When Gan Qing said this, Yu Lanchuan had just walked out of the elevator. As soon as he looked up, he saw that his silly brother had his head exposed from the house next door, looking around, not knowing what he was fumbling for.
"What are you looking for?" Yu Lanchuan said, and he glanced at his watch - at this time, Gan Qing usually didn't even reply to the customer's God's WeChat, "What time is it, are you still disturbing someone else's house?"
Liu Zhongqi looked around and saw him with a shocked expression: "Wow, so far!"
Yu Lanchuan raised his eyebrows impatiently: "Huh?"
"I forgot my key." Liu Zhongqi explained quickly, but obviously, the boy's mind was not on his brother at all at this time.
Liu Zhongqi turned his head and asked Gan Qing a series of questions in a fuss: "You can hear it from so far away? Really? When others found out, they always thought it was an exaggeration, but is it really possible? Is it natural or can it be practiced? How to practice... Ouch, brother!"
Yu Lanchuan raised his hand and pressed the back of his head, forcibly snapped Liu Zhongqi's head back, nodded at Gan Qing, and carried away expressionlessly.
Liu Zhongqi: "Brother, she is sitting in the room and can hear the movement in the elevator, like a bat!"
Yu Lanchuan said coldly, "Even if you become a radar, you still have to draw lots!"
Liu Zhongqi: "..."
"Hey." Gan Qing called out to the two of them.
The voice seemed to be stroked along Yu Lanchuan's back, and he suddenly stopped, feeling that even the goddess's voice was not serious.
Gan Qing handed over Liu Zhongqi's schoolbag: "Don't forget things."
Liu Zhongqi's canvas schoolbag had several badges hanging on it, including footballs, pirates of the Caribbean, and superheroes, but Yu Lanchuan didn't pay any attention to it. He saw a cartoon dog on the badge in the middle. Xiao Yu's sensitive nerves were instantly touched, and he turned his head and sprayed Liu Zhongqi: "Hanging a bunch of rubbish, you are not naive!"
Liu Zhongqi was pinched into a ball by him in a dizzy manner, and rolled back to his own house. He didn't understand why the eldest brother suddenly had an opinion on the badge: "I've been wearing it all the time, and you didn't say anything..."
Back home, Liu Zhongqi still didn't understand the meaning of Gan Qing's last words.
What does "time can't make up" mean
If she really knew that she was wrong, as she said, she worked hard for a few years later, and it was fruitful—Liu Zhongqi painfully admitted that at least now, if she were to take the English test, she seemed to be stronger than herself—then it wouldn’t be. late.
There are no restrictions on the college entrance examination. Even with the limited social experience of a high school student, Liu Zhongqi can tell her many ways: you can apply for student loans, and colleges and universities have "green channels"; , all kinds of scholarships and bursaries are enough; it doesn't matter if the grades are not good enough, she can take a job by herself, as long as she doesn't get too addicted to cheating and cheating, the current job as a clerk doesn't take much effort, and she can continue to do it.
These are not what Liu Zhongqi imagined without backache standing up and talking. There are examples around him - Yu Lanchuan was self-sufficient with various competition bonuses and scholarships back then, so the rebellious period of his youth passed extremely confidently, and he wanted to live where he wanted to move. , just move to live, very arrogant, no one wants to use the economy to restrain him.
Although Gan Qing is an "old woman" from the perspective of a minor, it is not uncommon for people in their twenties and thirties to go back to school for further studies. try it
No matter if you can learn anything in four years of college, it's better than being a witch in a little black shop, right? Even if there is no college entrance examination, in the contemporary environment, there are still many channels to learn a professional skill. Online, offline, paid, free... Seeing how she is idle all day long, she still has the face to say "I can't make up for it"
"It's clear that I'm lazy, and the mud can't support the wall!" The more Liu Zhongqi thought about it, the more he felt that he was being fooled again.
The teenager was full after supper, and went back to the house to memorize the words for a while. After a very fulfilling day, he fell asleep in three seconds, and all his worries were isolated from him.
However, this kind of happiness is too rare.
