Thinking of Hemu Village, Gu Chen actually had many doubts before, including all aspects of Hemu Village.
Especially the subtle relationship between Lao Mu and the villagers. Logically speaking, everyone is from the same village, even though there is a huge cultural gap between Lao Mu and the villagers.
But it was impossible to pretend to be dumb just to avoid talking to the villagers.
This is the first doubt.
Of course, there is another doubt. There seems to be some gap between the villagers and this old wood.
This is tantamount to drawing a clear line between the small remaining population in the village and the old wood.
But according to Gu Chen's opinion, Lao Mumu, as the former principal of the town's central primary school, should be quite popular among the villagers. But now that he is like this, it is difficult for Gu Chen to understand all aspects of it.
But now Lao Mu is missing, and these luggage suddenly appear in Lao Mu's home.
It seems that he is telling himself that the luggage was brought from the old wood. As for where the old wood went? This does not seem to be a question that the villagers have to consider.
"Maybe these luggages are not necessarily brought by Lao Mumu." After Gu Chen pondered for a moment, he finally expressed what he was thinking.
"No one has been there recently." Hao Zhi pointed to the fallen weeds with his toes and continued:
"No one has been there before. There are no obvious footprints under the ground."
So, Lu Qiang walked all the way outside based on the location of the footprints.
"You can't make a final conclusion until you search all the houses outside."
"That's only one possibility." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Officer Wang took the next step and said:
"By the way, what do they think of that guy Lao Mu?"
"Well, you are still vague, do you know who locked it?"
Seeing that the new door lock was very strong, Lu Qiang directly put on his gloves and contacted Officer Wang on his mobile phone.
The middle-aged woman's expression was stunned: "What did he say? There are not two camping teams outside the mountain? Did he lie to you?"
"You are far away from me, you are searching far away from Yanzi's old house." Officer Wang said.
The door lock outside was still rusty, and the bottom was also covered with dust.
But that way, it became a lot quieter, and there were people talking to me.
"It seems that someone has indeed been there." Lu Qiang locked the door and walked directly to the window. According to the inspection rules in the back row, he checked all the windows.
"Lu Weiwei." After coming to Lu Qiang, Junior Brother Gu also sighed and said: "No one has ever lived in the old houses over there, and the door locks are all rusty."
"Harm! This is bad." Seeing Gu Chen say that, the old village chief could only sigh and said hurriedly:
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"After all, that person will be the president of the university in the future. He will worry about it every day and spend very little energy."
That kind of noise gives people a sense of awe.
So Lu Qiang always believed in Lao Momo’s real motive for pretending to be stupid? I always felt that it was that.
As soon as the door lock fell to the ground, Officer Wang pushed the front door open.
"The initial diagnosis seems to be that there is no Alzheimer's disease, right?"
Under the stove, there is a small iron pot.
"I found a new lock, and the weeds in the front yard of the vacant old house obviously had no trace of being stepped on, and they were recently," Lu Qiang said.
"By the way, they can't go down the mountain, right?"
"Come on, you know, come right over with the tool pliers, they are waiting for you outside."
Before seeing what Lu Qiang and Junior Brother Gu were doing, the old village chief and the middle-aged woman also looked at each other and hurriedly came to the seven of them.
Hao Zhishang consciously looked to his right and left, and then checked the position behind him.
"Harmful!" the middle-aged woman sighed, and said in retrospect: "It seems like you are too tired, right?"
However, there was a rotten smell inside the house. The smell was quite unpleasant, but no movement was seen.
The cellar entrance is a square wooden board.
"What's wrong?" The old village chief looked confused.
When I was young, I saw the figure of a woman holding a tool pliers gradually becoming cloudy in the fog.
"But the old principal seems to have not returned to the bedroom to rest all night. Is that still suspicious?"
It seems that the police are quite difficult to maintain, but they need to find someone, so the little family has too little to worry about.
Lu Qiang also discussed the matter of grouping with Xiaojia.
While he was talking, Lu Qiang had not reached the small door yet.
"But now, Lao Mumu's whereabouts are not known yet, so you can't judge whether that is the result that the other party wants you to see?"
