winter past

Xiaoman caught a cold, her nose was very stuffy, and she kept running out of her nose. She always felt out of breath indoors, and her head felt dizzy for a while.It was dawn, and he got up and went to open the windows in the ballroom, but he still felt that it was not ventilated. Although it was still early, the sun was already very hot, and the humidity in the air was very high, so it was even more uncomfortable to open the windows. He closed the windows again, took a box of tissues to hug, and turned on the air conditioner.

Yin Miaozai said: "You call it a hot cold." She asked him, "Is it still not enough sleep?"

She got up earlier than Xiaoman, had already gone downstairs, bought a lot and came back early, filled the table with tea eggs, pancakes, steamed brown sugar cakes, rice dumplings, and soy milk on the bar counter.

Xiaoman walked to the bar, blew his nose and said, "It's probably because I was greedy for coolness, and blown on the electric fan all night to make me sick."

Yin Miaozai nodded in agreement, she was concentrating on tearing apart the rice dumplings with scissors, she pouted her chin behind her, and said, "I went to call Lu Yang."

Sitting on a high bar stool, Xiaoman looked down at his right hand, the pinch on his palm had formed several short, brown lines.Xiaoman clenched his fist, it didn't hurt at all.He took two tissues to cover his nose, and yawned moderately.

Yin Miaozai took out a meat dumpling, put it in a glass dish, and said: "When I got up, the handkerchief fell on the floor. You fell asleep. I guess you didn't sleep for long. I don't want to wake you up. I washed it for you and hung it in the bathroom upstairs."

Seeing the big meat dumpling with thick oil and red sauce, Xiao Man gave a sore belch, rubbed his temples, walked into the bar, and said, "I'm going to wash my face and brush my teeth."

Yin Miaozai unpacked another red bean dumpling. She rolled up the glutinous rice-stained dumpling leaves, lowered her head, cleaned up the cotton thread that fell into the sink, and said softly, "Have you met Zhao You?"

"I happened to meet you on the road." Xiaoman looked at her and forced a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't tell you about your stay here."

"Which road? Around the Yaochi Lake?" Yin Miaozai had many raised forehead lines on his forehead, "He won't come here to watch, he won't know I'm here..."

Xiaoman patted her: "I think he is most afraid of being followed, he can't sit still."

Yin Miaozai clicked her tongue, still worried: "You don't know him, he is very cunning, he only shows you the side he wants to show you."

"Wow, he is so changeable?" Xiao Man walked up the stairs, Yin Miaozai called him twice, and told him: "You call Lu Yang again, or you will be late."

She added: "Anyway, if you meet again next time, you'd better not say a word to him, so as not to be tricked by him, and he will find it weird."

Xiao Man responded with a smile, turned her head and saluted her, then turned and went upstairs.When he got upstairs, he knocked on Lu Yang's door first, and Lu Yang lazily replied in the room: "Got it, got it, get up, get up."

Xiaoman pointed to the bathroom and said, "I'm going to take a shower now, wash my face and brush my teeth, and when I'm done, if you haven't woken up yet, you can pick up your mother by yourself tomorrow."

Lu Yang fell silent.Xiaoman patted the door panel again: "Get up quickly, Teacher Yin bought a lot of delicious food!"

"Anyway, Teacher Yin will send us there tomorrow..." Lu Yang yawned, and he asked him, "What's wrong with your voice? Have you caught a cold?"

Xiao Man walked away from the door with a wry smile and got into the bathroom.The cold was really severe. He felt hot and shivered from time to time. He felt cold. After taking a hot bath, his head became more dizzy and his tinnitus was severe. After washing his face reluctantly, he leaned against the wall and went back to his room , drank a large glass of absinthe to feel better.Just as he was biting his toothbrush and looking for clothes in front of the hanger, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door, which seemed to belong to two people. A man and a woman—at least one weighs less and one weighs more.

The sound of chaotic footsteps stopped in front of his door.Then Yin Miaozai's voice sounded: "Lawyer Zhang, please wait below, it's not appropriate to just enter the room like this."

Her tone was anxious.

"Ma'am, this matter has nothing to do with you." A man said sternly—his voice was very close to the door.

