Chapter 227
Big Willow Village
Chapter 227 Big Willow Village
Song Ci checked his phone and found that five years ago, someone in the mountain city reported a crime. A young couple was on their way home at about eleven o'clock in the evening.
Because it was going downhill, the car accident was quite serious. The couple were both injured and unconscious. After being discovered, they called the emergency call and were sent to the hospital. After waking up, they found out that there was still a five-month-old child.
However, the ambulance personnel did not find any trace of the child at the scene. Because the roads in the mountain city were complicated, and it was a few years ago that the monitoring equipment was not as developed as it is now, so there was no image of someone taking the child away.
As a result, the case has been shelved, and no further progress has been made.
The reason why Song Ci connected Xiao Mayuan with the car accident was because the car accident reminded him of an ambulance.
When Song Ci met Xiao Mayuan for the first time, she was attracted by the ambulance outside the orphanage.
Song Ci didn't care at the time, but later her behavior caught his attention.
He also specially bought a box of cards for her, with an ambulance on the card, and pointed it out to her.
From her small mouth, a cute voice like "呀~呀~呀~哗~" immediately came out, which showed that she knew the ambulance.
Some people may say how can a five-month-old child remember so many things?
But obviously, Xiao Mayuan is not ordinary, she has a super memory ability, as long as she has seen and heard, she will remember it in her mind.
She just wasn't good at expressing herself. Otherwise, if Song Ci asked Xiao Mayuan directly, she might be able to find clues about her parents through her mouth, and there was no need to look for old man Zhou Fengxian.
"The arrival station ahead of the train is Yuanyang Station. Passengers who get off at Yuanyang Station, please prepare in advance to get off..."
Before he knew it, Yuan Yang had arrived.
Song Ci took down her luggage and walked towards the exit, Hu Lingling hurriedly followed silently, she was really afraid that Song Ci would just run away like this.
Yuanyang Station is a small station, and it is still newly built, and many facilities around it have not yet been perfected.
Fortunately, there are still taxis outside the station, but the drivers are all drowsy.
Song Ci got into a car casually and asked the other party to drive him to the city center.
However, Song Ci did not book a hotel in Yuanyang, but found a 24-hour Golden Arch on his mobile phone, and prepared to deal with it in a few hours before dawn.
But you can't be idle on the road, so Song Ci asked the master: "Master, do you know Daliushu Village?"
"What? Are you going to Daliushu?" The driver turned around and asked in surprise.
At this time, ordinary cautious drivers would not dare to run to the countryside.
"Yes, but I'm planning to go tomorrow during the day." Song Ci nodded.
The driver also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Of course I know the big willow tree, but the distance is not close."
Song Ci is also a taxi driver. When I heard this, I didn't know what he meant.
So he asked, "Master, tell me a price."
"Is it one way, or round trip?"
"Back and forth." Song Ci said.
"A round trip, about 400 yuan."
The driver said this, but he was already full of expectations in his heart. The big willow tree is about 120 kilometers back and forth, and the price of 400 yuan is already a little bit high.
Song Ci looked at the map and knew that the distance was about 1.2 kilometers. Calculated at 175 per kilometer, it would cost about 350 yuan for a one-way trip, and [-] yuan for a round trip. The master added [-] yuan, which is already a conscience.
So Song Ci didn't counter-offer, but said directly: "Then can you take me to Daliushu Village tomorrow morning? I'm going to do some errands, which will probably delay your whole morning."
"Of course there is no problem. What time will it be tomorrow?" The master asked happily.
"Tomorrow at eight o'clock, but master, you drove all night, can you do it tomorrow?"
"Don't worry, I'll let someone else take you there." The driver said.
Hearing what he said, Song Ci felt relieved, and the two left contact information for each other.
But what the driver didn't know was that there was not one person getting on the bus, but two "people".
-
There is no big willow tree in Daliushu Village.
It is said that there was indeed a big willow tree at the west end of the village, but it was burned in a fire 40 years ago, and now even the stump is gone, and it only lives in the memory of the old man.
Daliushu Village is only a small village with a hundred or so households, but the products here are very rich, such as fungus, ponkan, fennel, red orange and so on.
But even so, it still cannot stop young people from going to cities for development.
In Daliushu Village with over a hundred households, there are only thirty or forty households with people at home, and they are all elderly people. Many households have closed doors and only come back during the Chinese New Year, and some don’t even come back. Very deserted and lonely.
Song Ci set off from Yunyang at 09:30 in the morning and arrived at Daliushu Village at around [-]:[-]. The driver was not the same as last night, but the car was the same.
Because the whole village is built according to the slope, the whole village looks different in height and patchwork, and many houses are simple in style, which looks very old.
In the morning light, the entire ancient village exudes a different charm. If someone develops it, it will definitely be an excellent tourist attraction. Unfortunately, there are too many mountain cities like this village. If there are too many, it will appear ordinary.
