The decoration inside the iron gate is typical of a peasant house – that is, a patchwork of all available materials, regardless of the style of the style. The tiles on the floor are large and small, and there are some awards and photos on the wall.

Wei Kexin took advantage of the time to drink water and looked left and right, those photos are family photos of recent years, on the left is a man who looks like a farmer, and on the right is a woman holding a little boy.

In all fairness, this should have been a happy family, but what hung over the three of them was a lingering shadow.

"You said you saw our Xiaowei, is it real or fake?"

The aunt glanced anxiously at them, and then quickly glanced in the direction of the back room.

"We don't know for sure yet. The girl I saw at that time was called Xiaofei, and she looked like she was about the same age as Jiang Wei, and she had a photo of her, which was taken at the amusement park nearby. He carefully took out the water-soaked photograph from his pocket, a Polaroid film that had often been blurred by time, and now he could only see a rough idea.

Auntie took the photo, looked at it quickly, shook her head and said, "No." ”

She replied too quickly, and said unexpectedly: "Auntie, after all, so many years have passed, and the photo is a little blurry, so it's not good to be sure directly at the moment...... Can you tell me about what kind of girl Vicky is? ”

"I know, I know!" The little boy jumped to his feet and said cheerfully, "My sister is good to me!" ”

"Really?"

"Nonsense," the woman frowned, "how old were you then, and what do you remember?" ”

"Remember, my sister is fragrant...... Always put me to sleep and read stories. The boy affirmed.

"How can there be such a thing, those are all your fantasies." She sighed, "I won't tell you anything, that girl has a very stubborn personality, especially when she was a teenager, and she really couldn't listen to what we said at that time...... If it weren't for that, how could this have happened? ”

Li Nan said: "What happened at that time? ”

"Actually, I don't know exactly what it is. Her father told me that he saw that she was in early love with a boy and wanted to teach her a lesson. In a fit of rage, she ran away with the boy...... Alas, it's too late to say anything. Sometimes I think maybe she's already got a family out of town......"

This is a very unlikely chance and is nothing more than a consolation statement. After all, after so many years, if you are alive and well, why can't you call home and send a letter?

"That boy—"

"Bang!" The door was pushed open suddenly, and a middle-aged man's face turned red, "Why are you talking to them so much, hurry up and leave." He took a broom and swept towards Wei Kexin and the two without saying anything, Wei Kexin was hit in the calf, but neither of them panicked.

"Uncle," Wei Kexin quickly grabbed the broom, "your daughter's condition is important, and there is a good chance that she is still alive." ”

"So what? Our family has long since lost this daughter! ”

The dust was everywhere, and the man pushed them again and again, until they reached the door, and then closed the door with a "bang". Wei Kexin was suddenly annoyed, covered his calf and slapped the door a few times, and Li Nan on the side touched the ash on his nose, "What do you think?" ”

"He's very strange, when he saw my aunt talking to us before, he should have been eavesdropping behind the door," Wei Kexin said, "until the mention of 'puppy love', he seemed to react very much." ”

"Well, and they don't have any eldest daughters in their house, as if this person doesn't exist. Not only that, but the siblings don't know what is going on. And most importantly—"

"Who was Jiang Wei's early love back then?" The two spoke in unison.

But no matter how the two knocked on the door, there was no answer from inside. In a few moments, the cries of children, the dissuasion of women, the tooth-aching sound of wooden planks hitting the flesh sounded like chickens and dogs jumping.

In desperation, I didn't want to go home, and not long after I walked out, suddenly the door of a small courtyard opened a crack, poking out an old man's head, looking left and right, "Evil, beating children like this all day long, children must be stupid......

"Grandpa, why didn't you move out?"

"I'm so old, where am I moving to? In any case, the flower snake is also our root. Hey......"

"Do you know about that family?"

Grandpa smiled mysteriously and held up a finger.

"Uh, that's all you know?"

Li Nan sneered, took out a hundred-yuan bill from his wallet, and put it in his grandfather's hand. Now the grandfather was willing to say a few words-

"Here are flower snakes, birds and beasts, strange treasures, and all those who pass here are devoured by a giant python. The snake's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and the things it needs to eat are getting bigger and bigger, so everyone who lives here must worry about it, so as not to be accidentally swept away by this snake! ”

What is this?

"Grandpa, we didn't want to ask you about the origin of your name, the family ......"

