Yu Caibao was very indifferent to Xu Yunqin's visit. Dong Fangqi brought his cousin to his house, this is the second time Xu Yunqin has come to Yu Caibao's house, and it has been ten years since the last time. Yu Caibao's family was even more tattered than the previous attack, and Xu Yunqin had no intention of paying attention to these. As soon as he explained his situation to Yu Caibao, Yu Caibao sneered at each other: "Since you are so infatuated with her, why didn't you go out to look for her earlier, why are you looking for her now?" Is there any other point? She's been missing for more than ten years, so what's the use of finding her? She's not stupid, she's supposed to be stupid. ”

Xu Yunqin didn't want to discuss this boring issue with Yu Caibao. He is very disgusted with people like Yu Caibao, he doesn't have much ability, and he always looks down on people. He didn't get any useful information about Wu Lanlan from Yu Caibao.

Aunt Yun Qin had passed away for more than two years at this time, and her cousin's family also sold the old house where her aunt lived to other families in the same village. Xu Yunqin refused to stay at his cousin's and sister-in-law's house for dinner, although Dong Fangqi's cousin was still polite to him, but he didn't keep him. He hurried back home, packed some simple luggage, and stuffed his clothes haphazardly into his bag.

He went to the eldest sister of the Fang family's house and entrusted his little nephew Ke'an to the eldest sister to take care of, saying that he would not come back for half a month, and the little nephew would come home from school on the weekend, hoping that she would take care of it first. And left some of the nephew's living expenses for the eldest sister. The eldest sister said, you can go with confidence, I will definitely go over to take care of the little nephew.

Xu Yunqin embarked on the road to find Wu Lanlan in this way, but the road was vast, and he had no guidance. He did not dare to stop in his surrounding towns and villages. For so many years, he didn't know how Wu Lanlan's life was going, let alone where she settled or wandered. Wu Lanlan is almost fifty years old, is such a woman worth letting a man many years younger than her find and cherish? Xu Yunqin will not think about it. He only thinks that he must go out to find her in his lifetime, whether he can find her in the future or not, he has not thought about what to do after finding her. Sometimes, I don't know if what I'm doing is meaningful. Even if Xu Yunqin can't find Wu Lanlan in the future, or can use a lot of evidence to prove that Wu Lanlan is no longer here, he will go out to look for it, and he must understand what happened clearly.

The eldest sister Fang Caihua waited early Friday afternoon at her brother's house to wait for Fang Ji'an to come home safely, and she wanted to take her nephew back to her house and let Fang Ji'an spend this weekend at her home. She didn't know if Xu Yunqin had any practical significance in going out this time, but she didn't dare to stop him. The eldest sister is a little afraid of Yun Qin, Yun Qin rarely talks to them, but once she says it, she is very fierce. Although Fang Caihua is his eldest sister, Xu Yunqin doesn't seem to respect this eldest sister, and Xu Yunqin never pays attention to Fang Caihua's words.

The two elder sisters of the Fang family were usually afraid of Yun Qin, so they rarely came to his house. The fourth sister has a lot of things to do at home, and she is a person who has no idea at all, Yun Qin is not even in the mood to beg her. This time I came to my eldest sister's house out of helplessness, Fang Ji'an came back from school and needed someone to take care of him. Xu Yunqin couldn't delay any longer and didn't look for Wu Lanlan, so he had to entrust Fang Ji'an to the eldest sister to take care of him for a few days.

There is a Daogu Temple in a neighboring county that is very famous, although the people of the Fang clan have already sent people to look for it more than ten years ago, and they have been here more than once. Xu Yunqin felt that the first stop was to go here to search first, no matter what the result was, he didn't care, as long as he had been there in person, he would give up.

He didn't know what the specific full name of this temple was, but fortunately, the language of the neighboring county was not too barrier, although the pronunciation was very different, but everyone understood the meaning.

Xu Yunqin already knows about this temple, called "Shuiyun Nunnery" is not a temple, the scale is not large, but it is very well-known, and the good men and women of several counties near and far know here.

The hermitage is located in the middle of a large mountain, and the mountain is dominated by pine trees, supplemented by cedar. Pine and cypress, covering the sky and the sun. The perennial larch trees here all stand upright, and the quick movements of the yellow squirrels can be seen in the trees, like lightning and disappear in a flash. Occasionally, the cuckoo's long, mournful cry can be heard, and the sound lingers around the echo of the valley.

