Chapter 32: Zhao Tiezhu
Bai Qi immediately gave an order, Officer Yang nodded, and I was very reluctant to this order, turned my head to look at Lin Yingxue, who was still cleaning up in the kitchen, and whispered to Bai Qi: "Uncle Bai, can you just go over with me and Officer Yang?" ”
"Why? Don't you look down on us Xiaolin? ”
I didn't understand the meaning of Bai Qi's words, and immediately said: "No, Lin Yingxue... She's brainless, she's mindless, she's not happy, she always has an opinion about me, I work with her, isn't it me who is unlucky? ”
Bai Qi looked at me with an indescribable gaze and smiled: "It's okay, isn't it because you don't get along with her because you have less cooperation, let's cultivate a relationship this time, there will be more opportunities for cooperation in the future, you can't make trouble every time, right?" Besides, Xiao Lin is the number one master of fighting in our special case team, and I am so relieved to have her. ”
"I said, Uncle Bai, you can't be the only two of you in your special case team, right? What does it mean that there are more opportunities for cooperation in the future? I asked in wonder, and I was also very puzzled in my heart, every time the special case team came over, there were only Bai Qi and Lin Yingxue, could it really be that there were only two of them?
"Naturally this is not the case, our special case team has a lot of manpower, but there are cases all over the country that need our special case team to come forward every day, most of my subordinates are distributed all over the country to handle cases, and only Xiaolin and I are free at the moment, you will just take a moment, the man's family didn't say anything about the atmosphere."
I can understand Bai Qi's words, after all, it is normal for a brain like Lin Yingxue to be idle.
Since Bai Qi has already been arranged, I can't refuse again, say goodbye to Bai Qi and go home, clean up and sleep well, and the next morning, Officer Yang drove downstairs to my house and took me and Lin Yingxue towards the small village together.
We set off in the morning, and when we arrived at the village called Black Mountain Village, it was already dusk, not to mention the distance, if it was a normal city, this distance would take three or four hours at most, but the roads there were also extremely difficult to walk, not only twists and turns, but also mountain roads, there were many muddy roads and dirt roads, it felt like walking into a deep mountain forest, and when we arrived at the police station near the village halfway, we stopped the car, and the rest of the journey was completely on our legs.
When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw a man in his fifties wearing an old suit standing at the entrance of the village waiting for us.
The village chief attached great importance to our appearance, and welcomed us to his house with a smile all the way, and his family had already prepared a table of meals, all of which were native to the countryside, and the taste was naturally unusual.
I was completely hungry for a day, and I didn't care about anything else, so I started to eat, and when we were almost finished, the village chief told his wife to arrange a place for us to live. Do you have to wait until we get here to give us a room?
Maybe it was because he saw that I was a little dissatisfied, and the village chief smiled: "Don't be surprised, in fact, the village has been busy with the Zhao family's white affairs in the past few days, and I haven't made time, besides, I don't know how many people you are coming, but it doesn't matter, everyone should be busy now, and I will be able to arrange a place for you to live soon." ”
Since the village chief said so, I didn't say anything more, and Officer Yang opened his mouth at this time and asked: "Village chief, presumably why we came here this time, you should be very clear, can you tell us the specific details of that empty bag?" ”
The village chief smiled helplessly: "I don't have much culture, I don't quite understand what you mean by the empty bag, you should go to Zhao's house to ask Zhao Tiezhu later, the empty bag was sent to Zhao Tiezhu, and his father Lao Zhao also died inexplicably the next day, very evil." ”
We asked a lot of questions about the empty bag, but the village chief always answered vaguely, as if he was very afraid of being involved in such strange things, I can also understand, after all, in the countryside, many people believe in strange things, so we did not continue to interrogate, but directly asked the village chief to take us to Zhao Tiezhu's house.
At this time, it was close to late autumn, and the sky was getting dark earlier and earlier, and when we came out after eating, the sky had already darkened nearly halfway, this black mountain village was not very big, and after walking for only a few minutes, we came to Zhao Tiezhu's house.
From afar, I saw that the lights in Zhao Tiezhu's house were bright, a few young people squatting at the door with bowls eating were talking and laughing, and a series of wreaths were placed on the outer courtyard wall.
When those people saw us coming, they all had puzzled expressions, maybe it was a little strange to see outsiders coming to the village, but most of their eyes were still on Lin Yingxue, such a beauty, everywhere she was a gaze harvester.
