The fourth mother died. Although she had died once a week ago, she really died this time.
Before, I was worried that I would have a fierce fight with the fourth woman in the tunnel. I didn't expect that she would be shot by Zi Die as soon as she appeared. Zi Die has indeed grown a lot more than before. I still remember her panicked expression when we met the Mountain Ghost last time, but this time she was much calmer than before when she met the Sipo by a narrow path. Although she was outside the tunnel just now, she almost shot the fourth woman and me to death with one shot.
The bullet hit the fourth woman's left eye, and her entire eyeball was blown out, but her remains were better than before, and the originally distorted cat face returned to normal. When Zi Die and I tried our best to drag her body out of the tunnel, her face was as kind as an ordinary old man, but the blood gushing from her eyes made this kindness a bit terrifying.
Some people cannot be found when you need them, and they will come slowly when you do things right. Xiaojun and other security guards are such people. When we dragged the body of the fourth wife out of the tunnel, they appeared, and Xiaojun shouted loudly when he saw us: "Mr. Hua, I'll bring someone to save you!" I really wanted to stuff this kid into the tunnel go.
In addition to the security team members, there are also many villagers, including Gao Cai and Yu Xin. I think Xiaojun must have informed them.
The fact that the left face of the fourth woman turned into a cat's face has long been known to passers-by in Qianwen Village. Although most people have never seen it with their own eyes, they are convinced of it. At this time, seeing that the fourth woman's face had returned to normal, everyone showed surprise, and they all talked about it, thinking that the cat demon had left the fourth woman's body, so the fourth woman's face would return to normal.
I wanted to explain to them that this was probably because the bullet shot into the fourth woman's brain and severed part of the nerve, thus "curing" her facial paralysis. However, I think probably not many people will believe it, so I don't bother to talk about it. Sometimes it may be harder to convince people of the truth behind bizarre things than to believe in ghost stories.
Gao Cai knelt in front of his mother's body and wept bitterly, but I found that he didn't shed a single tear. The villagers learned that the fourth woman was really dead this time and would not harm Qianwen Village again, so they comforted him and left.
I originally wanted to ask Zidie to bring Gao Cai and Yu Xin back to the police station for questioning after the villagers left. Although we have no substantial evidence to prove Gao Cai's murder at present, but now that the fourth wife is dead, it is even more difficult for us to find evidence. He could only take advantage of his loan sharking to try to get a confession from him and Yu Xin, hoping to find a loophole. After all, there is no perfect lie in the world. As long as they lie, there must be loopholes, and these loopholes are the key to whether we can solve the case.
However, Gao Cai seemed to be more anxious than me. As soon as the other villagers left, he walked up to Zi Die and me and asked in a crying voice, "Officer, did my mother say anything before she died?"
He seems to be trying to talk to me. I think he is probably afraid that the fourth wife will tell us about the treasure before her death. After all, if the police intervene in this matter, the treasure will most likely be nationalized. I suddenly thought of a way to make him show his fox's tail, so I gave Zi Die a wink, motioned her to keep quiet, and said to him, "Well, Lingtang told us something, but she was very vague. , and what she mentioned, it is not convenient for me to tell you now. Let's go, you can go to Lingtang to handle the funeral first, and we will find you and take a trip to Litchi Garden tomorrow. "
Although I was very vague, I had already hinted to him that Si Po's last words had something to do with the Lychee Garden, and he couldn't be stupid enough to think that it had nothing to do with the treasure. Sure enough, his expression changed immediately, he just said a few polite words to us, and said he was going to take care of the funeral for his mother.
Zidie seemed to understand my intentions. As soon as Gao Cai left, she asked in a low voice, "What are we going to do next?"
I looked up at the sky, smiled and said to her, "We have a lot to do, but it's already noon, should you treat me to dinner first? Let me tell you, you Don't even think about killing me with another bowl of instant noodles."
Although she was a little angry, she was afraid of being heard by Gao Cai not far away, so she didn't dare to raise her voice, so she whispered: "I know what to eat, I'm talking to you!"
"People are iron rice and steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be so hungry, Director Hua!" I said with a smile.
