The road to Pingyao still relies on the guidance of Lin Chiling's sister. More than 60 kilometers from Guangrui to Pingyao, if the road is easy to walk, it will take thirty or forty minutes to arrive, but this road is not easy to walk.

After driving on the asphalt road for more than ten minutes, I drove onto a mottled dirt road, which was bumpy and rugged, and there were puddles in some places.

Lin Lu was glad to have chosen the off-road model at the beginning.

Jiang Sheng's hand suddenly stretched out, and his slender hand could easily hold her neck, the fingertips of his thumb rubbed on the side of her neck, Lin Lu did not squint, looked at the road and asked him:

"How?"

Jiang Sheng withdrew his hand again, "It's nothing, I just want to touch you." ”

Last night, he almost lost control, tossing her in a different way, and only this morning did he see that the side of her neck was bitten purple.

"Jiang Sheng,"

Jiang Sheng turned his face, Lin Lu's face was still pale and on weekdays, you couldn't see too many emotional changes on her face. Except, on the bed.

She continued: "You can't be sad no matter what the outcome of this search is. ”

Jiang Sheng nodded.

She said, "Answer me." ”

Jiang Sheng said, "Okay." ”

"Hmm."

Lin Lu finally gave up.

The car was like a bean in a sieve, and it was turned upside down for an hour and a half before it stopped in front of the boundary monument in Pingyao.

At the end of the road, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and weeds and poplar trees hide the roofs of the col.

Lin Lu lowered the window of the car first, Jiang Sheng went to buy her plasters and stasis medicine last night, and now there is a smell of Chinese medicine from the inside out.

She said, "That's it ahead." ”

Jiang Sheng kept staring at that place, "Hmm. ”

Lin Lu said, "Let's go in." ”

Jiang Sheng looked at her knees, "It takes twenty minutes to walk from here to there." ”

Lin Lu: "......"

Forget it, she starts the car.

Pingyao is a village with only about 100 households, and the road to the county seat is connected by an arch bridge. The car drove across the bridge, Jiang Sheng looked down, the river was turbulent, and there were several obvious traces of post-repair on the bridge. Looking upstream along the river, it is supposed to be a branch of the main river, which was washed away by heavy rains in summer.

The jeep stopped in an empty field, the two got out of the car, and a local dog came over, looked at Jiang Sheng with clean eyes, and passed by him with his tail wagging his tail, and when he walked to the rear wheel, he raised his hind legs......

Jiang Sheng: ......

With a bang, the person in the driver's seat closed the door, startled the dog, and ran away.

Lin Lu was carrying a backpack, she was standing at the front of the car and was looking down to light a cigarette, Jiang Sheng came over and pulled the backpack on her shoulder, "I'll carry it." ”

She tilted one shoulder, Jiang Sheng took advantage of the situation to pull down the backpack strap, and the other side did the same.

Lin Lu put the cigarette and lighter in his pocket, held the cigarette, looked at the houses built on the mountain, squinted his eyes and slowly exhaled the smoke.

Jiang Sheng was waiting for her, and Lin Lu said, "Let's go." ”

His hand naturally came over to hold her hand, and Lin Lu opened his five fingers to clasp with him.

Perennial rain washing, there are several obvious traces of water flow on the dirt road, here is the original ecology, the chickens are not locked in the chicken pen, wandering around on the road, there is a small river under the roadbed, the water is not deep, the feet can not go to the upper of the shoes, seven or eight ducks around the river pit to drink water and flutter their wings.

There was a strange smell of chicken manure in the air, and Lin Lu was a little unfamiliar with such an environment.

Lin Lu said: "In broad daylight, there is no one on the street? ”

It's a street, but it's actually a dirt road that's wider.

Jiang Sheng turned around and said with a smile: "This season should go down to the field to do farm work." ”

Lin Lu looked around, but did not find farmland.

Jiang Sheng said: "The terrain here is surrounded by mountains, like a basin, and some of them are cultivated on the mountains, and it is estimated that you can see the land behind the houses in front of you. ”

Lin Lu was holding a cigarette, but did not smoke, and a long piece of soot was blown off by the wind, mixed with the loess, and disappeared without a trace.

Passing by a private house, the door is not locked, one side is open, looking inside, there is a small dog lying on the steps in front of the house, gray and hairy, basking in the sun.

"Ask someone." Lin Lu said.

Jiang Sheng sent her away and walked to the house.

Lin Lu bent down to extinguish the cigarette, looked around, did not see the garbage can, the babbling stream between the cracks in the stone was cleanly brushed over the stone surface, the green grass was gentle, and there was not even a layer of dust on the leaves, she took out a tissue from her pocket and wrapped the cigarette butt and put it in her shoulder pocket.

Jiang Sheng walked into the courtyard, the dog's ears on the steps stood up, and when he saw the stranger, he immediately stood up and barked at him.

