Chapter 5: Dead Corpses
"Everyone worked hard last year, and our ranking on ChinaRank has also improved greatly, and I am very proud to have employees like you. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 His words were met with applause.
"Mr. Zhen, we are doing so well, are there any rewards?" Cui Minghan followed behind to fight for everyone's welfare.
"It's good to double the year-end bonus." Zhen Shuhan is refreshing.
"I was thinking that now that spring is beginning and the weather is good, it is better to organize a staff trip, so that everyone can relax and team building by the way."
"You still have a lot of ideas," Zhen Shuhan nodded appreciatively, "Then it's decided, without affecting work, everyone can enjoy this publicly-funded trip." ”
So on a sunny spring weekend, Wu Xi and his entourage came to Meizhen, which is known as the water town of Jiangnan, which is not only a famous tourist attraction, but also the hometown of Zhen Shuhan, and it is said that his family's ancestral home is located in the southwest corner of Meizhen. Zhen Shuhan also followed them to his hometown, because it was Qingming soon, and he needed to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors according to the custom.
The beauty of Meizhen lies in its subtle elegance, the old courtyards of deep houses, lingering with a long historical heritage, the chic and quiet bridge, with the rippling blue water under the bridge, outlining a simple and neat picture, the tranquility is a little gorgeous, and the delicacy is inevitably a little more majestic, it did not disappoint Wu Xi, from the moment she stepped on it, her mood became extremely excited and excited, and she fell hopelessly in love with this Jiangnan town.
Because they came out to travel in batches, there were not many people who came this time, and after everyone put their luggage in the hotel, they began to come out in groups to visit.
Wu Xi didn't want to disturb Ding Ding and Xiaofei alone, so she walked to the river alone, ready to rent a canopy boat to walk around, she bent down and bargained with the boatman, but he spoke in dialect, and she didn't understand it very well.
"Five hundred yuan, I've covered this boat, you can make us a pot of tea, and then sing a few songs about that little song, okay?" Cui Minghan walked over from nowhere.
"Okay, all as you tell me." The boatman's Mandarin suddenly became numb, he stretched out his hand to pick up Wu Xi and the two of them to the boat, and then with a pole, he sailed towards the middle of the blue waves.
"Sure enough, there is money that can make ghosts grind, I bargained with him here for a long time, and people just don't understand what I'm saying."
"To come here is to enjoy the tranquility, you negotiate the price with him, and he pulls a few more people up, what is there to be clean." Cui Minghan handed her a cup of tea, and the two of them looked at the clear river with their cheeks on their cheeks, and they were speechless for a while.
The boatman suddenly sang a melodious tune, and his desolate voice floated on the river, making people suddenly feel a little desolate.
"Hey, why are you listening to such a sad tune when you come out to play, change it, and have a ninety-nine daughter red." Cui Minghan shouted at the bow of the boat.
"Listen to you." The boatman answered, and turned to "Ninety-nine daughter red, eighteen years of lovesickness are all in the ......"
Wu Xi was amused by this song that did not fit the mood at all, and she laughed while picking up a handful of water and sprinkling it on the opposite bank. At this moment, a small boat and their canopy boat passed by, and the water in Wu Xi's hand sprinkled the person who supported the boat, "I'm sorry," she quickly apologized to the person, but the person didn't even turn his head, and rowed away by himself holding the boat. She looked at the back of the white-clad and white-pants man, and was a little stupid for a while.
"What are you doing?" Cui Minghan shook his hand in front of her eyes.
She pointed to the boat that had gone away, "Look, one person, one rod and one boat, isn't it very meaningful." ”
"It might be more appropriate to say that pretending to be bility."
Dinner was eaten in a restaurant with local characteristics by the river, Zhen Shuhan also specially brought three white wines to them to cheer up, a group of people chatted while eating, drank high, and began to laugh and dance again, having fun.
Unconsciously late at night, Wu Xi felt a little dizzy, so he walked to the river, wanting to blow the night breeze to sober himself up. The river was dark, quiet and frightening, in stark contrast to the scene of singing and dancing behind her. A gust of wind blew, Wu Xi wrapped her clothes a little tighter, although it was spring, but the chill in the wind had not disappeared, and her goosebumps were hooked out. She was just about to return to her seat to drink a sip of wine to warm up, but found a white shadow standing on the opposite riverbank, a pair of ink-like eyes swept towards her, Wu Xi rubbed her eyes, looked at the white shadow again, and found that the person had disappeared, and there was only a willow tree where he was, waving its branches in a chic manner.
"Why did he disappear in an instant, and why did he look so familiar?" Wu Xi scratched his head, could it be that he drank too much and had an illusion in front of him?
"Xixi, come here, everyone at this table is waiting for you to drink." Ding Ding called her impatiently, and Wu Xi agreed and was about to return to the banquet, but at this moment, she found that under the stone steps leading to the river, there was something, which was covered with aquatic weeds, and was rhythmically hitting the steps with the waves.
Wu Xi's feet did not obey and walked down the stone steps with her, she looked carefully at the thing that was tightly wrapped in water and grass, what is this? Is it a piece of wood? Is wood so white?
She suddenly stepped back, but was blocked by the steps and fell to the ground, this is not wood, of course not, in the gap of the water and grass, a pale human face was revealed, her eyelids were clinging to the eyeballs, it looked dry, and her black eyes widened, as if peeking at her face from inside.
"Dead Man...... There are dead people here......" Wu Xi climbed the steps with his hands and feet, shouting at the crowd.
"It looks like it's been dead for a long time, and the skin has fallen off several layers." The policeman recorded while talking, hearing this, Wu Xi was sick to her stomach again, she instinctively rushed to the river and wanted to vomit, but she retreated halfway through, and forcibly suppressed the nausea. She didn't want to see the river now, but the thought of a highly decomposed corpse beneath the clear bottom of the water made her feel like she was in a diaphragm.
"What is the cause of death?" She stroked her chest and didn't forget to ask the police one more question.
"This is the strangest part, it is said that if a person soaks in water for so long, the corpse should swell, but this one is the opposite, and there is only a layer of skin attached to the whole bone, as if the flesh and blood on the whole body have been sucked away by something."
I see, no wonder she always thinks those eyes are weird, it turns out that she is already a dead corpse.
"Did you find out who she was?"
The police ignored her, and he walked up to Zhen Shuhan's side, "Mr. Zhen, do you think she will be the missing Liang's mother?" ”