do not speak

Holiday gift shops are designed to rip people off.

Wei Huaiming was carrying two pockets full of small gifts that were three times more expensive than usual, smiling like a silly son of a landlord's family, Qin Yan followed behind and offered to help him, but he refused.

"Don't Professor Qin buy something?" Wei Huaiming was very puzzled when he saw that his hands were empty.

"There is no one to give." Qin Yan smiled helplessly, and still took a bag of things from Wei Huaiming.

Hearing what Qin Yan said, Wei Huaiming remembered that he didn't know where Qin Yan was from, so he asked casually, Qin Yan stopped for a while, followed him as if nothing had happened, and said softly, "Yu County."

Wei Huaiming was too familiar with this place.

Yu County is a small county near H City, but it is far away from the urban area. Although it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the mountains are not beautiful enough and the water is not clear enough. Basically, it can be said that it is a place where birds don't shit.Eight years ago, he was transferred there just after graduating from the police academy. Troubles came out of the poor mountains and rivers, and there were endless trivial matters every day. Either the chicken was stolen from this family, or someone's son was beaten by a gangster. , occasionally deal with family disputes, boring to death.

Wei Huaiming has just graduated, young and energetic, and he doesn't want to spend any time here, but there is no major case here, so he can only make sidelines every day about his father giving him a place.Old Wei Daozi talked tofu and felt sorry for his son, saying that he should stay for a year before leaving, but within a year he solved a major case and was transferred away with his own efforts.

"I didn't expect such an excellent person like Professor Qin to be born in that kind of place." Wei Huaiming felt that something was wrong just after finishing speaking, and added, "I don't mean anything else, I just think there... um..."

Qin Yan didn't embarrass him, and continued, "That place is really bad. In fact, my family was gone when I was in middle school, so I went out to work and study by myself, and I didn't come back for many years. home."

Qin Yan's smile was the same as usual, as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with him, but Wei Huaiming felt very distressed.Many times he is also like this, talking about the family members of the victims he has met, talking about his experience of coming out of the closet, and talking about many, many things that were uncomfortable for a long time at the time. Now it is calm, but the pain in his heart is always Yes, it fermented into tears at the moment of saying it, and it was withdrawn into the eyes.

No one will forget the painful experience, but there is no need to cry.

Wei Huaiming originally wanted to mention the case in Yu County, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was unnecessary. The hand that was not holding anything rummaged in his coat pocket for a long time, took out a small box and handed it to Qin Yan: "I wanted to give it to you tomorrow. Yes, but..." Wei Huaiming paused for a moment, and didn't think of the reason for giving the gift now, so he took it out in a flash of his brain, and looked away, "Anyway, you take it."

Qin Yan was stunned for a moment when he saw the gift, and felt that Wei Huaiming's action was cute. He reached out to take it, his fingertips were a little cold, and there was a real feeling in the warm palm.

"Are you cold?" Wei Huaiming clasped Qin Yan's hand with his backhand. There was a small box between the two palms, but the fingertips touched together, and they could be clasped tightly with a little force.

Qin Yan was stunned for a moment, then withdrew his hand, stuffed it into his pocket in a panic, and replied "not cold".

The box was still lying in Wei Huaiming's hand, red as a heart against the white background.

"Can I ask you a question?" Wei Huaiming squeezed the box in his hand, staring straight at Qin Yan, and after hearing the affirmative answer, he took a breath as if he had finally made up his mind, "You Do you like men?"

I don't like men, I only like you.

Qin Yan thought so in his heart, but blurted out that he didn't like it.

He dared not face the next question.

Wei Huaiming's hand holding the small box tightened again, lowered his head and sighed, and said half-jokingly, "I thought you were interested in me." After finishing speaking, he ignored Qin Yan's expression, and directly stuffed the box into his hand Li, walked away on his own.

Qin Yan opened the bright red box, and saw a small dark blue earring lying quietly inside, exactly the same as the one on Wei Huaiming's ear - this was not bought in the gift shop just now.

Qin Yan chased after them, and the two walked very close side by side. He said softly, "It's very beautiful."

Wei Huaiming reacted for a while before realizing that he was talking about ear studs, and said "um" in a nasal voice before not answering.His first confession was rejected, and now he is very depressed.

He actually wanted to try it with Qin Yan, but he didn't want to.

In the morning, I just found out that Qin Yan has someone he likes, and now I know that I have no hope at all, so I even mocked myself for going to buy gifts for Qin Yan two days in advance.

Before he could figure out how to commemorate his love that died before it even started, the phone in his pocket started ringing.

Wei Huaiming, who was on vacation, fearlessly pressed Lu Bai's phone, and Qin Yan's phone rang immediately. As soon as he got through, he heard Lu Bai's angry roar, which could be clearly transmitted through Qin Yan's phone without even playing it into Wei Huaiming's ears.

"Professor Qin! Are you with that little bastard! Tell him to come to the police station quickly! Otherwise, he won't even think about his salary this month!" Wei Huaiming was extremely alert to the word "salary", and his heart rolled countless times "Evil capitalism" is still bent for a few thousand dollars.

When the two arrived, they saw a middle-aged woman holding Lu Bai's leg and crying with snot and tears. Wei Huaiming glanced at Lu Bai with a complicated expression, "What did you do to him?" disdain.Lu Bai forcefully pulled his foot out of the woman's arm while sending him a task: "Missing, you deal with it."

