Two days before New Year's Day, someone died in Tianguangdong Village. The key point is that this person's death was unknown. The innocent children in the village were fine, but the adults and the elderly were all panic-stricken, because the village had guarded Guiziling for more than a hundred years.
The Taoist statue was stolen.
In their understanding, the reason why the village is peaceful is that the Taoist statue suppressed the ghost soldiers. Now that the Taoist statue has been stolen, it means that the ghost soldiers will come out to harm people at night and have already killed the first person.
Is this really the case?
The family took the body home, and as soon as it got dark no one dared to pass by their door, so they all walked around.
We locked the door and sat in the room around the fire.
"You...are you looking at what I am doing? There are flowers on my face." Bean sprouts said as they roasted on the fire.
Xiaoxuan looked at the fire and said intentionally or unintentionally: "We just went to see the front foot, but the clay statue in the back foot temple was lost. It's hard not to make people suspicious of someone?"
Uncle Xue also said: "That clay figurine seems to be of economic value. We all don't need that little money. If it's really one of ours who took it, no matter who it is, it's better to return it quickly, so as not to attract people's attention."
Neither Baotou nor Brother Yu said a word.
"Fuck!"
Dou Sprout suddenly stood up and said loudly: "I really didn't take it! Why do you always doubt me! I'm not interested in money!"
"Damn it! If I wanted it, I would have taken it right then and there!" Dou Sprout became more and more excited as he spoke, and his face turned red in haste.
I looked up at Dou Yazai and asked: "I want to ask you, Bean Yazai, after we came back that night, you said you went to the toilet to relieve yourself, but you ended up having to relieve yourself for nearly an hour. When I went to find you, you were still sweating profusely. Where did you go?"
Already?"
"I really didn't go anywhere! I was in the toilet all the time! It's because I had a bad stomach!"
Dou Yazai pointed at Brother Yu anxiously and said: "There was a little leftover from the big pot of rice cooked by Brother Yu at noon. Before we set off in the evening, I ate it without heating it! My stomach hurts from eating it!"
Xiaoxuan said: "Then we all ate from a big pot, so why are we okay? Are you the only one in trouble? Stop pretending, you stole it!"
"Zhao Xuanxuan! Don't frame good people!"
“I have diarrhea because I’m not acclimatized!”
"I stole it, right? I stole it, right? I'll show you!" Bean Sprouts angrily went back to the room to get his own bag, and threw everything on the ground with a clatter.
"Look! All my things are here! Where are they!"
Xiaoxuan glanced at it and said in a neutral tone: "If I stole it, I wouldn't put it in my bag. I must have found a place to hide it outside."
Brother Yu couldn't help it anymore and advised: "Yazi, if it's really you who took it, just say that this is what we do. No one blames you. It's just that the situation is a bit complicated now. You have to discuss it with the big guys."
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Dou Sprout's face turned the color of pig liver. He turned around and asked me loudly: "Fengzi! I didn't steal it! Don't you believe me either?"
Looking at the anxious Dou Sprout, I really want to say that I believe you... But how can I say this... It's such a coincidence that it's hard for people to believe him. Besides, I also know Dou Sprout.
My biggest hobby is saving money.
Dou Sprout looked at us and slowly took two steps back.
"Why don't you believe me?"
"You don't believe me...then...then I'm going to jump into the river! I...I'm dead Mingzhi!"
Xiaoxuan looked at Dou Sprout, held her chin and said, "Go ahead, go ahead, I'll catch you later."
"Just go!"
Douya turned around and walked away. As he walked, he turned back and shouted: "Don't stop me! I want to prove my innocence!"
He opened the door and went out. Less than a minute later, Dou Sprout poked his head in again and shouted, "I'm really going! Don't come and stop me!" After that, he closed the door again.
After watching people go out, after a few minutes, he sighed helplessly and winked at me.
I followed him out.
Dou Sprout originally turned his head three times a step and walked slowly.
When he saw me coming out, he immediately quickened his pace. He said he couldn't live anymore, I was not a thief, and I was going to jump into the river.
I caught up to him and put my arms around his shoulders, and said with a smile: "Don't fucking pretend, and don't jump into the river, I believe in you."
Dou Sprout smiled and said, "Okay, I won't dance for the time being."
