Wanderer

Chapter 1 The Beginning

When the sky was just turning white, Wen Hai finally saw his own community in the mist after the rain.

The black cat on the wall was bored waiting for the sunrise. It chased its tail around a few times, then lay down again, licked its paws, and stretched comfortably.

A cadenced "meow—" just reached the alto, and the headlights came on not far away, which happened to shine into the eyes of the black cat. "The ground jumped to a higher place, crouching in the mouth of a protruding pipe, quietly observing the movement below.

The car with its headlights on stopped at the entrance of the parking lot for a few seconds, and squeezed in from several illegally parked motor vehicles and non-motor vehicles. Under such a bad visual environment, the driver was still skilled in driving. A bicycle lying on the side of the road was not knocked down.

The person who had just completed the "centimeter-level control" was still operating with one hand. When he got out of the car, he hadn't hung up the call, which was as inappropriate as possible. Ended the tirade with three papers and no donkeys: "Sorry, we closed the case last night, and it will be a matter for the procuratorate."

After a few more seconds, Wen Hai continued: "Oh, then this is a matter for the court... No, the judicial police and the criminal investigation team have nothing to do with each other."

The person on the other end of the phone was choked speechless, and hung up the phone embarrassingly.

Putting down the phone, exhaling the last breath of the huge theft case that had been entangled for more than half a month, Wen Hai pinched his brows hard, trying to use the pain to remind himself not to lie down here, but he was so weak Compared with the tiredness of not closing his eyes for two days and two nights, the stimulation was really insignificant - when he went upstairs, he couldn't tell whether he was lifting his left foot or his right foot.

And when he threw himself on the bed, the rooster raised by the old man living on the first floor happened to make its first crow of the day.

With the sound of the dawn, the sleepy middle school students were picked up from the bed by the alarm clock and their parents together, wearing loose school uniforms, holding breakfast money in their hands, and rushing to study all the way to the morning class; In the glass office building in the CBD more than a dozen bus stops away from here, the white-collar workers who are working as horses and horses also pressed their crazy-sounding mobile phones, put on lipstick in one hand and picked up high-heeled shoes from the shoe cabinet in the other hand, and their eyes were still fixed on the clothes they brought home last night. report, and rushed to the first train at full speed; more people heard the disturbing movement, frowned and muttered, looked at their watches, turned over and fell into sleep again—it was just after six o'clock, and there was There is nothing more blissful than this early in the morning for more than an hour of "drunk life, dreaming and dying".

The early ones had already set up their stalls, and the first batch of deep-fried dough sticks went out of the pot with a "crash", and the street was filled with a greasy aroma. Worried about attracting urban management, the peddler yelled in a low voice: "Here we come, just out of the pot. Deep-fried dough sticks are definitely not gutter oil..."

A passing sanitation worker took out a few bills and bought one. It was too hot to swallow. He carried it in his hand and continued to sweep the floor. The broom taller than a person "swept——swept—" across the asphalt road, Take away litter and fallen leaves all over the floor.

All these movements outside the window entered Wen Hai's ears without a sound.He was lying on the bed, all the organs from the neck down clamored to go on strike due to the heavy load, but his brain was still in an extremely excited state and refused to stop for a while, and kept his thoughts on the messy pile of things. To make matters worse, he urged him to hurry up and get up and work.

During the tussle, the "many people" of the viscera gained the upper hand, while the brain continued to act as a monster unconvinced. The two sides worked together to drag Wen Hai into a sleep with a splitting headache.

When the phone that was thrown on the ground was screaming desperately in the pile of dirty clothes, it was less than four hours since Wen Hai fell headfirst on the bed.

He stumbled out of the bed in a daze, and accidentally stepped on a sock beside the bed. The pure cotton cloth and the wooden floor rubbed against each other under force, almost knocking him out of concussion.

"Hello? Xiaowen? Wenwen?" The one who disturbed people's dreams didn't have the slightest self-knowledge, and called out affectionately without waiting for a moment, "Haihai? Haihai, are you there?"

Wen Hai didn't even look at the caller ID, closed his eyes and said, "Bai Tong'an, what are you doing tonight?"

"..." Bai Tong'an was taken aback by his overly certain tone, looked at the lower right corner of the computer screen, and said helplessly, "Brother, it's 43:[-] in the morning, which time zone are you traveling in?"

Before Wen Hai could reply, Bai Tong'an said again: "Your leader treats you like an animal again?"

