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Shenzhen City Bureau.

After Fang Ning left, Lu Lingyou was not idle either.

He took Zhao Yue and Song Sen Wang Zhao to the mental hospital to meet Zhou Xiaofei's mother.

That scene cannot be described in words.

The first thing she did when she returned to the city bureau, Zhao Yue rushed to the bathroom and vomited a lot. Then she ran out to the cabinet and grabbed some random clothes, then rushed back to the bathroom to wash her face and hair.

Liu Wei watched her tossing back and forth like the wind, and couldn't help but turn around and ask.

"What's going on here?"

Wang Zhao's expression was also speechless. He raised his hand to smell his sleeve and almost vomited.

"It's so difficult for this girl. As a grown man, I almost couldn't hold it back."

The sound of Zhao Yue's retching suddenly came from the bathroom, and Liu Wei was stunned.

"I have never seen Zhao Yue like this.

She couldn't bear to go to the forensic room and vomited several times before, but after letting her boss practice it, she was no longer afraid.

And didn’t you go to a mental hospital this time? There weren’t any too bloody scenes.”

Wang Zhao sighed, crossed his arms and explained.

"When we went there, Zhou Xiaofei's mother Zhang Junmei was in isolation in a single room and said she had gotten into a fight with other patients in the hospital a few days ago.

She refused to take medicines and injections, and would bite herself and bite her tongue when wearing a restraint belt.

Moreover, if she is kept under drug control, her brain will be damaged, so she can only be kept in a single room for observation.

The doctor said that she has calmed down a lot in the past two days, and asked us to ask questions slowly and gradually after contacting her.

but"

Wang Zhao took a long breath and handed his sleeve to the tip of Liu Wei's nose.

"Then who knew that she did nothing else in the single room. She kept all her usual feces, urine, and urine in the washbasin. As soon as we opened the door, it all came out."

Now Liu Wei could smell the pungent smell from Wang Zhao's cuffs. Coupled with his vivid description, it seemed that there was a picture before his eyes.

He quickly took two steps back and almost bumped into Zhao Yue who was coming back.

"Don't the mental hospitals have dedicated nursing staff? Even if her fees are stopped, they won't even arrange for a nurse to check the bed on a daily basis, so that she can be left alone in the room like this?"

Zhao Yue looked at her glasses which were red from vomiting and couldn't help but retched before explaining.

"Why is there no nurse on duty to check the bed? No matter how much money her account owes, the hospital still dare not slack off in this regard.

But Zhang Junmei is really crazy. She always has conflicts with other patients, and becomes even more evil when she gets sick.

None of the doctors or nurses dared to get close. Anyone who came near would be beaten, scratched, and even mouthed.

It is said that there are no doctors, nurses or patients in the hospital who have not been bitten by her.

It was the same in the solitary room this time. She sat quietly in the room when no one came near her. As soon as people came in, her mood immediately aroused.

So in the past few days, I have been delivering food, water and medicine to her at the door and window, and she has been very cooperative.

The doctor warned us before we entered the door, and we were prepared for the stress if she rushed over.

But who would have thought that she would be so playful."

Zhao Yue's tongue felt weak as she described it, and she couldn't help but vomited twice more.

"No, I can't say any more, the picture came again."

Liu Wei thought they were pitiful and a little funny, so he turned to look at Song Sen, who was still standing aside.

"But I think Boss and Song Tou are boring."

Zhao Yue and Wang Zhao had such a tacit understanding that they both rolled their eyes.

"Who can hide faster than the two of them?"

Zhao Zifeng, who had been listening on the side, couldn't help but let out a sigh. Everyone's eyes turned to look at him, and Zhao Zifeng was so frightened that he quickly turned his face back to the other side of the screen.

Song Sen felt a little uncomfortable and quickly cleared his throat and looked at Lu Lingyou in the office.

The old man finally found a cigarette in the cupboard and waved to a few people as if nothing had happened.

"Zhao Yue and Lao Wang should go back and change clothes. We will have a meeting in the afternoon."

He threw the car keys to Wang Zhao from a distance, and did not forget to add this sentence.

"Give me a car to be washed at the car wash downstairs. You can take a taxi back."

