On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Lunar New Year, Tongxi County, Jiangnan, from the countryside to the city, from the street to the alley, is a busy and joyful scene——

The heavens are also beautiful, sweeping away the gloom of the past few days, showing the blue sky and white clouds!

Tongxi Rural - Seven Towns and Four Townships, a lively group, however, the southwest and northeast, each with its own merits:

Tongxi County, the southwest is dominated by the Yellow Mountain Yumai Jinlong Mountain, and the northeast is based on the impact of the small plain.

The southwest of Jinlong Mountain, like Shuanglin Town, Yangwan Township - (Tongxi County - the beauty of Jinlong Mountain, in the "Yellow Bird Three Articles (Preface)" of the humble work "Confucian Exploration of Qingyi", it is vividly depicted!! ）

A group of young adults rolled up their sleeves, clutched the wooden pestle with a thin top and a thick bottom, and desperately smashed the glutinous rice in the big stone mortar?

The glutinous rice is sticky, easy to pound, and very laborious to pull up!

After an hour of hard work, the group stopped, and the strongest man, who had taken the glutinous rice that had been glued into a ball, picked it up and turned it around and put it on the flour table, and the four young women took rolling pins and beat them flattening from the middle to the four sides, flattening the glutinous rice cakes five centimeters thick...

- Finally, use a kitchen knife to cut the glutinous rice cakes one by one, and it becomes "glutinous rice cakes"!

In front of the blue-brick bungalow, a middle-aged man is scooping soybean milk into a pair of hanging open yarn wrappers.

When the soy milk was two-thirds full, the man began to twist it - the water slowly flowed down to the ground, and when there were still two-thirds of the contents of the baggage, he untied the burden - and placed it on a small table with a square 10-centimeter wooden board.

The man pulls the four corners of the burden to the center, and a middle-aged woman takes the lid of the pot and covers it - press it lightly, press it and wait - the soy milk in the wooden board is formed:

A whole page of tender white and delicious tofu - freshly made...

Southeastern Jinlong Mountain, like Gaofeng Township, Shitao Township, Taishan Township—

In the mountains and valleys full of green bamboo, is there a sound of "knock, knock" knocking bamboo?

Adult men in twos and threes, carrying snakeskin bags in one hand and digging hoes in the other, walked on the withered white bamboo leaves—chatting as they walked:

"Next year is the 'big year', dig up some of the winter bamboo shoots - delicious!" 、

"If you don't dig it, you won't grow it. Bamboo shoots - no place to eat head? ”…

"This moso bamboo - there must be bamboo shoots out of the whip!" A man knocked on the bamboo.

At the foot of the mountain, the pond was crowded with people—

Some with harpoons, some with sticks, some with baskets of flowers?

"I guess there's still half an hour before my fork comes in handy?" The harpoon man thought.

"Whenever I see mud, I go down and touch it, catch the fish - better; Catch it and fly - just take the stick and 'stuff'..."Stick man - turn the sharp weapon in his hand!"

"Wait for the water to come down to the bottom of the pond, and I'll go down to get the basket - to catch the fish?" The woman with the basket of flowers, clutching the basket...

A fishing battle is about to take place!

Northwest of Jinlong Mountain, like Fenghuang Township, Yaoshan Township—

In front of the mansion and cottage, people have set up large platforms and small tables, calling left and right:

"Let's play cards, let's play cards-",

"Rub two, rub two, come on!" 、

"I'm here—three or three, as soon as you come—the 'good show' will start immediately!" 、

"Here, 'one difference of three', come to two - start fighting the landlord; three - can score 80 points..."

It didn't take long, card stalls, mahjong stalls - like arranging troops; old, young; Men and women are like going to the battlefield, holding the "son" - and "fighting" one after another!

The gray-haired old man in a monkey-headed hat sat on a wooden chair at the base of the wall, squinting his eyes, holding his hands in his sleeves, quietly basking in the sun...

And the towns around the Beixiang Plain, such as Jianshan Town in the east and Ancestral Mountain Town in the southeast—

In front of every house, what is the scene?

There are those who are busy "washing cars":

Wearing rubber shoes, holding a rag in one hand and a water pipe in the other, flush the car body first, wait for the accumulated mud to slide down, and then take the rag - wipe. Over and over again...

There is annoyance-settling—

A group of people gathered in a semicircle, staring at the ledger and calculator of the "boss" in front of them, listening carefully, for fear of missing something?

