Chapter 1689: Blame

After connecting the phone, Cai Meiwen heard Xiao Celery's voice at once. Although the tone of the voice changed after transmission, how could she not hear her daughter's voice.

She knew that she should be patient, should be with the weather, and should not yell at her daughter. An adult like herself would be frightened in the face of a typhoon, and this was only on the edge of the typhoon, let alone a primary school student like her daughter, but she was too anxious. Eager to know her daughter's situation, the previous worries, panic, despair, and regrets were as irresistible as a volcanic eruption, and they vented out in an instant.

She frightened her daughter and was too scared to speak. A strange male voice answered the phone and told her where Xiao Celery was.

Pet store?

She remembered the cartoon-style pet shop drawn on the road map. At first, the logo of the pet shop was a cat’s head, but one time when she cleaned up her daughter’s room, she found the road map that was no longer needed, and found that the little Celery has been supplementing things on the road map, adding many details that were not there at the beginning, and even painted them in color, such as where a new snack bar opened, or which road section often encounters people walking their dogs when they go to school, Moreover, the logo of the pet store has also been changed from a cat head to a rabbit head. The rabbit ears are easy to identify, and a red carrot is painted next to it.

She didn't think much about it at the time, and with a smile, she put the road map back in place.

She couldn't believe the strange man who answered the phone. There were too many perverts in this world. She couldn't be completely relieved until she saw her daughter was safe and sound.

Little Celery does not have a mobile phone, but in order to prevent getting lost, she wears a child positioning watch on her wrist, and can check the time by the way, but Cai Meiwen has checked it several times today. I don’t know if it is because the network signal is too bad or because too many parents are Logging in at the same time, the app always shows busy and cannot connect to the server, otherwise she would have known the location of Xiao Celery long ago.

She is not usually a rude and violent person, but she behaves like a powder keg middle-aged aunt on the phone, because she is such a helpless single mother, she can only pretend to be arrogant and not to be messed with, like a cat Only a female cat that can explode at any time can better protect herself and her daughter. After all, this society is sometimes unreasonable.

Cai Meiwen's mood became a little more stable. At least her daughter's voice didn't sound like she was injured or abused. As soon as she relaxed, her whole body began to ache. The soles of her feet must have been worn out. She was lucky not to step on broken glass. What made her even more disturbed was that something with scales often slipped past her calf. She could only pray that she escaped from the fish pond fish, not snakes or other animals.

She rewrapped the phone in the plastic bag and stuffed it into the bag, changed her route, took a shortcut and waded in the direction of the pet store.

From before to now, she slipped and fell countless times, and the water flow became more and more fierce, and it was slightly better to walk while leaning on the wall. The branches blown down by the strong wind kept hitting her body and head. Some branches were even as thick as her arms. Fortunately, she saw the opportunity quickly and avoided her head. They only hit her shoulders, and the twigs scratched her face. There were a few bloodstains, otherwise she might have been knocked out on the spot, and then washed away by the water, maybe all the way into the sea...

There were a lot fewer people on the street, and many people chose to evacuate nearby. Many cars were abandoned in the middle of the road. It may be that the engine was flooded and turned off, and the owner of the car was missing.

She even saw a Mini, washed up in the driveway like a toy, before being blocked and stuck by another abandoned car.

As an old city, Dongcheng District has relatively backward infrastructure construction. Some low-lying areas have accumulated deep water, which may be one to two meters or even deeper. She saw a couple who looked like a couple squatting on the roof of the car at a loss. , The sunroof of the car was open, the car had already been turned off, and the water had covered the wipers. As long as a wave hit, they would wash away with them and the car.

They probably have little driving experience and are not familiar with the surrounding terrain. They just want to drive home quickly.

They followed an off-road vehicle or SUV in front of them and drove hard. As a result, they had a high chassis and waded through a depression, and they were trapped.

There are more than two people trapped like this, and they can be seen in almost every low-lying area.

Cai Meiwen didn't have the time or the mood to take care of other people's affairs, she walked towards the pet shop mechanically, wondering why Xiao Celery didn't listen to the teacher and went home after school, but went to the pet shop—even though she never The result seems to be a good thing, but this is a matter of principle. If you hit the wrong one this time, you may not have such good luck next time, and you may even fall into the tiger's den by mistake.

So, when she saw that little celery was safe and sound in the pet shop, a stone fell from her heart, and she immediately began to ask why little celery didn't listen to the teacher.

Little Celery was still immersed in the joy of meeting her mother just now, but she didn't expect her mother to turn her face suddenly and her tone was very severe. Usually, her mother would do this only when she made a serious mistake.

She didn't know how to answer, there were many things she wanted to say, but the more anxious she was, the more she couldn't come out. The less she spoke, the uglier her mother's face became.

It was Zhang Zian who helped Xiao Qincai and said: "Ms. Cai, don't worry, you will scare her. Let me explain. I suggested that she stay and take refuge, because I heard she said that there is no one at home, and it is so bad." I think it's dangerous for a small child to come home alone and stay at home in the weather."

The clerks also chattered from the sidelines to prove that the weather was deteriorating rapidly and the street traffic was extremely chaotic at that time, and children should not be allowed to go home alone.

Cai Meiwen didn't know the situation at that time, but there was always a thorn in her heart. The key point of the entanglement was-why did her daughter agree to him as soon as he suggested it? Where is the daughter who is usually very wary of strangers? If a random stranger invites her into the house to shelter from the rain and she agrees, how can Cai Meiwen rest assured that she can go to and from school alone?

As the saying goes, there is no better way to know a daughter than a mother, and in turn, there is no better way to know a mother than a daughter.

Little Celery guessed what Cai Meiwen was thinking earlier than the others, and she finally plucked up the courage to say: "Mom... I'm sorry, there is something I haven't told you, the store manager brother is my friend, not a stranger People, so...so I came here to take shelter from the rain..."

The more she spoke, the lower her voice became, until it was almost inaudible in the end.

"I wanted to tell my mother a long time ago, but my mother was very busy and tired. I couldn't find a suitable opportunity to say it. After I said it, I was afraid that my mother would scold me..."

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