"."

The two of them walked away angrily with black lines on their faces. Song Sen then added another sentence to the stairs.

"Lao Wang, please bring some clothes back for me. I seem to be sitting next to you."

Wang Zhao, who was downstairs, finally couldn't help it anymore, turned around and cursed loudly upstairs.

Entering the office, Lu Lingyou and Song Sen looked at each other in understanding, and then both smiled.

"But Lao Lu, if there is no progress on Zhang Junmei's side, we may have to make another appointment with Zhou Feng."

The Zhou Feng mentioned by Song Sen is the father of the missing girl Zhou Xiaofei.

Lu Lingyou sat in a chair and smoked, and shook his head when he heard this.

"Don't worry, I won't be able to find out anything for a while.

But do you still remember what Dean Liu said in the dean’s office?”

Song Sen nodded.

"He said that during the first two years when Zhang Junmei was hospitalized, the money in her account was always quite abundant.

Zhou Feng was diligent in paying the bills and even provided Zhang Junmei with an additional 24-hour nursing care in the hospital.

But this situation did not last long. Around the time Zhou Feng's youngest son was born, he began to be reluctant to send money to the hospital, and the caregivers were given away without being paid their wages.

After that, I had to pay fees intermittently, and they were all by remittance, and I never went there again."

Lu Lingyou hummed.

"It is reasonable to pay money intermittently. After all, the two have never divorced because of Zhang Junmei's condition.

If the hospital calls you urgently, please contact me, but the principle is to hide if you can.

But you’ve also read the payment details in Zhang Junmei’s account, don’t you think there’s anything wrong?”

Song Sen walked to the desk and pulled up a chair and sat down.

"You think something is wrong."

Lu Lingyou pulled out the printed details from the hospital from his coat pocket and handed it to Song Sen.

"I took a quick glance at it before.

The first suspension of payment was about four years ago, around the time Zhou Feng’s youngest son was born.

After that, he didn't go, but he paid Zhang Junmei's account four times through remittance.

There were two transactions two years ago, respectively 3,000 and 2,500.

The other two were both this year. One was also 3,000 yuan, but the latest one, 10,000 yuan, was just last week."

Song Sen took the bill and looked back and forth for a while.

"The dean said it was because Zhang Junmei's account had been in arrears before.

The hospital has measures to deal with this situation.

First, multiple parties contact the family members to issue payment notices. If they cannot be contacted, part of the subsidy given by the patient’s household registration street will be used to maintain basic medication.

But in the end, if we can't get in touch, we will notify the police to help coordinate.

After all, Zhou Feng is not divorced, and he is afraid that things will get worse.

In the hospital's final notice, they told him that if he refused to pay, he would be called the police, so he started to use part of the money to make symbolic back payments at the beginning of this year.

But this money is a drop in the bucket in terms of the balance in his account. He himself said that his income is not high and he cannot afford such long-term treatment expenses. He should pay a small amount first and then slowly raise money.

That’s why I received a remittance of 10,000 yuan last week.”

Lu Lingyou snorted coldly.

"You have also seen Zhou Feng's urinary nature of the hob meat. Do you think he can take the money so happily now that he has the idea of ​​cutting off the payment?

Even if the hospital warned him by calling the police, he should still squeeze it out from between his teeth as before. How could he take out 10,000 yuan so happily?

And now VX and ZFB pay, look who still uses remittance.

Even if it was not common for people his age to use mobile phones to pay a few years ago, they should have used it recently."

Song Sen frowned.

"really.

You need to check what you said and check the source of the remittance.

The thousands and thousands are a bit like Zhou Feng's handiwork, and the last ten thousand might not be him after all.

Who could it be?

Zhao Yue had checked before and found that after this incident happened to their family, they almost lost contact with their relatives and friends.

There was an aunt living in Zhang Junmei’s natal family, but she didn’t have much contact with her.”

Song Sen held his chin and thought for a while.

"Besides, I talked to another boy's family before coming here. After the court dismissed Zhou Feng's lawsuit, they never contacted him again.

To put it bluntly, it’s too late for a person like this to hide, so how could he take the initiative to take over this bottomless pit?”