Wei Huaiming was watching a good show, and wanted to reach out his hand to stop Lu Bai who was escaping, but then remembered his salary, so he withdrew his hand.The woman was just about to pounce on Wei Huaiming's thigh, but Qin Yan pushed her away calmly.

"I have something to talk about." Wei Huaiming was still immersed in the shadow of wage deductions and failed confession. He didn't notice Qin Yan's actions just now. He pulled out his chair a little annoyedly, took out two pieces of paper, looked up at the woman, and signaled she talks.

The woman was arranged on the chair by Qin Yan, but she writhed like sitting on a group of fleas. She stood up several times but was pushed down by Qin Yan. He spoke in unproficient Mandarin: "I lost my daughter, it's been a few days."

The woman is a countryman, and the daughter is also a countryman.The woman has not studied for a few days, but has a dream of college. She wakes up early in the morning and does all kinds of work greedily. Sometimes she is a farmer, sometimes a cleaner, sometimes a confinement wife, and has always been a mother.

The daughter was an exception in that village. Not only was she born younger than her mother, but she also had a much faster mind than other children. She won the first place in every exam, and the woman did all the housework by herself in order to let her study hard. Raised her daughter as a special case of not sticking to the spring water.

When the woman was a confinement wife, she heard the wife of that family talk about the high schools in the city, and she said a lot of things she couldn't understand, but she heard the phrase "can be admitted to college", so she desperately sent her daughter to The most expensive school in the city.The woman is getting older and her body is not as good as before, and she can't afford the high tuition fees. Her daughter can't talk about it, so she slapped her back to school. Today, she just borrowed enough money to pay the tuition fees, but was told that her daughter hadn't come for three days. Class begins.

The school is a boarding system, and my daughter only goes home once a month.

The woman does not have a mobile phone, and the school cannot contact her. If she hadn't come to pay the tuition fee, it might take a month to find out.

The woman cried again as she spoke, and she couldn't speak clearly. Wei Huaiming pieced together such a story from her fragmented language, and asked the basic information routinely. Knowing that her daughter was Deng Lili, he asked again: "Is there any Are you a good classmate?" The woman nodded, then immediately shook her head, Wei Huaiming looked at her puzzled.

"I don't know, she doesn't talk to me about school." The woman continued to roll up her clothes with a numb expression, "Isn't school a place to study? It would be a waste of time to engage in interpersonal relationships. My daughter is a good student, No nonsense."

Seeing Wei Huaiming's speechless expression, Qin Yan hurriedly took up the conversation and asked his daughter about other relationships, but the woman didn't know anything about it.The two had no choice but to ask her to go home. They went to the school to inquire about the situation first.

The woman wanted to hang on, but she was frightened by Wei Huaiming's words "If you don't want to sleep at home, you can sleep in the detention center", she hastily tidied up and went out, and said a bunch of things incoherently before going out, such as " Please find her sooner."

Looking at her back, the two sighed together.

H City No. [-] High School is indeed the high school with the highest enrollment rate in the city, and even ranked first in the whole country, but the tuition fee is directly proportional to the reputation.

Countless students squeezed their heads in. Some are local students with excellent grades, some are rich local students, and some are richer non-local students. They all sharpened their heads and emptied their wallets in order to get into a good university. .

The students were divided into factions in this way. Those who are rich think that they have good grades are learning machines, and those who have good grades think that those who are rich are all embroidered pillows. Those students who are rich and have good grades are promoted to the top of the pyramid and become synonymous with excellence.

Qin Yan and Wei Huaiming went to find Deng Lili's class teacher, and the feedback they got was that the child had good grades and was honest, but he was a little shy, usually a loner, and had no friends to talk to. As for when he disappeared, the teacher didn't know I don't know clearly, I just know that she didn't see Deng Lili coming to the morning reading three days ago, and the people who asked her about the dormitory said that she was not feeling well, and asked them to ask for a leave of absence, but the teacher didn't care much, who knew that all morning I didn't see her, and there was no one in the dormitory.

"Then why didn't you call the police?" Qin Yan was very puzzled when she finished speaking, "You confirmed that the child was missing three days ago, so you didn't call the police?"

The teacher froze for a moment, with a troubled look on his face, as if he was wondering whether to say the next thing, after hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke: "Lili's family conditions are not good...she... often slips out to work at night." The teacher Looking down at her shoes, with her hands hanging down and crossed together, she added in a low voice, "Once when I caught her staying out at night, she knelt down and said, teacher, you can punish me any way you want. Don't tell my mother."

"I agreed."

A girl with excellent character and learning, in order to relieve her mother's burden, she knelt down and begged her, but she couldn't refuse.

The teacher said that she also went to the place where she worked. It was an ordinary coffee shop, and there were no messy people.

This is their secret.

But the secret hurt her.

"So what does this have to do with your failure to call the police for three days?" Wei Huaiming frowned, unable to understand what she said.

"She used to be away from school for a few days... She came back by herself in about two or three days. When I asked her what she was doing, she said she was working part-time... So I didn't care too much."

"You teacher has a big heart."

A sudden knock on the door interrupted their conversation. Qin Yan walked over to open the door, and saw a very beautiful girl standing outside the door, still making knocking motions.

The girl was stunned for a moment when she saw someone coming out, and then greeted them naturally with a sweet smile.