The weather is clear and the sun is shining.

After the cold wave passed, the temperature in Wengzhou began to warm up.

On Hongyao Alley on Hongdao Road, Chen Hua and his wife were pulling ropes to dry the bedding. Several children were hiking between the bedding, including their son Dongliang and his friend’s son Daping.

Zhang Dongqing walked out of the corridor door and saw Chen Hua's son Dongliang happily ate the pot crumbs while eating more happily. He teased him and said, "Dongliang, why do you eat pot crumbs? Pot crumbs are not delicious. Pot crumbs are made of dry snot."

Dongliang is only five years old and goes to school in the Yuhong class of Chen Hua and his wife. He is very young but very sensible, and said:

"No, the crumbs are made of rice. There is a fire on the stove for cooking. When steaming white rice, the rice sticks to the bottom of the pot and becomes the crumbs. They are fragrant, crispy, and delicious!"

Zhang Dongqing laughed at this and said, "Who did you hear this? If the pot crumbs are really made of white rice, will your parents not eat them? In fact, the pot crumbs are made of dry snot, so your parents don't eat them."

Jiang Liu, a child in the same building, was originally greedy, and was circling around the pillars and trying to mix the pot and crumble. He heard that this thing was made of dry snot and he believed it, so he quickly shook his head and stepped back.

Seeing this, Tongliang immediately hesitated.

Daping was two or three years older than him and was already very sensible. So he went up to whisper to Dongliang with his ears, and broke a piece of the crumb from the bowl and started eating.

Dongliang hurriedly covered the bowl and said to Zhang Dongqing: "Uncle Dongqing, I love to eat pot crumbs. You said pot crumbs are made of dry snot, so I'll ask the children from our street to go to your door to wipe the snot. You can cook for us to eat pot crumbs."

This is a decisive saying.

Zhang Dongqing quickly said, "Hey, I was teasing you just now. Why did you become smart today - Oh, is it the words this kid said to you?"

He looked at Daping with interest and asked, "Chen Hua, whose family is this kid? It looks a bit clever."

Chen Hua patted the bedding and said, "It's a kid from a friend's house. His hometown is in the rural area of ​​Fuhai's outer island. Now the family is here to work in a hotel in the city."

"The weather was cold a few days ago, and the child couldn't live in the prefabricated house by the beach, so he asked him to come to my house to stay. You haven't been at home these days, right? Otherwise you would have met him."

Zhang Dongqing said: "I wasn't at home, so I went to Hujian on a business trip. I haven't come back for a few days. I heard that the weather was very cold here a few days ago? Haha, Hujian is very warm."

Xiao Yajun, who was on the same building, also came out to dry the quilt. He tied a rope on two trees on the street and spread the quilt quickly and said, "You are lucky. It was really cold a few days ago. It was your leaky room? You can freeze your Niu Zi that night!"

Zhang Dongqing laughed: "You can freeze and pick it up, right? I am not afraid of the cold, but Uncle Sheng on the first floor is afraid of the cold."

"Today is very good, why didn't Uncle Shan come out to bask in the sun?"

Hearing this, Chen Hua and his wife stopped pounding the bedding and said, "Yes, Uncle Sheng hasn't come out to bask in the sun for a long time, what's going on?"

Xiao Yajun said: "He went to the outer island, probably to Aunt Shanhua's hometown. I remember that last time he was going to go, he met them and asked, and what they said was to go to Aunt Shanhua's hometown."

When Zhang Dongqing heard this, she became serious and said, "Are you sure? How many days have he been there?"

Chen Hua thought for a while and said, "The days are not short. Did the cold wave come and go before? Anyway, I haven't seen him come out to bask in the sun since the cold wave comes."

Xiao Yajun said: "Yes, it's just the thing before the cold wave comes. The days are indeed not short, and there are ten or eight days."

Zhang Dongqing frowned and asked, "Is this wrong? What is he going to do? Why haven't he come back for so many days? Will something happen?"

At this time, a thin-clothed and old man came out carrying a bamboo bed in the unit building next door.

He leaned against the south wall and the sun shone on it. Then two thin monkey-like children emerged from the corridor, and rushed up with a brush calligraphy exercise book, lay on the bamboo bed to draw the brush calligraphy.

Seeing this, Xiao Yajun talked to him: "There is a lot of wind outside of Erzhu, why do you let your child come out to write?"

The man Erzhu smiled and said, "I rented a northern room, which is cold and humid. Now the weather is getting warmer, so let the baby come out and bask in the sun."