He raised his head and looked at Lu Lingyou.

"You said that if Zhou Feng really didn't get this remittance of 10,000 yuan.

Then why does the remittance note use Zhou Feng’s name again?”

Lu Lingyou exhaled a puff of smoke.

"The note is from Zhou Feng, but I didn't say it was definitely him who sent it."

Song Sen suddenly remembered something.

“Cash transfer?

yes.

It is reasonable if you go to the bank to transfer cash.

There is no account information on the other side. The money is remitted directly from the bank to the designated account based on cash remittance. It can be completely anonymous, or you can note the name of the remitter yourself.

But this can help us find out the identity information of the remitter at that time, since the time was so recent."

Lu Lingyou nodded and called Zhao Zifeng outside the door.

Zhao Zifeng quickly opened the door and came in.

"Boss."

Lu Lingyou raised his chin towards the details in Song Sen's hand.

"Please check this last remittance of 10,000 yuan.

Which bank remitted it? Then contact the bank to check the records at that time."

Zhao Zifeng took the order and nodded.

"clear."

Then Lu Lingyou looked at Song Sen again.

"Contact Zhou Feng after the results come out.

But I guess he himself may not even know that someone paid such a sum of money."

Song Sen nodded.

"When you said that, I felt something was wrong.

The timing of this money remittance is too coincidental.

At this time, you were in G city, and the media was reporting on the darknet case.

Who can think of Zhang Junmei immediately after seeing this case surfaced?"

The two looked at each other and said in unison.

"Zhou Xiaofei."

Lu Lingyou nodded and put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray.

"Maybe what you guessed before was right, Zhou Xiaofei may really be alive.

But as for why people are alive but don’t come back to see their parents in person.

How did she know that her mother was in a mental hospital after not contacting her for many years?

Has he been hiding all this time, or is he being controlled by someone?

Maybe the secret behind the 20% of the missing people who were not found this time is here."

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Zifeng hurried into Lu Lingyou's office holding his computer.

Wang Zhao and Zhao Yue also came back, and their expressions softened a lot.

"Boss, there's news."

He put the computer on his desk and turned the screen to everyone.

"This remittance may really have nothing to do with Zhou Feng.

I checked and found that the remittance was handled by a prefecture-level county in the west. It was not a bank, but a local credit union.

It's at least two thousand kilometers away from us.

There are no big five banks there, only rural credit cooperatives like this.

I contacted the person in charge there and they retrieved the records of the remittance.

She was an old lady in her seventies. She went to the credit union to collect this year's farming subsidy and also made this remittance at the same time.

According to the staff at the time, this old lady was quite strange. She first took out 10,000 yuan and remitted it, and then received the subsidy.

At that time, the clerk was quite warm-hearted. He was afraid that the old lady would be deceived, so he specially called the leader to inquire.

But after asking, I insisted on remitting money.

And over there, except for some young people in the town who use smartphones, these elderly people don’t even have mobile phones, and there is no Internet in the mountains, so I decided it was not a scam or something, so I gave it to Hui."

Zhao Yueyi raised an eyebrow.

"old lady?

Does Zhang Junmei have distant relatives?"

Zhao Zifeng shook his head.

"After checking, Zhang Junmei's local household is located in Shencheng for the past three generations."

On the other side, Fang Ning and Shen Qingrang had already taken the bus to their final destination with the expert team and supporting teachers.

What Shen Qingrang said was indeed not exaggerated at all. Except for the provincial road at the beginning, the journey was pretty smooth. Once we entered the mountains, the pits and pits kept coming, just like riding a roller coaster.

Everyone who had been chatting enthusiastically with each other at the beginning was now speechless and speechless.

Shen Qingrang turned to look at Fang Ning beside him.

"are you OK.

The road is harder than I thought. If I had known better, I would have taken you to drive here by yourself."

Fang Ning shook his head.

"Okay.

Isn’t it the same road if you drive yourself?”

They sit in the front row, very close to the driver.

Hearing the conversation between the two people, the driver was bored and joined in the conversation.

“The road here has always been like this, but it has been much better in the past two years.

