The restaurant is simply decorated with red lanterns and models of various vegetables and fish, giving it a strong rural flavor and a festive feel. After a while, the dishes came up, a roasted hare, a stewed fish with wild vegetables, two boiled corns, and two small glasses of home-brewed wine. Roasted hares are also okay, although the roast is very fragrant, but some time ago we took Xiao Hei to play around, and we didn't eat less hares. The stewed fish with wild vegetables was quite delicious, the fish was tender and the wild vegetables were fragrant, and I almost swallowed my tongue when I ate it. The wine is also very delicious, the entrance is soft, not spicy, and the degree is not high. I didn't eat the corn, so I gave it to Miss Bai, who likes to eat corn.

Thinking back to the early morning when we were dealing with a group of 'ancient people' on the other side of the Yellow River, but now we are sitting in this chic farmhouse, eating delicious food, and looking at the other tables with bright and fashionable clothes of 'modern people', it really feels like a world away. From time to time, there were also eyes on our table, but more often they fell on Miss Bai.

"Ah Leng, where are we going to find Uncle Yang later?" Miss Bai asked.

I thought about it and said, first go around this town, inquire, see if anyone has seen Uncle Yang, if not, we will go to the river beach to find out.

"Okay, listen to you." Miss Bai nodded.

I smiled.

"Laughing at what?" Miss Bai glanced at me and blushed, "Are you playing some crooked ideas again?" ”

"Is Xiaoxiao just a bad idea?"

"Then who knows." Miss Bai snorted and whispered fiercely, "As long as I recall the scene in the pond just now, I can't wait to bite you to death..."

"Hehe..."

"You're still laughing, I'll stuff this corn cob in your mouth!"

As soon as Miss Bai raised the corn cob, I hurriedly dodged, and when I raised my eyes, I saw the owner of the farmhouse walking in. I beckoned, and the boss walked over to our table.

"What, are you two dissatisfied with the food?" The boss asked with a smile.

"Nope." I gave a thumbs up, "The food is very delicious, I called you here to ask you personally..."

I even made comparisons and described Yang Shujun's physical characteristics. The boss squinted his eyes and thought about it, then shook his head and said he hadn't seen this person. I said in my heart, whether I find Uncle Yang or not, it will be too late when it gets dark, and it seems that I have to live in this town today. I asked the boss if there was a place to live, and the boss said that he did not provide accommodation in this farmhouse, and went out along Qingshi Street to the east, and there was a hotel on the side of the road...

While chatting, a man carrying a bucket and holding a trouser tube walked in, shouted at the boss in a loud voice, and the boss greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Why, you caught so many fish?"

The boss reached in, and there was a 'flutter' sound in the bucket, splashing the boss's sleeve with water.

"Hey, this fish is quite strong!" The boss laughed.

"That's it." The man with the bucket grinned, "There is another one, which was sucked into the pipe by the pumping machine, and when it comes out, it is dead." ”

"I won't take the dead fish." The boss laughed.

"I knew you wouldn't take it, so I didn't bring it."

Apparently, this man should be a fisherman from this town. The boss put his arm around the man's shoulder, and the two talked and walked towards the backyard.

"Let's go." Coming out of the farmhouse, I took a breath of air.

"Where?" Miss Bai asked.

"Let's go to the hotel first, book a room, wait for the next night, the room is booked out, and we will sleep on the embankment..."

The bluestone street is as clean as washing, looking at the cloud patterns on the bluestone under your feet, the whole person feels light, like walking on the clouds.

"I didn't expect that there was such a good place on this side of the Yellow River." I opened my arms and let out an 'ah' sound.

"What's the matter, the cold poet is flourishing again? Do you want to improvise? ”

I 'haha' laughed.

"Forget it." Miss Bai pouted, "Your poem, what's 'Oh, sister paper, charming sister paper...'"

"Why, didn't you do it well?" I asked with a smile.

"Okay, okay." Miss Bai said, "It's better than diet pills, when I just came back from Hebei, every time I wanted to restrain my appetite and lose weight, as long as I thought about your poem, I immediately had no appetite for eating..."

"Haha, do you miss me, or do you miss me for this poem?"

Miss Bai 'cut' and said, do you think you are very fragrant, I still miss you, if I miss you, it is not as simple as losing my appetite to lose weight, I will die of weight directly.

I let out a long 'oh' and sighed, "I see." ”

"Understand what?"

"Lovesickness becomes a disease, and I don't think about tea and rice..."

"I'll kick you to death! …”

Not long to the east, we came across the inn that the owner of the farmhouse was talking about.

"Book one room or two?" The innkeeper asked.

"Order..."

The boss smiled and patted his head, "I actually asked such a stupid question, so naturally I booked a room." As he spoke, he took out a bunch of keys, "Let's go, I'll show you the room..."

Miss Bai blushed and pouted, but she didn't say anything and followed me. The boss took us to a room on the second floor, only to see that the room was quite large, with two beds in the south and one in the north.

"Come, lad." The boss beckoned.

"What?" I walked over and asked suspiciously.

The boss clenched his big belly, and bent down to hold on to the bed, "Push this bed over." ”

"Why?"

"The two beds are up together, you two just slept open, you can roll around." The boss smiled, lowered his voice and said, "Seeing that you are so thin, you should be tossing and turning with your girlfriend every night, you have such a beautiful girlfriend, it would be strange if you were not thin..."

