Back in Hutao County, I stayed at the hotel again.

Seeing that I was coming alone this time, the shopkeeper asked me if my friend's evil disease had been cured, I nodded yes, and took the key and went into the room without much conversation.

Yan Laosan said that he wanted to find him here, but I waited for him for three days, and I kept a high degree of vigilance every night and didn't dare to sleep, but Yan Laosan never appeared.

On the fourth day, I was so sleepy that I fell asleep and opened my eyes again, and the ugly orange was dragging the pockmarked face to look me up and down.

It's back in the courtyard again!!

I hurriedly got up, and Yan Laosan and the dark-faced old man were also sitting on the edge of the bed. Seeing me wake up, Yan Laosan slapped his broad palm on my shoulder, and it hurt me to pinch it.

"Boy, have you thought about changing Nasi?"

I relieved myself and hurriedly replied: "Yan Laosan, if our brothers really wanted your things, as soon as the corpse was thrown, they would have run away a long time ago, and they still came to you with the dead man over the mountains and mountains?" ”

Yan Laosan brushed his long hair back: "Oh, so, you're here to talk nonsense with me, didn't you bring anything back?" Then carry the dead man on your back. After saying that, he turned around and went out.

This place doesn't look like a courier at all, but like a bandit's nest, from Yan Laosan to the dark-faced old man behind him, plus the ugly and surprisingly ugly girl, what kind of people are these, I raised my throat and shouted:

"Listen to me, there were only six people who came into contact with the corpse that night, except for our brothers and you, there is only one eldest sister who got on the bus halfway and an old man who calculated us, if there is really something lost, it will either be lost on the road, or they will go away!"

Yan Laosan had already stepped out of the threshold with one foot, and when he heard me say this, he turned his back to me and asked:

"And do you remember their faces?"

"Remember, it's easy to find them, I can go and find them!"

Yan Laosan glanced back at the dark-faced old man, as if he was asking for his meaning, seeing that he nodded slightly, he pulled his white vest that had not yet been cleaned and said:

"Okay, I'm a very fair person, if things can be recovered, we are friends, if we can't find them, I will kill you both!"

I really hated it in my heart, and I helped the girl carry the dead man back, purely out of sympathy, and ended up making a fuss!

Yan Laosan is a resolute person, and not long after I finished saying this proposal, he carried it and set off.

The last time I saw him, it was like this, and it had been a few days, and he was still wearing that dirty clothes, as if he had just finished picking up the garbage.

The cool breeze on the barren mountains at night was blowing, and I saw him wearing a vest and stepping on slippers, and sneered:

"Yan Laosan, you are also the boss of the bandit den, why don't you change your clothes? You're all spoiled, you know? ”

I deliberately accentuated the word bandit, and he didn't get angry when he heard it, and strode forward:

"Boy, do you think the things on the corpse were taken away by the woman who got on the bus halfway, or by the toad-eyed old man? Which is more likely? ”

I took a breath and said, "Of course it's the old man, we set it up in his house, and it's probably the treasure on the corpse." Then I described to him the details of the old man's suit that night.

Yan Laosan raised his eyebrows and said "oh":

"Then let's go find the eldest sister!"

I was stunned: "Are you a bad ear?" All the evidence was done by the old man, isn't it a waste of time for you to go to the eldest sister? ”

Yan Laosan didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something in his heart.

Along the way, he was like glue in his mouth, and he began to say nothing, I asked him what he hid on the corpse, and asked him what the live mouse was, Yan Laosan either nodded, or shook his head, and seemed too lazy to take care of me.

At five o'clock in the morning, we finally rushed back to the small tunzi near the highway, but I didn't know where the eldest sister lived, Yan Laosan didn't seem to be in a hurry, didn't ask around, first led me to the market under the mountain to have a full meal, and bought a bundle of dry tobacco.

The rest of the time, the two of us squatted on the hillside and began to roll cigarettes, and after rolling the cigarettes, the third child lay down on the spot and began to sleep.

At eight o'clock in the evening, I was woken up by the mountain wind blowing on the hillside. When I opened my eyes, Yan Laosan was sitting on the side looking at the tunzi at the bottom of the mountain and smoking.

I stretched over and asked:

"Are you still looking for someone? It's dark, and rolling these cigarettes is for you to smoke? ”

Yan Laosan spit out a puff of smoke, glanced at the dry smoke pinched in his right hand, and said to himself:

"The tobacco leaves in this countryside are very strong."

After speaking, he put the dry tobacco in his pocket, pointed down the mountain, and said:

"Let's go, find someone."

I thought he was full of confidence and had some magical powers, but he led me to smoke in the tunzi while wandering around!

More than an hour passed, and I was angry, and chased after me and scolded:

"Yan Laosan, are you looking for someone, you look like you are looking for something in a hurry, are you a pyramid scheme?"

Yan Lao Sanchang spit out a puff of smoke, handed me a dry cigarette and said, you smoke too, the more you smoke, the faster you will find it.

I took the cigarette angrily, took a puff, and choked on my cough: "Hey, this smoke is so strong!" ”

Yan Laosan laughed: "Do you want to rush or not, let me ask you, how many cigarettes did the toad-eyed old man smoke that night, do you remember?" ”

"Five!" I didn't even want to blurt it out, because at that time I had already begun to suspect the old man, and I was very attentive to his every move.

