Qin Shen's Inn
Chapter 74
The town entrance of Hongye Town is at the intersection of Yanhu Road. Drive along Yanhu Road and see the fork in the road and turn into Heping Road. The end of Heping Road is Lion Head Peak.On one side of Yanhu Road is a town, and on the other side is a large piece of barren land. Now these lands are in Qin Shen's hands. In addition to planting a large area of fruit trees, a small park and an indoor swimming pool have also been built.
The infrastructure of the small park has been completed, and the flowers and trees will be planted one after another after the beginning of spring. The facade of the swimming pool has been completed, and half of the interior decoration has been completed, and the rest will continue in half a year.
Originally, both sides of Yanhu Road were bare, but after Zhang Tenghai bought the land, he planted street trees on both sides, the most common camphor tree, and "cut off" the [-]-[-]-year-old trees with their heads wrapped in plastic sheets, which will sprout in the spring of the coming year. Branches will grow, and the place will change drastically.Camphor trees grow very fast, and within a few years this side will be full of green trees.
There are three big pagoda trees at the entrance of the town, and a stone stands under the tree. On the stone, there are three vigorous and powerful words-Hongye Town.
Every Chinese New Year, each family will take their surplus things to the town to sell, and exchange some money for the New Year. Over time, an open-air market has been formed here. It used to be unorganized and disciplined, and accidents and accidents occurred. There were fights and fights. Later, the town government came forward to plan, and the police maintained order, and it was much better.
Today, the open-air market at the entrance of Hongye Town has become a feature, and the scale of the market is getting bigger, attracting people from all over the world to buy things.
There are too many people, and all kinds of news are spread on everyone's lips.
"I heard that ten children have been stolen. The oldest is twelve years old, and the youngest is a few months old. Goodness, the parents who lost their children should be more worried."
"No, I don't let my child go to and from school alone recently. It's either me or his father who picks him up."
"The police are weak, why haven't the traffickers been caught yet!"
"Oh, how will the family who lost their children live this year?"
Qin Shen once saw such a sentence in "The Price of Life—Seven Cents", "Human traffickers, old bustards, and even the recent kidnapping bandits all sell their belongings to others with varying prices. "Human trafficking, especially child trafficking, gouges flesh in the hearts of parents, it is simply hateful.
After taking over the inn, Qin Shen gradually accepted the theory of karma, and believed that traffickers would not get a good death and would go to hell after death.But the pain they caused cannot be made up for by Hell Shura. How painful it is for those families who lost their children.
Bustling people passed by, Qin Shen turned his head to look for it, but couldn't find the two women who spoke just now.
"Brother, do you like my tofu? My tofu is slowly ground with a stone mill by taking spring water from the mountain. Would you like to try it for two yuan, one yuan and one yuan, if it is not delicious, I don't want your money .”
Qin Shen looked down and found that he was standing in front of a tofu stall. There were several boards of tofu on the table, as well as soy products such as dried tofu and tofu skin.
Showing the bag in his hand to the stall owner, Qin Shen said, "I've already bought it."
The stall owner was not annoyed, and continued to recommend other soy products of his own with a smile. The dried tofu can be eaten with soy sauce, and you will definitely like it with porridge. How about two yuan?"
Seeing that the stall owner was so enthusiastic, Qin Shen tore out a bag of dried tofu and filled it up for him. Then he saw that the dried tofu was really good, so he bought it. .”
"Okay." A big deal was made, and the stall owner laughed out loud, "I'll pack it up for you, and you can eat it when you go home. If it doesn't taste good, you can bring dried tofu to my shop and find me." , my store is in the vegetable market, it’s easy to find.”
Qin Shen took the dried tofu and said with a smile, "Haha, with your words, this dried tofu is definitely not bad."
"That's that." The stall owner collected the money, the phone rang, he glanced at it, the smile on his face disappeared, and sighed, "Sin, my relative's child was stolen, and grandma pushed She was shopping outside with the stroller, and she lowered her head to look at the things, and the little grandson in the stroller was gone, only ten months old. Now the whole family is looking for it, and I will take it later The booth is also going to help."
"Human traffickers have been very active recently?" Qin Shen's activities are limited, so the news is a bit delayed. If he hadn't walked around the market today, he really wouldn't have known that something major had happened nearby.
"No, it's still very rampant. The surrounding towns have lost ten children in a month." The stall owner gave Qin Shen the change and continued, "Human traffickers dare not come to Hongye Town, we are blessed by mountain gods." , but those with children at home should pay attention.”
There is a legend in Hongye Town that the hero who protected the water and soil in this area finally became a mountain god and lived on the mountain next to their town, so it is said that he is blessed by the mountain god.
Qin Shen agreed with the stall owner's statement that he was not afraid of [-] yuan, but just in case. When Diudiu came home from school, he would have a good talk with the child about safety issues.
The pork deliverer called Qin Shen, and the man came. Qin Shen walked through the crowd, made sure that the two pigs had both mustaches and tails, and that there was no shortage of water or blood. Then he signed the order form and drove Back to the inn.
Inside the inn, Qiu Baocheng had already brought Wang Lebin and Wu Niang ready, and was waiting for the boss to come back with the two pigs.
It saves a lot of trouble by not having to butcher the pig himself. Qiu Baocheng only needs to decompose the pork according to the requirements of the ingredients. At noon, he will use the pork bone to make soup and eat the butchered pig dish.
They don't like blood sausage here. All the pig's blood is made into blood tofu, which can be served in hot pot or cooked alone.
The hoof meat of the four front legs is stuffed with sausages, and the fat is added according to the ratio of seven parts thin and three parts fat. There are Qiu Baocheng's secret flavor, Qin Shen's old taste, Sichuan spicy spicy... not just Filled with sausages, and cut rib meat for bacon.
In the evening, Guo Yue went to the mountain to cut some cypress branches and stacked them on the open space in the front yard of the inn. Qiu Baocheng poured the spices he had prepared on the cypress branches, "Xiao Wang, take a piece of firewood from the stove to light the fire."
Two shelves were made next to the cypress branches to hang meat.
"Okay Brother Baocheng, I'll go right away." Wang Lebin who hung up the meat hurriedly went to the simple stove and took out a burning firewood, and lit it under the cypress tree as Qiu Baocheng said.
The uncleanly burned fat on the cypress branches will rise with the smoke, and will be dyed on the cured sausages, meat strips, chickens and ducks. After being smoked overnight, hang them to dry, which is the local taste of smoked meat.
Of course, there are also sausages and bacon that are directly air-dried and not smoked. The inn makes a lot of flavors, and there is always one that people will fall in love with.
After eating the orange flesh, Qiu Baocheng threw the orange peel into the cypress branch, stood up with his thighs propped up, "Xiao Wang, you don't need to watch, this fire will never go out."
"Yeah." Wang Lebin was inconvenient to talk with his mouth full of oranges, so he nodded to show that he knew.
Qiu Baocheng went in to make dinner, Wang Lebin stayed outside for a while, peeled another orange, threw the peel into the cypress pile, and called Huang Sanwei to come over to eat the pulp, "Sanwei, it's getting late, we'll weed tomorrow, let's go inside."
Huang Sanwei jumped up behind Wang Lebin like a frightened rabbit, grabbed the clothes behind Wang Lebin and pointed to the sky, saying: "There is a strange bird in the sky."
Wang Lebin looked up, and there was a big black bird hovering in the gradually darkening sky, with wings stretched more than two meters. What was even more surprising was that there were eight heads clustered around the bird's head. Ghost car bird.
