The road to Wulitang is not easy to walk, because Wulitang is not a traffic artery, and the road conditions are worse, so Xu Dong said that he would charter a car for a day, and the driver's eldest sister smiled again: "It will cost at least 800 yuan, and after five o'clock, I have to hand over the car......

Xu Dong looked at the time, it was just after twelve o'clock now, and it was more than four hours before five o'clock, but the road conditions over there were not good, and she was a female driver, Xu Dong didn't think much about it, and immediately said: "Pay the money first or pay later?" ”

The female driver smiled very satisfied: "Give half when you get to the place first, and then give half when you come back." ”

Xu Dong nodded, which is also reasonable, and immediately let the female driver drive off.

Along the way, the female driver asked the two of them why they wanted to go to Wulitang, Xu Dong and the fat man didn't dare to tell the truth to the female driver, only said where to find an elder who was doing business, and asked the female driver by the way, if she knew the situation in Wulitang.

The female driver said with a smile that where she wants to go, it is considered a long distance, and she usually rarely pulls guests in which direction, so she doesn't know the situation over there.

Since he didn't have anything to know, Xu Dong didn't say more, and everyone was not familiar with it, so as not to say too much and lose it, or even misfortune.

Out of the Tongcheng area, the road conditions are worse than expected, originally it was also a water road, but the damage is extremely severe, and there are potholes the size of a dustpan everywhere, which makes it very difficult for the taxi to walk.

After walking for a while, I encountered an engineering team renovating the road, and the road, which was not wide, became even narrower, so that I had to walk unilaterally, so that after walking for a while, I stopped for a while, and after half an hour, I could not walk a few kilometers.

Xu Dong is very anxious, such road conditions, when will he be able to reach Wulitang.

It's the fat guy, looking at Xu Dong anxiously, half lying down and half sitting in the back seat alone, humming the song in the car stereo in his mouth, very comfortable.

When the female driver arrives here, she is helpless, this is no way, even if it is a detour, it is estimated that the time will be about the same, and it will have to consume more fuel.

After a long time, when I arrived at Wulitang, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

The village of Wulitang is not big, a small river less than three meters wide, encircling the east, south and west sides of the village, so that the whole village forms a small triangle, the reason why it is called Wulitang is because the river backwaters at the half-waist of the triangle in the east, forming a small lake with a width of hundreds of acres, the green pine and green willows on the shore of the lake, the cool breeze is blowing, and some red men and green women are indispensable, boating and fishing on the lake.

Thirty-four households, located in that triangular area, and, located very sparsely, should be related to the terrain here, the terrain here is quite spacious, there is no need for everyone to crowd together, not to mention, the people here should be very rich, a house, red walls and green tiles, in the shade of green trees, half hidden and half visible, built like the villas in the copper city, even more than the villas in the city more rural interest.

The driver's eldest sister said okay, this trip, it took more than three hours, if it is just delivered, not to mention the chartered car, but now immediately rush back, otherwise, five o'clock will definitely not be able to hand over the car, if you continue to charter the car, then you can only stay here for half an hour at most, anyway, this village is not big, several roads are on the walk, half an hour is about the same.

Xu Dong didn't have much to think about, it was indeed an embarrassing thing to let the driver's eldest sister wait too long, besides, even if he and the fat man stayed, they wouldn't mention whether they would sleep here overnight, and they would have to walk back tomorrow.

paid half of the fare and let the driver's eldest sister rest in the village, and Xu Dong and the fat man went separately to find Li Siyan's traces.

After entering the village, the road was much better, but Xu Dong and the fat man didn't know where the underground auction place was, so they had no choice but to wander around, hoping to try their luck.

Originally, according to Xu Dong's inference, since it is a family that has the ability to open an underground auction house, it must be "invisible" to the rich, and the houses built must be spacious and luxurious, and the most critical one must be extremely guarded! At the very least, there are probably two tall and mighty wolf dogs leashed at the door, or else a Tibetan mastiff.

According to this inference, Xu Dong and the fat man searched for a while, but they didn't expect to be empty, the people here have built the houses almost the same, and there is no big difference on the surface! Moreover, there are no vicious dogs such as wolf dogs and Tibetan mastiffs as Xu Dong imagined.

Not only that, the two of them spent more than ten minutes, turned around, and asked several people, but no one knew who Li Siyan was, and no one had seen it, this Li Siyan had been to this village, and even said that even if there were very few people who came here to do business, the vegetables and fruits in the field were ordered by large companies, and there were special people who came to buy them regularly, and there were basically no way to get in with the small merchants and hawkers.

The fat man and Xu Dong met each other, and the situation he encountered was the same, and some people even said that if the fruit was ripe, maybe some people from the city would come here to pick fresh fruits, but most of the fruits in this season were not ripe, and even the people in the city rarely came here, that is, no one should come to the village.

Xu Dong refused to give up, and discussed with the fat man for a while, feeling that the two of them were in a hurry just now, and they must have missed some important details, so they couldn't find anyone.

