Chapter 36 Humbert Humbert III

"I love you, I'm a monster, but I love you." - "Lolita"

The stone bench is placed around a lotus pond that has long since dried up. A bronze statue stands in the middle of the mud and dead branches. The bronze statue is abstract in shape. It was polished so well that the distorted phantom of the human figure could be seen from above.

Just now, Fei Du raised his eyes inadvertently, just in time to meet the pair of eyes that were raised on the bronze statue.

After all, the bronze statue was not a mirror. The light and shadow were so blurry that even the other person could not see clearly whether they were men, women, or children. But for some reason, when he saw those eyes, Fei Du's heart tensed for no reason. touched his chest, he raised his head subconsciously, and followed the shadow on the bronze statue to look around—

There are no courtyard walls around this old community, and several buildings are mixed together to form a group of their own. The border with the busy street is ambiguous. There is a public car station nearby. Because of improper planning in the early years, it has invaded the community. Many people Lined up outside the bushes, coming and going one after another. The business of several small shops on the street was booming. At this time, it was just before noon, and there were already people standing and waiting for a table in front of several food stalls.

The crowd was bustling, with residents of the community coming out in their pajamas, passers-by moving in the outer areas, owners of private cars who took the roads inside the community as shortcuts, people eating, waiting for seats, and couriers and couriers coming and going. food delivery man...

The owner of those eyes was extremely alert, and had quietly disappeared into the crowd. Fei Du found no suspicious signs.

He stood up immediately and said to Chenchen, "Let's go, we're going home."

Chenchen had no sense of crisis, and let out a long "ah" in disappointment, and reluctantly looked at the snack bar on the street. She licked the remaining cream on her fingers, rolled her eyes, and justified it. He made a request to Fei Du: "I still have pocket money. You invited me to eat a puff just now, or should I invite me back now? I also want to eat a matcha."

"Another day," Fei Du gently pushed her on the back of the head, "it's time for lunch."

Chenchen was forced to stand up with him: "But I don't like to eat, and I still have a lot of dishes that I don't like to eat."

"Well, actually I am too," Fei Du very frankly admitted his prince's illness in front of the little girl, then he changed his voice and said, "But it will be fine when you grow up, and you will love to eat when you grow up. Buy what you want, and no one will find you a picky eater anymore."

Chenchen raised her head and stared at him speechlessly, feeling that these adults were shameless. At this moment, she suddenly saw Fei Du's expression, and was immediately stunned.

The children in the early stage of Qingchun are half old, and they already have some thoughts of their own. They can basically understand the face of adults. Chenchen originally thought that Fei Du's words were just playing with her, but when he looked up, he realized that he was slightly He frowned, his face a little too serious.

She couldn't help but get nervous, and reached out and grabbed the corner of Fei Du's shirt: "Big brother, what's wrong?"

While they were talking, the two passed a residential building. The windows of the corridor on the first floor just opened outwards, unfolding in an arc. Fei Du calmly let the little girl walk in front of him, and kept talking to her with his head down. Suddenly, without warning, he raised his eyes.

Catch a pair of eyes on the bright and clean window!

The man wore sunglasses and a mask, and his entire face was tightly wrapped. Fei Du pressed Chenchen's shoulder and turned his head quickly. At the same time, about 200 meters behind them, a person slid into the bushes beside them and disappeared in an instant. Fei Du only looked at Cleared his hunched figure and gray hair.

elder?

Chenchen didn't know what was going on, and looked at him nervously.

Fei Du's icy gaze penetrated the lens on the bridge of his nose, swept across the crowd not far away, and asked, "Do you have someone to send you to school?"

"Yes...Yes," Chenchen said softly, "My parents are at home, they will pick me up, if they are not there, my sister will take me to the subway, if my sister also works overtime, I will stay at school for a while, the school has Specialized teachers."

Fei Du nodded thoughtfully, and asked again, "Have you seen any strange old grandpa nearby?"

Chenchen recalled for a moment, and shook his head at him suspiciously.

The two quickly walked into the residential building. The light gray old building blocked the view from the shadowy place. After an unknown amount of time, an old man with a hunched back slowly walked out from behind the public station sign.

He covered his face, with huge sunglasses on his face, and holding a walking stick in his hand, like a person with poor eyesight, knocking back and forth on the ground with the walking stick.

The people around were wearing earphones, mostly fiddling with their mobile phones indifferently, not paying attention to his staggering footsteps.

