It was around six o'clock in the evening. Xiao Chen and the other three had just finished dinner at the Long clan leader's house. Perhaps because they were halfway up the mountain, they didn't feel the scorching heat at all here. Instead, they felt the cool breeze was blowing, which made them very comfortable.
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According to the plan, at eight o'clock in the evening, Chief Long summoned the Miao villagers to go down the mountain.
It's not time yet, but Chief Long has already sent someone to inform him.
Now only Xiao Chen, Sang and Xiaowan sisters stay here.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Chief Long sent a man up, a young Miao man from the village.
"Mr. Xiao, the patriarch said that all the villagers in the Miao village have gathered at the entrance of the village."
"The gatekeeper of the ancestral hall has arrived?"
"He went down too."
"Then let's go into the ancestral hall and take a look."
In fact, Xiao Chen still hoped that he was wrong.
Xiao Chen took Sang, the two girls, and the young Miao man to the village ancestral hall, which was in the middle of the stilted building in the Miao village. However, the young man was standing at the door and he did not dare to step in.
Because except for some important festivals where he and his family would go in to worship, he would stay outside the door at other times.
"Xiao Chen, I always feel like it's eerie here." Mo Xiaowan said.
This ancestral hall has naturally a lot of Miao spiritual tablets from hundreds of years old. From top to bottom, there are no one knows how many spiritual tablets there are. Now it is night again, and there are only candles and pine oil lamps inside. It looks dark and dim.
The feeling is very scary.
Moreover, the incense was burning inside, and the white smoke illuminated by the light made both Sang and Mo Xiaowan feel that there was something strange in it.
Xiao Chen had already passed by here, but he didn't.
And now is the first time to step in.
The area of this ancestral hall is quite large. In addition to a hall, there are middle halls on both sides, and then there are small rooms where different spiritual tablets are enshrined.
If you look at it this way, you don't see any problems.
Did you see it wrong?
Xiao Chen felt strange.
However, when Xiao Chen went to a room, he felt that that room was the spookiest. There was actually a wooden bed in it, and this wooden bed was where the gatekeeper slept.
"Xiao Chen, I think this room is very weird." Sang said.
"I am afraid."
Mo Xiaowan had already hugged Xiao Chen's arm.
Xiao Chen didn't bring the small Bagua Mirror here. If he had brought it here,
I'm afraid it has already started ringing here.
Xiao Chen saw it with his naked eyes, and in fact, what he saw might be similar to what Sang and the others saw, or even just a little clearer.
However, he has clairvoyance, which is different.
Xiao Chen could clearly see what was hidden here.
When he saw that there was actually something under the bed, Xiao Chen felt that he might have seen it right.
Xiao Chen can be sure that there is really something here.
Taking a closer look, what he didn't expect was that there were several corpses there.
Whose bodies do these belong to?
And why did he become a mummy?
Xiao Chen is really not sure.
"Let's go out."
Xiao Chen pulled Sang and Mo Xiaowan out of the room, and then outside the ancestral hall. The young Miao man was still standing there.
"Go and ask the Dragon Chief to capture the janitor."
Watchmen?
"Why should we arrest Uncle Long Qi?" the young Miao man asked in confusion.
"Why? You will know soon."
The young Hmong man hurriedly ran down.
About fifteen minutes later, Chief Long ran up panting.
"Mr. Xiao, what did you find?"
"Where's the janitor?"
"You said Uncle Long Qi, I have had his hands and feet tied and put him in a cowshed to watch."
"Now I very much doubt that there are those bodies hidden under the room where the janitor lives."
Corpse?
Chief Long was even more surprised.
After Xiao Chen and Xiao Chen went to the room where Uncle Long Qi lived in the ancestral hall, Xiao Chen groped around carefully, and sure enough, he quickly moved the two stone slabs away, and there were several mummies under the stone slabs.
Among them, one is the corpse of the missing old woman, the other is the corpse of Long Asheng, and the corpse of a baby. In addition to this, the other corpse has no clear face.
There seemed to be maggots crawling on the corpse, and it gave off a very unpleasant smell.
When Mo Xiaowan took a look, she hurriedly went out. She was already in a state of retching just now. Compared with other Miao people, Xiao Chen and Sang were in much better condition.
When Chief Long saw it, he felt something was wrong.
"Now I very much doubt that the gatekeeper did all these things. Chief Long, please ask someone to bring that gatekeeper in for questioning."
Now there is no need for Xiao Chen to say anything. Chief Long can be sure that Uncle Long Qi did all this.
As for why he did that?
Could it be that the other party is really good at witchcraft and may even be a member of the witchcraft sect?
Moreover, the other party left the Miao village for such a long time inexplicably, and then came back and became the gatekeeper of the ancestral hall. Then the other party was taking care of the ancestral hall. As for what happened in the ancestral hall, Chief Long really didn't know.
There were so many corpses there, and everyone else felt disgusted.
However, the first thing to do now is to bring the gatekeeper up and ask him what's important.
Chief Long hurriedly called for someone to bring Uncle Long Qi, who was locked up in the cow room.
However, it had been half an hour since the young man went down, and he still hadn't seen his figure. When others came up, they realized that Uncle Long Qi, who had just been locked up in the cowshed, had escaped from nowhere.
Uncle Long Qi actually disappeared?
Needless to say, the other party must have done this.
"Mr. Xiao, what should I do if Uncle Long Qi runs away?" Chief Long asked worriedly.
After all, the other party is the real murderer, and now he has actually escaped.
"I'll go down and take a look."
Even if the other party ran away, Xiao Chen felt that the other party wouldn't be able to run very far.
When Xiao Chen went down to search for someone, he started looking for people from the cowshed. It was certain that the janitor escaped from a window in the cowshed.
This window doesn't look big, and can hold out one person's head at most. However, the other party ran away, which shows that this gatekeeper is really not simple.
Xiao Chen kept walking around, but at eleven o'clock in the evening, he still didn't see the janitor.
This shows that the other party really ran away.
The other party ran away. For a while, I'm afraid it won't come back here for a long time. Instead, he will do these things again in another place.
When the young Miao people in the village moved out all the corpses under the room, it turned out that in addition to the dead old woman, Long Asheng, there was also the corpse of a child who had died in infancy, and a corpse whose face could not be seen clearly.
There are also many corpses.
Many villagers gathered outside and watched, feeling particularly horrified.
"Mr. Xiao, what should we do with these?" Chief Long asked.
"In order to put them to rest, let's bury them first. However, I'm afraid that the gatekeeper will steal their bodies again, so I suggest that they be cremated immediately and then take the ashes for burial."