Chapter 489 Suspected News from Swallow
After taking a look, he saw the extremely rare color and the crystal transparency. Although Lao Qiu was not a pearl expert, he could tell how precious and rare this pearl was.
"How many times do you want me to say it? Didn't I tell you not to talk to me about money? Take it back now!" Old Qiu's face turned black again.
Liang Ziqiang said with a playful smile: "This is not money, it's just a small thing. If you say so, you also gave me a jade giant clam. Should I also get the jade giant clam back and return it to you?"
After much persuasion, Mr. Qiu finally accepted the golden pearl.
Sitting in the house, the father and son chatted with Lao Qiu for a long time. Finally, Liang Ziqiang told him:
"I take a break every once in a while anyway. If you don't mind being disturbed, I'll come to the island from time to time."
In fact, what Liang Ziqiang was thinking was that Qiu Dongzhi was not too old now and was not yet at the age where he needed company and care.
But in a few years, when Qiu Dongzhi is too old to move around easily, Liang Ziqiang will visit him often and will also consider paying someone to come to the island to take care of him.
Of course, if he gets old and no longer wants to stay on the island and is willing to go to the village, then we can ask someone in the village to take care of him.
Anyway, I will take care of Old Qiu in the same way I took care of my father.
Even if Tong Wen'an had not died because of that dinner and was taken to Piaomu Island, there is no way he would be willing to support Qiu Dongzhi until old age.
In this case, Liang Ziqiang would just take care of his parents quietly.
When I returned from Driftwood Island and just got home, I saw my wife standing in the open space in front of the house looking around.
"You just came back! I have something to tell you. Someone came to the village at noon and was asking around for Ah Cai!"
As soon as the daughter-in-law saw him, she pulled him into the house.
Liang Ziqiang's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Is criminal investigation technology so advanced these days? Deng Zhaocai disguised himself as an old fisherman, so well that even old acquaintances couldn't recognize him, let alone ordinary people in the market.
But Ruan Jingcheng and Tong Wen'an had just died the night before, and someone had already traced Deng Zhaocai to the crime? Isn't this too strong? It seems that Deng Zhaocai sneaked into the large cargo ship and went to a faraway foreign land that day. He escaped in time.
"What kind of person comes to ask?" he quickly asked his wife.
"It was just an ordinary old man. He asked if Deng Zhaocai was still in our village, why the door was locked and no one was there, and if anyone knew where he had gone."
An ordinary old man? Liang Ziqiang was a little surprised.
"He also said that he didn't know Deng Zhaocai. When he was at the beach, a woman who looked older than him came and asked him to go to Changwang Village to look for Deng Zhaocai. The woman also said that if he couldn't find Deng Zhaocai, he should ask Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang in the village. He had already asked Li Liang but got no results, so he came to our house again and wanted to ask you where Deng Zhaocai had gone!" Chen Xiangbei added.
Liang Ziqiang frowned as he listened. Something was wrong. It sounded as if it had nothing to do with the Jiejie Crab incident.
"I told him that Ah Cai had not been in the village for several years, and you had not seen him either. I didn't know where he had gone. The old man said that there was nothing he could do, and he had to go back and give a reply to the old lady who was driving the boat. Before he left, he left a piece of paper, saying that if we saw Ah Cai someday, we should give this paper to Ah Cai.
The old man said that the paper was given to him by the old lady who asked him to find someone, and he didn’t know what it meant!
"Where is the paper?!" Liang Ziqiang asked hurriedly after hearing what his wife said.
Chen Xiangbei entered the bedroom and opened the drawer.
He took out a very ordinary piece of letter paper and stuffed it into Liang Ziqiang's hand.
Most of the letter was blank. There were only four words on it:
Seaweed buns.
"Tell me, what do these four words mean? Aren't seaweed buns very common in our fishing village? Who hasn't eaten them? I often make seaweed buns for you! What can these four words represent? Can you tell who is looking for him?"
The daughter-in-law was obviously very puzzled by the words on the letter and kept muttering in Liang Ziqiang's ear.
Seaweed buns?
