103. Tracing

The Land Rover was driving at high speed on the highway, with Gu Xi at the wheel, and I sat in the passenger seat next to him, hovering around with my phone. Tong Ying didn't come this time because he said he didn't want anyone to disturb him.

It sounded like a love story, but my eyes fell on a certain point on the map of my phone, and my mind was complicated.

Since discovering the seventh death letter from the pen pal, I once wanted to track it down, but it never came to pass. Later, I found out the remaining six letters and learned the secrets, but there were still hidden doubts, if it weren't for the delay on Gu Xi's side, it would have been done a long time ago. But there was still a problem, there were seven letters and seven envelopes, all of which had only my address but not the address of my pen pal, and I don't remember the content and address of the letter sent twelve years ago.

Take the words of Gu Xi: There is no rootless letter in this world. It is also true, except for the seventh letter, the first six letters have a postmark on the envelope, and I certainly know that the city from which the letter was sent can be found through the postmark, but ......

There are two postmarks for a letter: one is the postmark stamped on the postage stamp, which is stamped by the sending post office, which shows when and at which post office the letter was sent; There is also a stamp on the reverse side of the envelope, which is to show when to arrive at the destination and receive the stamp of the post office.

The postmark on the back of the envelope is still there, but the postmark on the front is only a black arc because the stamp has been removed. A few of them were even torn so much because of the torn stamps that they couldn't even see the traces of the postmark.

There is only one envelope, and in addition to the date, the word Watergate can be seen. This is obviously not the name of the city, it may be the name of a region at that time, but Gu Xi only compared the postmark with these two words, and targeted the small town of Jinxia.

It is equivalent to saying that he took me with him on this trip back to the imperial capital, and he still had this purpose in mind.

The town was called Brynn, and the name couldn't be found on the map, so I had to navigate to the neighborhood.

After driving for nearly an hour and a half, I got off the highway, and I saw that there was still a section of road pointed out by the navigation, and it should be driving on the normal highway behind. Unexpectedly, the car turned around and came to the uneven path, and the further back I drove, the more I felt heavy, and if the letter was sent from here, I am afraid that it would be more difficult to find someone.

Even Land Rover, which has a road cheetah city, is helpless about rough roads, and the speed is obviously impossible to be fast. The weather was not beautiful, and it actually rained at noon, so that the road was soon waterlogged.

I don't know if it was because the rain blocked my view or for some reason, I suddenly noticed that the car had deviated from the navigation track, and hurriedly told Gu Xi. He only glanced at him faintly, saying that he was not wrong. It was immediately clear that this direction was supposed to be for Bryn, but I wondered why he was so familiar with a route that didn't even have a navigation.

As soon as his mind turned, he had insight into his thoughts, and only listened to him: "Since I know that the location is difficult to find, will I not prepare first?" Tong Ying had already checked the route and drew a map for me, and the navigation was just for you to see. ”

I snorted softly, getting used to his tune, sometimes I can't care about it, or I'll be annoyed too often.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, almost the wipers were useless, and the rain completely blocked the view. Just as he was about to speak, he felt the car slow down, and finally stopped on the road, "Eat something, I'm hungry." Gu Xi said.

I looked outside the car window in the heavy rain, there was no village in front of the village, there was no store in the back, where did he stop here to eat? But he opened the lid of the manual gear, and there was a mini refrigerator hidden inside, of course, it was impossible to have everything so small, but it could still store some bread and dry food and water.

I still felt quite soft when I took a bite of the bread, but Gu Xi ate two bites and threw it at the front desk.

Walking outside without making a sound is usually a person adapting to the environment, and it is impossible to be as comfortable as at home. One moment you can still have fluffy bread to eat, but the next moment it may not be. The highway represents a hub for the economic development of the territory, and I am afraid that even if this town is close to Beijing and Tianjin, it may not be rich.

As soon as I took a sip of water from the bottle, Gu Xi's long hand reached over, and seeing that he took my water for granted, I was powerless to complain. It seemed that he enjoyed this way of intimacy, but as soon as he thought about it, he muttered, "I forgot that you had already nodded." Then he came and undoubtedly gagged my lips, not just a little bit, and swept away the breath and invaded consciousness, until then I was left with a rapid gasp.

I felt his hand gently caress my hair, waiting for my breathing to become steady and kissed again. Undercurrents and teasing, trying and approaching, all spread in the majestic rain and the silence of the carriage.

