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A busy tone of "beep beep" came from the handset of the mobile phone, and Yan Ji pressed the side button to lock the screen.

She didn't want to talk to Yan Deng very much, she was afraid that Boss Yan would arrange some errands for him if he got it right.So he greeted Yan Deng: "Boss Yan, I'm leaving first." After saying that, he turned around and left without waiting for Yan Deng's reaction.

Yan Deng admired the lotus for a moment, then walked back slowly along the shade of the tree.

It was getting late, and the village was bustling with bells and horns, dogs barking and chickens crowing, and a handful of shallots were thrown into the hot oil in the hot pan, and the scent of fireworks wafted out with a prickly sound.

At the entrance of the village, there was a stall selling fried stinky dried ham sausages. It was placed under the billboard saying "Welcome to Guanqiao Village", and Yan Ji's white BYD was parked next to it.

The two saw each other across the road.

Returning home is like an arrow, battery cars and bicycles are speeding back and forth, Yan Ji looks left and right, stops and starts, and walks the 3-meter-five concrete road for [-] minutes.

"Mr. Yan, I see your car has left..." Yan Ji paused, letting his tone look natural, "Are you going back to the city? I'm going along anyway."

A smile appeared on the corner of Yan Deng's mouth.

Yan Ji's cheeks turned red instantly, she was holding a fried ham sausage in her hand, she just ate half of it and was reluctant to throw it away.

Yan Deng acquiesced to her misunderstanding: "Is it delicious?"

Yan Ji blushed: "It's okay, there are a little too many noodles."

Yan Deng: "Do you like these?"

Yan Ji smiled and said: "Not to mention, it's just that I didn't have to eat when I was young, but now that I'm grown up, I can't help but buy one when I see it, maybe it's because I'm greedy."

Yan Deng nodded: "Life is nothing more than reminiscing about childhood, or making up for childhood."

Yan Ji was taken aback when he heard the words, and turned his head to look at Yan Deng, but the other party had already passed her and opened the co-pilot's door.Yan Ji hurriedly finished the ham sausage in two or three bites, and threw the bamboo sticks into the trash can at the frying stand.

The white car drove along the village road against the crowd to the veterinary station.

Lao Wang, the head of the veterinary station, leaned on his 11-bike bicycle, took out an [-]-yuan Hongtashan cigarette case from his pocket, tapped it on the back of his hand, and a cigarette came out.

Lao Wang lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, exhaled a puff of white mist, and waved to Yan Ji.

"Little girl, didn't you ask about long-horned cows? I thought about it just now. There are indeed no cattle breeders, but we have a big sheep breeder here. There are many sheep in the Yifu sheep farm, and there are also breeding males. Sheep. I tell you, when I was young, I saw a ram in heat kill a man."

"Yufu used to invite me to visit every month, but he didn't call me for the past two months. I thought he went to enjoy the blessing with his son. I went to see that the sheep were all gone, and there was only a little left."

"You young people like to eat those kebabs. Hey, you don't even know what kind of meat it is, and some people dare to accept plague sheep!"

After thanking Lao Wang, Yan Ji got into the car: "Boss Yan, are you in a hurry to go back?"

The hospital originally believed that Zhang Gongyu was comatose due to insufficient blood supply to the brain caused by excessive blood loss, or septic shock caused by wound infection.However, after the blood smear and blood oxygen saturation test results came out, the attending doctor was more inclined to anaphylactic shock and coma caused by neurotransmitter disorders.

The situation of the sheep farm provided by Lao Wang is very doubtful.

Yan Deng: "There are very few students like you."

"I got a serious illness when I was young, thanks to the teacher. Even my name was given by the teacher." Yan Ji turned on the mobile phone to search and navigate, not paying attention to Yan Deng's gaze, "Then shall we go and see?"

Yan Deng: "Well, if it's Brucella, it's a big problem."

Yan Ji was surprised: "Brucella?"

"Brucella is also called sheep bacillus because sheep are the most susceptible to infection. This is a zoonotic infectious disease. The bacteria can invade through the skin and mucous membranes, and it is very easy to mutate and cause various complications."

