Lu Yuanhao received a call from his father and had to rush back to Nancheng.

Nancheng didn't need anything for him, but his father thought it was strange to see his recent big transfer.

After calling Lu Yuanhao back, he knew where the money went, and he was immediately angry.

"It turned out to be for this woman, so you can't look down on the major daughters introduced to you for so many years?" Lu Zhiyang's tone suppressed a faint anger, "What is so good about this woman, in terms of appearance or family background, which daughter is not better than her?" ”

Lu Yuanhao sat in Lu Zhiyang's office and listened silently, and did not refute.

Seeing that Lu Yuanhao didn't speak, Lu Zhiyang opened the file on the desk. "I'll send Xiao Li to the project over there in Fancheng, so you don't have to go. Prepare for it, a new branch has opened in Meiyu City, and you will take over tomorrow morning. ”

"Dad." Lu Yuanhao stood up with a snort: "Ding Xiao's matter hasn't been dealt with yet, I have to go to Fancheng." As for the project, you can send Xiao Li over. ”

Lu Zhiyang slapped the table violently, "I don't allow you to take care of that woman's affairs anymore." After speaking, he picked up his mobile phone and dialed a call, he knew that Lu Yuanhao was stubborn, even if he didn't let Lu Yuanhao do it. So he decided to freeze all of Lu Yuanhao's bank cards.

And there are some things that cannot be solved without money......

Lu Yuanhao stayed in his house for two days, asked a friend to borrow 100,000 yuan, and returned to Fancheng.

What he didn't expect was that he had only been away from Fancheng for two days, and Tang Yunting had found out the direction in which the murderer had fled, and he hadn't called him yet.

When Tang Yunting found out the location of the murderer, the first person he told was Ding Xiao, and he didn't let Ding Xiao call the police. Because the murderer was too cunning, he was afraid that the police would make a big move when they went to arrest him, so as to startle the snake.

After telling Ding Xiao about this, he asked Ding Xiao to calm down first, but Ding Xiao didn't listen.

She called and told Ning Bai that Ning Bai had gone to several cities next door in order to find Ding Zhong at this time. After receiving Ding Xiao's call, he returned and discussed with Ding Xiao that he decided to go to the location that Tang Yunting said.

What Tang Yunting said was only an approximate location, and the specific location had to be found by Ding Xiao.

Ning Bai asked his family for money to rent a car, and drove in the direction of the highway that Tang Yunting had deduced. After four hours of non-stop driving, he pulled over at a three-way intersection.

"Where do we go next?" He asked Ding Xiao.

Go this way. She raised her hand pointing to the map and pointed to the path to the mountain on the left.

"Hmm." Ning Bai licked his dry lips with his tongue and drove to the left with the steering wheel. Ding Xiao turned around and took out a bottle of water from the back seat, opened the lid and handed it to Ning Bai: "Why don't you rest first?" ”

Ning Bai shook his head, only slowed down the speed of the car and took a sip of water: "We have already driven more than four hundred kilometers, completely out of the northern climate. Now into the mountainous area, the ground is very slippery with frequent rain, and we have to rush to enter Mao County before dark. ”

Ding Xiao pursed his lips and tightened the lid of the water bottle.

Ning Bai saw that she didn't speak, so he glanced at her. "Sister Ding Xiao, do you think that Tang Yunting's inference is not wrong at all?"

"If you don't believe it, you won't drive there." Ding Xiao held the bottle and stared ahead, without any emotion on his face.

"I just don't want to let go of any hope."

"Who isn't?" Ding Xiao muttered quietly.

The car continued to drive forward, and Ding Xiao was a little sleepy. She rolled down the window to blow the cool breeze outside, and the moment the car drove by, she seemed to see a house on the hill.

Who would have built a house in such a remote place? She was very surprised, and turned back to look at the house on the hill again.

However, the car drove away, and the houses on the hill were blocked by pine trees on the road and could not be seen.

She yawned sleepily, and the phone in her bag rang just as she tried to sleep with her eyes closed. Ding Xiao was startled by the sudden ringtone, and quickly opened his eyes to get the mobile phone in his bag.

It was Tang Yunting calling.

"Pick it up?" Ding Xiao looked at Ning Bai. After all, she came out behind Tang Yunting's back, and she was a little weak-hearted.

Ning Bai glanced at it and was silent for a while. analyzed: "Come on, we've all come out, and he can't help it." Even if he was angry, the only thing he could do was help us. With his help, it will be easier for us to find Ding Zhong's whereabouts. ”

So Ding Xiao connected the phone, but it was Lu Yuanhao's voice that came from the phone.

"Where are you?"

"Lu Yuanhao, why are you?" Ding Xiao was a little surprised, but he reacted in an instant that Tang Yunting and Lu Yuanhao had an interest relationship. "I'm on my way to Maoxian."

"Are you in the county now?"

"Not yet, it's still open in the mountains."

"Don't mess around, find a hotel to live in when you get to the county, and wait for me to come." Lu Yuanhao's voice was a little anxious, more worried.

"Are you coming here?"

"Ding Xiao, are you dying? Who are you going with? Tang Yunting snatched the mobile phone and scolded at the mobile phone.

