After the night was dark, Wu Qi sat alone on the stool outside the house, leaning against the wall behind him and looking up at the stars in the sky, and suddenly laughed and said, "Section Chief Tang, have you heard this story many times?" ”

Old Tang pushed open the door and walked out, looked back at the middle of the room, then gently closed the door, squatted down directly at the door, took out the cigarette and lit it slowly, the red light of the cigarette butt in the dark was the most conspicuous.

"I came here a few years ago because I accidentally found that old file, and when I came here before, I heard about it at other people's houses, and it was almost the same, it was actually those unrelated stories, I really didn't believe it, there must be some other things I didn't understand here." Old Tang smoked a cigarette and squinted his eyes and muttered softly, but after saying this, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Wu Qi's dim figure, and continued: "This should have nothing to do with what you are looking for, right?" But just now, I paid attention to it, and I noticed that you seemed to be fascinated by what you were listening to. ”

Wu Qi looked at the sky and grinned, turned his eyes to the place where the old Tang Yan's hair came out of the bright light, and whispered: "I like to listen to stories, especially the kind of stories that are superstitious when they are not talked about, I used to be used to this." ”

Old Tang exhaled a puff of cigarette and said: "I understand this, it is human nature to listen to stories, and it is common human nature to love to listen to stories." ”

Wu Qi smiled and said, "Section Chief Tang, do you also have research on the story?" Why is it all set to say? ”

Old Tang thought for a while before saying: "I am from the Criminal Investigation Department, and every person who comes to the scene says it, it is a story, a story produced by what they see in their eyes and processed in their hearts, it is not completely true, but it will not be all fake, so it is my job to distinguish the truth in a story." For example, if you take it. You are very good at seeing through a person, always staring into other people's eyes, is it possible to detect something if there is a slight mistake in your eyes? ”

Saying this made Wu Qi's eyes light up a little, he curled the corners of his mouth and thought of something, still looking at the sky and saying, "Section Chief Tang, compared to you, my experience is too little." But in the past two years, I have encountered more things than in my previous life, and I have learned how to see through people's hearts, by the way, Section Chief Tang wants to guess how I learned? ”

"How do you guess this? Guess you've seen too many people? Old Tang didn't care with a cigarette in his mouth.

Wu Qi suddenly narrowed his eyes, his face was extremely cold in the dark, and he said softly: "Because I have seen the internal structure of too many people, I understand what they think." ”

Old Tang sneered and flicked the cigarette butt away with his fingers. With a smile, he said: "If you say so, those autopsies are all seen in the hearts of people, right?" You can tell what I've been doing just now, and maybe you can tell how long I've been in the pit and how many cigarettes I've smoked! ”

Wu Qi then swept away his cold face and curled the corners of his mouth to laugh, and the two of them laughed in a low voice for a long time before stopping, and at the same time their faces became strange.

"Wu Qilian, have you noticed anything?" Old Tang suddenly asked.

Wu Qi said: "What does Section Chief Tang refer to? ”

"As I said, a story is bound to be false. But there must be a real part of it, even if it's small and it's hard to tell if it's integrated into it. But there will always be, this one is not going to change, am I right? Old Tang said in a low voice.

Wu Qi followed and said: "Section Chief Tang, when you grab a beard, what do you rely on to tell if the fellow has never been a beard before?" ”

Old Tang lowered his head and thought for a moment, and suddenly thought of something. He hurriedly raised his eyes and said: "Before the liberation, when the Hu bandits were suppressed, most of them were in winter, the weather was extremely cold, and the guys on the bearded hands were easy to get into trouble and were not easy to use, so this was the best time to exterminate them." So we usually check our hands and feet for chilblains. ”

"It's so cold in the northeast, it's inevitable that you won't get frostbite, so everyone in a village has chilblains, how can you tell which one is the beard?" Wu Qi asked faintly.

Unexpectedly, this question actually stumped Old Tang, and after thinking about it for a long time, he shook his head and whispered: "This, this problem, I have encountered it before, but the beard usually thinks that he already knows when he comes to the door, and he doesn't need to say anything. Leng Buding, you have to say how to tell the difference, this really hasn't been studied. ”

Wu Qi raised his hand and rubbed his nose, but the old Tang didn't see it in the black light, but he heard Wu Qi's voice and said: "Oh, it turns out that there are still things that Section Chief Tang doesn't know, in fact, this is very simple, but it's useless to do more, so you haven't paid attention to it." When the old couple handed us the bean buns just now, I saw that the old man had old chilblains on his fingers, and I just asked casually, remember what he said? ”

Speaking of this, Lao Tang remembered that it was dark after they arrived near Patou Forest, so they found a random family and planned to stay for a while, and after two days of fog, they went to see what was going on in the foggy township, and Wu Qi wanted to find the lost dangerous goods. This family seems to be only an old couple, they have a son, but they went to work in the production team organized in the village, and they usually don't come back much, so only the old couple is alive.