Xiaoman recognized the voice of "Lawyer Zhang" immediately. This was Zhang Huifen's lawyer, also surnamed Zhang, whose nickname was Zhang Qiao.Xiao Man rinsed his mouth, wiped his mouth, quickly put on a shirt, grabbed the suit pants, tucked the hem of the shirt into the waistband of his trousers, put on a belt, and opened the door for Zhang Qiao.Zhang Qiao was holding a briefcase in his hand. When Xiao Man saw him, he smiled all over his face: "Lawyer Zhang, hello, hello, please come in, please come in, come in and sit down."

Yin Miaozai stood behind Zhang Qiao, with a long face, not convinced.

Xiao Man hurriedly said to her: "It's okay, it's okay, Lawyer Zhang should come to discuss some procedures with me tomorrow." He smiled and invited Zhang Qiao into the room, "Isn't it?"

Yin Miaozai also wanted to come in, Zhang Qiao turned his head, looked at Yin Miaozai, and said in a cold voice, "This involves my client's privacy."

"Then call me if you have anything." Yin Miaozai looked at Xiaoman, plausibly saying: "You have established an actual labor relationship with the boss here, and the lawyer can't just drive you away. You can call the police."

Xiao Man nodded with a smile, Yin Miaozai closed the door for them, hearing her footsteps, she probably went downstairs.Xiao Man asked Zhang Qiao, "Drink something?"

He opened the refrigerator and looked for it. Except for spirits, there was beer in the refrigerator. Xiao Man turned around and smiled with Zhang Qiao: "Why don't we go downstairs and have some breakfast?"

Zhang Qiao stood there without moving, and his eyes didn't seem to move away from him for a moment.He asked: "Is that woman the girlfriend you and Sister Zhang said you had?"

"Ah? Ah..." Xiaoman responded vaguely, turned on the electric fan, and a gust of hot air entered his nose. He sneezed twice in a row, and hurriedly found a towel to cover his nose and wipe his nose.The tinnitus started again, and Xiao Man stood leaning against the wall.

Zhang Qiao spoke, and his voice sounded like it came from a valley far away.It took Xiaoman a while to understand what he was asking.He asked him, "You don't have air conditioning here?"

Xiao Man hurriedly raised his head to look at Zhang Qiao with a smile, pointed to the next door and said, "There are children in Lu Yang's room, no matter how hard it is, you can't suffer children, right?"

Xiaoman sneezed again, and now tears came out. He wiped his eyes, glanced at the mattress on the floor, and said, "Otherwise, let's go down and talk, there is still a place to sit..."

"It's so hot," Zhang Qiao walked up to him, opened the window, stood at the window and fanned it with his hands, and said, "It's suffocating."

There is only hot, humid, heavy air outside the window.The swaying electric fan blows in a cloud of hot air from outside, and the hot air suddenly becomes an invisible, hot ball, bouncing randomly on the ceiling, the floor, and the walls.Xiaoman was hit by the hot air ball several times, rubbing his nose dizzily, his eyesight and hearing were a little blurred, seeing Zhang Qiao's mouth started to move, he hurriedly pricked up his ears, carefully catching what he said every word of .

"Actually, it involves your privacy." Zhang Qiao took out an envelope from his briefcase and handed it to Xiaoman, "I don't know what you and that woman said, and I don't know if she is your invitation The actor who came, anyway..."

Xiaoman pondered for a long time before he understood what he meant. He reached out and took the envelope, weighed it, and it was quite heavy. He said with a playful smile, "The severance pay that Sister Huifen gave me? Where did she get so much money?"

Xiaoman went to rub the towel, and wiped his face by the way.Zhang Qiao started talking again, Xiao Man quickly turned around and stared at his mouth.There is only a buzzing sound in his ears now, and Zhang Qiao's voice is very weak. He has to judge the content of his speech by distinguishing the shape of his lips.

"Sister Huifen called me yesterday, so I asked someone to check it. Sister Huifen knows that you have been with the child for so many years. It is normal for the child to have feelings for you, but I think so, this child You'd better not take it with you."

Xiaoman "read" word by word and understood.He wiped his face again and said, "Sorry, I have a cold, so my reaction is a bit slow."

Zhang Qiao pointed to the envelope at him.Xiaoman said, "You want me to open it and take a look?"

Zhang Qiao nodded with a dignified expression, Xiaoman shook his head with a smile, sniffed his nose, the tinnitus suddenly disappeared, Xiaoman threw the envelope on the bed: "Is it a photo or a room opening record?"

"You are quite famous in the small circle." Zhang Qiao said, "If you really continue to take care of your children, think about your status, your hobbies, and if you really compete with Sister Huifen for the custody, the police station will give you the custody of the child." Do you issue a certificate? How will the court judge?"

Xiaoman touched his ears and said, "Lu Yang's grades are so good, she wants to take him back to his hometown to learn how to repair cars." He smiled, and the tinnitus tended to return, so he immediately shook his head, sniffed hard, and suppressed the tinnitus , He looked at Zhang Qiao and said: "I don't look down on car repairers. It is possible to make a lot of money and enjoy great blessings in car repairs, but the child is already a sophomore in high school, and he will be in his third year after the summer vacation. At least let him take the college entrance examination... It doesn’t really matter if you don’t bring it or not. I don’t want to fight for it. I just think that the child’s grades are so good and the school is so good. Years, just one more year..."

Zhang Qiao sighed and said, "Actually, I understand your thoughts very well. I have also persuaded Sister Huifen, but you also know her situation. Once she came out, those cronies and dog friends would stop looking for her? She was afraid that she would not be able to control her. and fell into the hands of drugs again, and the prince and his gang have already come out. Although their power is not as good as before, and they couldn't kill her in the women's prison, but you think she came out, she was in the youth Will the city have a good time?"

Xiaoman put his hands on the side of the sink, looked at Zhang Qiao: "But the college entrance examination..." He coughed, his stomach felt a little uncomfortable, and he wanted to vomit.He turned around and scrubbed the towel, wiping his face continuously.He thought of another idea: "Why don't you let Lu Yang go to the dormitory? I'll go and beg their school to squeeze him out of a dormitory bed?"

Zhang Qiao said, "Let's leave it like this..." and walked towards the door.

Xiaoman strode over, grabbed Zhang Qiao, and said kindly: "Brother Qiao, Lawyer Zhang, I really think the child has to go to the exam, why don't you persuade sister Huifen again? This is also for the future of the child. Ah, you should ask Lu Yang what he means, the child is getting older, so you should respect his wishes, right?"

Zhang Qiao looked at Xiaoman and said, "Xiaoman, let me ask you, do you really want Lu Yang to stay because of his future?"

"Of course it is!"

Zhang Qiao pulled out the hand that was grabbed by Xiaoman, with a cold face: "I talked with your psychiatrist on the phone, Chen Wan'er from Hongfeng, you haven't reported to her for a long time, right?"

"I don't need to take medicine now, I'm fine now." Xiaoman wiped his nose with a smile: "I just caught a cold today..."

He felt that the tinnitus was coming again, and he shook his head again, but he couldn't suppress it anymore, and he heard a buzzing sound, and he couldn't hear Zhang Qiao's voice at all.He saw his lips move up and down.He read his lips.

"Of course you are fine now. Five years ago, she suggested that you find an object for your emotions. She suggested that you consider keeping pets, whether it is fish, cats, or dogs. She said that it might be good for you. It was helpful. Exactly five years ago, Sister Huifen found you. At that time, she was desperate and planned to cooperate with the police and become a tainted witness. She thought that you helped her once in Yunnan, and thought that you were a policeman before. The prince's people should I dare not do anything to you, I should be able to protect her child, so please take care of Lu Yang.

"Did you treat Lu Yang as a pet? You don't want to sink in the water, you can catch whatever you catch."

Tread.

Xiaoman vaguely heard these two sounds coming from outside the door, like footsteps.His eyelids fluttered, and he hurriedly opened the door, only to see a figure in school uniform flashing past the corner of the downward stairs.

Zhang Qiao came out of his room and said: "You can live in the house. Sister Xu told me that if you have no place to live, you can continue to live here. You know, this dance hall is waiting for Sister Huifen to come out." Pass it on to her."

