Li Xu stared at me expressionlessly and said, "Yesterday the kidnappers sent me a text message asking me to take a toothbrush you used or a few of your hairs and hand them over to the designated place. ”

I swallowed, a little annoyed, speechless.

It turned out that Li Xu's series of strange actions in the bathroom just now meant this, and he wanted to do what the kidnappers instructed, but he couldn't bear me in his heart, so he hesitated. I feel very touched when I think of this, and the fact that she can tell me about this shows that she regards me as an ally, and she really has the same heart as me and will not pit me.

The kidnappers asked for these two things no doubt to identify my DNA, and I don't know what they were doing and how they were keeping their eyes on me.

She asked, "Who knows about the secret things you have had with me?" ”

I coughed, cleared my throat and replied: "Chang Kun, Lou Mingjiang, Ding Ping, He Zhiqin, they all know that you have a connection with me, and the people up and down the Qianzhou City Public Security Bureau also know it, after all, everyone has long eyes, and they can see it in and out together several times." As for how good our friendship is, I'm not sure how much they know. ”

She was silent for a while, and said, "There is no way to lock down the specific person, not even to exclude anyone, in short, you should be careful." The kidnappers are likely to be among people we all know, and they want your hair or a toothbrush, obviously just to do DNA testing and genetic mapping on you, and I don't know what the ultimate goal is, but it won't be a good thing to know it. In addition to the people around you, you also have to pay attention to whether you are being stalked or watched by strangers. ”

I nodded and said, "Okay, I'll be careful." ”

Li Xu lit a cigarette again, inhaled it slowly, and said in a deep voice: "Remember, if you really encounter any bloody situation, if you have to sacrifice anyone, you don't have to think too much, just sacrifice me." I'm the same, and I won't be angry with you. ”

When I heard this, I felt very uncomfortable, and I wanted to cry a little, but I should not make a sound.

She looked at me, didn't say anything more, and when she had finished her cigarette, she began to hum the song she hummed from time to time, like the mournful sound of a watery night.

I didn't say anything more, I sent her into the city at a steady pace, pulled over, grabbed her by the arm, told her to wait before leaving. She listened to my voice and turned her face to see that my face was not right, so she was stunned and sat up straight and waited for me to say.

I really didn't know how to speak, so I was silent for almost half a minute before I said, "There is something I told you, don't be sad, it's all in the past." ”

Her eyes suddenly became cold, like a sword in the harsh winter, pointing directly at people's hearts, her mouth opened, and she spit out four words and asked me: "The backyard of the Li family?" ”

I was amazed at how sensitive she was, and after thinking about it, I thought it was normal, she had asked this question a long time ago, and had been waiting for my answer.

I nodded: "Yes, the Li family's backyard." I saw what happened at your grandmother's house that year. ”

Then, simply, I told her what I had seen that year, including the part I had participated in, holding her hand and not daring to look her eyes.

She listened and listened, her whole body trembled, she didn't speak or ask questions from beginning to end, and when I finished speaking, she still didn't speak, and the whole person was stunned.

I hugged her, comforted her, more than ten minutes passed, she came to her senses, showed a miserable, nervous smile, with a trembling hand to take out a cigarette and a lighter, the zippo lighter she was used to somehow this will not work, I looked uncomfortable, snatched it over to help her light it, and carefully put it back in her hand, and said two words of comfort.

It was already very bright outside, and there were sanitation trucks and tricycles passing by us with bells, which was very real in the world.

After Li Xu finished smoking, he turned his face to look at me, his eyes were fixed, he didn't say anything, he took his luggage and reached out to open the door.

I called out to her and asked her, "Did you take it?" ”

She had a strange look on her face, not knowing what I was talking about.

I pretended to smile cutely and said, "Didn't the kidnappers want you to take my hair, or my toothbrush?" Did you take it? ”

She grinned bitterly and shook her head: "I thought about it for a long time, and I felt that everyone was raised by their parents, and I couldn't do anything about selling you to save Li Shuzhen." What's more, even if you really sell her, you may not be able to save her, so it's better to just let it go. ”

I said, "Don't, don't leave it to fate, sometimes, we have to earn our own lives." ”

As I spoke, I reached out and tore off two strands of hair, and took a look at the headlights, the hair follicles were intact, and I was sure that I could extract DNA, so I handed it to her and said: "Put it away, do what they say, and talk about it later, the soldiers will be used as water to the earth, I am not afraid, not to mention that I have you, you can't leave me alone if something really happens, right?" ”

After saying that, he crooked his face and pretended to be cute and smiled, laughing several times like this, which made me feel that I was really cute, at least in dealing with this matter, it was indeed cute.

She took her hair and bit her lip without saying a word.

I let her get out of the car, waved goodbye, and watched her take a taxi before turning around and going home, all the way to the tune of the song Li Xu liked.

Xiaohai didn't sleep, and when he heard the sound of the car, he ran out to open the iron door, I parked the car and subconsciously looked up, just in time to see Qiao Lanxiang standing straight on the balcony on the third floor overlooking us.

