can't go wild

At the end of August, at the turn of summer and autumn, the draft brings coolness, but the sound of cicadas is still annoying.

The "Dinglingling" bicycle passed by, disturbing the cat sleeping in the planter on the side of the road, and did not scare away the noisy cicada on the tree at the entrance of the old street.Fortunately, people here are used to it, and there are not many people on the old street in the afternoon, but there is a student with an immature face, walking around the streets with a bamboo basket.

He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing an old-fashioned but clean white shirt, and the sneakers on his feet were also washed white.A face is a bit ordinary, and the facial features are not outstanding, but together, it is a clean and pleasing appearance.There is also a pair of thin-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose, and when he is not talking, he looks like a schoolboy.

"Chen Ling, did you help grandpa go shopping again?" The aunt in the street shop greeted him with a smile. It was still hot and she was knitting in her hand.

"Yes." Chen Ling replied with a smile.His smile is not as bright and flamboyant as other children of the same age. It is always shallow, but not perfunctory, which makes people feel sincere. In the eyes of neighbors, it is called cute and polite.

Walking to the front, the fat cat blocked the way.

A chubby orange cat with shiny fur. It looks like it is well-fed. No one would guess that it is actually a stray cat.Chen Ling stopped and looked at him, and the smile on his lips couldn't help getting bigger, but just as he reached out his hand to touch it, the cat ran away vigilantly.

For the Nth time, stroking the cat failed.

The old man passing by laughed at Chen Ling. Chen Ling is good at everything, he is very polite in his studies, but he just doesn't like animals.This problem was not obvious before, but for some reason recently, even the big cats started to avoid him.

Chen Ling was not angry, but a little helpless, as long as he carried the basket and continued to move forward.

The Chen family opened a tea room in the middle of the ancient street. It was said to be a tea room, but it was actually a chess and card room.Both of Chen Ling's parents are dead, and now only the grandparents maintain the shop, providing food for the family and Chen Ling's schooling.

When Chen Ling returned to the tea room, several tables in the shop were full of people.Seeing Chen Ling coming back with a basket, some people jokingly called him "Little Boss".

Go through the tea room and walk out the back door, which is the backyard.There is no wall here, because a few steps away is a small river that runs through the city.There is a big ginkgo tree by the river, and Grandma Chen sits under the tree and weaves bamboo baskets.

Chen Ling put down his basket and went to help, Grandma Chen hurriedly said no, but she couldn't hold him back, so she chatted with him.

"School will start in a few days, so don't be too busy with this and that. Your grandfather and I are in good health and can't be tired. You should rest at home. It seems that there are only a few days left in this summer vacation. The day before yesterday, your Madam Li's house Grandson, you just came back from a trip, you are all tanned, and you are quite energetic, if you don't want to go out to play like him, you can just watch TV at home..."

The old man is always chattering. Although Chen Ling doesn't talk much, he can chat with her all afternoon if he answers once in a while.

Grandpa Chen poured tea and water for people in the tea room. The people who come and go here are all acquaintances, and the business is not booming, but it is passable.

On Chen Ling's side, a semi-finished bamboo basket was finished, and he was finally driven back to the house by Grandma Chen.He lives in the attic of the tea house, and the second elder of the Chen family lives in a utility room on the first floor.It's not that there is no proper place to live, it's just that the old house is far away from the school, so it's convenient to live here.

The attic is not big, Chen Ling straightened his back and walked in, the lowest point was only half a head taller than him.But the window of the attic is facing the river, and the scenery is very good, the view is wide, and the heart is open, so I don't feel that the place where I live is so cramped.

Chen Ling sat down at the desk in front of the window, and turned on an old-fashioned tape recorder on the desk. "Click" the tape rotates, and the sound of opera comes along with it.

Grandma Chen downstairs heard it, smiled and shook her head.I don't know who this grandson is with. He is obviously a playful age, but his hobbies are so "old".

She didn't know that Chen Ling in the attic quickly connected another call.

The person on the other side didn't know what to say, and he replied unhurriedly, "I see."His eyes fell on the green radish in the corner of the desk, and he stretched out his hand to fiddle with the green leaves, his slender fingers seemed to be prodding, listening casually.

It wasn't until the person on the phone seemed to say something again that the expression on his face finally changed slightly, and the brows were slightly raised.

"Aino and Xing Zhou, is the relationship really that good?"

"This is a bit beyond my expectation."

The appearance of the two names Aino and Xing Zhou shows that this young man's identity is not simple.If Aino was here, even though he wouldn't be recognized, he should still be vaguely aware that his tone of voice was familiar.

Like Chu Lian.

That's not the tone a naive, ignorant high school student should have.

Aino didn't know where Chu Lian was, but Chu Lian kept paying attention to him.The people at the crime arrest department are at home everywhere, if they are here today, they may be there tomorrow, and it is impossible for the people in Luye to stare at them all day long and find out their news, but Chu Lian has an internal response.

