Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

This place aroused memories in her heart, and also a throbbing feeling of being close to home -- it was both very familiar and a little strange, and it felt warm and bitter at the same time.She squinted her eyes in reverie, and returned to her childhood in a trance... Wu Bingbing set off from City E by bus and arrived in Zhanjiang after six or seven hours of bumpy rides.Then I got into the train, closed my eyes all night, and arrived in Guangzhou at dawn.It was already noon the next day when I boarded the train from Guangzhou north and looked out the window at the houses and bridges speeding backwards.She has a feeling of falling into a time tunnel and can't help herself.

She sat on the lower bunk at one end of the hard sleeper car, put the rucksack she carried with her next to the pillow, leaned on the bunk and let out a long sigh of relief.Sitting across from her was a hulking man, like a purchaser or individual boss, who twisted his thick neck and kept looking at her. His thick lips trembled and he wanted to talk to her but he didn't have the courage.She was thinking about her own thoughts, was in a bad mood, and looked at her curiously at others, which was very annoying.Even if he strikes up a conversation with her, she has no mood to talk to him.Just at this time, the conductor of the carriage came over and said something to take the man away, so she felt more at ease.

Wu Bingbing remembered that before leaving, she went to the detention center to see her father, and told him about the trip.Seeing her father made her feel very sad.Dad has been approved for arrest. Not only is he wearing handcuffs, but he also has shackles that only felons wear, and he walks with a screeching sound.Bingbing watched, tears came out all of a sudden.I haven't seen him for more than ten days. It seems that more than ten years have passed. My father is obviously much older. Worry.Bingbing cried so hard that she couldn't speak through the window of the iron fence. She asked her father to take care of her health and said that she would definitely try to save him.

Dad whispered, "Principal Geng is dead—that female ghost killed him." Bingbing was surprised: "When? How did he die in prison?" "Last night, his head was caught on the bars of the prison bars and died." "Caught to death?—I saw him in a dream, with his head stuck between the tree branches." Dad said: "Dean Geng is in the cell next door to me. He cries and screams every day. Every night he talks about ghosts, saying that a female ghost came in from the window to harm him, making the whole cell restless. Yesterday he When he screamed, the guard locked him in confinement. There was no light in the small dark room, only a small iron window. He heard his screams again in the middle of the night. When the guards came to check, they found a female ghost dragging his head from the The window was pulled out, and the neck was stretched. The guards shot and shot the female ghost, and heard her scream and run away. But they couldn't get Dean Geng from the window, and his neck was caught between the iron bars. The guards saw the window with a chainsaw. After letting him down, he bled so much that he died."

"It seems that Jiang Lan will not give up until she avenges herself." "I'm worried about you. It's dangerous for you to go alone?" "No, Dad, I'll be fine. She's not in a hurry to hurt me, she would have been killed if she wanted to. Her heart is on me, and she may just want to subdue me and control me." "After half a month, my case will go to trial." "Father, I will definitely come back and save you out." At this moment, Bingbing is sitting on the train going north, thinking of her father who has been living in prison for years, thinking of her mother who shed tears all day long, and thinking of her uncertain journey, she is still a little worried about the result.

But no matter what, she can only go without hesitation-as long as it can save her family. "I don't think there's anyone here?" someone said. A large travel bag was thrown on the opposite bed. Zhang Qun stood in front of him with a red face, tilting his head to look at her. "Wow, it's you? You're here!—" Bingbing jumped up. "I think, I still shouldn't give up this opportunity for free travel." Zhang Qun smiled.Bingbing took her hand and hugged her. "Then why did you ask the president for leave?" "Let's talk more about it—mouth dessert."

"To be honest, did you sacrifice once?" "It's not that easy. Persist if you can. Don't make unnecessary sacrifices unless you have to. I just owe him another favor." "Admiration. How did you catch up with me?" "What's the matter, I won the whole principal's running championship when I was in college." "Then that man just now? Did you switch shops with him?—" "Don't forget that I'm a reporter. I'll change the flight attendant after I get through." "That's great, thank you so much for coming to help me—"

"No, I am subjective for myself and objective for others." "You, I got in the car for a while, and you still play hide-and-seek for me!" "I wanted to surprise you with a surprise. Oops, the luggage was so heavy that it crushed me. See, I even brought my laptop." "Lie down and rest." "How long are we going? A week? Ten days? Twenty days?" "It's not sure, anyway, to find her home, Master Hongtai said—" "I know, I met my uncle and grandpa before I came, and I also met Master Hongtai. I heard them talk about Jiang Lan's situation. They have great confidence in you and said that since you have her heart in you, it is easy to get along with her past. Form an information field, and you will definitely be able to find her past."

