Three.

After sending Lu Youkun away, I also parted ways with Xuan Yin, saying that he was going to go to several famous scenic spots nearby, and I still needed to go to Jinhua Mountain because of some things.

To tell the truth, this trip to Jinhua Village, like Lao Lu, did not come for tourism.

The reason why I came to this place is that it originated from someone who recently posted on the Internet, a post about Jinhua Village that I don't know whether it is true or not.

It was a small couple. They said that because they admired the legend of Jinhua Spring and didn't want to be crowded, they deliberately chose to travel there during the holiday. But as soon as I got there, I realized that the reviews on the Internet were true, Jinhua Village is indeed in vain, the attractions are broken, the accommodation is dirty, the food is poor, and the worst thing is that the famous rehabilitation spring is now a stinky ditch.

There is no tourist value at all, and they can't waste their itinerary if they go there, so they decided to put aside the attractions and tourist routes and do a more exciting and interesting adventure.

The so-called adventure journey is to take the unusual path. They did not go down the mountain after leaving Jinhua Spring, but continued to walk up, wanting to take some mountain scenery along the way, and try the fun of fighting in the deep mountains by the way. So although they were very tired all the way, and they also saw the sign inserted in the middle of the road prohibiting them to continue walking, they still continued to walk into the depths of the mountain, after all, although there was no newly paved stone road in front of them, there were blue brick steps left from ancient times, although the pieces were too short to stretch, but for two people with strong blood, since the ancients could rely on this kind of road to go up and down the mountain, there was nothing wrong with modern people.

Walking like this, there was silence all around at dusk, and there was nothing else to see except for the trees, which inevitably made the two of them start to feel a little uneasy, and the idea of finding excitement faded a little, and the two discussed whether to return the same way. But just as he was about to turn around and leave, the man noticed a ruined temple not far ahead. This made him refreshed and intrigued, because looking through the tourist atlas, it had never been written that there was a temple on this mountain, and it was obviously a temple as old as the blue brick steps.

Since it is an ancient temple, it should naturally be a scenic spot worth visiting, why has it not been developed?

With this question, the two swept away their previous fatigue and immediately ran towards the temple in high spirits.

Who knew that something very strange happened at that time.

When the two of them ran in the direction of the ruined temple for about a quarter of an hour, I don't know if it was because it was dark and cooled, a layer of fog began to gradually gather on the mountain. Unlike the fog on the flats, the fog in the mountains quickly shortened the visual distance, and it was impossible to walk as fast as before. So the two of them had to slow down, and then they suddenly realized how they hadn't approached the temple when it seemed like they could walk in four or five minutes at most.

No matter how they walked, the temple remained the same distance from where they had first seen it, and after a few more minutes, they could not even see the distance, because the thick fog completely blocked everything two meters in front of them, making them feel as if they were locked in a milky white well.

This feeling of confinement frightened the woman, and she immediately dragged the man back in the direction in which he was coming. However, as they walked, they could not see clearly ahead, and because this section of the mountain road happened to be a flat section, they could not feel the terrain, and the two of them found that they could not feel at all whether they were going down the mountain or still walking up the mountain.

After walking around in this dead and claustrophobic space for nearly an hour, the woman finally stopped desperately and began to cry in a hurry. However, after crying for long, the man who was so upset that he had no intention of comforting her suddenly pulled her hard, and then motioned for her to silence and listen carefully in the direction of his finger.

The woman was still crying hatefully at first. But when the crying stopped, she realized that she had also found something, because there was a faint cry floating in the direction pointed by the man next to her.

It was really a fluttering feeling, the cry flickered far and near, and after a while, I saw a little girl of five or six years old wearing a yellow shirt slowly coming out of the thick fog.

The shirt is very old-fashioned, and the red plaid pleated bib skirt makes the little girl look like she has come out of an old photo from the 80s. She cried as she walked, and when she walked to the woman, she was about to stop her, but she suddenly disappeared.

The real one is gone, like magic.

At that time, these two people looked stupid in place for more than a minute.

Then he came to his senses and rushed in the opposite direction of the little girl.

I don't know how long I ran, but I know that the direction they ran in was not wrong, it was the way down the mountain. But although they were running all the way, they did not go down the mountain very quickly, because when they reached the iconic Jinhua Spring, the fog finally lifted, and they subconsciously looked up and saw that the sky was already dark.

In other words, from the start to the finish, it is equivalent to running in the mountains all night without stopping. In hindsight, it's a miracle that they didn't run out of breath at the time.

Because this post was posted one after another on the website, it became famous because more and more people saw it later.

That's why it caught my attention.

But at first, like most people, I read this post as a serial story, and I didn't believe that they really encountered a ghost hitting the wall in the mountains, and that little girl who appeared and disappeared like a ghost.

It wasn't until later, perhaps a little angry that someone questioned him, and the man suddenly posted a photo on the Internet.

The photo is very blurry due to the tremor at the time of shooting, as well as the surrounding environment and light.

But it was still clear that in a thick fog oozing out of the night, stood the figure of a little girl who could not be said to be clear or vague.

As the little couple described, the girl was wearing a bright yellow really good shirt and a red plaid suspender pleated skirt, although the facial features of her face were not clear, but the outline was relatively clear. Indeed, at first glance, there is a kind of weirdness of time and space disorder.

There is no trace of the picture being processed, so the appearance of this photo has caused the post to be a craze again.

In fact, it is not very difficult to process the picture □□ seamlessly, but a sense of curiosity and the thrill of chasing a series still make more people inclined to believe that this photo and the experience of this couple may be real.

