In the past 30 years, three members of Xu Laohan's family have lost their lives due to various accidents.

Similarly, in the past 30 years, the death knell in Xihe Village has sounded strangely three times, and these three times were sounded at the same time as the three accidents of Xu Laohan's relatives.

What does this mean, there is no obvious evidence that this was the work of the murderer, but it is definitely not a coincidence.

Because it is more coincidental that after Xu Ping's death, this death knell was once again sounded for no reason.

Shao Dong fell silent, his mind was constantly thinking, countless thoughts were constantly shifting, thinking, doubting and verifying in his mind.

Of course, there is only one end result, and this is not a coincidence, let alone an accident.

"You guys talk first, I'll go check today's situation, if it's true, I'm afraid I'll leave a note in this book. ”

The old man Ge Yi said, and returned to the Death Bell Pavilion, generally speaking, the people guarding the Death Bell Pavilion cannot easily contact the outside, and everyone who guards here must be distracted, if there is really any emergency, someone will naturally come to inform.

So at this time, the old man in Ge Yi is just going to understand first.

Compared to his rhetoric, Shao Dong was dismissive, he had clearly heard the sound of the drum before, otherwise he would not have come to this mountain, of course, the old man Ge Yi wanted to go to verify, and he had no opinion, after all, he was just a dispensable passer-by for Xihe Village, and Xihe Village had the rules of Xihe Village, no one could change anything, how could the traditions that had been passed down for hundreds of years be so easily changed?

Putting aside the entanglements on the mountain, Shao Dong is more concerned about the accidents that have occurred in the Xu Laohan family over the past few decades.

From this point of view, the murderer is at least forty or fifty years old, after all, the young suspect, even if he was born thirty years ago, is only afraid that he is a little brat, what can such a little fart child do?

Therefore, Shao Dong set the age of the suspect at about the same age as Xu Laohan, which is well-founded.

"In this way, Lao Zhao, let's go to the village for a walk, but no one should mention the previous incident. Obviously, if you look at it according to the previous suspicions, then the murderer must be from this village, but I don't understand, why does he have to ring this death knell every time he kills, and what is the point of this?

After Shao Dong finished speaking, he took the lead to go down the mountain, and Wang Bo and Liu Jun also followed, and only after Lao Zhao and the old man Ge Yi said hello, they took Zhang Dasha down the mountain together.

Along the way, Wang Bo was like a chatterbox, saying some inconsequential words without a word.

Not long after, several people came down from the mountain, and before they had gone far in the car, a loud noise came.

Moreover, in front of the car, a group of people didn't know what they were doing there, they only heard someone shouting, hold him, pull him quickly.

Because Lao Zhao is very familiar with this Xihe Village, he was the first person to get out of the car and step forward.

"What are you doing, what are you doing here. ”

As soon as Lao Zhao got out of the car, he shouted, as a policeman, he naturally has the majesty of a policeman.

As soon as the villagers saw Lao Zhao, they were also quite familiar, and someone said at the moment: "Uncle Zhao, take a look, Xu Laohan is crazy, if you have to jump into the well, you can't stop it." ”

Shao Dong and his entourage also opened the car window to see what was going on outside, and when they heard someone say that Xu Laohan was going to jump into the well, they also walked out of the car immediately.

"It's only a few days later, and I'm going to look for death. Lao Zhao is too familiar with this village, but he knows everyone he talks about, so he is not satisfied with it at the moment.

"Lao Zhao, is Xu Ping dead, well, whether Xu Ping is dead, they don't want to tell me, you say, Xu Ping is dead. ”

In fact, except for the elderly people in this village, few people know that Xu Ping is Xu Laohan's son, after all, his experience back then was too tragic, and after Xu Ping was sent to Lao Zhang's house, he went door to door to beg these neighbors not to talk about Xu Ping's life experience, so even Lao Zhao, who is very familiar with every household in Xihe Village, if it wasn't just now, he wouldn't know that Xu Ping was actually Xu Laohan's child.

At this moment, Xu Laohan asked this, Lao Zhao was also stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "What is it? Wasn't Xu Ping's kid stabbed at the beginning of the year, and didn't he go home to recuperate at this time." ”

These elderly villagers in Xihe Village all knew that although Xu Laohan gave Xu Ping to someone else's house, he was very nervous about his son, so someone interjected at the moment: "Yes, isn't Xu Ping in Lao Zhang's house, why do you say you are making this trouble?"

