I told Hua Hu about going to the West Night tomorrow, and finally coaxed her to sleep, and it was almost twelve o'clock in the night. I stared at the second hand for a while, and Shen Yu opened his eyes.

"Where is this?" She asked, touching the humble hospital bed.

I told her it was the hospital and she was shocked.

"Hua Hu was injured in Huaixizhuang? Is a faceless man so powerful? ”

"Huaixizhuang is so far away that it looks like a story in the Jiajing period......" I explained the situation to her in simple language from beginning to end, including the battle of Huaixizhuang, the raid on the criminal police building by visitors from hell, the appearance of the eighth case, the appearance of a corpse tattooed with the word "miserly" in Fuluyuan, and a chain of suspicion that I deduced, and made an appointment with Wen Tingxu to visit the Xiye Ruins.

"The ancients said that you don't see each other for a day, such as three autumns, these days are really interesting, there are so many events piled up every day, and you can shoot 20 episodes a day when you shoot an online drama."

"What's more, if you fall in love again, at least forty episodes - what do you think of the plan to find the West Night Ruins." I looked at her, and I was actually a little drumming in my heart.

She looked down and thought about it.

"It's good."

She said it very simply, but I was very happy - it was not easy to get Shen Yu to approve of one person's approach.

"But," she asked with a frown, "why do you have to go with Wen Tingxu?" ”

"Because it is related to the disappearance of his parents, this is also a knot that he has not been able to untie since he was a child."

She narrowed her eyes suddenly, and looked at me carefully, and it was so penetrating that for a moment I felt like I was being pushed into an MRI machine to be scanned.

"Got it—I see what you mean. You're pretty good at doing things. She said paradoxically.

"That's for sure." I also responded paradoxically, "Let's go home first, Wen Tingxu will pick us up in the morning." ”

At five o'clock in the morning, as soon as I packed the luggage of two people, Wen Tingxu's phone called.

"Let's go downstairs to your house, let's hurry over."

Shen Yu and I dragged our suitcases downstairs, only to see Wen Tingxu sitting in a minibus, rolling down the window and waving to us.

The two of us walked to the car, the driver hurriedly ran over to take the luggage, I stretched out my head and found that there were two people sitting in the car in addition to Wen Tingxu.

"Bai Ya'er, Qin Yafu, you've seen it before-this is Detective Shen Yu, this is my classmate's stake." Wen Tingxu introduced, "We are all companions who go to the West Night. ”

The two of us shook hands. Bai Ya'er is petite and exquisite, and Qin Yafu has a tiger's back and a bear's waist, this pair looks very inconsistent, but after watching it for a long time, it naturally has a sense of cuteness.

For some reason, Shen Yu seemed to have a natural hostility towards Bai Ya'er. She sat down in the farthest seat from her, and called me over next to her.

The car drove to the airport, but it went directly to the tarmac.

"I don't have the money to buy a private jet, so it's okay to rent a flight." Wen Tingxu said with a smile, "Save time, let's fly directly to Kashgar, which is the closest airport to Yecheng." ”

Of course, at the time of writing, the nearest airport to Yecheng has been turned into Shache, but when we went to Xiye, Shache Airport was still under construction.

It took three and a half hours to fly from Weiyang to Kashgar. I remembered that I had told Wen Tingxu that I wanted my cousin to accompany him to the West Night first. But he was clearly slow to move, apparently not trusting others.

The plane was not big, but there were more than enough for a few of us to sit, and Wen Tingxu was chatting with me about the ease of college all the way, but I could tell that he just deliberately didn't want to make the journey so depressing.

When we arrived at Kashgar Airport, there were already three desert off-road vehicles waiting for us. Shen Yu and Wen Tingxu and I took two entourages and went straight to Yecheng.

There was nothing to say all the way, it was almost noon when we arrived in Yecheng, a few of us had dinner in the county seat, I asked Wen Tingxu if he wanted to meet Captain Garlic, who knew that he waved his hand and said: "He doesn't trust me, I'm afraid of more complications, so let's talk about it when we come back from Taklamakan ." ”

A few of us were eating, but Shen Yu's mobile phone rang, she looked at her phone, and whispered to me, "It's Lin Ying's phone." ”

Shen Yu turned around and walked out of the box, Wen Tingxu and I were chatting about the plan while eating, but Bai Ya'er and Qin Yafu kept talking on the phone, as if they were arranging the route and material equipment into the desert.

"To be honest, when I was in college, I never imagined that one day I would come back to this place with you." Wen Tingxu said with emotion, "Stake, if you weren't able to endure it now, I would definitely not have asked you to do such a dangerous thing." ”

"What do you mean I'm able to endure now?" I was told that I didn't know if I was angry or happy.

"Solve the case, Wei Yang's current serial cases are not all your ......"

"Mr. Wen, three off-road vehicles, ten camels, three drivers, and five handymen, do you think it is enough?" Bai Ya'er walked over with the phone and asked. I heard her voice urging in a thick western accent on the microphone.

"Hey, people?" The guy across the microphone was visibly more quick-tempered and impatient.

"It's okay to have one more person or one less, anyway, you can't have a total of thirteen people, I don't want to count this number." Wen Tingxu frowned and said.

"Understood." Bai Ya'er nodded.

"Do you still believe in this Western-style superstition? Taboo the number thirteen? ”

Thirteen is considered an unlucky number in Christendom, and it is said that Judas, who secretly denounced Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, was the thirteenth.

Wen Tingxu smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I don't think of thirteen because of religious reasons, but because of my father's disappearance, there were also thirteen people in the archaeological team—ten workers, my parents, and Uncle Fei Tang, and it just so happened that they were all together. I don't want to repeat that mistake. ”

I looked into his eyes, and there was an indescribable sadness in them.

We often talk about the family of origin, but in fact, the environment in which a person grew up does have a key influence. If you observe the second half of some people's lives, they are always chasing those things they wanted in their childhood but did not get, and Wen Tingxu is no exception.

Shen Yu finally pushed the door and walked in, and she said to me simply: "It's still the eighth case, and I helped Lin Ying lock up the murderer." ”

"The eighth case, is it the 'miserly' case on the news recently?" Wen Tingxu asked.

"You know that, too?"

"Nonsense, the whole city is paying attention - is there really a 'ten evil' murder? I heard you guys fought a criminal organization on the other side of Bar Street? Wen Tingxu asked.

"That's right." Shen Yu sat across from him and said, "Old Wen, isn't your joint stock Red Lotus Bar over there?" ”

"It's just a dry stock, how can I have time to take care of that kind of business." Wen Tingxu smiled, "What do you think this criminal organization wants to do?" Is it fanatical religious killing? ”