Seeing that the fat man ignored me, I touched my nose, walked over, patted the fat man on the shoulder and said, "Stop it! Fatty, I'm wrong, don't ignore me. It's so boring without anyone to chat with me."
The fat man didn't even look at him and continued walking forward.
Along the way, I kept trying to get Fatty to talk to me, but maybe because I had just provoked him, he didn't pay much attention to me for the rest of the journey.
I rolled my eyes and thought that I should talk about a topic that the fat man is interested in in order to get his response.
"Fatty, do you want me to tell you how to chase girls? Look at me, I'm handsome, but I rarely take the initiative to chase girls, but girls always surround me. Do you want to know why?"
Sure enough, the fat guy, who had originally had no other thoughts, was attracted by the girl's words. After all, the fat guy has never been single in all these years, and the girl he likes doesn't like him, so these points of mine can be considered to be right.
"Why, why?" As expected, the fat man replied, "You said that although I am not good-looking, I am considerate. You are only one year older. What's the point? You don't pursue me and just leave me alone. What a waste!"
These words of mine aroused the fat man's resentment, and he poured out all his anger towards me.
"It's actually very simple. Girls just want someone to make them happy. You see, I don't pursue them, but they are willing to listen if I tell a funny joke. You have to hit their funny bone. For example, if you occasionally talk about skin care products, they are still willing to listen!"
You say you're okay as a brother, but if you're chasing a girl, you're just helping her and she doesn't know what you're doing. If you're like that, they'll be afraid of you if you confess, thinking you're a toad trying to eat swan meat. So, you have to use the right method to flirt with girls, and you can't be so blatant."
"Oh, then if you put it that way, I have to learn from you, like I did to Jiang Lan. I never dared to confess my feelings until I confessed my feelings, and then you got furious and said I wasn't loyal, right?"
The fat guy has always been dismissive of my method. He thinks that my method is wasting the girls' youth. It would be better for me to be more pragmatic like him and directly express my thoughts, although he has not told Jiang Chu yet.
I was pushed by the fat guy, and I felt a little embarrassed. Although I sometimes know that my method is wrong, I can't help but feel that girls like me. That's why I keep using this method. But I also know that what the fat guy said is right. However, after all, everyone has their own methods, and it is impossible to judge whether it is right or wrong.
"Okay, I won't argue with you. After all, everyone has their own methods, and not every girl is the same. Maybe your method is right too. I wish you can catch Miss Jiang Chu soon!"
When Xiao Ding saw us arguing, he just looked at us curiously. The concept that children should not interrupt when adults are talking is reflected very well in Xiao Ding. He just listened to what we said without interrupting. Although we could see from his eyes that he didn't understand many things, he didn't ask. In order to avoid leading the child astray, we didn't take the initiative to tell him what we were talking about.
After a while of entertainment, we finally thought about the business. I took out the stone in my hand and looked at it carefully. I found that it did look a little bit like Jiang Lan's name, but after a closer look, it didn't seem to be his name. It looked a bit messy, and I felt a little confused.
"Tell me, is this Jiang Lan's name?" I held the stone in my hand and handed it to the fat man to see.
The fat man took the stone in my hand, looked at it carefully, looked up at me, and said that it seemed a bit like Jiang Lan's handwriting. Think about it carefully, when you touched this stone, did anything strange happen around you, or what happened last night?
When the fat man asked me this question, I tried hard to recall and shook my head.
Czech was attracted to our side and naturally heard what the fat man asked me. He looked at me seriously.
But I was sure in my heart that apart from that one fish, I didn't see any other creatures that night, let alone any human beings. So it was impossible that someone had deliberately placed this stone there. I shook my head firmly again.
"Then do you remember which direction that snake appeared from?"
Jack took the stone from the fat man's hand and rubbed it in his palm, but the stone did not change at all.
I thought about it carefully. In fact, although it was not long after, my mind was blank when the snake appeared. I couldn't remember clearly which direction the snake appeared from. I only remembered the appearance of the snake and the fact that it appeared at that time.
We pondered for a while and finally remembered that the direction in which the snake appeared was exactly the same direction in which the stone appeared, and our eyes lit up.
"I remember that the direction where the snake appeared was exactly where the stone appeared!"
After hearing what I said, Jack and Fatty looked at each other, and doubts suddenly arose in their hearts.
"Could it be that the snake brought the stone back? But was the stone already there, or did the snake bring it back? Does this snake have an owner?"
I expressed my doubts, but no one could answer them because we didn't know when this stone appeared.
When Jiang Lan disappeared, we had already searched the area but didn't find the stone. However, we found the stone the next day. This revealed the mystery.
"Perhaps this is really the letter Jiang Lan brought back. Or perhaps the snake brought this stone along with it when it swam over. It's a stone Jiang Lan left somewhere. Whichever way it is, it means the direction the snake appeared in is probably the direction Jiang Lan disappeared in."
This discovery makes me very happy. It means that we are no longer without any clues. Even a tiny clue is very valuable.
"In that case, should we go back and look for anything else around the lock?"
The idea proposed by the fat man made me feel a little uneasy, but after thinking about it carefully, maybe we should not go back because, if that person was really very close, why didn’t we find any traces yesterday, and waited until today, which means that the other party may not be able to come back, or is unwilling to come back?
No matter which one it is, we can only move forward and I cannot retreat, because we don’t know what will happen next, but we must explore the front to find a way out.
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