"Karma, Karma—" the ghost car bird's rough cry came from above.
Along with the cry, black blood dripped down in front of Wang Lebin's body with a "click", and the black air adhering to it dissipated into the air with a "beep".
The ghost car bird, that is, the place where the blood of the nine-headed bird drips will bring disasters. They will haunt women with dystocia and abduct single children. They are ominous things.
The ghost car bird hovered in the sky for a while, and gradually flew away. Wang Lebin grabbed Huang Sanwei's hand and put him half in his arms, patted his back and comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the ghost car bird flew away."
Huang Sanwei puffed up her cheeks to cheer herself up, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, not afraid in the inn."
"Haha, you don't have to be afraid when you're by my side."
Huang Sanwei nodded seriously, "Yes, I won't feel afraid when I'm by your side."
The two guys who were greasy and crooked and sprinkled dog food all day long walked into the house, and there was a strong fragrance wafting from the kitchen. Wang Lebin took two deep breaths, "It smells so good."
"Brother Baocheng is making goose. The old tofu bought by me, the boss, is in it. It must be delicious." Qin Shen, who was sitting at the table with his son doing homework, boasted without shame, and attributed the fragrance of the old stove goose to himself.
Some people still cheered, Diudiu said: "No wonder it is so delicious, I want to eat a few more pieces of tofu at night."
Qin Shen rubbed his son's face, "Dad's little cutie, you are the best."
Diudiu's little face was deformed by rubbing, and his voice was out of tune, "Dad is the best too."
Qin Shen rubbed his son's head. The action seemed rough, but he gently pressed Diudiu's head to let him continue to do his homework. After finishing, he could play for a while.
"Boss, I want to stay in the hotel with six little dolls." At some time, a middle-aged woman in her 40s walked in from the door, wearing a thick red floral padded jacket and wrapping her head. A blue hood that covered the area below the nose, and she pulled it off with rough, inflamed hands to reveal chapped lips.
She was holding a child in her arms, and was covered with a soft goose yellow fleece blanket. Some kind of stain was rubbed on the blanket, one gray and one black.Beside her were five children of different sizes. The older one looked eight (nine) years old, and the younger one was only three or four years old. They were not very uniformly dressed.
It doesn't mean that some of them look foreign and some are rustic, but that they have a sense of the times. The older child's dress is similar to that of Qin Shen when he was a child, and the younger one is similar to that of Diu Diu when he was a child. The style difference is quite large.
The visitor is a guest, Qin Shen will not rush people, let Liu Niang greet the children to sit down, and lead the middle-aged woman to register.
"Name."
"Ghost woman."
"address."
"Fengdu."
Qin Shen entered the information with a few strokes, and said softly with a friendly smile: "We have standard rooms, double rooms, and suites here. The prices are... May I ask what specifications do you need?"
The embarrassed ghost woman gradually settled down under Qin Shen's smile. She grabbed the corner of her clothes and showed a restrained but pure and simple smile, "If you want a suite, no matter how hard it is, you can't suffer children. I have money." , I have been saving for a long time, and I only live for two days, enough is enough."
The ghost woman holding the child unbuttoned the hem of her floral padded jacket with one hand, revealing the emerald green thick clothes inside, and took out a bulging handkerchief from the pocket of the emerald green clothes.The handkerchief was placed on the edge of the bar, and he carefully opened it layer by layer with his hands, revealing a few whole bills and a pile of fragmented banknotes inside.
The folded notes were very serious, but the ghost woman folded them one by one and stacked them together, and took out most of the whole bag of money and gave Qin Shen to pay the rent, "After saving for a long time, it's finally useful. "
"It's not easy for the elder sister, you have worked hard for the child." Qin Shen didn't count, and put the pile of warm money into the drawer, he asked the ghost woman: "Elder sister, these are your children."
The little baby in the ghost woman's arms groaned uncomfortably, and the ghost woman patted it lovingly a few times, "Be good, baby, be good, Mommy will make you something to eat, and you will have something to eat soon."
The temperature in the inn was high, and the ghost woman took off the fleece blanket covering the child and put it on the table, revealing a ten-month-old child inside. The child's face was covered with tears, and the little hand was on the ghost woman's padded jacket, wanting to resist. Leaving this embrace, he sobbed uncomfortably.
The ghost woman patted the child softly, and sang a nursery rhyme in a rough voice, "Thousands of miles, green seedlings, mother is carrying a baby..."
Her voice was obviously not gentle and gentle, but she sang the nursery rhymes with strange tunes, but it was extraordinarily soothing, and the twitching child calmed down.
The ghost woman let out a long breath, and smiled uneasily at Qin Shen, "I'm sorry, the child is still young, and always cries when she feels uncomfortable."
"It's nothing, it's just that the child is uncomfortable." Qin Shen smiled, and didn't continue to ask the ghost woman who avoided his question. "Where is the child uncomfortable? We have some medicines suitable for children here, and you can also ask the doctor to come over."
The ghost woman patted the child, "I'm just hungry, just eat something."
"There is no milk powder in the inn, let's cook an egg for the child, it will be ready soon, just wait." Qin Shen turned to Qiu Baocheng inside and said, "Brother Baocheng, cook an egg for the baby."
"Understood." Qiu Baocheng's voice came from inside.
The ghost woman bowed gratefully and said repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you."
"It's not worth anything, big sister, don't bend over, and be careful not to hurt the child."
The ghost woman brought the children here at just the right time, almost when the inn was open for dinner. The children she brought were very sensible. The older ones took care of the younger ones, and the younger ones would eat without being coaxed, and would help clean up after eating. tableware.
After dinner, rest for half an hour and continue to do homework. There is still a little finishing content that is not finished, just write a few lines.A five or six-year-old boy brought by the ghost woman stared enviously at Diu Diu's homework, his dark eyes were full of longing, and he couldn't help it. The child approached Diu Diu and asked in a low voice: "Can you give me the homework?" Want to read a book?"
Diudiu looked up at the child who was slightly younger than him, and there was no rejection in his innocent eyes. He nodded, "Okay, can you give me the Chinese language book, I am doing math."
The child held his little hand excitedly, "Yes, yes, thank you."
Taking the book from Diudiu's hand, the child sat down at the table, solemnly opened the pages, and was frustrated to find that there were many words on it that he didn't know. He stopped on a text about plums, and the little finger Rubbing on "Li", his eyes showed a look of reminiscence that didn't match his age, he knew this word.
"Children, let's eat some fruit. Bingtangxin's apples are quite sweet." Qin Shen gave fruit plates to the children at the other table, and then brought them to Diudiu, and let the children eat as well after they sat down.
The child wanted to eat but didn't dare to bite his lower lip. He seemed a little timid. He looked at Qin Shen secretly from the side, and found that there was no dislike on the other side's face, but only encouragement. Another ghost mother nodded at him, and the child took a piece of apple and ate it like a little squirrel who was easily scared.
Qin Shen smiled and asked, "What's your name, kid? How old are you?"
"My name is Li Xiaoming, and I was five years old when I died." He spread his fingers and counted in a daze, flicking his little fingers, and said, "It's been 20 years, and I'm 25 years old."
"...Haha, I can't call you a kid, you are about my age."
Li Xiaoming was wearing dark brown corduroy trousers, a blue corduroy jacket with a white shirt inside, and stylish square-cut leather shoes on his feet.With this attire, the conditions at home must not be bad more than 20 years ago. It is a child held in the palm of the parents. It is a pity...
