It happened on the eve of the school's summer vacation. The uncle in the communication room stopped Zhuang Youjie who was passing by and said that he had a letter from him.
Zhuang Youjie is very strange. Few people usually write to him. His father is relatively rich and prefers communication methods such as telegrams.
The uncle handed him the letter, and he found that it was not a letter, but a postcard.
"Who's looking for me..." He muttered and turned around to look. He was shocked when he saw that the letter writer turned out to be Liang Yuanque who had left suddenly!
The postcard was written with a pen, and there were only two short lines on it.
"Partner, come and handle the case with me."
Below is an address,
"Luochuanshui Town, Kanggou Township, Kangshan City".
This was a place Zhuang Youjie had never heard of. He returned to his dormitory and looked up a map. He found that it was a place very far south. The map could only show the township, but not the town.
Judging from Liang Yuanque's intention, he wanted him to come to this place to participate in handling the case with him.
Zhuang Youjie was very excited. He looked over the postcard several times and found that Liang Yuanque's mailing address was in a city further north than here. It seemed that he had gone north after leaving.
But then, he discovered a more serious problem, that is, he didn't know exactly which day Liang Yuanque asked him to come to this town.
It would be bad if he left immediately. These two days are the end of the semester. Students are busy reviewing and preparing for exams, and teachers are also very busy. If Zhuang Youjie goes to the principal to ask for leave, he will definitely not approve it.
It's tragic. I used to brag to Liang Yuanque that he was not busy at work, but now he is needed and he says he can't leave. What's the matter?
What if he refuses this time and Liang Yuanque never trusts him again and doesn't ask him to come with him anymore?
Zhuang Youjie was so upset that he didn't sleep well that night. After much thought, he decided to write a letter to Liang Yuanque to ask about the time. If the time really conflicted, he had no good solution.
In school, letters from teachers and students are placed in the communication room, and the uncles in the communication room gather together to send them out together.
Zhuang Youjie took the letter to Liang Yuanque and went to the delivery room, praying in his heart that he would leave it at the address where he sent the letter.
As a result, the uncle in the communication room told him that another letter came from him today, and it was the same postcard as yesterday.
I took it over and looked at it. Sure enough, it was from Liang Yuanque. The postcard had the time written on it.
"June 30th".
From this point of view, it seems that after Liang Yuanque sent the first postcard, he also remembered that he did not write the specific date and sent a second postcard.
The date written on this postcard put an end to Zhuang Youjie's troubles. By June 30th, school would be out for summer vacation, and he would have plenty of time to follow Liang Yuanque.
So Zhuang Youjie modified the letter on the spot and changed it to inform Liang Yuanque that he had received the letter. He sent it to the address where he sent the postcard. He didn't know whether he had received it.
The final exam ended successfully and summer vacation came. Zhuang Youjie sent a telegram home, lying that he had work to do while staying in school and would not go home for the time being.
After that, he simply packed his luggage and embarked on a journey to find Luo Chuanshui Town.
There is a train station in Kangshan City, but there is no direct train. Zhuang Youjie can only go to the provincial capital with a backpack on his back, and then take the train to Kangshan City.
Perhaps because of the summer vacation, the train was very crowded. Zhuang Youjie almost didn't squeeze into the train. When he finally got in, he was so suffocated by the crowd that he felt sick.
The train to Kangshan City took two days and one night. Zhuang Youjie arrived at the place and left the stuffy carriage almost as if he was running away.
He didn't want to recall the experience of these two days and one night, but he always felt that if he didn't escape, he would suffocate on the train.
Kangshan City is a bit backward as a whole, and the folk customs are not very simple. If Zhuang Youjie hadn't been a teacher for a long time and developed a keen mind, his backpack would have been stolen at the train station.
Arriving in Kangshan City was just the first step of the journey. The next road to Kanggou Township was even more difficult.
If you want to enter Kanggou Township, you have to either walk there or ride a carriage. It is obvious that Zhuang Youjie does not have such a thing as a carriage now.
But he was not completely stupid, so he found a rickshaw in the city and asked the driver to pull him out of the city.
At a farm outside the city, he pretended to be visiting relatives. He asked questions along the way and finally found a family with a carriage. After some back and forth, he finally agreed on a price. The male owner of the family agreed to drive him in a carriage. Go to Kanggou Township.
It's a pity that the man driving the car didn't know exactly where Luo Chuanshui Town was, otherwise Zhuang Youjie would have just added a little more money and got there in one go.
But the man also gave him some clues, saying that there is a big river in the southeast of Kanggou Township, and there are several towns along the river. The Luochuanshui town Zhuang Youjie is looking for should be along the river.
Kanggou Township can almost be regarded as a countryside. When he arrived here, Zhuang Youjie couldn't even find a rickshaw. After several inquiries, he found a bookstore and bought a local map.
He finally found the mysterious Luo Chuanshui Town on the local map.
But what made him collapse was that Luo Chuanshui Town was indeed in the southeast of Kanggou Township as the driver said, and he was now in the northwest corner of Kanggou Township.
He was going crazy with exhaustion. If he were to walk across the entire countryside, he would probably die on the spot.
Until this moment, he finally understood that becoming a detective was not as easy as he thought.
In the two previous cases, they basically never left the city. They were all around the city. When they went out, they either had a rickshaw or a car.
Especially in a small city like Liucheng, basically even running around the city is not tiring.
Zhuang Youjie, his partner during the internship period, obviously couldn't meet Liang Yuanque's standards. He felt guilty when he looked at the route on the map, his calves were shaking, and he thought about finding a place to rest first.
Although Kanggou Township does not look wealthy and developed, there are some restaurants in the city.
Zhuang Youjie chose one of the restaurants that he liked more and went in. Small restaurants like this are usually run by a family. There are no waiters and no menus. They just rely on the shopkeeper to tell the names of the dishes.
Zhuang Youjie feels that the atmosphere in the countryside is better than that in the city. At least the folk customs here are really simple. There are no cars on the street, only pedestrians in twos and threes. Although the people here seem to live a simple and simple life, they are basically living and working in harmony. scene.
Especially this restaurant, the price is not expensive, the taste is not bad, the shop owner is also very enthusiastic, and the service is very considerate.
Zhuang Youjie grew up in Liucheng, a city with peaceful folk customs, so he likes the quiet feeling of this small town.
He was eating when a little boy of about ten years old suddenly came over to the table and stared at him.
Zhuang Youjie thought he was here for something to eat at first, so he gave him a spring roll. Unexpectedly, after the little boy took the spring roll, he said to him while eating, "Is your surname Zhuang?"
