Eye of Sin

Chapter 430 A strange hometown

Ning Shuyi could easily imagine how hot he felt when he packed the hot buns that had just been cooked and put them in his pocket.

But she knew Huo Yan's character very well. If he expressed his touching feelings, Huo Yan would think it was a courtesy, which would make him uncomfortable.

So Ning Shuyi didn't say anything. He just took out another steamed bun and handed it to Huo Yan's mouth: "I've kept it warm artificially for so long, so you should eat it while it's hot!"

Huo Yan nodded, took the bun and took a bite: "It tastes pretty good."

With the steamed buns brought by Huo Yan, the dinner for the two of them was quite comfortable. After eating, they continued to close their eyes and relax, taking a nap in the limited space for a few hours. After that, they changed trains again. After many twists and turns, We finally arrived at the destination on the afternoon of the second day, a small county town thousands of miles away from W City.

However, it is still some distance from their real destination, and they need to take a commuter bus there.

It's a pity that there are only two commuter buses a day, one in the morning and one at noon, but no more in the afternoon.

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan tried to hail a few taxis, but they all felt that the journey was long and difficult, and they would have to run empty on the return trip and were unwilling to take the job.

Seeing that it was getting dark after all the hard work, the two of them decided to find a hotel near the bus station for the night. They would get up early the next day and take the early morning commuter bus there.

The conditions of the small hotel near the passenger terminal were not much better. Huo Yan still left his coat with Ning Shuyi so that she could sleep more comfortably.

Early the next morning, at around five o'clock, the two people came to the bus station to buy tickets, and before six o'clock they boarded the commuter bus bound for the village where their destination was.

It is said to be a commuter bus, but it is actually just a shabby minibus. I don’t know if it is a minibus that is approaching the end of life. The seat fabrics inside are so old that the original color and pattern cannot be seen, because the two of them are going to At the terminal of this commuter bus, the driver asked them to sit in the last row to avoid the discomfort of others being squeezed up and down along the way.

It was okay at first. Although there were many people in the car, the car was running smoothly on the road.

But after about ten minutes, when the car turned from the fork of the highway onto the country road, the rest of the journey was not very pleasant.

The rural road is narrow, and from time to time you have to drive through a small stream that crosses the rural road. The bumps and bumps are nothing to worry about. The most thrilling thing is that the driver is very skilled and brave, driving such a fully loaded and shabby car. The minibus was speeding along the narrow, winding country road.

Every time he passed an oncoming car almost as if his rearview mirror was wiping, Ning Shuyi was almost frightened into a cold sweat.

It's even more uncomfortable when encountering a pothole on the road. The speeding wheel will cause a strong bump when it hits the pothole. This bump is particularly obvious for people sitting in the last row.

When the car suddenly bumped up for the first time, Ning Shuyi got out of his seat and flew into the air briefly. His head was about to hit the luggage rack nearby. Fortunately, Huo Yan reacted quickly and reached out to cover Ning Shuyi. With the calligraphy skills on her head, she avoided the fate of having an extra "horn" on her head.

Just like this, the bumpy journey finally made it to the end.

There weren't many people getting off the train at the terminal, so as they approached the terminal, Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan moved to the front seats, closer to the driver and conductor, and chatted with them before the bus arrived.

The conductor was quite outgoing and talkative. She said that the village at the terminal originally had a lot of people but little land, and it was a notoriously poor place in this area. Later, many people wanted to increase their income and simply left one person at home who could farm. People go out to work to earn money to support their families.

As a result, more and more people in this village are going out, but fewer and fewer people are willing to come back after going out. Until now, there is still so little land in the village, and even fewer people are farming.

When the car arrived at the stop, Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan hurriedly got off the bus, leaving the smell of gasoline that filled the CMB and taking a few breaths of fresh air.

Strictly speaking, there is no station at the terminal of this commuter train. It is just a three-way intersection in the village with a relatively wide space and view. The temperature here is much warmer than that in W City. It's not so cold that your ears and the tip of your nose feel like pins and needles. The air is slightly cool, which is quite comfortable.

Especially in a village like this, the air is much less polluted by exhaust gas and is also exceptionally pure.

It's a pity that the two of them didn't come to a place like this to find a paradise with fresh air, and there were still business waiting for them to do.

The two of them walked around the village and met older villagers working outside, so they went over to inquire. They continued to inquire and searched, and finally found the village committee of this village.

The village secretary unexpectedly saw two police officers with foreign accents coming to the door. He was startled, thinking that someone in his village had caused trouble, or that something had happened outside.

After understanding the purpose of the two people's visit, the village chief breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, you are looking for someone!" He cleared his throat, and the expression on his face became much more natural, "Who? Yu Shufang?

This name sounds a bit familiar... It feels like it's on the tip of my tongue, but it's all over my head all of a sudden, and I can't remember..."

The person next to him patted the table and reminded him: "Yu Shufang! Isn't she Bai Laowei'er's wife?"

"Oh yo yo! That's right!" The village secretary patted his forehead, "I just said such a familiar name! She's from Bai Guiquan's family!

right! She is from our village, the wife of Bai Guiquan from our village. Why are you looking for her? "

"We have some things we want to find out from her." Ning Shuyi said to the village secretary in a relaxed tone.

"It's so convenient to make a phone call these days, why did you come all the way here?" The village secretary obviously didn't believe such an understatement.

"We don't have her contact information, so we can only find her based on her household registration address." Ning Shuyi also expressed helplessness.

"Oh! Then your trip was in vain!" The village secretary shook his head helplessly at Ning Shuyi, "This is Yu Shufang, we haven't seen her in many years!

As long as I have met her once and a half, I won't forget that as soon as you said you were looking for her, I almost couldn't remember that there was such a person in our village! "

"Then if she is not at home, where is she?"

"I don't know! How about you go to Bai Laolan'er's house and ask him directly?

His wife, we haven’t seen her in more than ten years! "

"More than that! It must have been about twenty years!" The person sitting opposite the village secretary also enthusiastically chatted with him, "They all say that they work outside to earn money to support their families, but other people's families go out to work to earn money for a year or two. Come back.

This was the first time I saw someone like Bai Laolian's daughter-in-law who went out and never came back!

In the past, we all thought that people worked in the city for a few years and then moved on to other places when they met better men. But we heard that Yu Shufang occasionally sent money back to Bai Laowei'er to support her children's education. , it doesn’t look like he ran away with someone else! It’s also strange! "

(End of this chapter)