Seven Evil Slips Chapter 13:

At noon the next day, Luo Ren drove into Chongqing.

After driving for more than ten hours, I felt dizzy. After entering the urban area, I found a restaurant to eat, and then called several people one by one.

Mudai, 13,000, and Cao Yanhua are all unreasonable.

Only Hongsha picked it up. She was very depressed. When asked what she was doing, she hesitated for a while before saying, "I'm writing an IOU."

Uncle and grandpa's death can't be concealed, the creditors who were originally out of face, now come to the door one after another, and the words are straightforward.

——"I used to look at your grandpa's face..."

——"If your grandpa is still here, everything is negotiable, but now..."

Probably because she is hopeless.

The house is sold, the furniture is cleared, and the debt is still insolvent. Some people think that the little girl is lonely and pitiful, and it’s okay to be short of ten or twenty thousand, but there are always two or three, who are persistent and pat the table and say : "You are pitiful, you can't pay back the money if you are pitiful? Are you still reasonable?"

Yan Hongsha had tears in her eyes, and she gritted her teeth. When she was in a hurry, she slapped the table and stood up: "Either I write an IOU, or you take me to jail, there are two ways, choose by yourself !”

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay: It's not a glorious thing to force a little girl to go to jail, and more importantly, if she goes to jail, wouldn't the debt be more vain?

So I wrote an IOU, which I had never written before. I searched the format on the Internet, signed my name, ID number, stamped my handprint, agreed on the date of return, and wrote at the end: The words are evidence.

Luo Ren asked: "How much do you owe? Or should I lend it to you first?"

Yan Hongsha was silent for a while, then said: "No."

I don't want to turn my friend into a creditor. I don't want to see him when I look down. I feel short of him all day long.

Luo Ren didn't insist either: "Think about it for yourself, and speak up if you need it."

Pause again, and then said: "Maybe something happened to Kiyo and the others. There is no news from the three of them."

He briefly told Yan Hongsha what happened before. Although Yan Hongsha was worried, he still felt that everything should be for the better: "Maybe Muyo forgot, or there is something to do and it's too late to fight?"

These are unlikely, after all, Luo Ren made the importance of the matter very clear to her before: "Because there is no signal in Caojiatun, it is extremely necessary to communicate at a fixed point every day. Once I don't receive a call, I can Take it as something wrong with you."

If it was too late to call last night, most of the day has passed today, and it can be remedied, but he didn't receive any calls along the way.

Let him say this, Yan Hongsha also panicked: "Then... I will go as soon as I finish writing the IOU, how can I contact you?"

"It's the same, I will find a way to call you at a fixed time every day."

***

At sunset, Luo Ren went into the mountain, but the car couldn't drive the last part of the road. He parked the car and carried a simple tactical bag, which contained necessary self-defense tools and medicines.

I wanted to take the car keys away, but after thinking about it, I found a nearby tree, dug a hole and buried it.

The mobile phone still has a signal, so I took advantage of this opportunity to tell Yan Hongsha the location, because Hongsha will definitely arrive after him, and if necessary, he can open the door to get things—the trunk of his car, It's half a warehouse.

I waited for a while at the intersection, wanting to take a motorcycle or something, but I waited and waited for the car to arrive, but it started to rain.

I had no choice but to walk into the village along the mountain road. Fortunately, I was light-packed and didn't feel tired. At dinner time, I arrived at the front station of Caojiatun, the small grocery store.

There was nothing to eat in the store, so Luo Ren bought a bottle of water and two chocolates, and within a short while, the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

The chocolate didn't taste very good, so I only ate one and put the other in my pocket.

The owner of the store is nice. He picked up a black umbrella from the inside and gave it to Luo Ren. He said that several umbrella ribs were broken and he didn't need to return it. It could barely cover him for a while.

Ask him: "Are you here for the wedding too?"

That's right, Luo Ren was vague.

The owner of the shop looked outside, and saw that the eaves were falling into the water: "The time is not well chosen. In this mountain, there will be no rain, and it will last for seven days. It seems that the wedding will be soaked in water."

While talking, he shook his head: "Not good, not good."

It’s not good, soaking in water, isn’t it the same as “soaking in soup”? I always feel unlucky.

