Salvation and redemption

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Zhiji was taken aback when he heard the words, he only felt warm in his heart, but felt a dull pain for some reason, he raised his eyes to look at Okita, still chose to smile, then nodded to Okita and said, "Thank you, Okita doctor."

Okita looked at him, and Zhiji in front of him was standing in front of the floor lamp in the corner, maybe because of the backlight, his smile seemed a little unreal, he stared at Zhiji for a long time, and suddenly said, "Since it's at home, Don't call me a doctor."

Zhiji was taken aback, thought for a while, but didn't know how to call him better, that's what he called him when we first met, and he couldn't change his words for a while, seeing this, Chongtian said, "You can call me Yiguang after Shi Tao .”

Zhiji couldn't help asking, "Is it possible?"

Okita drank his beer and said, "Of course."

"Yiguang." Zhiji tried to call out, but felt weird, and always felt very uncomfortable, so he repeated several times, "Yiguang, Yiguang, Yiguang..."

Okita felt embarrassed when he was called out, and quickly interrupted him and asked, "Is your firework bulb ready?"

Zhiji shook his head and replied, "Not yet." After a pause, he asked, "By the way, are you really willing to go to the market with me on Friday?"

Okita nodded and said, "There are still three days until Friday, and I should be cured in three days, so naturally I have to go out for a walk."

"That's great, there's still a little more, I should be able to finish it if I catch up with work in the past two days." Zhiji said very happily.

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So counting from that night, for two consecutive days in the middle of the night, the lights in the living room were on, and Okita knew that Naoki was still rushing to work, and on the last night, Okita wanted to persuade Naoki not to rush so fast, even if it was too late to sell it at the market, They can also go to the market and go to the market. It is more important to go to bed early, but when he walked out of the bedroom, he saw Zhiji lying on the table, and the lamp in front of him was connected to the wire, and the tungsten filament was flickering Yes, Okita couldn't help turning off the headlights in the living room, and saw that in the dark living room, the lamp in front of Naoki was like fireworks blooming, the unassuming tungsten filaments changed their appearance in Naoki's hands, forming circles of light one after another , the aperture is small and delicate, layer upon layer, patchwork, just in this small space, it emits brilliance, as if it would appear in a fairy tale, it is amazingly beautiful.

And Zhiji's side face is next to this small but brilliant firework, his already beautiful silhouette is also reflected very movingly, almost complementing each other, when he closes his eyes, the long eyelashes cast a beautiful shadow, looking peaceful and tranquil.

Okita watched this scene quietly, and couldn't help being slightly lost in thought.

After a while, Okita tiptoed up to him, bent down and whispered to Zhiji, "Zhiji, Zhiji, go to sleep in the room."

"Zhi Ji...Zhi Ji..." The voice fluctuated from far away, but it was very familiar. To him, it seemed to be an extremely close person. It sounded like a female voice, but her face was quite blurry, and Zhi Ji couldn't see it at all. clear.

"Zhiji... Zhiji..."

……who is it?

Zhiji suddenly woke up and found himself lying on the bed in the bedroom.

He was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he lifted the quilt and got up and got out of bed.

He remembered that he accidentally fell asleep after finishing work last night, and the person who brought him back to his room should be Okita...

Naoki walked out of the bedroom and saw Okita's back in the kitchen.

"You're awake." Hearing footsteps, Okita turned around, he smiled at Naoki, and said, "I'm making breakfast, fried eggs and sliced ​​ham, what do you want to drink, coffee or milk?"

"I'll come." Zhi Ji hurried over and said.

"No, it's almost ready." Okita said.

"Then I'll go wash up first." Zhiji said to Tian, ​​and then added, "Milk is fine."

"it is good."

When Zhiji came out, the breakfast was already set on the dining table, and the lamp was also on the table. Zhiji sat down opposite Okita, picked up the milk cup, and asked Okita, "Do you think it looks good?"

Okita nodded and said affirmatively, "It looks great."

Naoki laughed heartily and started to eat breakfast.

