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"...the strongest rainstorm since the flood season..."

"36 rivers have exceeded the alarm and the Ministry of Water Resources has further strengthened the deployment and prevention work..."

"The heavy rain in our city has turned sunny today, and the overall flood situation is stable and there is no flood disaster..."

Yan Ji was sitting on the sofa, holding the remote control in his hand, staring blankly at the coffee table in a daze, the TV was very loud, and the evening news was playing, which sounded serious and lively.

Suddenly, Yan Ji jumped up, rushed to grab the phone.She pressed the "redial button", anticipation rose in her heart.She was lying on the bed last night and vaguely heard the ringing of the phone, as if there was the sound of opening and closing the door.

The phone rings, jingling, over and over again until it becomes "beep beep".Yan Ji didn't give up, and kept redialing, constantly redialing.

"Hello?" The phone was connected suddenly, and there was a trembling voice.

Yan Ji was stunned.

"Hey, hey, do you hear me?"

Yan Ji's scalp exploded, and he shouted: "Lu Yan!"

Lu Yan was so frightened that he almost threw away the phone: "Yan Ji? How do you know..."

"Where are you!" Yan Ji raised his foot and walked towards the door, dragged the phone to the ground, and recovered from such a shock, "Lu Yan, where are you?"

Lu Yan was ashamed: "I, I, I went out for a walk, and I thought Yan Deng might come home at night, so I just came over to take a look, this phone keeps ringing..."

Lu Yan's words were like a basin of ice water, Yan Ji had goose bumps all over his body, and shivered uncontrollably.She couldn't even speak, and stumbled out two words: "Wait, me."

wait for me!

Yan Ji was not able to ride so fast when he was competing with the boys in his class. His heart was burning, his blood was boiling, countless images flashed through his mind, and he tried his best to blank it out and dare not think about it.

It was raining lightly, Lu Yanshou stood by the phone booth and did not dare to move around, seeing Yan Ji, he was a little scared and worried: "Are you okay?"

Yan Ji wiped the mist off his face and stared at Lu Yan.Frightened by her aura, Lu Yan got goosebumps all over his body and stomped his feet anxiously: "Tell me, tell me quickly, something happened to Yan Deng!"

Yan Ji walked to the corner and squatted down. She needed a little partner to share the pressure: "My grandfather is also missing. He answered a call last night, and it was from this phone booth. I didn't see him all day today."

Lu Yan squatted beside her: "Your grandfather?"

Yan Ji stepped forward and said, "You can't tell anyone what I said."

Lu Yan nodded repeatedly and raised his hand: "I promise."

Yan Ji looked around. There was no one enjoying the cool air in front of the small supermarket diagonally opposite, and the road was clear and cold: "At Yan Deng's house, there are only her and her mother. Yan Deng's mother is not in good health and never goes out. Their family has no other relatives." , it is impossible to travel.”

Lu Yan scratched the back of his neck in shame: "Well, when I went home and thought about it, I also felt that her house is like this... I didn't realize it at the time! Hey, but I can't call the police yet, and I have to wait 24 hours for her disappearance."

Yan Ji didn't know this, and frowned upon hearing this: "We don't know when Yan Deng disappeared."

"That's right!" Lu Yan slapped his hands together, "Let's go, let's go find the police uncle."

The two rode bicycles to the police station and were kicked out before they could say a word.

"Walk around, don't go home so late. If you come to make trouble again, call your school and tell your teacher."

……

"Okay, uncle, I've made a note of it, and I'll check it out tomorrow. Go home quickly, and be careful on the road."

……

"Kids, don't be in a hurry, speak slowly, Enen, or else you should go back and have a look first, maybe Grandpa has already returned home."

……

Yan Ji and Lu Yan walked out of the police station, the glass sensor door opened and closed, they hung their heads, holding the biscuits forced by the police sister.

"They all think we are children, and adults don't believe what children say."

Yan Ji raised his hand, "slapped" the biscuit on the ground, and ran to the steps.Lu Yan picked up the biscuit and chased after him, grabbing Yan Ji's bicycle faucet.

"You let go."

Lu Yan faltered: "Yan Ji, it's too late, if you don't go home, my parents will call the police."

Yan Ji was taken aback, then raised his chin: "Then you go back."

Lu Yan grabbed the faucet and did not let go: "You also go home first, and we will look for it tomorrow. Maybe Yan Deng and your grandfather will come back tomorrow. They may be in a hurry. Besides, we can go to the head teacher tomorrow! "

Yan Ji lowered his head and broke Lu Yan's hand: "I see, you go home, I'm going home too."

Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, my parents must be waiting impatiently, so I'll go first."

Yan Ji stepped on the bicycle and pedaled twice, turned his head to see Lu Yan lying on the bicycle, his buttocks didn't even sit down, the pedals were spinning, and his back could not be seen in a blink of an eye.

Yan Ji got out of the car, pushed the bicycle, and walked forward aimlessly.

There was no one on the road, and occasionally one or two motorcycles passed by.The facade rooms are also closed, leaving only discos and karaoke halls with colorful neon lights.

Occasionally, in the streets and alleys, a small shop is lit, or the boss in a white vest is drowsy at the counter, or a table of half-drunk diners is bragging.

Yan Ji walked aimlessly, and finally walked home.

The light was on in the living room, advertisements were playing on the TV, and the salesman was screaming like chicken blood, which seemed to be a little popular in the room.

Yan Ji lay on the sofa, unable to fall asleep, sat up and grabbed the remote control to tune to the legal channel.Today we are talking about a murder case in a taxi. The content is so bloody and real that Yan Ji didn't dare to blink his eyes.

