Chapter 910
After arriving home, Luo Binhan still had countless troublesome things to deal with.Zhou Yu had already gone to the laboratory, and only left a note in the living room, telling Luo Binhan that he temporarily fostered the parrot with an acquaintance.He also wrote down the contact information of the other party, but Luo Binhan didn't plan to cause additional trouble for the time being.He helped Yu Xiaorong carry the extra clothes to the guest room, and told her to tidy up according to her preferences, then looked around for Fina, and finally took it out from the gap between the curtain and the wall.

"What are you nervous about?" he asked, holding it up with both hands.The ghost lizard stared at him motionlessly, quite alert.It obviously doesn't like outsiders intruding into its living space. When Zhou Yu came last night, it hid under the sofa sullenly, and couldn't come out no matter how much Luo Binhan yelled.In contrast, its reaction to Yu Xiaorong was milder.Luo Binhan guessed that maybe Zhou Yu was contaminated with some kind of smell, disinfectant or anesthetic, and so on.

"Don't bite me suddenly." He stroked its head, "Now is not the time to play tricks on you."

As soon as he put Fina on the back of the sofa, Yu Xiaorong came out of the guest room.Before Luo Binhan could block her view, Fina rushed under the sofa.

"What's that?" Yu Xiaorong asked.

"Lizard, I told you so."

"It moves so fast."

"It's a rare species." Luo Binhan pretended not to care.But Yu Xiaorong lay down beside the sofa, her cheek pressed against the ground, watching what was going on under the sofa. "Don't get that close, it might scare you and bite you. This thing is a bit poisonous."

Yu Xiaorong still lay there motionless.Luo Binhan watched her reaction with trepidation, a little afraid that Fina would suddenly stick out her tongue and touch her cheek or even her eyes.Fortunately, she didn't do anything more likely to irritate wild animals, but stood up from the ground gently.

"What breed is it?"

"I don't know either." Luo Binhan pretended to be stupid and said, "It was given by someone else."

"Who?"

"The chief of a small African tribe. He was very trustworthy. He accidentally took my things by mistake, so he lost his pet to me."

Yu Xiaorong crossed her arms, and it was written all over her face that she knew he was talking nonsense. "You said it was poisonous?"

"It's not fatal. But if you get a bite from it, you'll be stiff for a long time, so don't mess with it. I'll lock it up when the cage comes later."

"Is it legal?" Yu Xiaorong asked abruptly, "How did you take it across the border?"

"It was delivered by courier." Luo Binhan said, "Aren't you convinced? Go to the police and arrest me."

Yu Xiaorong rushed over and strangled his neck.They played for a few minutes, and then Luo Binhan's new cell phone rang.The person who delivered the fish tank had already arrived at the gate of the community, so he immediately took the opportunity to escape and urged her to carry the things upstairs together.After they finished setting up the fish tank, the cage for Fina arrived again.Out of compensatory psychology, what Luo Binhan finally bought was not a dog cage, but a multi-layered cat cage with a rather complex structure, which was enough for small animals locked inside to climb up and down.But the assembly of this thing was not as simple as he thought, and they even argued about where a screw should be inserted.

"The one who fixed the wheels!" He tapped the universal wheel in his hand.

"Top cover!" Yu Xiaorong grabbed the cage cover part in her hand, "It must be the top cover! If it's the screws that fix the wheels, there must be at least four of them that are the same..."

She suddenly stopped talking and looked at the sofa in surprise.Luo Binhan turned his head to look, and found that Fei Na had slipped out from under the sofa at some point, and was staring furtively at the unfinished cage.There are dots of diamond patterns on the coffee-colored scales, which are exactly the same as the pillow under it.

Yu Xiaorong looked at it in surprise. "Will it become ambient color?"

"Yes, can't it?" Luo Binhan took the opportunity to turn the screw, "Have you never heard of a chameleon?"

"Chameleons don't change color like this! They change color according to their mood and temperature... How many more colors can it change? It must be in the list of rare animals."

"Protect and protect yourself." Luo Binhan replied perfunctorily.He has devoted all his energy to the business of screwing, and the hateful thing is that this time he seems to be really wrong.The thickness of the screw is slightly different, and it cannot be tightened firmly.He threw it away in frustration and surreptitiously changed to another, which was right this time.And once you find the right first step, the rest of the things will be much simpler.He smoothly put together the whole cage alone.

