Sister-in-law Gu said, "Actually, this matter is not about others, but about the village chief Lu Changqing?"
"Village Chief Lu Changqing?" I said in surprise.
"Yes." Sister-in-law Gu nodded, "It is precisely because of this that I have never told this matter."
I feel helpless in my heart, thinking that women are so ignorant sometimes, how long has it been, and yet they are still hiding it? If I hadn’t asked about it today, would she have really planned to wait for the tragedy?
When it's staged again, will you tell me the truth about everything?
But it is useless to blame Mrs. Gu now. I just hope that what she will say next is really related to the real culprit we have been investigating.
"Actually, one thing you may not know is that Lu Changqing was not originally from our Lujia Village."
I raised my eyebrows. Lu Changqing was not a native of Lujiacun. This was something I had never thought of.
Then I realized that this might be caused by my preconceived notions, because the place we came to was called Lujia Village, so I subconsciously thought that anyone living in this village with the surname Lu was the original person here.
residents.
"That was about twenty years ago! At that time, I was about the same age as you, and I was still a child under twenty years old. At that time, reform and opening up had already begun, and the whole country was developing rapidly.
, one day two young people suddenly came to our village, the boy was naturally Lu Changqing, and the girl was Lu Changqing's girlfriend. "
I frowned, "Why do you say the girl is 'almost' Lu Changqing's girlfriend?"
"Because Lu Changqing is always with that girl, almost to the point of being inseparable. Do you think a man and a woman would be so close if they weren't lovers? But every time we ask Lu Changqing if the girl is his daughter.
My friend, Lu Changqing, laughed and said nothing. We thought he was shy, so we didn't go on."
"Then why did Lu Changqing come to Lujiacun at that time?" Ni Loach interjected and asked.
Sister-in-law Gu shook her head, "Lu Changqing said they came here to live because they liked rural life. At that time, there were not many people in our village, so it was natural for us to have people from outside willing to come to our place. And Lu Changqing and the others came from Da.
He comes from the city and knows many things that our village cannot, and everyone likes him very much.
Everything was fine at first, but as time went by, we began to find a lot of strange things about Lu Changqing."
When I heard this, I pricked up my ears and moved slightly to get closer to Mrs. Gu.
"When Lu Changqing first came to our village, we could often see the girl he brought, but then we saw less and less. Even in the end, we couldn't see the girl at all.
It's like she disappeared out of thin air in our Lujia Village, and we haven't seen her again in the past twenty years."
"Do you know where that girl went?" I couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know!" Sister-in-law Gu raised her head and looked at me. "We also asked Lu Changqing, but Lu Changqing was unwilling to say. We felt Lu Changqing's resistance and have never asked again since then.
Some of us had secretly speculated that it might be because Lu Changqing really liked our place and casually planned to stay and never leave again, while the girl's willpower was weaker and she yearned for the colorful world outside, so she left secretly.
And Lu Changqing stayed in our village in the following days and never left again, and eventually became our village chief."
Sister-in-law Gu stopped and looked at us. Seeing that we were silent, she added, "This is a lot of youthful things. Although Lu Changqing is from outside, after getting along with him for such a long time, we all regard him as..."
I'm on my own. If you hadn't specifically asked me today if anything weird had happened in the village over the years, I wouldn't have thought of these things at the moment. And in fact, this can't be said to be weird, it can only be said to be strange.
.”
Sister-in-law Gu is right, Lu Changqing's love affair is far from being weird, it can only be said to be strange. The strange thing is the girl who came to Lujiacun with Lu Changqing.
I gave up and didn't want to think about it, and then asked, "Sister-in-law Gu, except for Lu Changqing's incident, has there really been no other suspicious thing happening here?"
"No more of this!" Sister-in-law Gu then frowned her eyebrows. "Actually, there is another strange thing. Lu Changqing lived in a place in the north of our village at first, but later Lu Changqing moved out very stubbornly."
"Is that house still there?"
"It's there, but no one has lived there for a long time. It's basically a dilapidated building."
"Dongfang, don't you plan to go there and have a look?" said Loach, "maybe you are overthinking it? It's not like we have never met the village chief. Do you think he is the real culprit behind the murder of the ghost child's family?"
?You are really too sensitive, and you are about to develop a so-called occupational disease."
I shrugged my shoulders, "I also feel from the bottom of my heart that Lu Changqing is not the murderer of the ghost child's family, but now we have no other clues to investigate. If we don't use Lu Changqing as a breakthrough, what else can we do?"
Loach seemed to think what I said made sense. He tilted his head and thought for a while, then said nothing.
"Sister-in-law Gu, tell me where Lu Changqing lived. I plan to go there and have a look."
In fact, I don't completely trust Lu Changqing in my heart. When we saw the masked man in the ancient tomb, he deliberately changed his voice, which fully demonstrated that he was a very familiar person beside us.
people.
In the second issue, I always felt that the figure wearing the mask was very similar to Lu Changqing's figure, which made me more suspicious of him.
"Okay, since you want to go there and have a look, I'll tell you the address there." After that, he also told us, "Lu Changqing has lived in our village for decades, and he is still with us.
The village chief, if you don’t have enough evidence, don’t offend him!”
I nodded to Mrs. Gu, "Don't worry! We're just going to take a look."
Then I changed the topic, "It's already very late now. Sister Gu, you'd better go to rest early!"