Chen Qinghan didn't choose to take the plane. He wanted me to rest on the train for a day, so I lay in the sleeper carriage for a day.

Baozi once said that there are very few female field staff in the unit. Because this job is often done day and night, and it is exhausted, and often stationed in the mountains and forests, few girls are willing to do it.

Occasionally, few of them can pass the physical fitness assessment of the unit. Most of the time, they all switch to internal staff.

There are also people like buns that provide technical support most of the time, and there is no need to be present in person.

The symbols on the roots of the tree were seen by the buns. They were not graffiti, but a kind of text, but she couldn't interpret what they meant when they piled together.

I understand her meaning, probably because of the words like Waibibab, which are Chinese characters, and they are combined together. Without the explanation of the parties involved, others cannot understand them.

Baiyun sent me a message and asked me if I found a suspicious person. When I went to Sunset Town, she wanted to send a tool man to me. I didn't think it was necessary. It would be better for the tool man to stay and protect her.

This time I went abroad, I haven't seen the suspicious person yet. Perhaps the "white" hand can't stretch that long.

It may also be that after the last incident, they decided to stop the battle first, or they found out that I, the queen, was just a errand and had no value for kidnapping or assassination. In short, these days it was very quiet.

Chen Qinghan was on the train and took out the old photo from time to time to see it. The magic disappeared, but the photo did not. Chen Wan'er looked very similar to Chen Xiaonuan and his aunt. It might have been touching the face and made him feel sad.

We got off in Gui City, then transferred to the county town, and then hired a car to the town. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery and is not a tourist attraction. There are farmland on both sides of the road.

We looked for a car in the town and went to a place called Zhucun. The driver took the initiative to chat with us. He heard that we went to Zhucun to meet a centenarian. He said he knew that there were not many people living longevity after all, and the Chen grandmother was quite famous locally.

After entering the village, the driver took us directly to the door of Mrs. Chen's house. The old man lived with his grandson. His grandson was named Chen Manfu and his wife took care of Mrs. Chen together.

Chen Manfu's children are no longer in the village, and they all settled in the county town. His grandson and granddaughter go to work in big cities and send the children back to their hometown to take care of them.

Chen Qinghan thanked the driver, paid the car money, then walked to the front door and rang the doorbell.

The Chen family's house is still a bungalow, and the houses of other families in the village have been converted into small buildings, ranging from the second to fourth floors, so the Chen family's bungalow is particularly conspicuous.

Chen Qinghan called when he was in the county town and told Chen Manfu in advance that we were almost here.

Therefore, the old man who came to open the door was very happy to see us and said we were coming quite quickly.

The old man who opened the door was Chen Manfu. He looked very tough, walked with wind, and spoke in a very breath. He heard that he was a herb collector. He climbed mountains and wades in the waters as a teenager and shuttled through the mountains and ridges. Now his legs and feet are very neat.

There was an old woman standing in the yard wearing a purple-red jacket. When she saw us greeting us warmly, she asked us to enter the house quickly.

The small bungalow with white paint is old, but the windows are bright and clean. Chen Manfu introduced us to the old woman, whose surname is Guo, and her grandmother is in the house.

Old Mrs. Chen’s surname is Yuan, and she seems to have no name. When the driver mentioned her, she called her Chen Yuan.

We and Chen Manfu and his wife entered the house together. There was a kitchen in the entrance. There was a room on the left and a door on the left. The door on the left was not closed, and there was a lock on the door on the right. There was a room opposite the door. Chen Manfu said that it was grandma's room.

Chen Manfu did not doubt our identity at all and led us into grandma's room. The furniture in the room was very simple. There was a window opposite the door. There was a table in front of the window. There was a wardrobe on the right side of the table and a single bed on the left.

An old man as white as snow was sitting at the table, wearing a cotton jacket with dark red embroidered black flowers. When we came in, she was reaching out to dial the radio on the table.

Chen Manfu was about to introduce the old man turned around, his eyes were clear, and he saw no turbidity, his skin was white and red, and his dentures were neat, so he opened his mouth and said to us: "You are here."

Chen Qinghan nodded: "Hello, I--"

The old man raised his hand and interrupted his introduction: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, and I know who you are."

Chen Qinghan and I looked at each other, but the old man didn't explain immediately. She asked Chen Manfu and his wife to prepare lunch to entertain guests, obviously she wanted to send them away.

