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Mai Mai arranges Lu Yusheng and his party in a small hotel next door.Originally, Lu Yusheng hoped that he could take them to the mountains to sketch, but Mai Mai was not very familiar with this place, and secondly, he wanted to accompany grandma to visit the relatives of the Shi family to talk about Shi Chunyuan's family, so he had to let the boy from that family take them. I went up the mountain.

Grandma has a very high seniority in the Shi family.Although it is said that the old rule is that married daughters throw water, but grandma is recruiting a son-in-law, so she is not considered married, and still has status among relatives. With her talking, those who yell to remarry can have to keep their sons The relative's voice suddenly quieted down.

It was the first time Maimai had seen grandma speak so loudly, knocking on the table with her cane to scold the cousins, dismissing their excuses one by one, leaving them all speechless, no one dared to speak again.

After all this tossing, it was almost dark.Mai Mai helped grandma out of the door, followed by a group of dejected men, one by one humbly saying that auntie is good to go, and auntie calms down...

"Grandma," Mai Mai looked at the relatives far away, and quietly stretched out her thumb, "You are amazing!"

Grandma smiled, with some youthful shrewdness in her eyes: "These young people--it's all because of money!"

"Grandma, it's not good for you to be too angry."

"Grandma isn't angry. They are all relatives. When I get confused for a while, I can just scold a few words. This money is not enough to earn, but it can't be because of the money that you don't even want the relationship between relatives. Don't say it, it's shouting." After a long time, grandma was really hungry. Let’s go back and ask Erya to pick a few gherkins and scramble eggs to eat. The ones grown on the ground are better than the ones in the city.”

"Grandma, what you said made me drool." As soon as Mai Mai said something, he saw a few people walking towards him on the small road ahead, "It's you, you're back from sketching? What's the matter, Lin Jing fell and hurt herself? "

"Yeah." Lu Yusheng carried Lin Jing on his back, his face flushed with exhaustion, "Lin Jing slipped and rolled down a small slope."

"What a slippery step!" Lin Jing was very unconvinced, "It was obvious that you were calling me from behind, and I only stepped on it when I turned around."

Lu Yusheng turned her upside down: "I told you, I didn't call you. Wang Long and Qianqian are on the other side, and they didn't call you. Who knows why you heard it wrong."

Lin Jing punched him on the shoulder: "What, there are not many people in the mountain, how could I have misunderstood it? You didn't shout it, could it be a mountain spirit and water monster!"

Mai Mai felt that grandma's hand on his shoulder tightened suddenly, and asked nervously, "Girl, did you hear who called you?"

Lin Jing punched Lu Yusheng again: "It's not them!" Lu Yusheng shook his head, it seemed that he had given up arguing with her.

But grandma asked: "Girl, did you really hear someone calling you? Did you call your name?"

Lin Jing was puzzled: "Yes, of course they called my name, so I turned around to look."

"Then what did you see?"

"I just saw Yu Sheng, and he insisted that he didn't call me. Really, I didn't blame you, and still didn't admit it..."

"All right, all right," Lu Yusheng was very annoyed, "I called you, I'm sorry, I shouldn't call you, I caused you to fall, I apologize, okay?"

Lin Jing laughed: "It's not too bad, let's go!"

Lu Yusheng shook his head helplessly, and walked towards the residence with her on his back. Han Qianqian and Wang Long followed with their drawing boards in hand.Grandma stood there without moving, and after a while she suddenly called out to their backs: "Girl, if you hear someone calling you at night, don't go out casually!"

Lin Jing lay on Lu Yusheng's back, wondering if she heard it.Mai Mai couldn't help asking: "Grandma, why did you tell her not to go out?"

Grandma said seriously: "This is an old rule. People should sleep at night, and only ghosts come out. If someone calls your name, it is most likely not human. You should never go out, let alone agree."

Mai Mai originally wanted to say that this was an old legend, and there was no basis at all. If there were people outside in the middle of the night in the city, wouldn't they be human?But when the words came to his lips, he suddenly thought of Zheng Shuyun, remembered that he always appeared after dark, and remembered his face with yellow and black stripes, he couldn't help shivering, and swallowed the words again--maybe the words of the older generation There is always some truth to the argument...

