Zhaoxi Village is a quiet and peaceful village, at least on the surface.

It belongs to the jurisdiction of Nanxiang Township, there are about 600 households in the village, the whole village is surrounded by a large mango forest, the villagers make a living by growing mangoes, and the economic development is considered to be at the upper middle level.

This period of time in the village is considered the agricultural season, no, under the big mango tree in front of the village committee, you can still see many leisurely old people, are playing chess together, the sound of disputes continues to come, but also accompanied by the sound of laughter, this is the fun of chess. Lin Yan'er and I were both dressed in casual clothes.

Because I have just come to the Nanxiang Police Station to work for a short time, I am also a new face here, and the local people will definitely not recognize it.

Lin Yan'er is a new face, today she is wearing slim jeans, a sweatshirt on top, a sun hat, and a pair of sunglasses.

Looking at this fashionable and trendy appearance, no one can imagine that this is an iron-faced police flower.

After entering the village, we locked the little yellow car on the side, I went to the small supermarket to buy mineral water, handed Lin Yan'er a bottle, she took it, and said with a big grin: "Thank you." ”

Raise your head and drink.

I looked at her drinking posture, smiled without saying a word, she took a sip of water, looked down and saw me looking at her strangely, a little puzzled: "The surname is white, what are you looking at, what the hell are you thinking?"

"If you are cut by the standard of a murderer, how many knives do you think the murderer needs to cut?"

I asked this question directly, Lin Yan'er was stunned for a moment, and screwed the bottle cap hard: "The surname is Bai, you shouldn't have a girlfriend, right?"

"Nope. ”

I replied, Lin Yan'er shrugged her shoulders, nodded and said, "That's right, it's strange that an idiot like you who can chat can have a girlfriend." ”

"Don't slander others, I'm chatting with you with professional knowledge, and I respect you very much. ”

I don't like her, and I've long wanted to find an opportunity to hurt her, but if I get caught this time, how can I let it go?

Lin Yan'er didn't get angry, but smiled at me: "Talk to me about professional knowledge, okay, I like it, I'll accompany you!"

I spread my hands and made a gesture of accompanying me to the end: "I'm not afraid!"

"Bai Xiaotian, do you know, I cut three hundred and eighty-five knives on you, and you can't die, do you want to try?"

Lin Yan'er leaned her face closer to me and compared her throat to me, her eyes were like the female killer in the movie.

But she was right, I once heard a news that there was a nurse who was still a doctor, because her boyfriend cheated on her, and then cut the man dozens of times, so that the man was tortured, and the man was not dead.

So don't offend those who study medicine, they can be angels on the one hand, and devils on the other.

At this time, the old men who played chess quarreled again, and this time the noise was quite loud, and it sounded like a kind of dispute that could not be quelled.

Because of the upper hand with Lin Yan'er, I felt that it would be embarrassing to stay with her again, so I decided to calm down this chess turmoil, and while relieving the embarrassment, I didn't let the old men make other things for the sake of playing chess.

I ran to the vicinity of the chess game and found that the old men were arguing over whether to move the horse or the cannon first.

These old men have been playing chess for decades, don't they understand such a simple question?

However, although this problem is simple, it is difficult to intervene in solving it.

After all, it is difficult for a Qing official to decide family affairs, and it is even more difficult for the police to judge this dispute about playing chess.

In fact, I'm just curious, come over to see the excitement, they say that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, even if Bao Qingtian is reincarnated, I'm afraid that I can't break it, right?

Just as I was about to slip away, I suddenly saw that one of the two people playing chess was my neighbor.

Yes, the old farmer who sold ostrich meat.

When I saw him, I felt a little strange, he was a strange old man, but he said that he had a very withdrawn personality, how could he come to play chess?

At this time, the other old men were arguing in his ear, it can be said that the scene has become a pot of porridge, but he is calm, his eyes are staring at the chessboard, and he has an expression of strategizing to win a thousand miles.

Could it be that he is the legendary master?

I pushed away the crowd, came to the neighbor's side, and said enthusiastically, "Oh, uncle, it turns out that you like to play chess, and I like it too, or ......."

He turned his eyes and gave me a fierce look, his eyes like knives, and I shivered at the sight.

My strange neighbor didn't say a word, picked up a small bag, got up and walked away.

After I stayed for more than ten seconds looking at my neighbor's distant back, another old man who played chess said to me, "Young man, do you like to play chess too? Then sit down!"

"Uh, actually, I ......"

I want to say that I am really bad at chess, and I just wanted to find an excuse to get close to my mysterious neighbor, but my neighbor didn't seem to want to know me at all, and didn't give me face at all.

The old man on the other side said: "Old Ao Tou is playing chess with me, and he is about to lose a hundred yuan to me, so you come to disrupt the game...... Let's talk about what to do, you can help him play this game of chess, or will you help him play this 100 yuan?"

