Chapter 4 Children who like stars
And he turned his gaze from the villa in the middle of the mountain to the peaceful and busy He family town. While Mr. Demon was doing an unknown surveillance work on the mountain, Liu Yanshi, disguised as a civil servant, had already begun to act in the town.
What she did was simple. She knocked on the door door, claiming that she was a staff member of the Environmental Sanitation Supervision Office, and asked questions about the status of family hygiene treatment as usual, and at the same time collected feedback from the public. When she showed the ID posted her big-headed photo, the residents of Hejia Town let the young and beautiful girl enter the door without any doubt.
Liu Yanshi's inquiry during the visit was quite skillful. On the surface, it was to check whether the house had any hidden dangers in terms of safety and hygiene. In fact, he often talked with the owner about some family matters, and unknowingly he could get a lot of personal information.
Li Lijuan is the seventeenth family to be visited.
When Liu Yan saw that she habitually wanted to take off her shoes. Li Lijuan waved her hand quickly: "The floor at home is not clean, so don't pay attention to it, just come in directly."
Liu Yan blinked her eyes, looked around and said:
"I think it's quite clean and it's very neat." She smiled and said, "Auntie should be very good at managing the house, right?"
Li Lijuan felt a little embarrassed: "It's nothing. When the man goes up the mountain to collect herbs, I will do some chores."
Liu Yan's eyes flashed slightly and pretended to ask inadvertently:
"Is Aunt Li's husband also his surname He?"
"Yes, there are seven of the ten men in our town surnamed He. I married from a nearby county town..."
"Is that true?" Yan Shi smiled and asked casually: "The house is so clean, and the couple's life should be very harmonious, right? How old is the aunt and uncle's child this year?"
Liu Yanshi used cliché tricks. She actually didn't know whether Li Lijuan had children. She just used the two points of Li Lijuan in her forties and having a husband this year, and planned to use this to open up Li Lijuan's chat.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he asked, Li Lijuan's face changed color, as if she had been poked into the pain, and her eyes became a little dim.
"What happened to my child a few days ago and he is gone."
Liu Yan looked at her heart and twitched slightly, and hurriedly said, "Sorry... I didn't mean it..."
"It's okay." Li Lijuan sat on the chair, a little depressed and smiled bitterly:
"It's also my fate. I had a fight with the child half a month ago. He went up the mountain with anger. I thought he would come back in the evening, but I sent someone up the mountain to find him for several days but couldn't see anyone. It was not until a few days ago that someone caught him in the river... A good person disappeared like this..."
When he said this, Li Lijuan's eyes had already started to turn red. She rubbed her eyes and choked and said, "Everyone in the town said that the child was harmed by the mountain ghost..."
Liu Yanshi was stunned: "Does something like mountain ghost really exist?"
"There has always been this saying in the town. Every year, there are many children who go up the mountain to play. After playing around, they disappear the next day... We locals don't go up the mountain at night... I should have stopped the child and prevented him from running away from home..."
Liu Yanshi thought that Zuo Cai was still wandering on the mountain at this time, and she couldn't help but feel a little nervous. When she thought of herself touching other people's sadness, she felt even more guilty. She took out a tissue from her pocket and handed it to Li Lijuan, and gently patted her back.
"It's my fault, I shouldn't have asked about these..."
Li Lijuan shook her head:
"This is all a private matter at home. I'm so nagging, it's hard for you, a girl."
"It's nothing." Liu Yanshi smiled reluctantly, turned to look at the house again, and suddenly there was a little more empty feeling. She pursed her lips and asked:
"Auntie, can I see your child's room?"
...
The room was not big and it was neatly tidy. The owner had been dead for more than half a month, but he could not see the dust.
"After Siming left, I would clean up this room every day, and I just wiped it clean, and the things were never moved."
Li Lijuan leaned beside the door and murmured in a daze.
Liu Yanxi walked into the room gently, looked around, and saw rows of awards on the wall at a glance.
"Student He Siming... made this statement to encourage him."
There are many certificates, including three good students, excellent grades and good moral character. They have been ranking from elementary school to senior high school one after another. When Liu Yanshi saw that the certificate of He Siming's high school was signed at Guangzhou Hikguang Middle School, her expression changed slightly.
Hinaku is also the school that Shizuo attended. In short, He Siming is still a senior in his freshman class.
There were many books piled up on the bookshelf by the wall. I swept it roughly, and seven out of ten were related to astronomical astrology. Liu Yanshi asked in confusion:
"Auntie, does your child like astronomy very much?"
"Yes." Li Siming sniffed and said with a wry smile: "It makes you laugh. This child has always been well-behaved and studied hard. But in the past few years, he has been obsessed with astronomy and has been wasting all the time. He is said to have become the chairman of the astronomical society in school..."
Liu Yanshi shook his head:
"I think this is great. Having your own interests is not a shameful thing..."
She just said it casually, but she didn't realize that this sentence seemed to hit Li Lijuan's pain again.
"You don't understand, you don't understand... girl." She was distracted:
"This child is good at everything, but he is obsessed with astronomy. He said he wanted to save money to buy a telescope astronomical book every day, and he refused to use the living expenses he gave him. He didn't eat good brunch, so he just ate two steamed buns. I asked his classmates only to find out... After three years, I have lost several times, my whole body is not taller, and my academic performance is not as good as before... I have quarreled with him many times because of this..."
"The day he left... he had a big fight with me because of astronomy, so he ran away from home... What's the good thing about Astronomy? He couldn't make a lot of money, and his family worked hard to raise him up and spent so much effort to support him in the city to study, but it turned out to be like this... I saved tens of thousands of yuan for most of my life and wanted him to go to a better university. Now I'm gone... I'm gone... I'm gone... I'm going to be life..."
Liu Yan's pupils contracted slightly and turned her head.
"Auntie... you just said that the money was gone, what's going on?"
"It's nothing." Li Lijuan wiped her tears and chuckled softly. There was a bit of incomprehensible relief in her smile, and Liu Yan felt something was wrong.
"After Siming left, I dreamed of him every day, crawling out of the river with blood, and blood on his hands, body, and mouth... My friend introduced me to a craftsman who lived on the mountain temporarily. The master was very effective. He got everything and also advised me that Siming was plagued by mountain ghosts. He was uneasy and had to lose money and eliminate disasters... After donating all the tuition fees left for Siming, I never had such a dream again..."
Chapter completed!