The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, returned to the car, drove out of the community, and drove to the street office.

In the neighborhood office, the two were warmly welcomed. The director of the street office personally led the two to the office and sat down, and asked his subordinates to make tea and pour water for the two, but Li Ruiwan refused. Li Rui made his intentions clear in a few words, and asked if the other party could provide any useful information.

The director looked up at the ceiling, made a look of reminiscence, shook his head for a long time and said: "I'm sorry, Director Li, as far as I know, there is nothing I can help you, the main thing is that the age is too long, the Xinyuan community was built in the nineties of the last century, and it has been so long now, the old cadres who know and the old files are gone, I really want to help you, but it's a pity that ......"

When they came out of the street office, it was already half past eleven, so Li Rui and Shen Yuanzhu temporarily stopped, looked for a restaurant to eat, and took a rest by the way. Running around all morning, although not very tired, but bothering and tiring, it is also very hard.

At the table at the door of a small restaurant, Li Rui and Shen Yuanzhu sat opposite each other, with three dishes on the table in front of them.

Li Rui sighed and said, "It seems that the only way to do this is to use the stupidest method, knocking on doors door to door, although it is time-consuming and laborious, it can ensure the highest quality." Shen Yuanzhu said: "Just the two of us run, but we can't run down, I noticed it in the Xinyuan community just now, there are more than 20 buildings in the community, each building has five units on six floors, two households on each floor, one building is six by five times two, a total of 60 households, more than 20 buildings are more than 1,000 households, we can't inquire about the two of us who broke our legs." You have to get help. Li Rui thought so, nodded, and said, "Who should I ask for help?"

Li Rui was really a little tired, she didn't want to think about such a simple question, but threw it directly to Shen Yuanzhu, anyway, she was not an outsider, and the answers she gave were generally very constructive.

Shen Yuanzhu said: "I think it is most appropriate to ask the street office to help with this, the street office has a lot of idlers, and it can also be directly connected to the community and the neighborhood committee, and a lot of idlers can be drawn." We don't need too many people, just a dozen or so people, one person is responsible for two buildings, it won't be too tired, and the statistics can be completed in a relatively short time. Li Rui smiled: "I have Yuanzhu, everything is worry-free." Come, I'll toast you. With that, he picked up the teacup. Shen Yuanzhu was praised by him, smiled, touched him with a cup, and said, "You just know that I'm good, and it's not in vain that I will accompany you for most of the day." ”

After eating, the two returned to the car, put the seat down, and lay down for a short rest. Li Rui took the opportunity to call his godbrother Li Ming and asked him, the mayor of Shinan District, to give an order to the sub-district office of Xinyuan Community to assist him in finding Su Yun, who called Xinyuan Community a part of Shinan District. As soon as Li Ming heard that Huang Xinghua, the son of the bitter master, was a patriotic overseas Chinese personally received by Song Chaoyang, secretary of the municipal party committee, how dare he slack off, and said that he would immediately find someone to issue a notice, and strive to let the neighborhood office organize personnel as soon as possible and wait for Li Rui's dispatch.

After making this call, Li Rui lay down, not daring to let the back of his head touch the headrest, he deliberately leaned his head sideways on it, closed his eyes and recuperated, and thought to himself, I don't know how Huang Lao found Su Yun's whereabouts a few days ago, did he also find the Xinyuan community? Or did he look for the flowers and flowers in the vicinity of Guanmiao, but he gave up if he didn't find the big locust tree alley? Alas, I didn't ask him carefully in the morning, maybe this information could help me eliminate some possibilities.

Just as he was thinking about it, his nose suddenly tightened, and he was gently pinched by two fingers. When he opened his eyes, he saw Shen Yuanzhu withdraw his hand, looking at himself playfully, his eyes were round, his red lips were slightly upturned, and his expression was cute, and he smiled: "Dare to harass me, do you want me to spank you?" Shen Yuanzhu smiled: "No, I want to talk to you, what do you want?" Li Rui said: "I'm thinking about Huang Lao and Su Yun, there are lovers who can't end up married, this may be the biggest tragedy in the world." I sympathize with Huang Lao, so I must help him find Su Yun's whereabouts. ”

Shen Yuanzhu snorted: "If you want me to say, he is a negative person, he has promised Su Yun that he will come back to find her in the future, but he will not return, what is that negative heart? Such a negative man, is he embarrassed to worry about others for a lifetime?" Li Rui smiled bitterly: "Huang Lao doesn't want to go back, but he can't go back for some reason, we should understand him." Shen Yuanzhu said: "Anyway, I don't have a good impression of him at all, let me tell you, the reason why I helped him find Su Yun, but looking at your face, this favor will fall on you." Li Rui smiled and said: "No problem, even if I owe you a favor, then how are you going to let me pay it back?"

