In order to avoid trouble and save time, he deliberately parked his car outside the village and went around the field to enter the village, which was in response to the line "Sneak into the village, don't shoot guns."

After walking a hundred and ten meters, Li Rui looked around at no one, smiled bitterly, squatted down, lay down on the ground, and rolled on the ground like a lazy donkey. By the time he got up again, his brand-new camouflage uniform had become dirty, covered with black ash and occasional blades of grass. He rubbed his hand on his clothes a few more times, and after dusting them, the obvious dirt of the human traces became fixed for a long time, like a young farmer digging in the soil. But his whole temperament has not changed significantly because of this, and it is incompatible with the clothes on his body, as if he is wearing the wrong clothes, but he himself is not aware of this.

"There's nothing wrong with that, right?"

Li Rui smiled smugly, but his eyes were fixed on the layer of black ash above the surface soil, just now he walked all the way, and he didn't find this feature, after a few rolls, he finally saw it, and wondered in his heart, what is this layer of black ash? It looks like there is a coal mine or coking plant nearby? Could it be that the chemical plant is caused by the discharge? Looking around, I found that the four fields were covered with such a layer of black ash, and then looked in the direction of Dongshui Village, I could see two or three tall chimneys in the distance, and it was estimated that it was where the chemical plant was located, but those chimneys did not emit the huge black smoke as imagined.

He walked for about ten minutes, through this large wasteland, and finally came to the southeast corner of Dongshui Village. There were no junctions, no roads to the outside world, and no police guards, so he easily blended into the village from here.

Passing through a grove of graves, and bypassing a deserted house, the courtyard of Dongshui Village appeared in front of it. Li Rui looked around and saw a middle-aged woman walking out of a house, carrying a dirt basket in her hand, and she couldn't see what was inside, followed by a small brown and yellow Shiba dog.

The pyre, the village woman, and the earth dog are typical rural pictures.

"Big Sister ......"

Li Rui saw the woman's footsteps hurrying towards the village, so naturally he wouldn't let her go, so he shouted to stop her, and the people also ran forward.

The woman looked back when she heard the voice, looked at him twice, saw if she didn't know him, and asked, "What are you asking me to do? You are not from our village, right?" Li Rui walked up to her and stopped, and said with a smile: "It's not from your village, but it's not far away, let me ask you, how is the old village chief Liu Erkui's house going?" You go forward, turn left at the first intersection, walk out more than 100 meters, and see the two village committees to arrive, the one to the west of the two village committees is their house, and there is an old locust tree that is hundreds of years old behind their house, which is very easy to recognize. ”

Li Rui kept the road in mind, and after thanking the woman, he walked north along the road, walked nearly one hundred and fifty meters, and sure enough, when he saw an intersection, he turned west. This road is the main road in the village, that is, the main road out of the village, and it is also the road that Li Rui deliberately walked around before. The road is concrete, relatively wide, and although there is no separate lane, it can be used as a dual lane at least. At this time, there was no one on the road, and a police car was parked across the road, and the police gathered next to the car or at the mouth of the alley, whispering. They watched Li Rui come over, either looking at him cautiously, or ignoring him at all. The overall atmosphere is solemn and solemn, and it is relaxed and relaxed.

Li Rui secretly despised Zhao Xiaotao's actions in his heart, and dispatched police forces to attack the common people at every turn; is this what a parent official should do? Officials in the feudal era still knew such a famous saying: If an official does not make decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes; he is a party member and cadre who grew up in modern society and has been trained by higher education and party spirit to be unaware of this, and it is really shameful and hateful that he still oppresses the people everywhere if he does not make decisions for the people.

Walking out of more than 100 meters, a small courtyard appeared in the north of the road, and there was a sign hanging at the gate of the courtyard, which was where the two committees of Dongshui Village were located. The entrance of the two village committees was quiet and empty, but there were two heavily armed policemen standing at the door of the house to the west of the two village committees, one of whom was carrying a gun, giving people a cold and solemn feeling. Li Rui looked at the family in his eyes, and said in his heart that this must be Liu Erkui's house, but he didn't see the hundred-year-old locust tree.

He slowed down, and the words of response passed in his mind, and then walked over with a calm face, until the door of Liu Erkui's house, he ignored the two policemen, and went to push the iron door.

"Hey, stop! What are you doing?"

"You...... Come here, come here, what are you doing, what do you want to do?"

The two policemen saw that he was stunned and went to Liu Erkui's house, but they were not happy and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and one of the younger policemen also pulled his clothes.

Li Rui looked back at the two of them, and said in a daze: "I'm looking for my second uncle, what's the matter, can't it?

