23. Chapter 23
When Meimei and I went home, it was already very late, and Li Duidu was waiting for us at the entrance of the corridor.
I looked at Li Diudi's expression and suddenly remembered the promise of paying the rent yesterday. My heart skipped a beat and a little panicked. I walked over like a sinner, and he glanced at Meimei: "Go up and rest first."
Meimei felt like she lost her soul on the way back. She didn't say a word, and now she didn't look up at Li Duidu, so she went upstairs.
I walked upstairs with Meimei, just two steps...
"Su Xiaoxin."
Just like the head teacher's name in high school, I felt my skin tightened a little.
I really want to act deaf selectively, but the eyes behind me are too cold, so cold that I can't ignore them. I turned to look at Li Duidu.
"Come here." He turned around and led me into his room.
I followed Li Duidu into his room, one on the first floor and one on the other. Although I passed by his door every day, I had never walked into his room. I walked to the door and glanced at the room. Unlike Li Paipai's room, which was as chaotic as fighting a war, Li Duidu's room was unexpected...normal.
The sofa, coffee table, dining table and bookcase are simple and simple decoration, and there is no unnecessary style, but it is not like Wei Wuchang, everything is collected in a regular manner and everything seems so institutionalized.
In his room, the little things would be placed in a mess. There was a shirt that had not been washed on the sofa, and there was a cup of water left on the table. The whole room was very lifelike...
Although you can still see the large black coffin inside through the bedroom door... But for a non-human, his room is considered a normal and abnormal type.
“Bring the door.”
Li Diudi was already wearing slippers. When he walked into the house, he didn't change his shoes, but he took me a pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet and put them in front of me.
I was a little stunned as Li Diudi bent down in front of me.
It's... in the middle of the night, a lonely man and a widow are living in the same room... The four words "bring the door" seem a bit ambiguous.
"You'll say what you have...you'll tell me here!" I held the door, stretched open the door like an iron nail, staring at Li Duidu with a heroic expression of cutting his arm, "If you don't say secret words, there is no shame in our conversation."
Li Duidi stood up straight, staring at me with slender eyes behind the golden-rimmed glasses, as if staring at a mentally retarded person, full of disgust.
"If you call me to close, just close it, you'll talk a lot." A black shadow suddenly jumped out of the room, jumped onto my arm, and kicked it with force on my hand. I was startled and subconsciously pulled my hand back. The black shadow wrapped around my neck, and his tail rolled up with a "clang" and brought the door behind me.
The black dog jumped off my shoulder, squatted at Li Duidi's feet, licked his paws, opened his mouth and spoke in Chongqing: "It's your honor to be able to come to my master's house, but you're still struggling."
I gritted my teeth, picked up the slippers on the ground, and smashed the black dog's head. It turned around and successfully avoided it. I changed into a slipper, carried one foot, jumped into Li Diudi's living room, put on the slippers I threw out, and glared at the black dog on Li Diudi's shoulder: "Sooner or later, I will send it to Guangdong to make a pot of dragon and tiger fight!"
The black dog was so begging that he stuck out his tongue.
Li Duidu ignored the bickering between me and the black dog, brushed my shoulders, walked to the sofa and sat down, put one arm on the back of the sofa, held a water cup with the other hand, and took a sip. He raised his legs and crossed his legs. Although he was wearing pajamas, his posture was very atmospheric.
And it was such a grand posture... I had an inexplicable urge to sit in his unfolded arms.
I got rid of this strange thought in my mind: "What's the matter? Oh..." I remembered it, and then touched it in my pocket, "I can pay the rent for this month, what I owe before... well... the situation has changed."
Li Duidi put down the water cup, Buxu Buji: "I didn't ask you to rent it." He raised his eyes and looked at me, "Did you go out with Yu Meimei to find the chef in that Japanese restaurant today?
I nodded.
“Are there any confirmation?”
I thought about it for a while: "It's strange. Meimei said before that I could tell whether the man was a mermaid when I heard the song, but Meimei listened to him and said he was not. After Meimei finished singing, the man waited for Meimei at the door. There were still many clues pointing to the man's name was Ah. His surname seemed to be Xu. The shell ornaments on the key and Meimei's underwear were the same kind of shell..."
"Wow." Black Dog interrupted, "so interesting."
I looked at Li Duidu: "Can you let it shut up first?"
Li Diudi: "Shut up."
The black dog's mouth seemed to be suddenly stuck with strong glue, and no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't open it. It held its mouth and rolled back and forth on the ground. Seeing it feeling so uncomfortable, I felt much more relieved in an instant.
"I think Meimei looks today, and she probably recognized this matter for ten times. That person should be Ah, but it's very strange. Ah was so seriously injured at that time, how did he survive?"
