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The landlord said: "Water fee, gas fee, bed fee, plus money."

"Ah?" Xia Huai frowned doubtfully, "I can still understand the water and gas bills. I made the bed temporarily with wooden chairs and boards. I also need to charge for it?"

The landlord said: "Love Jiajia, don't Jiajia."

Xia Huai was speechless.After hesitating for a while, he waved his hand and said, "Then just add it, and it will be calculated together at the end of the month."

Satisfied, the landlord went out with the flowerpot in his hands, and the Gaojia opera humming in his mouth surrounded the entire courtyard.

Xia Huai, who was being exploited by another layer, was very depressed, and greeted Yin Shun in the kitchen: "I'm going to work."

Hearing Yin Shun's "Oh", he went out.

Arriving at the police station, as soon as he entered the gate, Xia Huai saw Xiao Hai walk out of the police station with a scar on his face.

Xia Huai felt strange, and when he came to the office, he asked Lou Jing: "I saw Xiao Hai was released, what's going on?"

"The owner of the fruit stand suddenly changed his words and said he made a mistake when confirming the record. The monitoring happened that night and it happened to be repaired and nothing was photographed. The evidence was only a plastic knife, which could not be prosecuted and had to be released." Lou Jing commented on this case. Things are also very helpless.

Xia Huai frowned: "Why did the stall owner suddenly change his mind? She was the one who called for the robbery that night."

Lou Jing glanced around to make sure there was no one around, and then whispered: "I guess Xiao Hai's sister went to intercede with the stall owner, and the stall owner would change his words temporarily. Hey, maybe he also thinks that Xiao Hai is not that bad at all. Only then will you be willing to do this. Let’s talk about this matter in private, don’t talk about it everywhere.”

"Who is his sister? The stall owner changed his mind after saying a few words of love?" Xia Huai was curious.

"It's a long story." Lou Jing leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice, "Do you know about a serial murder case that happened in Haidao City more than ten or twenty years ago?"

Xia Huai said: "I've heard of it a little bit, but I don't know the details. I was still young at that time."

"You don't know about such a sensational case?" Lou Jing was incredulous.He opened his mouth and was about to continue, when their leader, Yi Qingjue, walked in and asked sharply, "Is there too little to do? Do you have time to chat here?"

Lou Jing and Xia Huai hurriedly shut up and devoted themselves to their work.

Yi Qingjue came to Lou Jing and handed over a document to him: "Go and hand this document to Lao Bai of the anti-drug team."

When Lou Jing saw the case marked on the document, he suddenly became suspicious: "Isn't this the case of the Bailuzhou Building two days ago? Didn't this woman commit suicide? It's just that she hasn't found her boyfriend yet, so the case can't be closed for a long time."

"It's suicide." Yi Qingjue said, "But the deceased was involved in drugs during his lifetime. We need to provide clues to the anti-drug team. It is estimated that his boyfriend is also involved."

Strange to say, about the woman's boyfriend, there is enough information about him in WeChat.A native of Haidao City, aged 27, his photo is also there, but no one else can be found.The man's mobile phone number was unavailable. Two days ago, my colleagues found his mobile phone was sold as a second-hand product in a digital store, and then there was no clue about the man.

Lou Jing nodded and said "Oh", and after a while, he asked with a cautious expression, "Why don't you hand it over to Police Officer Bai?"

After a pause, Yi Qingjue said, "Are you looking for a beating?" He made a gesture to beat Lou Jing, but Lou Jing quickly ran away with the documents.

After giving instructions to Lou Jing, Yi Qingjue walked up to Xia Huai and called him, "Xia Huai, this year's police recruitment exam, think about whether you want to try it."

Xia Huai was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and said embarrassedly: "I don't think my ability is enough, let's talk about it after more preparation."

Yi Qing never understood the meaning of his answer: "This is a good opportunity to become a regular."

From Yi Qingjue's point of view, Xia Huai's ability is not bad, and his legs and feet are quite agile. Letting Xia Huai work by his side in the past two years is to train him intentionally.Now that the opportunity came, Xia Huai went to take the test, and maybe he could help him a little bit.

Seeing Xia Huai's smirk, Yi Qingjue became more and more confused about what this person was thinking.After thinking about it, I didn't continue to persuade: "I just give a suggestion, you are still young, and you have many choices."

On the way home on the battery car, with the cold wind blowing head-on, Xia Huai's mind was full of Yi Qingjue's advice.

To be honest, who would not care about having a stable job and income, and having a secure life in the future?He prepares for this test every year, but shrinks back before the battle every year.

Xia Huai couldn't pass the hurdle in his heart, he was afraid that one day that incident would be discovered, and his position would embarrass him and the people around him.

Every time she came to the alley she had to go home, Xia Huai had to get out of the car and drag the battery car through the alley carefully.

The alley was so narrow that two people could squeeze together side by side.Sometimes when pushing a cart and meeting people across the alley, one side has to retreat first, and then pass through after the other side has left.

The living environment is really too bad, and it is impossible for any young person to be satisfied with this state.Every time Xia Huai pushed the battery car through the alley, Xia Huai would think so.When his sister and mother are stable, he will resign, find a job with a higher salary, and then rent a better place, and then take his sister and mother to live together.It's just that this kind of life doesn't know how long it will take.

