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At the end of the 90s.

Gubei Town is located in a small county town in the northern mountainous area. The traffic here was closed earlier, and the people in the town counted on living on an acre of land at their feet. They were all in charge of eating and drinking. Life was extremely difficult, and it all depended on the government. Help and relief.

In recent years, with the impact of reform and opening up, the slogan "If you want to get rich, build roads first" has resounded across the land. The district government invested in the construction of a road here. The asphalt road leading to the city runs through this old and poor place. In just a few years, the town has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the living standards of the townspeople really correspond to the old saying - sesame blossoms are rising steadily.Not only did it soon get rid of the hat of poverty, but it also became a model town known far and wide.

In the bustling morning market full of voices and traffic.There was a young man wearing an old cotton-padded coat, bowing his waist and shrinking his neck, standing in the crowd. He didn't have the usual imposing manner, and he was inconspicuous in the crowd. Pay close attention to the expressions and behaviors of everyone in the market.

This young man is none other than Ji Yan, the investigator of the criminal police detachment in this county.This person is 27 or [-] years old, and his appearance is very correct, but his face is always sullen and expressionless, making it difficult to understand his emotions. He is still a new face in the town, because this small place that was once isolated from the world It has always been peaceful, and most of them are trivial conflicts among the people. It is enough for the police to mediate and mediate, and it is rarely necessary to dispatch criminal police.

Ji Yan's mission this time is to collect clues, find suspicious persons, and solve a missing girl case.

With social innovation and convenient transportation, many young people in the town have broadened their horizons and are willing to travel to other places. Going outside the mountains is a good thing to promote development, but it also provides opportunities for many criminals to break the law and commit crimes.Not long ago, two young girls from Liyufa Village in Gubei Town, Ma Yufen and Wang Xiaomei, disappeared mysteriously in full view.

The two girls went to the market together, but who knew that they did not return home that day, and even disappeared in the next few days. The family hurriedly reported the case, but because there were few clues, there were no witnesses and the case could not be solved.

This unsolved case caused panic among the public, and rumors arose in the town. Some said that the two girls were raped and killed, some said that they were trafficked abroad, and some even said that they were left over from Japan. The secret agents were arrested for experiments.The big guys spread rumors, and everyone said it with a nose and eyes, which made people in the town panic.

The girl disappeared out of thin air, and the public security agency worked continuously for several months, but the case did not improve. In recent years, with the attention of the country, the anti-trafficking work has become one of the top tasks of law enforcement agencies. After the hype in the newspapers, the pressure of public opinion was overwhelming. The Provincial Public Security Department was very annoyed by this, and issued a strong order to the Criminal Investigation Detachment and the local police station. They must crack the case in the shortest possible time. The criminal must be brought to justice.

Ji Yan walked back and forth from the market a few times, and found nothing special, probably because the rumors have spread too much recently, and the girls are also very vigilant, and few of them come out to play alone, Ji Yan stays for a month, coming and going They were all familiar faces, nothing out of the ordinary.The market was about to come to an end, and he was afraid that he would return without success today. He sighed, lowered the brim of his hat, and was about to return to the team to report, when he suddenly saw a strange man in the corner talking to the stall owner with an early breakfast. This person was wearing a brown jacket, which looked very expensive. He was well-dressed from head to toe. He was definitely not a local farmer, and he didn't look like he was here to do small business.Although the market is lively, there are very few men in the city who are so clean and tidy to hang out. It is the first time Ji Yan has seen this man after squatting for so long. He narrowed his eyes slightly and approached calmly. This man has a good appearance , with a three-point smile on his face, he looked very friendly, but Ji Yan felt that his eyes were deep, and he frowned slightly from time to time, as if he was thinking about something.While eating the buns, the man chatted with the stall owner, opening his mouth in pure Mandarin: "Excuse me, I have to ask you, where is the nearest coach station?"

The stall owner pointed to the west and said, "It's a long way to walk. If you ride a bicycle, it will take one or two points..."

Ji Yan turned his gaze away, went to sit down opposite the man, and interrupted their conversation: "Boss, do you have any more wontons? Give me a bowl."

The stall owner promised again and again, and turned to cook wontons. The big iron pot opened the lid, and white steam burst out from inside, curling up the beautiful winter scenery, making it even more difficult to see people's faces clearly. Ji Yan sat opposite the man, From the corner of the eye, he silently looked at the man across from him. He was wearing thin clothes so his nose and ears were red from the cold, and he kept rubbing his hands. The winter in the town is cold and cold. It seems that this outsider doesn't know much about it. Ji Yan didn't move. He pretended to talk to him sensually: "Why, do you want to take a long-distance bus?"

