sincerity of lies

The morning sun scorched Ji Xun's eyebrows.

He shook his eyebrows in the grand sunlight, opened his eyes, found the mobile phone by the bed, and glanced at it.

Seven in the morning.

It's rare to wake up at this time... To be precise, it's rare to wake up naturally at this time. Recently, someone has always been forced to see the morning sun at this time.

Ji Xun muttered twice and got up from the bed.

When he opened the door, the opposite door was still closed. Huo Ranyin seemed to be still resting and hadn't woken up. He walked through the living room and glanced at the community outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. There was no one in the community, not even a sound , On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, it seemed that everyone was resting, and the whole city fell into a feeling of drowsiness that seemed to be half awake.

He went into the kitchen, found rice, and made some porridge.Although he can't use a knife, he can still wash rice and make porridge. Huo Ranyin is also suitable for porridge now.

The porridge was ready, but Ji Xun didn't eat it himself, he didn't have the habit of having breakfast in the morning.He poured a glass of warm water, walked to Huo Ranyin's closed door, knocked lightly, and opened it.

The room is dark.

The tightly closed curtains blocked the sun, and also rejected the occasional sounds from the city.

Huo Ranyin was resting on his side, with the quilt on his waist and abdomen, his hand against the sheet was curled up, his head was resting on the elbow of this hand, most of his faces were facing the sheet and his arm, Hidden, only exposing a little upturned eye tail to Ji Xun.

The sound of Ji Xun opening the door still startled him, he frowned, and struggled with his head buried in his arms, as if trying to free himself from the Sandman's grasp.

"Don't worry about getting up, go to sleep later."

Ji Xun looked at the people struggling and was exhausted, so he lowered his voice to talk to Huo Ranyin.

I don't know if Huo Ranyin heard it, but he was still trying to wake up anyway.

"I'm here." Ji Xun changed his words again, "You can sleep peacefully."

Facts have proved that his self-awareness is too strong, Huo Ranyin is not at ease at all because of this sentence, and even looks like he is struggling more and wants to get up.

Ji Xun had no choice but to say the third sentence:

"On the first day of the new year, everything is stable and there are no cases."

It worked like a charm.

After finishing speaking, Huo Ran's thin lips parted, and she let out a soft "huh" as if responding, and really calmed down slowly, and fell asleep again.

Ji Xun didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a while, and subconsciously took a sip of water.But looking at Huo Ranyin on the bed, he put the water glass he had only sipped on on the bedside, and then quietly closed the door by himself.

he's gone.

On February 2, he had a place to go.

Huo Ran was very thirsty when he woke up, but his mind was full, and the exhaustion caused by lack of sleep for many days was swept away.

There happened to be a glass of water on the bedside, and he picked it up and drank it all in one go.The cold water entered his stomach, sweeping away the little bit of dizziness left in his brain.

He glanced at the time.

two o'clock.

Huo Ranyin paused and took another look.

It was indeed two o'clock, two o'clock in the afternoon.

He fell asleep without dreams, and slept for a full fifteen hours... No, it's not completely dreamless.Huo Ranyin thought as he got up from the bed and opened the curtains.This is the time when the sun shines the most in the day. On the first day of the new year, there was a good day. The sun was like a red fireball, hanging high in the sky. The blue sky was cloudless, like Huo Ranyin suddenly enlightened after a full sleep. Mood, there is no trace of haze.

He squinted his eyes in the sunlight, recalling the content of the dream.

Ji Xun broke in.

The other party's back was facing the light, he couldn't see Ji Xun's face clearly, but he could hear Ji Xun's voice, it was rare that it was not harsh, not decadent, and said a few words with tenderness, by the way, Ji Xun also brought a glass of water... ...Recalling this, Huo Ranyin's heart skipped a beat.

He looked back at the empty water glass by the bed.

Did I bring a water glass into the house yesterday?

In the dream, Ji Xun seemed to be drinking from a cup...

He rubbed his temples, opened the door and left the room.At this time, he was still thinking about what kind of attitude he should use to face Ji Xun, but when he walked into the corridor, he already realized that he didn't have to think so much.

The room was silent.

Ji Xun is not here, did you agree to talk about the homework today?

A cloud floated into Huo Ranyin's heart, casting a shadow on him.

He took out his mobile phone and looked at it first, but there was no news.

He went to the kitchen again, intending to get something to eat for himself, but saw a note on the refrigerator.

"There is porridge in the rice cooker. ——Ji Xun"

Huo Ranyin's eyes stayed on the sticky note for a while. Ji Xun published a book under his real name. The daily font was similar to the signature on the book. stand up straight.

Through the font, it seems that Ji Xun's limp body without spine and his disdain for the surroundings seem to be seen.

The word is like its person.

Huo Ranyin snorted, took out his phone again, and looked again, but there was still no news.

There are two cemeteries in Ning City, one is old, it is called Qingshan Cemetery in the old city.

Except for the holidays, the cemetery is always deserted, no matter how grand the sun shines on the tombstones one after another, it also shows a kind of condensation that the sun can't shine.

