Little Bosses and Little Monsters

Tianwang carried the bag from the armadillo and followed Shu Jing into the room.

"Do you believe that someone kidnapped Qiu Tianyou? I didn't say, what are you trying to do, just like an armadillo?"

Shu Jing raised the envelope he just got in his hand: "No matter what, we can only believe that at the moment."

Tianwang snatched the envelope, opened it and read it again.The kidnappers are very cautious, there are no handwritten letters, all the words are cut out of books and pasted on, the content is very old-fashioned, just the kind of kidnapping words that people are used to, let the armadillo put 5 yuan on the letter tomorrow night Designated location.

Shu Jing crossed his arms and analyzed: "Chou Tianyou ran away by himself, so the person who kidnapped him may not know Armadillo, maybe it was a temporary idea, and he caught the child who was alone to make a fortune."

Tianwang raised one corner of his mouth sarcastically: "Just as much as an armadillo can afford?"

Shu Jing was speechless.

"The matter has come to this point, and only by doing what he said, can we know what this person wants to do."

Tianwang rolled his eyes speechlessly, thinking that they might really be free, and still accept such useless things.He rudely unwrapped the paper bag that Armadillo had packed, and inside was Qiu Tianyou's pajamas. He stopped suddenly, leaned closer to smell it, and then put the envelope under his nose.

"What?" Shu Jing put down his hand.

"I'm afraid Qiu Tianyou is really in this person's hands. I smell Qiu Tianyou on the envelope."

Pepe suddenly opened the door: "Someone is looking for you."

The two people in the room looked at her together and asked in unison, "Who is it?"

Pepe pursed her lips and shrugged.

In the bookstore, Jiuying and Pingpeng were standing, while Xu Ran took Tianwang's chair carelessly.

Shu Jing stepped on them because of the armadillo. The group went to the yard. As soon as Pepe went back to the bookstore, Xu Ran made an exaggerated grimace: "Oh my god! What's the situation! Why is Miss here?!!!"

Shu Jing explained casually: "Something happened to her family and she is staying with us temporarily."

Xu Ran couldn't believe it: "Fucking boss, I really blamed you in the past, you are so generous! Anyway, I can't bear to let me go. I can't help but crawl back to where I came from. There are also scumbags, together Son, get out of here."

"Okay, okay, now that you are so strong, it seems that Dijiang really got you done."

Xu Ran, who accidentally exposed something, twitched his neck: "What, what! Why can't I get him done!"

Shu Jing smiled, and in her heart - what can I do if I'm not generous?He is an old man with a life expectancy, and he is always too embarrassed to care about a little girl.

The "scumbag" Tian Wang, who felt that the corner of the wall was being pried under his nose and couldn't talk, had a dark face: "What are you doing here? Go back and do business if you have nothing to do. Is the coffee shop going to close down?"

Jiuying, the owner of the coffee shop who was cursed for bankruptcy even though he had done nothing, felt that he had suffered a lot of grievances recently, and it was the same last time.

Pingpeng, who accidentally discovered a lot of gossip, quickly said: "I am here to find Mr. Shu, I think you have seen armadillos already."

Shu Jing and Tianwang looked at each other, Tianwang went into the room and took out Qiu Tianyou's clothes and the letter, and handed them to Pingpeng.

"What? Tianyou was kidnapped?!" Ping Peng didn't expect this kind of development in the follow-up. He only thought that Qiu Tianyou was a child's temper, so he found a place to hide by himself, "The armadillo must be very worried."

Shu Jing said: "At least it proves that he didn't meet the mind-digger, and it's a blessing in misfortune."

Ping Peng nodded: "That's true. Then, did Armadillo say anything?"

"He went back to prepare money."

Ping Peng was a little worried: "Does he have enough money? You should tell me, and I can help him raise some money."

Pingpeng and Armadillo have always been part-timers in the human world, and their lives are tight, and they don't feel that they don't have any needs at ordinary times, but they are stretched at such emergencies.