As soon as the show ended, Yanji went to the bathroom to wash his face and started looking for clues at home.

"The quilt is not folded. Grandpa is going to bed. It can't be that he went out in the morning or last night."

"The belt watch is gone, the leather shoes to go to the provincial capital are not here, and the umbrella is gone."

Yan Ji emptied his schoolbag, packed a flashlight and his grandfather's Mitsubishi cone, stuffed the Pikachu that Yan Deng had given him into his pocket, grabbed his raincoat and ran out the door.

When she arrived at the old alley, there was a faint whiteness on the sky, the light was too far away, the surroundings of Yan Ji were still gray and dark, and there was a gloomy cold air, the walls on both sides of the alley were about to fall down at any moment, pressing on her body.

Yan Ji bit the bullet and rushed over, stopped by the wall of Yan Deng's house, and climbed over the wall to enter the house.

"Yan Deng?"

"Dan Deng?"

Yan Ji stood by the wall and called twice, the wild cat ran past and trampled on the tiles of the roof.

Yan Ji swallowed, staring at a low table, a stool, and a chair in the living room, feeling something was wrong, it shouldn't be like this.Walking to the door of Yan Deng's room, she finally understood what was wrong: Yan Deng was lying on the sewing machine writing the test paper, where was he sitting?

Moved to the living room.

There are guests at home.

Yan Ji was suddenly happy and frightened, hurriedly took out the flashlight and turned it on, and squatted on the ground to study inch by inch. There were muddy footprints in the room, most obvious around the chair, very big and long, it was an adult, a man.

Recalling the torrential rain last night, Yan Ji had a vague idea in his heart: "Could it be that grandpa took Deng Deng away?"

Yan Ji shook his head and couldn't figure it out: "Impossible, it doesn't make sense."

Standing in front of the sewing machine, looking at the test paper that Yan Deng was about to finish, Yan Ji became more and more sad as he thought about it, and she burst into tears: "Where are you? Why, why did you suddenly disappear without telling me... "

Yan Ji looked around while weeping. There were so few things in Yan Deng's house that there was no need to rummage through them. Sundries, several of them looked familiar to Yan Ji, and they belonged to her from home.

"Something?"

Yan Ji touched the newspaper on the wall, his heart was beating fast.She carefully uncovered a corner of the white paper, and the bronzing pattern reflected the light of the flashlight, illuminating Yan Ji's eyes.

hiss - hiss - hiss -

As the old newspapers were torn off, a wall full of awards was revealed.

Yan Ji raised his head and looked at it, momentarily bewildered.

Yan Ji walked over and slowly removed a pencil drawing on the certificate.Yan Deng cherished the painting so much that he didn't even use glue, but stuck it between two certificates.

Yan Ji stared at the person in the painting, and couldn't help but smile: "It's so silly."

In the painting, the girl has short messy hair, gauze is stuck on her forehead, and she is grinning.She rolled up her sleeves, holding half of crushed ice in her hand, wearing a loose school uniform with the school badge on her chest saying: Yan Ji.

Yan Ji remembered that after the fight and was discharged from the hospital, he couldn't stay at home and slipped to school, standing on the edge of the playground to watch people play football.Yan Deng ran errands for the teacher and passed by with a stack of homework.

Yan Ji remembers every detail.

That day in midsummer, Lieyang was soft and silky, outlining the outline of Yan Deng's facial features with a gleam of light, her gaze was like the soft tentacles of a snail protruding from its shell, eager to touch you cautiously and joyfully.

Thinking about it until now, Yan Ji's heart will be pounding wildly.

From that day on, they really became acquainted, like two small magnets, they would come together involuntarily.

The fight was left alone, and under Yan Deng's guidance, Yan Ji quickly caught up with the class.Yan Deng is extremely popular in the new class, and it will be known to the whole school when the grades of the midterm exams are due.

Yan Deng didn't care, but Yan Ji was complacent for a long time. As soon as Lu Yan approached, the first sentence she said must be: "Why, the monitor wants Yan Deng to make up the class?"

Yan Deng obeyed her in everything, the only thing she was strict with was her studies.Amid Yan Ji's complaints, her ranking rose all the way, and she asked for a lot of pocket money from her grandfather.

"Yan Deng... Grandpa..."

Yan Ji rubbed his eyes vigorously, sniffed to keep himself from crying.She carefully stuffed the pencil drawing into her schoolbag, climbed over the wall and went straight to the District Public Security Bureau, which had the best attitude yesterday.

Passing the phone booth, Yan Ji stopped suddenly.Staring at the phone booth for a moment, she frowned and turned over to get out of the car.

This is an ordinary telephone booth on the street, an orange IC card telephone, surrounded by three half-frames of transparent glass.The outside of the glass frame was washed clean by the rainstorm, and the layer of dust inside was obvious.

Someone wrote two words with their fingers on it——

Find me.

Yan Ji rushed into the police station like crazy, and was recognized by an uncle policeman as soon as he entered the door: "Your name is Yan Ji, isn't it? You called the police last night, right?"

Yan Ji rushed to the counter and nodded repeatedly.

"The little girl's eyes are red from crying." The police uncle turned his head and asked his colleague for a piece of tissue, "Here, wipe your face. Uncle knows that you care about your classmate. We have investigated it. Your classmate is not missing, she is studying abroad. .”

Yan Ji was in a daze, and when he regained his senses, he climbed up to the counter: "No! Yan Deng won't go! She was arrested!"