"There is no other way now, but this is the only way to go." "You mean to start with a female teacher's hometown?" "Yes, she must not be too far from that female teacher's house." "What county is the teacher's home called?" "Jiyuan County is in the northwest of Henan." "Let me check it out." Zhang Qun took out the atlas from his bag and flipped through it. "Look, it's here. The place where Henan and Shanxi meet, at the foot of Wangwu Mountain. Oh, it's the place where Yugong moved the mountain. You dragged me to receive traditional education, right?"

Bingbing sighed and said, "Yes, although we are not going to move mountains this time, we are here to save people... I just hope we can touch God like Yu Gong." Her eyes were wet as she spoke. Zhang Qun put his arms around her shoulders understandingly: "It will be fine, everything will be fine." The train traveled for two days and one night, and arrived at Zhengzhou Station in the evening of the second day.Although it was only the end of autumn, the night was windy and the temperature was very low, they felt cold and sleepy.Sitting in the car for two days in a row made my waist sore and my back ache. Needless to say, the journey was hard.After eating some food at a restaurant near the station and asking about the route, the two of them prepared to head west overnight.

At the long-distance bus station, they bought two tickets, and the train departed at 12 o'clock at night, and sat in the station hall to wait for the train.A woman about 50 years old, wearing glasses and wearing black clothes came over, walked around Wu Bingbing twice, and finally approached Wu Bingbing.She said, sister, I have seen you, are you from the south?Wu Bingbing said yes, how do you know me?Zhang Qun poked her and said in a low voice, don't leave her, she must be a fake fortune-telling nun and swindler, if you have nothing to do, try to make friends, stay away from this kind of person.Wu Bingbing turned her body aside, not looking at the woman. Unexpectedly, the woman said: "I know, your family is in trouble, are you going to the mountains?" "See if I'm right," Zhang Qun shook his head, "We didn't notice, she must have been on the same road with us, she followed quietly, heard our conversation, and then came to fool us, and then she will ask us to pay for it." Disaster." Wu Bing asked coldly: "Who are you? What do you mean?" "I'm a passer-by." The woman said unhurriedly, "I also came from City E, and I'm going to transfer here to go northwest. I didn't expect to meet you. I know where you are going, I think Remind you a few words." Zhang Qun was very disgusted: "We don't know each other, why do you care where we go?" Wu Bingbing also became alert: "I don't understand, have you been following us?" "Follow you?" The woman smiled wryly, "Tsk, I won't follow you, I have enough troubles, I don't want to cause trouble for myself, I just happened to run into your troubles." "Our troubles? Tell me, what do you know?" "I know a lot, besides where you are from and where you are going, I also know about your father, and about that Geng Qingshan...Let's put it this way, I was locked in a detention center with them two days ago. We are all the victims of the devil's vengeance, the farce of that evil ghost. I am more innocent than them." Both Wu Bingbing and Zhang Qun had heard about what happened to the Christian lawyer when she came to see Geng Qingshan, and they finally realized that the woman in black in front of her was her.Perhaps it was because of Geng Qingshan's death that she was relieved. The woman said: "You went to see your father three days ago. I just released that day, and I saw you." "Yes, yes." Wu Bingbing quickly changed her tone, "I didn't expect to meet you." Zhang Qun also immediately became enthusiastic: "Senior, forgive me for being rude. Please sit down, please sit down!" "I went at the request of Geng Qingshan's wife." After sitting down, the woman in black said, "Although they haven't seen each other for many years, the relationship between husband and wife exists in name only, and the helpless woman gave her body and mind to God. When a loving man is in danger, a kind woman will not abandon her. However, I didn’t expect that there would be so many grievances behind it. There are causes and effects in the world. The Bible says that you are sowing seeds If you sow thistles from time to time, you will not be able to harvest melons. Geng Qingshan’s ending can’t be blamed on others. However, when the anger of the female ghost’s revenge grew stronger and stronger, the smoke covered her eyes and confused her reason. She's gone crazy..." Zhang Qun asked flatteringly: "Senior, you must have magic power? You should be able to help us?" The woman said: "God's mana is infinite, and God can subdue all demons." Wu Bingbing continued: "Then why don't you go with us? We're going to her hometown?" But the woman said, "God is great, but I'm just a mortal. I, like you, can't do anything about that wronged soul. I've been framed by her once, and I don't want to touch that trouble again." "Are you afraid? Are you afraid that she will harm you again?" Zhang