"How could you lie to him?" Seeing that the middle-aged woman was not suspicious, Lu Qiang briefly told the middle-aged woman about the situation in which he and his colleagues traveled backwards in the mountains yesterday.
"What's wrong, Hao Zhirong?" Junior Brother Gu looked at Lu Qiang with a confused look, and then followed Lu Qiang's gaze to the ground.
"Is that so?" After hearing what Lu Qiang said, the middle-aged woman suddenly became confused about the whole story, and she also had a bad temper:
Since the dry firewood outside was tied up with hemp rope, it was all bundled in bundles.
Many parts of the old house are wrapped by some withered vines.
Lu Qiang was confused at first glance. The small door was not open, so he quickly said: "Go to the front door and have a look."
"Why? Why does the door lock of the old house outside have a new one?"
"Um..." The middle-aged woman in the front row subconsciously glanced at the old village chief and said with a puzzled look on her face:
Of course, those Lu Qiang could guess it later, so Lu Qiang said again: "You heard that that old woodhead ended up losing his aura before he got sick. Is that the case?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, then Officer Wang asked curiously: "What? They didn't notice?"
"It's bad." Seeing that the reason why Lao Mumu was well received by the villagers was entirely due to the faults he inherited from when he was the principal, it was not that he was too humble, or even that he was out of touch with the masses.
"Let's go and take a look at the front."
Lu Qiang thought too little and was the first to leave the house before putting on the footwear.
Just like that, Lu Qiang, led by the middle-aged woman, stopped searching the houses along the edge of Hemu Village and headed towards the central area.
When I was young, Xiaojia came to the door.
"Village chief." The old village chief seemed to want to refute again, but Hao Zhi interrupted directly:
"Comrade police, how long have you been checking for?" After hearing Lu Qiang's words, the old village chief also looked pleased.
"What's going on? There's no cellar outside?" Seeing that scene, Junior Brother Gu was stunned.
Lu Qiang walked around the stove and came to the other side. Following Hao Zhirong's prompts, he found that the footprints there were very messy.
Lu Qiang nodded silently and said by Fen:
"Old wood?" Turning to look at Lu Qiang, the middle-aged woman quickly replied:
"The small doors are all locked, how could there be no one outside?" Looking at Hao Zhirong's coquettish operation, the middle-aged woman also said with a smile.
Hao Zhirong, who was the seventh to arrive, was stunned when he saw that scene: "How could that happen? Are the door locks of the vacant old house outside that door all rusty?"
Lu Qiang put on his white gloves and subconsciously pulled on the new door lock.
"This evening, it was quite quiet outside the village. Because the customs are the same as those in my village, it also attracted many surrounding villagers to come and join in the silence."
Officer Wang learned about the situation and immediately hung up the phone.
"Just go and take a look and you'll find out." Lu Qiang would stop searching because of the villagers' complaints.
Before, Xiaojia still stayed where he was and waited quietly.
Then, Xiaojia walked back to the back seat and waited quietly.
But because it had been abandoned for a long time, a few withered and yellow vines had not yet wrapped around the fence.
"Comrade police, are they right? Lao Mu was kidnapped? What are you kidnapping me for?"
When I was young, I answered the phone and Lu Qiang quickly asked: "Senior Brother Wang, how is their investigation going?"
Moreover, the dust around is not very thick.
After saying that, the middle-aged woman quickly subconsciously looked in the direction of the small door.
The plants engulfed the entire yard, and even without any plants, they stretched directly downwards along the end of the old house.
The middle-aged woman on the side also hurriedly stepped back and said: "Can it be said that no one really came outside last night? So, the door lock..."
"Last night?" Hearing what Lu Qiang said, the old village chief was also stunned.
Based on the footprints outside, Lu Qiang found that it was not too messy, but he quickly tracked the location of the kitchen.
Officer Wang came to Lu Qiang and handed the tool pliers down and said: "The thing is over there."
But when Lu Qiang walked to the door, he discovered that some of the plants at the entrance of the yard seemed to have no trace of being trampled on.
With a faint sigh, the middle-aged woman continued: "So, you have already issued rules there. This does not allow people to go down the mountain. As long as you go outside the mountain and to the waterfall, you will allow them to leave.
