Originally, Xu Lang thought that Chenjiahe should not be far from Hengtong County, after all, when looking at the mobile phone map, the distance between the two was indeed very short, but when Xu Lang and the others rushed to Chenjiahe from the Hengtong County Public Security Bureau, it took an hour and a half.

When Xu Lang and the others arrived at Chenjiahe, it happened to be more than three o'clock in the afternoon, just when the sun was hot, however, when Xu Lang and the others parked the car at the entrance of the village and got out of the car, they saw that the sun had set westward, and the sun was not as violent as they imagined.

Chenjiahe is a small village of less than 1,000 people, and its residents are spread across the banks of a river.

The riverbed is very wide, there is a bridge composed of cement piers in the middle, and at this time, Xu Lang, standing on the road, only saw a small stream on this wide river, perhaps because there was no rain for nearly a month, most of the riverbed has dried up, and the round stones are scattered on the riverbed at will, and the stream that is not big is gurgling and flowing, and the water flows into a light sound when passing through the stones, which makes people feel happy physically and mentally.

On the shore, you can clearly see some children dressed in cool clothes, shirtless and barefoot, burying their heads in the stream and turning stones, from time to time making a childish exclamation.

Not far from the group of children, a few peasant women were hammering the clothes in their hands with a round log, and they were talking and laughing while beating the clothes, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

On the bank of the river, there are green fields, where rice and corn are grown, and when a breeze blows, they bend their heads slightly and flutter in the wind, and not far from the fields, there are several strong cattle and sheep, looking down for food, and in the fields, you can sometimes see farmers wearing straw hats and waving their heads, weeding in the fields.

Xu Lang stood on the highway, his eyes were a little confused, he seemed to have returned to the small county town of Zhuxi County, in the past few years, Xu Lang had seen similar scenes countless times, the sunrise and the day of rest, the children's laughter, the peasant women gathered together, talking about the short of the family, the men sweating like rain in the fields, the dark face showed a happy and satisfied smile, to the sunset, you can see the smoke rising from every house, occasionally you can hear the sound of the dog barking, the sound of the rooster crowing, Everything seemed so peaceful and harmonious.

In fact, when Xu Lang was young, when he followed his sister back to his grandmother's house in Zhangjia Village, it was also such a scene, but at that time, Xu Lang thought about his mother who fell in a pool of blood every day, and his father who was handcuffed by the police.

What Xu Lang really yearns for is this kind of life that seems to be the most primitive, so after the incident that happened, Xu Lang took Xiao Yueyue and chose to flee and spent the life he dreamed of in Zhuxi County, and now, after seeing this familiar scene, Xu Lang can't bear to break this long-lost tranquility.

After Luo Jiayan got out of the car, after seeing the scenes here, the previously depressed mood suddenly became refreshed, she turned her head and looked at Xu Lang's smile, blurred eyes, and three-dimensional side face, her eyes moved slightly.

"Brother Lang, what are you thinking" Luo Jiayan looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but ask.

"Ahh

Luo Jiayan's voice pulled Xu Lang back to reality, he looked into the distance with soft eyes, smiled and shook his head.

Chen Bo stood beside Xu Lang, he looked at the scenery in the distance, and then looked at Xu Lang, and felt that this leader with long snow-white hair and from the city was a little strange, isn't this the case in the countryside, is it so strange that he doesn't understand.

"Where are we going next?" asked Luo Jiayan.

"Let's go to the village chief's house."

Xu Lang turned his head to look at Chen Bo and said.

"The village chief is on the other side of the river, and that family is the village chief's house."

Chen Bo stretched out his hand and pointed to a red brick house and said.

Xu Lang looked in the direction of Chen Bo's finger, and after seeing the red brick house that looked a little out of place with the surrounding brick houses, he subconsciously frowned, but he didn't say anything.

The group of three people followed a path paved with stones from the road to the bank of the river, and walked through the river that could not be called a river on a concrete pier.

