"Why do you say he has a bad temper?" Gu Xizhou asked seemingly casually.
She shrugged, "There's a rogue in our village, I don't know his name, we call him Xu San'er anyway, he used to steal things from the villagers, but since everyone is an old neighbor, every time we catch him, we just scold him at the most. A meal, but once he stole something into the house that sold the meat.
"Don't you think he's courting death? The butcher has a great temper. Although he didn't want his life after catching him, he raised the pig-killing knife and stabbed Xu San'er directly, cutting off Xu San'er directly. a finger."
Gu Xizhou asked her, "You saw this with your own eyes?"
"That's what I saw with my own eyes," the woman said, as if she was a little scared. "The finger could be attached, but the butcher chopped the finger twice and chopped it into three sections, and Xu San'er's finger didn't disappear. I can take it back."
Although she was afraid, the woman obviously took this as a talk. Without Gu Xizhou and the others asking, she explained the details clearly. Of course, there would be some discrepancies in these details.
Gu Xizhou said something behind the woman, hoping that she could tell them about the disappearance of the old lady, but unfortunately this woman only saw the old lady passing by her vegetable stall in a trance, once Gu Xizhou asked a few more details The woman could only shake her head, saying she didn't know.
"Gu Ran, let's go and ask the others." Si Yu held a statistical table in his hand, on which was written the name, age, and number of members of each household in Huangshui Village.
Gu Xizhou nodded when he got some useful clues from this vegetable seller.
I asked a few vendors along the way, but because of the long time, many people can't remember it, and it was noon when the old lady disappeared. These farmers who sold vegetables also cooked at home like Old Man Mo. The woman who was selling vegetables just had something to eat very early that day, so she only guarded the stall at that time.
Gu Xizhou and the others walked to the door of the butcher's butcher's shop. There were a few pieces of meat hanging in the butcher's shop, and there were a few plates with spare ribs, pig's trotters and other meats.
This tall and strong man noticed that Gu Xizhou and the others came over and sat on the chair of the butcher shop.
"Hello, is it convenient to ask you something?" Lin Hao asked.
The tall and strong man seemed to have not heard Lin Hao's words. After they said the same thing five or six times, the man answered impatiently, "Didn't you find the landlord before? Just move away, don't come to urge every day."
Lin Hao felt very uncomfortable when he saw the man's face full of impatience, coupled with the bloody waistband he was still wearing, and he couldn't say a word out of his throat for a while.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu looked at each other, Gu Xizhou took a closer look at the situation inside the butcher shop, there were pieces of meat hanging outside the butcher shop, and there was a small dark room inside, which seemed to be small, not big.
Si Yu explained: "Hello, we are not here to find the butcher, but to inquire about the disappearance of Mrs. He. Did you see the old lady that day?"
"I haven't seen it before," the man selling meat raised his eyebrows, "It's been more than half a year, aren't you responsible for the demolition and relocation? Why do you still work part-time as a police officer?"
"Isn't it that Mr. Mo refuses to move? I'm afraid that if he moves away, his wife will not be able to find him when he comes back." Si Yu said in a low voice.
"Che, that old man? Why don't you just find his children? That house is not his name anyway."
"How do you know that the house is not Uncle Mo's?"
"Uh..." The man was a little surprised when he heard Si Yu's question, and he smiled awkwardly: "Listen to what they said, they would chat a few times when they buy meat from me, and the most talked about is the demolition. Son, I've heard a lot, and I know a general situation."
"Oh, did anything special happen that day?"
"Nothing special, I was cooking upstairs at the time, so I didn't see anyone." The butcher gently wiped several knives of different shapes on the chopping board with a cloth, and said slowly.
At this time, two women passed by and came here to buy meat together. The two did not communicate much with the butcher. They just casually said how much the meat would cost. The man in the butcher shop took a piece of meat and put it on the scale. Just right.
"It's very powerful and accurate." Gu Xizhou said casually.
The man in the butcher's shop put the meat in a plastic bag and handed it to the two women. He took the money and said, "Dinner, if you sell this every day like me, make sure you pick up a lump of meat like me and use your hands. You can measure how much this piece of meat weighs."
"I'm not capable of that."
A few people stood in front of the butcher's shop for a while. The butcher's shop owner didn't seem to have any useful information here. Before leaving, Gu Xizhou pointed to the small cubicle in the butcher's shop and asked, "Boss, you can put everything in the small room inside. Is it meat?"
The man grinned and shook his head: "No, there's a meat grinder inside. I don't like putting it outside, so I put it inside."
Gu Xizhou snorted and left quickly, knocking on the door from house to house to ask if anyone had seen Mrs. He that day.
"This is the last one. If we can't find it, we have to wait for it to come to us." Xiao Nan said helplessly.
Before they knocked on the door, they heard a woman's sharp cry from the family's yard, and the people inside seemed to be fighting, and the fight was fierce.
