Chapter 226: The Zhao Ancestral Hall
Although he dug a pit before leaving, and let those little gangsters find trouble with their boss, Li Yi still spent a little merit to get rid of the trouble in order to avoid future troubles.
Li Yi didn't mind spending a little more, but the problem was that he originally only had a merit of one thousand and one points, and after he was promoted, he deducted a thousand points at once, so that Li Yi doubted whether he was an official or not.
But the effect of a little merit is enough, at least I didn't encounter any trouble before checking out of the town overnight, I drove into the county seat in one go, found a hotel to live in again and slept until dawn, ate breakfast and then went to Zhaojiamiao Village to continue the investigation.
Zhaojiamiao Village is not far from the county seat, it takes less than 20 minutes to drive over, the village is not big but obviously the conditions here are much better, every household is a small building of two or three floors, and the outside of the wall is pasted with tiles of various colors.
However, there is a temple on the side of the road in the middle of the village, to be precise, it should be an ancestral hall, a tiled house of a tall house, and it looks like it is very old.
Maybe that's why it's called Zhaojiamiao Village, right? Li Yi got out of the car while thinking, thinking about finding someone in the village to inquire.
But as soon as he got out of the car, Li Yi rushed to a burst of coldness, as if someone was hiding in the dark and staring at him. I couldn't say that I frowned and glanced around, and finally stopped in the direction of the entrance of the ancestral hall, but the door was locked.
"There seems to be something ...... inside," Han Ying also looked at the ancestral hall and said.
Li Yi nodded, but Fang Ting hurriedly ordered eye medicine, and Han Ying said again: "I'll go over and have a look first?"
"No, rural people generally regard the ancestral hall as a forbidden place in the village, let alone outsiders, even the women of the village are not allowed to enter easily. Li Yi said, "Let's find someone to ask about the situation first." ”
Li Yi walked with his feet up, and a door was open not far away, and a few women were sitting under the doorway picking chili peppers, so he leaned over and asked, "Aunt and aunt, are ......you busy?"
"Well, what's the matter with you?" said a woman in her forties and fifties.
"This ancestral hall in our village has been around for a long time, right?" Li Yi said with a smile, "I like some ancient buildings, and I heard that our ancestral hall here is very famous, so I thought I would come here to take a look." ”
"Do you want to see the ancestral hall? Then you have to go to the village chief, no one else has the key to the ancestral hall. The woman said.
"Oh, where does the village chief live?" asked Li Yi.
"It's the one on the east side of the ancestral hall. "But the chief of the village is not at home now, and you won't find anyone if you go." ”
"Oh, when will he come back?" said Li Yi again.
"Yo, that's hard to say. The woman said, "He went to Xijing, and he said that he would come back in ten days and a half months, but now it is almost two months, and he came back in the middle to grave his son once, and then he left again, who knows when he will come back." ”
Li Yi frowned and said, "Go to his son's grave, what's wrong?"
"Alas, he was stabbed to death. The woman said, "A thief came to his house to steal something, and Xiao Wu's child just got up to pee, so he fought with the thief, and the thief stabbed Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu also slashed the thief, and Xiao Wu was hacked to death, and the thief ran to the entrance of the village and died...... Poor boy, it's a pity......"
"Tsk, this is a ...... trouble," Li Yi echoed and continued to ask, "Didn't anyone else in the village find out about the situation at that time?"
"Why not?" Xiao Wu called for the thief, but it was too late for everyone to run out...... "The woman said.
Another older woman said: "I came out the earliest that day, and I saw the thief stabbing Xiao Wu with my own eyes, Xiao Wu was stunned that he pulled out the knife himself, and stabbed his backhand into the thief's stomach, and the thief ran away with the knife on his stomach, and I went to chase it, but how many pieces can I run in a woman's house at night? When I ran to the entrance of the village, the thief couldn't run anymore, and he was covering the blood on his stomach......"
"The thief ran away on his own, he didn't have any accomplices or anything, and he didn't drive or ride a motorcycle?" asked Li Yi.
"This ...... I really don't know...... Why do you ask this?" said the woman strangely.
"Hey, I guess there is. Another aunt next to him said, "My man said that he happened to come back from the city that day, and saw a motorcycle parked at the entrance of the village, and as soon as he saw him, he ran away with the accelerator, and then he entered the village and saw the thief lying on the ground with his stomach covered......"
As soon as Li Yi heard this, he had a bottom in his heart, it seemed that it was the same as his analysis, the old donkey had an accomplice in stealing, and that accomplice, Bacheng was Yuan Shuai!
Pretending to sigh twice, Li Yi said again that since the village chief is not there, can you let him take a look outside if he can't enter the ancestral hall. The women don't care, they can't get in anyway, and they can't look bad if they look around.
Li Yi said goodbye and walked to the ancestral hall with Fang Ting and Han Ying.
One of the characteristics of the ancestral hall building is that there are doors but no windows. After going around the ancestral hall, Li Yi walked to the steps of the door again, and seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he climbed on the crack of the door and looked inside.
The ancestral hall is some years old, the door is dilapidated and there is a small crack that can barely see the situation inside, the door is the god case, the top is full of tablets, it looks a little panicked, and the small door crack can only see this point, what is the arrangement on both sides can not be seen at all.
Just as he was about to close his body, Li Yi suddenly found a figure running to the side in a flash, and couldn't help but be surprised, after all, his eyes were on the crack of the door, and if someone inside poked him, he would be blind.
After all, the key to the door of the ancestral hall is only owned by the village chief, and he hasn't come back for a long time, if there is a person inside, won't he starve to death?
But the problem is that Li Yi didn't sense the ghost aura here, although the ancestral hall was gloomy, it was not a yin aura, and the figures in it did not have a yin aura.
Li Yi has never seen a ghost without a ghost in a ghost for so long, but if it's not a ghost, what is it?
After a pause, Li Yi took a deep breath and whispered towards the door: "The wandering god is here, the demons and evil are obeying the order, stand in front of the offering table and don't move, otherwise I will accept you now and send you to the underworld for trial!"
After finishing speaking, Li Yi carefully climbed to the crack of the door again and looked in, and sure enough, there was a ghost standing honestly in front of the table.
Looking at that face, he is young, that is, seventeen or eighteen years old, with a thin body and a polite appearance, no matter how he looks at it, he looks like an honest student who has not yet graduated.
Li Yi frowned, feeling that this matter was a bit strange, could this be a ghost village? Or is there something wrong with this ancestral hall, so the people who die in the village will become ghosts? Not to mention that the son of other village chiefs is still following Yuan Shuai, why is there still a young ghost hiding in the ancestral hall here?
"Who are you, why are you here!" Li Yi lowered his voice and tried to pretend to be as majestic as possible.
The young ghost was indeed very honest, and he even resisted at all, and replied without saying a word: "My name is Zhao Xiaowu, and I died too unjustly......"
Li Yi was stunned when he heard this, Zhao Xiaowu? Could it be that he is the son of the village chief, the one who was stabbed to death by the old donkey?