In the middle of winter, it's desolate outside the car window. From time to time, graveyards flash through the car windows, and on the canal embankment, poplar trees stick straight into the sky, their bare branches swaying in the cold wind. All the way through the village and through the town, at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, we came to the newsstand newspaper seller old man said of the county seat.

It is a very old county town with a long history and culture. The ancient canal passes through the city, 'cutting' the county into two halves, and the eastern half is more modern, with high-rise buildings and wide streets. In the western half, there are many old county town styles, pavilions, old alleys and teahouses, and even a section of the old county town wall, winding south. However, the original appearance of the city wall has long been lost, but it is like a long rockery, the path is leisurely, the old trees are coiled, and in summer, the top of the city wall should be a good place to relax and enjoy the shade.

The ancient canal is in this section of the county, and the river channel is not very wide, only forty or fifty meters. Parking the car by the canal bridge, Yuxin and I got out of the car, looked around, and smiled bitterly.

"Ah Leng, this county is so big, how can we find it?" Yuxin asked.

"You ask me," I snorted twice, "I'm a hen." ”

"Hen?" Yuxin frowned.

"Hey."

"What hen?"

I laughed, "Cantonese, I don't know what it means, rooster hen, mile chicken hen?" ”

Yu Xin snorted and raised her legs, "I only know that you, the pseudo-master, are about to be kicked to death by me." ”

"Don't kick it in a hurry, please listen to me."

Yu Xin 'clicked' and put her foot on the ground, "If you have something to say, there is... If you have something to say, put it away. ”

I pointed to the other side of the river, "Miss Bai should go to the other side of the river first, shout, and then run over and kick me, so that's okay." ”

Yuxin 'cut' and pursed her lips, "It's so troublesome, I don't want it, besides, why?" ”

"Because, this is in line with your old temperament."

"How?"

I sighed and said, "What's the movie called, oh yes, Hedong Lion's Roar..."

"Okay." Yu Xin suddenly said, "You bastard, it turns out that you beat around the bush and compared me to a lion!" Look if I kick you or not! …”

I laughed and retreated, "Okay, no kidding, if you come, you will be safe." Let's go to Hedong first and ask, how do you know if you can't find it if you don't try? If you really can't find it, then find a way to find it slowly. Anyway, no one pays us a salary to find the 'behind-the-scenes' who is harmful, so we are obligated labor..."

Yuxin and I drove to a residential area in Hedong, took the photos we asked for from the old man who sold newspapers, and asked several shops along the streets of the community, but no one knew the people in the photos. Out of the community, we went to a commercial street again. In this way, I went around in a big circle and found nothing.

The sky was overcast, and the sun hid in the clouds, like a lamp that was not very bright.

"There's no way to find it, Ah Leng." Yuxin said.

I stared at the picture and tapped my index finger on the center of my eyebrow.

"What are you thinking?" Yuxin asked.

I licked my dry and uncomfortable lips with the tip of my tongue and said, "I'm thinking, this man in the photo looked like he was in his fifties ten years ago, and now he is sixty or seventy years old." Generally, older people are more nostalgic, even if they don't live in Hexi, they should often go to Hexi, go, let's go to Hexi and ask? …”

Before I could say anything, Yuxin stomped her foot, "You stupid, if you didn't say it earlier, you had to run to Hedong, and now you run back!" ”

I smiled and said, "Forget it, let's go shopping." ”

"Oh, you're so beautiful, who wants to go shopping with you? …”

In this way, we returned to Hexi, parked the car on an empty field, and followed an old street to inquire again, but still found nothing. Looking at the time, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. Yuxin also looked tired, her hands in the outer pockets of her fur coat, pouting, moving broken steps, and following me like a little girl.

"Tired?" I asked.

Yu Xin smiled and shook her head.

"So, are you hungry?"

Yu Xin pouted, "A little." ”

"Let's go, let's find a place to eat first..."

Yuxin and I walked a little further forward and came to a teahouse on the side of the road. This teahouse looks very old, the plaque is blackened by smoke, but the words on the signboard are bright and clear. The teahouse also sells food, selling tea outside and rice inside. In the outer room, several old men are sitting around the table, cross-legged, sitting on the circle chair, leisurely drinking afternoon tea, and there is a bird cage next to it, and the birds inside are jumping around.

I gave each of the old men a cigarette and showed them the picture, but they didn't know each other. Show it to the boss, and the boss doesn't know it. So he and Yuxin came to the room, ordered a pot of clear soup balls, a plate of old vinegar peanuts, and a few side dishes, and ordered a bottle of wine. It was not very windy in the afternoon, so it was not very cold, so we left our windows open and looked out at the pedestrians in the street from time to time, chatting and eating and drinking. Girls, it seems that most of them like to eat sweet and sour things, and Yuxin is full of praise for the old vinegar peanuts in this teahouse.

