Chapter 006: The Strange Old Well
When Captain Wang entered the door, the distant relatives of Zhang Fugui's family who were keeping vigil were still sleeping in the mourning hall.
So when Captain Wang woke them up and asked where the corpses were, several people opened their eyelids sleepily and looked confused.
The body is missing?
"You slept in this room last night and didn't leave?" Captain Wang asked, staring at the few people in the mourning hall.
"Except for going to the toilet, a few of us were in this room last night, and we didn't hear any movement at all, Captain Wang." One of them replied with a little nervousness.
"Mother's legs, which of the eight lambs did this immoral thing, people were killed, the money was taken, what are you doing stealing corpses, are you psychopathic?"
When the village chief saw this scene, he couldn't help but scold.
The villagers began to discuss, and Captain Wang carefully searched for something along the path that led to the door of the spiritual bed.
"Captain, did you find anything?" The policeman named Xiao Chen asked.
Captain Wang said: "After a person dies, the corpse will be more difficult to move than before death, especially the person named Zhang Fugui, who weighs at least 80 kilograms, and it is impossible for a normal person to drag his corpse away without leaving traces." But the problem is that there are no traces of dragging the corpse on the ground, and there is no trace of a car rolling at the door, in other words, the person who stole the corpse did not use external means of transportation, so there are only two possibilities left, either the murderer's strength is much greater than that of ordinary people, or the murderer is more than one person, and the body has not been stolen far, and it is even in the village. ”
As soon as Captain Wang's words fell, the voice of the old bachelor suddenly came from the crowd: "Who said that there are only two possibilities, the murderer is neither a person with great strength, nor a cooperative crime. ”
The old bachelor's words made Captain Wang frown, as a policeman, he was refuted by the onlookers in front of everyone, his face was naturally displeased, he looked at the old bachelor in the crowd, and asked the village chief: "Who is this?" ”
"Captain Wang doesn't know, the people in our village call him an old bachelor, he used to learn a little fur from a Maoshan Taoist priest, and he loves to show off, and then he was criticized when he broke the four olds, and there was a problem with his brain, and the rumor that the fox fairy killed people was spread by him." After explaining to Captain Wang with an embarrassed face, the village chief looked at the old bachelor and shouted: "Old bachelor, Captain Wang is investigating the case, and you came to make trouble early in the morning when you were full?" ”
"I'm just telling the truth." The old bachelor was not convinced.
"Tell me the truth?" The village chief said with a straight face. "Last time you said that it was a fox fairy who killed someone, then let me ask you, what did a beast do when it stole the 200,000? And you swore yesterday that someone was going to die at night, and today everyone is fine? ”
The old bachelor was speechless for a while when asked by the village chief's words, and he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks and said: "In short, the corpses of Zhang Fugui's whole family were not moved away by powerful people, nor were they moved by several people in partnership. ”
"Could it be that they ran away on their own?" The corners of Captain Wang's mouth also showed a hint of banter.
Everyone laughed, but the old bachelor looked at Captain Wang with wide eyes and exclaimed, "Wow, you are not simple, you are right!" ”
Everyone laughed again, the village chief looked embarrassed, and was about to scold, but Captain Wang stopped him, looked at the old bachelor and asked, "You said that Zhang Fugui's family left by themselves, so did you see where they went?" ”
"Naturally, I saw it with my own eyes, last night I saw their family of three walking towards the head of the village, and then with a poof, jumped into the old well." The old bachelor was serious.
"Okay, then let's go to the old well at the head of the village." Captain Wang said.
When the village chief saw that there was a joke, he said: "Captain Wang, you don't have to deal with this neurotic, he has a bad brain, what are you doing with his general knowledge?" ”
The village chief thought that Captain Wang was on a par with the old bachelor, so he persuaded him bitterly, but Captain Wang didn't listen, and walked to the old well at the head of the village by himself, and the villagers followed behind and waited to see the joke, and pulled the old bachelor to prevent him from slipping away.
Captain Wang arrived at the old well, opened the branches and looked into the old well, who knew that the smile on his face instantly froze, and then became more and more ugly.
"Captain Wang?" Seeing Captain Wang's strange face, the village chief also poked his head out to look at the old well.
I saw that there were three corpses floating in the old well at this time, and it was clearly Zhang Fugui's family of three!
"Go home and copy the guys, and catch the people first, it's really a sin, and you won't be at peace even if you die." The village chief instructed everyone while looking at the old bachelor with a strange expression.
I leaned next to the old bachelor and whispered, "Old bachelor, did you really see Zhang Fugui's family of three jumping into the old well by themselves last night?" ”
"Is that still fake? They just jumped in with their front feet, and you followed with your back feet, and if I hadn't stopped you, you would have been floating in the well by now. The old bachelor said in a low voice.