When Liang Ziqiang saw these four words, his eyebrows were knotted.
It was just like a riddle. Just like what his wife said, these four words could hardly have any special meaning! He thought about it for about two minutes. He suddenly stuffed the letter back into his wife's hands and asked: "Where is the old man?"
"He went to the beach. He wanted to answer the call, so of course he sailed away to find the old lady!"
Before Chen Xiangbei finished speaking, she saw Liang Ziqiang spread his legs and ran towards the beach, asking as he ran:
"When did the old man leave for the ship? How long has it been?"
"It's been hours. How can you find anyone if you go to the beach now?" his wife muttered behind him, "Have you come up with something?!"
"I don't know either. I just want to see if I can find the old man and ask him a few more questions!"
Liang Ziqiang replied vaguely, and he had already run down the Orange Slope and ran towards the beach.
In fact, of course he had figured something out, but he couldn't tell his wife.
The other party deliberately only wrote the words "seaweed buns" on the letter paper because he didn't want more people to guess it.
He just stood at home and stroked his hair for two minutes.
It seems that the only thing related to Deng Zhaocai and seaweed buns is that his mother loved to make seaweed buns when she was alive.
Two years ago, his mother went fishing at the beach. Before she died, she had a moment of consciousness and kept talking about catching more seaweed and making seaweed buns, waiting for Deng Zhaocai's father, Ashan, to "come back" from the sea to eat.
Not many people know about this matter, but at least we can rule out the possibility that the old man is here to investigate the case.
Besides Liang Ziqiang and others, there was another person, Yan Zi, who was guarding the beach until Deng's mother died.
Although Liang Ziqiang was not familiar with the words on the letter paper, they looked very beautiful, as if they were written by a woman.
He is not familiar with it, but that doesn’t mean that Deng Zhaocai is not familiar with it either.
Perhaps the other party wanted to use this method to make everyone in the village unable to guess who was looking for Acai even if they saw the letter, but only Acai could tell who it was just by looking at the words.
Thinking about it this way, this person could only be one person, Swallow.
The word "swallow" was not mentioned above, and there was not even a drawing of a swallow. Of course, that was because it would be too obvious and other people in the village would be able to guess that it was a swallow.
Deng Zhaocai is almost the only one who can understand the hint of "seaweed buns".
Liang Ziqiang ran quickly all the way to the beach.
Although he couldn't figure it out, didn't Yan Zi slip into the sea in the middle of the night at the beach of Wanfan Town two years ago?
It is almost impossible for this to be false.
But why did this piece of letter, which was highly suspected to be written by Yan Zi, suddenly appear two years later?
Moreover, why did Yan Zi’s letter appear just less than two days after Ruan Jingcheng’s death?
Liang Ziqiang couldn't figure out how Yan Zi could still be alive. But at the same time, he couldn't think of another person who could have sent this letter.
Therefore, it could only be Yan Zi. Yan Zi must have asked the old woman to come and look for someone.
No matter what, as long as we can find the old man and let him take us to see the old woman, we will at least know where Yan Zi is now.
However, when he ran to the beach panting, there was no trace of the old man except for a few familiar villagers.
He got on the boat again and searched around the sea, but the more he searched, the more discouraged he became.
After all, several hours had passed, and the old man had already disappeared on his boat.
Liang Ziqiang sat cross-legged on the boat.
He suddenly realized a problem.
Even if he could catch up with the old man, find the old woman who asked him to come to the village, and then find Yan Zi.
What can I do?
If it was before the day before yesterday, there might have been a way.
At that time, Deng Zhaocai was at least hiding somewhere in Yanghai City.
But the day before yesterday, when Deng Zhaocai made the final attack, he had already sneaked into the large cargo ship. At this time, he was probably no longer in the domestic waters...
If I find Yan Zi, where can I find a Deng Zhaocai to her? Should I go to Southeast Asia?
There is always a step between some people.
It seems that Deng Zhaocai and Yan Zi will never meet again in this life. Just like the waves hitting the lotus boat at this moment.
One wave can never catch another wave...
(End of this chapter)
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