seven relics

Lian Jiangyue is really unfamiliar with Minshi, let alone been there, she has never even heard of it.While waiting for the plane, he first searched the Internet for the address of Shangguan Yuzhan, who was given to him by Lianwuchen, which was Room 36, Building 5, Youai Community, No. 501 Xinmin Avenue.The map shows that this place is now a park in the middle of the street, very close to the pedestrian street in the city center.The park was only built ten years ago. As for its predecessor, Youai Community, it used to be the staff building of the Geological Survey Bureau.There's only so much information you can find online.When searching for "Shangguan Yuzhan", the search engine only gives one piece of information: Do you want to search for Yuzhan?

Lian Jiangyue clicked on this related search link, and got only one comment: Yuzhan, another name for wine.

He temporarily found a small hotel close to the park on the Internet, on Xinmin Avenue, and the price was right.He made an appointment for a week in advance.

Afterwards, he checked his bank deposits, and found that there was still plenty of money, enough to cover expenses for a long time.

Lian Jiangyue has been an apprentice in the Bian family for so many years. When she was still an apprentice, her board and lodging were all at her master's house, and her clothes and daily use were arranged by her master and wife. After she became an adult, she officially became a teacher and began to make some orders , Bian Rugou will pay him.And he stays in the mountains all day long, loves to climb mountains on weekdays, and spends time with flowers, birds, and insects. He doesn't have any hobbies that cost a lot. He will subsidize a large part of the remuneration he receives to Bian Rugou as a Your own board and lodging expenses, and the rest will be saved.When it came time to go to Hangzhou to go to university, his savings were enough to pay his tuition and living expenses for four years, but the teacher and his father refused to let him go, saying that he insisted on letting Lian Jiangyue go to university, and he would naturally be responsible for the tuition and living expenses .Lian Jiangyue couldn't beat her teacher and father, so she had to obey.However, he also saved all the living expenses given by the teacher and his father, and he really didn't need it—he went to the cafeteria to eat, and in his spare time, he either spent time in the laboratory with Bian Rugou or went to the library. Going out for dinner, watching a movie, celebrating someone's birthday, singing K, or playing basketball, he was not interested. After rejecting him once or twice, no one came to invite him.On weekends, Bian Rugou would ask him to go outside to find a restaurant for a few sips of wine, and then he would go for a walk outside the school.

In the year of graduation, Lian Jiangyue returned to the mountain with his master. During the Spring Festival, he wrapped the living expenses given by his master in those years, plus the tuition fees for the four years, into a big red envelope and gave it to Bian Rugou.When Bian Rugou received such a red envelope, he was both happy and angry, and said to Lian Jiangyue, "We have been master and apprentice for so many years, and you still have such a clear distinction with the master?"

Lian Jiangyue hurriedly explained: "This money should be considered as what I gave to Master in advance, and it will be my board and lodging expenses for the next few decades when I live with you."

Bian Rugou laughed, and said, "Then when the money is used up, you can go down the mountain and start your own business."

Lian Jiangyue became even more anxious, and hurriedly said: "Then I will pay again." He said firmly, "I will not go down the mountain, unless Master drives me away, then I have to go."

Lian Jiangyue never thought that one day he would really leave the Bian family, and he never thought that once he left, he would never want to go back. After this time, he would think of Bian Rugou again. The courtyard, workshop stove, he just felt dizzy, nauseated.He slept on the plane, and when he got off the plane, he felt more comfortable and took a taxi to the hotel.

This city is not big, it’s just over an hour’s drive from the airport to the urban area, it’s small, but it’s not too small, there are six districts in the city, the largest, Mimo District, is the farthest from the city center, it used to be The border fortress, the only place that the Silk Road must pass through.Lian Jiangyue sat in the car and listened to the driver's introduction. Ming City has been a transportation hub since the Han Dynasty, and now it is the thoroughfare of three provinces. There are four railway stations alone. The west is the vast desert, but the city is full of water. It is pleasant, with more than 20 wide and narrow rivers flowing in the city derived from four mainstream water systems, and there are several lakes, known as "the south of the Yangtze River".In recent years, desert tourism has been on the rise, and outdoor activities such as stargazing in the open air and exploring ancient cities are very popular among young tourists.Three years ago, this northwestern city was selected as No. 5 of the "National Most Livable City", which is considered to have gained a reputation among the people of the country, and the housing prices have remained high since then.Mountain.And three ta.

