The guy took out the registration book, and kept looking through it, and finally he didn't see any record of the child.

"All the guests are registered?" Zhao Nan asked, holding the registration paper in his hand.

"Our inn has always been in accordance with the requirements of the official family, what does it say, we will do it, the book does not write that children are staying, that is, there is no." Lao Qin explained on the side.

Yes, this guy said the same thing when Li Linglong came over the day before yesterday.

"The seventh day of the first month is very sensible, and it is impossible to leave for no reason." Li Linglong begged the guy with tears in her eyes, "Think about it again, he said that he saw his past friend walk in, and he followed in and didn't find anyone." ”

The guy shook his head again and again: "There really aren't any children living in the hotel recently, miss, you must have seen it wrong." ”

"Impossible, how can you be wrong on the seventh day of the first month."

Li Linglong was anxious to cry out again.

Zhao Nan thought for a while and said, "Can I take a look around this inn?" ”

Lao Qin nodded and said, "Okay, Xiao Er, take this gentleman around, eldest lady, you look very bad, sit down and drink some tea first." Li Linglong shook her head: "No need, I'll look for it with Uncle Zhaonan." ”

The inn is not big, and the courtyard of the two entrances is a few minutes away from the back door. Zhao Nan motioned to the shopkeeper to open the back door, and the shopkeeper hesitated and took out a bunch of keys. The back door was opened, and it turned out that there was a very small and old pier opposite, with some railings on the shore, which seemed to be used for tying boats.

"No boats?" Zhao Nan walked out of the back door and looked around the small pier, the water in front of him was calm, and there was no end in sight.

"Yes, there used to be a dock here, and there were no boats for a long time."

Zhao Nan looked into the distance: "There is a dock here, so where are the ships on this dock going?" ”

The shopkeeper scratched his head and said, "In the past, I heard that there was a boat that would go to Wanhua Island, but there was no boat after it was deserted. ”

"Wanhua Island, I seem to have heard of this place when I was a child." Linglong thought about it, and her eyes lit up, "I remember, I remember when I was a child, adults said that if you were disobedient, you would be sent to Wanhua Island, what is Wanhua Island?" ”

The guy sighed: "Of course it's a bad place, there used to be lepers, there was a church hospital dedicated to leprosy, those patients were crazy, and then it seemed that they killed the doctors and nurses, and then burned them clean, it's scary to think about, these people, when they are sick, their hearts are broken, they are like wolves." ”

"So, this wharf used to have ships to Wanhua Island, and then the island was abandoned and there were no more ships docking at this wharf?"

Zhao Nan asked.

"Yes, those people on the island also have to eat and drink, and every month there are ships to deliver food, and I have heard that those sick people are simply desane, and when they kill people, they happen to ship food over, and they kill the boatmen, and burn the boat, it is a tragedy on earth. Hey, no one has been to that island since, I heard it's haunted! ”

Haunted? Linglong was very interested in this matter: "Uncle Zhaonan, do you think you will go there on the seventh day of the first month?" He just likes to study something weird. ”

"But there are no boats here, how can he get there?"

Zhao Nan thought about it and found that he didn't know whether he could swim or not.

"But we searched the whole town, but we didn't find the seventh day of the first month, only there, we haven't been there yet." Linglong looked at the water a little embarrassed, and suddenly her eyes widened, and she grabbed Zhao Nan's hand and asked: "Uncle, haunted, that island is haunted, is it, could it be that the little friend I saw in the seventh year of the year is actually not a person, but a ghost." ”

"This ......" Zhaonan looked into the distance, there should be such a possibility.

"Little second brother, when was this Wanhua Island abandoned?" Linglong asked.

"It's been ten years." Lao Qin's voice sounded, "Miss, don't think about going there, it's very evil there." Moreover, it takes an hour to go to Wanhua Island by boat, and it is impossible for a child to swim there. ”

Decade! The seventh day of junior high school is now twelve years old, and the little friend who sells newspapers with him should be a similar age, so that little friend can't be a ghost.

Originally, Zhao Nan thought that if it was like Linglong said, Chu Qi's little friend was also a leprosy patient and was sent to that island, and later died, Chu Qi saw his soul, but Lao Qin said that the island had been abandoned for ten years.

"Let's look somewhere else." Linglong pulled Zhao Nan and said.

Zhao Nan nodded, his gaze glancing at the railing on the dock for a few moments, and turned to leave with Linglong.

The two of them searched in the town for a day, but they still didn't see the figure of Chu Qi, so they could only return to the manor of the Linglong family.

"Uncle Zhaonan, I know you're not an ordinary person, you really can't use ......" Linglong hesitated and asked, "Use your magical powers to find where is the seventh year of the first month?" ”

Zhao Nan shook his head: "Using ability also requires some clues, there is no one in this world who is a real god, Linglong, I just have a little more mysterious ability than ordinary people." He asked, somewhat surprised, "When did you see that?" ”

"Uncle, I haven't said it thoroughly, but it doesn't mean that I won't doubt it, I remember the first time I met you when I was five years old, and my uncle took you to our house, do you remember?"

Zhao Nan nodded: "Yes, you were dressed like a little boy at that time, who would have thought that more than ten years have passed and you have grown into a lady." ”

Thinking of the past, Zhao Nan smiled and diluted some of his worries.

"Yes, I've grown up, but Uncle Zhaonan, you're still exactly the same as when I was five years old."

"It's a problem, and I've had to change places every 20 years because I'm worried about it. That is, when you are twenty-five years old, I will leave Shanghai. ”

When Zhao Nan said this, he was a little sad.

Linglong looked at Zhao Nan, her heart was surging, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, Zhao Nan said: "You stay at home, don't walk around, I will go to Wanhua Island alone at night." ”

"Why? Didn't you say that kid can't be a ghost? Why go to Wanhua Island? ”

"Lao Qin and that guy are lying, there are always boats docked at that dock."

Linglong was shocked: "No, Uncle Qin watched me grow up, he is very good, how can he lie, besides, Uncle Zhaonan, how do you know that there is always a ship docked there?" ”

"Because those railings, there are a few big iron rings on those railings, which are tied to the boat, and the middle of the iron rings has to be polished and shiny, if the boat has not been tethered for ten years, and the water vapor on the river is so big, the iron rings cannot be so bright, and they are all fresh friction marks. That dock, the boat has been parked, why are they lying? ”

Linglong's heart was twisted, in her heart, this town is her hometown, she was born here, grew up to five years old and followed her parents to Shanghai, and then came here every winter and summer vacation, everyone in this town is as kind as family, she can't believe that Lao Qin will lie, but the seventh day of the first month is indeed missing near the inn.

"Don't worry, I'll bring the seventh day of the first month back. All you have to do is stay at home honestly, some people, some things, that you're not really familiar with. ”

Zhao Nan gently pressed her shoulder, and spoke seriously.