There's getting dressed up, riding a bicycle — rushing down to the street!

Beifu Town in the north and Tianguan Town in the southwest seem to have no "Xiao Nian"?

There were men and women standing in front of their houses - talking on the phone.

There were little boys and little girls playing in groups of three or five in the drying field.

By Tongxi, many little daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law are washing quilts...

Cheng Yong came to the office at seven o'clock:

Although it was late to pick up Hao Jia from work and go home last night. But he didn't dare to sleep for half an hour more - he got up at half past six!

Today, Monday, there are a lot of things to schedule? The most important thing is how to carry out the detective of the "Ning Yuanfu Disappearance Case"...

Soon after Cheng Da sat down, he received a telephone instruction from Zhang Ju—

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the case analysis meeting was held to study and find "Ning Laizi", and those who participated in the early stage of the war - except for the technical team and the three people of the Arrow Mountain Institute, everyone else had to participate!

When he heard this, he began to sort out the list of participants—

Deputy Director of Criminal Investigation Zhang Zhengyi

Captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade - Cheng Yong

Deputy Captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade - Yang Zhijin

Deputy Captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade - Ai Chunguang

Detective of the Major Crime Investigation Team - Liu Zongwei

Deputy Detective of the Major Case Investigation Team - Zhuge Qiang (Organizer)

Detective of the major case investigation team - Lin Chenxiao

Inspector of the Rural Exploration Group - Xiao Jun

Detective of Ji'an Detective Group - Ren Youjun

Ji'an detective - Ni Yutong

Ji'an Detective Group Auxiliary Police - Xiaodong

Deputy Director of Beifu Police Station - Zheng Zhe

…

"The people of the brigade - there is no need for 'notification'. When it's time to go to work—it's all there! Cheng Yong smoked a cigarette and thought:

"Zheng Zhe wants to call first to prevent him from running into the office?"

He just picked up his phone and lowered his head to dial - there was a knock on the door?

"Cheng Da, Zheng Zhe reports-" Zheng Suo stood at the door, smiling.

"I was about to 'call' you and call you. Are you in the dark - have a hunch? Cheng Da said happily.

"Where? Ni instructed - before I find the 'Ning Bald Head', I will listen to your command..."Zheng Zhe said, walked to the sofa and sat down, and took out his notebook?

"Here's one, wait a minute-" Cheng Yong threw out a telephone pole, and then began to call the "leopard":

He wanted to ask how Xiaodong watched the video last night; Second, I want to inform - he brought Yutong and Xiaodong to the brigade for a meeting!

As soon as the phone was connected, Ren Youjun's voice came-

"Cheng Da, Xiaodong and I are on the road, and we are almost in the brigade. Yutong has something to do at home, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come until -'nine o'clock'? ”

"Got it. The meeting started at 9 o'clock, and he was in time. You and Xiaodong went straight to my office. Cheng Da replied and hung up the phone.

"Zheng Suo - it's early! —Hiccup—"The Kissed Beast walked in and greeted Zheng Zhe:

A smell of alcohol that immediately spreads?

"Yang Da, you solved the 'big case', you drank a lot last night, right?" Zheng said with a sniffle.

"It's all Zhang Ju and Cheng Da who are well led, and the brothers have made great efforts, and I am 'knocking on the little gong'... However, it is true that I am happy - greedy for a cup. Yang Zhijin sat down at the desk, his face a little red.

"It's all hard, drink some wine - it's good to sleep." Cheng Yongdao:

"Yang Da, Zhang Ju notified - there will be a meeting about 'Ning Yuanfu' at nine o'clock, and you asked Zhuge Qiang to prepare the conference room on the fourth floor?"

"I'll turn on the water—make a cup of tea, and I'll go—" said the Kissed Beast and stood up, shaking its body a little?

"I'm going to fight!" Zheng Zhe quickly got up - wanted to take the boiling water bottle on the ground next to the door and said:

He could see that Yang Da was still in a state of drunkenness...

"Zheng Suo, you are a guest, I was just about to turn on the water-" Ai Chunguang came in, lifted the water bottle and said:

"Turn around - I'll make you tea!"

"Ai Da, Ai Da Yingming...", the Kissed Beast gave up his right thumb and sat back in his back chair.

Cheng Da blinked, and looked at the phone - it was almost 8 o'clock:

So he got up and went out—to the second floor, to inform the group of brothers who were attending the meeting "in person," and by the way—who had not come?