Li Xiaoming rubbed his face in embarrassment, "No, no, I'm only five years old."
Qin Shen didn't know how to answer this question, so he asked something else, "Where are your parents?"
Li Xiaoming lowered his head in disappointment, "I was kidnapped by kidnappers, and I haven't seen them again. It's been a long time." It's been so long that I don't know if my parents still remember me...
"Don't be sad, we will see each other if we are destined."
"Hmm." Li Xiaoming ate a piece of apple, lowered his eyes, and didn't know what he was thinking.
The six children brought by Guicheniao, except for the one she held in her arms, the other children are all obsessed ghosts. During the last two nights in Wangxiang Inn, the predestined ones will get to know each other, but the thoughts in their hearts follow. The ghost car bird enters the ghost world, and those who have no fate can only enter the reincarnation with concern, looking forward to seeing you in the next life.
It was almost eight o'clock and it was time to pack up and go to bed, and the ghost woman was also holding the child and preparing to go to the room.Qin Shen took the key from the bar and gave Liu Niang to lock the gate of the yard, but she didn't lock the gate, and led two people in uniform, one old and one young, to enter.
Qin Shen met the policeman in the town twice when he went to the woodware store to popularize the knowledge of preventing telecom fraud.The last time Miguo went to the woodware store to pick up things, he met a robber, and they were the two who came to the woodware store to handle the case.
"Officer Liang, what are you doing here so late?" Qin Shen greeted him and asked.
Liang Jing is an elderly policeman. He took off his hat and held it in his hand. He scanned the lobby and finally landed on the ghost woman holding the child. "A ten-month-old child was lost in the next town. According to surveillance, we found this place all the way.”
Of course, it wasn't that there was a surveillance camera on Heping Road, but that there was a store on Yanhu Road that captured the ghost woman in a floral jacket. At that time, the ghost woman was carrying her child to the store to buy milk, and it happened to be captured by the surveillance camera.The police mobilized surveillance all the way to search, and the ghost woman who left the shop seemed to have evaporated, and she could not be found anywhere, and disappeared.
Liang Jing, an old policeman in the town, pondered for a long time, and then took his little apprentice on the road of peace that had changed drastically. The mood is complicated.
Qin Shen's eyes fell on the ghost woman, and the ghost woman backed away shyly, hiding the baby in her arms, and lowered her head, saying: "The adults in his family are only concerned about bargaining with others and don't care about the child, which hurts the child." To be taken away, such responsible parents are not worthy of having children."
Liang Jing didn't have the idea of "strike while the iron is hot" to let the ghost woman hand over the child, but smiled and said, "Boss, do you provide dinner?"
Qin Shen understood what he meant, nodded and said, "Provided."
Qin Shen asked Zhang Tenghai to take Diudi back to the room to wash up, and he received two policemen who came suddenly in the lobby.
The old stove stewed goose for dinner. Since the old stove is ready, it often cooks rice and vegetables with firewood. Sometimes when it catches big fish, it is stewed in a big iron pot. Circle corn cakes; sometimes kill a chicken and use a big iron pot to stew the soup, the wood board is slowly stewed, the flesh is crispy, and the chicken soup is delicious; Braised in soy sauce, the goose meat is older than the chicken, add water to slowly absorb the juice and taste, in order to prevent the goose meat under the pot from being stewed and burnt, put a layer of small potatoes on it, the potatoes attached to the pot will be a little burnt, but the taste is very good .
Before eating, you can also put some other side dishes in the goose meat. Today is the tofu brought back by Qin Shen. After blanching the old tofu, put it into the pot. The gurgling soup is absorbed by the rich pores of the old tofu. You must pay attention when you eat it, you can’t be too fast, “you can’t eat hot tofu for greedy”, be careful to eat too fast and you will burn your mouth with blisters.
The old stove goose was served to the two policemen. They didn't pick the leftovers, they cooked too much and couldn't finish it.A goose is as big as it is, and there are other stir-fried vegetables, and the dozen or so people in the inn can't finish a meal.
Goose meat is just rice, and you can't stop eating after one bite.
The old policeman was just looking for an excuse to leave behind, but he didn't expect to have such a delicious dinner, because they have been talking about the human traffickers for several weeks, let alone eating or sleeping, they are simply sleepy and just squint for a while , Hungry bite two cold steamed buns.What is delicious, the degraded taste no longer knows.
The young one couldn't help hiccupping. He forgot the anxiety and uneasiness when he entered the inn at the beginning, and looked at the master with admiration. The master who insisted on entering the inn must know that there are delicious food here, so he brought him Entering the wilderness, an inn popped up inexplicably.
The old policeman accepted the admiration in his apprentice's eyes and was not guilty at all. He ate a piece of goose meat and said, "Damn human traffickers steal children. They will avoid surveillance and disguise themselves. They are very professional gangs who commit crimes. Investigations, surveillance, and visits to the masses found nothing. The frenzied people stole and abducted more than ten children from various counties, towns and villages in Baidang Mountain within a month or two."
Qin Shen frowned, the gangs that kidnapped and sold children were much more rampant than he imagined.
The old policeman continued: "The most recent meeting was in the town of Yangji. The child was taken away when the grandma lowered her head to pick something. This grandma is not good. She patronizes bargaining and does not take care of her own grandson. But the traffickers are even worse. Damn, three or four people committed the crime in a gang, one person was responsible for attracting the attention of the child's grandma, one person blocked the view, one person secretly hugged the child, and there was probably another person watching."
"After the child was lost, the family frantically searched for it. They called the police and mobilized their neighbors and friends. The whole town was almost overturned, but they couldn't find it." The old policeman looked at the ghost woman, and said in a tired and hoarse voice: "You Do you know what's going on with their family now?"
The ghost woman held the child tightly, looked at the old policeman for a moment, then quickly lowered her eyes, looked at the child's little face, the child fell asleep under her comfort, but the little brows were frowning, and the corners of the eyes were still twitching. Weeping, he misses his mother and grandma very much, and the lack of familiar smell around him makes him very uneasy.
The ghost woman patted her hands absent-mindedly, and the voice of the old policeman came from beside her ear, he said: "Grandma lost her grandson, and now she is completely stupid, and her mother fell ill on the bed, and the father didn't know that he should blame himself The mother doesn’t take good care of the child, blames the wife for not bringing the child with her, or hates herself for only knowing about work and neglecting the family. Their family is messed up. If the child can’t be found and resentment falls in their hearts, separation is just a matter of time.”
"Wooooo." The little guy was crying, rubbing his head against the ghost woman's chest, but without the familiar smell, familiar voice and familiar movements, he cried even harder.
Amidst the children's cries, the inn fell silent, and no one spoke.
Several children brought by the ghost woman leaned on each other and guarded the ghost mother. Li Xiaoming suddenly hugged the ghost woman's waist, "Mom, let the little brother go home, he is different from us."
The ghost woman raised her head, opened her eyes wide, tears flowed down her chapped and red cheeks, and fell to her chin. She nodded towards Li Xiaoming, and walked towards the old policeman with the child in her arms, "You must go back!" Tell the family that the child is crying, and the traffickers are afraid that the child will attract attention by crying, so they cover his mouth and nose..."
The child had died when the ghost woman found it, but the soul was still there. The ghost woman couldn't see the young life disappearing, so she cut off one end to renew the child's life, and modified the child's life map so that the child could continue to grow up. ,
The child's life should never die, and the ghost woman is his noble person.
"You let his parents take good care of the child, and let his grandma stop haggling over the three melons and two dates. The child is important." The ghost woman held the child's hand and sent it forward.