"Then why didn't you say it last night?" The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and last night I woke up from the well, and I didn't dare to look down at the old well.
"You didn't ask!" The old bachelor said angrily.
After Zhang Fugui's family was wiped out, there was such a trouble, and the village chief was afraid that there would be another incident in the village, so he discussed with several distant relatives of Zhang Fugui and buried Zhang Fugui's family this afternoon.
After the reform and opening up, many bad habits in the mountains have changed, and the rule of burial in seven days has been changed to three days, otherwise you can smell the smell of corpses in three or five days when you catch up with the hot Futian.
As for the people who died in vain, they can be buried the next day, Zhang Fugui's distant relatives are looking at Zhang Fugui's 200,000, so they want to follow the normal process to complete the three days, and now the village chief has proposed to bury in advance, and they readily agree.
However, Zhang Fugui's distant relatives are unwilling to pay for cremation, let alone the money to buy a coffin, this year, a coffin has to be thousands of yuan, even the coffin in the mountains is valuable, Zhang Fugui's distant relatives are not out, others are even more reluctant to come out, so Zhang Fugui's family was wrapped in a straw mat and hurriedly put into the ground.
When Zhang Fugui's family was buried, Captain Wang stood next to me, he looked at the villagers who helped with the burial and said to me: "College student, I see that your eyes are red, I'm afraid you didn't sleep well last night." ”
I was shocked, didn't dare to show any abnormality, and said, "It's a little insomnia." ”
Captain Wang said: "The old bachelor said that Zhang Fugui's family of three walked into the well by themselves last night, what do you think?" ”
I glanced at Captain Wang in surprise, hesitated for a moment and said: "To be honest, although I have lived in the mountains since I was a child, I have always been an atheist, and I don't believe much in ghosts and gods, but what happened recently has shaken my faith for many years, and a series of things that have happened since Zhang Fugui killed the white fox are too strange." ”
I didn't mention to Captain Wang that I dreamed of a woman in white and almost fell into the well, but continued the topic of Captain Wang and said: "Actually, Captain Wang's speculation today is very correct, under normal circumstances, he can quietly move Zhang Fugui's family away, either with great strength, or it is a gang crime, but in front of Zhang Fugui's relatives to get people away, I don't think it is possible that there is no movement at all, what is even more strange is that the murderer is simply superfluous, he killed people and robbed money, The medical examiner also did not find any evidence that could indicate who the murderer was, and there was no reason for the other party to move the body again. ”
"So, do you also believe that Zhang Fugui's family walked into the old well by themselves?" Captain Wang asked, squinting his eyes.
I said: "I don't know what to say, it's just that Zhang Fugui's family's behavior is also redundant, they are all dead, there is no need to jump into the well and die again, right?" Unless ......"
"Unless what?"
"Unless there's something wrong with that old well."
I told Captain Wang about the rumors I had heard about the old well when I was a child, and Captain Wang didn't say anything after listening to it, but just told the villagers to inform him immediately if there was any situation, and then left Zhangjiagou with Xiao Chen.
Since I didn't sleep well last night, I quickly fell asleep in bed as soon as it got dark.
Not unexpectedly, I saw the woman in white again in my dream.
In this dream, the woman in white began to pick up my pants without saying a word, and the previous few times I was greedy for beauty and couldn't resist the temptation, but no matter how much I got into my brain, I wouldn't even want my life, so I shook off the hand of the woman in white.
The woman in white asked with a surprised face, "Xianggong, what's wrong with you?" ”
"Xiaobai, why did you hurt me last night? Did you know that I almost fell into a well and died? I asked.
"I never wanted to hurt you, I really wanted to give you the cash box last night." The woman in white said aggrievedly.
"Did you throw the money box in the well and let me go down and pick it up? If it hadn't been for the old man stopping me, I'd be dead by now! I was a little angry.
"It's not what you see." The woman in white shook her head and said.
"Then I ask you, who are you, or are you human?" I asked.
The woman in white frowned slightly, looking down at me, and I continued to ask, "Are you the white fox that was killed?" ”
Seeing the woman in white shaking her head, I breathed a sigh of relief, but even if she wasn't the white fox, she was definitely not human, so I hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't come to me in the future, I'm afraid." ”
After saying that, the eyes of the woman in white suddenly became extremely cold, and I was so frightened that I woke up from my sleep screaming in horror, and what made me even more frightened was that I was standing next to the old well at the head of the village at this moment!
The moonlight was shining, and I looked at the calm surface of the well, and beneath the water, a pair of huge eyes were staring at me.