"How is it?" He turned his head and asked Yu Xiaorong.It turned out that she was standing motionless in front of the sofa. For a while, he thought she was paralyzed by Fina, so he hurried over to help her lie down.

"Hush!" Yu Xiaorong stared at the lizard without blinking.The latter, too, stared at her like a rock.The atmosphere between them made it difficult for Luo Binhan to get in.

"What? Did you see the right eye?"

"You really don't know its breed?"

"Some people in the local area call it a ghost paralyzed lizard, but you can't expect to find out its scientific name based on this."

"It may be an undiscovered species." Yu Xiaorong whispered, "An endangered creature. Are you sure it grew up in Africa?"

Luo Binhan was surprised to find that Li Li might be right.For some reason, Yu Xiaorong was fascinated by Fina, even though her appearance was far from cute.Fei Na's attitude towards Yu Xiaorong is not too bad.After all, it is a very smart animal, and it seems to be able to judge the relationship between Yu Xiaorong and the owner of the house.So it waited for a while, then moved tentatively from the couch to the floor.

Yu Xiaorong backed away cooperatively, and it slowly walked towards the newly erected cage, eager to try at the open door of the cage.Luo Binhan wanted to take the opportunity to close the cage door, but Yu Xiaorong stopped him.

"Why lock it up?"

"Are you kidding me!" Luo Binhan said, "Then what is the point of me buying this cage?"

"It likes it."

Fina had already got into the cage, and was climbing up and down the staggered platforms to wait and see.With his hands in his pockets, Yu Xiaorong stood outside the cage and watched it intently.Now Luo Binhan was sure that she really liked it.

"What's its name?"

"Fina."

"how old are you?"

"I don't know that."

"I will find out if it is a new species." Yu Xiaorong said firmly.

Luo Binhan didn't take this sentence too seriously.Even though he called Yu Xiaorong a troublemaker, she wouldn't go to the police to arrest him because of a mysterious lizard.And relying on her own research to find out Fina's origin?That's something you can't do in a full year, or ten, or 100 years.

"Fluffy, it's not a dog." He had to declare, "I'm not kidding, it can really make you immobilized for a whole day. Even if it's not fatal, it will make you feel uncomfortable for a long time. If we don't lock it up, then you take the risk, understand? It doesn't treat you like a family member."

"I will keep a distance from it." Yu Xiaorong said, "Go worry about your own business."

Luo Binhan still has some doubts, but he also understands that 16 years old is different from [-] years old, and he'd better let her make up her own mind on matters that have nothing to do with principle.So he went into his bedroom and got to work on things to do at work.He listed the people he had to meet this week, flipped through the group's annual reports for the past two years, and jotted down a few questions about the expense figures.After these few small things were done, two hours passed.

He closed the computer resolutely, and was about to go to the living room to see if Yu Xiaorong had fallen asleep, when he suddenly remembered something.

"Where did you put it?" He asked to himself, first lay down and looked at the drawers under the bed.Inside are all kinds of certificates and documents that are rarely used, various insurance policies related to himself, thick shoes and socks that are only worn in autumn and winter, and even a box of comic strips and story tapes.In the pile of documents, he could find graduation certificates from elementary school to university, but there was nothing he needed.In the end, he had a flash of inspiration, got up and opened the bookcase, and moved out from the deepest part of the file box where copies of Zhou Yu's paintings and photos were stored.

"Yes!" He said, and pulled out a high school yearbook with gold letters on a black background.He took it back to the bed and sat down to look through it carefully.

At the front of the album is a group photo of the class. Everyone is wearing the same dark blue uniform and has the same simple hairstyle with minor differences.It is not easy to recognize who among these faces that are smaller than soybeans.After many years, he could only identify himself, Zhou Yu, and the names of several other boys with relative certainty.

He continued to roll backwards.The rest are all freely assembled group photos.A photo of him and Zhou Yu.Funny photos of the whole boys dormitory.Except for a picture of him standing on a chair, pretending to sprinkle flower petals on Zhou Yu and Zhou Yu in front of him (of course, those two people were unaware when the shutter fell), there is really no other girl in these photos.Not surprisingly, in their strict high school, no one would invite students of the opposite sex to take a group photo for no reason before graduation.

