winter past

Yin Miaozai said: "Let's go into the house first, if you have anything to say, go in and talk about it."

She walked over to open the door, Xiao Man shook his head, propping up the wall behind him with one hand, as if he wanted to stand up, but his legs visibly trembled, and he slid down the wall.Yin Miaozai hurriedly stretched out her right hand to help him, but when she stretched out her hand, she didn't hold Xiaoman, she lost her balance, wobbled, and couldn't stand still, the cake box in her left hand also shook violently When she got up, the leather bag on her right shoulder fell straight down. She looked up at Zhao You in embarrassment, and said angrily, "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you come over to help?!"

She was obviously very angry when she said this, but after she finished speaking, there was a flash of surprise in her eyes, then she bit her lip, stared at Zhao You helplessly and shouted loudly: "Zhao You!"

Hearing this sound, Zhao You walked over in three steps at a time as if waking up from a dream, picked up Xiao Man with one hand, grabbed the cake box with one hand, and brought the person and the cake box into the house.He turned his head to look at Yin Miaozai, and asked her nervously, "Where do you put it?"

Yin Miaozai followed into the room and said, "You said people are still cakes? This is the first time I've seen you like this. What were you thinking just now?" She pointed to the kitchen and said, "Put it in the kitchen."

Zhao You supported Xiaoman, and carried the cake to the kitchen. After two steps, he turned around and returned to the entrance, first put the cake on the shoe cabinet, then helped Xiaoman take off his shoes, and took off his own shoes.Yin Miaozai came out with two pairs of slippers, touched Xiao Manhun's hungry forehead, and said, "I thought he had a cold in the morning, and it seems to be getting worse now."

Xiaoman lowered his head and said nothing, his long disheveled hair blocked his face, he seemed to have lost consciousness and was at the mercy of others.Zhao You bent down to put on slippers for him, he touched Xiaoman's ankle, it was as cold as ice, and there was still a layer of wet water droplets on the ice.Zhao You raised his head to look at him, Xiaoman's face was expressionless, his eyes were moist, and he seemed to be still venting moisture.Zhao You asked him, "Are you going to the bedroom?"

Xiaoman muttered something, but Zhao You didn't understand, so he got up and looked at Yin Miaozai.Yin Miaozai said: "I'll look for some cold medicine, you can help him to my room first."

Zhao You wanted to take Xiaoman to the bedroom.Xiaoman said at this time: "I want to take a bath."

"Then go to the bathroom." Yin Miaozai said, she put down her purse and walked to the kitchen, "I'll look for the medicine box."

Zhao You also touched Xiaoman's forehead and said, "Why don't you go to the hospital?"

Xiao Man heard this, struggled to take a step forward, and said, "I want to take a bath."

His voice was soft, his feet were weak, and he stepped out as if he was about to fall, Zhao You hurriedly grabbed his collar, hugged him and said, "Okay, okay, okay, go take a shower. "

Yin Miaozai was rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the kitchen.Zhao You instructed: "The cake is still on the shoe cabinet, don't forget."

He helped Xiaoman into the bathroom and onto the edge of the bathtub. Xiaoman sat down in the bathtub. Zhao You didn't know what to do again. He scratched his head and looked at him for a while, then squatted down and asked him: " Are you going to take a shower with your clothes on?"

Xiao Man said, "I want to be alone."

He hugged his knees, now Zhao You couldn't see his face at all, he asked, "But didn't you just say you wanted to take a bath?"

"Does taking a bath conflict with being alone?" Xiao Man's tone became serious.

"No conflict, no conflict." Zhao You hurriedly got up, "Then I'll go out first."

When he reached the door, he thought of something, took out the box of cold medicine in his pocket, walked back to the bathtub lightly, put the medicine box at Xiaoman's feet, and said: "Cold medicine, you take it, I put it away Here, eat if you need it, and I'll pour you a glass of water."

He went to the kitchen to pour water, Yin Miaozai was looking for something in a medicine box at the moment, when he saw him, he asked, "Is he taking a bath?"

Zhao You said, "He said he wanted to be alone." He added, "I happen to have a box of cold medicine, and I gave it to him. I'll bring him a glass of water."

Yin Miaozai stopped what she was doing, grabbed Zhao You, and took a deep breath.Zhao You blinked and took a deep breath.He calmed down, and returned to the bathroom door with a water glass.The door was closed and locked, Zhao You turned the doorknob twice, panicked again, and knocked on the door anxiously: "Water..."

Yin Miaozai followed, patted him, and said to the door: "The water is outside, call us if you need anything," she said, "I'll make dinner, come out to eat later."

