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Chapter 166 The Great Emperor of Fengdu 29 (1)
There is no one living in the back mountain forest, and domesticated cats are not the kind of animals that are good at begging for food in the mountain forest.And they found that the location of the cat was not far from the forest after entering the mountain.
Cats and dogs are different in some ways.Dogs run far on their own and may still find a home.And cats belong to the kind of creatures that don't know the way home after running far.Therefore, after judging that the cat with the yin and yang face is not in the wild, it is basically certain that the cat is a cat that was raised outside by the residents around the mountains and forests.
Zhou Yuan searched out the location of the map based on the mountain in the future, and within a circle extending 500 meters outward, only the Tianhai Welfare Institute exists.
He said: "There are still some residents' houses around, but I only consider the range of 500 meters for the time being. I think we can focus on checking whether there are cats in Tianhai Orphanage. If there is a cat, and it happens to be the one we were in that day For the cat seen on the mountain, many of the possibilities discussed above exist.”
Shen Rui agrees, after all, the cat is only used as a medium to let them determine whether a certain clue link is established.
"It's still early, let's go to Tianhai Welfare Institute now?" Li Bingbing suggested.
Zhou Yuan agreed.
The three of them took photos and archived the materials they had on hand. After buying a few large packs of snacks and drinks in the supermarket next to the hotel, they drove to Tianhai Orphanage.
The car did not drive directly to the Tianhai Welfare Institute, but stopped at the small intersection where they entered, and the three chose to walk in.
In fact, there are still many old houses around the path, but not many people still live there.
It was almost afternoon, and many left-behind elderly people could be seen sitting by the door on stools and basking in the sun.
Along the way, Li Bingbing asked all the way: "Old man, do you have a cat at home?"
Almost all the old people shook their heads and waved their hands.
Respond to them: "It's too troublesome to raise yourself, why raise an ancestor?"
These responses were expected, and Li Bingbing said to Shen Rui and the others: "These old people don't understand. In fact, it is better to have a cat and dog at home and have a companion than to stay at home by myself. I will retire in the future. And cats and dogs too."
"Have you thought about your retirement life in decades?" Shen Rui laughed after hearing Li Bingbing's words, "If you solve this case, I will give you cats and dogs immediately, so that you can have fun in advance. "
Li Bingbing grinned, "Don't, I don't go home every day, so I won't keep pets and suffer with me."
While talking, they arrived at the gate of Tianhai Welfare Institute.
The large rusty and mottled iron gate was locked, but the voices of children talking and playing could be heard from inside.
Shen Rui rang the doorbell, and soon a middle-aged woman in an apron came out to answer the door.
The woman is the housekeeper and cook of the Tianhai Orphanage. She heard that she lived not far away, so she was recruited to cook for the children during the day, take care of the children, and go home in the afternoon.
Because they had been here before, the woman quickly recognized Shen Rui and the others, wiped her hands on the apron, and asked with some doubts: "Officer, are you here looking for Dean Yang? If you are looking for Dean, It's unfortunate that you came here, she hasn't come back yet."
I have been here a few times, and it seems that it is a bit difficult to meet Yangmei during the day.
However, their primary purpose of coming here this time was not Yangmei, so Li Bingbing shook the snacks in his hand and said, "We are passing by here, and we will buy some snacks for the children."
Seeing the snacks in Li Bingbing's hands, the elder sister's eyes lit up, she quickly reached out to take them, and said with a smile, "You are too polite! But the children should be very happy, and I haven't given them snacks for a long time. "
Speaking of the elder sister walking in with food, she said, "I'll take the things in first, police officers, come in."
"Hey, big sister, do you keep cats here?" Seeing her walking in quickly, Li Bingbing quickly stopped her and asked.
The elder sister didn't look back, she subconsciously replied, "Cats? Yes, I have two or three. What's the matter, you suddenly asked about cats?"
"Is there a cat with a yin and yang face? It means that the left and right sides of the face are of different colors?" Li Bingbing strode up to the elder sister and followed her into the cat.
The eldest sister seemed not interested in the topic of cats, and shook her head: "I didn't pay attention to it. I worked here during the day and went back in the evening. I heard cats meowing, but I didn't pay attention to it. I don't like cats either. Cats tend to shed all over the place. Ask these kids, they probably know better than me.”
Entering the house, one after another saw the figures of children.
The eldest sister seemed to be in a hurry to get busy in the kitchen, so she turned a corner and entered the back room.
Li Bingbing didn't bother the eldest sister, took out a handful of candy from his pocket, and immediately attracted the attention of the children who looked at them as "national treasures".
He distributed the candies to them and asked with a grin, "Kids, do you have any cats here?"
Some children nodded.
Li Bingbing asked again: "Is there a cat with two faces?"
The kid nodded again, "It's Xiaowen's cat."
Xiaowen is the kid I met on the third floor before.
Knowing that the child is now on the third floor, Zhou Yuan and the others went upstairs directly.
As before, after crossing the second floor, it became extremely quiet.
If we were overwhelmed by the sound of glass beads hitting the ground last time, the silence this time is a bit uncomfortable.
Too quiet.
As if no one was there.
After going up to the third floor and standing in the stairwell, Li Bingbing started calling, "Xiaowen?"
There was an echo from the long hallway.
No one answered.
"Xiaowen, I know you're here." Li Bingbing shouted again: "Come out, brother treats you to candy."
Still as if no one was there.
Li Bingbing went to see Zhou Yuan and the others, his eyes were asking if he was not on the third floor, but went to play in the courtyard or other places.
At this moment, a "squeak" sound suddenly came from the long corridor, as if someone was using a hard crayon to rub hard against the slippery wall, making the sour sound of scratching.
"in front of."
Shen Rui walked forward.
Even in the daytime, the corridor on the third floor without the lights turned on was as dark as the sky, dim and dark, and it was hard to see what was in front of it.
"Depend on……"
Li Bingbing, who was walking in the front, exclaimed, and hurriedly stepped back two steps and stopped beside Zhou Yuan and the others.
When walking forward, he didn't pay attention to the situation at the foot next to the wall, so when his foot touched something soft, Li Bingbing subconsciously looked down and saw a face wearing a white mask.
"There's something there." Li Bingbing took a deep breath.
Shen Rui pointed the phone's light at the position Li Bingbing had mentioned, suddenly suffocated, and frowned and looked ahead.
Less than one meter tall, he stood upright by the wall.
Because of Li Bingbing's voice, the people who were squatting by the wall were staring at them now.
Following the light, Shen Rui and the others could clearly see that it was a little boy wearing a mask made by punching three holes out of white paper.
The eyeballs under the white mask were glowing black, and they were looking at them motionless.
"Xiaowen." Zhou Yuan said suddenly.
The eyeballs under the white mask turned sideways and fixed on Zhou Yuan, as if waiting for his next words.
Zhou Yuan sized him up and saw that he was holding a crayon in his hand, looking sideways at the wall, and his brows were unconsciously frowned.
The walls are still covered with red crayons, large and small eyes.
However, it is still different from what I saw last time. This time, on the basis of red eyes, the child recreated them, and drew a frame around each red eye.
Like someone looking through a frame.
Li Bingbing approached Zhou Yuan and the others, and said in a low voice, "This kid looks even sicker than last time."
The sound is not loud, but because the place on the third floor is so quiet, even if flies fly by, you can still hear the sound of flapping wings.
As soon as his voice fell, Xiaowen raised his head and looked at Li Bingbing.
Looking in through the white mask made of paper, for some reason, Li Bingbing felt that those eyes were a bit like bottomless stagnant water, staring at him with lifeless anger, and suddenly felt a little creepy.
"What are you doing wearing this kind of mask?" Li Bingbing frowned, reaching out to lift his mask.
