Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

He talked too much with her, and casually said that Ryoko had gone out and hadn't come back yet. "Is your family always in the city?"

"No, we just came back from other places not long ago." Xiao Tao sighed, "Fortunately, your home is still fine. If Xiuyi and I hadn't overheard in advance that the garrison might abandon the city, we stayed in the city ,I am afraid……"

Hearing her words made me very surprised. Xiuyi knew that staying in the city might be dangerous. He didn't say a word about it, just pretending nothing happened.It suddenly occurred to me that on the day the mysterious man tipped us off, Ryoko told me that Xiuyi had arrived at the house of a classmate in elementary school when Ryoko told me that he had just returned home.

"Yeah, if I didn't know it in advance. It's only ten months from now, and the changes in the whole Qiming are so creepy, but it's just counting from January... how many days?" I tried quietly.

"January sixteenth."

It was the day when someone reported to Liangzi.

It was the day Yoshiko made the decision to let the two of us go first.

"Oh. But even if we didn't eavesdrop, Uncle Zuo said that the messenger told you, but maybe he didn't tell you in too much detail."

Before I got to the bottom of the question, the silly girl almost told the whole story, feeling sad and sad: "At that time, I just thought that we were gone, and the innocent people in the city would be fine. I didn't expect them to be so cruel." To such an extent. I've been feeling guilty for so long, if we could have spread the news then, maybe we wouldn't have..."

"No one expected it." I comforted: "The dead should not be chased. Those who can leave should have left long ago. I am afraid that most of the remaining people will not be able to get out. After all, the traffic is so tight... Even if you know the news, it’s just panic.”

"Although I know this, it's inevitable that I still have some responsibility." Xiao Tao forced a smile, and looked at the time: "It's getting late, I should go back."

I said I wanted to keep her for a light meal, but Xiaotao shied away and only told her family to go out and buy things. It’s not good to stay for too long, so I didn’t force her anymore. A warning, I only hope she takes it as a kind reminder: "Little Tao, the morals of the world are never very simple. When you go out, you still have to be wary of others. I think it is a good thing for you to interpret others from good motives, but there may be some People are different from what you imagined, so it's best to keep your words in reserve."

She froze for a while, still speaking in a soft and shy tone: "I understand, but I can't speak so frankly with everyone." She smiled at me, "I haven't met so many people , but not a nerd. I know who to be honest with because I can tell if he wants to hurt me."

I laughed dumbfounded, not understanding where her confidence came from.

"Take it as my intuition, and add some realistic clues. For example, a person who is malicious towards me would not say such things to me." Xiao Tao blinked, and a sudden expression appeared on his gentle face. A bit cunning, "I wouldn't use a new pen box to pack green bean worms."

"Really?" I was noncommittal, watching her walk away after saying goodbye to me.

Perhaps it was Tao Youqing's natural willingness to believe in others that made Xiuyi try to scare her, but didn't really hurt her.Under the silly appearance, she can also be said to be a little clever, but her judgment of people is too subjective, whether it comes from animal-like keen intuition, or reasoning and guessing from good intentions, her thoughts have been finalized, outsiders said Nothing can shake it, perhaps only after she suffered a great loss because of this trait, can she realize that there are too many things in this world that she can't see through.She is still a child, and so is Xiuyi, but the latter is much colder and meaningless than her.In comparison, if we talk about who has a better chance of surviving in this chaotic world, I think it's probably Xiuyi.

From Xiaotao's accidental visit this time, I can get three points: first, the person who reported the letter was sent by Zuo Linze, and he has a close relationship with Xiaotao's father; second, before coming to my house, Xiuyi had met Three, Xiuyi is good at or has a way to find snakes in cold weather.These three points can basically be determined. As for the cause and effect, further exploration is needed.In addition, although it is still speculation, it cannot be ruled out that the snake that bit Ryoko was released by Hideyoshi.

I let go of my doubts, before I could enter the door, Xiuyi quickly walked out of the alley and ran towards me. Without wiping off the sweat on his face, he grabbed my sleeve and said happily, "There is a clue for Aunt Tan!"

36. Bad boy 22

The clue that Xiuyi said was obtained from an old man.

He lived in an alley four blocks away from us. When he showed him the photo, he recognized it for a long time, and said uncertainly that he saw this woman with the widow of the Sun family when he took refuge.Xiuyi asked him to find out the address of Mrs. Sun's family, and tried to knock on the door, but there was no one in the yard. Xiuyi didn't delay, and hurried home to inform me.

