CHAPTER XXIII
This Wang Wei didn't mind, urging me to hurry up and pack up, eat and then go, don't miss the fun. When I heard that he was going to take me to the waterfall on the opposite mountain, I couldn't help but speed up my movements. Half an hour later, our car drove up the winding mountain path.
The vehicle was driving on the dirt road in the mountains, bumpy all the way, and I asked Wang Wei what he had just said about the place of the Boundless Sword Lake.
"Boundless Sword Lake, don't you read martial arts novels? Jin Yong's novel The Infinite Sword Lake in the Boundless Mountain of Tianlong Babu is in my hometown, eh, it's the waterfall you saw yesterday, and below the waterfall is the legendary Boundless Sword Lake!"
The vehicle stopped in front of a spacious lawn, and after the vehicle stopped, Wang Wei looked at the empty lawn and kept scratching his head, as if there was something he couldn't figure out.
"No, there should be a lot of people today, what's going on?" Wang Wei said to himself. According to the custom, starting on the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the villagers will spontaneously go to this open space to dance songs, and during the day of the first day of the new year, they will rush to swing, play spinning tops and other activities, but now the lively venue in previous years is empty.
We got out of the car and walked deeper into the meadow, where we saw a small child running towards us along a hidden path in the mountain at the end of the meadow, near the side of the mountain.
"Dead, dead......" the child called as he ran.
Dead?
"Child, where is the dead?" Wang Wei called the child.
"Jianhu is dead, there are several" Without waiting for us to ask carefully, the child continued to shout, and the dead man ran away with a smoke, probably preparing to inform people to come and see the excitement.
I originally wanted to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the legendary Wuliang Sword Lake, and then join in the excitement of the New Year in the countryside, but now it's good, and there is nothing to see. However, Wang Wei and I still followed the path where the child came and walked in the direction of Sword Lake.
Why go? Isn't it a tradition to watch?
Walking along the mountainside, a path that only allows one person to walk, with a steep cliff on the left and a cliff of nearly twenty meters on the right, because it is blocked by the high mountain on one side and lacks sunlight, the path is covered with moss and wet, and there is a feeling that you will fall off the cliff at any time due to a misstep.
Walked along the path for nearly 100 meters and suddenly heard the sound of water, only to see a waterfall in front of me pouring down from the top of the mountain nearly 100 meters high, converging into a mirror-like waterhole under the waterfall, there are two boulder platforms on the side of the waterhole with a platform of nearly 500 square meters, and the platform is full of people at this time. The police had already arrived at the scene, and several corpses were lying on the boulder platform near the water, all covered with white cloths.
"It's all gone, it's all gone, there's nothing to see, stay in the house and don't get in the way of the police work, don't get in the way of the police work, all go home, all ......go home," a village cadre-like figure came from behind us and began to drive away the crowd of onlookers.
Seeing that there was nothing lively to see, Wang Wei and I could only walk back stupidly, and along the way, Wang Wei asked the people around him what happened. I asked several people in a row, but I didn't know what was going on. When we got back to the car, we saw a lot of people in a circle, talking about something. Wang Wei took me over, and after handing me a circle of cigarettes, Wang Wei asked, "Brother, what the hell is going on? Why are so many people dead?"
"There was a fight, it must have been a conflict last night when I was dancing a song, so there was a fight there"
"The third child of the Wang family, don't talk nonsense, it's not a fight, I went to see it early, and there were no traces of injury, how could it be a fight? Have you ever seen a fight without any broken skin?"
"Eh, Li Weiguo, tell me what it would be if it wasn't for a fight, and how could such seven or eight big people still be killed? Who is idle and has nothing to do to kill them? Do you think you are making a martial arts movie?"
"These people, they are all gangsters in several villages around here, and they usually do some bad things like stealing chickens and dogs, do you think they have offended someone and poisoned them?"
"How is it possible, just steal your two chickens, you will block his door and scold him for a day at most, so that the two chickens will not kill"
...............
This group of people has been talking for most of the day, and the only reliable information may be that the seven or eight people who died are usually the gangsters in the village. The rest of the story is just some speculation by the villagers, some of them have added artistic processing, and some people even say that they were condemned by the gods for stealing the tribute from the temple.
Anyway, the more I listened to this story, the more outrageous it became, and in the end, Wang Wei and I left the crowd and drove home before the alien version appeared.
Before the car outside Wang Wei's house stopped, we saw Wang Wei's father and mother hurrying towards us. Wang Wei's father pulled the car door and got into the car, and when Wang Wei's mother was ready, she said to Wang Wei, "Go to your fourth uncle's house, something is going to happen.........
Wang Wei's fourth uncle I also saw yesterday, when I was drinking with me yesterday, the guy couldn't compare to the momentum, but at this moment, the fourth uncle was like a defeated rooster, the whole person curled up and squatted by the door, smoking a cigarette without saying a word, twitching his body from time to time. At this moment, the fourth uncle's family is full of busy people coming in and out, but it seems that no one can affect him. There was also a faint cry of a woman in the courtyard, and before we could enter the hospital, a truck stopped at the door, and two red lacquered coffins were placed on the car.