Chen Manfu smiled and said, "You guys talk", and then took his wife out and said he wanted to go out to buy groceries.

There were no extra chairs in the room of Mrs. Chen. She got up and took us to the locked room. It was the first time I saw someone's living room locked when it was fine.

There is a combined sofa, a coffee table, and a carved wooden chair in the room. I can't tell what wood it is, but I can't tell it is yellow, and it seems that it's been a while.

Although the old lady walked slowly, she was very steady and her hands didn't shake. She was very quick when she opened the lock.

She entered the house and asked us to sit, then took out two bottles of drinks from the cabinet and placed them on the coffee table. She sat on the wooden chair, which was bent by the window, and the sun was just shining on her back.

Chen Qinghan sat down and said, "We are here to ask you for someone."

As he said that, he took out the photo, put it on the coffee table, and pushed it in front of Old Mrs. Chen.

"It's her, Wan'er, my old man's cousin." Old Mrs. Chen said in a hurry.

It's been a hundred years, she just glanced at it, and she was so sure?

After Mrs. Chen finished speaking, she joined my big-faced army and took out a small photo of the plastic seal from her arms. The photo was only half a palm-sized size, and inside was a photo of two people.

She handed the photo to Chen Qinghan, and I followed her and saw that the girl in the photo was exactly the same as Chen Wan'er. The half-sized girl beside her was so smart that she had a very bright eyes.

"This is the only photo taken by my old man and his cousin. A few days after the photo was taken, his cousin disappeared." said Old Mrs. Chen.

When talking about a person, it is necessary to start a past story. Old Mrs. Chen said that she and her husband are childhood sweethearts, so they know a lot about the Chen family.

Chen Wan'er is the only girl of her generation. Chen Yongfeng, also known as Old Lady Chen's husband, called her the lobby sister.

Because his mother died early and his father had to travel far away from home, Chen Yongfeng was often sent to his uncle's house. It can be said that he grew up with his cousin sister. From two or three years old to twelve years old, he relied on Chen Wan'er very much, and he had the same sense as an elder sister like a mother.

Old Mrs. Chen was also impressed by Chen Wan'er. Their family and Chen Wan'er's family were neighbors. Although she was young and was a little tail behind Chen Yongfeng, she still had a deep memory of the Chen sister.

Chen Wan'er is smart and beautiful. She has studied in foreign schools and can do tricks. This is the main reason why Mrs. Chen has a deep memory.

Old Mrs. Chen remembered that the kitten she raised was dead. Chen Wan'er drew the kitten on paper, and the kitten in the painting was alive.

She also saw Chen Wan'er breaking grasshoppers with a grass stick, which could jump and fly.

For Mrs. Chen as a child, this is a trick, which is magical and interesting.

Later, Chen Wan'er fell in love with a male classmate in the foreign school. The family firmly opposed it and locked her at home and refused to let her go. It was Chen Yongfeng who was soft-hearted and secretly let her go. From then on, Chen Wan'er never returned and had no idea of ​​life and death.

Chen Yongfeng blamed himself for his whole life and often told Old Mrs. Chen that if he hadn't been troublesome back then, Chen Wan'er would not have disappeared.

Old Mrs. Chen said there was something she didn't say to anyone, including her husband, just waiting for us to come.

Judging from her meaning, she knew that we were not here by Chen Manfu. Did she expect it?

Old Mrs. Chen took out another photo. There was only one little girl in this photo, holding a rag doll in her arms. The little girl looked only three or four years old, wearing a new cheongsam and two braids.

The little girl in the old black and white photo is Mrs. Chen. She pointed to the doll in the photo and said, "This is given by Sister Chen."

The doll is very delicate, but in the black and white photos, the two round and large black eye beads exuded a bit of evil spirit, especially like the ghost kid in the movie.

Especially the doll's hair was loose, as if Sadako had just emerged from the TV, she was also wearing a white long skirt.

Old Mrs. Chen said that this doll was very disliked by her adults, but she liked it so much that she hugged it when she woke up and held it while sleeping, and she didn't let go at all.

After Chen Wan'er disappeared, she was originally worried and sad about this elder sister like others.

One day two years later, she was asleep at night, and half asleep, and heard someone calling her.

Later she thought, she wasn't sure if she had really woken up. Anyway, she felt that she was awake and found that it was the doll in her arms calling her.

