Warm trees become forests

Before going to work on Friday, Wen Mu sent a video to his parents. First, he showed them around the small house he rented, and then talked about the content of his daily work. Wen’s father felt sorry for his son staying up late, and Wen’s mother saw the band-aid on his son’s hand I want him to go home and raise him.

Wen Mu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly hung up the video to wash up and leave the house.

There were many people on the rest day, and it was busier than usual. Before Gu Chenglin arrived today, Manager Chen came to Wen Mu and said, "You should get off work first around ten o'clock later."

Wen Mu was puzzled.

Manager Chen said: "There will be a performance tomorrow afternoon and we need to change shifts. You get off work early today and come over at 12 o'clock tomorrow to help prepare together."

It was only then that Wen Mu remembered that there was a poster pasted at the entrance of the bar, and the date happened to be tomorrow. It seemed to be an underground band, not a star or something.

On Saturday, Wenmu got up at eleven o'clock and went out against the sun. The temperature in City B went straight to [-] degrees. , Wen Mu did not expect to see Gu Chenglin at this time, he was leaning against the wall opposite the staff passage, talking to a long-haired man.

Looks like a man.

Wen Mu didn't listen carefully, but the man's voice was not low.

"Brother Cheng Lin, I beg you, can you just help me once?"

Gu Chenglin lit a cigarette: "I am eighteen, you are 25."

"Brother Cheng Lin! You are my own brother!"

"I'm an orphan." Gu Chenglin was unmoved.

The long-haired man flicked his hair: "Why don't you eat tea, rice, oil, and salt?"

"Come in, [-] for running errands, [-] for helping out, and the fare is at your own expense."

"Aren't you a bit of a black man? We only give you [-] for a performance and give you [-], and the remaining six people will share? Why is [-] for one person enough?"

Gu Chenglin nodded: "The arithmetic is not bad."

"You fucking..."

"Three hundred and sixty-six can still see money, if you don't want it, stay away from me." Gu Chenglin found him annoying.

Wen Mu walked to the door and saw the long-haired man's face clearly. He looked familiar, and then recalled the poster pasted on the bar's door. It seemed that his name was Hu Xiu and he was the lead singer of the band.

Hu Xiu also saw Wen Mu, and when he saw him walking through the employee aisle, he quickly waved, Wen Mu looked around and pointed at himself.

Hu Xiu said, "It's you, come here."

Wen Mu walked over and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Are you an employee of the bar?" Hu Xiu asked.

"Ah."

"Do you have a driver's license?"

"Have."

Satisfied, Hu Xiu took out the car keys from his pocket and handed them to Wen Mu: "Do me a favor, drive Gu Chenglin and bring over the things I left at his house."

Gu Chenglin glanced at Wen Mu, then asked Hu Xiu: "Do I agree?"

"Here's the money! Two thousand and eight!"

Gu Chenglin stubbed out the cigarette: "Okay, I agree."

Wen Mu didn't figure out what was going on until Wen Mu grabbed the steering wheel. Hu Xiu's car was an urban off-road vehicle, not a famous car, but looking at the wind, Gu Chenglin leaned on the co-pilot, pressed the window, and said casually Said a place.

Wen Mu didn't know the location, so he took out his mobile phone to navigate, and it was displayed in the south of the city.

In City B, the division between the rich and the poor is very obvious. Generally, those who live in the north are the rich with tens of millions of dollars, while those who live in the south are the floating population and poor citizens.

Wen Mu followed the navigation, drove for nearly an hour, and parked outside the narrow alley. The surrounding residential buildings were dilapidated and old, and the environment was in a mess. The wires were intricately entangled in the air, like a huge spider web, and the trash can was left unattended. Blowflies "buzzed" around.

Wen Mu followed Gu Chenglin out of the car, not knowing what to say.

An old man and a young man walked towards each other in the alley. The short-haired girl was holding a lollipop in her hand. The old man who was leading her was so hunchbacked that four people couldn’t walk in parallel in the alley. Wen Mu had to stop and make way sideways. But Gu Chenglin not only refused to give way, but also took a step across, blocking in front of those two people.

The little girl raised her head, turned her big watery eyes to look at him, and then looked at Wen Mu suspiciously.

The old man buried his head and wanted to continue walking, but before he could step out, Gu Chenglin raised his hand and pulled his collar and forced him to look up. Wen Mu looked closely, and the person Gu Chenglin blocked was not an old man at all, but a small-nosed middle-aged man with eyes.

