must be so

Life itself is painful, but pain gives life weight.

Luo Mai came home to find an old picture album, rode a bicycle and entered through the iron gate, and when he looked up, he saw Lin Haotian was helping Heizi to take a bath. , the tail shakes into a propeller, and it is about to go to the sky.

Lin Haotian was concentrating on spraying with the nozzle, and didn't see Luo Mai coming in.But the dog saw it, and immediately retracted his tongue, put his ears back, moved his four paws, and rubbed the dog's head against Lin Haotian's palm.

Luo Mai straddled the bicycle with one leg, and rattled the shifter on the handlebar.

Lin Haotian saw Luo Mai come in, turned off the nozzle in his hand, and stood up from the wet ground.

The four eyes met, and Luo Mai took the lead to avoid his eyes.It had been half a year, and this was the first time the two had met, and it was purely by accident.

"Mr. Luo's birthday is today."

There was sadness in Lin Haotian's eyes.

Luo Mai didn't speak or move, the two of them just stood there in a daze.

Luo Jian drove in from the outside, and the front of the car was blocked behind Luo Mai.

Luo Jian didn't expect Luo Mai to be at home today, he was silent for a second, and poked his head out of one side of the car window.

"Luo Mai, what are you doing in the traffic jam?"

Luo Mai looked back at Luo Jian with a blank expression on his face. The next second, Luo Mai got off the bicycle and let go of his hand at the same time.

The bicycle without support fell to the ground with a "clang".

Luo Mai entered the room without seeing anyone else, and when he passed by Lin Haotian, he didn't even give him a look.

Luo Jian was indifferent, his attitude was always calm, almost ruthless.He just took out a piece of candy from the locker and stuffed it into his mouth.

When Luo Mai closed the door, he slammed the door loudly.

The old lady next door was drying the quilt on the drying platform on the second floor. She was startled by the loud noise, her hands shook, and the quilt fell from the railing on the second floor.

The old lady was so frightened that her heart stopped for a moment, and she almost didn't come up. She leaned on the railing and shouted, "Xiao Luo, you have to take care of your son!"

Lin Haotian came over, picked up the bicycle that was thrown on the ground, and parked it aside.

Luo Jian didn't move forward, but asked him on the spot, "How are you doing?"

Lin Haotian parked his bicycle and turned around, "It's pretty good."

Luo Mai thumped up to the second floor, the corner of the stairs was facing the outside, and the floor-to-ceiling glass windows could clearly see the outside.Luo Mai put one arm on the window of the car, Lin Haotian leaned forward, borrowed his seat to look over, and acted intimately.

"Luo Mai...how is it lately?"

Luo Jian thought about his choice of words, "I'm good at reading and drawing, but my temper is not very good."

"Are you fighting with someone again?"

"Yeah," Luo Jian felt a little headache, "Physical education class takes the lead in gang fights with the seniors."

Lin Haotian was also a little melancholy, he looked up at Luo Mai, and happened to meet Luo Mai who was stopping on the second floor.

The eyes of the two met, and Luo Mai then went upstairs.

Lin Haotian turned around, feeling helpless, he could only bow his head and sigh with Luo Jian.

Lin Haotian and Luo Jian made lunch together.

Luo Jian called Luo Mai to ask him to come down for dinner, but no accident, Luo Mai didn't answer.When Luo Jian downstairs called Luo Mai for the third time, he heard the mechanical female voice change from "unable to connect" to "shut down.", and put the phone aside.

"Let's eat, don't worry about him."

Lin Haotian stretched out two chopsticks, stopped, and got up to get a new bowl.

"Save a copy for Luo Mai."

Lin Haotian always had a little hope left, hoping that Luo Mai would come out to meet him, or sit down and have a serious talk with Luo Jian.With such thoughts in mind, neither Luo Jian nor Lin Haotian left after lunch, sitting on the sofa watching boring family ethics dramas.

Luo Mai didn't come out of the room all afternoon.

Lin Haotian was going back to school in the afternoon, and before leaving, he went upstairs and knocked on his door, "Luo Mai, there are cola chicken wings and pork ribs rice in the refrigerator, you can warm them up in the microwave."

