Chapter Twenty-Three: The Smell of Hemp
The woman was hiding in a dark alleyway, and although the light was dim, her eyes seemed to be shining.
She stared at Tang Wuzhou directly, her expression cold and inexplicably weird.
The midday sun was very intense, and the ground seemed to be roasted, Tang Wuzhou and the woman looked at each other, but they felt a cold sweat break out all over their bodies.
It took a long time for Tang Wuzhou to stand up straight and look at the woman in the corner.
Tang Wuzhou suddenly said, "What about my son? Isn't it you!? ……”
Hearing this, I saw that the corners of the woman's mouth in the corner suddenly rose slightly, and she showed a very mysterious smile, and then, as soon as she turned around, she walked towards the depths of the alley.
Tang Wuzhou gritted his teeth and followed quickly.
The woman walked in the alley, and no one else appeared along the way.
The doorway in the alley was closed, very quiet, and there was no one left.
Tang Wuzhou looked ahead, his expression extremely serious.
He looked fixedly at the woman not far away, and continued to follow her. Soon, the woman walked through the alley. Then, the woman walked to a street again, surrounded by a crowd of people, the traffic lights flashed ahead, and the woman walked onto the zebra crossing.
It's a business district that looks very bustling and full of people.
The neon lights on the mall are colorful.
In Tang Wuzhou's eyes, the faces of the people around him were very blurry, and he only felt very tired, panting for breath as he walked.
The woman in front of her was thin, but she was walking quite fast.
She walked very lightly, every step was like a dragonfly in water, and when following her all the way, Tang Wuzhou, a man in the prime of life, couldn't keep up with the other party's pace.
The woman seemed to know that there was a person behind her, and every time she walked a distance, she would look back at Tang Wuzhou, as if to point him in the direction.
All the way forward, Tang Wuzhou was so tired that he couldn't do it, and the woman in front of him was still walking like a fly.
Just followed her forward, I don't know how long I walked, but when Tang Wuzhou looked up and looked ahead again, the woman was gone.
Tang Wuzhou's heart trembled.
The reason why he wanted to follow this woman was that Tang Wuzhou vaguely felt that she had something to do with the disappearance of her son Tang Muzhou.
He even wondered if he didn't fall for the trick in the morning, which made this woman feel hateful, so he followed him all the way to the hotel, and then took Tang Muzhou away while he and his wife were not paying attention.
So, follow her, and you can find your son.
But at this moment, the woman was gone.
Tang Wuzhou looked around, and he found himself in a completely unfamiliar environment.
It looks like a business district, with small shops next to each other, forming a spiral that stretches upwards.
All kinds of goods are dazzling, Tang Wuzhou usually doesn't go shopping, and he has no time to pay attention to these at the moment.
He carefully watched the women passing by him, and just followed the spiral aisle all the way up, but he never found the woman.
The higher you go, the fewer people there are.
The surrounding shops were also deserted, and some of the shops were empty except for the clerks and goods.
Tang Wuzhou asked one of the sleepy saleswomen if he had ever seen a thin and dressed woman, and the saleswoman asked Tang Wuzhou:
"Is she wearing a goose-yellow top?"
Tang Wuzhou nodded, and the saleswoman pointed ahead and said, "She went up, just passed, as long as you are a little faster, you should be able to catch up with her." ”
After thanking the female salesman, Tang Wuzhou quickened his pace.
Continuing to go up one circle after another, Tang Wuzhou found that the shops around him were getting more and more deserted.
Many shops have even closed their doors.
Occasionally, I will come across one or two shops that are still open, and there is a notice saying "Store Transfer" at the door.
Livelihoods are struggling.
In recent years, online shopping has been prevalent, and physical stores have been hit very badly by online.
In a business district like this, the higher you go, the more effort you take, and the fewer people there are, which is normal.
Although Tang Wuzhou sped up, he never saw the woman.
After more than half an hour, he still didn't find the woman, the temperature of the shop above was much lower than downstairs, Tang Wuzhou shivered, and sneezed several times in a row.
In addition to the cold, Tang Wuzhou was also tired.
He crouched on the ground and gasped for air.
He took a cigarette out of his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath, and looked up at the endless passage, frowning.
The smoke from the cigarette butt solidified into a smoke ring in midair.
At that moment, from the depths of the dimly lit passage, a child's cry was heard.
Hearing this voice, Tang Wuzhou was stunned.
Isn't this his own son, Tang Muzhou is crying?
This cry sounded extremely miserable, as if his son was being tortured, and his father Tang Wuzhou was anxious when he heard it.
He threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, pulled his leg and ran forward:
While running, Tang Wuzhou generally shouted around: "Son, where are you?" Daddy is here, Daddy will come to you right away, don't be afraid! ”
In the empty corridor, Tang Wuzhou's shouts echoed in the air.
Except for the cry of his son Tang Muzhou, there was no response.
The doors of the shops next to him were all closed, and in the dim light, the temperature seemed to have dropped to freezing, and Tang Wuzhou, who was running, felt that his whole body was about to freeze.
After running for about ten minutes, at this time, Tang Wuzhou smelled a strong smell of hemp, and he looked up, it was actually a hot pot restaurant that was opening for business, and the lights at the door of the store were brilliant.
Big red lanterns, Chinese decoration style.
A cloud of mist surrounds it, adding a touch of mystery to this hot pot restaurant.
Tang Wuzhou felt very strange, why was there a hot pot restaurant in the depths of this shopping mall that few people cared about, in this place that no one frequented?
What does the owner of this hot pot restaurant think?
Could it be true that the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys?
However, along the way just now, it was clear that he Tang Wuzhou was walking alone, and there was no one else in the empty surroundings except for the clerk he occasionally saw.
Tang Wuzhou didn't understand, who would come here to eat hot pot?
How this hot pot restaurant operates has nothing to do with itself, and finding his son Tang Muzhou is the most important thing.
The son's crying continues.
Tang Wuzhou continued to move forward, and after running a few steps, he stood at the door of the bottom of the hot pot and stopped.
The hemp fragrance in the hot pot restaurant has a strong butter fragrance, which makes this cold and biting corridor a little more warm.
But what attracted Tang Wuzhou to stop was not such a delicacy.
Rather, the cry of his son came from the store.
Tang Wuzhou looked at the store, and he was sure that his son was in this hot pot restaurant......