But after all, there is a bottom line, whether it is me or him.

When the car drove on the road again, the rain had become lighter, and the atmosphere in the car was no longer as relaxed as before, and there was a little more ambiguity. I even looked out the window, and the misty sky was as muddy as my plucked heartstrings.

Then the rain stopped, and although the road was muddy, it finally drove into the town.

The town is better than you could have imagined, not as depressed as the muddy roads, and even the houses are showing signs of renovation. But after driving around, I didn't see anything like a post office, but there was one at the logistics station.

The car stopped on the side of the road, we got out of the car and walked slowly, noticing that the house number was not written in Bollinger Town, but Yongxiu Town.

Could it be that Gu Xi made a mistake? Seeing his expression of secrecy walking on the wet road just after being rained, I didn't expect him to ask for directions or anything, walked into a small supermarket and took two bottles of water to the bar to check out, and talked to the proprietress: "Auntie, have you been open for some years?" ”

The proprietress didn't have a barcode machine yet, so she took the water bottle and rummaged through the price code posted on it, and said, "It's about three or five years, does the little girl want to buy something else?" Seeing that you didn't bring an umbrella, the weather was thunderstormy, so it would rain as soon as you said it. At her suggestion, I turned around and went to get another umbrella, and while she was using the computer to settle the accounts, I asked, "Is this the town of Bryn?" ”

The proprietress paused, looked at me and said, "The door number says ah, this is Yongxiu Town." ”

I followed after and asked, "Do you know there's a place called Brynn Town nearby?" ”

The proprietress shook her head, "I haven't heard of this town nearby in the past few years. I grasped the point of her words and asked, "Aren't you this local?" The proprietress smiled back: "I am married." ”

When I paid and walked out of the small supermarket, I found that Gu Xi, who was sitting in the car and waiting, was gone. His car was still there, and it was unlikely that he would go far, so I searched one by one along the street, and sure enough, somewhere... He was found in the grain and oil store.

Nowadays, it is rare to see this kind of grain and oil store, and I saw that Gu Xi was watching an uncle operate the oil extraction machine with great interest, and I couldn't help but walk in. The uncle was wearing a white vest, with dark skin all over his body, and his eyes were staring at the machine, and from time to time he would run to the rear to inspect it.

After standing for a while, I saw that golden oil flowed out of the tube, and the oil was clear and did not contain any impurities.

I only heard Gu Xi ask: "Do you still need to process this oil?" ”

The uncle shook his head and said, "The oil I squeeze here is pure green rapeseed, and there can be no extra additives." How many barrels would the lad want? Gu Xiying: "Fill me with two barrels." ”

I was stunned, he bought oil?

The uncle quickly used tools to put the oil into the two oil drums, and when he handed it over, Gu Xi gave a red ticket and said that he didn't need to look for it, and he grinned happily at the uncle.

When I came out of the grain and oil store, Gu Xi looked very funny with an oil drum in one hand, and I couldn't help but point to his hand and ask, "What are you buying them for?" He turned his head to look at it, "If you get news from others, you must always give some compensation." ”

With a move in his heart, he took a step closer and asked, "Did you ask it?" ”

Gu Xi smiled but didn't answer, and directly carried the two barrels of oil to the back compartment and put them down, before he said in a low voice: "This town was originally called Bolin Town because of the surrounding forests, but a fire broke out more than ten years ago, which not only burned down the surrounding forest, but also burned down a large number of houses. The casualties must have been heavy, and later the people in the town felt that the fire was because the name of the town was unlucky, so it was changed to Yongxiu Town. ”

"You all learned from the uncle of the grain and oil store?"

"Of course not." He denied it, and then added in my stunned gaze: "If these basic materials are collected only when they arrive in this town, is it possible to find the right place?" ”

It is also said that Brin Town has changed its name to Yongxiu Town, and if Gu Xi didn't know in advance, it would be impossible to find this place.

"Then what did you get from your uncle?"

Gu Xi looked at a certain place with a deep face, and I followed his line of sight and found that it was at that grain and oil store. The whisper in his ear reached his eardrums: "He never left town, he used to be a postman at the post office. ”

With the vigorous occupation of the logistics and express delivery industry, the post office gradually disappeared in many small towns, and the postman profession was also laid off. In addition, a fire destroyed a large part of the town, and after rebuilding their homes, some people left the town to earn a living, and some stayed here to do some small business, and the uncle of the grain and oil store belonged to the latter.