The vegetables in the countryside are fresh regardless of whether they are oily or meaty. They are really not comparable to the giant vegetables that are sold in large greenhouses and chemical fertilizers in the city. .Grandma kept urging him to get up: "Don't accumulate food, get up and move around, and walk around the yard."

Wheat struggled to get up and slowly circled in the yard.The moon was very good, and the silver light splashed down like water, shining like a layer of silver in the yard.

The night in the mountain village is peaceful.Although there are electric lights, TVs and computers, it is much quieter than in the city after all.Without the neon lights all over the eyes, the sky looks particularly high and far away, so blue that it seems to melt.After walking around a few times, Maimai lay down on the top of the low wall to watch the moonlight.Unknown bugs chirped in the nearby grass, and the wind blew over, carrying the bitter fragrance of soil and wild flowers.Wheat took a few breaths of warm air and looked into the distance.Dozens of steps away is the woods, which cast a shadow in the moonlight.When the wind blows, the shadow shakes.Occasionally, a few branches stick out in a unique way, throwing their teeth and claws on the ground, like some monster, which destroys the atmosphere a bit.

Mai Mai looked at those shadows with interest, and one of them looked like a person leaning on a tree trunk - no, it seemed that there was a person!Xiaomai followed the shadow, and there seemed to be a person standing under the tree in the night, and the moonlight cast small patches of bright spots from the intertwined branches and leaves, making it difficult to see clearly.Suddenly a gust of wind blew over, and a brighter spot of light fell on the root of the tree between the swaying branches and leaves. In such a short time, Xiaomai saw that there seemed to be a foot there, and the shape could not be seen clearly from a distance. Mao, it really doesn't look like human feet.But the moon was immediately covered by clouds, and the surrounding area became dark. When the clouds passed by, there was nothing there.

Mai Mai rubbed his eyes, and was about to climb up the courtyard wall to take a closer look, when he suddenly remembered the strange incident when he climbed up the wall of Shi Chunyuan's house a month ago, shivered suddenly, and quickly jumped off the boundary stone.Weird things do exist. Curiosity will kill the cat. It's two different things to find the head of the matter and go out to find the matter by himself. He doesn't want to make fun of his own life.

"Brother Chun, have you eaten yet? Go to bed." Grandma called from inside the house, Mai Mai responded, checked the door again before entering the house, locked the door behind her back, and closed the windows, thinking After thinking about it, I put grandma's crutches within reach, and then went to sleep on the kang.Something was on his mind, and he couldn't fall asleep for a while, but the wind outside the window was blowing slightly, and after a long time there was no movement, and he slowly fell asleep. In the dimness, he vaguely thought of one thing - if it was a foot , why only one?

The next morning, Mai Mai was awakened by a hasty knock on the door.He slept late last night, and today he didn't even know when grandma woke up.He turned over and sat up. Grandma had already opened the door, and then he heard Lu Yusheng shouting anxiously: "Mai Qiao--"

Just as Xiaomai was about to agree, Grandma shouted sharply, "Brother Chun!" The voice was so loud that even Xiaomai was startled.When he put on his clothes and went out, Lu Yusheng was already standing in the yard and was stared at by his grandmother in embarrassment. When he saw him coming out, he hurriedly said, "Mai--what, Lin Jing is gone!"

Mai Mai was taken aback: "Lin Jing? Why didn't she disappear? Did she go out alone?"

Lu Yusheng gasped and nodded, apparently running all the way back from the outside, followed by Wang Long and Han Qianqian, also looking panicked.Mai Mai raised her hand to signal them to calm down: "What's going on? Please explain clearly."

Lu Yusheng wiped off his sweat, and hurriedly said: "We don't know what's going on! Everyone was tired after going back last night, and went to bed early after dinner. When I woke up this morning, Lin Jing disappeared. We were nearby I called for a long time and there was no movement."

"Did you go up the mountain to sketch?"

