(October 12) countdown to the 79th day

Before dawn, Yao Xiaoyi transferred Xiang Siyu to the secret room, made some necessary precautions, brought equipment, and pushed open the courtyard door.

The old man Liu Hui was already waiting at the door. The two did not speak, and then marched along the path behind the wooden building to the back mountain at night.

The sky was bright, and the two of them had already entered the dense mountain forest, but the road up the mountain was becoming more and more difficult. The hillside is overgrown with weeds, waist-high and waist-high, and there has long been no ready-made road.

The old man pulled out his machete, ready to clear aside the weeds and bushes along the way, and open a path.

"We're still trying to keep the traces of passing by as little as possible, and we'll talk about it a little higher." Yao Xiaoyi hurriedly said.

The old man hesitated, but put away the machete, bent forward, and cautiously explored forward.

It was nearly noon, and the sun was shining straight down, but it was blocked by dense foliage, and occasionally a few wisps of fish that slipped through the net penetrated the cracks and sprinkled mottled on the ground.

At first glance, they had not yet reached the halfway point of the mountain, but they were exhausted and out of breath.

The two sat down, took out dry food and mineral water, replenished their strength, and continued to march to the top of the mountain.

There was nothing to say all the way, and in the middle of the afternoon, I had just climbed halfway up the mountain, and at this speed, I was afraid that I would not be able to reach the destination one day.

This time, without the old man speaking, Yao Xiaoyi also took out the machete, and the two of them waved the knife left and right one after the other, and they were finally able to cut a road that was easier to walk, and the speed of progress also accelerated a lot.

Finally, they climbed a steeper section of the road, and suddenly there was a sudden opening in front of them. Facing it is a relatively flat terrain, densely populated with pine trees, with thick trunks and towering clouds. The ground is devoid of weeds and covered with a thick layer of pine leaves.

It was getting late, and suddenly the clouds were dense overhead, and a wave of heat swept overhead, and the treetops swayed and rustled in the wind.

"What weird weather!" The old man muttered, looking at the sky, "Girl, it seems that we have only been sleeping here for one night." ”

Immediately, in a leeward place, two improvised tents were raised.

"Look at it like this, the rain must not be light tonight. This is supposed to be the first rain of autumn, but it came a little earlier than expected. Finally, the old man dug a ditch around the tent to facilitate drainage.

Yao Xiaoyi tidied up the tents, hung flashlights on the two tents, took out snacks and water, and sat on the ground with the elderly.

"Girl, do you have something to hide from me?" The old man took a sip of water, and finally asked the doubts in his heart.

"Why did the old man say that?"

"The old man is dazzled, but the heart is not spent. It can be seen that the girl has something on her mind. ”

"Old man, I didn't mean to hide it, but I had a last resort......

"Don't get me wrong, the old body doesn't want to inquire about the girl's secrets. I just saw the girl cautious all the way, and wondered if the girl was afraid of someone, or was she worried about this ominous mountain? ”

"I naturally don't believe in the so-called ominous statement. It's just ......" Yao Xiaoyi swallowed a sip of mineral water, paused, and said, "I'm really worried about a person, this person has a lot of strength and can kill me at any time." ”

"Huh?" When the old man heard this, he subconsciously looked around, and Ling Ran said, "Girl, don't worry, in this back mountain, there is an old body, and no one will hurt you, and it can be regarded as my little insignificant reward to Mr. Tang." ”

"However, I am not Mr. Tang's real relative." Yao Xiaoyi made up her mind and no longer concealed it, "By chance, Mr. Tang was kind to me, and left a will for me to find the cemetery of Mr. Tang's wife and children, and bury his family of three together." ”

"The old gentleman has been dead for decades, and the girl is only in her early twenties, how can she ever be kind to you?"

"Actually, I only found out about Mr. Tang a few days ago, in the secret room of the wooden building. He left a suicide note in the secret room, and I accidentally found that I promised him from the bottom of my heart that I would fulfill his last wish for him. ”

Immediately, Yao Xiaoyi told the old man about the contents of the suicide note, mentioning how Mr. Tang ransomed the bodies of his wife and children, and transported them to the back mountain for burial overnight, and rushed back overnight to commit suicide in the secret room before the anti-faction broke into the wooden building.

"The old body is really damned!" When the old man heard this, he burst into tears, and once again covered his face with his hands, and could not kneel for a long time.

"At that time, you were still young, the so-called ignorant are not guilty, not to mention that you have spent decades to atone for your sins, even if you have done something, you should have redeemed it, I believe that Mr. Tang has forgiven you a long time ago." Yao Xiaoyi got up and slowly helped the old man to sit down on the mat.

"The girl is too generous, you are a good person."

"Sir, I can't afford to be a good man. Actually, I ......," Yao paused, "I'm also a sinner with blood on my hands." ”

She told her sister that she was forced to jump off the building to commit suicide, and she was chased and killed, a cold-blooded network anchor and online writer, and the murderer who forced her sister to die had several short-handed encounters, and she told the story of escaping death.

The old man's heart trembled as Yao Xiaoyi calmly spoke, he really couldn't imagine that such a young girl in front of him would encounter such an ordeal.

"Poor boy, it's hard for you." The old man's eyes moistened, but he comforted Yao Xiaoyi, "If you want, just call me grandpa, and let me take care of you in the future?" ”

"I ...... He is a guilty man who does not deserve the mercy of the elderly. Yao Xiaoyi muttered, wanting to plunge into the old man's arms and cry recklessly, but she didn't, her face was still grim.

"With me, the girl is innocent. If such a thing happened to the old body, he would do the same. The punishment of guilty sins may not be tolerated by the law, but it is forgivable by reason. ”

"Old man......" Yao Xiaoyi almost choked up.

She remembered witnessing her sister in the makeshift morgue of the Castle Peak Police Station, lying in a freezer, her right face beautiful and serene, and the left side of her face broken and ugly. The beautiful and ugly, righteous and evil faces strongly shocked her, and from time to time they would enter her dreams, like two wronged ghosts shouting to her, one reminded her, "My sister chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building to save you, and she must avenge her sister", and the other waved her hand again and again, "Don't respond to another sin with one sin, so that you will fall into a state of no return."

Cutting online anchors and online writers, she didn't hesitate at all, and after it was over, she didn't feel relieved, and even the behavior of chasing and killing Brother Niu, she felt that she was no longer so arrogant.

The old man's words caused ripples in her heart, and she didn't even know how to respond.

As night fell, an expected heavy rain came and poured down in an instant, passing through the dense woods and falling heavily.

"Let's go into the tent and hide." The old man patted Yao Xiaoyi on the shoulder and got into the tent.

Yao Xiaoyi nodded, but her body didn't move, she sat there steadily, letting the downpour wash over her from head to toe.

In the tent, the old man sighed through the transparent window.