This aunt was a typical gossip. Xiang Jin didn't want to chat with her anymore, so she looked at Xiang Nan who was listening to their gossip with a serious look on her face and said, "Hurry up and eat quickly. After you eat, come to the fields with me."
Go dig the sweet potato vines!”
"Oh," the girl lowered her head and continued to take a mouthful of rice into her mouth. After swallowing, she said, "But I want to dig some potato seeds."
Xiang Jin said, "It just rained last night. The ground is still very wet and the soil is very raked. It's not easy to dig out the potato seeds. Once you dig them, you will bring up a lot of mud, so it's better to wait for two days."
Let’s start digging when the soil becomes a little harder. Today, let me dig up the sweet potato vines. The ones on the surface of the ground are fine.”
"Oh!" The little girl continued to pick at the rice in the bowl, and after Xiang Jin said hello to the aunt, she got up and went to change her rain boots, and took out Xiang Nan's rain boots by the way.
When the family members saw Xiang Jin get up and leave, they knew that she didn't want to talk to the aunt anymore, so they all found excuses to leave.
Xiang Jin's grandmother went directly to the kitchen to clean up after picking up. Xiang Jin's mother Yang Juyun said that she was going to the construction site, while Aunt Liao said, "Oh, I planted the wrong mung beans and soybeans this year. Next few
Every time it rains heavily, my seedlings will be drowned several times. It rained again last night. I know what is happening in my field again. I have to go and take a look."
Everyone got up and had something to do. The aunt saw that the dragon gate array could no longer be set up, so she got up and left. After she left, everyone gathered together again, and Xiang Jin reminded everyone,
"The Lao Xiang family probably won't be able to calm down today. Let's not participate, so as not to make ourselves embarrassed later."
Everyone in the family nodded in agreement.
Unexpectedly, not long after she said this, when she was looking for a dustpan in the utility room, Xiang Yan ran over and looked at them with a pleading look on her face, hoping that they would help find Xu Heng.
This was a bit difficult for them. They didn't want to get involved in the affairs of Lao Xiang's family, but behind Xiang Yan were two other people from Wantou. The two people also looked at them hopefully and said the same thing.
Go find some time.
It's a matter of human life. If we don't help, others will say that their family is hard-hearted and has no sympathy.
Seeing the inquiring looks that her mother and grandmother were paying to her, Xiang Jin lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "Grandma, you should stay at home and take care of things at home. Mom, you should go to the construction site."
Regarding the matter, Xiang Nan is at home. When grandma is cooking later, she will help her make a pot and I will go look for it with them."
"Oh, oh, ok," Yang Juyun and her grandmother responded in tandem.
Aunt Liao put down the bamboo pole on her back and hurriedly said, "Then shall I come with you?"
Xiang Yan cast a grateful look at them, but Xiang Jin didn't pay much attention to it and walked directly out of the courtyard. To be honest, she actually agreed with the guesses of those in Wantou. Xu Heng was probably close to him.
Ten is that something unexpected happened.
She walked out and asked Xiang Yan, "Where have you been looking?"
Xiang Yan said that they had searched Wantou and Aijiawan, but no sign of Xu Heng was found. Then Xiang Jin asked where the others were looking now.
Xiang Yan said that some were still looking at the head of the bay, and some were already looking in the direction of the Ninth Brigade outside the bay. Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked the other two people following him, "Then what should we do next?"
try to find?"
The two people said, "Let's search carefully at the head of the bay and its surroundings, especially those places near wells, in manure pits, at the head of ditches, in water storage pits in rice fields, and on the back mountains.
If you drop a person, you should look for the place where the person is hiding, right?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, then Aunt Liao and I will be responsible for searching in the Digoutou and Houshan areas behind here."
The two men nodded, and then said, "Then we will be responsible for searching the pits under the bay."
Everyone split up, and Xiang Jin and Aunt Liao headed toward the back mountain. For a moment, the entire foot of Wantou Mountain was filled with shouts for Xu Heng.
After searching for a while, Xiang Jin and the others met Han Che and Yan Chen. They knew they were looking for someone, so Yan Chen suggested, "Han Che, you and Aunt Liao go in from the west end of the mountain."
Looking for it, Xiang Jin and I will search from the east end of the mountain to the inside, it will be faster this way."
Han Che said, "Hey, why are I with Aunt Liao and you with Xiang Jin, instead of you with Aunt Liao and me with Xiang Jin?"
Yan Chen's face was not red, his heart was not beating, "Because the trees and shrubs on the Xishan side are relatively sparse, and the roads are easier to walk. Didn't you complain just now that the roads here are simply too difficult to walk on?
