I didn't go to bed until midnight last night, and early the next morning, I was woken up by the ringing of my cell phone.
"Hello."
"I'm the boss! Have you gotten up yet?"
I turned over with the pillow between my legs, yawned loudly and said, "Tell me...what's the matter."
"Didn't you ask me to check that Xue Hangkou last night? I have news here!"
I woke up immediately and lost all sleep.
"Boss, I have a buddy who works at the police station. He happened to be on duty yesterday. I asked him to help me check the household registration system of the police station. There is indeed a person named Xue Hangkou in Chun'an! But I feel like he is related to
Boss, the information about the person you are looking for is not very consistent. The household registration shows that this person is still a child. He was born in 2004 and is just three years old this year."
After hearing this, I yelled and cursed. I said that it was definitely not the case. It was a mistake. Are you kidding me? Three years old? He is a shit-eating child.
After being scolded by me, Ma Dachao on the other end of the phone said angrily: "I also think I made a mistake, but boss, I can say with certainty that there is no such person in our local area who meets your conditions, or this person is from out of town.
Or you were on the wrong track from the beginning."
"You mean..."
Ma Dachao lowered his voice: "I mean, this may not be a personal name... it's a place name."
I looked puzzled and asked, "Qiandao Lake doesn't have such a place name, does it?"
"It doesn't happen now! It did in the past!"
"Boss, I only found out last night after asking some elderly people that about sixty or seventy years ago, there was a dock town for cargo transfer on the north side of Xin'an River. The name was Xue Hangkou. That place at that time
The commerce is developed, and the people who stay at the pier are all cargo merchants from all over the world. That place belongs to Chayuan Town, and our local tea garden stones, tea, private salt, dried tofu and other specialties are all shipped through this pier.
All over the country.”
I frowned and said, "This place shouldn't be here anymore, right?"
"Well, yes, it's long gone."
"Back then, the entire Chayuan Town sank into the lake. How could such a small pier survive? Boss, if you have time, you can go to our county cultural center and take a look. I guess you can see some old photos and pictures of the Xuekengkou Pier there.
material."
After hanging up the phone, I immediately informed the boss of the situation.
I asked the boss if this was possible. What Xue Hangkou was referring to was not a personal name, but a place name from decades ago?
He thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "It is indeed possible. After all, the information I have is limited at the moment. If Mr. Qi followed the other party and heard the name of a place instead of a person's name, the situation might be even more troublesome.
"
"Yunfeng, please remind everyone to pay attention to safety when going out these two days. If you encounter a strange stranger, you must be vigilant."
After finishing talking, he went back to the house and made a phone call.
I opened the window and looked up. It was cloudy today, with dark clouds blocking the entire sun, giving people a very depressing feeling.
After returning to the house, I took out a shoe box from under the bed and took out my pistol.
I put the gun on my waistband to avoid being discovered. I found some rope and tied it to my calf so that it wouldn't be visible when my pants were down. I planned to keep the gun close to me these days.
At around nine o'clock, I was waiting for Gao Bing at the door. He had recently accompanied A'kang to Sichuan in order to complete my mission, and he just came back last week.
"Gao Bing, this is the situation. Xiaoxuan will go out to buy groceries every other day. You can protect her secretly for me. If you find someone with evil intentions to follow her or want to harm her, you don't need to report to me. Just take action. If anything happens,
I'll take care of it."
Gao Bing looked cold and nodded.
In order to save money, Dou Sprout does not go out for half a year. When he goes out, he is usually protected by Brother Yu. I won’t go into details. I have always been very vigilant, not to mention I have a gun for self-defense. In addition, I have always been the only one to follow others, and I also
Not many people can follow me without being discovered.
The only thing I'm worried about is Xiaoxuan.
If the other party secretly attacks us, Xiaoxuan may become the first choice. After all, she is a little girl who looks harmless on the outside.
I thought to myself that no matter who the other party was, if it was not a personal grudge, there must be some unknown conflict of interest with us. I had doubts about Zhuji people, and then I denied this suspicion.
Looking at the whole thing, whether it is making or breaking the situation, it is not like the people of Zhuji.
After traveling around for so many years, I have developed a sense of smell, which is a sense of "danger". It is this sense of smell that has allowed me to avoid disasters countless times before.
After lunch, I went to the County Cultural Center to learn about the Xue Hangkou mentioned by Xia Ma Dachao.
The Chun'an Museum now located in Qiandao Lake Pearl Plaza was formerly the County Cultural Center. It was relatively shabby back then. There was a gate through the iron fence, and there was a bicycle shed covered with a green tarpaulin at the door.
There was no guide in the cultural center at noon, and no tickets were required. There was just an old woman with glasses who asked me and ignored me. There were various ancient cultural relics on display on the first floor. I walked around and felt that the overall quality was mediocre.
I can see it.
But after all, they are all real cultural relics, unlike many large museums that display high-quality replicas. Especially in the Xixia Museum in a certain place, there is a whole row of Miaoyin birds in various colors.
The historical materials hall on the second floor mainly displays immigration photos, manuscripts, and underwater ancient city research materials.
After a brief look, a map of the distribution of cultural relics in Chuncheng hanging on the wall caught my eye.
It shows that there are currently six provincial-level cultural protection units within Chun'an County, and the remaining 46 are county-level cultural protection units. The third one from the bottom reads "Underwater Xuekengkou Pier Protection Site."
At this moment, the old woman who just talked to me came over with a water glass.
She said with a straight face: "Please hurry up and look, we have to close early in the afternoon."
There was urging in her tone, but I wasn't angry.
I pointed to the picture hanging on the wall and asked: "Sister, do we still have some information about Xue Hangkou, the underwater pier?"
"We had them before, but they have been put away. We plan to redesign and plan the exhibition hall on the second floor."
"That's it..."
I turned around and said, "Sister, are you the interpreter of the cultural center? How long have you been working here?"
She immediately denied it: "I'm not, the guide is not here, I'm just a janitor doing hygiene,"
"Oh...I thought you were a lecturer, eldest sister, mainly because your temperament looks very knowledgeable, much like a former university teacher of mine."
"You are college students?"
I said without changing my expression: "I am a college student from Tsinghua University. This time I came from Beijing to visit Qiandao Lake."
Then I started chatting with her, during which I inadvertently complimented her on her good image and good temperament.
In fact, I am not a college student. I am talking nonsense. I am a graduate of Mohe Polar Star Primary School in 1993. She doesn't look like a teacher, but looks like an old maid.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, I had been waiting at the entrance of the cultural center. When I saw her coming out, I immediately went over and handed her a bottle of drink.
"You haven't left yet? What are you..."
I smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just want to get acquainted and make friends."
Her expression was slightly hesitant, she reached out to take my drink and flipped her hair.
Only then did I see that there was a large area of red around her ears.
This chapter has been completed!