Liu Lingzhong's Selected Short Stories Serialized (1117)

Looking for footprints in Nodo (1)

Several knights who were dancing the masquerade gathered around and asked, Tian Sen, who is this guy? I said it seriously. I'm really embarrassed, I didn't expect Guo Jia himself to think so now. He has a grim expression on his face, a pair of big black eyes, and always loves to stare at the people who drink orange soda in the cold drink shop in Maguan Town, as if he is real, he is suspicious of anyone anytime and anywhere, and his eyebrows are thick and dark. Jia'er has attractive eyelashes. I'm a little proud, and the treasure hunter might be most interested in his big smooth nose.

"I also want to borrow my nose to find a lot of money. A treasure hunter said.

"Phew, I don't feed pigs and dogs, but I don't have anything like him. ”

The person who teased the cat paused for a sentence, that neurotic, and it was clear that he couldn't eat grapes and said that it was sour. As if thinking of something more brilliant about scolding the young man. He didn't see the murderous look in his eyes.

"I only recognize money!" the middle-aged man continued to nag.

"Believe it or not, I'll blow you in the head with a bottle. He said.

"Forget it, don't bother. "I stood up and persuaded.

The middle-aged man turned his face to look at me, his lips moving without squeaking.

"I'm not afraid of him at all!" Guo Jia said angrily.

His cat served as a guide for us to go to the adolescent forest to find treasure and have the opportunity to enter the castle, and most of the time we dozed off. But it's also the prettiest cat I've ever seen, and most of the time it seems quiet, unlike some cats in their arms who wake up easily, looking left and right, and it's hard to stop for a moment. For a long time to come, I would always think inadvertently that perhaps only when I was fourteen years old, my first treasure finding partner, Li Hui, and later the castle's general Zhang Qi, raised fat cats.

"Really?" he said, brushing his fingers through his cat's hair.

Guo Jia's cat was too calm, and he had an explanation for it. When they speak, they will show not too large snow-white teeth, like porcelain teeth, and they are not fine millet teeth. Jia'er played Kamen Rider and deliberately positioned her identity as my supporting role, which made me feel more and more uneasy.

"Am I similar to your first treasure partner?" he asked.

"Not exactly. I thought about it and said.

Someone asked him: "So did you two game bobtail doze and saw Mu Tangjie at the exit of the train station?"

Qin Feng actually refers to the cat at the gate of the castle, as the most senior professional cat breeder on our street, he just asks the guest's cat, which is not only the rules of the game, but also professional ethics.

"I never cared about anything like that. Qin Feng said.

"Guests have different tastes!" I nodded in acknowledgement.

Guo Jia first pursed his lips and smiled, and then the corners of his mouth cracked. When I finished drinking the bottle of orange soda and turned my face to look at them with gentle eyes, I noticed that Jia'er's two white teeth shot two cold arrows from the rose-red light of the pillar.

"My heart was beating wildly. "I told him later.

Guo Jia may be accustomed to acting on the spot, and he doesn't believe it very much.

Jumping and twisting around us, more red glittering, red sparkling steel wires intertwined with gold and swaying lines, and deeper verdant. The dark green above the head reaches the distant starry sky.

A ray of light slipped through the corner of my glasses eye, a faint shade of blue, through a thread of brown silk. The two of us left the masquerade side by side and turned to chat in the jujube grove.

I asked, "She knows you're coming to Maguan Town?"

"I know, my wife was originally a technician. ”

"She didn't give you any reason. "I'll look at him.

"My wife didn't want to, so I had to go to the manager's house instead. ”

Guo Jia raised his hand, as if he was going to give me two strokes. It was directly confessed by Qin Feng, the owner of the cold drink shop. Jia'er didn't say a word, I felt that the situation was serious, but I was not shocked. came forward to ask Guo Jia about his family affairs, to be honest, I am not qualified. Some things may be that Mu Tangjie directly gave orders to give face.

"Then why did you kill him?" I asked Guo Jia.

"He beat me up for my daughter's New Year's holiday. ”

I looked at the dark shadow behind Jia'er with strange eyes.

"Kill him, kill him!" the cat keeper didn't think it was going to be a big deal. Afraid that the world will not be chaotic, they are performing sketches.

Under the light, those people were angry, which brought out my treasure finding partner who was not clear about his grievances. That's why he ran away from home.

"I didn't kill him, I just fought back. He muttered.

"Didn't you say that person was your father-in-law?"

"He asked me to apologize to his daughter. Guo Jia continued.

Jia'er's voice was not quite the same as usual, not slow, not impatient, as if the things we talked about had nothing to do with him.

"But don't worry!" I said.

In the southern jujube forest, I couldn't see Guo Jia's expression clearly. But I immediately stopped him from impulsively. Guo Jia knew that he couldn't get out.

"Okay, I'll go, I'll go. He said in a panic.

"Tian Sen. "The professional cat breeder called me by name on the spot.

