The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 168 Meeting the Joyful Meeting (2)

"Of course it doesn't take 20 years to kill and set fire—it took him 20 years to create a landslide that buried a whole family!" I said every word, and my anger gradually rose from my chest.

"Ah!" The man screamed, as if frightened by my words.Just when we were about to ask him where Zhuo Yue would flee to, he suddenly changed his tone, "So he left here these years to do such a big thing."

His tone was already a bit wrong, and sure enough, before we could say anything, he clicked his tongue and exclaimed a few more words, and then said hesitantly: "But, what does this have to do with me?"

Ji Mingmei and I were stunned by this question for a moment, and after a while I said with restraint: "It's really nothing to do with you, but can you enlighten me on Zhuo Yue's whereabouts?"

"I told you, he has a hut in the mountains, and he hid there in all likelihood."

"Since you helped him escape, why did you reveal his hiding place so easily?" Ji Mingmei looked at him suspiciously.

"I helped him with everything he asked me to do," the man laughed silently, shrugging his shoulders, "but he didn't tell me that I couldn't reveal his hiding place, right? Everyone makes sense."

Ji Mingmei and I glanced at each other, and felt that this person was indescribably weird.But right now only he knows Zhuo Yue's whereabouts, so we suppressed our emotions, and I tentatively asked him: "Then can you tell us the location of that hut?"

"No." The man flatly refused, "Everyone is reasonable. I have been his neighbor for so long, and I met you once. The female has not yet been distinguished. Of course, the purpose of talking about love is to help him, right?"

This was very vivid and sounded very reasonable, but I was very worried when I heard it.Because based on my understanding of Ji Mingmei, the next thing I should see is her vivid expression.As far as I know, this girl Ji is very powerful. Once the fire of samadhi starts to burst from her nostrils, something unpredictable will probably happen.

However, to my surprise, Ji Mingmei didn't get angry when she heard this, but tilted her head and said in doubt: "You are really strange, since you want to help him, why don't you tell us that he has a hiding place; Since you told us that he has a hiding place, just tell us where it is. But you want to tell this again, but you refuse to explain clearly. What are you trying to do?"

The man's words were really contradictory, and I turned my head to look at him.He has been sitting in the shadows since we entered the house, and has never gotten up from the beginning to the end.I stared at him for a while, and suddenly thought of a possibility - this person won't be inconvenient, right?Although some people have physical disabilities, they are just like ordinary people, and some people have a weird temper because of it.

When I thought of this, the anger in my words gradually disappeared, and I felt a little guilty instead, and said to him: "We took the liberty to break into your house, and you don't owe us anything. If you can tell Zhuo Yue's whereabouts, we Naturally, I am very grateful, and if I have any scruples, it is reasonable."

Hearing what I said, Ji Mingmei turned to look at me in surprise.I smiled at her and tugged at her sleeve, "If nothing happens, we'll take our leave first. Sorry for the trouble."

As I said that, I was about to pull Ji Mingmei out of the house, when the man saw that we were leaving, he suddenly stood up from the chair, stretched on the spot, yawned again, and walked towards us , and said as he walked: "Let's go now, don't you sit for a while?"

His lazy waist was stretched magnificently, and his posture when he walked over was so vigorous that I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.Seeing my expression, Ji Mingmei suddenly reacted, "Did you think he was crippled and you couldn't bully him, that's why you suddenly said you wanted to leave?"

"You are kind, little gentleman." The man pondered, "Well, good people are rare these days."

"Then, can you tell us Zhuo Yue's whereabouts?" A glimmer of hope suddenly rose in my heart, and Ji Mingmei also looked at him expectantly.

"I can't, didn't I tell you?" The man didn't care about our eyes, "Oh, you think you are a good person, so I have to tell you everything? This world is not like this, Mr., good people are not good Reported, do you understand, you guys?"

"Hmm." Ji Mingmei was also lost in thought, and muttered to herself, "Since this is the case, why don't we help him be a real cripple and see if there will be any good rewards."

As she spoke, she suddenly smiled, then clenched her fists and walked towards the man, which shocked me and the man at the same time.The man was actually quite old, in his forties, and he was no match for the two of us if he really wanted to fight, so he looked at us with wide eyes and vigilance, with a somewhat disturbed expression on his face.

Ji Mingmei walked a few steps towards him with a gloomy face, and said to me, "You hit him in the front, and I'll attack him from behind. That whoever, bite him from top to bottom..."

I was a little dumbfounded, and looked up at the sky, only to see a malnourished mosquito.I don't know if this is the brother or sister of the one just now, and they hit it off with Ji Mingmei at this time, and they are clamoring for revenge.The man also stared blankly at the mosquito, and then at me and Ji Mingmei, not knowing what conspiracy was going on between us for a while.

Ji Mingmei stared at him for a while, and the atmosphere froze for a while.I also don't know what scheme she has, so I dare not act rashly.After waiting for a while, Ji Mingmei suddenly burst out laughing, came over and walked out with my arm, and said as she walked, "Now can we tell who is male and who is female?"

I couldn't laugh or cry when I heard this, it turned out that she still held a grudge against what the man said just now.Just as we were talking, a person suddenly came in from outside the house. Seeing us walking out of the house, he couldn't help wondering: "Hey, are there any guests at home?"

Ji Mingmei and I took a closer look. The person who spoke was a woman in her 40s, wearing simple clothes, like a hard-working person who is used to doing work.As the woman spoke, she smiled and nodded to us, and we nodded to her in return.