The middle-aged man held on to the little girl tightly, speaking in substandard Mandarin: "Don't fucking meddle in your own business."

The little girl was still licking the candy in her mouth blankly. Wen Mu reacted for a few seconds before realizing that the middle-aged man might not be related to this child. As soon as the man loosened his grip, Wen Mu quickly pulled the little girl into his arms.

The little girl is still eating the lollipop.

Gu Chenglin was so agile that the middle-aged man couldn't beat him. After being punched a few times, he took out a small knife from his trousers, waved it wildly and said, "Get out!"

Wen Mu hurriedly said: "Be careful!"

Gu Chenglin was hit on the arm, grabbed the knife ferociously, and directly inserted it into the middle-aged man's shoulder, and said fiercely: "The policemen in the southern district are all useless, can you run away?" Wen Mu wanted to call the police, but Gu Chenglin hurt someone, and he was afraid that the police would embarrass Gu Chenglin, so he hurriedly confirmed to him: "Is it a human trafficker?"

"Yes, call the police." Gu Chenglin said.

The police came quickly. The law and order here was not good. There were several police stations stationed here. The police seemed to know Gu Chenglin very well.

The little girl finished eating the candy and began to crawl into Wen Mu's arms, looking frightened.

Gu Chenglin glanced over, with a fierce look, grabbed the little girl by the back of the collar, and lifted her out of Wen Mu's arms, and the little girl wailed loudly at Wen Mu: "Brother, help me!"

Wen Mu kept staring at the place where Gu Chenglin was scratched just now. Seeing that it was not serious, he felt relieved, and comforted the little girl whose face was covered with snot and tears: "It's okay, the bad guy has been arrested."

The little girl cried so softly that she sounded like a little boy.

Gu Chenglin brought her up to him like a chicken: "You're quite fat."

The little girl was still staring at Wen Mu, struggling towards him: "Brother...Brother, help me..."

"It's another name." Gu Chenglin raised his voice.

The little girl trembled in fright, immediately turned down the volume, and sobbed softly.

"This man has kidnapped you several times."

The little girl didn't speak.

"How many times?" Gu Chenglin asked again.

"Three, three times..."

"Are you fucking a dog brain?"

The little girl said: "I am not a dog brain, I can run."

"You run away!" He taught while walking, "How old are you, can you run faster than adults?" The little girl lowered her head and dared not speak.

Wen Mu followed behind and continued to walk forward. At the end of the alley was an old Tongzilou, with dozens of households on a ladder. Sheets, quilts, pants and vests were hung on the clothesline.

Gu Chenglin threw the little girl in the yard, and said to Wen Mu: "You wait here for a while." After speaking, he got under the sheets blown by the wind and entered a room.

Seeing that the person had left, the little girl found a step and sat down, then looked up at Wen Mu and asked him, "Brother, who are you?"

Wen Mu knelt down, wiped her face, and said with a smile, "My name is Wen Mu."

"You are so handsome." The little girl grinned.

"You're beautiful." Wen Mu said.

The little girl shook her head: "I'm handsome too."

Wen Mu explained to her: "Generally boys are only described as handsome, but there are also handsome girls."

"I'm a boy!" Fearing that Wen Mu wouldn't believe it, he lifted up his skirt, "I'm jiji!"

Wen Mu was stunned for two seconds: "Then why are you wearing a skirt?"

The little boy still held the finished candy wrapper in his hand, his big eyes twinkled: "Because that trafficker wants to abduct girls, I put on a skirt, and he will give me candies. I know he is a bad guy, but I want candy too."

"But, he's going to kidnap and sell you, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid, I can run, and I can bite people. Even if I am really captured, brother Cheng Lin will save me, even though he is very fierce."

Wen Mu couldn't understand the mentality of a child who was not afraid of human traffickers just to eat candy. He wanted whatever he wanted since he was a child, and he never knew that eating a piece of candy could make a child take such a big risk.

Gu Chenglin came out of the room and saw no one in the yard. After waiting for 5 minutes, Wen Mu led the little boy in a skirt out of the alley. He took a plastic bag and a can of sugar in his hand. Then, he handed the candy to the little boy, explained a few words, and stood up again.

Gu Chenglin frowned, took Wen Mu up to the second floor, stopped at the door of the sixth room, took out the key, and before entering the door, Gu Chenglin asked coldly: "Can you buy him for a lifetime?"

Wen Mu was taken aback.

"If you can't, don't let him taste the sweetness."