Summer Candy

Chapter 18: The sea of people is vast

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It's a regular party again. After dinner, when everyone was chatting around the table and picking their teeth, Wu Guangzhou walked behind me and patted me on the shoulder. I followed him to the outside of the box, knowing he had something to say. He picked his teeth and told me: "Jiang Biao hasn't come to work for another week, and he didn't ask for leave. He also drove away the pickup truck from his unit. It's not a good idea for me to help him perfunctory work these days It's difficult, but the company wants a car to use, so I always ask me, it's hard to explain.

"What happened again?" Now that Jiang Biao was mentioned, my brain was numb.

"I don't know, when I called him, it turned off again."

"Why don't I drive to Maple Ao tomorrow and look for him?"

"I won't have anything to do tomorrow, let's go together." Wu Guangzhou nodded and said to me, "I am his leader anyway. Also, before he disappeared this time, he withdrew 20,000 yuan from me. He had never borrowed money from the unit before. This time he borrowed 20,000 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth. I asked him what he was borrowing money for, but he hesitated to say. However, I still borrowed the money from him. He is a stranger though. Point, I have always felt relieved."

"It's a bit weird." I couldn't think of the reason why he borrowed money for a while. It's no surprise to think about it again, how everyone spends the money with it, only he has the account in his heart.

At noon the next day I drove the car with Wu Guangzhou to Maple Ao, walked into the courtyard of Jiang Biao's house, and didn't see him. Xiaoxia was surprised when we arrived suddenly. She is teaching Lingling to read pictures, holding a stack of colored cards, pointing to something to teach her a noun, and asking her to write in a gourd-like manner on the unfolded white paper. Seeing us, Xiao Xia asked Lingling to write ten times each of the words she had just learned, and then came up to greet us. Going further inside, his two elders are feeding chickens. His mother's tears were still wet, and his father was muttering something while filling the trough. He nodded his head lightly when he saw us, as if to say hello. A dull look appeared on the old man's face.

Xiaoxia said: "It's been a few days, and you guys even came to see it."

I asked: "What's the matter?"

Wu Guangzhou said quickly: "Uh, is your family okay?"

"Jiang Biao didn't tell you?" Xiaoxia looked at us in a puzzled manner, and said, "I don't know how to do it. He didn't come back last weekend, nor did he say why, and I couldn't get through the phone call. Director Wu , Your unit has been very busy recently, right?"

Wu Guangzhou withdrew his eyes from Xiaoxia's face and looked at me. Only then did we know that Jiang Biao was not staying at home these days. I have a hunch that something must have happened, and it continues to happen. Xiaoxia, like us, is in a state of ignorance. I had no choice but to look around, picking up other words to say. I asked, "How about you?" I just asked, Xiao Xia immediately became a little anxious, and she pulled my sleeves and motioned me to move a few steps to the side of the door. "You have a quieter voice." She said, "Don't mention Hu'a's name now. The two elders are most afraid of hearing this."

"... Howar, he..."

"Did Jiang Biao really tell you? He... died ten days ago. I'll talk about this later." Xiaoxia looked at us and stopped talking. She motioned for us to wait a while, ventilated with the two old men, and told Lingling to go to the next door to play. Xiaoxia is already a diligent woman, she walked into the house and took care of some things before she was able to walk out with us. The weather is too hot, the sun pours on every inch of the bare land, and the shadow under the canopy is compressed to the greatest extent, like a little dust after burning. I drove the car to Jietianlong and sat down in an air-conditioned tea house. Jietianlong went to the market that day, and the road was blocked.

The teahouse was deserted and deserted. At this time, there was only one table of tea customers, and the air conditioner was turned on after I agreed to pay an additional 10 yuan for the electricity price. The tea is very good. It is a local hair tip. After the water is soaked, the unique green color of Mingqian tea will fade little by little. After the air conditioner started to cool, the air vents fanned out white mist. We sat very dull.

Xiaoxia sat across from me with a weird expression. She knew we were going to ask. Her expression was a bit embarrassing at first, but she wanted to say something. Her expression couldn't conceal her desire to say something to others happily. At this time she looked out through the glass curtain wall of the tea house. The crowding on the street is completely separated from the desertedness in the tea house, and it does not overlap. How did you die? I was thinking this in my head, but I somehow asked her. I guess he may die of illness, fall to death, or other deaths. What should i ask? So Wu Guangzhou asked for me: "Ho Ata, he..."

