Pendulum Rider

I had just finished breakfast and was getting ready to go out when the doorbell rang.

I hurried to open the door, and found that Locke was carrying a box of imported chocolates. As soon as the door opened, he stuffed the chocolates into my hands.

"Eh? What's the matter? Why did you give me this all of a sudden?"

"Your future husband gave it to you."

When I heard the title of 'future husband', I sighed helplessly: "Bear."

"He just came back from a business trip yesterday and brought raw chocolate from Japan, you should put it in the refrigerator quickly."

So I took the chocolate, put it in the refrigerator, picked up the leather bag and followed Shang Locke to go out. When I left the community, I saw a few old ladies who had just returned from grocery shopping pointing at me, although the distance was a little Far away, I couldn't hear what they were talking about, but I could roughly imagine what they were talking about. I was just guessing about my relationship with Shang Locke.

At first I thought that Shang Luoke would go to Zhenchuan Middle School to collect evidence from those junior high school students, but he went straight to a private car parked at the entrance of the community. He opened the passenger door and beckoned me in. I hesitated for a second, and walked over. After getting into the car, I found that the driver was Xiong Xiong. Shouldn’t he be at work today, and he just came back from a business trip yesterday, so why would he be free to run around with us.

After I took my seat, Shang Locke closed the car door for me, then walked around to the back seat, opened the car door and got in the car. He stopped talking as soon as he got in the car, and turned out his small record book and began to read it. At this moment, the aura he exudes is like a big boss, and Xiong Xiong and I have become his secretary and driver respectively.Probably he and Xiong Xiong had already discussed the destination before they came to pick me up. Xiong Xiong in the driver's seat greeted me and drove towards Jiading Town without saying a word.

Although there are many questions in my mind at this time - why are we going in the direction of Jiading Town?Aren't those witnesses all studying in Zhenchuan Middle School?But I looked through the rearview mirror and found that Locke was staring at his notebook with a serious expression and thinking about problems, and it was not convenient for me to disturb his thoughts.Perhaps the reason why he chose to sit in the back seat is because there is a lot of space in the back seat, and he needs a large enough space to think about problems.

I turned my head to look at Xiong Xiong who was driving again. He was staring straight ahead of the road, his attention was very concentrated, and I felt that it was not easy for me to talk to him.

I just felt that the atmosphere in the car was a bit oppressive, dull and breathless, so I rolled down the car window a little bit, the wind made a noisy whirring sound in my ears, and a few strands of hair were blown into my eyes , Although it was only for a moment, my eyes were still very uncomfortable, and my bangs were messed up, so I had to roll up the car window again.

When the car stopped at an intersection and waited for the green light, Xiong Xiong took the initiative to talk to me: "Would you like to play some music? Do you like classical music? Like Mozart's Fantasia in D minor or something like that?"

"I prefer Japanese music, so you can play whatever music you have in your car."

"If you will be scolded by someone behind you if you play Japanese music, then play some music that is easy for him to think about." Xiong Xiong said and pressed the switch to play music, and the sound of the piano came out of the stereo, and it was instantly The dull atmosphere in the car just now was swept away.

"Speaking of the boyfriend I introduced to you before, how is the conversation between you?"

"Being brothers with him is very common, so I told you a long time ago that you don't want to break me."

"It seems that I can't introduce you to you. If I want to introduce you, I will introduce you to Qiang Gong."

Seeing that the red light ahead turned into a green light, he stomped on the accelerator and continued, "Who are you going to introduce to me? Anyway, it's the rhythm of brothers +1."

"Are you planning to turn all the gay members of Lin Xiwu's foodie group into brothers? Then let me introduce you to the baguette this time. He recently broke up with the cream donuts. They really have a word If they disagree, they break up, and then they get back together, and every time they quarrel, they have to break up."

"Could it be that the baguette is French?" Xiong Xiong asked while staring straight ahead.

"Yeah, he's an overseas student. He used to work in Lilith's shop. Now that he's graduated, he's officially working as the bass player in the band at Lilith's Blood Kiss Cafe."

