I took the book out of the door of the bookstore, got in the car and drove towards the hotel, but before I arrived at the hotel, Xue Xiaxia suddenly called.

"Wang Haitang called me just now and said that she is very scared now, let me go over to accompany her, I am on my way to your house now, do you want to come along?"

Xue Xiaxia's voice was particularly nervous and worried, and I stopped the car with one foot on the brakes, "What, she called you and said she was scared?" ”

"Yes, I asked her what she was afraid of, and she didn't say anything, so I put the matter down and rushed over, and it was not easy to say it on the phone, come over and let's discuss countermeasures together, right?"

"Okay, then you drive carefully." I threw my phone in the passenger seat and thumped my head hard.

I'm completely like I'm being led by the other party's nose now, and the successive emergencies caught me off guard at all, and now Wang Haitang suddenly said that she was scared and asked Xue Xiaxia to accompany her, what kind of indication did this have?

I rushed to the door, Xue Xiaxia was already standing by the car waiting for me, I stopped the car, and she ran over quickly.

"I haven't gone in yet, I'm waiting for you, has she been in a bad mood lately, what's going on?"

I shook my head blankly, and told her about Wang Haitang's situation before, and I shook the three books in my hand, "These are the ones she asked me to bring back to her, I didn't expect her to call you for help so quickly." ”

"Let's not talk about it yet, let's go in and see how she's doing!" Xue Xiaxia said worriedly and took the lead in stepping forward.

Unexpectedly, I was taking the key to open the door, and the door opened, Wang Haitang stood in front of us with a pale face, she was wearing pajamas, looking at us expressionlessly, like a puppet.

Xue Xiaxia stepped over and held her hands, "Wang Haitang, how are you?" I'm here now, tell me what the hell you see. ”

Wang Haitang shook her head with difficulty, as if her head weighed a thousand pounds, and a simple action made it extremely difficult for her to do it.

"Sister, come into my room, I have something to tell you." Wang Haitang pulled Xue Xiaxia and took her to her room, Xue Xiaxia looked back at me, I nodded, and she followed Wang Haitang in.

Wang Haitang closed the door. As if afraid I would hear it.

I sat in the living room, picked up a book and flipped through it, anxiously waiting for them to come out.

Half an hour later, the bedroom door opened, I quickly closed it, the book raised my head, Xue Xiaxia walked out with a somewhat solemn expression, and then closed the door gently.

I stood up and asked softly, "How's it going?" ”

Xue Xiaxia shook her head and pointed to the door to signal me to go out.

Leaving home, we stood by the car, Xue Xiaxia sighed deeply, "She did tell me something just now, but she said that I can't tell anyone, including you, if I say it, she will die immediately." ”

I was taken aback, "What, she actually said such a thing?" ”

Xue Xiaxia nodded sadly, "Yes, so I can't tell you, I don't know if it's true, but I can't speak, so I'm sorry." ”

Looking at Xue Xiaxia's embarrassed appearance, I was also very puzzled, what kind of thing did Wang Haitang tell her, since Wang Haitang was able to say such vicious words, it is very likely that she was really threatened by some kind, maybe after Xue Xiaxia opened her mouth to tell me, Wang Haitang would really be cruelly punished.

"My biggest fear right now is not telling you the real situation, and I can't do anything about it, she really is in danger and doesn't know what to do." Xue Xiaxia folded her arms and lowered her head, sighing sadly.

I approached her, patted her on the back gently, and said softly, "Thank you, you care about her like a relative, no matter what happens to her, I think I will have a way to solve it, don't worry." ”

"Yes, then you go in and talk to her, I'll go back to the office first, and you can call me if you have something." Xue Xiaxia said, looking up at me, squeezing out a very reluctant smile.

At this moment, my heart was very sour.

I watched her drive away and then turned back to her home.

Wang Haitang was sitting on the sofa in the living room, I walked over, and she immediately looked back at me, "Cousin......"

"I've already bought your book, you can take a look, and I'll buy it for you after I've finished reading it." I pointed to the three romances on the coffee table.

She still looked at me directly, "I want to go back to my hometown." ”

"Back home?" I raised an eyebrow and looked at her, "Do you think there's something wrong here?" Just tell me. ”

Wang Haitang shook his head very resistantly, "No, I want to go back to my hometown, I don't want to stay here anymore." ”

That's what I'm most afraid of hearing.