When Xu Lang and the others came to the door of the village chief's house, they saw a man about forty or fifty years old, sitting on a chair at the door, with his eyes slightly closed, holding a dry tobacco bag in his hand, smoking dry tobacco with a pair of dry cigarettes, and beside the man, there were two chairs, it seemed that someone had sat here just now.

Hearing the footsteps, the man opened his eyes, raised his head, and looked at Xu Lang and them who were walking towards him, the man subconsciously stood up and squinted his eyes slightly.

"Uncle Chen." When Chen Bo approached the man, he walked a few steps briskly and shouted in front of the man.

"Oh, it's Xiaobo from Chen's third family, you're not in the county, why did you come to me, do you have any new work instructions?" the man asked.

Although the man was talking to Chen Bo, his slightly cloudy eyes looked at Xu Lang, and a pair of eyes looked Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan up and down.

"There are no work instructions, the city has come to lead, and the director asked me to show them the way and come over to understand some information." Chen Bo explained.

"Oh, from the city, sit in the house, house

Sit. ”

The man said as he let Xu Lang and them into the house.

Xu Lang looked at the man, then at the red brick house, without any expression, and followed into the house.

A few people sat down in the hall, there was no sofa here, only a few handmade chairs, Xu Lang sat on the chair, and he could clearly hear the squeaking sound of the chair, it seemed that some could not bear Xu Lang's weight.

After some mutual explanations and greetings, Xu Lang knew that the man's name was Chen Weiguo, forty-eight years old this year, and he was the village chief of Chenjiahe, and he had been the village chief for more than 20 years.

"Officer Xu, I don't know what you're doing here," Chen Weiguo asked first.

Xu Lang was still holding a cup of steaming tea in his hand, and when he heard Chen Weiguo's words, Xu Lang put down the cup in his hand and asked straight to the point, "Chen Qiumin is your Chen Jiahe's person, right?"

"Chen Qiumin"

Chen Weiguo thought about it, and seemed to be a little unfamiliar with this name, he turned his head to look at Chen Bo.

"That's the dog." Chen Bo sat next to Chen Weiguo, saw Chen Weiguo looking at him, and explained in a low voice.

"Oh, it's that little fat man from the old seventh family, he's from our village, what's wrong, is something wrong with him" Chen Weiguo suddenly realized.

"What kind of person is Chen Qiumin?" asked Xu Lang.

"Oh, dog, he's a hairy boy, what else can he do, he can eat, he can eat very much, haha he has been very edible since he was a child."

When Chen Weiguo said this, he seemed to think of something happy and smiled very happily.

"I can eat it"

Xu Lang subconsciously raised his eyebrows.

"It's not, when he was born, it was my daughter-in-law who helped deliver the baby, the baby was just born and lost a few pounds, and it was winter, we all thought that this baby would not survive that winter, but I didn't expect him to survive"

Chen Weiguo seemed to remember the past, opened the conversation, and began to tell Chen Qiumin's past.

Chen Weiguo is about the same age as Chen Qiumin's father, if Chen Jianjun is still alive, he should be fifty years old this year, speaking of Chen Qiumin's family, I have to say Chen Qiumin's grandfather.

Chen Qiumin's grandfather left Chenjiahe when he was very young and went out to wander, I heard that he used to be a soldier and fought a war, but whether this is true or not, they don't know, only know that Chen Qiumin's grandfather left Chenjiahe for more than ten years, he limped and returned to Chenjiahe with a woman, and the woman was very beautiful, but it seemed to be a mute, and he was still holding a boy in his arms, and this boy was Chen Qiumin's father, Chen Jianjun.

After Chen Qiumin's grandfather returned to Chenjiahe, he asked the people in the village to help renovate the old house that had collapsed, and he has lived here ever since, while Chen Qiumin's grandfather was lame with a leg and missing an arm, so he couldn't do any heavy work, and at that time, the country's economy was very underdeveloped, and the farmers were even more so, and they could only eat in the field.

