Let me say a few cheeky words. Although I am not handsome by any means, I am tall enough and have a stern appearance. I don’t know if it is because I am rich. My overall temperament has changed a lot in the past few years.
I remember that when I first saw Li Jing in Shunde, I blushed awkwardly. Now I will never be like that again. For example, when I see a beautiful woman on the street, I dare to stare into her eyes.
"Hey, what's your name? Are you traveling here from Beijing alone?"
I smiled and said, "My name is Xiang Feng. I came here to travel with my friends, but my friend had something to do and went back a few days ago. Sister, I don't know how to call you?"
"My name is Zhang Li, eldest sister, I don't look that old, right?"
"I'm only over thirty this year, not even forty yet." She looked at me and said angrily.
I complained in my mind, "I'm almost forty. If I don't call you eldest sister, why should I call you little sister?"
But on the surface, I immediately changed my name and called her Sister Wang instead.
Although we had only known each other for a few minutes, we had definitely become closer to each other.
Based on my understanding of women, although she looks conservative in her dress, she should be open-minded on the inside.
This kind of woman is easy to get started with, but difficult to deal with later and very troublesome.
If a man has it and wants to get rid of it, he will also have to shed some skin.
And after she heard me say that she was a top student traveling in a big city, her eyes changed obviously. Her eyes were like looking at a lamb that had just been put out of the market.
In fact, I am not a little sheep who doesn't understand anything, I am a wolf in sheep's clothing.
After chatting for a while, she asked me again, "I didn't see it, top student, what major did you major in?"
"I majored in water conservancy and hydropower. I heard that hundreds of thousands of people immigrated here decades ago to build a large hydropower station, so I wanted to stop by and watch."
She nodded, "It's the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station. It's very big. It's now under the management of Jiande. At that time, our country was in dire need of development. After the hydropower station was completed, it not only allowed thousands of households to use electricity, but also shouldered the responsibility of
Since you majored in water conservancy, irrigation and flood control, you must know more than me."
She raised the drink I brought and shook it, "That's it, let's not talk anymore. I don't get off work for more than an hour, right? Xiang Feng? Thank you for the water."
"Don't leave yet! Sister Wang, I want to ask you to do a small favor!"
She was a little surprised, "Help? Help for what? We just met."
"That's right, Sister Wang, I would like to see some information and photos about the Xuekengkou Pier ruins in our collection."
"this"
She frowned and said, "Those are all put in the file cabinet. I'm not the custodian, so I can't take them out for you to see."
Seeing that I was a little disappointed, she immediately said, "Those things are nothing interesting, they are just some old newspapers and a few old photos taken by the Lion City Youth Daily."
, if you really want to know about the Xuekengkou ruins, you might as well ask the old people who lived there."
My eyes lit up, "So, Sister Wang, do you know any old people who lived in Xuekengkou?"
She nodded, brushed her bangs and said with a smile, "I can give you the address, but I can't tell you for nothing. You have to treat me to a meal."
"That's for sure! How about tonight? When you get off work, let's have grilled fish together."
"Okay, then it's agreed, you wait for me, I'll get off work in another hour at most."
It was said that I would get off work in an hour, but I waited at the entrance of the cultural center for nearly three hours! She didn't come out until the sun had gone down.
"Oh, I'm really sorry, otherwise I would have finished get off work early, and the leader suddenly notified us all to have a meeting! I don't have your phone number, are you anxious?"
I smiled and waved my hand and said it was okay, but actually I was feeling very angry. If it wasn't for the purpose of getting information, I would have run away a long time ago.
Then I invited her to dinner and successfully got her address. After leaving each other's phone numbers, she told me to come to the cultural center to find her when I was free tomorrow. I agreed in a fool's guise.
This Sister Wang must be in her early fifties now. Her job at the Cultural Center is a guaranteed job. The new museum was built in 2018. I don’t know if she went there. I guess if we met, she wouldn’t recognize me.
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At around eight o'clock, I called my boss to report the situation.
"Boss, this is what I've heard so far. It's still early, and the place is not far away. I want to go there and visit to see if I can find any clues."
Because so far, we are not sure whether the three characters "Xue Hangkou" refer to a person's name or a place name, but no matter which it is, it is definitely related to this "place". Now that we have caught the clue, we must want to
Check properly.
On the other end of the phone, the head quickly said, "Yunfeng, you can go check it out, but don't do it alone. Let Wen Bin accompany you. You don't have to worry about me. I'm safe with Master Qi."
I asked doubtfully, "Boss, that flag master is at our base? I didn't see his shadow at all."
He raised his head and said with a smile, "Yunfeng, Wen Bin didn't notice it, let alone you. Although Master Qi is older, his invisibility and footwork have not improved at all. When he was young, he also helped
Several bosses in the capital passed by escorts, all of them were hidden escorts, and none of them missed."
I was secretly stunned when I heard this. "Invisibility" does not mean that he is really invisible, but that he can use all terrain and environment to disguise himself. He can step on the ground completely silently, and even run without making a sound. Such a person from a humble background
In the past, warriors were either top killers or top guards.
At around 9 o'clock, Brother Yu and I met up and drove towards the destination.
I rushed there. The place was in Dayuan Village, Maple Ridge.
Because I didn’t have a navigation system, I only knew the approximate directions. I took the wrong route twice during this period, and finally took the right route after seeing the roadside sign.
