one had ever rang it, but they usually rang two or three times before stopping, waiting for him to open the door, not as coherent and hasty as it is now.

A bad premonition rose in his heart, and he ran to open the door without putting on his slippers.

Standing outside the door was an old man. Zhou Yan remembered him as a neighbor of Xiaozhen's family, an old smoker who always smoked a pipe under the big elm tree.

Old Smoker stared at him with eyes full of bags under his eyes, and shouted, "Xiaozhen?!"

Monk Zhou Yanzhang was puzzled and said, "Sun Xiaozhen? She's not here."

With Xiaozhen's mother crying, the old alley, which was always silent in the dark, suddenly woke up.

——Sun Xiaozhen is missing.

At that time, after dinner, Zhou Yan came home, and Xiaozhen wanted to take out the trash, so she went out with him. Xiaozhen's mother usually waited for Xiaozhen to wash her feet and body, but now she waited for a long time. I didn't wait for Xiaozhen to come back.At first she thought that Xiaozhen and Zhou Yan had gone somewhere to play, but seeing the time getting later and later, Xiaozhen still didn't come back, and she didn't answer the phone. She couldn't sit still, so she asked the old neighbor to go to Zhou Yan's house to call her daughter return.

Who knows, Zhou Yan doesn't know where Xiaozhen is at all.

The neighbors around all know the situation of Xiaozhen's family. Xiaozhen's mother is a bit fierce to this girl, but the two of them are orphans and widows, and they depend on each other for life. Neither can do without the other. Now that the daughter can't be found, it is natural I was in a hurry.

Zhou Yan first comforted Xiaozhen's mother, saying that Xiaozhen might be delayed on the road for something, maybe went to the supermarket, and then mobilized the people around to find Xiaozhen together.

According to Xiaozhen's mother, because Xiaozhen has to take care of her to wash and sleep, she never comes home late, and she must be home before eight o'clock, which is why she is not looking for a night shift when she is looking for a job.It's past eleven o'clock, and she still hasn't heard from her. How can a mother be in a hurry?

Xiaozhen's mother was so anxious that she was sitting in a wheelchair and couldn't find it herself. She was spinning around on the spot and tears were about to come out, begging someone to call the police.But within 24 hours of the disappearance, the police station refused to file a case. Zhou Yan explained to her. The more she explained, the more anxious Xiaozhen’s mother became. .

Zhou Yan had no choice but to comfort her non-stop, but in fact, he was also anxious.

He had a very ominous premonition, especially when he first found out that Xiaozhen was missing, her mobile phone was just not answered, and she called again after a while, but was suddenly turned off, and the phone was turned off when she called back.Apart from the stolen mobile phone, he couldn't help thinking about the bad things, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

After tossing until one o'clock in the morning, few people insisted on looking for it. On the one hand, it was like a chicken without a head. With a high degree of concentration.

Xiaozhen's mother's eyes were already red from crying, and she was staring at the fluorescent lamp dully at this moment, her lips were tightly pursed, and she didn't say a word.

Seeing that look, Zhou Yan felt trembling in his heart.

After much thought, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Han Zheng's number.

It is very inappropriate to call anyone at this time. Zhou Yan was ready to be "closed door", but he didn't know that the phone rang twice and then got through. Han Zheng's voice was always low, although Words and sentences are very clear, but vaguely discernible, was awakened from sleep.

After listening to Zhou Yan's brief description of what happened, he was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "Just wait, I'll be right over."

The author has something to say: