sincerity of lies

"Cough cough cough-"

Ji Xun quickly took the mineral water bottle away from his lips, bent down and coughed for a long time, until his cheeks turned red.

"What are you excited about?" Lao Hu was calm, with an old man's calm and calm expression on his face, "Everyone wears earrings on one side, and all they have to do is write a sign of 'We are a couple' and hang it on their chests to tell the world." Yes, but after someone said something, you became shy?"

"What's so shy about that."

Ji Xun reciprocated that tone.Don't fight for steamed buns and breath, Lao Hu is calm and calm, he is calm and calm.

"It's just that I drank too much water just now. But old man, you know Huo Ranyin really well, so you haven't done your homework less? Why, are you old with his elders?"

"I still need to do my homework?" The old man's face showed that strange smile again, "Go back a few decades, who in the city doesn't know Miss Huo's family?"

"..."

Ji Xun narrowed his eyes.

Fortunately, Huo Ranyin is not here... He thought, and said, "What about the abandoned port?"

The silent one was replaced by Lao Hu.

"There must be special meaning to you, for example, you are an employee of Huo's shipyard, so you go to a specific place to remember the past." Ji Xun said.

"I went there not because I was an employee of the shipyard." Lao Hu denied Ji Xun's guess, he explained seriously, as if he was explaining something that could never be mistaken, "but because of the box."

"Box?" Ji Xun thought of the well-decorated shipping container.

"I want to see the world in a box. The box is what I miss the most."

"You said it was for Blue Tears before."

"That doesn't conflict, it's my love. Just like you two have become a special couple, I also have a strange and unknown love that I want to remember." Old Hu said.

Ji Xun's appetite was whetted.

"It's all said here, don't you mind talking about your strange love?"

"That's a story from a long time ago..." Lao Hu laughed. At this moment, the wrinkles on his face seemed to be stretched by the smile, and his upright facial features seemed to be freed from the shackles of time, leaving a handsome appearance in the light. "But I still remember it clearly. I will hold this story in my chest, burn it with the fire, and then bring it into the tombstone. From then on, it will be with me forever."

That was when I was young.

If you say you are young, I am afraid that you are not as young as you, but a middle-aged man in the prime of life.

At that time, I was doing a very boring job, which was almost equivalent to a maintenance worker.

A very boring job. Most of the time, I look at the machine that I have seen thousands of times. I have nothing to do when the machine is not damaged.

the people around-

They are all uneducated coolies, those who are not smart, just sell coolies all day long; some smart ones, because they have not learned the technology systematically, although sometimes they can repair the machine according to experience, but they also have the risk of repairing the machine worse; Sometimes you can't let these people show off wantonly to cause trouble for yourself.

But those little clever people love to show off, and when you stop them, they feel that you are afraid that your job will be robbed and that you will secretly hold a grudge against you.

Just like this, I stay in a small place the size of a palm every day, wasting my life day after day, night after night.

In the dead of night, it is inevitable to doubt the meaning of one's own existence in a void.

But when the sun shines during the day, I start to go to work as usual, and everything is like a rigid program that has been designed early.

Anyway, no matter what, I am a person who is not very popular.

But technical workers still have some status compared to other coolies, and they had to smile at me.

The fake smiling faces are like masks, floating beside me, and those boxes stored deep in the warehouse, hidden in the dark, complement each other perfectly.

All in all, it's a boring, mentally draining, unhuman job.

That day when I came out of the room, I saw my colleagues betting on a big white bird that accidentally landed here, betting whether it was a male or a female... Yes, in this boring, dreary environment like water, even The sex of a bird can spark a lot of debate.

If it hadn't been for the recent strict control and they were not allowed to drink, I'm afraid they would fight because of gambling after drinking.

You ask me, since I am so unhappy, why don't I resign?

People have many reasons to look for a new job, but only one reason not to quit.

Even though this "maintenance" job has a hundred disadvantages, it has at least one advantage: its salary is high enough.So I am willing to spend my will and my life here.

After all, if you want to be happy, who will work?

During the day, while they were watching the birds, I was still doing routine inspections in the dark. When I inspected the warehouse, I found a strange box.

The lock of the box was picked, only the two solitary iron rings remained, like a small mouth, smiling at me.

What's going on, someone dared to sneak into the warehouse to steal things?

For a moment, I was more surprised than angry, I couldn't help reaching out, and opened the box——

I saw her.

Lying on her side, with her head down, her knees pushed up, her hands hugging her knees, she fell asleep soundly in the box, her sleeping posture was as pure as a baby.

She is a girl.

Her cheeks are fair, like apricot blossoms in bud in March; her eyelashes are long, shaking the frequency of life; her lips are bright red, like the juicy pink on a peach.

You can't understand.

No one has a way of understanding.

How does a numb man feel when he sees such a fresh, beautiful woman who is completely different from the stale people and things around him in the dark and unprepared.

His mind seemed to explode.

Every light spot blasted out by the explosion is the gorgeous fireworks.

He looked at the box that he opened with his own hands, and at the girl hidden in the box, even the darkness couldn't conceal its beauty.He realized so easily at this moment:

I am in love with her.

"Such exact love is only once in a lifetime." Old Hu murmured a sentence from "The Bridge of Madison County".

"Although I can't fully understand it, it should be a very moving picture..." Ji Xun was very interested, "Is she a precious gem in your life? Did you get together later?"

"No." Old Hu said.

"Uh?"

"The god of beauty can't exist in the world, she can only exist in your heart." Lao Hu said softly, "She is my sapphire, she is my blue tears. Twinkling, shining brightly, in the boundless The star sand on the other side that shines forever in the darkness..."