The driver looked at Lian Jiangyue sitting in the back seat from the rearview mirror while talking eloquently, and asked, "Young man, are you also here for travel? Backpacking?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "That's right," he asked, "Is the wine in Minshi famous?"

The driver patted the steering wheel, and continued to talk like a tour overview: "That's not true! Speaking of the wine in Minshi, the most famous one is the luminous wine that was founded in the Tang Dynasty. Grape wine luminous cup, what do you think? This poem praises the cup and the moonlight? Then you are wrong. It is talking about the wine in the cup. Once you drink it, the taste is boring in the border desert. In the age without nightlife, you will feel happy in your heart Yes, the whole night is radiant.

"Young man, do you think that wine is the patent of foreigners? I know you are a person who understands the quality of life. You usually like to drink two glasses? Do you like to taste wine?"

Lian Jiangyue nodded with a smile: "You can't talk about wine tasting, so let's have a few drinks if you have nothing to do."

The driver took out a piece of paper from his pocket, stuffed it back, and said: "I have a ticket for the wine exchange conference here, and I will give it to you for free. If you have time, take a look? It's on the pedestrian street, don't be fooled." You, really, really, you can search online, this exchange conference is only held once every three years, not only domestic wine merchants are overwhelmed to get a place to participate in the exhibition, but also many people from abroad come here, all of them are high-ranking Nose foreigner, why don’t you say that the Minshi Airport is called an international airport? It’s because there are international flights and it needs to receive international friends. I just picked up a group of French people a few days ago. Phlegm stuck, I don’t think French red wine is very good, it burns the throat! It’s easy to get phlegm!”

Lian Jiangyue just looked at the ticket, didn't reach out to take it, the driver frowned, and said with some complaints: "You take it! I'll send it to the hotel for you. Look, it's broad daylight, what did you sign up for?" Is there a day group yet? Do you have any event arrangements? No? I’ll take you there. To tell you the truth, this exhibition is organized by my nephew. He is the general manager of the Minshi Wine Trade Association. I am an uncle," the driver gave a thumbs up, "otherwise, how can I get tickets for such a high-end exhibition as a taxi driver? I don't have time to go, I have to support my family. Look at it , When you arrive at the hotel, you go to register first, I will wait for you, and then I will send you to the entrance of the exhibition, and if you don’t use the watch, I will charge you ten yuan, what do you think?”

The driver stuffed the ticket back again, Lian Jiangyue was embarrassed, so she took the ticket and looked at it.The coupon is printed in both Chinese and English, and there is also a WeChat official account that can be scanned. The exhibition address is the Wine Culture Building on the pedestrian street.

He searched for this exhibition, and there was indeed such an exhibition. There were many positive reviews on the Internet. Many people said that the free wine was good, and there were also bartending shows, magic shows, and models on catwalks. Some went by themselves, and some were traveling. Taken by the group, consumption is not compulsory.The infield photos are also well-taken, and there are indeed many foreign faces.

The driver looked at him again and said, "I'm really not lying to you. If the deceiving activities were exposed, people would have exposed them long ago. Don't you think so?"

Lian Jiangyue didn't care about the authenticity of this exhibition. Thinking of the connection between the driver and the wine culture in Minshi, he asked, "Have you ever heard of Shangguan Yuzhan? Maybe he's either a wine seller or a wine maker."

The driver shook his head: "Your friend?"

"I'm looking for her."

"I met you online, right?" The driver laughed twice, "Is this your real name? You don't want to be scammed when you come across the province. Is this the name of a person in a martial arts novel?"

