Chapter 223: Demon Tower (A)

The biggest difference between a man in love and a woman in love is that men love to play missing, and women love to play long talks. www.biquge.info In the past six months, I basically didn't see Team Cao, but Xiaolei looked for a few trips, and the momentum of learning was like Team Cao a few years ago.

Xiao Lei is very down-to-earth, willing to work, one meter eight five tall, full of brute strength, although the appearance is very shocking, but in fact, the mind is splendid, the piano, chess and songs are proficient, usually off work, like to carve some small things by himself, wood, stones in his hands can always turn decay and magic, the level is already very unusual. For work, his appearance and methods form a great contrast, very meticulous, love to start from the details, logical thinking rigorous. But he still learned the essence of his master Cao's case, he was bold, and he was not ashamed to ask.

There is a joke in the criminal police team, called Sangu Thatched House, which is talking about Xiao Lei. In order to ask the old Jiang team a question, he blocked the Jiang team in the toilet, was blasted out three times, and broke in four more times, forcing the Jiang team's old hemorrhoids to recur, just for an answer. At that time, there was a very popular movie called "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", there may be similarities in the personality, Xiao Lei got the nickname of "Qiu Ju", outsiders don't know what to hear, so the team listens to it, and can tell you a lot of stories.

I came back from that Inner Mongolia Dagai Mountain, and Xiao Lei became a friend of the year, in fact, his understanding is outstanding among the people I know, I told the Cao team several times, Xiao Lei will be a big tool in time, but the Cao team is busy falling in love, I guess I didn't listen to it at all.

In the summer of '95, Xiao Lei came to Hufang Bridge to find me, and this year he was considered a teacher, from an assistant to a regular teacher, and the Cao team also assigned a case to him. I don't know if the Cao team deliberately tempered, or Xiao Lei's life was a little bit back, or the glorious tradition in the team, this seemingly simple little case has been difficult for him for more than a month, and there has been no progress.

The biggest difference between Xiao Lei and Team Cao is that Team Cao came to me, just followed the tea leaves, practiced proficiently, and the good and bad were extremely clear, a thousand yuan a pound of tea, he knew where I was hiding when he smelled it in the yard. I joked with him, and when he retired, he went straight from the police force to the tea association. Xiao Lei is different, every time he comes to bring me tea, although it is not a good tea, but he is full of heart, and every time he drinks happily.

But this time, Xiao Lei was obviously holding back his thoughts, and he scalded himself when he boiled water to make tea. I took some bitter tea out of the house and told him to calm down and defeat the fire. In the clearer and clearer tea soup, he also began to slowly tell me about the first case that bothered him.

The story begins with the demolition of Beijing. Around 93 or 94, Beijing's real estate began to be liberated from the state-owned system, and commercial housing quietly appeared on the market. However, at that time, it was not called commercial housing, and it was still nominally a public housing that could be bought and sold. At this time, some southern funds poured in, all optimistic about the future of Beijing's real estate market. Therefore, starting from the commune brigades around Beijing, they took out some of the original homesteads and farmland, cooperated with the funds from the south, and began to build new peasant villages of a collective nature, and a large part of the houses entered the market.

But most of these houses were in the urban-rural junction of Beijing at that time, the transportation was not convenient, the environment was dirty and messy, although the houses were beautifully repaired, but the residents of Beijing really couldn't look at it, so it was very difficult to sell when they first came out. But fortunately, at this time, a large number of migrant workers poured into Beijing, they do not have the traditional concept of poverty in the south and cheapness in the north, cheap is the first, and the houses in this new village are cost-effective, so many houses are bought by outsiders.

But this has led to a new problem, most of the people who buy houses do not know each other, their living habits, eating habits are very different, they live together, the door is closed, they don't get along with each other, and there is no neighborhood relationship and atmosphere at all.

The case that Xiao Lei took happened in such a new village.

After passing the Jingmi Aqueduct to the west, there is a lone tower standing abruptly there, surrounded by small five-story buildings to the east and south, and vegetable fields to the north and west. The developer of this project probably invited a master to see it, thinking that this place is thin and yin, so he built this nineteen-story tower and shook it there. When you look up from downstairs, it does feel a bit big and small, a bit like a river demon in Pagoda Town.

Since the foundation of this building was excavated, strange things have happened frequently. First, a coffin was dug up, and the outside was rotten, but the body inside was intact. The excavator operator said he went down with a shovel and cut a large hole in the coffin lid. He noticed something and dared to stop. Out of the cab, I looked out, and there was a pale and beardless corpse in the coffin, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and the key was that this corpse was staring at him with its eyes open. This time he stepped into the air, fell off the excavator, and broke a leg.

When the other workers ran over to look, a puff of black smoke came out of the cave, and the corpses had turned black, and when the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived, only a skeleton covered in black skin remained.