Grandpa clapped his hands vigorously, "That family was also swallowed by a snake!" Good people don't do it. ”

"What do you mean to be swallowed by a snake?" Li Nan muttered, "What do you know? ”

"The Jiang family, hey, every day at home is to beat his wife and children, so he just found the snake." Grandpa slowly crossed Erlang's legs, and the screams of children could be heard in the distance.

"Fight every day?"

"It's still a little more restrained now, and the boy is still young. It turned out that the man had drunk too much wine and beat his daughter to the ...... It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no good piece of meat on the body. The girl ......," said the grandfather nonchalantly, "the girl is very good-looking, but her life is not good." ”

"Nobody cares?"

"Housework, how to take care of it, after all, he is Lao Tzu. But it's really too much, after all, when a girl grows up, she also wants face, how can she say that she can be beaten outside? ”

Wei Kexin couldn't understand, "How can this be?" My dad never beat me. ”

Wei Kexin suddenly understood the survival rule of the "flower snake": either violence or wealth. It is very likely that the people who are still here are not for the so-called "protection of the homeland", but to survive to the end and get the highest level of demolition money.

"Is there really a matter of the Jiang family's daughter's early love? Who is that man? ”

"Well, I vaguely remember. It was probably the hardest beating that girl, and I heard it all outside the door...... There is no such miserable sound of killing pigs during the New Year. ”

According to the old man, it is not known whether the so-called love is or not, but it is true that he has seen people who look like young people wandering at the door of Jiang's house, and the two sometimes go to school and leave school together. After Jiang's father knew about this, he was even more furious, and after the fight that day, Jiang Wei put on a school uniform, wiped her swollen and red face, and a few tear stains were shining in the sun, and then she left the house without saying a word.

"Their daughter didn't come back for a day or two, so she started looking for it, and the man was gone, so she panicked." The old man looked in the direction of the Jiang family, and finally poured out all these old things like rotten beans poured out of a bamboo tube, and now his back was even more bent, "Evil, that man's eighty percent is not a good thing......

"What's the man's name?"

"I don't remember the name, I have a nickname, what's it called...... Third. ”

Li Nan asked, "Then did he come back after that?" Have you ever seen him again? ”

"How do I know an old man, if you want to find her or give up as soon as possible, then the old people can't find it......" The old man coughed dryly, waved his hand impatiently, and closed the door.

I thought it was just a rebellious girl running away from home, but I didn't expect there to be such a secret in it. But it is still not certain whether Jiang Wei is Xiaofei or not.

The two of them walked in the shantytown area like headless flies against the sun and asked, and before they knew it, they had gone to the depths, and most of the people they met were old people, and young people seemed to have evaporated here. Whether it is mentioning "Jiang Wei" or "Xiaofei", they are all at a loss, this girl who left from "Flower Snake" is very inconspicuous, maybe it is the norm for young people to leave here.

However, when it comes to the "third child", these old people have a lot to talk about.

But they were completely misunderstood, and they had no heart to explain for the sixth time that the "third child" should have been a young man a few years ago, and not one of their third-ranked family relatives.

"Then where do we know, no name or surname, who knows who you are talking about......"

"I think you can think about it carefully, this nickname must have been very famous in this generation, so that it became the exclusive title of this person so ordinary," Li Nan took a deep breath and lowered his eyes, "He is a young man between the ages of sixteen and twenty-eight, who does not study, wanders in the streets and alleys, and his parents are not around; Maybe they're good-looking, and have their own 'little group'. ”

"He may have had a criminal record, he has been in the bureau more than once, and he always looks like he doesn't care about the outside world, which makes him and the people around him believe it and worship him......"

The old people pondered for a long time, and a few of them still shook their heads, and suddenly someone looked at the others strangely, "She shouldn't be talking about the third child who is in prison, right?" ”

"The third in prison?"

"That's right, it seems to have committed a crime many years ago, cough cough, and the news came that it was going to be imprisoned, and then I didn't know it."

"Oh oh oh!" Suddenly, someone slapped his thigh, "That's it...... What a deflated calf, it's bad. ”

Wei Kexin wiped the fine sweat on his forehead and asked, "Do you know where that person lived before?" ”

"Their house should have been demolished a long time ago, right?" The old people began to talk again, sometimes saying that their family had several houses, and sometimes saying that he was in prison to hide debts, and the houses were bulldozed by the enemy.

"I thought - isn't his grandmother still there?! It's not long before you go up to her house and ask? ”

"Who's his grandmother?"

"Like...... The one who opened a small supermarket at the door, his brain was confused, and the person was okay. ”

Wei Kexin picked up "Kang Shuaifu" and drank the rest of the water.