In the middle of the night, after Yang Shao fell asleep leaning on a chair with several mosquito bites all over his body, Pei Yan finally caught his first fish, a crucian carp that was three fingers wide.
"Crucian carp is good. Crucian carp soup nourishes the brain." Yang Shao sat up from his chair in a daze, "It's just that there is not enough."
"This is for you." Pei Yan threw the crucian carp into Yang Shao's fish box and put away his fishing rod. "Go back to sleep. I'm leaving."
"Give it to me?" Yang Shao scratched the mosquito bite on his arm and stood up dazedly. "Brother Pei, are you really here to fish?" He was puzzled. What could he do with such a small fish? Why fry it?
After putting away the fishing gear and getting in the car, Yang Shao realized that Brother Pei was saying that his brain was not good and needed to be supplemented. For a moment, Yang Shao felt very complicated.
Brother Pei's way of mocking him became more and more subtle. What was even more rare was that he could actually react and realize that Brother Pei was mocking him. This was also an improvement in his IQ.
This bustling city is a city that never sleeps. In the early hours of the morning, there are still a constant stream of vehicles on the streets and pedestrians walking on the roadside. But in the bustling corners, there are also low and dilapidated buildings and garbage-strewn alleys.
When passing by a hotel, Yang Shao, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, suddenly said, "Brother Pei, I remember that this hotel was very busy six or seven years ago, but now it is being transferred."
Pei Yan stopped the car at the traffic light and glanced at it casually: "I don't remember."
Yang Shao wanted to continue speaking, but suddenly remembered that they came here to eat because Brother Pei's grandfather passed away and he had been in a bad mood. In order to make Pei Yan happy, he and his brothers forcibly dragged him out of the house.
Originally, after dinner, they were planning to take Brother Pei somewhere else to play, but Brother Pei disappeared in the blink of an eye. When they called him, they found out that he had already returned home.
When it came to the past events involving Mr. Pei's death, Yang Shao didn't know what to say. He laughed dryly and said, "It's normal that you don't remember what happened six or seven years ago."
There were still more than fifty seconds left before the red light turned red. Pei Yan gently tapped the steering wheel with his index finger and tilted his head to look at the hotel on the roadside. The decoration was still in the style of three or four years ago, and the lights were dim. It was normal for the business to fail in this situation.
He frowned, and had a vague impression of this hotel in his mind. It was not because of how special the food in this hotel was, but because he remembered a small incident that happened here that year. He didn't know if the skinny little girl who secretly hid under the bushes, hugged her legs and cried bitterly, stayed in this city.
Seeing Pei Yan frowning in deep thought, Yang Shao thought he was thinking of Grandpa Pei, and he hated himself for being so mean: "Brother Pei, the green light is almost here."
Pei Yan tilted his head to glance at him, started the car and drove through the traffic light intersection: "Uncle Yang told me a few days ago that he hopes you can learn to manage the company, and asked me to persuade you."
Yang Shao smiled bitterly: "Brother Pei, I'm not that kind of person. I'm afraid that the family property that we have worked so hard to save will be ruined by me."
"But you're idle all day long, driving and hanging out on yachts. How can Uncle Yang feel at ease?" Pei Yan said, "Even if you don't want to manage the company, you should follow Uncle Yang to the company every day to learn. Even if you hire an agent to help you look after the company, you can at least figure out whether the other party is fooling you. Uncle Yang is young now and can still manage the company. Do you want him to worry about you and the company when he's in his seventies or eighties?"
"I know what you say makes sense, but I..."
"You can't even pretend to please your elders?"
Yang Shao was completely speechless. He nodded solemnly: "You are right. My grandma's birthday is coming. I should at least show some gesture to make her happy."
Pei Yan nodded with satisfaction. If you have something to do, you can't just wander around and look at beautiful women every day.
Maybe because she was a little excited, Hua Jin didn't sleep well at night. When she woke up the next morning, she yawned continuously and only woke up fully after washing her face with cold water.
She patted her face in the mirror to make it look rosy. She took out her toothbrush and squeezed toothpaste with satisfaction. Suddenly, she heard Sister Qin screaming. She dropped her toothbrush and ran to the next room: "Sister Qin, what's wrong with you?"
"Xiao Hai is missing." Sister Qin was wearing a washed-out nightgown, and her swollen face was filled with anxiety. "He wouldn't go out alone without a sound!"
Xiaohai is the nickname of Sister Qin's son. In Hua Jin's impression, this is a very honest child who would never do anything to make Sister Qin worry. Now that he suddenly disappeared, something must have happened.
"Sister Qin, don't worry." Hua Jin comforted Sister Qin while lying on the balcony and calling Xiao Hai's name, but there was no response.
"Sister Qin, call the police." Hua Jin reached out and patted Sister Qin's back. "Don't worry."
"Yes, yes, call the police..." Sister Qin ran back to the house to find her cell phone, muttering to herself, "Where's my cell phone? Where's my cell phone?" She found her cell phone on the messy coffee table, and it took her shaking hands for a long time before she dialed the police number.
