Min Hui is a full-fledged otaku, so far she has never traveled far and wide in such a short period of time. Apart from his hometown, he has never been to places north of Beijing and south of Shanghai.

He Xinqi rushed from Harbin to Kunming non-stop, got off the plane and took the bus for another three hours before arriving in Xingshui County. The two booked a room at a hotel near the station, slept for one night, and the next morning Come to the lobby and ask the clerk at the front desk how to get to Anya Village.

"It's not far. Fifty minutes by bicycle." The front desk said.

"Can a taxi go in?"

"There is no rental nearby. Why don't you go to the street and ask to see if anyone passes by Anya, and give them some money to take you for a ride."

The two walked around the street and found a tricycle. The owner of the car was an uncle in his fifties. He happened to pass by Anya and was willing to take them for a ride. Xin Qi gave him 100 yuan. The two of them sat on the wooden board in the back seat one by one, huddled with a bunch of watermelons.

After sitting for less than 20 minutes, the tricycle turned off the concrete road and walked onto a narrow muddy field. On the left is a large green rice field, and on the right is a depression full of vegetables. Behind the rice field is a farmhouse with black tiles and white walls, hidden in huge banana trees. The uncle hummed a little tune while stepping on the car. The mud was uneven, and the watermelon on the car rolled eastward and westward for a while. For fear of breaking the watermelon, Xin Qi and Min Hui had to step on one with one foot and hug with the other. One, like playing acrobatics.

After more than ten minutes of riding, the dirt road became narrower and narrower, leaving only a field road that was as wide as one person, and it was full of muddy water. The uncle parked the tricycle aside and told them to get off: "The car in front can't pass. You see - go straight along this road, you will see a yew tree in twenty minutes, go around it and go to the right fifty The next step is the entrance of Anya's village."

Sunshine. Min Hui put up a pergola and looked forward. There were many big trees by the road, and she didn't even recognize which one was a yew. Seeing her confused, the uncle smiled and said, "I saw it when I got there, a very tall tree covered with red fruits, which is easy to recognize. When you come back, you still go here. There are a lot of tricycles on the road going back to the county, stop one at random, as long as you give money, everyone will be happy to take you for a ride."

"Okay, thank you uncle!" Xin Qila Min Hui was about to get out of the car, uncle thought for a while, and then said, "Forget it, I'll take you off."

"Then these watermelons—"

"No one will take it. Everyone in this area knows that I planted this melon." The uncle took off his shoes and threw them into the car. Seeing that they were both wearing white sneakers, he said, "The front is the rice field, and the ground is full of water. , take off your shoes and go, otherwise, the white shoes will turn into black shoes."

The two had to take off their shoes and socks, stuffed their shoes into their backpacks, rolled up their trousers, and walked barefoot in the muddy water.

"Uncle, do you also live in Anya Village?" Xin Qi asked.

"Yup."

"Ask you about someone: He Xiangu—do you know him?"

"I know. Her name is He Cuigu. Because she can tell fortunes, the villagers nicknamed her 'He Xiangu'. She lives in the second house in the east of the village."

"Does she live alone?" Min Hui asked.

"No, there's also my husband, I call him 'Uncle Yao'. Her parents' family and her son also live in the village." The uncle seemed to like walking on the muddy ground, with his big feet clattering on the muddy water. Everyone."

"Then He Xiangu is at home recently?" Xin Qi walked beside him and was splashed with muddy water.

"Yeah, I talked to her yesterday." The uncle glanced at him, "Did you make a special trip to find her?"

"Yes, ask her about something."

"She opened a local restaurant at the entrance of the village, sometimes at home, sometimes in the restaurant."

As he was talking, a large group of ducks suddenly jumped out of the rice bushes, and swayed past Min Hui's feet. Min Hui flicked to the side and stepped into the paddy field. Xin Qi quickly grabbed her.

"Hey—" Min Hui felt that something was stepped on under her feet. The cat's waist reached out and fished into the water, and a fish jumped out, which she quickly caught with her eyes and hands, "Ah! How come there are fish here?"

"It's a crucian carp, a kind of crucian carp." The uncle laughed, "Don't you know that you can raise fish in the rice fields? In May, the fry are put into the seedling fields, and in August, the millet is blooming, and the fish eat the grain flowers. It will become particularly plump in the future, and this time is the season to eat Guhuayu."

"Where can I eat it?" Min Hui hurriedly put the fish back in the field as soon as she heard that it was someone's fry.

"He Xiangu's local restaurant has it. This is a special dish. Her daughter-in-law cooks it herself and uses her own marinated fermented bean curd to braise it. It's very delicious. You must remember to eat it."

"Wow, He Xiangu's family is very capable." Min Hui praised.