But despite this, most people still think very realistically that this must be a game carefully crafted by the two of them, just to use this atmosphere and effect to achieve the purpose of attracting people's attention, and besides, if the child in the photo is really a ghost, it stands to reason that he can't shoot the image at all? It can only be said that the acting skills of this little actor are quite remarkable.

However, the controversy caused by this opposition made the post more and more popular, and it was almost on the front page of the website for a while, so on an unsuspecting day, suddenly a person with emotions appeared in the post, she said that the little girl in the photo was her little daughter who had been missing for 30 years.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

Some say she's grandstanding, some say she's the couple's pretend, and some ask her to show hard evidence that her words are true.

After that, the other party was silent for several days, and just as people laughed and forgot about it as a hype, suddenly the person reappeared, and then posted several photos taken in Jinhua Village.

In each photo, there is a little girl dressed exactly like the girl photo posted by the young couple.

The date on the photograph is clearly written, August 27, 1985.

At that time, photographs were made of film, so the texture and time left traces on the photographs could not be faked. But this does not mean that the girl in the photo is the girl taken by the young couple, after all, the girl is shrouded in fog and can't distinguish her facial features, but if you compare carefully, the facial contours and body proportions are really exactly the same.

As a result, the authenticity of this incident once again triggered a white-hot war of words, so much so that people ignored the middle-aged woman who sent so many photos to prove that she was not lying, what her mood was like at that time.

At the same time, she also ignored her statement over and over again: How can a mother not recognize the outline of her child! If you don't believe it, you can also look for the newspaper of the year, after my daughter disappeared, I went to report the case, and even made trouble at the newspaper office and posted a search notice! At that time, many people knew! Really! What I said was true!

But people didn't pay much attention. In other words, a small missing person notice in a newspaper in the mid-80s is not so easy to find just by looking it up on Baidu. So people are more enthusiastic about fighting for the authenticity of this matter on the Internet, so that what is the truth of the matter itself, why did the middle-aged woman's child disappear 30 years ago, and why did it appear in someone else's camera after disappearing 30 years ago...... Few people are really willing to care about all this.

And it is for this reason that I came on this trip.

Relatively speaking, it was relatively easy for me to inquire about the contents of the newspapers in various places back then, and because I had some good personal friends in the police station, I took advantage of the curiosity at that time to toss around, but I really found out the news of the disappearance of the young girl that was published in the local newspaper of Jinhua Village.

Below the news is a missing person notice, a little girl, wearing a ponytail, a white shirt and a plaid suspender skirt. Although the color of the newspaper is black and white, it is exactly the same as the comparison photos on the Internet.

The girl disappeared when her parents were busy filling the kettle with spring water, and that day they went crazy and searched the mountains and mountains to find the girl, but they never found the girl. Now, 30 years have passed, and you can imagine how shocked the woman who became a mother was when she saw the photos posted by the couple on the Internet.

Still, it was hard for me to convince myself that the girl in the photo would be the same person.

After all, there has been a gap of thirty years, and if the girl was still alive, she would have been an adult a long time ago, and if she did, could it be that the couple had photographed a ghost?

At the same time, I found that the little couple had also opened an online store since opening this post, and because they became Internet celebrities, the business of the store was very good. So I was going to stop being enthusiastic about this matter, and looking at the general manager, it made me more inclined to believe that all this was a well-planned hype from beginning to end, but soon, a friend in the police station said to me with interest when he was partying with me, Xiao Zhou, I think you can dig deeper into this matter, because when we were investigating the disappearance case for you, at the same time, we also dug up a very strange phenomenon about that village.

What is the phenomenon?, I asked.

He said that since the eighties, it seemed that every five or six years there a child had gone missing. But because every time it is caused by various accidents, parents' carelessness, and the long interval between each time, coupled with the backwardness of information dissemination, it has never been paid attention to. Just like us, if it weren't for the fact that we looked at these documents and found similar times in a row, they would have been buried in the dust a long time ago, and who would remember these things that were almost forgotten by time?

With such a sense of possible news, I took advantage of this vacation to go to Jinhua Village, just to follow the trajectory of those disappearances back then, and deliberately dig out whether there is a bigger news selling point hidden behind the incident on the Internet.

Who knew that he met Lao Lu on the way.

The sadness of seeing a person struggling powerlessly in the face of a terminal illness and death almost once made me lose my interest in pursuing those news events that I don't know whether they are true or false. Until I saw him off, I was still a little depressed for a long time, so I sat by the Jinhua Spring for a long time, and then saw a few tourists gathered by the spring, jumping around and following such children, so that the surroundings became lively for a moment.

Two little girls, five or six years old, with pigtails and red dresses, squatted next to me and tried to touch the spring water, with the smell of chocolate and milk wafting from them.

Then they were soon dragged away by their screaming mothers, and went away from the spring, and counted the filth of the spring water as she stuffed sugar into their hands. It was an ordinary but gentle picture, and I couldn't help but think of the mother who hadn't seen her daughter in 30 years on the Internet, so I stood up and patted my pants, and I continued to walk along the mountain road by the spring.

The road behind is no longer smooth, and the road surface is getting worse and worse, and after walking for about half an hour, I saw a warning sign in front of me that made people stop moving. But when I was about to ignore this sign and continue to move forward like a young couple, I realized that this willfulness no longer worked, because there was a new small guard box in this place, which was guarded by a special person, probably because of the little couple last time, so Zheng'er Bajing sent someone to take care of it.

"Can you go up and have a look, uncle?" but tentatively asked.

The old man inside shook his head and pointed to the sign: "Don't you like to look at the signs, the road above has not been repaired, it is dangerous, don't go inside." 166 Reading Network