The old policeman caught him, but the ghost woman didn't let go of her hand, she looked at the child lingeringly, "Be sure to treat him well."
"Okay, I will definitely bring you what you want." After this incident, the family will definitely not be negligent in taking care of the child.
She let go of her hand, and the ghost woman turned around and led the other children to the room without looking back.
Qin Shen sighed unceasingly, and when sending the old policeman out, he told them, "Let the parents of the child take good care of the child. Life is only this time. If it is gone, it will never be again." There will be no ghost car bird to continue its life.
The old policeman holding the child didn't know Qin Shen's unfinished words, but he was willing to bring Qin Shen's words to the parents of the child, "Don't worry, I will visit this child from time to time."
"Ah."
Watching the police car going further and further away, Qin Shen turned and went into the house, and said to Liu Niang, "Lock it."
The key turned and made a "click" sound, and the door closed. When returning to the house, Qin Shen was puzzled and asked Liu Niang, "Why is the ghost car bird so nice to a human child?"
"This matter is that the child has no mother. It's a long story."
"Then make a long story short."
Liu Niang gave Qin Shen the key, and Qin Shen put it in a drawer, then turned off the lights in the lobby, and the two went to the atrium side by side.On the way, Liu Niang told Qin Shen the past of the ghost car bird in as short a language as possible. The ghost car bird, also known as the nine-headed phoenix, was originally a symbol of auspiciousness. unborn child.Conspired by a traitor, the fetus in the womb was lost, the nine-headed phoenix became resentful, and the colorful feathers turned into black. Since then, it has become a symbol of disaster. child.
The fetuses of monsters and human children are fragile, and their souls are turned into powder after the fetus slips.
"The child just now probably has the fetal element powder of a ghost woman's child on her body." Liu Niang sighed, "They are all infatuated people, and they are all poor people. She will go back and forth between Fengdu and the world every 20 years, and will send those who cannot Bringing the ghosts of children reincarnated in time to the Nether Ghost Realm, and letting them reincarnate as soon as possible, is considered a good deed."
"En." Qin Shen nodded.
There are all kinds of suffering in the world, hurting and parting, love and hate, and not being able to get what you want. The pain of parting from a mother and child is heart-wrenching.
Pushing open the door and entering the room, Zhang Tenghai was not asleep yet. He was flipping through a book in the living room. Qin Shen walked up to him and sat down, leaning on his shoulder, not wanting to talk.
Zhang Tenghai put down the book, stretched his long arms around Qin Shen's shoulders, and the two of them leaned together silently. In the long silent night, it felt good to have someone to rely on.
A police car on Heping Road returned to the town with bright yellow lights. The young policeman holding the child in the car said to the old policeman in puzzlement, "Master, why don't you take that woman back for questioning? She might be a part of the traffickers." , we can use her as a breakthrough to capture the gang of human traffickers hiding in the dark."
The old policeman was steering the steering wheel, listening to the indignant and incomprehensible voice of the young apprentice, slowly came to mind what his master told him, saying that something happened in the town that cannot be explained by science, and he could find an inn at the end of Heping Road.
After 30 years, this is the second time he has entered the inn.In a blink of an eye, time flies, he has gray temples and is about to retire.
"Xiao Cai, listen to Master slowly telling you..." The old policeman told the secret.
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It can be confirmed that the ghost car bird is not a human trafficker who committed crimes in Dongzhou City recently. There is a group of lawless and conscienceless things wandering outside looking for targets. Qin Shen's heart is trembling and restless. At that time, he directly stuffed the Baihu Shenjun, who was lazily basking in the sun, into his schoolbag.
The White Tiger Divine Monarch held on to the mouth of his schoolbag, protesting Qin Shen's rough treatment, "Meow! This Divine Monarch doesn't want to lose face."
"Please God Baihu, follow Diudiu to school and protect him. There are too many bad guys lately." Diudiu has to go to school, and Qin Shen can't leave the inn for a long time, so he can only think of this is not a solution.
Although the white tiger god has shrunk, he is still the god who dominates the west. His strength may not be enough to deal with big monsters, but it is more than enough to deal with human beings.
The town is guarded by Qinglong Shenjun, and the addition of another Shenjun is double insurance, so you can be prepared.
Lord White Tiger proudly raised his head and chest, "Heh heh heh, call me Lord White Tiger when you beg me, and call me Dabai when you bother me."
"My fault, my fault, the white tiger god is the most powerful."
"Meow, this is more or less the same." Baihu Shenjun's eyes showed a slit, "What are you doing, sweet little fish..."
"You eat too much sweets, and your teeth will hurt." It would probably be ridiculous to talk about the fact that the majestic god had a toothache from eating too much sweets.
The White Tiger Lord used both hands and feet to crawl outside, "It's good to bask in the sun at the inn."
Qin Shen laughed so angrily, he pushed Baihu Shenjun on the head and pushed him into the schoolbag, looked down into the schoolbag, met a pair of amber eyes, and said: "Little dried fish, there are some sugar-reduced ones." .”
The White Tiger God reluctantly said: "Okay then." He laughed in his heart, and ate some dried fish in honey sauce, oh yeah~~
The car drove out of the inn and came to the school. Qin Shen waved his hand and watched Diu Diu enter the teaching building before getting into the car and driving back. As soon as he arrived at the inn, his mobile phone received a group text message from the school—to remind all parents to pay attention to the safety of their children. It is best to be able to pick up and drop off before the winter vacation. As the Chinese New Year approaches, criminals commit crimes like crazy, fearing that they will hurt the children.
Qin Shen's heart skipped a beat when he saw this message, and then his heart sank due to the crazily refreshed content in the parent group, and Hongye Town began to lose children.
This time the lost child was a little boy in Diudiu's class, and he disappeared at home. His home was a storefront facing the street, and the whole family lived upstairs from the storefront, and the windows were not closed when they slept.The next day the parents got up to prepare breakfast, but when it was time for the child to get up, there was no movement for a long time. When the door was opened, the child disappeared.
The information sent by the school is because of this incident.It's just that in order not to cause panic, I didn't take it with me when I was at home.
Qin Shen dialed Hong Ye's phone number, and spoke in a somewhat aggressive tone, "Isn't there you in Hongye Town, isn't there Qinglong Shenjun here!! Why is there a missing child?!! Don't you protect the town's safety?"
After Qin Shen finished speaking, Hong Ye said: "I'm sorry Qin Shen, there are some things we can't stop, but we can guarantee that the child who was taken away will be fine."
Qin Shen was in disbelief, raised his voice and asked, "Why?"
"We can't ask too much about mortal affairs." Just like the catastrophe that lasted for more than 500 years on the land of the Central Plains more than 50 years ago, the gods of the four directions were unable to participate and stop the turmoil. "The road is ruthless."
The Dao is the most ruthless, what Hong Ye guards is the safety of water and soil, not personal safety, and the vitality of the Qinglong God Sovereign, not personal vitality.If they act rashly, they will modify the person's chances and chances, thus changing the person's fate plan. A temporary good is not a good thing, but a long-term good is true.
Qin Shen was silent. After a long time, he calmed down and said, "I'm sorry, I was agitated."
"It's okay. I was very impulsive when I first became an immortal. I thought that if I could keep one side peaceful, I would ensure that everyone would be safe and secure. Later, I realized that I took it for granted." Hong Ye smiled, and did not take Qin Shen's complaints into consideration. Take the question to heart, "What I want to guard is the whole, not the individual."
