The search must continue, but the body needs to be transported back quickly.
In this canyon these days, Gu Chen found too many suspicious points, including the previous bones.
After wandering in the canyon for a long time, it was getting dark soon, so Gu Chen had no choice but to let everyone return to a safe area, successfully led everyone back to the cabin camp, and then evacuated from the cabin camp to the village.
At this moment, the sun had just set and the sky was getting dark.
Gu Chen planned to set up camp near the village. Since the village had a small population, Gu Chen arranged for people to borrow some vacant rooms from the villagers to accommodate the police officers who came to perform the search mission.
"Come on, everyone is hungry. Let's have some hot pot. These vegetables are grown in our own fields." The landlady, the old lady, was very kind. When she saw so many policemen coming to the village, she hurried over to say hello.
Although she didn't know much about the murder in the canyon, it seemed that these things were too far away from her.
"Thank you, let's do it ourselves." Lu Weiwei quickly added the vegetables that the old lady brought to the pot.
The police officers around were sitting and standing, crowding the spacious living room to the brim.
"Grandma, I'm really sorry for bothering you. Please help us prepare food." Gu Chen quickly stood up and thanked the old lady.
The old lady waved her hand: "No, it's a simple effort. Besides, you have paid, so why should you thank me? You eat first, and I will go to the kitchen to take a look."
"Okay." Seeing the old lady being so polite, Gu Chen stopped being polite to her.
After everyone had a brief lunch, Gu Chen arranged for people to take turns guarding at the entrance of the village at night, and he prepared to sleep in the room with the team members.
There are some floors here so that everyone can stay warm together.
The old lady was sleeping in her room and seemed addicted to playing with her mobile phone.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, and Lu Weiwei said: "This old lady is quite relaxed."
"Maybe life is happy." Yuan Shasha said at the side.
Gu Chen also said with emotion: "I feel like this old lady doesn't seem to care at all about what is happening over the canyon, which makes me curious."
"Junior Brother Gu, maybe the old lady is more accustomed to a stable life. It seems that the other side of the canyon is farther away. After all, I heard that there were wild beasts roaming around here and the villagers' poultry were taken away. The old lady was not afraid.
Pass."
"How could she be afraid of these things you told her?"
After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she also glanced at the old lady in the room with a confused look on her face:
"It seems like she quite likes playing with her mobile phone."
"Go over and have a chat with her and see if you can get some clues." Gu Chen said.
Now that the bones, corpses and wounded have been moved away, Gu Chen stays in the village because he also wants to communicate with the villagers.
Ask some clues from the villagers' mouths.
After all, the man in black is able to operate in the canyon, most likely because of the existence of the village. Otherwise, how can he live without supplies?
So Gu Chen suspected that the man in black was inextricably linked to the villagers, and he had to get to the bottom of it.
So he walked to the door of the old lady's room, knocked gently, and asked, "Grandma, can I talk to you?"
"Oh, sure, come in." The old lady lay on the rocking chair and played the video leisurely.
Lu Weiwei was very curious, so she lowered her head and found out that the old lady gave a middle-aged male anchor three consecutive likes.
"Grandma, who is this person? Your son?" Lu Weiwei asked curiously.
The old lady grinned: "No, but don't you think he is handsome?"
"Ah?" Hearing what the old lady said, and looking at the video of a middle-aged man with oily hair and pink face, Lu Weiwei was instantly attracted to the man and said with a wry smile:
"Grandma, do you think he is handsome?"
"Yes, many of us elderly people like him." The old lady said with a smile.
"Okay." It felt like the old lady didn't like a handsome guy like Gu Chen who was a grandchild, but she actually liked a handsome guy who was a son.
The key point is that the male anchor looks very greasy at first glance, and the clothes he wears are also very retro, with a certain sense of the times.
Lu Weiwei couldn't understand why this old woman liked such a person?
After watching Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei come into the room, the old lady also sat upright and asked:
"What do you want to talk about when you come to me?"
"Grandma, aren't you worried about a murder happening over there in the canyon?" Gu Chen asked curiously.
The old lady grinned: "Worried? I'm about to be buried. The murderer wants to kill me, an old woman? No, so why should I worry?"
"Eat and drink when you should. Wouldn't it be nice to watch the male anchor dance and sing every day?"
"Uh." When Lu Weiwei heard this, she was speechless for a moment.
She didn't know why this old lady felt so relaxed, but she felt that this old lady seemed to have nothing to do with her.
If this were a normal person, he would have been worried a long time ago.
This is how other people in the village behave.
Therefore, the old lady's abnormal behavior puzzled Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen.
Could it be that the old lady is just thinking about it and doesn't care about these things?
Or is it the old lady pretending not to care?
Gu Chen hesitated for a moment and asked, "Grandma, has anyone in your village practiced martial arts?"
"Martial arts?" The old lady's expression was blank, but she also started to think, and then said: "Where can anyone here know how to practice martial arts? What can I do if I practice martial arts?"
Waving her hand, the old lady said again: "No, no."
"Then do you know who among the people who come to the village has practiced martial arts?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Well, I really don't know. After all, I don't care about this either." The old lady still shook her head in denial.
It felt like the old lady seemed a bit different, so Gu Chen asked again: "Has anyone ever been lost in that canyon?"
"After all, we found a skeleton there. It was obvious that someone was trapped and died in the mountains."
"Well, I don't know much about this, but there is a saying here that you should not wander around in the mountains."
"In addition, the forest area here is a protected area and cannot be cut down casually, so people will not go in."
"If you don't go into the mountains, you don't know much about the conditions there, but in the past two years, more and more people seem to be going into the mountains."
