Guming Town is a small town in Qingcheng County, the population of the town is not large, and the place is not large, and the radius is only a dozen miles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because the town has always retained some customs handed down by the older generation, plus some old concepts that are very incompatible with today's young people. Therefore, many young people in the town nowadays yearn for a life outside the city. Most of the young people in the town took the opportunity to go to the bigger cities outside and see the world outside. Even if some of the remaining young people who have poor academic performance and have not been able to continue their studies, they will not choose to stay in the old-fashioned town of Guming.

Young and frivolous, ambitious, with a fiery heart, bravely chasing his dreams. Of course, to put it bluntly, I would rather go to work outside than stay in my hometown where there is no future to speak of. Chen Xiaoxi, who turns 20 years old this year, is undoubtedly such a young girl.

"Oh oh oh ~ "

In the early morning, after a loud rooster crow, Guming Town ushered in a new day.

The red morning sun slowly rises from the sky, and the old people in the town who are used to getting up early look at the morning sun on the horizon with a happy and satisfied smile on their faces. The sun is the most beautiful in the morning, and it is the only time of the day that does not sting the eyes of the staring.

"Bang Dang~"

"Grandpa, I don't eat breakfast~~"

The door of a man's house in the west of the town was vigorously pulled open from the inside with a bang. Then, a sunny and cheerful girl drove out of the house with a pink and white bicycle.

The girl was wearing a pair of skinny jeans on her lower body, wrapping her straight **** tightly, perfectly modified; A simple white shirt on the upper body outlines her slightly green buds; Under her feet is also a pair of clean white sneakers, which is just right for her to wear today.

"Stinky girl, why are you in a hurry, eat something and then ......"

An old man with slightly gray hair chased after the girl out of the door. The old man was of medium stature, not too fat, but not too thin for his height. Although his face has the marks carved by the years, and his temples are gradually graying, judging from the pace of the old man chasing people out and his energetic voice, it is not difficult to find that the old man's spirit is still very full, and he feels a little old and strong.

Hearing the old man's shout, the girl did not stop. Just turned his back to the old man, raised his hand high, and waved his hand to the old man behind him.

"Ride well and be careful of falling!"

Seeing the girl holding the handlebar with one hand, the old man couldn't help but be anxious again, and reminded loudly in the back.

"Good morning Grandma Zhang~"

"Xiaoxi, go out so early."

"Good morning Grandpa Li~"

"Xiaoxi is also early, ride slowly on the road~"

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On the way out of the town, Chen Xiaoxi warmly greeted the old people in the town who got up early and walked on the side of the street.

Today is a particularly important day for Chen Xiaoxi, because from today onwards, she is truly an adult with a career, and from now on she can live alone and take charge of herself. From then on, she no longer had to live under the same roof with her grandfather and endure his grandfather's nagging all the time. From now on, she will be a happy bird, and the sky will be high for her to fly; It will be a cheerful little fish that can swim all over the world.

Although this job has a probationary period, there is a risk of being brushed down. But Chen Xiaoxi has 100% confidence in herself, and she can be qualified for this dream job - criminal police.

The criminal police, whose full name is the criminal police, do criminal investigation work, analyze and study criminal offenses. Organize and coordinate the investigation of general, major, and extraordinarily large criminal cases: undertake the extraction, inspection, and appraisal of case traces and physical evidence.

For a beautiful girl like Chen Xiaoxi, aspiring to be a criminal policeman is a thing that is difficult for many outsiders to understand. At her age, there are many young people who are still in the stage of puberty, looking forward to the beautiful taste of first love and forbidden fruit, or still chasing various idol groups, singers and movie stars. But Chen Xiaoxi matured early. Many of the good things that should be enjoyed at her age were forcibly left behind by her.

The reason why Chen Xiaoxi chose a career like a criminal police officer started when she was only eight years old. That is, twelve years ago, she met Li Shan.

On that day, Chen Xiaoxi took the strange sister named Li Shan to his house for the night. But when she woke up again, seven days had passed since that night.

