When I got closer and touched the words, the uneven texture was a bit tricky, which made me convinced that what I saw was not an absurd dream.
Some of the letter paper on the wall is already brittle and yellow, it looks old, and I am very familiar with it, and my name is written on it uniformly.
The letters I wrote to Sheng Minou in the past ten years, he said he hadn't read them and threw them all away, but they are all here.
"This is... I haven't seen it, throw it all away?" I stood in the middle and looked around the whole room, my daze was gradually washed away by ecstasy, and I muttered, "... I will never believe your nonsense again."
As if facing a powerful work of art, I admired them and commented on them. At first I just stood, then simply squatted down, and finally sat down on the ground, reluctant to look away. It wasn't until my cell phone rang, and Liu Yue asked me if I wasn't going to work today, that I realized that two hours had passed.
Making sure that everything in the house remained the same as it was before I entered the house, I carefully closed the door, wiped the invisible fingerprints on the door guiltily, smoothed the wrinkles on Sheng Mingou's bed, washed the cups, and then went out to work.
When I whistled and opened the door to enter the pawn shop, I saw Shen Xiaoshi sitting in the old position, playing games with a mobile phone in his hand, and thought for a moment that I was hallucinating.
"Why are you here?" I looked around at him, "Didn't you say to invite me for a month?"
Shen Xiaoshi looked up at me, and quickly turned his gaze back to the phone screen.
"I have nothing to do at home, so I'm here."
I glanced at Liu Yue who was watching dramas with earphones on, squeezed to Shen Xiaoshi's side, and asked him softly, "How was your talk with the prosecutor?"
The villain in Shen Xiaoshi's game crouched in a corner of the room and didn't move for a while. He put down his cell phone, sighed, and said, "The prosecutor offers conditions, and if you plead guilty, your sentence will be reduced to five years."
Originally, it took twenty years, but now it is only five years, which can be described as a qualitative leap.
"But my mother didn't agree." Shen Xiaoshi whispered, "She pleaded not guilty. My brother testified in court, which gave her a lot of stimulation."
Pleading not guilty means that this lawsuit will continue to fight, continue to fight with the prosecution, and confront each other in court. The prosecutor probably didn't expect that asking Tang Zhuo to appear in court as a witness would actually make it difficult to complete the prosecution and defense deal in this lawsuit.
The pawn business is not profitable every day, and not every pawn can find its final destination. Things are too weird and no one is interested in collecting them, and it is not uncommon for them to end up as unfinished goods.
The business was idle that day, so I found a time to go into the warehouse to take stock, and found a lot of messy things. A dusty limited game cassette, a whole Spanish ham, an out-of-season branded windbreaker...
"What is this?" Wiping off the dust on the box, I saw that the other person looked quite unfamiliar, so I asked Shen Xiaoshi for help.
The box is boxy, like the most common lockbox in movies. When it is opened, it looks like a laptop, with buttons on the top screen and many jacks on the bottom. There is a gray thing like a sleeve tucked into the corner, and there is also a coil of thin wires, the top of which is connected to a round electrode piece. It looked like a hospital EKG machine, only a size smaller.
Shen Xiaoshi blew the ashes on the game cassette, making himself choke and cough, glanced at me and said: "It seems that a detective fan sent me a lie detector..."
"Polygraph?" I looked at the thing in front of me incredulously, "Detective fans still collect this thing..."
"It's not mainly for this. I wouldn't accept him if he was just a polygraph tester. He became a set of suspense novels with a global limited edition signature. He won’t sell it, and the 1.8-meter-old man was crying when he gave the book to me.” Shen Xiaoshi shrugged, “I thought he was pitiful, so I took away the lie detector, but it kept accumulating dust and no one wanted it. .”
Ordinary people can't use this thing. I looked at the black box in front of me and thought.
After tidying up the warehouse, I threw away what should be thrown away. Shen Xiaoshi and I soaked in it all afternoon, exhausted, sore and dirty.
"How long has the ham been stored, isn't it bad?"
"Probably not? I remember that this thing can be stored for a long time, but it is a bit dangerous if it cannot be sold. A leg costs tens of thousands..."
