"Fatty, don't scold people, this is not Fangcun..."

When he heard the fat man cursing and not being clean, Sanpao reminded him that Hebei Province is a famous martial arts province in China. It has always been a tough people. If there is a disagreement, they will often take action directly. They are here to find people, not to fight.

"The lights in that house are on, and someone is out..." Fang Yi pointed to the dirt house in front of him. An old man opened the yard door with a flashlight and shouted loudly: "Who is here to look for? Er Liu, get up, someone is coming to our village!"

With the old man's shout, the countryside seemed to have suddenly woken up from its sleep. The doors of each household were opened, and some people wearing coats and old cotton jackets walked out of the inside. Each of them held a flashlight in their hands and lit up at the car made by Fang Yi and the others.

"It's a big bun, was it the leader sitting on?"

"This is not bread, it's called a business car. I saw it when I went to work in the city..."

"Little bastard, you know a lot, right? I've also visited the construction site to see the gate..."

Looking at Fang Yi and his friends' cars, the villagers surrounded him were talking. Since the end of the year, many young people who went out to work had returned to the village, and some people knew Fang Yi and his friends' new Buick.

"Hey, who are you looking for? Why don't you get out of the car?" The old man who opened the door first came over and patted the car window with his hand.

"Uncle, I want to get off the car, but your dog is so fierce..." The fat man shook down the window and pointed to the dog with teeth beside the old man. The dog didn't wag its tail when he saw the owner. If it were to outsiders, he would probably bit it in one bite.

"Dahuang, get back to the yard..." The old man kicked the dog's butt, and a whimper made a sound from his mouth. The big yellow dog ran back to the yard.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. There are many people coming to the village and they always throw things away, so the dogs are not tied up. Don't be surprised by the guests..." The old man said politely: "My surname is Liu, and I am the branch secretary of Liujia Village. Who are you here to look for? I'll let someone take you there..."

"Uncle, let's look for Si Yuanjie!"

Fang Yi opened the car door and walked down, took out a pack of cigarettes and took out a hand to the old man, and then sent it around and said, "Uncle, I am Si Yuanjie's boss. He asked for a hypothesis at the beginning of the month that he was going home to worship his grandfather, but he never went back. I was worried that something would happen, so I came to him..."

"Si Yuanjie? Who is Si Yuanjie?" Hearing Fang Yi's words, the old branch secretary looked back and showed a confused expression on his face.

"Secretary, it's the boy from the Si family. Do you even know your own fucking grandson?" An old man next to him started yelling.

"Are you here to find Ergouzi's child? Hi, it's not called Daming in the countryside. If they don't say it, I really forgot what Ergouzi's name..." Hearing Fang Yi's words, the old branch secretary waved his hand around and said, "Let's go back. It's Ergouzi's boss. I'll just talk to the guests..."

"Ergouzi, hehe, this name is good. I will call that kid like that from now on..." When the fat man heard Si Yuanjie's nickname, he smiled.

"If you dare to call him Ergouzi, he will probably dare to call you Wei Jinhua. Do you think which one is suitable?" Sanpao stabbed the fat man next to him.

"If you don't speak, you will die?" The fat man was furious when he heard this, "My name is Wei Jinhua, not Wei Jinhua!"

"Guest, stop talking outside, go into the house and talk. It's quite cold outside..." The old branch secretary greeted Fang Yi and others. Fang Yi originally wanted to ask Si Yuanjie where he was and went directly to find him, but when he saw that the old branch secretary turned around and left, he had to follow him.

Although he is the village party secretary, the house he lives in is similar to other families. Although the structure of the house is not very good, there is a burnt earth kang inside. After entering, a burst of heat came to his face, and the body, which was blown by the wind, suddenly became much warmer.

"Customer, sit..."

The old branch secretary asked Fang Yi and others to sit down next to the table where they were eating outside, and said, "The child Ergouzi is in a miserable life. He lost his parents when he was very young, and my old brother passed away, leaving such a lonely child. You can't treat him badly..."

"Uncle, no..." Hearing the old man's words, Fang Yi quickly said: "Si Yuanjie is very smart and can learn things. I treat him as a little brother..."

"I know, I heard from the child Ergouzi say that the boss he and he is very good, and he still has a salary of 2,000 yuan a month for food and accommodation. Old man, I want to thank you..."

The old branch secretary laughed when he heard this. The days after Si Yuanjie returned home, he had been eating and drinking at his house. The old branch secretary who had grown up with Si Yuanjie since childhood also treated him as his grandson, so Fang Yi and the others were also very grateful.

"This is all right. I'll be ready to raise his salary after I'm completely ready..."

