sincerity of lies

A gust of wind whimpered from among the scattered containers, blowing the kyanite-encrusted wooden boats farther away, but after a while, the waves brought them back to the shore and beat on the sandy beach and the embankment. , discharge white froth.

The wind was a bit cold, Huo Ranyin rubbed his hands, Ji Xun leaned over, breathed on the palm of the person, and moved his chin slightly in a certain direction.

Huo Ranyin understood, looked out of the corner of his eye, and saw a red container.

Also, there are no people in the open space, and most people hide in places out of sight, and the box is a good shelter.In this abandoned port, there are many containers of various kinds, and people may be hiding behind a certain box.

This was Huo Ranyin's first thought.

No, wait, no.

After his thoughts fell, his eyes fixed on the red container again.

This container is a little different.

Its color is much brighter, not as rusty as those iron boxes that have been dusty and abandoned for a long time, leaving only gray and dull.It's as if someone wiped it with a cloth and then touched up the paint.

There is no large piece of garbage near the box, and it seems that it has been cleaned up.

"Let's go over there to hide from the wind." He made an excuse at random, and walked to the box in tacit agreement with Ji Xun.

As he got closer and had a better view, Huo Ranyin suddenly saw a big stone shaped like an inkstone placed behind the container, and a pair of cotton shoes were placed neatly on the stone.

It almost looks like...

Ji Xun was much bolder than him. He noticed that the crack in the box was open above his head. Knowing that there was no danger of being violently attacked, he crouched down and inspected the red container with confidence.

He was on the side of the box facing the sea, his eyes wandering wantonly.

He saw two circular holes, about the size of a penny, that seemed to have been corroded.

You can see the inside of the box from the hole.

Ji Xun couldn't help approaching and looked into the hole.

In the dark field of vision, his eye meets the other eye.

A bloodshot eye looked at him from the inside out.

Trained people reacted differently to ordinary people when they were frightened. Ji Xun bounced up in an instant, instead of running, he quickly opened the container!

He opened the lid of the container and saw a man inside.

an old man.

But it might not be the old man squatting in the box that attracted the attention at the first time, but all the clothes in the box except the old man.

This is not a small container.

It may be 1.5 meters long and wide. The inner wall of the box is covered with wallpaper, which is a silver-gray and blue ship wallpaper, which complements the scenery outside; the bottom of the box is covered with a fluffy blanket, which looks very thick. It should be able to prevent cold and sand.

With the old man sitting in the box as the center, there are two small pillows on the back side of the box, and a rechargeable wall lamp on the left side of the box is attached to the box, which seems to be available for lighting.

In front of the old man is a set of tea sets and a kettle, as well as a glass jar for melon seeds and snacks.

On the right, there are mobile phones, cameras, and a small trash can.

No matter how you look at it, except for the small size and weird location, this is a comfortable and well-arranged resting place... Including the stone outside the container where the shoes are placed, it is supposed to be a shoe bench.

Huo Ranyin scanned the inside of the box, and finally looked at the old man.

The old man looked at him too.

The person in the box was squatting on the ground, with his knees bent, his hands hugging his knees, and a thick quilt was placed on his shoulders. His bones could no longer support his skin, and his skin was sagging under gravity. Falling down, falling out into folds and folds.

But his eyes were upwards, black pupils upwards, whites downwards, maintaining the somewhat terrifying appearance that Ji Xun saw from the hole just now, fixedly looking at Huo Ranyin.

"Old man." Ji Xun lowered his head and asked the person in the box, "What are you doing hiding in there?"

"I didn't hide it inside." The old man replied with a low voice.

"Then you..."

"This is my house." The old man said, "Young people nowadays are so rude, and you are still at home, so you came here to trespass?"

"..."

Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin were silent for a while.

They thought it was the old man's nonsense, but even if it was a nonsense, looking at the box with such complete facilities, there was a grain of truth in the nonsense.

"I'm sorry, sir." Ji Xun flexed and stretched, and quickly changed his tone to talk to the old man, "I didn't expect people to live in a box, so I was reckless. Sir, have you always lived in a box?"

