Coming out of Luoping County is basically cinder road. Previously it was supposed to be densely vegetated. Later, due to excessive logging, many forest farms were abandoned. The vegetation on both sides of the road is sparse, and from time to time locals can be seen driving sheep past the roadside.

After two or three hours of car ride, Anna finally arrived at the bus station in Hongshijing in the evening.

Hongshijing was originally formed as a result of forestry mining. The bus station is very simple, with two greenhouses, a row of old bungalows made of red bricks, and a yellow mud road leading to the town outside the door. A few dozen meters away, there is a railway stretching out. When Anna came out, a black freight train full of coal honked its flute and clattered past her, shaking the ground and falling from the roof. A few children passing by after school waited for the train to pass and immediately rushed to pick up the coal that had fallen on both sides of the railway.

Anna watched the train disappear from sight and turned around in the direction of the town.

In the book that Liu Mei left her, probably due to the disorder of the situation at the time, she only said that she lived in her aunt's house when she was a child, and did not write her address.

Although this is not a big place, I am not familiar with the place, and it may be a little difficult to find someone by a very ordinary name in a short period of time. But since this matter has been spread to her, she has to go this way.

When everyone arrived, they could only inquire slowly in the town and bet on their character.

This yellow mud road does not look very long, but it is not a short walk. Anna dragged the boxes, dodging the sheep dung eggs that appeared to be fresh on the side of the road, and finally came to the huge propaganda poster painted on the wall at the entrance of the town, "Striving for the Four Modernizations". By this time it was already dark. From time to time, workers in labor clothes walked by and turned their heads to look at Anna.

Anna stopped a few passers-by and asked "Li Hong", and sure enough, they all shook their heads.

In the north in winter, it gets dark faster than Anna could have imagined. It didn't take long for the dim street lights to come on. Standing in front of the Palace of Workers' Culture, Anna felt cold and decided to find a place to live first. I asked passers-by about a nearby forestry bureau guest house, and hurriedly looked for it. It was already dark when I found it. A single room costs five dollars a night. The waitress asked her for a letter of introduction. Anna said that she came to find someone, but she didn't have a letter of introduction, so she asked Li Hong by the way. The waiter said he didn't know. Originally, she was still a little nervous, afraid that if she was not allowed to live, then she would probably have to sleep on the street tonight. Fortunately, the waiter didn't insist, took the money and led her to the door of the room, opened the door, said "hot water is in the boiler room, hit it yourself", turned around and left.

The room was basic. An electric lamp, an iron bed, a scratched table with a rusty enamel tea tray and two glasses, plus an old washbasin and a thermos were all there was to it.

After a night on the train, and half a day's car, Anna was already tired. I didn't have the strength to pick and choose, I ate half of the hardshell bread I bought on the road and didn't know when the production date was, took a basin and a thermos bottle to the hot water room next to it and made hot water, came back and washed my face and feet indiscriminately, bolted the door, didn't take off my clothes, fell asleep, and dreamed that I was enjoying a lobster dinner with my friends in the booked Four Seasons Hotel Bora Bora, when my saliva was loud, I was suddenly awakened by a bang on the door, and I sat up suddenly, my heart beat faster, and I didn't dare to answer.

"Open the door!" a voice came from outside the door.

Anna was even more nervous. I don't know why my luck is so good, and I encountered the public security rounds as soon as I came. I didn't dare not turn it on, so I had to turn on the light, get out of bed and put on my coat, and when I got to the back of the door, I opened the crack, and when I saw that it was indeed a uniformed policeman, I opened the door with a hard head.

Outside the door were two young policemen who looked quite immature, with stern expressions, and the waitress stood behind them, saying to the policemen: "Comrade, it's her! I asked her for a letter of introduction, but she said no! asked that Li Hong why she lived and she couldn't say. asked her what her relationship was with Li Hong, but she still couldn't tell. Isn't that a lie? I don't look like a decent person. Haven't you been strictly arrested in the district recently? I'm afraid that I'm harboring criminals here, so I've notified you. Check her out! ”

Anna almost didn't vomit blood.

If she had known this, she might as well have squatted outside all night.

The two police officers didn't come in.

"Hukou book. "At this time, the ID card system has just appeared, and it has not yet become popular. The square-faced one asked her for a household registration book. As he asked, the other round-faced man took a pen and wrote it down in a notebook.

Anna snorted, "...... Went out in a hurry and forgot ......"

"What's your name?"

The round-faced police officer asked, looking from her unkempt maroon curls to her jeans.

"Anna. ”

"Ask me your real name, what foreign name do you have with me? When I haven't read Anna Karenina?"

The round-faced public security officer was unhappy, and the pen tapped the notebook hard.

"Comrade policeman, my name is Anna......"

"Okay, your mouth is quite tough!"

He snapped his pen.

"My real name is Anna, and my surname is Annana. ”

Anna wanted to cry without tears, so she quickly explained.

"Where did you come from, what are you doing?" asked the square-faced police officer again.

“…… S City ...... Come to find someone...... "Anna herself is not confident.