He stood in the middle of the courtyard paved with red bricks, and called to the house:

"Anyone?"

Jiang Sheng shouted four or five times, but no one in the room answered. He went back again.

Lin Lu looked at him back, "No one?" ”

Jiang Sheng said, "You wait here, I'll go up there and take a look." ”

Lin Lu followed him, "Let's go together." Knowing that he was worried about her leg, he added, "My knee doesn't hurt anymore." ”

Jiang Sheng saw that she walked much more neatly than yesterday, "It's really okay?" Again, she nodded.

Walking up a hill, I saw a small shop with blue wooden doors open and colorful plastic curtains hanging to keep flies and mosquitoes out.

The two of them walked into the small shop, and Jiang Sheng opened the curtain and let Lin Lu go in first.

There are four old men sitting on the earthen kang in the house, one of them is holding a card in his hand, Lin Lu glanced at it, a bit like pushing pai gow. At this time, the four old men looked over together, as well as the middle-aged man behind the counter.

Jiang Sheng walked in front of Lin Lu and said to the boss: "Big brother, I will ask you about the family." ”

It doesn't seem that strangers often come here, and Lin Lu and Jiang Sheng are obviously more entertaining than playing cards, and the four of them don't play cards, waiting for Jiang Sheng to speak.

The boss said, "Who do you ask?" ”

Jiang Sheng said: "The surname is Fang, Fang Zhongtao, and his wife's name is Zhang Suli." ”

"Oh...... Old house,"

Listening to his words, this is an acquaintance, Lin Lu didn't speak on the side, and listened quietly.

"They've moved away long ago, and they've been able to walk for decades."

Lin Lu's nerves were tense sensitively, and her attention was extraordinarily concentrated, she stared at the wooden counter in front of the boss, the wood surface was polished, and she seemed to be able to feel the smooth texture of the wood grain from a distance.

"Do they have a child named Xiao Kai?" Jiang Sheng asked.

The boss's thick brow locked before he said, "No." ”

Lin Lu's first reaction was not to be surprised, but to look at Jiang Sheng. He turned his face to her, a hint of disappointment and melancholy in his eyes.

Before Lin Lu could pull people, the boss answered, "He has a son in his family, and his name seems to be Xiao Lei." ”

Suddenly, someone from the group of old people playing cards behind him spoke, "Before Xiao Lei, there was still a kid, but that kid seemed to have lost it after more than a year of birth." ”

Lin Lu and Jiang Sheng turned back at the same time.

"You know?" Jiang Sheng hurriedly walked over, "When did you lose it?" How did you lose it? ”

The old man folded the cards, closed them into a hand, and held them in his palm to prevent others from looking. said: "It seems that it was stolen by human traffickers, and when it was stolen, it was not too old, and I really can't remember how old I was." ”

The boss asked, "Are you here to inquire about the Fang family, or about the child?" ”

Lin Lu turned around, "Inquire about everything." However, I wanted to know more about the child's situation. ”

"I remembered that you mentioned that." Another old man picked up, and the attention of several people shifted again, and he said, "Is there something wrong with that child?" ”

The old man before said: "Yes, he seems to be sick when he was born, when you see him, he is always sick." ”

A certain picture flashed in Lin Lu's mind, and Fang Zhongtao asked her, 'How has he been in health all these years?' ’

Without waiting for Jiang Sheng to ask, Lin Lu asked, "What disease?" ”

The old man recalled, Xu was too far away, his lips moved as if the words were on his lips, and he couldn't remember it for a while.

The small shop was instantly quiet and a pin drop could be heard.

"Uncle, you think slowly, what is the disease?" Jiang Sheng said soothingly.

"Oops, I can't remember," the old man is really old, his brows are furrowed like a pinched newspaper, and the creases are clear and profound, "It seems that there is something wrong with the internal organs,"

He was about to remember.

"That's right," the old man's cloudy eyes lit up, "heart disease, that kid has congenital heart disease, whenever you look at him, he wilts, and his lips go purple." The doctor in the county town showed it and said that the child should be cured, and he would get more than 100,000 yuan, but he may not be cured, and at that time, our annual harvest per acre of land was only more than 2,000, and he really couldn't cure it. Later, the two of them brought the child back, and Taozi couldn't help it, so he said that how much he could live was created by him. As a result, within a few days, the child was lost. ”

Jiang Sheng said thank you silently and walked out, and Lin Lu followed closely and came out to take Jiang Sheng's hand.

"Jiang Sheng,"

The people in front of them walked fast.

"Jiang Sheng!" Lin Lu's voice was louder this time.

"......" Jiang Sheng stopped.

Lin Lu walked up to Jiang Sheng, looked at him in the eyes and said, "You haven't forgotten what I said, have you?" ”

No matter what the outcome of this search is, you can't be sad. ’

Jiang Sheng nodded.