There are still six or seven miles left for this last section of the road.

It is more difficult to walk than before, the dirt road is waterlogged, the soil is soft, and there is a hollow half an inch deep under one foot. Just stagnant water.

Luo Renxin said: Do you think you are a flower?

I had no choice but to tilt the umbrella sideways every time I walked, and the stagnant water rushed down like a small waterfall, and it flowed down along the road cracks in chunks. Half a bowl of mud.

There must be frequent mudslides in this mountain, and landslides are probably common.

One foot deep and one foot shallow, at nearly nine o'clock in the evening, I finally arrived at Caojiatun. I asked people where Qingshan's house was, and came all the way.

There is no other reason, such an umbrella, the image is too broken.

Qing Shan was sitting at the table in the main room, drawing circles on the paper with a pen, thinking about the arrangement of the round table and the ranking of guests for tomorrow's wedding, and occasionally glanced outside the door.

It’s still raining, and I feel anxious when I think about it. Who doesn’t want to get married in a sunny day?

When he looked outside the door again, he was taken aback for a moment.

A man was striding over, tall and straight, wearing black military boots, stepping on the stagnant water in the bluestone slab in front of the door, splashing every step.

Qing Shan subconsciously felt that he came here for himself.

Sure enough, Luo Ren came in all the way and asked him: "Are you Qingshan?"

Qing Shan nodded.

"I'm here to find my friend, I arrived yesterday, a man and a woman."

Qingshan stammered: "Is that the pair of Beijing guests? They said they are friends of my cousin Da Duner."

"Yes."

"Let's go."

"Gone?"

Qingshan explained that he didn't know what was going on, when he arranged the accommodation last night, everything was normal, but who knew that when he woke up in the morning, both of them were gone.

He took Luo Ren to see the house where Muyo and Shiwan lived: "Here, I thought they might come back again, so I didn't tidy them up, so I folded the quilt."

An ordinary house with no signs of fighting, even if something happened to Kiyo, it must not be here.

Leaving in the middle of the night, taking away the luggage, and not hearing from him at all, this matter seems strange no matter how you look at it.

"After the two of them came, have you seen anyone?"

Qingshan smiled honestly: "There are people coming and going in the room, and I met a lot of people."

"Have you talked to anyone in particular?"

"Yes, the eldest girl of the Cao family, they have chatted with the eldest daughter of the Cao family for a long time, she is... Cao Jinhua."

Cao Jinhua? It's such a thunderous name.

"Who else?"

Qingshan scratched his head: "That girl, she also met our Yafeng... But the time was quite short, Aunt Seven said, and she came out after a few words."

Seeing that Luo Ren didn't understand, he explained a bit embarrassedly: "Yafeng is my bride."

Bride?

Luo Ren's heart skipped a beat, could it be that girl who was kidnapped?

It was already very late, it was inappropriate to go to Cao Jinhua at this time, Luo Ren discussed with Qingshan to stay here for one night.

The room was empty and empty, Qing Shan agreed without hesitation, and asked him many questions.

——Aren’t you also my cousin Da Dun’er’s friend?

——I thought my cousin was afraid that my uncle would beat him, so he invited two friends to serve as outposts, why did he leave in the middle of the night?

—You didn't get in touch with them either? Also, we have no signal here.

…

Yeah, why did he leave in the middle of the night? Luo Ren was also thinking about this question.

It would make sense to save the girl and go away, but in this situation, the bride is still there, and the people who came to try to help the bride, one, two or three, are all gone.

After falling asleep, Luo Ren kept thinking about this problem, with his hands behind his head, and he couldn't figure out why.

Perhaps, there is something wrong with the bride, or something wrong with the village.

Outside the window, the sound of rain continued, and it was getting bigger and bigger.

Being bored, Luo Ren lifted the curtains to look, the drainage in the small courtyard was not good, the courtyard had already accumulated water, the rain hit the water surface, and the ripples were mixed with spray.

Just as the curtain was about to be lowered, a hand suddenly stretched out from the middle of the shallow pool of water.

Rao Luo Ren is used to seeing dangers, but this unexpected sudden shock still shocked him.

He just walked into this room from the middle of the yard. It was rammed earth, not soft mud, and there was no way anyone could hide underneath.

