The mayor was silent for a long time, as if he didn't know what to say.

Qi Lei crossed his fingers against the tip of his nose and replied:

"After that incident, the Zheng government sent relevant personnel to communicate with the villagers, but of course - no one was willing to move. We had to assist them in conducting a security check on the ladder, and everything was as usual. The other children walked that way home as usual, but for some reason, there were injuries almost every day after that. ”

"Hurt?"

Xu Ran's slightly drooping head lifted slightly, and the passing sunlight cast a blinding light on the thin lenses of his glasses.

"Yes," Wu said.

"Except for the longest and steepest ladder where the deceased died accidentally, the slope and height of the ladder in other places are not large, and the children have not encountered so many accidents on the mountain road from childhood to adulthood, but now they have repeatedly stumbled on the ladder with more complete safety measures. But fortunately, the accident site is not high, and it is basically a foot injury. ”

Li Wuyuan listened absentmindedly, and the fingers in his pocket kept touching the thin chocolate bar, wondering when he would have the opportunity to eat it.

Xu Ran's eyebrows involuntarily condensed slightly.

Mayor Mare: "That's why it's weird...... Captain Wu, I think I should really ask a gentleman to take a look, after all, this is a place where people have died......"

"Mayor Mare,"

Qi Lei knew that Wu Jian was a staunch materialist and admired science, so he took the lead in knocking on the table as if he was invited, and said: "Our Wu team has seen a lot of murders, if someone dies and goes to the old way, then what do you need the police to do?" ”

"I didn't mean that......" The mayor was anxious and aggrieved, and couldn't argue.

Xu Ran picked up the glass and took a sip of warm water, and said, "Can you take me to the scene to have a look?" ”

Qi Lei and Wu Jian both looked at him, as if they were a little surprised.

Wu Jian: "Comrade Xu Ran, your work can generally be completed within the police station, and now it is not a special situation, are you sure you want to go?" ”

"Share the worries of the party and serve the people," Xu Ran smiled indifferently.

"The juniors just want to take this opportunity to increase their knowledge, Team Wu, are you right?"

Wu Jian smiled: "Accurate, young people are so enthusiastic, how can there be no reason." ”

Liudao Village is far away from Shipu Town, more than 80 kilometers away from the mountainous area, the small car swayed on the slightly bumpy mountain road for nearly three hours before arriving at the guest house outside the campus at the foot of the mountain.

Iron-cast parapets and long ladders stand out from the hill and are stained with dark blue paint.

"Because of the successive accidents, the school is now temporarily closed, and the surrounding area is also temporarily blocked."

As he spoke, Qi Lei bent down to set up a cordon for them.

Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan entered the blockade, and the former looked up at the towering ladder hidden in weeds and thorns.

The latter took out a chocolate bar and held it in his mouth as if he were a smoker.

Qi Lei looked at her and was slightly stunned, probably because he didn't expect this girl to be able to eat calmly at the scene of the crime.

Xu Ran was slightly puzzled, there were often many unusual things in the mountains and forests in the countryside, but when he looked around, he didn't even find half a ghost shadow.

Li Wuyuan glanced at him, "What do you see?" ”

Xu Ran shook his head and said to the two: "Go up and have a look." ”

Qi Lei opened his mouth, as if he wanted to stop it, but when he saw that the two new juniors climbed up without thinking about it, he had to follow hard.

The longest ladder they have climbed now has more than 100 steps, and the summer heat in the mountains and forests is not very sufficient, but the cicadas that should have been there have disappeared in this mountain forest.

Xu Ran had been looking forward to seeing or feeling something, but until the end, he didn't gain anything.

"No wish, the location under your feet is where the deceased Fan Xiaoer stumbled and fell." Qi Lei said to Li Wuyuan, who was about to reach the top.

Li Wuyuan looked at his feet, and took out another chocolate bar with his free right hand.

Qi Lei: "......"

The longest and steepest ladder climbs to the end, and after going up to the narrow heights, there is another spliced short ladder, which is also the area with a high incidence of accidents recently.

Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan were about to continue climbing up without thinking, but suddenly heard Qi Lei, who was walking at the end, shouting in disbelief:

"Wait......"

Xu Ran quickly turned his head, only to see Qi Lei alone on the ladder in horror, looking at them:

"I've got ...... on my back Is there something? ”

Li Wuyuan narrowed his eyes: "No." ”

She can catch ordinary ghosts.

After hearing this, Qi Lei suddenly woke up as if he had been enlightened, straightened his back, and said to himself:

"That should be because I'm too nervous...... Strange, why did you feel a little heavy just now? ”

Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan looked at each other and said, "Officer Qi, you go in the middle." ”

"Huh? No! ”

Qi Lei also climbed up the exposed high ground, tightened the tie on his chest, and said: "How can there be a reason to let girls go to the end, it's okay, keep going!" ”

Xu Ran pulled the corners of his mouth strangely, and smiled without smiling: "She is also worthy of being called a girl." ”

When he said this, he just climbed two steps of the ladder, and Li Wuyuan below kicked on the iron ladder, Xu Ran shook his whole body, and hugged the guardrail next to him.