It was also the head of Lao Tang and Wu Qi who asked about Wuxiang and Di'er touching the sky, but what the old man said was a little different from the file they saw, because it was recorded in the file that all the beards of Di'er and the sky were all dead in the pickpocketing forest, but the old man said that Li Desheng was arrested by the soldiers of the county town this time, and at the same time wiped out his group, which is a bit wrong.

But Old Tang didn't think much about it, he didn't listen to it much, and he could memorize it when he talked about it. But Wu Qi's eyes lit up slightly with a smile on his face, and he heard that it was called a force, which made the old Tang a little surprised, and he looked at Wu Qi's somewhat strange reaction, but he didn't notice that there was anything wrong with the old couple.

After the story was finished, it was completely dark in the sky, and the old man said that he was a little tired, so he planned to go with his wife to steam something to eat. But Wu Qi suddenly said, "Fellow, do you want to cook?" When I entered the house just now, I noticed that there was no firewood in the house, and there was no firewood in the yard, so how did you make a fire? Why don't I chop some for you? ”

Old Tang saw that Wu Qi was a little strange, and was about to whisper to him Don't be so enthusiastic and talkative, but after hearing the old man cough a few times, he said, "No! No! You have come all the way, let's rest first, we don't need to chop firewood in this place at all, because there are trees outside the yard, and you can drag back a lot of dry branches with your hand, and you can use that to make a fire and cook, you still have to rest, my place is small and dirty, but don't stain your official clothes, then I can't afford it. ”

Wu Qi smiled and nodded, then withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes to rest, and when Old Tang saw that there was no movement, he stood up and looked at what they were eating for a while. As a result, the lady took out a few bean bags from the jar outside the house, and came back with her clothes, boiled water in an iron pot, put a drawer on it, and put the bean bags on it to steam.

Lao Tang is not a local, he is basically in Siping, just know that the people in the vicinity have sauce jars, as well as pickles or something, but it was really the first time I saw the bean buns put in the outer jar, so I couldn't help but ask the aunt: "Auntie, you eat this?" When was this bean bag wrapped? ”

As a result, the aunt's words shocked the old Tang, and the aunt said: "It's hot, you can't put it in the jar and eat it quickly, this bean bun was wrapped last year, and it's just right to eat it now!" ”

"Last year?" Old Tang was a little surprised.

The old man came back with the broken branches, threw them on the ground and trampled them into small pieces, squatted on the ground while stuffing them into the hearth, and said with a smile: "This bean bag is all frozen, it won't be bad and can be eaten!" ”

Although the old man said so, Lao Tang felt strange in his heart, he didn't want to come to the villager's house to eat, but if he didn't eat, there would be no place to eat, so since people still bring their share of steamed bean buns, he can only eat this thing. Thinking of last year's bean bag, Lao Tang looked at Wu Qi who was resting with his eyes closed with some hesitation, and found that this kid was surprisingly calm, at first he thought that he would go directly to Patoulin to find something, but now that he is in a hurry, he really can't say anything.

When the old man entered the house with a plate of steaming bean buns, he casually put it on the table and smiled for Lao Tang and Wu Qi to eat. At this time, Wu Qi opened his eyes, but he didn't reach out to take them, but looked at the old man and didn't speak. Old Tang has always been worried about this bean bag, and he didn't think much about it, so he reached out and grabbed one, but his hands were turned upside down when it was hot, and he finally took a bite next to each other, but he almost didn't spit it out, and the bean bag was actually sour.

"Uncle, your bean bag is broken!" Old Tang squinted his eyes and swallowed the bean bag, trying to find a place to spit it out.

But the old man waved his hand and said, "Oh! It's not broken! This is the caper bun, that's the taste, the stuffing was covered with sour before the bun, and then put it on the bun for a long time, you will get used to it after a few bites, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it. After speaking, the old man himself picked one up and ate it.

Old Tang smelled it a little strangely and bit it again, but he still felt bad, so he didn't continue to eat it but put it on the table. The old man raised his eyes to look at Wu Qi, grabbed a bean bag and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "Young man, come and eat one while it's hot!" This thing is home-packed, clean and delicious. ”

Wu Qi looked at the bean bag handed over by the old man, slowly raised his hand to take it, and then did not say thank you, but asked a strange question.

"Fellow, how did your hands get frostbitten?"

The old man's mouth suddenly stopped chewing the bean bun, and then he grinned and said: "This hand, it was frozen a long time ago, when I was still young, I thought I was resisting, hunting in the mountains in winter, in order to facilitate running, I wore little and didn't bring cotton gloves, so I froze!" You have to pay attention, otherwise when you get old, you will have to work hard to move your fingers like an uncle, and you will suffer! (To be continued......)