When entering this ancient village of Luoyang, I felt that there was a dead silence all around. I said to Wu Dan: "Master, it seems that many houses here are dilapidated, and they don't look like people live in them at all."
Wu Dan said: "Who raises a dog if no one lives there? There must be someone, but there are too many empty houses, so we have to look for them."
As we talked, we passed the big yellow dog. But when he was about to step into the village, the big yellow dog immediately jumped up and barked at us.
I was taken aback, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this dog to be in charge, and the gatekeeper is good."
Fortunately, the dog barked before someone came out. I looked ahead and saw a white-haired old man walking out with a cane. This old man is really a bit old, similar to the old men in the streets and alleys in the dramas of the Republic of China or the Anti-Japanese War. He is wearing an old navy blue gown, and even the buttons are buckled, which is very retro.
"Ah Huang, what are you calling?" the old man yelled at the dog. Yes, it's really called Ah Huang. Every yellow earth dog will have such a perfunctory name.
Seeing the old master coming out, the dog calmed down, looked at us with a low eyebrow, and ran to the master. Just then, I saw a few children in old clothes coming out of the old man's house. Two and a half boys with dirty faces, and a little girl with disheveled hair. Seeing us was a little scared, shrinking behind grandpa, but also staring at us curiously.
We walked to the old man's house, saw the old man looked us up and asked, "Who are you?"
"Old man", Wu Dan immediately greeted him with a smile: "We are looking for someone. I wonder if there was a teenage boy who came to the village yesterday? He is a little unconscious, and he may look crazy."
"Oh, you are the family members of the young man yesterday." The old man sighed, and said: "Yes, he is at the village head's house now. He beat our Ah Huang yesterday, take a look."
I looked down, and sure enough, I saw a shallow scar on the dog's buttocks, and I thought that Ma Ming would be too crazy to go crazy. So we hurriedly asked the location of the village chief's house, and the old man called one of his little grandsons to take us there. The child led the way ahead, took us through the winding village roads, and found a house, looked up at us and wiped our noses, and said, "This is it."
I knelt down and patted his head, and stuffed the peanut jelly that was originally for Xiao Man but she hadn't finished eating into the little boy's hand, and said with a smile, "Little friend, how many people are there in your village now?"
The child thought for a while and said, "I don't know, everyone seems to have moved away anyway!"
Seeing that he couldn't explain why, I sent him back first. The village head's house is also the kind of old big door with cornices and roof tiles, but it looks like it hasn't been repaired for a long time. We knocked on the door, and a girl in her teens opened the door. I explained the situation, and the girl brought us in.
To my surprise, the village head is really not much younger than the old man we met just now. He also looked wrinkled and white-haired, but his body was quite tough. When the village chief saw us and heard that we were here for Ma Ming, he brought Ma Ming out from the back room and said, "You are really the parents, no one knows that this child ran so far by himself." , I don¡¯t have any money or documents on me, and I¡¯m still a fool.¡±
I saw that Ma Ming was safe and sound, but he looked a little silly, so I was relieved and thanked the village chief a thousand times. The village head is a nice guy, he said that since we have come all the way, we should have a meal at home and take a rest before leaving, the mountain road is not easy to walk, if you don¡¯t mind the shabby home, you can stay overnight and leave tomorrow morning.
When Wu Dan heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Then we will not be polite." Then, he sat down next to the village chief and handed over the half pack of cigarettes in his pocket: "I said, brother, look You are not too young, why are you still the head of the village? Why have you reached the age of retirement?"
The village chief sighed: "This is a long story. I don't know if you guys know the rumors about this village. There was a village chief, but he was burned to death in a fire the year before last. Many villagers moved away later. Counting the children of each family, there are only forty-seven people staying. The elderly and children can't go, and some are weak and disabled, and have no place to go. Even if this place is too evil, I have no choice but to stay .¡±
Having said that, the village head asked the youngest daughter who brought us in to make tea. Anyway, it was nothing serious, so he simply told the past events in the village. It turned out that the village chief's surname was Ma, and his name was Ma Jianping. The ghost village was originally safe and sound, but since the millennium, 76 villagers in the village have died strangely, and then two consecutive fires destroyed nearly half of the houses in the village. This mountain village with nearly 500 people has grown from 2Since 2000, an average of more than ten people have died every year, while the nearby mountain villages of the same size only die three to five people every year, and there are funerals almost every month. The two fires burned down more than 80 old houses in the village, leaving a large area of ??ruins and making dozens of villagers homeless. The successive deaths of villagers caused everyone to panic all day long. Panic spread in the village, and rumors spread everywhere for a while. Many villagers even said that "ghosts" were angry.
