Although it was just a humble copper coin, in the eyes of all of us, it was more terrifying than any horrific scene! I, who didn't believe in these crooked ways, was heartbroken!
"I'm back! I'm really back! No, I have to get rid of this copper coin quickly, otherwise we will all die. Brother Dong will be our example!"
The captain was already crazy at this time, shouting and yelling in the crazy house. Fortunately, when we came in, the captain's parents seemed to be out visiting relatives and were not at home. Otherwise, I really don't know how to explain why we brought his parents here.
Xiaopang and Monkey were also so frightened by the scene that they were speechless, but Lin Yingxue was the calmest one. She stepped forward and took a closer look at the coin, then turned around and said, "Ji Wen, how could this thing appear here? And how could it get back here before us?"
The edge of the woods where I chose to bury the copper coin is not only far from the captain's home, but more importantly, there is only one road, and the captain's home is also on the only way. If the copper coin is in trouble, we can judge who took the copper coin according to the people walking on this road. But now it's strange. There is only one road, and when we came back, we didn't see anyone. What happened to the copper coin? Did it run back on its own legs? Or is this copper coin really cursed
My confused brain kept thinking about all the possibilities of the scene in front of me. After thinking about it, I could only come to one conclusion, that is, among the group of people who went out to bury the copper coins just now, someone must have secretly hidden the copper coins while we were not paying attention, or the captain did not bury the copper coins at all, and then secretly put the copper coins on the pillow when we came back. But this does not make sense, because we entered the captain's bedroom almost at the same time, and no one had time to put the copper coins on the pillow.
Facing Lin Yingxue's question, I really didn't know how to answer her, so I turned to the captain and said, "Xiaoxue, you and the captain stay here. I'll go see if the copper coin has really been dug out!"
In my panic, I didn't even notice that the way I addressed Lin Yingxue had quietly changed. I used to call her by her name, but now I blurted out the word "Xiaoxue". By the time I came to my senses, Lin Yingxue was already looking at me in surprise, and I didn't know what to say.
Xiao Pang suddenly said, "I'll go with you too. After all, I also have a copper coin. If this matter is not sorted out, I'm afraid that Dong Ge's problem will happen to me sooner or later."
I nodded gently, but Lin Yingxue was not happy either. She stepped forward to stop me and said, "I'll go with you too. It's relatively dangerous over there. I'm afraid something might happen if you two go there. It would be better if I'm here with you."
I looked at Lin Yingxue in confusion, thinking, "Why would you do that for a distance of only a few hundred meters? It makes me feel like I'm going to the front line to fight."
Monkey suddenly held his stomach and said, "You guys go together. The captain and I will stay. I just have a stomachache, so I'm going to the toilet."
Monkey's sudden action instantly aroused my suspicion. Looking at his appearance, I couldn't tell whether he had a stomachache or not, but he chose to stay with the captain at this time. Did he want to question the captain about the quarrel between him and Dong Ge yesterday
Since the monkey chose to stay, I didn't waste any more time. I took Xiaopang and Lin Yingxue and ran towards the woods we had been to. After all, now was a time of racing against time. Maybe on the road, we could meet the person who brought back the copper coins.
Looking back now, I didn't consider things comprehensively enough. I thought that this incident must have been done by one of the three people, Xiaopang, the captain or the monkey. But now it seems that this is not the case. The fact that this copper coin was able to return to the captain's home faster than us means that the real murderer who killed Dong Ge is actually someone else!
Of course, I can't give up my suspicion of these three people. Maybe the murderer hidden among them did all this in a way that I don't know
This time we went to the woods much faster. In just a few minutes, we arrived at the edge of the woods, panting, and ran directly to the place marked by the captain. Before we passed, I saw from afar that the stone that the captain had erected in the original place had disappeared, and a newly dug pit appeared where the copper coins were buried.
