The Scavengers

January 6 at 16pm

15:03 in the afternoon of the same day.

Zhougang Station in the suburb of Zhongshan City.This station is only two stops away from Ninggu Garden Station at the end of Ninggu Avenue.

The residential area around Ninggu Avenue belongs to the newly developed suburbs of the city in recent years. It is far away from the city center. After leaving the city, there are self-built houses in various villages for a long distance. Some villages have even been developed into After visiting tourist attractions, they set up some farmhouses to attract customers.

This Zhougang Village is well-known in the city for the well-preserved Ming and Qing ancient buildings in the mountain nest. There are also many tourists who come to visit all the year round, but most of them are from Zhongshan City.

Under the newly-built bus station pavilion, a young man and woman with only two backpacks sat on a simple bench. You kissed me and I kissed you, completely forgetting the people around them, sinking into the space of only two people. in the world.

At the other end of the bench was an elderly couple in their 60s. Among them, the more fashionable old lady glanced up at the young men and women, with disapproval expressions on her face.

The husband probably saw his wife's disgust, patted the back of her hand and said, "From the city."

"These young people are becoming more and more shameless now." The old lady reprimanded in a low voice, and then complained: "Why hasn't the car come yet?"

The old man reassured her, "We'll be there soon, wait a little longer." After a pause, the old man looked a little uneasy, and tentatively said to his wife, "Say... let's go to the younger son's place suddenly, shall we?"

"What's wrong?" The old lady rolled her eyes, "Isn't it natural for parents to go to their son's place for dinner? Could they still drive us out?"

"I haven't seen you for almost ten years..." The old man smiled wryly.

The old lady grasped the brightly colored canvas bag tightly in her hand, and after a while she said to her wife: "Let's talk about it this time. I used to worry about the boss's side. Now the boss is finally married, and the youngest child is almost ten years old. , if there is any resentment between the two brothers, I think they can almost let it go."

"I'm afraid that the youngest doesn't hate the boss, but us." The old man sighed and coughed lightly.

"Hate us? What do you hate us for? That woman was talking to the boss at the beginning. How could she, a woman in her late thirties, have the nerve to seduce the youngest of our family? That woman is six years older than the youngest! The youngest is blind too, and I will fall in love with that kind of old woman. Huh, the boss is also a fool, and he also fell in love with that woman. What's so good about that woman? The two brothers made such a mess!" The old lady happened to see the girl next to him doing something to the boy. He made an indecent move, and immediately threw the canvas bag on his lap in anger.

The old man coughed several times, looked at his wife, and couldn't help worrying, how could he go to his youngest son with such a mentality?This is not to find a fight.well!

"Actually, if we hadn't obstructed it at the beginning, so many things wouldn't have happened later...cough cough cough!" The old man coughed violently.

"What's the matter with you?" The old lady frowned and leaned over to look at her wife.

The old man waved his hand and said it was all right.

"puff!"

"Wow! Xiaohua, what's wrong with you?" There was a sharp scream from the side, and the young girl stood up with blood on her face, and looked at her boyfriend in horror, even forgetting to wipe off the blood that was sprayed on her face.

The young man in his early twenties clutched his chest, watching the girl want to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, blood couldn't stop spitting out.

"Come here! Help! Xiaohua, Xiaohua, don't scare me!" The girl burst into tears with a "wow" in fright.

The old man stood up, but the old lady grabbed him and prevented him from passing.

Just at this time, a bus slowly drove into the platform.

15:10 pm.

"What's wrong with my eyes?" Xiao Mo turned up the temperature, bent down and asked the child.

The child said to him very seriously: "You have to see it to know."

Xiao Mo smiled, and grabbed the child's hand, "Okay, don't be naughty. We're going home from work early today, and we just don't have any food at home. We'll go to the vegetable market to add some later. Quickly, turn off the computer. Yes Now, what's your name?"

"My name is Xue Lihong." The child shut down the computer as he said, and jumped off the chair.

"Xue Lihong?"

The child despised him, "No, it's Xuelihong." As he spoke, he grabbed Xiao Mo's hand and wrote his name for him.

"Is this the real name?" Xiao Mo didn't believe it.

"It really can't be more true."

"Haha!" Xiao Mo didn't believe his words at all, he was already guessing whether this child was a prank played by some friend on him, or...

"Do you think I belong to a group of scammers, using my identity as a child to get close to you, and then trying to gain your trust in order to get your bank card or password?"

"Are you?"

"If I want to get your money, I don't need to bother at all." The child pouted and grabbed Xiao Mo's hand, "I'm not a liar. If you support me for a while, I will help you work and make money."

"After I raised you for a while, will a pair of parents appear and say that I have abducted their child, and even intend to accuse me of child molestation, so as to blackmail me for the rest of my life?"

"...Brother, do you have persecution paranoia? Didn't you say that you are going to buy vegetables? I'm hungry, can I have braised beef for dinner?"

Xiao Mo thought for a while, rubbed the child's head, and said with a smile: "Yes, but before that, you have to go to the police station with me."

"Must we go?" The child raised his head.

"must go."

"Well, if this reassures you." The child shrugged, indifferently.

Xiao Mo secretly exhaled, this child is indeed different from ordinary children, but this is not the reason why he is willing to adopt him for a period of time, he just simply does not want to see the child living on the street, and finally being used by some criminal organization.

Regardless of the child's real identity, first leave a file at the police station. On the one hand, it will be easier to find the child's biological parents.These days there are a lot of good intentions being treated as bad guys.

So far Xiao Mo still doesn't think the child is really an orphan, and he doesn't plan to adopt the child.In his opinion, anyway, he is not short of food for the child, and there is room for the child at home. The most important thing is that he does not hate the child, so if it is only a short-term care, he is still very happy.

