Cheng Liting and An Yanxi sat in the car for an hour, and then changed cars twice before arriving at the foot of the mountain where Xujia Village is located.

At this time, it was past ten o'clock in the morning.

The sun scorched the earth, and there was not a breeze in the air.

An Yanxi raised his hand in front of his face, raised his head through his fingers and squinted his eyes to look at the dazzling sunlight.

"Mr. Cheng, I hope we won't be sunburned to death on the way."

"With you by your side, you won't be lonely when you die."

"That...... Listen to why it's so uncomfortable. "It should be a warm and touching sentence.

The two brought only two bottles of water and mobile phones for the convenience of climbing the mountain.

No one spoke along the way, and Cheng Liting always walked about a meter in front of An Yanxi. During this period, he glanced back at An Yanxi from time to time, and after making sure that she was okay, he continued to move towards the goal.

Before coming, they asked about the origin of Xujia Village.

The villagers in Xujia Village have lived in the mountains for generations, and very few people go out, and they rely on the mountains for food, so the villagers live in poverty, and even the school is only made up of three tiled houses.

As the minutes passed, the sun became hotter and hotter, and An Yanxi felt like he had walked into a furnace, his underwear soaked with sweat and sticky on his body. She wanted to tidy it up, but she had to dispel her thoughts when she saw Cheng Liting not far in front of her.

Suddenly, Cheng Liting stopped.

He turned to look at An Yanxi, "Rest for a while, I'll go to the neighborhood to see if there are any streams or waterfalls." ”

With that, he walked in the other direction.

Looking at the back of him leaving, An Yanxi let out a long breath, walked behind a tree and began to sort out his clothes.

Not for a while.

Cheng Liting is back.

An Yanxi just came out from behind the tree.

"How? Have it? She asked, but she didn't really care, she didn't need the stream now, and even if she had, would she be able to strip naked and cool off.

"No, let's keep going, it's almost there."

Cheng Liting glanced her up and down, and found that the clothes on An Yanxi's body were much more pleasing to the eye than just now, and he knew that she must have done what she wanted to do just now, Cheng Liting's eyes flashed with a smile, and he quickened his pace.

Ten minutes later.

An Yanxi's eyes saw several brick-built houses, half-hidden on the mountainside, like animals hiding in the grass.

"There is Xujia Village in front, speed up the pace and we can go down the mountain before dark." Cheng Liting said.

"Okay."

An Yanxi took a deep breath silently, trying to drive away the fatigue on his body and speeding up his pace. If they hadn't come down before dark, they would have been in danger, for no one could have imagined what would happen in this unfamiliar place.

Soon, An Yanxi and Cheng Liting came to the entrance of the village.

On both sides of the entrance to the village are two towering pine and cypress trees, and under the trees are placed a stone with a smooth surface, which seems to be a special place for the villagers to rest in the shade.

It was noon, and the hot sun was high in the sky, and the temperature was getting hotter and hotter.

At a glance, An Yanxi didn't see a single figure, she thought that everyone should be hiding from the sun at home now.

"Mr. Cheng, let's ask the family where the village chief's house is."

"Okay, the village chief should know more about what we want to investigate than the villagers." Cheng Liting nodded and agreed with An Yanxi's words.

"Yes," An Yanxi said as he walked forward, "no matter what happens in this remote mountain village, the village chief is in charge. Therefore, the village chief must know what happened to Xu Kaiyong. ”

The two walked for about two minutes and came to a small fenced courtyard where a big yellow dog was hanging its head under the eaves to cool off.

"Anyone?"

An Yanxi raised her voice and shouted in what she thought was the kindest tone.

As soon as the voice came out, the big yellow dog was immediately alarmed, and it rushed to the gate of the yard and barked wildly.

Cheng Liting took a step closer to An Yanxi, stretched out his hand to protect her, his face was gloomy, and his eagle eyes stared straight at the big yellow dog that kept barking.

An Yanxi sneered, "Mr. Cheng, don't be so nervous, as long as we don't act rashly, there will be no problem." ”

"You're not afraid?" Cheng Liting frowned, looked at the indifferent smile on her face and asked with some surprise.

"Don't be afraid, I've been through countless scenes more terrible than this, and now these are not worth my frown for coming to the capital."

An Yanxi always had a faint smile on her lips, her voice was flat, and there was no trace of panic because of the fierce yellow dog in front of her.

Cheng Liting's body was stunned, the distress in his eyes flashed, and he slowly withdrew his hand in front of An Yanxi.

"Who are you?"

The wooden door was pushed open, and a chubby middle-aged woman stepped out, her wrinkled face shocked when she saw a man and a woman standing in the doorway.

There had been no outsiders in the village for several years.

The big yellow dog stopped barking when he saw his owner, turned around and ran towards the middle-aged woman, wagging his tail around her.

"Auntie, hello, we came to Xujia Village from another city."

An Yanxi showed a friendly smile and lowered his head slightly.

"You're from the city, aren't you?"

The middle-aged woman looked up and down at the two strangers who suddenly appeared in front of her yard with a pair of big cloudy eyes. From the way they dressed, it could be seen at a glance that they were definitely not from any village in the ditch.

“…… Be. ”

"You just said that you came to our Xujia Village? What do you want to do? ”

The middle-aged woman's face showed curiosity.

"Auntie, can you tell us how to get to the village chief's house first? It won't be long before we find the village chief and you'll know what we're here for. ”

In a place like the village, the whole village will know everything in a matter of minutes.