While talking with Shen Xiaoshi, I stepped out of the warehouse and met Wei Shi who came in.
I didn't even have time to wink at him, he raised his eyebrows when he saw me, and said in a loud voice, "How was it yesterday? You didn't reply when I sent you a message. Did you drop your phone in the latrine?"
From yesterday to today, in just a dozen hours, he didn't know what I had gone through. I almost forgot to go to work, how can I reply to his message when I have time.
"what… "
Before I could return to him, he stared behind me and suddenly his expression changed, he saw Shen Xiaoshi.
"Xiao, Xiaoshi is here too." Gao Gao's tone instantly became dry, even cautious.
Shen Xiaoshi squeezed past me without looking at him, sat down on the sofa, took out his mobile phone and played games.
Wei Shi followed him with his eyes, seeing that he didn't pay attention to him, his eyes dimmed a little bit.
"I remembered something... Let's go first, Lu Feng, remember to check your phone." He smiled, stayed for only two minutes, still holding the doorknob in his hand, and backed out as before.
I glanced at Shen Xiaoshi who was expressionless and unmoved on the sofa, and then at the direction of the gate where he was no longer there. I sighed in my heart and worried about the future of these two people.
This incident caused a lot of trouble, and I don't know if it's time for the four of them to sit down and eat hot pot.
The whole ham couldn't be sold, so I asked Shen Xiaoshi to sell it by weight in Moments. Four years of Spanish top-quality ham, many people wanted to try something new, and sold it half a catty, but sold a lot of it.
When I was about to get off work, I received a message from the coach of the club week, asking me if I wanted to practice today.
I asked his brother if he couldn't afford to go.
Coach Zhou first answered me with a "?", and then quickly reacted.
[Oh, oh, you mean Mr. Sheng? Today is the second time you ask me this, he came today haha.]
The first one knows without asking is my little senior sister.
There were a lot of scraps left over from the Spanish ham, and Shen Xiaoshi and I didn't like to eat it raw, so we asked Liu Yue to take it all back. Liu Yue wrapped five or six packs in oiled paper, and said happily that she was going home to cook soup. The bones with meat were broken into several sections and filled with plastic bags, intending to feed the stray cats in the community.
I was surprised when I heard the words: "The cat still eats this?"
Liu Yue: "I usually feed cheap cat food. This is an extra meal. It's better than nothing."
I remembered that I saw two half-sized stray cats in front of the boxing gym last time, they were dirty and thin, they looked pitiful, so I asked her for a package of ham, and I planned to feed them if I saw them again this time.
Saying goodbye to Shen Xiaoshi and Liu Yue, I casually found a noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles, and then took a taxi to the boxing gym with the bag of ham in my pocket.
I have been meowing at the door for a long time, but there is no kitten. I was feeling frustrated and was about to put away the ham when someone patted me on the shoulder from behind.
"Junior brother!" Zheng Mimi appeared behind me with a smile.
She looked at the things in my hand and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
I handed the greased paper bag in front of her: "Do you want to eat it? Ham."
Zheng Mimi's eyes lit up: "Wow, it smells so good, it's a familiar smell. Isn't this the ham from ￥%1@*3?" She said an unusually elusive Spanish brand, and then she was not polite at all. I took the bag of ham in my hand, opened it and ate it with relish.
If you can't feed a cat, it's okay to feed a little senior sister, as long as there is no waste.
I entered the boxing gym with Zheng Mimi and started a new round of novice training. When I was about to die, Sheng Minou came, and Zheng Mimi started all kinds of rainbow farts in my ears again.
"Why is my cousin-in-law so handsome..." she said while pressing my shoulder, "My uncle's company will hold a charity dinner in a while, and my cousin-in-law seems to be going there too. You said that I volunteered to be his girlfriend, and he would Agree?"
I was sweating profusely, enduring the severe pain of broken bones and said word by word: "It's a little... hanging."
Zheng Mimi let go of me all at once, and said in frustration, "I also think that he doesn't care about me at all."
"Find someone else, don't hang on a tree. You are so beautiful, the forest is waiting for you." I wiped my sweat and teased her.
