Chapter 48: The Dead in the Night
"I am really a master of wine bags, I know how to eat, eat, eat." Yu Xin curled her lips.
I smiled 'hehe'.
"Okay." Yu Xin smiled, "I've been running around these days, and Master Leng has really worked hard. You can do whatever you say."
We returned to the car, leaned against the seat and fell asleep. When we woke up, it was dusk, and the sunset was like a burning fire, covering the entire western sky. On the clear and cold streets, pedestrians sometimes walked by, one by one, cold.
We drove to the hot pot restaurant we had dinner the night before. Yuxin and I ordered a lot of vegetables and meat. The soup in the hot pot was rolling, and the smoke filled the entire private room.
"After finishing the meal, should we go home, or find a place to spend the night in this county town and leave tomorrow?" Yu Xin asked.
I looked outside and it was already dark. I thought about it and said, "Let's find a place to spend the night."
"Um."
Yu Xin nodded, bit her chopsticks gently, and was stunned. Under the hot pot, the fragrance on her body evaporated and bursts into my nose.
After a while, Yu Xin said quietly, "A Leng."
"Um?"
"You said, if the 'behind the scene' was really Fan Tongtian, where would he be at this moment?"
"I feel... maybe it's just around our city. Think about it, since he has taken the elder sixth as his apprentice, he always asks him to help him do things. This means that even if he doesn't live in our city, he should run to our city often."
Yu Xin nodded, "It makes sense."
"According to what the old man Ding Ziguo said, he looks quite similar to the old fox. We know his name again, Fan Tongtian, so we won't have to worry about not being able to find him at that time."
Yu Xin thought about it, took out her cell phone, flipped through it, and dialed a number.
"Who did you call?" I asked.
"Hey?" Yu Xin waved her hand at me and put her phone on the table, "Xiaozhuang."
"Miss."
Yu Xin said 'um' and said bluntly, "Help me find someone. His name is 'Fan Tongtian', who is about 60 years old."
"Okay, do you have a picture of him? If so, pass it to me."
"No."
"So, please tell me where he lives, such as which city or county."
Yu Xin snorted and said coldly, "If I knew, what else would you do to check?"
"Then..." On the phone, Xiaozhuang said, "How do I check it?"
"I don't care, you can find a way."
"Oh well."
After hanging up the phone, Yu Xin tucked her hair.
"Why are you so cold to this Xiaozhuang?" I asked carefully.
"I have always been like this to my father's men..."
Yu Xin told me that although she and her father had a quarrel, the people under her father still followed her instructions. However, she would solve the problem by herself and would not easily find them. Even if she wanted to find them, she would usually only look for this person named Xiaozhuang.
I nodded and said, "I usually don't look for them. In the second case, for example, I will look for them for things that Master Leng can't solve, right?"
"You're so beautiful." Yu Xin spat.
After dinner, Chenxing called me and told me that Xiaoqing's father, that old man, could only drink some soup every day, and was almost out of thin air. I told Chenxing about our experience. After listening, Chenxing thought about it and said that the old man had a stroke, maybe this was called "Fan Tongtian"... I didn't agree. Although we already had clues about the "behind the scenes", my heart was still full of my mystery...
After leaving the hot pot restaurant, we came to a guesthouse nearby. The guesthouse is located next to the county hospital. From the outside, the building is very old, but it is well decorated inside and has hot water supply. I opened a room with Yuxin alone. After taking a hot shower, I poured it on the bed and looked out the window with undulating thoughts.
That night, the moon was thin and curved, hanging coldly in the dark distant sky. I don’t know how long it took, the moon shook in my eyes and became more and more blurred. Finally disappeared, and I sank into the deep darkness...
I was confused and didn't know how long I had been sleeping, but suddenly I heard someone calling me. The sound was faint and slight, exuding an irresistible magic. It seemed to be calling me, but it seemed not. I felt myself lifting the quilt and climbing up, groping and putting on my clothes, getting out of the bed, following the sound, walking towards the door. As I walked, I seemed to be tripped by something, and then the sound disappeared. I woke up in a "sudden" and found myself standing in the middle of the room.
I was in a daze. For a moment, I couldn't remember what happened just now, but I just wondered why I was standing here. Looking outside, it was pitch black and the moon was running away. In the guesthouse yard, the branches of the old tree were swaying not far from the window.