And the sound is very similar to Sister Chen. The doll said it was Chen Wan'er, so I wanted to ask her to help me if I had something.

Old Mrs. Chen didn't feel scared at that time, and was quite happy, thinking that Sister Chen was back.

Chen Wan'er told her through the doll that she could not go home for the time being. She missed her home and her family very much, but she couldn't come back. She hoped that Old Mrs. Chen would help her keep the doll and must keep it well.

Old Mrs. Chen agreed to her and asked her when she would come back. Chen Wan'er said she would see it. When a junior from the Chen family came from a very far place, she would come back with the young man.

If someone else is going to change, I probably have goose bumps. I looked at the photos on the coffee table. It doesn’t matter when I see it. I was stunned. The photos of Chen Wan'er we brought back from the manor are empty!

The background in the photo is still there, the walls, flower stands, and chairs, all there are, but the only one is gone.

Oh, don't scare me... I looked up at Old Mrs. Chen and found that she was looking at me with a smile on her face.

Chen Qinghan also noticed it, and he asked calmly: "That doll is still here with you?"

Old Mrs. Chen nodded: "Well, it's there."

She reached out and pointed behind us. Chen Qinghan and I were sitting on the sofa. There was a row of hanging cabinets above the back of the sofa. On both sides were small cabinets, and there was a large cabinet more than half a meter high in the middle.

Old Mrs. Chen pointed to the big cabinet in the middle, Chen Qinghan stood up, turned around and opened the cabinet door. Sure enough, there was a doll standing inside.

The doll has black hair, black eyes, white skirt, and the one in the black and white photo.

"For so many years, I have been keeping it well, just waiting for Sister Chen to come back." Old Mrs. Chen sighed, and seemed very relieved, but she fulfilled her wish for many years.

The doll stood quietly in the cabinet, and Chen Wan'er in the photo was gone. Old Mrs. Chen's tone seemed to be that she had completed her "mission".

With an empty photo, we cannot prove anything. If an old photo that has been sealed for a hundred years, the image fades or disappears, it means that the person inside has runs out and no one will believe it.

Chen Qinghan closed the cabinet door, sat down again, and asked the old lady Chen: "Why did she ask you to do this?"

"She knows I'm going to live longer." Old Mrs. Chen's eyes were blurred for a moment, "She knows a lot of things, something we don't know."

Her words were a little vague, but I could probably guess what she was referring to.

"If Yongfeng knew about this, he would probably not be able to swallow his last breath." Old Mrs. Chen said in a little sad tone.

Chen Qinghan had inquired before coming, and Chen Yongfeng was dead and left peacefully. When he died, his family was by the bedside.

The only regret in his life was that he let Chen Wan'er go, causing her to disappear. There will be no news for decades to come. But at his age, the elder sister of the lobby who was older than him might have passed away long ago, so he was very happy when he closed his eyes, and might want to meet his relatives in another world sooner.

Old Mrs. Chen didn't understand why Chen Wan'er asked her to keep any secrets, and it was not until that moment that she suddenly realized something.

There is a "fear" in life, that is, you can't wait for the person you want to wait for, Old Mrs. Chen said sadly.

It can be seen that she has a deep relationship with Chen Yongfeng. She has been together for more than half a century and has celebrated the golden wedding. She said that this is the only thing she felt sorry for the old man. Because she promised Sister Chen to keep it secret, every time Chen Yongfeng sighed, she pretended not to know and felt very uncomfortable.

That's all Mrs. Chen knows, and we can't ask anything else. She was just a child back then, so Chen Wan'er probably wouldn't tell her something too complicated and difficult to understand.

So I think what she said should be the truth, but in front of Mrs. Chen, I couldn't discuss it with Chen Qinghan. We had lunch at Chen Manfu's house and said goodbye in the afternoon.

When I returned to the hotel in the town, I asked Chen Qinghan what he thought about and whether Chen Wan'er had the ability to predict the future.

Chen Qinghan and I have the same idea. He also thinks that Mrs. Chen means this. What she didn't say clearly means that Chen Wan'er can predict certain things.

But if this is the case, why would Chen Wan'er be trapped in the manor for a hundred years? She had known that she would have encountered an accident, so she shouldn't have gone overseas and been swallowed by the magic manor and the photo album that can eat people.

"Unless...it's all in her plan," I said.
Chapter completed!