Although the rain had stopped, the sky was still covered with gray clouds and haze. In the afternoon, the sky became darker even faster. The two government servants walked along the field ridge to the mountainside for a while, and then passed through a small dense forest. , and then went to the ancient tombs in the village.
The shade of the trees covered the sky and the sun, and the tombs were becoming more and more dim. The two servants clenched the sabers at their waists, feeling a little apprehensive in their hearts, and waited for the two to slowly walk into the tombs. , but was shocked to find that before the tomb here, there was no monument, not to mention the stone monument, even the wooden monument was missing, and naturally the name of the owner of the tomb could not be seen.
There are more than 20 mounds in this mound, but there is no sign of anyone taking care of them for worship. The surrounding grass is overgrown, and the grass is up to knees, and even the mounds are covered by layers of weeds. If they are far away, It was even difficult to find a burial mound here, and the two yamen servants looked at each other for a moment. At this moment, a mountain wind suddenly blew over, and the grass, jungle and trees were rustling, so frightened that the two rushed out at the same time. When they reached the field ridge, they breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear, and then came back to look for Wu Xiang.
Wu Xiang had already led the people to search the empty house of the second house. When he saw Wu Xiang, a clerk said with a bitter face: "Catch the head, I went to see it. There is no inscription on the tomb, not even a wooden tablet." , and I can’t tell who the owner’s name is.”
Another person said: "There are no inscriptions on the tombs in that cemetery."
Hearing this, Wu Xiang felt an inexplicable chill down his spine. When he turned around, he saw Bo Ruoyou was also contemplating something. Sensing his gaze, Bo Ruoyou turned around and said, "In the village Most of the funeral customs here are quite old-fashioned, and the place is not so poor that a monument cannot be erected, so the inscription may have been deliberately erased."
Bo Ruoyou was standing at the door of the main room, and now she took a few steps outside. She looked at the surrounding mountains on three sides, and said slowly: "This is Heishui Village, but if we come that day, Grandma Zhang told us that this is Baishui Village. The village is Chishui Village, we will all believe it. Although this place looks not far from the capital, but there are only a few families in such a small mountain, and it is not a major traffic route. No outsider will come once."
Wu Xiang stared and said, "You mean—"
Bo Ruoyou said in a low voice, "I'm thinking that the owner of the house didn't move away, but disappeared, and the inscriptions on the surrounding barren graves were erased, maybe someone didn't want others to know who lived here. "
Several yamen servants around were shocked when they heard it, and Wu Xiang also nodded, "That's the truth, this place is isolated from the world, as long as they can justify their claims, we will let them coax them, but why don't they want others to know this? Who originally lived in this place? Could it be that this place was not originally Heishui Village?"
Hou Yang shuddered when he heard this, "If this is not Heishui Village, could it be... Could it be the Guzhang Village we were looking for?"
Wu Xiang frowned, thinking and didn't respond, Bo Ruoyou said from the side: "The plague in Guzhang Village happened more than ten years ago, and the dead hair and human bones we just discovered are more than ten years old according to my opinion." , but it should not be Guzhang Village."
Wu Xiang looked at her, and Bo Ruoyou said: "After the incident happened back then, the government was alarmed. In the end, the government came to the village to collect the corpses and deal with the aftermath of the plague. It is conceivable that many government servants came to the village at the beginning. If this is the case, it is impossible for this village to change its name and surname casually to make everyone think that this is not Guzhang Village."
Wu Xiang nodded, "That's the truth. Grandma Zhang said that the government had discovered the plague in the village and sent people to collect the corpses." At this point, Wu Xiang sighed, "We still have to ask the Qinshui County Government about this matter. It's—"
He looked at the people in front of him, and wanted to send someone to the Qinshui County Yamen right away, but he felt that there were not enough manpower at the moment. He only brought seven yamen servants out, and the houses in the village have not been searched yet. If he sends people away again, there will be fewer people left, and there are many weird places in the village, he is also afraid of accidents, especially if Bo Ruoyou follows, he must not let her be in danger again.
Wu Xiang dismissed the idea of sending people to Qinshui County at this moment, and ordered: "Search quickly, this matter is not easy, if we find enough physical evidence, we can arrest people—"
The yamen servants dispersed in response, and seeing that it was getting dark, everyone's movements became more agile.