"Died of illness. The two old men said it was because of illness." She apparently gave a false shot.

"What disease?"

"The two elders can't say it clearly. Howl..."

We no longer ask, Ren Xiaoxia quietly sipped tea and sorted out her thoughts. After a while, she slowly told the truth by herself.

"...I don't need to hide it from you. Now that he is dead, I can tell it. I knew about it first, and I told Jiang Biao last month." She rubbed her cheek with her hand, as if feeling Relax a bit. She also said, "Gu Brother, there was something in your unit in those few days. I continued to find acquaintances in Jietianlong to ask about the situation. Later Li Muma told me about one thing. Li Muma is also a sports car, and they are familiar with Jiang Biao. On the day when Xiangshuitai’s case was reported, the principal Liu of Jietianlong Middle School had a liquor service. His son got married and sent an invitation to my relatives. That day Jiang Biao helped Xiaolin’s sports car, and when it was almost noon, he took his father to Jietianlong. Hao A also took them with him. Jiang Biao sent them to Principal Liu’s house, and then went to help the lame old Feng drag the farm machinery... I met Li Muma that day and asked him what he could remember the starting point, and he told me At noon, Jiang Biao was still waiting on the cargo yard for a while, wanting to pick up some goods into the city, but didn't want to run away—their drivers all have this habit. Li Muma also told me that he dragged the goods back from the city that afternoon. At about four o'clock, when I was about to reach Fuweimen, I suddenly saw Hou'a walking by the side of the road, so he stopped the car, dragged Hou'a up and brought him back to Jietianlong. Li Muma also went to Principal Liu's house to eat at noon. Wine, I saw my relatives there, so he sent Hoa to Principal Liu's house. His father was drunk at noon that day. When Li Muma brought Hoa to Principal Liu's house, he was still asleep. Principal Liu took charge of Ho'a. , When my father wakes up, let him take Hoa home again."

I asked: "What do you mean?"

"I felt abnormal that day. Jiang Biao and my relatives were men, and they couldn't feel so fine, but I was a woman. After Hou A came home that day, I felt that his eyes were not right when he looked at Lingling. His eyes flashed. It changed and the mood fluctuated, but only I noticed it. Then when Li Muma said about it, I understood it all at once. Didn’t the little girl also say that the criminal is not like Jiang Biao, right? Besides, Xiangshuitai is not far from Fuweimen, and there is only four or five miles in the middle..." After a short break, Xiao Xia talked about another situation. "Li Muma also told me that Lao Xiang is the retired policeman. He has been investigating the case. He also went to the cargo yard and asked the driver about Jiang Biao's situation and the situation on the day of the crime. Li Muma said that when Lao Xiang asked about him, he didn't say anything to Lao Xiang. "

Having said that, Xiao Xia looked at me helplessly.

"Gosh! How did Hou A go to Xiangshuitai?"

"When Li Muma told me about this, I vaguely understood in my heart, but I didn't dare to ask Li Muma about other things. I guessed that when my father was drinking that day, Hou Ah slipped out and my father had alcohol. I can’t take care of so much drinking. The cargo yard is not far from Principal Liu’s house. Houah probably walked there by himself. He saw Jiang Biao’s car parked, and he quietly climbed onto the back compartment. Jiang Biao didn’t receive it at the goods yard that day. Goods, drive the car away after a while..."

"... When I arrived at Xiangshuitai, Jiang Biao stopped to tease the little girl, and then he crawled out?"

"I think so too." Xiaoxia looked at me helplessly.

She continued to speak later, her tone hesitating, a little stuck in many places. But we understand. She is a teacher, and gentle, there are some words that she can't express. But still can't hold back to say something. She found that Hou's behavior was getting more and more wrong, and she even coaxed Lingling with candy and made Lingling pee in front of him. Lingling is a child, she doesn't know how to taboo, and she likes to eat sweets—Lingling has always liked sweets. Xiaoxia thought it was Jiang Biao's inheritance, and she never understood why a big man like Jiang Biao became addicted to sugar. When Lingling peeed, Hou A looked behind, even pressing her face tightly to the ground. Howard Hao knows some things, and he doesn't dare to mess around at home, but he can't help doing these ugly things. Once Xiao Xia ran into this scene and felt extremely nervous, she told Jiang Biao everything she knew, including what she got from Li Muma's mouth and her guesses derived from it. She couldn't help but be nervous, just like when Ling Lan's mother saw Jiang Biao sitting next to her daughter, eating sweets to her daughter, she was anxious and even called the police.