At the same time, he made eye contact with Huo Ranyin: Is this a lonely and homeless old man?

Not quite.Huo Ranyin responded with his eyes.The other party is neatly dressed.

"Not always." The old man really said, "This is my small house, and I have a big family. Sometimes I live in the small house, and sometimes I live in the big family."

"What is the purpose of living in a small house? To see the sea?" Ji Xun asked patiently. Young people should be patient with old people.

"It's not looking at the sea." The old man smiled mysteriously, and said in a showy tone, "It's looking at the blue tears. Do you know what blue tears are?"

Ji Xun really knew.

Writers of novels always pay attention to collecting some unpopular and strange materials from time to time.

"Blue Tears" happened to be in Ji Xun's knowledge base.

To put it simply, this is a landscape formed by the gathering of microorganisms in the ocean. It is a fluorescent blue light spot shining in the ocean, just like the sky and water are reversed, and the galaxy is reflected on the coastline.

and many more……

Thinking of this, Ji Xun paused and looked back at the sea.

With the decoration of countless small wooden boats inlaid with kyanite, the ocean has indeed become beautiful.

At this time, the sun was almost gone, the moon and stars began to cover the sky, the sea water sank and became dark, and the small wooden boats on the sea floated up, shining brightly.

Standing on the shore and watching from a distance, it looks like the stars in the sky have shaken off their foam. Every bit of foam is a shining blue elf. The light on their bodies flickers with their breathing. The edge sang.

At this time, the old man showed a sly smile, and looked at the sea with Ji Xun: "Is it very similar? It looks like the blue tears, shining in the sea water, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale... Ah, No more, it's at the end of its life. It's gone."

the old man murmured.

Once the microorganism code-named Blue Tears is washed out of the sea, its remaining time is counted in seconds.

100 seconds, its longest life count.

After 100 seconds, the fluorescence goes out and life disappears.

it died.

The wind blew up, and now, the small wooden boat on the sea was blown over by the waves, and a large area of ​​fluorescent blue light dimmed, just like the fleeting disappearance of a beautiful life.

"In two or three months, there will be real blue tears on the southeast coast." Huo Ranyin suddenly said, "At that time, it should be more convenient to go to the southeast coast to see blue tears than now."

"Young man, you are still young, and you don't know what old age is like." The old man said, "Every old man is worried every winter, wondering if he will see the spring of next year, three months, 90 God, you actually want me to see the Blue Tears I've been thinking about after 90 days?"

His tone seemed to be saying, you actually want to wait until I die before letting me travel?

"but……"

He spoke again at this moment, still staring at Huo Ranyin.

"Look carefully, you look really good..."

The old man got up from the box.

It was not obvious when he was sitting, but once the other party stood up, Ji Xun immediately found that this was a tall and strong old man, and the clothes hidden under the quilt were also different from what Ji Xun had imagined before.

Neither sloppy nor ordinary.

On the contrary, he was wearing a long black woolen trench coat with an expensive-looking flower brooch pinned to the neckline of the trench coat. The five petals of the flower were studded with diamonds, and the center of the flower was a sapphire the size of a thumb. In this dim light, it still shines brightly; inside the windbreaker is a high-necked white sweater and a pair of jeans, combined with his combed, black and white mixed hair, it looks very fashionable.

Overall, even though his appearance was quite weird, he was still a handsome old man with an extraordinary appearance.

"Give this to you."

The old man made a move that made Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin stare.

He actually raised his hand to untie the sapphire brooch pinned to his chest, and handed it to Huo Ranyin.

This radiant jewel brooch, which could almost illuminate the palm of the hand in the dark, was as big as a baby's fist, and any woman would love it, just like this, was gently handed over to Huo Ranyin by the old man.

It's as easy as if it's not something with tens of millions, but a toy with a few dollars on the roadside.

The menacing light made Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin lose their voices for a moment.

After losing his voice for a long time, Ji Xun started making eye contact with Huo Ranyin again.