But Xiaowen took a step back, avoiding his hand, and stared at him tightly, as if as long as Li Bingbing made further progress, he would pounce on him and bite him.
Shen Rui pulled Li Bingbing, who still wanted to step forward, to his side.
To coax a child, Zhou Yuan is still needed.
As usual, he took out a handful of prepared candy and held it out in front of Xiaowen.Zhou Yuan looked at him and said, "It's better than last time, either."
For Xiaowen, the candy last time was a sweet encounter in childhood.
Hearing that the candy this time was even tastier than before, he hesitated for a while, and reached out to grab the candy.
"Didn't your dean let you draw something on the wall?" Zhou Yuan said softly.
Xiaowen stuffed the candy into his pocket, and said in a muffled voice, "They won't come up, they won't see it."
The last time I came here, I learned that Yangmei rarely came here on the third floor.The third floor was almost the world of Xiaowen and the old security guard, so Zhou Yuan was not surprised by his words.
But he pointed to the homemade white mask on his face and asked him, "What shape is this on your face?"
With a soft mouth, Xiaowen didn't resist Zhou Yuan, poked the mask on his face with his hand, suddenly turned his head to look at the end of the corridor, then seemed to think of something, and turned back in an instant."I'm imitating," he said.
"Imitate what?"
Zhou Yuan asked lightly.
Xiaowen turned his head to look at the wall, pointed to a small window drawn on the wall, and said in a low voice, "Imitate this."
This time it was Shen Rui and Li Bingbing's turn to frown. They looked at each other, although they were curious, they didn't take the initiative to step forward, because they knew that Zhou Yuan was the only one who could ask questions with their mouths.
Zhou Yuan looked at the windows and eyes all over the wall, and looked at Xiaowen: "The person outside the small window?"
Someone could understand what he said, Xiaowen was a little happy, his eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Yeah."
Shen Rui and Li Bingbing frowned deeply as they looked at the small square openings drawn on the wall.They really couldn't tell that it was a window, and they couldn't even guess that someone was outside.
It's just a square with a small opening painted in black.
Li Bingbing looked at Zhou Yuan with some surprise, how did he see it?
"Where is this small window?" Zhou Yuan's voice was still faint, and he bent down to face Xiao Wen Qiping, staring into his eyes through the white mask: "Can you tell brother."
Xiaowen didn't respond, and turned back again, looking at the end of the corridor.
Li Bingbing asked, "In front?"
Hearing his voice, Xiao Wen turned to look at him.Under the dim lighting of the mobile phone, those eyes were a little too dark.After being watched by him for a while, Li Bingbing couldn't help but get goosebumps.
Xiaowen didn't answer his question, but turned his gaze back to Zhou Yuan, and said softly, "It's in the small house by the back door."
back door?
They have come to Tianhai Welfare Institute several times, but they have never heard of a back door, only a back yard.But because of the delay, I never visited the backyard.
Zhou Yuan nodded, and asked him softly: "Will you take me to the back door later?"
He thought Xiaowen would agree, but he shook his head and ran to the room at the end of the corridor.
That room is where the old security guard slept.
He noticed that from the beginning of the conversation, whenever Xiaowen needed to return to him, he would habitually turn his head to look at that room first.
Scared of being heard?
Zhou Yuan glanced at Shen Rui, their eyes met in the air, and they immediately understood what each other was thinking.
The three of them walked towards that room. They had already been frightened once before, and they would not be frightened again if they were mentally prepared.But when they walked to the door, they were still frightened by the black and white photo hanging opposite the gate.
Li Bingbing couldn't help scolding Guoqu: "Fuck."
"Grandpa, I took the liberty to come here to disturb you. We are policemen from the Binhai City Bureau, and we came here this time to ask you some questions." Li Bingbing frowned, and pretended to knock on the wide-open door.After standing there for a while, he didn't hear any response from inside. It was as quiet as if there was no living thing inside. He was not polite, "Master, it's not convenient for you to answer, right? Then my colleagues and I will come in directly." gone."
As he spoke, he walked in first.
Shen Rui followed him, and quickly fumbled for the light switch from memory, and turned on the light with a "snap".
The originally dark room was instantly illuminated by a dim yellow light.
The room is not big, and you can scan everything at a glance.
no one.
The old man is not here.
"No one here?" Shen Rui looked at Zhou Yuan.As he said that, he bent down and looked under the bed, and what he saw was the face with the white mask again, he was suffocating, and wanted to slap someone, but he held back.She raised her eyebrows and asked Xiao Wen who was hiding under the bed: "Where's your grandpa?"
Xiaowen didn't reply to him.
Shen Rui lost his mind, took a step back and let Zhou Yuan step forward.
Zhou Yuan asked for some candies from Shen Rui, and handed them to Xiaowen: "I still have candies here."
Xiaowen reached out to take it.
Zhou Yuan: "Has your grandfather gone out?"
Xiaowen nodded.
Zhou Yuan remembered that the last time he came here, the old man was still sick in bed, seemingly paralyzed and unable to move.It's not been a few days now, I can walk around, is it okay?
"I have something I want to talk to your grandpa, is he in the yard?"
Xiaowen shook his head.
Leaning down and talking, I feel awkward and uncomfortable watching.Li Bingbing kicked the iron frame bed with his feet and said, "Little devil, it's so cold on the ground, aren't you cold lying on the floor? You come out to talk, and uncle will treat you to a cake later?"
Xiaowen ignored Li Bingbing.
Li Bingbing was amused, and moved closer to Shen Rui, rolling his eyes: "Does this brat think we don't exist? Does he think we don't exist? Why do we just let it slip through our ears when we talk to him?"
Shen Rui recognized this fact a long time ago, and grinned: "I told you not to humiliate yourself, you still go. And you kicked the bed with your feet, if it was me, I would ignore you. "
"Come out." Zhou Yuan said, "Take us to the small courtyard by the back door, and I'll give you change to buy something to eat."
Li Bingbing didn't believe that Zhou Yuan could really call the kid out of the bed, but the next second, he was startled.Xiaowen really crawled out from under the bed, and stretched out his hand towards Zhou Yuan, "I want money."
Li Bingbing: "..." It's because the method he just used was wrong. You shouldn't use cakes to seduce, but giving money directly makes it easier to talk to each other?
Asked for some money from Shen Rui, and after handing it to him, the child walked ahead and led the way without talking to them.
The three of them followed Xiaowen downstairs. When they went downstairs, there were many children making trouble downstairs. But when they saw Xiaowen, two younger children called his name, but Xiaowen turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye. .
Li Bingbing: "..."
It seems that it's not just for me and Shen Rui.
It can only be said that he only treats Zhou Yuan special.
After leaving the compound, the three of them followed Xiao Wen from a long corridor to the backyard of the big house.
The backyard is very spacious, with some trees planted around it, and there is a small one-story bungalow next to the tree.
Zhou Yuan saw the old-fashioned inner-locking iron door on the small bungalow at a glance.There is a small window on the door. When people go out, they can open the small window on the iron door, go in and get the bolt on, and then close the small window.
"Is it this small window?" Zhou Yuan asked.
Xiaowen nodded.
They went to the bungalow.The small window was now half-closed.Shen Rui pushed open the small window on the door, and leaned over to see what was going on inside.But even though it was daytime, it was so dark inside that I couldn't see clearly.
He reached into the small window and pulled the deadbolt lock, and pushed the iron door open. What greeted his eyes was an empty room with a simple sweep of cement.Shen Rui looked around, then turned to Xiaowen and asked, "Is this a big bathhouse?"
Although the room was very simple, there was a drain faucet near the wall, and there was a drain dug out on the floor.As well as the gray and moldy moss marks on the walls, it is a place with a lot of humidity.
