Chapter 204 is here

"Jiang Bingbing?! Little ginger again? Uncle Lu said in surprise, I didn't think about returning to Appi's shack.

"Appy, you just said that you picked up this jewelry box on the mountain, which mountain is it?" I asked.

"It's the back mountain." Appi pointed behind me, and I walked out of the shack and looked in that direction. The back hill is a small hill that is not very high, it looks more like a mound, the vegetation is not very lush, and the whole mountain looks lifeless. Because the hill was not very large, and it was still some distance from Api's shack, it looked like another mountain of garbage, so we didn't pay much attention to it. I went back to the shack again.

"Appy, if you were asked to find that place now, would you still be able to find it?" I asked.

"It shouldn't be difficult, because there is an old tree with a crooked neck near that place, which is particularly obvious." Appi affirmed.

"Sister Wang Na, you take everyone back to the hotel first, Uncle Lu and I follow Ah Pi to have a look, I always feel that there is something unusual here, it's better to take a look." I say.

"Okay, let's go back to the hotel and wait for you." Sister Wang Na said and returned to the car, Uncle Lu carried Ah Pi on his back, and we walked towards the back mountain. Along the way, I met a lot of acquaintances of Appi, and they were all scavengers.

"Yo! Appi, it's so neat today, who is this, it can't be your relative, right? ”

"Ah Pi, I made beef, let Xiao Nan go to my shack and get a bowl later."

"Appy, the scrapyard you contacted me last time was really reliable. Go back and let Xiao Nan send me all the scrap iron he picked up, and I'll help you sell it, don't worry that you won't lose a penny of money. ”

Api greeted them one by one, his face full of kindness, maybe we all look down on these scavengers too much, in their world, their lives are often much simpler than those of us normal people, and the coexistence between people is much simpler.

"Looks like you're a good person." I say.

"I was the first waste picker here, and everyone here has been helped by me to some extent. I know every inch of it here. At each garbage dump, I help them find the best place to build a shack, show them how to avoid the vehicles that transport the garbage, and help them connect with recycling sellers online. That's why they're like this. How I treat people. Treat you as you would have been treated. This is what my dad taught me when he was alive. Appi said.

"Looks like you already have a relationship with this place?" I say.

"Of course, this place is filthy and filthy in your eyes. But in my opinion, these garbage are the simplest and purest, I can still use it, I am broken, you can see it at a glance, but the human heart, if it is bad, it is bad, you can't see through it, you can't touch it, you don't even know what color the heart of this person standing in front of you is. Appi said.

"Even if you have such a deep affection for this place, even if you have become friends with the scavengers here, are you still willing to accept my advice and go out here to work?" I asked.

"If it were me, it would be good if I would die in this garbage heap and become a pile of garbage in this life, but Xiao Nan is still young, and there is no reason for him to rot and die in this garbage heap with me, the living dead. I thought about it, when Xiao Nan grows up a little more, I will help him find his biological parents, I got rid of the people around me and took Xiao Nan for a physical examination, Xiao Nan's body has nothing wrong, when I picked him up, he was wrapped in a lady's shirt, I guess, he was an illegitimate child, abandoned by his mother. Appi said.

"Xiao Nan is also a hard-working child." I sighed.

"Living in this garbage dump, which one is not hard-working, we are all a type of people, forgotten by society, abandoned by normal people, we live here, but we are not willing to bow to fate." Appi said.

According to Appi's guidance, we walked to the foot of the hill, which looked like it was forty or fifty meters, not too high, and the vegetation at the foot of the mountain was quite lush, but the mountain became sparse. Appi guided us on a short path, so it seemed like a long distance, but it turned out to be a very fast walk.

"This was originally a mound, there were no trees on it, we scavengers occasionally cut down the branches of the big trees and planted them in the ground, and we didn't care if we didn't live, I didn't expect to live so much, but also thanks to these trees, this year's rain is particularly much, and we heard that there are mudslides in many places, and we are fine here." Appi said.