It is difficult for those who walk here to see the flow of clouds in the sky and the rays of sunlight, and occasionally the projection will disappear without a trace when it falls on the thick dead grass needles. The pine needles on the bottom are rotten, the pine needles on the top are just beginning to fall, the rotten needles make the road slippery, and the needles on the surface are very dry under the action of the sun and the wind. The wind in the ears is like a gust of blowing, as if it is blowing endlessly, making the ears very uncomfortable, and no one can sense where the wind is coming from and where it is going. It doesn't matter if you stride forward or stroll backwards, it will block your face and exert force on your face. You can't get angry yet, every cry you call will cause more trouble, and the wind will be as fierce as a knife, it will cut your face and mouth, and make you lose your ability to speak. Xu Yunqin didn't know how powerful it was, and at first he thought that it was very painful and enjoyable, but it didn't take long to feel that his throat was as uncomfortable as being pinched and lifted by the devil's hand. He quickly closed his mouth, he slowed his steps and adjusted his breathing, his throat itching and astringent like a handful of mud and sand. Xu Yunqin covered his mouth and coughed a few times, this voice was useless in front of nature, both fragile and helpless.

Yun Qin walked into the nunnery, surrounded by walls on all sides. There are not many rooms inside, just two two-story houses with brick structures, and there are less than 20 rooms together. Advance is a big Buddha hall, blue bricks, black tiles and white wall skin, the outer wall is spread and entangled by vines, and it is impossible to distinguish whether there are traces of whitewashing, some gaps exposed to the sun retain the original color of green bricks, and the whole room is just painted with white lime, and the snow is a little crazy. The latter is the living quarters of the people who live in the nunnery. There is a large hall in the middle of the nunnery, and there are three large characters written in gold dust on the door, and the three cursive characters of "Endokuden" are written. Yun Qin walked into the main hall, there was a big Buddha sitting in the middle of the room, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, about four or five meters tall, Yun Qin didn't dare to stay, he didn't believe in these things, there were a few good men and women kneeling in the pu grass ball inside, worshipping at the top, and the buttocks were high. He walked around them, without stopping, and walked out through the side door of the main hall, and the house behind him looked a little low, and even more old and dilapidated. It is also a color of green bricks and black tiles, and the tiles are covered with pine needles, yellow and thick, almost completely covering the corrugated. Xu Yunqin was led by a woman to a room, and the woman shouted into the room from a distance: "Jin Mei, Jin Mei, you come out, someone is looking for you." ”

The door opened from the inside, and a snow-white head poked out: "Who's looking for me?" ”

The white-haired woman glanced at Yun Qin: "Are you looking for me, is there something wrong?" ”

Yun Qin smiled and asked her, "Hello, Auntie, are you from Jin Gu County?" ”

The white-haired woman did not answer positively: "I don't seem to know you, you say, what are you looking for me for?" ”

"Hello, I am also from Chifeng Town, Jingu County, I have a relative who disappeared more than ten years ago, some people say that you have seen her face here, you are also from Jingu County, we are also half a fellow countryman, I want to know something about her."

"It's been missing for more than ten years, and you're only coming to look for her now, why did you go before?" The white-haired woman gave her a disgruntled look.

Yun Qin said sincerely: "No, Auntie, I just came to look for her now, we have been looking for her before, but we haven't found her." ”

"I don't have a good memory, not to mention the events of more than ten years ago, just last month, and my mind is full of confused accounts."

"You're not impressed, aren't you? Some people say that the person has been here for a long time, and then maybe our family came to look for her, so she left here, and then she has not heard from her. ”

"Amitabha, Amitabha, this woman is really pitiful, has she been stimulated by anything spiritually?"

"Her family has changed too much, maybe, but before she ran away, it certainly didn't happen like this."

"There are a lot of people who come from Chifeng, and they all come to pray to God and worship Buddha, and there doesn't seem to be such a person, you wait a minute, I'll help you inquire again." I boiled the kettle with hot water, you pour it yourself and drink it, I'm out. ”

Xu Yunqin didn't expect to get more information here all at once, but he was really thirsty and hungry, and he couldn't eat a hot meal, and it was also good to drink hot water.

He took a bowl and poured hot water to drink. After a while, the white-haired woman brought a relatively young woman over. Yun Qin stood up and gave up his seat. The white-haired woman said, you sit down, it's okay with her, it's all old acquaintances.

The young woman smiled at Yun Qin and asked, "You are also from Chifeng, which village are you from?" ”

Yun Qin listened to the accent very similar to Chifeng, so he said that I am from Shanghu Village, Chifeng, where is the eldest sister from?

The woman smiled and said, "I'm from the field pot." Yun Qin said, no wonder your voice is very similar to our village, it turns out that we live so close. ”

The woman continued to ask: I have also heard about what you were going to inquire about just now, but what does this woman look like, and when has she been here, everyone really can't say accurately. I also came here a few years ago, because I spoke with an accent that resembled hers, and people here have talked about your relatives. I heard that she stayed here for three months, and then a man found this place and said to outsiders that your relative is his wife, because her daughter committed suicide, she was stimulated to run away, and her family has been looking for her for three months. He persuaded her to go home, but your relative refused, and told others that she didn't know this man. Everyone believes that man's words, maybe your relative's brain is stimulated, and he is confused when he speaks and thinks. Everyone could only persuade her to go home with her man, but when the woman saw that outsiders didn't believe her, she started a mad disease, crying, beating and scolding, and everyone stopped persuading her, and the next day she was gone. The man hadn't been here looking for her since.