I tilted my head and thought about it for a long time, but I still said the question: "That, did you contact Peng Wen's family later?" ”

The fat officer shook his head: "No, no one answered no matter how much I called." I went to the business hall to check, and not long after Peng Wen's death, this account was shut down in arrears. ”

I pretended to look over my head at Li Jing, and he motioned with his eyes that I wanted to ask no further. It may be that the fat officer remembered something, he patted his head and said: "You really reminded me, it seems that when we were dealing with Peng Wen's funeral, his girlfriend Luo Ying once called Guò Peng Wen's parents. The phone rang, as if her parents didn't believe it very much, Luo Ying asked me to answer the phone, I didn't say a word when I answered the phone, and the other side said, "Whatever." He hung up. In the end, the two of us had to deal with the aftermath. ”

"Are you sure the person who answered the phone is Peng Wen's parents?" Li Jing asked with a frown.

The fat officer was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he nodded affirmatively, "The voice is almost the same." I'm sure it's Peng Wen's parents, and her mother's voice is a bit rough and not very gentle. ”

Li Jing didn't speak, and he fell into deep thought. I didn't know what else to talk about, so I drank tea silently with the fat officer. The fat officer, probably afraid that I would be bored, asked me if I wanted to hear anything else about the village of Befort. Seeing my expectant gaze, the fat officer said, "Have you noticed that the names of Beifu Village are different from other villages here." ”

"This." I said a little grandiosely, "I'm only here today, and I don't know the names of these villages. ”

The fat officer patted his head; "Look at my brain. You just came here today, our villages here are basically named after the big surnames in the village, such as Zhangjia Village, Wangjiazhuang and the like, and there are also named after the more distinctive scenery in the village, such as our village, Tatehua Village, because from July to August, there are large red Liao flowers by our river, which is beautiful. Just in time to be able to form that 'chat bonus' with Beifu Village. Hibiscus Chaorong'. Then again, the village of Beifu was not originally called that, just like our village, it was named after the scenery they had there. It's called Hibiscus Village. I heard from the elders of our village that the hibiscus village almost disappeared in the evening because of the relocation of the villagers, but a group of outsiders came to live in the village, and they looked different from the villagers. But like the villagers, they live a life of coarse tea and light food. Those strangers later became the main members of the village, and they also gave the village a lot of rules. Later, it was rumored that those strangers were the Belle Lord and his cronies who were driven out of the palace, so after entering the village, they made a lot of rules. This rumor was believed by everyone. At that time, everyone still had a sense of awe in the palace, even if the fleeing Lord Belle was also a relative of the emperor, so the big guys didn't dare to call that village Hibiscus Village anymore, and renamed it 'Beifu Village', which means that Lord Belle is blessed and prosperous. Therefore, their village is actually quite rejecting foreign culture. Until now, they have adhered to the old rule that the village chief is the head of a village, and rewards and punishments are handled according to the village rules. So, you will understand that they think it is very impolite for the Peng family to build a house. Thinking about it, I still regard myself as a descendant of Baylor, and it is difficult for an outsider to gain a foothold. ”

I nodded, if you look at this story, Bei Fucun doesn't seem to be so incomprehensible about the excessive things Peng Wen did, but the attitude of Peng Wen's parents still makes me very puzzled.

"Xiaozhi, it's time for us to leave and go back to rest. I'm going to Beifu Village tomorrow morning to investigate. Li Jing suddenly spoke, startling me.

"You're going to Beifu Village tomorrow?" I didn't expect the fat officer's reaction to be louder than mine, and his voice was several decibels louder than just now.

I blinked and asked, "What's wrong?" Is there a custom there that can't let us visit? ”

The fat officer shook his head tangledly: "No, it's just if you just go to investigate the case." There may be nothing to be gained. ”

"Let's go and take a look, even if there is no gain, it's okay to talk about Jia Xiaoyu. After all, Jia Xiaoyu's case is also an unsolved case. Li Jing didn't care about the preparation and pushed the door open.

In desperation, the fat officer had to remind us repeatedly: "You must be careful when you go to the village, don't eat any food they give you, and it's best to travel with other people." The most important thing is not to mention the Peng family. Li Jing thanked me and left with me.

"It feels like tomorrow is going to be dangerous." On the way back to the inn, I chatted with Li Jing.

Li Jing didn't answer my words, and told me about tomorrow's arrangement: "Tomorrow, let's go to the place where Ye Ya takes pictures first, see if we can find anything, and then go to the village to talk about Jia Xiaoyu." ”

"But the fat officer said he couldn't mention it." I remembered what the fat officer told us before leaving.

Li Jing didn't have any expression now, his indifferent appearance looked a little scary, and he turned his head slightly sideways: "He just said that I couldn't mention Peng Wen's matter, and he didn't say that he couldn't inquire about Jia Xiaoyu's matter." “

"Oh." I didn't know what to say, but I remembered the attitude of Peng Wen's parents towards their son, so I asked Li Jing: "Don't you think Peng Wen's parents are still a little excessive?" ”

"Excessively what?" Li Jing obviously didn't understand the meaning of my words.

