Director Gu just glared, then looked at Qin Yongmei again, and muttered angrily: "Feudal superstition." ”

Village Chief Tan sighed: "Yes." But she has been a mute since she was a child, how can she not only speak overnight, but also speak Mandarin, and even speak the words of foreign devils. What else could it be if it wasn't evil?"

Qin Yongmei nodded: "Don't rush to conclusions first." You said she used to be mute, was she dumb since she was a child, or was she halfway there? Her hearing seemed to be fine. ”

People say that they are deaf and dumb.

The vast majority of mutes are not due to vocal cord problems.

It's because you can't hear with your ears.

No matter how stupid a person is, as long as his ears can hear, even if he parrots, he can gradually learn to speak.

"Yes, she can hear with her ears, but she can't speak, and she has been like this since she was a child. ”

"So what's wrong with her not checking her vocal cords?"

"How can we have that kind of conditions in the poor countryside. ”

Everyone looked at each other for a moment.

Qin Yongmei frowned and thought, muttering, "She's forty-two years old, and you're forty, right?"

"yes. ”

"Then you were born in 1945...... When did you first remember? I mean something related to Liu Caixia. ”

Village Chief Tan touched his head embarrassedly: "I remember a little late, I just remember when I was about seven years old, I let the hairy dog into Liu Caixia's neck, and she was so frightened that she cried." ”

Qin Yongmei nodded: "You can only remember what happened after the age of seven, she is two years older than you." It's like you don't know what happened before she was nine years old. ”

"Yes, yes. It is estimated that she became mute because she was injured before the age of nine or something. ”

"Haven't you heard anything from the old man?"

Village Chief Tan shook his head: "Most of our village fled around 50 years ago. Our family and Liu Caixia are relatively early households. ”

"Are there any older ones, like ten or eight years older than you?"

"There are a lot of them, but they arrive at the village late...... Wait, I remembered, Uncle Wan should have arrived in the village earlier than our family and Liu Caixia and their family. ”

"Okay, then let's visit your village today, I don't know how far your village is?"

Director Gu sighed: "It's not far, but if you just walk on two legs, you can't walk in the dark." ”

Village Chief Tan said: "In the afternoon, there is a car in our village coming back from Maoqizi, and we can take a ride back." ”

Director Gu frowned: "You let Captain Qin and the people in the city take a tractor? ”

"It's okay, it's okay. Qin Yongmei smiled, "When I was a child, I still wished I could sit on a tractor all day long." ”

At noon, Qin Yongmei thought that she could eat some farmhouse meals and farmhouse dishes.

But this small township is already a bit nondescript now.

It is neither as elaborate as the food in the city, nor as simple as the food in the country.

After hastily finishing the meal, the village chief still had to do something in the town, while Qin Yongmei and Yuan Xianzhou returned to the police station to continue to study the case.

There are very few files at the town police station.

There is also a small record of the non-agricultural population in the town.

Except for simple information such as age and village, the rural population is basically not well documented in terms of place of birth.

After flipping through the archives for a while, pondering for a while.

Qin Yongmei and Yuan Xianzhou came to the street again.

The town is small, and a main street is half an hour away.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs.

There is no shortage of middle schools, primary schools, health centers, supply and marketing cooperatives, etc.

There is also an old movie theater left over from the Japanese pseudo-period.

When I came back from the street, Village Chief Tan's tractor happened to arrive.

It is the standard car in the countryside today - walk-behind tractor.

In order to ride comfortably, Village Chief Tan also asked people to spread some sorghum straw in the car.

Qin Yongmei grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and since she became a public security officer, she often runs from east to west, and has tried almost all kinds of transportation.

This walk-behind tractor, of course, is no problem.

Yuan Xianzhou, like Xiao Cao, belongs to the urban population of the township.

Not too familiar with rural means of transport.

The bumpy road is simply a liver and intestines.