Bo Ruoyou thought about it carefully, and looked at these houses again. Seeing her serious face, Wu Xiang asked, "What did you think of? Old Wu, I have led people to do business for a few years. I am good at searching, but sometimes After all, it’s a bit careless, some winding and weird places, I can’t always find it fast enough, if you think of something, just say it.”
Bo Ruoyou said: "When the headhunter said in the morning that the vacant houses were already in one place, I felt weird. Even if someone moved out of a village, it couldn't just happen to be the same few households who moved out of the village. Gone, and now that human bones are found in the house, I guess the owners of these families should not have moved away, but were murdered."
Wu Xiang frowned slightly, "These are four or five empty houses."
There are four or five families, each with more than one person, adding up to more than ten or twenty people, but they only found a few human bones. It would be terrifying to conclude that all these families were murdered. .
Bo Ruoyou said: "Then at least one or two families were murdered, and the inscriptions on the graves were erased. Could it be that the graves happened to be the ancestral graves of these families?" She frowned. There are two surnames of Zhang and Wu, I heard that people of the same clan in the same village are very united, but if there are other clans in the village, there will be infighting."
Wu Xiang said: "You mean, these disappearing families may have been murdered because of infighting in the village?"
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "This is a possibility, because the things in their house appeared in other people's homes. I guess it was after the internal strife. After the person died, other people divided up the finances of these few families."
Wu Xiang didn't know what to think of, and suddenly said: "What you said is not unreasonable, I have seen such a case, where different clans in the same village fought each other, and then the fight resulted in a murder case, but if what you said, they are ruthless, It is too cruel to kill all these families."
Wu Xiang said while looking in other directions, "The brothers and sisters of the Wu family and the brothers of the Zhang family seem to be honest people, and that old couple will find it difficult to survive in the future. Mother-in-law's family, can they deal with such a cruel hand?"
One of the Wu family brothers and sisters is sick, but the older brother is full of honesty. The old couple and the old woman are sick in bed, the old man has one arm, and the Zhang family brothers are also honest and honest. They are all simple and kind villagers, and they are not without houses. Why did they fight to the point of killing other people's families
Thinking about this, Bo Ruoyou felt that this kind of speculation was too cruel, she frowned slightly, "If it wasn't because of internal strife that they murdered people, why did these families just disappear?"
Wu Xiang held the saber at the side of his body tightly, feeling more and more that this small mountain village was not only thick with fog, but also had a somewhat menacing aura. He said in a deep voice, "I don't know how many people died, but now we have to find the remaining bones. Somebody came down to the cellar from time to time, probably just to take away the bones, because I saw that I came out of the door in the morning and came to this house when I was wandering around the village."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "When the bones are taken away, they will probably be placed in a safe place. Although there are only bones left, there is also a small pile of bones for an adult man, which is not easy to hide. If the person who was killed back then If there is more than one, there should be more bones hidden somewhere in the village, and it is not easy to search."
Although the village is not big, there are many farmlands, ponds, mountains and forests around. If you want to hide corpses on these three mountains alone, you don’t know how many corpses you can bury. If you dig inch by inch, you may not be able to find them in months.
Wu Xiang had a headache, "Cases in the mountains are difficult to handle. The land is vast and sparsely populated. It's too easy to hide something."
But Bo Ruoyou said: "It doesn't have to be buried in that deserted place, the corpse in the cellar is the best proof. After murdering someone back then, he could have taken the corpse to the mountain and buried it, but the murderer However, he chose to leave the body in the cellar, which shows that the murderer had expected that no one would search the house carefully, and he was quite reckless, and he did not take all considerations into account. So deal with it."
Wu Xiang sighed, "It's just that we don't know the identity of the deceased right now, and it's hard to deduce who the murderer is. The Zhang family brothers who are the most suspected have been ruled out, and there is no direction to look for right now."
Bo Ruoyou also sighed helplessly, she turned around and looked at the empty house, and after a while, the government servants came out in a file, but they didn't find it.
Wu Xiang made a decisive decision, "Go to the next house."
The empty house was empty up and down, and half of the roof of one of them had collapsed, and it had long been abandoned. Wu Xiang took people in to check around, and saw that the walls inside the house were half collapsed and covered by weeds, so he went to the house again. Went to the last one.
