Li Yin and the others soon arrived at the old man's residence and found that no one had returned, and even the flesh on the wall had never been touched.
The door was also intact, and a mouse looked at the opening and was busy escaping. It has been looking at this piece of pork belly here for a long time, but it is too high from the ground to climb up, and naturally it cannot jump so high.
Li Yin looked at the village chief again and asked, "What's your surname, village chief?"
"My surname is Li." The village chief didn't expect that Li Yin would suddenly ask him what his surname was, so he hurriedly answered, "Just call me Li Changhai."
"It turns out we are from the same family, and my surname is Li." Li Yin, intentionally or unintentionally, drew the relationship between the two of them closer. As the saying goes, you can't write two characters "Li" in one stroke.
"Oh, I've heard that the director's surname is Li, but I'm a vulgar person and don't dare to identify my family name." Li Changhai said modestly.
"We are all from the same family, why bother to separate each other? By the way, have you never heard of this old man?" Li Yin said with a smile.
"Never heard of it."
"Okay, let's search deep into the forest together." Li Yin nodded.
Xiao Wang glanced at Li Yin and said: "Director, in my opinion, it is better for you to stay here, and Lao Li and I will go look for him. If the old man comes back, we can also send a message to avoid searching all the time and not being able to find him." A result."
"No, let's go look for him together! Don't worry about him here. If the old man comes back, there won't be any loss. Just treat us as a free trip." What Li Yin thought was that the old man wanted to find him, but he also had to check Are there any wolves in this forest?
If there are wolves, they go out to hunt in groups, and one more person increases the chance of winning.
If someone is pretending to be a ghost, there is a mutual care and cannot be defeated individually.
Li Yin decided to look due north. If nothing unexpected happened, he would travel all the way through mountains and rivers and finally return to the Huangli Village Office. On the way, he would pass through the depths of the forest, which is where Li Changhai said there were wolves.
Li Changhai looked very timid and followed closely behind Li Yin. Xiao Wang naturally became the one who was the last to follow.
After walking a few steps, Li Yin easily broke off a branch and pulled it hard in front of him, as if he was exploring the path.
Li Changhai thought he was using it as a weapon, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange: "Director, don't you have a gun? Do you need a branch?"
"Hey, just in case it's not the case, if what you encounter is not a wolf, but just some small animals, you don't need to use a gun, a branch is enough to take care of it." Li Yin didn't look back, continued to walk forward, and replied, " By the way, just call me Xiao Li, don’t be so harsh."
"How dare you, you are the director, and I am just a civilian, so it is only natural to call me director." Li Changhai smiled bitterly.
"That's not right. After all, you are also the parent and official of the common people. How can you be a commoner?" Li Yin said, poking a piece of moss in front of him with a branch.
"Haha." Li Changhai did not continue this topic, nor did he actually call Li Yin Xiao Li. Instead, he responded with an awkward smile and said nothing.
Of course he knows that the current village chief is no longer popular, how can he compare with a director?
Twenty years ago, he really wouldn't have paid much attention to Li in front of him. Things were different now.
The times are different, and the positions are naturally different. However, he still has this self-awareness.
Li Yin did not dwell on this topic anymore, stopped talking, and walked forward carefully, because he had found that the road ahead had become much more difficult.
The forest is getting thicker and thicker, and there are more pine needles on the ground, which means that the further you go, the fewer people usually come in.
In addition, the bushes inside were getting thicker, making it harder and harder to find the path. However, he did not believe that Li Changhai had never been here.
The three of them had not been walking for a long time, but there were so many thorns ahead that they couldn't find their way. It seemed that no one had been here for a long time.
Li Yin murmured in his heart: Based on his understanding of the people in the mountains, there should be people visiting them often, collecting firewood or cutting grass. It is impossible that there is no road.
"By the way, when was the wolf found on this mountain?" Li Yin stopped and glanced at Li Changhai.
"About a year ago." Li Changhai said in a panic, "Director, let's go back. Several people in our village have been killed by wolves, and in the end even the bodies were not found."
"Someone died? Why didn't you call the police?" Li Yin's face tightened, and he looked directly at Li Changhai and said, "Besides, you didn't even find the body, how can you be sure that it was a wolf that killed him?"
"This..." Li Changhai couldn't answer for a moment. After a moment of silence, he hesitated and said, "Everyone agrees that since there are wolves, they must have eaten people, and they are all normal deaths. The incident was not a murder, so I didn’t report it to the police.”
"As long as it is not birth, old age, illness or death, but an abnormal death, the police should be called." Li Yin sighed and thought to himself, these people have no legal awareness and do not take human life seriously.
It's no wonder that in this remote mountainous area, there are many people who fell to death. The most important thing is that the police station did not keep a census.
"Yes, yes, I will remember it from now on, but no one reported it to me. I don't know how many people have disappeared in the past year?" Li Changhai looked embarrassed.
He really didn't expect that Li Yin would go deep into the forest in order to find an old man living alone, completely regardless of his personal safety or his own life and death.
At this time, he no longer dared to propose that he wanted to leave. He did not want to risk his life by following his words, so he could only follow Li Yin's command.
"By the way, I heard that on the other side of the forest, a group of people came and opened some kind of breeding farm. Do you know about this?" Li Yin said suddenly.
"I know, about twenty miles away from here, on another mountain, there is a small land called Zhuanbaozi. They contracted a piece of land and said it was for raising chickens." Of course Li Changhai knew about this, but at this moment , he did not tell the details, let alone the contract he signed, renting it for fifty years for one thousand yuan.
Anyway, this money is like picking it up for free. People in the village don't have this sense of collective assets. Idle is idle. Anyway, you can get a few dollars, so why not?
However, they didn't know that Li Changhai had received a lot of benefits in private. He was also grateful to Li Changhai for his generosity and righteousness and distributed the money to them. Although it is a small amount, it is still a great gift!
"Let's go transfer the dumplings!" Li Yin didn't want to waste time in the forest and wanted to go straight to the topic.
He said that this matter had nothing to do with the people who opened the breeding farm, but he didn't believe it himself. Why had there been no wolves for a long time? After these people came, there were wolves biting people here?
Why aren't they afraid of wolves?
Maybe the wolf is closer to them!
When Li Changhai heard that Li Yin was leaving here, he felt happy. He was really afraid of wolves. Then he thought about it, and his heart sank again. When Li Yin went to the breeding farm, would he find out some of his dirty tricks?
Li Yin said he was going to leave, but as soon as he turned around, an accident happened. I just felt that the ground was empty, and my whole body sank quickly.
Li Yin was shocked and instinctively reached out to grab Li Changhai.
However, Li Changhai was not much better. His body was also sinking, and he fell into the ground together with Li Yin.
Xiao Wang was very close to the two of them and was startled by this sudden change. Likewise, out of instinctive reaction, he threw himself forward and reached out to grab Li Changhai's hand that was waving wildly for help. However, the force of the two sinking was too violent. How could Xiao Wang catch it? They also sank into the ground together. The three people's vision went dark at the same time.