Even if it is the white tiger god who is easy to fight injustice, it is not for one person to stand out.
Qin Shen understood a little bit, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he didn't understand. Sure enough, the ranks of gods and earth immortals were too high, and such mysterious and mysterious things were too high-end for him.
The infrastructure of the small park has been completed, and the flowers and trees will be planted one after another after the beginning of spring. The facade of the swimming pool has been completed, and half of the interior decoration has been completed, and the rest will continue in half a year.
Originally, both sides of Yanhu Road were bare, but after Zhang Tenghai bought the land, he planted street trees on both sides, the most common camphor tree, and "cut off" the [-]-[-]-year-old trees with their heads wrapped in plastic sheets, which will sprout in the spring of the coming year. Branches will grow, and the place will change drastically.Camphor trees grow very fast, and within a few years this side will be full of green trees.
There are three big pagoda trees at the entrance of the town, and a stone stands under the tree. On the stone, there are three vigorous and powerful words-Hongye Town.
Every Chinese New Year, each family will take their surplus things to the town to sell, and exchange some money for the New Year. Over time, an open-air market has been formed here. It used to be unorganized and disciplined, and accidents and accidents occurred. There were fights and fights. Later, the town government came forward to plan, and the police maintained order, and it was much better.
Today, the open-air market at the entrance of Hongye Town has become a feature, and the scale of the market is getting bigger, attracting people from all over the world to buy things.
There are too many people, and all kinds of news are spread on everyone's lips.
"I heard that ten children have been stolen. The oldest is twelve years old, and the youngest is a few months old. Goodness, the parents who lost their children should be more worried."
"No, I don't let my child go to and from school alone recently. It's either me or his father who picks him up."
"The police are weak, why haven't the traffickers been caught yet!"
"Oh, how will the family who lost their children live this year?"
Qin Shen once saw such a sentence in "The Price of Life—Seven Cents", "Human traffickers, old bustards, and even the recent kidnapping bandits all sell their belongings to others with varying prices. "Human trafficking, especially child trafficking, gouges flesh in the hearts of parents, it is simply hateful.
After taking over the inn, Qin Shen gradually accepted the theory of karma, and believed that traffickers would not get a good death and would go to hell after death.But the pain they caused cannot be made up for by Hell Shura. How painful it is for those families who lost their children.
Bustling people passed by, Qin Shen turned his head to look for it, but couldn't find the two women who spoke just now.
"Brother, do you like my tofu? My tofu is slowly ground with a stone mill by taking spring water from the mountain. Would you like to try it for two yuan, one yuan and one yuan, if it is not delicious, I don't want your money .”
Qin Shen looked down and found that he was standing in front of a tofu stall. There were several boards of tofu on the table, as well as soy products such as dried tofu and tofu skin.
Showing the bag in his hand to the stall owner, Qin Shen said, "I've already bought it."
The stall owner was not annoyed, and continued to recommend other soy products of his own with a smile. The dried tofu can be eaten with soy sauce, and you will definitely like it with porridge. How about two yuan?"
Seeing that the stall owner was so enthusiastic, Qin Shen tore out a bag of dried tofu and filled it up for him. Then he saw that the dried tofu was really good, so he bought it. .”
"Okay." A big deal was made, and the stall owner laughed out loud, "I'll pack it up for you, and you can eat it when you go home. If it doesn't taste good, you can bring dried tofu to my shop and find me." , my store is in the vegetable market, it’s easy to find.”
Qin Shen took the dried tofu and said with a smile, "Haha, with your words, this dried tofu is definitely not bad."
"That's that." The stall owner collected the money, the phone rang, he glanced at it, the smile on his face disappeared, and sighed, "Sin, my relative's child was stolen, and grandma pushed She was shopping outside with the stroller, and she lowered her head to look at the things, and the little grandson in the stroller was gone, only ten months old. Now the whole family is looking for it, and I will take it later The booth is also going to help."
"Human traffickers have been very active recently?" Qin Shen's activities are limited, so the news is a bit delayed. If he hadn't walked around the market today, he really wouldn't have known that something major had happened nearby.
"No, it's still very rampant. The surrounding towns have lost ten children in a month." The stall owner gave Qin Shen the change and continued, "Human traffickers dare not come to Hongye Town, we are blessed by mountain gods." , but those with children at home should pay attention.”
There is a legend in Hongye Town that the hero who protected the water and soil in this area finally became a mountain god and lived on the mountain next to their town, so it is said that he is blessed by the mountain god.
Qin Shen agreed with the stall owner's statement that he was not afraid of [-] yuan, but just in case. When Diudiu came home from school, he would have a good talk with the child about safety issues.
The pork deliverer called Qin Shen, and the man came. Qin Shen walked through the crowd, made sure that the two pigs had both mustaches and tails, and that there was no shortage of water or blood. Then he signed the order form and drove Back to the inn.
Inside the inn, Qiu Baocheng had already brought Wang Lebin and Wu Niang ready, and was waiting for the boss to come back with the two pigs.
It saves a lot of trouble by not having to butcher the pig himself. Qiu Baocheng only needs to decompose the pork according to the requirements of the ingredients. At noon, he will use the pork bone to make soup and eat the butchered pig dish.
They don't like blood sausage here. All the pig's blood is made into blood tofu, which can be served in hot pot or cooked alone.
The hoof meat of the four front legs is stuffed with sausages, and the fat is added according to the ratio of seven parts thin and three parts fat. There are Qiu Baocheng's secret flavor, Qin Shen's old taste, Sichuan spicy spicy... not just Filled with sausages, and cut rib meat for bacon.
In the evening, Guo Yue went to the mountain to cut some cypress branches and stacked them on the open space in the front yard of the inn. Qiu Baocheng poured the spices he had prepared on the cypress branches, "Xiao Wang, take a piece of firewood from the stove to light the fire."
Two shelves were made next to the cypress branches to hang meat.
"Okay Brother Baocheng, I'll go right away." Wang Lebin who hung up the meat hurriedly went to the simple stove and took out a burning firewood, and lit it under the cypress tree as Qiu Baocheng said.
The uncleanly burned fat on the cypress branches will rise with the smoke, and will be dyed on the cured sausages, meat strips, chickens and ducks. After being smoked overnight, hang them to dry, which is the local taste of smoked meat.
Of course, there are also sausages and bacon that are directly air-dried and not smoked. The inn makes a lot of flavors, and there is always one that people will fall in love with.
After eating the orange flesh, Qiu Baocheng threw the orange peel into the cypress branch, stood up with his thighs propped up, "Xiao Wang, you don't need to watch, this fire will never go out."
"Yeah." Wang Lebin was inconvenient to talk with his mouth full of oranges, so he nodded to show that he knew.
Qiu Baocheng went in to make dinner, Wang Lebin stayed outside for a while, peeled another orange, threw the peel into the cypress pile, and called Huang Sanwei to come over to eat the pulp, "Sanwei, it's getting late, we'll weed tomorrow, let's go inside."
Huang Sanwei jumped up behind Wang Lebin like a frightened rabbit, grabbed the clothes behind Wang Lebin and pointed to the sky, saying: "There is a strange bird in the sky."
Wang Lebin looked up, and there was a big black bird hovering in the gradually darkening sky, with wings stretched more than two meters. What was even more surprising was that there were eight heads clustered around the bird's head. Ghost car bird.
"Karma, Karma—" the ghost car bird's rough cry came from above.
Along with the cry, black blood dripped down in front of Wang Lebin's body with a "click", and the black air adhering to it dissipated into the air with a "beep".