Yu Lanchuan poured himself a cup of hot tea and sat on the sofa in a daze as he heard the voice of the next door reciting words faded away.
When he was in school, he came to the grandfather and lived in Liu Zhongqi's room. After finishing the competition class in the middle of the night, he came back just like that kid, working hard on the small desk, while the grandfather held a big pipe. , like he is now, sitting quietly by himself.
At that time, Yu Lanchuan really envied them - no exams, no bullshit, how extravagant you want to wander for as long as you want!
Now he finally has the right to "luxury", but he envies the busy high school student next door.
Yu Lanchuan was also very tired today. He didn't receive a call from Liu Zhongqi because he was dealing with matters in the conference room closed, and his handling was not serious. A subordinate in his department hooked up with the financial director next door, a married man. A married woman, not to mention nonsense, was also smashed by someone, causing a lot of commotion, the whole CBD was eating melons, and it was as lively as celebrating the new year ahead of schedule.
The whole company followed them and embarrassed them.
Everyone works dizzy and under great pressure every day. Some of them are timid, and they step on high-voltage lines in person, mess and gamble, and get cheap stimulation and dopamine. Obtain subtle and ambiguous pleasure.
Every time this kind of thing happens, Yu Lanchuan will have an indescribable frustration.
It's not because Mr. Yu's moral level is high and he can't see any filth. But he felt that there was a very sad feeling of powerlessness in it - he used to think that he could fly to the sky, but as time passed, he was exhausted, but he became more and more like "I am nothing, and in this life. Maybe that's it." Feelings of learned helplessness, they had to turn to the lowest and most accessible food and sex.
It is suave to chase sensual dogs and horses generously, and people admit that it is also not attractive.
But to seek paralyzing stimulation because of helplessness is pathetic, it is a mid-life crisis, and people have to watch jokes.
Next door, Han Zhou was picked up by Han Dongsheng who came back late at night. Gan Qing didn't ask more, but looking at his anxious look, the old man probably hadn't found it yet.
"Where can this old man go?" Such a thought came to her mind, but she refused to think about it lazily. She emptied her brain and prepared to go to sleep.
But it was strange that Gan Qing, who had been yawning and yawning for a long time, was inexplicably insomnia. She sat silently by the bedside for a while, and didn't realize that she had anything worthy of insomnia, so she had to blame it for being too sleepy, so she turned on the bedside lamp and brushed her phone. The mobile phone can swipe the news from all over the world, the big and the small, the bizarre, and as long as you want, and you can never finish it anyway. But those words and images flowed through her retinas like water, nothing was left, Gan Qing watched the serial after a while.
Moonlight streamed in from the window and sprinkled all over the begonias on the windowsill.
Gan Qing suddenly remembered for no reason. When she was young, someone once said to her: "Adults are not necessarily smart, not necessarily strong, and not necessarily very old. They may not know as much as you. You can’t beat you even with your hands. The difference between adults and teenagers is that everyone has their own emotions, but if a teenager is unhappy, there is a reason for it—it may be because of a specific thing, or it may be because of physical discomfort or illness There is a lack of a certain hormone in the brain."
"Adults are different. The so-called 'adults'... Sometimes they don't have any physical problems, but they can't remember anything in their hearts. They just want to cry for no reason when they can't sleep in the middle of the night."
"This is not an adult, this is a sick person, right?" The teenage Gan Qing said to the person disapprovingly, with her feet cocked.
The man laughed softly: "When you can't sleep, and you don't know why you can't sleep, you'll understand."
It turned out to be true.
On the eighth floor, Han Dongsheng's house was brightly lit, the child slept in the back room, and the couple sat on both sides of the coffee table separately.
Zhou Beibei's eyes were full of bloodshot eyes: "where can I go? I have asked about the places he often go to. Where else can he go?"
Han Dongsheng: "Don't worry..."