Seeing that the time was still early, I slept again, didn't get up until nine o'clock, grabbed a few bites of food, and then called Ding Ping, wanting to ask Chang Kun about the situation of that hourly worker, and also wanted to ask about other situations, and wanted to ask how the old lazy man was on his side.

Ding Ping picked up the phone and fed him very seriously, and then said that he was driving, and it was inconvenient to talk on the phone, so he would call me again when he turned around.

After saying that, he hung up.

I frowned and thought that when I sat in his car before, he still answered the phone while driving, and there was never a way to say that it was inconvenient, so there must be some inconvenient person next to him, and he couldn't say anything more to me.

At this time, Qiao Lanxiang took the rice bowl she had eaten into the kitchen to wash, I hurriedly called her, telling her not to care, Xiaohai would wash it in a while. She ignored it, and still went to wash herself, the black figure, bowing her back and hanging her head, how pitiful and pitiful she was.

I got up and followed her, and said to her in a gentle tone, "If you are with me, you will treat yourself as a guest, and you will not have to work." ”

The movement in her hand stopped, and soon continued to wash, and said in a low voice: "This rice bowl, I use it alone, you will be fed to the dog, one day I leave, throw it away." ”

I said, "Hey, hey, you're really a person, what are you talking about, who can dislike you?" ”

She carefully took the tap water with her rotten and trembling hands, and said, "I'm not afraid that you will dislike you, but I am afraid that I will poison you." ”

I was suddenly speechless.

Xiao Hai heard our conversation, walked into the kitchen, snatched Qiao Lanxiang's bowl and began to wash, and told us to go out in a rough voice, don't get in the way of her business in the kitchen. I happily carried Qiao Lanxiang to the living room and invited her to sit on the sofa, but she slowly sat on the floor, not even touching the edge of the sofa, for fear of getting dirty. I saw that my nose was sour, so I went upstairs and picked up a towel quilt and spread it on the sofa, then sat her down, and asked her in a low voice if she had any pain in her body and if she wanted to take a few painkillers.

She lowered her head and thought about it, shook it slowly twice, and said, "Let's stay up for a few more hours, if you take too much of that kind of medicine, it will also be bad for your brain." ”

Taking advantage of this meeting, Qiao Lanxiang was still in good spirits and her mind was also very clear, so I seized the opportunity to carefully inquire with her about Chen Jinziyu's situation, her appearance before she got blue gray disease, her behavior and living habits, her preferences and preferences, etc., etc., as well as where her ancestral home was, how she married into the Chen family, and what happened later.

I asked so carefully to figure out why Chen Jin Ziyu appeared in my mind from time to time, and they were all very old pictures.

Qiao Lanxiang answered my questions one by one.

She doesn't know where Chen Jin Ziyu's ancestral home is, even Chen Jin Ziyu herself doesn't know this, she was sold to the troupe before she was sensible, and she took the master's surname, grew up in the troupe, played and sang from elementary school, and went south and north. Although she looks good, it's a pity that she sings averagely, so she doesn't have much hope for the future. When she was sixteen years old, the master saw that a rich landlord seemed to be interested in her, so he found someone to rub her together and sold her to the rich man for fifty taels of silver, Chen Liang, the third son of Chen Zuo, the largest landlord in Chenjiawu more than 70 years ago, and changed his name to Chen Jin Ziyu.

Before Chen Jin Ziyu, Chen Liang already had three wives, of which the main room could not be born, and the two concubines had three sons and five daughters. Chen Jin Ziyu was born in the play, and her status in the Chen family was not high, and even the maids dared to be unkind to her, but Chen Liang loved her the most, and when she saw that she was wronged, she simply set up a house outside, and bought a few girls and old mothers to serve her alone, and only took her home to live for a few days during the New Year's Festival or when someone in the family had a birthday, so she lived in peace for five or six years, until Chen Jin Ziyu gave birth to a son.

Because Mrs. Zhengwu can't have children, the old lady of the Chen family wants to pass on the son born to Chen Jin Ziyu to the eldest lady and hand it over to her to raise. Chen Jinziyu did not agree, crying and making a fuss, she was also spoiled by Chen Liang at that time, a little out of proportion, kicking her nose and face dared to face the old lady disrespectfully, the Chinese all spoke a filial piety, that suddenly angered Chen Liang, couldn't help but say that she brought her newly born son home, and did not go to Chen Jinziyu for several days.

That's when she had an accident.

No one figured out what was going on, and at first she couldn't figure it out in a daze, but it was caused by the excessive grief of losing her son, with a lot of hair falling out, and her body was full of red bumps, which was extremely itchy. The maid and servant woman in the house said that she had ghost disease, and she was afraid of being affected, so she broke up with a bang, and no one cared about her, so she had to run to Chenjiawu to find her husband and son.

But the Chen family refused to accept it, and sent the family to beat her with tongs and coax her out of the gate.