The man also walked out of the house immediately, and the woman smiled when she saw it: "It's been so many years, and I haven't seen any guests in your house, why are you leaving now?"

The strange thing is that the man said a lot of things to us, but he didn't say a word when he faced her, he just nodded, his expression seemed a little indifferent.The woman didn't take it seriously, and went into the house to help him tidy up the house, and then came out with a change of clothes.

She came to the yard, hesitated for a moment, and said to the man: "I may not come here in the future."

The man was expressionless when he heard this.The woman sighed faintly, rolled up the clothes in her hands, and said in a low voice: "You also know that I am not a local. I have been wandering alone for so many years, and I have no home to return to. I have been thinking about it for the past few days. , or go back to my hometown. Although there are no relatives there, there are still two old houses left, which can be guarded for the day."

Ji Mingmei looked at her curiously, then at that person, her eyeballs rolling around.Although the woman didn't say a few words, it was easy for people to guess the cause and effect of her words.She and the man were not much different in age, and there was no one around each other, so she probably had some meaning for him in that regard and wanted to be each other's company.

But the woman was naturally not easy to say this, so she waited for him to say it first, and came to clean up the house for him on weekdays, wash and change clothes.It is obvious that a woman would do these things for a man, but for some reason, this man has never expressed anything.

The woman waited for many years but could not get a response, and she was a little discouraged, so she planned to move back to her hometown, which was about to give up.When she said these words, her tone was not embarrassing, nor did she mean to blame, but a little melancholy.Thinking about it, it is true that after waiting for several years but still not getting a response, anyone will be disappointed.

"I won't come here in the future, remember to change your clothes frequently, and tidy up the house every few days so that people can live in it." Although the woman was disappointed, she still told him a few words.

The man nodded casually, but still didn't speak.The woman looked at him and moved her lips to say something, but in the end she just said softly: "My name is Wang Honger, I don't know if you remember it all these years."

Although she gave up the idea of ​​being with him, she still hoped that he could remember her name, so she could be regarded as a long-term lover.Both Ji Mingmei and I feel a little bit aggrieved for her, but this is her private matter, so it's not easy for us to say anything.The woman told Zhou Xunshan a few more words, then took the clothes and left, saying that she would bring them to him after washing.

From the beginning to the end, that person never said a word to her, and Wang Honger didn't think there was anything wrong.It wasn't until after Wang Honger left that he stared at her leaving back and lost his mind for a while.Ji Mingmei observed his expression, and said abruptly, "Actually, you really don't want her to leave, don't you?"

The man turned his head to look at Ji Mingmei, and Ji Mingmei said persistently: "Look at how kind she is to you, you treat him so coldly, even a fire can be extinguished by you. Since you don't want her to leave, why Didn't say a word to her? Are you too thin-skinned to speak, do you want me to catch up and say it for you? "

She was quite eager to try, but the expression on the man's face became more and more strange.Ji Mingmei was a little puzzled by him, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Today is the first time I've spoken in more than 20 years." The man stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, as if the words he said had something to linger on.

Ji Mingmei and I were taken aback when we heard that, no wonder he just babbled to us in the room, turning things upside down.When a person who has not spoken for more than twenty years suddenly starts talking, he will naturally be a little bit overwhelmed. "So, you have actually been a mute in this town for more than twenty years?!"

"I've never spoken since I came to this town. So, it's not that I've been dumb in town for 20 years, but I'm dumb in their eyes."

"But why haven't you spoken for so many years?" Ji Mingmei asked cautiously.

"Because sometimes, it's not a good thing to be able to talk." The man said, and suddenly smiled at me.

For some reason, I was a little terrified by his smile.Judging from the meaning of his words, it must be that he said something wrong that year, which caused something bad to happen, so he kept silent all these years to punish himself. "Since you haven't spoken for so many years, why are you making an exception today?"

"Because I want to take you to find Zhuo Yue."

As soon as these words came out of my mouth, Ji Mingmei and I both trembled, and then shouted at the same time: "So, you are also from the Six Arts Association!"

The man looked deeply, and pursed his lips slightly, "That's right, so I can't tell you Zhuo Yue's whereabouts, but I can take you to find him."

Ji Mingmei and I were overjoyed when we heard the words, but then we were full of doubts.Because this person is too suspicious, he has been here for more than [-] years, and he and Zhuo Yue have been neighbors for such a long time.And Zhuo Yue was related to the theft of the Donglin Thatched Cottage and the Wenling Landslide, so did he know about these things?
"You are not from the town, but you came here specially for Zhuo Yue?" I watched him and said, my thoughts turned quickly.

He himself said just now that Zhuo Yue would leave for a few days every year these years.Then he and Zhuo Yue have been neighbors for 20 years, and he is also a member of the Six Arts Association. Wouldn't he know that Zhuo Yue went to Wenling to create a landslide?If he knew why he was watching this matter, how could he say that it has nothing to do with him when we mentioned it, and he also helped Zhuo Yue escape from our noses?

"You don't need to guess, I stayed here for 20 years just for Zhuo Yue," Zhou Xunshan smiled slightly, "I also waited for your arrival."

"Let's go, since we're here, let's go find Zhuo Yue." The man said, returned to the house and took out a hatchet.Seeing that we were standing there without moving, he took a few steps towards the gate of the courtyard first, "I know you have a lot of questions, talk about them as you walk, otherwise you won't be able to find Zhuo Yue."

(End of this chapter)