The location of the farmhouse here is the most low-lying. Although the rain has stopped for a long time, the water in the courtyard has not receded. Wu Xiang led the servants into the water, and still saw a scene of dilapidated doors and windows.
The yamen servants entered the room facing the dust and cobwebs. Not long after, one of the yamen servants whispered in the inner room, "Captain, we found something!"
Wu Xiang immediately turned around and went to the inner room. When he arrived in the inner room, he saw a broken bed frame and a pile of dirty cloth strands that looked like curtains piled on the ground. The bed frame scattered on the ground said: "Catch the head and see, are there knife marks on it?"
The wooden boards on the bed frame were gone, only the wooden legs of the bed frame and the four bedposts were lying on the ground. It was quite damp here, and the wood was damp, so it was not eaten by moths. On the bottom of the bedposts, Wu Xiang saw a few obvious knife marks at a glance. He was not good at identifying wounds on corpses, but he was very good at identifying marks cut on wood.
"It's the knife marks—"
The wood has not rotted, so the old knife marks were left by Qingxi. Wu Xiang pulled out the knife on his body and compared it, and he was more sure, "It's still a long knife with a very sharp edge. The edge of the knife that comes up is a bit uneven, it should not be a very finely polished weapon."
He frowned, "It may be something from a farmer's family, such as a hatchet."
This bed frame is made of birch, it was milky white and yellowish in color, years of disuse made it covered with mildew, and the color of the skin turned yellowish brown, Wu Xiang carefully looked at the cuts, Soon he found a few strands of hair-like objects under a pile of scattered logs, and he hurriedly asked the Yacha to invite Bo Ruoyou in.
When Bo Ruoyou came in, Wu Xiang said, "Little Bo, take a look, there are many cuts on the bed frame, and some hair falls in the corner of the wall, take a look, do you recognize the hair?"
The hair is only three to five inches long, and it is also easy to break. It can be seen that it has been on the ground for many years and has lost its toughness. After checking it, Bo Ruoyou nodded, "It's human hair."
Wu Xiang's eyes darkened, and he pointed to the wood on the ground and said: "This is a scattered bed frame, and there are several knife cuts on it. I counted a total of twelve places, most of them are on the pillars, and there are two more. On the horizontal shelf at the head of the bed, the blade of the knife that left traces is sharp, but the blade should be a bit rough, and the blade is extremely wide, and the front and rear edges are the same. It should be a long knife. I guess it may be the firewood used by farmers. knife."
After finishing speaking, Wu Xiang was afraid that Bo Ruoyou would not understand, and said again: "This is birch furniture, the birch wood is soft, and the incisions are generally quite smooth, but if the knives and planes used for crafting are not smooth enough, it is easy to leave scratches on it. "
Bo Ruoyou looked surprised, and then squatted down to check, "Why are there so many incisions on the bed frame—"
Wu Xiang turned around and looked around the house, the dust on the floor inside the house was more than an inch thick, the doors and windows were also rotten and windy, the surroundings were densely packed with cobwebs, and there were a lot of sundries on the ground, besides the bed frame, there was also a handbag with a missing leg. chairs, but other objects disappeared like the other houses. Wu Xiang said: "It is very likely that there was a fight here. The knife edge was not for cutting wood, but for cutting people, so the knife fell. The wood It stops before it breaks, and there is no possibility of cutting wood for firewood or other uses."
There is no shortage of this kind of firewood in the mountain village, but the bed frames, tables and chairs are scattered, and it seems that they are too lazy to repair, so they simply abandon it here, while all the other good things are taken away. She understands that everything that can be left in the house is broken and discarded, and the human bones, human hair, and the knife wounds left by the fight made her more sure of her guess in the bottom of her heart.
"If there was a fight here, then the head of the household has probably been killed. This person's hair was probably chopped off during the fight, and there might be bloodstains. It's just that after so many years, the bloodstains have been covered and disappeared, and it is hard to find. See you."
The room was too damp, not to mention the blood stains, even the scratches on the ground were covered with mildew and it was hard to distinguish, Wu Xiang said: "It doesn't matter, this incision is enough, it can leave such deep marks with a knife, He must be someone of great strength, based on more than ten years of calculation, the brothers of the Zhang family, the eldest brother of the Wu family, and the son of Granny Zhang, even the one-armed old man is also possible."
