"Do you have to find them today?" Zhang Yalin asked.
Zhang Lan swept the bottles and jars on the dressing table into a bag, pointed at him with the long pointed nails and said, "It's not me, it's you and me."
After emphasizing, she mumbled again: "I don't even look at who is next to me on the famous tree map, it's not me anyway."
Zhang Yalin vomited a mouthful of blood silently, and then heard his sister say, "As for why it has to be today..."
Zhang Lan thought for a while and said, "Did you hear what Xiao Xu said when he left this morning?"
The pole hit a little far, Zhang Yalin didn't think about it: "What's the matter with Zhou Xu?"
"That kid has a crow's mouth, but you haven't learned it before." Zhang Lan rolled his eyes at him.
That's quite a lesson. With a toothache on his face, Zhang Yalin asked, "What did he say?"
"Isn't it raining at that time, the wind was very strong, and my house didn't close the window, it sounded a bit scary." Zhang Lan explained, "He walked outside the gate of the yard, looked back and said that the house is here. How old is the house? It sounds like it's going to collapse."
Zhang Yalin: "... Really can talk."
He didn't even count the crow's mouth at all, he was 15 years old, and he still wanted to say where he wanted to. If it weren't for the relationship, I'd be sure to hang him up and beat him.
"Anyway, I've been restless all day today." Zhang Lan has a very straight personality, and hates this kind of incompetence. "So I have to run this trip."
"By the way, what about Xiao Hei?" She glanced at the outbuilding.
"What else?" Zhang Yalin was unhappy, but she moved her fingers and called in the bodyguard like a puppet.
"Let him calculate the destination." Zhang Lan scratched the phone and said without looking up, "I can buy a ticket."
The movements of the two apprentices of the Shen family were all tracked by talismans and stalkers, so they only knew which direction they were going, but not where they were going in the end.
Xiao Hei took out a few copper coins from his pocket, and after a few simple strokes with his fingers, he began to shake the hexagrams. Given that Zhang Lan wants to make a guess if he has something or nothing, he has done this action countless times, and he is so proficient that he will never make a mistake.
As a result, with a hand, one of the copper coins fell to the ground with a "dang bang", and rolled along the wooden floor all the way to the bottom of the wardrobe...
Zhang Lan was stunned for a moment, and his face changed a bit.
Although she doesn't know anything about hexagrams, the Zhang family master has been cultivating miscellaneous things from generation to generation, and she is familiar with the most basic rules than anyone else - during the process of shaking hexagrams, it is a big taboo that the copper coins do not fall to the ground.
Once it hits the ground, there is no saying that it will be repeated again, which means that this hexagram cannot be counted.
"Can't you count the destination?" Zhang Lan was surprised.
Zhang Yalin also frowned tightly.
"Is this a bit exaggerated?" Zhang Lan was still a little suspicious, "Could it be Xiao Hei's hands shaking?"
Xiao Hei silently stretched out two hands towards her: "I'm very stable, if you don't believe me, give it a try."
Zhang Yalin also said: "Impossible, the puppets made by Bu Ning's spirits are as familiar as eating and drinking water. Do you tremble when you eat?"
Zhang Lan: "…"
Originally, Zhang Yalin was still a little hesitant. After all, the Zhang family had rules. If he and Zhang Lan wanted to leave Ningzhou at the same time, they had to report to the head of the family—that is, they had to explain to their grandfather Zhang Zhengchu.
They seldom do things together these years, just to avoid this, they are both quite afraid of seeing their grandfather.
In fact, when they were young, they were very close to their grandfather, especially Zhang Lan. Later, it gradually became unfamiliar, and the reason is a bit simple: after Zhang Wan was kicked out of the house, the burden of the next head of the house naturally fell on their sister and brother. So grandfather Zhang Zhengchu wanted them to do miscellaneous repairs, but Zhang Lan refused.
In fact, Zhang Yalin didn't want to. The older he is, the more obsessed he is with puppet arts, and he is not very interested in other things, but his personality is not as strong as Zhang Lan, and he is more obedient. So he took a compromise and let his puppets learn hexagrams, formations and spells. It barely passed.
