Chapter 0081 There is an old immortal in Panshiling. Who are you?
After walking through an intersection, Jiang Yue made a new discovery.
He seemed to have found the source of the smell of burning paper in the air.
At this intersection, there is an alley going in. Jiang Yue observed the entrance for a while, and saw several people with their arms wrapped in black gauze, with sad looks on their faces, going in and out of the alley entrance.
"Go in and take a look." Jiang Yue winked at Lao Han.
A few steps after entering the alley, there is an ancestral hall, the Wang Family Ancestral Hall.
"The Wang family is one of the three major surnames in Yunxi Town. Wang, Zhao, and Tang account for at least half of the population of Yunxi Town."
Before Yunxi Town was established, these three major surnames lived along the river. Passed down from generation to generation, even if it developed into a town, these three major surnames have flourished and have been rooted here, forming the current
pattern.
The Wang Ancestral Hall is naturally a place where people with the Wang surname worship their ancestors.
The smell of burning paper money emanates from this ancestral hall.
Before they walked in, they heard bursts of sobbing. Listening to this sound, there were more than one person crying in one place or two.
The two walked to the door of the ancestral hall and glanced inside pretending to be casual.
There were actually four coffins placed in the ancestral hall!
Four coffins were placed in the ancestral hall, occupying a large space in the ancestral hall.
It is obvious that these four coffins belong to four different families.
Four simple mourning halls were built in front of the coffin.
Although it was broad daylight, and although incense candles were lit, the first impression of the entire ancestral hall was extremely eerie because of the four coffins.
The family members were sobbing and choking, with expressions on their faces that were almost numb with grief. They were obviously extremely sad, and they just instinctively kept adding paper money to the fire.
After the paper money is burned through and turns into paper ash, more paper money is added.
Repeatedly and mechanically.
What does it mean to be heartbroken?
This is.
Even a hard-hearted person can't help but be moved by this feeling and this scene.
The two of them knew what was going on. As outsiders, they had no reason to peek into other people's ancestral halls at this time, so they had to take a few steps back.
After a while, a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old walked out of the ancestral hall with red eyes and wiping tears.
Seeing Jiang Yue and Lao Han standing outside the ancestral hall, there was a hint of hostility in their sad eyes, glaring at the two strangers.
"What do you do?" The boy was obviously a little angry because of the death of his family member, and his tone was quite unfriendly.
"Brother, we don't mean any harm. Jiang Du, who owns Nanhuo Store on Qian Street, is my sister-in-law."
"Jiang Du? I don't know him." The young man had a dark face and a stiff tone.
Jiang Yue slapped his head. His sister-in-law was married to the town just a few years ago, and her name was too literary and artistic for the people in the rural town. People didn't know it was too normal.
"Oh, my uncle's name is Tang Tiande. By the way, my brother's name is Sangou, and I am his second brother. Sangou has lived in my aunt's house for a long time. You should know each other, right?"
Look at this kid, he's two or three years older than Sangou. The town is so big, so we can always play together, right?
Hearing the names of Tang Tiande and Sangou, the young man's expression softened.
He stared at Jiang Yue and looked at him: "It seems to look a bit like Sangou. What are you doing here? Uncle Tiande and his family, aren't they going to the city?"
"Yes, yes! They have all arrived in the city. But my aunt is a little worried and asked me to come back and have a look."
"Why are you coming back after leaving? Let's go, let's go!" The young man's face changed again.
The first sentence was quite good, but the next sentence was off-putting.
However, both Jiang Yue and Lao Han felt that this young man seemed to have a harsh and fierce tone, but in fact he didn't have much malice.
instead……
It seems like there is still some goodwill hidden?
"Little brother, we are not outsiders. Let me tell you something from my heart. I heard that there were several murders in the town. Someone entrusted us to investigate..." Jiang Yue could see that this young man can do anything.
I’m working, so I’ll be patient and continue communicating.
The young man paused, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
"Then what did you investigate?" The young man suddenly asked a very strange question.
"It's a bit rewarding. I feel that these murders are not normal. The murderer caught may not be the murderer." If we want to capture the curiosity of this young man in a short time, we must give some information.
Sure enough, after hearing this, the young man's eyes lit up.
"You think so too?"
"Are you the same?" Jiang Yue asked back.
The young man's expression became tangled again, biting his lip, as if he was making a difficult decision.
"Brother, who is the person in your family who was killed?" This question is a bit rude, but it can bring them closer to each other and open up each other's psychological defenses.