"Wait for me here, I'll be right back." Song Ci said to the driver.
"Okay, but you'd better go faster."
"understood."
After Song Ci finished speaking, he walked towards the village without looking back.
Hu Lingling glanced at the driver and hurried to catch up with Song Ci.
"Aren't you afraid of him running away? If he runs away, we won't be able to go back." Hu Lingling said worriedly.
It is true that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry.
"I only gave him half of the money, and he went back with nothing. Do you think he is stupid? Are you rich or not?"
"Oh~" Hu Lingling showed a look of surprise.
Seeing her not-so-intelligent appearance, Song Ci suddenly understood why she committed suicide.
"However, what are you doing here? Are you looking for someone?" Hu Lingling then asked curiously.
"Don't ask if you shouldn't."
Song Ci glanced at her, not wanting to explain so much to her.
Hu Lingling immediately covered her mouth when she heard the words, as if I would never ask again.
Hu Lingling is thirty-two this year, but judging from some of her behaviors, she still looks like a girl.
It doesn't matter if she is brainless, naive, or heartless, no matter what, it can be seen that she is a person with no scheming and a very pure mind.
Although Song Ci slandered her for being stupid and having a problem with her IQ, was she really stupid?This is impossible. Being admitted to Shancheng University, a well-known university in the country, shows that her IQ is no problem.
It can only be said that the environment in which she grew up protected her too well, resulting in her pure personality and her weak ability to resist pressure.
Song Ci suddenly understood why she wanted to see her younger brother and parents after she died, and to say sorry to them.
I'm afraid she has lived in the world for so many years. Before she got married, her parents and younger brother gave her all the love, which made her feel the most genuine warmth in the world.
She died because of her feelings, and she also stayed in the world because of her feelings.
Although Hu Lingling said that I just did the gesture of never asking again, she couldn't help but asked soon: "Where are we going now?"
"Go and ask someone first." Song Ci answered her question this time.
Then he walked towards an old man who was sitting at the door and doing farm work.
"Hi old man, can I ask you someone?"
"Ask someone? Who are you looking for?" The old man was also curious about Song Ci, a stranger.
"Excuse me, is there someone named Zhou Fengxian in the village?" Song Ci asked.
"No." Hearing the words, the old man replied almost without thinking.
Song Ci was neither surprised nor disappointed when he heard the words, but took out his mobile phone and found Zhou Fengxian's profile, which contained her photo.
"It's this old man, please take a look." Song Ci handed over the phone.
"Oh, you are talking about the third grandma?" The old man was a little stunned.
Then pointing to the east direction, he said, "Go along this road, the first house on the east side is her house."
Judging by her age, the old man is probably not much younger than Zhou Fengxian, but she still calls her the third grandmother. From this point of view, Zhou Fengxian is either older in the village, or the name "third grandmother" is just a simple noun and a reference.
"Old man, thank you, one more question, does the third grandma have children?" Song Ci asked.
The old man sighed and shook his head.
"I had a son before, but he passed away due to illness. Later, her daughter-in-law ran away with the child and never came back. Now she lives alone."
"Thank you, then I'll go there and I won't bother you."
"What do you want from her?" The old man looked at Song Ci curiously.
"I want to ask her something."
Song Ci didn't explain much, and went directly to the east of the village.
After walking about 1000 meters, Song Ci came to the east end of the village, and then saw an old mud-tiled house.
The so-called mud-tile house means that the walls are made of yellow mud and the roof is covered with black tiles.
There are many traces of "sewing and repairing" on the mud wall, which is full of vicissitudes.
However, there are bluestone steps and a concrete floor in front of the door, which contrasts with the house.
But regardless of the bluestone steps, or the concrete floor, the corners are covered with green moss.
But at this time the door was closed tightly, Song Ci thought in his heart that he was in trouble, it seemed that the old man was not at home.
Hu Lingling next to her lay on the window curiously, and took a few glances inside.
"There are still people living in such a house." She looked surprised.
Song Ci ignored her, carefully observed the surrounding environment, and sniffed his nose, there was a faint scent of sandalwood in the air.
From the perspective of the environment, there are people living here. The cement floor in front of the door is obviously cleaned frequently, and there is no moss on the places where people often walk on the steps. In addition, there are a few chickens wandering around in front of the door. It seems Zhou Fengxian should have gone to the field.
Song Ci turned around and was about to ask someone again, when he saw an old man in the distance, with a vegetable basket on his shoulders, walking towards them with a slightly hunched body.
Song Ci recognized at a glance that the old man was Zhou Fengxian.
Note: Chapter 221 has a mistake in Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aiding Korea. It should be a self-defense counterattack between China and the Soviet Union. In order to deal with the Soviet nuclear bomb, the national troops gathered on the border for three years.
