As Jiang Duo had investigated before, the care of the sanatorium in this village is on a rotating basis.

Three families each work as a team for a day, cooking, scrubbing and cleaning for the patients.

This schedule is basically fixed. Their village is not big, so they basically have to rotate once a month.

Mingzhu caught an aunt who was very talkative and chatted for a long time. When she took money out of her bag to pay the villagers, she accidentally took out a photo.

She didn't pick it up immediately, but instead gave people money first. However, a person next to her helped her pick up the photo, looked at it twice, handed it to Mingzhu, and asked with a smile: "This is your mother's photo." ? It seems that you are in a good relationship, and you still take photos of your family alone when you go out."

Mingzhu took it with a smile, but her heart was already stirred. She deliberately held the photo close to her face and looked at everyone: "Do you think we look alike?"

Several people came closer to look at it, and some people casually agreed that it looked a bit similar.

But some people are more honest and say directly: "Why do I feel that you are not very similar to your mother? You should look more like your father."

Mingzhu put the photo back into her wallet with a warm smile: "It seems that most daughters are more like their fathers. Don't they all say that children are like mothers and daughters are like fathers?"

How come no one recognizes the person in the photo?

She pondered for a moment and suddenly thought of a possibility.

She smiled and counted two yuan and ten cents to the other party and handed them over. She once again exclaimed, pretending to be unintentional: "Oh, it's really not easy for us ordinary people to sell such a big basket for such a small amount of money."

"It's a little better now. Every household has its own land. It's enough to pay the public grain on time. Everyone has more free time. Life was not even worse in the past."

Mingzhu nodded: "Besides farming and recuperating, isn't there any other way to make money in our village?"

Several people waved their hands: "Hey, we all depend on this for a living."

Mingzhu asked again: "Is there any family that was originally unknown, but now its life is getting better and better?"

Everyone shook their heads.

The eldest sister who just picked up the photos for her seemed to be thinking of something, and said to several people: "Don't say no, the old Shan's family in the east house of my house has been living a good life in the past few years. At the end of last year, they even built a It’s the only big brick house in our village.”

"Shan Demao's family, his son seems to have gone to work in the city."

"Yes, what kind of job does his son do? He makes so much money. The last time I went to his house to deliver something, it was just in time for dinner. There were two meat and vegetables on the table for a meal at his house. Tsk tsk, I really don't dare think."

"His son doesn't have a good job either. I met him once when I went to the city for business in the second half of last year. He worked in a lumber factory for only more than 40 yuan a month."

"Maybe I had a better job before."

A few people said something to each other, and Mingzhu got a general idea.

By the time this wave of farm goods was collected, it was already noon, and everyone went back to their homes to cook.

Mingzhu and Jiang Duo also had some time to relax. They handed over the stall to Kang Jingzhi's people to clean up. They first went to find a place for a walk and entered the space when no one was around.

Mingzhu took out the photo and handed it to Jiang Duo: "Hubby, you heard it just now, right? What do you think?"

Jiang Duo took a look at the photo and took a look at Lan Chunju's photo.

This photo is of high definition and is the latest taken in the past two years. Jiang Duo found it from some archives.

If she had been living here when she got sick in the past few years, it is impossible that not a single villager in this village who is responsible for taking turns caring for patients would recognize her.

But those people stared at the photo and compared Mingzhu's appearance, but no one could help the other, so there was only one possibility.

"Lan Chunju has never lived here at all."

"Is there something wrong with your investigation?"

"Every time Uncle Zhong sends Lan Chunju to the bus, it is not fixed. Several people said that they sent Lan Chunju here, so there should be no mistake. After all, they are all people from the work unit. Among them are A driver, one of my people, can’t make a mistake.”

"Then there is only one possibility," Mingzhu looked at Jiang Duo with serious eyes: "Lan Chunju did come here, but the villagers did not take care of her, which proves that after she came, she was quickly transferred out. .

But the list of Lan Chunju is indeed backed up at the health resort. Otherwise, when the people before you come to investigate and inquire, they will not be able to find the list, let alone tell you clearly that Lan Chunju is indeed here. Lived there for several months. "

Jiang Duo nodded: "Maybe someone made an agreement with her to replace her on the first day she came here."

The two looked at each other and spoke at the same time.

"Would you like to check on that Shan family?"

"There should be a problem with the Shan family."

After saying that, the two looked at each other and chuckled.

"It's not hard to find this single house. It's the only brick house in the whole village. Go check it out."

Jiang Duo nodded, and the two of them left the space and took a walk to the village.

The only red brick house in the west of the village is quite conspicuous.

The two looked at each other, walked around to a deserted corner at the back of the house, entered the space, positioned themselves, and moved to each other's home.

It was dinner time, and there was the sound of clinking bowls and chopsticks and the sound of people chatting while eating.

The man said, "Mom, this braised pork is a bit salty."

The old woman's voice said: "It's better to be salty, otherwise the daughter of this family will only eat meat at home every day. This girl was raised by someone else's family and is useless. If it is salty, they can eat less."

"Mom, our family is not short of money now..."

"Nonsense! I only have four to five hundred yuan left in my hand. Our Xiaowei is about to get married. If we don't save some money, we will have nothing but poverty."

The man laughed and said, "Oh, what are you afraid of? It's so easy for our family to get money. When that person comes back and stays for two months, we can get another five or six hundred."

"How long has it been since she came? It's been more than half a year. Maybe she won't come again, so why don't you catch her blind?"

There was silence in the room for a while, and then the man said: "Yeah, why hasn't she been here for the past six months? A few days ago, my mother-in-law's cousin asked me if she needs to be on call at home recently. If not, , she planned to stay at her son’s house in the city for a few days, but I didn’t dare to let her go.”

"Then...why don't you call and ask?"

"My mother, do you want my life? Didn't you listen to that person's cronies? If you dare to leak this matter or take the initiative to contact that person, our whole family's lives will be at risk. "

"Didn't her cronies go to the south? Oh, forget it, it's better to cause less trouble. Let's eat less and save some money. That's better than anything else."

Hearing the word "South", Jiang Duo and Mingzhu looked at each other in the space.

This trip was worth it.

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