In their opinion, this is not a major matter of principle, but Grandpa takes it very seriously. Whenever it is mentioned, it will inevitably break up. So since then, both of them are a little afraid of grandpa, maybe because they don't want to quarrel or become more rusty.
But now Xiao Hei's fortune-telling figured out a big taboo, and instead he wanted to see what was going on.
"I'm going to pick up my luggage, by the way... go to the back." Zhang Yalin explained.
Going to the back means talking to grandpa. Zhang Lan waved at him, signaling him to hurry.
However, Zhang Yalin is obviously not impatient, so "hurry up", it will be tight for nearly an hour. Zhang Lan's luggage had already been done, and he was bored waiting, so he could only play Xiao Hei.
"The destination can't be counted, the others should be fine, right?" Zhang Lan asked.
Xiao Hei has been tricked by this aunt countless times and is afraid of her: "I reserve my opinion, you can talk about it first."
"Yo, you've learned to be smart." Zhang Lan didn't want to toss him, "It's okay to be lucky?"
Xiao Hei nodded and immediately shook his hexagram. This time there was no copper coins falling, Zhang Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
But before the anger was relieved to the end, Xiao Hei said: "Six-three, that is, the deer are safe, but only in the forest; gentlemen, it is better to leave and be stingy."
Zhang Lan: "What is it?"
The little black character said eloquently: "Catch the deer, but there are few guides, give it up, it's easy to be humiliated."
Zhang Lan: "?"
"Who was humiliated???" Zhang Lan asked quietly.
Xiao Hei looked at her red mouth as if she was going to eat people, so she gave a rare euphemism: "You."
The word "ba" stands for euphemism.
If he only said the front, Zhang Lan might hesitate. However, she added a sentence of humiliation, but the aunt decided instead: "The point is to have fewer guides, right?"
Xiao Hei: "The point is to give up."
Zhang Lan pushed him out of the door and sifted through the phone. In modern society, there are maps for directions. The leading in the hexagram is obviously not so straightforward. In her opinion, it should be a few people who lead the way.
The apprentice of the Shen family had no friendship with her, so she rushed over with Zhang Yalin, and might be slapped again, just like the last time she went to the Shen family.
Thinking about it this way, Xiao Hei's hexagram really makes some sense.
Then find someone with "friendship".
The first person she knew who could get in touch with the Shen family apprentice must be Xie Wen. Unfortunately, Xie Wen himself was in the car heading north.
So she called Zhou Xu instead.
When Zhang Yalin finally finished reporting with his grandfather, Zhou Xu's people all arrived at the gate of the house.
He was very excited, as if he was going on a spring outing. He grabbed his phone and slung a backpack, which was bulging. Zhang Yalin suspected that he was packing snacks.
Tracking this matter, it is a bit false to say it. Zhang Lan said to Zhou Xu that he would "go on a business trip to get out of the cage" with the intention of not deviating the teenagers.
Because they didn't know the destination, they had to drive there. Zhang Lan put a tracker to chase after Wenshi's car, and showed him the way by the way.
When they got into the car, they were not in a hurry. After setting out, I went to a spiritual shop marked "Paper Wreath" to buy paper and pen cinnabar for stippling.
Zhang Lan put these things in the bag and prepared, then while Zhou Xu hadn't got out of the car, he patted Xiao Hei and said, "It's up to you. The clerk from Xie Wen was driving over there. You must rest in the middle and change people. You are a puppet, and it will definitely not be troublesome to catch up."
Zhang Lan's mobile phone was on Xiaohei's driver's seat, and there was also a navigation on the screen, but the navigation displayed two moving points, one was blue, representing themselves. The other is red and has entered the Shandong boundary, representing the eldest apprentice of the Shen family who was tracked down by the tracer.
Xiao Hei glanced at the distance, and thoughtfully said to Zhang Lan: "Wait another 20 minutes, it will be very convenient when it gets dark, and there is not much difference in two hours to catch up."
They thought it was beautiful, but missed two key points -
1. "Thank you for asking that clerk" is a coincidence, but it is also a puppet. If there is an order between puppets and puppets, Xiao Hei has to call the "clerk" his ancestor.
Two, there was a "traitor" in their car.
The traitor's surname is Zhou Mingxu. Because he was too excited, he got into the car and chatted with a new friend on WeChat, saying that he was going to go out to cage...