When I entered the door, I realized that the two children of the fourth uncle's family had died, and Wang Wei's father was the eldest in the family, and the old four family had twin brothers, who were about the same age as Wang Wei, and they were in their twenties. The brothers went to the Sword Lake yesterday to dance, and they didn't go home until about three o'clock in the middle of the night, and then they went back to their rooms to sleep. This morning's dinner time, the mother of the brothers called the two to get up to eat, called several times but no one answered, originally thought that it was yesterday that they were too tired to play so they slept to death, but after calling several times no one answered, the fourth uncle pushed the door into the room, and saw that the two children had already stopped breathing.
Wang Wei's fourth uncle didn't speak all day, and Wang Wei's fourth aunt cried and fainted several times, and finally had no choice but to be sent to the village health center for intravenous drips accompanied by several women. Seeing that there was no backbone in the family, Wang Wei's father played the role of the backbone and arranged various matters that needed to be done.
Wang Wei and I were tasked with calling the police, and according to Wang Wei's father, such a big two people said that if they didn't, they would be gone, and they really had to call the police to check.
But the reply we got after the phone was answered was that there were several murders in our village today, and now the police force in the town is gone, and the police force from the county town is coming, and the police on duty at the police station told us that we must not bury people, and we need to wait for the public security department to determine the cause of death before we can bury them.
After a busy day, it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening when several policemen came to Wang Wei's fourth uncle's house, accompanied by the village director.
The police introduced by the village chief were forensic doctors from the county town who needed to autopsy the bodies of Wang Wei's two cousins, and when they heard that the corpses were to be autopsied, the fourth aunt of Wang Wei's family, who had just returned, fainted again, while Wang Wei's fourth uncle disagreed. In the end, under the repeated persuasion of village cadres, the police, and relatives and friends of Wang Wei's family, the autopsy was reluctantly agreed.
Two hours later, the police completed the autopsy and did not tell the cause of death, only that they would not move the body for the time being, and that the specific results would not be known until tomorrow morning.
In the process of waiting for the autopsy, Wang Wei inquired from the village director that 20 people had died in the whole village in the whole day today, all of them were young people in the prime of life, and none of them had any external injuries, and they all went to Jianhu last night to dance songs, and now the police can't tell what is going on.
"It's really an evil door!" the village chief hurriedly left Uncle Wang Weisi's house with the forensic doctor and his party, and it was said that they would go to several more houses.
Nothing was said all night, but the next morning something was wrong.
The next morning, just after dawn, a person who looked like a village cadre came to the courtyard to inform everyone that they could not go out, and brought a few people to take away the bodies of Wang Wei's two cousins, only saying that there had been a special incident and the corpses needed to be disposed of uniformly. Seeing that someone was coming to take away the body, Wang Wei's family had a quarrel with the person who came and almost got into a fight. Just as the form was at a stalemate, a team of policemen rushed in, and when they saw the police coming, everyone present stopped what they were doing. The policeman in charge said to the people present, "There is a special incident in your village, in order to prevent the special incident from continuing, we need to take away the body of the deceased for centralized processing, and you cannot leave the truth for the time being, please rest assured that the necessities of life will be delivered to you later, so please cooperate with .........."
Looks like something is really going on. In this case, all the people present had nothing to say, so they could only obey the arrangement and help carry the bodies of Wang Wei's two cousins out of the door. Pity Wang Wei's fourth aunt, and after learning that her two sons could not be buried in the ground, she cried and fainted.
I took a look outside the courtyard gate while people were not paying attention, and the scene I saw really shocked me into a cold sweat, only to see that the road at the edge of the village was full of people wearing white protective clothing spraying medicine along the road, and there were three or four gun-wielding guards wearing protective clothing at each intersection, and their identification was actually the People's Liberation Army.
God, what is the situation that alarmed the troops in one day?
The bodies of Wang Wei's two cousins were lifted onto a military truck and pulled away in the direction of the hill behind the village. Seeing that I couldn't get out, I had to go back to the yard and find a chair to sit down, and after the body was pulled away, three or four people wearing protective clothing carried spray barrels into the yard and sprayed medicine in the yard, not only spraying, but also taking away all the living animals in the yard.
After the spraying personnel left, all the people in the courtyard fell silent, no one spoke, everyone kept a dull expression and looked ahead, not knowing what was going on in their hearts. Anyway, I'm starting to regret coming to Wang Wei for the New Year, and now I don't know what happened, but I'm afraid it's a desperate trip.
Lunch was sent by the troops, people are very fragile in the face of unknown fear, the people in the courtyard almost have no intention of eating, only Wang Wei hula hula non-stop eating, I can't help but shake his head and smile bitterly when I see him gobbling up, it's still a tendon, no worries. This guy may be shrewd when he encounters money, but he really doesn't dare to compliment him in other places. Seeing that he still had a feeling of unfinished content after destroying the lunch box in his hand in three or two clicks, I handed him the lunch box in my hand.