She pulled my arm with wide eyes, and said in a serious tone: "You are still making trouble, you just had breakfast, you will be hungry so soon. Hurry up and finish this case. , you can eat whatever you want!"
"Oh, Director Hua, even if you don't give me food, at least you have to take me to treat the wound!" She pulled her arm down, and the wound on my shoulder started to hurt.
She embarrassedly said "sorry" to me, and I stopped joking with her, telling her that there is nothing to do now, because Gao Cai will definitely go to the lychee garden to dig treasures tonight, and we can just wait and see. As long as Gao Cai is caught on the spot, we can prove that he killed his brother in order to obtain the treasure, which is much more certain than catching him back for interrogation now.
After driving back to the county seat and treating the wound in a rudimentary health station, I found a decent small restaurant nearby and prepared to wash the purple butterflies for a meal. However, this small restaurant really doesn't have any expensive dishes, even if a table is full, it won't cost much. However, although they are all simple side dishes, the taste is still very good, and my stomach is about to burst. After a full meal, I was thinking about how to arrest Gao Cai tonight when the phone suddenly rang. After answering it, I found that the caller was Master Mu Gezhang.
Last night I asked Viagra to find him, the purpose is to consult him about the situation of the fourth wife, but now that the fourth wife is dead, there is no need for this. So, I told him the truth and apologized for disturbing him.
However, when he learned about the situation of the fourth wife, he said, "Maybe the forensic doctor's explanation is correct, but I feel it is necessary to tell you something."
He seemed to have a different opinion on the four wives cheating the corpse. As a police officer, of course I would be happy to hear different explanations, so I asked him to explain it carefully.
He said: "We usually hear a lot about The Walking Dead, but I don't think you've heard of 'The Walking Dead'?"
"Is there such a disease? It sounds awkward." I've never heard of such a strange disease.
"This is an extremely rare mental illness that usually occurs in people who feel that they have no love for life and have no will to survive. Although the patient is still alive, he thinks he is dead and shows some strange behavior. Behaviour. The situation of the fourth woman is likely to be as the forensic doctor said, she was in a coma and facial paralysis due to a stroke, but in fact she did not die, but she thought she was dead. Perhaps influenced by the legend of the two-tailed cat demon, she He subconsciously believes that he is possessed by a cat demon, so he does all kinds of weird behaviors."
There seems to be some truth to what he said, but now that the four wives are dead, these things are no longer important. Instead, I am a little interested in the legend of the two-tailed cat demon, so I asked him if there are really two-tailed cats in this world. demon. I thought he would give me an affirmative answer, but I didn't expect him to say ambiguously, "Yes, or no." However, he then explained to me—
Cats are amazing creatures, their intelligence is no less than that of humans. Don't look down on them if they are willing to be human pets. In fact, they just choose a lazy way of survival. Today, there are countless creatures on the verge of extinction, but when do you think it will be the cat's turn
Most cats are lazy, and they don't make good use of their God-given wisdom. However, there are also very few cats who are unwilling to spend their lives mediocrely, and they will try their best to exert their wisdom to the limit, which is the same as the pursuit of supreme wisdom.
When the cat's intelligence reaches a certain level, it will have the ability to confuse people, which is simply to make people hallucinate. For cats, this kind of hallucination is inadvertent, and many times they inadvertently hallucinate people who approach them even though they are not actively using it. And they usually give people the illusion that they have more tails on their bodies.
The higher the cat's intelligence, the stronger the illusion. Although they have only one tail from beginning to end, with the improvement of intelligence, humans will see more of their tails. Therefore, the number of tails becomes an indicator to measure the level of a cat's cultivation.
Although there are indeed two-tailed cats and even multi-tailed cats in history, I have to remind you that due to limited conditions in modern times, the chance of two-tailed cats appearing is almost zero...
"What do you mean, it's possible that the legend that Madam Mei said is true?" I asked.
"All I can say is that's a possibility," he replied.
