On November 18, the first day of the tenth lunar month, the Winter Clothes Festival.
Guo Yan got up early that day and looked at the continuous rain outside the house, very unhappy.
The rain started last night, intermittently in the middle, and it has been drizzling until now, and the whole house feels wet.
Standing at the door, he saw Lu Tingnan walk in slowly from outside the alley while holding an umbrella and carrying breakfast in his hand.
"Why are you here so early today?"
"Can't sleep, fortunately I came here earlier, why did you get up so early?" Lu Tingnan asked rhetorically.
Guo Yan took the breakfast and said helplessly, "Same, I can't sleep. Today is Gu Changjun's funeral, I always feel upset."
Lu Tingnan was stunned, "So... do you want to go?"
The corner of Guo Yan's mouth curled up, and his mocking smile looked helpless. "There is nothing to go to. I am not familiar with it anyway. What's more, do we go to funerals less often this year?"
"Okay." Lu Tingnan didn't have any comments. He didn't know Gu Changjun very much anyway, and he had only met twice before and after.
This is also a very helpless thing. It is normal for people to die in this kind of thing. Before, the two people thought that the deceased was very pitiful and would go to the funeral to bow or something, but now they have long been used to it.
It rained outside the house for a whole day, and the office did not show up a single client that day, and it was deserted.
Guo Yan had no desire to go out today, and spent a whole day watching American TV dramas on the couch of the office.
Lu Tingnan walked through the streets of Tongzhou for a day with an umbrella, his shoes were all wet, and he still found nothing.
The old man said that the trouble was actually not clear to the two of them. They only knew that the car accident on the Beigang Bridge a year ago was caused by this trouble, and what they can know is that this trouble will lead to missing persons.
The two had previously wondered if there was a ghost at work, so they thought about the method of attracting souls, but after trying it on the Beigang Bridge, they found it was useless, and they gave up decisively.
After all, there are not many soul-attracting charms.
The two have been wandering around for more than a week now, and there is still no news.
At six o'clock in the evening, Lu Tingnan bought two large bowls of dried noodles outside and returned to the office.
Guo Yan, who was lying on the sofa playing games, smelled the scent of the row, and rushed over, "Why did you come back? I'm starving to death!"
"Uh, you are not dead yet."
"Fuck off, eat quickly, and go out for a stroll after eating."
"Oh." Lu Tingnan walked for a day, already tired. He only relaxed after sitting down to eat.
Guo Yan took his cell phone, "I didn't find anything today?"
Lu Tingnan shook his head: "No."
Guo Yan said angrily: "That dead old man is also really troublesome, but it made us wander around for more than a week, and now there is no news of a fart."
Lu Tingnan didn't have the strength to refute, and while eating noodles, he read the news on his phone.
He was watching the local news of Tongzhou. He has been watching this these days. Maybe he can find something in the news.
He refreshed the news on the phone screen, but got stuck.
Lu Tingnan was not in a hurry, and waited patiently. About two minutes later, the local news was refreshed successfully. Soon after, a piece of news about a car accident popped out.
He clicked curiously and took a look, suddenly surprised, "GuoZiGuZi, look at it!"
"What are you looking at?"
"Look at this, two trucks fell into the river one after another."
Guo Yan was taken aback, staring at the news content on his phone.
"According to the police, around 4 am today, near Huancheng South Road, two trucks driving forward and backward fell into the river due to accidental operation."
Below this news, there is also a photo.
In the photo, the two trucks were all headed into the river.
"After the police rushed to the scene, they found that the drivers of the two trucks had escaped from the vehicles, but their whereabouts were unknown. The police speculated that the two were not in serious trouble, and they only hope that they can contact the police in time and cooperate in solving the accident. "
The news is not long, it ends here.
But Guo Yan and Lu Tingnan were stunned, and they looked at each other. They both knew what the other was thinking.
"That's it, right?" Guo Yan asked.
"It should be. Suddenly, when the car crashed into the river, people were missing, just like the car accident a year ago." Lu Tingnan nodded and said.
Guo Yan hurriedly threw away the chopsticks in his hand, "Why are you still in a daze? Go to Huancheng South Road and have a look."
"But, I haven't finished eating yet." Lu Tingnan looked at the face in front of him, a little reluctant.
"Fat, eat in the car!" Guo Yan took the car key and hurried out of the office.
Lu Tingnan followed his footsteps with two bowls of noodles.
It was still raining outside the house, and the two ran into the car.
South Huancheng Road is a bit far from the city center, basically in the new development zone, which is considered to be the suburb of Tongzhou.
Guo Yan hurriedly hurried all the way, and after ten minutes, the two arrived on Huancheng South Road. As soon as he stopped the car, Lu Tingnan got out of the car holding the umbrella, and Guo Yan took the noodles and ate under the umbrella.
"That's it." Guo Yan looked at the river in front of him, and glanced at the news photos on his phone. It was indeed here.
The two trucks that fell into the river have been towed away, and the police are no longer here to guard them. They just put a few safety stakes on the side of the guardrail to warn other vehicles.
Guo Yan ate the large row and didn't eat it again. He lit a cigarette and stared at the intact guardrail in front of him, feeling very strange.
"Baozi, it was said in the news that the truck was turned over from here, right?"
Lu Tingnan said, "Yes, what's the matter?"
Guo Yan pointed to the guardrail, "However, this car has been rolled into the river. Why is the guardrail on the side of the road not damaged at all?"
"Could it be a new one?"
Guo Yan said: "These are welded guardrails. It is not so fast to replace them with new ones. Look at the previous photos. Is the guardrail on the photo broken?"
Lu Tingnan glanced, shook his head and said, "No."
The corner of Guo Yan's mouth curled up, "It looks like this is the place. Uncle's, I finally found it after looking for it for so long. Go, go and take a look on the bridge."
bridge
Lu Tingnan was stunned when he heard this.
I saw Guo Yan dangling a cigarette, looking around, and walking onto the stone arch bridge not far away.
When Lu Tingnan saw this scene, he felt strange in his heart, but he felt it was normal. He shook his head, and hurriedly followed Guo Yan's footsteps, and followed him on the stone arch bridge.
The stone arch bridge is very old. It seems to have been built a long time ago. The guardrail of the arch bridge is engraved with three characters, but it seems that because of the age of corrosion, it is not real, and only the word "Yang" can be seen vaguely.
Guo Yan walked to the bridge and looked around. Just when he wanted to talk, his chest was hot.
Suddenly, his mind cleared up and asked in doubt: "Bun, where are we?"
Lu Tingnan looked at Guo Yan and said in surprise, "On the bridge."
"Bridge? Where's the bridge from here?"
boom!
Suddenly, there was a violent vibration from the stone arch bridge under the feet of the two of them, and the bridge deck under Guo Yan's feet suddenly sank. He didn't have time to react and fell straight down.
(End of this chapter)