"Yes!" I replied, raising my voice and standing up a little straighter.

I couldn't change my words, this was the standard conversation mode before I started the operation with any of my newest treasure seekers before entering the castle. I thought that only by leaving the adolescent forest could we not use this tone. Guo Jia's beard was cleanly shaven, and a shallow smile appeared on his thin cheeks: "Let's go quickly! Hey, someone can help tell Mu Tangjie." ”

"You don't get up until this point. I said with a smile.

"Sure enough, you can't stay up late to play treasure hunting games. Guo Jia smiled.

I said, "Haha, I know you're in a hurry. Jia'er. ”

I was used to calling my new treasure partner like this, and I remembered following them in the streets of the castle for a while, watching them get on the bus.

The knights dancing the masquerade slowly dispersed, and it was late at night, and the stray cats were wandering around the jujube woods. Cunning eyes.

Qin Feng, the owner of the cold drink shop, has long been accustomed to this way of talking to him left and right: "You two came back from the big river?"

"Arrived home at 4.53pm. I replied.

"How's it going?" he asked calmly.

"It's all bones, I can't see it. I said.

"Oh, didn't you even find a clue?"

I hesitated, and opened my eyes wide to see the magician sitting in the green light of the pillar, who had just begun to drink the magic drink. The electric horn is singing: "Your heart sighs for me, how is love? Guo Jia didn't hold back and said: "I recognized a vertical striped jacket with bones on the spot, and I personally went to the county seat to buy it when I got married two years ago." Qin Feng shrugged his shoulders, he was still smiling, and pushed the two of us towards the private room.

He closed the door. "The jacket costs forty-seven dollars. ”

"Are you sure that your father-in-law wore your clothes on the day he disappeared? ”

"It should be. Guo Jia hooked his head and said.

I asked, "So you're sure the bones are your father-in-law's." ”

Guo Jia hesitated for another moment. "I can't believe it!" he said.

"The county public security bureau will come to a conclusion. I pondered.

He nodded. "Is your wife at home?" I asked again.

"No. Guo Jia said, "It seems to be a part-time job." ”

The police asked, "Do you know where she is?"

"I don't know. He said, "I went after her father, and she wasn't there at 5 o'clock when I turned home from the ferry." Cold pan cold stove. ”

"Do you know where she's going to work?"

"Can't guess. Guo Jia's expression was about to cry.

"Did she tell you about her intentions in the first two days of her disappearance?"

"It seems like she's going out after me and her dad. ”

"Guo Jia, when was the last time you saw your wife?"

"His dad slapped me five times. I was sitting by the stove and eating noodles, and he was clamoring to go to town. You have to go to the ferry first. ”

"What do you see her doing?" the police asked.

"She definitely didn't get anything to eat. Guo Jia muttered.

He thought that his father-in-law had returned to his hometown in Anhui, and his wife had run away from home. She went to work and maybe came back after a while.

Guo Jia didn't really want to stay at home by the river, so he crossed the other bank by a boat from Yedu to support his neighbor's house and go 60 kilometers to take a car.

There was no doubt about what happened next, he went to the cold drink shop.

The bank manager began to bald slightly, looking calm and sophisticated, and Guo Jia was surprised that he had changed so much. I followed Jia'er into the door without saying hello. Guo Jia is taller than me, and Manager Yang may not be interested in me at all.

Dong Xueqin only came home in the second half of last night, her cheeks were bruised and swollen, and she only knew how to cry. His father asked left and right, only to know that he was beaten by her husband Guo Jia, and the father-in-law jumped up from the chair and was about to take the green train to find his son-in-law desperately. She begged her father all the time, only blaming herself for her bad life, not to mention that she couldn't afford to provoke her, and she was afraid of divorce. Dong Xueqin's mother's attitude was obviously different from her father's, and she blamed her daughter first: "Most likely you did something wrong, otherwise Xiao Guo never loses his temper, how can he beat you for no reason, that's weird." Well played, I will see Guo Jia one day in the future, I want to thank him well. But when the old man sent his daughter back, he didn't even ask him to apologize.

"Then you ask her what she did with someone else!" Guo Jia said.

The old father-in-law, who loves to drink, is not obedient: "My own daughter, I have never been willing to fight ruthlessly, marrying you will become your Guo Jia's punching bag? It's not for you!"

Angry, the old man slapped Guo Jia five times in a row: "I regret marrying my daughter to a man like you who beats his wife." ”

Dong Xueqin definitely didn't tell the whole truth to her parents.

"I still protect her, and when she does something unseemly, I'm afraid it's too late for you to regret it. Guo Jia jumped on both feet.

While crying, the wife shouted to her father: "For the Chinese New Year, I advise you not to be embarrassed and not listen, it has nothing to do with him." ”

"Who does that have to do with that?" asked the old man angrily.

Dong Xueqin worked as a nurse at Manager Yang's house in the bank, and she was embarrassed to talk about it when she returned to her hometown in Anhui. The culprit was her boss.