While eating, Okita asked Zhiji about what was in the flea market, and Zhiji answered him in a general way, "They are all strange and weird items, as long as you think of them, they are there."

Okita felt that his words were a bit unbelievable, but at the same time he was very excited.

After the two finished their breakfast, they put on their coats, and Zhiji took his light bulb, ready to go out.

However, at this moment, the doorbell rang suddenly.

The two looked at each other, Zhiji opened the door first, and there was a tall and thin man standing outside the door, his mouth seemed to be curved, looking energetic.

"Is Dr. Okita here?"

Before Zhiji had time to answer, Okita's voice came from behind him, "Doctor Ikawa!" Okita's tone sounded quite surprised, he stepped forward and looked at the sudden Ikawa, not knowing what to say for a long while.

Seeing this, Ikawa seemed rather complacent, as if he was very happy that he could surprise Okita.

Zhi Ji couldn't help looking at the person again, the voice on the phone gradually merged with the person in front of him, it turned out that he was Dr. Igawa.

"Didn't you say to send something here?" Okita was still a little dazed, but Ikawa pointed to his nose and replied with a grin, "It was me."

"Huh?" Okita was taken aback again.

"Won't you let me come in and sit?" Ikawa asked a little aggrieved.

Okita glanced at Zhi Ji apologetically, Zhi Ji knew what he meant, he shook his head to indicate that it was nothing, and then said, "I'm going to make tea." He put down the things in his hand and turned to the kitchen.

At the same time, Okita invites Ikawa into the house.

Ikawa changed into his slippers and went into the living room. After looking around for a while, he sat down on the sofa and said, "So this is where Dr. Okita lives in Seattle. It's completely different from what I imagined."

"What do you imagine?" Okita asked him.

"Uh, the house is empty?" Ikawa answered honestly.

Okita laughed and said, "Actually, it's almost the same. It's all thanks to Zhiji that it will become what it is now."

Just as he was talking, Naoki came to the living room with two cups of tea and put the tea on the coffee table. At this moment, Igawa raised his head and looked at the handsome young man in front of him.

"So your name is Naoki." Ikawa said.

Naoki nodded, "Hello, Dr. Igawa."

"Hello." Ikawa stood up, stretched out his hand, and introduced himself quite formally, "I'm Ikawa Souta."

Zhiji shook hands with him, and after Ikawa sat down, Zhiji said to Tian Dao, "Since there is a guest coming, it's important that you accompany him, I will come back as soon as I go."

"Sorry, I can't accompany you." Okita looked at him and said.

Zhiji shook his head and said, "It's okay, there will be a chance next time." He said to the two of them, "Then I'll go out first."

The two people in the living room watched Naoki leave, and Okita turned around and asked Igawa, "Why are you here?"

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Ikawa said mysteriously, "Let me take a look at the school environment."

After a moment of surprise, Okita realized, "Are you going to study in Seattle?"

Ikawa nodded, pursed his lips and smiled triumphantly.

Hearing this, Okita couldn't help showing some disgust-like expression, Jing Chuan's eyes widened instantly, feeling dissatisfied, but he stared at Okita worriedly and asked, "Does Dr. Okita not welcome me?"

"That's not true." Okita shook his head, unable to speak for a moment, but Jing Chuan insisted on breaking the casserole and asking, "Then why does he look embarrassed?"

Okita said bluntly, "Thinking that you will be in the same city as me in the future, I feel that it will be very troublesome..."

His words made Ikawa watch him hesitant to speak, and Okita intuited that he seemed to have something more shocking to say and didn't know how to say it.

"Apart from coming here to study abroad, what else?" Okita simply asked.

"Um..." Ikawa hesitated before saying cautiously, "The hospital where I practiced...is...uh...just in..."

He hesitated, but without saying the second half of the sentence, Okita knew the answer.

"I'm in the same hospital as me." Okita said.

"As expected of Dr. Okita." Ikawa praised without hesitation.

Okita is not uncommon, and asked, "Then what is your itinerary today? Where do you live?"