I immediately went forward and took a closer look at the pit that had been dug on the ground. The pit was dug very hastily, and it was obvious that the digger was in a hurry. However, this made me even more puzzled. Only a few of us knew the exact location of the pit at the time, and we didn't see anyone else passing by on the road. So who dug it? How did he know the exact location of the pit
Xiao Pang was so scared that he was shaking all over. He said in a trembling voice, "It must be a curse! It must be a curse! I have encountered this situation many times, and every time the copper coins came back on their own! The dead man we dug out that year is here to seek revenge on us!"
As he said that, Xiaopang knelt down facing the woods and kowtowed continuously towards the depths of the woods. While kowtowing, he muttered something like "let me go".
I didn't try to stop Xiaopang, but just sat on the ground, constantly thinking about all the scenes and what everyone had said in these few dozen minutes, trying to connect the things together. But no matter how I thought about it, this thing was completely impossible to happen. Was there something wrong in my analysis, or was someone misleading me
Lin Yingxue looked at the pit for a long time before turning to me and saying, "What should we do now? Should we call the local police station to come over and have them conduct an on-site inspection?"
"That's not necessary. They probably won't be able to find anything if they come here. But I will still contact them later. I need their help to find something for me."
I sighed, took out a cigarette from my pocket and prepared to light it. Lin Yingxue immediately asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Find out where the shroud came from. Although I only vaguely saw the man pretending to be a ghost to scare me, I saw his shroud clearly and can roughly describe it. I need them to help me find where the shroud was made and who made it. If we find the person who made the shroud, I think the case will be basically solved."
As I was talking, before I lit a cigarette, I suddenly smelled a very strange smell, like stinky tofu, or some kind of sauce. In short, the smell was very strange, but I couldn't stop eating it.
I immediately followed the source of the smell and found that it was coming from Xiaopang.
It was strange. I had been there for so long and hadn't smelled any strange smell from Xiaopang, so why did I suddenly smell it now? So I immediately went over to see what Xiaopang was doing, and found that he was holding a white steamed bun with some kind of sauce in his hand. The white steamed bun seemed to have been squeezed and the sauce had flowed out through the gap in the bun, which produced this smell.
"What is this?"
Xiao Pang looked at me in confusion and said, "It's a steamed bun. My mom made it for me for breakfast this morning. I forgot to eat it and put it in my pocket. I accidentally crushed it when I knelt down just now. But it's okay. It should be edible."
I wanted to slap Xiaopang to death. How could I not recognize steamed buns? I continued to ask him angrily and amusedly, "I'm asking you what's in the steamed buns that smells so weird?"
When I asked him about this, Xiaopang immediately said proudly, "This is my family's secret recipe. The sauce made from it tastes very good. We plan to make more after the Chinese New Year and sell them. We will definitely make a lot of money."
While Xiaopang was talking, my eyes were always fixed on the sauce in Xiaopang's steamed buns, because I found that the color of this sauce was very unique, showing a strange brown sauce, which looked really unappetizing. But despite this, I had seen this brown sauce before!
I still remember clearly the strange man in shroud that I saw outside the window that night. His face seemed to be smeared with a layer of brown substance. He looked scary and his features were indistinguishable. Now that I think about it, that substance was probably the sauce in Xiaopang's hand!
Xiaopang himself said just now that this sauce is his family’s secret recipe. Could it be that the weirdo I saw at the beginning was actually Xiaopang in disguise
I was thinking about this question when my cell phone suddenly rang. I took it out and saw that it was Monkey who called. So I answered the call and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Ji Wen! Come back soon! Something happened!"
From Monkey's panicked tone, I felt uneasy, so I immediately got up and ran towards the captain's house with Xiaopang and Lin Yingxue. We soon arrived at the captain's door, but saw Monkey with a decadent expression on his face, sitting on the ground and crying quietly.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Before I could finish my words, I saw a large amount of blood on the monkey's body. Without waiting for the monkey to explain what had happened, I immediately rushed into the captain's bedroom. However, when I entered, I saw that the captain's bedroom was the same as Dong Ge's bedroom last night. The walls and glass were covered with blood. What was even more horrifying was that the captain's head had been chopped off. Just like Dong Ge's fate, he was hung in the air with a rope, his eyes wide open, and he died with his eyes open. In the captain's open mouth, I also saw a blood-stained copper coin lying quietly inside!