what's in the depths

Tong Si's sister was going to the hospital for delivery in the next few days, Tong Si was really worried and planned to call his sister first, but he took out his phone to check, as expected, there was no signal.

Zhu Yuhan took out the villagers' information provided by the local police station, and planned to make unannounced visits from door to door.

Turning his head, Tong Si was still looking for signals by changing various postures.

"Come here! Hurry up." He shouted impatiently.

Tong Si pursed his lips, put away his phone, and lay down next to Zhu Yuhan.

"There are a total of 26 households in this Changchun village. In this impassable mountain, you can only live on subsistence allowances. You can find a job at will. You fish for three days and dry the net for two days, and you are fired within a few days. , and then go to receive unemployment benefits, continue to eat and wait to die."

Tong Si smashed his mouth: "Let me tell you, being poor is not because of anything else, but laziness."

Zhu Yuhan nodded: "Among the 26 households, there are 30 households whose sons are over [-] years old and are still single. The girls here are all married, and the men can't marry a wife, so they can only rely on buying. "

Zhu Yuhan circled and marked the locations of the seventeen bachelor households on the map based on the information provided by the police station.

Tong Si spat out the sand that had blown into his mouth with a "peh peh", took the binoculars and looked into the village.

"I found that there is a firewood room next to each earthen house."

"It's normal. You can't let people put vegetables in the sleeping room for storing potatoes and cabbage in winter."

The two rolled their eyes at each other, tidied up a bit, and searched according to the map.

The two of them pretended to be drug dealers and peddled anti-flu medicines in the village. The Western medicines bought for tens of dollars a box were all sold to the villagers for a few cents a box. After gaining the trust of some villagers, they began to inquire about buying and selling wives. one thing.

"Look at my brother, he looks decent and honest, but his family is so poor that he has never been able to marry a wife."

Zhu Yuhan pretended to be sorry, and chatted with the old man who looked very upright.

He pointed to Tongsi, and then whispered in the old man's ear mysteriously:

"Also, there are still some problems with him."

When the old man heard it, he understood, and immediately patted Zhu Yuhan on the shoulder:

"Last year, Lao Wang and his family just bought a girl from outside, but she is very beautiful. I heard that she graduated from a famous university. Tell me, what is the use of reading so many books for a little girl? In the end, it is not the same for us gentlemen. A baby with a baby?"

Zhu Yuhan glared at him secretly, scolded the old man thousands of times in his heart, and then turned on the drama mode:

"Then you said that if you are like my brother, you can't do that, how can you pass on the family?"

Tong Si refused to obey as soon as he heard it, and immediately squeezed in, pointed to his nose and asked in disbelief:

"Me? Is there a problem?"

Zhu Yuhan immediately pushed Tong Si aside, and laughed and said to the old man:

"Not only does he have problems in that area, but his brain is also bad. Don't be as knowledgeable as him."

The old man smiled honestly, showing two rows of smoke-stained teeth:

"Master Liu, there is..."

As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand and gestured at his abdomen.

Zhu Yuhan's eyeballs almost popped out:

"You mean...pregnant woman?"

The old man nodded: "I heard from Mr. Liu that a pregnant woman was just brought back from the city yesterday. She sold it to Lao Zhang for 3000 yuan. She said she would give birth next month. I took a look and it looked like She is like a fairy, and I heard that she is also an English teacher."

Hearing this description, Tong Si froze in place for a moment.

"What's wrong with this pregnant woman?" Zhu Yuhan rubbed his chin, trying to restrain his trembling hands.

"Her man took her to the hospital for a prenatal checkup, Master Liu thought of a way to send him away..."

In the middle of speaking, the old man suddenly seemed to realize something, stopped in time, looked at the two of them back and forth with scrutiny, and asked vigilantly:

"Why do you ask so many questions?"

"Hi! I'm not...a mother-in-law, just ask me if I have nothing to do, don't mind, don't mind." Zhu Yuhan waved his hands repeatedly.

Just when the old man became more suspicious, Zhu Yuhan promptly took out a note with a mobile phone number from his pocket and stuffed it to the old man, leaning in front of him and whispering:

"My brother is completely dependent on you, old man. If there is a suitable one, please help us arrange it. After the matter is completed, you will definitely be indispensable."

When the old man heard it, he immediately smiled.

The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they had reached an evil consensus.

After chatting for a while, the old man said that he had to line up to fetch water, so instead of arguing with them, he ran towards the mouth of the water with a bucket and slippers.

"This old man, that mouth is like a teapot, pouring everything out." Zhu Yuhan shook his head.

"Tong Si, why are you in a daze, let's go first."

Turning around, he found that Tong Si was still in a daze.

Zhu Yuhan gave him a push.

"Where is Lao Zhang?" Tong Si came back to his senses and grabbed Zhu Yuhan's shoulder suddenly.

