Chapter 75: A Poor Village in the Mountains
According to the previous reasoning, the three of them drove to Cheng Leiye's hometown in the police car driven by Brother Ping.
"It seems that it is not easy for Cheng Leiye to enter the city to live on his own, you look at this environment, everywhere looks very poor!" There are mountains and barren land all the way, and even the stream, Xiaowen, who didn't see one or two all the way, couldn't help but be surprised.
"Indeed, it stands to reason that Cheng Leiye's father died in his early years, and he lived with his grandparents who depended on each other, after all, his childhood was hard, and now he is living a good life, he should know how to cherish it, how could he do such a thing!" Liu Ser said with a look of pity.
With the discussion of the case and the winding and undulating dirt road, it was not until noon that he arrived at Cheng Leiye's hometown. Even if it is a rural area, no matter how poor the countryside outside is, it is red bricks and black tiles, but Cheng Leiye's hometown, after walking all the way, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, absolutely no one would believe it, most of the people here are old people, not only dressed in tatters and dirty, but also most of the houses they live in are earthen embryo houses twenty or thirty years ago, which can't help but surprise Liu Ser and his group.
"Why is it so poor here, it's completely beyond our imagination!" Xiaowen couldn't help but open his mouth wide when he saw the scene in front of him.
After walking around the village for a while, I saw a few old people sitting in the shade next to a dilapidated adobe house, hiding from the sun and closing their eyes to recuperate.
Huang Dou, who stepped forward, saw an old man looking towards him, and couldn't help but step forward and ask:
"Uncle, do you know where Cheng Leiye's family lives?"
"Cheng Leiye? Oh, who are you? The old man looked up and down at the soybean group of outsiders.
"Oh, we're the police in the city, we're here to investigate a case!" Saying that, Liu Ser showed his police card to the old man.
Hearing that the stranger in front of him was a policeman, the other old people sitting by the wall also raised their bodies to watch the excitement.
"I know where his house is, I'll take you there!" As he spoke, a thin old man walked directly to the front to lead the way.
"Uncle, is there anyone else living in Cheng Leiye's family?" Liu Ser, who was walking next to him, couldn't help but ask the thin old man next to him.
"It's long gone, but the baby who went into the city remembers the old, and renovated the old house a few years ago, and it can be said that it is the first family in our village to build a tiled house!" The old man said as he walked forward slowly.
"Why can't you see young people in the village?" Xiaowen on the side couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.
"It's too poor here, and all the young people who can pass the exam have gone out, who will stay in this kind of one-acre and three-point land, not to mention that we don't rain all year round, and it is difficult to get water, let alone water the crops, there is no water in the field, and the crops can't grow, so those who can go out to work won't stay here." The old man told all about the poverty here.
"That Cheng Leiye is really a nostalgic person, and he even knows how to build his own old house if he is rich!" Soybean said as he walked aside.
"That's it, that's it, that kid is a good boy, since his grandparents died, he has to go back to his hometown every year to pay homage to his relatives, which can really be regarded as filial piety!" When the old man said Cheng Leiye, he praised him.
"Then does he bring his wife with him every time to worship?" Huang Dou hurriedly chased and asked.
"Hmmm! I will come together every year, I haven't seen it in the past two years, I asked him before, and he said that her wife did not abide by women's morals and divorced her wife. At that time, we were still thinking that such a good guy had no good retribution, and it was really unfortunate for the family to marry a wife who did not take care of the family. Speaking of this, the old man couldn't help but say with a look of regret.
"Didn't he tell you about his wife's disappearance?" Liu Ser asked puzzled.
"His wife is missing? I don't know, since he said he was divorced, we haven't heard about his wife. The old man continued.
"It's here, it's here!" The old man pointed to a village full of adobe houses, and suddenly built such a cement house, which was a little out of place.
Seeing that the door of the tiled house was locked, Huang Dou hooked his head and looked inside against the gap in the gate. Looking inside, you can clearly see three houses lined up with locked doors.
"What can we do, the door is locked, we can't get in!" Xiaowen on the side saw this scene and anxiously asked Liu Serdao.
"Uncle, apart from Cheng Leiye, does anyone have the key to his house?" Liu Ser asked the old man who led the way again.
"I don't know about this, but his uncle next door may know something, you can go and ask him." The old man pointed to the adobe house next door.
"Ao, is this next to Cheng Leiye's uncle's house?" Liu Ser asked excitedly.
"Well, yes!" While talking, the enthusiastic old man walked to the next door and knocked on the courtyard door.
"Who?" After a while, out of the room came a dark-skinned man who looked like he was forty or fifty years old.