"Fengzi, I swear on my uncle! If I really stole it! My uncle will capsize in the sea tomorrow! Let my aunt become a widow!"
I know Dou Sprout. Besides money, what he loves most is his old uncle. If I dare to swear like this, I believe he really didn’t steal it.
There was no surveillance anywhere in the village, so I counted the time in my mind.
We came back at 4:30 in the morning last night. The man who died passed by Guizailing at about 5 in the morning. At the same time, the statue should have been lost in the early morning.
"The gatekeeper..."
I suddenly thought of Lao Hu.
He lives in a hut outside Guizailing, and the hut is very close to the pond. If he wakes up early, will he hear something?
Fortunately, it was a thief who took away the statue, but I was worried that it might be a fellow thief, and it happened at this juncture.
"Have you got your flashlight?"
Dou Sprout touched his trouser pocket and said, "I didn't take it, I put it on the bed."
"Just wait for me here."
I ran back to get the flashlight and told the boss to go to Lao Hu's place to have a look. Xiaoxuan said she wanted to go, but I said don't and Uncle Xue just come with us. Too many people would be bad and it would attract people's attention.
"Go quickly."
The journey was less than two kilometers, and the three of us walked quickly all the way to Lao Hu’s place.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, when I passed by the pond, I shined a light with my flashlight. The water was calm and sparkling.
The hut where ranger Lao Hu lives has no electricity. He hasn't slept yet. From a distance, he can see light from the window. He must have lit a candle.
"Shh, be quiet."
"Walk."
Walking lightly to the window, Dou Sprout and I took a look inside.
"Who is he playing chess with?"
Douyazai whispered: "Didn't you see, Fengzi? He was playing chess with himself, not with a ghost."
"Da da da," I knocked on the door.
After opening the door, Mr. Xue first dispersed the smoke when he saw the people, and spoke a few words with Lao Hu in the local dialect to express his intention. Lao Hu frowned, thought for a while, and let us enter the hut.
After lighting candles and sitting on the pony next to the briquette fire, Uncle Xue asked Lao Hu if he heard anything in the early morning.
Old Hu held a cigarette and said something.
I understood the general idea, and the general meaning was that he basically didn't dare to go out after 8 o'clock in the evening, so he stayed indoors and played chess. However, he got up early, and seemed to hear something moving outside around 5 o'clock in the morning.
Seeing that he was almost finished burning his cigarettes, I quickly handed him one and asked what noise I heard. Lao Hu didn't smoke, so he took it and clamped it to his ear.
Old Hu said that he had just woken up at that time. It was still dark outside and the room was cold so he didn't want to get up. It must have been around five o'clock when he heard a popping sound in the pond, which sounded like something fell.
In the water.
Hearing this, Master Xue and I looked at each other.
Before leaving, Lao Hu suddenly stopped us and gave us three purses sewn in blue cloth, similar to amulets.
I thought it was given to us, but I didn't know that Old Hu asked for fifty yuan. He said that if we saw the Yin soldiers, this amulet could save our lives.
None of the three of us believed him, so we treated the fifty yuan as asking for information and gave it to him.
When he came to the pond with a flashlight, Uncle Xue pointed to a place five meters ahead and said, "That man died there, lying face down."
"On that day, the water surface was bubbling, do you remember?"
I nodded and said I remembered, I saw it clearly at that time.
"This water is a bit cold." Dou Sprout tested the water temperature and then started to undress.
"What are you going to do?"
Douyazai took off his down jacket and stuffed it into my arms. He twisted his neck and said, "A hundred years of analysis will be useless. Now I will come in handy. I guess this pond isn't very deep. I'll swim down and have a look."
Give me the light."
"Swim down? Are you okay? Yazai?"
"Don't let your legs get cramped. I'm not good at water."
Dou Sprout quickly finished taking off his clothes and put on red shorts.
Dou Sprout was so cold that he shivered and said, "Fengzi, don't you know what I used to do?"
"I said I rode on a whale, but it's true. I also rescued several people at sea."
"Don't talk about this huge pond, even if it's fifty meters deep, my aunt used to call me Water Monkey, Little White Dragon of Zhoushan."
Seeing how confident he was, I thought about it and said:
