[Xianliu] Suiwanyantian

Chapter 6

However, remembering that Yayoi hadn't been introduced yet, how could he forget this, "This is Yayoi Aida, my friend."

Rukawa glanced at Yayoi again, and suddenly pointed to the gift box in Xiandao's hand, "Well, can you open it when you are alone?"

Before Xiandao had time to answer, the boy had already turned around and ran back, with a tall and thin back, Xiandao just looked at it like that, and was stunned for a long time.

That night, Sendao’s mother kept the tradition of plenty of garlic, but Yayoi ate very happily—at least on the surface. She and Sendao’s parents kept picking up food from each other. Sendao was a little distracted, always thinking of Rukawa, and his mother reminded him from time to time, "Pick a piece of tamales for Yayoi, you're close."

In the evening, he sat by the bed and opened the gift Ruchuan gave him. It was a piece of chocolate. He didn't expect that Ruchuan would also buy chocolate as a gift. On the bottom of that thick black plate, there was a pure white star printed on it. heart of.

Xiandao asked for another day off the next day. He decided to watch Rukawa's game. He went downstairs at six o'clock in the morning, hoping to wait for Rukawa to leave with him.The fog has not dissipated. On the balcony of the first floor, the leaves of the plants are still sleepy. The old men and women go out for morning exercises with radios in their hands and soft swords on their waists. Parents of children buy steamed stuffed buns from the gate of the compound and bagged soy milk.

Rukawa might have left earlier than him. He waited for four or ten minutes before taking the bus to Xiangzhong alone.

Rukawa mentioned this game before, it was a practice match with another middle school, Rukawa didn't care whether it was a practice match or an official match, as long as he could play.

The gymnasium in Xiangzhong is very old, and many of the glass windows on the second floor are broken. Where Xiandao sits, there is always a gust of wind blowing from behind.It is estimated that the venue is shared. There are several table tennis tables on the basketball court on the first floor, and there are even two girls with ponytails playing there.Before the game, a man wearing a coach uniform walked over to negotiate with the ping-pong girls, and the two with ponytails reluctantly left. Several players moved the ping-pong tables to the corner.

There are all kinds of strange things in this gymnasium, but there is no Rukawa. Xiandao didn't see him before the game, didn't see him in the first half, and still didn't see him after the whole game. He asked the coach, who was busy directing the players to The ping-pong table was moved back to its original place, very impatient, "I don't know, I was supposed to let him play on the court to try it out - be gentle with your hands and feet, don't break it - I don't know why he didn't come, and he is usually silent, I probably don’t care much about basketball, so I won’t come if I don’t want to.”

Xiandao called Rukawa's cell phone, but it was turned off and couldn't get through.

It was only 10 o'clock in the morning, and he inquired about Rukawa's class, and went to that classroom, but he didn't see Rukawa either.Where did Rukawa go? He sat on the lawn behind the Xiangzhong teaching building and fell asleep in a daze.

It was already twelve o'clock when he woke up, the sun made him dizzy, and all the students after class were staring at him, only then did he find that on the edge of the lawn, there was a wooden sign that said "no trampling the lawn".

He called Rukawa's cell phone again, but it still didn't work.

Hungry growling, he walked out of Xiangzhong. The gate of the school is usually where the catering industry is concentrated. He walked into a ramen restaurant and ordered a big bowl of braised beef noodles. The soup was very thick and the meat pieces were unexpectedly large. .The students didn't pay too much attention to their food, they all purred quite loudly, and he mingled among them, eating to his heart's content.

For some reason, I don't want to go back to the police station. Anyway, I have already asked for leave, so I might as well walk around.

I almost walked around the city and drove home at [-]:[-] pm. There were crowds of people under the bus stop sign, but there was still no Rukawa.

Going to the police station the next morning, I ran into Yayoi on the bus.

The two take the bus all the way to and from work, and it is not uncommon to meet each other on the bus.Xiandao got up and asked Yayoi to sit, but Yayoi was not polite.Looking at him: "Dark circles under your eyes, didn't you sleep well last night?"

"Oh," Xiandao nodded, "It's too hot to sleep well."

Yayoi's phone vibrated, she opened it, looked down, and began to reply to text messages with her head down.

"I didn't sleep well yesterday," Yayoi replied, "I was so excited that I couldn't fall asleep."

"You can't sleep every time there's big news."

"You guessed it," Yayoi snapped her fingers, hooking her fingers to signal Xiandao to come closer, "I need to keep my voice down so that other newspapers can't hear it."

Xiandao was not curious, but he leaned closer, and Yayoi whispered proudly in his ear: "An old man who runs a breeding farm invented a security system by himself." Yayoi laughed, "His system of security The system is very good, but unfortunately, on the first day of the implementation of the anti-theft system, he failed to prevent robbers, but broke a high school student's leg."

Yayoi looked at Xiandao and found that he was silent.

"Okay, don't you think it's hot enough? Then I'll give you some more information," Yayoi continued, "It is said that chickens and ducks have been stolen from this old man's farm before, and he lost a pig not long ago. I once went to the police station to report the case, but the police neglected their duties and did not help him solve the problem. He had to insert a circle of steel blades in the iron net around the farm... Hey, please show me some expressions? You are sensitive to news No?"

Xiandao heard his breath sinking in his lungs, "That high school student, what's his name?"

Yayoi spread her hands, "I don't know about it, I just heard that he is a handsome boy-you can be satisfied, what happened just yesterday afternoon, thanks to the informant of Cao Bian's police system in the city before, we can Getting the news so quickly, other newspapers are probably still answering those boring private hotlines today." Yayoi was immersed in excitement, "When I heard the news yesterday, I felt dizzy with happiness. You know, I have been waiting , This is really an opportunity for our Nanri! Ha, the editor-in-chief of the bird is still dismissive. He never imagined how deep this report can be expanded, from the standardization of the anti-theft system to the shortcomings of the national police department, and then to education... …Yesterday, I sent Xiao Zhang and the others to the police station. I have just assigned the interview with the farm owner. We will have a meeting when we get back. I have already figured out the whole plan last night. After Cao Bian passed away, Nan Ri has been in a downturn for so long, this time we must fight a good turnaround—Xiandao?"

The police station smelled like box lunch, and the lights were not turned on. When Xiandao entered, a dozen pairs of eyes never left him.

No one spoke, so he rushed to the table where the latest file was placed and rummaged through it.Everyone seemed to know what he was looking for. Mitsui patted him on the shoulder behind him and handed him a piece of paper.

When he saw Rukawa's name on the paper, he couldn't move.

He assumed a thousand times and denied it a thousand times. He thought it might not be him, but it was really him.

The captain asked to open the window of the office, and there was some light in the room. He walked to Xiandao, "The reporter came here yesterday, and no one thought that this kind of thing would happen after a case was dropped," he hesitated. , Looking back at the others, he found that everyone was looking at him, waiting for him to finish his speech. For the first time, he felt the eyes of his colleagues were as hateful as insects, "Xiandao, do you remember? The case of the farm, You picked it up at the beginning..." He laughed awkwardly, "Actually, it's not your fault, everyone knows that no one will take care of this kind of thing in any police station, but there's nothing wrong with it," he seemed very guilty. , "You were the only one who wasn't there yesterday... Those reporters were asking the bottom line, biting too fiercely... The reporters just wanted to find a culprit for their report. The bigger the culprit's identity, the hotter their report was. Bearing the blame is better for their sales than letting the old man bear the blame..."

"Xiandao, there is nothing we can do to confess you, really—someone must be responsible, right?"

Xiandao was silent all the time, the captain murmured a lot to him and patted him on the shoulder. He has worked here for more than four years. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and gave it to him. If he caught it, he was sure that the captain would light it for him himself.The light in the room gradually became full, and his colleagues stood around him, surrounding him—just like that day, it seemed like a long time ago, Rukawa was surrounded like this for the first time in the police station, silently dealing with a bunch of The chattering policeman—Rukawa...he couldn't think.

"Xiandao, you go back to avoid the limelight for a few days, well, we'll let you go for a while... You know, the reporter may come again at any time."

Xiandao raised his head, "Captain, which hospital is Rukawa in?"

He's been on the phone.

The captain didn't know the hospital where Rukawa was. He said that a group of high school students playing in the farm sent Rukawa to the hospital. The police station only asked one of them to record a statement afterwards.

Ruchuan's cell phone hadn't been connected, and he called Ruchuan's house again. He heard a lot of "beeps", but no one answered.

He called when his cell phone died.

He went to Rukawa's house, but the doorbell still hadn't been fixed, no matter how loudly he knocked on the door, the door wouldn't close tightly.

He looked in the chess and card room at the gate of the compound, but he didn't see the old lady who always stayed there all day.

He went to Rukawa's school, and the teacher said that Rukawa didn't ask for leave.

He had no choice but to go to the hospital, from the central hospital to the Second Affiliated Hospital, and the community health care hospitals in each district. He walked through many aisles and opened many ward doors. He saw countless faces of patients, and they looked at him. The smell got into his pores, but there was no flow.

He wanted to see Rukawa, to make sure he was okay, to make sure his leg was just a little bruised, to make sure he could still play basketball; meet him.

At night he sits on a bench in a park in the middle of the street