At this point, I suddenly remembered that the lychee trees in the lychee garden were arranged in a Tai Chi diagram, so I asked him if it was a feng shui formation. After careful inquiry, he answered me: "This is indeed a feng shui pattern, but it is obviously wrong." Then, he explained to me in detail—
This is a "Tai Chi Two Ritual Bureau". If it is used properly, the remains of the ancestors can be buried in the correct position, so that children can live in harmony and the family business can be prosperous. But according to what you said, Gao Yao's grave was obviously buried in the wrong place.
There are 63 lychee trees in the whole lychee garden, plus a clumping bamboo is 64 trees, which represent the eighty-eighty-sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes. , These are all right, the wrong thing is to plant the wrong position of the clumping bamboo. At present, the location where the clumping bamboos are planted is the center of the Yang Array, which is the place where the Yang Qi is the most vigorous. On the surface, it seems that this is the best burial place for the Feng Shui Bureau. However, Yang Yang was born out of yin, and the ancestors were buried here. Maybe the children could have a good life when they were buried, but then disasters followed, and within ten or eight years, they would definitely die.
The correct pattern should be to plant the clumped bamboo in the center of the shadow formation, and bury the ancestors there. In this way, although the children may be unlucky in the first ten years and eight years, but if they are very happy, they will be lucky and bright in the future, and everything will go well...
There is a saying that "Tiger poison does not eat children", although I don't know Gao Yao, but there should be no father in the world who deliberately harms his children. The reason why he set up this feng shui pattern that harms his descendants, I think it is probably an unintentional mistake. However, Master Mu did not agree with my idea, he said: "He is not an unintentional mistake, but he doesn't know Feng Shui at all, because Yin and Yang are the basic knowledge of Feng Shui, if you don't even understand this, you are not as good as those Jianghu warlocks. ."
That's weird, since Gao Yao doesn't understand Feng Shui, why did he let his children bury him in the lychee garden? Although I couldn't understand this question, Master Mu gave me a hint: "Maybe it has something to do with the treasure he buried."
"What's wrong with that?" I asked.
He replied: "The three deceased were found in the center of the Yin and Yang arrays, and the reason why they all came to the Lychee Garden was probably related to the hexagram of the Qian Gua. It was mentioned that the treasure was buried in the position corresponding to a certain hexagram, so when they got the hint of the hexagram, they immediately went to the lychee garden to find the treasure."
"Then why did they go to the center of the Yin and Yang formations separately?" I asked again.
He smiled and said: "That may be because they don't know the yin and yang of the formation, they only know that the position corresponding to the hexagram of Qian is in the center of a formation in the period. Or they know, but they also know that Gao Yao corresponds the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun. The location is wrong."
After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly realized: "Then the treasure should be hidden near the overgrown bamboo!"
"Well, it should be hidden there. Since the murderer has repeatedly reminded the Qian hexagram, and the deceased is convinced of it, there must be a reason. Although the clump bamboo is born on the dry position, Gao Yao mistakenly regarded it as the Kun position, so it is a treasure. It should be hidden there." He suddenly added: "Perhaps, you should find someone who knows Gao Yao to learn about his life, maybe you can infer the exact location of the treasure from it."
Although I am not very interested in the treasures of the Gao family, the more we know about it, the more we can force Gao Cai to make a move. So, after hanging up Master Mu's call, I immediately returned to Qianwen Village with Zidie, and went to the fourth wife's house to see if I could find Feifei and ask about Gao Yao's life.
When I came to the fourth in-law's house, I found that the door was open, and there was a moped parked in front of the door. I remember that this motorcycle should be Yu Xin's, I guess he or Gao Cai should be in the house.
Sure enough, as soon as we entered, we saw Gao Cai rummaging through the cardboard box we found under the bed last night.
As soon as Gao Cai saw us, he felt guilty and said, "I want to take these things to the crematorium to burn for my mother." After all, no matter how we reacted, he quickly walked out the door with the cardboard box in his arms. I also wanted to ask him where Fifi went, but he had already gone outside, and the sound of the motorcycle started. However, Yu Xin's motorcycle seems to have some problems, and it is not a matter of a while to start.
