beloved does not come back

There is no trace of any city here at all, and at a glance, it is all mountain peaks with bare loess.

The Yellow River is wide and turbulent, like a sharp knife, piercing the mountains abruptly.

In this remote wilderness, the temperature is even lower.Jiang Tianxiao took out the scarf from his backpack, and when he looked up, he saw that Yu Lang didn't have a scarf, and his fair neck was exposed.

"Teacher Yu," Jiang Tianxiao said in a low voice, "Stay around, don't... catch a cold."

Yu Lang looked at the squarely folded scarf in Jiang Tianxiao's hand, but didn't pick it up.

"I've never surrounded it before!" Jiang Tianxiao quickly explained: "It's clean!"

Yu Lang grabbed the scarf, and his voice was a bit vague: "...that's not what I meant."

Jiang Tianxiao thought to himself, what does that mean?

Now is not the time to ask this question.

Led by Yu Lang, a group of people walked to a bungalow not far away.

At the door, Yu Lang knocked first: "Is anyone there?"

Jiang Tianxiao saw a few empty plastic buckets floating here and there on the river.

There was no answer at the door.

"It shouldn't be," He Sheng pouted towards a bundle of tree branches next to the bungalow, "I picked them up to make a fire."

"Is anyone there?" Yu Lang knocked on the door again.

This time, the door opened.

It was a young looking man, wearing a thick padded jacket, with a displeased expression on his face: "We are no longer fishing! You can look elsewhere!"

Yu Lang frowned: "No fishing anymore? The bucket by the river is still there."

"Brother, let me have a cigarette." Without waiting for the man to answer, Yang Ji suddenly squeezed over, took out the cigarette case with a smile, and leaned in front of the man.

Reaching out without hitting the smiling man, the man stared at Yang Ji for two seconds, then took out a cigarette from his cigarette case.

"Here," Yang Ji pressed the lighter and lit the man's eyes, and also lit one for himself: "Brother, it's too cold by the river, can you bear living here?"

"I can bear it!" The man rolled his eyes with a cigarette in his mouth, "Besides, who cares about the lives of us people! If you freeze to death, you will freeze to death!"

"Yeah!" Yang Ji continued cursing: "This is the way of the world! The poor will die poor, and the rich will die rich! Brothers, what do you live on here?"

The man took a puff of smoke, looked at a few people, and sighed: "Didn't you see that there are barrels by the river."

"Then why don't you fish it?" Yang Ji asked.

"The people above won't let it go." The man's eyes swept over the river: "They said that we people did something wrong and damaged our image here! I think they are the fucking farts!"

Yang Ji looked surprised: "How do you say?"

"My father has fished for most of his life here, and I have grown up watching these things-I tell you, we are here, we can catch two or three corpses a month, and sometimes more... without us , Those who came to find the corpse, can they find it?!"

"Yes, yes..." Yang Ji also looked at the Yellow River and sighed, "It's not easy for you."

The man went on to say: "The leader changed, and if he said no, he would not let it go. He also said that we tied the corpse to the river to pollute the water--if the **** corpse is not caught, it will not be polluted?! Anyway, now we are here. Don't let it be fished," the man stretched out his finger in the downstream direction: "you can go to the downstream to find it——you can see that you are here to find the corpse."

"Thank you brother, how far downstream is it?"

The man glanced at the car Jiang Tianxiao and the others rented: "It will take you two or three days to drive."

"Okay, okay, thank you brother," Yang Ji took out the cigarette case, with a sincere expression: "Brother, I will respect you for another cigarette."

A group of six returned to the car.

"Teacher Yu," Yang Ji said in a smug tone, "It's up to us reporters to deal with these matters, and none of us have ever met..."

"That's the best," Yu Lang was not angry, and even nodded: "Then I will trouble you next."

"Oh no," Yang Ji sucked his stomach hard, turned around and looked at Chi Yang who was sitting in the back seat: "Xiao Chi, are you really going to continue looking? How many days has it been?"

Chi Yang lowered her head and said in a low voice: "When she was joking before, she told me that if one day she broke up with me and wished me a happy life, then she must not be in this world anymore."

Yang Ji had a broken face: "That's a joke..."

Chi Yang didn't speak.

Yang Ji sighed, turned around, and gritted his teeth a bit: "Teacher Yu, you'd better get it right, it's a society ruled by law now, let me tell you..."

Yu Lang didn't speak, and started the car directly.

The next three days were spent in the car.

In the evening, I found the nearest county town to live in. I missed the county town the next night, so I found a village hostel.A few big men are nothing, but there is a little Qiu, which is troublesome.

At night, the village is completely dark.Not to mention the poor conditions of the village guest house, even the door locks are broken.

Xiaoqiu didn't dare to sleep alone, and when he bit his lip and said to Jiang Tianxiao, "Can you accompany me for a while", tears welled up in his eyes.

Jiang Tianxiao: "..."

"Go, Xiao Jiang!" He Sheng smiled wickedly: "My sister is afraid, you should talk to her more, ah."

"I..." Jiang Tianxiao thought, is it suitable for this black light?

After hesitating, he couldn't help but look at Yu Lang—like a convulsion, he just wanted to see Yu Lang's expression.