Unlike Yangjia Village, which is close to the sea, they can make a living by fishing, while Chenjiahe is surrounded by mountains, and they can only make a living by farming, while Chen Qiumin's grandfather cannot do farm work, and the farm work in the field is handled by Chen Qiumin's grandmother.

At the beginning, she looked very awkward doing farm work, and at first glance she had never engaged in manual labor, and at that time, the relationship between people was very good, Chen Qiumin's grandfather was disabled, everyone could help with the handle, and life could go on, and Chen Qiumin's grandmother slowly got used to doing farm work.

In this way, Chen Jianjun grew up day by day, and as the child grew up, he should have gone to study, but at that time, eating was a problem, let alone reading, so Chen Jianjun had no culture, and when Chen Jianjun was fifteen years old, his mother was stopped on the other side of the river because of heavy rain when he was doing farm work, she was in a hurry to go home, so she planned to wade across the river, but the water was too big, Chen Jianjun's mother was washed away by the flood, and she didn't know whether she was dead or alive.

After Chen Jianjun's mother was swept away by the flood, people up and down the Chen family helped to find it, but after looking for a long time, they did not find it, and the body was not found, and from then on, only Chen Jianjun lived with his father.

When Chen Jianjun was eighteen years old, he left Chenjiahe with a stranger who came to them, and it is said that this person was a comrade-in-arms of Chen Jianjun's father, but they did not know whether it was true or not.

Chen Jianjun has been gone for several years, and when he came back again, he not only earned money outside, but also brought back a daughter-in-law with a big belly, just like his father.

That winter, the weather was very cold, Chen Qiumin was born here, I don't know if Wang Qiuju was malnourished during pregnancy, or because of something else, Chen Qiumin was very thin when he was born, and the person in charge of delivering the baby thought that the child would not survive, but I didn't expect that under the care of Chen Qiumin's grandfather, Chen Qiumin survived.

Because Chen Qiumin was too thin when he was born, when they took care of Chen Qiumin, they always gave him all kinds of delicious food, saying that it was delicious, in fact, at that time, there was nothing delicious in the countryside, nothing more than some chicken, duck and fish, and Chen Qiumin was still young, it was impossible to eat these foods, so he could only drink some soup, and Wang Qiuju was also short of milk, just now, during that time, there were two women in the village who also gave birth to children, they had a lot of milk, so they often breastfed Chen Qiumin, it can be said that Chen Qiumin grew up eating other people's milk.

After Chen Qiumin was born, Wang Qiuju stayed in Chenjiahe, while Chen Jianjun continued to go out to work, while Wang Qiuju took care of the young Chen Qiumin and her husband, who was getting worse and worse.

In the second year after Chen Qiumin learned to walk, Wang Qiuju went out to work with her husband, and Chen Qiumin was left to be taken care of by his grandfather.

Because Chen Qiumin was very thin when he was a child, he was worried that he would not survive, so according to the rural saying, he gave him a nickname, called Goudan, as the saying goes, a cheap name is easy to feed, I don't know if the name Goudan played a role, or because their family loves this child very much, after Wang Qiuju went out to work, Chen Qiumin, who was originally thin like a monkey, was like eating a big tonic pill, crazy long meat, and soon, he became a little fat.

When he was in elementary school, he was about 100 pounds, and when Chen Qiumin was eight years old, his grandfather died, and during that time, Chen Qiumin once lost weight, and his original weight of more than 100 pounds fell to more than 70 pounds at once, but in less than half a year, Chen Qiumin got fat again, and by the time he was in junior high school, he was almost 200 pounds.