Ikawa replied one by one, "I'm staying in a nearby hotel, and today's itinerary is to visit the hospital." After he finished speaking, he looked at Okita eagerly.

Knowing that he obviously meant to take it with him, Okita immediately stood up from the sofa and said, "Then don't delay, let's go."

"Okay!" Ikawa happily followed Okita, step by step.

Okita glanced at him recklessly, and the latter smiled brightly like a flower.

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When Naoki came back, the room was silent, and there was a note on the table, in Okita's handwriting, which said that he would take Ikawa to visit the hospital so that he didn't have to wait for them to have dinner. Naoki was not unexpected, but he didn't know why, Suddenly there was an unusually familiar sense of distress in his heart. He originally wanted to tell Okita that his firework bulb was loved by many people at the flea market today. He wanted to tell Okita his happy mood, but the one who entered the door The momentary joyful mood suddenly disappeared. He felt that he shouldn't be such a sentimental person. This made Zhiji a little unprepared. He didn't know if it was because he lost his memory. What happened to him in the past? What has he had, if he thinks about it carefully, he actually doesn't know what kind of person he is, so he doesn't know where this feeling of depression comes from, and the memory has been lost, so why does he often come out to influence Zhiji doesn't like his emotions like this, he is doing well now, he doesn't want himself to be tied down by the past all the time.

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When Okita sent Igawa back to the hotel and returned home, the living room was not lit, but when he turned on the light, he found Naoki was lying on the sofa and fell asleep, Okita was taken aback, and at the same time couldn't stop bursting into tears. A little apology, if it wasn't for Ikawa's sudden visit, he should have accompanied him to the flea market, but now, leaving Naoki to spend a long day alone, Okita stepped forward and squatted down on the edge of the sofa.

Zhi Ji didn't sleep soundly, his brows were slightly frowned, half of his face was buried in the pillow, and he grabbed the corner of the pillow with one hand and refused to relax. Okita had never seen Zhi Ji like this before, and he still remembered that he would put Zhi Ji together last night. When Ji placed on the bed, Zhiji also held onto the corner of his clothes and refused to let go. In Okita's eyes, he always felt that such a situation occurred unconsciously in Zhiji, and most of it was related to his past memories. But Zhiji's obvious evasive gesture made Okita couldn't bear to touch it again and again, and he also promised Zhiji not to intervene, so seeing Zhiji like this, he could only worry about him silently, now thinking about it , Compared with the operation that was considered in Shendong before, although there was a bottleneck at one time, he didn't know how to break through, but he finally found a way, but Zhiji really made him feel helpless, and he didn't know how to help him at all.

This night Zhiji has been dreaming, he suddenly dreamed of Santa Claus, sometimes dreamed of sparkling neon lights, and sometimes dreamed of a deep and mysterious forest, and when he was half asleep and half awake, he felt that he was being strangled by someone. , and then he heard his voice shouting, "Kingta...Kingta...don't do this..."

There was a soft sobbing sound from the other party, and then Zhiji realized that the two of them were standing on the edge of the roof at this moment, in danger, Zhiji tried to pull the other party to a safe place, but found that the corner of the other party's lips raised, and then moved his lips He said something, but he didn't make any sound, and his neck seemed to be pinched tighter and tighter. Zhiji only felt that it was difficult to breathe. He tried to reach out and push him away. Suddenly, he saw the other party's eyes widen in surprise, and then, he was vertical from the roof. falling down——

"don't want--"

Zhiji woke up suddenly, opened his eyes and saw the snow-white ceiling.

"What's the matter?" Okita pushed open the door and walked in, and saw Zhiji suddenly lost his mind, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, his eyes were wide open, full of panic and fright, such an expression was a headache for Okita The first time I saw him, he held Zhiji's hand worriedly, but in the next second, Zhiji held it back forcefully, and he felt that Zhiji's palm was full of cold sweat, accompanied by a faint trembling, Okita couldn't help crying A few times, "Zhi Ji, Zhi Ji!"