After a pause, Wu Xiang continued: "Grandma Zhang is lying when she said that these families moved out because the children of the family were successful, so we don't need to make other guesses. Besides, the things that Granny Zhang concealed I'm afraid that other people in the village know a thing or two. This is not the possibility of one or two people being killed. If it is true that the disappearance of these families is a problem as you said, it is the joint efforts of everyone else. As a result, what they said was no longer credible."
More than ten years ago, among these people in the village, not to mention the women, the men were all considered young and middle-aged. The eldest brother of the Wu family and the two brothers of the Zhang family were both in their teens and twenties, and they were agile and powerful. At that time, if they wanted to do evil, it was not impossible, but Wu Xiang still couldn't figure out what made these people unite to do evil. It was really a clan struggle
At this time, the sky outside was already dark, and it was going to be dark. Thinking of staying overnight at Granny Zhang’s house tonight, Wu Xiang calmed down and said, “Going to Granny Zhang’s house tonight is still the same way of asking for sacrifices, and nothing else is necessary. To mention more, I need to search more carefully at Granny Zhang’s house to see if there are any other clues, especially the women’s clothes you saw on the first day, Xiao Bo.”
There are more and more suspicious points, human skeletons and other physical evidence that represent the murder case have appeared. Wu Xiang has already regarded the people in the village as suspects, so he is more vigilant and careful. It should be so, the group of people looked in the empty house again, before leaving here and returning to Granny Zhang's house.
Although Wu Xiang didn't want to startle the enemy, but the village is so big, every move of them seems to be under the surveillance of the villagers. When she returned to Granny Zhang's house, her expression was no longer as natural as the day before.
Wu Xiang said in a big and straightforward way: "Grandmother, there are some strange things in your village."
Granny Zhang's expression changed slightly, she looked at Wu Xiang warily with sunken eyes, Wu Xiang said, "Except for your family with grandsons, other families have no children, and some even are unmarried, which is too strange , It’s not bad at the moment, but in a few years, the old couple in the east may not be able to eat, and the other families will get old in the future, how will they provide for themselves?”
Granny Zhang didn't expect Wu Xiang to ask here, she breathed a sigh of relief, and said in her mouth: "It's difficult, there were very few young people going outside here, and there were only one or two girls in the village, so they couldn't get married. Go to daughter-in-law."
Wu Xiang smiled, "Fortunately, your children went out to find a living, so your daughter-in-law is a foreigner?"
Granny Zhang nodded, "Yes, she was a foreigner, and she was also a poor child. She was already sick, and after she got married and gave birth to Yu'er, her body was even weaker, so she died early."
After Granny Zhang finished speaking, she glanced at the sky outside, "It's getting dark, you guys have to stay for another night, do you want the old lady to prepare meals for you?"
Wu Xiang originally wanted to say no, but looking at Granny Zhang's expectant eyes, she nodded again, "That's fine, please trouble Granny, just make some meals and deal with it, we'll give you enough money."
Granny Zhang pulled her lips, "Okay, the old lady will cook now."
Granny Zhang dragged Zhang Yu into the kitchen. She was going to prepare meals for many people tonight. After she was busy all by herself, Zhang Yu felt a little bored. After a while, he came out and squatted at the door of the kitchen with firewood sticks to poke the ground. Playing with Huangni, Bo Ruoyou saw this scene when she came out. She turned around and entered the room, and after a while she came out and waved to Zhang Yu. Zhang Yu looked at her for a moment, then got up and walked towards her.
Bo Ruoyou gave him two more snacks, Zhang Yu's eyes lit up slightly when he saw it, he clapped his hands to take the snacks, and began to eat in small bites, then Bo Ruoyou pulled him to sit on the wooden pier at the door , Zhang Yu was more relaxed when he saw this.
Two pieces of dim sum are not much, Zhang Yu finished eating quickly, Bo Ruoyou looked at him again, "Do you still want to eat?"
Zhang Yu's eyes were shining, he hesitated for a moment and nodded again.
Bo Ruoyou smiled, got up and entered the room, and quickly came out with a food box full of snacks, she gave Zhang Yu directly, "Take it and eat it yourself."
It seemed that Bo Ruoyou did not expect him to be so kind to him. Zhang Yu was stunned before taking the food box. He took out a piece of chestnut cake and ate it carefully. With a little light, Bo Ruoyou sat on the wooden pier and looked at Zhang Yu with gentle eyes, without asking any further questions.