On the dirt road, Brother Yu slowed down the car. He frowned and said gloomily, "Yunfeng, Xiaoxuan listens to you. Talk to her tomorrow and ask her to delete the video she took of me. How inappropriate is that?"
What does it look like?”
I was speechless and said, "Just tell her about this yourself, won't she delete it?"
Brother Yu had a dark face and shook his head, "I told you, Xiaoxuan said not to delete it, and she also said she planned to send it to Ah Chun for review."
"Damn! It's too late for her!"
"Brother Yu, don't worry! I'll take care of this! I promise to handle it for you! Ah Chun will never see that video!"
Brother Yu nodded, "I'm not afraid, I'm just worried that Achun will be angry if she finds out. You also know her temper." .??.
"Brother Yu, Xiaoxuan is joking with you. I think it's nothing. Your ex-girlfriend Xiaoqian was four or five years ago. Besides, doesn't Achun have an ex-boyfriend?
Let me ask you, you and her have been together for a long time, is this her first time?"
After hearing this, Brother Yu gave me a backhand blow to the back of my head.
"Stop! We're here! It's right here!"
After getting out of the car and closing the door, I looked at the village in front of me.
On my left hand side, there is a huge stone with the words "Dayuan Village" written in red paint on it.
Brother Yu asked me where to find it, and I said I knew the specific house number.
When I entered the village, I found that there were at most one or two hundred households in the village, more than 70% of which were newly built houses, and the other 20% were mud-wood houses, which were built with wooden walls and a layer of yellow mud on the outside.
It was just 10 o'clock, and the village was completely dark. There were no street lights, and the doors of every house were closed. I searched along the road based on the house number, and finally found a mud-wood house in the west of the village.
I didn't hesitate and went directly to knock on the door.
There was no movement at first, so I knocked again.
After ten minutes, a hoarse old man's voice came from the courtyard and asked, "Who's knocking on the door? It's so late."
When the door opened, I saw a stooped old man with white hair, skin like a dead tree and a cane. The old man turned on the light at the door and asked, "Young man, who are you?"
"Uncle, may I ask your name Wang Fugui'er?"
"Ah? I'm too deaf. What did you say to me?"
"Uncle! I asked you whether your name is Wang Fugui'er!" I said loudly.
He heard clearly this time and nodded immediately, "Yes, I am Wang Fugui'er."
I said loudly, "I'm from the police station! I came to find out more about the situation!"
"Send to the police station! Old man, I didn't break the law, did I?"
"Uncle! You didn't break the law! There is an old case here! It involves the Xuekengkou Pier! I heard that you moved there in the early years! So I came to you to find out the situation!"
"Xue Hangkou?"
The old man was leaning on a cane and raised his head with blurry eyes. He recalled, "Oh, you said that the original dock town has been flooded for fifty or sixty years."
"You guys come in and sit down, I'll pour you some water."
He was an old man living alone, and the furnishings in his room were very simple. Seeing him tremblingly bring two glasses of water, Brother Yu and I both drank and put them aside.
Then he took out a cigarette from his pocket and wanted to smoke it. I handed him a cigarette.
The match he used took two seconds to throw away after striking it.
The flames reflected on his old, withered face, looking like a dead man in a coffin.
"Whatever you want to ask, just ask."
I thought about it and asked, "Where was Xue Hangkou back then?"
"It's just a small town. It was also called Xuekoudian'er back then. It has Yaocuntan in the upper reaches and Jiushatan in the lower reaches. I heard my grandpa say that dozens of Yangyuan people gathered there at the earliest, and later they arrived
In the Qing Dynasty, many merchant ships heading north along the Xin'an River stopped here to rest, and over time it became a small town with everything."
"Everything?"
He took a puff of the cigarette, exhaled it slowly, and said with a smile, "Yes, there is everything to eat, drink, and play. The most famous thing is the play. In those days, except for the nunnery on Xiaojinshan Island,
The most fun place is the Xuekou store. There are a lot of women. There are black loaches, meat boxes, human teeth, old pigeons, white pigeons, young pigeons, tut tut tut, I shut up, old man.
When you look up, can you still think of the sights and tastes back then?"
Brother Yu was listening with a puzzled look on his face. He didn't understand, but I could understand.
Words like black loach, meat box, young pigeon, etc. are all very old slang. I’m too embarrassed to elaborate on them. In short, they are prostitutes who meet the needs of different wealthy people. Meat Box’s most famous ones are still listed below.
Xiangguo Temple at that time.
People in the world are not ignorant of these slangs. I tentatively said, "Uncle, there is a good job in the industry, and a teacher in the class. There are paths up and down, and the buttocks are oily all year round."
He flicked the ashes of his cigarette and immediately said, "Five yin and six yang, you can fly away. If you are not a hero, you will not open a shop. If you are not a hero, you will not wait in court. Young man, I don't think you are from the police station."
I looked at him and frowned and said, "He travels east instead of west, sells mules instead of cattle and sheep, talks unclearly, can't drill through wood, can't knock casseroles without leaking, why don't you give me a thorough explanation?"
He immediately said, "Young man, if you are from the north, people from the south don't say that. If people from the north come to the south and want me to leak the pot, you have to show some sincerity."
After he finished speaking, he smiled and stretched out two fingers at me and twisted them hard, meaning to ask me for money.