The square-faced police officer glanced at Anna's suitcase placed in the corner: "There was a serious robbery in the county last month, and according to eyewitnesses, there was a female accomplice in it. Now doubt your identity. Bring your stuff and come with us to the office for investigation!"

……

Last month, the finance department of the Luoping County Tobacco and Liquor Company was robbed of a huge sum of 5,000 yuan by a gang of masked gangsters. There was a woman in charge of watching the wind. The impact of this incident is very bad, and the county attaches great importance to it, and asks all subordinate districts to cooperate with the action to solve the case as soon as possible.

Anna was taken to the police station, where the time on the wall clock showed that it was one o'clock in the morning.

Anna didn't know why she was so unlucky, she had just come across such a thing.

Obviously, she is now being arrested as a serious suspect.

When she entered the police station, she was ordered by the two police officers to crouch in the corner of a small room that looked like a torture room. The suitcase was taken away. There was no one on the side. Just as he was nervous, there was a sound of footsteps, and the door was opened, and several people entered.

In addition to the two public security officers who took her away, Luo Cheng with a square face, Qiu Gaohe with a round face, there is also a slightly older public security officer who looks to be twenty-four or five years old. As if he had just been called from his sleep, his eyes were slightly bloodshot, and he was wearing a pair of police pants like Luo Chengqiu Gaohe, and in winter, he only had a white shirt on his upper body. As soon as he came in, he glanced at Anna, who was still squatting in the corner of the wall with unkempt hair, sat in a chair, and his two long legs were casually cocked to the corner of the table, and he took the interrogation record handed over by Luo Cheng, swept his eyes three or two, and threw it on the table.

"What's in the box?" the man asked.

Two fluorescent lamps were installed on the ceiling, the light was white and dazzling, and Anna's face was not even bloody.

Anna lowered her eyelids, stared at the concrete floor covered with small potholes in front of her feet, and replied weakly, "Clothes...... Shoe...... Cosmetics...... It's all personal stuff......"

"Captain, I brought it from the guest house. It's right next door. ”

The round-faced Qiu Gong went over and brought Anna's suitcase.

The young man glanced at the box: "Open!"

Anna really didn't want to open the box. In addition to her personal belongings, there were bills, passports, and cell phones that she hadn't had time to dispose of. Although they have been placed in the mezzanine, if they are turned out, it will inevitably be more troublesome. After a little hesitation, seeing that the man showed an impatient expression, he opened the drawer, took out a dagger, and seemed to be about to pry the box, so he had to come over, and under the gaze of a few eyes, he opened the lockbox head-on.

The thing was taken out by the two little police officers in the same way, and the man looked at it from the side.

Two sun hats, several pairs of shoes, five or six pieces of clothing, a few silk scarves, bottles and cans of cosmetics, perfume, sanitary napkins, stockings, the eyes of the two little police officers opened wider and wider, and when they slipped out of a set of bikinis, the two of them looked uncontrollably awkward, staring at a set of sex-sexy black lace bras and triangle neines exposed at the bottom of the box, and looked at the young man hesitantly: "Captain......"

The young man glanced at it, stretched out the foot on the table, snapped the lid of the box, put down the foot and looked at Anna, and saw that she was always standing there with her head down, her eyebrows lowered, and she arched her slender fingers slightly, and knocked on the table.

"You're really not one of those gangs?"

"Not really, I swear!"

Anna shook her head desperately with wide eyes, and her long curly hair dangled from the sides of her shoulders, shining with a beautiful sheen, and the two little men looked at it a little fixedly.

The young man glanced at his subordinates, his brow furrowed slightly, "Your origin is not in the inquiry record. Where do you come from? and your place of work or home address. I'll get in touch. If you're sure, I'll let you go. ”

“…… Captain...... What Qiu Gong'an said just now is actually true, Anna is just my English name. My real name is Li Mei. Li Hong is my aunt...... My mom recently passed away, and I'm coming to my aunt......"

The three police officers were stunned.

The round-faced Qiu Gong'an reacted and said, "What's the matter with you? I asked you what your name was in the guest house, and you didn't mean Anna." As soon as I turned my head, it became Li Mei again! I sue you, it's useless for you to quibble like this!"

"Comrade Public Security, my original name is Li Mei...... It's just that I don't like my name, and I've been using Anna for so many years. What I'm saying is true. Li Hong is indeed my aunt. After my mom died, I came here to join her. It's just that I left here when I was a child, and I had a serious brain illness in the middle, and after I got better, I can't remember some things clearly, and I can't even be sure where my aunt lives...... I hope you can help me. Find my aunt and ask her to find out if I'm lying......"

Qiu Gong'an and Luo Gong'an were silent and looked at the young man.

The young man looked at Anna.

Anna also looked at him, her eyes innocent and pitiful like a little sheep.

After a while, he got up from his chair and said to the two people, "Go find someone named Li Hong tomorrow." ”

"Okay, captain, you can go! I'm really sorry, the guest house of the Mining Bureau reported the case, we thought there was a big problem with this woman, so we called you. Luo Gongan was a little panicked.

The young man smiled.

"Captain, what about this woman's night?" Qiu Gongan asked.

The man glanced at Anna.

"Give her a military coat. Before Li Hong finds her, lock her up here!"