Lian Jiangyue smiled and said nothing.The driver smiled at him again. When he arrived at Xinmin Hotel, Lian Jiangyue got out of the car and went in to register. Looking back, the driver parked the car in front of the hotel and came down to smoke. Seeing Lian Jiangyue, he smiled at him. Turned away.

Lian Jiangyue completed the formalities and went to the room with her luggage.He looked downstairs from the window, the taxi driver hadn't left yet, and was still smoking. At this time, the driver and the hotel receptionist who had just registered him downstairs got together to smoke. What are you talking about.Their dialect accents were much heavier than when they were talking to him, and Lian Jiangyue couldn't quite understand them.He walked away from the window.

This hotel room is the size of a guest house, with a single wooden bed, covered with pink sheets, a towel on the bed cover, a wooden table, a wooden wardrobe, a thermos bottle on the table, and two other drinking glass.

Lian Jiangyue opened the closet, intending to hang up her clothes, but was blinded by the scent of toilet water, and looked inside, and there were two dead cockroaches lying in the closet.He found a tissue, pulled the roach out, and threw it in the trash can in the bathroom.The bathroom is small but clean.

The smell in the closet was too irritating, Lian Jiangyue washed her hands, put her luggage on the bed, opened the closet to ventilate, and went downstairs.

When I arrived at the lobby, I saw the taxi driver standing by the door, looking at him with a smile, gesticulating behind him with his thumb, and said, "How about it, take a look?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "I will walk around casually."

He went out.The driver followed him and said, "Then let's go shopping in the pedestrian street. I'm about to take over the shift, so I'll give you a [-]% discount on the way."

Lian Jiangyue said: "No. 36 Xinmin Avenue is just ahead, I'll be there in 10 minutes."

The driver made up his mind, smiled sincerely, and said, "If you don't use the watch, I'll charge you three yuan. You can treat it as a charity, and you can buy it easily. These days, three yuan can't even buy a bottle of Yellow River." Hand out: "My surname is Shen, I must be older than you, just call me Old Shen, let's make friends."

Lian Jiangyue likes to hear these words. He has not made a friend since he went down the mountain, so he shook hands with Lao Shen and said, "Then you are the first friend I made when I went out for diplomacy."

Old Shen opened the car door for him, and said with pity to Jiang Yue: "My surname is Lian, Lian Lian, you can call me whatever you want."

Old Shen also got into the car, and said in repeated voices: "Beside the vertical heart, next to the vertical heart, rare, rare."

Not long after he drove the car out, he arrived at No. 36. Old Shen took a look outside: "Is this a park?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "If you're okay, just wait for me at the door, I'll go down and have a look."

Old Shen looked at the park, looked at Lian Jiangyue, smiled, turned off the engine, and sat in the car.Lian Jiangyue got out of the car and entered the park. The park is too small, just some trees surround a gazebo, and there are some fitness equipment outside the pavilion.At this time, there were only some old people sitting around the gazebo.

Lian Jiangyue went over to say hello to the old people, and asked, "How many of you have lived here for some years?"

An old man playing chess waved vigorously at him without raising his head: "No insurance, no insurance."

The old man's opponent - also an old man with white hair, said: "No infrared and ultraviolet massage chairs, no, no."

Lian Jiangyue felt very embarrassed, and said, "I want to inquire about someone."

Those who play chess and those who watch chess ignore him.He said, "One named Shangguan Yuzhan."

Among the old ladies in sweaters who were some distance away from the chess-playing crowd, one in a flowered shirt asked, "Are you also from the newspaper office?"

Lian Jiangyue glanced at her, walked up to the old lady, smiled and nodded.The old lady clicked her tongue and said, "Didn't I tell you all about it? She married Xiao Bao and helped sell wine in the liquor store. She is a shrewd person and capable! We can handle other people's affairs." What do you know? Don’t you just close your doors and windows and live your life?”

An old woman over there asked, "Is that the one that sells liquor under the worker's building before?"

The old man who watched chess said: "Then it is a century-old brand now, and it will be moved to the pedestrian street when Xiaobao is still there."

Lian Jiangyue said: "Then it must be the big boss now, isn't it so easy to see?"