Unexpectedly, when Shu Jing heard what Ping Peng said, he laughed instead, and the others also stared at Ping Peng with subtle expressions.

Jiuying sighed, and embraced Pingpeng's shoulder.

"You really don't have any self-awareness as a demon."

Ping Peng stared at him blankly.

Xu Ran: "Miss Boss, you have been brainwashed too seriously by the human society to abide by the law, right? You group of alien beasts, with the Nine Bosses alone, it is impossible for the kidnappers to really take advantage of you! He has to go to the designated place to get the money, right?" Well, if he dares to show up, the custodian will tell him to come out vertically or horizontally. Still want to get money? Whether you can live or not will have to be weighed."

Ping Pong's face was flushed. Like the armadillo, he was too accustomed to solving problems in this way of submission, and he was not as self-conscious as his boyfriend.

……

In "There Is a Story", Pepe is holding a stack of books and putting them back on the shelf one by one, while absently thinking about the group of people in the backyard, Xiao He happened to pass by her, so it was no surprise got caught.

"Hey sister Xiaohe, are those friends of the owner's brother?"

"Maybe." Whether they have friends or not, Xiao Hexin said that I don't know, and I don't have any friends myself.

Pepe nodded: "The owner's brother's friends are all handsome guys. But I haven't seen them contacted before."

It seems that she has forgotten a lot of things, she completely forgot that she had met Xu Ran, and she didn't remember that she and Xu Ran were fighting each other at that time, calling Xu Ran ugly.

Xiaohe really doesn't know why she doesn't keep in touch with her as a friend, she doesn't even know why people need to keep in touch with each other.

"Also, do you know what they are here for today? Look at their appearance, they are bitter and bitter, and they don't want to play with friends at all."

"I do not know."

Peipei rolled her eyes: "Sister Xiaohe, how long have you been in this store?"

"Fifty-eight years."

"It's been 9 or 10 years? Did the owner's brother adopt you?"

Peipei obviously misunderstood, and Xiaohe didn't explain much, but she thought carefully about the way they got along after Shu Jing arrived, and replied seriously: "I am raising him."

If you don't have your own care, how about Shu Jing, who has a ninth-level disability, can neither do business nor cook, and now still want to wear a white dress every day behind the desk and stage the quiet years?It's faster to dream.

Pepe also seemed to think of the idle Shu Jing I saw in the past few days, the Shu Jing who was sitting and waiting to be fed, and the Shu Jing who couldn't find anything. After a moment of silence, she patted Xiaohe's shoulder heavily: " It's really hard work for you."

***

Just after dinner the next day, it began to rain lightly again, lightly raining at dusk, thousands of households holding lamps, stars like dots of beans, rivers and rivers desolate, the darkness came a little early in the early summer night, Xiao He closed the door, but Shu Jing held up a black umbrella in the hand.

"Are you going out?" Xiaohe looked at Shu Jing and Tian Wang behind him.

"Well. You and Peipei take good care of the house, don't open the door to strangers, and don't let Youjie and Zhuqian go out to play when it's raining, go to bed early at night, and don't have to wait for us."

Pepe, who just washed the dishes, didn't have time to wipe her hands: "Ah? Ah? Are you going out? At this time?"

She seemed to be surprised, but Shu Jing felt that she was a little restrained and happy.Why was she so happy when he went out with her brother Tianwang?Shu Jing looked at Xiaohe strangely, and couldn't help but feel nervous for her little female ghost.

Tianwang said indifferently: "Don't wait for us." He pulled Shu Jing and went out.

Xiaohe was not curious about where they were going, but Peipei enthusiastically sent them to the door: "Then be gentle when you come back, don't disturb me to sleep."

"Why did you go to bed so early today?" Xiaohe felt that this was not like Pepe's night owl style.

"I just said casually, who knows when they will come back. Are they going to find those people from yesterday?"