There was almost no movement over there, only a vague "um".

Bai Tong'an hurriedly said: "Then you go to sleep first, and call me back when you wake up."

Relying on willpower, Wen Hai forcibly pulled himself out of the sticky drowsiness, sat up and rubbed the bridge of his nose that hurt from being pressed by the floor when turning over, and said in a hoarse voice: "I have something to say now."

Bai Tong'an was silent for two or three seconds, before making a bad start: "Remember my unlucky uncle?"

Wen Hai's sluggish brain actually connected directly to the channel: "Bokang"

"Well, it's him. His son's college entrance examination results are not satisfactory..."

"College entrance examination?" Wen Hai was a little sober, "Isn't his child engaged...is it a girl?"

Bai Tong'an said meaningfully: "Another one."

"Oh——" Wen Hai understood the central idea, "Three children?"

"Five."

"..."

"That child is very smart. I asked someone to send him to our No. [-] middle school to repeat his studies, but... the child's situation is a bit complicated. I don't feel at ease about leaving him for school boarding. I have to find someone to look after him." Bai Tong'an After a pause for a few seconds, he continued: "It just so happens that I will be on a business trip for a month in September. It is not convenient for Xiaoxin to take care of him alone. You can help me take care of the child for a month. I will pick him up when I come back on November, will it work?"

"Oh, okay." Wen Hai responded to Bai Tong'an's request, his head sank from sleepiness, and he didn't even think about what he promised, "Is there anything else?"

"...Brother, can't you think about such a big thing as an outsider living in your house for a month?" Bai Tong'an was helpless, "I'd better wait until you wake up."

Wen Hai: "It's okay, it's only a month anyway... But why do you let this kind of thing go?"

"I can't help it, brother, I have a kind heart. You also know the image of Baikang in my family. My second uncle and aunt don't associate with him anymore. Those older than me in my life have just had children and are too busy I can't even take care of myself who is younger than me. The old man came back and recognized the kid because something happened to his grandma's house. When my uncle heard about it, he ran to the old man's house and clamored for a paternity test. The kid was beside him at the time. Standing, his mother is unreliable, and got into a fight with Bai Kang in front of the old man... I don’t want to mention it, I’m sorry, it’s all taught by my father, mother and mother. I think the child is too pitiful, so I want to help Forget it." Bo Tongan knew that Wen Hai had always looked down on Bo Kang, and he was afraid that this hated house and Wu Shun would look down on his son, so he put all the good things first: "That kid's name is Bai Yunqi, I heard it's the old man. I personally chose the name back then, it looks like..."

Wen Hai's eyebrows twitched: "Where are you pimping?"

"..." Bai Tong'an almost bit his tongue, "It doesn't look like Bo Kang's mother, he looks good-looking, and he looks good-looking at the level of a popular little fresh meat."

Wen Hai repeated: "Where are you pimping?"

"I mean, for the sake of your sexual orientation and his appearance...be more polite to my brother." Bai Tong'an was still worried, pondered for a moment, and then said, "If not, why do I think he is so beautiful It's not safe to put your child in the hands of you, a strange uncle who hasn't had sex for a long time."

Wen Hai: "..."

Bai Tong'an confirmed to him: "Are you virtuous?"

"Fucking..." Wen Hai climbed back onto the bed again, before the curse words reached his throat, he was choked back by sleepiness, and said impatiently, "Just throw the person over here, don't talk nonsense."

Bai Tong'an, who knew Wen Hai well, just made a few jokes, seeing that the other party was so sleepy that the root of his tongue was stiff, and hurriedly said: "Alright, I'll send the child there at that time, you go to bed first... then what?" , remember to get up and eat, or your stomach..."

"roll."

Before pressing the hang up button, Wen Hai fell asleep again.

The light through the curtains changes from dark to bright, and from light to dark again.Wen Hai turned over stiffly on his limbs and was about to get back into the cage again, when he accidentally touched the mobile phone next to him, the screen lit up, and the time displayed on it made him not blink for a few seconds.

He rubbed his eyes, and reconfirmed that the time displayed on the phone screen was 21:[-] p.m. Then he rolled down from the bed unwillingly, picked up the clothes on the floor and threw them into the laundry basket in the bathroom, took a casual shower, and went to the kitchen Prepare yourself a bowl of tomato and egg noodles.