The old lady in a flowered shirt heard this, and looked at Lian Jiangyue strangely: "Didn't the people in your newspaper office say that she is stupid, has dementia, and lives in a nursing home waiting to die?"

Lian Jiangyue couldn't ask any more questions, and the old ladies knitting all of a sudden raised their voices, questioning his identity: "Are you from the Evening News?"

"Take a look at your ID card."

"Press card, take a look at the business card."

Lian Jiangyue, one head and two big, turned around and ran away, returned to the taxi, patted Old Shen, and said, "Evening News, let's go!"

Old Shen yawned and said, "It's a bit far away, so I need to turn on the watch."

At this time, all the old people in the park ran out, chased after the taxi, and pointed at Lian Jiangyue.Old Shen was stunned, and when Lian Jiangyue tapped his odometer, Old Shen came to his senses, kicked the accelerator, and drove the car out of Xinmin Avenue.

After driving for another two or three minutes, Old Shen turned his head to look in the direction of the park, and said with a smile, "Brother Lian, you came to this park to meet netizens? You saw an old lady? Seems to scare you."

Lian Jiangyue shook her head and smiled wryly, remembering that last time she encouraged Feng Xuwei to pretend to be someone else's boyfriend, he actually managed to hang out in style for a while, this time she pretended to be a reporter to make a joke, but she showed her feet so quickly. He felt so guilty about the vest, he just wanted to run away.

At this moment, Old Shen asked him: "Why are you going to the newspaper office?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Enter the missing person notice."

Old Shen smiled even more vigorously: "Are you still looking for that Shangguan Yuzhan? Still not giving up? How far have you guys developed? Brother, listen to your brother Shen's advice, you can't be too stubborn about this emotional matter."

Lian Jiangyue asked: "Is there a century-old brand that sells wine on the pedestrian street?"

"Yes, Vientiane Winery, are you going to buy wine later? Why don't you check some souvenir guides on the Internet? This Vientiane wine is not worth the money! What a century-old brand, it's you guys from other places who have been blackmailed. A bottle of [-], you can buy Moutai, you can kill one by one, the TV station has exposed it, the wine they have is wholesaled from outside, and refilled, if you want to buy wine, you should go to the wine exchange conference Look, I really don’t force you to spend, I really don’t blackmail you.”

Lian Jiangyue was speechless. When he arrived at the newspaper office, the front desk in charge of the reception dialed an internal number after learning about his intentions. After a while, he saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses, of medium height, and of medium build, wearing slippers. , with a greasy and shiny face, came out of the office with a mess of hair.

The man went to the counter and lit a cigarette.There was a young girl at the front desk, she frowned, covered her nose, and tapped hard on the no-smoking sign on the wall. The man was indifferent, and asked Lian Jiangyue: "You want to post a missing person notice?"

"Yes."

"Photos, Weibo, do you have them?" The man smoked a cigarette, took out his mobile phone, pressed the screen, and talked with Lian Jiangyue across the counter without looking at him.

"Weibo?"

"Didn't you post a message on Weibo first? Have you called the police?"

Lian Jiangyue scratched her nose and said, "I don't know the person I'm looking for."

Hearing this, the man raised his head, looked Lian Jiangyue up and down, bit a cigarette, showed a big smile, grabbed the pencil and a stack of A4 papers in the counter, and pointed at the sofa seat not far away. , Said: "Sit down and talk, sit down and talk."

He patted the stack of papers with a smile, and said repeatedly: "There are stories, there are stories."

The two sat down on the sofa, the man shook the cigarette ash, and pushed the paper and pen to Lian Jiangyue: "Come on, come on, who are you looking for, your contact information, write it down."

He also grabbed Lian Jiangyue's hair: "What's the story of your hair growing so long? The hair quality is really good. You are a shampoo model? Why do you wear black gloves on such a hot day? Just wear one Hands, burns? Disabled?"

Lian Jiangyue scratched her hair, and said while writing: "I want to post three missing person notices."

The man laughed even more happily after hearing this: "Okay, okay, there's a story." He took out his phone and started recording, and put it on the table.