"It should be, isn't it." Xiaohe is not sure, Xu Ran, Jiuying and the others have come to the door before, Shu Jing has always been a dead house who does not leave the door, and is more persistent than her earth-bound spirit. position.

Pepe nodded.

"What's the matter with you?" Xiaohe thought there was an arrangement.

"No, I'm going to take out the trash!"

"It's raining, let's throw it away tomorrow."

But Pepe had already picked up her umbrella and things, and ran away in a hurry.

Shu Jing and Tianwang went to the road mentioned in the kidnapping letter, first met Jiuying and Pingpeng, and half an hour later, Armadillo arrived with a computer bag.

His face was even uglier. Although his eyes were not so red because the sun went down, the dark circles under his eyes could reach to the center of the earth, and his clothes were still the same as yesterday, wrinkled as if he was wrapped in a layer of seaweed. It seemed that he hadn't seen it for a few days. sleep.

Ping Peng was very worried about him. Seeing his old friend like this, his heart was sour. He really couldn't figure it out. How can I face this kind of thing when I live my life carefully every step of the way.

Armadillo still cheered up to comfort him: "As long as you bring Tianyou back today, everything will be fine."

"Well, it will. God will definitely return to you intact."

Jiuying looked at his watch, and the kidnappers told Armadillo to put the money in the second trash can on the road from west to east at 09:30, and then went to the convenience store next to him to wait for the phone call. It was still before the appointed time less than half an hour.

This road is neither big nor small. It is located in the northwest corner of the old city, and there are several commercial streets nearby. It was developed 30 or [-] years ago, but because of poor planning, poor management, and luxury buildings that have sprung up like mushrooms in the past two years. The glamorous shopping mall has gradually faded away from people's business, and has become a wholesale gathering place for small commodities. At night, it is empty, and there are not many street snacks.The signboards of small private hotels along the street and "supermarkets" not much bigger than convenience stores are covered with scars of disrepair.

Five people stood with umbrellas at an intersection where the agreed trash can could be seen. Tianwang and Jiuying's eyes seemed to be scanning radar in the dark, scanning the few passers-by until they could not see them.

The closer to the appointed time, the more Armadillo can't restrain his nervousness. The computer bag contains all his savings, which is exactly 5 yuan. He doesn't care about money. Alien beasts' desire for money is far less strong than that of humans, but He was very afraid that his adopted son would be harmed in this process, or earlier, Tianyou had been kidnapped for so many days, he might have been brutally abused long ago.He was afraid of seeing any wounds on that child, and he didn't dare to think about what unbearable results were caused by his irresponsibility and disregard for God's blessing.

Holding the cold hand of his friend in the summer night, Ping Peng asked Jiu Ying softly, "Did you find anything?"

Jiuying shook his head, then looked at Tianwang again.

Tianwang frowned: "No, although there are not many people on the street, the smell left during the day is very complicated, and Qiu Tianyou is a child, the smell is already weak, and there is no clue at all."

Time unknowingly came to 09:30.

Armadillo took a deep breath, left the four of them, and walked to the trash can alone.

His back in the dark rainy night is reminiscent of a rickety old man who picks up waste, holding his "tools" in his hand. Maybe he can't get a better life, but he can get back all the hope that supports him to continue walking.

The gray street lamp hung above his head, and the armadillo couldn't help but stop, staring at the tiny light, feeling a little dizzy for a moment, saw himself hugging ten-year-old Qiu Tianyou in the dazzling light, and asked him Will you want to find your biological parents?

"What do you want them to do? They made a mistake, and they are determined to write off the mistake. Then whether the things they throw away in the future go to the garbage dump or be used for waste, it has nothing to do with them."

Relatives are not equal to family members, nor are they equated with family affection.

The concept of race in the demon world is strong, and one family is one family, which cannot be separated, so he forgot that what Qiu Tianyou said when he was ten years old was actually this precocious and indifferent child acting like a baby in his own way, and his world will never be separated. Only the armadillo, no matter whether the armadillo is a "garbage dump" or a "recycling plant", where he lives is his home.

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