After a while, Naoki seemed to be able to hear Okita's voice, his eyes slowly shifted from the ceiling to Okita's worried face, he frowned slightly, he didn't know why he was uncomfortable, he wanted to say something but his lips just lightly Shaking slightly, he didn't say anything.

Then he began to tremble, as if he was very cold, and Okita felt that his tightly held hand seemed to be his only life-saving straw. At this moment, Naoki refused to let go, and Okita couldn't reach for the stethoscope. He had no choice but to wrap Zhi Ji with the quilt first, then bent down and hugged him gently, saying, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm here." After more than five minutes, Zhiji's nervousness and trembling gradually turned to calmness.



"...Dr. Okita..."

When he heard Zhiji's voice, Okita finally let go of his heart, he let go of his arms, stared at Zhiji's pale face for a while, and then asked, "Do you feel better?"

Zhiji still looked dazed, as if he didn't know what happened just now, when he heard Okita's question, he shook his head and replied, "It's all right." He said and got up.

"You take a rest, I'll make breakfast today." Okita patted him, straightened up and said.

"But..." Naoki looked at Okita.

"You forgot, I'm still resting, I don't need to go to the hospital." Okita said and left the room, leaving behind Zhiji who was sitting on the bed with the quilt in his arms, but when Okita's back disappeared from the door, Zhiji The whole person fell backwards, as if he lost his strength.

He closed his eyes and bit his lips unconsciously.

He didn't dare to say a word to Okita at all, the previous dream was frighteningly real, he was completely frightened, the person he called "Jingta" was very close to him intuitively, but he was pushed downstairs by himself, For some reason, Zhiji had a strong feeling that it was not a dream, it was his fragmented memory.

"Jingtai... Jingtai..." Zhiji tried to call out the name from his mouth again, but as the familiar name came to his ears, Zhiji couldn't help feeling cold again. The picture of the building reappeared repeatedly, and before falling, what Jingta opened and closed his lips seemed to be...

"... was killed..."

Zhiji gently tried to read it out, at that moment, a picture suddenly flashed in his mind, it was a room full of blood, Zhiji suddenly covered his mouth with both hands, because otherwise If he did, he might have to scream, but he couldn't let Okita know, absolutely not.

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Zhiji disappeared.

To be precise, Zhiji Liushu left, just three days after the morning when Zhiji had an accident.

But when Okita knew about it, a whole week had passed.

Apparently, Naoki deliberately chose Okita to return to normal work, and started to leave during the busy days of the hospital.

That letter reads:

Dr. Okita...you said I could call you by your name, but from the beginning to the end, our relationship is still a doctor and a patient. I was very moved by what you said to me that day. You treat me like a family member. I am very happy. This is me It is a dream, but in essence, you are still a doctor. As long as my memory does not recover for a day, you will always worry about me. It is the same when I have a problem that day. When I realize this, I will do it. In addition to the decision to leave, I hope that when we meet again in the future, I will no longer be a patient. On that day, I think I should be able to call your name instead of Dr. Okita.

Please don't worry about me, let alone blame yourself, and don't need to come to me, you know that I am capable enough to take care of myself.

Goodbye.

straight season.

The letter and the passbook were put together, and the money in it was given to Naoji by Okita on a monthly basis. As expected, it was only used in the first few months, and it was not used at all later.

Okita frowned and looked at the letter and passbook, although Naoki told him not to worry, how could this be possible, but because he was busy with work, he didn't come back this week at all, which made Okita realize that it was really too much for Naoki to leave. Easy, but in turn, it shows how precious it is for Zhiji to stay in this home for him for more than a year. Now facing the empty house full of details of Zhiji's life, Okita rises from the bottom of his heart. Feeling helpless, he lowered his head deeply, so weak that he could only raise his hands to support...

It's like this every time, mother is like this, deep winter is like this, and Zhiji is like this now, even though he has become a doctor, he still can't do anything about many things, so what should he do to truly protect the people around him? people?

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Okita sat alone on the sofa without moving. The room was pitch-black, surrounding Okita until he was completely immersed in the darkness.

