Wang Jianguo set up the temporary headquarters in the original village committee of Baihu Village, which is a rare brick house in this village. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info: According to Wang Jianguo, it was built by a villager who went out to work in the village at that time and donated it to the village committee after earning money.

"Is this man dead?" I asked

Wang Jianguo shook his head, since the Public Security Bureau intervened in the Baihu Village incident, this villager has never appeared again.

We didn't rush to see Xu Wufu, because I think we would also learn something valuable from Wang Jianguo's mouth.

At this time, Bai Ling said to me and Wang Jianguo that he wanted to go to the house where Xiaofei and they stayed to have a look, and when he heard Bai Ling's thoughts, Wang Jianguo looked embarrassed again, he looked at his watch, and it was already more than four o'clock.

"Assistant Bai, don't go today, it's almost dark, let's go together tomorrow morning."

Bai Ling looked at me with firm eyes, and I understood her intentions. I also understand Wang Jianguo's thoughts, because he still has a fear of this village in his heart.

"There is still at least more than an hour before sunset, why don't you ask someone to take Bai Ling to take a look, it's not safe to see her." I said to Wang Jianguo.

Wu Hao, who was on the side, stepped forward and said, "Team Wang, I'll take Assistant Bai with me, you can rest assured that it will be fine." ”

Although Wang Jianguo was reluctant, he had no way to refuse, he wanted Wu Hao to lead Bai Ling to him, and he still had a snack.

Bai Ling and Wu Hao left, Wang Jianguo and I sat on the bench in the house, I looked around the room, although it was simply cleaned up, there was still an indescribable desolate taste.

Wang Jianguo brought two bottles of mineral water, and then sat in front of me, I took out a cigarette and handed him one, Wang Jianguo lit a cigarette and took two deep breaths, unscrewed the mineral water and drank a big sip, Wang Jianguo stabilized his mind and told me a past that he didn't want to recall in his life.

Wang Jianguo was in his thirties that year and had just been transferred to work in the criminal police team.

When he was working in Changling Township before, he also went to Baihu Village several times a year, and most of his work was household registration statistics, and the first two years were normal, until a few years later, he found that the high mortality rate in this village was a bit terrible. Because when he first went to 100 villages to count household registration, the number of people registered in the household was 352, by the second year it was 295, and in the third year it was 238・・・・・・

Until the time when Wang Jianguo was transferred to the county criminal police team, the number of registered people in Baihu Village was 122, and Wang Jianguo counted at that time that 36 people in Baihu Village had moved to other places or married to other places, and the remaining dozens of people still lived in the village. Wang Jianguo actually secretly doubted, this is too unusual, in a few years, more than 200 people died in a village, of which very few died, and the reported causes of death were almost all sudden diseases, accidents, for a while this village was really like being cursed by death, and people died one after another. One or two similar things happening at the same time is called a coincidence, and it is no longer a coincidence that coincidental things always happen.

Wang Jianguo said that during this period, he also heard some rumors, saying that the ghost was revenge, and that it was the people of Baihu Village who angered the mountain god and were punished, etc., but Wang Jianguo, as a policeman, did not believe it. But it's hard to explain what happened.

After all, Wang Jianguo was only a household registration policeman at the time, and although there were many people who died of sudden illness or accidents in Baihu Village, there were no reports from the villagers, and there were no signs of homicide, so this matter was not taken seriously. Until one day・・・・・・

That year was when Wang Jianguo had just been transferred to the criminal police team for more than a month, and the appearance of a reporter broke the dusty silence of Baihu Village, and this reporter was Xu Wufu back then.

I remember that it was also raining that day, a man in a shabby earth-gray tunic stood in front of the door of the Changling Township Government, it was raining that day, the rain was not heavy, but he did not bring an umbrella, and dozens of miles of mountain roads made him covered in mud.

