Just when I was wondering about Lao Hou's attitude, he smiled and said, "I'm afraid Mr. Wu won't be able to do business this time unless he cooperates with us."
My face suddenly darkened and I said, "Friend, are you planning to threaten me?"
Lao Hou is also a practitioner of the art of magic, so he should understand the rules of the art of magic. If he really wants to use his power to suppress others, then he is going too far.
Old Hou smiled and said, "Mr. Wu may have misunderstood. What I want to tell you is that there have been four homicides and two missing persons in Linyang in recent years. The crime scenes were all in Sandagangzi, Hengfei's hometown."
When I heard this, my eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly: "What do you want to say?"
Lao Hou looked at me and said, "If I say that these six cases are very similar to Wen Xin's case, would you be interested in hearing about the cases?"
"I'm not interested at all!"
Lao Hou's purpose was very simple. He regarded Heng Fei as a criminal suspect, but he did not have any evidence to prove Heng Fei's guilt. Therefore, he wanted me to act as an informant in Heng's business.
But I don't want to get involved at all. Moreover, judging from the current situation, Hengfei and Wenxin are definitely not the same characters.
Wen Xin was sacrificing a living person, but the problem with Heng Fei's family was the Feng Shui. The blood tomb sacrifice was enough once, there was no need to fill it with lives again. Besides, what Heng Fei had been doing was to cut off the connection with the blood tomb, not to continue to seek shelter.
I don't think what Lao Hou said is true.
After being pushed back by my words, Lao Hou nodded silently and said, "Since Mr. Wu is not interested, I won't say much. I hope that when we meet again, there will be a possibility of cooperation!"
"Goodbye!" I didn't respond to the other party's words and left the criminal police team directly.
I kept thinking about what Lao Hou meant as I walked along the road. He wouldn't say those words for no reason. I even felt that even if I didn't cooperate with him, he would still go to Hengfei's hometown.
I’m afraid this business is going to be a bit troublesome!
After I rushed back to the Heng family, the first person I found was Ye Jin. He was the only one who had been with Heng Fei at the time. "When Monk Shi and I went upstairs, you guys kept ringing the doorbell. Did anyone respond at room 608 at that time?"
"There has been no response." Ye Jin shook his head. "Lao Heng has been shouting until his throat is broken, but there is no response from the other end, and no one answered the phone. Oh, and the police said that Lao Heng's child is missing."
Ye Jin didn't wait for me to ask further questions before continuing, "Old Heng is quite feudal, and he favors boys over girls. He always wanted a son to inherit the family business. His friends in the circle also introduced women to him, but he never liked them. Who knew he secretly kept a baby outside."
"I don't know whether Lao Heng has any feelings for that woman named Lingling, but his son is the apple of his eye. He fainted when he heard the police say the child was missing, and he hasn't recovered yet."
I turned my head to glance into the room, and sure enough, Hengfei looked like an idiot, his eyes fixed on the phone on the table, as if he was waiting for news from someone.
Ye Jin said: "Lao Heng came back like this, just because the police told him that he has not been confirmed as missing. He is waiting for the police's test results. If there is no blood of his son in the house, then he can be confirmed as missing."
I pushed the door open and walked into the room: "Boss Heng, there are some things I need to confirm with you..."
"I don't want to care about anything now!" Hengfei refused on the spot before I could finish. "I don't want to know anything now. I just want to know how my son is doing!"
I said in a deep voice, "I came to you to help you make sure your son is okay. You should also know that the creature that killed people twice was a wolf, right? You are also a mountain person, you should know that the child taken away by a wolf may not die. Although the hope is very small, it is not impossible. It's up to you whether you want to talk or not."
Hengfei suddenly raised his head and asked, "Are you telling the truth? Is my son really okay?"
I shook my head and said, "I can't guarantee it. But for some things, if you act early, there might be a chance for a turnaround. Once it's too late, it's hard to say."
In Northeast China, wolves are no less common than yellow foxes and foxes, but the number of wild wolves is decreasing. Even people who live in the mountains rarely see wolves, so the legends about wolves are no longer feared by most people. However, considering Hengfei's age, he should have heard a lot of legends.
Legend has it that after robbing their prey, wild wolves may not eat it immediately. They may bite off the prey's legs and raise it like livestock, waiting to eat it when food is scarce. Sometimes, after raiding a wolf's den, hunters may even bring back a few pigs or sheep with broken legs.
I reminded Lao Heng on purpose to give him some hope - now the ghosts are at our doorstep, if we don't race against time to find out the truth, we can only passively defend. The principle of "long defense leads to loss" also applies to the art of magic.
Heng Fei finally regained some of his spirit: "Tell me, what do you want to ask?"
