When Xing Yi came to the old house, he met a temporary tenant and introduced him to three houses, each with a monthly rent of 25 yuan.

The tenant said that the landlord was not in the county and that the rent was remitted to him at the beginning of each year.

"We also sublet from someone else, we haven't seen the landlord in person, and the lease will be full next month, so we won't continue to rent and will move out."

Xing Yi did not reveal his identity, and contacted the landlord, that is, Mr. Cai's nephew, by phone, saying that he wanted to rent it for three months, and the rent was still according to the original standard.

The nephew's voice was hoarse, and he directly said that this house is for sale, and if you want it, you will deal with it at a low price.

Xing Yi asked, "Are there any relevant procedures?" ”

The other party said: "The house belongs to my uncle, he died, and I don't know where he put it." But don't worry, it's okay, absolutely no one will come to you to talk to you. ”

After a pause, he said, "It's because of the lack of procedures that it's handled cheaply." ”

Xing Yi said: "I'll rent it first, wait for a while, feel comfortable, and then answer you." ”

"I'll give you a month to think about it."

Therefore, when the friend is said, it is actually fictional, and after the case is solved, the fictitious friend will naturally disappear, and the director will take over many cases, and gradually, he will forget it.

Even if you know that it is a scam, then because it is beneficial to solve the case, why not deceive it.

His expression remained calm, he walked in front, opened the door, and entered the house with the director, although the room was still clean and had little dust, but at a glance, it was empty, except for a large coffee table in the middle, a square table against the wall, two wooden square stools, and no decent furniture.

Xing Yi took the director and looked at the three rooms one by one. Let the director continue to check, go out on his own, walk into the courtyard, turn around, and look outside.

Seeing his state, the director asked, "Teacher Xing, what are you looking at?" ”

"Director, you didn't notice that the environment here is particularly good."

"Well, it's good, but the house is a little old, and if you spend some money to renovate it, it's a villa."

After the director finished the inspection, he came back and sat on the wooden sofa, which squeaked and could not bear the weight of the director. Xing Yi found an axe, struck it a few times, and stabilized.

The director sat down, wanted to smoke, handed him a cigarette, he shook his head: "I won't." ”

The director took a big puff, turned his face and spat a cloud of smoke at the door, pushed his palm outside, and turned back to ask, "When will your friend come back?" ”

Xing Yi sat on the wooden chair against the wall opposite, which was his desk, and it was very comfortable to sit on.

Looking at the small table in front of Kang Enpei, the director hadn't noticed the things on it, and had to guide him further, he said: "He didn't say it, I didn't ask him, I don't know, do you feel like running empty?" ”

"I'm a little short of time today, and I'll come back when I find another time, so I still have to ask before I come, and I must contact him."

"Shall I write him a note?"

"Yes, you can."

Xing Yi walked over and squatted down, reached out to grab a few pieces of paper on the table, and found a blank one to write, his hand was a little heavier, and the paper was pushed to the ground. The director bent down to pick it up, and when he saw a pattern on a piece of paper, he picked it up and looked at the light in the doorway.

"What's that?" Xing Yi asked.

"It's nothing, it's just a sketch." The director said.

"yes, my friend also likes to draw, pencil and gouache and so on."

"This piece of paper is not what you say."

"Shall I see?"

The director gave him the diagram.

"Where is this drawing, there are rivers, there are hillsides, and there are contour lines, is this a topographic map of a place?"

The director folded the sketch in half and put it in his pocket.

"You're going to take it back and study it?"

"I feel that there is a part of the picture that is similar to the map of our township, which is a bit interesting, I will take it back and compare it, and when we meet again, I will return it to him."

"He won't ask for any more sketches he draws, just throw them away."

"That's not good, we can't just take a needle from the people."

The sketch attracted the attention of the director, Xing Yi secretly rejoiced, this is the first step, next, will the director find clues in the sketch? Is it overestimating him? This is like the plot in a TV series, the director stays in a dim light, meditating, the night passes, the day is dawn, open the window, see the rising sun, and suddenly wake up......

If we don't see any movement for a few days, we will have to have a showdown with the director, so I told him that a friend has called, and he wants us to go to the vicinity of the dam of the hydropower plant, around the diversion hole, and look in that area, and we will find clues of suspected theft of trees......