After that, Jiang Biao became manic and hit him when he saw Hou Ah. Jiang Biankuan wanted to dissuade him, so Jiang Biao told him the matter, but Jiang Biankuan didn't persuade him, and the two shouted together. When fighting, Jiang Biankuan yelled over and over again, saying that you skinless and faceless thing, you bastard, I can't wait for a pair of scissors to cut you off!

After talking too much, Hou Ah knew that his dick had caused the catastrophe. One day, while the family was not paying attention, he found the scissors himself and cut the thing off. The words his father yelled at him served as a guide. After Hou A died, the family didn't dare to make a public statement, saying that he died of illness. It stopped for one night and was buried the next day. Hoa died like this, it was considered a metamorphosis. Everything was made very simple. That night, people from the same village spontaneously came to Jiang Biao's courtyard, took a seat, sent off the dead, and talked about the friendship of the same country. No one would ask more about Hoa's death. The accidental death of a fool is always so normal to others.

Xiaoxia said this, and I asked her: "After Hou A died, was Jiang Biao in a bad mood?"

She said, "Of course, he always felt that Hou's death had the most to do with him. During the two days of Hou's death, he was not in his heart. We were in his room at night, and he said to himself that Hou's was his harm. Dead. I asked him not to think so, so he told me that he used to bring roar when he was out of the car. When he was okay, he would also talk to roar about some of his previous things. I think he might feel himself What he said has an instigating effect on Hou Ah. I asked what it was and wanted to help him unblock him, but he has been reluctant to explain it to me."

This is the end of the matter, I don't think I can hide anything from Xiaoxia. I consulted Wu Guangzhou with my eyes, and he nodded at me tacitly.

I told Xiao Xia: "Xia Xia, things may be more troublesome than you think. Jiang Biao hasn't been to work at the unit for a week. When did you not get through his phone?"

"What day is today... Thursday. I called him on Monday and he answered it."

"What did he say?"

"He said that the unit welcomed the provincial leaders to check, and he had been busy for several days without winning."

Wu Guangzhou said: "There is no such thing."

"Then where did he go?" Xiao Xia suddenly changed her expression. She was under a lot of pressure during this period, but she couldn't keep it up if she didn't talk about it at this time.

She looked at me helplessly. I had no choice but to persuade her and said: "Don't panic, let's look for it together. Think about where he might go? Or else, make more phone calls and ask."

"Will he stay in a house in the city? After summer vacation, Lingling and I stayed in the country, and he lived alone in the city. Otherwise, I wouldn't..."

Wu Guangzhou quickly took out the phone and called his nephew Wei Bin. Wu Guangzhou’s phone leaked badly. When he was calling, Xiaoxia and I heard clearly. Wei Bin also said that he hadn’t seen Jiang Biao for several days, and he didn’t see any lights in his room at night. Wu Guangzhou hung up, and Xiao Xia hurriedly took out her cell phone and called four or five acquaintances in a row. Only Xiaolin reported a message that Jiang Biao came to him to withdraw money a week ago. After Jiang Biao went to work, he rented the farm car to Xiaolin. Because of Xiaolin's marriage, Jiang Biao never used him to pay for the car rental. But Jiang Biao spoke to him suddenly a week ago. Seeing that the master was in a hurry, Xiao Lin collected several thousand dollars for him. After that day, Xiaolin didn't contact Jiang Biao again.

Xiaoxia began to sob softly.

We asked the waiter sister to add two more waters, and waited for Xiaoxia's mood to stabilize slowly, and then sent her home. On the way back, I asked Wu Guangzhou to call Mao Yigeng and report the disappearance. Mao Yigeng said sincerely that he can register the case, but such a case cannot be investigated. Wu Guangzhou asked loudly to the mobile phone beside me: "Why can't I find it? The person has been missing for more than a week."