I said, "Think carefully, has your family ever offended the old wolf? Or, is there any legend about the old wolf in your hometown?"
"Old wolf? Yes! Old wolf..." Heng Fei's face turned pale, "My grandfather... My grandfather once offended an old wolf when I was a child. That was when I was seven or eight years old. The story started when I went up the mountain with my grandfather."
Heng Fei recalled the past and said:
That year, my grandfather took me up the mountain. When we were halfway up the mountain, we saw someone walking around the cemetery with a compass. From a distance, I heard someone say, "Sir, what do you think of this place? Can you tell me something?"
An old man in the crowd said in a hoarse voice: "It's a good place, but it's a pity that something was buried there before. If you want to occupy the grave here, you have to compete with the Feng Shui. I'm afraid this matter is..."
"What are you afraid of?" The man who spoke was called Wang Dagui, a bully in the village. "It's not like there's a person buried there, why don't we just dig it out?"
The old man nodded and said, "Then I will do it with reluctance..."
When my grandfather heard this, he immediately said, "Stop your bullshit!"
My grandfather has a stubborn temper, but he rarely scolds people, unless he is really angry. Wang Dagui turned his head and said, "What are you talking about? What I do is none of your business."
My grandfather pointed at Wang Dagui and said, "You can kill yourself if you want, but don't bring trouble to the villagers."
"Fuck you..." When Wang Dagui was about to roll up his sleeves, the old man reached out and stopped him: "Stop! Do you want to die? That old man is so old, you go up and hit him, do you want to be punished by the fence?"
At that time, I was so scared that I hid behind my grandfather. I didn’t see what my grandfather did. I just saw the old man got so scared that his face turned pale and his lips trembled.
"Let me go! I can't kill him!" Wang Dagui didn't know what was going on, and struggled to come over. My grandfather just stood there with his hands behind his back, not afraid at all. The old man was about to lose control, so he shouted at the top of his voice: "He is also a gentleman!"
Wang Dagui was dumbfounded, his lips trembling: "How can he be a gentleman? You must be mistaken!"
"If you're looking for death, go by yourself and don't drag me. I'm not responsible for this matter anymore." The old man let go of my hand and walked down the mountain. Wang Dagui couldn't stop him even after he shouted. Only after the old man had gone far away did he dare to look in my grandfather's direction.
My grandfather said coldly, "You'd better not have any thoughts about this piece of land. If you bring disaster to the village, I will skin you alive!"
My grandfather led me down the mountain after he finished speaking. I looked at him several times along the way. Finally, I couldn't hold it in any longer and asked him, "Grandpa, are you really a gentleman?"
My grandfather said, "He used to, but he stopped doing it later." I never asked him any more questions.
A few days later, I found Wang Dagui hanging around my house for no reason. It looked like he wanted to come in but didn't dare. My grandfather said he had bad intentions and there was no need to bother with him, so I didn't think much of it.
But that day, Wang Dagui took advantage of my grandfather's absence and climbed over the courtyard wall. He hurriedly stuffed something wrapped in red cloth into my hands and said, "Take it, take it!"
As soon as I took the things, Wang Dagui ran away as if he was afraid of burning his hands. When Wang Dagui ran to the door, he fell down, and without even standing up, he put his hands on the ground, arched his body and crawled out of the door.
When I ran to the door, Wang Dagui had disappeared. I then opened the red cloth and saw a tooth wrapped inside.
I don't know what the tooth was pulled from, it was as long as my finger, and it looked like it had been buried in the ground, and it was dark yellow from top to bottom. I didn't know what Wang Dagui was going to do, so I left the tooth there.
That day, my grandfather went out to work and didn't come back until dark. In the past, when my grandfather didn't come back, I would go to bed first and never be afraid. But I don't know what happened that day. I couldn't fall asleep after lying down. I always felt that someone was looking into the room from the window. When I looked up, I could only see the curtains shaking, and nothing else.
I sat up and turned on all the lights in the room, then just stared blankly waiting for my grandfather to come back.
After a while, I heard the door open. I walked to the door bravely and peeked out through the crack, but I saw nothing. Just as I turned around and wanted to go back to the house, I felt a dark shadow flash behind me.
The shadow swayed from the bottom to the top and then stopped moving. I felt like something stood up from outside the door and looked down at me through the crack in the door.
When I slowly turned my head and looked outside, I saw a red cloth scarf with white flowers standing outside the crack in the door. It looked like an old lady was standing outside my house, clinging to the door.
Which old lady comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night
The villagers are superstitious about knocking on doors in the middle of the night. Unless something big happens, no one would knock on someone's door in the middle of the night.
I was wondering who was outside when I suddenly saw the old lady leaning against the door with her head tilted, and a furry pointed ear popped out from under her headscarf.
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