Because I couldn't tell you clearly on the phone,
Sun Yushu went directly to the door to find Fang Zheng.
However, Fangzheng did not receive Sun Yushu at home, but met Sun Yushu in a private room of a teahouse outside the community.
The weather was getting hotter, and when Sun Yushu hurried over, he was already sweating profusely, and his clothes were soaked through his back.
Then, Fangzheng learned about the general process of the matter.
Just a few days ago, a middle-aged man named Xu Xianggao in Zhou City was accidentally caught under the wheel of a bus and died on the spot.
His head was crushed by the tire, and his brain tissue was sprayed all over the floor. His death was miserable.
This was a very common traffic accident.
But on the second day after Xu Xianggao's death, another seemingly unexpected death happened. Someone fell into a well and drowned in a scenic tourist area.
This man was called Zhao Zhengchu. He fell into the well with a bang at night and sank to the bottom without even the body floating up.
It didn't come up by itself until daytime.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this should have been a very common accidental death, and Sun Yushu, the university tutor, did not suspect it.
But until, a strange thing happened to Sun Yushu's university tutor...
Sun Yushu's tutor is named Tao Wenguang.
He is an old professor who has retired. After retirement, he returned to his hometown to provide for the elderly.
Tao Wenguang has been living in the countryside after retirement, raising some flowers and plants every day, enjoying the company of green mountains and green waters when he goes out.
It happened the day before yesterday.
That day, Tao Wenguang was helping people from his hometown to renovate the ancestral hall in the village. He simply shoveled sand, moved sundries, and carried wood. The old man is very keen on this kind of thing, and it is not too onerous. At first, it was normal during the day, but at night, several strange things happened one after another.
Because the rainy season has increased recently, in order to catch up with the work, prevent the wood from being wet by the rain, and to complete the renovation of the ancestral hall as soon as possible, everyone has been busy these days until eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
That night, we were also busy until the end of the night. After eating the dinner brought by the villagers, we planned to continue to rush to work. It was about 7 o'clock in the evening, just when the sun was setting, and the local dog in the village , Suddenly, like going crazy, screaming non-stop.
Even the roosters in the village crow at night, crowing restlessly in the coop.
All of a sudden, the villagers were busy drinking their own poultry.
At this time, Tao Wenguang, who was helping in the ancestral hall, met a strange person.
Sun Yushu looked at Fangzheng in front of him, and continued nervously: "I haven't seen that weird person in detail, according to my instructor's description, that person stood in the dark, couldn't see his face clearly, and his whole body was tightly wrapped in a black windbreaker. Yes, and the face is covered under the hood of the windbreaker."
"This weird man, after seeing my mentor, asked my mentor a sentence, which is the sentence I mentioned to Brother Fang on the phone earlier, 'One person should not enter the temple, two people should not observe the well, and three people should not enter the temple. Hug a tree, sit alone and don't lean on a railing'."
"Then, then...then the beginning is the beginning of all strange things, a series of strange things happened."
Fangzheng: "What's weird? I think you're a little nervous. Drink some water first to calm down."
"Thank you, Brother Fang." Sun Yushu continued.
"That weird man, after finishing that sentence, started to take out a copper coin, oh, yes, it was a copper coin from the Qing Dynasty, with the words 'Great Qing Copper Coin' engraved on the front and a dragon on the back, and then threw Coins, ask my instructor whether to guess the characters or the pictures. By the way, it is the antique copper coin on the picture I saved in my mobile phone. There are many related pictures on the Internet. I checked the information, and the copper coin of the Qing Dynasty was minted in 1900 From 1911 to 1911, because the rule of the late Qing Dynasty was overthrown, it was only implemented for a short time before being abolished."
"Get to the point." Seeing that Sun Yushu wanted to go on, Fangzheng interrupted directly.
"Oh, yes, continue to talk about my mentor." Sun Yushu shook the teacup with both hands in embarrassment, said embarrassedly, and then continued.
"The weird man asked my tutor whether it was a word or a picture, and asked my tutor to guess the front and back of the copper coin. But my tutor didn't guess, because my tutor had never seen that person in the village, and that person seemed to be from another village, so my tutor was more vigilant , just ignored that person, turned around and left."
"But that weird man has been following my tutor. My tutor said that the man has been standing in the dark, and the tutor has never seen what that person looks like. The tutor hid several times, but he didn't avoid the weird man. The weird man kept repeating In a word, let my instructor guess the front and back of the copper coin... By the way, I suddenly remembered a detail, that strange man's hands have many scars, and my instructor said that the back of the man's hands is full of scars, which look more terrifying than scalded hands."
"At this time, my mentor has already noticed something is wrong, and I have been trying to avoid that strange man, but the strange man has been following my mentor, and my mentor can only hide in the ancestral hall, trying to ask other villagers for help. But when my mentor hid When we were in the ancestral hall, that strange man actually disappeared, that’s right, he just disappeared, and he didn’t follow up in the ancestral hall.”
"Just after my mentor hid in the ancestral hall and the weird man disappeared, the sound of dogs barking and roosters crowing in the village disappeared all at once, and everything became quiet all at once, as if nothing happened before."
"Afterwards, my mentor recalled that when he was entangled by the strange man, there were many villagers nearby, but those villagers seemed to have not seen the strange man. Everyone continued to work with their heads down, and no one stood up to stop the strange man. Later, my mentor asked The villagers asked about this matter, which also verified my mentor's conjecture, and the villagers didn't even notice the strange man close at hand."
According to Sun Yushu's next words, his university tutor, namely Tao Wenguang, has been ignoring food and drink because of this matter, thinking about the meaning of that strange man in windbreaker every day.
And on the second day after this happened, that is, the fourth day after the death of the first person, nothing happened. One day passed, and Tao Wenguang never met that weird person who kept asking him to guess the copper coins of the Qing Dynasty. .
But on the fifth day, which is today, strange things began to happen again.
Dead again.
The one who died this time was an old woman who fell from a building far away in a neighboring province.
An old woman went to the roof at night to put away the quilt to dry, but she stepped through the railing and fell from the building.
His brains burst open, his eyes were wide open, and he died on the spot.
The old woman's name is Zhang Yechun.
The successive deaths of Xu Xianggao, Zhao Zhengchu, and Zhang Yechun finally came into Tao Wenguang's sight, because the three who died were all colleagues he had worked with when he was young.
He also finally understood why that strange man said the first sentence to him, because it was...
(end of this chapter)