Wanderer

From the corner of Wen Hai's eyes, he caught a glimpse of the child who was chatting and laughing with him just now, and suddenly lowered his head in dejection, and he probably knew what that person was thinking about.When he stopped at the door of the house, he took out the keys and said casually: "Your brother called at noon today and said he would be back on October [-]th."

"Yeah." Bai Yunqi nodded, "Then I..."

"Actually, if you want me to tell you that you don't need to move." Wen Hai interrupted him indiscriminately, "It's quite troublesome to move back and forth."

He turned sideways to open the door and let Bai Yunqi go in first. Bai Yunqi walked in front with a calm expression on his face, and he had already opened a textile shop in his heart. Wen Hai's joke became a spool, tangling those thousands of thoughts. Tangled together, it became a mess of threads that no cat would care about.

"Xiao Qi." Wen Hai stopped him from behind.

Bai Yunqi woke up suddenly, fearing that Wen Hai would see something, he turned his head in shock, "What's wrong?"

Wen Hai held up the shoulder bag with a helpless expression: "Hurry up and take your murder weapon away from me."

"..."

After watching the child walk into the study, Wen Haiku sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette, took a few deep breaths and then fell down.He suffered from migraine headaches in his early years, and the relief effect of painkillers was not enough, so he could only resist with gritted teeth.

It wasn't just a migraine. The reason he was transferred to the criminal investigation team was "too seriously injured", which was arranged by his grandfather who hadn't retired yet.At that time, when their anti-drug team was visiting local tea farmers, they met a group of drug dealers unexpectedly in a ravine. Both sides were unprepared, and the other party didn't give them any time to react. Most of the people dispersed quickly. In the middle of the mountain, a few children who could not reach Wen Hai's chest were pushed in front of them, and they were strapped with soil bombs/bombs that had already been ignited.

During the time when he was lying in the ICU, Wen Hai recalled in agony all over his body when he was awake, how he ran so far in just a few seconds.

In fact, he couldn't remember anything, he just remembered that someone pushed him from behind and shouted "Run", and there was a scorching and destructive force behind him, faintly accompanied by crazy screams and cries.He quickly kicked a colleague who was stunned on the spot a few meters away. In a daze, something hit his head, and someone's blood flowed all over his face. Everything he saw was a blur of blood. He looked down numbly. After a glance, a piece of arm fell to his feet, maybe a few seconds or a few years later, half of his head also rolled over - it was his familiar face.

Then there was another bang.

The earth bombs/bombs were powerful but did not affect a wide area. Only two people who were hugged tightly by children and couldn't get away left themselves scattered there. Wen Hai and the other two who were standing relatively close were The shock injured the internal organs, and was swept down the ravine by the second explosion. Thanks to the person who was kicked by Wen Hai, he hid behind a rock to avoid most of the impact, and rushed down the mountain covered in blood to find backup. .

He was lying in the ICU waiting to die. People on the left and right sides were pushed out with white cloths, and he was the only one who was still dying. He couldn’t pull out the breathing tube, so he could only live on his last breath. Most of the lives that were blown away were continued.

Everyone knows that the one who survives is the most painful, but they feel that it is always good to survive. Sometimes the treatment of life and death is so random that the person concerned has no right to speak at all.

Wen Hai fell asleep on the couch in the office today, and had a dream. He couldn't remember what was in the dream, he just felt cold, but when he woke up, it was even colder, his hands and feet were numb and cold, the air was cold, and he Just like when he was lying in the ICU waiting to die, the coldness lingered in his veins, but even the coldness was alone.

So let Bai Yunqi stay, Wen Hai is selfish, he is born to be insatiable, he wants to get closer to the fire, he can't do the thing of moths to the fire, but there is a big problem Small worries make him live with some hope, after all, it is good, even if it is only for a while.

It doesn't matter, people live only for a while.

"But does he want to live with me?" Wen Hai is self-aware, he is not someone who can live with others, no one wants to live with someone like him, he and himself are almost unable to live.

The more he thought about it, the more disappointed he became. He simply stopped thinking about it. He extinguished the half-burned cigarette with his fingertips, pressed a book to his face, and closed his eyes in the throbbing pain of his temples. It's still cold, and the coldness is still alone.

Wen Hai over there fell asleep lying on the sofa, and Bai Yunqi here fell asleep lying on the desk.

Bai Yunqi has never had bizarre dreams. His dream is always a documentary that is faithful to reality. The director and screenwriter are never insensitive, and the actors are always sincere.

In the dream, he went back to his grandma's house. At that time, his mother stuffed him, who was less than two years old, into the dilapidated tube building. He didn't say what he was going to do. Maybe he went to find Bokang, or maybe he went to find other men. Yes, in the end she didn't tell Bai Yunqi what happened in those 16 years.Now she has become a "professional mistress", surrounded by four or five big bosses, who are willing to spend money to support her. The stupid girl he gave birth to.

The child had no memory before the age of three. Before seeing the real person, Bai Yunqi’s only impression of that woman was the group photo placed on his grandma’s bedside. In the photo, there was a sixteen-year-old girl standing next to the grandma who had no gray hair. , the two look very similar and beautiful, but they are both gaudy and smoky.

One year and two years, three years passed and the fourth year passed, the outside world was full of colors, the woman was a butterfly who was greedy for peonies and roses, and she had no time to care about her old mother and son living in that musty little corner.

Bai Yunqi's grandmother was a pretty widow when she was young, and opened a sewing shop with a half-dead business. "Orphans and widows" went from house to house to make a living. In the new society, people are not dragged into a pigsty.Now there is a crying child beside Pingbai, all kinds of unsavory scandals spread to four apartment buildings in two hours, and occupied the entire street in one day.

The malicious person smiled and handed Bai Yunqi a candy, and asked softly, "Is that your mother? Who is your father?"

The man pointed, and there was a row of shirtless smoking men squatting in the corner. Hearing those words, some spit at Bai Yunqi, and some smiled lewdly.

Grandma is a good grandma, who can use her daughter's time and amount of remittances to raise a grandson whose origin is unknown. She dares to fight all directions by herself, and uses her tongue and rolling pin to drive away most of the world's malice.But she almost never talked to Bo Yunqi. The closest contact was when Bo Yunqi heard the rumors about his mother and burst into tears when he was a child, he gently touched his forehead and said softly: "You Don't be like her in the future.

The muttering was so low that Bai Yunqi could barely hear it amidst his own crying and tinnitus.

With tears in his eyes, he saw the gaze of his grandmother looking at him. There was no love, only disappointment and disappointment. After growing up, Bai Yunqi understood the meaning of that gaze—her only daughter was destined to have a messy and defeated life. , and I am the most colorful stroke in that failed life.

He lived in the belly of that woman he had never met for ten months, and everything belonged to her. He was a piece of flesh that fell from her body, and her blood was filled with her filth and dilapidation.

That piece of meat has no choice, life is hers, death is also hers, his life and death are the likes and dislikes of the two silly women wanton.

This dream ended in that sad look. Bai Yunqi woke up in front of the desk. There was a fire burning in his chest. He raised his hand to touch it, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. More than half wet.

Is this my sweat or my saliva?He thought, he couldn't be crying, could he?

He got up to fetch the water, and tiptoed towards the water dispenser with the cup in hand. Suddenly, he saw Wen Hai lying on the sofa. The man's face was covered with a book with an enigmatic title, and he seemed to be in a deep sleep. It's just that the posture has already predicted the ending of this stiff neck tomorrow morning.

"Brother Wen." Bai Yunqi called out cautiously, "Brother Wen..."

"Huh?" Wen Hai sat up reflexively, and the book covering his face hit the ground heavily, "Is there a case?"

Bai Yunqi stood there stupidly, not knowing how to answer the conversation.

Wen Hai woke up after two or three seconds, yawned, picked up the book on the floor, and laughed at himself: "I'm so tired and dizzy, I dream of handling cases in my dreams... It's almost twelve o'clock, why don't you go to sleep?"

"I..." Bai Yunqi didn't dare to say that he fell asleep with the text on his back, "I'm short of a set of papers."

"I won't do it. What time is it? It's not too late to work hard. Hurry up and sleep." Wen Hai walked to the bedroom with a book, raised his hand and rubbed the back of his head, "Little brat, there is still hope at your age." Long, make sure you sleep."

This "little brat" gave Bai Yunqi great courage. The belated rebellion and willfulness suddenly swallowed up all his docility and reason. The voice squeezed out of his throat uncontrollably, and his tongue and lips began Unmanned driving mode, the sentence he repeated dozens of times in his heart, now he blurted out without thinking: "Brother Wen, I—"

"Huh?" Wen Hai put one hand on the doorknob of the bedroom, and turned to look at him, "What's wrong?"

"I, I want to still live with you, I..." Bai Yunqi panicked and began to make excuses, "Brother Tong'an just married Sister Xiaoxin...I don't go too much..."

Wen Hai looked at him without saying a word, neither nodding his head in agreement nor slamming the door to chase him away.

Bai Yunqi began to regret the impulsiveness just now, compromised and whispered aggrievedly: "I won't cause you any trouble."

"Okay, you can live if you want, that's the old rule, I'll take you to buy daily necessities on November [-]." Wen Hai nodded indifferently, "I'll tell you about your brother's place, so you don't have to listen to him nagging .”

Bai Yunqi was stunned, he didn't expect this matter to be revealed so easily.

Wen Hai waited for a few seconds: "What else?"

"No, no more." Bai Yunqi came back to his senses and blinked a few times quickly.

"Then... good night?" Wen Hai looked at the other person's face, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay!" Bai Yunqi's internal organs seemed to be tangled together, his muscles were tense, "Go to bed early, good night!"