In the impression of the villagers, Chen Qiumin has been very able to eat since he was a child, with a large amount of food, and he has been very naughty and bold since he was a child, often going to the river to catch fish and crabs, and to catch loaches and yellow eels in the fields, and Chenjiahe is surrounded by mountains, and he often goes to the mountains to play, and every time he goes, he will not come back empty-handed, either with a few hares, or with a few snakes.

Everyone in the village knew that Chen Qiumin's grandfather had been a soldier, and Chen Qiumin went down to the river to catch fish and went up the mountain to catch hares, all of which his grandfather taught him.

After Chen Qiumin's grandfather died, Chen Qiumin often went to the river to fish and play in the mountains alone, especially during the time when Chen Qiumin was overweight, Chen Qiumin would stay in the mountains for a long time almost every day, and no one knew what he was doing in the mountains.

After Chen Qiumin finished junior high school, he didn't go to school again, and his parents wanted to take him out to a vocational high school or something, but Chen Qiumin just refused to go out, and his parents had no choice but to let him stay in Chenjiahe, and during that time, Chen Qiumin often stayed in the mountains.

A villager once saw that Chen Qiumin once lit a fire on the mountain, peeled a newly caught hare, directly peeled it and cramped, and then roasted it on the fire at home, sprinkled some salt, and he began to eat it.

The village of Chenjiahe is not big, although there are many mountains here, but when Chen Qiumin was here, he ran almost every mountain, don't look at him very fat, but his movements are very agile, before, there were always some wild animals on these mountains, but, as time goes by, not to mention those not very common animals, even some common rabbits and pheasants and the like can not be seen, the people in the village say that it is all the dog egg that the kid has eaten.

Until three years ago, the news of the death of Chen Qiumin's parents came back, and someone came back with the ashes of Chen Qiumin's parents, with the help of the villagers, Chen Qiumin handled the funeral for his parents, and then, he stayed at home for more than three months, and then, he left Chen Jiahe, as for where he went, no one knows, in short, in the past few years, Chen Qiumin has not returned, and people have slowly forgotten him.

After listening to Chen Weiguo's story, Xu Lang frowned, and according to this information, Xu Lang summarized a few points.

First, Chen Qiumin left Chen Jiahe after the death of his parents, which is consistent with what Xu Lang and the others investigated before, and that time was more than two years ago.

Second, Chen Qiumin was not born very fat, but very thin, and he only became fat later.

Third, Chen Qiumin likes to eat wild animals, which is not a habit formed when he went to the city, but has been there since he was a child.

Fourth, Chen Qiumin is very eating, eats a lot of food, and is also very fat.

Xu Lang summarized these points and the previous investigation, there were no useful clues, which made Xu Lang frown.

"Chen Qiumin has lived in the village for so long, he must have friends who have a good time," Xu Lang asked.

"Oh, yes, there are four of them who have a good time with the dogs." Chen Weiguo said.

"Four"

"One is named Chen Zhen, who is as old as Goudan, and is also twenty-five years old, one is named Chen Wang, who is one year older than Goudan, and the other is called Chen Shan, who is two years younger than Goudan."

"What about the other one," Xu Lang asked.

"Oh, there is another female doll named Chen Yuzhen, the size of a dog's egg."

"Are they still in the village?"

"That's not it, Chen Zhen was admitted to university, and he left Chen Jiahe when he was in high school, Chen Wang went out to work with Goudan's parents, at the beginning, he brought back the news of the death of Godan's parents, and Chen Shan left the village with Godan."

Hearing Chen Weiguo say this, Xu Lang first nodded, and then asked, "What about Chen Yuzhen, she is still in the village?"

"No, she also left the village with the dogs, and she hasn't come back for a few years."

"They're on good terms."

"Yes, the relationship between the five of them is very good, after all, they grew up in the same village."

"Apart from a few of them, who else has a good relationship with Chen Qiumin?"

Hearing Xu Lang ask, Chen Weiguo thought about it, shook his head, and said, "I'm afraid this is gone." ”

"That's right."

Xu Lang pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.