(End of this chapter)
Song Ci checked his phone and found that five years ago, someone in the mountain city reported a crime. A young couple was on their way home at about eleven o'clock in the evening.
Because it was going downhill, the car accident was quite serious. The couple were both injured and unconscious. After being discovered, they called the emergency call and were sent to the hospital. After waking up, they found out that there was still a five-month-old child.
However, the ambulance personnel did not find any trace of the child at the scene. Because the roads in the mountain city were complicated, and it was a few years ago that the monitoring equipment was not as developed as it is now, so there was no image of someone taking the child away.
As a result, the case has been shelved, and no further progress has been made.
The reason why Song Ci connected Xiao Mayuan with the car accident was because the car accident reminded him of an ambulance.
When Song Ci met Xiao Mayuan for the first time, she was attracted by the ambulance outside the orphanage.
Song Ci didn't care at the time, but later her behavior caught his attention.
He also specially bought a box of cards for her, with an ambulance on the card, and pointed it out to her.
From her small mouth, a cute voice like "呀~呀~呀~哗~" immediately came out, which showed that she knew the ambulance.
Some people may say how can a five-month-old child remember so many things?
But obviously, Xiao Mayuan is not ordinary, she has a super memory ability, as long as she has seen and heard, she will remember it in her mind.
She just wasn't good at expressing herself. Otherwise, if Song Ci asked Xiao Mayuan directly, she might be able to find clues about her parents through her mouth, and there was no need to look for old man Zhou Fengxian.
"The arrival station ahead of the train is Yuanyang Station. Passengers who get off at Yuanyang Station, please prepare in advance to get off..."
Before he knew it, Yuan Yang had arrived.
Song Ci took down her luggage and walked towards the exit, Hu Lingling hurriedly followed silently, she was really afraid that Song Ci would just run away like this.
Yuanyang Station is a small station, and it is still newly built, and many facilities around it have not yet been perfected.
Fortunately, there are still taxis outside the station, but the drivers are all drowsy.
Song Ci got into a car casually and asked the other party to drive him to the city center.
However, Song Ci did not book a hotel in Yuanyang, but found a 24-hour Golden Arch on his mobile phone, and prepared to deal with it in a few hours before dawn.
But you can't be idle on the road, so Song Ci asked the master: "Master, do you know Daliushu Village?"
"What? Are you going to Daliushu?" The driver turned around and asked in surprise.
At this time, ordinary cautious drivers would not dare to run to the countryside.
"Yes, but I'm planning to go tomorrow during the day." Song Ci nodded.
The driver also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Of course I know the big willow tree, but the distance is not close."
Song Ci is also a taxi driver. When I heard this, I didn't know what he meant.
So he asked, "Master, tell me a price."
"Is it one way, or round trip?"
"Back and forth." Song Ci said.
"A round trip, about 400 yuan."
The driver said this, but he was already full of expectations in his heart. The big willow tree is about 120 kilometers back and forth, and the price of 400 yuan is already a little bit high.
Song Ci looked at the map and knew that the distance was about 1.2 kilometers. Calculated at 175 per kilometer, it would cost about 350 yuan for a one-way trip, and [-] yuan for a round trip. The master added [-] yuan, which is already a conscience.
So Song Ci didn't counter-offer, but said directly: "Then can you take me to Daliushu Village tomorrow morning? I'm going to do some errands, which will probably delay your whole morning."
"Of course there is no problem. What time will it be tomorrow?" The master asked happily.
"Tomorrow at eight o'clock, but master, you drove all night, can you do it tomorrow?"
"Don't worry, I'll let someone else take you there." The driver said.
Hearing what he said, Song Ci felt relieved, and the two left contact information for each other.
But what the driver didn't know was that there was not one person getting on the bus, but two "people".
-
There is no big willow tree in Daliushu Village.
It is said that there was indeed a big willow tree at the west end of the village, but it was burned in a fire 40 years ago, and now even the stump is gone, and it only lives in the memory of the old man.
Daliushu Village is only a small village with a hundred or so households, but the products here are very rich, such as fungus, ponkan, fennel, red orange and so on.
But even so, it still cannot stop young people from going to cities for development.
In Daliushu Village with over a hundred households, there are only thirty or forty households with people at home, and they are all elderly people. Many households have closed doors and only come back during the Chinese New Year, and some don’t even come back. Very deserted and lonely.
Song Ci set off from Yunyang at 09:30 in the morning and arrived at Daliushu Village at around [-]:[-]. The driver was not the same as last night, but the car was the same.
Because the whole village is built according to the slope, the whole village looks different in height and patchwork, and many houses are simple in style, which looks very old.
In the morning light, the entire ancient village exudes a different charm. If someone develops it, it will definitely be an excellent tourist attraction. Unfortunately, there are too many mountain cities like this village. If there are too many, it will appear ordinary.