When the two policemen saw that he was the true character of the villagers as soon as he opened his mouth -- only the villagers with a lower social level could not help but put "breaking the law" on their lips, which also profoundly showed that they were all the lowest people in society who were deeply poisoned by the remnants of the oppressive ideology of the feudal class and had deeply engraved the word "Wang Fa" in their bones, and smiled disdainfully.

The young policeman let go of him and said, "Liu Erkui is your second uncle, you don't break the law by looking for him, but you can't look for him now, let's talk about it in a few days, ah, let's go." Li Rui asked, "Why don't you let me look for him?" The young policeman said: "He has committed an accident, and he is being strictly supervised and educated, don't think about the people inside, and don't want to go in the people outside, understand? Li Rui asked, "Is it because of the fact that he organized the petition?" The young policeman's eyes widened, and he said: "Nonsense, isn't this the case? What's the matter, you also have a part in that matter?" Li Rui hurriedly shook his head and said: "No, no, I didn't participate, then I'll go back first." Then he turned around and walked back and forth.

The young policeman sneered and muttered, "I thought it was a bad man, but it turned out to be a coward!"

The middle-aged policeman with a gun nodded and said, "Diao Min is also afraid of the means of democratic dictatorship, and he knows that it will not be good if it falls into our hands." ”

Li Rui's footsteps were fast, passing by the gate of the two village committees, he found that there was a small alley facing north, looked back, and saw that the two policemen were not staring at him, so he flashed and got in, wanting to go around to Liu Erkui's house and find a way to jump over the wall to find Liu Erkui. He was really lucky, and the alley he walked into casually was just west behind Liu Erkui's house. First walk more than a dozen steps to the north, then turn west, and then walk a few dozen steps, you have already seen a huge locust tree that occupies a circle of more than ten meters, has lush branches and leaves, and the top of the tree is like a cover. The locust tree is not tall, that is, more than ten meters, but the trunk is extremely thick, almost one meter in diameter. Most of the heart of the tree had been eroded, and the bark and the other half of the trunk supported the tree, and the empty heart of the tree was black, as if it had been burned by fire and struck by lightning.

When Li Rui saw this big locust tree, he secretly cheered, and said in his heart that there are not many old trees like this that have a lifespan of hundreds of years in the urban area now, which can be described as rare, and I hope it can always live in good health...... Just as he was sighing, Yu Guang suddenly noticed that a white slimy thing emerged from the empty tree's heart.

He was slightly stunned, stared at it, but saw a gray-haired human head emerging from the heart of the tree. He couldn't imagine that such a ridiculous thing would happen, he was so frightened that his heart jumped, and his body shivered involuntarily, and he was petrified in an instant.

"Someone from the tree......? Is this an illusion or a real thing? But how can the real thing be? How can there be people going out of the tree? Could it be that a dream in Huainan happened to me?"

A dream in Huainan is a legendary story recorded in the novel of Li Gongzuo in the Tang Dynasty "The Biography of Nan Ke Taishou", saying that there is a person named Chun Yudi, drunk and dreamed under the ancient locust tree, dreaming that he was in a city, and the city tower was written with Dahuai Anguo, and then was recruited as a concubine by the king of Huai'an, and then served as Nan Ke Taishou for 30 years, enjoying all the glory and wealth. When I woke up, I found that there were ant nests and tree holes under the locust tree, which were Huai'an Kingdom and Nanke County in the dream.

In other words, if it weren't for dreaming, how could a living person be able to freely enter and leave the locust tree?

Li Rui rubbed his eyes, confirming that he was not dreaming, but his heart was more and more frightened, looking at the white head blankly, seeing that first a human head came out, then a shoulder, two arms, one of which also held a sharp pig-killing knife, then the upper body, followed by two legs, and finally the whole person came out of the tree, it was a thin old man of sixty or seventy years old, his hair and beard were gray, and his face was full of folds, but a pair of eyes were bright and bright, and his expression was gloomy and full of murderous aura.

"Damn...... I'm dizzy, it's a real person?!How much has he changed into a living person?!This is incredible!"

Li Rui was dumbfounded, staring at the old man coming out, not knowing what to say at all.

After the old man stood on the ground, he glanced at him, saw that he didn't know, and didn't care, he held the pig-killing knife in his hand upside down in his right hand, and walked out violently, scolding and scolding to himself: "Why don't you let our family live, you don't want to live, let's die together today, see who dies first!"

When he said this, he happened to pass by Li Rui's side, and Li Rui also heard it clearly, and after hearing it, his heart moved, and he thought of something, looked back at the distance between the big locust tree and the courtyard wall of Liu Erkui's house, and then looked back at this tough and resolute old man, and suddenly understood something, and shouted: "Liu Erkui?"