Chapter 4: Death after Death
"Don't talk nonsense, young man!" When the middle-aged man saw me talking, he was obviously a little flustered.
"Uncle, you haven't seen zombies yet, how do you know if there are zombies!" I asked rhetorically, but my uncle obviously didn't expect me to ask such a question, and he was speechless for a while.
"Ah, this, zombies are just that, I guess it's what people imagine." Uncle said with a haha.
"Uncle, do you know where the Qian Gu family is?" I'm pulling to the point.
"Young man, I see that you are raw, what are you looking for Qian Gu for?" The middle-aged uncle was obviously a little surprised when he heard me mention Qian Gu, his eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, and he seemed to be very vigilant and asked.
"I'm looking for something about him." I don't want to tell him the real purpose of looking for Qian Gu.
"Well, that's okay, in this case, I'll take you there!" The middle-aged uncle couldn't ask me any questions when he asked me, so he consciously acted as a tour guide and wanted to take me there.
I wanted to shirk it, but seeing this middle-aged uncle, I was inexplicably excited, so I had to show me the way, and I could only follow the path he led.
"Young man, this money valley is very evil, what are you looking for him? This person, although he is a yin and yang, our village does not look for him at all. The uncle said very seriously.
"Uncle, what's wrong with this Qian Gu?" I'm interested, originally this time it was to find Qian Gu, and it's naturally good to know a little more.
"This guy basically doesn't come out for a day, and the neighbor sometimes knocks on the door to borrow something, and he doesn't care, every time he comes out of the room, he is sweating profusely, and he doesn't know what he's doing." Uncle muttered.
Although I thought of something unsightly, I couldn't help but say it.
Uncle has been complaining about Qian Gu on the way, naturally he wants to get something out of my mouth, but I didn't talk too much along the way. The uncle also introduced himself as he spoke.
The uncle's name is Li Qiu, who usually works outside, but this year he happened to not go out and farmed at home.
It didn't take long to walk, and it was there.
Qian Gu's home is not very grand, but for a person who eats yin and yang rice, it is indeed good.
The two-story small western-style building is equipped with an iron gate, and the walls are not too high.
Li Qiu walked to the door of the iron gate, and patted the big iron door vigorously with his thick palm, only to hear the sound of knocking, it seems that this has become the norm.
"Who!" There was a loud shout from the door, and his voice was slightly angry, naturally, Li Qiu didn't feel that he had done too much.
"Me! Li Qiu, there is a guy looking for you to have something, you come out, I brought the person! Li Qiu said, extremely reluctant to answer Qian Gu.
Heavy footsteps were heard, and the iron door was slowly opened.
Qian Gu stood in the door with a gloomy face, and the moment he opened the door and saw me, his face instantly became very happy.
"Alas, it's you, little brother, come in." Qian Gu walked up to me as he spoke, and made a gesture to take my arm and greet me home.
I was amazed, this look was the opposite of my previous attitude.
Li Qiu watched Qian Gu welcome me in, as if he had never seen it before, and wanted to follow up.
Just as he was about to enter the gate, he saw Qian Gu turn his head and say to Li Qiu.
"Did I invite you? Don't come in, you're not welcome. ”
Li Qiu's face was a little ugly, he spat on the ground, and said angrily.
"If you don't go in, you won't go in, you think I'm rare to go in."
"Little brother, be careful, this guy is not a good person." Li Qiu pointed at Qian Gu and said, and after speaking, he pulled his legs and left.
Qian Gu smiled at me, and didn't look at Li Qiu who left.
Qian Gu's home was very simplely furnished, welcoming me in, arranging for me to sit down, and hurriedly pouring tea.
"There's no need to prepare, Mingren doesn't say secret words, did you take the paper tent that night?" I said straight to the point that I didn't come here for this, and I don't like to be too polite.
I thought that Qian Gu would deny it, but I didn't expect Qian Gu to stop, turn his head and answer with a smile.
"Yes, I took the paper tent." The smile on Qian Gu's face did not decrease, and he seemed to say something that did not matter at all.
I was a little annoyed, and I couldn't get angry, "As a yin and yang, don't you know that this thing harms others and yourself, and once it is contaminated with those dead qi, it will have an impact on the living!" ”
I was so angry that I stood up unconsciously.