After the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau came to see it, they said that this should be the tomb of a Ming Dynasty eunuch, but the identity of the deceased was not high, there were few burial goods, and the value of the tomb was not large.

But after digging for a short time, the workers dug out a large vat ten meters east of the coffin, which was more than half a person high, and there were several baby bones in it. The workers didn't dare to dig anymore, so they called the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau to come and see. This time, a few respectable old gentlemen came, pointing around the tank with shocked expressions. Then, a team of armed police drove over, built a temporary fence, and blocked the scene, so that the idlers could not wait to enter.

This blockade is two months, it is said that from the other three directions of the coffin, three identical jars were dug up, which contained a total of 36 bones, some workers heard experts say that this is not an ordinary tomb, it is a rare sacrificial tomb, and it is likely to be a living sacrifice, and the identity of the deceased in the coffin is very special. But this on-site blockade, along with the news, no one knows what else was dug up inside.

When the blockade ended two months later, the construction team entered the site again, and the contractor was happy, and a large pit had been dug 50 meters square and more than 5 meters deep, which was a big deal. After the foundation was repaired and the piles were laid, the construction unit found that the ground began to settle, and it was estimated that the building would be more inclined than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This time, it was the turn of the survey institute to go out, work on site, and study for a month, only to use stupid methods to increase the area of the base, dig deep foundations, thicken support columns, and pour concrete as a whole. The face of the leader of the construction unit was green at that time, and the cost of this foundation was higher than that of the civil air defense project. It's hard to ride a tiger, and it's only hard, but the trouble is far more than that.

When the pile was driven, there was a new situation, the drill bit could not be driven, drilled a few times, the drill bit slipped to the side, and it was empty, no matter how it tried, the drill bit was scrapped. Fortunately, the boss of the construction unit was well-informed and let the project stop first. I went to Baiyun Temple and invited a master to come and see. The master walked around the construction site a few times and told the boss that there was a water swallowing beast under the foundation, and there was a dojo on top of the beast suppression, which had been broken. If you want to drive the pile down, you have to remove the Water Swallower, and you can only try it by doing a ritual.

The construction company really broke the bank, and after seven hundred and forty-nine days, the master told the boss that it was done.

If you drive the pile again, you will succeed once, but the master will tell the boss that this water-swallowing beast can't move too far, and it may not be possible to use this building alone, so you have to dig a big fountain in the garden planned in front of the building, otherwise, sooner or later, the water-swallowing beast will make trouble. The boss of the construction company thought in his heart that the house had been repaired, and it had nothing to do with me, so why spend money on repairing the fountain? Now that it has been repaired, it will affect the construction, and the master will be sent away, and the fountain will be put aside.

But in the following month, there was a food poisoning incident in the canteen of the construction team, and although there were no deaths, more than 200 people vomited and diarrhea, and it took a week to delay the resumption of work. Not long after, when the tower crane to the building was upstairs to adjust the cement prefabricated slab, the steel cable broke, and the prefabricated slab fell from mid-air, causing a major accident with one death and two injuries, and the construction site was suspended for a week.

The boss of the construction unit wanted to cry without tears, so he had to dig and repair the fountain to make it magnificent, extremely luxurious, and a little bit of the style of a European royal garden. The fountain was repaired, not to mention that the strange thing is really gone, the developer saw that the environment had bright spots, and simply began to sell the house, and I don't know whether it was a good time to catch up, or the role of the fountain, the sales of this tower are very hot, the price has risen three times, and the work of a month is still all sold out.

The developer's excitement didn't last long before things came to the door again. A worker drowned in a fountain. It is estimated that it was a hot day during that time, and the workers jumped into the pool to take a shower after work in order to relieve the heat. The pool is only more than half a meter deep, and it is not easy to drown yourself in this pool. When did the drowning workers go down to the pool, when did no one see the drowning, and when the work started in the morning, only to find that there was a person soaking in the fountain, white and fat, and already swollen to the point that no one looked like him.

The police came to see the scene and performed an autopsy. Judging from the degree to which the corpse was soaked and decomposed, it was at least three days old, but the people of the construction team wondered in their hearts, looking at this pool every day, and there was no one in it? Moreover, the workers had all checked in for the past few days, and some people had seen them at work, so how could they have died for a few days?

But since the fountain drowned people came out, the pool has also undergone strange changes, no matter how clean you clean the pool, the water injected into it, at most half a day's work will become turbid, two days later, a thick layer of algae will grow on the water surface, a large piece of green, it makes people panic, but this time, no one dares to approach the fountain anymore.

(Those who are enterprises do not stand; those who cross are not good; those who see themselves are not clear; those who are self-righteous are not promising; those who are self-cutting are not successful; those who are self-conscious are not long.) It is also in the road, saying: surplus food and redundant shape. Objects or evil, so those who have Tao are not placed. --Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )