Tongcheng is located on the edge of a tributary of the Yangtze River, surrounded by mountains, traffic is blocked, and it has been very backward in the past. Until around 2000, the expressway was opened, and the development of Tongcheng was like taking a high-speed train, out of control, and now it has become an important economic town in the province. Like other emerging cities, people in Tongcheng want to go out, and they all go to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou; And the people around want to come to Tongcheng.

In the past few years that Jian Yao has been in college, she has been going home every year, and she can feel that her hometown is the same every year - the old buildings have disappeared one by one, commercial real estate has risen from the ground, and there are more and more people. Of course, there are constants. For example, the majestic river that surrounds the city, such as the Monument to the People's Heroes in the middle of the city, and the secluded villa in front of her that seems to exist apart from the world and time.

At eight o'clock in the morning, she arrived as promised, knocked on the door, and found it open. The room was quiet and silent, with only the sunlight shining on the dark brown floor, and no one seemed to be there.

Yesterday, Fu Ziyu also called her, saying that he would return to City B soon, and let her do everything at the villa in the future. On the first floor, except for the locked room, she could use it as she could - it seems that this was the beginning of "self-convenience".

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Everything in the living room was as usual, except for a white lacquered square table and chairs in the corner near the window. On the table was a laptop and a stack of old, yellowed documents. According to the agreement, the formal workload is larger, and electronic documents are still used.

Jian Yao sat down at the table.

Outside the window, the distant mountains are winding, and the snow is as continuous as white satin; Nearby, the pine forest is covered with sunshine over the tips of the branches. Looking at the desktop again, it was as clean as new - yes, the working environment was pleasant. Turning on her computer, she found a TXT text document on her desktop, titled an email address, and blank.

Jian Yao got up again and walked around the room.

Next to the living room is the dining room, Jian Yao smelled some residual fireworks, and thought that Mr. Bo would usually start a gang at home. She put the fruit she had brought in the refrigerator, which was almost empty, except for half a bowl of white fish soup.

The dining room has a side door that connects to a corridor. Jian Yao took a few steps forward and unexpectedly found a fishing rod thrown in the corner of the wall.

There are many fish in the small town, and it is not unusual for many homes to have fishing rods. What is strange is that the one in front of you is the "DAIWA Red Tiger", or a limited edition, one of the best and most expensive fishing rods in the world, and an artifact in the hearts of many anglers.

Jian Yao stopped and admired for a while, then took out her mobile phone and took two more photos, and then continued to walk forward.

When she was nearing the end, her steps couldn't help but stagnate—

In front of him was a very dark small hall, with heavy curtains covering the windows on both sides, as if sealed, no light came in, dark and cold. There was nothing in the small hall except two closed doors.

Jian Yao walked into the shadows, walked to one of the doors, and gently pushed it—it didn't move, it was locked.

She turned and walked back to the living room. It was almost over, she made herself a cup of coffee and got to work.

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The morning passed quickly, and Jian Yao sat in place, barely moving her nest.

When she was immersed in work, Fu Ziyu was sitting in a rather claustrophobic room on the second floor, with a wall full of monitor screens in front of her.

He stared at Jian Yao's slender and quiet figure in one of the pictures, turned his head to Bo Jin Yan and said, "This young lady is quite honest. Then I'll rest assured, and I'll go back to City B tomorrow. ”

Bo Jinyan leaned back on a single sofa, his long legs folded on the footstool. The sleeves of his shirt were rolled up halfway, and he held a plate of grilled whitebait in his hand, and slowly put them in his mouth one by one. He also glanced up at the picture, and his deep and mellow voice did not rise and fall at all: "Boring, like wood." ”

Fu Ziyu sneered: "You picked the people yourself." As soon as he turned his head, he found that the plate in Bo Jinyan's hand, which was still full of Dengdeng, was empty.

He was silent for a moment, but he still couldn't help but mutter: "If you don't eat fish, you'll die?" ”

Bo Jinyan licked the fish residue off his long fingers, smiled and replied, "No." But I'm going to get grumpy when I'm not satisfied. ”

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After eating with Jian Yao that day, Li Xunran began to get busy. On the one hand, I have to be busy with other tasks at hand, and on the other hand, I have to deal with the case of the disappearance of teenagers.