"Ning Bai."

"You'd better not move, I've already found out the exact location of the murderer."

"Where?" Ding Xiao and Ning Bai spoke in unison.

"I won't tell you, if you two want to find Ding Zhong, it's best not to act rashly and wait for me to pass." Tang Yunting hung up the phone after speaking, Ding Xiao wanted to call back, but the other party had turned off the phone.

Ning Bai stepped on the brakes.

Mao County is ahead, and there are still ten kilometers to cross the checkpoint into the county seat.

"There's no way, I can only wait for Tang Yunting and them to come over." Ding Xiao said.

Ning Bai was unwilling, he looked at Ding Xiao seriously. "When? How long can Ding Zhong withstand torture? ”

Ding Xiao didn't know what to say at the corner of her mouth, but she didn't know where the murderer was. Like Tang Yunting warned just now, what if the grass startles the snake?

And Tang Yunting's side-

In fact, he hadn't completely found out where the murderer was, and the reason why he said that just now was to prevent Ding Xiao and Ning Bai from looking for him. After all, Maoxian is so big, and the murderer still knows Ding Xiao's grinding style. If they don't find the murderer and are targeted by the murderer, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Tang Yunting asked Lu Yuanhao to go to Maoxian to see Ning Bai first, don't let him mess around. He stayed in Fancheng to continue tracking the whereabouts of the murderer, and would immediately notify Lu Yuanhao as soon as there was news.

At this time, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and Ning Bai finally drove the car into Mao County, and after listening to Tang Yunting's words, he temporarily found a hotel to stay.

Winters in Maoxian County are rainy, and the air smells of tides.

Both of them didn't have much money left, so they could only find a very ordinary hotel. Eighty-one nights in the hotel are very cheap, so there is a bad musty smell in the room, and a small patch of mold can be seen in the corner.

Ding Xiao frowned a little unbearably, and opened the windows in the room for ventilation.

Ning Bai lives next door to her. Although Ning Bai had never stayed in such a bad hotel, in order to find Ding Zhong, the wind and frost he had experienced for a while was even more miserable than living in such a hotel.

Ning Bai, who was lying on the white sheet, closed his eyes for a while and then opened them, he took out his mobile phone to light up the screen, and looked at the photo of him and Ding Zhong on the mobile phone screen.

Ding Zhong has been missing for a month, but Ning Bai always feels that it happened yesterday.

He could always remember what Ding Zhong said before leaving, he just went downstairs to buy something, why didn't he come up again?

Inadvertently, a tear slipped from the corner of Ning Bai's eyes and fell onto the sheets.

This is not the first time he has cried, and whenever he is quiet, he will always cry unconsciously.

"Knock knock—"

A knock on the door interrupted Ning Bai's thoughts, and he immediately sat up and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. After blowing his nose vigorously, he walked to the door. opened the door, and it was Ding Xiao who stood outside the door.

"You're tired from driving all day today, I'll pack you a dumpling downstairs, and go to bed after eating." Ding Xiao handed the box of dumplings in his hand in front of Ning Bai, who hesitated for a while and slowly raised his hand to take it: "Thank you, Sister Ding Xiao." ”

Ding Xiao nodded and turned around after Ning Bai closed the door.

She was also a little hungry, and planned to go downstairs to eat something and take a look at the surrounding environment of Maoxian by the way.

It may be a habit of moving many times before, and every time she goes to a new place, she wants to walk around, and maybe she will be a little surprised to find it.

This time, there was a really surprising discovery.

It was after she finished dinner that Ding Xiao saw an old man selling sugar gourds across the road. She remembered that when she was a child, she took Ding Deng out to play in winter, and every time she saw Ding Deng selling sugar gourds, she was clamoring to buy it.

Later, when I went to Fancheng, a city as big as Fancheng had never seen sugar gourds sold on the street.

"How much is two strings?"

"Three bucks, little sister."

Ding Xiao took out a five-piece from his pocket, "I want three strings, no need to change." ”

The old man smiled and thanked him, and took three strings of sugar gourds to Ding Xiao. Ding Xiao didn't have much appetite to eat, so he took the sugar gourd and walked all the way to the end of the street.

Walk to the end of the street and turn left, on the left is a clear bar, and there are many young guys playing and singing with guitars hanging at the door of the bar.

She walked around with her head down, and around the corner she heard someone leaning against a dark corner to make a call, the caller's voice was deliberately low, but the voice of the caller was still very clear in this quiet alley.

"Who are you? How is it in Lao Jin's house? ”

"Lao Jin went to Fancheng to help you arrest people? Who are you? ”

Hearing the words Fan Cheng and arresting people, Ding Xiao suddenly stopped walking forward.

"Ah Yong? it! How did you get mixed up with Old Kim? Two days ago, I heard someone talk about the serial murder case in Fancheng, it can't be you. The last sentence Zhuo Li said very quietly, he covered his mouth with his hand and looked left and right, and continued: "You are in Lao Jin's house now, no, I will go to look for you." ”

Zhuo Li said as he walked into the depths of the darkness, Ding Xiao was stunned by the cold wind blowing in place, and his mind repeatedly twisted the words that Zhuo Li had just said.