His mobile phone continues to leak. "Then tell me how to investigate? If you like to listen to others lie to you, then I will tell you, we will try our best and you will wait for the news. In fact, you should also think that even if you are handling a criminal case, you have to prioritize Apply for the funding for the case. You have to pay for the case. You didn’t pay attention. The missing persons notices posted all over the street were paid for by their family members." After a while, Mao Yigeng said again, "Don’t just say anything. The person is lost. It’s not that I don’t know Jiang Biao, a big man, who can’t be abducted and sold, I’m sure where I went. You can look for it again!"

Wu Guangzhou hung up the phone and yelled at him. He said: "Jiang Biao is a real man. He looks quite honest, but he is always asking for trouble."

"Maybe, the trouble is coming to him all the time. He can't help it."

At this time, I suspect that Jiang Biao left deliberately and turned off the phone without leaving a trace. Then why is he? The death of Hou'a was probably one of the triggers, and it would never be the motivation for him to leave. A person is hidden in the vast sea of people, if he is still willing, then it is really no joke to find it.

When I got home, Diqing asked me where I was all day. I didn't hide it from her, and told her about the situation on this day. I would love to hear her opinion. Recently, she was creating the script based on Jiang Biao's experience. When we sat down, we couldn't talk about Jiang Biao. In the creative process, she learned more about Jiang Biao. I think Diqing might catch any clues—as an artist, she has no shortage of imagination, and as a woman, she has no shortage of sixth sense. Sure enough, after listening to what I said, knowing that Jiang Biao had been missing for many days, she didn't have much surprise on her face.

Di Qing said: "Will this matter be related to lily of the valley?"

"Lily of the valley? How did you get it on her head? No one knows where Lily of the valley is now."

Di Qing fell into deep thought, and even took out a hard-covered notebook and opened it to check some of the things she occasionally jotted down. That was her writing notes. If she had any unexpected thoughts when writing the script, she hurriedly wrote down a few strokes so as not to find them again. She flipped through a few pages, then looked up at me, with a witch-like temperament on her face.

She said: "I still think it has something to do with lily of the valley."

I said, "This is not a script. What reason do you have?"

She tilted her head and thought again: "I didn't solve the case, just instinct. Recently, don't worry about other things, concentrate on finding someone, and find her as soon as possible. I'll bring more candy at home."

"What's the matter?" I was surprised by her reasonableness at this time, and her mood swings after giving birth were greater than before.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, how can there be so many reasons to tell you. I'm just a little worried, things may be worse than we thought."

The high temperature continued, and the high temperature red or orange warnings were issued from time to time on the TV. I fell into a clueless search. The only thing I could do was to ask an acquaintance. I borrowed Gu Tong’s man’s car and drove around on the street with my eyes. Go find the familiar pickup truck. The license plate number has become my fixed memory, Xiang Z54022. Jiang Biao disappeared completely this time without leaving any clues. She had to make several calls with Xiaoxia every day, and she didn't wait for any news. The two old men couldn't help it. They kept asking Jiang Biao why he didn't come back, and asked Xiao Xia to call him to urge him.

Later, Mao Yigeng took the initiative to help, engage in ties, and send a copy of this brand name to the highway toll station network for assistance. According to him, with only one notification, every toll station on the highway will become a spreading net. As long as the suspected vehicle passes by, they will be alert.

Soon, another week passed, and there was still no news. While waiting, I began to wonder what role the staff at the toll gates played. They probably only cared about the authenticity of the paper yarn that the driver handed over, and ignored the others. There may be a bunch of vehicle numbers to be checked on their desktops, which is already a routine matter. It’s probably the same for me. Everyone’s experience is limited. After we worry about eating and drinking, how much energy do we have left to focus on these shit? I can't expect them to be like me, all day long focused on waiting for clues that may never appear. Then, I only suspected that Jiangbiao was not far away, and that it was somewhere nearby without going to the distance via the highway.

If my guess is true, why should he be somewhere nearby and refuse to go home and have a look

I still drove to the street that afternoon, walking aimlessly, not only did not find it, but was caught by Li Zhaoli. He greeted me. I drove the car over. He wears only sports shorts, a pair of brand-name running shoes barefoot, and a cold drink with his neck up. There were also a few men with similar attire around him, all of different builds, with luggage on their backs. Li Zhaoli handed me a bottle of Wanglaoji for me to drink, and asked if I was free.

"What can I do for you?"