There was no sound in Luo Mai's room. Lin Haotian tried to push the door, but it was unlocked.

The house was tidy. Luo Mai didn't go home to live in, and the part-time workers hired by Luo Jian also cleaned his room regularly.The doors of several cabinets were suddenly opened, and a bunch of gadgets fell out of them and fell to the ground.Lin Haotian picked up a broken Transformer on the ground with some sadness.

The window was wide open, no doubt the jump from here.The stage photo on the bedside table was swept away, Lin Haotian squatted down, and carefully picked out the photo from the pile of glass shards.

That was a photo from three years ago.Luo Jian hugged him and Luo Mai, and Heizi occupied the center of the screen.

At that time, Luo Mai smiled innocently, while Lin Haotian still smiled very stiffly.

Luo Jian ran up from downstairs, still holding the phone, his breath was uncommonly unstable.

The undercover agent Zhang Chi was on the other end of the phone.

"Romei's gone."

"I'll take you back to school first, and I'll go to the train station to intercept him."

Lin Haotian grabbed the cuff of his jacket, "Look separately, there will be heavy rain tonight, and he is only in the second year of junior high school!"

Luo Jian paused, then pinched his wrist instead, "Then you pay attention to safety."

The weather was exactly as Lin Haotian said, and the wind began to blow violently in the evening.At night, the torrential rain poured down.

Zhang Chi played the league in the magic blue network club in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark, he turned on the microphone and swearing at people.

Then there was a sudden sound in the earphones, and there was no sound.

"Fuck, broken earphones."

Zhang Chi was about to get mad when he saw a wet hand throwing the headphone plug up.

"Nima..."

The elder brother Haotian whom Luo Mai admired, Lin Haotian, the model of Shi Mihao, was waiting with his ears open for his next sentence.

Zhang Chi shrank instantly, and called hesitantly, "Brother Haotian..."

Lin Haotian asked him, "Is Luo Mai still online?"

Zhang Chi nodded, "Yes, yes, I don't know when his train ticket is, he just told me that I should go to the animal stray center to see those dogs more often. I asked him if he wanted to leave, and he The answer is yes. I was disconnected for a while, I thought he was gone, and then I went online again."

Luo Jian had been waiting at the entrance of the train station with a few people. Lin Haotian and him split up to see if he could get some more clues from Zhang Chi.

"When you were chatting before, did he show any tendency to go where he wants to go?"

Zhang Chi tried hard to think, but it was useless after thinking about it several times, "He wants to go to too many places. He mentioned a lot of place names before, and said he wanted to go sketching. Those place names are very unfamiliar, so I didn't remember them."

"Just this last time, how long has it been?"

Zhang Chi estimated, "A little over two hours."

Lin Haotian touched the mouse, and scrolled up the content of the conversation. Luo Mai said very little, except for "uh, oh, six points", and there was not much content.It can be seen that Zhang Chi, the undercover agent, is doing his best, trying his best to keep Luo Mai steady, and making insinuations about where Luo Mai is now.

Lin Haotian was drenched all over, and scrolled through the news one by one.Zhang Chi glanced to the ground and saw that a puddle of water had accumulated under Lin Haotian's feet, and the trousers were still dripping down.

Zhang Chi still doesn't know why Luo Mai has such a big quarrel with his family, and Xiao Tian, ​​who was once more like a brother of flesh and blood, is gone.

Zhang Chi hopes that Luo Mai is doing well, and he doesn't want him to learn from Gauguin and go to the wild forest to live like a savage for sixpence, "Or... I'll ask you again."

Lin Haotian straightened up, "Alright, don't disturb him."

Zhang Chi swallowed somewhat cautiously, and nodded.

The personable Zhang Sanpang: "Don't smoke me! My earphone is broken, I went to the network administrator."

Siu Mai Chicken Drumstick: "..."

The personable Zhang Sanpang: "What time do you get the ticket? Why are you still typing?"

Siu Mai Chicken Drumstick:  …

The handsome Zhang Sanpang: "I said, I forgot to ask you, where did you put it? The Internet is so bad."

