At 15:03 pm that day.
Zhougang Station in the suburbs of Zhongshan City. This station is only two stops away from Ninggu Garden Station at the end of Ninggu Avenue.
The residential land around Ninggu Avenue belongs to the newly developed urban suburbs in recent years. It is relatively far from the city center. For a long way after leaving the city, each village has built its own houses. Some villages have even been developed because of their beautiful scenery and green mountains in the background. Visit tourist attractions and set up some farmhouses to attract customers.
This Zhougang Village is well-known in the city for its well-preserved Ming and Qing ancient buildings in the mountain nest. Many tourists come here throughout the year, but most of them are from Zhongshan City.
Under the newly built bus station pavilion, a young man and woman with only two backpacks sat on a simple bench. You kissed me and I kissed you. They completely forgot about the people around them and sank into the atmosphere of just two people. in the world.
At the other end of the bench was an elderly couple in their sixties. The more fashionably dressed old lady raised her head and glanced at the young man and woman, with disapproving looks on her face.
Her husband probably noticed his wife's disgust, so he patted the back of her hand and said, "A city girl."
"These young people are getting more and more shameless now." The old lady scolded in a low voice, and then complained: "Why doesn't the car come?"
The old man comforted her, "We're almost there, just wait." After a pause, the old man looked a little uneasy, and tentatively said to his wife: "You said... can we go to the youngest son's place suddenly?"
"What's wrong?" The old lady rolled her eyes, "Isn't it natural for parents to go to their son's place for dinner? Can they still drive us out?"
"We haven't seen each other for almost ten years..." the old man smiled bitterly.
The old lady grabbed the brightly colored canvas bag in her hand and said to her husband after a while: "Let's talk about it this time. I used to be worried about the eldest son. Now the eldest son is finally married and the youngest is almost ten years old." , No matter what resentment the two brothers have, I think they can almost let it go."
"I'm afraid that the youngest doesn't hate the boss, but hates us." The old man sighed and coughed lightly.
"Hate us? Why do you hate us? That woman was originally talking to the boss. How could she, a woman in her late thirties, have the nerve to seduce our youngest? That woman is six years older than the youngest! The youngest is also blind. He would fall in love with that kind of old woman. Humph, the boss is also a fool, and he actually falls in love with that woman. What's so good about that woman? The two brothers made such a fuss!" The old lady happened to see the girl next to her doing something to the boy. He made an indecent move and immediately threw the canvas bag on his lap in anger.
The old man coughed several times in succession. He looked at his wife and couldn't help but worry. How could he go to his younger son with such a mentality? Isn't this a quarrel? well!
"Actually, if we hadn't interfered with it at the beginning, so many things wouldn't have happened later... Cough, cough, cough!" The old man coughed violently.
"What's wrong with you?" The old lady frowned and leaned over to look at her wife.
The old man waved and said it was okay.
"puff!"
"Wow! What's wrong with you, Xiaohua?" A sharp scream came from the side. The young girl stood up with blood on her face and looked at her boyfriend in horror. She even forgot to wipe the blood that was sprayed on her face.
The young man in his early twenties covered his chest and looked at the girl to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, blood couldn't stop spitting out.
"Come here! Help! Xiaohua, Xiaohua, don't scare me!" The girl was so frightened that she cried loudly.
The old man stood up, but the old lady held him back and refused to let him pass.
Just at this moment, a bus slowly drove into the platform.
15:10 minutes.
"What's wrong with my eyes?" Xiao Mo turned up the temperature, bent down and said to the child.
The child said to him seriously: "You have to see it to find out."
Xiao Mo smiled and grabbed the child's extended hand, "Okay, don't be naughty. Today we will finish work early and go home. There happens to be no food at home. We will go to the vegetable market later to replenish some. Quick, turn off the computer. That's right. Yes, what’s your name?”
"My name is Xue Lihong." The child closed the computer and jumped off the chair.
"Xue Lihong?"
The child despised him, "No, it's Xue Lihong." After saying that, he grabbed Xiao Mo's hand and wrote his name to him.
"Is this your real name?" Xiao Mo didn't believe it.
"It really couldn't be truer."
"Haha!" Xiao Mo didn't believe what he said at all. He was already guessing whether this child was a prank played by one of his friends, or...
"Do you think I'm part of a scammer group, using my identity as a child to get close to you, and then trying every means to gain your trust, in order to get your bank/bank/card or password?"
"Are you?"
"If I want to get your money, I don't have to go to that trouble at all." The child curled his lips and grabbed Xiao Mo's hand. "I'm not a liar. If you support me for a while, I will help you work and make money."
"After I raise you for a while, will a pair of parents come out and say that I abducted their child, and even intend to accuse me of child molestation or something, so as to blackmail me for the rest of my life?"
"...Brother, are you suffering from delusions of persecution? Didn't you say you were going to buy groceries? I'm hungry. Can I have braised beef tonight?"
Xiao Mo thought for a while, rubbed the child's head, and said with a smile: "Okay, but before that, you have to go to the police station with me."
"Must you go?" The child raised his head.
"must go."
"Okay, if that puts your mind at ease." The child shrugged nonchalantly.
Xiao Mo breathed out secretly. This child was indeed different from ordinary children, but this was not the reason why he was willing to adopt him for a period of time. He simply did not want to see the child living on the streets and eventually being used by some criminal organizations.
No matter what the child's true identity is, leaving a file at the police station first will make it easier to find the child's biological parents, and on the other hand, it will be a clear path, so that the child's family will not come to the door in the future and cause confusion. There are a lot of good-intentioned people being misunderstood these days.
Xiao Mo still doesn't think the child is really an orphan, and has no plans to adopt the child. In his opinion, he doesn't lack the child's food anyway, and there is room for the child at home. The most important thing is that he doesn't hate the child, so if it is only for a short period of time, he is still happy to take care of it.
Turn off all the power, and walk out of the store one by one. Xiao Mo is about to pull down the rolling shutter door when he hears someone calling him: "Old Xiao, wait! Don't leave yet, sign this list first." .”
Xiao Mo turned around and saw two city administrators coming out of the supermarket nearby and walking quickly towards him.
Xiao Mo held the hand of the child beside him and asked with a smile: "Old Zhang, why is it so urgent?"
"Oh, don't mention it." The city manager named Lao Zhang waved a stack of A4 paper in his hand and said hurriedly: "Suddenly, there was an instruction from above that a major health inspection of this area was to be carried out. Let us help the neighborhood committee to make statistics of this area first. The living population, including those who stay temporarily and those who come to visit, are counted. All the statistics must be completed before eight o'clock tonight, it's very tiring!"
"So urgent? Have you finished counting?" Xiao Mo said in surprise.
"Not only us, but also Lao Zhou and the others, and some volunteers were also mobilized to help."
Xiao Mo knew that the Lao Zhou mentioned by Lao Zhang was the deputy director of the local police station. It seemed that the local police also participated in this census. But why is it so urgent? Just for a health inspection
Xiao Mo didn't think it looked like it. It looked like the situation when fugitives were arrested last year. A lot of people went door to door to check population information. Even people in Shanwozi went in to check, just for the four people who escaped from the city prison. Death row inmate.
"Old Xiao, can we do you a favor?" Lao Zhang asked while wiping his sweat. At the same time, he handed the printed A4 paper to Xiao Mo and asked him to fill in his personal information according to the form. Another city manager went to another store.
Xiao Mo shook his head and pointed at the child beside him with his pen, "Sorry, it's not that I don't want to help. I have to take care of this kid these days."
"Hey, who is this child to you? He looks quite cute." Lao Zhang seemed to have just noticed the child now. He was stunned for a moment, then smiled and went to touch the child's head.
The child twisted his head so that Lao Zhang could not touch it.
"Haha, children are afraid of life. Come on, call me Uncle Zhang."
The child pulled the corner of Xiao Mo's clothes and hid behind Xiao Mo.
Lao Zhang didn't mind either. He pointed at the A4 paper and said, "You also have to fill in the child's information."
"Is it so strict this time?"
"There is no way. The higher authorities have a strict requirement, saying that as long as they are human beings, they must be included in this statistics."
"Do you know what's going on?" Xiao Mo filled it out again on the paper. The child's name was written as "Xuelihong", his age was filled in as five years old, and his home address and contact information were filled in as his own.
Lao Zhang shook his head and was a little confused, "I don't know, this order came very suddenly. Oh, one more thing, you'd better stay at home these two days and don't run around. If you have to go somewhere, report it to the police station. .”
Xiao Mo frowned and returned the filled-in information form to Lao Zhang, "What about ordinary people when they go to work?"
"Ask for leave!"
"strangeness… "
Xiao Mo watched Lao Zhang enter another merchant and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what happened.
"I suggest you go to the vegetable market today to stock up on more food. The world might be in chaos."
Xiao Mo's expression was very embarrassing. Hearing a little boy under five years old say that the world was going to be in chaos was a strange feeling that ordinary people could not understand.
"...Children, don't talk nonsense."
"Believe it or not, it's up to you. If I didn't feel that the world was about to change, do you think I would just find a caregiver for myself?" The child said very straightforwardly.
Xiao Mo can no longer think of a child as someone who talks nonsense and fools people. No matter how smart a child is, he can't say such shocking things at such a young age, right
Xiao Mo squatted down, his eyes were level with the child's and said, "Do you know something?"
"What do you think I know?" the child said expressionlessly.
"Okay, let's change the question. Why are you looking for me?"
"...You give me steamed buns and soy milk."
"Just for this?"
The child became a little impatient, and put his little hands into his pants to scratch, "I don't have much time, I don't have much time to choose. I just happened to meet someone like you and it feels good, so that's you."
"You said there isn't much time, what exactly do you mean there isn't much time?" Xiao Mo asked, staring into the child's eyes.
"Big/trouble is coming."
“What’s the big/trouble?”
"have no idea."
"Then how did you know big/trouble was coming?"
"You'll know it when you encounter it too much."
"Are you really a child?"
"Do I look like an old man?" The child put his hands on his hips.