The two of them were talking and laughing while resting, occasionally moving their hands and feet, but also happy and warm, and when it was a little short of five minutes, the two drove to the Xinyuan community. Li Ming had already told Li Rui before that he would ask the people organized by the street office to come directly to the Xinyuan community to listen to the errand.

When they came to the community, the two of them found at a glance that there were more than a dozen people gathered outside the security guard at the entrance of the community, both men and women, ranging in age from 20 to 50, all dressed as cadres, and there was also an acquaintance, who was the director of the street office who had visited this afternoon.

Li Rui knew that it was the reinforcements who came, so he hurriedly got out of the car to meet them, first shook hands with the director and said a few polite words, and when Shen Yuanzhu also came over, he called everyone together and issued a task to them: each person is responsible for two buildings, check all the residents in the building, whether they are the aborigines of Dahuashu Hutong, if not, forget it, if so, be sure to record it, and ask him at the same time if he still remembers the Su family who entered the first house in the alley. Similarly, if someone answers in the affirmative, be sure to ask for everything they know and record it.

After the task was issued, everyone received two separate buildings, and then went to inquire separately. It is worth mentioning that the number of people who came to help exceeded Li Rui's expectations, reaching twelve, and took away twenty-four of the twenty-five buildings in the community, and in the end there was only one left, so Li Rui and Shen Yuanzhu went to the last building together to inquire.

The buildings in the Xinyuan community are all traditional six-story slab buildings, each building has five units, each floor has two households, and one building is 60 households, not to mention how hard it is to climb up and down, just knocking on the door 60 times and asking the same question 60 times can make people crazy. Of course, some people have no one at home, so they don't have the procedure to ask, but they still inevitably knock on the door, and they have to knock several times.

It took Li Rui and Shen Yuanzhu nearly an hour to complete the investigation of the building, and when they returned to the ground, they were a little sore and weak, and what was even more sad was that the trip did not yield any results, and the aborigines of a large locust tree alley were not found. Of course, that's not counting the 12 of the families that don't have anyone in the house.

After pouring half a bottle of mineral water, Li Rui said to Shen Yuanzhu worriedly: "Do you know what I'm most worried about now, I'm most worried about the twelve families who have no one at home, and there are aborigines in Dahuashu Hutong. Shen Yuanzhu said: "What are you afraid of, it's a big deal to come and ask tomorrow." After saying that, he snatched the mineral water from his hand, unscrewed the lid, and drank it to himself. Li Rui watched her movements dumbfounded, and shouted, "When I asked you if you drank just now, you said you wouldn't drink." Shen Yuanzhu smiled charmingly at him and said, "I want to drink it now, can't I?"

Li Rui laughed out loud, looked at no one around, and whispered: "I think you just want to drink my saliva." Shen Yuanzhu smiled and said, "you, it's disgusting, I see that you are thirsty when you drink." Li Rui smiled and didn't continue to tease her, at this time, making a meat joke can delight the body and mind and improve the excitement of the cranial nerves, but there is no need to keep talking about this topic, after all, now is the time to do business, and said: "Wait, let's see what good news our helpers can bring back." ”

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, all the residents of the 25 buildings in the Xinyuan community were investigated, and Li Rui and Shen Yuanzhu got the news about the aborigines of the big locust tree alley as they wished, but the news was mixed, the good news is that there are indeed aborigines of the big locust tree alley in the community, and some people know the first resident of the alley; the bad news is that, according to the insider, the first resident of the alley is not surnamed Su, but surnamed Sun, who has lived in the alley for at least ten years, and the Sun family did not move into the Xinyuan community built after the demolition of the alley, but sold the house and went to the family building of the Municipal Electric Power Bureau in Shinan District to buy a house。

After getting the news, Li Rui and Shen Yuanzhu were both disappointed, they felt like they were busy in vain, you look at me, I see that you can't speak, you don't know what to say, and you don't have the heart to speak.

The director of the street office said: "Director Li, Director Shen, don't like to listen to what I say, it's really too far apart, you think about it, from the thirties and forties of the last century to the present, it has been about 70 years, and there have been many chaotic things in the middle, such as war, the founding of the country, the land reform, and the Cultural Revolution. The Su family you are looking for must have moved away a long time ago. ”

This said to Li Rui's heart, he actually thought so in his heart, thinking that the Su family had either moved away a long time ago, or had passed away in the war, otherwise the first Hutong would not have changed its surname to Sun, thought about it, and said to the director of the street office: "Director, you are right, it seems that this road may not work, thank you for reminding, I have to consider another way." Okay, then let's be here today, thank you and comrades, please thank them for me, everyone must have worked hard, hurry back and rest. ”