Hunt down

Li City is a famous city that never sleeps. Usually at eleven o'clock in the evening, the streets are still brightly lit and crowded with people, and there is no sleepiness approaching the middle of the night.

In this city, most stores don’t open until [-]:[-] p.m., and they don’t close until [-]:[-] a.m. the next day. It makes people feel that people’s lives here are always slower than other places. Hour.

Li City is surrounded by a sea area called Jieque Sea.The Jieque Sea surrounds the border of Li City from north to east to south, separates Li City and Miandong City, and finally merges into the boundless ocean.Looking along the direction of the Jieque Sea, you can see the red sun rising from the coastline.

Lixi District, which is about three hours' drive south of Jiequehai, is the largest district in Li City, and it is also a relatively poor district.Most of the people living here are migrant workers from other places. Because it is far from the city center and the transportation is inconvenient, the housing here is relatively cheap.Therefore, many people choose to work in Lizhong District in the city center, and then take a bus for about one or two hours to return to Lixi District. Fan Xiaofang is an unremarkable girl among the migrant workers.

She lives in Qijing Street, which is a little less remote in Lixi District. It is relatively close to the bus station, and it is considered a relatively prosperous and convenient place.

Fan Xiaofang has to take the bus for two hours after get off work every day, and she will arrive at Qijing Street around twelve o'clock in the morning, and then she will have to walk a short distance before returning to her small rental house.

This girl moved here about a year ago. She has a relatively introverted personality and doesn't have much contact with the people around her. She walks alone and leaves early and returns late.The only person who often deals with her, other than the landlord, is the proprietress of the Mala Tang shop on the road she walks after getting off the bus.

The first time Fan Xiaofang talked to the proprietress was once after she got off work, she was really hungry, so she gritted her teeth and went in to order a bowl of Malatang.

When the proprietress served her Malatang, she poured her a glass of water, and after a while brought her a big bowl of pickled radishes.She said that they made it at home, so I don't know if it suits Fan Xiaofang's taste.

Fan Xiaofang looked at the bowl full of pickled radishes, and her nose was sore. She held back tears and ate the vegetarian Mala Tang, swallowing all the grievances and exhaustion from a day's work.

After that, Fan Xiaofang would eat Mala Tang every once in a while, and gradually became acquainted with the proprietress.Fan Xiaofang discovered that although she and her husband were running the shop, her husband was completely a helper, and he often didn't see anyone when the proprietress was busy.

The proprietress also has a son who is in junior high school, and every day she only asks her for pocket money and to play with her mobile phone.Fan Xiaofang thinks that the proprietress is very hardworking and powerful, so she always goes in to have a bowl of food when there is no one in the shop, to make her more welcoming.

Over time, this Mala Tang shop and the proprietress have become Fan Xiaofang's spiritual destination. No matter how late it is, she finds that the shop of the proprietress has never been closed before she comes back, so as long as the lights are on there, Fan Xiaofang feels that she is at home. .

However, for a long time, Fan Xiaofang did not come to the store again.Even when I saw the proprietress occasionally, she looked terrified and walked in hiding, as if she was hiding from someone.

The proprietress always wanted to find a chance to ask her if something happened, but she couldn't stop her in time.

On this day, the proprietress was still guarding the store. Although it was summer, there were no customers in the store because of the heavy rain that day.The proprietress had been sitting there for too long, and her hands felt a little cold. She was just about to make some ginger soup for herself, when she heard the door of the store being pushed open, and Fan Xiaofang ran in with a pale face, as if she had hit a ghost.

"A...Auntie...I," Fan Xiaofang's voice was trembling when he spoke, "Can I come to live with you today, just...just one day!" Fan Xiaofang anxiously stepped forward and held the proprietress' hands, her It's colder than the proprietress, not like a living person.

"Girl, what's the matter?" the proprietress asked worriedly.

"Don't...don't ask...I..." The proprietress saw the red and swollen eyes hidden behind the bangs, "The gas in my house is out...I...I can't take a shower...please...please , just one night, I will leave tomorrow, please!" Fan Xiaofang begged.

This statement was too exaggerated, the proprietress naturally didn't believe it, but seeing that she was unwilling to tell the truth, although she was worried, she didn't bother to ask again.Due to the late hour and the weather, it was estimated that there would be no more guests, so the lady proprietress tidied up the shop, closed the door in a hurry, and took Fan Xiaofang back to her home.

Early the next morning, Fan Xiaofang disappeared.

After that, she never saw Fan Xiaofang again.The proprietress was worried, so she went to her landlord to inquire. They forcibly opened the door of Fan Xiaofang's room, only to find that she hadn't been back for a long time, and the leftovers on the table had maggots, and flies were everywhere fly.

At that time, the proprietress just thought that Fan Xiaofang went back to her hometown alone, or moved, and she was an outsider, so she didn't eat carrots and worry about it.

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There was the sound of clothes rubbing against each other in the narrow alley, the alley was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, and there were intermittent panting sounds from inside.

"Where is the thing? Huh?" A man gasped heavily, his voice sounded hard as if he was biting on an iron block.

"Hmm! Woohoo!" A woman was struggling, her mouth seemed to be covered, and her neck seemed to be strangled. She seemed to be shaking her head desperately, and she sounded like she was crying.

"Damn it! Are you kidding me?" The man's voice became more ruthless. Something in the alley reflected light, shaking a pair of bloodshot eyes. The eyeballs seemed to be squeezed out. The dazzling thing in his pupils was a knife.

"Hmm!" The painful muffled groan rang out in the alley, and there was also the constant piercing sound, wandering in the narrow alley for a long time, and it still couldn't dissipate.

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The proprietress went to the vegetable market early in the morning to buy the ingredients for Mala Tang. After she came back, she silently cleaned up the vegetables in the kitchen. The news was playing in the living room, and the proprietress listened to every word.

"Morning news bulletin, a female body was found at the back door of the '1936' hotel on Xihua Road, Lizhong District, Lizhong District, our city early this morning. A female cleaner of the Li City branch under the Xue Group, the suspect is still under investigation, according to eyewitnesses..."

There was a "crash" in the kitchen, and all the vegetables in the proprietress' hands fell to the ground, and a piece of cabbage rolled to the door of the kitchen.The broadcast on TV had ended, but the proprietress felt a chill down her back, and the female reporter's voice echoed in her mind over and over again.

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