Delayed confession

Under the cover of night, the rows of brick houses are quite solemn under the moonlight, but the sounds of chickens and dogs barking add to the simple atmosphere of life in the countryside.

In the old bungalow, a fat old lady in her 50s or 60s, with her hair pinned up, wearing a blue top and black pants, sat astride a wooden bed made of bricks. She had a fierce look on her face and asked while winding the wool in her hand,

"Where did the toys come from?"

Xu Weixi held the wool in his hands and answered truthfully,

"My mother sent it to me."

Grandma Xu took the wool from her hand and motioned for her to bring the thing over.

Xu Weixi didn't know what she was going to do, but she subconsciously felt the threat and hugged the little bear tighter.

"I asked your mother to buy this for your sister in the city. How come it's yours? No wonder I asked the second kid from the Li family and he said he had delivered it to me."

As Grandma Xu was about to reach out to grab the toy, Xu Weixi was stunned for a moment and immediately burst into tears.

"Mom, Xiaoxi is still young and doesn't understand. Don't be angry. If you get angry, Dali will be worried."

Li Sufen pretended to comfort him, but silently pinched Xu Weixi's arm, and Xu Weixi let go in pain.

Grandma Xu snatched the doll and put it in Wang Kexin's hand.

Wang Kexin stuck out her tongue proudly at Xu Weixi.

"This is mine. My mother bought it for me."

Xu Weixi looked at her grandmother Wang Huandi with tearful eyes.

Grandma Xu looked at her impatiently, with a look of disgust that she couldn't even pretend to have. She pushed the plate of steamed buns in front of her and said,

"Do you want to eat? If not, get out."

Xu Weixi ran out of the house angrily and went into the small tent he had set up earlier.

In the small tent were his homework books, a small desk lamp, and some odds and ends. Xu Weixi tightened the seams of his fur coat, arranged the toys inside in a row, and burst into tears.

Fang Yuan came back from the toilet and found Xu Weixi still standing in front of the doghouse. He walked over curiously and asked with a smile,

"What are you looking at?"

Xu Weixi straightened up and pointed at the fur coat on the doghouse and said casually,

"Nothing, I just thought this fur coat looked familiar."

"You must be familiar with it. When you were little, you used this fur coat to build a small tent. Whenever you quarreled with your sister, you would hide in it and get angry."

Seeing Fang Yuan's happy face, Xu Weixi thought that the fact that she had lived in that small tent for about half a month might have been exaggerated as a child's play, so she smiled helplessly and did not explain what happened at that time.

"You caused a lot of trouble for your aunt when you were a child."

Fang Yuan didn't know what was going on, and kept recalling what happened back then.

"Later, he insisted that your sister apologize to you before he would go back to the house."

"She told you all this?"

Seeing Fang Yuan nod, Xu Weixi fell into deep thought. She originally thought that Li Sufen was just a little hypocritical, but she didn't expect that she deliberately portrayed herself as a willful and unruly person. Her intentions were so malicious that she should be careful when interacting with her.

"Xiao Xi, do you have a boyfriend now?"

"what?"

Xu Weixi didn't hear clearly what Fang Yuan said just now, and asked back subconsciously. Unexpectedly, the phone in his pocket rang at the same time, so he had to give up for the time being.

"Excuse me, let me take a call."

Fang Yuan was afraid of disturbing Xu Weixi's work, so he said,

"You go ahead and do your work. The meal is almost ready. After you finish your call, come in and eat."

Xu Weixi clicked, looked at the caller ID, hesitated for a moment, and finally pressed the green button.

"Hey."

"...Have you returned to your hometown?" After a long while, Gu Mochuan's voice came from the other side.

"Well, is something wrong?"

Xu Weixi was not surprised that he knew about his return to his hometown, after all, Shen Ruoxuan knew about it.

But she felt that Gu Mochuan was such a proud man that he would not bother her anymore after receiving her clear rejection. Moreover, there had been no contact since the last interview, so what did this call mean now?

"Is your hometown Ninghai County?"

"Yes."

"You said before that we are still friends. Does that count?"

Hearing the tone of the other party, Xu Weixi smiled unconsciously and replied,

"Do the numbers."

Gu Mochuan closed his eyes and told the embarrassing story.

"I came here to travel, and I just got off the bus and found that my wallet was stolen. Can you come to the train station to pick me up?"

"Has Ninghai developed tourism?"

Xu Weixi thought with some doubts, but the mood of watching a joke overshadowed this question. When she thought of the proud and noble Gu Mochuan standing at the exit, making a wronged phone call, she wanted to laugh. She held it back for a while before asking,

"Did you call the police?"

"No, it's too embarrassing."

As Xu Weixi expected, Gu Mochuan did not call the police.

She walked to the gate, drew circles on the dirt with her shoes, and analyzed calmly,

"Anything valuable?"

"Identity card, several bank cards, and one thousand yuan in cash."

"When was the last time you saw your wallet?"

"After getting off the bus, before leaving the station.

How could Gu Mochuan, a young man who had never seen a vegetable market since he was a child, think of the existence of thieves? Even if he did, he would not understand why someone would commit a crime for a small amount of money.

If he didn't know that some hotels here don't require ID cards, he probably wouldn't have called me and told me about this embarrassing thing.

Xu Weixi instructed over the phone, "Go to the lost and found office and ask if they have your wallet."

Gu Mochuan was puzzled.

"You've already stolen it, but you still hand it over. Isn't that just admitting your guilt?"

"If you're lucky enough to run into a professional thief, he'll give you the wallet back, but you won't have to worry about the money inside."

Xu Weixi briefly explained and urged,

"Go ahead and ask. I won't hang up."

After a while, the conversation between Gu Mochuan and the staff was heard on the phone.

Gu Mochuan: "Hello, I lost my wallet, which contained my ID card and bank card."

Staff: "What style is the wallet? What color is it?"

Gu Mochuan: "Foldable, black."

Staff: “What’s your name?”

Gu Mochuan: "Gu Mochuan, ID number is: xxxxxxxxxx."

Looking for staff...

Staff: "Take a look, is this yours?"

Gu Mochuan: "Yes."

Staff: “Is there anything missing?”

Gu Mochuan: “…No.”

Staff: "Fill out this form, leave a contact number, and you can take it away."

Gu Mochuan: "Okay, thank you."

"You're right. Except for the one thousand dollars in cash, everything else is still there."

Hearing the excited voice from the other side, Xu Weixi looked up at the crescent moon hanging in the night sky and asked in a soft tone,

"Have you booked a hotel yet?"

"It's booked. It's a hotel called Saturday on Mony Road."

Xu Weixi nodded, opened WeChat on his phone, and said while operating,

"Okay, I just transferred 500 to you, please accept it and take a taxi back to the hotel first."