Chapter 59: Road Trip Tips (Part 3)
To be more precise, this is a "person" that needs to be enclosed in double quotes.
Tang Xinjue opened the car door, walked to the little boy and squatted down gently.
"Can you hear me?"
The little boy raised his head. He had no facial features, only a flat piece of skin covering his head. When he made a "look" motion, the skin where his eyes were originally was facing Tang Xin Jue, which looked even more terrifying.
Tang Xin Jue looked at the face calmly, as if he was facing a normal child. When he got closer, his eyes did not even flicker. He repeated the question in an almost gentle voice, "Little friend, can you hear me?"
The little boy responded by nodding.
Tang Xin Jue pointed at his watch again: "Can you tell me where this watch came from?"
The little boy quickly hid the watch in his pocket and turned around to run!
After waving his two short arms vigorously in the air for a long time, the little boy slowly lowered his head and found that he seemed to have been standing still.
Tang Xinjue's toilet plunger had hooked onto the hood of his jumpsuit without him noticing, and he spoke clearly, "Don't be afraid, little boy. I'm not a bad person."
Child:"……"
As the plunger was twisted in his hat, he was forced to turn in another direction, his arms hanging limply at his sides, his featureless face wrinkled, and he actually looked somewhat helpless.
He had no mouth, so he naturally couldn't answer, so Tang Xin Jue asked in a different way: "Have you seen a sister who is about the same height as me, with short hair and blue clothes? Nod your head if you have, shake your head if you haven't."
The child nodded.
"So, did this watch come from that sister?"
It seemed to take the child several seconds to understand the meaning of "watch" before he slowly nodded.
"Where is she now?"
The child raised his arm and pointed forward where the car was about to continue.
Maybe it was because the fog had thinned a little, but this time, through the light and dark bushes, Tang Xinjue could faintly see a green building in the distance, located on the edge of the road.
While Tang Xinjue was looking up, the child suddenly dove into the bushes like a loach. In a blink of an eye, he disappeared. Because he ran so fast, he didn't even care about his clothes. The small black coat hung on his wallet, revealing Guo Guo's watch.
Tang Xin Jue: ...Am I so unpopular with children?
That shouldn’t be the case. Many children liked her when she talked to Feng Xiyu before.
After two seconds of self-doubt, Tang Xinjue put his coat and watch back into the car and drove towards the green house in the distance.
…
As the car got closer, the full view of the green house came into view.
Although it is also a green building, this house is many times larger than the coffee shop at the start of the road, and the door also has two words strung together by wire: restaurant.
Very concise.
A plump middle-aged woman was standing at the door of the restaurant, watering the flower pots at the door with a shower head.
When the car stopped, the middle-aged woman also stopped watering the plants, smiled an exaggerated smile that almost reached her ears, and posed in a welcoming gesture.
Tang Xinjue had no doubt that any normal customer passing by here would be scared away.
When she got off the car, she picked up the clothes left by the little boy and caught a fleeting look of stiffness on the middle-aged woman's face.
Tang Xin Jue smiled, casually threw his clothes over his arm, and got straight to the point: "Hello, have you seen any girls around my age recently?"
The boss's eyes paused on the clothes for a moment, and when he raised his head, his face was filled with a fake smile again: "I haven't seen it before."
"Not even one?"
The boss covered his mouth and chuckled: "Little girl, what you said is true. Would I lie to you? This place is remote and there are not many people who come to eat here in a day. Of course I remember every customer who comes."
She had a smile on her face and let Tang Xinjue walk in.
The restaurant was small, with four or five double tables and chairs, and a semi-open kitchen with only a few utensils. The pot was simmering soup, emitting a strange aroma that sounded like both meat and some kind of mushroom.
After observing the surroundings, Tang Xinjue did not feel any danger. When she was close to the kitchen, the boss stopped her and said, "Wait a minute, little girl. Why does the thing in your hand look familiar to me?"
The boss's eyes wandered over the toilet plunger, and he forced a smile and said, "It doesn't seem right to walk around outside the kitchen with this in your hand, right?"
Tang Xin Jue glanced at the leather pump in his hand and answered frankly: "Oh, you are talking about this, this is my pathfinder."
boss:"???"
"To be honest, I have acquired amblyopia and cannot see things more than one meter away, so I can only walk with the help of a pathfinder. Because of my personal hobby, I customized the pathfinder to look like a toilet plunger."
Tang Xin Jue nodded and said, "How is it? Are they very similar?"
boss:"……"
Ignoring the female boss who was hesitant to speak, Tang Xinjue walked to the kitchen window and discovered that there was a small compartment inside. Through the light, he could see a shadow hidden in the dark.
She stared at it for a moment, then lowered her eyes and said, "To be honest, I just found a child's coat on the road outside. I don't know who lost it..."
The shadow trembled, suddenly jumped up and ran out of the kitchen, bumping into Tang Xinjue: it was the faceless little boy!
The little boy wanted to snatch the clothes from Tang Xinjue's hand, but when he found that he couldn't, he hugged the boss's thigh and pointed at Tang Xinjue anxiously, as if complaining.
The boss smiled awkwardly, picked up the child and slapped him hard on the buttocks twice, then said, "Oh, what a coincidence, the clothes you picked up belong to our naughty child, look at this--"
The middle-aged woman wanted to take the clothes, but Tang Xinjue suddenly stopped and asked an irrelevant question: "I see a lot of mud and wrinkles on the clothes. Is it because the children often play outside?"
As she asked, she walked out naturally.
Just as she took a step forward, the candle chandelier in the restaurant suddenly dimmed and flickered without wind.
The middle-aged woman stared at her movements closely, as if she wanted to come up and grab her directly, but she was also inexplicably afraid , and said dryly: "That's right, the child is still young, and she just likes to roll around outside and get dirty. Little girl, don't you want to order a meal? Grandma Mayas will pay for you..."
Tang Xin Jue turned a deaf ear to him and just smiled as he passed by: "Boss, your clothes are wrinkled too."
"Do you like rolling around outside, too?"
The lights went out completely, and the restaurant fell into darkness. In the darkness, the middle-aged woman's expression darkened: "What did you say?"
"Sorry, it was just a joke."
Tang Xinjue threw the clothes in his hand to the other party, then took a step forward and walked out of the restaurant.
At the same moment, the female boss who was holding the clothes suddenly pounced out and grabbed Tang Xinjue's shoulder like lightning!
