"The frost is soaked with tears, and the white head has no more leaning on the firewood. In the Huangmei rain in May last year, Zeng pawned the robe and returned to the rice. ”

Fang Rui and Li Weidong packed up at the hotel, and Xu Shang had already rented a car and went downstairs. I also bought two tents along the way, as well as some water and necessary daily necessities.

The three of them took these supplies and drove to the vicinity of the "six sons" house.

It's really desolate here, and although you can see L City in the distance, it's completely two worlds. Judging from the remaining traces of houses, it was once a village, but it has now become deserted due to the great wave of urbanization.

When they got out of the car, the three of them were surrounded by weeds, and some of the lawns were the land of the former farmers in terms of shape. Fang Rui is very familiar with such a scene, he himself is also from the countryside, and his hometown is also facing the construction of a new countryside and centralized resettlement, all of which are such scenes.

"It seems that there are no people here anymore!" Xu Shang got out of the car, walked to Li Weidong's side, and looked around.

"Didn't Comrade Qingshan say that the eyewitness was a neighbor of the suspect's family? Then there should be someone, let's go separately and gather here later. Li Weidong also wondered, such a place is indeed a bit desolate, he grew up in the city, he was in the city when he was a child, and after working as an adult, although he has been to many rural areas, it is the first time to be like this.

Fang Rui and Xu Shang nodded, and the three of them each chose a direction. Fang Rui took the middle path. Speaking of the road, it should have been a long time since anyone had walked it, and the green and yellow weeds that were no longer than their knees stood straight in front of Fang Rui, which also showed their last stubbornness in the season of all things withering. If it weren't for the fact that the grass in the middle was much shorter than on both sides, it would be hard to see that this was a road.

Turning left and right along this thatched road, and over a small hill, two or three houses that had not yet been demolished appeared in front of Fang Rui, one of which was still emitting green smoke. Fang Rui didn't hesitate and walked straight towards the smoking house.

"Excuse me, is there anyone?" Fang Rui shouted as he walked to the house.

"Who?" asked an old man in dialect, accompanied by a "da-da-da" sound, similar to the sound of the lobby manager's heels in the hallway of the communications company.

"How could I think of her!" Fang Rui rubbed his face fiercely and leaned in front of the open door.

"Hello uncle, I'm passing by to play, I'm out of water, I'm thirsty, I want to ask you for water!" Fang Rui tried his best to let himself speak slowly, so that the old man in front of him who was walking tremblingly could understand what he meant. The crutch in his hand also explained the "da-da" sound just now.

"Come in!" The old man glanced at Fang Rui, his hand on crutches trembled to support his body and turn around, Fang Rui saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man's hand.

"Uncle, is there anyone else in your family?" Fang Rui helped the old man walk towards the house.

"There's no one left, alas...... There is no one left...... "When Fang Rui entered the house, he found that this house only had one window in the room, but it was also very small, and there was no glass, it was made of paper paste, and it could barely let in some light. But by this time it was already evening, and the sun had already set early, and the light that came in through the paper blackened by the firewood was extremely faint. So weak that you can barely see the old man's face.

The old man took out a bowl and handed it to Fang Rui.

"Young man, you take it first, I'll pour you water!"

Fang Rui took the bowl, and he couldn't tell the taste in his heart. The old man went back to the house and touched for a long time, and then came out and lit a candle, and the house was a little brighter. Only then did Fang Rui see clearly that in this room, in addition to a small square stool, there was a low square table, and there was a bag of salt on the table. The outer packaging of the salt was covered with a thick layer of black soot. Other than that, there was only a pile of dead branches in the corner.

"It's dark in the house, light a candle and light it!" said the old man.

"Uncle, isn't there electricity in your house?" Fang Rui held the bowl in his right hand, supported the uncle with his left hand, and asked.

"Yes, but the wire has been gnawed by rats, and there is always a problem. The old man dropped a few drops of wax on the table, put the candle on it, and the white candle stood firmly on the table.

"Does Z Mansion care?"

"Z Mansion is in charge! All these foods in my family are sent by Z Mansion. My old man is a lonely man, who eats and drinks from the country, and gives me money every year when the country is in the country! You say that I am a lonely old man, what do you want money for? But the people in Z Mansion still gave me a discount, saying that they would send money to me every year. The old man walked to the fire, his hands still shaking, but he could barely lift the black kettle.

"I'll do it myself, uncle!" Fang Rui walked forward quickly, took the pot in the old man's hand, and poured half a bowl of water into the bowl in his hand. He put the water on the table, pulled the old man to sit on a small stool, and half squatted in front of the old man.

"Doesn't the state have a policy now to concentrate on the resettlement of lonely and widowed elderly? Why didn't you go? There are still people to take care of?" asked Fang Rui.

"I don't go, the country has taken care of us very much, people come to deliver things during the New Year's holidays, I don't want to trouble the country anymore, I can still move, and when I can't move that day, I will go to bed, and a fire will be connected to this house, and it will be considered to be in the ground." The old man spoke calmly.

"Are there anyone else around you?"

"Yes! This Zhuangzi has three other families, and the others have moved to the city. There was a blind old woman and a stunned man in the back. We all don't want to go to a nursing home. The Z government sent people to urge us to move to the nursing home several times, saying that there were people to take care of us, and we didn't have to bear any costs. But we have lived here all our lives, every brick and tile here has the sustenance of our relatives, and we go to that unfamiliar place, what should we do if we miss them?"

"You just said that there is a grandmother with bad eyes in the back, so how does she live?" The blind old woman mentioned by the old man should be the suspect's mother, Fang Rui wanted to get some useful information from the old man.

"Alas...... Speaking of her, she is also a poor person!" the old man sighed.

She originally had a son, but because of an accident, he fled to another place, and he was taken care of by his daughter-in-law before, but then the daughter-in-law couldn't stand the poverty and ran away with the child. The 'dumbfounded' next door would sometimes go and cook a meal for her. If he's busy, she'll nibble on some steamed buns from Z Mansion. ”

"Then hasn't her son come back to see her all these years?"

"No, I made a mistake, I don't dare to come back, for fear of being caught!" The old man's calm and originally calm face showed a complicated expression when he mentioned that this "sixth son" had committed a crime.

Fang Rui felt strange. According to Aoyama's comrades, this "sixth son" has no criminal record in the local area, but the old man in front of him said that he had committed a crime and left here. When investigating his file again, the reason why he was sentenced was that he was caught stealing something in City A, which is more than a thousand kilometers away. It seems that this "sixth son" escaped because of something else, and the J party did not know about it.

Just as Fang Rui was about to continue asking the old man, the phone rang. It was Li Weidong who called, asking him to return to the agreed meeting point immediately.

After hanging up the phone, Fang Rui picked up the bowl of water on the table and drank it clean, although the water was a little bitter!