Xiaowen still does not return to Shen Rui.
"Is this the place where you take a bath?" Zhou Yuan followed the words and asked.
Xiaowen nodded.
Zhou Yuan re-evaluated the size of the room, it would be no problem to accommodate twenty children taking a bath together.He asked: "Here, do you take a bath together at a fixed time?"
"No." Wearing a paper mask, the expression on his face could not be seen clearly.However, his voice was very cold, not as calm as it should be at this age."They go in with them, I don't wash with them. I don't like showers," he said.
Take a shower at a fixed time.
Zhou Yuan remembered what Xiaowen said pointing at the wall on the third floor, and someone was staring at them from the small window.
Thinking of this, he looked at the small window on the door, frowned, and then turned his gaze to Shen Rui and the others. Hearing this, the three of them actually felt something strange in their hearts.
"Xiaowen, you said someone was staring at the small window, is it your Dean Yangmei and the others?" Zhou Yuan asked.
Still shaking his head.
Xiaowen pointed to a small bush in the corner of a big tree next to the bathhouse, and said: "It's not the dean and the others. I often hide here when I want to take a bath and watch them peek at others taking a bath. The people who come are different. They wear white masks and hats and black sunglasses, so they can't see clearly, just like me now, you can't see my face."
His words were very explosive, and even a nervous man like Li Bingbing could hear the problems in it.He didn't care about the little ghost in front of him and ignored him at all, and hurriedly asked: "A lot of people? Why are they here? Is your Dean Yangmei present?"
He thought it was normal for someone in the orphanage to come in and want to adopt a child, but the kid said that many times he stared through the window while they were taking a shower.
Just thinking of himself taking a shower naked in it, with eyes staring at him in the dark, Li Bingbing felt his lower body tighten, and suddenly his hair stood on end.
Is this peeping?
Xiaowen did not return to Li Bingbing, and still regarded them as transparent people.
Zhou Yuan bent down in front of the child, and asked softly: "Xiaowen, how many times have those people come? How many people come each time? Are you here to peek or what? Your Yangmei mother was here when they came. ?"
Xiaowen broke his fingers and counted.
After a while, he shook his head and said: "I can't count, it should be more than two slaps. Yangmei's mother is not here, but grandpa is. Grandpa opened the door for them to come in through this small door."
While talking, Xiaowen pointed to the small gate in the courtyard and said, "Their choice."
Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked him: "How do you know they are selecting someone?"
"Because the person they fancy will be adopted from the yard soon." Xiaowen said.
The content of the words itself is not in line with common sense. He doesn't think that he wants to adopt a child here, and just peeping at them while they are taking a bath can make things happen.And when these people arrived, Yang Mei was not there, but the old security guard was there, which was not right in itself.
Zhou Yuan walked to the small door in the backyard, and when he left the latch, he saw a path full of weeds and trees.The path is less than one meter wide, and looking forward, it seems that there is a small forest ahead.
Just when he was about to go out to have a look, Shen Rui's voice came from the yard.
"A Yuan, come and have a look."
Zhou Yuan quickly turned around, followed the direction Shen Rui and the others were pointing at and saw a cat squatting on the fence, a cat with a yin and yang face.At this moment, the cat saw that they were all looking at him, rolled his eyes, and closed his eyes again to sleep.
Shen Rui asked him, "Is that the cat?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, it was it.He looked at Xiaowen, "Is this what you raised here?"
"Well, it's called Xiaoguai, and it was raised by grandpa."
The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay. The previous speculation seemed to be going on the right track.
The clues became clearer and clearer.
In order to confirm another conjecture in his heart, Zhou Yuan asked him again: "Xiaowen, do you know your grandfather's name?"
Xiaowen stared at him for a while, somehow felt that the child was smiling through the mask.
But he didn't make a sound, and said softly after a while: "My surname is Zheng Xiaowen, my grandfather's."
Li Bingbing frowned, thinking he didn't ask him what his name was, so why did he answer the wrong question.
But Zhou Yuan seemed to have received the answer, and asked him again: "Where is your grandfather now?"
Xiaowen shook his head: "He went out."
Next, when I asked Xiaowen about other things, he was unwilling to answer.Zhou Yuan didn't force him, and asked him to go back to the house.And he, Shen Rui and the others walked around the orphanage again, trying to see if there were any other new gains.
But only the aunt who opened the door for them was there in the yard. They went to ask the aunt to knock on their side, but they didn't know what to ask, so they had to give up.
When leaving the orphanage, Zhou Yuan suggested to go out to have a look through the small door in the backyard.
The three of them walked out of the backyard and walked into a path in the woods.The road is not big, and cars cannot enter it.The trees around are all tall and densely packed with twists and turns. It looks a bit gloomy when you look at it.
I thought the road was not very long, but after walking for five or six minutes, I found that it was still in the small woods.Li Bingbing couldn't help muttering: "Don't take the big road, but take this eerie path, what kind of mentality is this?"
No one answered him because everyone felt something was wrong.
After walking forward for a while, when everyone was wondering where the road was going, they saw the end.
The road from the small gate in the backyard was the avenue they had to pass on their way to the Tianhai Orphanage.
This road is a big road with traffic coming and going.
When they drove to the Tianhai Welfare Institute, they had seen this loess road built from a mountain, but they didn't expect that it turned out to be the direction leading to the back door of the Tianhai Welfare Institute.
The three of them stood by the road at the end of the path, looking around.
This intersection is not monitored.
It is a bit troublesome to find out what car is parked here.
"I'll ask my brothers from the Traffic Management Bureau to help me remove the surveillance cameras on the upper and lower sides and check them out," Li Bingbing said.
But Zhou Yuan nodded, but he said: "This may not be very meaningful. People who enter the back door of Tianhai Welfare Institute may come in a car, stop at the intersection to let people in, and the car will continue to leave. When the time is right, Another car came from the other end to pick them up and we still had a hard time figuring out whose car it was."
Hearing this, Li Bingbing was a little surprised. Why did he use such complicated anti-reconnaissance methods when he went to the Tianhai Welfare Institute.He asked: "To go to the Tianhai Welfare Institute to look after the children, do we need to use such a complicated transfer method?"
Shen Rui patted him, "Old Li, would a normal person act like a voyeur when someone else is taking a bath, looking at those naked children through the small bars?"
"Uh... from my point of view, I don't have X-rays in my eyes, so there is a high probability that I won't use such an obscene method." Li Bingbing scratched his hair and said.
Shen Rui said with a serious face, "It takes more than ten minutes to walk from the small road to enter. It is more troublesome and time-consuming than driving directly to the main road and entering through the gate. From the mouth of that kid, these people are not Once or twice, but many times, they choose to come when these children are taking a bath. Once or twice is a coincidence, and many times, it is because someone from inside and outside cooperates to notify them of the time and let them come. You think, peeking at others from a small window What does it behave like?"
Li Bingbing muttered, "Pervert?"
Shen Rui shook his head and said, "Choose a concubine."
Li Bingbing stared, his heart thumped, and the confusion in his heart was instantly broken and cleared up.He looked at Shen Rui and Zhou Yuan in surprise, frowned and asked, "You mean, those people came here to choose children, not to adopt them."
At this point, he let out a "bah", thinking that what he said was very ambiguous and unclear, and added: "You mean, they may use the name of adoption to select children for some kind of business?"
At this point, his heart thumped a little, as if he had discovered some big secrets, he looked at Zhou Yuan and the others in shock, and carefully asked for confirmation: "What I said, is it very likely?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, "Actually, Xiaowen knows a lot. That kid is smarter than you think."
"... Team Zhou, what do you mean, this brat is deliberately revealing this to us?" Li Bingbing frowned. It was hard for him to believe that a child who was only about seven or eight years old had such deep thoughts.