"We are going to Jietianlong to play. Ba Meng organized a few guys over there to provoke Lao Tzu. I dare not compare with him when he kills people, but he dares to provoke him when it comes to playing ball alone. I really don't know the sky and the earth. Although I have retired from football in the past few years, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. When I play, I will train him no matter what.” Li Zhaoli said, “I only have one car, and these brothers can’t install them all... I think you are walking around."

"Where is Jie Tianlong?" I think it's a bit far away, and it's been about three hours.

Li Zhaoli called and asked Ba Deng, and hung up the phone to answer me accurately: "When you reach Fuweimen, turn right and walk a few miles. Before you reach the sand bridge, turn right again. There is a broken factory. Ba Mound said to wait for me there."

My head was hot and I knew what he was talking about. I have been there, and there is a stream behind the broken factory.

Seeing me hesitating, Li Zhaoli leaned over and leaned over my ears and said, "Brother, let's go together! Batang said that he had brought many beautiful women to help out. There was no one else, except for the brothers who played basketball, those beautiful women. "

"Sandhashi called, right?"

"You care about so much. You haven't been to Sand Bridge, and you snorted for a while, don't you? I won't tell my sister-in-law, we men are all the same."

I promised to go, and Li Zhaoli smiled triumphantly. He thought that I was settled by his few words, and even he felt that it further confirmed the truth of "men are all the same" in me. He ordered a few people and got into my car. It was not early, not too late. I followed the broken jeep in Lizhaoli and quickly left the city. I called Diqing and told me that there was something temporary and I would not be back at night. She gave a tolerant hum. Since she instructed me to search for Jiang Biao, what I wanted to do suddenly became unfettered.

Along the way, I couldn't help but remember the scene of taking nude photos of Lily of the valley in that stream. The road stretches in front of you, and the trees, rice fields, houses, and low mountains on both sides are doing a backward movement. Recalling the past while driving, those scenes are always a little vague and trance, as if they were impressionist Van Gogh or Monet's scenery. She walked into the water... She slowly took off her clothes... She fell off the rock...

My heart twitched, and then I remembered that two years had passed.

Time is a kind of illusion, especially when it comes to memory, it uses a lot of tricks in people's minds, and it can stretch or shorten arbitrarily when it is transformed. When I first thought of the scene on the day of the photo, I felt it was very far away; I figured out that it had only been a year, and suddenly I felt that this year was just the time to drink a bowl of salty porridge.

The sky is getting darker, and I am worried about how I can play. The fat brother next to me said, "Don't worry about this. Bacon told us that we want to buy this." He took out a huge cream-white light bulb and shook it in front of my eyes.

Passing through Fuwei Gate, Li Zhaoli slowed down for fear of missing the fork on the right. I jumped up the car and said to him, "You should follow me." I drove the car to the closed alum mine factory accurately, and there was deeper grass on the road. When arriving at the entrance of the factory, Li Zhaoli was very surprised and said, "You seem to be very familiar with it."

The sound of the stream resounded in my ears, and it was as clear and sweet as I remembered, and the words were round and round.

The eight mound was still behind, and a few minutes later, one of his brothers drove a broken minibus that was enough to be scrapped for a few times. A few men who got in and out of the car to play, followed by seven or eight women. The women were all carrying a bag or plastic bucket, obviously going to the back stream to take a bath. This has probably formed a habit. Now, Jiang Biao no longer drives them with them, and has other men on duty. Xifeng greeted me, and I immediately realized that Ba Mound was about to become Sand Bridge's son-in-law. He is obliged.

The woman went to bathe in the stream, and the man started playing ball. There is a court in the alum mine factory, and the two ball racks are already broken. The basket obviously cannot withstand Li Zhaoli's strong dunk. There are two electric poles on the side of the court. Ba Mound asked a young guy to climb up to change the light bulb. He went into the electric workshop and pulled the gate. The two light bulbs lit up neatly. Standing beside everyone on the court, he pulled out two elongated ones. shadow. They called me a referee. There is no one else, I can't shirk my responsibility. The ball was very boring. There were a few guys running as slow as I did, but they were very happy. Because of the slow pace, a member of the Jie Tian Long team smoked while playing. But I suddenly liked the atmosphere at this time. The darkness outside the alum mine factory was heavily pressed outside the light zone reflected by the two bulbs. It was so quiet that there was only life left in this stadium in the world.

After a while, the women who had soaked in the stream walked in, one by one from the dark area into the light area. The hair was still wet, and they smoked and looked at the dozen or so nearly naked men running on the field. They don't like to cheer, and laugh happily when someone falls down.