The look of the lens is his excellent cover, the sun can't penetrate, but the greedy sight can.

The sight traveled a long distance, dòng through time and space, staring at the place where the little girl was just now.

Her floral dress seemed to dance with floating light, and the crystal hairpin reflected a small face, which was the only bright color in the whole world as far as he could see. The childish silhouette reflected in his eyes. It burned violently in an instant, leaving a well-defined outline on his retina.

But the terrifying basilisk was guarding the forbidden fruit. He remembered the eyes of the man beside the girl, and hid in the shadow in fear. Fear and longing converged into a unique heartbeat, and he pursed his lips thirsty. , fell back heavily, leaning against a tree, his chest heaving violently, and he was fascinated by the shock.

Like a drowning or poisoned person.

After a puff of time, the elevator had been repaired. Fei Du pressed the twelfth floor and entered the elevator with Chenchen.

Chenchen asked cautiously, "Brother, what happened just now?"

Fei Du paused, but did not comfort the girl: "I saw a very suspicious person - remember in the future, when you are alone with adults, you have to pay more attention to yourself."

"I know, I'm in my graduating class since the beginning of school, and I'm not a first-year child," Chenchen imitated an adult's tone and counted one by one, "Keep your distance from strangers, and don't eat strangers' food. Strangers ask for help, politely ask them to find the police..."

"People who are no strangers should be more careful," Fei Du knocked on her forehead, "Don't get into an adult's car alone, and don't stay alone with an adult in a place where no one else is - such as now, you and I'm not safe to be around, what if I'm the bad guy?"

Chenchen covered his forehead and stared at the man who claimed to be a bad guy: "Huh?"

"Including the teachers at your school, as well as the grandfather and grandmother who seem to be inconvenient to move around, remember?"

Chenchen couldn't help shivering. At this time, the elevator reached the twelfth floor, and the iron door opened. She asked in a low voice, "Why? Brother, I'm a little scared."

"It's a good thing to know that you are afraid, because beautiful things are like china," Fei Du reached out to block the elevator door and motioned for the girl to go out first. "For them, the most dangerous thing is usually not the cat running around the room."

"what is that?"

Fei Du looked into the girl's eyes and said softly, "It's the porcelain that doesn't realize that it's fragile."

Luo Wenzhou was in front of the meter box, leaning against the wall with a cigarette, waiting for them.

"You two need to buy a fuse for half a year?" Luo Wenzhou took out the flashlight and a screwdriver and put it aside, "If you don't come back, the fish frozen in the refrigerator will all escape from prison."

As if seeking a sense of security, Chenchen took off her short legs and ran into the house quickly.

Fei Du took the screwdriver from Luo Wenzhou's hand, dismantled the meter box very skillfully, took off the blown fuse, and then used an old-fashioned fuse to turn the two ends of the line a few times, twisting it lightly, without needing any pliers. With a single stroke with the head of a flat-blade screwdriver, the small piece of insurance was cut off. He reached out and pulled it twice to make sure it was firmly installed, and then went back and pushed the switch again.

There was a "beep" sound from the room behind him, and the refrigerator and the air conditioner were revived at the same time.

Luo Wenzhou looked at him and suddenly realized that Fei Du had completely left the category of a teenager and was a man.

When he looked at Fei Du, his eyes were often divided—when facing tit-for-tat, Luo Wenzhou felt that Fei Du was a dangerous scourge, a xingqíng bastard, lawless, and might explode at any time, and he would be beaten with a single mouth, especially not speaking human words. .

And when it was rare for him to be at peace, he would always think of the frail young man who was huddled at the door of the villa. Sometimes he would worry about him, and sometimes he would involuntarily take care of him too much—a big brother-like care without distractions.

But I don't know if it was Fei Du's crazy provocation in the stairwell just now. Suddenly, Luo Wenzhou's two-part perspective had a bit of a meaning to be merged into one. The deviations and errors were corrected each other. A small piece of objective clarity - Fei Du is neither a dangerous anti-social nor a poor little boy, he is first and foremost a man, and he is a very good-looking young man who knows his interests, but also has a blatant prudence. Up and down still holding the pipa half covering his face and writing "Welcome to sleep at any time".

Luo Wenzhou thought, if he wasn't Fei Du, just a stranger passing by on the street or in a bar, he would probably be the type that makes people think for a while.

But... why is there a precondition of "if he is not Fei Du"?