Not long after, Granny Zhang realized that he was gone, she stood at the door and yelled, Zhang Yu stood up abruptly, but was at a loss holding the food box, Bo Ruoyou smiled, "Take it and eat."
Zhang Yu wrinkled his face and hesitated for a moment, then carefully carried the food box into his arms and walked to the kitchen.
Bo Ruoyou watched him leave before turning around and entering the room. In the wing room, Wu Xiang and the others were full of worries, they were all worrying about today's case, and Bo Ruoyou also knew that this matter was difficult to handle, so there was no way to persuade him After a while, Granny Zhang made soup and cakes and brought them into the main room, and Wu Xiang called everyone out for dinner.
He didn't intend to use the meals from Granny Zhang's house, but today is the second day, and there is not enough dry food. What's more, Granny Zhang seems to be very active in cooking for them, so Wu Xiang simply obeyed her wish.
The soup cakes were placed on the table, they were ordinary farm meals, Wu Xiang took a bowl first, and saw Granny Zhang standing aside with a calm expression, so he was relieved, he had been traveling for many years, although he was not good at medical skills, However, he has a lot of knowledge about the ordinary drug and fragrance. He smelled the fragrance, and after noticing that there was nothing unusual, he praised it before he started to eat it.
When other people saw the shape, they also used it. Zhou Liang brought Bo Ruoyou a small bowl into the room. Watching Zhang Yu rest, Bo Ruoyou and the others were tired all day, and they didn't care about so many, they lay down in disorder in the wing room.
Bo Ruoyou was not used to it. She leaned against the corner of the wall and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. In the middle of the night, she suddenly heard a soft sound from the door, and she woke up from a light sleep. Just as she was about to get up, Wu Xiang held her down. The room was pitch black, and she could barely see the figure in front of her. Wu Xiang gestured to her and silently waited for the movement outside. Soon, they heard The sound of Granny Zhang leaving the hospital door.
It was already late at night, why did Granny Zhang leave in the middle of the night
The snoring sounded in the room one after another, and the yamen servants were not as vigilant as Wu Xiang, and they were all still asleep. Wu Xiang let out a soft "shh", and then quietly followed out. Bo Ruoyou was a little worried, but understood that this time only Wu Xiang It is safest to follow Xiang alone.
When Wu Xiang followed out the door, Bo Ruoyou suddenly felt sleepless. She sat up, and felt that the side room was too crowded for a while, so she got up and went to the main room. Originally, she just wanted to breathe in the main room. When she went out, she saw a small black figure standing at the door leading to the inner room. Her heart skipped a beat, and then she realized that it was Zhang Yu.
She took a step forward, "Zhang Yu?"
The black shadow moved and muttered something softly. Bo Ruoyou was sure it was him, and walked forward with a sigh of relief, "Why didn't you sleep?"
She wasn't sure if Zhang Yu saw Wu Xiang follow her out, her tone was a bit hesitant, but Zhang Yu shook her head and said nothing, Bo Ruoyou's heart moved slightly, "Has the mother-in-law gone out? I heard something just now..."
In the dark, Zhang Yu's expression couldn't be seen clearly, but he didn't intend to reject her. Bo Ruoyou was slightly relieved, and asked again: "Why did mother-in-law go out so late?"
Zhang Yu lowered his head and said nothing.
Bao Ruoyou looked at him for a moment and didn't say anything, she just turned around and wanted to leave, she just wanted to open the door, but Zhang Yu misunderstood her meaning, he grabbed Bao Ruoyou, "Don't go—"
Bo Ruoyou turned around, and Zhang Yu said in a childish but a little scared voice: "Don't go, my mother-in-law won't let you go, go... go for a while..."
His voice was as thin as a mosquito, but trembling slightly, Bo Ruoyou's heart moved slightly, and he turned around to chat nicely with him, "What will happen if we go?"
Zhang Yu pursed his lips, hesitated for a while before softly saying: "If you go, you will be punished."
"Punishment?" A strange feeling came to Bo Ruoyou's heart.
Zhang Yu let go of Bo Ruoyou, took a step back, and seemed unwilling to continue, but Bo Ruoyou felt that Zhang Yu was about to reveal some secret, so she couldn't help but hold him back, "Can you tell me what punishment is?"