After playing, Ba Deng invited us to Sand Bridge for dinner. The restaurant I was looking for happened to be the one I had visited before. Skinned beef is their signature dish. On such occasions, a group of men quickly became excited. In the hot weather, Ba Mound was reluctant to buy beer. If he wanted to, every man would be able to drink a whole piece of cold beer. Drinking baijiu, and soon drank it, and several men scrambled to stir up Hu Chuhai. Li Zhaoli, Ba Deng, and I all drank more tolerantly, quietly watching the joyous atmosphere of other people. I sat next to Ba Deng, and he asked me if I had been looking for Jiang Biao recently.

"how do you know?"

"I also just heard a friend of Jie Tian Long talk about Jiang Biao's disappearance, and I also know that you and his wife are desperately looking for someone. Jie Tian Long is only so big, no one can hide the needle. They also praise you. He is a loyal person, Jiang Biao had an accident and a city man went everywhere to help."

In the face of his praise, I don't know what to say. After a while, those people basically drank to the level of nonsense, and proposed to go to Jinyuan to karaoke. Ba Deng suddenly said to me, "Don't rush away later, Xifeng has said something, I think it's better to tell you."

The others left under the leadership of Li Zhaoli, and the three of us stayed. We are all in a horrible place, and we change tables to sit and drink tea. Xifeng then told me: "Last month, the driver named Jiang came to our shop. He paid to take Suzuran away, saying that it was going to be a one-month contract. Suzuran was willing, and our boss Liao knew that The two of them have always known each other very well. The driver used to take our Jin Yuan sisters to bathe in the stream. They were related households, so they didn't charge him any extra Taiwan fees."

"Lily of the valley?"

"Lily of the valley came back at the end of April. She told me that it's not easy to get around outside. It's better to stay at Sand Bridge than ever before. She still had injuries on her face when she first came. She said she was bitten by a dog. , But it was obviously beaten. A dog can't bite a human face. If a human face is bitten, it must be bitten to death. Isn't it?"

Batang intervened, and the ugly expression said: "I knew that Sister Suzuran was back in May, but now I have a wife. When I saw her, I didn't look straight at her."

Xifeng slapped his head contemptuously, and continued to talk about business. "The driver passed by us in May and bumped into me and Suzuran on the road. We were just about to come here for dinner. He stopped the car, stopped Suzuran and asked her how she came back. He came over in the evening. Spent one night in our shop. After that, he came several times and said that he was going to take Suzuran out to live for a few days. Suzuran told me that the driver never came to her. The driver. Tell her that he is always not in the mood at Sand Bridge. He wants to take her out."

"Which thing shouldn't you do with her?" Ba Mound interjected again stupidly.

"Go to bed and make trouble, you pighead. You think that when someone meets you just like you, you just think about that thing!" Xifeng said again, "he has been here a few times and always wants to take Suzuran away. Suzuran I She didn’t agree at first—she was actually a little afraid of the driver. I asked Suzuran what are you afraid of. She couldn’t tell why. About a month ago, or it was not a month, the driver came again that day , I still want Lily of the valley to go with him. It was hot that day, and Lily of the way silly agreed."

"Have you contacted afterwards?"

"There has been contact. She told me that the person took her all the way and stopped to live for a few days when they found a fun place. They walked from county to county, and Suzuran called me every time they went to a place. "

"When was the last time I called?"

"Probably... five days ago. She told me that they were in Pukou."

"Pukou? Call her again quickly."

Xifeng saw my face solemnly, and quickly took out her phone and dialed it. However, Suzuran's cell phone has been shut down. Xifeng put away the phone, a layer of doubt on her face. She murmured: "How could this happen? It always works."

"Is there no money... Does Jietianlong have a mobile phone automatic payment machine?" I immediately thought, and put some money in Suzuran's phone to see if her phone could resume the call.

Ba Deng said dismissively: "Brother, look at you, what's up with you so nervous?"

Xifeng said: "Jietianlong only has an agency center and no payment machine. You can't pay tonight. Don't worry, they are already on the way back. I have been in contact with Suzuran frequently, and I know it clearly."

After what they said, I was a little relieved. After looking around for a while, I got an accurate clue anyway. That night I was staying in Jietian Long, lying on the bed, and remembering what Xifeng had said confirmed Diqing's sixth sense, I couldn't help but sigh that the sixth sense was not a vain talk. Then, I thought of Diqing's worries.