The landlady was sawing wood in the small courtyard outside the house, and the saw was rattling.There is a small tape recorder hanging on the waist, and the euphemistic and simple Nanyin flows out of the tape recorder, and the landlord will sing a few words along with it.

Xia Huai greeted him before entering the house, and the landlord responded with a snort.

After returning to the house, seeing no one in the house, Xia Huai didn't know if Yin Shun had come back, so she went to knock on the door of Yin Shun's room.

"Come in."

Xia Huai opened the door, and Yin Shun was sitting on the bed with his knees bent, doing his homework.A rope was pulled in the room, and Yin Shun's clothes were all hung on the rope.He doesn't have two clothes, so it's okay to hang them like this, but Xia Huai feels shabby looking at this scene.

"Why don't you go write outside? There are tables outside."

"It's too noisy outside." Yin Shun pointed to the sound of the landlord sawing wood and Nanyin.

"Then go to my room and write."

"The table and chairs in your room are too low for me to sit on."

"If you have something to write, you can pick and choose." Xia Huai closed the door and left him alone.

After returning to the room, Xia Nan sent another message: Brother, tomorrow is the weekend.

It was only then that Xia Huai remembered that he hadn't replied to the message Xia Nan sent him before, and was about to say "yes", after thinking about it, he finally replied: There are a lot of things in the bureau recently, and I will take you to see your mother another day.

Oh well.The three words Xia Nan replied revealed disappointment.

Xia Huai used to think that if there was one more person living in the family, it would be uncomfortable at first.But it may be that the elders don't mind so much, or it may be that Yin Shun's performance so far is quite reassuring, and his living habits are also good, so Xia Huai adapted quickly.I even feel that we can't let people live here so shabby.

On the weekend, Yin Shun said that there will be a monthly exam on Monday, and he will go to school for self-study early in the morning.

Xia Huai was not idle either, giving up the good time of sleeping late, and ran to several large furniture stores in the city center to look at the tables.However, after looking all day, he didn't see a satisfactory one.Those desks were either too big or too expensive. Those who could afford them couldn't move into Yin Shun's room, and those who could fit in Yin Shun's room couldn't afford them.Besides the table, Xia Huai had to give him the whole cabinet for books and clothes.

Yin Shun’s room is 3 meters wide and 2 meters long. A 2-meter-long temporary bed is directly attached to the three walls at the head and tail. The bed is about 1.2 meters wide, and there is only a small space of 1.8 meters wide and 2 meters long for tables and chairs. And cabinets, the space is very limited, it is too difficult to find suitable ones in these furniture stores.

After a few laps in the city center, Xia Huai went back disappointed.

Before Yin Shun came home, the landlord was weeding the potted plants outside the door, and the wood planks left by him were piled up on a broken cart.According to the landlord's habit, within a few days, these wooden boards will be given to any junk collector.

After returning to the room, Xia Huai stayed silent for a while, then took out a pen and paper, searched for information on the Internet, and began to draw sketches of the table and cabinet.

After the landlord finished his work and returned to the house, Xia Huai walked over with a smile in his hand, holding the money in his hands: "This is the water, electricity and gas bills, and his share will be counted."

After receiving the money, the indifferent face of the landlord became a little more friendly.After counting the money, it was enough, and the landlord gave a satisfied "hmm".

The smile on Xia Huai's face hadn't subsided yet, and she pointed to the wooden planks on the broken cart and asked, "Uncle, is your leftover wood still useful? If you don't need it, give it to me?"

"What are you doing with my planks?" The landlord stopped counting the money.

Xia Huai said with a smile: "My hands are itchy, and I want to try to make something, a table or something. It just so happens that my distant cousin lacks a table."

"Just don't make it too ugly and waste my materials." The landlord is in a good mood after receiving the money, and he can say anything.

"Hey, thank you uncle!"

There is a staircase outside the two-story red brick house, which can directly reach the roof terrace from the first floor.Xia Huai moved the wooden boards to the roof terrace, borrowed carpentry tools from the landlord, took the drawn sketches, marked the wooden boards according to the data on the sketches, and then started to work drastically.

Xia Huai also did some manual work when she was young. Maybe she was young and fun at that time, and she didn’t pursue too perfect standards. She felt that cutting, sawing, and piecing together was not difficult, so that she still thinks it’s easy to make a table. Unexpectedly, when I really started to move again, I felt uncomfortable anywhere, and within two hours I was sweating profusely and was exhausted.

Yin Shun came back with his schoolbag on his back, saw Xia Huai who was busy on the roof downstairs, raised his head and asked loudly, "What are you doing?"

"Work." Xia Huai replied, wiping his forehead with his sleeve.

Yin Shun walked up the stairs from the side of the house to the roof, stood behind Yin Shun and asked, "What work are you doing?"

"You will know in a few days." Xia Huai turned to look at Yin Shun, and continued to work on her own affairs, "Don't stand here, there is still peanut milk in the kitchen, go and drink a bowl first, finish drinking Do your homework first."

Yin Shun didn't listen to him, stood there for a while, and said, "You are making a table for me?"