Chen Xiaoxi remembered that she was woken up by her grandfather, and when she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was her grandfather's cloudy eyes soaked with tears. Even though his grandfather tried his best to hide it at that time, Chen Xiaoxi still remembered his grandfather's expression at that time with great impress. Behind his excited smile, he couldn't hide the tiredness and fear on his grandfather's face at that time.

After waking up, Chen Xiaoxi's body was very weak for a while, and his body always had inexplicable chills, which lasted for a long time. By the time her body really improved and she was able to walk around on the ground, it was already a month after the day she met Li Shan. When Chen Xiaoxi went out again, he heard a lot about what happened that night.

That night, Grandpa Zhang, who was on the watch, passed away. When Chen Xiaoxi woke up, Grandpa Zhang's coffin was set up in the courtyard of her house. I heard others say that the reason why Grandpa Zhang's coffin was placed in her home was because her grandfather insisted on asking for it. said that she would have to keep a vigil in her yard for 7749 days before she could mourn.

As for things like stopping the coffin and keeping the spirit, it is very taboo in the eyes of many people. In the eyes of the older generation, in the eyes of their generation, it has always been the dead who are the greatest, and they should be buried as soon as possible to be safe.

However, Chen Xiaoxi's grandfather insisted on stopping the coffin and keeping the vigil for 7749 days, which made many people in the town not understand. But Grandpa is an old man in the town, and he is the oldest in the age, and the people in the town don't dare to disobey Grandpa.

Grandpa Zhang's wife, Grandma Zhang, also had an argument with Grandpa about this matter, but after Grandpa and her two of them said something mysteriously, Grandma Zhang stopped making trouble.

Regarding the cause of Grandpa Zhang's death, the people in the town also have different opinions. After all, it has been a long, long time since there has been such a sudden death in Gu Ming Town, and perhaps since the day Gu Ming Town was born, such a bizarre death has not happened.

Speaking of the birth, old age, sickness and death of people, Guming Town is also a very surprising town. Because people who were born and raised in Guming Town are often able to live a long life, even if they come to the end of their lives, the old people in Guming Town have all died of natural causes, and there has never been any other situation.

It is because the people in Guming Town have been like this for hundreds of years. In the eyes of many people in other places in the city, Guming Town is a blessed land. There used to be many people who wanted to become people in the town through various methods, but in the end, only those who came to the town in a normal marriage could get the same blessings as the old people of Guming Town. Anyone who comes here with selfish interests in mind will not stay in the town for long and will leave for various reasons.

After a long time, those who once had ulterior motives gave up the idea of living in Guming Town through improper means.

So for so many years, a situation like Grandpa Zhang's sudden death without warning is definitely a bizarre thing in Guming Town.

The place of death of Grandpa Zhang, who played the watch, also made Chen Xiaoxi puzzled all the time. According to people in the town, Grandpa Zhang's body fell on the street not far from her house. But Chen Xiaoxi clearly remembered that the night she met Li Shan, she went out to find Grandpa Zhang to play with him. But at that time, she searched for a long time and didn't find Grandpa Zhang, and there was no one on the streets of the town. After that, she met Li Shan.

After knowing that Grandpa Zhang died in front of his house, Chen Xiaoxi once asked her grandfather. Grandpa just nodded lightly, acquiescing to the statement that Grandpa Zhang died in front of his house.

Later, Chen Xiaoxi asked her grandfather if he had seen Sister Li Shan at home when he came back. However, her grandfather told her that no outsiders had ever been in the house. At first, Chen Xiaoxi thought that it might be that when her grandfather came back the next day, Sister Li Shan had already left first. Maybe the two happened to miss it. But her grandfather told her that when people are sick, it is easy to have some strange dreams, which are all cranky in her mind when she is sick, and there is no such person as Li Shan.

On the day of Grandpa Zhang's funeral. Because Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang have no children under their knees, it is even more impossible to have a third generation. Therefore, Chen Xiaoxi accompanied Grandma Zhang to wear linen and filial piety together, acting as a filial son and grandson.

The night before the funeral, only Chen Xiaoxi was the only one to keep a vigil for Grandpa Zhang, originally according to the convention, Grandpa Zhang's boss Grandma Zhang also had to keep vigil with him, but that night, Grandma Zhang did not come. Later, Chen Xiaoxi learned that she was asked to keep the spirit alone, which was also arranged by her grandfather himself, as for the reason, her grandfather did not tell her about it.