Seeing that he had been talking to the old man for a long time but still couldn't get to the point, Fang Yi said immediately: "Uncle, where has Si Yuanjie been? He had asked for five days off before. He hasn't returned after half a month. Nothing happened, right?"

"Didn't go back? Isn't that right?"

It was windy outside just now, and the old branch secretary didn't hear Fang Yi clearly. After hearing this, he couldn't help but show a shocked expression on his face, shook his head and said, "Ergouzi left ten days ago. He also left me a thousand yuan. You don't know, this kid is kind, no one in the village has said it..."

"Uncle, did he say he was going back to Jinling?" Fang Yi automatically filtered the words praising Si Yuanjie and asked, "You always think about it, did he say he was going to another place? We have been waiting for him in Jinling, and he hasn't gone back..."

"No, he said he went back to work..." The old branch secretary was stunned for a moment and said, "The first day he still had a meal with me, but the next day I went to my daughter's house. I really don't know when he left..."

"This is not right..."

Fang Yi and Fatty Sanpao looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time. Although they had not been together for a long time, they all knew that Si Yuanjie was not old and was very steady in doing things. Since he had left the village, something might be happening on the road.

"Old man, Ergouzi's child didn't leave the next day..."

Suddenly, an old lady's voice came from the inner room. As she spoke, an old lady in her early sixties lifted the thick curtain and walked out. "Ergouzi left on the third day. On the day before him, several people came to his house to look for him. Ergouzi was the village with them..."

"Well? Are you following someone else? Who are you with?" Fang Yi's eyes lit up and he asked quickly.

The old lady thought about it very seriously, but shook her head and said, "I don't know the old woman, but she looks a little familiar, like a few people from the villages next to her..."

There are not many mountains in Hebei Province, and most of the villages are connected. After living for thousands of years, each village is related to relatives and walks around on weekdays, so even if the old ladies don’t know each other, they can look familiar with each other.

"Who else has seen those people besides you?" Before Fang Yi could speak, the old branch secretary asked his wife.

"It seems that his wife of Daniu also saw it?" The old lady thought for a moment and said, "When Ergouzi left, we were placing soles at the entrance of the village..."

"Okay, go back to the house and put on a cotton jacket and go to Daniu's house with us..."

The old branch secretary waved his hand and picked up the flashlight on the table. Fang Yi and the others explained: "Da Niu hasn't come back from work yet, so her wife lives at home with her baby, so she asks the old woman to go with her, otherwise she will be afraid that someone in the village will gossip..."

What the old branch secretary said, Fatty and Sanpao both understood that there were many men like rural areas who went out to work and women took care of their children at home, which was the same as the widow's fault in front of the door. If the old branch secretary took Fang Yi and the others into the house of Daniu's house, some gossip might be circulating the next day.

The roads in the countryside are not easy to walk. After walking a hundred meters deep and shallow, the old branch secretary stood at the door of a house. The main house of this house was a brick and tile house, but the kind of earthen house in the village was still built on both sides.

"Cuihua, I am your aunt. I'm open the door and I have something to ask you..."

The old lady shouted at the door of the yard. The barking of dogs caused when they came over caused the lights of several houses next to them to light up, but after hearing the old lady's voice, the lights were turned off again.

"Auntie, what's going on so late? The kids are sleeping..."

A woman's voice sounded in the room. After about four or five minutes, a young woman in her twenties walked out in clothes. Seeing so many people standing at the gate of the yard, she couldn't help but be stunned and stopped.

"Cuihua, it's okay. They are Ergouzi's boss. They are here to find Ergouzi..." The old branch secretary said, "Ergouzi has been out for several days and has never been to a place where he works. Your aunt said that you saw it when he left that day. Do you know who he left?"

"So that's the case..."

Hearing the old branch secretary's words, the young woman breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while, and said, "There were three people walking with Ergouzi that day. I don't know the other two, but one of them was from Jiangzhuang. My sister was married to that village. I have seen him in Jiangzhuang!"

"Sister, do you know what the man in Jiangzhuang is named?" Fang Yi asked in an instant.

"I don't know what it is called..."

Cuihua shook her head and just as Fang Yi and others showed disappointment, she immediately said: "But I know which family it is. That family is next to my sister's house, and there are only two brothers in the family, and their parents are no longer there..."

"Sister, where is Jiangzhuang? Can you take us there?" Fang Yi felt relieved when he heard Cuihua's words. As long as there were clues, it would be easy to deal with. What he feared most was that Si Yuanjie ran out alone, and that would be without a trace.

"Now? Is it too late?" Cuihua glanced at the old branch secretary, and her expression was obviously unwilling to do so.
Chapter completed!