The movement on the fourth floor attracted the attention of the people in the entire building. They leaned on the balcony and looked up, "What happened upstairs?"
"Sister Qin's child Xiaohai is missing. Has anyone seen it?" Hua Jin didn't have time to take care of her hair. She told the story, went back to her room, got a hair tie and tied up all her hair. She took her phone, keys and bag, closed the door, and said to Sister Qin who was calling Xiaohai at the top of her lungs, "Sister Qin, don't worry. Xiaohai is so sensible. Maybe he just went out to buy breakfast and will be back soon."
Other residents downstairs also rushed up and persuaded Sister Qin. Those who had cars had already taken their car keys and got in to help Sister Qin find the child. Even Mrs. Chen, who had quarreled with Sister Qin two days ago, was shouting and searching in front of the house and in the backyard. She had a loud voice and was familiar with the surroundings. She directed several young people to look for the children in the ditches around.
"Sister Qin, do you have a photo of the child? Send us one so we can take the photo to ask passers-by." Hua Jin took out his mobile phone, "Look around the house again to see which set of clothes is missing. Find out what Xiaohai wore when he went out today, which will make it easier for us to find him." Sister Qin is not well off financially, and Xiaohai only wears a few sets of clothes on a daily basis, so it will be easy for him to find him.
Sister Qin, who had lost her mind due to anxiety, started searching the house like a machine that had finally been awakened after hearing what Hua Jin said. Hua Jin saw that she was in a bad mental state, but at this time, any words of comfort would be useless unless the child could be found.
"Xiaohua, you still have to go to the store, I'll watch over here." The woman who spoke was a resident on the third floor. She and her husband worked here. They had a good income, but they lived frugally and sent most of the money back home. It happened to be a holiday today, and I planned to sleep in a little longer, but I was woken up by the noise.
"It's okay, I'll wait for the police to come." Hua Jin sighed, "He was fine recently, how could he..."
She hasn't heard Sister Qin scolding the child recently. A few days ago in the morning, she saw the child happily eating beef buns outside. When he saw her, he was ready to share one with her. Why did he suddenly run away from home?
As the case involved a missing child, the police from the police station came quickly and not only checked the scene, but also checked Sister Qin's mobile phone. The final conclusion was that the child went out on his own and was not controlled by external forces.
Sister Qin suddenly broke down. She sat on the sofa and cried loudly, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances she had suffered over the years.
A female police officer stayed by to calm Sister Qin down, while another older male police officer walked up to Hua Jin and the others and said, "I want to ask you some questions."
Hua Jin and several other neighbors nodded and followed the male police officer to the balcony outside. The questions the male police officer asked were very common, such as the child's daily living habits and how Sister Qin treated the child.
Especially after hearing that Hua Jin lived next door to Qin Jie, the male police officer asked her a few more questions. However, Hua Jin didn't know what was going on, so she couldn't provide any useful clues.
Not long after, the male police officer received a call from headquarters saying that they had found a boy who looked like a child in the surveillance footage of a certain street.
That street is more than ten kilometers away from here. How did Xiaohai get there?
Among the residents in the entire building, Hua Jin is more familiar with Sister Qin. Sister Qin is emotionally unstable, so Hua Jin has to accompany Sister Qin to identify the person.
Sitting in the police car, Sister Qin held her hand tightly, fearing that the child the police found was not Xiao Hai at all. In the summer, the temperature was high, and the car windows were open. The wind blew Sister Qin's messy hair everywhere. She usually didn't want to look embarrassed in front of others, but she was in no mood to take care of her hair. She didn't even notice that she was still wearing a nightgown that was washed white.
Yang Shao yawned continuously while sitting in his father's car. While the car was waiting for the traffic light, he quickly drank two sips of coffee to refresh himself. Last night, he accompanied Brother Pei to go fishing until midnight. He was called up by his father early in the morning and asked to take him to the company. What could he do? How could he not listen to his own father?
"Hey?" He noticed a police car parked in the lane next to him, and the person sitting by the right window looked familiar.
Isn't this a flower embroiderer? How could she be sitting in a police car so early in the morning with her hair uncombed and makeup unapplied?
After thinking about it over and over again, he still couldn't figure it out, so he sent a message to Pei Yan: "Brother Pei, I saw Hua Xiu Shi sitting in the police car." After sending this message, he remembered that Brother Pei didn't seem to like listening to him talking about Hua Xiu Shi. After thinking about it, he opened the car window and prepared to ask, but before he could say anything, he was discovered by his father.
"What are you looking at?" Yang Xueshen knew that Yang Shaoyou liked to look at beautiful women, but he never expected that he would dare to flirt with a girl sitting in a police car. He was so angry that he slapped him on the shoulder and said, "How could I give birth to someone like you?"
"Dad?!" Yang Shao covered his shoulder, "What are you doing?"
"What are you doing? I'll beat you to death!" Yang Xueshen was furious, "so that you won't go out and cause harm to others."
"What did I do?" Yang Shao muttered, "No matter how bad the seeds are, you planted them. Can you blame me?"