On the night of the wake, eight-year-old Chen Xiaoxi always had the illusion that the sky above her yard was clearer than the sky above other homes in the town. She looked up at the stars and moon in the sky from her yard, and it was brighter and more dazzling than through the sky above other people's homes.

In the early hours of the night, Chen Xiaoxi's grandfather rang the gong in his yard. In a trance, on the top of Grandpa Zhang's coffin, Chen Xiaoxi seemed to see Grandpa Zhang's figure. The old man still had a kind and doting smile on his face as he did on weekdays. After glancing at her again, Grandpa Zhang's figure turned his head and nodded to Grandpa, and then slowly flew up into the clear night sky along the starlight sprinkled by the stars in the night sky.

Chen Xiaoxi, who has grown up now, occasionally remembers the scene of Grandpa Zhang flying into the night sky along the starlight that night. But now, she can't be sure that she really saw Grandpa Zhang fly into the sky at that time. Or because she was keeping a wake for Grandpa Zhang, she missed Grandpa Zhang's kindness to her in the past, so she sketched the sustenance of happiness in her mind.

At the funeral the next day, Chen Xiaoxi accidentally heard strange words from people in the town who attended Grandpa Zhang's funeral.

said that Grandpa Zhang's body was the first to be found by her grandfather. Moreover, those who saw Grandpa Zhang's body that day were frightened. It is said that Grandpa Zhang's face at that time was blue and bleeding. A pair of eyes that used to be muddy and have been narrowed into a slit, but after death, they opened as big as a copper bell. His eyes were also filled with crimson blood. Except for the hideousness of his face, Grandpa Zhang's body was extremely pale, so thin that only skin and bones remained, as if the blood on his body had been drained and dried.

The appearance of death can be described as terrifying and bizarre. Even in the days when Grandpa Zhang just died, people in the town once speculated that the real cause of Grandpa Zhang's death was because he was killed by evil spirits and was sucked dry of his blood and essence to death.

It was also from that day that no one in Guming Town dared to go out at night anymore. No one even wants to do even the work of the shift. In the end, the work of the watch had to fall to Chen Xiaoxi's grandfather. Also from that day on, Chen Xiaoxi's grandfather has never left Guming Town.

However, it may be because he has not seen the appearance of Grandpa Zhang after his death that day, unlike most people in the town who guess the cause of Grandpa Zhang's death, Chen Xiaoxi is even more strange about his grandfather.

Because according to Chen Xiaoxi's past impression, her grandfather went out in the past, and it took several days to come back every time. It can be as little as two or three days, as much as seven or eight days. In her memory, her grandfather had never gone out that day and came back that night.

After Grandpa Zhang's burial, the rumors in the town about Grandpa Zhang's death by a powerful ghost began to be slowly forgotten.

But what no one knew was that after that day, Chen Xiaoxi could suddenly see a red lantern hanging on the archway at the entrance of Guming Town. The red lantern just hangs there quietly during the day, but at night, the red lantern lights up on its own. But on such a high archway, no one in the town can go up and light the lamp. What's even more bizarre is that the red lantern on the archway at the entrance of the town seems to be invisible to no one except her. Every time he sees the red lantern hanging on the archway at the entrance of the town, Chen Xiaoxi will think of Li Shan. In the dream, Li Shan kept sobbing softly in front of her, telling her that she wanted to go home......

Although twelve years have passed. However, whether it was the cause of Grandpa Zhang's death, or whether Sister Li Shan had ever been at home that night, or why her grandfather had uncharacteristically returned to Guming Town that night. In Chen Xiaoxi's young heart, he left a memory that was difficult to let go.

Perhaps it is precisely because of some fragmented and vague memories of her childhood that Chen Xiaoxi has since then, whenever she encounters something suspicious, she always likes to get to the bottom of it until the matter is revealed. After a long time, it became a habit, and after that, she was admitted to the police academy, and the police became the profession she wanted to pursue the most. (To be continued.) )