"Why am I not in a hurry?" Zhou Beibei suddenly raised the volume, "It's such a cold day! Every day in the news there are lost old people who freeze to death by the roadside, I... "
"Shh," Han Dongsheng pressed her shoulders and glanced at Han Zhou's house, "be quiet - those are all elderly people who are demented and can't find a home. My dad won't do it. I'll take leave tomorrow and wait for the police at home. The news, don't worry, it's definitely fine. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to living here, I went to a friend's house, and maybe some master tricked him into doing some strange experience projects... Spend some money, just spend some money, just be It's to make the old man happy, and when he comes back, don't lose your temper again."
Zhou Beibei was silent for a while, and after a while, she suddenly raised her head: "You said... Could it be because I spoke too hard yesterday, my dad... "
Han Dongsheng sighed.
Zhou Beibei covered her face and cried: "I didn't mean to."
But the words that are spoken are like water that is poured out, and the water cannot be taken back.
The old man was lost for a day, probably because he was having trouble with his family, but after three days there was still no news, the problem was serious.
"The old man has his own house, have you seen it over there?"
"Look, Brother Yu, I asked the family for the key, the house is covered in ash, and no one has been there recently!"
"Will you go home by yourself?"
"He's a native born and raised, and he doesn't have a hometown! We've asked all the relatives who can't be beaten, but we haven't been in touch."
"This is really weird!" Yu Yan muttered as he walked, "Even if it is abducting and selling an old man, you can't abduct and sell an old man. I've heard of buying a son, who has nothing to buy a father?"
His voice fell, and his phone rang: "Hello, I'm Xiao Xiao from the Dongping District Police Station... Yes, we have a case of lost elderly people, and we are helping to find it... What?"
Yu Yan suddenly stopped in his footsteps. After listening to the phone, his expression changed, and he ran away: "Lan Ye! Lan Ye!"
Yu Lanchuan was about to go out to work, but was blocked by Yu Yan, who dragged him out of breath and said, "Do you know anyone in the underworld? Arrested and maimed, organized begging and fraud? "
Yu Lanchuan was inexplicable: "Are you sick?"
"Hey! Colleagues from other districts called just now. They also have lost elderly people. It's all happened recently. The situation is similar to your Lou Lao Zhou! Let me tell you, this can't be a coincidence!" Yu Yan said, "There is also the old lady Lin who disappeared at the beginning. So far, there is no news at all. You quickly help me find someone to ask, the train station, the station... all kinds of places where people have many eyes, have they broken their hands? The old beggar with his feet has a raw face!"
Yu Lanchuan was shocked by his rich imagination.
However, Officer Yu had no time to talk to him in detail, so he turned and ran to investigate and monitor.
The beggar gang would never admit that something like what Yu Yan said would happen under their own eyes. Within a few days, the beggars in the whole city had become "volunteers", patrolling their own territory in a hurry.
After another week, including Mrs. Lin, who disappeared at the beginning, there were already 12 elderly people who reported missing to local police stations, all of whom believed in various folk "experts" and pyramid selling of health care products.
The police dug three feet into the ground, pulled out the radish and brought out the mud and dug up several similar dens.
There are organized "health lectures", selling therapeutic equipment, and online micro-businesses, which are invisible on the Internet... What's more outrageous is that even "Qigong masters" have a lot of fans, and a bunch of old men and old ladies follow regardless of rain or shine. "Master" meditates, rushing to buy the eggs that the master has made!
"The eggs laid by the master himself are not worth the price!" Yu Yan angrily ran over to Yu Lanchuan and said, "He even ran away, in front of me! Just like the Spider-Man downstairs in your house, a Turning somersaults into the tree, it was like parkour, and it disappeared after two strokes. Now the eyes of his idiot believers are lit up. They have to say that this is the real kung fu of the master, and it is my country's intangible cultural heritage. Our police do not understand anything. , slandering traditional culture! Which sect do you belong to? Alliance leader, let me tell you, this person is now a major suspect! The missing Mr. Zhou and Mrs. Lin have bought eggs from him before!"
"Master of Qigong?" After listening to Old Master Yang, he pondered for a moment, "This... I do know some people..."
At this time, a voice suddenly came from the door, interjecting: "It's a helper."