Two years ago, the local leaders organized a group of people to hire a large roller to roll over the area, and poured sand into the nearby mountain to prevent landslides.

Otherwise, this journey would be fine if it didn’t rain, but if it rains, we wouldn’t be able to walk at all.”

Fang Ning's stomach turned uncomfortably, so in order to divert his attention, she started chatting with the driver wordlessly.

"Are you a local here?

I see that very few people speak Mandarin here, it’s all local dialect.”

The driver chuckled.

"No, not many of your drivers from outside can drive this stretch of road.

Moreover, the road after entering the mountain is very complicated with twists and turns, and the navigation can't recognize it.

To tell you the truth, even our locals don’t dare to wander blindly in this mountain.

You get lost when you go in, and you go deeper and deeper, and there is no signal.

I heard that a few years ago, there was a group of adventure enthusiasts who insisted on going hiking despite being dissuaded. It seemed that only two out of ten people came out. It was because our village chief organized a group of local people to search in the mountains for several days."

Fang Ning nodded.

"Then you usually run around in and out of the mountains."

"It's okay, I'm the driver of the only bus line here.

But this line only leads from the town to the mountain in front of the village. If you want to go back from the town or from the villages, you have to climb two more hills after getting off the car.

The road there is not easy, and this big car can't pass it."

There were several supporting teachers behind who were not asleep, and they were shocked again when they heard the driver's words.

"Ah? Then we have to climb a mountain later?" The driver took advantage of the slow speed and looked back behind him.

"Then how can I let you crawl?

But when we get to the front mountain area, we have to change cars."

The driver just smiled and didn't continue.

When they arrived at the so-called car exchange place, they finally knew what car they were replacing.

Several small vans that looked almost scrapped were parked there, their glass windows almost opaque with dust.

Look at everyone's colorful and spotless suitcases. The contrast should not be too obvious.

There is a person who seems to be a leader standing next to the car directing the people he brought. Everyone calls him Brother Li. He should be the person in charge of the docking activities here.

"You guys move all your luggage to the roof and secure it, then get in the car and follow it."

The person in charge of the expert group was sent by the organizer of the charity event. He is a middle-aged man in his early forties named Pan Zhi.

It was obviously not the first time he had been to such a place, so he was not surprised.

"Everyone understands, just hold on for a while and we'll get there.

The female comrade gets on the bus first, and the male comrade can lend a hand and help."

Brother Li looked over apologetically.

"Thank you for your hard work.

Our conditions here are limited, so if the big car can’t pass, we’ll have to suffer for a while.”

Pan Zhi shook his head.

"As you say, isn't that what we're here to do?

It’s like saying that you can’t bear this little hardship.”

He turned to look at the two camera trucks at the end of the line.

"I don't think these bread trucks can fit in them. The camera truck we brought should be able to hold two more.

But please arrange for a local person to follow you in each car, I'm afraid they will get lost."

Brother Li nodded.

"no problem."

Just like that, everyone got on the broken bread in the village and stumbled to the destination school again.

When setting off, Fang Ning glanced at the time. It was just after seven o'clock when she got off the bus. You can still see the setting sun at seven o'clock in the summer evening, which is quite beautiful.

But by the time they reached their destination, the school dormitory, after twists and turns, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

There are no street lights on this road, and it is either a cliff or a cliff. If it were not for locals who are familiar with the road conditions, they would not be able to go ten kilometers without going straight down the cliff.

After this thrilling meal, no one was willing to say another word. After arranging their dormitories, everyone went back to rest. Not many people even went to eat the dinner arranged in the cafeteria.

Shen Qingrang returned to the boys' dormitory, put away his luggage, and then came to Fang Ning to have dinner with him.

Fang Ning didn't bring many things, only a medium-sized suitcase, which contained a few sets of casual clothes, underwear, and some toiletries. She just changed into a set of clothes and came out.

"I'm really hungry."

The two of them smiled at each other and walked to the school cafeteria.

"That's right, senior.

Since we can arrange for construction teams to come here to maintain the mountain and pressurize the road, why not build the road properly?

Nowadays, agricultural products are being carried live in various places, and their cultivated land is quite large. If the roads were open, they wouldn’t be so poor.”