Walk-behind tractors are actually harder to drive than cars.

Because the front end of the car is extremely agile.

In the words of the common people, the front of the car is very ghostly.

This construction is very suitable for running in the fields in the countryside.

Because no matter how bumpy it is, it can find balance.

But those who ride in the car suffer.

Like a boat in the waves, it rises and falls from time to time.

"Surfing masters" like Qin Yongmei and Village Chief Tan can naturally find the rhythm of bumps, so they don't feel tired at all.

And Yuan Xianzhou and Xiao Cao can't do it, they instinctively resist the bumps.

As a result, the more you resist, the more you suffer.

When they arrived in the village, they were almost supported down by Village Chief Tan and Qin Yongmei, and they couldn't even walk.

The households in the village are scattered.

After Village Chief Tan placed Qin Yongmei and them at home, he went to the back mountain to pick up Uncle Wan.

Village Chief Tan's wife clumsily entertained Qin Yongmei and them.

Qin Yongmei persuaded: "Okay, his brother and sister, I am also from the countryside, so I don't need to be so polite." Sit down and let's talk. ”

Village Chief Tan's wife sat down at this time.

Qin Yongmei asked, "Liu Caixia's family lives here, right?"

"yes, it's not far, you can see it four or five hundred meters to the east. ”

"Do you know about her family?"

"A little bit of understanding. It seems that she has never left the village since she was a child. Their old Liu family later recruited a son-in-law. ”

"What about her family......"

"She's also a hard worker. Her husband and her parents died a few years ago. She raised two sons and a daughter by herself. Her eldest son moved to a neighboring village the year before last, and now she has a daughter and a son at home. ”

"Then she's financially stressed. ”

"It's okay, the children are older, and they are already fully laborers. Her daughter is a bit of a problem, though. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Her daughter is the second child and has studied well since she was a child. She single-mindedly wanted her daughter to be admitted to college. As a result, I didn't pass the college entrance examination last year. She didn't have to say that her daughter was replaced by someone else. ”

Qin Yongmei nodded: "Then there should be someone in her family here."

"There should be, either her son or her daughter is at home. ”

"Okay! I'll take a look!"

"Why don't I send you there?"

"No, you're in the house. ”

Qin Yongmei asked Yuan Xianzhou and Xiao Cao to continue to wait for Village Chief Tan, and she walked to Liu Caixia's house alone.

In the yard of Liu Caixia's house, a rural girl is busy preparing pig food to feed the pigs.

Pigs are fed in the countryside with pigweed mixed with a little bran, and then stirred and mixed with some swill or something.

The eldest girl sat on a small stool in the yard, wielding a kitchen knife and chopping pigweed.

Chopping the grass with one hand and pulling the grass with the other, he doesn't look back.

In the blink of an eye, there was not much grass left behind her.

Qin Yongmei lost no time in helping her pull the grass row in front of her.

She had just chopped a few times, and suddenly reacted, clenched the kitchen knife and turned back sharply.

When she found out that it was Qin Yongmei, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"City, huh?"

"Ahh Qin Yongmei responded.

"Wait a minute. ”

As she spoke, she pulled the chopped grass into the dustpan, then put down her kitchen knife and got up to go into the house.

After a while, a scoop of clear well water was brought out.

It seems that she took Qin Yongmei as a beggar for water.

Qin Yongmei was also polite, and took two big sips of "Gu Dong Gu Dong".

At this time, the well water in the countryside has not been polluted much, and it is really sweet and refreshing.

However, Qin Yongmei drank this big scoop of water.

The girl took the ladle and poured the rest of the water into the pig's trough, then turned and went into the house, scooping out most of the chaff.

Seeing Qin Yongmei still standing in the courtyard, she couldn't help but be a little surprised: "You ......"

Qin Yongmei smiled: "Don't worry, I'll help you take a hand." ”

Qin Yongmei walked over with a dustpan and poured it into the pig trough.

