Chapter 233: Little Elm Village
Although Kang County is adjacent to Saibei, there is no train communication between them, let alone airplanes. From Lucheng to Kang County, you must first take a train to Zhangyuan, and then take a bus to Kang County, which is very troublesome.
When he arrived at the county seat of Kangxian County, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and after asking Li Xinmin's ghost for the specific address of his home, Xu Yinglong took a three-wheeled motorcycle from the county seat to the village where Li Xinmin's house was located.
Li Xinmin's village is not far from the county seat, about 30 kilometers, if it is in the city, it is only a dozen minutes drive without traffic jams. But this is the countryside, the asphalt road and the cement road do not lead anywhere, the three-wheeled motorcycle runs slowly on the gravel road in the countryside, the short 30-kilometer journey of the three-wheeled motorcycle runs for nearly two hours, and it is almost five o'clock when it is considered to have arrived at Li Xinmin's Xiaoliushu Village.
This is the most common village in northern China, with large red brick houses, but more of them are very old adobe houses. According to Li Xinmin, there are not many people in the village, and there are less than 100 households of men, women and children combined. In addition, in recent years, young people have gone to work in big cities, and those who remain in the village are either lonely and widowed old or old, weak, sick and disabled, except for a few young and middle-aged people, few men under the age of 5o stay in the village.
Xu Yinglong saw a few old men in leather jackets squatting on the ground chatting under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, holding a long whip in their hands, and not far away were a few flocks of sheep grazing in the fields that had been harvested.
The tricycle quickly attracted the attention of the villagers, and they all stopped idling and stared at the tricycle. It's not that the villagers haven't seen a three-wheeled motorcycle, and although Xiaoliushu Village is poor, no one can afford to buy a car. However, there are quite a few motorcycles in the village, from ordinary light bikes to heavy motorcycles.
The reason why the villagers are staring at the motorcycles is that they are completely interested in the people in the cars. Now that it's winter, many construction sites have stopped, and many people have begun to return to their hometowns in 66. The biggest expectation for these old people who stayed at home was not to wait for the children to come home, but suddenly a three-wheeled motorcycle came to the village, and the old people thought that whose children had returned.
Xu Yinglong asked the three-wheeled driver to put himself down at the entrance of the village, but Xu Yinglong did not settle the bill for him, but asked him to wait here for a while, and when he was done, he would return to the county seat.
When several old men saw it, it turned out to be a strange young man, and they all guessed who their relatives were.
Xu Yinglong strode up to the old people and asked politely, "Is this Little Elm Village?" ”
An old man in his sixties knocked a cigarette pot pimple on the sole of his shoe, and then replied: "It's Little Elm Village, where are you looking for a roar?" ”
"I'm a friend of Li Xinmin, and I want to go to his house to have a look!" Xu Yinglong said.
"You're a friend of Da Minzi, why haven't we ever seen you?" The old man looked at Xu Yinglong vigilantly and asked.
"We met outside, and this is the first time I've come here, and I was asked by Li Xinmin to take a look at his wife and children!" Xu Yinglong replied.
The old man still didn't seem to believe that he was Li Xinmin's friend, and they both smoked their own dry tobacco pots with each other, but they didn't speak.
After a long while, an old man in a dogskin jacket asked, "A few days ago, I heard from the officials in the township that Da Minzi died, is it true?" ”
Xu Yinglong nodded and said: "It's true, Li Xinmin was arrested in Lucheng, and he was also sentenced, and there was an accident during the sentence, it was last month!" ”
"Then how did you meet Da Minzi?" The old man asked again.
"I met him purely by accident, don't say it, but your boss can rest assured, I was indeed entrusted by Li Xinmin to take a look at his wife and children, and if I need help, I will try to help them solve it!" Xu Yinglong said sincerely.
Maybe it was because of the sincerity of what Xu Yinglong said, the old people seemed to believe Xu Yinglong, but the old man who spoke first sighed and said: "Housheng, you better go back (go back)!" ”
"Why, isn't Li Xinmin's house in Little Elm Village?" Xu Yinglong asked with a frown.
"Housheng, you don't know, after Da Minzi committed a crime, his daughter-in-law Doll was bullied and couldn't stay, and she left the year before last, and she didn't know where to go!" The old man replied.
"He killed the person, what does it matter to his wife and children, is the village allowed others to bully their orphans and widows?" Xu Yinglong said.