At that time, the director of the township police station knew Xu Wufu, but the events and strange rumors that had happened in Baihu Village over the years made the people nearby have some lingering feelings about the people and things in Baihu Village. When the director saw Wufu appearing like this, he knew that something must have happened again.

Xu Wufu is the youngest child of the Xu family, he has three brothers and one sister, the elder sister married to the village a few years ago, but I didn't expect to die of a heart attack last year, the eldest brother and the second brother of the three brothers are married, but there are no children, the third brother and he are still singles.

The Xu family did not escape this terrible "curse", the first to have an accident was his two sisters-in-law, the sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law went to the back mountain to dig wild vegetables last autumn, who knew that the sister-in-law accidentally slipped and fell down when digging vegetables, originally this mountain nest was not much high, unfortunately a broken tree root split the sharp tip just pierced the sister-in-law's chest, the sister-in-law was nailed to the tree, the second sister-in-law wanted to pull the sister-in-law with her hands, but she didn't expect that somehow it was also a slip, and fell face down, as a result, both of them were pierced through the body, died together, and a day later, someone found the bodies of the two and hurriedly went back to report to the Xu family.

This kind of accident is not the first time in Baihu Village, the village committee still "symbolically" reported to the police, and after the police came, the case was unexpectedly closed as an accidental death through on-site investigation.

If this kind of bizarre murder was in other places, it should be considered a more sensational event, but this happened in Baihu Village, this kind of thing is not too unusual, just a few years ago in Baihu Village, there was a strong young man in his own courtyard, his head was drowned in a bucket. Later, it was determined that the man wanted to drink water after drinking a lot of alcohol because his family was dead, so he stuck his head in a bucket to drink water, and because he drank too much alcohol and was unconscious, he drowned......

This time, it was Xu Wufu who came to report the case, not someone from the village government, for two reasons, the first is that Xu Wufu's two elder brothers died, and the second is that the village head Zhang Fugui died three days ago due to sudden cerebral congestion.

After receiving Xu Wufu's report, the township police station knew that this was another "seeming" suicide case, but a small township police station did not dare to delay such a case, and immediately called and reported to the county public security bureau, and then the county criminal police team came to the township, and Wang Jianguo also returned here again after being promoted to criminal police.

Through inquiry, the suicide process of Wufu's two elder brothers is as follows......

This day is the anniversary of the death of the two sisters-in-law, and if the eldest brother and the second brother burn paper on the grave, it happens that the livestock in the family are sick. I don't know what the reason is during this time, many families in the village are sick, there are already several families of livestock have died, the cow of Wufu's family is the only heavy labor in the family, the eldest brother did not let Wufu follow to the grave, but let him lead the cow to the neighboring village Zhao veterinarian's house to see the cow, in the morning just dawn Wufu led the cow to the neighboring village.

Said that it was a neighboring village, Wufu also walked for a morning, and arrived at veterinarian Zhao's house at noon, veterinarian Zhao looked at it, snorted, and Wufu said: "What's wrong with your village, now this beast is all..." Wufu was very grateful, and Veterinarian Zhao still left Wufu to eat at home, because Wufu was his own nephew. After eating, Wufu rushed home in the afternoon.

About six o'clock in the evening, Wufu arrived at home, and after entering the house, he saw Sifu sitting alone on the kang and drinking wine, Wufu asked the eldest brother and the second brother? Sifu took a sip of the wine cup and said: "These two people chattered crookedly when they came back at noon, and when they were eating just now, they quarreled without saying a word, and the second brother went back to the house to sleep, and the eldest brother went out without eating a few bites." Leave them alone, Old Five, what's wrong with the livestock? ”

Wufu knew that since the accident between the two sisters-in-law last year, the eldest brother and the second brother always didn't deal with each other, quarreled at every turn, and even moved their hands twice, which had never happened before. The two brothers didn't take it seriously, Wufu and the fourth brother talked about the livestock, and the two of them drank it.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the two of them were still drinking, and when they heard hurried footsteps outside, Sifu opened the window and saw that it was the eldest brother running into the yard. After entering the door, the brothers saw that the eldest brother's face was pale and panting.