"Then you can introduce him to me. At worst, you will have another foreign friend."

"Be careful what flag you will set up if you say it."

"If you bend me, it's a miracle."

Just as I was about to answer the conversation, someone in the back seat suddenly put his hand on our shoulders, and he said in a low voice, "Be quiet."

Both Xiong Xiong and I were taken aback, so the car was instantly quiet and only Mozart's piano music could be heard.

My sight is looking at the side window. When I usually ride in the car, I like to look at the scenery along the way. When I look at the nearby green belt, the green is passing by. I feel that the speed of the car is very fast, and then I look at the pedestrians in the distance. When I was with the vehicle, I felt that the speed of the vehicle suddenly slowed down a lot.

Finally, the car slowly drove into a hospital, parked in a parking space, Xiong Xiong unbuckled his seat belt, and someone behind him also stopped to think, and he got out of the car first and opened the door for me just like before. Then he took out a gift bag from the trunk of the car, probably for visiting sick people?

I followed them to the inpatient department with a blank face. After entering the elevator, Shang Locke revealed to me: "There is a witness who has been hospitalized for more than two months. He is currently receiving rehabilitation treatment. Take evidence from him, wait for the school lunch break or after school, and then go to the remaining witnesses to collect evidence."

"Why did he come to the hospital? Was he sick and had surgery? Or was there a car accident?"

"There was an accident and the leg was caught in the elevator door."

"Fortunately, it wasn't that the head was clamped."

"Who knows if this is a real accident?" Shang Locke muttered to himself.

"Speaking of which, why did Xiong Xiong come here today?" I finally asked my initial question.

"I asked him to drive. He has a rest today."

"Don't you want to see me? Let's go have a meal together after today's evidence collection is over?" Xiong Xiong suddenly approached me, and I was startled by the proximity.

The elevator door opened at the right time, and I got rid of the embarrassing scene where I almost kissed Xiong Xiong. We followed Shang Luke and walked towards a certain ward. At this time, I felt that Shang Luke was an entertainer. I am his manager, Xiong Xiong is his bodyguard, and then I accidentally imagined all kinds of pink theaters between bodyguards and entertainers.

Before stepping into the ward, I shook my head to get my strange fantasies out of my head.

I didn't expect this to be a single ward, and it happened to be convenient for us to collect evidence without worrying about being overheard by others.I saw a boy with a flat head and a bandage on his foot, leaning on the pillow and sitting on the hospital bed. There were a few test papers and textbooks on the small table on the bed. I didn’t expect that he was also a serious boy, or did he know us? I want to come, so I deliberately took out the textbook to pretend?

The child's mother was also sitting by the bed, and Shang Locke handed her the gift bag he had just taken out from the trunk of the car, and said with a smile on his face, "Hi, I'm Jia Lingyue from the previous phone call, these are The snacks I just brought back from Japan yesterday." Then Shang Locke pointed to me and Xiong Xiong and said, "These two are my assistants."

"Thank you for the gift." The child's mother put the gift bag on the bedside table, "What do you want to ask him?"

"May I ask you to go out for a while before asking him?"

The mother glanced at her son on the hospital bed, then nodded and walked out of the ward.

After the door of the ward was closed, Shang Locke cut straight to the point: "Who caused the injury on your foot?"

"Elevator." The boy answered quickly, as if he had anticipated this question a long time ago and was ready to answer it.

"Is it this person?" Shang Luoke said as he took out his phone and opened a photo of the prince.

The boy's eyes seemed to shake slightly, and he asked, "Who is he?"

"Don't tell me you haven't seen him. In July this year, you and your friends did see him in the park, right?"

"I forgot, I just remember that there was a person hiding in the grass and secretly taking pictures."

"You should be in the second year of junior high school now, right? When will you go to school again?" Shang Locke suddenly changed the subject.

"If it's fast, you can go to school in mid-November, if you recover slowly, you can only wait until the next semester."

"Are these test papers you put on the table brought to you by your friends?"

