Mystery

Chapter 40 Yan Xiulin's Past
"Xiao Yan, you are here! It's still preserved egg and lean meat porridge!"

The owner of the porridge shop looked about 60 years old, with no black hair on his head, and he was thin and thin. Yang Xiaolan's eyes in the photo at the door were almost exactly the same as him.

Seeing Shen Ke, the boss was shocked at first, as if meeting an old friend in a foreign country, but the gushing emotion came to him, and then vented instantly, and handed over the order list.

Yan Xiulin nodded politely at him, and led Shen Ke and Li Yuan towards the corner table.

"See what you guys want to eat?" Yan Xiulin said, noticing Shen Ke's gaze.

Seeing her staring at the dense list of missing person notices on the wall, she explained, "Uncle Yang's daughter, Xiaolan, has gone missing, and there are many customers in the porridge shop who come and go to see a doctor. They are all poor people who have lost their children. What if we are lucky enough to meet here?"

Shen Ke didn't see any surprise, she sat down, her voice was as cold as ever, "Porridge with preserved egg and lean meat doesn't need coriander."

"Put more shredded ginger in the fish porridge, and three steamed buns with pork and green onions." They came out of the city bureau, and they haven't eaten a single rice. They are really hungry.

Yan Xiulin nodded, picked up the plastic kettle on the table, and poured tea for Shen Ke and Li Yuan.

This plastic kettle has been used for a long time, and it is full of tea stains, and the white and transparent plastic body has turned yellow.The tea is some ordinary old tea, with a lot of broken pieces and a few prickly ash floating on it.

These things in the porridge shop were cooked early in the morning, so they were served quickly, and Yan Xiulin added another plate of braised beef and cucumbers.

"Shen Ke, we met when we were young, you probably forgot."

Just as Shen Ke put a spoonful of porridge into her mouth, Yan Xiulin's sudden words made her hand stop, and the hot porridge hit her palate, making her frown uncontrollably.

"When? If I knew you, I should remember."

She has an excellent memory. She can remember exactly what is different about every stray cat in the community, what is its name, whether it has been neutered, and which cat gave birth to it.

Yan Xiulin's name is very complicated and not common, if she knew it when she was a child, there is no reason why she can't remember it.

Li Yuan, who was sitting next to him, looked at Yan Xiulin, then at Shen Ke, and suddenly felt that the small shop was cramped, his long hands and feet couldn't fit in, and the small simple round stool seemed to be irritated. , very annoying.

If I knew that he would not be greedy for this porridge, I should have gone home early.

"In Dui Chen's house, I was not called Yan Xiulin at that time, but Li Mu." Yan Xiulin scooped up the porridge in the bowl with a spoon. He kept staring at the porridge, not daring to look up at Shen Ke. .

Shen Ke was taken aback, and put the spoon into the bowl, "I see."

As seen in the dream, Chen Mo took her away from the murder scene that day.All her family members died tragically, and her only relative was not in the country, so she really had nowhere to go.

Chen Mo took her home without hesitation. It wasn't the first time he was familiar with doing this.

Shen Ke still remembered that Chen Mo opened the door with a brass-colored key, and the room smelled of stewed meat. On the sofa in the living room, there was a boy with red eyes wiping tears.

He looked very cramped, wearing short trousers in the winter, and a hole in the sweater on his body, exposing the ends of wool.There was a brand new set of clothes beside him, but he didn't move.

Seeing Chen Mo coming in with a little girl in his arms, the boy jumped off the sofa excitedly. His feet were covered with chilblains, and the corners of his mouth twitched in pain, "Officer Chen, did my sister find it?"

Shen Ke clearly remembered that the boy was called Li Mu, and he was an adopted orphan.

Chen Mo's wife is from the north and is very good at making stews. The bowls for eating at home are bigger than their soup bowls.

She had been sluggish during that time, speaking and acting slowly, and the dishes on the bowl were all pointed, and she didn't even take a bite.

Li Mu didn't move either, he was a little timid, even if it was caught in a bowl, he didn't dare to move his chopsticks, he just picked up the sauerkraut and ate it.

Seeing Shen Ke staring at his food, he hurriedly put all the food in the bowl into Shen Ke's bowl, "Sister eats, I don't."

Shen Ke lived in Chen Mo's house for a period of time, during which she learned about Li Mu's story from the few words of everyone.

Li Mo grew up in an orphanage before she was three years old, and was later adopted by a family named Li.The couple had been married for many years without conceiving, so they treated him well at the beginning.But after giving birth to my younger sister, Li Yangyang, everything changed.

The Li family is an ordinary family who live by farming in Yuanshui Village, Nanjiang City, and their family background is very ordinary.

At that time, Chinese New Year was still very important, especially for the people in the village, who had to grind tofu at home to fry fried tofu, make glutinous rice cakes and marinated vegetables, and prepare for ancestor worship. They were so busy that they never touched the ground.

The matter of taking Li Yangyang naturally fell on Li Mu's head.

The mountain is the children's playground. When Li Mu took Li Yangyang to play on the mountain, he lost his sister.He was walking on thin ice in that family, and this happened again.

The Li family and his wife felt that he deliberately wanted to harm Li Yangyang, so that he would be the only son of the Li family again, and they hated him very much.

No matter what Chen Mo said, they were unwilling to take Li Mu back.

Chen Mo was also afraid that Li Mu would be beaten by the couple when he went back, so he took Li Mu back to his home.

Some things seem to be sealed in a glass jar, usually hidden there, but when the lid is opened, all the memories come out.

Shen Ke withdrew her thoughts, and looked at Yan Xiulin in front of her.

Rao, she couldn't combine Li Mu, the wild boy back then, with Yan Xiulin, who looked like a noble son in front of her.

"Did your sister be found later?"

Later, the little uncle hurried back to the country, and Shen Ke was picked up. When he left, Li Mu was still living at Chen Mo's house.

Yan Xiulin's eyes dimmed a bit, he shook his head, "No."

Li Yuan next to him listened to the conversation between the two, wishing that he had the invisibility technique.

This kind of childhood acquaintance drama is obviously the beginning of an idol drama, but he always feels like the clerk who served as a witness when Shen Ke interrogated criminals, and he has been playing this role this week.

"The group you're talking about isn't the Nanjiang colleague group that only Qi Huan is allowed to join in our group, right?"

Shen Ke asked again, obviously her tone was still very flat, but Li Yuan inexplicably heard a bit of brooding.

Yan Xiulin nodded lightly, "Yes. It's a family-seeking group, and Lao Yang is the leader of the group. I've been looking for my sister for so many years. She was lost near the processing factory back then."

"We communicated with each other in the group. Once we heard that a child was missing or there was news about a relative, we would send it to the group, and people nearby would rush over. I was nearby at the time, so I went there immediately. "

"Although I know it's not my sister, it would be a blessing if I could find someone else's lost relative."

Lao Yang, who was sitting in front of the cash register, pricked up his ears. Seeing Shen Ke looking towards him, he pretended to be busy, and moved the QR code for payment on the table from one side to the other, and then from the other side. Moved over here.

(End of this chapter)