Chapter 35: The Deserted House
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Of course, the village committee will not be very close to the mass grave where the headless man's corpse was dug up, Dai Xu and Fang Yuan were sweating profusely under the sun, and when they arrived at the village committee, the cadres of the village committee were not too nervous, and they were more or less surprised to see Dai Xu and them understand the situation in the past.
"What's really going on that requires your police to come forward?" A village committee cadre looked at Dai Xu and Fang Yuan in surprise, "We all thought there was nothing wrong, digging out dead people in mass graves, isn't it too normal, if you can't dig up the bones of dead people, it's not called mass graves, is it really someone killed?" ”
"We're still checking to see if there are any male villagers in your village who have suddenly lost contact recently?" Dai Xu asked the village committee cadre, although they can basically conclude that the skull and the headless male corpse found today should be the same deceased, but whether the identity of the deceased is Guan Yongfu or not, this has not been conclusively determined, for the sake of insurance, he still reminded the village committee cadre, hoping to check the situation of the villagers, to confirm whether there is a young man in the village whose whereabouts are suddenly unknown.
"Okay, I'll ask people to go from house to house to ask, and I'll definitely give you an accurate explanation!" When the cadres of the village committee heard this, they did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly beckoned a few people to go out to confirm the situation of the villagers, and then asked Dai Xu, "Then do you have any other instructions?" We've solved it all right away. ”
"I can't talk about the instructions, but I just heard that an old lady in your village has passed away. Left an empty house, something strange happened the other day? Dai Xu asked.
The cadres of the village committee scratched their heads with tears and laughter: "Why have you inquired about this matter!" Oops, that's all. Don't take it seriously, it's all feudal superstition, feudal superstition......"
"No, no, let's not talk about feudal superstition, we do hope that you can tell us the general situation of that incident, the more detailed the better." Dai Xu shook his head and insisted that the other party explain the situation. "No matter how outrageous the rumors are, there is always an original version, right? Can you help us with that? ”
"Well......" The village committee cadres couldn't figure out what Dai Xu wanted to inquire about this matter. I was embarrassed to go back to Dai Xu and ask them about it, so I had to recall it for a while, and then said, "This is what I heard. We have a yard in our village. On the slope of the mountain, there was originally an old lady who lived alone, and then passed away a few years ago, and after the death of the children came back to do the funeral, and then the house has been empty and no one lives, a few mornings ago, someone in the village got up and said that they saw the smoke from the chimney of the house, so they ran to see it. It turned out that the stove had been burned and the furnace was still hot. And said that there is a smell of boiled meat, and then this word spreads, the more it spreads, the more evil it becomes, isn't this just in time for the mass graves where the county has to re-plan, to come and bulldoze the deserted graves without masters, these people are shocked, in fact, I guess there is nothing to do, it is just a pass one, people scare people, if it is really a person who dies and becomes a ghost, they are already ghosts, and they can't eat or drink, and what kind of wood is burned, what kind of meat is cooked, isn't it too funny, don't you say? ”
"You're quite materialistic." Dai Xu smiled and praised the other party.
The cadres of the village committee were very happy to hear this, and their waists straightened up a lot: "Of course, if you don't have a little awareness, how can you work in the village committee, I was also a college graduate back then." ”
"Is there any family in the village for the old lady who died? Why did the house remain deserted and uninhabited after the old man passed away? Fang Yuan also wanted to know more about the situation of that house.
"The old lady has a total of two sons and two daughters, it seems that there was a daughter because of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, the old lady was still gone, and now there are two sons left, a daughter, the people in that family are quite promising, they were all admitted to school, and they were not willing to come back to us after graduating from college, I heard that some are in the city, some are in the field, they are living very well, originally in the early years, I wanted to come back to pick up the old lady to go out to enjoy Qingfu, but the old lady is very stubborn, saying that she is used to living here, and she has been here all her life, When she is old, she can't move away, her children are busy with work, and the children have no one to help take care of them, so she will take care of them, and when she is older, she will take them away when she goes to school, anyway, she would rather live alone than go to the city to live a comfortable life in other places. Her children can't resist her, so she can come as she pleases. In the past, when the old lady was there, the children dragged the family back to see when they were in the New Year's holidays, and they were usually busy, and they didn't come back much, and it turned out that her children of the next generation also came back occasionally, and then it was estimated that they were also older, and they had little time to come back to the village. The old lady usually has a bad temper, and the people in the village are not very willing to move around, and then passed away and people are dead for a long time before being discovered, finally contacted her children, her children came to deal with it, looking for a car to pull to the city to activate, the aftermath is also to go to the city to do, it is estimated that the family conditions are not bad, this house in the village, no one wants to want, the old lady did not leave anything else, the broken house can not be sold at a price, so it was thrown there, no one has been to live, until recently, It was rumored to be haunted again. ”
"Hasn't the old lady's children come back to deal with that house lately? Or has anyone else been in that house? Fang Yuan asked.
The cadre of the village committee shook his head: "No, anyway, I haven't heard of her child coming back, if she comes back, who are the people in our village, who usually look down and don't look up, even if there is no contact, they all know each other and can talk, the old lady's daughter has been away from the village for many years, and if any of them come back, someone will definitely notice, I'll tell you so, the more we have a village, the more people can't hide the living." It is even more impossible for the people in the village, to tell you the truth, many people in our village are still quite superstitious, and the children are all told by the adults in the family. said that he must not go to that house, and he felt that the old lady had not been found out after a long time of death, and he was frustrated. Therefore, children generally rarely run anywhere. ”
"Do you guys usually rest early at night?" Dai Xu asked suddenly.