"Little brother, don't panic, I took it, but I didn't mean it either." Qian Gu explained.
"At that time, because you made me very embarrassed, I wanted to find you something to do at night, but it was difficult to come forward to do so, so I could only take away the paper tent you moved."
"Later, I regretted it, so I burned the paper tent with a smulet on the night I took it." Qian Gu said very sincerely, it didn't seem like lying at all, so calm, but it made me a little suspicious.
Qian Gu said this, I can only put this matter down for the time being, it is nothing for me, I have already thought of it, recalling the words of the third uncle this morning, and asked in a slightly weaker tone.
"Then do you know that Zhang Dezhi's body disappeared last night!" I tried my best to see a hint in his eyes, but Qian Gu's performance was still very calm.
It seems that I have long known that I am going to ask, "What, Zhang Dezhi's body is gone?" Qian Gu put down the kettle in his hand to boil water, and his face was incredible.
"You don't know?" I looked at Qian Gu and asked again, Qian Gu put away the smile on his face and waved his hand.
"So be it, I'll go first." Obviously, there is basically nothing to ask here in Qian Valley. Now it must be rushed back, this paper tent has been burned as a money valley, but the disappearance of this corpse is indeed a big deal.
"You're not going to stay any longer? Just arrived. Qian Gu asked suspiciously. It seems that he also wants me to stay at his house for a little longer.
It's a pity that I didn't respond, and walked out of Qiangu's house without looking back.
The important thing is to go back to the village.
Back in the village, I went directly to the third uncle's house.
When the third uncle saw me coming, he also hurriedly walked up to me, and the third uncle just wanted to speak, but I asked first.
"Third uncle, has the body been found?" I'm a little anxious, and the third uncle seems to be talking about it.
"The body was not found, but when the body was looking for in the morning, a child named Zhou Ming died in the west of our village, and it is said that the blood on the body was sucked dry when it was found, and the body should still be in Zhou Ming's house."
Hearing that the blood was sucked dry, I was clever, when I was in Xiazhuang Village, there were also people who died because the blood was sucked dry.
I thought about it in my head, and I always felt that there was some connection to all these things that happened a little more than a day.
"Third uncle, don't worry about it first, I'll go with you to see the child's corpse." I was very calm, after all, the more panicked I was, the more I couldn't find a solution.
Walking on the road, I asked the third uncle if he had notified the police, but although the third uncle was the village head, because of the strangeness of the child's death, and the fact that the countryside believed in some things, he insisted on suppressing the matter and did not dare to call the police.
The village is very small, and it only took ten minutes to arrive at Zhou Ming's home.
According to rural customs, the death of a child is counted as an untimely death, and it is not easy to do funeral events. Just set up a mourning hall at home, and the body will be parked at the back, and it will be buried on the day of burial.
Before I could enter the door, I heard the cry of a woman coming from inside the door.
"Child, what kind of crime have you suffered, what will you do with your mother in the future!"
The crying sound was almost heartbreaking, Zhou Ming's father was working outside, and when he learned that Zhou Ming was dead, he immediately bought a ticket to rush back.
"you, mourn," the third uncle walked in the door, went to Zhou Ming's mother, and whispered comfort.
Zhou Ming's mother saw the third uncle walk in, slowly stopped crying, glanced at the third uncle, and then looked at me.
"What did you bring your nephew for?" Zhou Ming's mother said a little angrily.
"Don't be angry yet, my nephew will order the judge's (Taoist) spell, let him help you see how the child died." The third uncle didn't dare to speak out.
"Why didn't you call the police, my child definitely didn't die normally!" Zhou Ming's mother looked at the third uncle and said firmly.
"Your nephew is a good patrolman? Hurry up, either take the patrol or don't come. Obviously, Zhou Ming's mother was a little angry and had already started to drive people away. Because of the excitement, his hands waved to drive away me and the third uncle.
When the third uncle saw this situation, he was also a little helpless, and was about to pull me away.
"I may be able to let you see Zhou Ming again." Hearing what I said, Zhou Ming's mother was obviously a little stunned and stopped crying.