The fat man muttered, he thought that when he arrived in Wulitang, he would immediately be able to eat a meal of big fish and meat, but he didn't expect to know that in Wulitang Village, there was no restaurant to be seen.

This trip, don't say whether you can find Li Siyan, at least it's a loss.

Think about it, Xu Dong is really looking for Li Siyan, and when Li Siyan buys good goods and goes back, he goes directly to the antique street, isn't it direct and stable, but Xu Dong has to spend thousands of dollars, and he still runs here.

Although the fat man was not happy in his heart and muttered in his mouth, he still didn't dare to slack off on Xu Dong's instructions, made an appointment with the time and place to meet, and followed the road Xu Dong had walked before, and carefully searched for the past all the way.

Xu Dong returned the fat man's way, looked carefully at the family, walked for a while, and saw a sixty or seventy-year-old woman in front of her door, holding a hoe, on the side of the cement road in front of the door, clearing weeds.

Xu Dong stepped forward and called out very politely: "Grandma......"

After the old woman raised her head and answered, Xu Dong continued to ask, "Grandma, are there any places where you can buy some things here?" ”

The old woman smiled, pointed to her ears, and said, "You young man, speak louder, my old woman's ears are not very good." ”

This person is old, and his ears are not good, this is also a helpless thing, and the years are not forgiving!

At that moment, Xu Dong raised his voice and asked again: "Grandma, I want to buy something, can you help me show me the way?" ”

The old woman nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I heard it, I'm in good health, TOEFL TOEFL." ”

Xu Dong couldn't help but smile bitterly, he wanted to ask for directions, this grandma actually thought she was saying hello to her, but people are so old that their ears are not good, and they can't blame others.

After a pause, Xu Dong had to smile wryly and asked again, "Grandma, can you help me show me the way?" ”

"Yes, the children in the family have gone out to work, and the weeds on the side of the road are really unpleasant to look at, and if you don't shovel them, you won't be able to leave." The old woman replied.

Xu Dong scratched his head, looked back and forth, and saw that no one appeared nearby, so he had to ask again: "Grandma, is there a place to buy things near here?" ”

This time, the old woman understood, nodded, and replied: "We have no vegetables in our house, a few days ago, the vegetables in the field were all pulled away together, and the vegetables in the field are still ripe?" ”

"Slap ......" Xu Dong slapped his head on the door, but he couldn't get out of the seizure, and after a while, Xu Dong breathed a sigh of relief, picked up a piece of gravel, and wrote a few words on the cement pavement: "I want to ask for directions!" ”

The old woman looked down for a while, then she understood, smiled, and said, "I'm sorry, where do you want to go?" ”

Xu Dong simply remained silent and continued to write: "I want to find someone!" ”

At this moment, the old woman was puzzled: "Do you want to ask for directions or find someone?" ”

Xu Dong hurriedly wrote: "I heard that there is an old man surnamed Li who came to you to buy goods, and I want to find him!" ”

The old woman was puzzled for a while, and then asked, "What is the name of the surnamed Li and what kind of goods are you buying?" ”

"His name is Li Siyan, and the goods to be imported are some bottles and cans, some old things......"

"I've never heard of this person, we don't have any bottles and cans for sale here, you can go and see elsewhere!" After the old woman finished speaking, she smiled and lowered her head, and shoveled up the weeds on the side of the road again.

Xu Dong wrote a few more words and asked the old woman to read it, and the old woman looked at it, smiled faintly, and shook her head again, indicating that she didn't know.

Seeing that he couldn't come up with a reason, this made Xu Dong very disappointed, could it be that the news that the old man gave him was fake, or he heard it wrong, Li Siyan didn't come to Wulitang at all, or, did he go somewhere else?

If that's the case, your thousands of dollars will be spent a little unjustly, and there is time!

It's just that Xu Dong thought about it, around Tongcheng, called "Wulitang", there is only this one place, this point, there must be no fake, not to mention the trace of Li Siyan, the underground auction place, is originally in a relatively hidden place, if the old woman doesn't know, it is not unusual.

It seems that I still don't have enough effort!

Time was running out, and Xu Dong didn't dare to delay any longer, so he said goodbye to the old woman at the moment, and then turned around and continued to walk forward.

It's just that before he walked a few steps away, the old woman behind him screamed "ah".

Xu Dong turned around and saw the old woman pressing her feet and sitting on the cement road, her body was shaking incessantly, looking very painful, and the hoe in her hand also fell to the ground, Xu Dong quickly turned around and came back to see the old woman.

It is estimated that the old woman did not have much strength in her hands, and when she was shoveling the grass, the hoe collapsed on the stones, so that the hoe bounced up and touched the old woman's feet, and there was a long cut on the instep of the sandals.

Xu Dong didn't dare to slack off, he took off his coat at the moment, and wanted to tear off a piece of the sleeve of his shirt, helping the old woman hold down the wound without wanting to panic, but even ripped off the entire sleeve.

Xu Dong didn't care much, so he pressed the old woman's wound with this sleeve, and Xu Dong also wanted to send the old woman to the hospital to see, after all, an elderly person who was injured might have a stroke soon.