The silence spread to every corner, boundless and endless.

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"Brother, are you feeling better?"

The immature voice of the child brought Zhiji back to his senses a little.

This is an alley full of homeless people, and Zhiji has been here for a week.

He already had to leave, because he could no longer pretend nothing had happened in front of Okita.

Once the memory of Jingtai falling from the building emerges, it will make his whole body tense, in extreme pain and on the verge of collapse, because he has been unable to bear this fact, he does not know that Jingtai was pushed downstairs by him, He still jumped down by himself, but just the fact that someone died in front of him made him feel horrified, as if the weight of life was firmly on his body, making him unable to straighten up, and he often As soon as that scene appeared in his mind, he would tremble all over, completely uncontrollable. He could neither control the appearance of that scene nor the trembling of his own body. Finally, he gritted his teeth and survived the last three days when Okita was resting at home. Knowing that doing this will make Okita worry, but he has no choice but to escape there, as far away as possible, so that Okita does not see him like this, and if he is really the one who pushed Keita down the stairs, It would be even more shameless to continue to stay, so whether he wanted to or he didn't want to, this was the only way left to go.

"Hmm...much better..." He barely raised his head and looked at the child in front of him. This child was the one who took him in a week ago. His name was Hamel. Zhiji learned that he was abandoned as soon as he was born, and then he was taken in by the homeless people here. Adoption, it can be said that he grew up in this alley, and now he is also learning to adopt his homeless people - those people are all called Dad by him - to live like this, Zhiji met him on the street a week ago , when his situation was as it is now, Hammill knew that he had nowhere to go, so he invited him here.

Hammel squatted beside Zhiji, a little worried, his little face was full of worries, although he had only known Zhiji for a week, in fact, when he saw Zhiji for the first time, Hanmil felt that he liked this big brother very much, So I don't want to see him in such pain.

"Thank you, Hamil..." Zhiji raised his hand and stroked Hamil's head, trying to smile.

"Brother, you are so sad, what can I do to make you happy?" Hanmil asked.

"I'm actually very happy to meet Hamil, but I was a little uncomfortable at first. Here, I will be fine after a while." Zhiji pointed to his head and said.

"Why do you feel uncomfortable? Is it sick?" Hammill continued to ask.

"Yeah." Zhiji nodded, "I'm sorry for making you worry."

Hamil said worriedly, "There is no doctor here, what should I do?"

Zhiji shook his head and said, "It's okay, big brother knows a doctor himself, but the doctor can't do anything about this disease, it's okay, just a headache."

Hammel stared at Zhiji, thought for a while and said, "Then next time big brother has a headache, Hammel will help big brother find that doctor."

"That's not okay, the doctor is very busy, and he doesn't know I'm here." Zhiji said.

"That's it..." Hamil looked very distressed, Zhiji felt much better at this time, and said, "Don't worry about me, but you, you will be seven years old this year, right?"

Hammill nodded.

Zhiji said, "In the past two days, I heard your fathers discussing the matter of sending you to school next year, but you said you don't want to go?"

Hammill nodded again.

"Why?" Naoki asked him.

Hamill replied, "Papas will work hard to make money, and besides, other people don't like me."

"How come!" Zhi Ji shook his head and said to Hamil, "You don't have to worry about the money, I have an idea, you provided me with a place to live, and this is my accommodation fee."

"It's just a broken tent, and there is no need for accommodation fees." Hamil glanced at the tent not far away, and shook his head immediately.

"My accommodation fee is different. Big brother will take you to find something good. You have to do it yourself. It's not for nothing." Zhiji said.

Hearing what he said, Hammill couldn't help asking curiously, "What the hell?"

Zhi Ji said, "It's not fun to tell you, let's go, I'll take you to find the parts."

As he spoke, he was about to stand up, and Hamil lent him a shoulder to support him very kindly. Zhiji only gave him a rough support, and the other hand supported the wall. Fortunately, most of his attention had been diverted. Apart from the cold sweat, Basically all recovered.