"How can it be? Didn't she just sprain her foot yesterday! Besides, the drawing boards are all in the room, so it's impossible to be sketching."

Mai Mai thought for a while: "I've searched all around? Could it be that I went to a neighbor's house?"

Lu Yusheng was so anxious that his head burst into flames: "We don't know anyone, why go to a neighbor's house!"

"Don't worry. Who did she share a room with last night?"

Han Qianqian whispered, "Me."

Mai Mai asked her: "Think about it carefully, didn't you hear any movement when Lin Jing went out?"

Han Qianqian shook her head and shrank behind Wang Long.Mai Mai said patiently: "Then, did Lin Jing mention going out?"

Han Qianqian's voice became softer: "No, we were all very tired and went to bed after eating. It was dawn when I woke up. I really don't know when she went out."

She said so, and Mai had no choice.Lu Yusheng said anxiously, "We've known you since we were here. Can you help us and call some people to find Lin Jingxing? We've searched all the places nearby, and if it doesn't work, we have to call the police."

Naturally, Maimai will help with this task, but he is not very familiar with these relatives, and he has to talk to grandma.Grandma is still leaning on her crutches and looking at Lu Yusheng angrily. She stopped her crutches when Mai Mai spoke, and said in a deep voice, "Go to Chunyuan's house and ask Lan Lan to call for someone. My lord doesn't have time now. The children went to help find them. To find someone, you have to go up the mountain.”

Lu Yusheng said anxiously: "Lin Jing twisted her ankle yesterday, even if she went out, she would not be able to climb the mountain. Could it be that she was kidnapped?"

Grandma ignored him, and said to Mai Mai: "Take out the snacks and candy you bought, and some change, and let someone look for it. It won't be in vain."

Lu Yusheng felt that this was meant for him, so he said unhappily: "People don't know how they lost it, and a hotel is also responsible for the safety of the guests."

Grandma used her crutches and said, "You young people just don't listen to the old man's words. You don't need to pay for this money!"

Lan Lan went there for a while, and called a group of half-grown children. Grandma took out snacks and candies, and told them one by one while sharing: "Two or three people, don't run around, come back when the road is bad, don't lose yourself again." gone."

At this moment, people from the house where Lu Yusheng lived also came over, and some people passed by to see the movement. There were many people standing in and out of the yard.The children got the candy, and they were about to run up the mountain. Mai was dragged out of the yard by them. Suddenly, he saw an ugly face in the crowd. It was the monkey-like person he saw in the car that day.He hurriedly pulled a child and asked, "Is that person also from our village?"

With candy stuffed in his mouth, the child asked strangely, "Who is that?"

Mai Mai raised her hand to point, but found that the man had disappeared again.Although there were woods not far away, the man had only one leg, and he was walking too fast with a cane.But the children couldn't wait any longer, so they dragged him and ran away.

This is already a tourist area, and the mountain road at the beginning is not difficult to walk. Xiao Mai and the others quickly reached the place where Lu Yusheng and others sketched yesterday, but looking around, there were only a few tourists taking pictures, and there was no sign of Lin Jing.The children grew up here, and they are very familiar with the mountain road, so they dispersed, in groups of three or five, and went to find it separately.Lu Yusheng pointed to a place and said, "Yesterday, Lin Jing fell down here and sprained her foot. How can she climb the mountain again?"

Mai Mai walked to the place that Lu Yusheng had mentioned, there was a rock there, because it was covered with moss, it was really slippery and easy to fall over.Standing there, Mai Mai suddenly remembered what Lin Jing said yesterday—someone called her, and when she turned around, she slipped and fell, but everyone in Lu Yusheng denied calling her... Miraculously, Mai Mai turned her head, He looked at the woods behind him.The trees on the edge of the forest are relatively thin, and it is impossible to hide anything, but there is a big tree that embraces a little bit inward. If someone calls her and she does not see it, she can only hide behind it.It had just rained a few days ago, and the grass was still soft. When the wheat went around behind the tree, it was found that a few clumps of grass had been pressed into the mud, forming a footprint.Wheat used his own feet to compare, and the footprints were unexpectedly large, almost one-third longer than his.He took a closer look, and suddenly found that the front of the footprint was separated, like five toes, that is to say, the footprint was not made by wearing shoes, so this foot is really different from that of ordinary people.

