The next morning it was extremely cold, the earth seemed to be thrown into an ice machine, and it was freezing everywhere, and the snow should have stopped in the second half of the night, and some branches had been crushed by the heavy snow.

There were still layers of gray clouds floating in the sky, but at least there weren't so many black and oppressive patches.

Jiang Futing was drawing a specific direction with Bai Tang according to the route described in Ning Qiuyu's memory.

Ning Qiuyu hoped that the bones would no longer be left outside, and felt too lonely, but the events before and after death were easy to remember very clearly, not to mention that it was five years ago.

According to the clues she provided, Jiang Futing was stuck in the middle of the drawing.

According to Ning Qiuyu's description, she was less than a hundred meters out of the small shop where she bought water, and was dragged into the car by a man wearing a mask.

The man's chest was soft and not too tall, so it must have been a woman, and she was then thrown into a van with her mouth covered.

There were also three men and one woman inside, all of whom were wearing masks and could not recognize their faces.

The road she crossed when the car left also passed the street basketball court, and she was struggling desperately in the car, trying to shout, trying to break down the door, but she was firmly held down by this group of people, and she watched in despair as she was getting farther and farther away from her brother.

She was completely in a state of fear and panic, and didn't care about remembering the road until ten minutes later, when she realized that she had encountered a human trafficker, and she probably couldn't go back!

But at this time, they had already begun to deviate from the city, because they were worried that their family would call the police to investigate, so they did not immediately get on the elevated highway, but slowly turned around in the city to the suburbs, found a remote place to change the license plate, and then got on the highway.

Ning Qiuyu only remembered a few impressive passing points.

Jiang Futing zoomed in on the map on the computer, took a blank piece of paper and marked it according to what she said, some sections of the road were indeed circuitous, these things were not important to him, but not necessarily to the police.

"What do you remember when you get on the highway?" Jiang Futing looked at the rough map in his hand, and he wrote some notes on some sections of the road to prevent mistakes when the time came.

Ning Qiuyu thought about it carefully: "I didn't see it too clearly when I went up, and those people have been deliberately blocking my view, but there is a word in the name of the elevated that is from the government." ”

Jiang Futing directly searched for all the elevated names in City A, and there happened to be one called Sanfujing Expressway Entrance, but it was already a far suburb, and further on were the towns and villages directly under the jurisdiction of City A.

Together, these towns and villages may be larger than the entire city of A, and some places may be deserted and inaccessible.

In those places, the roads are rugged, there are mountain roads and field roads, stuck between the two neighboring cities.

This kind of place is usually a bit chaotic, and there is a lack of monitoring and management, and the city's hand will basically not reach here, and in some places, even if the two adjacent cities are clearly divided, no one may go to investigate.

Managing the suburbs and the municipalities under their jurisdiction is already the limit, and such a laissez-faire for a long time is very likely to lead to a situation in which the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people.

"What's your impression of getting off the highway?"

Jiang Futing continued to ask.

This answer is more critical, if you can't remember it here, you'll basically lose all your efforts.

Sure enough, Ning Qiuyu frowned with a little headache.

"Don't rush, think slowly." Jiang Futing patiently comforted her, urging her tightly would have the opposite effect.

Bai Tang was lying in the computer chair, his legs were all on the table, and asked slowly: "Or if you have any vivid memories after arriving at the destination, you can say it." ”

Ning Qiuyu was still thinking about it, but there was a slight commotion on the side of the sofa.

The three pairs of eyes gathered there in unison, Ning Yuan was so frightened that he quickly closed his eyes as soon as he woke up, waited for two seconds and then opened his eyes, and found that everyone was looking at him, and then resigned himself to getting up under the watchful eyes of the three pairs of eyes.

"Why are you all so early?" Not long after waking up, Ning Yuan's voice had not yet opened, and he was a little hoarse.

In fact, he had been awake for a minute, but he was embarrassed to interrupt because he was busy, and it wasn't until Ning Qiuyu finally got stuck that he felt at ease, but he didn't expect to be watched.

"It's fine." Jiang Futing said indifferently: "There is porridge downstairs." ”

After Ning Yuan got dressed and went downstairs, Ning Qiuyu said uncertainly: "A little." ”

She frowned and paused, probably because her memory was too vague or too difficult to articulate.

Just when she was a little anxious, she suddenly remembered that there was a person in the car who answered the phone, it seemed that it was very unpleasant because of the price, and this person was very short-tempered, and scolded the person over there without saying a word.

She was tired of crying and kept her head down, but the scolding voice was too loud and fierce, and she was so frightened that she raised her head and just saw the sign on the highway.

Because my nerves were very tense at that time, I was afraid that it would affect me, so I was extra vigilant and remembered the content on the sign clearly.

Ning Qiuyu finally thought of useful information, as if he was afraid that he would forget it in the next second, and hurriedly said: "On the highway, I saw a sign passing by, on which Panfang, Yongxiang, and Wuning were written. There is also a sign that goes to Songzhou 6 kilometers to the right gateway. ”

"But...... After getting off the highway, the house is no longer visible. She struggled a little as she spoke, because there was no specific impression of the road behind, and even the words became stiff.

