Tian Shan's flower shop is very close to the community where they live, and it only takes ten minutes to walk. Every morning at 7:30, Xie Yuan and Tian Shan leave home together. Xie Yuan drives his daughter to the kindergarten, and Tian Shan walks to the flower shop.
In the past, Xie Yuan went directly to the company after dropping off his daughter. Now Xie Yuan will turn back to the parking lot on the west side of the pedestrian street. He parks his car here, turns from the community on the north side of the pedestrian street, and walks to the street of Tian Shan's flower shop.
Opposite, there is a small gate leading to the community from a pedestrian street. From the small gate, you can see Tian Shan's flower shop at the intersection.
Xie Yuan did not dare to let Tian Shan discover him, he was always very careful. Fortunately, there were dense green plants on the pedestrian street, and this passage did not directly face Tian Shan's flower shop. Xie Yuan often stood on this street intersection.
After a while, he smoked a cigarette and saw the door of the flower shop open, so he left with peace of mind.
Sometimes he would come over at noon, stand here for a while, smoke a cigarette, and see if Tian Shan went out.
In the afternoon, I would also go to the mall where I met Tian Shan that day, order a cup of coffee, and slowly taste the bitter coffee while looking at the endless flow of people in the mall.
After getting off work in the evening, he no longer went home directly, but first parked his car in the parking lot on the west side of the pedestrian street, went to the intersection to take a look at Tian Shan's flower shop, and then went home to cook.
One time in that shopping mall, he really spotted Tian Shan from a distance. The clothes he wore that day were the first time he and his daughter spotted Tian Shan wearing clothes. Xie Yuan threw away his coffee and hurriedly followed her.
He saw Tian Shan taking the escalator to the second floor, and quickly took the fire stairs to the second floor. He did not dare to get too close, but dared to keep an eye on Tian Shan's movements from a distance.
The second floor was the men's clothing department. Tian Shan walked around alone, bought a piece of clothing, and carried it in a handbag. She took the stairs and went downstairs.
Xie Yuan saw the elevator going down from a distance and quickly went down the nearest escalator. After going down to the first floor, Xie Yuan walked around on the first floor and did not see Tian Shan. At this time, he suddenly remembered that the escalator also led to the underground.
From the garage. He came to the garage, picked up his car first, and drove around the garage several times, but he still couldn't find Tian Shan.
So Xie Yuan immediately drove to the pedestrian street. At the intersection, he saw the door of Tian Shan's flower shop was closed. He stayed there until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and then he saw Tian Shan walking alone and calmly.
Walking from the west entrance of the pedestrian street, the handbag disappeared.
In the four years of following Tian Shan, this was the closest he got to the truth, until the day of his daughter's tenth birthday.
Because it was his daughter's birthday that day, Xie Yuan was busy ordering cakes and cooking, and did not follow Tian Shan.
After Yaoyao entered elementary school, because it was relatively close to home, the pick-up and drop-off work was left to Tian Shan. Yaoyao would go to her mother's flower shop to do her homework after school every day, and then go home together after her father had cooked the meal.
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When Tian Shan and her daughter Yaoyao returned home in the evening, Xie Yuan had already prepared the meal, placed the cake, and put in candles.
"Daddy, daddy, daddy." Yaoyao always calls Xie Yuan exaggeratedly every time she comes home. These shouts make Xie Yuan's heart drunk. Dad always hugs the little fairy happily.
Stay and kiss her hard for a few times.
Xie Yuan and Tian Shan agreed that each of them would buy a gift for their daughter on her birthday to see whose gift her daughter liked.
Xie Yuan's gift was standing on the coffee table in the living room, a tall box. Yaoyao saw the gift immediately after entering the door, and pestered her father to open it for her quickly. The gift Xie Yuan prepared this time was a gift made in Yaoyao's likeness.
A pottery doll from China is about one-third the height of Yaoyao. The pottery doll looks exactly like Yaoyao, and the fired color is dazzling.
