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Chapter 177: On the way back to the village
The early morning sunlight penetrated the dirt-stained windows, and Xie Jin sat in the aisle seat with a bowl of freshly soaked instant noodles in front of him.
I don't know if it was the sunlight or the hot white air. He felt like his eyes were glued together, and some of them couldn't open well.
He held the phone with one hand. The default avatar on the address book page was a capitalized "fang", and a string of blue numbers below it was Fang Ziyu's phone number.
Xie Jin left the hotel an hour ago. Before leaving, Fang Ziyu asked him for his contact information, saying that he must come to the door to thank him when his injury healed.
Xie Jin didn't think about it so much. It seemed to him that saving people was a matter of course. Now he is just thinking about leaving quickly.
But Fang Ziyu didn't seem to think so. After the man was lying on the bed and asked repeatedly with his hoarse drake voice, Xie Jin still exchanged contact information with the other party.
Xie Jin fiddled with the instant noodles in the bowl with a disposable fork, and the hot white air made his eyes a little wet.
He has been hungry for too long, but now he has no appetite. If he hadn't been making a fuss just now, he would have to let him eat, and threatened to jump out to make noise if he didn't eat again. Xie Jin would now just lean against the window in a daze.
"Suck it-"
The instant noodles went all the way down the esophagus, and the empty appetite was instantly healed. The long-lost warmth also made Xie Jin's pale face more bloody, at least it didn't look as scary as the dead.
The phone was still not put down. Xie Jin stared at the screen while eating noodles. In the recent call column, Wen Liang's name was red.
On the way from the hotel to the station, Xie Jin called Wen Liang a total of seven times, but no one answered.
what happened?Is there something wrong?The chance of accident should not be a big deal. There should be no big deal for wen liang ...
Xie Jin devoured the instant noodles indifferently, and looked around the black briquettes that were placed on the small table to act as instant noodles pressing, and found that no one was paying attention, so he stretched out four chopsticks from the dark body. Thick legs jumped in front of Xie Jin.
"Don't worry so much, what can happen to them, that Taoist priest is so arrogant that no one will threaten them."
Xie Jin nodded. He put down the rolling noodle fork and sighed heavily: "I know, but not answering the phone is not like the style of wen liang. I am now worried about the accident ... I can't wait to fly back to the village immediately."
The faces of the Zhao family come to mind. Today is the last day of the true shaman's grace. Now that Ji Duan's soul has been found, he is afraid that there will be more troubles.
Jiu stared at Xie Jin's sad face with those swarthy round pupils, it jumped to his hand, stuck out his tongue and licked Xie Jin's fingertips.
"Don't worry too much about Jin, go to sleep after filling up your stomach, you don't seem to be in good shape." The black briquettes jumped onto Xie Jin's neck, the black fluff rubbed against the pale skin, making it itchy.
"No matter how much you worry about them, there is nothing you can do during this time on the train. You might as well recharge your batteries first, so that you can deal with those difficult things, right?"
It just so happened that someone was passing by the corridor at this time. Xie Jin subconsciously raised his hand to cover the black briquettes locked between his collarbones, and gave a soft "um": "...Understood, you should stop talking and be careful of being discovered."
Fortunately, both Gyeongju and Tianhe belong to northern cities. The fastest way to arrive is to transfer to high-speed rail in the middle, but there is no high-speed train in the morning, so Xie Jin had to take this direct train that departs on time at 8:00, but it is faster than the first one. Way to be two hours late.
This is also what Xie Jin is most worried about, time.
If the train is not delayed, he can arrive at Tian He around 2:00 pm, and then set off from Tian He to Lipu County, where the Badongcun Mountains are located.
With this tossing, even with Jiu by his side, the time can be shortened to the greatest extent, but after all, it will take at least seven o'clock in the evening until he completely enters the village.
I hope everything will catch up. Xie Jin is a little unsure. He wraps himself in a thin quilt before returning to the bed. His physical sleepiness is urging him to close his eyes and sleep, but his brain does not have a quarter of an hour to rest.
He wasn't even sure if he would meet someone who was plotting against himself or the soul of Yupai Zhongji Duan on the way back.
There were only him and another passenger on the opposite side of the carriage. Xie Jin was wrapped in the quilt and stared at the vague back of the man, which was one of the reasons why he didn't dare to sleep.
"Jin, go to sleep." Jiu suddenly emerged from his neckline, revealing his fist-sized body, "I'll guard you, you can sleep."
It hasn't seen Xie Jin close his eyes since he rescued the person, and the red bloodshot eyes are enough to make him startled.
Jiu jumped to Xie Jin's pillow, and now it is no different from a fluffy keychain decoration. Seeing that Xie Jin was still worried, it blew lightly on the man, "Sleep, I will wake you up when we arrive at the station. "
Under its gaze, Xie Jin finally closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and there was a circle of blue halo under the fan-shaped shadow, he finally fell asleep.