Lian Jiangyue said: "One is Zhang Yuanshou, a man, he should be from Mingshi in 87, he is probably planting trees..."

"How old are you? Do you have any photos?"

Lian Jiangyue was dumbfounded by the question, so she contacted Feng Xuwei on WeChat, and asked the man, "Apart from age and photos, what else do you need?"

"Is he your relative? Is he sick or what? He ran away from home?"

"It just disappeared suddenly." He lowered his head and wrote down the name of the second person he was looking for.

The man was watching and reading: "Shang... Guan... Yu... Zhan..." Seeing these four words, he gasped, touched his lips, lowered his head, and kept saying: "Familiar eyes, familiar ears..."

He asked again: "Your relatives?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "No, I don't know her. It should be a woman. I don't know her age, let alone her appearance. She used to live in the area of ​​Xinmin Avenue. It is said that people from your newspaper seem to..."

When he said this, the man slapped his head, grabbed the piece of paper with Shangguan Yuzhan's name on it, and said, "I remember!" He bounced off the sofa, rushed into the office, and disappeared .

Lian Jiangyue blinked, the receptionist leaned out to look into the office, and gave him an apologetic smile.Lian Jiangyue continued to write on another blank paper: Lian Wu hates.Find someone who knows the person.

He also wrote down his temporary address and mobile phone number, thought for a while, and added a line: Those who provide useful information will be rewarded heavily.

At this time, the man ran back with a newspaper in both hands, and he slapped the newspaper in front of Lian Jiangyue, poked the newspaper and said, "Shangguan Yuzhan! Look! Isn't it! "

Lian Jiangyue took a look, and what the man kept poking was a news headline: A century-old brand is facing the crisis of bankruptcy, can the injection of foreign capital rejuvenate its youth?

Lian Jiangyue raised her head, and said without knowing, "Shangguan Yuzhan?"

The man stomped his feet in a hurry: "Look! I can't read?"

As he spoke, he knelt down on the ground, put his face on the newspaper, and pointed to a line of writing to read: "In the mid-80s, under the management of Bao Wanxiang's second wife, Shangguan Yuzhan, the process was improved, and the Baojia wine shop was once famous far and wide. Moved from the residential area to the current pedestrian street NO.16," after reading this, the man spat, "What the hell is this sentence, it doesn't make sense!" He skipped a few lines and continued: "After Bao Wanxiang passed away, Shangguan Yuzhan Suffering from Alzheimer's, I often can't even remember my own name," the man scolded again, "Bah! How can you express your feelings at this time!"

He skipped a few more lines and said: "As a result, the secret recipe for wine making has been lost, and the two children have no intention of inheriting the family business, there are only two options before the century-old Vientiane Winery, declaring bankruptcy or accepting Japanese acquisitions. "

The man raised his head, adjusted his glasses, pointed to a picture on the side of the news, and looked at Lian Jiangyue proudly: "How is it? Someone found it for you!"

In the picture accompanying the news, a man and a woman are holding together a delicate wine bottle-shaped trophy.The label below the picture is: Bao Wanxiang (left) and Shangguan Yuzhan (right) won the gold medal at the International Fine Wine Expo.

The man patted Lian Jiangyue: "Then, are you still looking for this Shangguan Yuzhan?" He lit another cigarette, calmed down, and asked Lian Jiangyue, "What is your relationship with her? An illegitimate child? Knowing that the winery is going to be imprisoned?" Someone bought it, want to get a share of the pie?"

Lian Jiangyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Then I'll go directly to her two children, why should I look for her? Maybe she doesn't recognize me because of Alzheimer's, so why don't I talk about inheritance with her? "

The man laughed loudly, took out the paper that Lian Jiangyue pressed under his hand, and said, "I hate you, hey, your surname is also Lian..." The man's eyes lit up, and his glasses slid onto his nose, almost falling off. , he smiled foolishly, and said to Lian Jiangyue: "This time it is always your relative, right? Tell me, what story!"

Lian Jiangyue said: "He is the father on my household registration book."