He turned over the last two "photos with his favorite teacher", and on the back cover were more than a dozen colorful letter papers, which were the so-called "graduation classmate records".Luo Binhan never understood the meaning of this thing, because they already had a classmate chat group at that time, but this kind of paper souvenir book was still very popular at that time.It seems to be popular among girls first. They will hold some exquisite and fancy notebooks and invite every classmate to fill in their name, birthday, zodiac sign, zodiac attributes, contact information - and even have a classmate impression and send a message of blessing!
It's not about commemoration at all.Robin Han argues that the essence of this behavior is human's natural enthusiasm for trucks.Therefore, unlike taking commemorative group photos, everyone who engages in this kind of paper classmates will be keen to collect more names, so that everyone who is familiar or unfamiliar, as long as they are not annoying, will explain their blood type and constellation, write Write your own comments and wishes.In return, they also actively give out fancy papers with their messages and wishes written on them.

Luo Binhan himself had never done such a classmate book, but he had to explain his birthday and metaphysical attributes in the stamp books of more than a dozen people, and he also received a reward from the owner of each classmate book.This was definitely the day he received the most paper and ink from his female classmates.Due to the tiredness of repeatedly filling out the forms, he did not study the blessings or evaluations given to him on these papers, but in the end he still kept the bottom line of alumni friendship, which was to collect these old papers that were destined to be useless in the yearbook.

Reliving memories of his boyhood was a strange experience for him.Maybe it was because he was not yet old, and he didn't want to go back to that period of campus life at all, but the pain and troubles of youth were nothing compared to what he would experience as an adult.What he felt was a faint terror and loathing, like seeing himself in the mirror after an all-night party.Superficial, muddled, exaggerated and carried away, so embarrassing that people can't bear to look at them.Looking back at my teenage self was like watching a stupid wild animal, and he didn't even dare to think about what he was writing in his composition or journal at the time.

However, when he flipped through these classmate records one by one, what he read seemed to be another kind of life.In the comments of his classmates, this person is cheerful, enthusiastic, sports-loving, humorous, and popular... Who is this person writing about?Robin Han wondered.He repeatedly confirmed that he did not take the classmate book written for others by mistake.But maybe these are clichés, they just distribute modular compliments to each classmate, just like the blood type and constellation personality book.

A piece of lake-colored letterhead came into his eyes.The quality of this paper is very good, thick and smooth to the touch, with a lustrous oily waxy luster on the surface, with lavender primrose patterns embossed on the four corners, and the pen writing in dark green ink looks like new.Luo Binhan picked it up and saw that "Shi Qi" was written in the name column, followed by birthday, address and phone number.The zodiac sign is Aries, and the blood type column is empty, maybe she doesn't know it herself.

He continued to look down, and the second half was indeed "Messages from Classmates".In the center of the empty white box, the former owner of the letterhead wrote in a handwriting that was too square but a bit rigid:

Happy Graduation!

"Huh?" Robin Han said.He turned the paper over and looked at it, but there was not a single word.So he turned back again, staring at that sentence and lost in thought.He really doesn't have any more impressions of Shi Qi, it seems that she is not the kind of unique and memorable type.But this letter gave him a hint that Shi Qi might have social phobia.Happy Graduation.The stiff and deep handwriting shows that the writer was not only unhappy at the time, but may have been quite nervous.As for why a social terror person would distribute his information to classmates who are not close to him, he couldn't figure it out.

Perhaps Shi Qi wanted to show his friendship at that time, because there was an embarrassing incident between them.And since she is willing to do this, it means that at least she doesn't hate him.The embarrassment was pure accident.Their little grievances have been completely turned over, maybe it has already been turned over on the day of graduation, but he didn't notice it at the time.Thinking of this, he stuffed the extraordinarily delicate letterhead back into its original place, and put the entire souvenir book back deep in the bookcase.

"Remember the past, sir?"

This time, Luo Binhan was not surprised at all.He turned around and saw Li Li, made a booing gesture, then went to the door and peeked out quietly to confirm that Yu Xiaorong had entered the guest room.

"You can't come out casually when my sister is around." He closed the door and whispered, "Be careful what you say. Also, don't stand on my bedside while I'm asleep."