Zhu Yuhan was scratched by him, and hurriedly rescued his shoulder from his Lushan claws:

"What old Zhang?"

"Where is the old Zhang who bought a pregnant woman?"

With a roar, all the surrounding villagers saluted to this side.

Zhu Yuhan hurriedly covered his mouth and dragged him aside:

"Are you crazy? Why are you shouting? I'm afraid others won't hear you?"

"Tell me quickly, where is Lao Zhang!" Tong Si didn't care.

"Why, do you have a grudge against Lao Zhang?"

"No!" Tong Si grabbed Zhu Yuhan's shoulder again: "Do you know that the pregnant woman he bought may be my sister!"

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In fact, when Tong Si heard the old man say that he had kidnapped a pregnant woman, that he would give birth next month, and that he was still teaching English, he almost lost his temper.

These features are too similar to his sister.

Although it was impossible no matter how I thought about it, I couldn't swallow my heart after all.

But if it was his sister who was abducted, even if Tong Si exposed his identity to the police and rescued his sister, it would only scare the snake away.

Those human traffickers are very smart, and they will hide immediately if there is any wind.

His sister was rescued, and if it disturbed the human trafficking organization, what would the rest of the girls do?

Thinking about it this way, Tong Si finally endured it.

There has been no signal in the mountains, and Tong Si has changed many places and still can't receive the signal. He feels that he is about to collapse now, so he wants to call his brother-in-law to ask if there is anything wrong.

Zhu Yuhan was still eating compressed biscuits over there, but Tong Si had no appetite at all, so he asked himself if he could go down the mountain first.

"Don't worry, your sister will be fine for the time being. Generally speaking, they will wait for your sister to give birth to her husband before proceeding to the next step."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yuhan was grabbed by the neck.

"Can you speak, will you!"

"Calm down, I'm just telling the truth."

Tong Si shook off him, sat aside and continued to fiddle with his mobile phone.

Zhu Yuhan took out his binoculars and stared at the only way up the mountain. Whenever a figure appeared, his whole body would tense up.

"You don't know, my sister is very timid. She is afraid of the dark, ghosts and insects. If she were to stay here by herself for one night, she would cry in fright."

"It's OK to put your heart in your stomach? It's a dozen hours' drive away from us. Your sister's arguing on the road is particularly eye-catching. Can you allow traffickers to bring her here? It can't be you Miss."

Although Zhu Yuhan tried his best to persuade him to relax, Tong Si always felt that he was panicking, which was very unpleasant.

Because he really can't imagine those traffickers who have no bottom line of humanity on the way to transport the abducted girl to the mountains,

Do anything to calm them down.

The dark night suddenly fell down like this, and the mountain was completely silent, not even a cricket chirping.

Zhu Yuhan took out the water bottle and took a sip of water, swallowing it with restraint.

He just took this water from the water outlet, and it smells like salt and alkali, salty and astringent.

They have been guarding in the ditch, not daring to move half a step, their eyes have been poked in front of the telescope lens, and everyone who passes by must be clearly recorded, the body shape, characteristics, etc., are very rigorous and elegant.

"We only have one day left. Before the sun sets tomorrow, we must find out the identity of Lord Liu."

Tong Si nodded absently, keeping his eyes on the phone.

"I now suspect that this Mr. Liu is the manager of their smugglers who are in charge of transactions."

"After they all fall asleep in a while, I want to go over and have a look." Tong Si's attention was not on work at all.

"Look at what."

"Look at the pregnant woman who was sold here, is it my sister?"

"Your sister must be very happy to know that you have such a crow's mouth." Zhu Yuhan glanced at him.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Zhu Yuhan, who had been lying in the ditch for a whole day, only felt his upper and lower eyelids start to fight. He held on until the light of the last house in the village went out, and he dared to fall asleep with his kettle in his arms. go.

Tong Si sat beside him for a while, about half an hour after Zhu Yuhan fell asleep, and after he confirmed that Zhu Tui had really fallen asleep, he crept up, and secretly unfastened his fists from their belts With the ring in his pocket, he bypassed the ditch and walked to the village below——

Almost every family here has another firewood house built behind the earthen house to store winter food. Each firewood house is not big, only three or four square meters.

Tong Si cautiously made his way to the back of the firewood room, and his nostrils were filled with the smell of rotten wood, accompanied by bursts of stench.

Smell it carefully, the smell is really not the smell of fermented food after being rotten, but the smell of latrine, which makes people want to vomit.

Tong Si covered his nose, took out the flashlight, and pushed open the door of the woodshed.

It may be too troublesome, or it may be that there is nothing valuable in itself. The door is not even locked here, and anyone can push the door and enter.

When I opened the door of the firewood room, I saw a pile of rotten wood and yellowed cabbage leaves all over the place.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the room, like the sound of a mouse nibbling on a vegetable leaf.

Tong Si didn't care, thinking it was normal to have a rat.

Until a hoarse moan came from the corner.