Could it be that Luo Wenzhou was thinking about life and was a little absent-minded even when he was eating—Tao Ran’s family didn’t have enough space on the dining table, so many dishes couldn’t be put on it, so he had to directly bring it over to share. Luo Wenzhou didn’t pay attention and scooped a large piece of “white sugar elbow” for the fee. In the small plate by Watanabe's hand, he only remembered when he put it in. This place belongs to "below the knee", and the young master will not eat it.

Luo Wenzhou moved for a while, and before he could speak, he saw Fei Du poking lightly with the tip of his chopsticks, frowning and staring at the hoof for a moment, before pinching it into his bowl with a look of disgust. , Luo Yiguo, a patriotic cat who seemed to smell the smell of imported cat food.

Luo Wenzhou: "..."

Sure enough, anything "below the knee" or "pharyngitis" is the grandson of this bastard.

Apart from the gang from the Municipal Bureau, Fei Du and Chang Ning are both outgoing and talkative types, and they can quickly blend in with the atmosphere. They don't look like outsiders at all. Lang Qiao also put on a foreign horn and brought two bottles with him. When the red wine came over, except for the minors, everyone poured a glass to warmly celebrate Tao Fu's joining the Fang Nugou army.

Lang Qiao smartly saw the thick single arrow between Tao Ran and Chang Ning, and in front of Chang Ning, he impromptuly organized a "Praise to Deputy Tao". They listed the various arduous struggles that Deputy Team Tao had made over the years in order to protect the vast majority of "broken reminders" and the ghostly Captain Luo. In the end, under Luo Wenzhou's grinning gaze, her voice changed. Out of thin air, he made up a beautiful suitor for Tao Ran, and Tao Ran was so frightened that he hurriedly bowed, begging the female benefactor not to be innocent for no reason.

"Brother Tao is really patient," Fei Du chatted in a timely manner to ease the embarrassment, "I will definitely be a model father when I have children in the future. I caused him a lot of trouble when I was young."

Tao Ran blushed and waved his hands again and again.

Chang Ning looked at him curiously.

Fei Du took a sip of red wine and said, "My mother didn't get too early. Brother Tao happened to be the policeman who handled my mother's case. At that time, my father didn't care about me, and he took care of me for a while—in fact, I was He is also in his teens. Even if no one cares, he can't starve to death, but I only knew what 'serious life' means when he was there. Sister, don't look at him being foolish to deal with himself. In fact, he takes care of others. I can think of it for you."

Chang Ning listened to this group of people selling Tao Ran one word at a time, but he didn't feel anything else. He first noticed Tao Fu's good popularity and couldn't help but tilt his head and smile at Tao Ran.

Tao Ran's drinking capacity was originally more limited than "a glass of wine". After being poured half a glass of red wine, his head was already dizzy, and he was stared at by the person in the dream with a smile that was not a smile. He completely lost his ability to think and was so embarrassed. He started talking nonsense: "No, no, really... Really no, I wasn't taking care of Fei Du alone at that time, everyone cared about you, and even when my master heard about it later, he would often ask a few questions... and that Who - Wen Zhou, don't think he usually doesn't talk about it, in fact, he secretly visited you several times, and he still entrusted me with your game console..."

Hearing that the words were wrong, Luo Wenzhou hurriedly kicked him under the table, but it was too late.

Tao Ran's little sense of balance vanished under his feet, and his whole body was tilted to one side, knocking over a cardboard box next to him that he hadn't had time to clean up.

All kinds of professional books, leisure books, folders, and notebooks fell to the ground.

Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou stood alone at a corner of the table, each froze.

Lang Qiao gave Luo Wenzhou a heartless elbow with his elbow: "It's true, boss, it's so embarrassing that you've been rude about it."

Luo Wenzhou: "..."

You know it's embarrassing and you advertise it!

Against Fei Du's heavy gaze, he stubbornly coughed and stood up clearly to clean up the cardboard box that Tao Ran had knocked over.

"It's useless. If you drink too much, you will talk nonsense." Luo Wenzhou changed the subject abruptly, picked up a vague notebook and shook the ashes, "Hey, why are Master's old notebooks here with you?"

His voice fell, and a pencil portrait fell out of the book. It drew a man with neat features and gentle manners, but there was something dark in his eyes that looked out of the paper.

The date is marked on the drawing paper, more than 20 years ago, and there are notes written in the corner.

"Wu Guangchuan - the bodies of the six girls have not yet been found."