Entered."
"But once people walk back from it, it becomes inevitable that the soles of their feet, which are covered with plant water drops, will leave obvious footprints when they step on the wet and dusty cement floor."
"So what Lu Weiwei means is that the old wood might be locked up in an old house somewhere?" Junior Brother Gu said.
"Anyway, we avoided the crowds in Hemu Village and secretly went down the mountain."
"And the person who took away Lao Mumu may not be the person who kidnapped Yanzi and Dayuan, so you must search the outside and inside of Hemu Village."
Lu Qiang just took the door lock in his hand and looked at it, then put it on without letting go, and came to the window.
For Haokeren, it is a very happy thing for someone to talk to him every day.
"Yes." Junior Brother Gu nodded silently, and then said to the middle-aged woman and village chief in front of him:
"But there are not many vacant old houses in Hemu Village. Those old houses cannot hide people at all."
"It doesn't make sense." After listening to Gu Chen's explanation, Lu Qiang agreed and said:
Xiaojia went to the front door together, and Lu Qiang used pliers to nervously cut off the new door lock.
"There are plants and all kinds of weeds there, and the weather is hot, so there won't be a certain amount of humidity."
Looking back at his colleagues, Hao Zhi said again:
Officer Wang shined the low-light flashlight and reminded, "See if it's locked down there?"
"After all, it's always possible to guard the intersection, right?"
When Lu Qiang moved all the firewood away, Junior Brother Gu and Officer Wang discovered that there seemed to be no entrance to the cellar outside the pile of firewood.
"Just listen to us. There is very little suspicion in Hemu Village now, especially since people are missing one after another."
"He saw that there were no obvious traces of trampling outside. The plants were trampled down. However, judging from the situation at the scene, the time for the plants to be trampled should have been too long. You estimate that it was down last night."
"Let's go and take a look." Hao Zhi said.
"Because the scenery is so good, not many people often pass by there."
"But he also knows that many of you outside the village, young and old, are just young and rough. They have very little education, so there won't be any generation gap when communicating with me."
When the middle-aged woman heard this, she was stunned:
But when the footprints reached the outside, they turned back directly.
As soon as Xiaojia gathered together, he immediately arrived at the door.
Lu Qiang paid too little attention and could only remind Xiaojia to go around the folded position, retreat from the side, and arrive at the small door in the front yard.
Because it is an old house, the floor at the entrance is paved with blue bricks, while the inside of the house is made of cement.
Officer Wang got off the ground and took a look. He was also puzzled and said, "That's strange. Why did the footprints start outside that way?"
"Maybe." Lu Qiang nodded silently, and said accordingly: "You mean, I may hide in a corner of Hemu Village, but it is certain."
The middle-aged woman's expression was blank, and she slowly turned to look at the others.
So Xiaojia bypassed the back row of the house and came to the front yard.
Hao Zhi continued: "Xiaojia, quickly divide into groups, you should immediately end the search of every house in Hemu Village."
Looking back at the living room of Lao Mumu's old house, Lu Qiang said again:
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hao Zhi even pulled the window with his hand to make sure that the windows were all locked from the inside, and then greeted everyone:
"Does it also include the house where you live?" another old man said.
However, through my communication with Lao Momo yesterday, I learned that Lao Momo's illness was actually all fake.
"Okay." The old village chief seemed to be happy, but Junior Brother Gu Lu Qiang wanted to go, and he had his own way to stop him.
The old village chief went from house to house calling people out.
While talking, the middle-aged woman asked the old village chief:
Just as Hao Zhirong and Officer Wang were recovering from their previous questions, Hao Zhi moved away a pair of dry firewood stacked next to the stove without even using his hands.
"But how did that group of people get down the mountain? Why do you guys know everything about the situation?"
"You guys go over and take a look."
"Next, you will be divided into seven groups. You will form a large group with your people and the villagers of Hemu Village. They will lead the way. You will cooperate in the search. Xiaojiaming understands?"
Junior Brother Gu rolled his eyes at me and quickly explained: "What if no one is kidnapped outside?"
The village chief didn't panic at the moment, especially when Officer Wang said that Lao Mumu might have been kidnapped, his heart skipped a beat.
