I couldn't see under the willow trees because there were so many villagers, but I could smell a smell of blood, which irritated my nerves, and it grew stronger because the sun was rising.

The smell of blood reminded me of those experiences in Fengyang, and when I looked at the Taoist priest, I saw that his face changed, and I knew that he must have smelled fishy too.

I asked Erhu to put me down, and the village chief came over with a few cadres from the village at this time, and when he came, the villagers spontaneously moved out of the way, and I took the opportunity to look into the crowd. After just one glance, a strong feeling of nausea came over me, and I almost threw up.

Under the willow tree was the ancient stele, but at this time, on the half-human-high stele, there was a round, bloody thing. The deformed, but vaguely visible facial features, as well as the scattered black hair, clearly indicate that this is a human head.

I thought that the bloody scenes I experienced in Fengyang had given me the ability to be immune to these, but I didn't expect it to work, and I still felt sick and scared when I saw these heart-wrenching scenes. This seems to have become an instinct deeply rooted in the soul, and no matter how much I experience, I can't be undisturbed in the face of such a picture.

Except for the bloody human head, the stone tablet was dyed reddish-brown within a meter of it, and the smell of blood was even stronger. What creeps me the most is that at the moment I looked at the crowd just now, I saw that the corners of the person's blurred mouth slowly hooked up a slight arc, as if he was smiling at me.

I finally suppressed the urge to vomit, looked at the Taoist priest, and asked him if he had seen anything just now.

He shook his head, saying that the villagers were closing so fast that he didn't even see what was going on inside. I took a deep breath, and the picture of the strange smile of the human head just now kept echoing in my mind, and I had a bad premonition in my heart, and I immediately didn't want to look at it anymore, and beckoned the Taoist priest to go back.

The Taoist priest looked at me strangely and told me not to worry, I have come here, and I will wait for him to see the situation inside.

As he spoke, the Taoist priest pushed through the crowd and squeezed in, I was still very weak, and Erhu stayed outside to take care of me. I waited anxiously, thinking of what the Taoist priest had just told me, so I asked Erhu what happened in the ancestral hall that night.

Erhu's attention was in the crowd, and when he heard me ask him, he sighed: "Ah! Ancestral hall, you say? I nodded, waiting for him to answer.

I saw that Erhu looked depressed, and said with self-reproach: "Alas, don't mention it, Qigong said that the things that everyone caught were evil, and it was best to burn them, but I didn't expect that the monster was not dead at all, as soon as the sack was untied, the thing ran away immediately, and scratched several people, we chased out but were fascinated by the fog, and couldn't find the way, but fortunately, Qigong had the ability, so he took us back to the ancestral hall and stayed overnight, and the fog only dispersed at dawn, and then I went to look for you, only to know that you had an accident last night."

I nodded, Qigong is an elder in the village whose prestige is about the same as my grandmother, and my grandfather is a brother of the next generation.

I have the impression that Qigong is a person who does not smile, very serious, but he is very good to me, and during the time when I returned to my hometown for refuge in an accident, Qigong helped me a lot.

"Is anyone missing or having an accident? Have you ever come across a strange vine that looks like a snake? ”

"Why do you ask that?" Erhu muttered, looking strange, and said, "That's not true, but some of the livestock in the village are missing." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, the oni vine had always been a thorn in my heart, and I vaguely felt that its appearance was probably related to me. Erhu didn't know why, so he asked me what was going on, and just as I was about to explain, the Taoist priest squeezed out of the crowd, his face pale.

As soon as he walked up to us, before I could ask, the Taoist priest said two words in a hurried tone: "Hurry up!" After saying that, he left without looking back, as if he had seen a ghost. I know the courage of the Taoist priest, and it can scare him like this, it seems that he has found something amazing. I looked into the crowd again, and the scene of the man staring at me with a weird smile came to mind again, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my back, and beckoned Erhu to go back quickly.

After we left, the village chief called the police, and the people in the village were in chaos, and the bloody picture in front of the stone monument hit the nerves of every villager, and after the morning, there were fewer and fewer people moving in the east of the village, and several families close to the place of the incident also moved to the relatives in the village on the same day. After this bloody incident, there were fewer and fewer people walking around the village, and the once lively village became a little deserted.

The police arrived in the early evening......

The cold afterglow of the remnant sun sprinkled on He Xiaoyi's face through the sparse willow leaves, and the entire Dingyan Village was dyed a faint gold by the afterglow of the sunset, feeling this very beautiful picture, but He Xiaoyi couldn't be happy anyway. As a newcomer who has just stepped into the police position, this is the first time she has personally taken on a homicide case.

There were also two middle-aged policemen with more than ten years of work experience who came with her, and the autopsy and investigation of the scene were completed by the other two, He Xiaoyi only played a role in the process, but even so, the bloody level of the scene still made her scalp numb.

It is said that it is an autopsy, in fact, there is nothing to test at all, in addition to the blood all over the ground, there is only a bloody and blurred head left, after a simple technical identification, it is preliminarily determined that the deceased is the old man Yang who guards the monument.

After getting this confirmed news, the village chief, who had been assisting the police in the investigation, couldn't help but sigh, and then said with some grief and indignation: "Evil, who is this who has such a big enmity with Old Man Yang, and is so vicious, this ...... It's not human! ”

Seeing that the village chief was a little excited, He Xiaoyi's heart moved, and asked: "Village chief, do you know who in the village has a grudge against the deceased, or has there been a conflict with the deceased in the recent past?" ”

As soon as He Xiaoyi finished asking, the village chief shook his head. "This is impossible, Yang Laohan is the stele keeper in the village, our village believes in ghosts and gods, and the village stele is a sacred object that guards the village, the stele keeper has existed a long time ago, and those who can serve as the stele keeper are all raised hands in the village to vote at a meeting, it can be said that the stele keepers are all respected people in the village, Yang Laohan has no relatives in the village, and he is also enthusiastic about the villagers on weekdays, as for conflicts with people, it is even more impossible."

Seeing that the village chief was extremely firm, He Xiaoyi and the two policemen also looked at each other.

……

"What's going on, what the hell do you see?"

Back home, I couldn't wait to ask the Taoist. His face was ugly, and he didn't answer me immediately, Erhu handed him a cigarette, and he actually caught it, and before that, I had never seen him smoke.

Erhu wanted to help him light the fire, but the Taoist priest waved his hand and suddenly asked me: "You should have seen the situation inside just now, what did you see?" ”

Although I didn't want to recall that picture, but the Taoist priest's face was solemn, I described the picture I had just seen in a blink of an eye, and the Taoist priest nodded after listening to it, and asked Erhu if he had seen it?

Erhu came to the Taoist priest after seeing that bloody scene, and he said what he saw, more detailed than I described, but it was about the same.

We all looked at the Taoist priest and wondered what he had discovered, what could have scared him like this?

"Dao Ye told you, don't be scared!"

The Taoist priest's tone was yin and yang, Erhu was honest, and he was stunned for a moment, and he was suddenly a little scared: "Dao Chief, did you see a ghost?" ”

"Ghosts?" The Taoist priest snorted, with disdain on his face: "The ghost is a ball, what the Taoist master saw was a ghost mandrill!" ”