Ji Xun drove here on the night of the first day of junior high school, and the cemetery is naturally closed at night. In theory, this is a time for refusing to sweep the grave, but after all, no one will be on duty in the cemetery seriously, so Ji Xun easily entered In the cemetery, with the sparse starlight in the sky, among the identical tombstones, I found the tombstone belonging to Ji Yu.

The night turns most things into blurred silhouettes.

Ji Xun got very close, only to see the scarlet name belonging to his younger sister on the tombstone.

Chronicles.

He read it, and repeated it.

Without turning his head, he knew that his parents' tombstone stood next to his sister, and his heart trembled.In the past three years, he didn't come very often, and the few times he came, he was often relatively silent with the people in the stele.

In short, the scene is full of emotion.

Ji Xun soon realized that he had been squatting in front of the tombstone for too long. He braced his head and stabilized his mind. He placed the portable video equipment he brought in the grass above the slope, like a camera facing Ji Yu's tombstone. .

Not only that, he took out another long-range wireless speaker and buried it in another bush.

After finishing the two things, Ji Xun stepped forward and was about to leave, but he kicked the stone next to him, and the stone rolled on the ground for a long distance.

"Who?!" A voice came here with the light of the flashlight.

Ji Xun quickly squatted down and hid behind the big tombstone next to him.

The wind howled, making the branches rustle. Ji Xun suddenly felt something strange in his ankle. He looked down and saw a pair of green eyes floating in the air, staring at him.

"..."

He blinked.

Now he could see clearly that it was a black cat with a pitch-black body and only a pair of green eyes staring at him. This black cat ran to his feet at some point.

"Meow—" a shrill cat meowed in the cemetery.

"It's a wild cat. It scared me."

"Don't be surprised. Ghosts may not scare people to death, but people will kill people if they scare people."

The wind sent some gossip from the security guards. Ji Xun hid himself, retracted the hand that was scratching the cat's neck, gently stroked the cat's back, and comforted the cat that had saved him once. Above its tail, there is a crescent-like bald spot.

Ji Xun paused, thinking of Ji Yu.

Since Ji Yu was born, there was a nail-wide crescent mark on the tiger's mouth on his right hand, which looked like it was pinched out by someone.Every time a new classmate or friend saw it and curiously asked her where the trace came from, she would most likely say pitifully, "My brother pinched it..."

When they believed it, Ji Yu smiled and shook his wrist again: "Just kidding, this is a birthmark, isn't it cute? Does it look like a little moon? In my family, only I beat my brother, not my brother. .”

Ji Xun's eyes couldn't help but began to follow the black cat, trying to find more traces of Ji Yu on the black cat, but the black cat that was squatting on his knees suddenly flicked its tail, kicked all fours, and jumped up. Enter the group of tombstones and disappear into the darkness like smoke.

Ji Xun stood up suddenly, trying to catch up, but he had lost track of the cat. He looked around again, and the security guards and lights were gone. It seemed that the black cat disappeared immediately after fulfilling its purpose of helping him.

Ji Xun stood there for a few more seconds, then returned the same way, dug out of the cemetery, returned to the car, and opened his notebook.

The laptop screen flickered and it was successfully connected to the camera. Ji Xun saw exactly what was going on in the cemetery in the car.

Tonight or tomorrow, Meng Lingshan will appear.

At least on Ji Yu's death day, he will appear.

then……

Ji Xun put his hands on the computer, and his fingertips twirled on the keyboard of the computer.

Meng Lingshan has been investigating Ji Yu's matter, Ji Xun knows about it, but doesn't care.As for Ji Yu, he had investigated that case that year and came to a clear and unmistakable conclusion.

All of Meng Lingshan's subsequent investigations were just twelve words to him:

No need, no value, no point.

Maybe Huo Ranyin's evaluation is not wrong, I am really conceited, I really think that except for me, everyone else in the world is a fool.Ji Xun suddenly thought so.Because I investigated it myself, I came to a conclusion and I closed the case.So I no longer care about what Meng Lingshan went to investigate and what he found out.

...but, but.

Huo Ranyin's words on New Year's Eve upset him.

Let's talk to Meng Lingshan.

It doesn't take much time to chat.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to go back to the past, and go back to the work of staying up all night to keep an eye on him, when his cell phone rang suddenly, and Huo Ranyin sent a message when he wanted someone to arrive.

"Where are you?"

Where can I go on New Year's Day?Ji Xun looked at the time, it was past ten o'clock in the evening.

"Rushing up the manuscript at home." He said, "It's hard for my editor to rush for the manuscript after paying homage on the first day of the new year.

After sending the message, he waited for Huo Ranyin's reply.

But Huo Ranyin didn't reply for a long time.

Ji Xun also failed to penetrate the space, and saw a familiar car parked downstairs in his house—Huo Ranyin's car.

In the driver's seat, Huo Ranyin looked up at the room where the curtains were drawn but there was no light at all, and then looked down at the phone screen.

On the bright screen, the black square characters seemed to be a serious mockery of him.