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Luo Hai's hometown is not in this city, but in a neighboring city called Luojiagou, Shuangshui Village, Xinma Township. The teapot was also mentioned by him once in the early years. He is not 100% sure whether it is this address. It can only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor, just give it a try.

Teapot took the shuttle bus for almost four hours before arriving at the bus station in the neighboring city. He didn't even get out of the station and got on the shuttle bus to Xinma Township.It was also his luck that there was only one bus to Xinma Township a day, and it was so coincidental that he just caught up with it.

The next road is not easy. Once the car leaves the city, it is full of dirt roads, and there are potholes everywhere. The driver is driving hard, and a little carelessness can knock people out of their seats.The teapot almost vomited several times, and endured the discomfort all the way. When the car drove to Xinma Township, it was completely dark.

The teapot waited for everyone to finish leaving before getting out of the car. The driver hurried to deliver the car home, and urged him impatiently. Staring at him coldly, the driver saw that he was an unfamiliar foreigner, and when he saw his vicious look, he faltered first.

The teapot simply walked to the front row, leaned against the car seat and put the bag at his feet, took out the cigarette case from his pocket, lit one himself, and handed another to the driver.

"Master, can I ask you something, okay?"

The driver took the cigarette with a smile, and seeing that it was "Zhonghua", he was suddenly suspicious, not sure what he wanted to do?

The teapot smiled and blew a smoke ring, and said in a relaxed voice: "Don't be nervous, that's it. Me, I just want to ask you about someone. I have a distant cousin named Luo Hai, who was adopted from my family to a side branch in the early years. I haven’t seen my relatives for many years. No, our old lady is not in good health recently. She wanted to see him and told me to come pick him up. But, I lost the address on the way here, so I only remember it as if It's Luojiagou, Shuangshui Village, Xinma Township, and I just want to ask you, have you ever heard of the name 'Luo Hai'?"

Seeing that he was wearing a leather jacket and black leather shoes at a young age, the driver looked like a rich man, so he dispelled his doubts for a while, and chatted with him relaxedly.

"We really have a Luojiagou here. My wife is still from there! But I don't have any impression of the person you mentioned. I have only heard of people called 'Luo Fuhai' and 'Luo Dahai'. It seems... there is no name. Luo Hai's."

The teapot smoked his hand, and asked again: "What about Zhang Peng? Have you heard of this person?"

The driver was vigilant, and when he heard that he asked someone else, he quickly looked at him suspiciously.

Teapot calmly followed up with an explanation: "Zhang Peng was my neighbor when I was young. His mother remarried. I heard that he also moved to Xinma Township. If I find him, maybe he will know Where is my cousin?"

The driver nodded, thinking hard.

The teapot saw that his cigarette was about to run out, so he quickly lit another one for him. The driver thanked him and accepted it, took two puffs, and suddenly said: "I remember, the nephew of Zhang Dabao who showed the cowshed to the commune seems to be called Zhang Dabao. Peng! It's just..."

The teapot asked anxiously, "Just what?"

The driver sighed: "It's just that Zhang Dabao died of illness half a year ago, and his nephew hasn't come back to his hometown for many years, and he didn't even see anyone else at Zhang Dabao's funeral. They say it probably happened outside."

After finally finding a way out, he saw it broken, and the teapot was not reconciled, and asked: "Then Zhang Peng, or Zhang Dabao, is there anyone who is good friends? I'll ask them, maybe I can get some clues." .”

The driver shook his head, thought about it, and said, "You can go to the commune and ask. Zhang Dabao has visited the cowshed all his life. If he wants to say who he has a good relationship with, the only person he has is the secretary of the commune."

No matter what, at least there is a direction.

Teapot thanked him sincerely, and was about to get out of the car, but was stopped by the driver: "It's getting dark today, you're from out of town, where are you staying tonight?"

The teapot was taken aback for a moment, but forgot about this.

