Xiao Gu'er took a hard puff of his cigarette, sighed, and slowly told his story in a hoarse voice. During the whole process, Chen Zhi did not interrupt him, but listened silently beside him.

Xiao Guer has been a well-known good student in the town since he was a child, and the teachers in the town all said that he was probably the first boy in Wolong Town to be admitted to college. The people in the town are very envious of the old Gu family, there are many girls in the neighborhood who have a crush on him, and the people who come to the door to propose their relatives have broken the threshold of their family.

But Xiao Gu'er has never been moved, he has his own favorite person.

Because Xiao Guer's home is a department store, Xiao Guer has been used to crossing mountains and mountains since he was a child, following his father to various villages in the mountains to collect mountain goods and sell fresh objects in the city.

That year, he was only sixteen years old, because he often traveled to Huxian Village, and often sold girls' belongings. Gradually, he got to know the great-granddaughter of the live fox, Mai Sui'er.

The live fox has a very high reputation in the fox fairy village, this old lady rarely shows up, there are no men in the family, only two granddaughters. Mai Sui'er was her eldest granddaughter, Mai Sui'er was only fifteen or sixteen years old at that time, very cute and beautiful, like a clear spring in the mountain, flowing into Xiao Gu'er's heart.

Xiao Gu'er soon fell in love with her and fell in love with Mai Sui'er. The love of teenagers is pure and sincere. Their relationship is very good, Xiao Gu'er once used the pocket money she had saved for a year to buy a chic platinum bracelet for Mai Sui'er, Mai Sui'er liked it very much, and carried it with her every day.

Mai Sui'er often told Xiao Gu'er mysteriously that they were on good terms, and they must not let the people in the village know that the people of Huxian Village were superstitious and closed, and rarely intermarried with people from other villages, not to mention that she was also the granddaughter of a live fox. If the villagers and her great-grandmother knew about them, it would be a big deal.

Mai Sui'er and her sister died when they were very young, and she could barely remember what her mother looked like, and she never saw her father. Only the great-grandmother took her two sisters to live. But the great-grandmother was usually very serious, and basically lived in the ancestral hall, and usually many people came to her great-grandmother, and the things they did were very mysterious, and the two sisters did not dare to talk to the great-grandmother.

In this way, no one in the village knew about Xiao Gu'er and Mai Sui'er's love, and they often secretly dated in the mountains. Xiao Gu'er thought in his heart that after he was admitted to college, he would have some confidence, so he asked his father to come to Huxian Village to propose marriage.

At that time, no one in Huxian Village had a mobile phone, and the signal in the mountains was also very weak. It happened that Xiao Gu's store had a few mobile phones, and Xiao Gu'er secretly gave Mai Sui'er a very small mobile phone, with a red clamshell. Although the signal in the mountains is not very good, the two of them can often talk.

Later, Xiao Gu'er was nervous about studying before the college entrance examination and didn't go to Huxian Village for several months, but he kept talking to Mai Sui'er on the phone. On the day the results of the college entrance examination were released, he received an acceptance letter from the university at the post office in the town. He ran home excitedly, wanting to be the first to tell Mai Sui'er, but found that Mai Sui'er had not answered the phone, Xiao Gu felt very puzzled, because Mai Sui'er usually carried this phone with him like a baby, and he would answer it as soon as the phone rang, and this time he didn't know what was going on. In the evening, Xiao Gu'er's mobile phone rang suddenly, and Mai Sui'er called. I only heard Mai Sui's son shouting quietly on the phone, "Save me, they want to sacrifice me to the fox fairy" and then heard a loud "bang", Mai Sui'er didn't speak again, only heard her painful breathing, as if she was struggling very hard, and the cry of the fox.

"The cry of a fox? Did you hear me clearly? Chen Zhi interrupted Xiao Gu'er's words, and what he said just now surprised him.

"Hear clearly" Xiao Gu'er nodded and said: "I have been in the mountains all year round, and I know too well what animals call me." When I answered the phone, I didn't realize what was going on, but I heard the rustling of leaves, the sound of running water, and then the breathing of ears of wheat. Later, the faint howl of a fox sounded in the mobile phone. Xiao Gu'er said affirmatively.

Xiao Gu'er sighed and continued, "I was frightened, thinking that something had happened to Mai Sui'er in the mountains, and the next morning, I ran into the mountains, Huxian Village is very far away, and it takes two days to walk the mountain road. When I entered Huxian Village, the villagers told me that Mai Sui'er had a sudden illness and had been dead for more than a month, buried in the back mountain, and would not let me see it. ”

When Xiao Gu'er said this, she lowered her head, and her face seemed to be sad. "I know that the people in the fox fairy village are lying, because I have been talking to Mai Sui'er on the phone before, if Mai Sui'er is dead, then the person who talked to me two days ago is not a ghost?"

"Do you suspect that she is not dead, but is being hidden by the villagers?" Chen Zhi asked.

"I used to think so," Xiao Gu'er whispered. "At that time, in order to find Mai Sui'er, I ventured into the mountains in the middle of the night and hid in Huxian Village for a few days to observe. I found that the people in the fox fairy village have a habit of going to the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village every day when the moon comes up, and they look mysterious.

I quietly followed, hid outside the window and looked in, and saw that all the people in the village were kneeling on the ground and worshipping upwards. Sitting high on the top of the ancestral hall, the one who accepted the worship was Mai Sui'er's great-grandmother, the living fox.

The old lady sat high on it like a god, her face painted with heavy makeup dressed as a ghost, and her hands on her lap motionless, accepting the worship of the villagers. On that old wrist, I saw something shiny, and it turned out to be the bracelet I had given to Mai Sui'er. At that time, I was sure that the old witch must have killed Mai Sui'er. She knew about me and the ears of wheat, so she took the ears of wheat to sacrifice to the fox fairy. Xiao Gu said excitedly and angrily.

"Our villagers here are very superstitious, and the status of live foxes is very high. I wouldn't have turned to the police, I wanted to go to school first and then think about it in the long run. But what I didn't expect was that within a few days, Mai Sui'er's call came again. ”

"What did you say?" Xiao Gu'er's words gave Chen Zhi a great shock, he knew that an educated person like Xiao Gu'er had a certain credibility in speaking.

An incredible expression appeared on Xiao Gu'er's face, and said: A few days later, in the middle of the night, Mai Sui'er's call came again. I was scared at first, but I took it anyway. There was still no one on the other side of the phone, only the sound of heavy breathing."

"The sound of breathing? Do you think the breath came from the ears of wheat? Chen Zhi asked.

"Yes, Xiao Gu'er nodded", I am very familiar with the sound of Mai Sui'er's breathing, I will never hear it wrong, it must be her who called. In this way, the phone often rang in the middle of the night, and it was not until the end of last year that Mai Sui'er's phone did not call. I checked, except for me who intermittently renewed her phone bill a few times, her phone bill has not been paid, until the arrears later, and she has only called me with this number. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Gu'er paused, gritted his teeth and said.

"I've basically determined that Mai Sui'er should have been murdered, the murderer is in that village, it is likely to be the live fox, Mai Sui'er called me in the underworld and asked me to avenge her."