Urban Witcher

"I remember this taste, I used to eat it often." Chen Yue chewed a mouthful of noodles in a daze.

"That's good, it means we didn't come to the wrong place."

"Sister Chen, have you ever stayed in Qiangui?" Wu Hongzhi asked curiously.

"She is from Bijie, and this time we are here to do business in her hometown." Before Chen Yue could speak, Xie Yuqing took it and said.

Wu Hongzhi still wanted to ask more questions, but Xie Yuqing changed the subject and led him to discuss travel.

It is rare for Xie Yuqing to take a vacation, and Wu Hongzhi kindly asked her to stay in Lincheng for a few days, but Ye Shaoyang was anxious to take Chen Yue to do business, so they agreed that she would stay in Lincheng and accompany Chen Yue by himself. Bi Jie, come to Lincheng to find her after the matter is over, and stay with her for a few days then.

Early the next morning, Ye Shaoyang, Chen Yue and Guagua set off for Bijie. From Lincheng, the high-speed train only takes 20 minutes, and it arrived in the blink of an eye. After getting off the train, Ye Shaoyang called a car on Didi according to the address on Chen Yue's ID card. After getting on the car, Chen Yue kept staring at the window Outside, it seems to want to find memory.

"Mother, do you remember?" Guagua asked in a low voice.

"It seems familiar." Chen Yue said.

The car drove out of the urban area and entered the Panshan Highway, over the mountains, and there was no guardrail on the side of the road. Sometimes there was a sharp turn, and the driver was very calm. Ye Shaoyang sat in the co-pilot and was terrified along the way. Fortunately, The scenery between the mountains and the fields is good, and I shared my attention.

The car drove for an hour in the mountains and came to a small town in the valley.

The driver asked them for the specific address, and said that he could only get here by navigating according to the address he gave, and then he didn't know where to go.

The three had no choice but to get out of the car.

Ye Shaoyang paid through the platform, and felt distressed when he saw that the fare was more than 100.

"I said, don't you remember anything, look at this town, do you know it?"

Chen Yue stood on the street, observed it for a long time, and murmured: "I remember this place, but I only vaguely remember it... It's fragmented and can't be strung together."

"That is to say, you don't know where to go, do you?"

Chen Yue shook her head.

There was no other way, so Ye Shaoyang had no choice but to go to a nearby supermarket to buy water, and asked for the address by the way.

The proprietress is an old woman who speaks the local dialect, which sounds like a foreign language to Ye Shaoyang, and she didn't understand it for a long time, but Chen Yue understood it, and exchanged a few words with her in a slightly jerky dialect, and then called Ye Shaoyang to leave.

"Follow this road for three intersections, then go up the mountain, that's it." Chen Yue pointed to a road and said.

"Do you speak the local language?"

"I... had no memory at all before, but after listening to her, I suddenly remembered something."

Ye Shaoyang said with satisfaction: "When you come into contact with things that you have been in contact with for a long time, it will slowly bring back memories."

The mountain road is a small road paved with gravel, and it is a bit muddy in rainy days. It may be because of the rain, and there is no one on the road. Chen Yue stopped and walked, constantly looking around, thoughtful.

Walking to a flat land halfway up the mountain, there was a thatched hut by the roadside, with a few stone piers inside, which looked like a tea shed, and there were a lot of melon seed skins and cigarette butts on the ground. Ye Shaoyang guessed that it was probably built by people who lived near the mountain. It was for a rest when going up and down the mountain, and it happened that Chen Yue was also a little tired, so I asked her to go and sit for a while.

"What's the matter, how do I see that you are a little nervous, do you remember something?" Ye Shaoyang stared at Chen Yue's face and asked.

Chen Yue shook her head and mumbled, "I'm a little scared."

"What are you afraid of?"

"Afraid to face your own identity." Chen Yue let out a breath, smiled, and said, "I just came along, and the feeling of familiarity is getting stronger and stronger. We didn't go to the wrong place. I am looking forward to knowing who I am. But... I'm a little scared, in case my identity is not good, or something like that, anyway, I'm a little nervous."

Ye Shaoyang thought for a while and said, "I seem to understand, but no matter what, it's all about you."

"Yeah, so I'm just a little worried, and I'm looking forward to it."

Just as they were talking, a man came up from the mountain road they had passed with an umbrella, a man dressed as a farmer, with a cigarette in his mouth, humming a song, walked by, turned his head towards Ye Shaoyang He nodded and said in stiff Mandarin: "Young man, do you have a lighter? My lighter was wet by the rain."

"No. By the way, sir, do you know where the six households in the three groups of Hujia Village are located?"

"Three groups. Go ahead, turn right at the fork, and go all the way to the end." The man stood and glanced at him, "That place is very far away, what are you doing here?"

His eyes moved from Ye Shaoyang's face to Chen Yue's, his brows frowned slightly, and he stared at her without moving.

"You know her?" Ye Shaoyang asked hurriedly.

The man walked two steps quickly, tilted his head to look at her, and Chen Yue also looked up at him.

The man's complexion changed drastically, and he said, "Little nun?"

"What?"

The man suddenly remembered something, the muscles on his face twitched suddenly, he hurriedly stepped back, stared at Chen Yue, and said in horror: "You, you are a little nun, aren't you dead, you, you, you..."

In the middle of speaking, he stumbled and ran away, Ye Shaoyang chased after him and called him for a long time, but he still ran away.

Ye Shaoyang turned around and went back to the hermitage. Seeing Chen Yue's pale and ugly face, he comforted him, "He probably made a mistake. You have hair, so how could you be a nun? Besides, I'm sure you're alive."

Chen Yue didn't say anything, but her expression remained solemn. Guagua took her hand to comfort her for a while.

"let's go."

Chen Yue stood up and pulled Guagua forward.

Ye Shaoyang followed behind, thinking of what the man said before, he also felt very strange in his heart.

Not far ahead, there was indeed a fork. The right side was up the mountain. After a short walk, you could see some houses built against the mountain, which were not as dilapidated as imagined. The road up was also made of concrete. Because of the rain, there were no people on the side of the road. The three of them passed a small shop. Ye Shaoyang discussed with Chen Yue and went in to buy things together. If she was really from this place, the shop owner would definitely be able to recognize her.

Chen Yue bit her lip and reluctantly followed in.

The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man who was eating a bowl of rice while watching TV with relish in front of the counter.

Ye Shaoyang bought something casually, went to check out, the boss was fascinated by watching TV, glanced at them, and asked casually: "You are going to the farmhouse, right? You are going the wrong way. The intersection in front is to the left, and this road goes up the mountain. gone."

Ye Shaoyang said: "No, my classmate's family is from this village, and I sent her home."

Hearing what he said, the boss raised his head and glanced at Chen Yue, stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Xiangu, it's been a while..." Before he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly think of something, stood up all of a sudden, and stared at Chen Yue. Looking at Chen Yue, "You, you..."

(End of this chapter)——