Qun asked her excitedly. "You've been wronged, don't you want to ask her to clarify?" Wu Bingbing also forced her. "My lord says that evil people commit crimes like a snare, trap themselves in it, and be punished for being uneducated. We avoid those evils as we avoid snakes, and if you come near it, its teeth will bite you The soul of her, poison you to death, or devour you. I don't understand, why do you want to get close to her, why do you go to her birthplace?" Wu Bingbing said: "We want to sort out everything, including those troublesome things, including her past." The woman said, "I teach us to forget about hatred, not to fight evil with evil, and to fight an eye with an eye." Wu Bingbing said: "I really hope you can help us, we just want to find out about her past." The woman said: "My lord didn't give me the ability, I'm sorry, I can't help you." "Come on, I see it through." Zhang Qun raised his voice, "It's useless to talk so much nonsense. Did your Lord say that the giant of language and the dwarf of action? He tells the same thing and spreads the word of God everywhere." Gospel, but when others beg you, you lose your courage. No one can say good things. Go, don't waste your time with her. " Zhang Qun dragged Wu Bingbing to the car inside the station, leaving the woman in black there in a daze.The woman seemed to want to explain something, Zhang Qun suddenly shouted: "You are a coward! A liar!—" Wu Bingbing was embarrassed to look at the woman, and blamed Zhang Qun, "Don't you say that about her?" Zhang Qun said: "I am most annoyed by those who are hypocritical, hypocritical, and even save others, bah!" Until getting into the car, Zhang Qun was still scolding the woman.Wu Bingbing beat her with a smile and told her to stop scolding. I don't know how many years this long-distance bus has been running, it is already very old, and it is rattling everywhere.The car was full of people, even people were lying on the aisle in the middle, and with the addition of large and small bags, it was crowded under the feet.The peasants smoked, coughed, spit, and yelled loudly like a competition.The air in the carriage was stuffy and smelly, I was motion sick, I had a headache and nausea, my stomach was overwhelmed, I kept vomiting, and I couldn't find a garbage bag, so I wasted a piece of clothing.Zhang Qun took care of her, and felt uncomfortable himself. First he pinched Hegu skillfully, rubbed his belly button, but it didn't work, and finally he vomited.Zhang Qun opened the car window to let the outside air in.But after a while, a thin man stood up and closed the window.Zhang Qun opened it again, and the little man closed it again, cursing: "Damn it, it's so cold outside, what are you doing with the window open?" Unexpectedly, Zhang Qun jumped up, rushed forward and slapped the man in the face, shouting and cursing: "Are you a man? Are you a man and still bully women like this? Both of us are motion sick. Opening the window to let in the air can freeze you to death?" " Seeing her tough look, the man smacked his lips a few times, and turned his head away to remain silent. Wu Bingbing pinched Zhang Qun in admiration.They cuddled together to comfort and encourage each other, gritted their teeth and endured the whole night until the bus arrived at the terminal the next morning. The two supported each other, staggered out of the car, and sat on the side of the road panting heavily.After resting, I felt my stomach was empty.They sat down in a small roadside shop, ordered two baskets of steamed stuffed buns, two bowls of noodles, and a pot of soup, and then devoured them all, which surprised even the proprietress of the restaurant. At this time, Zhang Qun regained his spirit. "Bingbing, where did you say that Li Qin's house is?" "Just live in this county." "There are no mountains and small rivers here." "Jiang Lan's home should not be far from here." "Miss Boss, are there mountains here?" The proprietress said: "That's not it, this is Shanduo." The two looked along her fingers, and there were rolling mountains to the northwest. "Miss Boss, how far is it from the Yellow River?" "Not far away, about twenty miles to the southwest, there is a big river." Zhang Qun said, "Let's go southwest and search between the mountains and the Yellow River?" Then, carrying their luggage, they headed southwest.After walking about ten kilometers, I asked a passer-by, and the other party said that it was not far from the Yellow River, and it would take half a day to walk forward. They continued to walk recklessly, seeing the utter yellow land in front of them, even the sky was unreasonably pale yellow, only the rows of poplar trees by the roadside, with some green left among the unfallen yellow leaves.Looking to the other side, there are high and low mountains, layered on top of each other, winding and undulating to the horizon. They finally came to the Yellow River.At the end of autumn, there is little rain, and the water level of the Yellow River is not high, but the flow is fast, and it still shows a mighty momentum.The river water is turbid, pale yellow, undulating up and down in the