I walked into the courtyard gate, and immediately saw the lively scene inside, the courtyard was full of white paper wreaths, there were more than a dozen tables, each table was full of people, eating and drinking like a banquet, there was no sad atmosphere at all, we bypassed this group of people who were eating, and went directly to the front of the mourning hall in the deepest part of the courtyard, and saw a young man in his twenties wearing filial piety clothes and hats, kneeling there in a daze, needless to say, this person must be the Zhao Tiezhu we are looking for.
This mourning hall was placed in a tent set up in the courtyard, with a spiritual seat and tributes in front of it, and a thick coffin behind it, the lid of the coffin was open, but I could not see the scene inside, and I did not dare to go up to see it, although I could not be superstitious, but I still had resistance to seeing the dead.
"Tiezhu, someone from the city is investigating your father's matter, hurry up." The village chief stepped forward and pulled up Zhao Tiezhu, who was in a daze, and Zhao Tiezhu came back to his senses, turned his head to look at the three of us, and then reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "Everyone, please come with me." ”
With that, Zhao Tiezhu took us to the house, which seemed to be the living room of his house, where a few children who were playing were kicked out by the village chief and let us sit on the sofa.
Zhao Tiezhu looked very sad about his father's death, and it could be seen from his heavy dark circles that he must not have slept well for a few days.
Zhao Tiezhu's family has always lived in this black mountain village, living by planting crops, and his mother died early, and the two have always relied on each other for their lives. But although Lao Zhao Tou has never been out of this village, Zhao Tiezhu can be regarded as having read some books, and often goes out to play in Zhongwei City, and at the same time he has also learned to surf the Internet and shop online, and almost all the supplies at home are purchased by him online.
Although Montenegro Village is relatively remote, there are still express delivery branches in the neighboring villages, so receiving express delivery is almost commonplace.
Just four days ago, the courier company suddenly called Zhao Tiezhu to inform him that he had his express delivery, and Zhao Tiezhu was also very puzzled, saying that he hadn't bought anything online during this time?
But doubts are doubts, since there is its own express delivery, how can there be a reason to put it cheap? So Zhao Tiezhu happily went to the neighboring village to get the package, and after taking the package home, he saw that the sender's name was Qiqi, and the recipient's address and name were completely his own, but the package had no weight at all, and it seemed to be an empty package.
couldn't help but open the package curiously, and sure enough, there was nothing in it, Zhao Tiezhu was immediately very disappointed, and casually threw the package on the ground and didn't care, but who would have thought that the next morning, when Zhao Tiezhu went to call his father Lao Zhao to get up for dinner, he found that Lao Zhao's body was already cold.
Dad died suddenly, Zhao Tiezhu cried dead and alive, and the village soon knew the news, and they rushed to mourn and help Zhao Tiezhu deal with white things, but Lao Zhao has always been in good health, how could he die suddenly? The villagers sat together and discussed for a long time, and finally attributed the cause of Lao Zhao's death to the strange empty bag, and they believed that there must be some demons and monsters in the empty bag, so they killed Lao Zhao.
This statement is more and more recognized by everyone, and finally the villagers burned the empty bag with fire, and then the forensic doctor who rushed to the scene conducted an autopsy on the body, and determined that Lao Zhao Tou died suddenly of a heart attack, which was a normal death, but although the forensic doctor said so, no one in the villagers was willing to believe it, and for a time rumors about the empty bag were spread everywhere.
The forensic doctor knew the information about the empty bag and told the local police, who contacted Officer Yang, and what happened later.
After listening to Zhao Tiezhu's story, I couldn't help but wonder, and the village chief on the side looked even more uneasy, it seemed that the rumors of demons hidden in the empty bag had been ingrained in his heart.
"Zhao Tiezhu, on the night of the incident, that is, the night your father died, did you hear any strange movements?" Officer Yang had already taken out a notebook and recorded it aside.
Zhao Tiezhu thought about it carefully, shook his head and said, "No, it was very calm that night, and I didn't hear anything." ”
Officer Yang asked again, "Are you sure there's nothing in that empty bag?" Not even a piece of paper? ”
"Well, nothing, I looked at it carefully, and even the whole carton was opened, and there was nothing."
That's when I asked, "Your dad has a heart attack, right?" ”
"Yes, but it's not too serious, and I haven't seen a seizure when I take medicine often."
This is a bit strange, if it is not too serious, why is it such a coincidence, that old Zhao died of illness on the night when the empty package was sent? Could it be that as I thought, that poor Qi has the ability to predict the death of others?
I kept analyzing what Zhao Tiezhu said just now in my mind, and I didn't have any clue at all, but Lin Yingxue, who had not spoken, suddenly said seriously: "In my opinion, his father's death must be related to that empty bag!" Maybe there are really some demons in that empty bag that we can't see! ”