Chapter 5 At night, by the river

A soft woman who seemed to have come out of the painting strolled over, Yu Xin found that Yi Yang seemed to be a little stunned, and raised her mouth a little unhappily, looking at the little girl: "Little sister, is she your sister?" ”。 Just when Yu Xin asked, the soft woman had already walked in front of her, and without waiting for the little girl to answer, she took the lead and said, "Yes, I am Lan Lan's sister, I'm really sorry, she delayed your time and caused you trouble." ”

"What's the matter, my brother and sister like to listen to me sing," the little girl pouted unhappily, lowered her head and looked up at the same time.

"No, no, Lan Lan sang so well, I heard her say that you wrote this poem?" Yi Yang came back to his senses and explained to the feminine woman.

"Lan Lan is always open-mouthed, I just write essays, and I laugh a little." The soft woman said generously.

"It's really a good poem, it's refined and fresh, it's outstanding, and it's on the paper, what's the name of this poem?" Yu Xin looked sideways at Yi Yang in some surprise, some didn't believe that this kind of praise would come out of this wooden mouth that had been cold and silent, looking at the smile he had never shown to himself, he frowned a little unhappily, and rubbed his forehead fiercely with his right hand.

Before the soft woman could answer, the little girl hurriedly interjected: "The name of the poem was given by me, called Nian Yanran." The little girl couldn't help but giggle when she saw Yi Yang's stunned expression, "Because my sister's name is Yanran, this poem is so beautiful, of course it has to describe my sister."

The soft woman looked down at the little girl who was still smiling helplessly, and looked up to Yi Yang and explained: "Don't listen to her nonsense, write a poem casually, and she doesn't have a name, and no one knows her name if she makes nonsense, so let her laugh." I'm Nalan Yanran, and I live in the village," he said, stretching out his right hand to Yi Yang.

Yu Xin didn't wait for Yi Yang to reply, and didn't care about pondering this somewhat rare surname, so she hurriedly stretched out her hand to shake Nalan Yanran, and said to her: "My name is Yu Xin, he is Yi Yang, we are all policemen, come here to investigate some things, disturb you." Nalan Yanran covered her mouth and nodded with a chuckle: "I heard the people in the village mention it at noon. ”

Yi Yang found an opportunity to interject at this time, looked at the sisters and smiled and said: "The surname Nalan is rare, as soon as I hear it, I think that if life is only as first seen, where is the eternal sentence of sad wind and autumn painting fan, you are a Manchu?" ”

"Yes, we are both Manchus, but we have lived here since we were children, so I guess we can't get along with the talented Nalan Ruorong? After Nalan Yanran answered Yi Yang, she turned her head and said to the little girl: "Lan Lan and my sister are going home soon, my mother-in-law is in a hurry" After saying that, she smiled apologetically at Yi Yang and Yu Xin, turned around and walked towards the direction of Phoenix Mountain with the little girl.

"I heard that there is a water quality survey team in the city here to survey the water source, do you know where it is?" Yi Yang asked at the back of the sisters.

"You go in the opposite direction, follow the river in that direction, you can walk in about ten minutes" When Nalan Yanran turned around to answer Yi Yang, she found that Yi Yang's eyes were a little puzzled, and she smiled and continued: "Lan Lan and I don't live in the village, we live at the foot of the mountain, and the climate here is dry and prone to fires. Grandpa was a forest firefighter when he was alive, and because he was used to living there, the village let his mother-in-law continue to do this job after his grandfather left." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment and instructed Yu Xin: "The mountain mosquitoes here are particularly powerful, you must rub some wind oil essence when you sleep at night, otherwise it is easy to attract mosquitoes." After that, she glanced up at Yu Xin, and then led the little girl to turn around and walk towards the foot of the mountain.

Yu Xin saw that Yi Yang was still looking at the backs of the two in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he couldn't help but be a little annoyed. Pushed Yi Yang's arm with his hand, "Senior brother, can't you see that you have a lot of research on poetry and songs?" Yi Yang didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in Yu Xin's words, but instead reached out to ask for the little flower that the little girl gave her in Yu Xin's hand, put it under her nose, took a deep breath and smelled it, and then pointed to the direction of water exploration that Nalan Yanran said, and turned her back to lead Yu Xin towards that side with both hands.

Nalan Yanran was right, after walking for ten minutes, Yiyang saw the site of the water quality survey, some mechanical equipment was messily placed around a well, and a beige simple tent was erected next to it, the sliding door of the tent was not closed, and when he looked inside, there was a middle-aged man in his 40s sitting in it drinking mineral water. Seeing the two coming from afar, the middle-aged man stood up a little listlessly and greeted the two.

After Yi Yang revealed his identity, he learned that the middle-aged man was the project leader of Yuanling Group in charge of tax exploration, and Yuanling Group was a private enterprise that was going to invest in the hot spring water quality project of Suyucun this time. According to him, according to the manager of the group responsible for the operation of the project, the project negotiations went very smoothly, although there were some different opinions in the village, but the Yuanling Group made great concessions in order to carry out the project as soon as possible, and it is said that it has been unanimously approved by all the villagers. Now that the project team has withdrawn to the city, he is the only one left to guard the equipment here boringly.

Yi Yang and Yu Xin found that although it was basically similar to what was stated in the information, there was no mention of the so-called concessions in the information, Li Dongxu said that these were also relayed by colleagues in the negotiation team, and he had not seen the specific content of the contract, but it should not be a secret, the village party secretary and many people in the village should know, Yi Yang nodded, said hello and said goodbye and walked back with Yu Xin.

