After soaking the instant noodles and eating them, I deliberately chatted with the old man for a few words, and only asked after getting acquainted with each other: "Uncle, do you know where Yan Dayong's house is?"

The old man looked at the news broadcast and asked casually: "What are you looking for Dayong for?"

It seemed that the old man knew Yan Dayong, and I smiled and said, "There is something wrong, I don't know if you can tell me where he lives?"

The old man pointed to a house with lights on halfway up the mountain and said, "It's that red brick house." ”

I was about to thank the old man when he suddenly remembered something, and said, "I understand, you are not looking for Dayong, but for the two outsiders who came in the first two days, right? One of them has an accent that sounds similar to you." ”

I thought that there was a door, so I quickly nodded and said, "Yes, uncle, have you seen them?" ”

The old man came to his senses, sat up from the recliner and said, "Not only have I seen it, when they first came to the village, they were just like you, buying instant noodles from me to eat, and the two of them complained that the road was not easy to walk, and they also asked me where Dayong lived." ”

I asked, "What about then?"

The old man said: "Later, they went to Dayong's house, but it didn't take long to turn back, the young man with the same accent as you also said that Dayong's family was sick, and he was schizophrenic by worshipping the gods. Red rope or something, this person is very good at looking at people's faces, the young man is obviously angry, but he reached out to ask for money, and said that the work was not done has nothing to do with him, the money still has to be given, the young man is indifferent, this trickster is in a hurry, saying that he has lost a lot from Wuhan to Xiaogan, and he originally practiced selling strong pills near Changchun Guan, and he can earn hundreds a day, and now he will follow Bai Run, and the loss will definitely be compensated to him. ”

I frowned, Wu Tian must have not found Chen Daochang in Changchun Guan, and when he saw the Jianghu performers on the side of the road nearby, he was brought to act indiscriminately, which was too messy.

I asked, "And then." ”

The more the old man spoke, the more energetic he became, and he crossed his legs on the recliner, and the news broadcast could no longer attract his attention, he said: "The young man was very angry, took out 500 yuan, threw it directly on the body of the trickster, and scolded, 'It's really a plague god, he will ask for money, Lao Tzu is really down, take the money and get out of the way, don't be an eyesore'." ”

The old man imitated Wu Tian's tone vividly, Wu Tian simply came to life on him, which made me almost want to laugh, but fortunately I realized something immediately, and coughed to resolve the embarrassment of wanting to laugh.

The old man continued: "The trickster was not angry when he was insulted like this, so he picked up the money on the ground and said, 'Boss, the 1,000 yuan that I said was good, but this is only 500, and what about my compensation for a day's delay?' At that time, I was watching from the side, and said that the person who played the trick was not lacking in heart, and he was already very angry if he didn't do it, and it was good to give five hundred, and he didn't hurry up and actually reached out to ask for money, and the young man was provoked at this time, and he scolded him, and picked up the flat pole I put on the side of the door to beat someone, and the trickster saw that the situation was not right, so he turned around and ran, and the young man put down the flat pole angrily, and scolded: ' Lao Luo's bastard is really annoying, I have to let Lao Tzu come to the scene by himself, and said that I can't come to the scene and now it's like this, damn it, just stay in Beijing and don't come back, damn it'. ”

I was a little embarrassed when I heard this, the old man probably didn't know that I was the "old Luo", Wu Tian's temper came up and even scolded me, I was really convinced.

The old man continued: " After scolding, he was angry from me to ask for Zhang Maza, sitting in the store to drink soda, I persuaded him not to be angry, he slowly dissipated, looked at the sky and felt that it was not early, asked me if there is a car here to Xiaogan, I said that there is a car at this time, to wait until tomorrow morning at seven o'clock there will be an urban and rural bus through the village, you can take a bus to Xiaogan City, this young man asked me if there is a place to stay in the village, I originally wanted to say no, but I remembered that my son is working in the field, the room upstairs of the commissary is empty all the year round, it is a little tasteful, anyway, he asked him if he can live, he wants to live on me to earn some accommodation fees, do not live forget it, this young man said yes, it is better than sleeping on the side of the road, I said to charge twenty yuan, this young man took out fifty yuan to me, simply said no need to look for it, I was very happy, the heart said that this young man is still good, he is to see what kind of temper there is, not a bad person, I also rest assured that the room for him to live, he also asked me to call him a ride at seven o'clock in the morning, said that he used to do business in foreign countries are open at night, so day and night upside down, during the day is very lazy to sleep, no one called basically can not get up, I can't agree, but when I go to knock on the door the next morning, I find that the door is hidden, go in to see where there are still people, touch the quilt early cold, it is estimated that he left very early, I don't know what time to leave, and I didn't say hello, I didn't hear any movement, and since I'm gone, I don't care, that's it. ”

After listening to what the old man said, I think this is a little wrong, Wu Tian is indeed a person who loves to sleep lazy, often sleeps until three poles in the morning and does not get up, every day when he goes to work in the store, Zhu Meijuan and I take turns calling him, he only gets up slowly, let him get up early in the morning is more uncomfortable than letting him die, the most important thing is that Wu Tian is self-aware, and has reminded the old man to call him a ride in the morning, how can he leave early in the morning without saying hello?

The more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, and I asked, "Uncle, did you hear anything on the night my friend stayed here?"

The old man shook his head, I thought for a moment and said, "Can you let me go upstairs and have a look?"

The old man hesitated and nodded, and when I got upstairs, I checked the room where Wu Tian lived, and I didn't find anything wrong, but just as I wanted to go downstairs, I suddenly found that there was a small square patio above the stairs, and a door panel was sealed on the patio.

I pointed to the top and asked, "Uncle, this is ......." ”

The old man said: "Oh, the sunshine in our area is good, so many houses have platforms, and I also bring this two-story small building, and it is very convenient to dry some dried fish and bacon on it." ”

"Is there a ladder?" I realized something.

The old man was very puzzled, but he still entered his room, carried out a folding aluminum ladder, I put the ladder and opened it to climb up, the door panel of the patio was not locked, and it opened as soon as I pushed it, and as soon as the wooden board was pushed away, I found an unusual place, there were traces of friction on the edge of the small patio, the traces were very new, and there was a small handful of hairy fibers stuck to it.