"He went in the direction of the forest."

Relationships go around a little bit, like looking for friends of friends of friends.

If there were any other way, Xiao Su believes that Wu Lin would not have gone so far.

"His name is Nan Sheng," no more questions, Xiao Su directly provide information, "I have his phone number and WeChat, need to help you contact?"

"No," Wu Lin said, "just send me his phone number and cell phone number."

"Good." Xiao Su responded dryly.

After the call, Xiao Su sent Nan Sheng's contact information.

Wu Lin couldn't wait to tweet and dialed his cell phone number directly.

It took a long time for the other side to pick up, a sleepy Sichuan voice, full of irritation at being woken up: "Hello, which one?"

"Hello, I'm Wu Lin," Wu Lin was the first to explain the situation, "I got your cell phone number from Xiao Su."

"Xiao Su?" Nan Sheng's voice was clearly half-awakened, "What is it?"

As he couldn't explain it in one sentence, Wu Lin simply picked up the most important point: "I'm looking for Jincheng Wang."

"Which one?" Nan Sheng was puzzled.

Wu Lin said, " Jincheng Wang , you had dinner together."

"I've eaten with many people." Nan Sheng's Sichuan dialect, as he gradually sobered up, automatically turned into Sichuanese Mandarin.

Wu Lin thought Nan Sheng and Jincheng Wang were at least friends, but now it looks like they might have been just an impromptu game of one friend dragging another along.

Fortunately, Jincheng Wang's story should be impressive enough.

Wu Lin: "On May Day vacation, you had dinner with a group of friends, and one of them got into a fight with someone else, and the flower pots dried up and broke."

"Oh, that melon batch." Sure enough, Nan Sheng had a memory flashback for a second.

Wu Lin immediately asked, "Do you have his phone number?"

Nan Sheng: "I don't know the phone number, but I have friends who can find him ......"

Wu Lin : "Then can you ......"

"Wait a minute, which one are you? What's your relationship with Xiao Su?" Nan Sheng was full of questions, "What are you looking for Jincheng Wang for, how do you know he got into a fight that day?"

Wu Lin, Environmental institute sophomore, "to ask for help, sincerity first, Wu Lin with the fastest speed and dish out," looking for Jincheng Wang is to ask him about his family, that day and Jincheng Wang fight is me," said Wu Lin. I was the one who fought with Jincheng Wang that day."

"You?" This doesn't match the gossip Nan Sheng was getting from the guys watching that day, "Wasn't his brother the one who beat him up?"

Wu Lin said, "I'm the other one."

Oh, Nan Sheng realized, and then became even more confused.

There were only two people who beat up Jincheng Wang that day. If Wu Lin was the other one, it means that Wu Lin and Jincheng Wang's brother were in the same gang, and then Wu Lin wanted to ask about Jincheng Wang's family: "Wouldn't it be better for you to go directly to his brother?"

Wu Lin's heart sank, and he tried to suppress his emotions so as not to show them, "I just can't find his brother."

That makes sense.

Nan Sheng doesn't like to do things in a haphazard manner, "You haven't said anything about your relationship with Xiao Su."

Wu Lin didn't think there was anything to it, and naturally ignored it, but Nan Sheng seemed to be particularly concerned.

Not being able to get Nan Sheng's point, Wu Lin could only briefly summarize in a few words his relationship with Xiao Su, a relationship in which they don't usually talk to each other, but do help each other out when things come up, of course, most of the time it's Xiao Su, as a senior and a teacher, who is helping him out.

Nan Sheng listened and asked, "Then how did you know that Xiao Su and I knew each other?"

Wu Lin is not good to mention that night Nan Sheng night trip bouncing thing, after all, the end is to be cleaned up by Mr. Su clear, only to vaguely said, "I saw you and Xiao Su together at school ......."

Talking, eating, getting lectured by Mr. Su, all called together.

"Alright," Nan Sheng's tone was noticeably lighter, even with a bit of imperceptible happiness, "For Xiao Su's sake, I'll look into it for you."

Wu Lin didn't react for a moment, "Huh?"

Nan Sheng: "Last time because of you, Jincheng Wang was beaten up by his brother like that, and someone sent the video to his friends, he is now dying of laughter, do you think he will still help you?"

Wu Lin knows it's hard, but ......

"Want to know about his family and find his brother by the way, right," Nan Sheng said, "I'll find out for you."

Although the order of importance of the two events is reversed, the content is much the same.

Wu Lin thought that Nan Sheng so against Xiao Su to pick things up, should be and Mr. Su very bad, then as Xiao Su "recommended" over their own, help not to touch the wall is already thank God, this also came to a full set of VIP treatment, what is the situation?

"Is this your cell phone?" Nan Sheng suddenly asked.

Wu Lin subconsciously responded, only to say afterward, "Why don't you still put Jincheng Wang phone number ......"

Nan Sheng let out a chirp, "I'll check, definitely faster than you can find Jincheng Wang."

Someone who dares to carry a stereo and bop around the midnight dormitory floor with his minions.

Wu Lin chooses to believe.

The rain is starting to get heavier.

Wu Lin sitting in the dormitory building on the door steps, the curtain of rain in the night, in the street lamp's shimmering light splashed with water mist, dense, cold.

The hours became extraordinarily long.

But Nan Sheng didn't keep him waiting for long, sending over a series of screenshots of the chat in less than half an hour.

Temporary group, unnamed, group members (4)

Don't want to inherit the family business: Jincheng Wang? Why are you asking about him?