She pulled Zhao You away and asked him, "What do you want to eat? Go and have a look in the kitchen."

Zhao You went to the kitchen in response to the sound, turned his head three times a step, kept looking in the direction of the bathroom, and couldn't help but ask, "Just let him stay in there alone?"

Yin Miaozai said: "Let him stay alone for a while, he encountered a lot of things today." She coughed, pointed to the kitchen and said, "That's right... I just passed by their dance hall, saw him, and chatted with him , or eat hot pot, I just saw that there is a pack of hot pot base in the cabinet, who doesn’t like hot pot, right? You can cook whatever you want.”

Zhao You asked her, "What happened to him today?"

Yin Miaozai went into the kitchen, opened a cabinet, took out a pack of hot pot ingredients, looked down at the back, and said: "I don't know the details, oops, I don't know him well, why is he talking so much to me when he has nothing to do? I just saw that he was in a bad state today, oh yes, I passed by their dance hall when I was shopping for groceries in the morning."

Zhao You looked at her.Yin Miaozai stuck out her tongue: "It's expired." She threw away the package of hot pot ingredients and said, "Or order takeaway? The food in the refrigerator is not enough for three people." She scratched her hair and said non-stop: "Why don't we eat the cake first? I'll go and get it. There's not much left. It won't taste good tomorrow."

She went to carry the cake into the kitchen, took out the dishes, knives and forks, cut two large pieces of the cake, and brought it to the dining table.She sat down to eat the cake, and Zhao You also sat down and picked up the fork.

Yin Miaozai looked at the phone and said, "I'll order takeaway."

Zhao You nodded.

"What do you want to eat?"

"You order." Zhao You asked her, "What does he eat?"

"He's not a picky eater." Yin Miaozai cleared her throat, raised her head and smiled at Zhao You, "I guess, he doesn't look like a picky eater."

Zhao You nodded again, gently turning the fork in his hand, looked at the strawberry cake in front of him, and said, "Do you want to contact his family and friends?"

Yin Miaozai buried her head in eating the cake and said, "Do you have their phone number? Or can you find it by checking the household registration? I don't have it. I really don't know him well. I haven't seen him since that time, really."

She went to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk, then went to turn on the TV in the living room, drank milk while eating cake, and swiped her phone from time to time.At this time, it was time for the evening news, Zhao You looked into the bathroom and said, "He has been in for almost half an hour."

"How long is it?" Yin Miaozai looked at it and said, "Why don't you order spicy hotpot?"

Zhao You said, "I'll go downstairs to buy some towels, the supermarket should still be open, and I'll buy some change of clothes."

Yin Miaozai said: "It's okay, I still have unused towels here. The clothes my mother bought for you before were sent to me. I haven't brought them to you yet. He should be able to wear them."

After finishing speaking, she went to the storage room to find some new towels and a change of clothes. She carried them to the door of the bathroom and said, "Xiaoman, should I put the towels and clothes outside or should I ask Zhao You to bring them in?"

There was no movement in the door, Zhao You walked over, took away the water glass on the ground, patted Yin Miaozai, Yin Miaozai stood aside, Zhao You turned sideways and slammed into the door, bumped three times, and the door was knocked open .Xiao Man was still sitting in the bathtub, Yin Miaozai walked in and asked softly, "Xiao Man? Are you okay? Has Lu Yang returned home?"

Zhao You scratched his hair, brought in the water cup, put it on the sink, and said softly, "Put the water here..."

Yin Miaozai also put the change of clothes on the sink and walked to the bathtub.She stepped in, bent down and patted Xiaoman's shoulder.Xiaoman hugged her and began to cry.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry..." he said.

What Zhao You wanted to say, Yin Miaozai looked at him, waved at him, shook his head, Zhao You backed out.

He muttered: "Let me contact someone..."

He thought of Dai Rou, stumbled into the restaurant, kicked his toe to the dining table, grinning, picked up the mobile phone on the table and called Dai Rou.Dai Rou quickly answered the phone and asked, "What do you want from me?"

Zhao You lowered his head and rubbed his toes, he slowly sat down on the ground, and said: "Xiao Man is here with me, no, it's with Xiao Yin, he seems to be not well, I don't know what to do, who to tell, I thought of you, you seem to have a good relationship..."

Dai Rou said, "Send me the address, and I'll come over right away."

She also said: "You put away all the knives and other troubles at home."

Zhao You responded repeatedly, slapped his forehead, and complained to himself: "Yes, why didn't I think of it, why didn't I think of it..."

