"Yes...yes...it must be!"
Old Liu Tou exclaimed, he looked very excited, his whole body was shaking and his eyes were shining, as if he had bought lottery tickets for a lifetime and finally won the jackpot.
"They must be dead...Liu Jianguo, are you saying that my parents are dead?"
Jasmine's eye circles immediately turned red again, and tears were already welling up in her eyes.
As a foreigner, Jasmine may have misunderstood, but I obviously heard it clearly. It was obvious that Old Liu Tou seemed to have discovered something in that photo, so he was so excited.
I quietly moved closer to Jasmine, and while pretending to comfort Jasmine, I glanced at Old Liu's head with my peripheral vision.
Seeing the old Liu Tou's beady little eyes turning in his sockets, he quickly pretended to have made a slip of the tongue and explained: "Girl, you heard wrong, I didn't mean that, I meant this The ones in the photo...are your parents."
As he said this, Lao Liutou reached out and took the photo from Jasmine's hand. He held the photo with trembling hands and looked at it with his eyes.
"Margaret and his wife, I miss you so much. Where are you?"
Old Liu Tou's tone was also very excited, as if the people in the photo were his parents.
After touching it, Old Liu turned to Jasmine and said, "Girl, can you give this photo to me as a souvenir?"
When Lao Liutou asked for the photo, I thought Jasmine would be embarrassed to agree to it. In that case, wouldn't it be playing into Lao Liutou's scheme?
But who would have thought that I had obviously overestimated Jasmine’s ability to understand Chinese and her worldliness. As soon as she heard that Old Liu Tou asked for her photo, Jasmine hurriedly took the photo back from Old Liu Tou’s hand. , "That's not okay. This is the only photo of my parents. It doesn't even have a negative. If I give it to you, I won't have it!"
Old Liu Tou obviously did not expect that Jasmine was not moved by his sadness at all. The corners of his mouth were twitching in anger, and his old face looked as ugly as if his mother had died.
"Oh...that's it. Okay, then I won't force others to do anything." Old Liu Tou said helplessly.
Jasmine continued: "Liu Jianguo, don't worry, if my parents are still alive, I will take a group photo of you as a souvenir."
"Okay... okay...!" Old Liu Tou grinned.
We can no longer go down to Skeleton Lake because there is an unknown strange monster, and because I found a lot of silver coins in the puddle, I roughly determined the identity of the bones.
The British, based on the age of those silver coins, those people have been dead for at least fifty years, or even longer.
But based on this alone, I'm not quite sure whether Jasmine's parents are among them, but now that there is no evidence, I still firmly believe that they are still alive.
When we mentioned going to Skeleton Lake to search before, it was just Jasmine who listened to Old Liutou’s one-sided words. At first, I didn’t question Old Liutou’s intentions. I even respected him for being willing to accompany us even at such an old age. Such a trip.
But when I discovered that his motives were impure, I began to question whether Jasmine's parents were not in Skeleton Lake at all, and did Old Liu have any other plans for deceiving us here?
Also, why is Old Liu Tou so interested in that photo? I have seen that photo too, but it is just a group photo of Jasmine’s family of three. There doesn’t seem to be anything special about it?
I really wanted to ask Jasmine to take the photos and take a closer look to see if I missed anything, but I was worried that it would arouse Lao Liutou’s alert, so I suppressed my curiosity for the time being and decided to wait and find it. Let’s talk about it at a suitable opportunity.
At this time, Jasmine looked at the place where the black mist was entrenched under the hillside with a melancholy look on her face, "Xie Dongzi, do you think my parents are still alive?"
Seeing Jasmine asking this, I nodded quickly and said, "I believe they should still be alive, because I haven't found any clues about your parents, and I can't prove whether your parents' bones are among those bones."
"I have an idea, maybe we are looking in the wrong place. Your parents will definitely not go near such a dangerous place. How about we go somewhere else and look again."
I seemed to be saying this to Jasmine, but actually I wanted to see what Old Liu Tou's reaction would be.
Just as I thought, Lao Liutou's reaction was really not that strong. Just after I said these words, before Jasmine made any statement, Lao Liutou hurriedly said: "Boy, you What do you mean, you mean I tricked you here by talking nonsense!"
"Uncle Liu, I just expressed my thoughts. You don't need such a big reaction!" I raised my eyebrows and said indifferently.
"Yes, Liu Jianguo, since there are no clues about my parents here, we should look for them elsewhere," Jasmine said.
Hearing Jasmine speak, Old Liu Tou's displeased face immediately showed a smile again. He smiled and said to Jasmine: "Ah, since you said so, girl, I also think we should go around Let's search carefully to see if we can find any clues about your parents. But it's getting late, and it's hard to travel at night. How about we stay here overnight and go there at dawn tomorrow? It’s not too late.”
"What? Do you want to stay here for the night? What if the monsters from the hillside come up?" Jasmine said with a worried look on her face.
"Yes, old man, Jasmine's worry is reasonable. What if that monster makes a surprise attack while we are all asleep? The three of us young ones just ran away, but you old man It wouldn't be good if there were three long and two short ones!" I started to agree.
"you……!"
Old Liu Tou was choked by me because he couldn't hold back a fart for a long time. His face turned the color of pig liver from holding it in for a long time. There was a high probability that if I said a few more words, I might burst a blood vessel.
In the end, we still decided to stay one night and continue to search elsewhere early tomorrow morning. However, we definitely did not spend the night on this hillside. Instead, we took advantage of the sun not completely setting and went back a few hillsides. A tent was set up and a bonfire was lit.
There were only three tents, which Jasmine had told Old Liu Tou in advance. Because she didn't expect Fatty Wu to suddenly land in the air, she didn't prepare his share.
Fortunately, the tents were very big, and it was more than enough for Fatty Wu and me to sleep in the same tent. What's more, I had already made plans to stay up all night. On the one hand, I was worried that the monster would really take advantage of it. We fell asleep and ran for a thousand meters. On the other hand, I was wary of that old Liu Tou.
He claimed to be helping Jasmine find her parents, but in fact no one knew what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.
Jasmine prepared quite a lot of things, including coffee, which is a must-have for staying up late at night. In order to keep me energetic at night, I drank three cups of instant coffee in one go.
Fatty Wu, who had missed hundreds of silver dollars, was always depressed and depressed. Surprisingly, he didn't even eat dinner. He sat in front of the campfire and sighed.
I raised my hand and patted Fatty Wu on the shoulder and said, "Okay, isn't it just silver coins? It's no big deal. Don't worry. I'll get you a hundred and eighty coins as compensation when I get a chance. Head office!" "
After hearing what I said, Fatty Wu felt a little better, but he still didn't eat. He yawned and went back to the tent to sleep.
When we entered the tent, Fatty Wu winked at me, which meant that he was telling me that if anything happened, just shout.
Fatty Wu is actually not stupid, he just doesn't want to use his brain. I think he heard our previous conversation clearly, and he obviously questioned Lao Liutou's motives, so he gave me such a knowing look.
It was still early, and the sky had just started to darken. Except for Fatty Wu, the other three of us were still sitting around the campfire.