The ghost car bird, that is, the place where the blood of the nine-headed bird drips will bring disasters. They will haunt women with dystocia and abduct single children. They are ominous things.
The ghost car bird hovered in the sky for a while, and gradually flew away. Wang Lebin grabbed Huang Sanwei's hand and put him half in his arms, patted his back and comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the ghost car bird flew away."
Huang Sanwei puffed up her cheeks to cheer herself up, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, not afraid in the inn."
"Haha, you don't have to be afraid when you're by my side."
Huang Sanwei nodded seriously, "Yes, I won't feel afraid when I'm by your side."
The two guys who were greasy and crooked and sprinkled dog food all day long walked into the house, and there was a strong fragrance wafting from the kitchen. Wang Lebin took two deep breaths, "It smells so good."
"Brother Baocheng is making goose. The old tofu bought by me, the boss, is in it. It must be delicious." Qin Shen, who was sitting at the table with his son doing homework, boasted without shame, and attributed the fragrance of the old stove goose to himself.
Some people still cheered, Diudiu said: "No wonder it is so delicious, I want to eat a few more pieces of tofu at night."
Qin Shen rubbed his son's face, "Dad's little cutie, you are the best."
Diudiu's little face was deformed by rubbing, and his voice was out of tune, "Dad is the best too."
Qin Shen rubbed his son's head. The action seemed rough, but he gently pressed Diudiu's head to let him continue to do his homework. After finishing, he could play for a while.
"Boss, I want to stay in the hotel with six little dolls." At some time, a middle-aged woman in her 40s walked in from the door, wearing a thick red floral padded jacket and wrapping her head. A blue hood that covered the area below the nose, and she pulled it off with rough, inflamed hands to reveal chapped lips.
She was holding a child in her arms, and was covered with a soft goose yellow fleece blanket. Some kind of stain was rubbed on the blanket, one gray and one black.Beside her were five children of different sizes. The older one looked eight (nine) years old, and the younger one was only three or four years old. They were not very uniformly dressed.
It doesn't mean that some of them look foreign and some are rustic, but that they have a sense of the times. The older child's dress is similar to that of Qin Shen when he was a child, and the younger one is similar to that of Diu Diu when he was a child. The style difference is quite large.
The visitor is a guest, Qin Shen will not rush people, let Liu Niang greet the children to sit down, and lead the middle-aged woman to register.
"Name."
"Ghost woman."
"address."
"Fengdu."
Qin Shen entered the information with a few strokes, and said softly with a friendly smile: "We have standard rooms, double rooms, and suites here. The prices are... May I ask what specifications do you need?"
The embarrassed ghost woman gradually settled down under Qin Shen's smile. She grabbed the corner of her clothes and showed a restrained but pure and simple smile, "If you want a suite, no matter how hard it is, you can't suffer children. I have money." , I have been saving for a long time, and I only live for two days, enough is enough."
The ghost woman holding the child unbuttoned the hem of her floral padded jacket with one hand, revealing the emerald green thick clothes inside, and took out a bulging handkerchief from the pocket of the emerald green clothes.The handkerchief was placed on the edge of the bar, and he carefully opened it layer by layer with his hands, revealing a few whole bills and a pile of fragmented banknotes inside.
The folded notes were very serious, but the ghost woman folded them one by one and stacked them together, and took out most of the whole bag of money and gave Qin Shen to pay the rent, "After saving for a long time, it's finally useful. "
"It's not easy for the elder sister, you have worked hard for the child." Qin Shen didn't count, and put the pile of warm money into the drawer, he asked the ghost woman: "Elder sister, these are your children."
The little baby in the ghost woman's arms groaned uncomfortably, and the ghost woman patted it lovingly a few times, "Be good, baby, be good, Mommy will make you something to eat, and you will have something to eat soon."
The temperature in the inn was high, and the ghost woman took off the fleece blanket covering the child and put it on the table, revealing a ten-month-old child inside. The child's face was covered with tears, and the little hand was on the ghost woman's padded jacket, wanting to resist. Leaving this embrace, he sobbed uncomfortably.
The ghost woman patted the child softly, and sang a nursery rhyme in a rough voice, "Thousands of miles, green seedlings, mother is carrying a baby..."
Her voice was obviously not gentle and gentle, but she sang the nursery rhymes with strange tunes, but it was extraordinarily soothing, and the twitching child calmed down.
The ghost woman let out a long breath, and smiled uneasily at Qin Shen, "I'm sorry, the child is still young, and always cries when she feels uncomfortable."
"It's nothing, it's just that the child is uncomfortable." Qin Shen smiled, and didn't continue to ask the ghost woman who avoided his question. "Where is the child uncomfortable? We have some medicines suitable for children here, and you can also ask the doctor to come over."
The ghost woman patted the child, "I'm just hungry, just eat something."
"There is no milk powder in the inn, let's cook an egg for the child, it will be ready soon, just wait." Qin Shen turned to Qiu Baocheng inside and said, "Brother Baocheng, cook an egg for the baby."
"Understood." Qiu Baocheng's voice came from inside.
The ghost woman bowed gratefully and said repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you."
"It's not worth anything, big sister, don't bend over, and be careful not to hurt the child."
The ghost woman brought the children here at just the right time, almost when the inn was open for dinner. The children she brought were very sensible. The older ones took care of the younger ones, and the younger ones would eat without being coaxed, and would help clean up after eating. tableware.
After dinner, rest for half an hour and continue to do homework. There is still a little finishing content that is not finished, just write a few lines.A five or six-year-old boy brought by the ghost woman stared enviously at Diu Diu's homework, his dark eyes were full of longing, and he couldn't help it. The child approached Diu Diu and asked in a low voice: "Can you give me the homework?" Want to read a book?"
Diudiu looked up at the child who was slightly younger than him, and there was no rejection in his innocent eyes. He nodded, "Okay, can you give me the Chinese language book, I am doing math."
The child held his little hand excitedly, "Yes, yes, thank you."
Taking the book from Diudiu's hand, the child sat down at the table, solemnly opened the pages, and was frustrated to find that there were many words on it that he didn't know. He stopped on a text about plums, and the little finger Rubbing on "Li", his eyes showed a look of reminiscence that didn't match his age, he knew this word.
"Children, let's eat some fruit. Bingtangxin's apples are quite sweet." Qin Shen gave fruit plates to the children at the other table, and then brought them to Diudiu, and let the children eat as well after they sat down.
The child wanted to eat but didn't dare to bite his lower lip. He seemed a little timid. He looked at Qin Shen secretly from the side, and found that there was no dislike on the other side's face, but only encouragement. Another ghost mother nodded at him, and the child took a piece of apple and ate it like a little squirrel who was easily scared.
Qin Shen smiled and asked, "What's your name, kid? How old are you?"
"My name is Li Xiaoming, and I was five years old when I died." He spread his fingers and counted in a daze, flicking his little fingers, and said, "It's been 20 years, and I'm 25 years old."
"...Haha, I can't call you a kid, you are about my age."
Li Xiaoming was wearing dark brown corduroy trousers, a blue corduroy jacket with a white shirt inside, and stylish square-cut leather shoes on his feet.With this attire, the conditions at home must not be bad more than 20 years ago. It is a child held in the palm of the parents. It is a pity...
Li Xiaoming rubbed his face in embarrassment, "No, no, I'm only five years old."
Qin Shen didn't know how to answer this question, so he asked something else, "Where are your parents?"