I scratched my head and thought to myself, maybe it was because I was too tired these days, so I had sleepwalking, go back to bed and go to sleep... Thinking of this, as soon as I raised my foot, I felt something touched, and I couldn't help but be shocked. I reached out to touch it and found that it was a bag containing magic weapons. I breathed lightly, and thought to myself, it doesn't matter if I was scared to death by anything. If I was scared to death by the bag containing magic weapons, I was not just sad, but I was so embarrassed to throw it into the underworld...
I reached out and picked up the bag, came to the corner of the wall, and was about to put it on the ground, but suddenly, my heart was stumbled. I remembered the sound that had called me before. If I hadn't been tripped by this bag, I might have walked out... Could there be a ghost?
I took out my cell phone from my pocket and looked at the time. At nearly two o'clock, I swept the whole room. Finally, my eyes fell on the window. When I arrived at the window, I reached out and opened the window and looked down. The guesthouse was part of the county hospital, close to the south wall of the hospital, and there was a small door connecting the hospital. The yard was pitch black, empty and cold. After looking around, I didn't find anything unusual. I was about to close the window, but there was a gust of wind coming from the hospital. A thing floated over the wall along the wall. I widened my eyes and looked at the thing. It seemed like a piece of straw paper, the kind of straw paper burned to the dead...
The straw paper fell slowly, rolled a few times, and hid in the darkness... The sixth sense of the artist told me that something must be wrong. Suddenly, I thought of Yu Xin, and rushed out of the room with my bag. When I came to the room where Yu Xin lived, I saw that the door was closed. I put my ears on the door and listened, there was no movement, so I knocked on the door twice and called, Yu Xin... Without responding, I panicked and called again, Yu Xin, are you there? Knocking the door hard, the door opened with a slam. I was startled, and instinctively took a step back, then calmed down and stepped into the room.
I took a picture with my cell phone and the quilt was rolled up. Yu Xin didn't know where she went... I rushed downstairs and came to the yard. I didn't shout, tried my best to stay calm. Looking around, my eyes fell on the small door, and I saw that the door was open in the darkness. When I walked up to me, I saw that it was indeed open. I pushed the door open and I came to the hospital.
The whole hospital was silent. I walked around a long flower bed, headed north along the path, and then walked eastward along the wall for a while. I came to the back door of the hospital. When I saw the hole-opened back door, I intuition told me that Yu Xin must have gone out from here.
After leaving the back door, there was an alley, which was very quiet. I could tell in the darkness that there were hospital signs on both sides of the alley. It should be the family building of the county hospital, which was dark. I went eastward and walked out of the alley and came to the main road. Looking from the left and right, I didn't see Yu Xin. When I was not sure where to go, something landed on the rain shed of a building on the right. With a "bang" sound, I was so scared that I suddenly jumped up.
Just as I jumped, I saw a small road heading east on the far right, opposite the road... At this time, a strong thought suddenly arose in my mind, Yu Xin went east along the road...
I crossed the road and walked on this path. Not long after I walked east, the road came to an end. There was a huge pile of garbage in front of me, with a row of dirty garbage cans underneath.
Bypassing the garbage dump, I stepped deep and shallow, continued eastward along the dead grass and gravel, and came to the canal embankment. The 'whizz' north wind blew along the river channel, making my lips tremble. Looking down, there was a stone stair under my feet, which was old and damaged, and it felt like the ruins of an ancient ferry.
"Yu Xin!"
I shouted, and the echoes were blown intermittently by the wind. I looked up to the north and suddenly I found that there were two people in the distant river channel, slowly moving north, and the one behind looked very much like Yu Xin.
I was delighted and rushed down the steps and chased northward. I ran very fast, and the whirring wind cut my face like a knife, and thorns seemed to have appeared on my ears. As soon as I was approaching, I saw that it was Yu Xin. About three or four meters away in front of her, a man was walking, and he couldn't see his face.
"Yu Xin!"
I shouted loudly, reached out and grabbed Yu Xin's arm, pulled it back, and Yu Xin's "scream" sounded and fell softly into my arms.
"Ah...Ah Leng?"
I pressed my face against Yuxin's cheek, "Thank God!"
Yu Xin was slightly stunned, "I...where am I?"
"Silly girl, you're so evil. Tell me, did you hear any sounds when you were sleeping?"
"Voice?... Yep, I heard someone calling me, and then I walked out, wasn't I dreaming?"
"It's not a dream, it's a man who called you out... Huh? Where's that man just now?"
"There!"
Yu Xin stretched out her hand and looked west, and saw that the man was standing motionless on the slope of the river bank. The two of them jumped up, and I pulled out the Seven-Star Sword and walked towards the man step by step with Yu Xin.
"Hey, who are you!"
Chapter completed!