"Oh, you mean, you are not his own? He suddenly disappeared too?" The man's eyes slanted on the newspaper, and he muttered: "You just wanted to find someone named Zhang Yuanshou, I haven't heard of it, no Impression, I don’t know, I don’t know,” he rubbed his chin, and said quickly as if he was talking to himself: “The most famous tree planter in Min City is You Sifei. I heard that it was originally in Gouzi further north In the labor camp, I do nothing all day long, just plant trees.”

"Where can I find this person?" Lian Jiangyue asked.

"Baijin Village in Baijin Mountain in the ancient city, the municipal government awarded him a meritorious award for sand control a few years ago to help the people in the ancient city get rid of poverty and become rich. The TV station went to interview and our newspaper also went to reporters. He refused to see him. He was a weirdo "The man's eyes rolled, and he looked at Lian Jiangyue again: "You are also quite strange."

Lian Jiangyue smiled, at this time, Feng Xu replied to his WeChat, and he sent old photos of Yuanshou, as well as his birth date.If Zhang Yuanshou lived to this day, he would be seventy years old.

In addition, Feng Xuwei also told him that the two bones dug up in the Ge family's yard that day were indeed a man and a woman, who had been dead for more than 30 years. The man's skull was broken, and the woman's three ribs were broken. People may die because of internal organs being injured and internal bleeding.

The police are currently actively investigating missing persons files 30 years ago to determine the identity of the deceased.

Lian Jiangyue told the man Zhang Yuanshou's age and appearance, and the man wrote it down on a piece of paper, and said, "Wait, I'll find you Sifei's address."

He greeted the front desk and said, "Xiao Zhou, call Lao Feng and ask him for the address of You Sifei who planted trees."

Xiao Zhou was copying something, and said angrily: "Brother Da Da, Lao Feng is at the next table to you."

The man named Dacheng smiled: "I'm the only one in the middle. He's a reporter and a writer, and the lines are like a mountain."

Xiao Zhou sighed and made a phone call. After a while, he came over with a piece of paper.Dacheng gave the paper to Lian Jiangyue, and said, "It will take two hours to drive there."

"Two hours? Are you able to reach Lanzhou?"

"I can't get there. There are two directions. The Mimo area is the desert. You will know it when you get there. When you see a green spike in the yellow sand, it is the Platinum Mountain." Dacheng picked up the message written by Lian Jiangyue : "When you come back, just in time for the evening paper to be dispatched." He flicked the A4 paper in his hand, raised his chin, "see you in the middle of the evening paper."

He called Xiao Zhou again: "Take the money and write a receipt." Then he left.

Lian Jiangyue went to the front desk to pay, and Xiao Zhou asked in a low voice: "Aren't you from the city? Are you here to find someone?"

Lian Jiangyue nodded, waiting for Xiao Zhou to issue a receipt.Xiao Zhou said again: "Didn't it scare you just now? Brother Dacheng is not always like this."

"Isn't he scary?" Lian Jiangyue was puzzled, Xiao Zhou stared at him: "Who doesn't be scared when he sees his crazy appearance, does he keep asking you about your family? I've been wondering what's your story?"

Lian Jiangyue smiled and said: "I think he is very professional."

Xiao Zhou was speechless, and Lian Jiangyue left the newspaper office. Seeing that Lao Shen was still waiting for him, he went over and gave Lao Shen the address of You Sifei.

Old Shen looked at the address, frowned and thought for a while, and said, "My friend, the bus station doesn't run to this place. The travel agency that engages in desert tours packs a big package before going. To tell you the truth, this is a monopoly. Sigh, if I play the watch, I will take you for a fool. How about this, I will take you for a run, back and forth, counting you five hundred, you give me a two hundred deposit first, and I will send you back to the city , and give the rest, what do you think?"

Lian Jiangyue paid two hundred and got into Lao Shen's car.

After driving for about an hour, I came out of a village full of houses with loess walls. Lao Shen rolled up the windows of the car.The wind and sand became stronger, and the sound of gravel hitting the glass of the car was heard from time to time, like a heavy rain.There are no people on both sides of the road.Old Shen pointed to the front and said, "We've entered the ancient city of Mimo."