However, judging from the current situation, it seems that the inspiration for everything is the wall on the third floor full of eyes and small windows.Normal people will only feel jealous and unlucky when they see such weird things drawn by children. Even if they feel the question and ask, they may not get a reply, just like him and Shen Rui. considered to be air.
Except Zhou Yuan.
Li Bingbing looked at Zhou Yuan: "Captain Zhou, did you notice that there was something wrong with this orphanage?"
The last time I came here, there were only red eyes painted on the wall, and there was no small window.And when Zhou Yuan asked Xiaowen, it was obvious that he was going to say something at that time, but the voice of the old security guard in the room interrupted their words.
Although Xiaowen seemed to like the old man very much, from Zhou Yuan's point of view, it was a show of obedience.
He is afraid of that old man.
Zhou Yuan said to Li Bingbing: "From the information we have so far, the Tianhai Welfare Institute is not simple. It was not simple 16 years ago, and it is even more so now. We came to investigate from the beginning and found that Yangmei took care of children twice or more times a year. It is not a normal phenomenon in itself. Although the physical examination is sponsored by the organization and free of charge, if there is nothing wrong with the general people, they seldom have a physical examination twice a year. If there is a problem with the physical examination, it should be treated. Rather than multiple physical examinations without treatment."
Shen Rui followed his words and said, "The same is true for the Great Emperor Temple in Fengdu. I don't think we have investigated the whereabouts of these children clearly. Lao Li, I hope you can ask your subordinates to conduct a visit-based investigation."
Li Bingbing nodded, indicating that there is no problem: "Then let's go back to the game now?"
Zhou Yuan shook his head: "Go to the back mountain."
That cat was raised by the old security guard.
Xiaowen's surname is Zheng, so the old security guard should also be surnamed Zheng. As for whether it is Zheng Quan, you can find out if you look back.
"Since the existence of the cat is confirmed, let me boldly speculate that the old man followed Rong Hui and the others to the back mountain that night. Is it possible that the old man killed Rong Hui?" Li Bingbing looked at Zhou Yuan and asked.
The three returned to the Tianhai Orphanage from the path.
Pushing open the iron gate of the backyard of Tianhai Welfare Institute, Xiaowen was still staying in the corner of the backyard, the paper mask on his face had been taken off at some point.Seeing Zhou Yuan and the others come back, he rolled his eyes and looked at him. He didn't have the slightest anger that a child should have. He seemed to think that the return of the three of them was expected, and they were leisurely huddling in the corner waiting for him.
Zhou Yuan went over and rubbed his hair, "Why did you take off the mask?"
"Aunt Zhang won't let me wear it." Xiaowen said blankly, and then asked, "Are you leaving?"
Zhou Yuan shook his head and pointed in the direction of the back mountain: "I want to go up."
Xiaowen nodded thoughtfully, seeing that Zhou Yuan and the others were about to leave, he suddenly jumped up and said, "I'm going too."
It is not a good thing to take the children from the orphanage away without permission.Li Bingbing refused: "No, you follow us. Your Dean Yang Mei won't see you when you come back, so you have to drag us to speak."
Xiaowen ignored Li Bingbing, still looked at Zhou Yuan, and said indifferently: "Brother, will you take me?"
Li Bingbing was cursing in his heart, this brat really doesn't treat other people as human beings.
He looked at Zhou Yuan and said, "Captain Zhou, it's a burden to bring a brat up there."
Hearing this, Xiaowen reacted to Li Bingbing's words for the first time, the corners of his mouth curled up, showing a contemptuous smile, and said with a sneer, "It doesn't matter who is a burden."
Li Bingbing and Shen Rui frowned deeply when they heard this.
This child really doesn't look like a child.
The two cast their eyes on Zhou Yuan, and Zhou Yuan nodded, "I'll take you there."
Zhou Yuan asked Shen Rui to say hello to the only adult in the orphanage for the time being, and only said to take Xiaowen out to buy some things, but he didn't tell her to go to the back mountain, so he led the three of them out of the gate and turned to the back mountain path to go up the mountain up.
After walking not far, we still came across the tombstone without words, but we didn't stay long, and continued to go to the place where Rong Hui hanged himself according to the road we walked before.
But they only walked halfway, and Xiaowen stood still near a small flat ground not far from the uphill.
Seeing this, Li Bingbing thought that he couldn't move, so he asked him anxiously: "Can't move, I'll tell you that you don't have all your hair, you little ghost, and you still follow us to climb the mountain."
Xiaowen ignored him, took Zhou Yuan's hand, pointed to the corner of the ground, and said softly, "My favorite toy is over there."
"what?"
Everyone looked at the direction he was pointing at the same time, and there was no difference between the soil sample and the surroundings.
Li Bingbing stepped forward to the flat ground, held a handful of mud with his hand, and found that there was indeed a problem.The upper layer seems to be no different from the surrounding area, but the lower layer is the loose and moist second layer of soil.For this difference, it is very likely that this place was excavated not long ago, then filled in again, and then covered with the top layer of dry soil around it to cover it up.
Thinking of this, Li Bingbing actually had a bad premonition in his heart, and looked at Zhou Yuan and the others: "Captain Zhou, I have no tools."
Zhou Yuan looked at Xiaowen: "You said your favorite toy is here, and you buried it yourself?"
"No." Xiaowen shook his head.
Zhou Yuan: "Then how do you know you're here?"
Xiaowen raised his eyes and said lightly: "I crawled out of the dog hole in the backyard and followed me secretly."
Hearing this, everyone immediately understood what was going on. Li Bingbing walked aside and called his subordinates, asking them to send more people to the back mountain of Tianhai Welfare Institute with tools such as shovels.
And Shen Rui at the other end also approached Zhou Yuan, asking Zhou Yuan to ask Zheng Xiaowen: "Who buried your toy? What toy?"
"The toy that I grew up with." Zheng Xiaowen actually sighed, pursed his lips, and the right corner of his mouth was raised, revealing a faint smile, "It was buried by my grandfather."
If it is really a toy, it is impossible to make a big splash and go to the middle of the mountain to bury it.
Therefore, the three of them knew in their hearts that if there was really something under the soil layer, it would definitely be a living body.
Li Bingbing swallowed, feeling that the child in front of him was so cold and creepy, he asked tentatively, "Little ghost, are the toys you are talking about animals? Cats, dogs, or little white rabbits?"
This time Zheng Xiaowen didn't ignore him, and slowly turned his head to look at him, with a contemptuous smile still on the corner of his mouth, "Well, it's an animal, my favorite animal, I hope you can dig it out for me."
His words made people shudder.
The three looked at each other, only Zhou Yuan remained indifferent.
It will be a while before the city bureau sends people over, and waiting here is a waste of time.Shen Rui made a mark here, and the four continued to walk up.During this period, Xiaowen was too tired to climb up, Zhou Yuan wanted to carry him up, but Shen Rui refused.
"Your physique is not very good, and you are not exhausted to climb up with this kid. I will come."
Regardless of Zheng Xiaowen's willingness or not, he hugged him and walked forward.
But this time Zheng Xiaowen was much quieter and didn't struggle.But when he was about to reach the destination, he suddenly lowered his voice and asked him in a voice that only Shen Rui could hear: "Do you like that beautiful brother?"
Shen Rui glanced at him, "I have eyes."
"You will be hurt." Zheng Xiaowen said earnestly.
Hearing this from a child, Shen Rui wanted to laugh, and asked him, "Why?"
Xiaowen said lightly: "You are not from the same world."
At this moment, Shen Rui couldn't hold back anymore, he laughed "Puff", raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who taught you, brat, to say such things?"