"The place was a bit broken, there were a lot of trees, and then we got to a very small town. They went down and brought me something to eat, which was rice cakes wrapped in vegetables, and there were many shops selling cakes, which should be local specialties. ”

At that time, she was particularly impressed by the rice cakes, because she had not eaten dinner in the evening, she was very hungry, and the taste of the rice cakes was unexpectedly good, she did not expect such delicious things in this kind of place.

"Hmm." Jiang Futing never stopped writing on the paper, all the more important points were deliberately circled, the voice in his ears stopped again, he raised his eyes and did not urge her, but waited calmly.

After all, it was five years ago, and it's good to be able to recall the details.

Ning Qiuyu really couldn't think of anything characteristic at this time, so he could only say vaguely:

"Then I couldn't even see the town, the car was shaky, the road was very narrow, the concrete road was potholed and very steep, and I didn't even get to stop the car and the car was bumpy all the way. Later, it should have been driven into the foot of the mountain, which is not high. There are trees on both sides. ”

"And then?" Jiang Futing had already searched on the computer for the point where Ning Qiuyu might have gotten off the highway at that time.

"I entered a village, but it was late at night, and I didn't see it clearly." Ning Qiuyu bit her lower lip, "There is a big stone tablet at the entrance of the village, which is written in Bi Village." ”

"Remember how long you spent on the highway?" Jiang Futing looked at the somewhat messy picture in front of him, and redrew it on a different piece of paper.

Ning Qiuyu remembers this quite clearly: "It's not long on the highway, at most an hour." Because the caller and the person on the phone have also been on the phone. ”

"How long did you stay after you saw that sign?" Jiang Futing continued to ask.

Ning Qiuyu hesitated a little: "This ······"

"Do you keep going straight?"

"Yes." Ning Qiuyu nodded.

When Bai Tang heard this, he suddenly put away his legs and asked, "There are so many men, are there any who smoke?" ”

"Yes." Ning Qiuyu said.

"Do you remember how much you smoked?" Bai Tang touched his chin, and when he turned his head, he happened to face Shangjiang Futing's questioning face.

Ning Qiuyu was still a little unsure, after all, she wouldn't pay special attention to such a detailed matter, even if it was placed in normal times: "There should be a pack, only two people smoke, the driver's addiction to smoking is relatively large, and he may smoke more." ”

Bai Tang raised his head and roughly estimated: "Then it's forty minutes." ”

After he finished speaking, he turned his face away again: "You push it roughly at this time." ”

Jiang Futing didn't count it right away, but raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "You smoke too?" ”

But after knowing Bai Tang for so long, there was no smell of smoke on his body, and his sense of smell was so sensitive, it was impossible not to detect it.

Bai Tang crossed his legs again, lay down in the chair, sighed with sophistication, and began to say raunchyly again: "In—a long, long time ago—"

As soon as Jiang Futing heard that he was going to open his mouth indiscriminately, he knocked the leg on his desk with a pen and began to calculate.

Because all the information is approximate, not 100% certain, it was a little different from what Ning Qiuyu said when he was about to determine the destination several times in the end.

After going down from the county level, there are too many such places in townships and towns.

There are eight or nine towns in a county, and dozens of villages in a town, many of which are separated by mountains, and at least one-third of them are managed on the margins.

Some people in such poor and remote areas will not even be able to get out of the mountains for the rest of their lives, poor villages will not even have enough food to eat, and those who can marry outside the neighborhood will get married, and it is risky to continue to reproduce close relatives, so most of them rely on human trafficking to reproduce.

It was already almost nine o'clock when Jiang Futing decided on a good place, and several people had been busy with this matter since six o'clock in the morning.

He rubbed his aching shoulders and looked at the address he had written down and where he went

The traffic plan said to the people who had been looking forward to it on the side: "Wuning County, Hengyang Street Town, Bitou Village." ”

The snow outside is extraordinarily thick, and when you step on it, the trouser legs are buried tightly, and the traffic in the city is not very convenient, many roads are restricted, and taxis can't be taken, so you can only travel by bus.

Generally, if you want to go to this kind of village, the city will have a bus that leads to the nearby towns and counties, if the bus can go directly to the town, it will definitely be the best, if there is no car from the town, you can only go to the county and then transfer.

Fortunately, they were lucky, and there was a ticket on the scrolling public screen at the ticket office that prompted you to go directly to Hengyang Street.

The car to the township is said to be a bus, but at most it is only half the size of the bus, and there are not many people who go to these places.

When they got into the car, the car was empty and only the driver.

As soon as I got in the car, there was a strong smell of gasoline, the car was very old, including the seats were so dirty that they didn't have their original color, and before they set off, Jiang Futing felt the illusion of the atmosphere of the town in advance.

The snow on the highway was swept away, and Jiang Futing kept his attention focused all the way, staring at the signs.

It wasn't until he saw the sign that Ning Qiuyu said in his mouth that he suddenly stood up and asked the driver: "Master, how long will it take to arrive?" ”

(End of chapter)