"But what does that have to do with Huo Ranyin?" Ji Xun asked again.

He was already prepared that this question would not be answered by Lao Hu.

But after a long silence, after the other party's eyes were clouded by memories, Lao Hu answered.

"They have similar beauty. I don't give the brooch to him, but to her."

A twilight old man spends a lot of money on the street, just to find the illusion of the past in a beautiful young man.

Who is she?

Ji Xun thought.Could it be that the person Lao Hu met was Huo Ranyin's mother, Huo Qiyu?But if it was really her, why would the old man use "who in the city doesn't know" to describe his cherished gem?

But if it wasn't for Huo Qiyu, who else has similar beauty to Huo Ranyin?

Maybe one of Xu Chengzhang's relatives?

Their conversation ended here, and after another 10 minutes, Huo Ranyin who had left returned.

Ji Xun and Lao Hu looked at people together.

Facing their eyes, Huo Ranyin gave the answer: "I asked twenty people, monks in five temples, and fifteen pilgrims, and none of them said that the mountain was moved last year."

"This is impossible!" Lao Hu yelled, "This is not a story, this is a murder I actually saw!"

"Old man, don't worry." Ji Xun was very calm at this moment, comforting the other party, "You said you don't often climb mountains, right? This happened last year, and it's not a strange thing to remember the wrong mountain. "

"But I remember Daye Temple, Daye Temple, Daye Temple, how could I remember wrong..." Old Hu Wu couldn't believe it, and muttered over and over again, "I should remember where I lived, yes...in Where is it……"

Ji Xun saw that he couldn't think of it for a while, so he took a step forward and came to Huo Ranyin's side.

Seeing that the other party was breathing slightly anxiously, with a few drops of sweat hanging from his chin, he reached into Huo Ranyin's pocket and took out a pack of tissue paper, then unpacked the tissue paper, and took out one to press the sweat on.

He didn't think much when he was wiping someone's sweat, and Huo Ranyin didn't seem to think too much, but instinctively rubbed his hands to wipe away the uncomfortable sweat stains on his skin.

While wiping sweat, the two got closer.

In winter, the weather was dry, and Ji Xun's half-length hair, which was usually too lazy to take care of it, started to move and attacked Huo Ranyin's shoulder.

By the time the sweat is wiped off, it will be too late.

Ji Xun's hair has been gripping Huo Ranyin's shoulder firmly like an octopus following the excessive static electricity in winter and won't let go.

He backed away a little, and the hair on Huo Ranyin's shoulders had to leave Huo Ranyin's body, and he was immediately unhappy and dejected; when he got closer, the hair was filled with spirit again, full of energy, and opened his teeth and claws. , I am afraid that some people will not notice its urgency.

Ji Xun moved away, approached, moved away, approached, his hair closed, one piece, one piece, one piece... like a jellyfish floating in the sea, cute and cute, without a head.

"It seems that I really miss you." Ji Xun.

"..." Huo Ranyin.

"Hair knows my heart." Ji Xun hooked Huo Ranyin's shoulder, fulfilling his longing for hair, and said with emotion.

"..." Huo Ranyin felt the slight numbness and heat from the hair on his shoulders, and silently swallowed back the unpleasant words "Your hair lacks moisture, you should take care of it urgently".

They rely on each other like this, and start talking about business.

Huo Ranyin said in a low voice: "It doesn't exist here, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist elsewhere."

"Well, indeed." Ji Xun said, "I'm not afraid it's fake, I'm afraid it's true."

"There are a total of 23 large and small Buddhist temples on the mountain that is famous for its ginkgo in Qin City, and there may be some unknown small temples." Huo Ranyin said, obviously, during the interval when he went to ask the pilgrims just now, he investigated everything clearly Yes, "I called the local police and asked them to check last year's list of missing persons, but they didn't know for sure whether the Buddhist temple was started or repaired. Don’t bother, large-scale construction does not need to be reported to the Public Security Bureau for approval. If you want to know the most accurate information, I’m afraid you have to visit it yourself.”

If you don't bother yourself in this boring investigation and investigation stage, you have to trouble others.

There is still a saying to bother others with a beginning and an end, and trouble others with an endless matter, which is really hard to say.

"Then it's too late to catch the high-speed train going back today. It's okay. I refunded the high-speed train ticket and renewed the hotel. If I knew this kind of thing would happen, I wouldn't be in a hurry to pack my luggage in the morning. By the way, Lao Hu -"

He turned his head towards the other party's position, and saw Lao Hu also tapping his mobile phone with his fingers like flying, the latest Apple model.

Sure enough, he is indeed a fashionable old man, even smart phones are so smooth!

Ji Xun glanced forward, it was an interface of a social software.

"Who are you chatting with?"

"My wife."

"That's okay, can you go home by yourself? My partner and I are going to visit the big and small Buddha statues in Qinshi according to your story."

Lao Hu raised his head, and he looked at Ji Xun thoughtfully.

Ji Xun was still a little worried that the old man would propose to go with them, but fortunately, the other party also felt that it was too tiring, so he waved his hand at them in the end and said emphatically:

"I didn't lie. When you confirm the murder I mentioned, remember to come here and get the brooch. Please do me a favor. Let the old man who entered the coffin with half a leg have a dream!"

Ji Xun squinted his eyes and didn't answer.

From his point of view, this old man is in good spirits, with good legs and feet, and it is worth living another ten or eight years.

If a passer-by walks up at this time and asks him to judge whose body is better, he sees a young man with a pale face and dark circles under his eyes, and an old man with a rosy complexion full of energy, maybe he will be stuck for a long time, I don't know how to evaluate...