At one end of the bench of this knife sharpener, there is a grinding wheel embedded in it and a whetstone, and at the front of this end, there is an iron blade that has been sharpened I don't know how many times!

It may just be a 'disguise' used by this profession to mark your identity, but at this time, in my eyes, I can't help but overlap this old man who sharpens knives suddenly with a 'shadow' who can kill.

Sun Lu stepped forward, half-blocked in front of me, glanced at Ding Xianleng, turned his head sideways and whispered to me:

"Are we mistaken? This sharpening knife is the fifth person? Is it the guy who kills people and skins them? ”

When I saw the iron blade, I was also one.

I rolled my eyes and grabbed Sun Lu, "Don't think about it, they just know each other!" ”

Seeing that the old man who sharpened the knife was also frightened by Sun Tuzi, I breathed a sigh of relief and said to the old man:

"Hello uncle, my old house is near here, I came back to take a look, but this is dumb...... Ding Xileng snatched my bag. We just chased here, just to get the bag back. ”

The old man who sharpened the knife blinked, furrowed his brows and asked, "Really?" You're not here to bully him? ”

I touched my body and glanced at Sun Lu.

Sun Lu understood, took out his work card from his pocket and showed it to the old man, "Uncle, we are both policemen, this woman's ...... This lesbian is a lawyer, and we came here to do private business, not what you think. ”

The old man who sharpened the knife didn't seem to be the kind of character who liked to talk a lot, and only muttered, "Little squint eyes to grab the bag?" Shouldn't it? ”

Then, he took out a plastic bag from the basket behind the bench, stretched out his hand and handed it to Ding Xileng, but said to us with his face:

"Ang, I'm his uncle, just bring him a stutter, it's nothing, I'll go first."

Ding Xianleng snatched the plastic bag, and Sun Lu and I watched him open it, and there was a pile of pancakes rolled with shredded pickles.

The old man who sharpened the knife didn't seem to want to stay longer, gave the pancake to Ding Xileng, looked at us again, turned his face and left.

My brain was really messy at this moment, but I still subconsciously followed, and at the same time, I didn't forget to point to the cardboard box with my hand, suggesting that Sun Tuzi put the skull on it.

I followed the old man, put my backpack on my shoulder, and asked, "Uncle, are you related to Ding Xileng?" ”

"No, I just knew his father and watched him grow up. No, no one has died in his family, there is only such a stupid child left, if I send him stuttering food in the morning, noon and evening from time to time, he will not starve to death? ”

It may be difficult for modern people to understand the meaning of this old man's words, but I grew up in the countryside, and I may have fallen behind in many things, but I can understand the old man's concise and vague words.

I said, "You are always a good person, and you always take care of him." ”

The old man stopped and turned his face to me with one eyebrow on one side:

"What the hell is going on? I know this kid too well, he had encephalitis when he was a child, and he was stupid, and then he fell into the river once in the winter, and almost drowned, and after being rescued by a good Samaritan, he was stupid when he was relieved. I said, this kid is stupid, but he's not a bad kid. How can he snatch your bag? ”

The old man asked directly, and I could only answer directly: "Where do I know?" I just went back to my old house to take a look, and when I was at the entrance of the alley on the street, I saw a child throwing him with a cannonball, so I kicked the pile of broken children away, and gave him a little money when he was done. As soon as I got to the alley, he snatched my bag and ran all the way here. ”

The old man who sharpened the knife was probably really a kind uncle, looked at me for a while, shook his head and said, he couldn't tell him about this matter, he just gave Ding Xileng a stutter by the way.

Although my mind is dazed at this time, I haven't forgotten that the beginning of this strange thing was my bag that Ding Xioleng grabbed first.

When I saw that the old man's teeth were burnt, I took out a cigarette and handed it to him, and when I saw that he took it, I quickly helped him light it.

I thought about it for a while, and simply told him directly, although it was an accident that we came here to meet Ding Xianleng, but I am a civil servant after all. Now that the welfare and resettlement unit of the ZF agency is quite perfect, if Ding Xioleng is really helpless and has no ability to take care of himself, then I think of ideas, maybe I can help him, it is better than him freezing to death here. But before that, I still have to try to understand his own situation, and the key is that when I report it, I have to explain it to the people next to me.

The old man sharpened his eyebrows, took two puffs of cigarette, and said to me, "What do you have to explain?" It's just a wild child and a stupid person who no one cares about! ”

He said so, but in his heart he must have accepted my statement.

He smoked a cigarette and said:

"Just a few words. This child had a serious illness when he was a child and had a bad brain. I remember, he was eight or nine years old, and he was egged on by a bunch of fucking kids to go skating on the river and fall into an ice hole. He was dirty and stupid, and the people around him didn't want to save him when they saw it. As a result, it was a man surnamed Xu on the front street, shirtless in winter, who touched him in the ice hole. ”

My eyelids jumped: "The surname of Qianjie is Xu?" And then what? ”

Although the old man who sharpened the knife didn't like to talk much, he obviously cared about Ding Xianleng.

When he saw that I was asking carefully, he didn't think it was strange, and thought that I was really kind, so he sighed "Hi", simply put down the bench, habitually stepped forward and straddled his head with one leg, raised his head and said to me:

"How many years ago was that? Thirty or forty years, right? I was only twenty years old, how could I remember it clearly? I said, if you really have a good heart...... Don't blame me for speaking badly, I'm uneducated, just now your guy showed me my work permit, I don't even know what is written on it...... I mean...... Say that your ZF department should be in charge of the move, so what's the matter......"

I thought about it for a while, although Ding Xileng was full of beard, but the clarity of his eyes and the straightness of his body were indeed like the age he said.

I really couldn't discuss with him about the age and those experiences of Ding Xileng, so after a little thought, I grabbed what I thought was the key point and asked:

"What did you say, what is the name of the person surnamed Xu in the front street?"

"Xu Tiancong!"

The old man slapped his thigh and lit me with the butt of his cigarette, "Let me tell you, I am too impressed by this person." Heck, this old man never said a word to his neighbors, and he didn't get involved in anything. What do people and neighbors call him behind their backs? Call him 'Old Worm Cocoon'! It's cloudy all day long, half-dead...... Oh, I really didn't want to see him back then! But ......"

The old man sharpened his words suddenly, glared at me, and gave me a thumbs up: "But if he does this, I think he is in it!" How cold was it that day? People don't talk about going into the water, they can freeze naked and become naked. People didn't say a word, they just took off their clothes and jumped into the ice hole, touching the little squinted eyes! Do you accept it? If you don't accept it, this is human nature, it is character! ”