The night in the countryside is darker and dewy. From time to time there are dogs barking in the deep alleys, and fine rain drifts indistinctly, blurring the original cold moonlight.

The room was very stuffy, Lin Jin lay on his back on a small bed that was barely erected with several wooden cabinets, with his legs nestled in discomfort.

She is waiting for someone to come.

In the middle of the night, Lin Jin almost fell asleep in a daze, but suddenly heard the sound of knocking on the window, the sound was very soft, it seemed that she wanted to wake her up, but she still hesitated.

Lin Jin opened his eyes and forced himself to wake up.She sat up, reached for a towel from a nail on the wall, and wiped her sweaty face and neck.

There was a hazy black figure outside the window, and under the reflection of the rain, Lin Jin could see the cold outline of her side face.

Lin Jin walked over and opened the window from the inside. The man was startled, and stood in the rain looking at Lin Jin.

The man's clothes were thin, and although the weather was hot and dry, he felt a little shivering in this rainy night.

Lin Jin suddenly smiled and said, "Do you just like to hang out on rainy days?"

Zhang Xi pursed her lips and said nothing.

Lin Jin beckoned her to enter the room, and she turned over and jumped in through the window, accidentally kicking off a piece of gray wall.

Lin Jin couldn't help laughing, Zhang Xi looked at her in embarrassment, and looked at the small pile of broken white skins on the ground out of the corner of her eye, wishing she could stick it on and dance again.

Both were silent.Lin Jin was sitting on a wooden cabinet, and Zhang Xi found a stool diagonally opposite her and sat down, as if hesitant to speak, until Lin Jin took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket, and she said, "Don't Smoke it...it's not good for your health."

Lin Jin pretended not to hear, and lit the cigarette on his own, and was about to put it to his mouth to take a deep breath, but someone snatched it away.

Lin Jin watched the cigarette butt being broken and thrown on the ground, then stepped up with one foot and slowly crushed it out.She raised her head to look at Zhang Xi, with unclear emotions flashing in her dark eyes.

"So you want to go to Longxi together?" Lin Jin asked.

Zhang Xi walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder lightly: "If you want, I will go with you."

Lin Jin patted her hand away, smiled, and said, "Is my father really dead?"

This sentence seemed to be asking, but also seemed to be talking to himself, Zhang Xi didn't know whether to answer or not.After a while, until the air started to stagnate, she said, "Those are the people you love, and I won't let anyone hurt them."

Lin Jin quickly grasped the meaning of the words and asked, "They?"

Zhang Xi didn't answer.

Lin Jin didn't care about her, and got up to pack his luggage. He didn't need to take too much stuff, just what was necessary, otherwise it would always be a burden on the road.

Zhang Xi stood silently watching her tidy up, and wanted to go over to help several times, but Lin Jin just walked around her and walked to the other side, as if she was getting in the way.Zhang Xi was not annoyed either, she was responsible for all these things anyway, if it wasn't for her, Lin Jin and everything around her would be different.

Time passed quickly, and it was almost dawn.People in the village woke up early, and before the rooster crowed, many people had already prepared breakfast and planned to go to work in the fields.

Lin Jin wanted to sneak away while no one was awake.If someone finds out, she will definitely not be able to leave.

She kept moving her hands, and at the same time, she was also paying attention to the sounds in the courtyard. She was thinking that no one had woken up yet, when suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the backpack in her hand almost fell to the ground in fright. .

The old man who prevented her from staying in the room where her father lived last night called her loudly outside the door: "Lin Jin, the uncle has something to do with you, have you woken up?"

Lin Jin looked back and saw Zhang Xi was still standing in the middle of the room. There was no place to hide in the empty house, and he felt bad.Zhang Xi shook her head at her, motioning her to open the door.

Lin Jin hesitated and walked over to open the door. The old man was smoking a dry cigarette and was puffing out the clouds. When Lin Jin opened the door, he took a puff unexpectedly and almost coughed up tears.

"Grandpa He, what's the matter?" Lin Jin rubbed his eyes and asked.

The old man raised his eyes and glanced at the inner room. Lin Jin reflexively moved to the door, only to realize that he had overreacted, and turned around to laugh twice.

The old man put down the cigarette holder in his hand, smiled, and raised his legs to enter the room. Lin Jin's body froze, and before he knew whether he should continue to stop him, he had already entered.Seeing that things were not going well, Lin Jin quickly followed in, only to find that Zhang Xi had disappeared, and the packed luggage had been put back in the same place, as if everything last night was a dream.

Lin Jin poured a glass of water for the old man, but the old man took it and put it on the table. He walked out without saying a word, leaving only one sentence: "If you really want to know, you can go, I'm afraid you will regret……"

It's a pity that Lin Jin can't do anything at this time, and she doesn't want to think about it anymore. She desperately wants to know the truth, wants to find her relatives, and doesn't care about the future or whether she will regret it.

