Liu Shangang has not been very moved since he was a child. He was exhausted and panting after running shortly after running. I was chasing him from behind, but he suddenly stopped. I didn't stop the car for a while and hit Liu Shangang's back with a bang. At the same time, we both fell to the ground, but we didn't know the pain, and we were on the ground, and we were pressing against me and I started to make a fuss.

I have been drinking broth made by Lao Chaitou every day for more than a year. I am much taller than Liu Shangang, and my strength and physical fitness are better than him. Not long after, Liu Shangang surrendered: "I won't play anymore, I won't play anymore, I can't beat you."

I also sat up from the ground panting, but Liu Shangang suddenly stood up and shouted at me: "Come here quickly, show you something good." Then he ran to the entrance of the corridor next to the toilet.

I followed Liu Shangang to the corridor and saw the boy sneaking out a thin and long thing from his pocket. I have seen this thing, the kind of cigarette my father smoked, but the filters my father smoked were all yellow, but the one in Liu Shangang's hand was white.

Liu Shangang raised the cigarette in his hand and asked me: "Guess what this is?"

I was a little puzzled, isn't it just a cigarette, and what I said was: "Just, what else can it be?"

When Liu Shangang heard my words, he seemed very surprised: "Why did you recognize it in a moment? Hey, when I first saw this thing, I didn't know what it was. I just thought, isn't the cigarette butt all yellow? Why is this one white?"

What a yellow or white one, even if it is black, isn't it still smoke. But based on my understanding of Liu Shangang, he must have known it was smoke early in the morning. He called me over mysteriously, but I don't know what the hell was going on.

At this time, Liu Shangang mysteriously took out a small box of matches from his pocket and whispered to me: "You said, what delicious food is this thing? Why do adults always like to hold it in their mouths? Or, let's try it too today?"

I believe many people stole adult cigarettes when they were young, but they didn’t really think it was a good thing, they were just curious. At that time, I was also very curious: “Just try it, what’s the big deal.”

Before I could finish my words, Liu Shangang cut the match and lit the cigarette as if he was an adult. As soon as he took the first sip, Liu Shangang coughed violently, and tears flowed down his face. While coughing, he quickly threw the cigarette, as if it was something very disgusting.

I picked up cigarettes from the ground and tried to take a sip. I felt a very choking breath that penetrated my throat. I immediately coughed and threw the cigarette away.

Liu Shangang looked at the cigarette with tears in his eyes and shouted with complaint: "What's the smell? Is this? Why is it spicy!"

I was so choked that I couldn't speak, and I kept shaking my head at Liu Shangang.

Actually, I can’t figure out what is there to smoke this thing, not only my dad, but also my uncle and old Chaitou, who always smoke every day.

Liu Shangang and I sat on the stairs and it took a long time to recover. When I think of the smell just now, I feel uncomfortable in my throat and don’t want to speak.

But Liu Shangang has been a little talkative since he was a child. He felt uncomfortable once he didn't speak. Now he asked me without saying anything: "Hey, do you still remember the incident of human traffickers a while ago?"

I said, "Remember."

Liu Shangang asked me again: "Then do you still remember Lu Wenbin?"

Lu Wenbin, how could I not remember? Not only me, but no one in the entire Beishi school knew him! I heard that he seemed to be a study committee member of Class 2 in Grade 3 and a discipline committee member of our entire school. Every morning when I went to school, Lu Wenbin would stay at the school gate to check the red scarf very early. When he saw someone he didn't bring, he would not let him enter the school gate. The children in the school were very afraid of him.

I looked at Liu Shangang, and didn't know what he was selling. Liu Shangang leaned into my ear and said, "Lu Wenbin was abducted by human traffickers! I only heard that two days ago that he got lost when he followed his mother to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. Later, Lu Wenbin's parents called the police, but they couldn't find anyone after searching for him for half a month."

After hearing what he said, I also recalled that I had never seen Lu Wenbin at the school gate in the past half month before the holiday.

Liu Shangang was still beside me, "I heard that on the day Lu Wenbin was lost, he was wearing his black short-sleeved jacket, which was the one with a white mark on his sleeve. I just thought, the trafficker must have taken a fancy to his clothes and kidnapped him away."

With family conditions like Liu Shangang and I, I never pay attention to the brand of clothes, and I don’t know that the symbol on Lu Wenbin’s sleeve is actually a trademark.

But I remember that Lu Wenbin liked his clothes very much. When he checked the red scarf at the school gate, he wore that clothes for eight days in ten days. But there was one thing I didn't understand. How could a human trafficker look at a piece of clothes worn by a child? Besides, I never thought that clothes were so beautiful.