He hung up the phone, tuned out the ringtone, found a garbage bag and put away all the tableware and knives in the kitchen.After a while, Dai Rou's call came again, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you also want to put away the rope and the like?"

"Send me your location anyway." Dai Rou sighed, "Address."

"Oh, yes, yes, I forgot..." Zhao You hurriedly sent the address of Yin Miaozai's home, and went to the living room with the cleared garbage bag, and found two nail clippers and two clips from under the coffee table. Nutcrackers and a string of Buddhist beads were also thrown into the trash bag.

The direction of the bathroom is quiet.The news that a female body was found in the Montenegro Welfare Institute was being broadcast on TV.Zhao You turned off the TV.He sat on the sofa holding the garbage bag.

When he thought of Xiaoman, he thought of many things at once.

He thought again of the dark-skinned young man in the swimming pool who swam like a fish; he thought of the blue bubblegum-flavored popsicles he ate once as a child, which made his hands sticky and stained his tongue. It turned blue; he thought of a sultry summer, when he saw ants moving for the first time, a big red ant walked in front holding a sesame seed; he thought of the first set of children's encyclopedia he received, Chapter 1 is about dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Herbivore, and Pterosaur. Dinosaurs evolved into chickens, chickens lay eggs, humans eat eggs, and the body consumes protein; he thought that the red popsicles are not strawberry flavored, but It smelled of cotton candy, it was amazing, so weird, and the dark brown popsicle was not chocolate, but cherry; he thought of a legend about an explorer going to the rainforest to find the lost golden capital, and he had seen such a In the movie, a group of high-nosed, blue-eyed white men in clothes full of pockets went deep into the rainforest under the leadership of a dark brown-skinned guide. The sound of "唰", "唰", "唰" sounded like a guide using a scimitar to remove tall weeds blocking the way.

There is fog all over the mountains and plains.

He also thought that the popsicle factory had closed down; he kept seeing people spitting and urinating in the swimming pool; the dinosaurs were all extinct, and no one could explain why; All explorers are dead.Death floated quietly over the rainforest, the god of death was wielding a sickle to weed, Xiaoman's eyes were black, like the cloak worn by the god of death, Xiaoman's shadow was green, like pieces of weeds that had been cut down.

He also thought of Sabine Azema doing a front flip on the ground and a back flip.

He felt that his heart was constantly rolling forwards and backwards. He was a little scared and very nervous. He couldn't tell the reason, maybe there was no reason at all...

The electronic doorbell downstairs rang suddenly, Zhao You went to unlock the door and went out to pick up Dai Rou.He stood in front of the elevator door and waited. The elevator door opened not long after, and Dai Rou came out in a hurry. When she saw Zhao You, she was taken aback for a moment, then looked him up and down, and then her eyes fell on him. on his right hand, and asked, "Are you going to take out the trash?"

Zhao You then looked up at his right hand, shook his head suddenly, and said, "No, it's a knife, and there are some dangerous things in it."

He asked Dai Rou: "He won't die, will he?"

"What are you talking about?" Dai Rou frowned, "Are you okay?"

Zhao You said, "He's sick." He shook his head, "I don't know what to do..."

Dai Rou pointed forward: "Is it the one in front?"

Zhao You nodded, Dai Rou walked forward, Zhao You followed her, Dai Rou said, "Look at him, he's always joking, but his personality is actually more sensitive." She scratched the center of her eyebrows, "The previous case..."

"The case of Lin Midong?"

"It's not just Lin Midong's case. After he was transferred to criminal investigation, I partnered with him to solve several cases. I found out before Lin Midong's case. He was too easy to empathize with the victim." Dai Rou pointed Pointing to himself, looking at Zhao You: "Take homicide as an example. Although they are all taught by the police academy, each policeman has a different way of thinking about solving crimes. I am the more common one. As a third party Intervene in the case, collect evidence, analyze and investigate. I know you. You look at the case from the perspective of the murderer. As for him, he will analyze the situation on the spot as the victim. After Lin Midong’s case, his insomnia was very serious. He also sleepwalks, suffers from anorexia, and stayed in the hospital for a long time before recuperating."

While talking, the two had already walked to Yin Miaozai's house, Dai Rou looked at the closed door and raised an eyebrow at Zhao You, saying: "He is not suitable and should not be involved in this case anymore. "She asked: "Why is he here with you?"

Zhao You looked at Dai Rou, touched his pocket, blinked his eyes, and said in a low voice, "I don't have the keys or the phone." He scratched the bridge of his nose embarrassedly: "Why don't you call Xiao Yin? Please come and open the door..."