The next day, as soon as Jietianlong China Mobile’s business office opened, I gave Suzuran’s mobile phone one hundred yuan for the phone bill. Then, like a fishing enthusiast, I made a call every quarter of an hour. As time went by, I dialed more and more diligently. By noon, Suzuran's cell phone was always stopped, and the woman in the system told me in an uneven tone over and over again, "Sorry, the user you dialed has been turned off."

This voice made me irritable. Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and shouted at the phone: "I'm so fucking sorry. Where is she?" The woman in the system still patiently replied, "I'm sorry, the user you dialed. It is indeed turned off."

Xifeng has now lived in Jietianrong with Bacon, because since Bacon had planned to marry Xifeng, he thought that he could not be the bachelor. At noon, I went to look for them and knocked on the door for a while, and then the eight mounds came out to open the door cursingly. The briefs were obviously worn upside down. He complained: "Do good deeds, keep knocking on the door."

"Go for lunch." Through the door frame and Bacon's body, I saw Xifeng still lying on the bed. It is so hot, his room is not equipped with air conditioning, and he can still toss about in bed all the time, which makes me awe.

"What kind of lunch do you have so early?"

"You are great. You only eat one meal for three meals a day, and there are two meals left to play hooligans, right?"

Ba Deng smiled helplessly, turned his head and said inwardly: "Wife, look, I'm just playing hooligans with you, and someone is in charge of... Putting on clothes, thinking about a restaurant that slaughters people, and eats him to death."

Batang closed the door, Xifeng rustled in her clothes, and said, "Do you think that Jietianling is the Shanghai of Jicheng, which is Shanghai of the whole country? Can you find the hotel where the dead were killed?"

Not only are restaurants that eat to death, there are not even a few air-conditioned restaurants in this town. While eating, I told them that Suzuran's cell phone still couldn't get through. Xifeng said, "If you can't get through, you can't get through. You always have to get through."

I said, "No, I must contact her as soon as possible."

"What's the matter with you?" They still looked at me weirdly, as if I were an unreasonable existence.

Seeing their expressions, my tongue was dry, and I planned to tell them what happened in the past two years. Of course, when it comes to Jiang Biao, what happened more than a decade ago has been turned out again. I have already talked to Diqing about this matter once, but that time it was my wife who had a lot of worries. In front of Ba Mound and Xifeng, I had no worries, and I happily told the whole process, including the time that Suzuran and I spent in Guancheng.

Like other women, Xifeng likes to listen to stories. Maybe it's love, Ba Mound is always a bit rap, like to interject, interrupt me, as if to show that he is there, and he doesn't want to be ignored by Xifeng. How irritable Xifeng was upset by him, finally, she patted the table, and said at the eight mound: "Would you like me to help you stretch your tongue and tie it?"

Finally, I told them all about the matter, and I felt a little bit happy. Now that I have said everything, Xifeng can also feel my anxiety at this time. Suzuran still couldn't get through with her mobile phone, Xifeng asked what else she could help. I thought about it and asked her to recall what she said when she called Suzuran and see how Suzuran and Jiangbiao traveled. Xifeng fell into thinking. I asked the waiter sister to borrow paper and pens, but she brought a pencil but couldn't find the paper, so she unfolded the paper case containing a cigarette, and the back could be painted. Once Xifeng wrote the names of the towns and counties that Suzuran had been to, the route was still clear, and they kept going southeast:

Jicheng-Qingyi River-Guanglin-Hetian-Zuzhen-Pukou-Yangzha-Fengjianling-Fulin-Mopan Town-Lingdu-Ningyidu

Xifeng further recalled that when Linglan and Jiang Biao went there, they spent the longest time in Guanglin, about ten days. Then go south again, walk one place or two places a day, stop and go, and spend more than half a month on the road, as far as Weiyidu, if you go further south, you will enter the boundary of Guangdong. Then, about a week ago, the two embarked on the return journey and arrived at Pukou five days ago.

I said: "At this rate, they should have returned."

Xifeng said, "If you don't come back, where can you go?"

The eight mound said: "A ghost knows it."

I guess, will the two stay in Guanglin again? Maybe they found a comfortable place to live in Guanglin, so they stayed for ten days.