The village committee cadres were a little unaccustomed to him jumping so much, nodded, and said with a little blank expression: "Ah, yes, we don't have anything to do here at night, and we all go home separately after dark." Watching TV, at eight or nine o'clock I basically went to bed, because I had to get up early in the morning to work the next day. It's not like the city, it's a night owl, and people here are used to going to bed early and waking up early. ”
"Then if someone comes to the village at night, it won't be easy to be discovered, right?" Fang Yuan understood Dai Xu's intention in asking that question. So I followed this question. Further confirm with the village committee officials.
When the cadres of the village committee heard her say this, they also understood: "That's true, I slept at night, and the outside was also black, unless there was a big movement, otherwise it was estimated that it would not be easy to be noticed." Do you mean that someone might come at night and go to the broken house left by the old lady to burn wood and light a fire? Does that have anything to do with the digging up of dead people over there today? ”
"It's not certain yet. Can you show us the house? Dai Xu asked.
The village committee cadre nodded: "Okay, that house is a deserted place anyway." Whoever goes, then I'll take you over to have a look, that house is probably quite dirty, you two have to be mentally prepared. ”
Dai Xu nodded, and the two of them followed the village committee cadres towards the old house where the old lady lived before her death. The distance from the village committee to the old house is not too far, but because the house is in the middle of the mountain, the small hillside is not high, but there is no road to go up, the hillside is overgrown with weeds in summer, and it has rained before, and the soil under the grass is also relatively slippery, although Fang Yuan is wearing a pair of sneakers, he still walks carefully, and there are two times when he almost slipped under his feet and shook his mouth to gnaw mud, fortunately, Dai Xu was next to him, and pulled her when she almost slipped, which finally allowed her to avoid embarrassment.
"That old man used to live here alone?" Fang Yuan climbed the slope and gasped slightly, she looked at the lonely small courtyard located about ten meters away in front of her, as well as the surrounding wasteland, and asked the village committee cadres with some surprise, "Can she go up and down the slope alone?" It's a lot of work to walk, but is there anything else that's easier to walk? ”
"No, just this way, the old lady was in good health when she was alive, and you may not be used to it, just get used to it, in fact, there is no special trouble up and down. But later, after the old lady's health was not very good, she went out less often, and if she wanted to buy something, she usually called the store, anyway, everyone knew who, and she would send it to her, and she would wait at home. The village committee cadre said.
Fang Yuan nodded, her question, on the one hand, was indeed curious about how the old lady who lived here before came in and out, on the other hand, and the most important thing, she wanted to confirm whether there was any other way up, after all, judging from the road they walked up to just now, although it was a little gasping for breath when they walked up, it was not too difficult, the car would never be able to get up, if it was carrying or dragging a heavy corpse, even if it was a person with a good body, I am afraid it would be more difficult. However, she took these questions to heart, and did not say them in front of the village committee cadres, after all, the village committee cadres were people in the village, Fang Yuan didn't know if he had a good relationship with someone, the headless male corpse was found in this village, if it did belong to the same person as the previous skull, and he was killed here, I don't know if it had anything to do with this village, in this case, there was no harm in keeping an eye on it, so as not to cause trouble for the investigation later.
Finally walked to the gate of the courtyard, the courtyard door is open, there is a rusty iron chain hanging on it, it seems that this iron chain was originally used to lock the hospital door, but now there is not even a lock on it, and there is an obvious gap between the two doors, if you are a thinner person, you can go directly into it without pushing the door, and the yard is similar to the outside, and it is also a wild grass.
The village committee cadre was just about to go inside, but Dai Xu stopped him and handed him a pair of shoe covers and gloves: "For the sake of insurance, let's equip all the equipment first." ”
The village committee cadre nodded a little excitedly, he was just a man in his thirties, it is estimated that he had only seen a police officer on TV or news programs before, and he had never seen it with his own eyes, especially now, he himself was also required to wear shoe covers and gloves, as if he was involved in it, so he couldn't help but feel a little nervous and excited.
Dai Xu and Fang Yuan didn't have the heart to get excited, for them, this house was probably related to this headless murder case, so what they had to do now was nothing more than to find direct and conclusive evidence, and make sure that this was the first scene they were looking for, and then they could notify others to come over and investigate.
The three of them walked through the small overgrown courtyard, and the village committee cadres were not very familiar with this house, so he leaned over the dusty glass window and looked inside, and then tried to reach out and pull the door, the door was tight, and could not be opened, and the village committee cadres were also a little dazed, muttering: "No, who came in to see it before, and said that the hearth was hot, and the door was locked, how did he get in?" ”
"Does this house have a backyard, a back door, or something?" Dai Xu thought of this kind of ping. The house generally has a front yard and a back yard, naturally there is a back door, and some people's front and back yards can be connected from the outside of the house.
The cadre of the village committee patted his head: "Yes, yes, yes!" Isn't there a backyard and a back door? Look at my head, how did I forget this stubble! Let's go, I'll take you around! ”
The three of them went around the front yard to the back yard from a narrow path on one side of the house, which was open to one person, and the situation in the backyard was similar to that of the front yard, overgrown with weeds, and there were large spider webs hanging under the eaves, and a huge black spider was entrenched in the web, waiting quietly for its delicious meal to hit the door.
The village committee officials walked to the back door, stretched out their hands and pulled it, and the wooden door creaked open, and the door was directly opposite the kitchen, which was also the place they wanted to check the most.
"I'm not going in, I'm standing at the door!" The village committee cadres said very materialistically before, but when they really arrived at the door of the house, they didn't know whether they were afraid of rumors or afraid that people had been killed here before, so some of them were afraid to go in.
Dai Xu nodded, not embarrassed him, let him wait there, and he and Fang Yuan walked into the back door. (To be continued......)