"Wait for me here, I'll be right back." Song Ci said to the driver.
"Okay, but you'd better go faster."
"understood."
After Song Ci finished speaking, he walked towards the village without looking back.
Hu Lingling glanced at the driver and hurried to catch up with Song Ci.
"Aren't you afraid of him running away? If he runs away, we won't be able to go back." Hu Lingling said worriedly.
It is true that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry.
"I only gave him half of the money, and he went back with nothing. Do you think he is stupid? Are you rich or not?"
"Oh~" Hu Lingling showed a look of surprise.
Seeing her not-so-intelligent appearance, Song Ci suddenly understood why she committed suicide.
"However, what are you doing here? Are you looking for someone?" Hu Lingling then asked curiously.
"Don't ask if you shouldn't."
Song Ci glanced at her, not wanting to explain so much to her.
Hu Lingling immediately covered her mouth when she heard the words, as if I would never ask again.
Hu Lingling is thirty-two this year, but judging from some of her behaviors, she still looks like a girl.
It doesn't matter if she is brainless, naive, or heartless, no matter what, it can be seen that she is a person with no scheming and a very pure mind.
Although Song Ci slandered her for being stupid and having a problem with her IQ, was she really stupid?This is impossible. Being admitted to Shancheng University, a well-known university in the country, shows that her IQ is no problem.
It can only be said that the environment in which she grew up protected her too well, resulting in her pure personality and her weak ability to resist pressure.
Song Ci suddenly understood why she wanted to see her younger brother and parents after she died, and to say sorry to them.
I'm afraid she has lived in the world for so many years. Before she got married, her parents and younger brother gave her all the love, which made her feel the most genuine warmth in the world.
She died because of her feelings, and she also stayed in the world because of her feelings.
Although Hu Lingling said that I just did the gesture of never asking again, she couldn't help but asked soon: "Where are we going now?"
"Go and ask someone first." Song Ci answered her question this time.
Then he walked towards an old man who was sitting at the door and doing farm work.
"Hi old man, can I ask you someone?"
"Ask someone? Who are you looking for?" The old man was also curious about Song Ci, a stranger.
"Excuse me, is there someone named Zhou Fengxian in the village?" Song Ci asked.
"No." Hearing the words, the old man replied almost without thinking.
Song Ci was neither surprised nor disappointed when he heard the words, but took out his mobile phone and found Zhou Fengxian's profile, which contained her photo.
"It's this old man, please take a look." Song Ci handed over the phone.
"Oh, you are talking about the third grandma?" The old man was a little stunned.
Then pointing to the east direction, he said, "Go along this road, the first house on the east side is her house."
Judging by her age, the old man is probably not much younger than Zhou Fengxian, but she still calls her the third grandmother. From this point of view, Zhou Fengxian is either older in the village, or the name "third grandmother" is just a simple noun and a reference.
"Old man, thank you, one more question, does the third grandma have children?" Song Ci asked.
The old man sighed and shook his head.
"I had a son before, but he passed away due to illness. Later, her daughter-in-law ran away with the child and never came back. Now she lives alone."
"Thank you, then I'll go there and I won't bother you."
"What do you want from her?" The old man looked at Song Ci curiously.
"I want to ask her something."
Song Ci didn't explain much, and went directly to the east of the village.
After walking about 1000 meters, Song Ci came to the east end of the village, and then saw an old mud-tiled house.
The so-called mud-tile house means that the walls are made of yellow mud and the roof is covered with black tiles.
There are many traces of "sewing and repairing" on the mud wall, which is full of vicissitudes.
However, there are bluestone steps and a concrete floor in front of the door, which contrasts with the house.
But regardless of the bluestone steps, or the concrete floor, the corners are covered with green moss.
But at this time the door was closed tightly, Song Ci thought in his heart that he was in trouble, it seemed that the old man was not at home.
Hu Lingling next to her lay on the window curiously, and took a few glances inside.
"There are still people living in such a house." She looked surprised.
Song Ci ignored her, carefully observed the surrounding environment, and sniffed his nose, there was a faint scent of sandalwood in the air.
From the perspective of the environment, there are people living here. The cement floor in front of the door is obviously cleaned frequently, and there is no moss on the places where people often walk on the steps. In addition, there are a few chickens wandering around in front of the door. It seems Zhou Fengxian should have gone to the field.
Song Ci turned around and was about to ask someone again, when he saw an old man in the distance, with a vegetable basket on his shoulders, walking towards them with a slightly hunched body.
Song Ci recognized at a glance that the old man was Zhou Fengxian.
Note: Chapter 221 has a mistake in Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aiding Korea. It should be a self-defense counterattack between China and the Soviet Union. In order to deal with the Soviet nuclear bomb, the national troops gathered on the border for three years.
(End of this chapter)