"Not all. Uncle Yao is very lazy. She doesn't do her farm work well, and she is greedy for wine. Her family's money is all obtained from outside by He Xiangu. This woman is very intelligent, bold and daring, and has a strong mouth. "

While chatting, the uncle took them to the door of He Xiangu's house, and then turned and left.

Min Hui knocked on the courtyard door, and seeing that it was only concealed, she pushed it gently and walked in.

The concrete floor in the middle is covered with peanuts, and sitting on the rattan chair next to it is an old woman, wearing a navy blue Shilin cloth shirt and a string of silver bracelets on her hands. She is dozing off in the sun when she hears movement, He opened his eyes and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

The old lady's mouth was actually in Mandarin, which surprised Xin Qi and Min Hui.

"Does He Cuigu live here?"

"I am."

"Hello Auntie!"

He Xiangu squinted at them, her eyes very vigilant: "Is something wrong?"

"That's right," Xin Qi said politely, "We were introduced by Tong Tianhai."

"Tong Tianhai?" He Tianxian was taken aback, "Who is it? I don't know."

"You probably don't remember much. Twenty-three years ago, he asked his cousin to adopt a boy from you, remember? About a year and a half?"

"Nothing." He Xiangu shook her head decisively.

"Can you recall it carefully?" Min Hui added softly for fear of scaring her, "Tong Tianhai said that you had two boys in your hands at that time, both of them were over a year old, one was white and fat, the other was yellow and yellow. Thin? Tong Tianhai took the white and fat one away. What about the remaining boy? Do you know who he was adopted by?"

"How can I remember something that didn't happen? Made it up out of thin air?" He Xiangu chuckled, "Besides, what does this have to do with you?"

"That child may be my brother. My brother was abducted when he was a year and a half. Do you remember that yellow and thin boy—where is his hometown?"

"What's yellow and thin? I'll say it again," He Xiangu's tone became colder and colder, her two black eye bags were like two eyebrows jumping up and down, "I haven't seen your brother, you're looking for the wrong person. already."

"Auntie, please don't get me wrong. We don't mean anything else, we just want to know the situation and see if we can find any clues from your side."

"I don't know Tong Tianhai, I haven't seen his cousin, and there's no one-and-a-half-year-old boy in my hands!" He Xiangu rolled her eyes and tilted her body. She took a sip from the small teapot next to her in her hand. , "I don't know where you heard the news, this news must be wrong."

"Auntie," Xin Qi saw her flatly denying it, and simply showed up, "Since you won't say it, then we have to call the police and let the police investigate the matter."

"Report, go ahead! The police are busy, how to investigate what happened 20 years ago? Do you want to exhaust them?" He Xiangu looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, "Don't scare me! Auntie is brave. Xiao, you scared me sick, you have to take care of me!"

"Auntie-"

"Let's go quickly, don't come again." He Xiangu picked up the bamboo broom on the ground and stood up. Xin Qi thought she was going to do it, thinking that the old lady was an experienced habitual offender at first sight, in case there was a real conflict , she pretended to be dead on the spot, and she really couldn't do anything about it. He quickly pulled Min Hui out of the courtyard.

She came all the way and didn't ask anything, Min Hui was very unwilling. Seeing He Xiangu's stubborn attitude and tight-lipped, she was even more angry: "No, I have to ask her, it can't be just let it go!"

After saying that, he stomped his foot and was about to break in again. Leng might as well lock the courtyard door from the inside with a "click" sound.

The two looked at each other.

"What should I do?" Min Hui wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Isn't there another uncle?" Xin Qi said, "Let's go ask him?"

The two waited outside the courtyard for a while, but no one came out, so they decided to go to the local restaurant at the entrance of the village to find out. When arrived at the restaurant, found that the door was open and there were no customers inside. Instead, sitting on the bamboo chair by the door was a bald old man peeling garlic, with a radio and a wine pot on the ground. While peeling garlic, the old man listened to the play and drank a little wine, enjoying himself very much.

Min Hui and Xin Qi looked at each other and called in unison, "Uncle!"

"Hey." The old man replied, thinking they were here to eat, and quickly gave up his seat, "What do you two want to eat?"

"Do you have Guhuayu?" Xin Qi said immediately, "Braised?"

"Yes, yes." The old man pointed to the menu on the wall, "Just one dish?"

Xin Qi ordered four of the most expensive dishes on the wall, and asked for a bottle of Erguotou. When the old man saw that there was a business, he immediately laughed from ear to ear, "I'm going to ask my daughter-in-law to cook the dishes, please sit down. ."

After a while, the dishes were ready, the old man Zhang Luo poured them wine, Min Hui didn't drink, just wanted a bottle of juice, Xin Qi pulled the old man onto the chair and poured him a glass: "Uncle, I'll see how much you drink. Okay, come and have a few drinks with me?"