"It's my sister." The young man murmured with a look of pain on his face. "First, my sister was killed. The next day, something happened to the neighbor's sister, and my eldest brother was arrested as the murderer."
"But I know that my brother will never be the murderer. The night my neighbor's sister had an accident, my brother and I slept in the same bed. Because of my sister's incident, we didn't sleep much all night. He can't be the murderer!
But no one believed what I said."
This is a typical copycat modus operandi.
No wonder this young man is in so much pain, and no wonder this family is on the verge of collapse. Of the three children in the family, one was murdered and the other was tainted as a murderer.
This kind of human tragedy is an unbearable disaster for any family.
Speaking of the pain, the young man put his head in his hands, squatted on the wall, and began to sob softly.
"I believe you." Jiang Yue stepped forward and patted the young man on the shoulder.
"Really?" The young man said with a bit of surprise in his tearful eyes.
"Whether it's your sister or your neighbor's sister, all the arrested murderers are not the real murderers." Jiang Yue lowered his voice, and his voice could only be heard by this young man.
"Really?" The young man's eyes lit up.
My sister is really gone, but if my brother can clear his name, that would be a good thing.
"Really. We already have preliminary evidence."
The young man stretched out his sleeve and wiped away his tears: "You're not lying?"
"No lie. Otherwise, what do you think we would do in town?"
If the murderer is confirmed, there seems to be no need to send people to investigate. If someone comes to investigate, then there must be a new situation.
Although he is just a boy from a village, he is a middle school student after all, so he still has some logical ability.
The young man's heart was obviously opened by Jiang Yue. He was about to talk to Jiang Yue in detail.
A woman with a sad look on her face came out of the ancestral hall, apparently the boy's mother, and shouted: "Lao San, what are you whispering about with someone you don't know?"
"Mom, they said my eldest brother was not the murderer, and Brother Yuan Sheng was not the murderer of my sister."
I thought this topic would arouse the curiosity of this woman, but who would have thought that this woman came over with a dark face, grabbed the young man, and said fiercely: "Shut up, people you don't know outside are gossiping, you
Can you believe it? What did mom tell you? Don’t talk to people you don’t know.”
As he spoke, he glared at Jiang Yue and the others, showing a strong sense of defensiveness.
I just didn’t say it directly, stranger, get out of here! You are not welcome here!
The victim's family members were so emotional that Lao Han naturally would not hold back at such a moment. He tugged on Jiang Yue's sleeve and motioned for him to step back and speak.
"Aunt, I am not an outsider. Tang Tiande in this town is my uncle. I just want to ask a few questions..." Jiang Yue did not give up.
"I don't know, I don't know, we don't know anything!" The woman kept waving her hands, her tone was extremely rude, and she seemed to have no patience at all.
"Mom, he is Sangou's brother. He is really no outsider. It's not like you don't know Sangou. He often comes to our house to play. This is his brother."
"Sangou's brother?" The woman was slightly surprised. She thought about it, paused for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Are you from Panshiling?"
"Yes, aunt also knows my sister-in-law, right?"
"In the early years of Panshiling, there was an old immortal. Everyone called him Mr. Yunhe. Who are you?"
"That's my grandfather." Jiang Yue was a little surprised.
Old Immortal? Grandpa’s reputation outside is so great? It’s Old Immortal and Mr. Yunhe. These titles are full of respect.
"Is your grandpa gone?" The woman's tone was a little gloomy.
"Yes, he passed away many years ago."
"Alas!" The woman got the answer she wanted, her expression became increasingly bleak and even a little desperate.
"You guys, leave quickly. Yunxi Town is not a place for outsiders."
Perhaps because of the dignity left by Jiang Yue's deceased grandfather, the woman was no longer as hostile as before, and instead advised them to leave.
The situation is somewhat strange.
Earlier it was her son who advised them to leave, and now the woman advised them to leave again.
What are they afraid of?
If they were really afraid of something, why did they only advise the two of them to leave? Couldn't they just leave if they didn't have the legs themselves?
Seeing Jiang Yue and the others, they seemed unwilling to give up, looking into the ancestral hall.
The woman shook her head and said, "Stop trying to trick those people. Even if they know something, they won't say anything."
From this tone, they seemed to know something.
But at the same time, it sounds like they know something, but they also seem to have accepted their fate.
It seems that there is an invisible force in Yunxi Town that makes them unable to struggle and dare not struggle.