Xiaowen looked at Shen Rui like a fool: "He and I are from the same world."
"I haven't found out that you are such a stinky fart before, you and him are in the same world
Cats and dogs are different in some ways.Dogs run far on their own and may still find a home.And cats belong to the kind of creatures that don't know the way home after running far.Therefore, after judging that the cat with the yin and yang face is not in the wild, it is basically certain that the cat is a cat that was raised outside by the residents around the mountains and forests.
Zhou Yuan searched out the location of the map based on the mountain in the future, and within a circle extending 500 meters outward, only the Tianhai Welfare Institute exists.
He said: "There are still some residents' houses around, but I only consider the range of 500 meters for the time being. I think we can focus on checking whether there are cats in Tianhai Orphanage. If there is a cat, and it happens to be the one we were in that day For the cat seen on the mountain, many of the possibilities discussed above exist.”
Shen Rui agrees, after all, the cat is only used as a medium to let them determine whether a certain clue link is established.
"It's still early, let's go to Tianhai Welfare Institute now?" Li Bingbing suggested.
Zhou Yuan agreed.
The three of them took photos and archived the materials they had on hand. After buying a few large packs of snacks and drinks in the supermarket next to the hotel, they drove to Tianhai Orphanage.
The car did not drive directly to the Tianhai Welfare Institute, but stopped at the small intersection where they entered, and the three chose to walk in.
In fact, there are still many old houses around the path, but not many people still live there.
It was almost afternoon, and many left-behind elderly people could be seen sitting by the door on stools and basking in the sun.
Along the way, Li Bingbing asked all the way: "Old man, do you have a cat at home?"
Almost all the old people shook their heads and waved their hands.
Respond to them: "It's too troublesome to raise yourself, why raise an ancestor?"
These responses were expected, and Li Bingbing said to Shen Rui and the others: "These old people don't understand. In fact, it is better to have a cat and dog at home and have a companion than to stay at home by myself. I will retire in the future. And cats and dogs too."
"Have you thought about your retirement life in decades?" Shen Rui laughed after hearing Li Bingbing's words, "If you solve this case, I will give you cats and dogs immediately, so that you can have fun in advance. "
Li Bingbing grinned, "Don't, I don't go home every day, so I won't keep pets and suffer with me."
While talking, they arrived at the gate of Tianhai Welfare Institute.
The large rusty and mottled iron gate was locked, but the voices of children talking and playing could be heard from inside.
Shen Rui rang the doorbell, and soon a middle-aged woman in an apron came out to answer the door.
The woman is the housekeeper and cook of the Tianhai Orphanage. She heard that she lived not far away, so she was recruited to cook for the children during the day, take care of the children, and go home in the afternoon.
Because they had been here before, the woman quickly recognized Shen Rui and the others, wiped her hands on the apron, and asked with some doubts: "Officer, are you here looking for Dean Yang? If you are looking for Dean, It's unfortunate that you came here, she hasn't come back yet."
I have been here a few times, and it seems that it is a bit difficult to meet Yangmei during the day.
However, their primary purpose of coming here this time was not Yangmei, so Li Bingbing shook the snacks in his hand and said, "We are passing by here, and we will buy some snacks for the children."
Seeing the snacks in Li Bingbing's hands, the elder sister's eyes lit up, she quickly reached out to take them, and said with a smile, "You are too polite! But the children should be very happy, and I haven't given them snacks for a long time. "
Speaking of the elder sister walking in with food, she said, "I'll take the things in first, police officers, come in."
"Hey, big sister, do you keep cats here?" Seeing her walking in quickly, Li Bingbing quickly stopped her and asked.
The elder sister didn't look back, she subconsciously replied, "Cats? Yes, I have two or three. What's the matter, you suddenly asked about cats?"
"Is there a cat with a yin and yang face? It means that the left and right sides of the face are of different colors?" Li Bingbing strode up to the elder sister and followed her into the cat.
The eldest sister seemed not interested in the topic of cats, and shook her head: "I didn't pay attention to it. I worked here during the day and went back in the evening. I heard cats meowing, but I didn't pay attention to it. I don't like cats either. Cats tend to shed all over the place. Ask these kids, they probably know better than me.”
Entering the house, one after another saw the figures of children.
The eldest sister seemed to be in a hurry to get busy in the kitchen, so she turned a corner and entered the back room.
Li Bingbing didn't bother the eldest sister, took out a handful of candy from his pocket, and immediately attracted the attention of the children who looked at them as "national treasures".
He distributed the candies to them and asked with a grin, "Kids, do you have any cats here?"
Some children nodded.
Li Bingbing asked again: "Is there a cat with two faces?"
The kid nodded again, "It's Xiaowen's cat."
Xiaowen is the kid I met on the third floor before.
Knowing that the child is now on the third floor, Zhou Yuan and the others went upstairs directly.
As before, after crossing the second floor, it became extremely quiet.
If we were overwhelmed by the sound of glass beads hitting the ground last time, the silence this time is a bit uncomfortable.
Too quiet.
As if no one was there.
After going up to the third floor and standing in the stairwell, Li Bingbing started calling, "Xiaowen?"
There was an echo from the long hallway.
No one answered.
"Xiaowen, I know you're here." Li Bingbing shouted again: "Come out, brother treats you to candy."
Still as if no one was there.
Li Bingbing went to see Zhou Yuan and the others, his eyes were asking if he was not on the third floor, but went to play in the courtyard or other places.
At this moment, a "squeak" sound suddenly came from the long corridor, as if someone was using a hard crayon to rub hard against the slippery wall, making the sour sound of scratching.
"in front of."
Shen Rui walked forward.
Even in the daytime, the corridor on the third floor without the lights turned on was as dark as the sky, dim and dark, and it was hard to see what was in front of it.
"Depend on……"
Li Bingbing, who was walking in the front, exclaimed, and hurriedly stepped back two steps and stopped beside Zhou Yuan and the others.
When walking forward, he didn't pay attention to the situation at the foot next to the wall, so when his foot touched something soft, Li Bingbing subconsciously looked down and saw a face wearing a white mask.
"There's something there." Li Bingbing took a deep breath.
Shen Rui pointed the phone's light at the position Li Bingbing had mentioned, suddenly suffocated, and frowned and looked ahead.
Less than one meter tall, he stood upright by the wall.
Because of Li Bingbing's voice, the people who were squatting by the wall were staring at them now.
Following the light, Shen Rui and the others could clearly see that it was a little boy wearing a mask made by punching three holes out of white paper.
The eyeballs under the white mask were glowing black, and they were looking at them motionless.
"Xiaowen." Zhou Yuan said suddenly.
The eyeballs under the white mask turned sideways and fixed on Zhou Yuan, as if waiting for his next words.
Zhou Yuan sized him up and saw that he was holding a crayon in his hand, looking sideways at the wall, and his brows were unconsciously frowned.
The walls are still covered with red crayons, large and small eyes.
However, it is still different from what I saw last time. This time, on the basis of red eyes, the child recreated them, and drew a frame around each red eye.
Like someone looking through a frame.
Li Bingbing approached Zhou Yuan and the others, and said in a low voice, "This kid looks even sicker than last time."
The sound is not loud, but because the place on the third floor is so quiet, even if flies fly by, you can still hear the sound of flapping wings.
As soon as his voice fell, Xiaowen raised his head and looked at Li Bingbing.
Looking in through the white mask made of paper, for some reason, Li Bingbing felt that those eyes were a bit like bottomless stagnant water, staring at him with lifeless anger, and suddenly felt a little creepy.
"What are you doing wearing this kind of mask?" Li Bingbing frowned, reaching out to lift his mask.
But Xiaowen took a step back, avoiding his hand, and stared at him tightly, as if as long as Li Bingbing made further progress, he would pounce on him and bite him.