Siu Mai Chicken Drumstick: "Hotel."

Zhang Chi turned his head and looked at Lin Haotian.Lin Haotian supported his shoulder with his right hand, staring at the screen, "Continue."

The personable Zhang Sanpang: "If you don't rush to leave, come to my house to sleep tonight. My parents are away on their honeymoon, so they are not here."

Luo Mai is still online, but there is silence in the dialog box.

Zhang Chi spread his hands innocently.

"It's okay, keep playing with him, and contact me if you know the place."

Lin Haotian left him a string of numbers.

Lin Haotian went out from the Internet cafe, took a photo of him and Luo Mai from hotel to hotel and asked if the person in the photo came to stay.

The passage of the typhoon brought large-scale precipitation, and the poor urban drainage system was quickly overwhelmed. The low-lying areas did not reach people's calves, and the cars smashed the waves inside, splashing a large curtain of water.

The neon signboard of the store was in a trance in the mist, Lin Haotian struggled to hold the umbrella, only the sound of rain hitting the top of the umbrella could be heard.

Hard work pays off, Lin Haotian found Luo Mai's check-in information at the front desk of an express hotel.

Luo Jian rushed over from the train station as fast as he could.

There was a knock on the door in the room. Luo Mai yelled and didn't hear a response, so he knew he was caught. He didn't get annoyed, put his notebook aside, opened the door calmly, and bit a lollipop.

Luo Mai was only wearing a shirt, and there were drops of water in his hair. It was not obvious that the dark trouser legs were much wet, but a small puddle formed where he was standing not long after.

Luo Jian looked at him silently, without reprimanding, his eyes were filled with too much, but he didn't say a word when he reached his mouth.Silence lay between the two of them. Luo Mai leaned against the door frame, his eyes drooping indifferently, and he squeaked the lollipop in his mouth.

"Let's talk." Luo Jian finally spoke.

Luo Mai took out the lollipop, and asked him in an ugly voice that had changed his voice, "What are you talking about?"

"Study, relationship, family."

Luo Mai looked at him with provocative eyes, and at the same time examined his father. After a long while, Luo Mai smiled, "You hypocrite."

Luo Jian was not annoyed, and answered him calmly, "You are still far from maturity."

Luo Mai is very disgusted with Luo Jian's appearance of always being calm and always sure of winning.But the more he sneered, the more he proved his desire.

Romeo smiled wickedly.

The hostility and resentment in the smile made Luo Jian uncomfortable. After all, they are father and son who depend on each other.

Luo Mai approached his father, "Let me transfer to another school, I can't stay here any longer."

The reason is that the two of them can only understand the secret, which is tacit to each other, and no one else knows it, including Lin Haotian.

"Dad, I lost."

Lin Haotian was standing in the hotel lobby, his body was wet, wrapped in Luo Jian's jacket, and he was wiping his hair with the towel given by the front desk.

"Have you found it?"

Luo Jian's footsteps were a little heavy, and Lin Haotian could clearly feel that he was not in a good mood. He stretched his neck and looked back, but Luo Mai was nowhere to be seen even after the elevator went up.

"Where's Luo Mai? Didn't come down?" Lin Haotian couldn't help asking, did he find the wrong one just now?

Luo Jian pinched the bridge of his nose, "Don't worry about him, he's fine here."

Lin Haotian wondered what was going on, did Luo Jian get fooled by Luo Mai?

"Isn't he going to run away from home? If you don't take him back, what if he disappears?"

Luo Jian hesitated and said, "Let him go, you can't stop him."

Lin Haotian thinks about it too, after all, he can't tie people up with a rope every day.But you can't let Luo Mai run around. Although he is 1.8 meters tall, he is only 15 years old and still a child.Running around like this is dangerous.He didn't understand why Luo Jian compromised so quickly.

After a long silence, Luo Jian said wearily.

"He's going to transfer schools and won't go to school here anymore."

Whether it is "want" or not "want", this matter has already been decided.

Lin Haotian was stunned, and asked blankly, "Where is he going?"

"To his grandparents."

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Review of the previous situation in the next chapter

The train of thought has gone astray, so I have to change it.