Yan Deng's voice was light and ethereal, and Yan Ji felt anxious about having nowhere to focus. She no longer hesitated, and followed the navigation address to drive to the farm.

The car drove farther and farther away, the sides gradually became barren, weeds grew wantonly, and the humming of cicadas overwhelmed the roar of the car.The sun was setting in the west, the sky was gray and blue, and there were two rows of gray red brick houses in the distance, surrounded by large patches of dark green.

The car stopped at the gate of the Yangfu sheep farm, and the dog watching the yard had already come out from the gap in the iron gate, staring at the visitors, seeing Yan Ji and Yan Deng get off the car, raised their heads and barked wildly: "Woof! Woof woof!"

Yan Ji stood by the side of the car and looked in. There was an iron railing gate with rusty chains. The side wall of the red brick house next to the road was painted with white lime in a messy pattern. He could vaguely see what was originally written in red paint. "Pay off debts" or something like that.No one could be seen, only a puff of white smoke rising from the corner, probably cooking.

The dog barked for a while, and a hunchbacked old man walked out from the corner of the red tile house. He was wearing a large and white T-shirt, his dark skin was wrinkled, and his eyes were full of vigilance.

The old man stared at Yan Ji and Yan Deng for a while, then put the unlit cigarette back into his pocket, walked over slowly, and asked in the dialect version of Mandarin, "Who are you looking for?"

Yan Ji changed his words: "We are here to see the sheep."

The old man's expression changed, he hesitated for a while and asked, "How many sheep do you want to buy?"

Yan Ji bit the bullet and continued to talk nonsense: "We run a restaurant, and we plan to have barbecues in summer. We don't need much, but we need them every day."

The old man's lips twitched but he didn't speak. He went back to the house and took the key to unlock the chain. He opened the iron door and introduced: "My sheep are doing well. They eat well and live well. They are all fat."

Yan Ji was not good at lying, so he responded in a low voice, "Yes."

The old man was very enthusiastic and led the two to see the sheep.The farm is divided into three parts, the small red tile house is for accommodation, and the long red tile house at the back is used to pile up fodder.The white-roofed sheep shed is ventilated on all sides, and the interior is made of cement to build small compartments one meter high, with doors made of wooden fences.

"The sheep are all outside, the little lambs, just born." The old man introduced it very proudly, "The rams are bred, specially bought good sheep, and they are old and fierce. If you don't separate them, they will fight, and no one can stop them." .”

Yan Ji asked: "Can they escape?"

The old man waved his hands again and again: "If you can't run away, you can't run away..."

As he was speaking, a strong ram raised its front hooves, easily put it on the wooden fence, and stood up like a human being.Gong Yang looked at them contemptuously and raised his chin: "Meh!"

The old man hastily shouted: "Go, go! Go down."

Yan Ji looked at the sharp goat horns that were as long as a child's forearm, and his heart was agitated.She tilted her head to look at Yan Deng, and when she saw that he was looking at the grass outside, she suggested, "Let's go out and have a look."

The old man couldn't wait for it: "Okay, okay, it's going to be cool, the sheep are grazing outside. I'm also going to eat, and I just lit the charcoal stove."

During the conversation, several people left the sheep shed, outside was a large piece of wasteland, and Qiwu Mountain was not far away.The flock of sheep strolled on the grass in twos and threes, occasionally lowering their heads and nibbling.From a distance, it looks like white cotton candy.

Yan Ji felt the phone vibrate, and walked aside to answer the call.Yang Shuhui asked her and Yan Deng to go to the police station to record a statement about Bao Fajun's arrest.

"Officer Yang, will the case of my teacher Zhang Gong and his injury be investigated?"

"Ah? What are you talking about... My signal is not good... I have to... go out to do errands, do errands... Do you hear me? Do you hear me? Come here and go directly to Old Wu, Wu Qi."

Dudu hung up the phone over there, and Yan Ji's heart burned three feet high.

Seeing that it was getting late and the sheep farm was normal, Yan Ji wanted to call Yan Deng to leave, when a voice came from behind - "Pu Leng!"

Yan Ji turned his head suddenly, and saw a black shadow passing by.This scene left a deep impression on her. Last night, a black shadow flew out of the cornfield on Airport Avenue. Yan Ji was almost convinced that they were the same thing.

