During the lunch break that day, Mu Mian opened the chat interface with the intermediary again. The last time I contacted the intermediary was a week ago. After waiting for another week, Mu Mian completely lost his patience.
He couldn't help but hit the keyboard again.
Mu Mian: [Hi, do you have any news?]
1 was online all day long, Mu Mian sent a message, only waited for more than forty seconds, and the other party replied to the message.
1: [This matter is difficult to handle, we have not found a suitable heart, I think, I'd better return the deposit to you.]Mu Mian had expected this result a long time ago, but after seeing the reply of 1, he was still ashamed.
Mu Mian was not reconciled to losing the last clear way like this, he humbly asked the other party: [Sir, is there no other way?]
1: [What can be done? You can't kill people!]
Mu Mian narrowed his eyes.
For Mu Qiu, he really dared to kill people.
Mu Mian was a little absent-minded when he went to work in the afternoon, and he packed up his things and went home as soon as the off-duty time came. Du Tingting went out for a walk, Aunt Zhang was the only one at home. Mu Mian told Aunt Zhang: "Let's make a sauced pig's trotter tonight, both mother and daughter love it."
"Good sir."
Seeing that Mu Mian was about to go upstairs, Aunt Zhang said to him with some worry: "Sir, Miss is back this afternoon."
Last night Mu Qiu sent a text message saying that he wanted to get together with his friends, but he didn't come back that night. The daughter has always been very well-behaved, and Mu Mian never suspected that Mu Qiu would lie. Hearing Aunt Zhang said that Mu Qiu was back, Mu Mian didn't worry about it.
Aunt Zhang added: "Miss's mental condition is not right. When she came back, her eyes were red and swollen. She must have cried."
"Cried?"
Mu Mian frowned, said: "I see." and went upstairs.
He knocked on Mu Qiu's door, and without waiting for Mu Qiu's consent, he opened the door and walked in.
Mu Qiu didn't sleep, she was watching a movie, the Korean movie "The Eraser in My Mind". While watching, Mu Qiu wiped his tears and nose with a tissue, looking a little nervous.
Mu Mian directly turned off her ipad.
Mu Qiu raised his red eyes, silently protesting Mu Mian's domineering behavior.
Mu Mian said: "Today, the people over there replied to my message."
Hearing this, Mu Qiu's eyes trembled slightly.
"The results of it?"
Under Mu Qiu's expectant gaze, Mu Mian shook his head impatiently. Seeing this, Mu Qiu's eyes instantly dimmed, gray and lifeless. "That's it"
Mu Qiu smiled bitterly and comforted himself: "It's okay, Dad, don't feel guilty, you have done too much for me."
Mu Mian was not comforted.
Looking at his daughter's young and beautiful face, Mu Mian's heart ached like a knife. "Qiu'er, Dad can't protect you this time." After speaking, Mu Mian cried. He held his forehead with one hand, and the snot and tears fell on his thigh pants.
"Qiu'er, Dad is incompetent and can't protect you"
"Dad is useless"
The middle-aged man's tears burned Mu Qiu's heart.
Mu Qiu hugged his father's shoulders tightly, cried and said to him: "Dad, you are the best father in the world. I am very satisfied to say goodbye to my parents before leaving."
Compared to those who passed away in a hurry without even saying goodbye, Mu Qiu was already very lucky.
It's a good thing for Mu Qiu to think this way, but Mu Mian couldn't accept such a result. "You are my baby, Dad is reluctant to let you go."
"Dad, don't be like this, I feel uncomfortable when you are like this"
The father and daughter hugged each other and cried out in despair.
During dinner at night, the father and daughter tacitly did not talk about this matter, and both pretended to be relaxed. Du Tingting didn't notice the secret between father and daughter, she told Mu Mian: "Song Ci called me today."
"Her?" Mu Mian didn't want to mention Song Ci, so he didn't ask any more questions. After hearing this, Mu Qiu asked with concern: "Did sister have a good time in Austria?"
"Of course she had fun, but she was worried about Song Fei."
"Song Fei?" Mu Qiu asked, "What happened to Song Fei? Isn't she awake? Elder sister is still worried about what Song Fei is doing?"
Mu Mian also looked at Du Tingting, also curious.
"You don't know." Du Tingting told them: "Song Fei's child actually went to Congo, saying that he was going there to study viruses." Du Tingting shook her head and said with emotion: "I heard that Congo is very chaotic. , Song Fei went there, Song Ci is naturally worried."
Mu Mian snorted coldly, and said without any sympathy: "If something happens, she deserves it. She knows it's dangerous there, but what are you going to do!"
Mu Qiu frowned, a little worried about Song Fei's situation. "I've also heard that the Congo is in political chaos. A few days ago, I saw the news that there was a riot there and people died. What if something happened to Song Fei?"
When Mu Mian heard this, he stopped eating, stared at the pot of soup in front of him, and lost his mind.
Song Fei is an independent person, and Du Tingting doesn't want to talk about her. Thinking of another matter, Du Tingting held Mu Mian's hand and said to him, "It will be the death anniversary of my father-in-law in two days, so I won't accompany you to pay homage to him this year."
Mu Mian's father was an alcoholic. When Mu Mian graduated from university, he fell into the river because of drunkenness. When the body was found, the body had already taken on the appearance of a giant.
After his death, Mu's father was cremated, and his ashes were not buried, but placed directly in the Dormition Hall.
Du Tingting is a little superstitious. She is pregnant, so she doesn't want to go to a place like the Dormition Hall. Mu Mian naturally had no objection, he said: "You won't go to that kind of place when you're pregnant, just cultivate yourself at home."
"Um."
Mu Mian asked Mu Qiu again: "What about you? Will you come with me?"
Mu Qiu shook his head, "I'm not going either." Anyway, I'm going to meet my grandfather underground soon, so I'm too lazy to make a trip.
"Then I'll go alone."
The next day, Mu Mian got up early, put on a pure black suit, and drove to the Dormition Hall alone to pay homage to his deceased father.
On the way, he stopped in front of a small shop and bought a bottle of Erguotou. Mu Mian's father was called Mu Congjun, and he was a drunkard during his lifetime. When Mu Mian came to visit his father, he didn't bring anything else, he only prepared a small bottle of wine for him.
Mu Mian took out the Erguotou he brought last year, put it in a small bag, and put the newly bought wine next to the urn.
Staring at the photo of his father on the urn, Mu Mian's gaze was neither nostalgic nor emotional, but only indifferent and mocking. "Dad, Erguotou, you'd better take this one, I brought it for you."
When he spoke, there was a mocking smile on his lips. "Every time you get drunk, you beat my mother. Later, she couldn't stand being bullied anymore, and hanged herself. I always wanted to ask you, you woke up that morning and saw the dead body hanging on your door. Wife, have you ever regretted even a second?"
(end of this chapter)