Shen Qingrang curled his lips.

"You really got it right.

I asked before I came here. If you don’t want to cultivate, you can’t cultivate.”

Fang Ning frowned.

"No money will be allocated?"

Shen Qingrang shook his head again.

"While we were here, did you notice that there were quite a lot of gravel piled up in the grass on both sides of the road?"

Fang Ning nodded, and he was paying attention, but when he asked the driver, he just smiled and said nothing.

"About three years ago, the local government was planning to build a road here, which should be the section the bus took when we came here.

The infrastructure drawings have been planned, and a tunnel is planned to be built on a mountain in the middle. This way, building it from the town can save at least dozens of kilometers of distance.

At that time, all materials were in place and the construction ceremony was held, but the road was stopped before it was built very far."

Fang Ning gathered the coat on her shoulders.

"Why? Not enough money."

"No, since you want to repair it, you must be ready.

But the infrastructure here is rushing to be repaired, and people in the surrounding villages are rushing to dig up it.

The gravel and land we saw were all dug out in this way."

Fang Ning turned around and glanced at the school behind her.

She did take out some money before, but she didn't ask much about school repairs afterwards.

I heard that there were many obstacles during the construction of the building. Once, the two people in charge sent by the Charity Association and the Psychological Association were surrounded by villagers. They said that the ancestral graves of their generations were here, and it would be disruptive to build them. Feng shui.

She just heard about it and thought it was ridiculous that a place that was so poor would still pay attention to Feng Shui.

Shen Qingrang sighed.

“Isn’t it quite incredible?

Building roads is a good thing. Once the roads are open, they can greatly improve the living standards of people here.

But it just didn't make sense, and in the end I couldn't afford to waste the expense and time every day, so I just let it go.

It’s a miracle that our schools can be built.”

Fang Ning shrugged and said calmly.

"This is someone who is purposefully guiding the ignorant villagers here to deliberately cause trouble and prevent too much contact with the outside world."

Shen Qingrang smiled knowingly, but did not comment too much on this ignorance.

"It seems that this time we have to go door-to-door to educate and popularize the idea of ​​reading, but I'm afraid it won't be that easy.

This kind of deep-rooted thinking formed over time cannot be corrected in a day or two.

Psychologically speaking, these are all illnesses.

And it will affect future generations from generation to generation, just like heredity.”

The two of them had already reached the canteen, which was quite large and fully equipped with all necessary equipment.

But it is not difficult to see that it is not used much. Even the dining tables and chairs in the distance are covered with original packaging plastic films and stacked together. It seems that they have not been used since they were shipped.

Even cooking now is done on a primitive stove on the side, which is said to save electricity costs.

After all, not many people come to eat, so using high-power electrical appliances all the time is a waste.

The cook in the cafeteria is an aunt in her fifties. I heard that she was temporarily hired by the town. She was supposed to cook lunch for the students according to the subsidy, but after arriving, not many students were seen.

Seeing that someone finally came to the canteen to support her, the aunt was very enthusiastic.

"Finally, someone is eating. I thought experts from big cities wouldn't be able to get used to eating from a big pot like us."

She spoke in the local dialect. Fang Ning couldn't quite understand it, but he could probably understand the meaning.

Fang Ning thanked her and took out a dinner plate with two vegetarian dishes and a small spoonful of rice.

"Girl, you are so thin and you eat too little."

There was no one in the canteen either, so the aunt wiped her hands and sat down with the two of them.

"Try it. Although these are radish, cabbage, and potatoes, they are all grown by our own family here. They are pure green food.

Isn’t this kind of pesticide-free dish popular in your city?”

Fang Ning smiled, lowered his head and took a sip.

“It’s delicious.”

Someone praised her cooking skills, which made her laugh heartily.

"Hey, it's a pity that my skills are poor.

I opened a restaurant in the town back then, and the business was so good that every household would ask me to serve."

Shen Qingrang put on an expression of approval and cooperated.

“It’s really delicious.

It sounds like your accent is from here."

The aunt nodded and tried her best to speak in less authentic Mandarin.

"I am a local, but I used to live in the mountains.

Later, my husband went out to work and saved some money, so he brought us two to the town."