The three of Lu Yusheng also followed, and Mai Mai hurriedly told them to stand far away, so as not to damage the scene, this should be considered evidence.

"Is someone eyeing Lin Jing?" Lu Yusheng's expression changed immediately when he heard Mai said that there was a footprint here, "I said that no one called her that day, but she just said there was. But how did this person know her name?" ? We just arrived at this place! The name is you, and the people in the hotel know it."

Mai Mai thought, you are not doubting me, are you?However, when Lu Yusheng said this, he did have doubts.This person's name was Lin Jing, but few people in this place really knew her name.But as for the people at the hotel -- what motive?Besides, do the people in the hotel have such big feet?

At this time, the children who scattered to look for them had returned in twos and threes, but they couldn't find Lin Jing.They yelled on the mountain for an hour, but did not hear the slightest response.

"I want to call the police." Lu Yusheng had been in a hurry all morning, but he didn't call the police because the police didn't file a case within 24 hours of his disappearance. He couldn't help it, so he took out his phone and called 110.After half an hour, two policemen came up the mountain. When they saw the big footprint, the older one took a deep breath.Lu Yusheng didn't notice, but hurriedly told them what happened yesterday and this morning: "...Comrade police, we have already searched for someone on the mountain, but we can't find them anywhere. Look, could it be --was given to..."

The young policeman began to look around the footprints, but Mai Mai quietly pulled the older policeman aside and asked in a low voice, "Comrade policeman, you saw that footprint just now—do you know who left it?"

The older policeman was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, "How would I know?"

Mai Mai said in a low voice: "I just saw that your expression changed when you saw the footprints. At least you know something?"

The older policeman frowned: "You little comrade, why did your expression change? Do you think you are a detective?"

Lu Yusheng didn't know what they were talking about, so he hurriedly came forward: "Comrade policeman, this footprint is a clue, right? Check it out quickly!"

The young policeman straightened up: "What kind of footprint is this? It's just a puddle. I don't know how it was left. How can anyone have such a big footprint? The key is to organize people in the village to find it."

Lu Yusheng said anxiously: "But we just went to the people in the village to look for it, and there were shouts all over the mountain, but we couldn't find it."

The young policeman clicked his tongue: "You little comrades from the city just don't understand what's going on in this mountain. What if she falls from somewhere? She fainted, can you hear her? I'll go Organize people, look for them again, especially in the ravines.”

After hearing this, Lu Yusheng finally had a glimmer of hope again, and quickly followed the young policeman down the hill.This time with the police organization, everyone at home in the village put down their work and went up the mountain to look for it.Mai Mai originally planned to return to Binhai today, but Lu Yusheng told the police that Lin Jing heard someone calling her name on the mountain, so Mai Mai and the owner of the hotel where they stayed were a little suspicious, and they couldn't leave if they wanted to. up.Fortunately, today is Saturday, and there is another day off tomorrow, so Xiaomai called the pastry shop and told the boss that he couldn't go back tonight.When this kind of thing happened, the boss couldn't say anything, he just told him to be careful, so Mai Mai put down the phone and followed the villagers up the mountain to look for it.However, he kept muttering in his heart, always feeling that the old policeman had something to say.As he walked, he thought, from Lin Jing's name, to the fact that everyone in the village had to have nicknames, and he never called his first name outside his house door, and then thought of Lu Yusheng calling his name in the yard this morning, grandma. Such a big temper... The more I think about it, the more I feel that there is something strange about it. I plan to ask my grandma after I go down the mountain.

Everyone found it dark on the mountain before going down the mountain one after another, but they all found nothing.The three of Lu Yusheng followed the hotel owner's son to look for them, and they haven't returned yet.Mai Mai and the two policemen waited for a long time at the intersection, only to see that only three people came down from the mountain. Wang Long and Han Qianqian looked panic-stricken, and when they saw Mai Mai, they shouted: "Yu Sheng is gone too!"