There seemed to be a voice urging Yan Ji to "thump, thump" in her heart, and she tiptoed towards it.

Around the corner, there is an extremely long red brick house in front of you, which is similar to the house where the old man lived, with only a two-meter passage.

"This is the warehouse." The old man's voice sounded behind him.

The old man who raised sheep trotted to the front, saw Yan Ji looking inside, so he pushed open the half-closed iron door: "My sheep are delicious."

The red brick warehouse is more than 200 square meters from the outside, but it is much smaller when entering.The old man turned on the light, and Yan Ji found that there was half a warehouse full of hay and feed piled up in front of him. The piles were neatly piled up one by one, from the ground to the roof, like a high wall.

Yan Ji glanced around to find the strange black shadow, suddenly a wind came from the back of his head.She was startled, thinking that the old sheep breeder was attacking her and was about to rush out.In the blink of an eye, the old man wailed "Oops" behind him, and at the same time a huge black shadow descended from the sky and enveloped Yan Ji.

Yan Ji didn't have time to react, but she felt a pain in the back of her head, and the huge impact pressed her and she staggered to the ground.Yan Ji was first startled and then frightened. When he looked up and saw a hay mound half a person's height smashed in front of him, he was relieved and thought it was bad luck.

Although the hay is light, in order to save the area, the hay mound pressed by the machine is extremely dense.The hay mounds were lying on Yan Ji's body in all directions, like a dozen cotton quilts, she struggled a bit and couldn't stand up.

Yan Ji raised his head, looked out from the gap in the grass mound, and saw that he was directly facing the gate, not far away.

Fortunately.

Yan Ji heaved a sigh of relief, and opened his mouth to call for help, but before he uttered the word "Yan", he heard a "stab" sound from behind, as if someone was struggling to pull the hay mound, and then there was a muffled sound.

Yan Ji was so frightened that he held his breath.

She was sure that neither Yan Deng nor the old sheep breeder could have such strength—the muffled sound was the sound of the grass pier being thrown high and falling to the ground.

The sound of dry grass rubbing against each other, the sound of grass mounds rubbing against the ground when pushing grass mounds, and the sound of grass mounds falling out are infinitely amplified in the silent warehouse.

Turning over the grass mound, what are you looking for?

Are you looking for them?

Yan Ji controlled his breathing, and slowly retracted the hand that was pressing on the outside of the hay mound.

"Aaaaaaaaaaa!"

Suddenly, a shrill scream broke the dead silence and spread in the warehouse, like the gongs and drums of the god of death.

An old sheep breeder?

Yan Ji's hair all over his body stood up "whoosh", he instinctively wanted to jump up and escape, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a black shadow beside him, and his mind was stunned.

Yan Deng!

Yan Deng clung to the hay mound, his eyes slightly beckoning to her.

Before Yan Ji could heave a sigh of relief, he heard the old sheep breeder over there struggling desperately, screaming heart-piercingly—"Don't kill me, there's a ghost! There's a ghost! I..."

The sound stopped completely, and the warehouse returned to dead silence.

Yan Ji's fingers touched the cell phone in his pocket, but he didn't dare to move it.At this time, the needle can be heard in the warehouse, and the sound of the screen unlocking is too obvious.She turned her eyes to look at Yan Deng, who just took the opportunity to move a few steps and was already close to the exit of the iron gate.

Before Yan Ji's gaze could be retracted, he felt a sudden weight on his body with a "squeak".Something heavy stepped on the hay mound, and she couldn't breathe under it.

The sound of heavy objects stepping on the hay was endless, and Yan Ji's cheeks were pressed against the cold and rough ground, his whole body was tense and he did not dare to make a sound.But she was horrified to find that a little black slowly emerged from the gray ground not far from the tip of her nose.

作者有话要说：感谢在2019-11-3015:04:50~2019-12-0120:30:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 plasma matcha;

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: ddd1234ddd, ara1412, Yichen, and Xiechuan;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使：阿陡啊80瓶；唐家阿灼53瓶；时不知归10瓶；知柚9瓶；耍5瓶；

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!