Shen Rui pulled Li Bingbing, who still wanted to step forward, to his side.
To coax a child, Zhou Yuan is still needed.
As usual, he took out a handful of prepared candy and held it out in front of Xiaowen.Zhou Yuan looked at him and said, "It's better than last time, either."
For Xiaowen, the candy last time was a sweet encounter in childhood.
Hearing that the candy this time was even tastier than before, he hesitated for a while, and reached out to grab the candy.
"Didn't your dean let you draw something on the wall?" Zhou Yuan said softly.
Xiaowen stuffed the candy into his pocket, and said in a muffled voice, "They won't come up, they won't see it."
The last time I came here, I learned that Yangmei rarely came here on the third floor.The third floor was almost the world of Xiaowen and the old security guard, so Zhou Yuan was not surprised by his words.
But he pointed to the homemade white mask on his face and asked him, "What shape is this on your face?"
With a soft mouth, Xiaowen didn't resist Zhou Yuan, poked the mask on his face with his hand, suddenly turned his head to look at the end of the corridor, then seemed to think of something, and turned back in an instant."I'm imitating," he said.
"Imitate what?"
Zhou Yuan asked lightly.
Xiaowen turned his head to look at the wall, pointed to a small window drawn on the wall, and said in a low voice, "Imitate this."
This time it was Shen Rui and Li Bingbing's turn to frown. They looked at each other, although they were curious, they didn't take the initiative to step forward, because they knew that Zhou Yuan was the only one who could ask questions with their mouths.
Zhou Yuan looked at the windows and eyes all over the wall, and looked at Xiaowen: "The person outside the small window?"
Someone could understand what he said, Xiaowen was a little happy, his eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Yeah."
Shen Rui and Li Bingbing frowned deeply as they looked at the small square openings drawn on the wall.They really couldn't tell that it was a window, and they couldn't even guess that someone was outside.
It's just a square with a small opening painted in black.
Li Bingbing looked at Zhou Yuan with some surprise, how did he see it?
"Where is this small window?" Zhou Yuan's voice was still faint, and he bent down to face Xiao Wen Qiping, staring into his eyes through the white mask: "Can you tell brother."
Xiaowen didn't respond, and turned back again, looking at the end of the corridor.
Li Bingbing asked, "In front?"
Hearing his voice, Xiao Wen turned to look at him.Under the dim lighting of the mobile phone, those eyes were a little too dark.After being watched by him for a while, Li Bingbing couldn't help but get goosebumps.
Xiaowen didn't answer his question, but turned his gaze back to Zhou Yuan, and said softly, "It's in the small house by the back door."
back door?
They have come to Tianhai Welfare Institute several times, but they have never heard of a back door, only a back yard.But because of the delay, I never visited the backyard.
Zhou Yuan nodded, and asked him softly: "Will you take me to the back door later?"
He thought Xiaowen would agree, but he shook his head and ran to the room at the end of the corridor.
That room is where the old security guard slept.
He noticed that from the beginning of the conversation, whenever Xiaowen needed to return to him, he would habitually turn his head to look at that room first.
Scared of being heard?
Zhou Yuan glanced at Shen Rui, their eyes met in the air, and they immediately understood what each other was thinking.
The three of them walked towards that room. They had already been frightened once before, and they would not be frightened again if they were mentally prepared.But when they walked to the door, they were still frightened by the black and white photo hanging opposite the gate.
Li Bingbing couldn't help scolding Guoqu: "Fuck."
"Grandpa, I took the liberty to come here to disturb you. We are policemen from the Binhai City Bureau, and we came here this time to ask you some questions." Li Bingbing frowned, and pretended to knock on the wide-open door.After standing there for a while, he didn't hear any response from inside. It was as quiet as if there was no living thing inside. He was not polite, "Master, it's not convenient for you to answer, right? Then my colleagues and I will come in directly." gone."
As he spoke, he walked in first.
Shen Rui followed him, and quickly fumbled for the light switch from memory, and turned on the light with a "snap".
The originally dark room was instantly illuminated by a dim yellow light.
The room is not big, and you can scan everything at a glance.
no one.
The old man is not here.
"No one here?" Shen Rui looked at Zhou Yuan.As he said that, he bent down and looked under the bed, and what he saw was the face with the white mask again, he was suffocating, and wanted to slap someone, but he held back.She raised her eyebrows and asked Xiao Wen who was hiding under the bed: "Where's your grandpa?"
Xiaowen didn't reply to him.
Shen Rui lost his mind, took a step back and let Zhou Yuan step forward.
Zhou Yuan asked for some candies from Shen Rui, and handed them to Xiaowen: "I still have candies here."
Xiaowen reached out to take it.
Zhou Yuan: "Has your grandfather gone out?"
Xiaowen nodded.
Zhou Yuan remembered that the last time he came here, the old man was still sick in bed, seemingly paralyzed and unable to move.It's not been a few days now, I can walk around, is it okay?
"I have something I want to talk to your grandpa, is he in the yard?"
Xiaowen shook his head.
Leaning down and talking, I feel awkward and uncomfortable watching.Li Bingbing kicked the iron frame bed with his feet and said, "Little devil, it's so cold on the ground, aren't you cold lying on the floor? You come out to talk, and uncle will treat you to a cake later?"
Xiaowen ignored Li Bingbing.
Li Bingbing was amused, and moved closer to Shen Rui, rolling his eyes: "Does this brat think we don't exist? Does he think we don't exist? Why do we just let it slip through our ears when we talk to him?"
Shen Rui recognized this fact a long time ago, and grinned: "I told you not to humiliate yourself, you still go. And you kicked the bed with your feet, if it was me, I would ignore you. "
"Come out." Zhou Yuan said, "Take us to the small courtyard by the back door, and I'll give you change to buy something to eat."
Li Bingbing didn't believe that Zhou Yuan could really call the kid out of the bed, but the next second, he was startled.Xiaowen really crawled out from under the bed, and stretched out his hand towards Zhou Yuan, "I want money."
Li Bingbing: "..." It's because the method he just used was wrong. You shouldn't use cakes to seduce, but giving money directly makes it easier to talk to each other?
Asked for some money from Shen Rui, and after handing it to him, the child walked ahead and led the way without talking to them.
The three of them followed Xiaowen downstairs. When they went downstairs, there were many children making trouble downstairs. But when they saw Xiaowen, two younger children called his name, but Xiaowen turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye. .
Li Bingbing: "..."
It seems that it's not just for me and Shen Rui.
It can only be said that he only treats Zhou Yuan special.
After leaving the compound, the three of them followed Xiao Wen from a long corridor to the backyard of the big house.
The backyard is very spacious, with some trees planted around it, and there is a small one-story bungalow next to the tree.
Zhou Yuan saw the old-fashioned inner-locking iron door on the small bungalow at a glance.There is a small window on the door. When people go out, they can open the small window on the iron door, go in and get the bolt on, and then close the small window.
"Is it this small window?" Zhou Yuan asked.
Xiaowen nodded.
They went to the bungalow.The small window was now half-closed.Shen Rui pushed open the small window on the door, and leaned over to see what was going on inside.But even though it was daytime, it was so dark inside that I couldn't see clearly.
He reached into the small window and pulled the deadbolt lock, and pushed the iron door open. What greeted his eyes was an empty room with a simple sweep of cement.Shen Rui looked around, then turned to Xiaowen and asked, "Is this a big bathhouse?"
Although the room was very simple, there was a drain faucet near the wall, and there was a drain dug out on the floor.As well as the gray and moldy moss marks on the walls, it is a place with a lot of humidity.
Xiaowen still does not return to Shen Rui.
"Is this the place where you take a bath?" Zhou Yuan followed the words and asked.
