After Officer Zhang heard what the villager had just said, he went up the hill by himself.

He walked slowly into the house, which looked like it was some years old. The house looked dilapidated, and the area around it was overgrown with weeds.

The woman was in the front of the yard looking at the weeds around her, and at the piles of dry firewood beside her, which she must have been carrying from the bottom of the mountain all these days. After seeing that there were so many weeds next to the woman, Officer Zhang slowly walked towards her step by step, and then said:

"I'm sorry, I want to ask you about this dry firewood......... I don't know if you can sell me some. ”​

The woman raised her curved eyebrows, and she lowered the scythe in her hand to look at the stranger who was walking towards her.

"What do you want these dry firewoods for, they are not very valuable, if you want, then I can give you two bundles." As she spoke, the woman looked at Officer Zhang all over her body.

She had never met this man in the vicinity of the village, and she still wondered if he had probably come from outside.

"If you really want this, I might as well give you two bundles." With that, the woman sat down and continued to lay on the weeds around her.

"No, you misunderstood me. I wanted to come to you to buy this firewood, and I didn't need it temporarily. Thank you very much for your kindness, but I wonder where you watched your own dry firewood, how can there be so much? Officer Zhang said with a pile of dry firewood floating next to him.

"Since you don't need my dry firewood, why are you still asking? I don't sell these things, because I want them to be useful, and if you don't have anything to do, you might as well go. The woman said there a little unceremoniously, as if she didn't quite agree with Officer Zhang's request.

Officer Zhang took a few more steps forward, and then he got closer to the woman, and the woman stopped her weeding tools. She continued to look up at the stranger in front of her, and she was even more nervous with the weed tool in her hand:

"I said I don't sell these things, I keep them for use, if you really want to find dry firewood, then please go somewhere else."

The woman's words seemed a little stiff, and she looked a little angry.

Officer Zhang saw that the situation was not as he expected, so he suddenly laughed and said: "There is nothing, I don't mean anything else, I just want to ask you about these firewoods, if you don't agree, it's okay." But I have one more thing to ask you, and I don't know if you can answer me. ”

The woman was still weeding the grass there, and it was obvious that she didn't care about Officer Zhang's inquiry, and Officer Zhang saw that he might not have the intention of driving her away, so she opened her mouth and said:

"You see how you live here at such an old age? What about your husband and your children, are they not with you? I was helping Grandma carry dry firewood that day, and I noticed it when you passed across from us. Your back may not be able to straighten up due to years of labor. ”

The woman suddenly mowed the grass and smiled: "What is the matter with you, I don't think you have to ask." Okay, you've asked enough questions here, and if you can, I think you should go, I'm not very welcome here. ”

Officer Zhang said, "Don't leave yet, I still have the most important thing to tell you." ”

The woman seemed to be startled by the stranger's words. The two had never known each other, and what could they say to this stranger?

Seeing that the stranger in front of her seemed to be wrong, the woman put down the tools in her hand and stood up:

"If you have anything to say, just say it, I still have something to do here, so you can leave quickly after asking, no one here will usually come."

Officer Zhang saw that this woman's attitude became a little kind, as if it was a compromise to himself. Officer Zhang then asked:

"There was a military stationed here a few decades ago. And one of the soldiers in that army heard that he had a baby with a girl here, I want to ask if you know about this? Officer Zhang said as if deliberately provocative.

At this time, anger gradually swelled in the woman's eyes, and her expression seemed to become uncontrollable.

Her emotions were a little excited at this time, and the tears in her eyes seemed to be like a torrent about to be unloaded, waiting for that moment to rush out.

"Who are you? What's going on here? The woman was visibly wary.

The moment the woman stood up, Officer Zhang suddenly became a little nervous, and saw the woman walking towards Officer Zhang step by step.

Officer Zhang looked at the woman who came over and said very calmly:

You don't need to know who I am, but I think the two of us have news that we can use each other, some of the news you've wanted to know for so many years, maybe I'll know?"

After Officer Zhang said this, he sat down, and after confirming that the woman in front of him was in a better mood. He knew that this woman would definitely let herself sit down here, because this woman might have an answer in her heart that had not been solved for years.

"The soldier you said had a relationship with a girl here in our country, I haven't heard of it and I don't know, I think you better go first, and you don't care about the things here. And what do these things have to do with you? The woman said a little evasively.

This woman's attitude was also expected by Officer Zhang, after all, this matter was not such a glamorous thing back then. And what could have been humiliating, if it was brought up again, this woman would definitely not admit it easily.

But Officer Zhang's intuition for many years of handling cases by himself, Officer Zhang was able to conclude that the woman in front of him was the girl back then, on the one hand, because under the guidance of the locals, especially because he helped Grandma carry medicinal herbs, Grandma told her some words.

And when he himself asked this woman a little bit about the things of the year, this woman's emotions became extremely excited.

Although the woman was trying her best to restrain her emotions, Officer Zhang relied on so many years of experience in handling cases. She couldn't hide the eyes of Officer Zhang, who was now 70% sure that it was this woman.

And the next thing is to find a way to get this woman to talk about the events of the year. Although his approach is more cruel, there is no way for me to do it at this critical juncture.