flow, really like a giant dragon lurking below, and the big eddies are its vigilant eyes that sometimes appear.The two stood on the cracked ground by the river, looking at the wooden boats and cowhide rafts passing by in the river, thinking about what to do next. Bingbing stepped forward and asked the old man on the boat, how many small rivers are there on this side of the Yellow River.The old man didn't understand what she meant, and interrupted her with a question without answering it, thinking that she was going to make a transition, and asked where she was going. Bingbing explained to Zhang Qun that if Jiang Lan and Teacher Li Qin were from the same hometown, the mountain in the dream and the small river flowing to the big river would not be too far away from here.Find the branch river that flows into the Yellow River within a radius of one hundred miles, and go upstream along the river, you can find the mountain and the house in front of the mountain, and you can find the place where Jiang Lan lived in the dream.Zhang Qun thought about it and said it made sense.The two asked the old man again. The old man rushing to the boat said: "Is it a small river that flows to this river? - There is a river more than 30 kilometers downriver, and it is farther down. There are two rivers, one is more than 10 kilometers ahead, and the other is 40 kilometers ahead." Bingbing asked: "Is there a small river that flows out of the mountain?" The old man said: "The two upstream rivers both flow from the mountains." Bingbing and Zhang Qun exchanged glances, and they decided to go upstream, find the two branched rivers, and chase each river from downstream to upstream, all the way back to the mountain. Walking along the river beach for more than 10 kilometers, you will see a small river flowing into the Yellow River from the north.They followed the creek upriver as they had planned.On both sides of the river are rough wastelands, with crop stubble harvested after autumn, and villages with a few families shaded by willows.They walked through the village, but saw that the loess slope was getting higher and higher, and the houses by the river were built in the middle of the mountain one by one, and the mountains in the distance were crowded together, as if they were insurmountable.They walked into the dark night, stayed overnight at the mountain people's house, and continued to walk deep into the valley the next day.Going straight, the river became thinner and thinner, and finally became a seam between the mountains on both sides.Zhang Qun asked as he walked, is it here?Any impression here?Bingbing kept shaking her head, but couldn't find a familiar place.Judging from all aspects, it doesn't look like it's in this mountain.They decided not to go any further.It took another day to walk back the same way.They just wasted three days in this ravine. On the morning of the fourth day, they walked west along the Yellow River again, walking on the not too high embankment on the north bank, facing the squinting wind and sand, and did not see another branch river until the afternoon.Walking upstream along this branch river, you can see that the terrain on both sides of the river is flat, open and endless, like a small alluvial plain; the soil is fertile, the grass is green, and the trees are lush.And the mountains in the northwest are undulating, tempting them to move forward.Although both of their legs were swollen and their feet were blistered, they were very excited—because Bingbing finally said that she had a feeling, and felt a force deep in her body driving her forward. They walked in for dozens of miles, and at dusk, they came to a high mountain, and the river turned around the mountain from the foot of the mountain, and they walked along the river to the other side of the mountain.Unexpectedly, there is a different scene behind this mountain.They found that they had climbed to the middle of the mountain. The place where they stood was so high, and there was a sloping slope down there. There were fields and villages there, and oleanders grew between the fields and villages.Although the trees at the foot of the mountain have withered and yellowed, the oleanders in this mountain are still lush and green, from the slopes to the top of the mountain. From a distance, the bushes with dense branches and leaves are so dense that they seem to rise from the valley to the top of the mountain. Clouds moving over the hills. Bingbing has concluded that what she sees now is the mountain in the dream, the mountain that is always shrouded in clouds and mist—it's just that the mountain is far away, and this mountain is pulled closer.Of course they have to go down, and they have to find the best position among the countless villages below the mountain until they find the house they saw in their dream, and then look at the mountain from there, so that it will completely match the scene they saw in the dream. They walked down the hillside, shuttled among the oleander bushes, and looked back for a while after walking for a while, looking for angles, directions, and exact positions.Bingbing walked in front, and