Although the young people in the village knew that Xu Ping was dead, these elders in the village said so, and they didn't know the reason, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense.

However, at this time, Xu Laohan shook his hand, he was originally a crop man, although he fell ill in the past two days, but there is a saying - the donkey does not fall, Xu Laohan launched a rush, and several people who pulled him really didn't hold it, and they were all thrown off by him.

"You still want to lie to me, you still want to lie to me. Xu Laohan said with a sad face: "The death knell rang just now, did you all hear it? Tell me, which old man in our village passed away today, it is worth ringing this death knell?" Well, you should tell me about it!"

As soon as he asked, everyone was speechless, and they didn't know what to say, after all, there were really no dead people in the village today except for Xu Ping, if he casually said who was dead, it was estimated that he would be scolded a few words in other places, but in this Xihe Village, I was afraid that he would be beaten to death.

It's nothing to scold people on weekdays, but this death knell has sounded again, it's really a dead knot, it's not like nothing like this has happened, it was still a few decades ago, when the old people in the village were still children, there were several respected old people in the village at that time, and they were all quite old, all over ninety.

One day, one of the old men died suddenly in the evening, and according to the rules, when an old man like him died, the death knell was to be sounded as a send-off.

At that time, as soon as the death knell rang, some villagers came out to ask who was the immortal who died, but there was a guy, who didn't know, casually said the name of another respected old man, and he said it wrongly, but his words finally reached the old man's house, and the descendants of his family knew it, and the angry and tangled clansman was stunned to beat the person who talked nonsense .......

So, in Xihe Village, the death knell represents death!

At that moment, no one spoke, Xu Laohan was even more sad, the old tears were all over the place, and he roared: "The fourth time, the fourth time! Do you think I don't know? Thirty-three years ago, on the day my father died, the death knell rang for no reason, and thirty-one years ago, on the day my mother died, the death knell rang again for no reason!

The second is two years ago, on the day my wife died, this damn death knell sounded again!"

The more Xu Laohan spoke, the more excited he became, the green tendons on his forehead were rising, his hands were fists, and his mouth was even more gritted teeth, and he continued: "Today, this death knell rang again for no reason, you tell me, is it my son Xu Ping is also dead!"

After he said this, the old people lowered their heads one by one, and the young people who didn't know the truth looked at Xu Laohan in surprise one by one, they always thought that Xu Laohan was an old bachelor, where did they know that Xu Ping, who was known as the most promising person in the village before, was actually his son?

Moreover, when I heard Xu Laohan talk about his parents and wife before, everyone was also very sympathetic, although they couldn't empathize, but it sounded like this, and it was also very sympathetic.

At the same time, they also felt sorry for Xu Laohan, although they had envied and jealous Xu Ping before, but in Xihe Village, people die greatly, and they can only regret it for a while.

Seeing the reaction of these neighbors in the village, Xu Laohan strengthened his suspicions and cried more intensely.

"Ahh

After a while, Xu Laohan looked up to the sky and roared, and a mouthful of old blood spit out, but Xu Laohan still shouted regardless of it: "What do you say, why? What did I Xu Benzhong do wrong, why did I do this to me, why did I watch my relatives walk in front of me one by one?"

Xu Laohan, whose real name is Xu Benzhong, is just that for so many years, he has lived alone, and as he gets older and older, everyone also calls him Xu Laohan, called Shunkou, and he forgot his original name, if he didn't say it himself at this time, the people present, I'm afraid that few people still know his name.

For his venting, these villagers are not willing to say anything, indeed, his life is indeed bumpy enough.

And just after Xu Laohan shouted such a sentence, he suddenly quieted down, turned his head, looked at the lonely hill, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he said indignantly: "It's all this damn death knell, I'm going to smash this damn death knell, I see what moths it can make in the future!"

"I can't help it, I can't help it!" No matter how Xu Laohan vented before, everyone didn't say anything and didn't care, but when Xu Laohan said that he was going to smash the death knell on the mountain, everyone couldn't sit still.

Just kidding, the death knell has been around for hundreds of years, and the written records can be traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, plus the word of mouth, the history of this death knell is at least a thousand years.

This is the common wealth of all the villagers in Xihe Village, and it is the common belief of all the villagers in Xihe Village.