I closed my eyes, held my breath, and when I opened them again, there was a different scene in front of me, this hill is nothing the same, and I didn't see any unjust ghosts passing by, this is not normal, near the garbage dump, there are no fewer people who died in vain, if the police are diligent enough, they should be able to find a lot of missing people in this vicinity, or solve a lot of headless murders and so on. But there is no ghost in this place, it's really a little strange, I originally wanted to find someone to ask, it seems that such a plan is going to be canceled again, when I think of my grandmother, they all rely on ghosts to explore the way, how can it be changed to me today, there is no one who works. I looked at the hills, and the trees were growing crookedly, and I knew that they had not been planted with care. The trees around are all shrouded in gray air, which is not what a healthy tree should be, and looking at the whole hill, although there is nothing wrong with it, I always feel that it is strange there.

I kept staring at the hill, and the trees on the hill were swaying slightly, not the normal shaking when the wind blows, it was the up and down trembling, and the tree itself obviously did not make such a tremble, it was because of this hill, this hill was moving, or this hill was trembling, as if it were breathing.

I closed my eyes and opened them again, everything in front of me was back to normal, I looked around, nothing was abnormal, the hill no longer shivered strangely, if it weren't for my extremely high confidence in my yin and yang technique, I might have suspected that I was just momentarily dazzled.

"Appy, you said you remember that place? Where is it? "I remembered that Api had said that there was an old tree with a crooked neck on this mountain, but I didn't find it.

"That place isn't here, it's at the top of the mountain." Appi said, he pointed to the top of the mountain, and I looked up and there were no old trees, and the top of the mountain was far away from us, so I couldn't see what it was.

"Uncle, let's go up and have a look." I said and took the lead and climbed up. Although this hill is not big, it has not been artificially built, there is no road, and it is extremely difficult to climb. We finally climbed to the top of the mountain, and sure enough, we saw an old tree with a crooked neck, but it was not standing on the ground, it fell to the ground, and it looked like a dead tree, lifeless.

"This is it, but ...... Why did the tree die? Appi looked a little surprised.

"It's normal for a tree to die." Uncle Lu said.

"This tree has been here for many years, and I always ask someone to carry me up to see it, but I didn't expect it to fall now. This is the jewelry box that I picked up here, and you can dig down from here, and you will definitely find what you want. Appi said.

I crouched on the ground and looked up, "Api, how do you know we're here to find something?" How do you know what we're looking for needs to be dug up? How did you know it was buried in the ground? We only told you that we were here to solve the case. I asked with a smile.

"This ......"

"There are no boxes washed out by the rain on the way up the mountain, there are no old trees with crooked necks, there must be no people coming up on this mountain, there is no trace of people walking along the way, if you often let people carry you up the mountain, after so many years, why is there not a single path? The best part is that you are already disabled after the fire, how can you climb to the top of this mountain? Api, let's be honest, who made you lie and what kind of benefits they gave you. I asked.

"......" Appi fell silent, and Uncle Lu put him on the ground, looking at him with disgust in his eyes.

"If I tell you the truth, will you give me what you promised me? My job, and Xiao Nan's school. Appi said remorsefully.

"You are now on the wrong path, and whether or not you can fulfill the promise we have given you depends on how far you have come on this path. Are you going to go on any longer? I said.

"Well, I say, just a week before you came, I was approached by a woman. He gave me a picture of the box and told me to put it away, when to use it, how to use it, and she would remind me online, and she also told me that there was an old tree with a crooked neck on the top of the mountain, but she didn't say if the tree was alive or dead. Appi said.

"So you've never been to the top of this mountain, but you've just told me everything the man told me in combination with your own story?" I asked.

"Yes, she gave me a sum of money at the time, said there would be later, and then he left, and after that we were all in contact online." Appi said.

"Did he say why he told you to do that?" Uncle Lu asked.

"Nope." Api said that it is not difficult to guess this, Api we will definitely find it, all Api can't know too many things.

"But......," Api suddenly seemed to remember something. But they really want to say something, we can't find it, can they help us find something like that......"

"Help them find ......" Uncle Lu looked around vigilantly, but there was no one. Yin girl, we should hurry back, they may be nearby, this must be a trap. Uncle Lu said.

"No, we'll stay here, Appy, you said the person who came to you was a woman, so does this woman look like me?" I asked.

"It's very similar, but the smell on your body is different, and your taste is a little more special." Appi said.

"Uncle told everyone to prepare things, we are not going anywhere, the place we are looking for is here!" (To be continued......)