Looking at the two thin children who were lying on the bamboo bed and writing carefully, Chen Hua's wife Qiao Jingjing asked lovingly: "Brother Erzhu, have the academic status of Datuan and Xiaotuan resolved? Have they entered school?"

Erzhu shook his head sadly: "Oh, how can I solve my school status be so easy? I have a rural household registration, I am a temporary worker, not a formal worker, and I don't have a house in the city, but I rent a tool room. How can I solve my school status in this way?"

"Now the school has a good teacher, so they both want to borrow...ah!"

When the weather was good, he didn't want to mention these sorrows, so he cheered up and changed the subject: "Who did you just hear me tell you that something happened? Oh, Holly, are you back? I haven't seen you for several days."

Zhang Dongqing said: "Brother Erzhu, we are talking about Uncle Shan from our unit 102. Uncle Shan went to his nanny's hometown. It took ten days and half a month to go there, but he has never come back or has no news. Something is not right."

Erzhu said: "Yes, Uncle Sheng hasn't come out for many days. It turns out that he has gone to Aunt Shanhua's hometown? Why did he live there for so many days?"

Zhang Dongqing said, "Yes, we wonder too! How can we live at the nanny's house for so long, right? Will there be something wrong?"

Erzhu took out a pack of economic cigarettes and distributed them to him and Chen Hua, saying, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Dongqing said solemnly: "I heard about this incident when I went on a business trip to Hujian's provincial capital. You may not know where Hujian is. Many people there went abroad to do illegal work and make money in capitalist countries."

"Then we all know that capitalist countries are bad. Capitalists exploit workers, and capital lackeys bully black brothers. Some people learn this when they return to China. When they use the bad intentions they learn in capitalist countries to deal with some honest people."

"One of the things is like this, that is, there will be an old cadre in Hujian Province. His wife died early and just married a wife last year."

"As a result, after marrying his wife, he became healthier and worse. He suddenly died before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year and failed to eat this year's mooncakes."

"His wife cried bitterly. The neighbors who saw her at that time all sighed, saying that the old cadre had a good life and found true love before she died."

"But the old cadre's grandson is a medical college student. He came back to attend his grandfather's memorial service. When he said goodbye, he found that his grandfather's condition was wrong, so he took out a silver needle and stabbed it into his grandfather's throat on the spot - guess what?"

The strong and burly Erzhu asked nervously: "What's wrong? His grandfather is alive again?"

Zhang Dongqing rolled her eyes: "Brother Erzhu, you are just talking nonsense. It was his grandson who pulled out the silver needle and saw that it was pitch black, just like your son's brush!"

Chen Hua shouted: "Silver needle can test poison, is the old cadre poisoned to death?"

"Yes!" Zhang Dongqing said, "Later, the security officer arrested the rural wife married by the old cadre. This investigation revealed that a group of people saw that the old cadre had been widowed for many years and had money and tickets, so they became determined to steal his property."

"So they went to the countryside to get an old lady and first fascinated the old cadre, slowly poisoned him in the food, causing him to die of chronic poisoning."

"In this way, the family's property will be legitimately attributed to his wife and this group of people..."

Erzhu said, "So cruel."

Chen Hua held his glasses and sighed: "Brother Erzhu, are you stupid in plastering mud and sand on the construction site? Dongqing said this was not to show that those bad-hearted people are so cruel now, but to remind us that we should be careful that Uncle Shan also encountered such a thing!"

Erzhu was stunned and asked, "What do you mean is that Aunt Shanhua pretended to be a nanny for Uncle Sheng, and now she cheated him away and seized his property?"

Then he said, "It is indeed possible that you are all in the office. Unlike me, I am a farmer, and I have contacted farmers and workers on the construction site, so you have not heard much about it. There are quite a few things like what Holly said in the countryside. This is called eating a house with no other family!"

Chen Hua's wife Qiao Jingjing asked anxiously: "What should I do?"

Xiao Yajun hesitated and said, "Are you too nervous? This is unlikely, right? We all know Aunt Shanhua, that's a good person..."

"You know people, but you don't know your heart." Zhang Dongqing said solemnly, "Just take Hujian's incident. The old cadre married after he died and fainted from crying several times. Can you imagine that it was the old cadre killed by this old man?"

Xiao Yajun shook his head and said, "It's right to know people, but not the heart, but eyes are the windows that lead to the soul. Aunt Shanhua is not such a person. Let's wait a few days to see?"