The two came out, Xing Yi locked the door and put the key back in its place.

After a long journey, he turned back and looked at the house for a while.

After sending Kang Enpei away, Xing Yi went to the business room again, didn't see Ni Shuzhen, asked Xu Lu, and found out that he had adjusted his job.

Xu Lu was in the mood to see the excitement and took him to the mail sorting center.

Just after work, Ni Shuzhen came out, the two were three feet apart, standing face to face, the height was appropriate, the body shape matched, the woman's cheeks were slightly red, and the man's toothy smile.

This scene is in front of me, not looking at it in vain, the colleagues in the sorting room are crowded, walking past them, stopping not far away, stopping to eavesdrop.

"Off work?" The boy asked.

"Ah, off work." The girl replied.

"What a coincidence."

"Well, it's a bit of a coincidence."

Colleagues collide with each other and let out a knowing laugh.

Xu Lu felt embarrassed and ran away.

The two walked out into the street together.

Now that your mood has stabilized and your conversation has become normal, where should you start? Do you want to talk about the things on the Phoenix Datun? That's too direct, but you can't go far away, you have to be clever and ask if there's anything going on at home, so it seems safer.

Ni Shuzhen said: "It's not a big deal, it's just that my father's stomach pain has another attack." ”

"It's not a big deal, it's a very important thing, have you been to the hospital? Have you had any previous seizures? ”

"This is the second time, exactly the same as the last time, when he had a seizure, he was in pain and annoyed, he couldn't stand up, he was quickly sent to the hospital, his temperature was measured, his blood pressure was measured, but it didn't look so serious, the doctor asked him to be hospitalized for observation, but he shouted to go home, dead or alive."

"That's not to be careless."

Xing Yi had the impression of this, when he was sick, the medical conditions were not very good, measuring blood pressure, listening to his abdomen, and beating his knees, but he didn't see anything. A few years later, I had another attack, had a B-ultrasound, repeated examinations twice, and was diagnosed with kidney stones and hydrops. Later, I heard that there was a family secret recipe of an old Chinese medicine doctor, Ni Shuzhen went to find it, asked someone to take it, gave a gift, the old Chinese medicine doctor prescribed four doses, boiled the soup, and drank it for 20 days, well, there was no recurrence.

Now you can't wait, you have to find the old Chinese medicine doctor as soon as possible, prescribe the medicine, and decoct the medicine for him as soon as possible.

But for a while, I can't remember which street or alley the old Chinese medicine doctor lives in, and I can't remember what it looks like, but anyway, I'm in the city, so I'm looking for it street by street, and I must find it.

Xing Yi said: "According to what you said, it is very likely that one of my masters has the same disease, but I am not sure, my master he was cured later, it was an old Chinese medicine doctor prescribed a prescription cured, I will contact him after a while, and ask him to copy the prescription to me, first grab a few pairs to boil and eat." ”

Then he said that he did go to the countryside yesterday, and received a call from Hu Yanli, and there was no signal while talking, and he came back in the evening. Early this morning, I met Director Kang again, for the case of theft of trees and fire in their township forest farm, so far away, it is really difficult to excuse myself.

"Is it the head of the police station?" Ni Shuzhen seems to be interested in this.

"Yes, it is the director of the Shaxi Township Police Station, a very responsible, very capable person, I and he met after coming down from Phoenix Datun, Phoenix Datun is in the northeast of Shaxi Township, in fact, it is a mountain, it is very broad, the wind is very strong, usually five or six levels, often seven or eight levels, very suitable for wind farms."

Ni Shuzhen looked very attentive to listening.

"It was a new friend who invited me to climb Phoenix Datun, he was Yue Xin of Shaxi Township, the same age as me, we met on the agricultural bus, he was very good, he knew that I was engaged in the irrigation station in Shangyan Village, so he came to me to play, and officially invited me on behalf of their nature activity group to climb Phoenix Datun with them, get close to nature and understand nature, which is a very interesting activity."

After Xing Yi finished speaking, he stopped, leaving a five-second break to observe the change in Ni Shuzhen's expression.

Ni Shuzhen listened to him quietly, staring into the distance.