I was a little angry: "Don't you feel angry? Ignoring the life or death of their children, and finally letting outsiders collect the bodies of their children, this family is too indifferent! It may be that the decibels of the voice are a little high, which attracts the sideways glances of passers-by, and I am embarrassed to cover my mouth and apologize to the people around me again and again.

When I came back to my senses, I found that Li Jingzheng was looking at me with a strange and stern expression: "Do you really think that Luo Ying notified Peng Wen's parents at that time?" ”

I was stunned for this question, and after hesitating for another possibility, I remembered the fat officer's sworn appearance, and I immediately replied: "The fat officer said that he heard Peng Wen's mother's voice, and he was so sure that the person who answered the phone was Peng Wen's mother." ”

Li Jing bent his index finger and tapped my forehead: "The voice can also be changed, if you don't say it face to face, no one can be sure who the person you are talking to is." To exaggerate, if you have plastic surgery, even if you are face-to-face, you may not be the person you know, let alone just recognize by your voice. Even five years ago, it was not impossible to change the sound with the Guò software. ”

"Are you suspicious of Luo Ying?" I asked Li Jing.

Li Jing gave me a blank look: "I have sued you before, before the truth comes out, everyone is involved in the case." ”

It sounds cold-blooded, but it's fair. Gradually, I found that I now more and more accept and identify with Li Jing's values and way of doing things. "Then you mean that Luo Ying deceived the fat police officer at that time?"

Li Jing didn't say: "This is all uncertain, and now we can't be sure whether Peng Wen's parents are still alive in this world." I sent a message to Shi Hao before I left, asking him to help us check the situation of Peng Wen's parents. Temporarily received the message is his father's bank card, contact information. The medical records had not been updated a week before Peng Wen's death, and her mother's mobile phone number had only communicated with Luo Ying a week after Peng Wen found out about her death, and she never received or sent any kind of message or phone call. The bank card had a cash disbursement a month after Peng Wen's death, and there has been no movement since. Peng Wen's parents completely lost contact with the world after Peng Wen's death. ”

I felt a big hand attached to my head, "Don't think about it, let's go back and rest first." I'll be busy tomorrow. ”

"If we get the case clear, can we look at the stars?" I don't know how I suddenly made such a wayward request.

Li Jing's hand on my head paused for a moment, and then said happily, "Okay." But why do you want to look at the stars? ”

"Because I want to see the night sky that Peng Wen saw when he was a child."

The next day, we set off early the next day, and following the advice of the fat police officer, we decided to disguise ourselves as travelers and team up with others to go to Beifu Village. I thought I was the only one who knew the history of Beifu Village, but I didn't expect that several other people in this group seemed to have heard a little about the history of Beifu Village. Even more exaggerated rumors, a long-haired man who accompanied us also told us that the rumored Belle Ye, who had fled here that year, had brought jewels from the palace and buried them in the hill behind the village. Li Jing and I smiled and didn't answer.

We followed the large group at the end of the line, some distance from them. I secretly pulled Li Jing's sleeve and asked him in a volume that others couldn't hear: "Li Jing, do you say that any of these people are like us in the name of photographers or travelers, but actually go to find the treasure of Lord Belle?" ”

I'm joking, but Li Jing seems to be taking the joke seriously. He looked at the people walking in front of him and said, "It's hard to say. If you take a closer look at the people in front of you, the short man who is a little fat, his camera cover has never been opened, if you are a real photography enthusiast, you should be going all the way to take pictures of the scenery along the way, and there are some snapshots, if you open the lens cover now. I'm afraid there isn't enough time. The other long-haired man who was talking to you just now, you look at the thickness of his arms, although it is not necessarily a completely correct statement, but you look at a left-handed man. The right arm is much thicker than the left arm. Imagine that a person who has been using a camera to press the shutter for many years has a thinner arm than the other, which is unreasonable. And the curly-haired woman, judging by the speed and posture of her walking, there is no need to use trekking poles at all. And, you see, her trekking poles are new. And it is longer than the average trekking pole, if you simply come here to take pictures and relax, knowing the situation here, this kind of mountain forest shooting will not bring trekking poles. She had something else in her hand that might have been disguised by trekking poles. ”

Seeing that they turned around to urge us, I subconsciously hid behind Li Jing and whispered to him behind him, "Then what should we do now?" ”

"Don't worry about it for now, they shouldn't know the purpose of our trip to Beifu Village this time, as long as we keep in Beifu Village, they won't pose a threat to us, and they won't suspect us in the village, if you follow the lì, you can use them to restrain each other to ensure our safety, if you don't go well." Li Jing hesitated.

My heart sank a little, and I asked as calmly as I could, "If it doesn't go well, does it mean that we will be in danger?" ”

Li Jing smiled: "Tease you." What's so strange about those people, don't scare yourself. With that, he pulled me to catch up with the large army in front.