Every time when Liu Shangang talks to me, I will think randomly like this.

Perhaps seeing that I didn’t respond, Liu Shangang changed the topic: “By the way, I heard from my dad that you have moved to a new home, where have you moved?”

Just as I was about to speak, my dad appeared in the corridor and waved to me and Liu Shangang: "Come on, have a meal."

While talking, my dad saw a piece of cigarette butt on the ground, smiled, and said nothing.

At noon, Liu Shangang and I ate in my father's office. The lunch was a few vegetarian buns that Liu Shangang's father brought from the cafeteria. The rice from the rubber factory has never tasted very good. The benefits have been poor in the past two years. There is not even a little oil and water in the buns, which is even more unpalatable. Liu Shangang and I just ate a few bites, and then we hurried in the corner of the office to stack paper airplanes to play.

Not long after, Xiao Zhang came and the one who helped my father contact the old lay Buddhist. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled and said to my father: "Brother Guo, are you asking me for trouble?"

My dad put down the chopsticks in his hand, handed a cigarette to Xiao Zhang, and said, "There is nothing else. I just want to ask you where the old layman you mentioned before lives. Look, someone has found such a good place for me, so why should I thank him?

Xiao Zhang lit a cigarette, but still had a very cheerful smile on his face: "I forgot to say before that Mr. Li lives in the family courtyard of the post office. It is the innermost building of the family courtyard, the east house on the first floor of Unit 2."

Isn’t the east house on the first floor of Unit 2 the one downstairs of us?

My dad's face changed after hearing Xiao Zhang's words, and he said tentatively: "Isn't that just living downstairs of my house? But why do I look at the family downstairs, there is always a black cloth in the yard."

"Oh, yes," Xiao Zhang explained: "Mr. Li has a daughter who has a strange disease and said she cannot see the sun. Because of this, Mr. Li specially set up a black cloth in the yard. He asked me to tell me that Mr. Li is also a very pitiful person. He has helped so many people over the years, but he still has not cured the disease of her girl."

Liu Shangang's father had been eating buns before, and then he looked up and said, "It's true, what if you say, a good person will not live long and will be harmed for thousands of years."

My dad was obviously not very interested in Mr. Li’s family situation, so he just asked Xiao Zhang: “What is that old Mr. Li doing?”

Xiao Zhang thought about it and said, "I heard from Mr. Li that she was a witch in her early years. Later, she converted and became a layman. She didn't know much about the rest. However, she said that she was a witch in her business, which should be quite reliable. Your family has encountered those things, and I am not afraid to tell you that I can know Mr. Li, because my uncle also had such a thing in the past few days, which was exorcisted by Mr. Li. Later, I couldn't find a wife, but my uncle gave me Mr. Li's address. You know the situation in the past two years, and it's thanks to Mr. Li's help."

Listening to Xiao Zhang's words, my dad kept nodding. I had a bad premonition at that time, thinking that I might not see Lao Chaitou this afternoon.

To express my gratitude, before Xiao Zhang left, my father stuffed a cigarette for him. The cigarette was originally prepared by my father for Lao Chaitou, so I was even more sure that my father didn't plan to take me to find Lao Chaitou.

Xiao Zhang did not refuse, and took the cigarette and left happily. When he went out, the sun shone on his head, and I vaguely saw a faint black air coiling around his head, but it was not very real.

After get off work, my dad rode my bicycle and took me home directly. On the way, I asked my dad what was wrong with the black gas on Uncle Xiao Zhang's head. My dad seemed to have something to worry about, and didn't hear me, and I ignored me, so I didn't ask again.

When I got home, my mother had already prepared the meal. My father took me into the doorstep and went to the bedroom to get some of the remaining money for rent. My mother asked my father what he had to do with the money. My father just said "useful" and hurried downstairs.

I knew where my dad was going, so I lay on the balcony to watch. Sure enough, after my dad went downstairs, he came to the gate of the first floor and knocked on the door.

Soon, an old lady said in the yard: "Who?"

The sound was sharp and hoarse, just like the sound made when you scratch the glass with your fingernails, making people feel goose bumps all over your body.

My dad seemed to feel some discomfort at this time, and I saw my dad frowning.

The door opened, because the black cloth was blocking it, I couldn't see what the old lady on the other side of the door looked like, but my father's expression became obviously a little strange. The expression seemed as if it was astonishment, and there was a sense of disgust in the astonishment.

"Is it Mr. Li?" Before the old lady could speak, my dad spoke first. At that time, my dad had a forced smile on his face.

The old lady said in a voice without any emotion: "Who are you?"
Chapter completed!