But the investigation of this case has been bogged down: the missing teenagers come from different districts and counties, and the time of disappearance is also different. Li Xunran could not find direct evidence to prove that such a gang really existed. Although the director attaches great importance to his discovery, he also pays attention to evidence in everything, so it is impossible to formally combine the investigation and invest more police resources at this stage.

After work that day, Li Xunran made a special trip to invite an old criminal policeman in the bureau to dinner.

It was a winter night, the weather was freezing, and the two sat in a small shop, steaming hot pot and eating hot pot. After three glasses of wine, Li Xunran began to consult the old criminal policeman. The old criminal policeman glanced at him and said, "Li Xunran, you really have nothing to do." ”

Li Xunran smiled. yes, he's really not looking for trouble. But he found it.

He lit a cigarette and said as he smoked, "I trust my instincts. These cases must have been done by the same people. If others don't check, I can't put it down. If you put it down, the children will definitely continue to disappear one by one. ”

The old criminal policeman was silent, and said after a while: "It's not easy to check, the country is so big, do you know where they came from?" How many times do people change hands when they get into their hands? Again, they did it without a trace.

Want to solve a crime? Two ways: First, find an expert detective. This kind of case is not something that ordinary people like us can solve. But most of the experts nowadays are, and I haven't seen a detective in most of my life. So the probability is close to zero;

The second way is just like the old Jane. In the early 90s, there were more people selling children than there are now. How did Old Jane solve the case? He disguised himself as a beggar for food, and squatted at those farmers' markets and bus stations for two months, and then traffickers asked him to 'transport goods'. He has arrested a lot of traffickers in a row and made great contributions. It's a pity that Old Jane died too early and too tragically. But it's not necessarily useful to do that now, because the cities are bigger, there are more people, and the criminals are getting smarter. ”

After listening to this, Li Xunran picked up a glass of wine and drank it quietly. The old criminal policeman said again: "By the way, it was Jian Yao who was with you that day, right?" The little girl looks good, and the longer she grows, the more beautiful she becomes. I said you kid, don't make a mistake, it's not easy to find a suitable one in the line of criminal police. Be good to others, and it's serious to get married early. ”

Li Xunran: "Get married." She's my sister. ”

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The days passed quickly, and every afternoon, Jian Yao would send the completed document to the email address on the computer. The next day, there is a reading receipt automatically sent by the other party's mailbox. But Mr. Bo has not replied to the email and has not shown up.

No news is good news.

It's just that I often see the best fishing rod in the villa, and Jian Yao's fishing addiction is also hooked.

After working for a week, she specially picked a day with good weather to rest. It was the weekend, and as soon as the sun came out, she called Li Xunran.

When she received her call, Li Xunran was wearing a stinky "beggar suit", sitting in a corner of the Chengnan Market with a smudge, looking at passers-by quietly with a pair of black eyes. He had been here for several days now, whenever he had time, but he had found nothing.

"Fishing? I'm on duty. He replied absentmindedly, "Well, I'll see you in the afternoon, I'm not sure how long I can do." ”

After saying that, he hung up. Jian Yao smiled and continued to pack up the fishing gear. Thinking of the "secret vault" he said, he was slightly stunned.

It was a good fishing spot that the two of them discovered when they were children—the mouth of a small stream. There are dense aquatic plants, leeward and sunny, and there are always plenty of fish. However, the location is quite out of the ordinary, and most people don't know about it. Li Xunran when he was a teenager deliberately named it "Secret Vault".

There's another reason why the vault is inaccessible – it's just below the mountainside where the legendary villa is located, and it's not far vertical. Given the reputation of haunted houses, many people don't go there.

Now that Bo Jinyan is back, he can see it at a glance from the window of his living room.

The vault is no longer hidden, but it's still a good place to remember.

