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The moon is like a hole burned by a cigarette butt on the thick ink-colored paper, and the light is not enough to illuminate the empty blackness of the city.

The layout of Haidao City is particularly clear. The prosperity is decreasing from inside to outside. The city center is inside the island, where the lights are feasting and the neon lights are flickering.

The night outside the island is inevitably bleak and gloomy, and even the stores that provide places to go at night are relatively simple.On the side of the road, a person in the snack business runs a wire on the shed and hangs a big light bulb, and swings a fan in his hand to fan away the flies flying around the food.

"Boss, two bowls of shacha noodles, add vinegar pork and five-spice sticks, don't be spicy!"

Lou Jing hooked a plastic chair with his feet and sat down, and kicked the other chair to Xia Huai: "Would you like a drink?"

"Okay."

"Two more bottles of Tsingtao, boss!"

In the evening, just after finishing the work in the police station, she pretended to go out for a drink and a supper after changing into clothes. For Xia Huai, it was the happiest time of the day.

When two bottles of beer came up, Lou Jing bit the cap of the beer with his teeth, took two gulps, and exhaled comfortably: "I'm so tired all day, my wife has to talk about it when I get home, hey, just This is the most comfortable time."

Xia Huai used a corkscrew to pry open the beer cap, and joked, "You got married too early. You gave all your youth to your family. Before you reached the golden age of a man, you became a 'yellow-faced woman'."

Lou Jing made a "cut" sound: "I'm trying to finish the big things in life early, okay! When my brother was your age, my daughter was three years old. What about you? Haven't found a partner yet?" Lou Jing tilted his head and teased Said, "Have you ever been in love? The kind that held little hands in high school doesn't count!"

Xia Huai seemed to have been poked into a pain point, and she didn't want to talk to him anymore, so she poured herself a full glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp.

"I haven't found a suitable one yet. The object is not like buying clothes. It's a bit wider or narrower and you can just wear it. If the object is settled, don't you have to settle for everything in your life?"

"What you said really makes sense." Lou Jing smiled, took another two gulps of wine, wiped his mouth, and suddenly changed the subject, "Two days ago, in the case of a couple falling from a building after a quarrel, you said It's the woman who used to be your nanny, right?"

"Ah."

"Do you remember that there was a child in his family?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"The relationship between you and the deceased woman, I have clearly stated this in the report to the civil affairs side, which means that the child is now seventeen, and before he turned eighteen, his parents are dead, and there is no way to see him." Dear, I can't find a guardian." Lou Jing smiled, and this passage was very meaningful.

Xia Huai felt a little bad: "Then what? Do you want me to be his guardian?" He asked jokingly.

Unexpectedly, Lou Jing really meant this: "I'm only 17 years old, my parents are gone, and I can't find any relatives. You can't just throw him in an orphanage, right? His parents also rented the house, and now they are dead." The landlord won't let him live, so he has no place to go. He said he has his own way and told us to leave him alone, but do you think we can leave him alone?"

"Brother Lou, are you kidding me?" Xia Huai laughed dryly, and the smile didn't look happy at all, "I'm only 24, as you said, I haven't got a date yet, and I haven't married yet, so you just let me I'm taking care of the kids, what should I do in the future?" Xia Huai's "single and happy" attitude just now is gone, and she feels like falling into the pit that Lou Jing dug, and now she wants to jump out of the pit, wondering if it's too late.

"What should I do? Isn't this very good? God gave you a chance to accumulate experience, and you will be more handy when you have children yourself in the future!" Lou Jing patted his arm, "You If you don’t want to make do with finding someone, you can’t make do with your own children, right? Now you can catch a mouse to practice, wouldn’t you like it?”

Xia Huai was puzzled: "Who would be happy with such a thing?"

At this time, the boss brought up two bowls of noodles.Xia Huai didn't want to continue digging into his hole, so she took out two chopsticks and wiped them on her sleeves: "I'm hungry, let's eat noodles first."

Lou Jing was not in a hurry to ask for his answer, nodded and picked up his chopsticks and started to eat.

The food stalls looked peaceful, but the street outside was not.

A man in his 20s is as thin as a monkey, with his hands in his pockets, his body swaying when he walks, and he walks out of steps that his relatives do not recognize. He wears a beret on his head, for fear that others will not notice how special he is. There is a sticker of "Doraemon" on the left cheek.

The aunt at the fruit stand at the street corner was about to close the stall. The man stopped at the street corner, looked around for a while, and slowly took out a gleaming knife from his pocket.

He walked quickly to the fruit stand aunt, when the fruit aunt looked up, the knife was already on her neck.

The man seemed to be more nervous than the aunt, and said in a low voice: "This is my first time, I'm a little nervous, please cooperate."

"Oh, oh." The aunt raised her hands trembling in "coordination".

"Ahem." The man cast his eyes around and said to the aunt, "Give me as much as you have."

Trembling, the aunt took out bits and pieces of change from her satchel and handed them to the man: "That's all the cash..."

The man looked at the change in his hand, and frowned suddenly: "You earn this little after working all day? Are you kidding me?"

The aunt's face was twisted into a ball: "No, brother, who still uses cash now? Everyone uses mobile phones to trade, why don't I give you the mobile phone too...?"