But where is there any city?

Lian Jiangyue saw the scorching sun and yellow sand, the sky was beige, and the horizon seemed to be melting.The wind and sand beat against the glass windows. Even though he was sitting in the car with the windows closed tightly, he still felt his eyes were itchy and dry, and he always wanted to rub them.

Old Shen turned on the air-conditioner, lit a cigarette, and asked, "You are a niche boutique tour, who introduced you from Moments?"

He asked again: "Is your Shangguan Yuzhan still available online?"

At this time, Lian Jiangyue saw a little greenness flashing out of the grayish yellow in front of him, he pointed and said, "Is that right there?"

Old Shen moved his butt, stretched his neck, and squinted his eyes: "That's right." He pointed to the left, "Did you see the ancient city wall!"

Lian Jiangyue looked over and saw a slender ridge of soil lying across the road.Old Shen smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellow and black teeth: "Ruins, ruins."

He pointed to the north again: "The city tower, where the sentries used to be."

A few pieces of yellow brick walls stood abruptly in the wind and sand, as if they would melt into the vast desert at any moment.

Old Shen said: "It will be fine at night. You can see stars and shooting stars at night. Have you ever seen shooting stars?"

Lian Jiangyue shook her head, and Lao Shen said: "If you don't want to sign up for a stargazing tour in the desert, my nephew will do it in a travel agency."

After saying this, the Platinum Mountain, which was just a little bit before, has now become a green triangle reflected on the front glass of the car, which cannot be blown away by wind, and its outline cannot be blurred by sand.After driving for another ten minutes, some Populus euphratica trees can gradually be seen on both sides of the yellow sandy land. The drought-tolerant trees grow very tall. I think they are quite old. Lian Jiangyue suddenly feels a lot cooler. There seems to be less sand rushing onto the car, and the wind is also less, just passing by the car door quietly.And the greenery in front of them became more and more obvious and dazzling. After a while, they were surrounded by a green forest.Old Shen stopped the car, saw an old man driving a group of goats by the road, and asked, "Where is Xie Sifei?"

The old man pointed behind him: "Grape field, busy, go east for three miles!"

Lao Shen continued to drive east, and Lian Jiangyue lowered the car windows. The green forest outside the car was full of fruit trees, including apple trees, peach trees, plum trees, and fig trees. You can also see some dwarf vines, and the curly vines stretch their bodies in the sun.A few dogs were walking in the woods, saw the car coming, and stopped on the side of the road, wagging their tails silently.

Lian Jiangyue said: "Just stop here, I'll go down and look for it."

He got out of the car, and Lao Shen followed him, took out his mobile phone, took pictures everywhere, and sighed, "Is there such a place in Min City?"

Lian Jiangyue was suspicious: "You haven't been here? Then how do you know that the bus will not come?"

"Oh, it's around here, go, go, go and find the person you're looking for." Lao Shen jumped into a grape field and shouted all over the sky, "Xie Sifei!"

Several dog barks responded to Old Shen, but no one answered.

Lian Jiangyue stood on the field, built a shed in front of her forehead, searched for a while, and saw a man with a straw hat on his head bent over to weed under a row of fig trees.He looked at Lao Shen who was already a little far away from him, still looking around, holding up his mobile phone, not knowing whether he was taking pictures or recording videos, and walked towards the weeder.

Arriving in front of this person, Lian Jiangyue hadn't spoken yet. The weeder stopped what he was doing, took a white towel from his waist, wiped the sweat from his forehead, put it on his neck, and sat down Under a tall fig tree, he raised his head, looked at Lian Jiangyue, and said, "You are here."

This man was an old man, probably in his 80s, with a face of charcoal black, and his hands were also charcoal black. He must have been a strong man before, and the muscle lines on his arms were still there.

Lian Jiangyue couldn't hide her surprise: "You know me?"

The old man lit a cigarette, took off his straw hat, and said, "I don't know you, but I know that you will come."