He looked down in shock, and saw Li Wuyuan tilting his head and smiling at him in a friendly manner, the ponytail behind his head drawing a light and soft arc in the air.

"Dead Cat ......"

Xu Ran scolded in a voice that only he could hear.

In the back, except for Li Wuyi's troubles, it can be said that the journey was smooth and unimpeded.

After climbing the mountain and walking for half an hour, you can see an iconic old locust tree at the entrance of Liudao Village.

It shouldn't be the first time that Qi Lei has visited Liudao Village, and he brought the two into the village with ease.

"Where do the recently injured children live?" Xu Ran asked.

Qi Lei: "This is a lot, since Fan Xiaoer's accident, a total of thirteen children have been injured,—— you want to interview?" ”

Xu Ran nodded.

"Officer Qi! Why are you here again! ”

As the two were talking, a middle-aged woman came out of the courtyard of a house, carrying a bucket in her hand, because she lived at a higher altitude all year round, and her cheeks were red on both sides.

"Yo, Sister-in-law Tian, are you going out?" Qi Lei is worthy of being a people's policeman, and he is very cordial when he sees the people.

"yes, what are you going to do this time? I heard my man say that you hid the mayor from seeing anyone, why did you come here to check the people's feelings? ”

Sister-in-law Tian doesn't seem to be a kind master, or she listened to her man's instigation on the phone, and her attitude towards Qi Lei is not very good.

Qi Lei smiled embarrassedly: "No, no, we are purely helpless about the mayor,—— by the way, these are the two new comrades in our bureau, they want to know the specific process of the children's injuries, come and interview, so ......"

"Still interviewing?"

Sister-in-law Tian interrupted him unceremoniously, glanced at the white and pure Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan with sideways eyes, and let out a cold snort in her nose.

"At first glance, it's from the city, my baby hasn't been on the ground for a few days, where is the strength for you to interview?"

Xu Ran lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and smiled slightly: "After the interview, we will give honest feedback to the mayor according to the extent of your child's injury, and at that time, under the pressure of media and public opinion, maybe the success rate of getting compensation will be higher, what do you think?" ”

Sister-in-law Tian was stunned for a moment, she didn't know what Xu Ran and the others were doing, but as soon as she heard that she had the opportunity to get money, she was fooled all of a sudden.

She hung the handle of the bucket on her elbow, and said, half-reluctantly:

"I'm not going to get that money, our children have climbed the mountain for a few years, and they just fell like this for no reason, and no one is happy in their hearts, right?"

Qi Lei was very up-to-the-road, and nodded straight: "Yes, yes, yes, so aren't we here to help you seek justice?" ”

Sister-in-law Tian was quickly coaxed happy by Qi Lei's three-inch incorruptible tongue, and seemed to think about it for a while before agreeing.

Li Wuwei had already eaten the remaining chocolate bars in the bag while waiting for her promise, she touched the empty bag in her pocket, and glanced at Sister-in-law Tian with some impatience.

Xu Ran noticed her look, lowered his eyelids, raised his hand and pulled the ends of her long hair, and said in a low voice:

"There's a lot more at home, and it's a bit promising."

Li Wuyuan pursed his mouth tastelessly and did not speak.

Sister-in-law Tian led the three of them into the house.

This kind of remote country house is partly an earthen house, and better yet, a brick house, and the house cannot be spotless, and the yard is often fed with poultry, so it is impossible to have clean air.

Li Wuyuan, who walked at the end, frowned, and by the way, wiped the dust on his hand that had helped the door frame when he entered the door to Xu Ran's back.

"Kid, do your feet still hurt?"

Qi Lei smiled and walked to the child's small bed, although the other party was sitting on the bed wrapped in bandages, but at the same time lying on the small table next to him to write homework, it can be seen that it is really the future of the motherland.

The child's face was also flushed, and when he lifted his face, his dark eyes were filled with curiosity and the ignorance and innocence that a young man possesses.

Sister-in-law Tian at the door carried a bucket and said to him: "What are you doing in a daze, shouting people!" ”

"Uncle......" the child hurriedly whispered.

Sister-in-law Tian glanced at him and said to Qi Lei: "I'll go out, you can ask whatever you want, that young man - remember to help me write a report!" She finally shouted at Xu Ran.

"Okay."

Xu Ran nodded, and watched Sister-in-law Tian walk away, before blowing the ash on the small wooden bench and sitting down.

Li Wuyuan looked at the small bench that was vacant next to him, but he didn't react.

As soon as Sister-in-law Tian left, the child's eyes seemed to be a little less nervous, and she kept secretly looking at Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan, especially the latter.

"Kid, can you tell your brother more about the time you fell off the ladder that day?" Xu Ran said.

When he is gentle, his voice has a natural low seduction, like a hypnotist luring a patient to tell the truth that no one knows.

Li Wuyuan seemed to be driven by his voice, remembered something from the past, and was slightly stunned.

Qi Lei was made to taste by the sentence "brother", and looked at him meaningfully:

"We're about the same age, aren't we?"

Xu Ran smiled indifferently and didn't do much entanglement.

He went on to ask the child:

"Child, did you hear any strange sounds or see any strange shadows when you fell that day?"