The two returned to the village branch to discuss, and felt that they did not find any useful clues, Yu Xin wanted to go to the village entrance restaurant with Yi Yang to eat, but Yi Yang said that he had no appetite and wanted to go around the village branch, Yu Xin was so hungry that he could only stomp his feet and walk to the village entrance restaurant.

After walking for less than ten minutes, Yu Xin saw two tiled houses erected next to the village trailhead, and far away, he could see the two big characters of restaurant painted on the wall. Yu Xin walked in and saw Master Lu who he had seen before sitting in it, and the whole room was empty and there were no other guests. Master Lu saw Yu Xin walk in and greeted him warmly, and when Yu Xin asked, he knew that after saying goodbye to the branch secretary, he went directly to the city, probably looking for a way to promote the continuation of the project. And this restaurant is actually a snack bar, and the chef and waiter are busy with Master Lu alone.

After asking Yu Xin, Master Lu went to the kitchen to fry two home-cooked side dishes for Yu Xin, and after serving the meal, he poured a pot of flower tea for Yu Xin, and saw that there were really no guests, so he said hello to Yu Xin, saying that if someone came to eat, he would call him, and then went directly to the back room to rest.

Although Yu Xin was hungry, he really didn't have much appetite alone, so he drank two sips of hot tea after a few bites. The summer in Longcheng was extremely hot, and a refreshing breath arose spontaneously after the hot tea was down, and there was no rest for several hours of driving, Yu Xin couldn't help but get tired, and fell asleep on the dining table.

I don't know how long it took, Yu Xin raised her head in a daze, rubbed her eyes, looked outside, it was already dark, Yu Xin hurriedly greeted the inner room, and went out to the village branch without waiting for Master Lu to reply.

There are no street lights in the village, and the village is so dark at night that you can only rely on the starlight in the sky and the lights from the houses on the side of the road to discern the way. The village entrance hotel is not far from the village department, and Yu Xin walked back along the path that came during the day. The village was extremely quiet at night, and even the sound of crickets in the stone cracks on the side of the road could be heard clearly, which made Yu Xin, who grew up in the city, feel a little surprised.

The road in Suyu Village is easy to identify, a country road runs through the whole village, and you can see the houses you are going to when you look around, and you can follow the branch path. Yu Xin walked along the country road for a while but did not see the village, she scratched her head in some confusion, and looked back, the village entrance hotel was far away, and there was no trace of the house and the signboard. There were no houses and forks on both sides of the path, so Yu Xin could only continue to walk forward, but after walking for a while, Yu Xin found that the time to go back had far exceeded that of the time when she came, she looked ahead and found that she had come to the small river that she had come in the afternoon.

These are obviously two opposite directions, Yu Xin felt a cool air penetrate her body from the top of her head, she looked around, and there was no sound quietly. She turned around suddenly, lowered her head and walked briskly in the direction of the village entrance hotel, she didn't dare to raise her head or look back, just kept walking, suddenly, she felt that something was wrong, she slowly raised her head, or by the river.

Yu Xin's mind flashed the frightened and incredible expression of Sun Ye before his death in the file, and she covered her mouth tightly, as if something unpredictable would happen once she called out. She continued to lower her head, turned around and ran with all her strength, she was tired and panting in a few minutes, she covered her eyes and looked up, her fingers slowly parted, she looked out through the gap between her fingers, still beside the river.

Yu Xin felt that the hot wind around her had become cold at some point, and the insect chirping on the side of the road had also turned into an eerie wind. She seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly took out her mobile phone from her trouser pocket and pressed the unlock button, she looked at the mobile phone screen a little nervously, and the screen lit up as usual, and the upper right corner showed that the 4G signal was also full. She immediately dialed Yi Yang's number, and as soon as the number was connected, she immediately brought the microphone to her mouth: "Yi Yang, Yi Yang, are you there?" Where are you". But what came from the earpiece was the system's prompt tone, and no one answered. Yu Xin hung up the phone and dialed Yi Yang's phone again, she listened nervously to the receiver, as if she would miss it if she was not careful. This time, the phone rang three times and someone answered, Yu Xin screamed a little nervously, but as soon as she called Yi Yang, the voice on the other side of the earpiece came. "Yi Yang, Yi Yang, are you there? Where are you? It was a woman's voice, and the voice was so familiar, Yu Xin was stunned for a moment, this was what she said when she called Yi Yang for the first time just now, and this voice was also her own voice.

"Ah!!!!!!!!!h Yu Xin finally couldn't control herself from screaming loudly, and the phone fell to the ground, Yu Xin ran forward a few steps, as if there was something weird about the mobile phone on the ground to come out of the screen.

Suddenly, Yu Xin, who was almost devastated, heard someone behind her shouting her name, she slowly turned around in disbelief, and she saw a vague figure slowly walking towards her. Ten meters, eight meters..... just when she was about to walk up to her, Yu Xin saw this person's face clearly, a man she was very familiar with, she had seen him before, but in the photo, she and Yi Yang had both seen it, it was Sun Ye, it was Sun Ye who had died, it was Sun Ye who was terrified when he died, as if he was greatly frightened.

Just when she saw Sun Ye slowly stretching out his hand to her as if in slow motion, she finally couldn't control her extremely tense nerves and fainted suddenly.