Looking at the driver's expression again, he smiled and said, "It seems that you have already found a place for me."

The driver scratched his head in embarrassment, and said, "Little brother, it's not that I tricked you. The village is poor, and there are no guest houses or hotels in the city. You are a foreigner. If you get off the car, you may find it at dawn." No place to live. There is a second floor in my house, usually two rooms are vacant, it is considered a guest house in the village, but there is no signboard, and I only asked you because I fell in love with you."

Could the teapot know what was going on in his mind?Probably because of the money in his pocket, they are waiting to kill him!But the driver didn't lie. It's a dark and windy month, and he's an outsider, so he might not be able to find a place to live for a while.

"Okay! Then I will go with you, big brother. If it's not troublesome, can I ask you to lead the way to find that commune secretary tomorrow?"

The driver waved his hand: "No problem!"

***

The wife of the bus driver was really surnamed Luo. As soon as the teapot came into the house, he gave her 20 yuan and said with a smile: "Sister Luo, I have been driving all day and my stomach is still empty. Can I trouble you to cook a warm meal?" No?"

20 yuan is not a small amount of money!

She has received outsiders before, but she has never received such generous ones. She was a little unsure, and wanted to push again, but she made eye contact with her own man, and all the words fell back to the bottom of her stomach as soon as they came up. .

"That's OK! Then I'll cook for you first. The rooms upstairs are clean. You can choose one to live in." Sister Luo said.

"Okay, thank you." The teapot went upstairs with the bag.

Then the driver turned around and explained to the woman: "This is a rich man who is looking for relatives from other places. He has a lot of fat in his pocket! He said that the person he is looking for is from Luojiagou, and I told him that you are from there. He will definitely come to ask you later."

The woman nodded and asked again: "Who is he looking for in Luojiagou? The old one or the young one?"

The driver said: "They said they were looking for a man named 'Luo Hai'. He said he was his cousin, probably around his age."

The woman wondered: "But where are the young men in Luojiagou now? There has been a wave of migrant workers in the past two years, and they are all clamoring 'send one person and the whole family out of poverty', and they have already run away."

The driver waved his hand impatiently: "You care so much! Just tell the truth when he asks, and forget it if you don't ask."

After a while, the woman cooked the rice, made two stir-fries, one meat and one vegetarian, and put a plate of peanuts for him.

The teapot wanted to drink, so the woman gave him a bottle of homemade wine.He also felt that eating alone was not lively, so he called the driver to the table. The two old men ate and drank, chatting more and more happily, and finally the driver himself started the conversation, saying: "Little brother, I see you This person probably won't be found!"

"Oh? What do you say?"

Sister Luo next to him said: "I have never heard of the person you are looking for. I grew up in Luojiagou. I really don't know there is a person named 'Luo Hai'. Maybe you remember it wrong. gone?"

This is strange, it is said that people who grew up there have never heard of Luo Hai?The teapot was a little apprehensive, and asked suspiciously, "You really haven't heard of it?"

Sister Luo said: "Why am I lying to you? There are people named Luo Fuhai and Luo Dahai in our ditch, but there is no one named Luo Hai. Moreover, Luo Fuhai and Luo Dahai are both old enough to give you He's a grandfather, so he's definitely not the person you're looking for."

The teapot couldn't drink the wine after listening to the sorrow. After thinking about it, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed, and asked: "Then have you ever seen a young man about my age with a scar on the corner of his mouth? On the left corner of his mouth, it looks like a scar It's like someone tore it apart."

The teapot noticed that after he pointed out this feature, Sister Luo's expression changed for a moment, and she seemed surprised.

It seems that there is a door!

The teapot took advantage of the situation and asked: "Do you know this person? Is he from your Luojiagou?"