"The village chief's house walks along the path next to you, and the third one is it, and the village chief's house is an iron gate, which is easy to recognize."

"Thank you."

An Yanxi thanked the middle-aged woman and turned around and walked in the direction of her destination.

Cheng Liting was always by her side, not saying a word.

Bang Bang

The iron door was very heavy, and An Yanxi wasted a lot of strength to knock.

Cheng Liting beside him squinted at her, "The village chief's family is quite rich." "There are many thatched houses in this village, and there is only one brick house except for the village chief's family, Cheng Liting.

"The village chief is always richer than the average villager."

"Who's coming."

A childish voice came out from inside the iron gate.

Soon, the iron door slowly opened, An Yanxi was overjoyed, and was about to say the lines prepared on the road, when he saw a six or seven-year-old boy poking his head out.

"Huh? Who are you? How have I never seen you. The boy held his head high and stared at An Yanxi with round eyes.

"Kid, we came from somewhere else to find your grandfather, is he at home?"

An Yanxi smiled softly, looking at the little boy's cute appearance, he couldn't help but reach out and touch his head.

The boy took a step back abruptly, horror creeping up on his little face, "My grandfather has been dead for two years, you guys, who are you?" ”

An Yanxi was stunned, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"We're coming to the village chief."

It was Cheng Liting who spoke, he looked at An Yanxi speechlessly, and lowered his voice, "How are you sure that his grandfather is the village chief." ”

"I ......"

An Yanxi's cheeks burned, and she lowered her head silently, "I'm sorry, my little sister scared you." ”

"Little thing, I want to see the village chief now and let him come out."

Cheng Liting pushed open the door and stepped in with straight legs, and behind him, the boy said angrily, "Grandpa can't get out of the house, you can only go in by yourself." ”

"Okay, then we'll go in by ourselves."

An Yanxi hurriedly added, not forgetting to glare at Cheng Liting's tall back, as if he was a distinguished guest.

The boy ran in front of Cheng Liting to lead the way.

The village chief lived in the innermost room, which was small, windowless, and only an old-fashioned light bulb that shone faintly on the roof.

As soon as she walked in, An Yanxi smelled a pungent smell of Chinese medicine, she subconsciously frowned, and looked at a bed against the wall.

On the bed, there was a scrawny old man with white hair, eyebrows, and beard, and his face was full of pitted scars, and he held a cigarette in his hand, but it was not lit.

"Grandpa, where did you find this harmful thing?"

The boy quickly walked up to him and snatched the cigarette from his hand, his round eyes full of dissatisfaction.

"You kid, how many times has Grandpa told you, it's not a harmful thing, it's a good thing."

The old man spoke slowly in a hoarse voice, and as soon as he finished speaking, he saw two strangers who appeared in his room, "You, who are you?" He asked.

"Hello, village chief, we are from another city, we ......"

"You know Xu Kaiyong."

Cheng Liting interrupted An Yanxi's words and went straight to the point, he walked to the side of the bed and took out a photo of Liu Yang's side face from his pocket, "We want to know everything about Xu Kaiyong and this woman." ”

"Oh, are you asking the two who are working hard?"

The village chief said thoughtfully.

"Miserable?" An Yanxi instantly grasped the point of this sentence, and the dissatisfaction in her heart because of Cheng Liting's interruption disappeared without a trace, she walked next to the village chief and asked anxiously, "Village chief, why do you say that they are suffering?" ”

"I can tell you, but can you two young men tell me, an old man who is about to be buried in the loess, why you came to inquire about them?" The village chief's gloomy eyes stared at An Yanxi, and his voice was weak.

An Yanxi could see that what he said was true, and he really didn't have long to live.

"Village chief, Xu Kaiyong hurt my mother a few days ago, and the police are looking for him everywhere now."

An Yanxi hesitated for two seconds and decided to tell the truth, although it was not a good choice for an old man of this age to know that his villagers had done such an illegal thing, but she had no other way, she didn't want to deceive the old man, and she didn't want to let the old man misunderstand what she was trying to do because she didn't tell the truth.

"Impossible, Xiao Yong is not such a person, I don't know what an honest child he is."

The village chief frowned, and he waved his hand again and again, his face full of disbelief.

"Village chief, what I said is true, if you don't believe me, I can show you the wanted warrant on the Internet." An Yanxi said and took out his mobile phone, found out the wanted warrant that he didn't know how many times he had read and put it in front of the village chief.

The village chief squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully for a minute.

Then, his face changed dramatically.

"Impossible, impossible, how could Xiao Yong do such a foolish thing...... Ahem, ahem. ”

He coughed violently, his chest rose and fell violently, and his thin body was like a small wooden boat on the sea in a storm, which would fall apart at any time, and An Yanxi was worried when he saw it.

"Grandpa, are you alright? Don't scare me, can't I let you smoke? ”

The boy threw himself on the side of the village chief's bed, tears streaming from his eyes, and he cried out anxiously.

"Little friend, your grandfather will be fine."

An Yanxi gently held his shoulder and comforted him softly.

"Village chief, you don't have to be excited, we just want to know about Xu Kaiyong's past, so that we can find him. You should know that if he continues to abscond, he will be punished more harshly in the future. ”

Cheng Liting stood straight, there was no expression on his handsome face, and he said word by word in a formulaic voice.