Pour a few times and put a little chaff into it.

At last it was all poured, and the girl picked up the stick and stirred it again.

Two of the skinny pigs in the pigsty came over with a chirp.

Seeing that the girl was busy, Qin Yongmei said on the side: "In the future, try to feed it in the evening, the pig will gain fat faster." ”

The girl's tense face finally showed a smile: "You know everything. ”

"Hey, we grew up in the countryside. ”

"Eldest sister, when you go to the village, are you going to visit relatives or do errands?"

"Errands. ”

"Then you are ......"

"I'm a ...... from the County Public Security Bureau"

The girl was stunned for a moment, and looked at Qin Yongmei with tears in her eyes.

Qin Yongmei was also a little confused: "What's wrong with you?"

The girl knelt down in front of Qin Yongmei with a "plop" sound: "Comrade Public Security, you must be the master of my mother!"

Qin Yongmei hurriedly stretched out her hand to help the girl: "Don't! Don't! It's not good for people to see it! Let's go into the house and say." ”

As soon as the two entered the house, the girl said: "My mother is not a spy, my mother is aggrieved." ”

"Why are you aggrieved?"

"My mother has been so aggrieved in these years. In the early years, it was a matter of land contracting, and the cemetery of my grandparents was encroached upon the year before last, and my brother was forced to enter the house the year before last. Especially last year......"

"What happened last year?"

The girl sighed: "It's all my fault." ”

Lao Liu's family recruited a door-to-door son-in-law, so Liu Caixia's three children all had her surname Liu.

The girl has a foreign name that is different from other peasant girls, and it is Liu Na.

Liu Na has studied since she was a child, Liu Caixia must also be strong, tighten her belt and train her daughter to become a college student.

As a result, Liu Na failed in the college entrance examination last year, and she failed to even get into a junior college.

"My mother didn't say that I was pushed down, but in fact, I knew that I didn't play well. Alas!"

"It's normal that you didn't play well, but you can ...... this year."

As soon as she was halfway through speaking, Qin Yongmei remembered that Liu Na's conditions were coming, and couldn't help but sigh.

Liu Na sighed and smiled: "Actually, I am already very grateful to my mother, it is very good for girls in rural areas to finish high school." ”

"Yes, at least you don't have a problem being a private teacher. ”

"I think so too, but my mother got into the horns of the bull, and I went around trying to find someone to reason, so I thought I was replaced. ”

Qin Yongmei sighed: "So she got sick? and then suddenly she could speak?"

"Actually, my mother can talk all the time. ”

Qin Yongmei was taken aback: "She just whispered at home?"

Liu Na shook her head: "She only said it in her dreams." ”

"I see, she has always had the ability to speak, but she was suppressed when she encountered something when she was a child. ”

"Yes, my mother must have encountered something big in her early years. ”

"What do you think will happen to her?"

Liu Na frowned and thought about it.

"I've heard her talk in her dreams a few times. It feels like she had two younger brothers in her early years. She told her two younger brothers to come home and eat candy, and they died......"

Qin Yongmei nodded: "That's right." ”

"And she's sensitive to sugar. The year before last, my brother got married, and I accidentally brought the candy home. As a result, she was inexplicably angry. ”

"It seems that she really has two younger brothers. ”

"Yes, I used to think it was strange why my mother was the only child in my grandparents' house. ”

"But that doesn't explain your mother's ability to speak Mandarin and foreign languages?

"No, absolutely not. Liu Na shook her head, "My mother really doesn't have much culture except for good handwriting." ”

"And what do you think of this?"

Liu Na blushed slightly: "This, there are some things that can't be explained scientifically......"

"You also think she's evil?"

"Not really. I read the mystery magazine, and it was said that a person in Europe and the United States, after a fall and woke up, could speak Chinese. Experts say it may be a mutation in the language center of the brain. ”

"It's new! It's the first time I've heard of anything like this. ”