Ma Jianping lit a cigarette and recalled: "In recent years, the death of villagers has become even more outrageous. About May of the year before last, a brother in his fifties went to the neighbor's house to watch TV at night. He fell on the road and returned home. Less than an hour later, he became ill and couldn¡¯t speak, and died soon. As a result, that year, an old man went to help the dead villager to deliver a funeral, and ate at their home at night. After returning home, he fell down and died. I also vomited a bunch of things. In August last year, a person played mahjong for most of the night and died suddenly the next day. In the same year, when someone was warming up by the fire, he suddenly had cramps and foamed at the mouth. Then he died. This is too strange, because I know all the people who died, and they are all in good health. It should be said that the weather in our village was good before 2000, everyone was in good health, and nothing happened. No, so many people died suddenly. Experts and professors from the county and city came to the village more than once to investigate. But they didn¡¯t find out why. The police also came to investigate the cause of the fire. The young man was arrested and said that he was the culprit of arson. That¡¯s not enough, we also asked us to open the coffin for an autopsy, dig up the corpses of the villagers who died inexplicably, and say that this young man poisoned so many people! .¡±
"It's unlikely." I said in surprise, "In your village, I heard that you are all relatives of the same clan, or have the same surname? Then what kind of hatred would kill so many people? There are dozens or even hundreds of people. !"
Ma Jianping sighed: "Isn't that right? We all told the police the same way. Later, the police said they would take the body back for examination, so I asked how long it would take. The police said it would not exceed a week, but we After waiting for nearly 3 months, I asked the County Public Security Bureau many times, and the reply I got was always 'still investigating, and there is no result yet'. In the end, there was no result in the investigation, so it was nothing, but the young man in our village is still there. Being detained, alas."
"It's possible to kill one or two by poisoning, but you can't kill dozens, unless you have mental problems." Zhao Yu couldn't help but said.
When it came to mental problems, I looked at Ma Ming, who was giggling aside, and thought to myself, if you are mentally ill, you can indeed be hypnotized to kill people, but I don't know it yet. So he asked the village chief if that young man was a little mentally ill.
Ma Jianping smiled wryly and said: "How is it possible? This young man is called Ma Man. He is very kind and generous, and he has no mental problems. In the early years, he did some tea business with his father and made money. He also invested in the village to rebuild the village. How about the Dragon King Temple in Nantou. So many people died in the next few years, and there were few young people in the village. Every time there was a funeral in the village, Maman would help with the cooking. When buying funeral supplies, Maman would pay for it himself. Many villagers looked at the payment He grew up with deep feelings, how could he poison so many people. We asked the police to solve the case quickly, if not, let the child out first. But the response from the police is that there is still no result, and the case is still in progress. During the investigation, it is inconvenient to disclose the details of the case. In this way, it dragged on for more than half a year, and everyone couldn't bear it. They scattered and scattered, leaving a few of us who didn't want to leave or couldn't leave. I don't know if they will stay or wait to die .¡±
After hearing this, the few of us fell silent. At this time, I suddenly heard the phone ring, and I took it out to see that it was Lin Yufan's phone.
"Brother Yan, we are at the entrance of Luoyang Ancient Village, where are you?" Lin Yufan asked.
"You? Who's there?" I asked.
"Me, Xin Xiaoran and Dr. Xia. Because you said that Ma Ming might be here, I brought her to see Ma Ming." Lin Yufan said.
Shit, Dr. Xia is here too? I frowned, thinking that this is not good, Dr. Xia is a coward, if something happens and she faints from fright, we still have to take care of her.
"Okay, you can ask the village chief's house how to get there, just come here." I hung up the phone impatiently.
Ma Jianping asked what was going on. I said that some friends also came to find Ma Ming for help. A perfunctory sentence passed. At this time, Wu Dan pondered for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "By the way, the village chief, there are so many things happening in your village, why is no one going to ask Mr. Feng Shui to have a look?"
Ma Jianping sighed: "Why didn't you invite them? The money was spent a lot, but no one saw why. There were even some who swindled food, drink, and money, but they didn't invite them later. Probably no one has the ability. "
Wu Dan said with a smile: "This is not necessarily the case, there is one in front of you."
Ma Jianping asked in surprise: "Who?"
Wu Dan squinted his eyes and held a cigarette in his mouth, pointed to his nose, and said with a smile: "It's me." (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com)The son smiled and said, "It's me." (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com