"Well, they take turns sending me homework for a week on Saturdays. I study by myself in the hospital. After I finish the questions, they will take them to the school for the teacher to correct, and then bring the corrected homework on Saturday."

"Which elevator were you caught in?" Shang Locke jumped back to the topic of leg injuries.

"The Jiating Hui after the Anting subway station."

"Can you describe in detail how you were caught at that time?"

"Hmm...that's just... I got pinched as soon as I stepped in with one foot." It felt like his answer was just made up, and I didn't know what he was hiding.

"Didn't the elevator door open again after being caught?"

"No, it's probably a malfunction."

"Oh? It's malfunctioning? Did your parents complain to them?"

"No."

"Why not? You should be able to get compensation in this situation, right?" Shang Locke smiled kindly.

The boy showed a bewildered expression, and he turned his head to look at me, as if he saw that I was the best one to talk, so he looked at me with eyes asking for help.

However, I didn't have the script written by Shang Locke in my hand, so I didn't know what questions to ask him next. Suddenly I found that Shang Locke was staring at me, and his face seemed to say, "Hurry up and do it for me quickly." Get rid of this kid, I don't have the patience to spend it with him."

So I took a deep breath and let it out, then looked at the boy on the hospital bed, and asked with my own thoughts: "Did you see two men making out in the park in July? They were in the park In which corner? Which corner were you hiding in?"

"They were on the side of the covered seats on the flyover. It was very hot at that time, and there were no people around. Everyone went to the park at night to dance square dances or something. My classmates and I were in the grass near there."

"Did you play in the grass from the beginning?"

"We were playing in the water, and then went around to play in the woods for a while, and then we planned to buy some cold drinks to cool off, but we saw two figures making love from a distance, and then we quietly went around to peek among the grass."

"At that time, you also noticed a man who was secretly filming them? Where is that man hiding?"

"Just near us, he seemed to be photographing the scenery at first, and then he crouched down to take a sneak shot."

"Do you remember what that man was wearing?"

"It's just very ordinary clothes, I can't remember clearly, and he is also wearing a sun hat with the brim pressed a little low."

"Then did he notice you?"

The boy pursed his lips and fell silent. He glanced at me, as if he wanted me to ask him another question.

"Do you have a hierarchical relationship with your classmates? The hierarchical relationship I'm talking about refers to the king of children, which means that there is a team leader who makes suggestions and brings everyone to play together. If so, can you tell me who that child is?"

"If it's a suggestion, I usually call everyone out to play together, and I just ask everyone to come out to play basketball or something."

"That is to say, you are the leader?"

"Lida?"

"Don't worry, I accidentally uttered Japanese English."

"Sister, do you know Japanese?" The boy suddenly showed an expression of admiration, probably another child deeply influenced by Japanese animation culture.

"The two people you saw in the bushes, one of them was Fa Xiao who grew up with me, he is half Japanese, and the other is dead, it was killed by the person who took the sneak shot, and the sneak shot is now That person is dating my Fa Xiao, and my Fa Xiao was cheated by him, so I am looking for witnesses to bring the person who took the sneak shot to justice, can you help me?"

"But..." The boy stopped talking.

"Don't look at me as harmless to humans and animals, soft and easy to push down. In fact, I am also very powerful. I am still a respected and beloved 'big sister' in a certain group. Although the members of that group are about the same age as me, they are also You are considered an adult, and I also know another member of a real gang, so don’t worry about what will happen to you if you tell the truth, I will give you the contact information of the boss of that group, and he will find someone to protect you , Boss Lin is one year younger than me, but he is very intimidating, so don't hesitate to say everything."

The boy bowed his head and pondered for a moment, and finally made up his mind and said: "The person who took the sneak shot seemed to have discovered us at that time, and he came to me alone later. During the summer vacation in early August, I made an appointment with those who often played in the Our classmates went out to watch night movies, and we sat in the back row. Sometimes in night movies, we could see the couples in front of us kissing each other, and they would touch each other in the dark. I saw a couple like this that day. After watching the movie , I went to eat night food stalls with my classmates again, and we planned to go home after eating. That person appeared on my way home, and I saw him take out two knives. I felt weak and wanted to call for help. I saw his knives gesturing in the air a few times, and one of the knives flew towards me. The same thing got tangled up, and then I felt a little wet on my feet."