I smacked him with a hand, and I hinted to myself that Li Jing said that I was true, but in fact, after a moment of hesitation, I felt that things were definitely not as simple as he said. But I believe that Li Jing must have his own ideas, forget it, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, according to my understanding of him, he is not fully prepared, and he will definitely not take me to step into this mountain village. I grabbed his hand, gave him trust, and also cheered myself up.

The village of Befu is about a 1-hour drive from the county seat. There are only two round-trip buses a day, and most of them are used by villagers, and ordinary travelers choose to rent a car or take a tourist bus to get there. The 5 of us chose the tour bus and drove to the village entrance and went back to the city. got out of the car and watched the three of them walk out of the village in a hurry, Li Jing didn't stop them, it is the tourist season here, there are a lot of photographers gathered outside the village, and the three of them shouldn't make much noise. Li Jing and I didn't stop them, but after saying goodbye to them, we found the location where they took pictures back then according to the photos of Ye Ya.

Strictly speaking, the place where Ye Ya took pictures was not the mountain forest outside the village, but more precisely, the forest outside the village. Fortunately, there has been no substantial change in the village with the tourism industry, and the village still retains the style of Ye Ya's photo five years ago, and the small stone bridge that appears in her photo is also the same as before, quietly crossing the stream, carrying the mission of Beifu Village to connect with the outside world for generations.

Li Jing circled around a few blooming hibiscus flowers for a long time, and then went to see the place where the villagers found Jia Xiaoyu's dog sunspot in the nursing home. After a smart investigation, the two places are very close to each other, and the distance is less than 15 meters. Li Jing rummaged through the land and picked up a piece of something that couldn't be seen clearly. I looked inquiringly at the object in his hand, like a piece of iron, which was not clear, and Li Jing knocked it into a transparent bag, and carefully received it in the bag. Li Jing pursed his lips and smiled after doing this, and then got up and walked with me to the village. Although I don't know what that house is, seeing Li Jing's expression just now, it should be helpful to the case.

When the villagers heard that we were going to see the village chief, their eyes widened in surprise and they looked at us like monsters. We couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so we could only stare at each other with the villagers, and finally one of the villagers asked us in surprise and asked, "Which village chief do you want to find?" ”

"Which village chief?" I repeated the words of the villagers. "Are there a lot of village chiefs here?"

The villagers were amused by my 2 words and said, "Little girl, we don't have many village chiefs here, we have many village chiefs here." "I still don't understand. Another villager's eldest sister hurriedly explained: "Our rules here are not quite the same as those of you outsiders, and the parents of each family here take turns to be the village head, so as to ensure the fairness of each family." ”

I glanced at Li Jing, how can we be sure which village chief we are looking for in this situation? Li Jing was not trapped in this magical village chief system like me, but just said lightly: "Oh, who is the village chief in charge?" ”

A villager stood up and shouted, "Don't you understand?" We're all village chiefs here. I don't know why, I feel that there is an angry feeling hidden in the tone of the villager who spoke.

Li Jing stroked the broken hair on his forehead: "That's why I said it was all the words of the village chief." There has to be someone in charge of the village chief, right? Can I meet that person? ”

Li Jing's cold attitude angered the villagers around the onlookers, and I saw the green tendons on the fist of the uncle standing opposite him. Li Jing still stood there neither humble nor arrogant and asked the villagers to see the village chief, looking at the posture in front of him and saying that he was not afraid, he was absolutely lying, but the current situation seemed to have little chance of leaving, and it seemed that he could only persevere.

"Everyone, let me go, I think these two young people are looking for me." An old voice came from outside the crowd. Hearing the sound, the villagers stopped the noise and consciously made a way, and an elderly man who was pushed into the crowd in a wheelchair stopped not far from us. The old man sat in his wheelchair and looked us up and down for a moment before he spoke, "I think I'm the one you're looking for." ”

Li Jing nodded slightly, looked at the old man in front of him and said, "Do you think we can borrow a step to speak?" I have a lot of things to ask you? ”

The old man didn't answer, he lowered his eyelids and thought for a while before asking, "It's only the two of you who came today?" ”

Li Jing smiled and shook his head: "No, hey, Yo Pu, 3 friends were taking pictures outside the village, and they also greeted their police friends in the town before coming." Li Jing's implication is obvious, I hope the old man will not be too difficult for us.

Hearing this, the old man smiled and beckoned to us: "Come with me." I'm not very embarrassed at my age. ”

We obediently followed the village chief to his house in the village, and a few people followed us all the way, but the village chief told us to go back. Entering the courtyard of the village chief's house, an aunt helped us prepare tea, and the old man beckoned us to sit down on the stone bench in the yard, and beckoned a few villagers gathered at the gate of the courtyard to leave, only then did he look at the two of us and ask, "You came to me this time for Peng Wen's business, right?" ”

I was shocked, could it be that the fat police officer called in advance? I secretly observed Li Jing and found that although his expression did not change much, Yan Zhan's fleeting sense of vigilance still made me catch it right. (To be continued.) )