Sister Luo looked at him suspiciously, and suddenly asked: "I heard from my man that the cousin you're looking for was adopted by a relative when he was born. You probably haven't seen him before, right? Then how do you know he has a scar at the corner of his mouth? "

Teapot was taken aback, he never expected that the country woman in front of her had a sharp mind.However, he has already figured out how to deal with it. In the early years, he asked Luo Hai how that scar came about. Luo Hai refused to say at first, but it was because he got drunk after a fight with someone. Accidentally said it.

The teapot pretended to sigh and said: "My cousin is actually my own brother. I don't know why the family had to send him out at that time. When I was looking through my dad's desk when I was a child, I accidentally found it sent by my brother's adoptive father." I didn’t know about it until I read the letter, and the letter said that I was injured by accident.”

What he said was sincere, and Sister Luo immediately dispelled her doubts. After hesitating for a moment, she also sighed and said: "Little brother, sister said something that is not nice. Your family sent your brother out back then. It's a wise move!"

The teapot wondered: "How do you say that?"

Sister Luo said: "I know the person you mentioned, indeed he is from our Luojiagou, but when he was in Luojiagou, his name was not Luo Hai, but Laiba."

"Crap?"

"Granny is our local dialect, and of course it's not a good word. Lame's father is probably the adoptive father you mentioned. He's a rotten alcoholic with some mental problems. He often beats him, whether he's drinking or not. Dao injury was caused by his father who drank too much wine and chopped it with a knife. What kind of accident? I don’t think he has the guts to admit it! At that time, I still remember that he ran to my house with a mouth full of blood and yelled. The wound he treated. Alas... Laiba always sleeps standing up at night because his father beat him so badly that he has no good place to lie down..."

"Mangy had no clothes to wear when he was a child, so he cut three holes in a torn bed sheet, put one on his head and two on his gloves, and put them on as clothes. The children in the ditch didn't like to play with him. He likes to bully him, but Laiba has inherited his father's temper, and he is so cruel when he hits people! If anyone in the ditch looks at him twice, he will pounce on them and hit them. It turned red and trembled all over, and the old people in the ditch said that the lame man was possessed by an evil spirit, just like his alcoholic father, he was out of his mind."

……

Teapot never thought that he would ask about Luo Hai's past by mistake, and it was such a past that he couldn't bear to look back on.

With a tight breath in his chest, the hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, and asked, "Then what happened next?"

"Later..." Sister Luo shook her head, "Lady's father died, he died in the ditch behind their house. The ditch is not shallow, it is said that he was drunk and fell down drowned, but some say..."

"say what?"

"Well, it is said that the mangy man pushed his father down." Sister Luo said, "The reason for saying this is that the mani man ran away the next day, and the people in the ditch looked everywhere, but they didn't. and I haven’t seen him come back for so many years, and they say he absconded in fear of crime. That’s why I said, when your family sent Laiba away, they probably did a fortune-telling for him, knowing that this child is a big murderer , I couldn’t keep it, so I gave it away.”

***

That night, the teapot tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. He hated fate for being unfair to Luo Hai, and hated himself for being incompetent.He secretly vowed in his heart that he must find Luo Hai!As long as Luo Hai is found, it will be a trivial matter for the sky to fall!In the worst case, he will bear it!

In the early morning of the next day, just after dawn, the teapot was packed, and without even eating, he hurried to the commune to find the secretary of the commune.However, similar to what the driver and his wife said, the secretary of the commune failed to provide any new information.

The teapot was full of disappointment, but had to cheer up.

He used the commune's phone to call home, and the moment he heard Bai Jiao's voice, he felt boundless sadness in his heart.

"I think I'm going to G City." The teapot said in a deep voice.

But Bai Jiao suddenly lowered his voice, and said in a serious tone: "Yesterday afternoon Luo Hai called, but you were not here, he didn't trust me, and he refused to tell me anything, just told me to find you quickly Come back, he will find a way to call again tonight."

The teapot was both happy and surprised, and immediately said: "Okay! I'll take a ride back right away!"

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