When the boy fell into the memory, his body was still shaking, presumably he remembered the fear at that time.

"Did he say anything to you?"

"He said that he was not there that day, and asked me to tell my classmates this way. In order to increase the effect of intimidation, he injured my leg."

"Did any police officers approach you to ask questions?"

"No."

"Then he is really doing too much."

"Is the person who secretly took the photo the same person as the person who hurt your leg?" Shang Luoke, who was silent for a long time, suddenly asked, "Just now you said that the person who took the sneak photo was lowered, which means you didn't do anything wrong. Saw the man's face, but the second time he saw him was at night, when he warned you that you heard the other's voice for the first time, but can you be sure that they are the same person?"

I was confused by what Shang Luoke said, and I just heard him continue to ask: "What day does the other party say that he was not present that day?"

The boy looked at Shang Luoke in a daze, and I also looked at him in a daze. Is the development of the matter more complicated than I imagined?

"Don't all of you look at me like this. I mean the prince's dual personality. By the way, confirm the authenticity of what he just said."

"What, it scared me, I almost thought there was someone behind the scenes."

"What I said is true. The day that person said he was present probably refers to the day when he secretly took pictures." The more the boy talked, the more he lost his confidence. He was trying to remember whether he would meet the other party one day.

"Why did he only pick you instead of your classmates? If it was just a sneak shot of that day, he could pick anyone. Could it be that he found out that you are their leader, so he chose you? He should have chosen you as well." It's not a coincidence, but you also witnessed his ulterior actions in other places."

"But I don't remember where I've seen him before." The boy was still thinking hard.

"If you remember anything, please contact us again."

Shang Luoke said that he was about to hand him a business card, but I snatched the business card. I picked up the fountain pen on the table and wrote the phone number of Lin Xiwu and me on the blank part of the back of the business card. Later, I suddenly realized that it was impolite to write something on someone else's business card, and then I thought that the other party was Shang Locke, so I didn't count it as someone else, so it didn't matter.

I pointed to the handwritten contact number on the business card and showed it to the boy: "The first one is my mobile phone number, and the second one is the mobile phone number of Boss Lin of the food group. If you ask him for help, you first need to pass the phone interview for joining the group." .”

"Join the group? Foodie group?" The boy's expression is the most standard expression of bewilderment I have ever seen.

"I'm really sorry for not having a cool group name. Just because you are a boy, you have already met half of the conditions for entering the group. The other half of the condition is that as long as you say the correct password, you will be protected by their group."

"What code? Is it complicated?"

"No, it's so naive that a 3-year-old kid can say it right. He will ask you what is the irony of 'Shanghai tap water comes from the sea'."

The boy wrote down what I just said on the draft paper, and then read it in comparison: "Go to the sea, he goes to the water, he goes to the sea?"

"You're thinking too complicated, you'll know when you read that sentence again."

The boy stared at the words on the paper for a while, and suddenly found something, and said loudly as if he had been deceived: "Isn't it exactly the same?"

"So I just said that a 3-year-old child can do it, so we are going to leave now. If you think of anything, call me and this detective. If you have nothing to do in the hospital, you can call Boss Lin first." Chatting on the topic of food on the phone, bye."

"Okay, goodbye sister."

When the three of us left the inpatient department, Xiong Xiong suddenly said, "Why did that kid just say goodbye to you?"

"how could I know."

"I've had the foresight for a long time, and it's really easy to talk with beautiful women." Shang Locke said, "We'll go to middle school next, and maybe we can ask some questions during recess."

So when we came to the parking lot, Xiong Xiong opened and closed the car door for me before getting on Locke, and we took the seats we had just now. Look at the scenery outside the window.