Li Xiaoming lowered his head in disappointment, "I was kidnapped by kidnappers, and I haven't seen them again. It's been a long time." It's been so long that I don't know if my parents still remember me...
"Don't be sad, we will see each other if we are destined."
"Hmm." Li Xiaoming ate a piece of apple, lowered his eyes, and didn't know what he was thinking.
The six children brought by Guicheniao, except for the one she held in her arms, the other children are all obsessed ghosts. During the last two nights in Wangxiang Inn, the predestined ones will get to know each other, but the thoughts in their hearts follow. The ghost car bird enters the ghost world, and those who have no fate can only enter the reincarnation with concern, looking forward to seeing you in the next life.
It was almost eight o'clock and it was time to pack up and go to bed, and the ghost woman was also holding the child and preparing to go to the room.Qin Shen took the key from the bar and gave Liu Niang to lock the gate of the yard, but she didn't lock the gate, and led two people in uniform, one old and one young, to enter.
Qin Shen met the policeman in the town twice when he went to the woodware store to popularize the knowledge of preventing telecom fraud.The last time Miguo went to the woodware store to pick up things, he met a robber, and they were the two who came to the woodware store to handle the case.
"Officer Liang, what are you doing here so late?" Qin Shen greeted him and asked.
Liang Jing is an elderly policeman. He took off his hat and held it in his hand. He scanned the lobby and finally landed on the ghost woman holding the child. "A ten-month-old child was lost in the next town. According to surveillance, we found this place all the way.”
Of course, it wasn't that there was a surveillance camera on Heping Road, but that there was a store on Yanhu Road that captured the ghost woman in a floral jacket. At that time, the ghost woman was carrying her child to the store to buy milk, and it happened to be captured by the surveillance camera.The police mobilized surveillance all the way to search, and the ghost woman who left the shop seemed to have evaporated, and she could not be found anywhere, and disappeared.
Liang Jing, an old policeman in the town, pondered for a long time, and then took his little apprentice on the road of peace that had changed drastically. The mood is complicated.
Qin Shen's eyes fell on the ghost woman, and the ghost woman backed away shyly, hiding the baby in her arms, and lowered her head, saying: "The adults in his family are only concerned about bargaining with others and don't care about the child, which hurts the child." To be taken away, such responsible parents are not worthy of having children."
Liang Jing didn't have the idea of "strike while the iron is hot" to let the ghost woman hand over the child, but smiled and said, "Boss, do you provide dinner?"
Qin Shen understood what he meant, nodded and said, "Provided."
Qin Shen asked Zhang Tenghai to take Diudi back to the room to wash up, and he received two policemen who came suddenly in the lobby.
The old stove stewed goose for dinner. Since the old stove is ready, it often cooks rice and vegetables with firewood. Sometimes when it catches big fish, it is stewed in a big iron pot. Circle corn cakes; sometimes kill a chicken and use a big iron pot to stew the soup, the wood board is slowly stewed, the flesh is crispy, and the chicken soup is delicious; Braised in soy sauce, the goose meat is older than the chicken, add water to slowly absorb the juice and taste, in order to prevent the goose meat under the pot from being stewed and burnt, put a layer of small potatoes on it, the potatoes attached to the pot will be a little burnt, but the taste is very good .
Before eating, you can also put some other side dishes in the goose meat. Today is the tofu brought back by Qin Shen. After blanching the old tofu, put it into the pot. The gurgling soup is absorbed by the rich pores of the old tofu. You must pay attention when you eat it, you can’t be too fast, “you can’t eat hot tofu for greedy”, be careful to eat too fast and you will burn your mouth with blisters.
The old stove goose was served to the two policemen. They didn't pick the leftovers, they cooked too much and couldn't finish it.A goose is as big as it is, and there are other stir-fried vegetables, and the dozen or so people in the inn can't finish a meal.
Goose meat is just rice, and you can't stop eating after one bite.
The old policeman was just looking for an excuse to leave behind, but he didn't expect to have such a delicious dinner, because they have been talking about the human traffickers for several weeks, let alone eating or sleeping, they are simply sleepy and just squint for a while , Hungry bite two cold steamed buns.What is delicious, the degraded taste no longer knows.
The young one couldn't help hiccupping. He forgot the anxiety and uneasiness when he entered the inn at the beginning, and looked at the master with admiration. The master who insisted on entering the inn must know that there are delicious food here, so he brought him Entering the wilderness, an inn popped up inexplicably.
The old policeman accepted the admiration in his apprentice's eyes and was not guilty at all. He ate a piece of goose meat and said, "Damn human traffickers steal children. They will avoid surveillance and disguise themselves. They are very professional gangs who commit crimes. Investigations, surveillance, and visits to the masses found nothing. The frenzied people stole and abducted more than ten children from various counties, towns and villages in Baidang Mountain within a month or two."
Qin Shen frowned, the gangs that kidnapped and sold children were much more rampant than he imagined.
The old policeman continued: "The most recent meeting was in the town of Yangji. The child was taken away when the grandma lowered her head to pick something. This grandma is not good. She patronizes bargaining and does not take care of her own grandson. But the traffickers are even worse. Damn, three or four people committed the crime in a gang, one person was responsible for attracting the attention of the child's grandma, one person blocked the view, one person secretly hugged the child, and there was probably another person watching."
"After the child was lost, the family frantically searched for it. They called the police and mobilized their neighbors and friends. The whole town was almost overturned, but they couldn't find it." The old policeman looked at the ghost woman, and said in a tired and hoarse voice: "You Do you know what's going on with their family now?"
The ghost woman held the child tightly, looked at the old policeman for a moment, then quickly lowered her eyes, looked at the child's little face, the child fell asleep under her comfort, but the little brows were frowning, and the corners of the eyes were still twitching. Weeping, he misses his mother and grandma very much, and the lack of familiar smell around him makes him very uneasy.
The ghost woman patted her hands absent-mindedly, and the voice of the old policeman came from beside her ear, he said: "Grandma lost her grandson, and now she is completely stupid, and her mother fell ill on the bed, and the father didn't know that he should blame himself The mother doesn’t take good care of the child, blames the wife for not bringing the child with her, or hates herself for only knowing about work and neglecting the family. Their family is messed up. If the child can’t be found and resentment falls in their hearts, separation is just a matter of time.”
"Wooooo." The little guy was crying, rubbing his head against the ghost woman's chest, but without the familiar smell, familiar voice and familiar movements, he cried even harder.
Amidst the children's cries, the inn fell silent, and no one spoke.
Several children brought by the ghost woman leaned on each other and guarded the ghost mother. Li Xiaoming suddenly hugged the ghost woman's waist, "Mom, let the little brother go home, he is different from us."
The ghost woman raised her head, opened her eyes wide, tears flowed down her chapped and red cheeks, and fell to her chin. She nodded towards Li Xiaoming, and walked towards the old policeman with the child in her arms, "You must go back!" Tell the family that the child is crying, and the traffickers are afraid that the child will attract attention by crying, so they cover his mouth and nose..."
The child had died when the ghost woman found it, but the soul was still there. The ghost woman couldn't see the young life disappearing, so she cut off one end to renew the child's life, and modified the child's life map so that the child could continue to grow up. ,
The child's life should never die, and the ghost woman is his noble person.
"You let his parents take good care of the child, and let his grandma stop haggling over the three melons and two dates. The child is important." The ghost woman held the child's hand and sent it forward.
The old policeman caught him, but the ghost woman didn't let go of her hand, she looked at the child lingeringly, "Be sure to treat him well."
"Okay, I will definitely bring you what you want." After this incident, the family will definitely not be negligent in taking care of the child.