He also heard about this incident yesterday, and he has been thinking about what he can do for Hamil since then. Although Hamil is not yet seven years old, he is really quite sensible. Zhiji likes him very much. I want to do something to divert my attention, so as not to accidentally think of Keita in my memory, and——

Dr. Okita...

Just because thinking of him reminds him of the fact that he left that home, he accidentally fell into a nightmare again.

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"You mean his memory has started to recover?" Griffith is Naoki's attending doctor, he specializes in neuroscience, and is also Okita's friend in Seattle.

Okita nodded and replied, "Although Naoki tried his best to pretend that nothing happened, I still noticed that he was different from usual, such as being absent-minded. Usually careful, he would not put chopsticks into the spoon holder. He never He never forgot to take his clothes, more often he couldn’t look at me, and then he left on the fourth day, this is the letter he left, but I’m sure the reason is definitely not what he wrote in the letter.”

"The most troublesome thing is that he doesn't know what happened in his past, which makes him prefer to forget, especially the examples of such memory recovery are mostly incomplete, which may mislead him, although those memories do contain what happened in the past But if there are only fragments, it's hard to say." Griffith said with some concern.

"We have to find him sooner." The one who was more worried than him was naturally Okita. Hearing what Griffith said, things seemed to be developing in an uncontrollable direction. Where would Zhiji go and what would he do? Unpredictable at all.

"Do you have an idea, where he might go?" Griffith asked Okita.

Okita thought for a while, and replied, "There is a place, but..." He paused, because he felt extremely annoyed at the thought of not going to that place in the end.

"Well, I know a private detective, I can contact you." Griffith said.

Okita immediately said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, I will also look around, and if I have any clues, I will tell you right away."

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Ikawa noticed Okita's absent-mindedness. When he usually eats barbecue, if he puts vegetables on his plate, he would almost dodge them instantly, but now he just ignores the vegetables appearing on his plate, and in the next second, he will The vegetables on the plate were picked up and sent to his mouth.

This is so abnormal.

Ikawa originally wanted to wait for Okita to eat the vegetables and see his reaction, but in the end he couldn't hold back and called out, "Doctor Okita, that's—"

Okita came back to his senses and realized that the vegetables in his chopsticks were actually vegetables. He had no doubts, nor did he think that it was Igawa who picked them up for him. The roasted meat sandwiched a piece for Ikawa and another piece for himself.

Jing Chuan stared blankly at Okita for a while, and couldn't help saying, "Doctor Okita, every time you worry about others, it's like this."

"Huh?" Okita didn't pay attention to what he was saying for a while, and asked after a "huh", "Sorry, I didn't pay attention, what did you say?"

Ikawa shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I wanted to ask Dr. Okita to have a meal before going back, but I didn't expect it to be such an unfortunate coincidence."

Only then did Okita come to his senses, and said, "You mean Naoki?"

Ikawa nodded, "The fact that he ran away from home made you very worried, right?"

Hearing this, Okita sighed and said, "It would be better if he left with his memory fully recovered, but why..."

Ikawa knew the other half of what Okita didn't say, so he took another piece of meat and said to Okita, "I heard that you have been looking for him as soon as you leave the hospital these two days, and be careful of your body." He also sighed. Said, "If I hadn't had to go back to Tokyo, I really wanted to stay and help you find someone."

Okita shook his head and said, "I'm just going for a walk, you don't need to worry about anything else and go back first, I will take care of myself."

"If you can take care of yourself, you won't fall ill." Ikawa glared at him and said.

Okita was taken aback for a moment, but before he could react, Jing Chuan said in a nonchalant manner, "I went to the hospital a few times later, only to find out that you had a fever and fainted, but you didn't tell me anything, and you still treated me as a Outsider?"

Okita couldn't resist his aggressive look, and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, besides, I was almost healed when you came, so there's no need to say it to make you worry unnecessarily."

