It was already the middle of December, and after two rains, the sky finally cleared up in a county town in the next province.

There are many ancient towns here, tourism is developed, many places have been deliberately maintained, and the ancient architectural style of many years ago is still maintained, and there are not many high-rise buildings in the distance.

As soon as you go out, you can see the blue sky, white clouds and rolling mountains.

Chang Jin took his bag and walked out, and when he was about to lock the door, he was still whispering into the room.

"I'm going to be out for a while this time, not for long."

"It was a friend I met in the army before who asked me for help, his name is Gu Xingze, I told you, remember? The girl he liked was in a bit of trouble. ”

"I won't go home for half a year like I did when I returned to the team, I didn't have two clothes in my bag, and I couldn't run too far."

No one responded inside.

Just as the key was about to be removed from the keyhole, he stopped and reopened the door the next second.

"Do you want to come with me?"

The gardenia in the living room was blown by the wind, and Chang Jin lowered his eyes and smiled.

"Okay, then I'll take you with me."

He went to get a photo of Lin Qingqing again, opened the jacket, and put it in the inner pocket of the intimate mouth.

There are already five photographs there, highlighting a little arc at the mouth of the heart.

After putting the photo away, he took another gardenia, and finally walked out.

From here to Yinyun County, it takes several provinces to cross, and even if you change to the fastest local transportation every time, it can take three days.

The last means of transport is the country bus.

Dusty and covered in dried mud, driving on uneven dirt roads.

Drive a little faster, and the window glass will make a deafening shaking sound, and it looks like it will be scrapped on the road at any moment.

Yinyun County has many detours, and the road is very long, a section of the road is on the hillside, listen to the people on the car said, if you drive up and down the slope after the rain, the car will slip, and the whole car has to go down to push.

When the station stopped, half of the car went down and vomited.

The driver didn't look like a local, worried that he would see jokes, and specially explained: "They rarely take this kind of car, and there are many detours here." Are you the son-in-law here? ”

Chang Jin knew a little bit of the dialect of this province, shook his head first, then handed over a cigarette, frowned and asked:

"I want to ask where is the police station here? I have a younger sister who came to play with her classmates and got lost. ”

The driver cherished the good cigarette and clipped it to his ear.

"The police station is a little far away, I'll send you there, just when I have to pass by there to pick up people."

Chang Jin said thank you, and asked casually: "The police station here is very busy, I called them, and I heard from them that there are many people who are lost." ”

"We don't know." As soon as the car started, the driver could only shout at the top of his voice.

"But I did see a few people coming to look for someone, crying and shouting to the police. There is also a family, how good the children in the house are, but they can't find it when they go out to play, they can't see the dead and the corpses, the family is crazy and crazy, if you walk over, maybe you can meet them and get a photo to ask you. ”

Chang Jin frowned.

"Is it a girl?"

"Hey! Women lose their big men and lose their children, and when the male babies are young, they will be abducted and used as pots, and the female babies will be abducted as daughters-in-law when they are older. ”

"Didn't the police station help find it?"

"Where is it so easy!"

The driver shook his head and expertly struck the steering wheel to turn.

Chang Jin looked outside, a woman wearing a cotton jacket with a child on her back and a basket on her back was holding a rod scale and was going to sell persimmons.

The quality of the red and glamorous persimmons looks very good, and it is probably a boutique in the supermarket in Haicheng, and there are people who grab it when they sell it for more than ten or twenty yuan.

It's just a few dollars for a meal here.

He retracted his gaze and asked again, "Master, are you not going to build the road here?" After the repair, more people will come. ”

"If you want to get rich and build roads first, you don't know! But it's not up to us to have the final say, we know which dying moths are doing what they lack of morality! ”

"Yes. But you don't build this road, and from the outside to here, you are the only car that runs, and I have waited for a long time to wait. I wanted to take a taxi but didn't see a good car, and I was afraid of getting in a black car. ”

"Hey, you're still afraid of riding in a black car? But although we are poor here, as the saying goes, there are rich people in poor places, and there are still a few families with good cars! ”

"Have you seen any good cars? The older ones, if I find someone, bring my sister and my classmates back. ”

"Bigger, huh? Yes, you go to the hotel and ask, and there is also the building materials city, they all have bigger vans, and you should be able to pull you for more money. By the way, do you want to stay in a hotel? I can recommend two to you, see if you want a cheaper one or a better one. ”

The corners of Chang Jin's mouth pulled out a little arc: "It's cheaper, I have to spend some money to find my sister." ”

"Then I'll give you a pointer, turn right at the police station and walk two streets, then turn left, there are many cars and hotels on that road."

After saying that, it was just time to get to the place.

He thanked him, walked to the noodle restaurant opposite the police station, and ordered a bowl of noodles to eat.

On the way up, he vaguely glanced around.

The police station was also dusty, and the mud splashed on it I don't know how long it hadn't been cleaned.

On the two electric wire piles next to it, there are also wanted letters for murderers and missing person notices.

There was no sound of police cars hula coming and going on the street, and there was no noise of anyone arguing, and everywhere was peaceful and calm, and the customers and owners of the noodle shop were still talking and laughing about the happy events at home.

However, when a person finds a cockroach in the sun, it means that there are too many cockroaches to squeeze in an invisible place.

The small county town is a high incidence of crime.

After eating the noodles, Chang Jin still did not enter the police station.

He noted the location and went to a hotel first.

Gu Xing didn't give many clues, so he had to find out first.

The police station's notice of assistance in handling the case should have been sent here, but it may be useful or alarming.

The other people who came to investigate may not be able to find anything for the time being.

So he had to do it a different way.

The hotel I was looking for was on the edge of a three-way intersection.

Cars heading to villages and towns in dilapidated stations will stop here to pick up passengers, shouting "OK on" at the top of their voices.

Cars from villages and towns will stop here for a few minutes, and then the owner of the hotel will come out to pull people.

Thirty dollars a night, before you move in, it's hard to imagine that there will be such a hotel.

In a small, damp room, a wood-framed bed takes up almost the entire space, and old stained-glass windows open to the sewer behind it, and electric piles tangled in aging wires.

Most of the people who moved in were migrant workers, middle-aged men with gray hair, taciturn women, and of course young girls.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he is tied with a low ponytail that is not very good-looking, his clothes are old, and the eyes on his face can't tell whether he is ignorant or numb, or accustomed to it.

They came out to work, and after two years of working to save some money, they had to go back to get married.

(End of chapter)