She let go of her hand, and the ghost woman turned around and led the other children to the room without looking back.
Qin Shen sighed unceasingly, and when sending the old policeman out, he told them, "Let the parents of the child take good care of the child. Life is only this time. If it is gone, it will never be again." There will be no ghost car bird to continue its life.
The old policeman holding the child didn't know Qin Shen's unfinished words, but he was willing to bring Qin Shen's words to the parents of the child, "Don't worry, I will visit this child from time to time."
"Ah."
Watching the police car going further and further away, Qin Shen turned and went into the house, and said to Liu Niang, "Lock it."
The key turned and made a "click" sound, and the door closed. When returning to the house, Qin Shen was puzzled and asked Liu Niang, "Why is the ghost car bird so nice to a human child?"
"This matter is that the child has no mother. It's a long story."
"Then make a long story short."
Liu Niang gave Qin Shen the key, and Qin Shen put it in a drawer, then turned off the lights in the lobby, and the two went to the atrium side by side.On the way, Liu Niang told Qin Shen the past of the ghost car bird in as short a language as possible. The ghost car bird, also known as the nine-headed phoenix, was originally a symbol of auspiciousness. unborn child.Conspired by a traitor, the fetus in the womb was lost, the nine-headed phoenix became resentful, and the colorful feathers turned into black. Since then, it has become a symbol of disaster. child.
The fetuses of monsters and human children are fragile, and their souls are turned into powder after the fetus slips.
"The child just now probably has the fetal element powder of a ghost woman's child on her body." Liu Niang sighed, "They are all infatuated people, and they are all poor people. She will go back and forth between Fengdu and the world every 20 years, and will send those who cannot Bringing the ghosts of children reincarnated in time to the Nether Ghost Realm, and letting them reincarnate as soon as possible, is considered a good deed."
"En." Qin Shen nodded.
There are all kinds of suffering in the world, hurting and parting, love and hate, and not being able to get what you want. The pain of parting from a mother and child is heart-wrenching.
Pushing open the door and entering the room, Zhang Tenghai was not asleep yet. He was flipping through a book in the living room. Qin Shen walked up to him and sat down, leaning on his shoulder, not wanting to talk.
Zhang Tenghai put down the book, stretched his long arms around Qin Shen's shoulders, and the two of them leaned together silently. In the long silent night, it felt good to have someone to rely on.
A police car on Heping Road returned to the town with bright yellow lights. The young policeman holding the child in the car said to the old policeman in puzzlement, "Master, why don't you take that woman back for questioning? She might be a part of the traffickers." , we can use her as a breakthrough to capture the gang of human traffickers hiding in the dark."
The old policeman was steering the steering wheel, listening to the indignant and incomprehensible voice of the young apprentice, slowly came to mind what his master told him, saying that something happened in the town that cannot be explained by science, and he could find an inn at the end of Heping Road.
After 30 years, this is the second time he has entered the inn.In a blink of an eye, time flies, he has gray temples and is about to retire.
"Xiao Cai, listen to Master slowly telling you..." The old policeman told the secret.
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It can be confirmed that the ghost car bird is not a human trafficker who committed crimes in Dongzhou City recently. There is a group of lawless and conscienceless things wandering outside looking for targets. Qin Shen's heart is trembling and restless. At that time, he directly stuffed the Baihu Shenjun, who was lazily basking in the sun, into his schoolbag.
The White Tiger Divine Monarch held on to the mouth of his schoolbag, protesting Qin Shen's rough treatment, "Meow! This Divine Monarch doesn't want to lose face."
"Please God Baihu, follow Diudiu to school and protect him. There are too many bad guys lately." Diudiu has to go to school, and Qin Shen can't leave the inn for a long time, so he can only think of this is not a solution.
Although the white tiger god has shrunk, he is still the god who dominates the west. His strength may not be enough to deal with big monsters, but it is more than enough to deal with human beings.
The town is guarded by Qinglong Shenjun, and the addition of another Shenjun is double insurance, so you can be prepared.
Lord White Tiger proudly raised his head and chest, "Heh heh heh, call me Lord White Tiger when you beg me, and call me Dabai when you bother me."
"My fault, my fault, the white tiger god is the most powerful."
"Meow, this is more or less the same." Baihu Shenjun's eyes showed a slit, "What are you doing, sweet little fish..."
"You eat too much sweets, and your teeth will hurt." It would probably be ridiculous to talk about the fact that the majestic god had a toothache from eating too much sweets.
The White Tiger Lord used both hands and feet to crawl outside, "It's good to bask in the sun at the inn."
Qin Shen laughed so angrily, he pushed Baihu Shenjun on the head and pushed him into the schoolbag, looked down into the schoolbag, met a pair of amber eyes, and said: "Little dried fish, there are some sugar-reduced ones." .”
The White Tiger God reluctantly said: "Okay then." He laughed in his heart, and ate some dried fish in honey sauce, oh yeah~~
The car drove out of the inn and came to the school. Qin Shen waved his hand and watched Diu Diu enter the teaching building before getting into the car and driving back. As soon as he arrived at the inn, his mobile phone received a group text message from the school—to remind all parents to pay attention to the safety of their children. It is best to be able to pick up and drop off before the winter vacation. As the Chinese New Year approaches, criminals commit crimes like crazy, fearing that they will hurt the children.
Qin Shen's heart skipped a beat when he saw this message, and then his heart sank due to the crazily refreshed content in the parent group, and Hongye Town began to lose children.
This time the lost child was a little boy in Diudiu's class, and he disappeared at home. His home was a storefront facing the street, and the whole family lived upstairs from the storefront, and the windows were not closed when they slept.The next day the parents got up to prepare breakfast, but when it was time for the child to get up, there was no movement for a long time. When the door was opened, the child disappeared.
The information sent by the school is because of this incident.It's just that in order not to cause panic, I didn't take it with me when I was at home.
Qin Shen dialed Hong Ye's phone number, and spoke in a somewhat aggressive tone, "Isn't there you in Hongye Town, isn't there Qinglong Shenjun here!! Why is there a missing child?!! Don't you protect the town's safety?"
After Qin Shen finished speaking, Hong Ye said: "I'm sorry Qin Shen, there are some things we can't stop, but we can guarantee that the child who was taken away will be fine."
Qin Shen was in disbelief, raised his voice and asked, "Why?"
"We can't ask too much about mortal affairs." Just like the catastrophe that lasted for more than 500 years on the land of the Central Plains more than 50 years ago, the gods of the four directions were unable to participate and stop the turmoil. "The road is ruthless."
The Dao is the most ruthless, what Hong Ye guards is the safety of water and soil, not personal safety, and the vitality of the Qinglong God Sovereign, not personal vitality.If they act rashly, they will modify the person's chances and chances, thus changing the person's fate plan. A temporary good is not a good thing, but a long-term good is true.
Qin Shen was silent. After a long time, he calmed down and said, "I'm sorry, I was agitated."
"It's okay. I was very impulsive when I first became an immortal. I thought that if I could keep one side peaceful, I would ensure that everyone would be safe and secure. Later, I realized that I took it for granted." Hong Ye smiled, and did not take Qin Shen's complaints into consideration. Take the question to heart, "What I want to guard is the whole, not the individual."
Even if it is the white tiger god who is easy to fight injustice, it is not for one person to stand out.
Qin Shen understood a little bit, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he didn't understand. Sure enough, the ranks of gods and earth immortals were too high, and such mysterious and mysterious things were too high-end for him.
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