I couldn't help but look at him while he was narrating, his delicate face, his forehead hair was wet with sweat, his cheeks were flushed from running, he gasped heavily under restraint, and he desperately grabbed the hand on my sleeve—what am I for now? It was also not revealed that she went to Sun's house with him.

Just in time, the woman came back from the field with a basket on her back, and saw two strange men standing in front of the door, a few meters away, refusing to step forward, watching us warily.I took out the photo and went up first, "Hello Madam Sun, we just want to ask if you have seen this person before." She took the photo and looked at it for a moment, then asked, "Who are you?"

"She's my wife."

She glanced up and down at me, Da Xu saw that I didn't look like a bad person, returned the photo to me, took out the key and opened the lock, "Don't call me Mrs. Sun, the poor don't care much, just call me Chunsheng Niang. Come in and talk." "

Xiuyi and I entered the courtyard, and Chunsheng Niang put the bamboo basket full of grass on her back on the ground, and stamped her foot to shake off the mud on her shoes, "I remember her." She finally said, "As soon as those soldiers came in, At first I thought there was nothing wrong with ordinary people like me, but then I heard guns being fired, shouting loudly outside, yelling that those bastards would kill anyone they see, regardless of whether you are a soldier or not, I hurriedly packed my things and carried the child on my back Run quickly to the reed field behind. I met her on the road."

"Why did Aunt Tan come here?"

"She said she was buying a ticket." Chunsheng Niang said, "I don't know if she bought it or not, she didn't say. I took her to the reed field. We can't see anything from the outside. It's not just us. There are too many people running in the reed field. If there are too many people, it's easy to be found. The big guys are in a mess, running to death, hey, who cares about who at this time, we ran away, and I don’t know where she went after that.”

"What's the general direction?" Xiuyi unconsciously bit his nails.

"IDK."

"No clue at all?"

Chun Shengniang hesitated, and then said after a long while: "If I tell you, don't you don't like to hear it. If you really have nothing to look for, you can go to Xie Shisan to try your luck. A few of them will do the job of picking up the corpses alone. There is a big reed field, and there is a river in it, if she can't run in time, she may fall into the river. "

"Didn't you tell her these things when you took her there?" Xiuyi asked anxiously and loudly.

"I must have said it! Then I don't know where she is going?" Chunsheng's mother was also angry, and shouted at the top of her voice: "My life and my child's life is over, just take her alone!"

"Thank you," I interrupted their dispute, "I'll go and ask." I asked her about Xie Shisan's residence in detail. once.

I was about to step out of the gate when I suddenly remembered, turned my head and asked, "Chunsheng mother, why haven't you seen your family Chunsheng?"

At this time, she was already busy taking the grass cut in the bamboo basket to feed the cows, and she didn't raise her head when she heard my question. I thought she didn't want to say it, so I dragged Xiuyi out. "Dead." She said coldly, regardless of whether I heard it or not, she murmured to herself, "Obviously it was carried on the back, the gun shot in the front, I didn't die, why did he die. "

The story is so clear at a glance, I just heard this, and I didn't bother to express my condolences. After leaving this yard, Xiuyi and Xie Shisan went to Xie Shisan's house again.

Xie Shisan is an old man who lives alone. He has no wife and no children. He lives with his two apprentices. As long as the entire Qiming City goes into the water to find people, most of them look for them, because they are famous for their good water quality and good character. Honest, never sit on the ground and raise the price.In addition to private work, they also mainly accept tasks assigned by the police station and collect money based on the head.These are what his disciples told us.

When we arrived at Xie's house, Xie Shisan's big apprentice was in charge of receiving him. When we asked him about Liangzi, he asked us to sit down for a while, "Master has a booklet, remembering when, where, and who was salvaged, as long as you know the approximate time and place. , Look it up, and you’ll know everything.” We could only sit in the living room and wait, and chat with us intermittently after the big apprentice passed the message, but at this time, it’s really not the time to talk, Xiuyi just bites Scratching his fingernails, he was the first to get up when he saw Xie Shisan coming out with the brochure in his hands, "How is it?"

Xie Shisan nodded, Xiuyi froze, and asked softly as if not daring to breathe: "Is there her?"

"On January 28th, there is indeed such a record, but it was picked up by the young and old. We don't know what it looks like."

"Then where is your apprentice?"

"Going out to play, I don't know where I went, I should be back after dinner