Xiaowen nodded.
Zhou Yuan re-evaluated the size of the room, it would be no problem to accommodate twenty children taking a bath together.He asked: "Here, do you take a bath together at a fixed time?"
"No." Wearing a paper mask, the expression on his face could not be seen clearly.However, his voice was very cold, not as calm as it should be at this age."They go in with them, I don't wash with them. I don't like showers," he said.
Take a shower at a fixed time.
Zhou Yuan remembered what Xiaowen said pointing at the wall on the third floor, and someone was staring at them from the small window.
Thinking of this, he looked at the small window on the door, frowned, and then turned his gaze to Shen Rui and the others. Hearing this, the three of them actually felt something strange in their hearts.
"Xiaowen, you said someone was staring at the small window, is it your Dean Yangmei and the others?" Zhou Yuan asked.
Still shaking his head.
Xiaowen pointed to a small bush in the corner of a big tree next to the bathhouse, and said: "It's not the dean and the others. I often hide here when I want to take a bath and watch them peek at others taking a bath. The people who come are different. They wear white masks and hats and black sunglasses, so they can't see clearly, just like me now, you can't see my face."
His words were very explosive, and even a nervous man like Li Bingbing could hear the problems in it.He didn't care about the little ghost in front of him and ignored him at all, and hurriedly asked: "A lot of people? Why are they here? Is your Dean Yangmei present?"
He thought it was normal for someone in the orphanage to come in and want to adopt a child, but the kid said that many times he stared through the window while they were taking a shower.
Just thinking of himself taking a shower naked in it, with eyes staring at him in the dark, Li Bingbing felt his lower body tighten, and suddenly his hair stood on end.
Is this peeping?
Xiaowen did not return to Li Bingbing, and still regarded them as transparent people.
Zhou Yuan bent down in front of the child, and asked softly: "Xiaowen, how many times have those people come? How many people come each time? Are you here to peek or what? Your Yangmei mother was here when they came. ?"
Xiaowen broke his fingers and counted.
After a while, he shook his head and said: "I can't count, it should be more than two slaps. Yangmei's mother is not here, but grandpa is. Grandpa opened the door for them to come in through this small door."
While talking, Xiaowen pointed to the small gate in the courtyard and said, "Their choice."
Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked him: "How do you know they are selecting someone?"
"Because the person they fancy will be adopted from the yard soon." Xiaowen said.
The content of the words itself is not in line with common sense. He doesn't think that he wants to adopt a child here, and just peeping at them while they are taking a bath can make things happen.And when these people arrived, Yang Mei was not there, but the old security guard was there, which was not right in itself.
Zhou Yuan walked to the small door in the backyard, and when he left the latch, he saw a path full of weeds and trees.The path is less than one meter wide, and looking forward, it seems that there is a small forest ahead.
Just when he was about to go out to have a look, Shen Rui's voice came from the yard.
"A Yuan, come and have a look."
Zhou Yuan quickly turned around, followed the direction Shen Rui and the others were pointing at and saw a cat squatting on the fence, a cat with a yin and yang face.At this moment, the cat saw that they were all looking at him, rolled his eyes, and closed his eyes again to sleep.
Shen Rui asked him, "Is that the cat?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, it was it.He looked at Xiaowen, "Is this what you raised here?"
"Well, it's called Xiaoguai, and it was raised by grandpa."
The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay. The previous speculation seemed to be going on the right track.
The clues became clearer and clearer.
In order to confirm another conjecture in his heart, Zhou Yuan asked him again: "Xiaowen, do you know your grandfather's name?"
Xiaowen stared at him for a while, somehow felt that the child was smiling through the mask.
But he didn't make a sound, and said softly after a while: "My surname is Zheng Xiaowen, my grandfather's."
Li Bingbing frowned, thinking he didn't ask him what his name was, so why did he answer the wrong question.
But Zhou Yuan seemed to have received the answer, and asked him again: "Where is your grandfather now?"
Xiaowen shook his head: "He went out."
Next, when I asked Xiaowen about other things, he was unwilling to answer.Zhou Yuan didn't force him, and asked him to go back to the house.And he, Shen Rui and the others walked around the orphanage again, trying to see if there were any other new gains.
But only the aunt who opened the door for them was there in the yard. They went to ask the aunt to knock on their side, but they didn't know what to ask, so they had to give up.
When leaving the orphanage, Zhou Yuan suggested to go out to have a look through the small door in the backyard.
The three of them walked out of the backyard and walked into a path in the woods.The road is not big, and cars cannot enter it.The trees around are all tall and densely packed with twists and turns. It looks a bit gloomy when you look at it.
I thought the road was not very long, but after walking for five or six minutes, I found that it was still in the small woods.Li Bingbing couldn't help muttering: "Don't take the big road, but take this eerie path, what kind of mentality is this?"
No one answered him because everyone felt something was wrong.
After walking forward for a while, when everyone was wondering where the road was going, they saw the end.
The road from the small gate in the backyard was the avenue they had to pass on their way to the Tianhai Orphanage.
This road is a big road with traffic coming and going.
When they drove to the Tianhai Welfare Institute, they had seen this loess road built from a mountain, but they didn't expect that it turned out to be the direction leading to the back door of the Tianhai Welfare Institute.
The three of them stood by the road at the end of the path, looking around.
This intersection is not monitored.
It is a bit troublesome to find out what car is parked here.
"I'll ask my brothers from the Traffic Management Bureau to help me remove the surveillance cameras on the upper and lower sides and check them out," Li Bingbing said.
But Zhou Yuan nodded, but he said: "This may not be very meaningful. People who enter the back door of Tianhai Welfare Institute may come in a car, stop at the intersection to let people in, and the car will continue to leave. When the time is right, Another car came from the other end to pick them up and we still had a hard time figuring out whose car it was."
Hearing this, Li Bingbing was a little surprised. Why did he use such complicated anti-reconnaissance methods when he went to the Tianhai Welfare Institute.He asked: "To go to the Tianhai Welfare Institute to look after the children, do we need to use such a complicated transfer method?"
Shen Rui patted him, "Old Li, would a normal person act like a voyeur when someone else is taking a bath, looking at those naked children through the small bars?"
"Uh... from my point of view, I don't have X-rays in my eyes, so there is a high probability that I won't use such an obscene method." Li Bingbing scratched his hair and said.
Shen Rui said with a serious face, "It takes more than ten minutes to walk from the small road to enter. It is more troublesome and time-consuming than driving directly to the main road and entering through the gate. From the mouth of that kid, these people are not Once or twice, but many times, they choose to come when these children are taking a bath. Once or twice is a coincidence, and many times, it is because someone from inside and outside cooperates to notify them of the time and let them come. You think, peeking at others from a small window What does it behave like?"
Li Bingbing muttered, "Pervert?"
Shen Rui shook his head and said, "Choose a concubine."
Li Bingbing stared, his heart thumped, and the confusion in his heart was instantly broken and cleared up.He looked at Shen Rui and Zhou Yuan in surprise, frowned and asked, "You mean, those people came here to choose children, not to adopt them."
At this point, he let out a "bah", thinking that what he said was very ambiguous and unclear, and added: "You mean, they may use the name of adoption to select children for some kind of business?"
At this point, his heart thumped a little, as if he had discovered some big secrets, he looked at Zhou Yuan and the others in shock, and carefully asked for confirmation: "What I said, is it very likely?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, "Actually, Xiaowen knows a lot. That kid is smarter than you think."
"... Team Zhou, what do you mean, this brat is deliberately revealing this to us?" Li Bingbing frowned. It was hard for him to believe that a child who was only about seven or eight years old had such deep thoughts.