Her voice was gentle, Zhang Yu frowned and fought again, and finally raised his head and said: "Subject to the punishment of heaven, if you go, you will suffer punishment from heaven, and if you don't listen to your mother-in-law, you will also suffer punishment from heaven. There are already many people You are punished, you, don’t go—”
After he finished speaking, he seemed to feel that he had done something wrong, so he broke away from Bo Ruoyou's hand and ran back to the inner room. Bo Ruoyou's hand was still in the air, but his whole body froze like a stone sculpture.
Heavenly punishment.
These four words have no beginning and no end, but they are quite intimidating. At first glance, they look like adults' words to scare children, but when Bo Ruoyou heard these four words, the question that had been lingering in his heart for a day and night suddenly disappeared. untie.
The medical books she had read with her adoptive mother when she was young jumped into her mind, and she clearly recalled what the punishment of heaven was. It is a catastrophic disease. People who get this disease will die in serious cases, and at light cases, their hands, feet, limbs will have abnormal changes, and they will be permanently disabled. The most terrifying thing is that this disease will infect people without warning, and there is no cure. .
Granny Zhang's misshapen legs, Wu's younger sister's worm-like blood veins, and Guzhang Village, where the whole village died due to the plague... Bo Ruoyou's spine shuddered, and a terrible idea suddenly appeared in her mind.
She couldn't calm down anymore, she turned around and entered the wing room almost immediately, lit the torch, and woke everyone up again, everyone opened their sleepy eyes, only seeing Bo Ruoyou standing alone, they were a little confused.
Bo Ruoyou said in a tight voice: "Everyone wake up, things are not good. During the day, I have a guess in my heart about our doubts. It's an emergency. Everyone, don't sleep."
Hou Yang stood up first, glanced inside the room, and immediately found that Wu Xiang was gone, "What did Miss Bo find? Where did the arrest go?"
Bo Ruoyou said: "Just now Granny Zhang sneaked out of the door, and Wu Butou followed. Zhang Yu also got up just now. She told me something. Granny Zhang always told him that if he doesn't obey, he will be punished by heaven." Punishment—”
Hou Yang hadn't realized it yet, "What's wrong with this statement? Didn't Granny Zhang scare him?"
Bo Ruoyou shook her head: "No, if no one in the village has a strange disease, I can still take this as a joke to deceive children, but I have seen a strange disease in a medical book, and the disease is extremely dangerous. Misfortune, almost all the people in the places where it has appeared so far are dying, and then there is a saying in the market that the epidemic is called "Heavenly Punishment". I suspect that the "Heavenly Punishment" mentioned by Granny Zhang is exactly the plague in Guzhang Village. , and Granny Zhang and other people in the village got sick and became disabled precisely because they were also infected with the plague back then."
Everyone's expression changed drastically, Hou Yang said: "Could it be that they are from Guzhang Village?"
Bo Ruoyou wasn't sure, "Either the people from Guzhang Village escaped, or they were infected with the disease because of something else. In short, the secret they want to hide must be related to the disease, and if Guzhang Village believes in the Water God River If God is also related to the epidemic, then everything will be explained, most of them have been infected with the epidemic, and the babies found on the banks of the Luo River must be inseparable from the people in this village."
After she finished speaking, she said anxiously: "I just remembered the epidemic just now. Catcher Wu went out with Granny Zhang. I don't know where I went, and I don't know if there will be any accidents."
Hou Yang immediately said: "I'll go out and check it out!"
Hou Yang asked a brother to go out together, but Bo Ruoyou felt a little uneasy, and soon Hou Yang and the two came back, the road outside was dry, and it was not found out that Wu Xiang and Granny Zhang had gone a while ago which direction.
When Bo Ruoyou heard this, she felt her heart sank into the valley.
Hou Yang comforted: "The little grandson of this family is still at home, she won't go far, and the head catcher will come back soon."
Bo Ruoyou had no choice but to comfort herself after hearing the words.
But she said that Granny Zhang went out and never went to any house, but walked along the small path to the northwest. It had rained during the day, and the sky was starless and moonless tonight, and she could hardly see her fingers. Huo Zhezi, went to the mountains and forests just like that, Wu Xiang followed far away for fear of losing sight of others, and if he followed close, he was afraid of being discovered. After walking half a stick of incense, he realized that Granny Zhang had actually It is going in the direction of the black water pool.