Yan Laosan nodded and said: "But isn't it, think about it, you can't enjoy such a cigarette as a young man, he is an old man with no neck, and he smokes five in a row?" Don't play with your life! ”

I knew he had something to say, and I asked, "What does that mean?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Yan Laosan suddenly waved his hand to tell me to stop, threw away the cigarette butt, and took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it and smoked it.

Rural people rest early, although it is not yet late at night, but every household has turned off the lights to rest, this rural dirt road is very quiet.

Yan Laosan took a big sip of cigarettes on the spot, and not long after, I suddenly heard a strange noise nearby.

"Boom.. Giggle.."

After listening carefully for a while, the hairs on my body instantly stood up, this movement is too familiar, it is the live mouse that appeared that night!!

I lowered my voice and shouted nervously at Yan Laosan: "It's not good, the live mouse is here!" ”

Yan Laosan seemed to have expected it, and took the initiative to find the "gurgling" sound.

I followed him tremblingly, and after a while, I came to the gate of a house, the gate was closed, and there was a small warehouse in the yard, and the terrible "clucking" sound came from the warehouse.

The two of us climbed over the courtyard wall, Yan Laosan lit the lighter, and carefully placed it in the crack of the warehouse, and the "gurgling" sound actually stopped abruptly!

I leaned against the wall and looked through the window into the room!

The moonlight was bright, and the situation of the room could be roughly seen, and a slightly fat eldest sister was lying on the kang and sleeping.

Although I can't see my facial features clearly, I look like the eldest sister who took the car that night compared to my body shape and hair length!!

Combined with the gurgling sound in the barn, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, she actually fed the mouse?!

What surprised me even more was that I looked to the ground and saw the messy clothes on the ground, and among these clothes, I saw a pair of red women's shoes!

I always felt a little strange about this shoe, the more I looked at it, the more familiar it became, and after a while, I sat on the ground with a butt.

Oops! I suddenly remembered that night on the highway, we met a heavy truck that flattened a private car, and in the middle of the pool of blood, I saw a red women's shoe!! That's right, the same women's shoes as the one in the house!

I couldn't help but shudder, why is the other shoe in her house, this eldest sister is a human or a ghost, could it be that she is dead?

Yan Laosan was trembling when he saw me, patted me on the shoulder, and made a gesture for me to go out and talk.

We went to the barn to collect the lighter, and crept down the high wall.

Back on the hillside, I couldn't wait to gasp and ask Yan Laosan what was going on, he was unhurried, or the trademark laugh and said:

"Don't you understand, it's a trick guy."

What I saw tonight was hard for me to believe, and I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and shook my head.

Yan Laosan took out the few dry tobaccos left in his pocket and threw them on the ground and said:

"Live rats are afraid of light, but they are sensitive to the smell of tobacco. Therefore, this thing does not come out when there is light, and it goes to a place where it smells of smoke. ”

It dawned on me that I finally understood why the lights suddenly went out at the old man's house, and the old man sat on the edge of the kang and smoked cigarettes one after another.

Thinking of the car accident on the road and the red shoes, I asked uneasily: "What about the eldest sister who got on the bus halfway?" How can her family raise soil rats? ”

Yan Laosan crushed the smoke on the hillside with all his might:

"A bunch!"

I was quite surprised by his words: "You mean, the eldest sister who got on the bus halfway is in the same group as the toad-eyed old man?" ”

"Yes, she knew that there was a dead person in the car before she got into the car, and she should have been a sentry in front of her, and she was scared away halfway, acting!"

The eldest sister's honest and hearty laughter, the frightened expression when she found the dead person is still vivid, this is actually acted, the heart is really deep!

But what about the red shoe?

"The car accident on the road, also deliberately caused by them? Just to make the police notice us, pull the black curtain in the middle? ”

Yan Laosan sighed and nodded: "They are robbers, and you have been punished." ”

I was stunned for a long time, such a meticulous and cold-blooded game, is it just the thing on the corpse?

"So, you have already guessed it, Yan Laosan, what do you mean? You guessed that we were being cheated, which means that you know that the thing was not stolen by our brothers, what the hell are you going to do? ”

Yan Laosan laughed, stared at me meaningfully, and said:

"Boy, let me tell you, the darts on the corpse are really lost, this woman didn't leave, it means that the darts are not in their hands, among the six people you suspected at the beginning, now all of them have been ruled out, you tell me, who took the things?"

My head was clouded for a while, yes, things can't always disappear, and now that the people who come into contact with the corpses are not suspicious, who took the things?

I was a little breathless at this time, I took a deep breath, and rearranged the whole incident in my mind, and after a few minutes, I had a flash of inspiration and said to Yan Laosan:

"No, there are still people who have a chance, and it shouldn't be just these six people who have access to the corpse!"

Yan Laosan smiled appreciatively: "How do you say it?" ”

"When I first met you at the hotel, there was the sound of your footsteps dangling outside the door, but after entering the house, the body in the toilet had been taken away through the back window! The person who took the corpse through the toilet window is the seventh suspect, there are only three people in your bandit den, the ugly orange is a little girl, if I guess correctly, the person who took the corpse should be the bald old man with a black face, so the thing must have let him go! ”

Yan Laosan laughed, his eyes were shining, and he shouted: "Smart!" ”

Then, he hugged me excitedly and seriously:

"Boy, let's do it with my Yan Laosan, I'll take you to dart!"