However, judging from the current situation, it seems that the inspiration for everything is the wall on the third floor full of eyes and small windows.Normal people will only feel jealous and unlucky when they see such weird things drawn by children. Even if they feel the question and ask, they may not get a reply, just like him and Shen Rui. considered to be air.
Except Zhou Yuan.
Li Bingbing looked at Zhou Yuan: "Captain Zhou, did you notice that there was something wrong with this orphanage?"
The last time I came here, there were only red eyes painted on the wall, and there was no small window.And when Zhou Yuan asked Xiaowen, it was obvious that he was going to say something at that time, but the voice of the old security guard in the room interrupted their words.
Although Xiaowen seemed to like the old man very much, from Zhou Yuan's point of view, it was a show of obedience.
He is afraid of that old man.
Zhou Yuan said to Li Bingbing: "From the information we have so far, the Tianhai Welfare Institute is not simple. It was not simple 16 years ago, and it is even more so now. We came to investigate from the beginning and found that Yangmei took care of children twice or more times a year. It is not a normal phenomenon in itself. Although the physical examination is sponsored by the organization and free of charge, if there is nothing wrong with the general people, they seldom have a physical examination twice a year. If there is a problem with the physical examination, it should be treated. Rather than multiple physical examinations without treatment."
Shen Rui followed his words and said, "The same is true for the Great Emperor Temple in Fengdu. I don't think we have investigated the whereabouts of these children clearly. Lao Li, I hope you can ask your subordinates to conduct a visit-based investigation."
Li Bingbing nodded, indicating that there is no problem: "Then let's go back to the game now?"
Zhou Yuan shook his head: "Go to the back mountain."
That cat was raised by the old security guard.
Xiaowen's surname is Zheng, so the old security guard should also be surnamed Zheng. As for whether it is Zheng Quan, you can find out if you look back.
"Since the existence of the cat is confirmed, let me boldly speculate that the old man followed Rong Hui and the others to the back mountain that night. Is it possible that the old man killed Rong Hui?" Li Bingbing looked at Zhou Yuan and asked.
The three returned to the Tianhai Orphanage from the path.
Pushing open the iron gate of the backyard of Tianhai Welfare Institute, Xiaowen was still staying in the corner of the backyard, the paper mask on his face had been taken off at some point.Seeing Zhou Yuan and the others come back, he rolled his eyes and looked at him. He didn't have the slightest anger that a child should have. He seemed to think that the return of the three of them was expected, and they were leisurely huddling in the corner waiting for him.
Zhou Yuan went over and rubbed his hair, "Why did you take off the mask?"
"Aunt Zhang won't let me wear it." Xiaowen said blankly, and then asked, "Are you leaving?"
Zhou Yuan shook his head and pointed in the direction of the back mountain: "I want to go up."
Xiaowen nodded thoughtfully, seeing that Zhou Yuan and the others were about to leave, he suddenly jumped up and said, "I'm going too."
It is not a good thing to take the children from the orphanage away without permission.Li Bingbing refused: "No, you follow us. Your Dean Yang Mei won't see you when you come back, so you have to drag us to speak."
Xiaowen ignored Li Bingbing, still looked at Zhou Yuan, and said indifferently: "Brother, will you take me?"
Li Bingbing was cursing in his heart, this brat really doesn't treat other people as human beings.
He looked at Zhou Yuan and said, "Captain Zhou, it's a burden to bring a brat up there."
Hearing this, Xiaowen reacted to Li Bingbing's words for the first time, the corners of his mouth curled up, showing a contemptuous smile, and said with a sneer, "It doesn't matter who is a burden."
Li Bingbing and Shen Rui frowned deeply when they heard this.
This child really doesn't look like a child.
The two cast their eyes on Zhou Yuan, and Zhou Yuan nodded, "I'll take you there."
Zhou Yuan asked Shen Rui to say hello to the only adult in the orphanage for the time being, and only said to take Xiaowen out to buy some things, but he didn't tell her to go to the back mountain, so he led the three of them out of the gate and turned to the back mountain path to go up the mountain up.
After walking not far, we still came across the tombstone without words, but we didn't stay long, and continued to go to the place where Rong Hui hanged himself according to the road we walked before.
But they only walked halfway, and Xiaowen stood still near a small flat ground not far from the uphill.
Seeing this, Li Bingbing thought that he couldn't move, so he asked him anxiously: "Can't move, I'll tell you that you don't have all your hair, you little ghost, and you still follow us to climb the mountain."
Xiaowen ignored him, took Zhou Yuan's hand, pointed to the corner of the ground, and said softly, "My favorite toy is over there."
"what?"
Everyone looked at the direction he was pointing at the same time, and there was no difference between the soil sample and the surroundings.
Li Bingbing stepped forward to the flat ground, held a handful of mud with his hand, and found that there was indeed a problem.The upper layer seems to be no different from the surrounding area, but the lower layer is the loose and moist second layer of soil.For this difference, it is very likely that this place was excavated not long ago, then filled in again, and then covered with the top layer of dry soil around it to cover it up.
Thinking of this, Li Bingbing actually had a bad premonition in his heart, and looked at Zhou Yuan and the others: "Captain Zhou, I have no tools."
Zhou Yuan looked at Xiaowen: "You said your favorite toy is here, and you buried it yourself?"
"No." Xiaowen shook his head.
Zhou Yuan: "Then how do you know you're here?"
Xiaowen raised his eyes and said lightly: "I crawled out of the dog hole in the backyard and followed me secretly."
Hearing this, everyone immediately understood what was going on. Li Bingbing walked aside and called his subordinates, asking them to send more people to the back mountain of Tianhai Welfare Institute with tools such as shovels.
And Shen Rui at the other end also approached Zhou Yuan, asking Zhou Yuan to ask Zheng Xiaowen: "Who buried your toy? What toy?"
"The toy that I grew up with." Zheng Xiaowen actually sighed, pursed his lips, and the right corner of his mouth was raised, revealing a faint smile, "It was buried by my grandfather."
If it is really a toy, it is impossible to make a big splash and go to the middle of the mountain to bury it.
Therefore, the three of them knew in their hearts that if there was really something under the soil layer, it would definitely be a living body.
Li Bingbing swallowed, feeling that the child in front of him was so cold and creepy, he asked tentatively, "Little ghost, are the toys you are talking about animals? Cats, dogs, or little white rabbits?"
This time Zheng Xiaowen didn't ignore him, and slowly turned his head to look at him, with a contemptuous smile still on the corner of his mouth, "Well, it's an animal, my favorite animal, I hope you can dig it out for me."
His words made people shudder.
The three looked at each other, only Zhou Yuan remained indifferent.
It will be a while before the city bureau sends people over, and waiting here is a waste of time.Shen Rui made a mark here, and the four continued to walk up.During this period, Xiaowen was too tired to climb up, Zhou Yuan wanted to carry him up, but Shen Rui refused.
"Your physique is not very good, and you are not exhausted to climb up with this kid. I will come."
Regardless of Zheng Xiaowen's willingness or not, he hugged him and walked forward.
But this time Zheng Xiaowen was much quieter and didn't struggle.But when he was about to reach the destination, he suddenly lowered his voice and asked him in a voice that only Shen Rui could hear: "Do you like that beautiful brother?"
Shen Rui glanced at him, "I have eyes."
"You will be hurt." Zheng Xiaowen said earnestly.
Hearing this from a child, Shen Rui wanted to laugh, and asked him, "Why?"
Xiaowen said lightly: "You are not from the same world."
At this moment, Shen Rui couldn't hold back anymore, he laughed "Puff", raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who taught you, brat, to say such things?"
Xiaowen looked at Shen Rui like a fool: "He and I are from the same world."
"I haven't found out that you are such a stinky fart before, you and him are in the same world
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