So in the middle of the night, an old lady actually walked to the water pool in the woods in a smear
It is not convenient for Granny Zhang to walk with a limp, but she seems to have walked the road thousands of times, and her slender figure is wrapped in a large cloth shirt, and when the mountain wind blows, she is as scary as a ghost , Wu Xiang followed behind, although he knew that he was following someone, but he walked farther and farther, and even he felt a little apprehensive in his heart.
The mountain road is not easy to walk, Wu Xiangwei walked a few times before he came to the Black Water Pool, and as he got closer, he suddenly found that there was not only Granny Zhang beside the Black Water Pool, besides her, there were several other people who were also ghosts. Usually stand on the edge of a pool.
Wu Xiang didn't dare to approach, but squatted in the bushes in the distance and looked towards this side. The movement of the night wind passing through the trees covered him up, and also transmitted their voices.
Granny Zhang said viciously: "I said that it would be good to let them leave the village quickly, but which one of you actually let the earth on the mountain collapse to block the road and keep them, that's all right, today they go I searched around, I'm afraid I know everything."
"How can it be possible to know everything! It's been more than ten years, even if the gods come, they can't guess what happened back then."
A gloomy man's voice sounded, Wu Xiang didn't recognize who it was at first, but when the words came to an end, a chill came down his spine suddenly, the person who spoke was the eldest brother of the Wu family, and at this time his tone was gloomy and vicious He is not the honest and honest village man in ordinary times.
He went on to say: "Do you think it would be good if they left? That is the tolerance of the government office in the capital. They will go to inquire about the events of the past, they will also go to the former village to investigate, and they will send people to inquire about us again. When the time comes, they will It is endless trouble. Now that I have been targeted, can I still get away?"
Granny Zhang said again: "Then how do you want to do things? You also know that they are businessmen, and there are nearly ten people in the group! I thought, how did we change places and start a new life back then, and we can still be like that today, the big deal is waiting for them to leave We just run away."
The eldest brother of the Wu family said gloomyly: "Although they are many people, they are not prepared. Why should we act first?"
At this time, an old man's voice sounded, "How do I act first? I was able to move back then, but now your aunt is sick, and your own sister is also sick. How do you deal with those people? And what Mrs. Zhang said about running away, I am now Where can I escape?"
It turned out to be the one-armed old man of the Wu family who spoke. Wu Xiang was startled when he heard it, but when he looked closely, he found three figures beside them who hadn't spoken. But there was another tall figure, but he couldn't identify it no matter what.
At this time, the elder brother of the Wu family said again: "Since you can't escape, then you can do nothing. Among them, the leader is a little smart. Other than that, they are just little guys who follow orders. A girl who doesn't care about things, as long as she uses some means, what can't be done? Have you forgotten how we did things back then?" After speaking, he stared at Granny Zhang, "You took all the medicine I ordered you to take?"
Granny Zhang sneered again, "They are already very wary, tonight is the first time I've been asked to cook, how dare I let it go?"
The eldest brother of the Wu family seemed to be a little impatient, but at this moment the Zhang family brothers said, "From the moment they entered the village, I knew it would be difficult to get past this easily. What are we afraid of if we clean it up? If you haven’t let it go tonight, let’s let it go tomorrow. They see you as an old man, and they’ve already had a meal, so they won’t be too wary of you.”
"Mother, just do it like this, there is really no other way." The strangest figure spoke.
Wu Xiang who was hiding in the dark was startled, he didn't know when Granny Zhang's son would come back to the village!
At this time, the man asked again: "Did you disturb them when mother came out?"
Granny Zhang shook her head, and said in a hoarse voice: "They were tired all day, and they were already snoring. I listened for a long time and found nothing before they came out—"
"Then mother should go back as soon as possible, so as not to make any changes."
Granny Zhang hesitated to speak, but at last she sighed and obeyed them. Wu Xiang watched from a distance, and when she saw Granny Zhang was about to turn around, she was startled. He could bump into him after walking ten more steps, he thought to himself that he was alone now, and it was not a time of trouble, so he got up and wanted to change places to hide, but just as he turned around, his feet slipped, and there was a sudden crisp sound!
The people standing by the black water pool suddenly looked in his direction!
"Who is there?!"