The old lady was indeed old, not only was she deaf, but sometimes she spoke incoherently, and we had no idea what she was saying. So we said goodbye to her, Youma Yunxi watched Shen Bing in the car, and Wang Zijun, Qu Mo and I walked around the village.
This village is really big, with three main streets in front and back. Judging from the size of the houses, there should be at least 300 households. But most of the roofs are covered with weeds, the doors are locked, and some door panels have collapsed. Rats are running around in the grass, which looks very desolate. The five households mentioned by the old lady can be seen without grass in front of the door. There are signs of life inside the courtyard wall, which means there must be people living there.
But these residents also looked lifeless, not much different from ruins.
We spent half a morning walking through the entire village, searching almost every house, but we found no trace of Lu Fei and the two children. We were puzzled. Could Lu Fei and the two children have evaporated into thin air? Another possibility was that he took the children back along the same route, but after dawn, he should come back to find us. Something must have happened!
Just when I was about to go back and get on the car, I suddenly saw a house in front of me open the door, and a man walked out. He saw us at a glance, and suddenly went back as if escaping and closed the door.
Wang Zijun pointed over there and said, "There's something wrong with this guy."
Qu Mo and I looked at each other. There was something fishy about this man because we saw who he was, so we turned around and went back. Who was this man
It’s Pang Furong!
When he left the lair of the little black chicken spirit, he, his daughter and the little ruffian Zhang Xiaochuan were nowhere to be found. I didn't expect him to hide here again. I touched my nose and immediately understood what was going on. His daughter Xiaolei killed An Daiyun and forced her mother to death. She probably hid in this ghost village to avoid being hunted by the police. This place is located in the mountains and is full of ghost rumors. Even if the police come to find clues, they can hide in the dark and imitate ghost calls to scare people away. What kind of case can they investigate
We ran over and knocked on the door for a long time before Pang Furong came out. He said with a helpless look on his face, "You're the one I don't want to see in my life, but why can't I avoid you?" He sighed.
"What? Old friends, you don't want me to come in and sit with you?" I said in a sarcastic tone.
Pang Furong reluctantly let us in and whispered to us in the yard: "Xiao Lei is not in a good mood right now. Don't mention the past when you see her."
Qu Mo and I remained silent, thinking that since she killed someone to avoid legal punishment, what qualifications does she have to ask us to be merciful to her
When Pang Furong saw that we didn't answer, he grabbed me and said anxiously, "I beg you."
I sighed at the same time as Qu Mo did when he looked at me. How pitiful are the parents in the world. Pang Furong was so unlucky to have such a vicious child. He was only middle-aged, but his temples were already gray. It was less than three months since we last met, but he seemed to have aged by ten years.
We both nodded and followed him into the house.
Xiaolei sat on a chair and looked up at the beams, mumbling something. Seeing someone coming, she lowered her head to look at us, but after looking for a long time, she seemed not to recognize us, so she asked Pang Furong: "Old man, who are they?"
Now we understand what's going on. She's not mentally ill, she's totally out of her mind. If we bring up the past again, she might go crazy.
"This is our neighbor, have you forgotten?" Pang Furong said hurriedly, winking at us.
Xiaolei tilted her head and was stunned for a while before saying, "It's my neighbor, no wonder he looks familiar. But why do I hate this guy (pointing at me) so much? I like this handsome guy very much. Hey, kid, what kind of gang are you from?" She pointed at Wang Zijun and asked, looking like a gangster.
I thought to myself that you were right to hate me, because it was me who exposed your murder crime and forced you into a desperate situation and hiding in this ghost village.
When Wang Zijun heard that she liked this handsome guy, his mouth suddenly cracked like a gourd, and he laughed hurriedly: "I'm Hun Tiandao!"
Damn, you little monkey, you don’t know how cruel this girl is. If you piss her off, she will really kill you!
"Bah, what heavenly way? I've never heard of it."
When Pang Furong saw that his daughter was a little agitated, he immediately winked at Wang Zijun and said to his daughter, "You should take medicine."
"Didn't you just eat?"
"It's time to eat again." Pang Furong quickly fed her some white powder, and soon, her eyelids drooped and she fell asleep. Pang Furong carried her into the inner room, came out and sighed, "You all saw that she is like this now, please don't report to the police. In this life, I will watch over her and will never leave the village again. Just treat this as a prison."
If Xiaolei becomes mentally ill now, even if she is arrested by the police, she will not be sentenced, so there is no need for us to report her. Besides, this hellhole is not much better than prison, so it can be regarded as the punishment she deserves. So I agreed to his request.
I asked Pang Furong, what was going on with this haunted village
Pang Furong was very happy to see that we agreed, and said to us: "The haunting is actually a rumor. Xiaolei and I have lived here for more than two months and have never encountered any evil spirits. I also had a fortune-teller, and the haunting must have happened in the past. There was a dead woman here, and her ghost lingered. She may have been reincarnated and never appeared again, but everyone was scared and no one dared to come back to live here."
His words were basically consistent with what the old lady said. It seemed that folk rumors were murderous. The more they spread, the more outrageous they became. One ghost became two ghosts, just like nuclear fission, and finally there were infinite numbers. In fact, not everyone had seen it, but they would rather believe it, so they packed up and ran away.
I nodded and asked him, "Did you hear anyone come to this village last night?"
Pang Furong shook his head and said that a family in the east had a big yellow dog that would bark non-stop if there was any noise. It was very quiet last night and he didn't hear anything.
It seemed that Lu Fei had never been here before, so we hurried back to the original route to find him, and we stood up to say goodbye. Pang Furong sent us to the village entrance with a grateful look on his face, and we saw him standing there even after the car had driven a long way.
This man has a good heart, but he has the wrong luck in love, his wife is not virtuous, and his daughter is like this. What a shitty fate. But fortune tellers can tell fortunes for everyone except themselves. It's a huge irony.
When we were halfway through the journey, we suddenly saw a car coming from the opposite direction. The driver seemed surprised to see our car and stared at us. However, once both sides saw each other's faces, the car sped away and apparently headed for Ren Village.
"It's Zhang Xiaochuan!" Qu Mo had a good memory. He braked the car and turned around to say.