Zhang Qun followed closely behind. She kept asking Bingbing, did she take out the photo and ask?Did you ask the village for information?Bingbing seemed not to hear, and ran forward regardless.She suddenly thought of going to the left, and suddenly thought of going to the right, and her two legs were walking unconsciously, as if by accident.I ran through a village, ran straight to the foot of the mountain, and when I looked back, my heart suddenly jumped. Bingbing said: "We found it, it is here, just like what I saw in my dream." Bingbing said: "My heart beat suddenly, I don't know why, I always want to cry." Bingbing said: "This mountain is so familiar with the scene in front of it, as if I have been here before." She spoke excitedly, thinking about the past dreams rapidly in her mind, and a series of pictures appeared in her mind.Just like all people will think of their original life when they return to their hometown, this place aroused Wu Bingbing’s memories, and she felt the throbbing of the closeness to the hometown in her heart—it was both very familiar and a little strange, and it felt warm, And a little bitter.She squinted her eyes and dreamed, and returned to her childhood in a trance. It was like standing under the big tree outside her grandmother's house when she was a child. I saw a warm house, smiling grandpa and grandma, and a lot of delicious food.After she opened her eyes and regained her composure, she realized clearly that she had never been to this place before, and the excitement of deja vu was due to the induction of that heart. Zhang Qun asked, "Is the village and house you dreamed of the same as the one over there?" Bing Bing looked over there, and there was a big village at the foot of the mountain. The houses were scattered high and low on the hillside, with loess walls and stone walls.Almost every house has a courtyard surrounded by stones or wooden piles.There are many wild oleanders growing in the open space in front of and behind the house. Bingbing said: "The villages and houses are similar to the ones I saw in my dream. It's just that the houses in the dream are older than them..." Zhang Qun said, "That's right! What you dreamed about was Jiang Lan's childhood house." At this time, a knocking sound was suddenly heard from the village, as if someone was hitting a basin with a wooden stick, making a clanging sound.Then, someone struck something else, like an old piece of iron, with a monotonous, tinkling sound.Another woman ran to the head of the village and shouted loudly: "Maotou, come back!——" Amid the more and more lively beating in the village, the two saw some livestock and people sparsely drilled out from the surrounding hillsides and woods, rushing back to the village one after another in the afterglow of the setting sun. A boy came out of the bushes and almost bumped into Zhang Qun. The boy screamed, screaming, and ran down the mountain while shouting.As Zhang Qun walked away, he stomped his feet and said, this shit boy, what the hell, you are the ghost!Another old lady passed by, and when they stopped her for questioning, the old lady panicked and ran away staggeringly, waving her hands. Neither of them understood why the people in this place were so weird, they even said that other people were ghosts, that's why they were sneaky.Just as he was thinking, he saw an old man coming down from the mountain, driving a skinny donkey with a string of bells hanging around its neck. The old man just used branches to drive the donkey away.The two came forward to say hello. The old man said: "You two are the group of prospectors, right? Hurry up and leave, the sun goes down before sunset, and you can reach the town... If you can't go back, go to the village chief. Don't waste time here, it's dark It will be troublesome later-" "After dark? What troubles will there be?" Zhang Qun was puzzled. "You two don't know? The female ghost will come out after dark. Three people died on this mountain, and seven people died in the village. Everyone in the village is not afraid, don't you care? Come down the mountain , I have to go. The sun is almost gone, let's go!" Zhang Qun said: "No wonder people in the village are beating and beating. They want to recruit people and animals back." Bingbing said: "We also have to enter the village, I hope the village chief he said will control us." Zhang Qun said: "We are prospecting, the common people should welcome it, right?" Bingbing said: "Yes, of course. Uncle, will the village chief arrange a place for us to live?" The old man said: "Two groups of prospectors came here half a year ago. Once it rained heavily, those people went to the village to take shelter from the rain, and the village head arranged for them to live in the empty house where the school used to be." "We will pay for living there," Bingbing said. "The village chief is a chimney, just buy him a few packs of cigarettes." While speaking, the donkey had gone away.The old man cursed, and hurried after his donkey. The two of them didn't dare to neglect, they hurriedly carried their luggage and ran down the mountain following the figure of the old man.