There are only four feng shui books and a handwritten "Book of Changes" in the cardboard box. What does he want these things for? Are these books related to the location of the treasure
This possibility is very high, although he most likely already knows the specific location of the treasure, but he is definitely not willing to let us know, so he must destroy these clues before us. His actions are both happy and worrying for us. The joy is that it shows that he has been caught in the trap, and we are afraid that we will find the treasure before him; the worry is that he successfully destroys the key clues, and we will be in trouble. While I'm not much interested in treasure, it's not easy to get him to show his fox's tail if he thinks we're not going to find it.
At this time, there was still the sound of the motorcycle cranking outside the door, and I rushed out, intending to detain the contents of the cardboard box in the name of evidence to put a little pressure on Gao Cai. However, God was joking with me at this time, when I first rushed out, he was sweating and started the car, but when I reached out to grab his shoulder, the motorcycle started, spraying from the exhaust pipe. The huge amount of white smoke that came out almost choked me to death.
I shouted Gao Cai's name, but he pretended not to hear him, not only didn't turn his head, but he stepped up the accelerator and ran away with a puff of white smoke. If he destroys the contents of the box, my plan is likely to fail, so I must get it back immediately.
At this time, Zidie also rushed out of the house and asked me what happened? I said what I was thinking, and immediately got in the car to get in the car with her to catch up with Gao Cai. Just when he was about to start the police car, an old voice came into his ears: "What happened, it's always noisy, can't you be quiet so that the fourth wife can go on the road?" Looking back, she saw that Mei was supporting her. Came on crutches.
Originally, we came here to learn about Gao Yao's life from Feifei. Although she was not here, Madam Mei should know more about Gao Yao than her. We don't have much time at this time, and many problems must be resolved before tonight, otherwise the plan for Gao Cai is likely to fail. So, I plan to split up with Zidie and give her the keys to the police car, so that she can quickly catch up with Gao Cai and ask for the books in the box. And I stayed to learn about Gao Yao's situation from Madam Mei.
Zidie also knew that the time was running out, so she didn't say much, took the key and immediately drove to chase the fortune.
After watching the police car leave, I sat and chatted with Madam Mei sitting in front of the fourth grandmother's house. I first wentssip and asked her, why didn't I see Feifei? She said that Feifei went to the crematorium to handle the funeral for the fourth wife. Then I asked her about Gao Yao. After all, she had been a neighbor with Gao Yao for most of her life, so she knew a lot about him, especially after he married his fourth wife. During the nearly hour-long conversation, she told me a lot about Gao Yao's life, but I am most concerned about the part related to the lychee garden—
The lychee orchard was there when I was very young and originally belonged to a landlord. I heard that the landlord planted the lychee trees in the garden according to the instructions of Feng Shui masters.
The landlord thought that with this feng shui cemetery for the descendants of Yinze, his family would be able to prosper and the descendants would live longer. Unfortunately, the feng shui cemetery caught up with the land reform as soon as it was built, and their family was pushed out to criticize them, but no one was able to survive.
After the death of the landlord, the lychee garden was abandoned for a long time. Later, the village assigned responsible fields. Since there were not many fields, the lychee garden was also counted as a share. However, because the lychee orchard has been left unattended for a long time, there are very few lychee trees in the garden, and it takes a lot of effort to restore production. And even if the output is increased, it will be in vain, because at that time everyone could not solve even two meals of food and clothing, and no one would spend money on fruit.
Everyone was vying for fields where rice could be grown, but no one wanted a lychee orchard. The village chief at the time scratched his head for this, and finally had to draw lots to decide the ownership of the lychee orchard. The lottery is the fairest for everyone, but it is different for those who have won the lychee garden. I still remember that it was Mr. Feng who won the lottery, and he cried as soon as he got the lottery.
When Mr. Feng was young, he was caught by a local warlord and used as cannon fodder. Although his leg was broken by a cannonball, he finally saved his life. Later, he begged a silly girl to be his wife and gave birth to his first son when he was in his fifties. At that time, his family depended on his hands to eat for a few mouths, and letting him take over the lychee garden was equivalent to making their whole family wait to die of starvation.