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After lunch, Jian Yao set off. It's the warmest part of the day, when the sun dapples the trails and opens up past the villa and through an overgrown path. Between the black-brown rocks, there is a sparkling surface of water that stretches to the river in the distance. This is the vault.

It was quiet, and there was no one. Jian Yao found a big tree to sit down and fished for a while, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a fishing rod under a tree opposite, but there was no one.

At this moment, her mobile phone rang, it was Li Xunran, and she said in a very crisp tone: "There is something, I can't come." ”

Jian Yao: "Li Xunran! I've all arrived. ”

Li Xunran smiled: "Then you play by yourself, the secret vault belongs to you." Pay attention to safety, call me if something, I hung up? ”

Jian Yao sighed: "Goodbye." ”

Hanging up the phone, she sat for a while, got up and walked over to see the unmanned rod.

It's a bit unexpected, but it's reasonable - it's actually the DAIWA Red Tiger.

Jian Yao's heart moved slightly, and she looked up. But the surrounding trees are quiet and deep, and there is still no half of a figure.

She turned around and was just about to leave, when she heard a sharp and soft sound of the bell on the fishing rod - a big fish had bitten and caught.

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Jian Yao put the carp that was nearly a foot long into the fish basket. She looked at the empty hook again, thought about it, and found the bait box next to the ground where he had inserted the rod, and put it back in his original form.

Perhaps the DAIWA Red Tiger is really powerful, or it is rare to have warm weather, and the fish are enthusiastic. Before she could get back to her place, there was another fish bite on his side. In half an hour, she actually caught six fish for him.

Mr. Bo hasn't come back yet.

Jian Yao thought that he might have left in a hurry, but the fishing rod of tens of thousands of yuan was inserted at the water's edge so casually, and fortunately met her.

Later, Jian Yao simply moved her rod to his side, and replaced the simplest and most primitive earthworms in his bait box with her exclusive secret fish food. The top-quality fishing rod with the top-quality fish food is really invincible. When it was almost dark, Jian Yao had already caught two large baskets of fish, and she couldn't fit it anymore.

It took some effort for her to get the fish back to the villa and put his rod back in its place. After thinking about it, he sent him an email: "Mr. Bo, I happened to meet your fishing rod by the river, I don't know if you can't come back because of something, so I took the liberty to get it back for you, as well as the fish I caught." If there is anything wrong, forgive me. ”

She went home with a few fish. In the evening, the phone prompts that there is a new email. When I opened it, I actually received the first email that Mr. Bo had ever replied to:

"The fish was good. Thank you. ”

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When Jian Yao went to the villa the next day, there was still no one inside. She didn't put yesterday's events at ease, and continued to work.

When she was resting, she went to wash the fruit. As soon as I entered the kitchen, I smelled the smell of fish. When I opened the refrigerator, I was shocked slightly - there were a lot of fish.

The refrigerator that was almost empty yesterday is full of dazzling today. Braised fish, steamed fish, pickled pepper fish head, fish slices, stewed fish soup...... It's all stuffed, and it's all leftovers.

Jian Yao closed the refrigerator, and suddenly wanted to laugh - in the middle of the night, he did so many tricks by himself, this Mr. Bo must like to eat fish very much.

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The days passed like this, and after a few days, it was a rare good weather, and Jian Yao went to the secret vault with her sister. Li Xunran disappeared at all, and Jian Yao didn't bother him.

As soon as I arrived at the water's edge, I saw the DAIWA Red Tiger again. Jian Xuan recognized the sign and said in shock: "Who is this?" It's so chic. ”

Jian Yao was also a little strange - why did she throw the rod here again?

At this time, Jian Xuan had already lifted the pole: "Sister, it's empty." Empty hook, eaten by fish? Strange, what about the fish? It's hard to break free of this hooked fish. ”

When Jian Yao heard this, her heart moved, she looked down and found that there was not even a bait box on the ground. It's just a pole, bare here.

Jian Xuan also found out, and was even more puzzled: "This person is Jiang Taigong, waiting for the fish to take the bait?" ”

Jian Yao already understood, and replied with a slight smile: "It's not waiting for fish." ”

Wait for her.