I couldn't stop crying, "I don't have to move the bed, what..."

"Don't worry, my hotel room is very soundproof, you can toss as much as you want..."

Looking at the sophisticated and skillful actions of the boss to move the bed, I guess that this hotel may often have couples staying at the hotel.

"I think Uncle Yang must have been to this town." Coming out of the hotel, I said to Miss Bai.

"Oh?"

"And he stayed at this hotel."

Miss Bai's eyes lit up and she grabbed my arm, "Did you show something in the hotel, or sense something?" However, you just asked, the boss said that he hadn't seen Uncle Yang, could he be lying to us? ”

I shook my head and said with a wry smile, "Look at the boss just now, he is so unreliable, and he looks cheap, I guess he was infected with Uncle Yang..."

Miss Bai was stunned at first, but after reacting, she let go of her hand and patted me.

The two men continued side by side along Bluestone Street to the east to a stone bridge. Two weeping willows at the head of the bridge stand side by side, and the small river under the bridge is crystal clear. Standing on the bridge, there is a feeling of coming to the Jiangnan water town. A short walk across the stone bridge is a funeral supply store with a black cloth hanging above the door and two faded paper flowers nailed to each side of the door. Because Master does paper work and sells funeral supplies, I always have an inexplicable sense of intimacy when I see funeral supplies stores.

The funeral shop is a short distance east of town, and it is very quiet and uncrowded.

"Let's go and ask in this store." I waved my hand.

The store was dark, there was an open back door in the southwest corner, and there was a row of flower baskets against the wall in the store, as well as wreaths and other paper objects, and a woman with a headscarf, who should be the proprietress of the shop, was sitting at the counter napping. The shelves behind the women were full of incense wax, straw paper and other sacrificial supplies.

"Do you want to buy sacrificial things, or do you want to do paperwork?" When the woman heard the commotion, she opened her eyes and looked at us, stood up hurriedly, and asked earnestly.

After I made my intentions clear, the woman pulled her face down, waved her hand, and said, I have never seen this person.

"Let's go." Miss Bai said.

I shook my head, and was about to turn around and leave the store with Miss Bai when I accidentally glanced at the back door, only to see a lot of paper figure frames in the courtyard outside the door. My heart shook as if it had been poked by something.

"Boss, do you also make paper figurines in this store?" I pointed to the backyard.

"Huh?" The woman said impatiently, "Of course, what funeral store doesn't make paper figurines?" ”

"Can I go and have a look in your backyard?"

The woman frowned and looked at me, "What are you going to see in the backyard?" ”

"I... I suddenly planned to buy a few paper figurines and go back and burn them for my grandfather, so that they could go to the underworld to be his old man's companion and serve him. ”

The woman immediately changed her attitude, and her face was full of smiles, "It's easy to say, what kind of do you want to buy?" Boys, boys, girls, old men, old ladies... Whatever you want, we can make. ”

"Let's go to the backyard first and see what to do."

The woman, though a little confused, took us anyway. When I came to the backyard, I squatted down to take a look, and sure enough, these paper figures were made of reeds! When the reed is soaked in water, it will have strong toughness and can be bent into any shape. The workmanship of these paper figures in front of us is exactly the same as the workmanship of the paper figures we saw in Gaojia Village!

I looked at Miss Bai and saw that her face was slightly discolored.

I took a deep breath, casually pinched the frame of a paper figure in front of me, and said to the proprietress, "You paper figures are made of reeds." ”

"Well, Reed."

"Where did you get the reeds for the paper figures?"

"I bought it across the river."

"Crossing the river? Where did you buy it from across the river? ”

The woman was a little impatient, but she still answered my 'question' with a forced smile for the sake of my business.

"There is a Gaojia village on the north side of the Yellow River, and there is a reed swing in front of the village, and we bought this reed from there."

My heart moved, but I nodded quietly, "Oh... Can you make a paper figure as big as a real person? ”

"Of course, do you want a man or a woman?"

"Don't be busy, I'll talk about it later, boss, let me ask you, has anyone recently bought a life-size paper figure from you?"

The woman scratched her face, "What are you asking for?" ”

"It's okay, just ask."

"Some time ago... Someone bought a paper figurine from us. ”

"Oh?" My eyes lit up, "Who is that person and where he lives, do you know?" ”

The woman finally got impatient and spread her hands, "How do I know where that grandson lives?" Our town is so big, there are so many outsiders, and I don't even know most of the people in our town! I said, are you doing interviews? Why are there so many problems when you buy paper? ”

I smiled, got up and waved at Miss Bai, "Forget it, Yuxin, let's go." ”

"Huh? I said, you, don't you want to buy paper people? ”

I didn't want to entangle with the woman, so I nodded and said, "Okay, how much is it, I'll buy it." ”

"One five hundred, pay a deposit of two hundred and five first."

"What?" My eyeballs almost didn't fall off.

"Pay a deposit of two hundred and fifty first." The woman finished angrily and stretched out her hand to me.

"Are your paper figures here sold as real people?"

"How do you speak?"

"Just talking, it's so expensive, I didn't buy it, and I didn't plan to buy it, Yuxin, let's go!"

The woman tore off her headscarf and threw it on the ground, "Okay, it's been a long time, your grandson used to entertain the old lady!" ”

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