They are all thorns, they have hurt your legs. I have chosen an easy one for you, and you are still not happy?"
Han Che looked at the trousers and rain boots that Xiang Jin was wearing, so he stretched out his hand and gave her a thumbs up, "You still have the foresight, okay, then Aunt Liao and I will go to the west side, you and Xiang Jin
Go this way to the east," he said to Aunt Liao, "Aunt Liao, let's go this way."
"Oh, okay," Aunt Liao responded, and then told Xiang Jin and Yan Chen, "You should be careful and don't fall. There is a lot of moss on the mountain."
"Yeah, I know, you too!"
Yan Chen nodded and responded to Xiang Jin.
The two of them headed east, and after walking for a while, Yan Chen picked up a slightly thicker yellow thorn pole and handed it to Xiang Jin, "The grass here is relatively deep, take this and beat it."
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Xiang Jin knew that he was afraid of snakes hiding in the grass, so he reached out to take it and said, "To be honest, I don't have any hope for the possibility of that kid hiding in this mountain."
Yan Chen nodded, "That's true, but in order to reassure everyone and to help everyone find the person as soon as possible, someone still needs to be found on this mountain."
Xiang Jin nodded, "This is called doing something you know you can't do!"
Yan Chen laughed, "To be honest, I'm quite surprised that you can help find someone."
Xiang Jin sighed, "It's nothing. Although I find the people in the old Xiang family quite distasteful, and I wish some people in their family were unlucky, but that's only for some, not all. Besides, I haven't yet
Cruel to the point of disregarding the lives of others and despising the lives of others.
Speaking of which, we actually don’t have much of a blood feud with their family. To put it bluntly, it’s just an emotional dispute between my mother and Xiang Hai. Xiang Hai doesn’t like my mother, and the old Xiang family doesn’t want to see us two sisters.
In fact, it doesn’t matter if you think about it. If others don’t like us, we don’t have to like others, so why do we have to be liked by others? We are not money, everyone has to like us.
In fact, it doesn’t matter whether others like you or not. What’s important is that you like yourself. Only when you love and respect yourself can your life not be in vain!”
Yan Chen looked at her intently for a while, and for some reason he suddenly felt inexplicably bad and uncomfortable in his heart, not because of what she said, but because of her essential attitude towards things.
He always felt that she could always be treated and handled in the most rational way no matter what happened. She was so rational that he felt that she was not a person in this world, but another person, a bystander who saw everything in the world through other people.
who.
Indifferent, careless!
It was as if nothing in the world could enter her eyes or her heart, as if as long as she wanted it, everything would be indifferent to her, or leave no trace.
He did not follow her words, but turned his head away, "Let's go, let's continue looking."
Xiang Jin nodded, not noticing anything strange about him, and used the stick to push away a clump of thorn seedlings that had fallen on the roadside.
Even though they knew it was impossible for people to be on the mountain, the four of them still spent a whole morning searching the entire back mountain. The last few people were very tired. Not only were they sweating, but they were also very tired.
There were several scratches on Jin's face. The wounds were not too deep, so there were only a few small drops of blood. They would be healed in a few days, but the appearance would not be disfigured.
However, Yan Chen's brows still furrowed. He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her, "How about sassafras?"
Xiang Jin was startled for a moment, but he still took it. She was indeed very hot at the moment, and the scratched marks on her face stung a little under the wash of sweat. It would be better to wipe it with a handkerchief.
a little.
She raised her dirty handkerchief and said, "I'll wash it when I go back and give it back to you?"
"No need," Yan Chen directly took the handkerchief away from her hand, then raised his hand and casually wiped it on his face.
Xiang Jin said, "You did it yourself, so you should clean it yourself, right?"
Yan Chen frowned slightly and glanced at her sideways, but said nothing.
Aunt Liao and Han Che rested on a large naked rock for a while and then came over. Aunt Liao said, "Let's go, let's go back and tell them about this matter."
A few people nodded and went down the mountain.
However, before they reached the gate of Lao Xiang's house, someone rushed into the bay from outside and said that Xu Heng had been found, but he was already dead. There was a family over there in the Ninth Brigade.
Found it in the methane pit behind the house.
Xu Heng is dead?
Although this result was within everyone's expectations, it is still a bit surprising and shocking.
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen looked at each other, and Yan Chen said, "Let's go, there's no need to say anything more, are you going back?"
Xiang Jin nodded, and there was really no need to say anything more, so they turned around and walked back. After a while, the old Xiang family's screams and screams could be heard.