"Wow! Dad, you are so great, I like you so much!" Yaoyao cheered happily.
Xie Yuan proudly looked at Yaoyao who was hugging Tao Doll and thought that she would win this year. Tian Shan was also shocked by Xie Yuan's birthday gift. She did not expect that Xie Yuan would come up with such an amazing gift. She
I weighed the box I was carrying, thinking that my gift would probably fail.
"Mom, Mom, please open your gift too." In the store, Yaoyao couldn't wait to know what gift her mother bought, but Tian Shan insisted on waiting for her father to open it together.
Mom's gift is wrapped in a layer of colored paper on the outside, and the original packaging is on the inside of the colored paper.
"Wow, this gift from Mom is very beautiful, and it was specially wrapped in colored paper." Xie Yuan praised.
"I wrapped it myself, isn't it beautiful?" Tian Shan said proudly.
"Beautiful, beautiful, so beautiful." Yaoyao clapped her hands excitedly, looking forward to opening the gift.
When the gift is opened, a transparent cover is buckled on a metal plate. Inside the cover is a standing little angel. Press the button on the plate, music flows from the bottom of the plate, and the lights on the cover and the plate begin to flash.
The little angel began to dance.
"Wow, Mom, it's so beautiful!" The daughter looked at the dancing little angel in ecstasy, unable to move her eyes away for a moment.
"It's so beautiful. I don't know where you found such a good gift." Xie Yuan praised, but in his heart he still thought that his gift would win.
When the little angel stopped dancing, Xie Yuan said to his daughter:
"Baby, please choose. Do you like dad's gift this year? Or do you like mom's gift?"
"I like them all!" Yaoyao said innocently.
"Choose the best one and let's talk about it." Xie Yuan was eager to take the fruits of victory in his hands. This gift took Xie Yuan more than a month to get.
"Well..." Yaoyao hesitated between the two gifts.
"Daddy's choice is good, choose daddy's." Tian Shan said at the side.
"No! I choose mom's gift. Although dad's gift is very beautiful, I still like mom's gift." Yaoyao said looking at the little angel.
Xie Yuan heard Yaoyao say that she liked her mother's gift. Although she felt a little disappointed, she didn't care. Tian Shan looked at him and said with a little pride:
"Your gift is really beautiful, I like it."
"It's better to give you a gift. My daughter is the judge." Xie Yuan also smiled.
"You chose the gift based on your own ideas and aesthetics, forgetting who is the owner of the gift."
"Well, that makes sense."
"You have to choose a gift from your daughter's perspective to make him like it."
"Yeah, I remembered something. Some parents collected photos of their children from childhood to adulthood and made them into photo albums for their children, but the children asked their parents to keep them and look at them slowly," Xie Yuan said.
"Yes, that's the truth. What parents care about, their children don't care about. What they care about are their children's photos." Tian Shan added.
"Okay, you win. By the way, where did you buy such a beautiful gift?"
"Online!" Tian Shan replied.
Blow out the candles, eat the cake, cheers, and the dinner ends happily.
It is usually Tian Shan's job to clean up the mess after dinner. Today Xie Yuan drank two glasses of wine and was in a high mood. He said to Tian Shan:
"A gift for my daughter. You win this time. I will be punished by washing the dishes today."
Seeing that Xie Yuan was very happy, Tian Shan let him clean up the matter without stopping him.
Xie Yuan washed the dishes and put them away, put the kitchen garbage into a plastic bag, and was about to go downstairs to empty it. When he was going out, Tian Shan stopped him and said:
"Throw away the packaging of these two gifts too."
Xie Yuan's community is a high-end community in Zhongjiang City, with wide building distances and high-end greenery. At night, the lights on both sides of the road downstairs are bright, as bright as day. The trash cans are not far from the entrance of the corridor, and three trash cans are lined up.
Open it, and the lids on the buckets are tightly closed. Xie originally put the two packaging boxes on the ground, and freed up one hand to open the lid of the trash can. He first threw the plastic bags of garbage in, and then picked it up from the ground.