If one is in the light and the other is in the dark, the information must be unequal.

What Chu Lian didn't expect the most was that Xiang Ye, who was born in an unfinished building, got along really well with Xing Zhou, and seemed to have found his own belonging in the murderer's office.

Is it true?Or fake?

Aino, that seemingly cold and withdrawn child, is it really so easy to talk to others?

This was a bit beyond Chu Lian's expectations.

In his opinion, Xing Zhou may become the rope that holds Aino from falling into the abyss, but this is due to the responsibility of the crime detection department and inferred from Xing Zhou's personality.

But Xiangye... Chu Lian originally thought that he was the same kind of person as himself.

Chu Lian couldn't help recalling the ten years in the basement of the unfinished building.The further he went to the back, the longer he could stay awake, and occasionally he could hear Xiangqi sitting beside him talking to him.

Xiangqi didn't know that he was awake, so he took no precautions against him.At that time, Xiangqi seemed to be back in the past, able to talk to Chu Lian calmly, there was only one difference - he started to say three words without leaving Xiangye.

Maybe it was because the life in the unfinished building was so boring that he had nothing else to say.

Or because he really loves Aino.

Xiangqi told Chu Lian that he wanted Xiangye to be an ordinary person.An ordinary person who doesn't know anything, doesn't need to think about anything, doesn't even need to have much talent.

Unfortunately, he is doomed to be disappointed.

Thinking of this, Chu Lian interrupted Qiu Yin's report on the phone and said, "In this case, let's throw out the prepared chess pieces."

Qiu Yin hesitated and asked, "Should we do it now? Maybe it will be better if you delay it."

Chu Lian: "No, I'm tired of always playing cat and mouse."

Qiu Yin: "I see, sir."

Just at this moment, a sparrow flew to Chu Lian's window sill.It seemed to be looking at Chu Lian, with mung bean-sized eyes, cute little body, and tilted head, it was cute.

Chu Lian reached out to it, but it didn't dare to approach it.Small birds like sparrows, although they are always stupid enough to break into human rooms by mistake, and even crash to death on the glass, but they are also very vigilant, and they will run away when Chu Lian moves.

But as soon as it flapped its small wings, it grabbed it with one hand.It screamed "twittering" and began to struggle, but it was in vain.

Soon it saw the human face, the face of the owner of the attic it saw just now, it was very young, and it was just a small sparrow in their sparrow group.But its elders didn't tell it that the window sill of this "little bird" is very dangerous.

The moment the danger came, the sparrow didn't know what was waiting for him, but in the next second, it was pinched by the neck and knew nothing.

The big fat cat on the roof in the distance bared its teeth and arched its back, looking quite fierce.But the moment the people in the attic looked up at it, it screamed again, turned around and ran away.

Chu Lian looked at its back, smiled suddenly, and then looked down at the sparrow in his hand.The sparrow was small, and its neck was too fragile, it would break if pinched, but Chu Lian didn't kill it, it just fainted.

Killing a sparrow is no fun for Chu Lian.It's just that this little flying thing is an eyesore.

Putting the sparrow back on the window sill casually, Chu Lian's expression cooled down with the setting sun.Qiu Yin on the other end of the phone didn't wait for him to speak again, but didn't dare to hang up the phone without authorization, so he kept waiting.

After a long time, Grandma Chen's shout came from downstairs, and Chu Lian answered again, hung up the phone, turned to the door—it was that Chen Ling again.

Ling, the character for pity has been removed next to the vertical heart, but it has a beautiful meaning.

On the other side, Xiangye and Xing Zhou went to two places to go on missions after leaving Hanhai.It's just that their luck was very good these two times, they completely ruled out the possibility of Lu Ye committing the crime, and soon retired.

After finishing the mission, they did not return to Jingzhou, but embarked on the road to Shuzhong.

Chu Lian and Qiu Yin didn't have any new clues, but during this period of time, Aino has been free to study what Qiu Yin left behind when he was in Mingchuan.At that time, Xing Zhou sent Zong Mian to ambush A Liang, while he himself chased to Qiu Yin's foothold.The person was not caught, but brought back some remnants.

At first, neither Xing Zhou nor Aino could see any clues, because they were some ordinary items, such as a half pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a hat, and so on.

Qiu Yin was very cautious. It was impossible for her to leave anything with a clear direction, and it could only be intentional.Then Xing Zhou sent all these things to the trace inspection, and finally found a little pollen on the hat that was hard to see with the naked eye.

The planting range of this kind of flower is not wide, and the main planting area is in the middle of Shu.

Shuzhong is a large area, even if Qiu Yin has been here before, it would be very difficult to find her footprints.But Xing Zhou mainly brought Xiangye to practice, and walked around more often, so as to grasp the situation everywhere.

For example, in Sichuan, there is a very special and interesting hidden stake here in the crime arrest department.