Although the new friend talks less, the network is still delayed, and he doesn't even understand the meaning of "goodbye" and "smile", but who cares about him, he just finds someone to show off.
So when his new friend asked him where to enter the cage, he came to share a spot.
On the shared minimap, two dots, one behind the other, are following a similar route.
Zhou Xu: "…"
If you change to someone who is a little duller, you may not see anything for the time being, after all, the distance is still far away. But Zhou Xu was very clever, and he knew almost instantly what he was going to do on this trip.
But he didn't say a word, so Zhang Lan and the others didn't know anything about the changes, only that it was already dark, and Xiao Hei could rest assured to chase people.
The car accelerated obviously, galloping through the night, and the speed never dropped again. As if the surrounding cars didn't notice them, they followed their own routes and drove within the speed limit, leaving them far behind.
On Zhang Lan's phone, the two points are getting closer and closer. As Xiao Hei said, it took less than two hours for them to catch up with the little red dot.
Seeing that it was only one kilometer away, the steady Zhang Yalin couldn't help but say, "It's just ahead."
At Xiao Hei's current speed, one kilometer is a blink of an eye. Zhang Yalin and Zhang Lan raised their heads and stared straight ahead without blinking.
They had seen the car in Xiping Garden. It was bright red and very recognizable.
However, when they turned a corner, the expected bright red did not appear. In front of them was a blue truck. The body of the truck was covered with steel mesh and varnished cloth. hustle and bustle...
Zhang Lan couldn't see clearly in the back seat, his neck stretched forward like a beautiful snake: "What is it?"
Zhang Yalin said, "Pig."
Zhang Lan: "…"
Zhang Yalin may be afraid of being angry with her sister, and added: "A truckload of pigs, your tracer may be on one of them."
***
When they were chasing pigs in the Shandong territory, they had already arrived at the place.
This is where the Jincang Expressway and the Jinshi Expressway intersect. Lao Mao found an exit to get off the expressway, then turned a few turns along the highway and stopped at a certain wood.
Xia Qiao looked out the car window, confused: "Where is this?"
"Tianjin." Wen Shi was comparing the map with the map Zhou Xu sent him. I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, but it happened to be within the range drawn by Zhou Xu.
"Is it so fast from Lianyungang to Tianjin?" Xia Qiao talked to Lao Mao while holding the seat of the car.
Lao Mao said: "There are few people on the highway at night, so I drive fast."
Xia Qiao felt a little dreamy and asked again, "Then why stop here?"
This should be the junction between villages and villages. At first glance, there are only fields and woods. There are no street lights, and there are only a few people at the end of a dark road.
Fortunately, they know the people who drive, otherwise it is a good place to get social news.
Lao Mao took a towel, wiped the windshield that had suddenly fogged up, and let down the windows on both sides for ventilation. He looked around the road and said, "It's raining, so I won't go into the city."
Xie Wen glanced into the distance through the glass and said, "It's tiring to be bored in the car all day, so let's make do with it tonight?"
When smelling: "Is it okay in the car?"
Xie Wen was wiping off the mist on the car window, when he heard the words, he turned his head to look at him: "What are you thinking, do I have such a black heart?"
When I smelled it, my lips moved, and two words silently jumped: hard to say.
"What did you say?" Xie Wen asked with a smile, and then reached out and shook his eyelids, "I've been staring at the phone, didn't your brother say that you don't like to use it, it's addicting?"
Wen Shi sat hunched over, looking down at the black-gloved finger passing under his eyelids.
"Don't say anything, don't block." He moved his right hand and put Xie Wen's fingers aside. Because the arrangement is not straightforward, it seems to hook the other person's fingertips.
Wen Shi stared at the fingertips for a few seconds, then raised his eyes and said, "Where are you going in the car?"
"There is a family over there. It happens to be someone I know. You can borrow it." Xie Wen stretched his finger into the distance, and the touch of his fingertips was pulled away.
"Do you know?" Wen Shi was stunned and reacted. He originally came after Zhang Wan's traces. Xie asked someone who knew him here, which is normal.
"An old couple." Xie Wen briefly explained, "People are very kind."
