Seven.

At night, I received an invitation from Lao Lu to dinner. He booked one of the most exclusive restaurants in the village, but in view of the limited conditions even if it was high-end, he ordered a lot of high-end ingredients from outside, so as soon as the table opened, it was almost a little dazzling.

It is said that the whole village was invited by him, and the upstairs and downstairs were full, and I don't know whose wedding banquet it was. And Lu Youkun is really like a groom, from the beginning of the dinner, he has been holding Luzhou Laojiao in one hand and holding a cup in the other, toasting each table one by one, and not refusing everyone who persuades wine.

I was a little worried about whether his body would be unbearable, after all, a few days ago he was like a living dead, and even if the cancer cells disappeared, his body would have to have a time to recover.

But then I realized that I was worried in vain. He looks like a young man who has just reached puberty, and he has endless strength and energy, so after ten tables of wine in a row, he is still full of red and energetic speech, obviously, his current physique does not need me to worry about it at all.

This would be a miracle, if the whole thing was not faked at all.

So after a quick bite to eat, my hands never stopped, and I kept following him, taking pictures of him and everyone he talked to, so that they took him as a professional photographer hired by Lu Youkun.

I happened to introduce myself as an advertising photographer, so I could take more photos of this place so that I could promote the village in the future.

"It's really about publicity. After hearing this, Lu Youkun immediately said to me, "When I go back, let's find a magazine to do a publicity here, Xiao Zhou, you can help me plan, money is not a problem." ”

I smiled and agreed, so I was able to take pictures and talk to more locals.

At the beginning of the party, I was the one who was the most neglected and excluded from communication, and after three rounds of drinking, many people had treated me as if I were part of their own family, so they talked to me about things that I had always vaguely said and forgotten.

They said that the little girl who disappeared in 85 was quite impressive, because from the early 80s to the mid-90s, it was the most popular period in Jinhuaquan, and it was overcrowded in the summer, so at that time, a child suddenly disappeared among the tourists, and the trouble was quite serious.

Why did it disappear, it is quite embarrassing to say, because there were too many people to get water at that time, and they had to rely on grabbing, so as soon as they approached the spring, the child's parents instinctively rushed forward, squeezed forward, and even couldn't even care about pulling the child's hand when taking water. Manxin thought that his other half would hold the child tightly, but when Huanxi took the water and turned around to call the child to drink, he found that the child was not by the other party's side at all.

In just a minute or two, such a big child is like a drop of water flowing into the sea, completely disappearing.

But the pair of parents are crazy.

Immediately shouted the child's name and searched everywhere, up and down the mountain, all the roads that could be walked, but never found it.

can only tend to be abducted, after all, there are so many people and the environment is so chaotic, and when a child was quietly taken away, he didn't know it at all. So later, no matter whether the parents called the police or published a search notice, the child disappeared or disappeared completely, and he never found it again. However, if you live to see people and die, you must see corpses, so I later supported the belief that the couple did not completely collapse, probably hoping that although she was abducted, she would still be alive and well.

As for why the little couple who sneaked into the mountains took photos of similar girls later, it's hard to say, if you want to say it's a ghost, I've heard a lot of ghost stories these years, and who has really seen a ghost. If it's not a ghost, God knows. It's just that I pity the couple, who lost their child thirty years ago and collapsed once, and thirty years later, the scars were uncovered again, so although they ran to the village again this time to toss in every way, the people in the village also turned a blind eye and let them go.

"I heard that there are other children who have gone missing here?" I wasted no time in asking.

They then went on to say that 85 years later, there had indeed been several cases of children going missing.

However, tourist areas are indeed more prone to this kind of thing, one is that there are many people, and the other is that sometimes parents are more careless, like a child in the early nineties, whose disappearance is even more worrying. At that time, they were on the way down the mountain, and the parents took pictures of the child while walking, and the child ran to the mountain for the first time to play, and was very excited, so he ran faster and faster, and bypassed the bend in the blink of an eye.

This kind of bend is common on mountain roads, with a straight road and a bend. So when parents saw their child's figure disappearing at the end of the curve, they didn't care at all, thinking that they could always see it after following it. When they rounded the bend all the way, they laughed and raised the camera again, but there was no trace of the child on the mountain road behind the bend. I was a little anxious, I thought that the child had run away by himself, and I was busy chasing him all the way and calling his name, but after chasing for ten minutes, I still didn't see a figure, and I was completely panicked. After that, he ran down the mountain like crazy, called the caretaker up and down the mountain to find it, and searched all the corners, and turned the bottom of several cliffs to the sky, but he couldn't find it at all, as if the child had been quietly swallowed by the mountain at the moment of turning. So there were a few signs on the mountain prohibiting walking, and it was around that time that it began.

"That's right. When chatting, the village chief happened to be nearby, and when he saw that we were talking energetically, he came over to listen for a while, and when he heard them say this, he couldn't help but interject, and then said to me a little seriously: "So many scenic spots have set up signs prohibiting traffic, which must be observed, because some places seem to be safe, and once you enter, you may not be able to get out, and you are missing, and no one knows what is going on at that time." ”

I think he must have said this to me, just to deal with the calculation that I had been trying to get into the box for the other day.

So he could only stick out his tongue and smile at him, and then diverted the topic, and said casually while toasting him: "Speaking of the parents of the child who disappeared in 85, I remembered the little couple who posted the photo on the Internet, and heard them say that they saw the temple where the living gods stayed on the mountain, but they couldn't get close to it alive or dead.

"Ghost hitting the wall?" the village chief heard this, and immediately laughed like everyone else, as if he had heard a joke. Then he patted me on the shoulder and said in an official tone: "I have heard too many ghost stories from young people, so it's no wonder that I believe that someone can really take pictures of the girl who disappeared thirty years ago in this mountain." How many years have you been breaking the old and still believing in this kind of superstitious thing, is it absurd or not? The Internet is harmful......