I took a deep breath and patiently persuaded me, "You can't leave here at the moment, you have to wait until you are fully recovered, you can tell me directly if you have any demands, and I will satisfy you, okay?" ”

Wang Haitang still shook his head vigorously, his eyes were full of tears, "I don't, I'm going to leave here, I can't stay for a minute." “

"Haitang, listen to me, during this period of time, because of your affairs, Sister Xue Xiaxia has given up a lot, she is usually so busy with work, for example, she put down her work with a phone call just now, if you go back to your hometown now, how can this be worthy of Sister Xue Xiaxia's concern for you?" I pressed her shoulder and said earnestly.

"And me, although there has been no progress during this time, I have been trying to find clues to help you find out the truth about your parents' disappearance, and the predicament you have been in recently, you can't let us all down, okay?"

Wang Haitang bit his lip, pinched his palms tightly with both hands, and his body trembled violently.

I knew she was starting to slack off on her obsession, so I pushed the book in front of her, "You read these books first, if it's not exciting enough, I'll buy you again, anyway, whatever you ask for, you can tell me directly, you can promise you anything, but you can't leave here now." ”

Wang Haitang finally didn't argue with me anymore, she sat in the living room for a while and then returned to the room, I didn't feel at ease, and quietly pasted a soul chasing charm on her door, so that once she left, I could track her tracks.

I went back to the hotel to take care of my daily routine and then turned the page of the book.

The more I look at the person in the ink painting, the more I look like a strange man selling fish, and the accompanying song "Cold River Snow" also puzzles me.

"Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, thousands of paths and people disappear, lonely boats, fishing alone in the cold river and snow." It is a beautiful poem, but with such a picture, it gives people an eerie feeling.

I pondered for half an hour, and looked up a lot of information about "Cold River Snow" and still didn't have any clue, so I put it aside for the time being.

What is the connection between Molu Bookstore, Ma Yuan, the Fish Seller, and this book?

A day later.

I received a call from Mike's family, who had his body cremated at 3 p.m., and who wanted me to go over and see him off for the last time.

My heart is heavy, Mike is a good designer, but because of this case was implicated, in fact, if he didn't take my bar renovation case, I'm sure he wouldn't have suffered such an accident, rounding off Mike still lost his life because of my business.

Although many people can't understand this explanation, I will always be buried in my heart with such guilt.

At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Heizi and I went to the crematorium together.

The case ended in a car accident, the truck driver also died in a car crash, and other matters were settled and compensated privately, and the families on both sides did not quarrel anymore, which also touched me, and there are not many reasonable family members like this now.

During the time I was standing outside waiting for the cremation, I thought about a lot of things, and the tide was churning back and forth in my mind, but I couldn't find a clear idea.

When the crematorium was opened, he exclaimed, "How can this be?" ”

Everyone hurriedly gathered around, only to find that there were some paper ashes on the ashes that had not been completely burned by the fire.

The bones have been completely turned into ashes, but only these paper ashes that have not been burned out are extremely abrupt, how can this happen?

"What is this?"

I immediately remembered the strange missing blueprint, "I think it's better to take it back to the police station and ask the technician to do an examination, I guess this is a blueprint, the one from the bar." ”

Mike's family was shocked when they heard this, and Mike's mother said, "How is this possible? We had found a lot of the previous blueprints, including when we were sorting out his body, and we checked it again and again, and the blueprints were not on him at all. ”

"But now that these weird paper ashes are here, I think it's better to test them!" Zhao Heizi frowned and said.

Other family members, including the cremation chemical industry, also felt that things were particularly strange, and it was better to sort out the paper ashes and take them for inspection.

I immediately called Zhu Chen, and he arranged for a technician to come and extract the paper ash, after all, we are not professional, and it is very likely that other substances will be left behind, which will affect the results of the test.

Zhao Heizi and I got into a police car and followed us to the police station, and on the way I made my guess.

I suspect that the previous blueprint was "injected" into his body in a special way, and now he is cremated so that the blueprint is "burned".

Zhao Heizi nodded, "Your analysis is very reasonable, it should be the devil's doing, otherwise no one else would be able to 'hide' this blueprint in his body in that way, or even in his bones." ”

I nodded, turned my face to look out the window at the dusk, lost in thought.

When we arrived at the police station, the police arranged for us to take a note and then sent us to the break room.

Zhu Chen finished his work and came over to talk to us about the case.