Hearing Ji Yan's words, the man raised his head and grinned at him: "Yes, brother is a local?"

Ji Yan nodded: "Local, are you from the city? Come...to see the mountain goods?"

The man laughed: "Well, let's do some shopping."

Ji Yan wanted to ask again, but the man had lowered his head and continued to eat the buns. Ji Yan was holding disposable chopsticks. The wood of the chopsticks was very rough. , must find a way to get something out of this stranger, he was thinking about how to talk to this man again, when an old man's voice came from the next table: "This village chief Ma is blind for nothing, Ma Does the village chief and Ma Changde know? The one in Yufa Village, the one with great skills. This time, it was his girl who was lost. It’s a pity, such a good girl, if she can’t find it, she won’t find it.”

A man on the table with a cigarette in his mouth echoed, "I heard that this girl has just been admitted to college."

The old man said: "Isn't it? If you raise it so big, you will lose it if you say it. It's a crime. You say this horse is good, tsk tsk..."

Ma Changde is the father of the missing girl Ma Yufen. He works in the village committee and is the head of Yufa Village.

Ji Yan knew these situations well, so his attention was not on the chatting of the old men, and he found that although the man opposite was still drinking the porridge with his head down, his movements were slow, and the hand holding the spoon paused from time to time, obviously listening table chat.

Sure enough, within 2 minutes, the man turned his face away, accosted the old man and said, "Master, are you talking about the disappearance of the two girls in Yufa Village?"

When he said such words, it seemed that he was more suspicious. Ji Yan couldn't help but be more vigilant, and he also pricked up his ears calmly.

The old man saw a lot of customers, and said with great interest: "That's it, oh, what a pity, the two big girls are gone in no time."

The man asked again: "Just now you said that this girl has been admitted to college?"

The old man said: "Yes! The girl goes to school in the town, and she is a part of the university in their valley! It has been so many years since a golden phoenix flew out of the chicken coop in Yufa Village. Celebrating with gongs, drums and firecrackers, the result? The child disappeared within two days! Then Ma Yufen, she is such a good child, she usually looks quiet, why did she lose it?"

The man said: "Grandpa, listen to this. Do you know this girl? She is quite honest on weekdays? She has been going to school in the town all these years, and she hasn't gone out to work?"

The old man said: "Don't make jokes, that is the daughter of the village head. In our place, the village head is just like the cadres in the county town. He still needs to go out to work? I am from the communication office of their school. At the time, the village head sent me The child brought me two old hens when he came to school, not to mention the teachers, no one could treat him badly, and even if he didn't take things, this village chief Ma is great, his children, who can care less The girl is also upbeat, high-spirited, and determined to go to college, so I said, what does this girl want to do with such great skills? If she honestly married someone in the village, who would care about it? This time it will be all right, everyone Blind!"

The man laughed twice: "You can't say that, the times are different, men and women are equal, it's a good thing to be admitted to university... Is this girl engaged?"

The old man said: "I really don't know. I don't think anyone in this Yufa village dares to climb high branches. A college student, her father is the village head, so she has to marry a city man anyway, maybe even marry a As an official, this girl has a good family and looks pretty good-looking. She doesn't look like a child in the mountains at all."

The man nodded and asked with a smile: "Such a nice girl, many boys like her, right?"

Before the old man could speak, a dark old farmer sitting next to him said, "That's not good, the village is doing propaganda, and our village chief printed his baby's photo on it, and lost more than half of the propaganda paper overnight. It was the bachelors in our village who took it away."

The man turned his gaze: "From what you said, you are a villager of Yufa?"

The old farmer said: "It's not a big deal, my ancestors have been in Yufa Village for generations."

The man said without changing his face: "Then you can tell us more, what's going on? I heard that two were lost, one is Ma Yufen, and the other is?"

The old farmer said: "That is the posthumous son of a widow in our village. That girl just wandered around. She ran out every three days and didn't come home for two days. Widow Wang didn't care. Later, she became anxious when she found out that Ma Yufen was gone!"

He was talking vigorously, the old man in the reception room was probably angry that he had stolen his limelight, and interrupted him roughly: "What is this? Your Yufa Village is bewitched. Two days ago, you suddenly returned The corpse was blown up! Someone saw the last female ghost crawling out of the cemetery, ah, that female ghost looked so scary... At that time, she was naked, her hair was disheveled, her face was covered with blood, her hands were stretched out just like that Scratching and scratching on the coffin board, I heard that a woman who had just died was buried before that, and her in-laws treated her badly and poisoned her to death.