"I don't intend to cause trouble." Li Li said, "But everything in this room will be under my surveillance, sir, I think you should be aware of this."

Luo Binhan stared at her helplessly.For his own privacy, he has made the greatest concession.Now every day he would go to the bathroom farthest from the bedroom to freshen up and dress, and try not to put on inappropriate looks in the bedroom.There was hardly a place in the room where he could relax.

"Have you met my sister?"

"Yes."

"What's your impression?" Luo Binhan asked somewhat emotionally, "She will stay in the same room with you all day, do you still like her?"

"It's not a problem for me." Li Li smiled. "On the bright side, sir, I can monitor her movements for you, especially when she explores your bedroom."

Luo Binhan already had two monitors, Miffy and Fina.However, he also believed that in terms of meticulous observation and sincerity in reporting, Li Li was far more useful than the other two spies.He was finally happy, and felt that Yu Xiaorong's right to privacy could not be stronger than his own.If my elder brother has to face a super-intelligent monitoring in the bedroom after get off work every day, then the bitter sister is also justified.

"I noticed you were flipping through the souvenir book." Li Li said, "What reminds you of the past?"

"It's nothing, I met an old classmate... I'm very emotional."

Li Li asked him to talk about the process in detail.This story was originally a bit private, but Luo Binhan really wanted to talk to someone now, and Zhou Yu was not around.So he sat down and told Li Li about his experience at the flower and bird market today, and a few things he remembered from high school.Li Li, as always, acted as an excellent listener, asking a few weird questions from time to time.She asked him if he remembered Shi Qi's hobbies in the past, and what they had said.

Luo Binhan couldn't answer any of these questions.He really didn't pay attention to Shi Qi, she wasn't the best or the liveliest in the class, nor was she as outlier as Zhou Yu.They didn't judge class flower or class grass at all (seriously, he didn't even know who was judging this).Now that he tried his best to think back, he could only vaguely remember that her family background was good, but few of his classmates had a bad family background.He could only tell Li Li that her art grades might be good, because one of her paintings was once pasted on the display wall with Zhou Yu's work.

"What did you draw?" Li Li asked with great interest.

"How do I remember this?" Luo Binhan said vaguely, "Landscape? Still life?"

"You must have a picture in your head, sir. Otherwise you wouldn't remember the picture at all."

Robin Han looked up at the ceiling.He only remembered Zhou Yu's paintings.Her painting talent inherited from her father showed very early. After so many years, the painting hanging in the center of the display wall is still vivid: a pot of hibiscus flowers blooming in the secluded wall.The edges of the petals are curled and blackened, like burnt ashes.

Who can easily forget it?It's hard to believe that hot glamor and hidden viciousness flowed from Zhou Yu's slender and cold fingers.Those looking at the display wall can only see this painting, the fire-like red flowers rolling among countless colored lines.Other works are blurred and hidden, like stars in the daytime, or a few ink spots around a black hole, which cannot be noticed at all.Luo Binhan was about to give up searching for the answer, but the scene during the day appeared in front of his eyes: the ice-blue ceiling in the distance, the rippling water shadow, and the bowl lotus quietly floating in the celadon vat.

The lens of memory suddenly zoomed in an inch, or it should be said that it took a step back.He finally saw that there were indeed other people's paintings around the burning red flowers.Of course it is also beautiful, but it is inevitably a little bleak.It's not entirely because of the hibiscus flowers, because this painting doesn't have strong colors in the first place. It's just a black and white drawing drawn with pencil or charcoal. It has dark stem and leaf veins and thin petal lines. A large piece of abrupt blank space.

Luo Binhan leaned close to this painting in his memory, wondering whether the signature and signature were as he thought.In fact, he hadn't looked at this painting carefully before, but it was undoubtedly Shi Qi's work, and it was praised by the art teacher in class for its charm.

"Lotus." Luo Binhan pondered and said, "I guess this is her preference."

"The funny thing is that the picture on your letterhead is primroses, sir."

"Then what's the problem? Can a person only eat one dish in a lifetime?"

Li Li didn't speak, but responded to him with her meaningful smile.Luo Binhan firmly believed that this person was playing tricks again.

(End of this chapter)

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