Maybe it was because he had experienced too much mental torture in the hospital, Xie Jin had no dreams, and he woke up again driven by the urge to urinate, maybe it was because he only drank noodle soup and ate very little in the previous meal of instant noodles.
After returning from the toilet, Xie Jin opened the car door, and the man on the upper bunk opposite him also woke up, swinging there with one leg hanging down, as if he was dozing off.
Seeing Xie Jin come in, the man took off the top hat he was wearing while sleeping. He looked up and down the man who had just been to the bathroom, and finally his eyes fell on the jade plaque on Xie Jin's chest.
"Brother, this jade is not bad."
The sudden strike-up made Xie Jin unable to react for a while, but there were only him and the man on the upper berth in the carriage, no matter how slow his reaction was, the sound of buddy was still calling him.
"Well, thank you." Not knowing how to answer, Xie Jin simply chose to escape. The collar of his clothes was wide open, and the jade badge must have slipped out accidentally when he was washing his hands just now.
The man on the upper bunk refused to give up, he suddenly leaned towards Xie Jin: "Hey buddy, are you selling this jade token?"
After he finished speaking, he thought about it again, and seemed to feel that this question seemed a bit abrupt, so he added, "To be honest, I am an antique dealer, and I have never seen such a good-looking jade plaque in my business for so long. Do you want to talk?"
Xie Jin broke out in a cold sweat, he turned around quickly and stuffed the jade token into his clothes, then grabbed the neckline that was too big, shook his head resolutely and said, "I won't sell it, it belongs to my friend, I won't sell it."
"Oh, that's right." The antique dealer was so sincere that he jumped off the upper bunk and sat opposite Xie Jin, "Would it be convenient for you to leave your friend's contact information?"
Responsible for him was the back of Xie Jin wrapped in the thin quilt. He stared at the one leg over the Other for a long time, probably boring, and climbed to the upper staple time.
Xie Jin, who was hiding under the quilt, lighted up his phone quietly. He looked at the wechat chat page with Wen Liang. There was a message he swiped the screen today. Wen Liang never replied from the beginning to the end.
Grabbing the jade card with his own body temperature from his clothes, Xie Jin became more and more uneasy, why didn't he reply to the message? Did something really happen, the Zhao family did it?
In the following hours, Xie Jin never closed his eyes again, and he rarely even went to the bathroom, because as long as he made any movement, there would always be curious eyes from the upper bunk, which made Xie Jin feel very uncomfortable. uncomfortable.
Fortunately, the journey was smooth. Although the speed of the train was a bit slower, it was not delayed. It arrived at Tian He Station on time at 2:35 in the afternoon.
Xie Jin caught a glimpse of the antique dealer on the upper bunk packing up his things, he quickly grabbed Jiu and his backpack, and followed the flow of people to the platform. It was better to leave quickly while there were too many people than to be caught up and asked again later.
The flow of people at Tian He Station was as large as ever, and Xie Jin was only carrying a bag, which was a bit out of tune with those passengers carrying large and small luggage.
After checking the ticket and exiting the station, Xie Jin took the elevator back to the ground. The tourism industry in Tian He was developing very well. Before he could completely walk out of the station, the owners of farmhouses standing by the roadside began to shout enthusiastically.
Xie Jin walked quickly with his head down, and was suddenly pulled by someone. He looked up and saw a person who would naturally appear here.
"You are the young man who lived in my store. I have seen you." The middle-aged woman wore a veil on her head, and she exposed her face to Xie Jin. Xie Jin had already recognized her, she was their first The proprietress who stayed at the hotel when she came to Tian He once.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, how come you have lost so much weight? What about your friends? No, why did you come out of the station alone?"
The woman pulled Xie Jin to a place where there were few people. She looked around and asked Xie Jin in a low voice, "Did you see He Nian? He hasn't come back to town for a long time."
"He should be in that village with my friends." Xie Jin couldn't deal with the enthusiastic middle-aged woman, he lowered his head to look at the ground hastily, and suddenly remembered something, he grabbed the woman's hand instead.
"Sister, I won't stay in the store this time... But can I ask you to rent a car for me, and go to the deep mountains in Lipu County."
"Renting a car? It's easy." The middle-aged woman led Xie Jin towards the parking lot, asking while she was walking, "Did you go into that village? Is it really as mysterious as my grandfather said?"
Xie Jin couldn't disclose the matter of Badong Village to the outside world, so he waved his hands and tried his best to avoid the topic: "How long will it take me to go directly to Lipu County from here?"
"If it's fast, it will take an hour. If you meet someone grazing home on the road at this time, it may be slower." The middle-aged woman frowned suspiciously, "Haven't you been there before, why do you still ask me?"
"I haven't been back for a long time, and I don't remember clearly." Xie Jin could only make excuses to lie. He followed the woman into the parking lot. After walking a few steps, a familiar electric tricycle appeared in front of him.