"You!" Yang Xueshen took two deep breaths, "If I see you running around again, I will break your legs."
Yang Shao shrank back. What on earth had he done? But seeing his father was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe, he couldn't bear to talk back. He quickly reached out and stroked his father's chest: "Okay, okay, whatever you say is fine. You are old now. You should learn to cultivate yourself. Don't get so angry over such a small matter. It's not worth it."
Although Yang Xueshen was angry at his son's failure to live up to expectations, he couldn't bear to continue scolding him when he saw him like this: "If you stop getting into trouble, I can live a long life."
"Okay, okay, I promise that you and my mother will live a long life."
"Mr. Pei, are you awake?" The maid saw Pei Yan coming down from upstairs and brought out the prepared breakfast. "Would you like milk or soy milk?"
"Milk." He picked up the newspaper on the coffee table and flipped through it. There was no meaningful news. He sat down at the table and said to the servant, "You can sit down and eat too. You don't have to worry."
The maid brought the milk to him and said with a smile, "Mr. Pei, you forgot your cell phone on the sofa in the living room and didn't take it to your room."
"I know." Pei Yan is a person who is not very dependent on mobile phones, so sometimes when his mobile phone is not with him, it will not attract his attention.
"Then I'll get it for you?" the maid said, "I just heard the phone ring."
"Thank you, sorry for the trouble."
Pei Yan took the phone from the maid and saw that it was a message from Yang Shao. He almost didn't want to click on it. This chatterbox couldn't sit still, and none of the messages he sent to him were about serious matters.
After finishing the tender fried eggs and drinking half a cup of milk, Pei Yan clicked on the message sent by Yang Shao.
The maid had just brought her breakfast out of the kitchen and saw Pei Yan hurried out. She asked in confusion, "Mr. Pei, you haven't finished your breakfast yet..."
Looking at the empty door, she closed her mouth silently.
Maybe it's something urgent.
The police car stopped at the door of the police station. Sister Qin got out of the car and ran inside hurriedly. Hua Jin followed her for a few steps and stumbled. Fortunately, a female police officer next to her supported her, otherwise she would have fallen to the ground.
Before she even entered the house, Hua Jin heard Sister Qin crying and saying, "Do you want to drive your mother crazy?"
Hua Jin heaved a sigh of relief, it seemed that the child had been found. She rubbed her knees, took out her cell phone and called the neighbors, telling them that the child had been found and asked them not to worry.
Walking into the room, Xiao Hai sat on a chair with his head shrunk, letting Sister Qin hold him and cry loudly. When he saw her come in, Xiao Hai buried his head even lower.
"Sister Qin, if you have anything to say, let's go back and talk. It's good that the child has been found." Hua Jin was afraid that Sister Qin would scold the child in the police station after she recovered, so she advised, "Xiao Hai was frightened today, let him have a good rest first."
Many adults think that children do not know what face and dignity are, so sometimes they scold children in front of many people without restraint. However, they do not know that children not only have self-esteem, but also care very much about how others see them. This behavior that crushes their self-esteem will not fade away as they grow older, but will only remain in their hearts for a long time and even affect their personality.
She remembered that when she was a child, her family lost ten yuan and chased her to school to ask if she stole the money. At that time, she felt as if everyone around her was looking at her, staring at her, and even laughing at her silently. That feeling was like being stripped naked, revealing the ugly skin underneath the clothes.
After calming down Sister Qin and Xiao Hai, Hua Jin's phone rang and the caller ID showed it was from an unfamiliar number.
"Hello, I'm Hua Jin, the embroiderer at Fanhua Studio."
"Teacher Sun?" Hua Jin was a little surprised after hearing who the other party was. "Three o'clock this afternoon?"
"I'm free." Hua Jin didn't expect that the straw weaving master she met at the exhibition last month would actually contact her and introduce her to the so-called great Suzhou embroidery master. She said happily, "Thank you very much. I will be there on time."
After hanging up the phone, Hua Jin felt that she had been very lucky recently. Could it be that the good luck came from the koi she fed when she was with Pei Yan last time?
"Xiaohua, thank you for today." Sister Qin held Xiaohai's hand and thanked Huajin with swollen eyes.
"It's okay, it's okay." Hua Jin reached out and touched Xiao Hai's head. She didn't ask him why he ran away from home, but smiled at him gently: "Come on, I'll take you to buy some delicious food."
Xiao Hai lowered his head timidly and dared not speak.
Hua Jin didn't care. She smiled at Sister Qin, took Xiao Hai's other hand, and walked out of the police station.
"I thought you did something bad and that's why you were taken away in the police car." Just as she reached the door, someone grabbed her arm.
Hua Jin looked sideways and saw the man who was holding her, his ears were flushed, his chest was heaving, and his face was full of unhappiness.
"Mr. Pei?"
Why is he here?
The author has something to say: Yang Shao: Brother Pei, something terrible has happened. The flower embroidery master has been taken away by a police car.
Pei Yan:? ! !
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