Not feeling well?Ji Xun.

The logic is still clear, and the dialogue is well-organized.But... Huo Ranyin looked at the expensive brooch handed to him, looked back with a headache, and asked for his family's phone number.

You ask?Ji Xun.

You ask.Huo Ranyin.

"Master..." Ji Xun coughed, "Although I also think the one next to me is pretty..."

Huo Ranyin glared at Ji Xun.

"However, the valuables must be kept safe, how can they be given away casually?" Ji Xun said again.

"It's not casual, it's because he looks good." The old man said.

Well, it's starting to hit the wall.Ji Xun stared at the old man, thinking about how to turn the topic to the old man's family, and when he got out the phone number of the old man's family, the old man glanced at him and said:

"Thinking I'm crazy?"

"..."

"I'm not crazy."

"..." Crazy people generally like to say that they are not crazy.

"For an old man, is money really important?" The old man grinned, revealing fairly neat teeth, but one could tell they were dentures at a glance, "For a dead man, it must feel good to have money covered in a coffin, right? "

The old man is not scary, but I am afraid that the old man understands fallacies.

Ji Xun didn't wink at Huo Ranyin at this time. He looked back and saw that the waves of the sea had basically overturned the wooden boat on the water, so he kindly invited the old man out of the box and asked him to put on his shoes. Together with Huo Ranyin, they led the person to the police box not far away.

"and many more!"

"What are you doing! Illegally imprisoning the elderly?"

"Let go of me, the quilt and cushion are all ready, the old man wants to spend the night at the beach!"

"Bastard, don't think that I can't do it anymore when I'm old! Let me go if you have the ability, and let me show you!"

In a short distance of 2000 meters, the old man was full of energy and struggled wildly. If it weren't for the fact that there was no one in the abandoned port at night, Ji Xun and Huo Ran were stopped by the police before they reached the police box because they couldn't keep safe.

But fortunately, the distance was not too far. After a lot of effort, they brought the old man to the police station with all their needs.The police also showed up, Ji Xun stood outside with the old man, Huo Ranyin went up, and described what happened just now in a few words.

While waiting for nothing to do, Ji Xun noticed that the old man next to him was much quieter and better-behaved after meeting the policeman, and he stopped saying strange things and doing strange things. He just lowered his head and stood in a proper manner.Maybe when you get old, you are just like a child, afraid of your family and the police.

Soon, Huo Ranyin came out with the police on duty.

The police took the situation very seriously, and brought the old man into the guard box, and first chatted about his name and his family.

Ji Xun listened to him, and the old man honestly said that his surname was Hu, but he didn't say his name.

Seeing that things were going well, he didn't pay much attention. Together with Huo Ranyin, he walked forward a little distance to a position about ten steps away from the sentry box.

"Actually, the jewelry just now is really beautiful."

"Well."

If it is not really beautiful, they will not realize its preciousness at the first sight.

"However, I don't think sapphire is suitable for you. It's too dignified and gentlemanly. A ruby ​​that is deep and clear, as red as a drop of blood, or an opal that is radiant and lively is the most suitable gemstone for you." Ji Xun carefully analyzed .

"I'm not particularly interested in gems." Huo Ranyin said, "Are you interested?"

certainly--

A natural answer almost blurted out.

Even an old man on the side of the road will be seduced by you; how can I, who is with you every day, sit still and remain unmoved?Ji Xun thought to himself.

"Of course I'm interested." Ji Xun looked at Huo Ranyin and said with a low smile, "Put the jewel on your body and let the light of the jewel reflect on your skin, it must look good, right?"

"Two—"

The voice of the police suddenly came from the sentry box behind.

Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin were startled at the same time. They stood up straight and turned their heads to look at the police behind them with serious expressions.

"The family of the old man was contacted, and they said they would come to pick up the old man right away. You..."

The policeman paused for a moment, feeling the two stern gazes in front of him that seemed to be from the leader, a little weak:

"Don't be so serious, right?"