Although the situation of Mr. Feng is pitiful, people are selfish, no one wants to go hungry, and of course no one is willing to lend a helping hand. Just when he complained about his bad luck and cried for it, Gao Yao suddenly stood up and took over the lychee garden that no one wanted.
Gao Yao's actions were beyond everyone's expectations. He had a nimble mind since he was a child, and no one thought he would do such a stupid thing. Don't talk about conscience. In those days, who didn't only think about themselves, just like those village cadres called us slogans every day, saying that they would tighten their trousers and live with us, but in the worst three years, we ordinary people After starving to death, the village cadres are not all full of fat.
In fact, Gao Yao is not stupid at all, nor is he compassionate. He has another purpose in taking over the lychee garden. He knows the origin of the lychee garden, and of course he knows that this is a treasure land of feng shui, and he has already planned how to use this treasure land to live himself and his fourth sister...
Oh, the fourth sister is also the fourth wife, they were just married not long ago. They built this house after they got married. When I had nothing to do, I would come over to chat with the fourth wife. She told me all these things.
She said that Gao Yao knew that the lychee orchard was a treasure, and with a little effort, the original output could be restored. His idea now sounds like a very common thing, but at that time, the things we planted were sold to the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the things that the supply and marketing cooperatives did not accept, even if we planted them, we could only eat them ourselves, but in the city Not the same. The people who live in the city are all workers. Unlike us, who have to live by farming, they can get wages, and some people have some spare money.
In those days, food stamps and meat stamps were used to buy grain and meat. Even if people in the city had money, they couldn’t buy anything, so as long as lychees were pulled into the city to sell, they would definitely make money. However, it was not as easy to get to the city back then, let alone no cars, not even roads.
Fortunately, Gao Yao and Si Po are both people who can endure hardships. They go to the garden every day to toss. Although the fruit was not very good in the first year, the second year was a bumper harvest. That summer, before dawn every morning, Gao Yao carried two load of lychees into the city and sold them on the streets in the city. At that time, he was the only one selling lychees in the city, so they sold very quickly. But even so, every day when I return to the village, it is already dark.
Although the sales of lychees in the city are good, Gao Yao only has two legs and a pair of hands, so he can only run back and forth every day, and the lychees in the garden are too late to be picked into the city to sell. The fourth mother originally wanted to pick lychees with him to sell, but he did not want the fourth mother to suffer, and never agreed. Seeing that the garden full of lychees could not be sold in time, let alone the fourth mother was anxious, my neighbor was also anxious for them.
However, Gao Yao is really a bit brainy. He asked the fourth wife to pick off all the lychees and dry them, and then pick the dried lychees to the city to sell. Although no one in the village had a refrigerator at that time, it was not difficult to store these lychees in the sun for a few months with a little attention. So, in the end, they successfully sold all the lychees.
With his brain, Gao Yao turned the long-abandoned lychee garden into a cash cow and became the first rich person in the village. It's a pity that although he is smart, he is not very good at discipline. Maybe it's because of his inheritance. His sons and daughters are better than each other, but they all only think about his money, which often makes the family have no peace, especially after his eldest son becomes the village head.
In his life, he was most worried about his few children, so when he knew that his time was short, he thought that the Litchi Garden was a Fengshui cemetery for the descendants of Yinze, so he went to the city to buy a few Fengshui books to study. . Although he didn't know Feng Shui before, but after researching it for a period of time, he really looked like a decent person.
He said that this feng shui cemetery is a good thing, but unfortunately there is a little problem in the layout, as long as a little correction can make the descendants rich and rich. He asked someone to cut down one of the lychee trees in the garden, and then planted a bamboo in that location with his own hands. He also explained how the fourth wife would be buried after his death.
Although he was hysterical at the time, it now seems to be nothing more than half-hearted. I told him a long time ago that I asked him to find a Feng Shui master to take a look, but he didn't listen, and even told me some strange things, saying that the drunkard's intention is not the wine...
Po Mei's sentence "The drunkard's intention is not to drink" can make me one of the first three. Could it be that Gao Yao's request to be buried in the lychee garden after his death is not for the descendants of Yinze? Then what is his purpose