Turn off all the power sources, one big one and one small one walked out of the store one after the other. Xiao Mo was about to pull down the shutter door when he heard someone call him: "Old Xiao, wait! Don't leave, sign this form first." .”

Xiao Mo turned his head and saw two city appearance managers coming out of the nearby supermarket and walking towards him quickly.

Xiao Mo took the hand of the child beside him, and asked with a smile, "Old Zhang, why is it so urgent?"

"Oh, don't mention it." The city manager named Lao Zhang waved a stack of A4 papers in his hand, and hurriedly said: "Suddenly, the higher-ups ordered to conduct a major health inspection of the district. Let us help the neighborhood committee to make statistics on the district first." The resident population, including temporary renters and those who come to play, are counted. You have to finish all the statistics before [-]:[-] tonight, and you are exhausted!"

"In such a hurry? Can you finish the statistics?" Xiao Mo asked in surprise.

"Not only us, but Lao Zhou and the others also mobilized some volunteers to help."

Xiao Mo knew that the Lao Zhou that Lao Zhang was talking about was the deputy director of the local police station, and it seemed that the local police had also been included in this census.But what's the rush?Just for health inspection?

Xiao Mo didn't think it was quite like it. Looking at this posture, it looked like last year when the fugitives were caught. There were a lot of people going from house to house to check the population information. Even people in the mountain den went in to check, just for the four escaped from the city prison. death row prisoner.

"Old Xiao, can you help me?" Old Zhang asked while wiping his sweat, and at the same time handed the printed A4 paper to Xiao Mo, asking him to fill in his personal information according to the form.Another city warden went to another store.

Xiao Mo shook his head, pointed at the child beside him with his pen, "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to help, I have to take care of this kid these days."

"Hey, who is this child? He looks quite cute." Lao Zhang seemed to have noticed the child only now, he was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled and went to touch the child's head.

The child twisted his head, but Lao Zhang couldn't touch it.

"Hehe, children are afraid of being born, come, call me Uncle Zhang."

The child hid behind Xiao Mo by pulling the corner of Xiao Mo's clothes.

Lao Zhang didn't mind, he pointed to the A4 paper and said, "You have to fill in the child's information too."

"So strict this time?"

"There's no way, the higher-ups have made a strict requirement that as long as they are human beings, they must be included in this statistics."

"Do you know what's going on?" Xiao Mo filled in the paper again, and the child's name was written as "Xue Li Hong", the age was five years old, and his home address and contact information were filled in.

Lao Zhang shook his head, also a little dazed, "I don't know, the order came out very suddenly this time. Oh, and one more thing, you'd better stay at home these two days and don't run around. If you have to go somewhere, get a report from the police station. .”

Xiao Mo frowned, and returned the completed information form to Lao Zhang, "Then what should ordinary people do when they go to work?"

"Ask for leave!"

"strangeness……"

Xiao Mo watched Lao Zhang enter another merchant, and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what happened.

"I suggest you go to the vegetable market today to stock up on more food, the world might be in chaos."

Xiao Mo's expression was very embarrassing. Hearing a little boy less than five years old say that the world is going to be chaotic, this kind of weird feeling is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

"...Don't talk nonsense, children."

"Believe it or not. If you didn't feel that the world was going to change, you thought I would just find someone to take care of me?" The child said very bluntly.

Now Xiao Mo can no longer be a kid talking nonsense and fooling people, no matter how smart a kid is, he can't say such shocking things at such a young age, right?

Xiao Mo squatted down, looked at the same level as the child and asked, "Do you know something?"

"What do you think I'll know?" the child said blankly.

"Okay, let's change the question. Why are you looking for me?"

"...You give me buns and soy milk."

"Just for this?"

The child became a little impatient, and reached into his trousers to scratch, "I don't have much time, and I don't have so much time to choose. I just happened to meet you and it feels good, so it's you."

"You said there is not much time, what exactly is not much time?" Xiao Mo asked, staring into the child's eyes.

"It's just that trouble is coming."

"What's the big trouble?"

"do not know."

"Then how do you know big trouble is coming?"

"You'll know when you encounter more."

"Are you really a child?"

"Do I look like an old man?" The child put his hips on his hips.

Xiao Mo sighed, he already had the feeling of being picked up by big troubles, "You won't find someone to take care of you every time you feel big troubles are coming, right?"

"That's right." But very few can persist.The child didn't say this, just like Xiao Mo's mentality, and he didn't intend to let Xiao Mo keep raising him, as long as he got through this chaotic period.Otherwise, with the body and physical strength of a child, no matter how capable he is, he will suffer a lot in the troubled times.

Xiao Mo stood up, it was fine if he didn't ask, but this question made him even more confused.

He can't tell whether the child is telling the truth or lies, and he doesn't believe that the good world will be messed up.

Although there are various potential problems in the current society, he is basically satisfied with his country and the government that manages it.

I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times.He doesn't want any bad changes in his current life.

"Can I tell the people at the police station what you said?"

The child sneered, "If you're not afraid that people will think you're crazy."

Xiao Mo also knew that no one would believe such words, not to mention that he himself did not believe what the child said.

Xiao Mo suddenly thought of a question, is the child's nerves normal?Isn't it said that some gifted children will have some fantasies beyond reality because of their over-developed brains?Is this kid the same?

Seeing Xiao Mo's skeptical and sympathetic eyes, Xue Lihong didn't know what this person was thinking, but he didn't care, he just wanted to use someone for a while, after this chaotic period, he would leave , No matter what he thinks of himself.