Chapter 26 Negligence
I went to bed after dinner. Since the family only had clothes worn by old women and little loli, I had to wash my clothes and hang them on the clothes drying rack, and then wear them tomorrow. Before going to bed, I took out my cell phone and called Li En, but there was still no reply. I hung up the phone, set the alarm clock, and lay on the wooden bed as hard as bricks and stones.
I squeezed my body into it, leaving a place for Ouyang Lan. Then I thought that it was impossible for her to sleep with me, so I let go of it. After a while, with the rumbling snoring, I fell asleep. I also had a very terrifying nightmare, dreaming that I fell into a snake pit.
Then he was awakened by the screams. Ouyang Lan shook my shoulders and shouted to me: "Get up quickly, something happened to Nannan!"
I saw that she was so beautiful that she had not realized the seriousness of the problem and asked, "Who is Nannan?"
"It's that little girl, she's missing!"
I immediately became energetic and rushed up with a whisper. I ran outside without caring about whether my clothes were wet. Now I could only wear it. Dozens of lights flashed outside, and the words "Nannan" kept ringing. The old lady was gone. It was probably because she mobilized the neighbors nearby.
I turned on the mobile phone light and Ouyang Lan came out of the wooden house, "What the hell is going on? Tell me the details!"
Ouyang Lan said sternly: "We were smashing a grassy beach. Seeing the beautiful scenery around me, I took a photo of her with my phone. But when the last time she suddenly disappeared about ten meters away from me, I couldn't see her shadow no matter how I called her."
"Ten meters!?" I really don't know what to say. In such a dark place, who knows what monsters are hidden in secret? Ouyang Lan dared to let a seven or eight-year-old girl leave her ten meters range.
"What's wrong? I can only take pictures of the scenery from a distance? Who would have thought that this would happen? Shi Xiao, please help me find Nannan. I don't want to go to jail yet. And when I see the old lady panicked, I'm really afraid that she will have an accident." Ouyang Lan was almost crying.
I didn't know how to say anything about her anymore, so I said, "Where is the photo?"
I saw a piece of weeds above the knee, and fireflies flying around me, reflecting the moonlight, making them look beautiful. The little girl in the center of the photo was like an angel. In the last photo, only the scenery was left, but the little girl was gone. I carefully searched for clues in the photo.
Suddenly my pupils shrank, and I saw a thick black shadow. I quickly looked to the first few photos, looking for something with a panic look.
Ouyang Lan was very anxious and kept urging me. I shouted angrily and told her to shut up. She became honest, as if she had suffered a great grievance, and tears fell down her cheeks.
My eyes searched for a few photos. There were two spots of light the size of rice grains in the seating corner of each photo. I said, "Take me to the place where Nannan disappeared."
Ouyang Lan put away the pear blossoms and cried with rain and took me to a messy grassland. It was originally very beautiful, but it was destroyed by a group of people who didn't know how to appreciate it. They can't remember the number of times they searched here. Now several women with yellow skin are comforting the old lady.
I took out my cell phone to compare the photos, found the place where Nannan disappeared, ran over, and groped on the ground. Sure enough, I found that there were overwhelming traces of grass around me, but there was no blood. When the lights shone everywhere, a bright light flashed not far away, as if stars were blinking.
I found a bracelet there according to my impression, and I was surprised that this bracelet seemed to have seen it there. Ouyang Lan caught up and explained: "This is what I gave to Nannan."
I yelled softly, "Oh no!"
Several nearby fishermen and workers who were shampooing the sand came over and pointed at them. I shouted angrily and asked a middle-aged man who looked at the honest man and asked, "What do you know? Tell me all."
"Oh, I don't think you are a person here. Tell you, don't waste your energy, this little girl can't be found."
He said it in a tone of saying something ordinary, and I was furious and rushed up to grab his collar. Ouyang Lan cried so hard that the pear blossoms were raining, and finally ran towards the fishing boat. I was at a loss when I encountered this situation, and gently put him down, lowered my head and remained silent.
He said to himself: "Looking at your face, there are some strange things here, maybe you don't know. There is a legend in this Bamboo Lake that lives a river demon. It is said that it was a snake demon who came to practice and likes to eat children the most. This is the second one we have lost here, so we don't have any hope. I advise you to give up."
People around me started to make a fuss, and my mind was very confused, especially when I remembered that after dinner, the old lady was waiting for the figures of the two of them to come back on the dark path of the wooden house. Until I was about to go to bed, she stood on the road. I asked her why she wasn't sleeping yet.
The old lady sighed, "Oh, when people are old, they will be uneasy without their granddaughter and cannot sleep."
I said, "Where are your children?"
"My daughter-in-law thought the family was poor, so she divorced my son and found another family. I begged me to keep my granddaughter. In order to make money, my son went out to work. She didn't come back a few times a year, so she only had her granddaughter with me, the old woman who was half-tied."
Whenever the old lady mentions her granddaughter, her face will be filled with a happy smile.
And all this is because of me, the old lady became a widow.
The people around me no longer comforted me. After all, they still felt sorry for themselves, so they dispersed. I held the bracelet tightly and followed the traces on the ground with the flashlight, and continued to search.
I only have one idea in my mind. No matter whether Nannan is dead or alive, I will find her and give an explanation to the old lady.
At this time, the old lady fainted due to excessive sadness, was supported by someone, and was carried onto a stretcher amid the sound of the police sirens and sent to the hospital.
More than a dozen policemen at the scene were holding flashlights and searching around. When they arrived at the disappearing position of Nannan, the police dog suddenly barked wildly, and their bodies kept retreating, refusing to move forward. The worst of them even fell down and twitched and foamed at the mouth.
In the end, only two brave and combative police dogs left to take people on the road I walked. I heard the barking of dogs behind me, and knew that someone was searching for it. I had some courage in my heart and searched for clues more carefully.
I vaguely heard the conversation between men and women behind me. Through the words inside, I knew that the last time I disappeared was at night. In the end, half of the search was found, the police dog got sick inexplicably. After only manpower, it was only found that there was no clue.
Chapter completed!