Li Duidi pushed down his glasses and listened to me silently and continued: "It seems that Ah has another 'mimei' around him now."
"oh?"
"Before leaving, I saw Ah calling a man named 'Meimei Baby'." I sighed, "So Meimei is back in such a daze. The boy I like finally came back alive, but fell in love with another person."
Li Diudi continued to ponder for a moment: "Maybe it's not that boy."
I was stunned: "What does it mean?"
Li Duidu took out a photo from the book on the coffee table. The photo seemed to be at night, with dim light and lots of noise, so the picture was very blurred. The scene in the photo seemed to be on the riverside. There seemed to be someone by the river, climbing up the rocks on the river bank. A beam of engineering lighting light hit his head, just illuminating his lower body, which was a shining fish tail.
"A photo recently bought by the Chongqing Non-Human Committee from passers-by, it was suspected that a mermaid appeared in Chongqing. This matter was just suppressed. When the investigator was following the investigation, he was beaten and injured by the mermaid. The injury was not serious. The mermaid was violent and ruthless. No one has seen him again. The committee has issued a wanted order, level B."
I stared at the photo in my hand blankly, and felt that the blurry facial features were very similar to the chef in the Japanese restaurant.
Fierce mood, ruthless action...
"What do you mean..." I was shocked with the photo, "Maybe the chef of that Japanese restaurant be Aji?"
Li Duidi took another sip of water: "So have you confirmed it?" He said, "If it's really a mermaid, he has no identity registration in our committee, but he has to go to Chongqing Non-Committee to sit. If he is a wanted mermaid, he still needs to pay the bail fee."
"I have to talk to Meimei about this."
Li Duidi asked me: "Are you sure?"
I thought about it and nodded: "It's a bit cruel, but if it weren't for Ah, she might not be so sad and entangled. If it was Ah, no matter what it was, I think Meimei would definitely hope that she could help Ah, remind him to register his identity, and look at him with a legitimate look."
"Well, then you go."
"Okay." I turned around and left, and suddenly paused when I opened the door. I turned around and looked at Li Duidu, who was still sitting on the sofa. "You called me to your room today to tell me about this?"
"Um."
"Why didn't you just talk to Meimei directly?"
Li Duidi glanced at me: "You asked so much, do you want to stay in my house for a while?"
"Who...who wants to stay in your room!" I pushed the door open and went out. Close Li Duidu's door, and I stood at the door for a while, thinking that this vampire was so shameless. It seemed like...I had any thoughts about him.
I walked upstairs two steps angrily, and suddenly I thought of what I didn't get the answer just now.
Li Duidi avoided Meimei and took me out to talk about this alone... Did he feel that he is used to being at quarrels and doesn't know what method to treat injured people, so he was asking for my opinion?
I turned around and looked downstairs: "What an awkward and arrogant vampire..."
However, I seemed to vaguely feel that there really is something called gentle in this vampire's heart.
I knocked on Meimi's door and told Meimi about the mermaid by the river. Meimi didn't react very much after hearing this.
"I don't know the wanted mermaid, but it's definitely not Aji in the Japanese restaurant."
I asked Meimei: "How are you sure?"
"When I first met, that face was enough to shock me, and the fact that Ah was dead was too deeply rooted in my heart, so I thought he was Aji. But then I calmed down and observed every day, it was different."
Meimei said: "Aji is often abused and beaten, and will be punished for Ah's fault. So he hates everyone, hates the pirate couple, hates me, and is also very Ah. He will not give candy to the children because there is a child in the store, nor will he smile so gently to his colleagues. Moreover... his wrist has been handcuffed for too many years, and the skin of his wrist is damaged, scabbed and scabbed. The mark of the wound will always be on his wrist, like a tattoo that can never be washed off. The chef has no..."
“That means…”
"Well, I'm sure it's Ah." Meimei smiled as she said this, "He's alive, Xiaoxin, do you know that he's alive, as long as he knows this, it's enough to make me happy. It seems that the stone that has been pressing in my heart for many years has finally been taken away. Although he fell in love with other girls, and although he doesn't recognize me who is standing in front of him, these are not important."
I looked at Meimei, and when she was talking about the three words "not important", tears fell to the ground.
“These are not important, they really don’t matter.”
I hugged Meimei and patted her on the back. Just as I was about to comfort her, she suddenly pushed me away and said, "I want to lose weight."
"ah?"
She stared at me with a bright look: "Xiaoxin, I want to lose weight, I want to become the same person as before. I want to lose weight."
Although Meimei has said this a hundred times before, this time, I chose to believe her.
Chapter completed!