After that, he was surrounded by others and walked to the other tables to drink, and I was about to continue the conversation with the people around me, but when I saw that they were talking about it left and right, one by one they were no longer willing to continue talking to me.

At the moment, I didn't dare to ask any more questions, for fear that the friendly relationship that had been easily established would be destroyed, so I could only chat with them casually about some common things, and eat food without a match. After a while, I suddenly heard a buzzing sound not far away, and when I looked back, I saw Lao Lu with his head down and surrounded by several people, as if something had happened.

hurriedly ran over, and when he arrived at Lu Youkun's side, he found that he was covering his nose and stuffing a napkin in his nose.

"Boss Lu has a nosebleed. Someone on the side said to me, "I look tired." ”

"It's okay," Lao Lu immediately smiled and waved his hand when he heard it: "I think it's because I drank too much rice wine and got dry." ”

"That's not to be careless, after all, the body is just right. An old lady said.

She is the wife of the village chief, a very kind-looking woman in her seventies. As she spoke, she dismissed the villagers who had come to persuade Lu to drink, and then beckoned her nephew to push Lu back to the hotel on his bicycle.

Old Lu was not happy at first.

He drank too much and was a little emotional, and he felt that compared to cancer, a little nosebleed was no different from a little bruising of the skin.

But then I listened to the old lady's words, and although I politely refused the plan to push him on a bicycle, I still obediently went back to the hotel with my companion.

Along the way, he was still thinking about the unfinished wine, but he didn't have any wine at hand, so he lit a cigarette and smoked it.

Every bite was pumped hard, so I couldn't help but ask him if he hadn't smoked in a long time.

He said yes, he hadn't smoked in a long time since he had cancer. I told him that smoking is not good. He smiled and said that of course he knew, but every puff was like inhaling life, a wonderful feeling that no one could tell a non-smoker.

Then he stared at the bright moon in the sky for a while, and said to me, "It's good to be alive." Knowing that he can still have a life to continue to live, that feeling is really better than anything else, just like a person who owes a lot of debt and is forced to the end of the mountain, and suddenly a mountain of gold is piled up in front of him. But you say that the people of God are so godly, why do the people in this village still live in a ruined temple with him?" he said, shaking his head: "It's still because of poverty." So I'll send them a check when I go back, and in any case, I'll fix this temple. ”

At this point, he looked at me thoughtfully and asked, "Will you write this article in your press release when you go back?"

I was stunned: "How do you know...... What did the monk say?"

He took another hard puff of his cigarette: "The monk didn't say anything, but you often pat things in the village these days, asking questions, so the people in the village think it's strange, and when they saw me today, they told me by the way, and I asked people to investigate you by the way." That's why I regret it now, I didn't pay attention to it when I was happy, so I told others so much about what I didn't have. ”

I smiled awkwardly at him.

"But it's okay," and then after a moment of silence, he spat out a long puff of cigarette and patted me on the shoulder with a smile: "I will cooperate with you to make this news, big news." Just be mindful when you write. ”

"Watch out for what?"

"Selectively forget about things that shouldn't be written. ”

When we parted ways with Lu Youkun in the hotel, we exchanged pleasantries with each other quite naturally, as if the previous conversation had never taken place.

It wasn't until I went back to my room and opened the document that I felt a little heavy today.

In fact, when I heard the name Lu Youkun, I felt a little familiar, but after all, I didn't expect that this person who lacked everything and didn't lack money turned out to be the entrepreneur, party member, and people's congress representative who is quite famous in the industry but has always been particularly low-key. Therefore, it was just when he was terminally ill, but now, he must not let a small mistake in the past become an indelible stain now, after all, he still has a long life ahead of him.

To be honest, in the past few years as a journalist, I have never done a news feature with such a big person.

And it's really not easy to do news about this kind of person.

So my head hurt faintly, and I couldn't concentrate on writing something for a while, so I planned to make myself a cup of hot tea first, so as to hang my spirits. But just as I was about to get up, I suddenly heard a rustle of footsteps outside the window, and then I felt someone watching me from the yard outside the window.

The room is on the first floor, but there are few people living in the inn, so there will be basically no one in the courtyard at night.

This was a little surprising to me.

I turned on the light and looked out, and when I saw the person looking at me, I was settled.

It turned out to be a six or seven-year-old girl.

Wearing a white dress, the skirt was a little dirty, she rubbed the hem of her skirt with her hands, her thin head was raised high, and her big, dark eyes were motionless looking at me through the windowpane.

After looking at it for a while, it seemed that he never meant to leave, nor did he speak, or had any intention to express it.

So I immediately got up and pushed the window open, smiled and asked her, "Can't you find your room, little sister?"

She was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Would I like to take you to the front desk?"

She nodded again.

"Then what are your parents' names, do you have their mobile phone numbers?"

Two very simple questions, for some reason the girl fell silent again, so I said to her, "You wait here, I'll come." ”

After saying that, he turned around and was about to open the door to pick up the girl, but at this time there was a knock on the door.

Ying Sheng will open the door, and to some surprise, I saw Lu Youkun standing in front of my door with his nose covered.

"Old Lou?"

"Xiao Zhou," he smiled wryly at me, "I have another nosebleed, it doesn't seem to be able to stop, please can you accompany me to the health center." ”

“...... Okay, of course. But wait a minute, there is a little girl who can't find her room, so I'll take her to the service desk. ”

"Little girl, where is she?"

"Whoa......," I turned to show him, but then I froze, for the little girl, who had just stood motionless outside the window, seemed to have evaporated, and I had not heard any footsteps, and had disappeared completely. 166 Reading Network