"Big brother, what's wrong?" Wufu asked.

The eldest brother stood by the door, his eyes were hooked, and he didn't seem to hear Wufu's question. Sifu also asked what happened to the eldest brother.

It took a long time for the eldest brother to come to his senses, but his eyes were still foggy, and he only said half a sentence: "I see..." Before the words could be said, the eldest brother suddenly looked back nervously, and his body began to tremble. Seeing this, the two brothers immediately went down to the ground to support the eldest brother, and the two of them helped the eldest brother to the kang together, Wufu called out to the second brother in the next room, because the second brother was a barefoot doctor in the village, although his medical skills were learned from his uncle Zhao Veterinarian.

At this time, the eldest brother began to foam at the mouth, and his body convulsed uncontrollably.

"Big brother, this is sick again, you go to find the second brother." Sifu urged Wufu to find the second brother.

Wufu hurriedly ran to the door of the second brother's room, screaming and banging on the door, but there was no sound in the house. Called for a while Wufu was really anxious, kicked a few feet and finally kicked the door open, the room was dark, Wufu entered the house while shouting, he groped to the wall and pulled the lamp rope, the moment the house lit up, Wufu was frightened "Ah..."

Wufu's legs were weak in an instant, and there was a person hanging on the beam in the house, his eyes had bulged out, his tongue stretched out, and a crooked bench on the ground. The second brother has hanged himself.

Wufu was paralyzed there, his mind was already blank, and it took a few seconds for Sifu's shouts to ease Wufu's senses. Wufu crawled back to his and Sifu's house, and saw Sifu holding the eldest brother's head, the eldest brother was no longer twitching, his eyes were straight, Wufu stepped forward and saw that the eldest brother was already dying, the eldest brother's mouth twitched twice, and two words "retribution" popped out of his mouth.

In this way, Daifuku and Erfu both died, and later after forensic identification, Erfu hanged himself, and Daifuku died of sudden epilepsy.

Sifu was still bolder, he went to Erfu's house and put him down, Erfu's body was already stiff, he should have hanged himself after he went back. Wufu relied on his courage and Sifu to carry the bodies of his two brothers to the ground of the outhouse and cover them with quilts. Sifu said that the second brother was hanged, and the police were called to the police. In this way, the next day, Wufu went to the township police station to call the police, and Sifu guarded the bodies of the two brothers and did not dare to move easily.

When we arrived at the house of Wufu in Baihu Village, we saw that except for a few colleagues from the township police station and the remaining two brothers of the Xu family, no other villagers came to help.

We investigated the scene, and made a record of the two brothers of the Xu family, knowing that the two deceased had quarreled before the incident, but the eldest brother did go out before he died, and later investigated, he went to Ge Zhuang's house in the east of the village to drink, and drank until more than seven o'clock when it was just dark, saying that the fifth should go home, and he was in a hurry to go back and ask what was going on with the livestock.

The second brother just had a meal and the eldest brother quarreled a couple of words and went back to the house, and later confirmed that the second brother's windows and doors were locked, ruling out the possibility of his killing, and confirmed that he committed suicide by hanging.

Wang Jianguo talked about this and said: "Actually, I was still a little suspicious at that time! ”

I nodded and motioned for him to speak.

Xu Dafu came out of Ge Zhuang's house at a little more than seven o'clock, according to the four blessings and five blessings, Xu Dafu arrived home in a hurry at eight o'clock, where did Xu Dafu go after nearly an hour of time difference? What did he do? This is very suspicious.

"And what did you find?" I asked

"We were not given this opportunity, and after the cause of death was determined, the higher authorities ordered the case to be closed with sudden illness and suicide." Wang Jianguo said helplessly.

"Upper?" I said with a helpless smile.

Wang Jianguo nodded.

Footsteps sounded outside, Bai Ling was back!