We ate for more than an hour, and I thought about it, and if I still couldn't ask the old man in the photo, I would find a hotel or a guest house or something.

When it was almost time to eat and drink, I called the boss over to settle the bill. The boss was very slimy, the meal was early, there were no guests in the afternoon, and after the bill, he gave me a cigarette, and then he talked with me endlessly. Pulling and pulling, somehow it pulled Feng Shui. I compared my hands and feet and commented on the architectural feng shui of his teahouse, which made the boss stunned.

"Seeing that you are young, I didn't expect you to understand this." The boss said.

I smiled.

"That's what he does, in our city, he often helps people watch feng shui, and sometimes he goes to other cities." Yuxin said.

The boss slapped the back of his head, "Oops ('hey' is two sounds), okay, handsome guy, I really can't see it!" You're still a half-fairy..."

I almost didn't squirt out of my mouth with a sip of tea, and I swallowed it in a hurry, coughing and saying, "No... It's not a half-fairy..."

The boss turned a deaf ear and asked me, "Handsome guy, in addition to looking at feng shui, do you know what to exorcise evil spirits?" ”

"When... Absolutely. ”

"Then what are you not a half-fairy!" The boss spreads his hands.

I looked at Yu Xin with a smile, Yu Xin looked at the time, got up and smiled at me, "Leng Banxian, let's go." ”

When he was about to leave, he was stopped by the boss, "Handsome guy and half fairy, don't hurry to go!" ”

The teahouse is a place for people to drink tea, and the boss doesn't know if he chatters too much with people, and it's very sticky. I was a little annoyed by his stickiness, and said angrily, "What, do you want me to adjust feng shui for you?" The feng shui of your teahouse is currently medium, and if you want to adjust it to the top grade, it will cost you a lot of money. ”

"It's not feng shui." The boss waved his hand and said, "There is a child in our community who has been hit by evil, if you know how to exorcise evil spirits, you might as well go to his house to show the child..."

Yuxin and I looked at each other.

"Tell me what's wrong."

"Some time ago, a group of young people in our county didn't fry fish in this canal and blow up ice holes. The other day, the kid from the family I just told you about went ice skating in the river with a group of children and accidentally fell into the ice hole. Fished out, half of the man was already dead. After being sent to the county hospital and controlling the water in the stomach, the child should have woken up, but I don't know why, but he didn't wake up, and there was nothing wrong with it in the hospital. This canal is originally quite evil, and many people died in ancient times to dig this river. I remember that when I was a child, the county organized people to dig up rivers and dig up bones. It is said that in the past, there was a person in our county who drank too much wine in the middle of the night and walked at night, along the river until he left the county seat. As he walked, he saw a fog in the river, and in the mist, there were shirtless people kneeling, and they were whipped by a man in ancient clothes, and every time he smoked, a piece of the flesh on his body fell off, and when the man saw it clearly, he fainted on the spot... Ay? Where did you just say about that child? ”

I exhaled, "Speaking of which, the kid can't wake up no matter how much he wakes up..."

"Oh yes, I can't wake up no matter how much I wake up. You say, "Isn't that evil?" That kid must have been haunted by the river ghosts in the canal..."

Listening to this boss, I couldn't help but think of Zhao Xiaohu, the son of Village Chief Zhao, who lost blood inexplicably every night, and the hospital couldn't find out the reason, and finally learned that it was a female corpse in the river that was killing him...

It is the duty of our sorcerers to drive away evil spirits, and since I have bumped into them, we can't help but save the child that the teahouse owner said. As for finding the old man in the photo, let's put it back for now...

Thinking of this, I said to the boss, "Where is the child's home?" Take me there. ”

The boss looked embarrassed, "My wife is out, and I am alone in the teahouse, so I can't get out." ”

"Then tell me the address..."

Coming out of the teahouse, we followed the address that the boss had said and came to a small street not far from the teahouse. Going all the way west along the street, Yuxin suddenly said, Ah Leng, isn't it there?

I looked over, a small two-story building, a tree next to the gate, maybe that's it. When I came to the gate of the courtyard, I looked around, there was no similar building, it should be this one, so I knocked on the door, and a dog barked from the courtyard.

In a moment, footsteps came to the door, and the door opened a crack with a bang, and a bulging man poked his head out of the crack in the door, looked at me, and then at Yuxin.

"Big brother..."

"What's the matter?" The man asked coldly.

Yu Xin and I looked at each other, "What..."

"What's the matter? Say it! ”

This man's gaze was like two knives, and I was uncomfortable with the stabbing of my mouth, and I didn't know where to run away from my original fluent eloquence.

"What," I forced a smile, "isn't it... Your child has... Sick? ”

The man was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Damn, your child is sick!" ”

After finishing speaking, he closed the courtyard door with a bang.

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