After giving instructions one by one, we hurriedly drove out, Qiao Lanxiang leaned on the door, and I finally looked back and saw her face full of tears.

I felt very bad in my heart, thinking while driving, no matter what, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, I have to find a way to save her, when I saw Lin Ya before, I really wanted to ask him if there was a way to save Qiao Lanxiang, but the sweet potato-faced ugly man didn't leave an inch, I was afraid that the extraneous branches would cause trouble to Lin Ya, so I could only endure it.

The car drove to the turntable outside the entrance of the expressway, and suddenly saw Bai Yafeng's car parked there waiting, and was very surprised, and asked Xiaohai what was going on.

Xiaohai said: "He called me in the morning to tell me that he was going to Huaqiao Town on a mission, and asked me if I wanted to take a ride home to see, I think anyway, you also said last time that you were going to find Xia Dongyi's wife, so I called the wine master to help me inquire if Zhou Hong was at home these days, and he said yes, so he called you to go and see together." ”

She's really good at it all.

I asked her if she wanted to buy something to go back, after all, she was going back to her hometown, and she should buy some gifts for her relatives or something.

She thought for a moment and said, "Just buy two cigarettes." ”

So I parked the car on the side of the road, walked to the nearby supermarket and bought two soft Chinese, after paying the money, I felt that it was a little less, and picked two bottles of wine with two boxes of supplements for the elderly. As a result, she was beaten by Xiaohai, and she snorted from her nose, thinking that I was troublesome, but she didn't say anything.

Huaqiao Town is not too far from Qianzhou City, the highway drove for an hour and a half, and then drove off the highway for more than ten minutes, Xiaohai was sleeping all the way, and he didn't wake up when he arrived in the town, Bai Yafeng and I didn't know where her home was, and I didn't have the time to delay, so I had to wake her up with a palm. She sat up straight like a spring, looked at the street in front of her, pointed back, and said, "Go too far, go back three hundred meters, turn right." ”

According to her command, she entered the village, turned around on the narrow cement road for a while, stopped in a slightly empty place, picked up things and got off the car, and walked into the narrower stone paved alley, and the people who passed by looked at us curiously, whispering in twos and threes, they were all from the same village, and they must know Xiaohai, but Xiaohai did not squint, did not greet anyone, and was as indifferent as a stone.

After turning two corners, I arrived at her home, when I heard her call her home "broken house", in fact, there was no big concept, but today I saw it to know that it was not an exaggeration at all, a bare yellow mud courtyard, three red brick bare bungalows, and a small house with yellow mud walls and thatched roofs on the east side, probably toilets and the like.

This shabby place, if it is not a dangerous house in a few years, it will probably be listed as a cultural relic, I think of the envy in Xiaohai's language when he first came to my house, and I feel very uncomfortable.

Walking into the house, although it is simple and old, it is neatly organized, but no one has lived in it for a long time, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated. But if you look closely, you can find that there are some messy handprints on drawers, cabinets, boxes and other furniture.

Xiao Hai snorted coldly with his mouth slanted and said, "The thief is so good, he won't make a mess for you when he comes to steal things?" ”

As soon as I thought about it, I immediately understood whether her unobtrusive relatives had come in while she was not at home, or had reminded her to check if she had lost anything.

She rolled her eyes again and didn't speak.

So I knew that in this dilapidated house, there was nothing of value at all, and the door was open and I was not afraid of people moving it.

The house is a very old-fashioned structure, looking up you can see the herringbone roof, dark beams, remembering that when Li Xu came in in the middle of the night to look around, Xiaohai squatted on one of the beams, I couldn't help but feel funny and sighing.

The ground is compacted muddy, rough, and the furniture is old, a lot of it is painted, it looks mottled and lonely, revealing a trace of weird and cold taste, I think the indifference and calmness in Xiaohai's character are all condensed little by little from the aura of the living environment.

Xiao Hai said that she put things in place a little and told us to turn around casually. I just walked around the house, thinking that Uncle Xiu had lived here before, and wanted to bring me with me, and my heart churned with a wave-like sadness, God knows how much I wanted to live with him, I didn't mind living in such a dilapidated house, but unfortunately he couldn't fight Su Mosen in the end.

One turn and two turns, then walked to the door of the east wing, the door is not locked, a push to push in, the furnishings are very simple, but the bed in the center of the house, it is really a bit scary, a huge old bed, Chu red wooden shelf, the top and bottom are arched boards, there are carvings, look at a few more will feel a bit like the shape of a coffin, clumsy, heavy and mad, and the four sides are not against the wall, just when the middle is placed, more and more like a coffin.

I was looking at it in a daze, Bai Yafeng suddenly came in, saw this strange bed at a glance, patted his chest and jumped: "Oh, I'll go, what is this!" ”

Xiao Hai shouted outside and asked us if we should find a place to eat first, or go to Cangtou Town next door to meet Xia Dongyi's wife Zhou Hong first.

Of course, I went to see Zhou Hong first, for fear that there would be variables if I was a minute late.

The three of us walked out together.

There was a group of people watching the excitement outside the courtyard, more than a dozen, just standing from a distance to watch the excitement, pointing and pointing, with puzzled expressions on their faces, but no one really said hello to Xiaohai. It is said that if you live in a village, you don't see the fate of looking up and looking down every day, how deep the hatred can be if you die, and the relationship is stiff to such a point, maybe it's not all because the people in the village are bad, maybe Xiaohai's own self-esteem and temper are also a big reason.

The three of us silently walked out of the curious gaze of the crowd, I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, Bai Yafeng scratched his ears and cheeks in embarrassment, and it was not right to laugh or not to laugh. Only Xiaohai is like a nobody, and he doesn't look at things.

Zhou Hong's family is in another village, and it takes at least thirty or forty minutes to walk, so I still drive there. Seven or eight more people stood by the pond not far from our car, whispering. We ignored it, discussed it and went straight to Bai Yafeng's car, thinking that it would be more deterrent to drive a police car.

Zhou Hong's house, which is Xia Dongyi's hometown, is easy to find, the first household under the camphor tree by the river in Cangtou Village, a two-story building that is half new and not old, the exterior wall is pasted with colored mosaic bricks popular in the 80s, there is no yard, the gate is facing the road, and it is open.

In the countryside, there is no need to knock on the door, just go straight inside.

When we stepped into the threshold, there was no one in the hall, but there was the soft sound of bowls clinking in a room on the left, and then out of the kitchen came a dry and thin woman, in her forties and fifties, with a white floral short-sleeved shirt and a thin blue jacket, and black trousers, her hair combed into a bun, as if she had rubbed some kind of hair oil, and she had no hair in her slick and slippery hair.

The woman was holding a bowl of soup in her hand and was about to drink it, when she saw three uninvited guests suddenly coming in from the house, she immediately stood still by the kitchen door, and then inexplicably panicked, and the bowl in her hand fell to the ground with a bang and shattered into four pieces, and the scoop was broken in half.

Immediately after, her whole body began to tremble, and she was about to slide to the ground when she was paralyzed, but fortunately she was close to the door, and she still knew how to hold on to the door and stand firm, but she couldn't control the tremor of her whole body and the fright in her eyes, and she looked like she was lost and depressed.

I was confused at first, but when I followed her gaze, I immediately understood what was going on.

Bai Yafeng's police uniform scared her.

It's obvious that the heart is empty.

Zhou Hong should have some unsightly things on her, and she definitely has something to do with Xia Dongyi, so she was scared like this by a police uniform, and even her legs trembled.

It's a good start, we can sit down and have a good chat, from a long, long time ago, from her acquaintance with Xia Dongyi.

It's a pity that the actual situation is not as smooth as I thought, this woman looks weak and obviously not strong enough, but her mouth is closed tightly enough, no matter how she asks, she doesn't open her mouth until Bai Yafeng pats the table and starts a fire, roaring loudly: "I still have a lot of things to deal with, I don't have the time to waste it here, so I just copied it and brought it back to the bureau for trial!" Fei so spit! ”

As soon as Zhou Hong heard that she was going to be tortured, her expression immediately scattered, and she almost cried, and then her mouth finally opened tremblingly.

We want her to tell us everything related to Xia Dongyi, no matter how big or small, whether heavy or not.

It's a pity that she said that she doesn't know much about Xia Dongyi, he is an outsider, and he said that his hometown is in Xinxiang, Henan, and the whole village has gone out to beg for a living after the famine. He is an orphan, where to go, he stayed for a period of time when he went to Huaqiao Town, he worked as a handyman in the village, he was very real, he didn't talk much, he was literate and very diligent, everyone had a good impression of him, and a few stewards in the village discussed it, and he left him in a vacant room.

This statement seems to be a bit similar to Uncle Xiu's, probably all the people who escaped from the Hall of Eternal Life and ran around looking for a place to live will use this set of words, because it is easier to be confused, and it is difficult for those who really have good things to track down.

Zhou Hong said that Xia Dongyi treats people well, is very good to children, often teaches them to read and write or something, very attentive, not long after a teacher in the primary school retired, there was no new teacher for a while, the principal asked him to replace a few classes, generation after several years.

Zhou Hong also taught at the school, and the two fell in love, got married, and had a daughter. Later, one day I didn't know what was going on, Xia Dongyi suddenly said that he wanted to leave, he couldn't stay alive or dead, and he refused to say why. He had the intention to take Zhou Hong with him, but she had lived in the town for many years in her honest and proper duties, and she taught at the school, and she really didn't want to leave, and the two of them were deadlocked for a lot of time.

One day after that, she went to work, Xia Dongyi said that he didn't have classes in the morning, and he went back after a lazy sleep, but he didn't show up at school all day, and when she came home from work, he had already taken his daughter away, only took a few changes of clothes, didn't leave a note, didn't take money, and never came back since.