Hao Zhi and the middle-aged woman ended their search directly from the outside of Hemu Village.
The old village chief also said meaningfully: "There are only a dozen or so people outside the village. You haven't found them yet even if you can find them."
"And judging from the situation at the scene, it's very unlikely that I didn't sleep in the bedroom last night. So, you believe, I may have encountered some kind of test."
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He could only follow the middle-aged woman outside the village in front of Hao Zhi and Junior Brother Gu.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm only one old piece of wood away from finding a clue.
"Ah?" After hearing Lu Qiang's words, Junior Brother Gu turned around and shook his head: "Have you checked all the way from there? The only thing missing is that house."
After hearing what Lu Qiang said, everyone in the family seemed to have a temper.
"Anyway, it's not that there are no activities outside the village, but it's a traditional festival outside your village."
"Hao Zhirong, watch slowly." While Hao Zhi was observing the surroundings, Junior Brother Gu pointed to another area on the stove and reminded him.
"Anyway, my family came from out of town and took me to a bad hospital outside the city or province for examination. Anyway, the doctor felt that there was something wrong with me."
"At that time, there were not so many hikers going down the mountain? Oh my, I really didn't expect that."
"Haha, it turns out there are no footprints." Seeing that scene, Officer Wang was overjoyed.
"But, right now, there are no two teams camping outside the mountain." As soon as the middle-aged woman over there finished speaking, Lu Qiang added directly.
"Those people were actually waiting for daylight, but they took advantage of the early morning to go down the mountain before they got up."
"That's right, it's not their fault." After hearing what the middle-aged woman said, Lu Qiang nodded silently.
After walking down, the middle-aged woman picked up the door lock, showed it to Lu Qiang and said, "Look, the door lock is not rusty yet."
"Not yet, Yanzi and Dayuan's luggage appeared inexplicably at the old principal's home."
"Well, that's okay." Seeing what Lu Qiang said, Officer Wang also had some objections.
"No one has been here since then."
A middle-aged woman looked around and sighed helplessly: "But, comrade policeman, this old idiot, will he go out for a walk by himself and come back? This is also the first time I have done that?"
Lu Weiwei took a step forward and said, "I also think there is something fishy about this matter. I'm not stupid. He should know what he should do?"
"There are middle-aged and elderly people outside the village. You can only find eight gentlemen for them, okay?"
So Junior Brother Gu quickly said: "Hui Hui, that old woodhead, is he not outside the village at all?"
"Harm! You haven't done anything bad enough, but you must have sneaked down the mountain. You can do that."
"Okay." Lu Qiang quickly agreed.
"Maybe the village chief doesn't have a problem either?" Junior Brother Gu said loudly.
"That's the house of a family outside your village. That family didn't come back for a long time before they moved away."
"This old idiot usually gets up early, and when he gets down early, he stays at home. If he goes out for a walk."
"No need to worry about my family anymore." Upon seeing this, Lu Qiang walked directly to the crowd and communicated with them:
In addition, the surrounding area has already been surrounded by weeds, which makes it look very strange.
So, everyone was divided into seven groups according to the subsequent arrangements.
"How do you know?" After hearing what the middle-aged woman said, the old village chief shrank forward, as if to draw a clear line from the question.
Hao Zhi first checked the position of the window gap to determine whether there was thick dust and whether it encountered any kind of friction.
"But because those people always leave all kinds of garbage in the mountains, no one even makes a fire for picnics at the waterfall, which slightly affects the risk of forest fire prevention."
After making sure that all the windows were locked, Lu Qiang gave up and reminded the middle-aged woman beside him: "Let's go to a house."
"That's a small project." Officer Wang put his chin in his hands to think, and looked towards the door. Yufen said, "Then we have to ask the village chief to help."
"That village is really getting more and more understanding."
But the bad thing is that Lu Qiang turned on the low-light flashlight and turned on it, and the whole room was filled with light.
Seeing that there were no traces of plants being trampled, Hao Zhirong quickly took out his mobile phone, took pictures of the situation, and muttered:
"Why? Just because you are humble?" Lu Qiang said.
"You are still vague about that, but judging from the situation in the room, the old wood may not have been taken away yet."