According to the vegetable farmer, the tomatoes were fresh tomatoes just picked, and the eggs were also native eggs delivered by Bai Tongan’s grandmother who retired in the country. The objective fact that I was standing by the stove and holding a frying spoon and almost fell asleep.

The bowl of noodles was muddled, and his mind was also muddled. After eating randomly, he continued to wash the dishes with a wire brush in a muddled manner. In the middle of washing, sober thoughts emerged from his chaotic mind.

...Did I promise Bai Tongan what happened to that bastard?

Holding the pot in one hand and the wire brush in the other, he stood there for nearly a minute before realizing that he had promised Bai Yunqi a few hours ago that he would bring a newborn child into his home.

"It's time for a dog." Wen Hai thought to himself, "Is there still time for me to apply for a one-month job?"

That's too late.Bai Tong'an's email was lying in his mailbox early, and he told himself about the child in detail. At the end of the email, he wrote the time of "bringing a foolish brother to visit" in bold red letters , and specifically instructed that this matter has been reported to Mr. Bai, who was very pleased and praised Wen Hai as a pillar of the motherland and a role model for young people.

"Your uncle's Bai Tong'an." Seeing that the last escape route was blocked, Wen Hai was afraid that it was time for his 20-year friendship with this person to come to an end.

Fine.He thought to himself, as long as you are not afraid of your younger brother being scared away by me, you can let him live as long as you like.

That's true, the police uniform hanging on the coat rack next to the door is doomed to be a "prodigal son" who has been away from home for many years. Now in the criminal investigation team of the city bureau, although he leaves early and returns late every day, it is not enough to let This place has become a "ghost house".A few years ago, when he was in the Drug Enforcement Administration, he was going through the days of licking blood from the knife head. He disappeared from time to time and stayed undercover for a month. He encountered several gun battles and was pushed into the ICU once. He returned home after recovering from his injuries. Even the door lock was rusted, and there was a stack of reminder bills for utility and internet bills pasted in front of the door. The neighbor who heard the sound of prying open the door opened the door with a baseball bat in his hand, and He was squatting there with a borrowed screwdriver and lock. Wen Hai, who was wrestling with each other, looked at each other for a while, and said with an embarrassed expression: "Oh... Yo, you, you are back--haha...haha..."

Later, Wen Hai found out that the neighbor had inquired about his whereabouts several times, thinking that he had died in the line of duty and planned to take over the house and sublet it out.

It stands to reason that a character like Wen Hai should be equipped with vicissitudes of life and gloomy eyes, a few ugly and distorted scars on his face, an unspeakable pain in his heart, and a few loves that ended tragically.

It's a pity, this one doesn't have any of them—he walked out like a human being, a single dog aged 27 to 28, who is about to enter the queue of older unmarried young men; he is a taciturn person who likes to read, watch dramas and play games after closing his own house Otaku.Putting his resume on the blind date book is a handsome man with a well-off family background, kind parents, a solid rice bowl, a car and a house, but in fact he has nothing to offer, and what he earns is selling cabbage. With so little money, he was so annoyed by the sales. He himself enjoyed it. At the beginning of this year, he was promoted to the deputy team because of his outstanding performance. Manage administration.

What a pillar of the motherland who has the courage to rush to the front line of fighting crime, and a role model for the youth. The leader also said that Comrade Xiaowen is still very young, so he is suitable for honing in the front line for a few more years.After more than ten years of hard work, I am afraid that this sentence will have to be changed to Old Comrade Wen, who has such rich experience in the front line, just continue to stick to it, and leave other opportunities for training to young people.

"The young man is very good," said the "matchmaker" who has been a professional matchmaker for 30 years. She also lost out here in Wenhai. , the niece of the third cousin of the colleague’s big cousin, introduced to Wen Hai’s parents and fellow villagers, “But he is not a person who can live with others.”

But Wen Hai, who doesn't plan to live with people, doesn't have any pets. The only thing in the house who can pant is a pot of prickly pears brought to him by Bai Tong'an.He is willing to raise prickly pears, not for other reasons. He is a late-stage obsessive-compulsive disorder and has taken interior design as an elective course in college. There is such a large space in the corner with nothing to put, which makes him feel uncomfortable.

Just like that, there are only two living creatures in this room that can breathe, one is waiting for his new roommate, and the other is waiting for his new owner.Wen Hai didn't know that the pot of cactus didn't expect it, anyway, he didn't expect it at all.

To be honest, he already regretted it very much.