These three plans were quickly put into action. Long Zhuangye cooperated with Xiao Wu's arrangement, using a large flashlight and leading a team of three people to search back and forth between the school where his granddaughter attended and where she lived. The middle section of the road is relatively long and not straight. There is a low mountain 2 kilometers away from the school. It is not quite standard to say it is a mountain. It should be said to be a raised hill full of mixed woods. There are occasional mountains in the forest. Several barren graves. The asphalt road extending from the school bypasses the edge of the hills.
When Long Zhuangye's three-person team found this place, they did not stay on the road, but went into the woods to search. Some used flashlights to shine, some lit up torches, and called out Long Fangxiang's name while shining, but there was an empty response in the forest, and there were also responses that they didn't care about or didn't care about.
For example, Long Zhuangye called out in a rough voice, and then used a large flashlight to shine the beam of light in the forest. Leng Huhu heard the sound of flapping wings on a tree in front of him. It turned out to be one or several birds nesting in their nests. The child was frightened and flew away in the dark.
Among the mixed shouts of many people, Long Zhuangye heard the shouts of his wife Cheng Shenggui. He followed the sound and found that she was in another group that came over. Therefore, there were four people in this group including Cheng Shenggui.
Long Zhuangye frowned and asked, Shenggui, I didn't ask you to go back to your parents' home to find her, why are you with them? There were tears on Cheng Shenggui's face. She didn't want anyone to see it, so she extinguished the flashlight beam in her hand and replied sadly, Dad, I want to search with you for a while. If I find the fragrance, I will There is no need to go back to your parents’ home to look for it; if you don’t find it, it’s not too late to go back to your parents’ home.
Long Zhuangye did not continue to ask. He was about to ask Xiao Yang, the head of the sales department who led the group. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yang understood what he meant and spoke first: Mr. Long, our group has not found anyone in the school. Come here to look for it. Considering that there is a forest here, it is relatively difficult to find it, so I came here.
Long Zhuangye said "Oh" and nodded, affirming what Xiao Yang and the others did. Then he said, since you are here, let's join together and concentrate on searching. Xiao Yang said yes, and found that the group led by Xiao Wu also set up torches and shouted the children's names, walking over there. Long Zhuangye said that we should just wait until Xiao Wu and the others arrived, and the three of us would make arrangements on how to find them.
After a while, the three groups gathered in the forest. Under the command of Long Zhuangye, they started from the east end to the west end of the forest, and then from the north end to the south end. They combed the uneven trees and weeds like a comb. Those flashlights and torches illuminated the forest brightly, but there was still no trace of Long Xiangxiang.
Cheng Shenggui, who was caught in the team looking for the child, was particularly anxious. Her almond eyes were filled with tears. When she passed a graveyard, she shuddered, raised her left hand to wipe away her tears, and looked at the front of the grave along the beam of the flashlight held by her right hand. There is a monument, but there is nothing.
Cheng Shenggui cried out Long Xiangxiang's name. Without news, he felt there was no hope, so he told his father-in-law Long Zhuangye, who was also anxious, that I would go back to my parents' home to look for him now.
It's so late, you should have gone long ago. As Long Zhuangye said that, he turned around and called Xiao Wu from the search team, and asked him to go out and arrange a car to take Cheng Shenggui to her hometown in Chengjiazhuang in the countryside to search and see if the child was there.
Xiao Wu agreed, and Cheng Shenggui went out of the woods with him first. Xiao Wu, who knew how to drive, started a Santana car that he had parked on the side of the road, and took Cheng Shenggui along the road illuminated by the car lights toward the distant mountains and rivers shrouded in night.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, Cheng Xinxiong was suddenly woken up by his wife Wen Xiaozhen while he was sleeping, saying "Xinxiong!" It seems that Shenggui is back and knocking on the door. Cheng Xinxiong rubbed his sleepy eyes when he heard his daughter calling at the door, "Mom, Dad, there's something, there's something urgent." Cheng Xinxiong immediately sat up from the bed and replied, Shenggui, why are you coming home so late? What happened?
Is your grandson Fang Fang coming? A strange male voice asked.
No. Wen Xiaozhen, who had already turned on the light, answered.
Mom, then you and Dad don’t have to get up, we’ll leave right away. Cheng Shenggui outside the door said this.
Who did you come from? Why not Long Qiyun?
It was my father-in-law who arranged for Xiaolong, the office director of his company, to drive me here. Long Qiyun went on a business trip and didn't return. After school this afternoon, Fangfang never came home. People from my father-in-law's workplace and I couldn't find her anywhere, so I found her here. Since she didn't come, I just left. Cheng Shenggui's voice was choked when he told the reason.
Did Fang Fang go to other relatives’ houses? For example, her aunt's house and her aunt's house in the city. Wen Xiaozhen who said this had opened the door, and a beam of bright light illuminated Cheng Shenggui's tear-stained face and Xiao Wu's frowning face.
No. I sent someone to inquire about it. Cheng Shenggui said, wiping away tears.
At this time, Cheng Xinxiong put on his clothes and came out. He was very anxious when he heard that his grandson was missing, but told his daughter not to worry, saying that he would go and ask Shi Zaitian, who has supernatural powers, and maybe Shi Zaitian could tell the truth. The whereabouts of my grandson.
Dad Cheng, where does Shi Zaitian live? I'll drive you there. Xiao Wu, who was standing at the door, said and reached out to squeeze the car keys in his pocket.
Shi Zaitian lives in Xianrendong Village, Shizi Town, Qianshan County, which is still dozens of kilometers away from me, so please drive me there. Cheng Xinxiong said while looking towards the hazy night.