Turning to look at Qi Zhou, Lu Qiang asked Junior Brother Gu: "By the way, Senior Sister Lu, has this house here been inspected?"
"Yes." As soon as the middle-aged woman over there finished speaking, another old man complained and said:
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Furthermore, I hate using the tone of the principal to talk to him, which makes me feel that I am pretending. After all, I am not the principal yet.
Yes, he said yes, is that the truth?"
What is different from other houses is that there is no fenced front yard in the front row of the old house.
"What happened to fainting in the woods?" Lu Qiang asked again.
"It's bad." Lu Qiang was also quite sorry to learn that Lao Mumu was not in that situation yet.
The dust is also very thick, and a fingerprint can appear when you touch it with your hand.
Sure enough, as the middle-aged woman stated, the small door lock was already rusty.
There were some dry firewood piled around. When Lu Qiang and others first arrived in Hemu Village, they stayed at the old lady's house to warm themselves by the fire, so they didn't know much about the situation.
All kinds of dust were suddenly scattered throughout the kitchen.
"But no one must have been here last night, so there must be some dew from the plants on the feet, and the ground inside the room is relatively humid."
"Yeah." The middle-aged woman nodded silently and said with some reason:
In the old kitchen of Hemu Village, there is not even a stove with broken bricks.
When Hao Zhi came to the small door, he first checked the door lock problem.
"There's no iron buckle." Lu Qiang crouched down and directly pulled away the iron bolt under the square wooden board, then moved forward and lifted the wooden board downwards.
When he arrived at the first old house in Hemu Village, Lu Qiang quickly asked the middle-aged woman again:
Because the room is relatively dark and the doors and windows are closed, it gives people an eerie atmosphere.
It seems dust isn't the worst evidence.
"I was the president of the town's central university, so I generally hate preaching, and I always speak to him in an educational tone."
Just like what he checked later, Lu Qiang followed the procedure and first checked the door lock.
"Okay, listen to him." Seeing that Lu Qiang was going to the front door, the middle-aged woman also took the initiative to lead the way.
Just now, the middle-aged woman wiped away some dust under the door lock with just a touch of her hand.
Turning to look in the direction of Lu Qiang, Gu Chen quickly asked: "Officer Gu, what does he think about that matter? Where is the old wood?"
"Yes." Lu Qiang nodded silently and said accordingly: "So, you must now search all the vacant houses outside the village to see where the old principal is?"
"When you see no one going down the mountain, you will stop them and then persuade them to go back."
Perhaps at that time, Lao Mu felt the indifference of people outside the village, so I, who was relatively humble, chose to act crazy and act stupid in order to increase meaningful communication with the villagers.
"Eh? Old village chief, does he know?"
But when Lu Qiang came to the entrance of the yard in front, he discovered that the inside of the yard was already covered with vines.
"How could that happen? That door lock has no trace of being tampered with."
Suddenly, a strong smell of rotting wood hit my face.
"But……"
"But before I woke up, my brain suddenly lost its clarity. When I came back, I even became less demented. Even if I talked to me, I could hear and hear."
"But from now on, that old piece of wood has really become a piece of wood. It's not even vague to talk to people. I just talk to you here."
Just when Hao Zhirong was about to walk back, Hao Zhi stopped Hao Zhirong and said, "Wait a minute."
Gu Chen on the side said hurriedly: "It's okay to be the village chief. You can't let us lead the way. You just need to line up one person to follow. That way we can't be divided into large groups."
"Let us send out as many people as we can, and you send one person from each group to follow. The key point is that your people will be responsible for inspection, and we people from outside the village will be responsible for leading the way."
But now, since the kitchen has been used by someone for a long time, it looks empty from the outside, with all kinds of debris scattered on the floor.
"The difference is small, right?" The middle-aged woman nodded silently and said with some reason:
"In this business, he quickly brought the tool pliers and came to your place. You are at the outermost part of Hemu Village, at the junction with the work area divided by Senior Sister Lu." Lu Qiang said.
"Yes." Lu Qiang looked to his right and left and nodded to confirm.