Xiao Man pushed Zhang Qiao away and ran downstairs, the figure in school uniform passed through the gate of the ballroom.Xiao Man chased him out and shouted, "Lu Yang, where are you going?"

"Go to school!" Lu Yang replied without turning his head, and ran towards the bus platform.

"Come back after school! Don't run around outside!" Xiao Man leaned over to look at him, and the hot air outside made him sneeze several times.

Zhang Qiao came out of the ballroom at this time, nodded with Xiaoman and left.Yin Miaozai also came down, stood on the second flight of stairs, looked at Xiaoman, and asked him, "Are you all right? Do you want to find a lawyer?"

Xiaoman leaned against the door frame, with tears and snot running down his nose, Yin Miaozai stuffed him with a tissue, Xiaoman tidied up in embarrassment, looked at her mouth, pointed to his ears and said: "Some tinnitus, it's okay..."

When he turned to go upstairs, two sharp horns sounded suddenly outside the door.Yin Miaozai pointed out: "Dai Rou's car."

Xiao Man looked out and saw that Dai Rou's car was parked on the side of the road at the door. Dai Rou lowered the window and motioned for him to get in the car.Xiao Man scratched her hair with a smile, and sighed: "I found out, whenever someone wants to find me, they like to pick the same time to find me."

He felt stuffy, pulled his collar and panted heavily with his mouth open.

Dai Rou tilted her body, waved her hands outside, and said, "Mr. Yin, are you passing by again?"

Yin Miaozai shivered, walked out of the ballroom with a dry smile, and said to Dai Ju: "Yes, yes, I will make up early lessons for Lu Yang." She pointed to the upstairs, "I will go up and get my bag and leave. I will leave now. There is something else." She turned around and gave Xiaoman a wink: "What time does Lu Yang leave school today? To pick up his mother tomorrow, do you want to prepare something? I'll pick him up for you. See if you want to buy something on the way. I happen to be going to the hospital to report today, so I’m on my way.”

After finishing speaking, she entered the door and went back upstairs. After a while, she came down with her big bag on her back, said goodbye to Xiao Man and Dai Ju, and left.

Xiaoman said, "I'll lock the door and get my phone."

He went upstairs to get his cell phone, locked the door, pasted a closing notice on the door, and got into Dai Rou's car.He buckled up his seat belt and said, "Let's go."

"where to?"

"Go to the city bureau to make a statement, didn't you come here for this?" Xiaoman tried to breathe through his nose, but his nose was more blocked than before, so he had to take two mouthfuls of air.

Dai Rou lit a cigarette, and Xiao Man said, "Open the window."

Dai Rou took a puff of cigarette and started the engine. She said, "Yesterday someone went to the Heping Street Police Station to ask Sun Yuncheng to transfer your previous case."

"Huh? Who is so gossip?"

"Zhao You."

Xiaoman sat on the chair with a headache, sucked his nose, and said in a nasal voice: "I saw him yesterday, and he didn't tell me."

"I took a trip to the Aegean Sea, and Zhao You also asked Qian Haoyang a lot of things, saying that he was an Internet celebrity incubator, wanted to rent a venue, and went to see 404."

Xiaoman hugged his arms tightly: "Internet celebrity hatch? He can make up..." He sneezed.

Dai Rou took a look at him and said, "When he tells you this, when he comes to ask you, he will probably be interrogating you."

Xiaoman also lit a cigarette: "Isn't my business over long ago? Hasn't the inspector already reached a conclusion? What does he want to do?"

"Didn't I tell you that I seldom interact with him?"

"I'm not in contact with him, where are we going?" Xiaoman asked impatiently, covering his forehead with a splitting headache.

"You know a mobile app called 'You Date'?"

"Dating software, the banner played by the developer is absolute confidentiality, you can send videos and messages, users can also choose the 'burn after reading' mode, the information will be automatically deleted after reading, and the user information is absolutely confidential, even if you enter the developer The backend server of the website can't see the user's ip address and other information. Later, it developed into dating software. Later, some people called black cars on it, prostituting, selling drugs, making appointments and making live broadcasts, and they were taken off the shelf. However, It seems to work on the phone."

"Didn't Qian Haoyang say that during the week from the 2nd to the 9th, no one had booked 404 or opened the door of the room? We watched the surveillance he gave. At 6 o'clock in the morning on June 5th, a young man The man checked into room 302 with a golf bag when he checked in, this man took the key to room 302, went directly to room 404, and picked the lock to enter the room, all of which were captured by surveillance cameras.”

"Qian Haoyang didn't tell you about this? It's impossible for him to stare at the monitor all day and not see it?"

"Qian Haoyang said he didn't notice, that he might have had breakfast at that time."

"Isn't he still attacking Brother Dao?" Xiao Man asked Dai Rou: "Did you catch the man with the golf bag?"

"Catched ashore this morning."

"shore?"

"This person often takes orders on Youdate, transports drugs, delivers medicines, picks up corpses and broadcasts live, and does everything. According to him, he is asked to go to the Lost and Found Center of Sun Village Golf and Country Club at 6:5 am on June 7th. Get a golf bag, take it to Aegean Hotel 404, and arrange the contents on the bed according to the attached drawings. He said that the other party said that those are shooting props, and they are doing restricted-level webcasts, so he When I saw the women and children inside, I thought they were just dolls, but I didn’t expect them to be real people.”

"It does not have any taste?"

"There was a sour smell, he didn't think much about it. The other party paid with bitcoins, and that person found an underground exchange to exchange, and took the money and went to the high seas to gamble. We tracked him based on the face captured by the surveillance .”

While speaking, the car arrived in front of Hongfeng Hospital.Dai Rou found a parking space and stopped the car, called Xiaoman to get off the car, and said, "I'll take you in."

"It's inappropriate for you to reveal so much to me, isn't it?" Xiaoman said, still blowing his nose while sitting in the car, "My tinnitus is so severe, I'll go to the hospital for emergency treatment first."

Dai Rou looked at him: "It's better than if you tried to trick Zhao You and ended up being tricked by him?" She said, "I just want to tell you that this time this person's crime characteristics are very different from Lin Midong's, don't you think too much."

Xiaoman swears: "I didn't try to trick him, I know he's not in your task force."

Dai Rou still looked at him, Xiaoman got out of the car, and the two walked into Hongfeng. When they were walking on a bamboo forest path, Dai Rou said: "He is a bit stubborn when it comes to cases, he thinks it's unreasonable." Things, things that he can't figure out, he will desperately try to figure out."

"Let's go to the Municipal Bureau to record a statement." Xiaoman said, and he was about to turn around.

Dai Rou grabbed his arm and almost dragged him into the building of the inpatient department of Hongfeng Hospital.

"I have a really bad cold." Xiaoman said while sniffling in the elevator, "You'd better stay away from me, and be careful that I will infect you."

There were only the two of them in the elevator, and Dai Rou and Xiaoman stayed very close without saying a word.Xiaoman added: "When the body is weak, the spirit will also become fragile, and it is easy to collapse. It is not suitable to see a psychologist."

The elevator reached the third floor, the door opened, and Dai Rou pushed Xiaoman out.Xiaoman lowered his head, muttering: "My head is so heavy."

He dragged the soles of his shoes and walked forward slowly. Dai Rou came to pull him again and dragged him away. After a while, she stopped. Xiao Man saw that they had stopped in front of Chen Wan'er's office.

Dai Rou said: "Tingting is going to the United States this summer to participate in some summer camp. She won't come to my place. If you don't have a place to live..."

Xiaoman interrupted her, and asked her with a blink of an eye: "Can I go buy some cold medicine first? The medicine for cold and heat, I have been sweating and feel very uncomfortable."

Tears came out of his eyes again, he shrank back, coughed and looked at Dai Rou.

Dai Rou said, "You go in first, and I'll go buy it."

She opened the door of Chen Wan'er's office, and Xiao Man looked in. The office was sunny, and Chen Wan'er was standing in front of a window in a white coat, looking at him with a smile.

Xiaoman shivered, turned back to look for Dai Rou, and said, "It seems to be a little cold again, it doesn't seem to be a cold..."

Dai Rou is gone.A nurse came and closed the door.Chen Wan'er signaled Xiao Man to follow her into the inner office.

Xiao Man lowered his head, randomly took a magazine from the bookshelf, and followed Chen Wan'er into the inner room.