"You are perfunctory!" Ikawa will not be fooled by his words, he said solemnly, "You stayed up almost every night in order to find a cure for Dr. Shen Dong, and I have seen all these things Here, and also, because Dr. Okita is also a pediatrician, he worked a lot of night shifts, didn't he..."

"Enough is enough!" Okita really had nothing to do with him, so he grabbed another piece of barbecue, trying to stop his mouth, and said, "It's my fault, I didn't tell you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Seeing what he said, Ikawa finally closed his mouth, and stuffed the barbecue that Okita had given him into his mouth.

Okita finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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The next day I sent Ikawa to the airport, and after Ikawa entered the customs, Okita returned to the urban area. This day happened to be his turn to rest. Before Okita collected some information about the bazaar, it is said that the bazaar opens every two weeks. On this day, in order to find Naoki, Okita felt that he had to go there to try his luck.

The so-called bazaar, I didn’t know until I went to Okita, it’s really a hodgepodge, it has everything in it, there are all kinds of groceries, handicrafts and pottery, jewelry and small electrical appliances, as well as some interesting toys, and even some big ones , such as single chairs or sofas, there are second-hand and brand-new ones, but there are not many decorative lamps specially made of light bulbs like Naoki, which provided convenience for Okita, allowing him to ask the third person When there is a clue.

"Ah, it's that young man named Zhiji. He looks really unusual. The light bulb in his hand can change endlessly... You ask where he lives? I don't know about that." The one who answered Okita's question was a salesman. A middle-aged woman with handmade soap, she said, pointing to a man across the street, "Go and ask him, his name is John, that's the one who sells wooden dishes, he is more familiar with Zhiji."

"Thank you." Okita thanked him, and hurried to find that John.

John is indeed familiar with Zhiji, but when Okita asked him if he knew where Zhiji lived recently, he shook his head and said, "I really don't know that, didn't he come today? We were originally two We only met once a week, and rarely contact each other on weekdays."

Okita also calculated that the market is held every two weeks. Ikawa came to Seattle for an internship for half a month. The day he came was the day when the market was open. At that time, he was not able to come here with Naoki, and he left a book after a week. Yes, he spent another whole week inquiring about the bazaar, and it happened that the bazaar arrived on Monday, and today, the bazaar opened again.

"If you have news about Zhiji, can you contact me immediately?" Okita handed out a business card and asked John.

"Of course no problem." John took a look at the business card, then raised his head to look at Okita, and said, "So you are the family member Zhiji mentioned. He said you are a very good surgeon."

"I am indeed a surgeon, but because I often stay in the hospital and work overtime, I don't even know when Zhiji left home. As his family member, I am really remiss." Jian Okita said with self-blame After these words, John stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't think so, I treat Zhiji as a friend, although he seldom talks about himself, but I often hear him mention you, since your relationship is so close , then I might as well just say that he must have his intentions for leaving, and he definitely doesn’t want to see you blame yourself so much, you just have to trust him.”

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Hearing these words from others, Okita didn't know whether he should feel relieved or feel more self-blame. For a moment, he was filled with complicated emotions. He couldn't say much at this time, and he tried to show a normal smile and said, "I know, Thank you."

"Don't worry, I'll help you find it too, and I'll let you know if there's any news." John shook the business card in his hand and said.

Okita thanked him again, he originally wanted to continue shopping around and asking questions, but suddenly received a call from the hospital, so he could only put aside the matter of Zhiji and hurried back to the hospital.

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A week later, Okita received a call from John, saying that there was news about Naoki. That night, Okita rushed directly from the hospital to the place specified on the phone. As soon as he saw John, he asked, "Where is Naoki?"

John pointed to a boy next to him biting a popsicle and said, "His name is Hamel, and he told me about Zhi Ji's whereabouts."

Because Okita was too impatient just now, he didn't notice that there was a child beside John. He was slightly taken aback, and immediately squatted down to face Hamil and asked, "Hello, Hamil, my name is Okita. John said you know that Naoki is here." where?"

Hammill took a bite of the popsicle, looked at Okita for a while before asking, "Are you the doctor who lives with Big Brother?"