Seeing Bai Yunqi rushing back to the study at the speed of fleeing, Wen Hai smiled inexplicably, the furry feeling from when he rubbed the back of the boy's head was still left on his hand, rubbed his fingers, and muttered: "Little brat. "

What he said, Wen Hai took the time to call Bai Tongan at noon the next day, and as expected, he was blocked by the chattering in both ears, and he was treated as a grandson for life.

Bai Tong'an, on the other end of the phone, laughed until his front teeth fell out: "Don't stick to your revolutionary position? My younger brother is not bad, why don't you recognize your side as a son."

Wen Hai held the mobile phone in one hand and took the photos of the scene in the other. Compared with the surveillance video, he shouted at Chai Fanwen: "Where did the close-up of the corpse go? Let me see it."

"...Brother, your brother and I just opened the takeaway, can we say something nice?"

"What happened to the foreign body found in the large intestine? What about Director Qi's autopsy report?" Wen Hai was so busy that he took the time to ask, "What did you just say?"

"..."

"Okay, it's not convenient for you and Xiaoxin to bring such a big boy, so it's good to let me stay here." Wen Hai has a pile of documents spread out on his desk, and he has no time to chat with Bai Tong, "I'm eleven Take him to buy something, you can do your business, and we will have another meal when you find time."

"That's fine. I don't think the kid feels comfortable living in my house. If he doesn't want to leave, he can stay with you." Bai Tong'an hesitated for a few seconds, and asked uncertainly, "Are you all right here? Don't add trouble to you." trouble."

"What's the trouble with me? Your brother is almost twenty, and he's not an ignorant kid."

"Then I'll transfer his living expenses to your card..."

"Get lost." Wen Hai took the autopsy report from Chai Fanwen, "The money in my card is not all yours."

What he said is well-founded. When Bai Tongan was studying in graduate school, he caught up with the wave of entrepreneurship. His undergraduate degree was software engineering, and his postgraduate career was transferred to business management because of his interest. Undergraduate students, at the right time and place, followed by the sea.

At that time, Wen Hai spent almost no money in the closed police academy, and gave subsidies every month. Before Bai Tongan found a serious angel investment, the living expenses and subsidies accumulated in those years Both the scholarship and the scholarship were invested in the past and he was tossing around. Later, when calculating the shares, the two argued for a long time. Bai Tongan adhered to the principle of "brothers settle accounts clearly", and insisted on giving Wenhai a dividend every year, and there was his own first share. In the bank card——As a man with sentiments, he thinks this card that has accepted the transfer of Wen Hai's entire wealth is very commemorative

"Tell me what's going on in Bai Yunqi's house." Wen Hai didn't wait for Bai Tong'an to refute, and changed the topic first.

"Xiaoqi was brought up by his grandma," Bai Tong'an said in a low voice, "I didn't tell you that time, the fire in Xiaoqi's grandma's house was lit by his grandma himself, so it's suicide... I didn't know until now Before his grandma died, she had advanced breast cancer, and she had no money to treat her, so she kept procrastinating, and I didn’t know that Xiao Qi was clear about it, so don’t tell him in front of him.”

Wen Hai got up and walked to a place where no one was around: "When did this happen?"

"The day Xiaoqi finished the college entrance examination." Bai Tong'an said, "I heard from neighbors that when Xiaoqi came back from the examination room, the fire had just been extinguished, and the child stood there almost all night, and was finally taken away by the police station to contact his family... ... His mother thought that his grandma had died of illness, and when she saw Xiao Qi, she dragged her over to ask Bokang for money... You don't know what kind of mess my house has been in those few days, every day is eight o'clock, listen It is said that Bai Kang’s other lovers are still making trouble now, and a few days ago they made trouble at the door of Bai Kang’s house, and it was passed around as a joke in the circle.”

"Where the hell is he now?"

"Took Bokang's 50 yuan and ran away. She threw Xiaoqi at the door of Bokang's house. Bokang refused to let him in. It was the old man who brought him home."

"..."

Amid all the sympathy, Wen Hai felt a little rejoicing—fortunately, Bai Yunqi was not entrusted to his parents to raise him. This level of lack of heart and conscience may not be able to support this child.

After hanging up the phone, Wen Hai took advantage of his lunch break to check his mailbox.Previously, Bai Yunqi could pass more than 80 papers in the physical examination in class, and the result of the opening test was a horrible report card. He felt that there was something strange about this, so he asked Bai Tong'an to look for Bai Yunqi's previous report card.Bai Tong'an was careful, and decided to ask Bai Yunqi to collect all his high school transcripts for the previous three years when he decided to repeat his studies. He quickly compiled the yearbook and sent it to Wen Hai.

After reading the five report cards, Wen Hai pulled the excel sheet and did a data analysis.Staring at the data analysis chart, he hesitated for a while, took out his mobile phone and dialed Wu Guangming's number: "Hi, Teacher Wu, it's me Wenhai... Are you busy now? I want to talk to you about Bo Yunqi..."

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