"How do you say it?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"What else can I say? They are all people who enjoy outdoor activities. They say they discovered some secret route or something like that."
"Anyway, in the past two years, people with big backpacks have come into the mountains from time to time."
"And every time before going into the mountains, they will come to our village to buy some food and drink, and we can also make some money on the way."
"Do you know about Zhuang Hu?" Gu Chen listened carefully to the old lady's explanation and suddenly asked.
The old lady was stunned: "Who is Zhuang Hu? What does he do?"
"Isn't there a small wooden house over there in the mountains? It's very luxuriously decorated, and that house belongs to Zhuang Hu." Gu Chen explained in easy-to-understand terms.
When the old lady heard this, she immediately nodded and said, "Oh, is it him? You know, his cabin was bought from people in our village."
"I started decorating it right after I bought it. During those days, all kinds of luxurious decorative materials were moved here."
"And during that time, many people who were engaged in decoration would also come to our village to buy things. I even rented out a few rooms to their decoration workers."
"Is that so?" After hearing what the old lady said, Gu Chen quickly asked again:
"As for this Zhuang Hu, have you had much contact with him?"
"Many, there must be many. He often comes to my house. Aren't there several workers living here due to decoration issues?"
"He also often comes here to discuss the progress of the work with the workers, so he will chat with them every time he comes and goes. He also often brings some things to the decoration workers."
"So, I am relatively familiar with him, but I don't know his name. I usually call him Fatty because he is fatter."
"Okay." After hearing this explanation, Gu Chen also felt that the old lady and Zhuang Hu knew each other.
So Gu Chen quickly continued to inquire: "Do you know who his enemies are? After all, he was the one who died in the canyon, and he was disemboweled."
"What? Eviscerated?" When she heard Gu Chen say this word, the old lady was stunned and recovered from her relaxed state.
It seemed that this was enough to touch her: "You mean, the person who died was him? And he was disemboweled?"
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently and couldn't help but say:
"The scene at that time was terrible. I feel it was done by an enemy. Moreover, he often came to your house at that time, so you are familiar with him. You should know better, right?"
"Oh, don't talk nonsense about this." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, the old lady waved her hand and said slowly:
"I'm not very familiar with that person, but when it comes to enemies, I feel like business people will have some, and that's normal."
Squinting her eyes, the old lady continued to think, and then said:
"When he came to my house, he seemed to have a good temper, and he was also very nice to the decoration workers."
"At that time, he was having a meal at my house. When we were chatting, I realized that he had made the cabin in the mountain very beautiful."
"Especially the interior decoration. Many decoration workers said that they have never seen such a playful boss who decorated a small outdoor cabin into a mini outdoor villa. They also praised him for his great taste."
"I have never been there at that time. Doesn't the water often rise there and submerge the wooden bridge in the river?"
"Yes." Lu Weiwei nodded silently when she saw the old lady looking at her.
So the old lady continued to explain: "So I was also very envious at the time. I said that I had never seen that villa. Even at my age, I would not go to that place."
"So that Zhuang Hu deliberately showed me the photos on his mobile phone. At that time, I asked him, it's not easy for you to make money, why do you like to mess with things like this? Isn't this a waste of money?"
"But he told me that the cabin is a conference room. He usually brings important clients here and arranges to stay in the cabin."
"Then, we often take clients into the mountains for hiking, but they should be taking regular routes, the kind of roads that have been walked many times."
"After all, haven't there been more people coming to the village in the past two years? They all say they are going for hiking, so I feel that this place will be developed sooner or later."
"I also asked him, as a big boss like you, would you come here to invest and do business in the future? He said yes, and I scolded him."
"What?" When Lu Weiwei heard this, she felt a little confused:
"You scold him? He comes here to invest and do business, and you scold him? What kind of operation is this?"
"I just don't want him to come here and damage the ecology. After all, clear waters and green mountains are valuable assets."
"If he brings people here to renovate a wooden house, then I welcome him. If he wants to come here to invest and do business, then I am the first to be reluctant."
"Why?" Lu Weiwei expressed confusion.
But the old lady said kindly: "Because I like peace and quiet. The reason why I still stay in the village is that I am used to the quiet life in the village."
"When I go to bed at night, my sleep quality is very good. If I were to live in an urban area, the vehicles would pass by on the road very late at night, making you unable to sleep at all."
After waving her hand, the old lady added: "So, I warned him at that time not to come here for development. We live a prosperous life and have an easy life. We don't need tourism development."
"I just hope that my place can be quieter, but if you want to come here for hiking or something, I welcome it, but don't damage the ecology."
"You are quite enlightened." Hearing what the old lady said, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that this old lady seemed to be very independent.
Gu Chen also continued to ask: "Then when you came into contact with him, did you find any strange behavior on his part here?"
"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, the old lady also said slowly:
"When he decorated the cabin, he said it would be used as a conference room to entertain his clients."
"But recently, he has been coming too frequently, and he comes even without clients. Sometimes he comes alone, and sometimes he comes with his assistant."
"With this kind of intensity, we are much more diligent than before."
"You mean, the recent period of time? Can you specify the time?" Gu Chen felt that there must be something fishy in this, so he asked further.
The old lady scratched her wrinkled cheek and said thoughtfully, "When was it recently? In the past two months, it seemed like he suddenly became very anxious."
"In the past, when he came here for hiking or something, he would bring his assistants, or clients, etc., to our village to buy some fresh vegetables and meat."
"After all, in their own words, they were going to cook and eat outdoors."
"But in the past two months, he has been coming more and more frequently, and most of the time he is alone. He no longer enters our village. He seems to be in a hurry."