Speaking of this, the fathers and villagers in the village felt sorry for the Daminzi family. Back then, because Da Minzi kept going to the township, county and even the city to make trouble, those officials in the county and township changed their ways to organize the whole village, and we also pointed fingers at the Da Minzi family, gossiped, and had great opinions. But no one thought that he would kill people, and it was three people in one kill. Hey, Da Minzi is like his old man, as strong as a cow! ”
"Since everyone in the village feels sorry for Li Xinmin, they should take good care of his wife and children, how can they be bullied?" Xu Yinglong asked in a deep voice.
"In the next life, we are all ordinary people, how can we screw those who are officials? After Da Minzi killed the corrupt officials in the township, not only did the officials and old men in the township come to Da Minzi's house twice in three days to ask about his whereabouts, but also the old and young of those corrupt officials often came to make trouble. The old man said helplessly.
"Where can their orphans and widows go, and will they survive if they leave the village?" Xu Yinglong said worriedly.
"Hey, staying in the village may not be able to survive, those who have been stabbed for three days and two days to make trouble, in addition, they have also moved away all the valuable things in the Da Minzi's house, even the cattle have been taken away, and even the Da Minzi's daughter-in-law is not allowed to farm, and staying in the village is also going to die!" The old man said with a sigh.
Although he already knew that Li Xinmin's wife and children were no longer in the village, Xu Yinglong still asked the old people for the specific location of Li Xinmin's house, and then rushed there.
From the outside, Li Xinmin's home is not bad in the village, although there are only three main houses, but they are all brick houses with red bricks and red tiles, which is already a very good residence in the village.
However, when I got closer, the courtyard gate of the house had long been gone, leaving only two red brick masonry piers, and the yard was overgrown with weeds, and it was obvious that no one had taken care of it for a long time. In addition, the door of the house also collapsed, and the house was in a mess, the glass on the windows had been beaten and none of them were intact, and the whole yard and house were completely deserted.
It is obviously impossible to live in such a place anymore, and at this time, Xu Yinglong also believed that what the old people said was not lying to him, Li Xinmin's wife and children had indeed moved out of the village.
Now the problem is troublesome, the sea of people is vast, and trying to find this mother and son is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. Even if Xu Yinglong has divine sense and tracking skills, he doesn't know what Li Xinmin's wife and children look like, how can he find someone?
In desperation, Xu Yinglong had to return to the county seat of Kangxian County first, and then found a hotel to stay, anyway, there was no bus to Zhangyuan at night.
At night, Xu Yinglong once again summoned Li Xinmin's soul out of the soul jade and told him what happened, hoping that Li Xinmin could provide some clues.
Li Xinmin was depressed and could not imagine where his wife would take his son, according to Li Xinmin, who was also a native of Kang County, and her maiden home was in another village three kilometers away from Xiaoyushu Village. However, there is no one in the wife's maiden family for a long time, the old mother-in-law passed away ten years ago, the old father-in-law also left five years ago, the wife also has a sister, but she married far away to the Central Plains Province, the two families have almost no contact, and the eldest brother-in-law looks down on them who are digging in the field, and the wife cannot take her son to her sister.
Thinking about it, Li Xinmin felt that his wife was likely to take her son to nearby cities, and the most likely places to go were Zhangyuan, Shishi and Kyoto, because these cities are the closest big cities to Little Elm Village, and secondly, most of the young people in the village work in these cities, and his wife is likely to be with other young people in the village.
Xu Yinglong thought about it and felt that what Li Xinmin said made sense, so he decided to go to Xiaoyushu Village again the next day and ask from door to door to see if Li Xinmin's wife was with other young people in the village.
Early the next morning, Xu Yinglong hired a three-wheeled motorcycle to go to Xiaoyushu Village again, this time he went door-to-door to inquire about the whereabouts of Li Xinmin's wife and children, but still found nothing.
Tong Guò talked with the villagers, Xu Yinglong's people in the village seemed reluctant to talk about Li Xinmin's family, and their family's affairs were like a taboo in the village. And Xu Yinglong can also see that it is not that the villagers do not know the whereabouts of Li Xinmin's wife and children, but that no one is willing to sue him.
Xu Yinglong knocked on the side, and finally figured out the reason. After Li Xinmin ran away, the police and the victim's family often went to Li's house to make trouble, forcing Li Xinmin's wife to leave the village with her son. Even so, those people still went to the village every once in a while to find someone to see if the poor mother and son had returned, and asked people to inquire in many ways to find Li Xinmin's wife and children.
Because of this, the people in the village were very wary of Xu Yinglong's sudden strangeness. The people in the village are already sorry for Li Xinmin's family, if it weren't for the pressure of the county and the township to isolate Li Xinmin's family, he would not have gone crazy to kill and retaliate. Therefore, the villagers in the village didn't want to harm Li Xinmin's wife and children anymore, so they were reluctant to reveal their traces to Xu Yinglong. r1152
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