The door suddenly opened, and a thin and small man ran out from inside. He ran very fast, holding a white thing in his hand. He slammed into Lin Hao at the door, and then disappeared without a trace.
The plump woman who chased after him waved a kitchen knife in the air, stood at the door angrily and scolded: "Xu San'er, why the hell are you looking for death? Those who dare to go to the old lady's house to steal things, steal it on the old lady's head. , you son of a bitch, don't let the old lady see you again!"
"You bastard, you deserve to be unable to marry a wife, just a man like you who has been with you for eight lifetimes, and you are dead and perverted. When my man comes back, I must beat you to death!"
The woman was very excited, she was out of breath, and angrily spat on the ground, "Bah, Xu San'er, don't let me see you, if you want me to see you again, I will hack you to death."
After hearing the woman's last words, Gu Xizhou and the others finally understood why the woman was so angry.
Thieves are despised, and those who steal people's underwear are even more despised.
The woman scolded for a long time before she noticed Gu Xizhou and the others standing beside her. She was stunned for a moment and smiled, as if she knew Gu Xizhou and the others.
Her voice was very gentle, as if she could squeeze out water, but more importantly, she was a little bit tender: "Comrade from the street office? What's wrong with coming to my house? Are you telling me when the demolition fee will be paid?"
Lin Hao mechanically recovered from the woman's swearing and scolding just now, and explained in a low voice, "It's not this, we just want to ask you something."
The woman's name is Wang Chunjiao, she is the prettiest woman in the village, she is plump in figure, with good facial features, she is a woman who has been married from out of town, and when she hears Lin Hao's words, she is very direct: "If you have any questions, just ask. Bar."
"Have you seen Mrs. He on the day she disappeared half a year ago?"
Wang Chunjiao thought for a while, then frowned: "No, you might as well ask the guy who just ran away!"
"Why do you say that?"
"Xu San'er doesn't do his job and doesn't do anything every day. He steals things on our road every day, and he also steals vegetables. Every family goes home to cook at noon. My husband said that he had bumped into him several times at noon time. Steal the food from the food stall."
Wang Chunjiao said slowly, holding a kitchen knife in one hand.
"Where does he live?" Gu Xizhou asked.
Wang Chunjiao pointed to a dilapidated house not far ahead and said, "Nuo, wherever, that house belongs to him."
"Can that house live in?"
"Xu San'er is idle all day long. It would be nice to have a house to live in." Wang Chunjiao obviously looked down on the name Xu San'er, and spoke with disdain.
Gu Xizhou and the others didn't think that the house whose roof had collapsed was occupied by someone, so they thought this was the last family. After asking the woman, it was getting late, and Xu San'er had just run away. They won't come back, they can only find Xu San'er tomorrow.
After running all day, Yu Yizhou seemed to like this kind of life. At dinner, Yu Yizhou ate a lot until his stomach was full.
Lin Hao and Xiao Nan are both very strange, they feel that this newcomer's adaptability is a bit exaggerated, although sometimes he is afraid, but obviously compared to being afraid, this guy always has a smile on his face, "This is the first time we have seen you like this. The newcomers are very accepting.”
Yu Yizhou scratched his head and explained, "You don't know how long it's been since I have seen the sun in the sky. I have stomach cancer. A healthy body is just what I dream of having."
Fang Zhi nodded when he heard what Yu Yizhou said. He should be the one who can understand Yu Yizhou the most. His mother used to stay in the hospital bed for a long time. He saw with his own eyes how the disease tormented his mother. , tortured her into a human form.
After eating, Yu Yizhou went to the room and found the washcloth and basin. He found Fang Zhi who seemed to be the best talker and said, "That... Xiao Fang, can you accompany me downstairs to collect water and wash?"
Fang Zhi glanced at him, and considering the time, he did not refuse Yu Yizhou's request. Gu Xizhou and Si Yuhe went down to wash together at the same time.
The demolition office is divided into two floors, the upper floor is used as a temporary dormitory, the lower floor is their office, and the small courtyard inside has a kitchen and a public toilet.
After washing up, they stayed together for a while to discuss, but there was no information available.
Fang Zhi slept on a chair in the room, Gu Xizhou and Si Yu slept on the bed, mainly because they didn't want to share a room with other people, after all, they were not familiar with them.
The next day, before Gu Xizhou and the others got up, they heard the sound of someone walking outside the balcony. The sound should be Yu Yizhou.
Yu Yizhou seemed to be brushing his teeth when suddenly he called out and knocked on Gu Xizhou's door frantically.
The three who got up in the room looked at each other, Si Yu walked to the door, opened the curtains and glanced at the situation outside, Yu Yizhou panicked and his face turned pale.
"There's a lot of blood in the yard!"
Following Yu Yizhou's screams, people from other rooms also came out.
Si Yu opened the door, walked to the edge of the balcony, first glanced at the people who came out, Lin Hao didn't come out, then he looked down...
In the yard, blood dripped all over the ground, but there were no corpses on the ground.