Zheng Mimi laughed wildly, then suddenly withdrew her expression and said seriously: "Wait, Junior Brother, don't you have a crush on me?"
I almost choked on my own saliva, and waved my hands again and again to clear the relationship.
"Although you are young, beautiful and rich, little sister, but I..." I glanced at Sheng Minou's direction, "but I have my own heart."
Zheng Mimi patted her chest: "Scared me." Maybe because she felt that she was acting too directly, she immediately added, "It's not that you are bad, Junior Brother, the main thing is that I have a relationship, right? And I like it." Mature and stern male god, you are not my kind of sunny and handsome little fresh meat."
"understand."
She held out her hand to me to pull me up.
As soon as I stood firm, I heard Sheng Minou's voice from the direction of the ring.
"You, come here." With sweat dripping from his temples, he came to the edge of the ring and hooked his fingers at me, "Give me the target."
Just now Coach Zhou gave him a target, but after a while he disappeared.
Zheng Mimi pushed me excitedly: "Hurry up, brother is calling you."
Pushed forward by her, I climbed onto the boxing ring flattered, picked up the two-handed targets on the ground, put them on and smiled at Sheng Minou: "Brother, this is my first time, please be gentle."
Sheng Minou didn't say anything, adjusted his breathing, swept his long legs, and attacked from the side. I hurriedly blocked it, and was almost swept sideways by the force.
Fuck, for real
I dare not slack off anymore, and take every attack he takes seriously. After experiencing all kinds of jabs, uppercuts, and sweeps of his legs, his physical strength dropped rapidly, and sweat dripped from the roots of his hair and seeped into his eyes.
I had to close one eye, and the limited field of vision made me move more slowly. When Sheng Minou kicked in the middle of the target, I had no time to adjust my center of gravity, and I fell back all of a sudden, and was directly caught by the ring protection rope catch.
Panting heavily, I couldn't stand up.
"Let's stop here today." Sheng Minou glanced at my embarrassed appearance, left a word of mercy, untied his hands, took off the ring, and walked to the locker room.
Zheng Mimi came to the boxing ring, all worried: "Brother, are you okay? Brother, you are so ruthless today, you are still a novice, and you don't show mercy at all."
I took off the target and was speechless, so I could only wave my hand at her to signal that I was fine.
Sheng Minou left, she didn't stay any longer, and said goodbye to me soon. I lay on the spot for a while, and felt that my HP had picked up a little, so I also went to the locker room.
Coincidentally, as soon as I entered, I saw Sheng Minou had already taken a shower, and was opening the door of the cupboard wearing a bath towel.
This scene is so familiar.
He was the only one in his area. I sneaked up behind him and found that I couldn’t do what he did last time with my height. , rubbing all the sweat on his face on his hot and humid skin.
"Brother, are you in a bad mood today?"
Sheng Minou froze there suddenly, and pressed down my troubled hands.
"Did you forget the third chapter of the agreement? Don't touch me, stay away from me." He opened my fingers, turned and pushed me away.
I bumped into the locker opposite and made a loud noise, but this time I didn't feel hurt, on the contrary, I was very happy.
stay away from me. Every time he said it to me, he was also warning himself, don't cross the line, don't get close. But obviously, sometimes he can't fully abide by the rules he set.
He told me to stay away over and over again, did he also subconsciously think that he might hurt me, so he wanted me to keep a distance from him and never cross the threshold
What kind of mood did he create that secret room, and how did he spend these ten years
There are still many questions in my mind, but if I ask directly, he may not tell me honestly.
"Okay, I won't touch you, stay away from you."
Suddenly, I felt a little funny. I seemed to have really become the fisherman in the story. In order to lure the gulls into my arms, I racked my brains and made every effort.
"Actually, I've thought a lot these days, and you're right." I smiled at him, "I don't have to, why hang on your tree? I'm young, handsome and... full of energy. There must be a lot of forests waiting for me."
Sheng Minou pursed his lips, and gradually frowned, as if he didn't understand why I was talking so much with him.
So I cut the long story short and said succinctly: "So I gave up."
"Starting today, we will return to the legal brotherhood. I will not force or pester you. What do you think?"