Lao Mao echoed: "Didn't you guys come here to do errands too? Wait until the rain stops tomorrow before going."
"Yeah." Wen Shi replied, but in his heart he thought that this is the place I was coming to.
"Why so much fog?" Lao Mao wiped it twice before restarting the car.
This is a wild road with no street lights.
Wen Shi and Shen Qiao lived in Tianjin Wei for a while before. The climate here is drier than Ningzhou, but there is a lot of rain in summer.
At that time, it was raining non-stop outside the car, and it was always foggy. The lights of the houses in the distance also became hairy in the rain, not real.
When the car crossed the stagnant water on the ground and got close to it, when I smelled it, I realized that there was not a single family, but a large patch of scattered, like a village.
Each house is a small two-story building, the kind built by oneself. The walls are covered with tiles. The decoration is different and not neat, but the colors are very rich.
Some have a yard, some don't.
Xie asked that the house they were looking for had no yard, just a cement yard that was poured out and connected to the road, but it was very clean, and the old car was parked here.
Maybe it was because of outsiders coming, the dogs in the village kept barking one after another, until Xie Wen knocked on the door, and then slowly calmed down.
The lights were on in the room, and the sound of the TV was faintly heard. It took a while for the people in the room to hear a knock on the door, and they responded with a "come".
The sound was crisp. When I heard it, I listened, pointed to the door and asked Xie in a low voice, "Is this the old man?"
Xie Wen shook his head: "It really doesn't look like it."
Just like that, he smiled and Wen Shi glanced at him: "How long have you been here? Are you sure you didn't recognize the wrong door?"
Xie Wen cooperated with him very much, and lowered his voice, but the content of what he said was very bloody: "Not sure."
When smelling: "… "
Fuck you, not sure you knock so confidently? ?
He could already imagine the embarrassment for a while, he turned his head and was about to leave, but was caught by Xie Wen.
"What are you running? If you admit your mistake, just ask. You won't be so thin-skinned." Xie asked.
Wen Shi glanced at his wrist, and it happened that the door of the house had been opened, and it was inappropriate to run again.
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman with a mole between her eyebrows, which used to be called a beauty mole. She was indeed born well, with smiling eyes and lips, and her skin was almost as white as when she smelled it.
"Who are you?" She smiled without saying a word, her eyes curled up, looking very enthusiastic.
"Does Mr. Lu Xiao live here?" Xie Wen didn't have the habit of looking at people's houses, so he asked whoever opened the door.
The woman froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Oh, that's my dad."
Xie asked: "Your father?"
Woman: "Yes."
Xie Wen nodded, but did not speak, not knowing what he was thinking. After a few seconds, he said to the woman: "It does look a bit like, your father also has a mole here."
The woman laughed and looked very happy: "It is said that I am very similar to him when I was young, carved from a mold."
She moved out of the way and said enthusiastically, "Come and sit first, it's been a long time since we've had guests. Are you looking for him?"
Xie Wen looked at the way she got out of the way and said, "He's there too?"
The woman said: "He's not here, my parents don't live here."
Xie asked nodded.
"Come in and sit, it's raining, don't stand outside." She said again.
Thanks for asking, I just lifted my foot in.
Wen Shi also entered the door, but after entering, he looked back at Lao Mao and Xia Qiao.
He didn't speak, but Xia Qiao still felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong.
Lao Mao patted Xiaqiao and motioned him to stand back: "The door is narrow, you have to enter one by one."
This is actually quite common, but Xia Qiao felt something strange.
"Uncle Mao, am I being over-hearted? Do you really know the people here?"
"I know." Before he entered the door, Lao Mao raised his chin towards the woman in the room, "I also know her name, Lu Wenjuan."
His tone was calm, and Xia Qiao calmed down a little. He felt that he might have been in the cage several times in a row, and he was a little suspicious and thought too much.
He took a deep breath and used small talk to ease the fear that had just flashed: "Oh, just know each other. But she doesn't seem to have seen you before. Didn't she live with her parents before?"
The old man said, "Yes."
"Then you still know her name?" Xia Qiao said, "Listen to what the old man said?"
Lao Mao: "That's not true."
Xia Qiao: "Oh oh."
Then Lao Mao said, "It looks like it's on the grave."