"Wait?" Zhang Dongqing said seriously, "It's been ten days and half a month, and it's about to be twenty days. If you wait any longer, the clues about this matter will become less and less!"

Chen Hua said: "Or otherwise, let's call the police first and listen to what the security officer said."

Xiao Yajun muttered, "This is such a fuss. What if Uncle Sheng is fine? What is the point of calling the police like this? It is a waste of the energy of the security comrades."

"Yes, this seems to be called a fake policeman?" A girl with a big wave roll heard for a while and said, "Reporting a fake policeman is an illegal crime!"

They looked at the big waves, and Qiao Jingjing looked at her hairstyle and showed an envious expression: "Hey, beautiful, when did you perm your hair?"

Liang Meili shook her long black hair proudly, and suddenly she shaking the waves, looking even more charming: "I just got hot yesterday, how about it? It's not bad, right?"

Qiao Jingjing nodded and said, "Yes, it's so good, very fashionable, very fashionable, how can this be permed? Xiaobing, our unit's home, raised the stove a few days ago because it was cold. She permed her hair with iron chopsticks, but it turned out to be permed..."

"Hey, what are you two doing? Here we are discussing Uncle Shan's life safety. Why are you still discussing perming your hair? It's so stinky!" Erzhu said.

Liang Meili and Qiao Jingjing looked at each other and gathered together to discuss in a low voice.

Zhang Dongqing said: "This kind of thing is not reliable, so it's up to us to solve it. If I ask me, there is no need to call the police. Let's go to find Uncle Ge in the unit. Uncle Ge's two sons are both security guards. He has served as a soldier before, so he must have an idea."

"Yes, go find Uncle Ge." The others nodded one after another.

Uncle Ge’s house is in Unit 101. After they knocked on the door, a boy came to open the door, and then a crisp sound came: “Bababababa…”

The boy said, "Uncle, are you here to find my grandfather? My grandfather is settled for their unit, wait."

A three-drawer table was placed on the living room with a south window. Ge Hongxing was wearing glasses and was quickly fiddling with the abacus beads: "Baopao..."

Ge Hongxing's wife was stepping on the sewing machine. With the sound of the sewing machine's "click" sound, an old printed sheet fell down, and the broken edges were beaten by thread again.

The few people waited for a while, and Ge Hongxing put down his abacus and asked what was going on.

Zhang Dongqing explained the incident in detail and guesses, and finally said: "Uncle Shan has disappeared for more than 20 days, and he has not seen anyone or news. We are very worried that something happened to him."

"We should really worry." Ge Hongxing said solemnly, "The rural areas of the outer islands are still quite chaotic. Before liberation, people often came to the city to kidnap people, tied up people and brought them to the sea, killed them and threw them into the water to feed them. They didn't know about it!"

"But I've seen that big girl in Manshanhua a few times, and I'm really not like someone who can do such things."

Erzhu said: "Yes, uncle, so we can't tell you what's going on. You see, you have trained two security officers for the country, and you are an old party member who has been transferred from the army. He is knowledgeable and we want you to make a decision."

Ge Hongxing said: "This matter is not yet confirmed, so it is not appropriate to report the case directly. In this way, who knows where Manshanhua's hometown is? Let's go and have a trip!"

Erzhu and others shook their heads.

Chen Hua thought for a while and said, "I remember which commune in Haifu County is..."

"From the Changlong Commune of Haifu County." Ge Hongxing's wife continued.

She picked up the sewn sheet and shook it. Seeing that there was no problem, she stopped the sewing machine and covered it with a white cloth.

After packing up the sewing machine, folding the bed sheet, the old lady picked up a winch and began to select silkworm pupae.

There are many families in rural areas who plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms. Some women in the city buy cocoons themselves to draw silk. Now some self-employed businesses buy small textile machines to weave cloth for housewives.

In this way, housewives buy silk and draw silk by themselves, take off the glue and dry it by themselves, and then weave it into cloth by themselves. Not only is it cheap, but it is also not restricted by cloth tickets, so they can make two more clothes for their family members.

Hearing her words, Chen Hua nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, Aunt Manshanhua belongs to Changlong Commune. As for which village production team it is, I didn't pay attention to it. Do you remember Aunt Hongxing?"

Ge Hongxing's wife shook her head: "I don't remember, I know that her man's surname is Wang. She seems to have a nephew or something as a teacher. Every time she hears this Teacher Wang mention, she is extremely proud, as if she is the most powerful young man in the world."
To be continued...