Yu Lang was concentrating on looking at the map on his phone, expressionless.

Jiang Tianxiao thought to himself, even if what Yu Lang said was "Jiang Tianxiao, go sleep with Xiaoqiu"--just don't be expressionless.

Can you stop ignoring me like this?can you look at me

"It's true that Jiang Tianxiao can't protect Xiaoqiu well." Yu Lang was still looking at the phone, with only his lips moving: "He Sheng and Xiaoqiu live in the same room——Xiaoqiu, don't be afraid, He Sheng is He looks a bit rough, so he's not a bad person."

Jiang Tianxiao's chest jumped, he couldn't help lowering his head, and smiled quickly.

He Sheng shrugged: "I can do anything...Xiao Qiu, don't be afraid, I'm really a good person."

This night Jiang Tianxiao fulfilled his wish and shared a room with Yu Lang—although it was a standard room with two beds.

Finally arrived at the next place, where there is a corpse hunter.

The man was right. Fishing for corpses has not been banned here. At a glance, there are nearly [-] empty plastic buckets floating on the river, and every four or five plastic buckets are tied to a corpse covered with plastic sheeting. together.

At this time, it was past five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was dark early in winter, and the sky was already dark.

"Xiaoqiu stay in the car," Yu Lang said, "don't look at it."

"I—" Xiao Qiu quickly shook his head: "I'm fine, I'm not afraid——I'll go with you!"

Seeing her persistence, Yu Lang didn't say anything more.On the contrary, it was Yang Ji who patted Xiaoqiu worriedly: "Don't vomit for a while, I have to carry you back when you get dizzy."

"Teacher Yang, don't worry!"

Chi Yang followed closely beside Yu Lang, his pale lips pursed into a line.

Jiang Tianxiao knew that he was nervous.

Approaching the bungalow by the river, I saw a slightly old man sitting by the fire to keep warm.

"Brother," Yang Ji took the initiative to go up to pass the cigarettes: "Let's find someone."

The man didn't pick up the cigarette and just said, "What do you look like?"

His voice was extremely hoarse - as if his throat had been on fire.Jiang Tianxiao approached and found that this man must be quite old, he must be in his fifties or sixties, right?His thinning hair is tinged with gray, and age spots are evident on his face.

"A... woman," said Chi Yang, "28 years old, with long hair and big eyes..."

"You said it's useless," the man interrupted Chi Yang in a hoarse voice: "When they were fished out, they were all swollen. How can you tell if the eyes are big or not?"

Chi Yang shivered.

"There are six in this river, two women, and twenty in the morgue. Let me ask you, how long has it been in the water? Where did it fall?"

"...About ten days ago, in Lanzhou."

"That's new," the man said. "You should check the two in the river first. If not, go to the morgue to check. Four days ago, the one with very long hair was caught."

Hearing the man's words, Jiang Tianxiao shuddered. It was the first time he saw him talking like this when he grew up so old—that was a human being, how could he be as casual and indifferent as a thing?

Chi Yang trembled, and followed the man to the river.

Jiang Tianxiao silently clenched his fists, but was suddenly patted on the shoulder.

Yu Lang said softly: "They deal with corpses every day, it's inevitable."

Jiang Tianxiao replied: "I know..." After a pause, he said, "These... used to be real people."

Yu Lang nodded, and went to the river, leaving a sentence: "Don't come, there is no need to vomit."

Jiang Tianxiao, He Sheng, Yang Ji, and Xiao Qiu stayed where they were, watching the man pull the rope over the body floating in the river from a distance, and then lifted the plastic sheet.

They could not see the appearance of the corpse clearly, nor could they smell the stench of the floating corpse.He watched Chi Yang run into the grass on one side, bent over and vomited.

He vomited for a while, then went back trembling, and looked at the next corpse.

Then vomit again.

Yu Lang stood the whole time, neither moving nor vomiting.

After Chi Yang vomited, he and Yu Lang walked over.

Jiang Tianxiao hurriedly handed him mineral water to rinse his mouth, Chi Yang rinsed his mouth, then ran to the side and vomited for a while.

Yu Lang's face was very ugly, he suppressed his nausea and said, "Fortunately, the wind is not blowing this way."

Yang Ji asked: "Isn't it?"

"Well," Yu Lang turned to look at the corpse hunter: "He said he would take us to the morgue on a motorcycle, and the morgue is still a long way from here."

By this time it was completely dark.

It was dark all around, except for the roaring Yellow River, the sound of the waves, and a pale incandescent light in the one-story house of the corpse hunter.

"Uh, it's so late..." Yang Ji hesitated, "Why don't we go tomorrow morning?"

"No," the corpse hunter came over, and refused in a deep voice, "I'm the only one here. I can only go at night, and I have to pick corpses during the day."

"...OK," Yang Ji asked again: "Brother, is this road easy? Our car is a bit big."

The man didn't answer, just turned around and left.

"This man..." Yang Ji complained softly, "He's quite airy."

Yu Lang told Chi Yang: "Whether... is it or not, you have to be strong, understand? You can't go on like this."

In the cold wind, Chi Yang gave a low "um" and quickly said, "Thank you."

Yu Lang sighed: "Let's go——He Sheng drove, I also felt sick just now, and now I can't drive."