Pick up the packaging box and stuff it into the trash can.
The packaging box of the birthday gift he bought was larger, so he folded it and stuffed it into the trash can. The box of Tian Shan's gift was not big. When he picked up the box, the colored paper wrapped outside fell to the ground. He bent down to pick it up.
While picking up colored paper, he suddenly found a receipt in the colored paper. Xie Yuan thought it was a receipt for a gift, so he picked it up to see how much a gift that his daughter liked was worth.
What surprised Xie Yuan was that this receipt was not a receipt for a gift, but a machine-printed receipt from a restaurant. The receipt read:
Hongqu Dumpling House
No. 043, Pedestrian Street, Dongcheng District, Zhongjiang City
Order number:40320920/05/201920:36
Product name, quantity, total unit price
Dumplings 32060
Xie Yuan took a look and didn't understand how this receipt from the dumpling restaurant could appear between the gift packaging box and the outer wrapping paper. He casually wanted to throw the receipt and the colored paper into the trash can, but the moment he let go
He hesitated for a moment. He looked at the receipt again and put it in his coat pocket.
When he went to work the next day, Xie Yuan took out the receipt and looked at it carefully.
No. 043, Pedestrian Street. This address is on the same street as Tian Shan’s flower shop. The address of Tian Shan’s flower shop is No. 040. No. 043 should be on the opposite side of the street. Hongqu Dumpling House? Xie Yuan is unfamiliar with this name. He is on the pedestrian street.
I don’t go there often and I’m not familiar with the shops on the street.
Why does this receipt appear between the packaging box and colored paper?
He remembered that he unwrapped the gift himself. On the top of the gift was a flower made of colorful ribbons. He untied the ribbons and peeled away the glued part of the colored paper. The upper part of the gift box was exposed. Then he
He opened the packaging box, took out the gifts and put the packaging box aside. From then until he took the packaging box downstairs, the colored paper had been wrapped around the outside of the packaging box and had not fallen off.
Next to the trash can, he put down the packaging box and opened the lid of the trash can. When he picked up the packaging box again, the colored paper fell off the packaging box. The fallen colored paper still kept the appearance of a box, and the receipt was lying there.
In the center of the colored paper.
Tian Shan said that she wrapped the colored paper on the outside of the box with her own hands. Did Tian Shan put the receipt in it? This makes no sense. Why would Tian Shan put in an irrelevant receipt? Besides, how could Tian Shan do that?
Do you have this receipt? Was it the receipt Tian Shan gave you when she went to eat dumplings? No, Tian Shan doesn’t like eating dumplings. Because of Tian Shan’s habit, Xie Yuan almost forgot what dumplings taste like.
Xie Yuan lit a cigarette, looked at the receipt on his desk, and fell into deep thought.
Maybe Tian Shan occasionally eats dumplings? But who wants to take away the receipt after eating dumplings? This kind of receipt printed by the cash register is automatically printed after the checkout is completed. Generally, customers will not ask for it.
The clerk often leaves these receipts alone for a long time, and they become a long strip hanging on the cash register.
Xie Yuan picked up the receipt and read it carefully. No! This receipt was definitely not received by Tian Shan for eating dumplings. The receipt said three portions, but Tian Shan might not be able to eat even half a portion, so don't say that.
Three portions. The most important thing is that the time is wrong. It was 8:36 pm on May 20. Tian Shan was obviously at home with me at that time, so it was impossible to eat three portions of dumplings.
So how did this receipt get into the middle of the packaging box and colored paper?
Xie Yuan picked up the receipt again and looked at it carefully. He found that there was a 1 cm wide round stain in the middle of the receipt, which was a little sticky to the touch. This seemed to be a trace of being pressed by something, but Xie Yuan thought
I don't know what could cause such indentation.
The day passed like this, and Xie Yuan couldn't find any clue. When he was about to get off work, he decided to go to the Hongqu Dumpling House to take a look at the dumpling house in the evening. He thought maybe he could find something in the dumpling house.