"Last year?"

"Oh, no, if you count it now...", the man snapped his fingers, "I think it was the year before last..."

"You mean, your brother was crushed to death by the collapse of the kiln? …”

"Yes..."

I remembered that at that time, when I went to dig the clock in the abandoned house, the five workers who had dealt with me who had long since died, were a little cold in my heart...

"What does your brother look like?" I asked.

This person seemed to be a little puzzled when he saw that I had so many questions, but he didn't say anything, and gestured with his hand.

"With my body... It's about the same, when he used to be at a construction site, he was knocked off two front teeth by a brick, and the people who played with him called him a fangzi..."

Tooth open? … I had the image of this man in my mind.

The man took a drag on his cigarette, "It's very wicked..."

"Oh?" I came back to my senses.

"He seemed to know that something was going to happen to him the night before, and after calling me and chatting for a long time, I wondered very much, why is he such a stingy person so willing to pay for the phone? I told him, I said that if you really can't do it, come and play with me, you don't need money to call for so long..."

"What did he say?"

"He didn't even think about my words, and he just cared about himself on the phone. What do you say, when I go back to my hometown, I will take him to see his old man (father)..."

I frowned, "Are you not a brother to him?" ”

"No, cousin," the man twisted his snot with his hand and rubbed it on his shoe, "so I asked him, I said, is there something wrong with you, why did I listen to you talk so weirdly?" ”

"What did he say?"

"He said I'm fine, I just miss you... Then he hung up the phone, and then the next day, I heard that the brick kiln factory where he worked had a kiln collapsed, and he was crushed to death in it. God doesn't open his eyes, Mom sells skin..."

"Why are you scolding God?" I swallowed.

"There's something you can't scold, I'll scold, he has the ability to take me away..."This person patted his chest, muttered to himself, spitting stars, "Lao Tzu, I have a rotten life, I'm not afraid of anything, I went home last year to harvest grain (corn) and didn't find a job, so I ran here, I just want to see, his God's turtle son, dare to take the old man away, Lao Tzu I..."

"Okay, okay, big brother, don't get excited, come, smoke another cigarette..."

This person's appearance, coupled with his full dialect, is really cute. I forced a laugh and handed him another cigarette. He lit his cigarette and took a breath of anger.

"When your brother used to work here, who did you know better, do you know?"

"I don't know much, after all, he had been dead for a long time when I came. In itself, he is not very talkative. I only know that he has a good relationship with that accountant Wang, and they often play together..."

"Accountant Wang? Is Wang Manqiang? ”

"Yes, the one who died last year..."

As soon as I heard this man's words, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and I couldn't figure out what to ponder, and all kinds of complicated thoughts were surging in my heart, and I had no clue.

"Oh—" The man came like a rooster crowing and slapped his hand on his leg, startling me.

"What's wrong?"

"I remember, when he was alive before, it seems that he talked about a girl here..."

"Girlfriend?"

"Well, I remember he told me once, that girl is from the city, and he said that Accountant Wang's wife introduced them to each other..."

Accountant Wang's wife? I was stunned, Accountant Wang's wife had already died, so there is no doubt that the 'wife' of Accountant Wang that this person was talking about must be the female teacher...

I walked around this brick kiln factory and found nothing, so I called Yuxin, said goodbye to Boss Wu, and left the brick kiln factory.

"A-Leng, where are we going?" Back in the car, Yuxin asked.

I thought about it for a while and said, "Let's go, go to Accountant Wang's village and find that female teacher..."

Yuxin squinted at me, with a smile on her face, "What, do you miss someone?" ”

"What..."

I almost wanted to cry, and told Yuxin everything I had just asked that person.

"There's nothing to do when we go back anyway, we might as well walk around..."

"Okay." Yu Xin smiled, "You're quite smart, you don't have to pay for gas, and you have a free driver..."

"Hehe... Yuxin. ”

"Huh?"

"Your father," I frowned and pondered, "why did you marry that Boss Wang in the first place?" ”

Yu Xin smiled.

"I'm sorry, shouldn't I have asked?"

"It's okay..."Yu Xin smiled bitterly, "I just don't understand why, he refused to say it when I went to ask him after Brother Wang's death, so I turned my face with him... Why, do you suspect that Brother Wang's death is related to my father? ”

"No, I casually asked... I'll say something, don't be angry. ”

"Say it."

"I think your father is so mysterious."

"Hehe, I'll say something too, Ah Leng, do you believe it?"

"You say."

Yuxin looked at me, "Even I don't know what he does." ”

"This..."

"I know you don't believe it, but I'm telling the truth, I never know what he does, in the past, I was just a tool, he said let me go to dinner with whomever I wanted, I went to eat with whomever he said, he said let me do what I did, I did it. When I got to the back, he threw me to Brother Wang like a tool. Although I don't love Brother Wang, Brother Wang has always been very good to me, and with him, I have tasted the warmth of the world and the warmth of family affection. Just when I was about to accept my fate and plan to live like this with Brother Wang, Brother Wang died..."

