Chapter 215: Split up
Quietly poked half of his head out, silently counting the heads in his heart: one, two, three.
The three of them were tightly wrapped in thick cotton clothes, standing next to each other to keep each other warm and resist the cold wind.
After thinking for a while, Suning left a code on the ground that only she could understand, and retreated slowly and quietly.
Listening to what they said, the batch of goods had already arrived, and the transaction was within these two days, so she did not choose to use medicine to find out what was going on.
After all, it is best to catch a thief and seize the stolen goods in one fell swoop.
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Taoshi, Wuling County.
After changing cars several times at seven o'clock in the evening, Zhang Ze finally arrived at the small county town where Wu Meng's home was located.
This county is far inferior to Yong County under the ancient city. It doesn’t even have a decent main street.
There are only two small two-story buildings in the building.
After finally finding the old bridge, Zhang Ze immediately became energetic and knew that he was not far from the home Wu Meng said.
I saw a hump-like hill not far away, with a large number of residential houses at the foot of the hill.
In the dark night, it is difficult to see whether the mountain is like Wu Meng said, a peach blossom forest that stretches as far as the eye can see.
“Dong dong~”
“Dong dong dong~”
“Who is it? It’s late at night, here it is!”
In the house The man casually put on a patched cotton-padded jacket and opened the courtyard door against the howling cold wind.
Seeing the unfamiliar face and meeting those sharp eyes, I don’t know whether it was fear or cold, but my calves became weak and trembled.
“You, who are you?”
"Hello, brother, I'm a distant relative of the Wu family. I came here late at night because of an emergency at home. Could you please help me with some directions?"
"Wu family? Which Wu family? This is originally the Wu family. But most of the people in the village are named Wu!”
“My cousin is Wu Meng, Wu Meng’s Wu family”
Wu Meng?
The daughter of Wu Shengli’s family, the tail of the village?
"Wait a minute."
Putting his clothes together, the man returned to the house and greeted his wife, then took a torch and lit it in the stove pond and walked away. come out.
“Let’s go, I’ll take you there.”
“Thank you, thank you, brother!”
“It’s just the courtesy of fellow villagers, this road is not easy to walk. You follow closely.”
"Hey, okay."
Zhang Ze responded and followed him closely with the torch he held high. During the process, he couldn't help but start asking, "How is my aunt?"
< br>"The blind old woman has a hard time with her son not around and her daughter gone."
The captain is also kind-hearted and gives her easy and capable jobs on weekdays, so that she can barely make ends meet. starve.
This is not far from the county seat. Although Wu Han can't come back, he is a filial person and his monthly allowance is mailed home.
Otherwise, this man is blind and in poor health, and the medicine is always in his mouth, and the little rations are useless.
“Here, this is the room.”
Before anything happened to Wu Shengli, the Wu family was living in the village, with a loving couple and a son and daughter. The best of both worlds.
Since her husband's accident, Wu Mengniang's body has collapsed and her eyes have gone blind from crying. If it weren't for the fact that she still has a pair of children who can't let go, they might have followed him.
“Thank you, brother, I’m really sorry to trouble you!”
When he got there, Zhang Ze thanked him and took out a bag from his pocket to hand him two cigarettes. He waited for the person to leave with a smile, then turned around and knocked on the door of Wu's house again.
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In order to save some firewood, and because she was blind and did not need firelight, Wu Mengniang went to bed early when it got dark and lay down unable to sleep.
Hearing the knocking at the door, there was a bit of confusion on the face full of grooves.
The inside and outside of her home, including every nook and cranny, are extremely familiar to her heart. Therefore, even if she cannot see in the dark, she can accurately avoid tables, chairs and benches and reach the door without any obstacles.
“Who is it?”
Touching the stick placed behind the door, Wu Mengniang picked it up and asked carefully instead of opening the door in a hurry.
"Auntie, is this Wu Meng's home?"
"Niu'er?"
Hearing her daughter's name from someone else again, Wu Mengniang couldn't help shaking her hands. The stick fell to the ground.
"Yes, yes, this is Wu Meng's home, her home!" She was shocked by the sound of the stick hitting her. Wu Mengniang pulled off the door bolt in a panic, and replied repeatedly, "You Who? Who knows my Wu Meng? Where is she? "
When asked the last sentence, the old man choked uncontrollably and thought he was bleeding. Tears burst out even more.
"Mom, don't be excited, let's talk slowly!"
"Okay, okay, I'm not excited, not excited...cough cough cough~"
Rough Touching her face with her hands, Wu Mengniang stopped coughing and forced herself to hold back the uneasiness and discomfort in her heart and led her into the house, "Come in, let's go in first, let's go in and say."
Zhang Ze Night Vision He was very capable and helped her into the yard.
I was led to sit down by the fire pit in the kitchen. I saw her expertly lighting a fire with dried fir needles and putting in a few thick firewood. I didn’t know why I felt an inexplicable sourness in my heart.
"Don't be busy, ma'am. I don't need to boil water if I'm not thirsty."
"Here, how can this guest not drink hot water when he comes?"
"You really don't need it. You sit down first. Then if I'm really thirsty, I can burn the assembly myself." What's going on?"
"Auntie..."
After organizing some conversation, Zhang Ze informed Wu Meng of the situation with some difficulty.
The origin and process of the incident should be kept as brief as possible, in just a few sentences, for fear of scaring people.
As long as there is a living person in the family, even a child who is not half grown up, he will not choose to tell her this matter.
"I knew...I knew, how could my girl not come to see me for so long? Something must have happened..."
"Anyone who comes back will tell my girl. , my girl is gone, her body is neither alive nor dead, and her body cannot be found..."
"Why can't I keep myself safe and run away with someone? My girl is not that kind of woman... wuwu, my baby My little girl..."
"Mom, you have to take care of yourself, Wu Meng is still waiting for you, waiting for you to take her home even in dreams."
Although he said it succinctly, after living so many years, what has she not seen or experienced during wars and famines?
Wu Mengniang knew what the words abduct and imprison meant just by thinking about it.
Even if her daughter escapes death, she, a widower, knows better than anyone what will happen to the Wu family when they return.
But she wants her baby to live, even if she lives with a stigma, it is still worth a cold corpse.
Wu Mengniang, who quickly calmed down, stopped crying and grabbed his arm with wide, dull eyes, "Please take me to see her, please! Don't wait for her to be ready before sending her away. When she comes back, take me, take me to find her first!”
“Okay, we’ll set off tomorrow morning, and I’ll take you to see her.”
“Thank you, my descendant!”
Wu Mengniang fell to her knees with a plop, and was about to kowtow in his direction.
"Auntie, what are you doing, get up!"
"Thank you for saving my girl, thank you for coming all the way to report the news to the blind woman..."
"Auntie!"
Hold her shoulders firmly, Zhang Ze lifted her up from the ground and pushed her onto the chair behind her.
"Mom, I am also a soldier and your son is ZY. I just regret that I didn't rescue him earlier, and I don't deserve this thank you and kneel down."
After all the hard talk, Zhang Ze finally saved the man. Advise to stop.
It’s just that tonight’s night is destined to be long.
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Su’s courtyard on Nanmen 1st Street of the ancient city.
Suning and Zhang Qi returned home. Before they could say anything, they saw the little guy who was supposed to go to bed early running into the main room.
“Auntie!”
“Xiaoqiu?”
He quickly took the person into his arms and opened his coat to wrap her up, "Why did you run out? Did you have a nightmare?"
"Auntie, why do I come back to Gushi, but I open my eyes every day? I still can’t see you, does my aunt not like Xiaoqiu anymore~”
When she opened her eyes, she had already gone out, and when she closed her eyes, she returned home.
Xiao Qiu pouted her lips with tears in her eyes. That aggrieved look made people feel distressed and funny at the same time.
"How could it be? Xiaoqiu is so good and cute, how could my aunt not like our Xiaoqiu?"
Afraid that the little one would catch a cold, Suning coaxed her and picked her up, " My godfather and godmother, I’ll send Xiaoqiu into the house to put her to sleep first, and we’ll talk later.”
“It’s better for me to go, you just came back and didn’t even have time to take a bite.”
Hu Yingtao quickly stepped forward and took the person from her arms, and patted the little guy's butt pretending to be angry, "You are disobedient. You don't even listen to what grandma said?"
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