The man smacked his lips. He was not so stupid. Taking her mobile phone was equivalent to installing GPS on himself. If he didn't finish walking this street, he would probably be arrested by the police.

Although the cash in hand is not much, it is enough to eat for two days.

After pushing away the stall owner, the man took an apple from the stall and bit it into his mouth. He counted the money as he walked, muttering to himself: What’s going on in the current society? ?

As soon as the man took a bite of the crisp apple, the fruit aunt behind him suddenly yelled: "It's robbery! Xiao Hai is robbing! Xiao Hai is robbing again! Xiao Hai is robbing money this time!"

When the man heard this, he quickly put the money in his pocket, bit the apple and ran away.

Xia Huai and Lou Jing heard shouts at the noodle stall, dropped their chopsticks and rushed out immediately.

Seeing the thin back running away in a hurry, Lou Jing shouted sharply: "Xiao Hai!"

Xiao Hai's eyes widened when he heard the roar, as if a motor had been added to his legs, he ran more and more fiercely, and the more he ran, the harder he ran.

"Stop!" Xia Huai had quick legs and chased him into the alley.

Xiao Hai spat out the apple he was biting into, the alley was dark, Xia Huai didn't see the apple that had rolled in front of him, stepped on it, and with a "plop", the whole person fell to the ground in all directions.

Before Xiao Hai had time to rejoice, he saw a person blocking his way at the exit, and when he was about to run back, Xia Huai had already stood up with his waist supported.

Xiao Hai had no way to escape, so he had to stand still and play a roundabout tactic.I couldn't catch my breath, and I didn't forget to squeeze out my strength to smile and pretend to be familiar: "Oh, oh...this...isn't this my old brother Lou! Qiaoqiaoqiao, what a coincidence!"

Lou Jing walked up to Xiao Hai with his hands on his hips, stared at the Doraemon sticker on Xiao Hai's face, and sneered: "You've been doing well recently, you can even have stickers on your face for decoration?"

"If you like it, I...I can give it to you." Xiao Hai calmed down, tore off the sticker on his face and handed it to Lou Jing, smiling flatteringly.There was a hideous scar under the sticker. When he laughed, the hideous scars crowded together, and the uncoordinated smile looked very funny.

"Take it away!" Lou Jing looked serious and didn't joke with him, "Do you think that if you cover up the scar, no one will recognize you?"

"I don't think so, I'll stick to it for fun, nothing else..." Xiao Hai lowered his hands, arched his back, deliberately put on a wronged look.

Xia Huai walked up step by step with her waist supported, and picked up the knife that Xiao Hai threw on the ground.

"This knife is made of plastic," Xia Huai said.

Lou Jing felt exasperated and ridiculous, and asked Xiao Hai: "Do you dare to take out the plastic knife to grab money?"

Xia Huai took out her mobile phone and contacted the colleague on duty in the area.

"Look, Brother Lou, this is really a misunderstanding." Xiao Hai showed his big white teeth.

Lou Jing took out the silver handcuffs and handcuffed him mercilessly: "Misunderstanding? You have misunderstood me three times, why are you still misunderstood?"

"This proves that we are destined to each other, and if we don't let others catch up on misunderstandings, it happens to be you!"

"The last time you robbed someone's dog's dog food, you said you misunderstood. The last time you robbed someone's buns from the shop, you said you misunderstood it. Now that the money is in your pocket, why did you misunderstand?"

"That's it," Xiao Hai swallowed, and started his performance, "I just bought a toy knife from the store, it looked very chic, and I walked around with it. At the fruit stand, the aunt misunderstood that I was going to steal money, so she took the money and stuffed it into my hand. Before I knew what was going on, she started yelling, and then you chased me. Then you chased me so viciously I run, can I not run? I was nervous and anxious, I didn’t worry so much, and I ran away with the money! You see, the money is here, and I didn’t dare to put a penny in the wallet. This is a misunderstanding! Misunderstanding ah!"

"Don't talk nonsense with me here!" Lou Jing followed Xiao Hai out of the alley and asked Xia Huai, "How's it going?"

"Colleagues from the area are here now."

As soon as he walked out of the alley, he saw a police car approaching with its alarm bell ringing.Two police officers got out of the car and were about to pick up the prisoner.

"Armed robbery, all witnesses and physical evidence, and surveillance, and more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment." After Lou Jing counted Xiao Hai's crimes, he pushed him to the colleague in front of him.

Xiao Haihai asked as he walked, "Can you put a hood on me?"

The police officer who escorted him said: "What kind of hood are you wearing? Are there people around here who don't know you? From the full moon puppy to the [-]s and [-]s, you will rob anyone's food, and this time you will start robbing money. What a shame! Shame on us island people!"

After Xiao Hai was taken away, Lou Jing asked Xia Huai who was still supporting his waist with concern, "Are you all right?"

Xia Huai shook her head and said, "It's okay."

"Shall I take you to a nearby hospital?"

"I'll walk over by myself. There are still people waiting at your house, so go back first."

Lou Jing seemed to have something else to say, but in the end he only said "OK". Seeing Xia Huai's current state, he felt embarrassed to say that again.

Seeing that Lou Jing didn't mention letting him be the guardian again, Xia Huai felt that the fall was really worth it.