Yu Xin smiled again, her smile contained endless bitterness, "Ah Leng..."

"Huh?"

"If..."Yu Xin bit her lip vigorously, "Brother Wang's death is not caused by the house, but related to my father, then, I must not be finished with him..."

"Well, but, don't think about it so much, good, I think, it should have nothing to do with your father, about the cause of Boss Wang's death, I'm just guessing..."

In the rest of the time, Yuxin and I didn't speak, thinking about our own thoughts. I feel sad that Yuxin has such a cold-blooded father. Since the last time I said goodbye to the villa, Yuxin's father hasn't called her, including the New Year...

When I came to Accountant Wang's village, I saw that the door of Accountant Wang's house was locked, and there was no one at all. So we went to the house of the king.

"I've been here, there was such a woman a few years ago, she was very handsome, she said that Wang Manqiang was the wife who didn't go through the door, and she wanted to take Wang Manqiang's son Xiaodong to study in the city, and then she took him away..."

"Where in the city do they live, you know?"

"I don't know much about this, I only heard that some time ago, Xiaodong seemed to have been touched by a car and was hospitalized, and some of Manqiang's relatives even bought things to see him."

"Oh? Which hospital? ”

"It seems to be..."

Wang Mangui thought about it and told us the name. Yuxin and I glanced at each other, it was the hospital where Old Man Yang lived.

When I arrived at the hospital, I went straight to the vice president. The vice dean pushed his glasses up and stared at me up and down for a few moments before he recognized me. With the help of the vice president, we called up the hospitalization registration of Wang Xiaodong, the son of Accountant Wang. According to the address written on it, Yuxin and I came to a community.

It's a place that resembles an urban village, and the buildings look messy. Bypassing a small two-story building and passing through a long alley, we came to a tiled house. On the road behind the house, all kinds of cars spewed exhaust fumes and honked their horns noisily. In the small courtyard in front of the house, a woman tied her hair haphazardly and was washing clothes with a washboard.

"Excuse me..."

As soon as the woman looked up, I realized that it was the female teacher. In a few months, it was as if a few years had passed on her, and the whole person looked haggard and old. Seeing that it was us, the female teacher was very happy and hurriedly put us in the house and let us...

"You ask, the toothy girlfriend of the brick kiln factory?" This female teacher is still weak to speak.

"Well, yes." I nodded.

"She's dead..."

"Dead?" I was stunned, "When did you die?" ”

"Just some time ago," said the female teacher, "she was originally a school worker in the kindergarten where I taught, and she had a good relationship with me. At that time, Brother Man Qiang took that open-toothed child to my original residence in the city from time to time to play. Once, Brother Man Qiang was drunk, and the open-toothed man took advantage of the fact that he was unconscious, and used the strength of the wine to move on me, wanting to follow me... That..."

The female teacher said, bowing her head, and I swallowed.

"I promised him to introduce him to a girlfriend when the time came, and he gave up. Later, I introduced the school worker to him. But it didn't take long for Huoya to be crushed to death by the collapsed brick kiln... A few years ago, I took Xiaodong to the city to look for a house and find this school worker. It just so happened that she was going to work as a nanny for a boss's family, and she ate and lived in someone else's house, so she sublet the house she used to live in to me. The next day, she happily ran to me and told me that she had been raped by the boss's father from the countryside..."

I frowned, and said in my heart, what kind of mess is this, and I was still elated when I was raped?

The boss originally promised that as long as she didn't call the police, he would give her 100,000 yuan. She went to the hospital for a check-up and found out that she was pregnant. The boss has physical problems, and he and his wife have never had children. After hearing her say this, she said that as long as she is willing to give birth to the child, she will add 200,000 yuan..."

"And then?" Yuxin couldn't help but ask.

"Then she agreed," the female teacher smiled bitterly, "Since then, she has been offered by the boss's family like a fairy, and when she goes out, the boss has hired a driver to drive and escort her." She also had nowhere to go, so she ran to me every day. She felt that she was rich and had become a superior person, but in fact, she came here to find a sense of superiority. Commanding in front of me, walking without looking at the ground..."

I couldn't help but laugh and glanced at Yuxin.

"Then how did she die?" I asked.

"I don't know exactly, but the driver came to me once after she died. I heard the driver say yes, once he drove her to the scenic area to breathe, she sat on the lawn chair to rest, the driver fell asleep in the car, and woke up to find that she was gone. Looking around, she followed a ramp and walked down. The whole person looked in a trance, and when asked where she went, he would only shake his head. Then, a few days later, the boss's wife got up early in the morning and went to her house, and found her inside..."