"So, my body has always been too bad and I am not weak at all. I fainted on the ground. It may be due to fatigue. Anyway, that is what the doctor said, but what is it specifically? You are also vague."
It seemed that the old village chief had no complaints at all in the early morning hours as he had been doing seemingly unnecessary work.
"You are probably still outside the village." Hao Zhi said.
"Obviously, are the pliers on his side?" Lu Qiang asked again.
"Isn't it unnecessary to take Xiao Yuan and Yan Zi's luggage to their old house?"
Even the gaps in the floor tiles of the old house have not yet grown moss.
Subsequently, Officer Wang also communicated everyone's thoughts with the village chief.
"Same here." Lu Qiang replied, sighing helplessly.
After arriving at the first old wooden roof, the middle-aged woman and Lu Qiang stopped and said hurriedly:
But when Hao Zhi and Junior Brother Gu reunited, Junior Brother Gu also gained nothing.
"Especially because it has been inhabited for a long time, there is very little dust inside the house."
"It's not true." Seeing the people talking more and more enthusiastically, Lu Qiang quickly interrupted and said:
The middle-aged woman said angrily: "What do they say to do? You listen to them."
The middle-aged woman on the side quickly came over to help and said: "Yes, that early in the morning, you haven't checked so many houses, how could Lao Mumu be locked up outside the village?"
"We are still investigating, and there is no trace of the old wood anywhere else," Officer Wang said.
"There is no road from here that cannot lead to a waterfall at the bottom of the mountain."
"You go with him." As soon as the middle-aged woman over there finished speaking, Lu Qiang took the initiative to ask to be with the middle-aged woman.
It can't be said that it is an old house in that dim environment.
At this moment, Lu Qiangna discovered that the door lock was new.
Hearing what Lu Qiang said, although everyone was not very happy, they still had something to say at this moment.
"And the village chief should be able to call a few people to help."
When he was young, Lu Qiang came to the kitchen.
"You guys from outside the village should immediately send a car to take me to the hospital before they find out."
But despite this, the dust on the ground can still explain everything. Lu Qiang, who is obsessed with details, squatted directly and quickly discovered the fishiness.
"Yes." When the middle-aged woman heard this, she nodded silently and took the initiative to explain:
"Yes." According to Hao Zhi's gaze guidance, Junior Brother Gu also echoed:
However, at this moment, the sharp-eyed Lu Qiang noticed at a glance that the lock position of the front door seemed to have not been touched by anyone.
Hao Zhi picked up the tool pliers, said a few words, and walked directly to the front of the house with everyone.
"Harmful!" After hearing Officer Wang's words, Gu Chen scratched his head and said angrily: "How could that happen?"
"This is the beginning, there is nothing else." Lu Qiang seemed to see the problem.
"It's true that I didn't feel sorry for asking my family to come over to help me early in the morning, but the situation is so tight that you can only do that."
"Still outside the village? He means that Old Wood was taken away and locked up somewhere outside the village?" Gu Chen didn't seem to have that level of consciousness.
"That guy, Old Mutou, is actually quite humble. To be honest, people outside the village hate me."
"No, no one put those luggage in Lao Momo's house intentionally, and to make you doubt it, it was not Lao Momo's doing."
"Yes, it seems too realistic to be able to take people away at night, or in other words, take them away from Hemu Village."
"Is there no one? Is no one here?" Junior Brother Gu did not immediately retreat into the house, but stood at the door and called outside.
Lu Qiang picked up the key to the front door, which was still rusty.
While walking down the mountain road with the middle-aged woman, Lu Qiang also had a casual conversation with the middle-aged woman:
"But it wasn't that night. No one noticed that the old wood fell one by one outside the woods. He seemed to have fainted."
Lu Qiang nodded silently: "You said it was every house in Hemu Village."
"You have checked the old principal's bedroom. In my bedroom, the bedding is all neatly folded."
Since the old houses outside are all of the same structure, although there may be some differences in the appearance of the buildings, the structures are very similar.
"It's good that they understand each other." Seeing that the middle-aged woman had no understanding, Lu Qiang quickly explained:
When I was young, the old village chief led a middle-aged woman and two young men and came directly to follow the crowd.
"Even after hearing it, I knew how to communicate with him."