The hand kept grabbing upwards, and then, it was difficult to get out of the water above the head, as if there was a person struggling to climb out.

First it was just the top of the head, then the forehead, and then the whole head. The head was kept lowered, and the sound of the clattering rain seemed to be louder.

It's like a scene from a movie.

Luo Ren said to himself, this is impossible.

The man looked up slowly.

Rain, mixed with blood all over the face.

Luo Ren's head thumped, and for a moment, he couldn't even hear the sound of rain.

That's thirteen thousand!

Luo Ren didn't stay for a moment, he almost kicked open the door and rushed out. In the heavy rain, he rushed to the center of the yard, half-kneeling, and stretched out his hands to feel in the rain.

Splashing water, the cold rain poured through the top of the skull, almost pouring into the back, this coolness made Luo Ren wake up, he stood up, and took two steps back.

Solid rammed earth, about half an inch of water, no one, what I just saw may be a fantasy.

But 13,000, something must have happened.

***

Kiyo curled up in the corner of the cave, not sleeping soundly.

I had a dream. I dreamed that Hao Duan was sleeping in her room, on the large carved wooden bed that was "sealed immediately". Suddenly, the bed was shaking around. Yes, a vast ocean.

There are animals passing by her eyes together, pigeons in pairs, white geese paddling, a pair of monkeys swimming breaststroke, and a pair of moles on their backs, huddling and hugging each other.

There is a big ship in the distance, and these animals are heading towards the big ship continuously.

That is the legendary Noah's Ark. God sent a forty-day flood, and only Noah's family and animals in pairs got on board.

Kiyo sat alone on the bed, thinking, I can't get on the boat, and Luo Ren is not around, so I can't form a couple.

A wave came and the bed turned over.

Kiyo fell into the water, the water was cold.

Woke up all of a sudden.

There was the sound of splashing water, and there was a coldness under the body, as if it was really water.

She quickly sat up and groped around to find the flashlight. Fortunately, the flashlight was waterproof. When she unscrewed it, she found that the cave was full of oceans.

It must be raining heavily outside. There are countless streams of water hanging down the stone wall on one side, forming a puddle at the bottom of the cave, and the water level is getting higher and higher. Thanks to the high terrain where she sleeps, otherwise, she would really be drowned in the water in her sleep. I don't even know it.

Kiyo got up quickly, and limped to the edge of the stone wall. A stone on a high place diverted the rainwater, as if it had been carved out alone.

She raised her head, leaned forward and took a couple of sips. It had an earthy smell and was not tasty, but it was better than not having a drop of water all day.

The flashlight wandered back and forth in the cave, perhaps, she should find a relatively clean container to store some water.

The low-lying end of the burrow has accumulated water, like a small pool.

The flashlight swept over there, and the movement suddenly froze, and after a while, he hesitated to hit back and stopped in one place.

There, the surface of the water was bubbling, as if someone was drowning underneath.

Kiyo's scalp was numb, and this premonition finally came true.

A man's head slowly lifted up from the water, looking towards her, with a hand stretched out towards her, with an anxious and painful expression on his face.

Thirteen thousand?

Without even thinking about it, Kiyo rushed forward and stretched out his hand to pull, using a lot of force, but it was like hitting the cotton with a heavy fist, the pull was empty, and then he fell hard and sat in the stagnant water.

There was the sound of rushing water, and a small waterfall hung on the wall. Kiyo shivered, stood up, and looked up after a while.

The exit is there, about thirty meters above the ground.

If you want to find a way to get out, something must have happened to Thirteen.

Enduring the pain, Kiyo ran to the edge of the stone wall on the water, took a deep breath, pressed his abdomen against the stone wall, grasped with his right hand, and cheered himself up in his heart: "Come on, come on."

With a strong kick, the right hand grabbed the belt, the whole body went up, and the left hand grabbed it. There was a piercing pain, and the other leg that fell was also weak, and the whole person fell heavily into the water, and it took a long time to recover. , Get up from the water, the hair has been dripping down.

She looked down at her left hand.

Actually, it was only the one finger that was injured, but when he acted, it was as if his entire arm had been crippled, and so did his leg.

It would be nice if you were not afraid of pain.

If only a separate personality...wouldn't be afraid of pain.