As soon as the old man left, Zhang Xi came out from nowhere, with her backpack still in her hand, Lin Jin took the bag from her without asking her, and the two of them slipped to the back door of the yard, taking advantage of most of the people still Without waking up, he walked on the road to Longxi.

In their haste, neither of them noticed that the young man watching them not far behind had a smile on the corner of his mouth, which was fleeting, completely different from the usual cunning.

In fact, the archaeological team was not far from Longxi, but Lin Jin had to walk for at least a few days before sending An Qiao a message to tell him that he had left, otherwise he would definitely come after him.From the way his hairs stand on end when he usually mentions the ancient tomb of Longxi, he knows that he will never let the teacher's only daughter take risks again.

So Lin Jin even thought about walking there, but Zhang Xi quickly rejected her.

Zhang Xi said: "Even though Longxi is very close, there are some gravel fields and small hillsides along the way. In addition, it has been raining recently, so it is too unsafe."

Lin Jin thought about it carefully, she was right, but the people in the archaeological team will definitely find out that she is missing soon, if they call the police and go to buy train tickets by themselves, I'm afraid they won't see Longxi's shadow has been brought back.Of course, she couldn't expect them to be willing to go to Longxi with her to solve the mystery of the ancient tomb, just like her father and the others did back then.

Seeing Lin Jin thinking hard, Zhang Xi suddenly had an urge to tell her who she was, and told her that as long as she wasn't afraid, she could take her to Longxi in less than an hour. She didn't need to think so much, as long as she Just follow yourself.

But now she didn't dare, she even felt that she might never dare to say that to Lin Jin for the rest of her life.In the past, Lin Jin had no fear of facing her true colors because of her blindness, but now she was not sure if she would still be the same as before.

She has lived for many years, and there is almost nothing that scares her. She doesn't care about other people in this world, only Lin Jin can't let her go no matter what.Not only because she owed so much to Lin Jin, but also because she didn't even know how to love someone, so she was careful everywhere, and she even felt that she was too humble and cowardly.

Lin Jin finally came up with a solution, and was about to tell Zhang Xi, but found that she was looking at her with amber eyes in confusion, her dumbfounded look was even cute.The two sat on the side of the road at noon on a hot summer day, Zhang Xi was a little wilted, but this softened the sharp edges and corners, revealing a slightly stubborn gentleness in his bones.

Lin Jin couldn't help slowing down his voice, patted her arm to bring her back to her senses, and asked, "What are you thinking? You're so absorbed."

Zhang Xi caught a glimpse of Lin Jin's smiling eyes, and felt that she was suddenly reunited with her previous appearance, her face was slightly hot, and she whispered: "It's nothing, do you have any idea how to leave?"

Lin Jin said: "We can take a taxi first and walk from the main road, and then walk for a while when we encounter places that cannot be reached by cars. In this way, we can go by reversing a few times, and the supervision of taxis in such small places will not be It's tight, no one will know where we're going."

Zhang Xi listened to Lin Jin's advice on everything, and this time was no exception, so the two hurried to the main road to take a taxi.

……

On the archaeological team's side, no one noticed that Lin Jin had disappeared until noon.An Qiao didn't have time to call Lin Jin early in the morning, but was called to their workplace, so she didn't find anything wrong.

The rest of the team only thought that Lin Jin was in a bad mood because of his father's death, so he didn't go out, and there was an old man surnamed He who kept stopping them, saying that they should let the children take a break until noon when they found that Lin Jin was not there. When I went to eat, I realized that she was gone.

As soon as An Qiao heard the news, he hurried back to the small courtyard. The rest of the team went out to look for Lin Jin. Although they didn't have a good relationship with Lin Jin's father at the beginning, An Qiao is their immediate boss now. It was Lin Jin's father's student again. This time he went to pick Lin Jin up personally, and they didn't dare to let something happen to the girl the second day after she arrived.

When An Qiao returned to the yard, he only saw Mr. He lying on the rattan chair shaking a cattail fan. The shade of the trees was mottled on him, and with the bright midsummer sun, the air was quiet but restless, as if a crisis was brewing. The scene changed.

An Qiao suddenly said, "You just let her go like that?"

Mr. He ignored him, closed his eyes and reached out to take a sip of cold water from the porcelain cup.

An Qiao persisted: "What if she dies?"

The tone of his words was too strong, he almost gritted his teeth, Mr. He finally squinted his eyes and glanced at him, his tone seemed ordinary and indifferent: "She died, isn't it just what you want?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for An Qiao to speak, he said again: "If the evildoer who was with her is also dead, wouldn't it be very satisfying?"

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