When the old man heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he sat down hastily, and took the tableware and chopsticks handed by Min Hui: "Aiya, Lu Lier, uncle shouldn't drink with you. However, Erguotou is over fifty degrees, I'm afraid of you. If you get drunk alone, let's help you share a little." After speaking, he was polite, put his chopsticks on the table, and put a piece of beef into his mouth and chewed it.

"Eat the vegetables, uncle." Min Hui took the whole Guhuayu into his bowl, "I have more dishes, and we can't take it away if we can't finish it. Would you like to share a little?"

"Okay, okay." The old man drank the wine in his glass, "How does Gu Huayu taste?"

"It's so delicious, is this red stuff doubanjiang?" Min Hui pretended to be curious, "It's really good to eat!"

"It's not bean paste, it's our own marinated tofu. It's salty and spicy when cooking fish, and it smells like soy sauce!"

"Come on, uncle, I'll give you a toast." Xin Qi raised his glass and drank it all.

"Thank you, thank you! Are you—visiting relatives or passing by?" After a few glasses of wine, the old man's tongue was a little big, "Look at your appearance, you seem to be from the city?"

"We're here to find someone. Uncle, do you recognize He Xiangu and Aunt He?" Min Hui pretended to be casual.

"He Xiangu? Recognize her! She's my wife. Do you have anything to do with her? She's at home. I'll take you there?"

"No hurry, no hurry, eat first." Xin Qi poured him another glass.

Min Hui deliberately did not speak for a long time, and lowered her head to take the rice into her mouth.

"What's the matter, girl? Do you have anything to do with Aunt He? I know everything she knows, and the same goes for me." The uncle touched his bald head as he spoke, "Of course, if you came to her for fortune-telling Yes, then I won't."

"I'm here to find my brother." Min Hui repeated what she said to He Xiangu just now, "It's all 20 years ago, I'm afraid your old man doesn't remember it, right?"

The old man narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, then smiled: "Remember, uncle has a good memory. I was there at the time, two boys, the one adopted by the Tong family came from Harbin. The other one is from Huaihua. I They even changed their diapers."

Min Hui was stunned: "Huaihua? Hunan Huaihua?"

"right."

"No, why is Huaihua? Are you sure, uncle? Did you remember correctly?"

"Hey, it can't be wrong." The old man sighed heavily and whispered, "Just for this child, your aunt has been in prison for five years."

Xin Qi's wine glass was raised halfway, and his hand stopped in the air: "Why?"

"Someone was arrested, so I gave her a confession. The child was ill at that time and was dying, and he didn't find him for a long time. Your aunt took him to the hospital to see a doctor, and he was caught. The child had a wound on his leg. A birthmark the size of a palm, and the biological parents quickly found it."

Min Hui's heart sank suddenly, and the clue was broken again: "Then uncle, have you seen any children from Hechi, Guangxi before?"

"No." Uncle Yao shook his head.

"Uncle, let me toast you again." Seeing that Min Hui was sweating in a hurry, Xin Qi hurriedly poured the wine.

While he was getting more and more drunk, the two of them made all kinds of clichés, but Uncle Yao didn't hide it. He said anything and answered any questions, but he didn't know much, and he didn't ask anything new until he was drunk on the table. clue.

The two were very frustrated and had to go home.

After drinking about half a bottle of Erguotou, Xin Qi was a little bit up, and he walked forward in the mud, his body shook so badly that he almost fell into the field several times, so Min Hui had to hold him tightly. He couldn't help complaining: "You too, there are so many wines in the wine cabinet, why don't you order Erguotou instead of beer?"

"Uncle Yao has such a large amount of alcohol, I'm afraid it's not easy to get drunk with ordinary wine. Not to mention—" Before he finished speaking, he vomited for a while, and ran to the next big tree and vomited. Min Hui beat him on the back and handed him a bottle of mineral water to rinse his mouth.

The two rested beside Tian Geng for a while, Xin Qi leaned on Min Hui's body and felt dizzy, and he was about to fall asleep, Min Hui hurriedly pushed him to wake up: "Xin Qi, don't sleep. Don't go to the back of the village. If you don't have a store, you should go back quickly. Go back to the hotel and take a good bath before going to sleep. Look at you, your feet are soaked in muddy water, be careful of leeches!"

After he said that, he dragged him to continue walking forward, passing a shade of trees, and suddenly there was the sound of a motorcycle behind him. Looking back, two men wearing black helmets rushed over on motorcycles. Before Min Hui could understand what was going on, her backpack was robbed.

Another man jumped off the motorcycle with a pick in his hand and swiped at Xin Qi's back. Xin Qi stumbled and fell to the ground, but he quickly got up and picked up a stone. Throw it at the man, hitting his helmet. The man didn't dodge either, grabbing a wooden pick and dashing forward.

"Run!" Xin Qi shouted.