It turns out that these old men are gambling here!

Gambling on chess, whether this is gambling or entertainment, when I was struggling with this question, Lin Yaner took a 100-yuan bill in front of the old man playing chess.

He said to the old man, "Uncle, this is a plan for us to lose." ”

The old man picked up the hundred-yuan bill, his face was wrinkled with a smile, his dentures were about to fall out, and he praised Lin Yan'er vigorously: "I said that young man, or your daughter-in-law is sensible, you can see at a glance that you can't win this game of chess, little girl, your husband can't win me, do you want to play a game with your uncle?"

Although the old man said this, although he was in Quarin Yan'er, why did I listen so well?

My careful thinking was seen through by Lin Yan'er at a glance, and she pinched my waist hard, so painful that I almost screamed.

But there were so many old people at the scene, I had to hold back, Lin Yan'er smiled and said to the old man: "Uncle, I can play this game of chess with you, but you have to promise me one condition." ”

"Oh, there are still conditions, you say, what conditions. ”

The old man's dentures shook on his lips again, and Lin Yan'er said, "Wait a minute, I'll play the next game with you, if I lose, I'll give you two hundred yuan, but if you lose, you have to answer me a few simple questions." ”

The old man's dentures fell out directly, and he was already smiling from ear to ear, in his eyes, looking at the entire Zhaoxi Village, who could match him in chess.

The little girl in front of her must have never seen the world at a young age, and she doesn't know what a chess master is, right?

Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle began, the old man's expression changed.

He didn't take four or five steps before he disarmed and surrendered.

I don't know chess, I don't know what routine Lin Yan'er used to defeat the old man, anyway, the old man has already lost convincingly.

He accepted defeat, and Lin Yan'er began to ask questions: "Uncle, has anyone suddenly disappeared from our side recently?"

"Yes, about twelve years ago, Yao Lao, who was in the east, suddenly disappeared......"

As soon as the old man opened his mouth, Lin Yan'er smiled dumbly, and hurriedly repeated: "Uncle, uncle, you misunderstood, I said recently, recently, which means the last few years or months......"

"Twelve years ago, isn't it close?"

The old man asked rhetorically, asking us so much that we had nothing to say, perhaps for an older person like them, what happened twelve years ago was indeed close enough.

Lin Yan'er rolled her eyes at me and shook her head helplessly, after we left, the old men were pointing at the back, not knowing what they were muttering.

Lin Yan'er complained with some frustration: "I just said that this method doesn't work, those uncles are obviously playing sloppy with us, pretending to be stupid, hey, I'm so angry......"

She was so angry that she stomped her feet, spent a hundred yuan, and didn't ask any questions, who is not angry about this kind of thing?

Looking at me who was silent, Lin Yan'er became even more angry after she finished her anger and pushed me: "Hey, I said Bai Xiaotian, can you squeak, don't you know that I'm very angry now?"

"Squeak!"

As she wished, I squeaked.

Then she walked away, Lin Yan'er was screaming and scolding behind her, and I couldn't hear what she was saying, because now I was thinking about the problem.

According to my observation, those old men just now must have deliberately concealed something, so obviously pretending to be stupid, didn't it expose that there were no three hundred taels of silver here?

But why are they hiding it? What mysterious forces are causing them to do so?

It's worth looking into.

I was thinking and walking, and suddenly I was shocked by the small forest at the edge of the village in front of me, the forest looked so familiar, too similar to the forest that appeared in the video when Ou Ye was kidnapped.

I hurriedly quickened my pace and walked towards the grove, because I wanted to get closer to see if it was the one that had appeared when Ou Ye was kidnapped.

Lin Yan'er chased after me like the wind, chattering in my ear: "Bai Xiaotian, Lao Yang arranged for me, it is definitely a big mistake, do you know, you are useless, you can't help me at all, it's better for me to do it alone!"

"Whatever. ”

I also don't like to be around such a chattering guy, if you like to go it alone, I don't care.

But she said that she wanted to do it alone, but her footsteps betrayed her, and she was afraid that she would not be able to keep up with me if she ran slower: "You wait for me, people are afraid of this barren mountain and wilderness." ”

I'll go, you're a policeman, and you're still afraid of barren mountains and mountains?

When I went into the woods, I found a young man in the woods bent over as if looking for something, and I greeted him, "Dude, has the thing been dropped?"

"My classmate Qi Wei got lost here last night, I'll see if he will leave any clues. ”

The young man said that Lin Yan'er chased after him, and when he heard the young man say this, he said: "A young man will get lost, he won't go home quietly, right? This forest is not big, how can he get lost?"

"You don't know, do you know? This is the Devil's Grove, which is said to eat people, and many children have been lost near this grove recently. ”

When the young man said this, Lin Yan'er and I glanced at each other and asked in unison, "Why didn't anyone report the case after losing so many people?" Are you kidding?"