"You know who I am?"

"I don't know who you are, but I know someone will come." A ray of sunlight leaked from the treetops, shining on the old man's cloudy eyes.His eyes are so calm.

Lian Jiangyue asked: "Are you Zhang Yuanshou? Sihefei is a sin if he goes up and down. You say you are guilty, what kind of crime do you have? Do you know a person named Lian Wuchen?"

The old man looked directly at Lian Jiangyue and said:

"On the night of October [-]rd, [-], I killed my wife Sun Xiaoqing and my leader Wu Mianwen at my home in Beijing. On October [-]st, I started to renovate my yard and planned to plant some fruit trees. Who knew what happened on the [-]nd. In the evening, I dug a tunnel leading to an underground palace with many treasures in it. I reported it to Wu Mianwen, my superior at the Bureau of Cultural Relics, on the morning of the [-]rd. Wu Mianwen told me that after work at night, he would first Let's take a look at the situation, and then notify the Bureau of Cultural Relics to see how to deal with it. He told me to do a good job of keeping it secret and protect the site so that criminals will not steal this batch of important cultural relics after they know about it.

"Who knows, Wu Mianwen is that lawless person who is ungrateful for profit. Not only is he a thief who wants to steal cultural relics, but he has had an affair with my wife for a long time, and he has long been a thief who steals my wife.

"The two of them conspired, first my wife stunned me with sleeping pills, and then smuggled out the treasures in the underground palace while I was asleep. What they didn't expect was that the sleeping pills had little effect on me, and I woke up soon I came over, caught them straight, figured out the ins and outs of the matter, they begged me for mercy, I was very angry, and slapped Wu Mianwen to death."

When the old man said these words, he didn't blink his eyes. He didn't move his eyelids until he said that he killed Wu Mianwen, and then he looked at his hands, but his voice didn't change at all, and neither did his expression. He continued: "At that time, there were two witnesses, one named Yu Xuandong, the newspaper said that he had passed away not long ago, and the other, I only knew that he was Yu Xuandong's friend, I met him in the Forbidden City earlier that day They, they sneaked into the imperial city, and they played somersaults on the roof. I scolded the two of them and ran away; at night, they wanted to come to my house to play tricks on me, Yu Xuandong, you may know, he is a Beijing opera performer, I don’t know I know whose idea it was, anyway, when they appeared at my house, one turned into Bai Wuchang in Beijing opera, and the other turned into Hei Wuchang, when I was about to kill my wife, they jumped off the roof, Yu Xuandong called me , I thought it was black and white impermanence who knew that I had killed someone and came to arrest me and pay for my life, but I killed a guilty person, why should they want me to pay for my life, I beat my wife to death with another palm in a fit of anger.

"If Yu Xuandong and the others were closer to my wife and me, with Yu Xuandong's ability, maybe they could stop me, but at that time, I was too angry, too angry, even if the two of them tried to stop me, I would definitely fight them Let's fight. At that time, I only had one thought in my mind, I must kill that bitch!

"Of course, I realized later that they also showed their identities. They are not black and white. Yu Xuandong asked me what my plan was. I also sang operas for a few years when I was young, and I played a Turkic general in the opera. , I often play him, he is a villain, not a good person, and he ends up very badly, but every time he appears on stage, he is majestic, I have to act as if I don’t know his ending, somehow, at that moment , I thought of this general. I said, I want to go to Xinjiang, or Gansu, in short, I want to go to the desert, to a place where there are no people.

"Yu Xuandong's friend heard this, and told me that if I really can't find a place to stay, I can go to the Baojia Wine Shop on Xinmin Avenue in Minshi City to find a person named Shangguan Yuzhan, as long as I feel sorry for me. friend, she will take care of me."

The old man—perhaps he should be called Zhang Yuanshou took a drag on his cigarette and fell silent.

Lian Jiangyue said: "You buried the corpse underground? What about the cultural relics in the underground palace?"

Zhang Yuanshou said: "I don't know, after I killed someone, I didn't care about it, so I left and came to Min City, but I didn't go