There was a dark shadow there. Cheng Shenggui shined a flashlight and the dark shadow disappeared, revealing a black Santana car.
The three of them walked over together, and Wen Xiaozhen stood at the door and watched them get into the car until the car started. She watched the car with bright headlights speeding out of the village, but her heart kept hanging, and she kept asking secretly: Can they find their missing grandson?
After Shi Zaitian retired from the Medical University in the provincial capital, he lived in the city for a while and then in the countryside. Late that night, Cheng Xinxiong and his daughter arrived at Xianrendong Village in a Santana driven by Xiao Wu. Unfortunately, Shi Zaitian was not at home.
It was already dawn at that time. Xiao Wu followed Cheng Xinxiong's instructions and filled up the car with enough gas. After breakfast, he drove towards the provincial capital. At 10 o'clock in the morning, he arrived at the Medical University of the provincial capital. After parking the car, Cheng Xinxiong and his entourage arrived at the faculty and staff dormitory building where Shi Zaitian resided. After asking around, I found out that Shi Zaitian lived on the fifth floor of unit three.
Cheng Xinxiong asked his daughter and Xiao Wu to wait downstairs while he went upstairs to see Shi Zaitian. But when Shi Zaitian rang the doorbell, the person who opened the door was a round-faced and slightly fat woman. She stared at Cheng Xinxiong with strange eyes and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
If you have any emergency, please contact Professor Shi. Cheng Xinxiong answered anxiously.
He can't find it now. He is meditating. He will have to wait for at least half an hour, and at most two hours. Just stand at the door and wait! When he wakes up, I'll open the door and call you. The woman spoke simply and in a low voice, then closed the door gently.
Cheng Xinxiong asked anxiously, can Professor Shi be woken up? He asked because he thought about the safety of his granddaughter who had not returned home all night.
Unexpectedly, the closed door opened slightly again, revealing a pair of women with slightly frowning eyes, waving her hands and whispering, "It's impossible, Professor Shi is in meditation, so you can't disturb him." If you can wait, wait; if you can't, just leave!
Seeing that the woman was speaking rudely, Cheng Xinxiong really wanted to leave, but he endured it in order to ask about the whereabouts of his missing granddaughter. Seeing the door gently closing again, Cheng Xinxiong's somewhat uneasy heart calmed down. He stood slowly outside the door for a while, then went down to the first floor and told his daughter and Xiao Wu to be patient. wait.
Outsiders didn't know that Shi Zaitian, who had fallen into trance in the room, had left his body and wandered to a street called Taohuawu in the Song Dynasty. He saw a pair of fashionably dressed young men and women holding hands. He walked towards the north of the street, where the end of the street was connected to an orchard.
The weather here is early summer, and the orchard is full of plum trees. The branches on the trees are hung with heavy plums. Some are red with white inside, some are white with yellow inside, and some are still cute and green.
When the young man and woman entered the orchard, they released their hands and looked up at the ripe plums on the trees with a faint fragrance.
Suddenly, the woman looked at a flower-winged bird resting on a branch of a tall plum tree and pecking at a ripe yellow-skinned plum.
She clapped her hands and said "hi", and the flower-winged bird flew away in fright. The man looked at the woman and said, Ma Shuqin, why are you driving the birds away? The woman smiled slightly and said, I was just teasing the bird, but why did it flapping its wings and fly away in fear? Alas, Liu Yuanlin, I want to eat the plums that were pecked by birds but were not pecked off the branches.
Shuqin, if the bird pecked it, what’s so delicious? It's better for me to climb up the tree and pick some plums for you that haven't been pecked by birds. Liu Yuanlin said flatteringly.
Then you are wrong. I feel that plums that have been pecked by birds are the sweetest plums. Otherwise, would birds peck at them? Ma Shuqin gave the reason.
Liu Yuanlin thought it made sense, so he followed her advice, then I will climb up the wild branches of the old plum tree and pick some plums that have been pecked by birds to eat with you!
Ma Shuqin nodded, and Liu Yuanlin came to the root of the old plum tree and was about to climb up. He saw a black locust tree next to the old plum tree. The plums touch each other.
He walked over, climbed up from the foot of the locust tree, climbed to the top, stretched out his hands to pick plums from the wild branches of the plum tree, and threw them towards Ma Shuqin who was looking at him under the tree, saying at the same time, these are birds The plums that have been pecked are the sweetest plums, Shuqin, pick them up and eat them!
I eat it after washing it. Ma Shuqin who answered like this put the plums she picked from the grass into her pocket.
Shuqin, I ate the peaches you picked last time, and you eat the plums I picked this time. This is called giving a peach and returning a plum. Liu Yuanlin, who was lying on the locust tree, almost plucked all the plums from the wild branches of the plum tree, still sighing with emotion.
Okay. Ma Shuqin responded and looked up. Liu Yuanlin had jumped from the side of the locust tree to the wild branch of the plum tree. He stood up straight and said happily, Shuqin, do you think I can do it? I want to come down from the plum tree. As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Yuanlin fell from a wild branch more than two feet high with a flutter, and the locust tree and the plum tree swayed as if they were frightened.
Before he could calm down, Liu Yuanlin's body hit the root of the plum tree with a "bang-dong" sound, causing a bunch of plums with yellow skin to fall off.
Ma Shuqin was not in the mood to pay attention, and only looked in horror at Liu Yuanlin, who fell heavily to the ground and was covered in blood. It was unbearable to see that Liu Yuanlin's stomach was torn by the branches of the plum tree, and his intestines flowed out, along with a pool of blood.