Flower Peacock: Don't talk nonsense, if you know, speak, if you don't know, close the mike.

Not wanting to inherit the family business: fuck, how dare you be so cranky when you're pulling us up in the middle of the night and begging us to do something?

Lion-King: Hey, I like Nan Sheng like this, it's very energetic.

Don't want to inherit the family business: you jittery M [speechless.jpg]

James: Hospitalized it seems.

Flower Peacock: hospitalized?

James: I heard his brother beat him up again, this time hard hahahahahahaha

Do not want to inherit the family business: pure brain disease, the family property are all his, but also the old bitchy to provoke his brother to do what.

Peacock: Why did his brother beat him up again? Where is his brother now?

Lion-King: Do you want to ask him or his brother?

Flower Peacock: ask both.

James: Okay, I'll ask you again, my buddy is visiting the hospital haha

James: Here we go.

James: It's fucking hilarious, it's just a shitty apartment for 600,000 dollars, and Jincheng Wang and his brother both wanted it, and his dad gave it to Jincheng Wang, and then Jincheng Wang got beat up by his brother.

James: His brother is really cruel, directly to him into the hospital, teeth knocked out two, that face swollen simply can not see.

He doesn't want to inherit the family business: just for this? Why don't we just buy another one for his brother? Does his family need this 600,000 dollars?

James: It's not about the money.

Lion-King: Eccentricity is the most infuriating.

James: It's not a matter of favoritism. It's not the first time that his brother has been treated differently, and this time the apartment seems to belong to one of his brother's classmates, and that's why his brother cares so much about it, and has to buy it for himself.

Jincheng Wang is the treasure of the Wang family, and his mom and dad didn't show any sign of being beaten up by his brother?

James: How did not, directly to his brother in the home, said Jincheng Wang not out of the hospital, his brother do not want to come out, the results, fuck, his brother really bull, froze in a dozen people under the noses of the run out.

Flower Peacock: ran away?

James : Well, it was the day before yesterday, took down a bunch of people who were looking at him, Tigers have genes you'd think you'd be kidding.

Flower Peacock: Now what, what's the situation?

James: What else can happen, a family of three are going to vomit blood, and then people have not found, my friend said that it seems to be found out of the province, but then do not know where to go.

Lion-King: Damn, if it were up to me I'd run too, people have a family of three, and I'm like an extra.

I don't want to inherit the family business: his parents are not hit by the head, his brother how to look at it than Jincheng Wang that goon, right, tall, handsome, and also can fight.

......

The screenshot only goes so far, and apparently Nan Sheng knows that for Wu Lin, this is enough.

Nan Sheng: Did you get it?

Wu Lin: Uh, thanks.

Wu Lin's thanks to Nan Sheng went far beyond those two words, but his mind was already occupied and scrambled by the information in the screenshot.

The apartment that his dad sold was bought by Jincheng Wang. No wonder he was so eager for his dad to clear out his stuff and vacate the house.

This would have made Wu Lin sick to his stomach before today.

But now, all he cares about is the night he told Ye Wang that the apartment was for sale.

Ye Wang listened and asked three words, "Sold out?"

It was a cloudy night, and the moon was mostly obscured, so I couldn't see a single star.

Since then, Ye Wang has not been seen at school.

Wu Lin tilted his head, took a deep breath, and then another deep breath, but could not suppress the sourness that surged up under his eyes.

Ye Wang asked him if he wanted to go up the mountain ......

Ye Wang said I just want you to stay with me, I haven't thought of anything for you ......

Ye Wang said I don't have to cover you anymore, you have to be more flexible ......

A drop of rain fell on Wu Lin's cheek.

Hot.

The sudden ringing of a cell phone broke through the cacophony of the downpour.

Wu Lin looked at the name on the caller ID and was stunned before pressing answer:" Li Zhao brother?"

" Wu Lin ," Li Zhao's always-steady voice held more than a hint of confusion, "Are you still in school?"

"In," Wu Lin asked, not understanding why, "what's wrong?"

Li Zhao said, "Ye Wang came to Changbai Mountain."

Bright lightning pierces the night sky.

"You keep him, Brother Li Zhao!" Wu Lin shouted over the rumble of thunder, "Don't let him go--"

Li Zhao : "...... But he's gone."

Thunder over.

The only sound left in the darkness was the rain again.

Wu Lin : "Already ...... gone?"

Li Zhao: "Yes, he tried to find Qiran Tao, didn't find him, and left."

Wu Lin: "What do you mean you didn't find it?"

Li Zhao: "Your brother-in-law is in the forest."

Wu Lin: "Then wouldn't it be fine for him to wait at the cabin for his brother-in-law to return?"

Li Zhao: "I'm afraid I'm to blame."

Wu Lin: "Blame you?"

Li Zhao : "Your brother-in-law has been spending more and more time in the forest lately, it takes about ten days to half a month before he comes back, sometimes it can be longer. Ye Wang heard me out and left, probably because he didn't have the patience to wait."

You only come back once every ten days or so?

How long does that come back for?

If she comes back and leaves, won't Li Zhao have to stay alone in the cabin all the time?

These thoughts flashed up almost by reflex, but Wu Lin couldn't care less now: "How long has Ye Wang been walking? How can we get down the mountain in such darkness? Did he say where he was going afterward?"

"He's been gone for about ten minutes," Li Zhao didn't ask Wu Lin what happened here, and said bluntly, "Don't worry, I'm going to go after him, maybe I can catch him back." After a pause, Li Zhao added, "I don't think Ye Wang will go down the mountain, he went in the direction of the forest."