Fang Ning raised his head while eating.

"Auntie, I see there are many villages in the mountains here."

"Yes, our mountains are connected with each other. It doesn't look very far away, but if you want to go to the next village, you have to go around for at least several hours.

Although each village is under the jurisdiction of the town, it would take at least half a day for me to get there from the town, and I still have to be driven by a driver who is familiar with the roads."

Fang Ning nodded understandingly.

"The driver told me when we came here that the terrain in the mountains here is very complicated."

The aunt raised her eyebrows.

"You mean Zhao Gang."

Before Fang Ning could answer, the aunt continued.

"It should be him, he runs the most here.

It is not popular here to go out to work, and we are self-sufficient in what we farm.

Their village is the most remote and difficult to get around from us. He usually drives directly to live in a dormitory in the town and doesn’t go back very often.”

Speaking of this, the aunt came closer mysteriously and whispered in broken Mandarin.

"Girl, don't blame me for talking too much. I have to remind you when I see how quiet you are.

You are here to do good deeds, and letting your children study is a great merit.

But people in the village do not have this ideological consciousness. They have children just to work and think that studying is of no use.

Especially in Zhao Gang's village, everyone is unruly.

We here call them cripple villages.

You know why not."

Fang Ning shook his head.

"You say."

The aunt moved her chair closer.

“Ever since I can remember, every family in their village has been nestled in the mountains.

This stuff was originally talked about by relatives, and there is no popular prenatal and postnatal education, so it can be used to give birth to children.

You say, in this life and after life, if we are not all related by relatives, then it is still good.

The further the children are born, the more disabled children there are, and then they become disabled again, and my God, what a sin they have done."

Fang Ning and Shen Qingrang both understood clearly.

"Then the town doesn't care."

Auntie sneered.

"What the hell, they don't even know how to register a marriage.

But this is what I want to remind you.

I heard that you guys are going to go from village to village this time. But remember what Auntie said, you young kids can go anywhere, so don’t go to their village.

The people there are very unruly.

As for your school, when it first started building a house, people were sent there to compile a list of children who needed to go to school.

There is one. I forgot what it was called.

Anyway, he was a young guy about the same age as you. He was nice when he went there. When I returned to town, I saw him. His head and body were covered in blood.

After my husband retired, he went to the health center in the town for an appointment. He said that he was unconscious when he was sent to the hospital, and he later drove to a large hospital overnight to save his life."

Shen Qingrang frowned.

"The police don't care?"

The aunt burst into laughter.

"Young man, the police can't control these villages.

Those who obey discipline don’t need to count them on their fingers. They are all numbered.

The town and several nearby villages are fine, they are close and we arrived in a timely manner. In recent years, the town has always done some ideological popularization for us, and most people have been obedient after getting a taste of the benefits.

But that's not the case in places like these. You can't find many landline phones here, let alone smartphones.

It’s not nice to say that if something happens and you rush over there, everyone will feel cold.”

Fang Ning finished the food on the plate and smiled at her aunt.

"Thank you, I will pay attention and remind the person in charge here."

The aunt nodded.

"Oh yes, and ah, if you stay in the dormitory at night, remember to lock the door.

Don't go out when it's too late. It's no safer than big cities with surveillance cameras everywhere."

Fang Ning put the plate on the back and thanked her aunt again before leaving the cafeteria with Shen Qingrang.

As soon as he walked out of the door, Shen Qingrang had a sad face.

"If I had known this, I wouldn't have let you come.

I'm really worried about saying that.

Tomorrow will be fine. I have to go pick up a batch of supplies with Brother Pan the day after tomorrow. With the traffic conditions along the way, I guess it will be dark when we come back.

I always feel like it’s not safe to leave you here by yourself.”

Fang Ning looked at him with a smile.

"Can I still let the wolf carry me away?

Don't worry about it blindly, there are several of us in the same dormitory, so we just don't have to act alone."

Shen Qingrang sighed helplessly.

"You have to pay attention.

I remember that you learned some tricks when you were in school. If anything happens, just go to the vital point and say hello, and run away as soon as possible."

Fang Ning's shoulders shook twice.

"Okay, okay, I understand."