Chapter Thirty-Six: Asking for Life
The villagers have all done farm work, so they know this kind of thing better than me, and when I say this, some bold villagers came forward to confirm it, and then said to the villagers who were still skeptical behind them: "Indeed, this grave was dug up from the outside!" ”
At this time, everyone was completely convinced, and they all stepped forward to watch, and at the same time, everyone also showed an angry look on their faces, and they all shouted for Zhao Tiezhu and his father, scolding the grave digger for not letting go of the dead, and clamoring to arrest the person who dug up the grave and kill him on the spot.
The village chief also became bold at this time, stood up to maintain order, organized the villagers to mobilize their own forces, and must arrest this person.
I looked around, and only Zhao Tiezhu's father's grave had been broken open in the entire cemetery, and the other graves were all unharmed, and countless footprints were stepped on by the surrounding villagers at this time, and I couldn't tell which was the footprints of the gravedigger when he left.
Now that the matter has been clarified, the villagers spontaneously organized themselves to return to Zhao Tiezhu's house, moved Zhao Tiezhu's father's body back again, and put it back in the coffin for burial.
When I was about to leave, I turned to Officer Yang and asked, "Do you have any monitoring equipment on you?" ”
Officer Yang gave me a blank look and said, "How can I have such a thing?" Do you want to monitor this place? ”
I nodded and said, "Yes, I always feel that this matter is not over yet, although I don't know what the motive of the grave digger is, but I have a vague feeling that tonight, I'm afraid something will happen." ”
Officer Yang disagreed, and said: "I think you are just thinking too much, that person is probably just to scare people, and we have dispatched so many people today, that person will not dare to do it even if he is bold, so don't worry about going back and resting." ”
As soon as Officer Yang said this, I also felt that I was thinking a little too much, so I returned to Black Mountain Village with the large army, but this time I did not go to Zhao Tiezhu's house, but stayed at the village chief's house with a cheeky face, after all, what happened at Zhao Tiezhu's house last night left a huge psychological shadow on me, and I didn't do it if I wanted to go to his house again.
Soon, the boring day passed again, and after dinner in the afternoon, the village chief made a bunk in Officer Yang's room for me to rest tonight, while I called the village chief outside the door and smoked and chatted with him in the courtyard.
"Village chief, do you know anything about Zhao Tiezhu and his family?"
The village chief nodded and said, "Of course I understand, I have lived in this Black Mountain Village for most of my life, and every family knows it very well, what do you want to ask?" ”
I continued, "Then who do you think in the whole village would do such a thing?" I heard Zhao Tiezhu say that his father is a good man and hasn't offended anyone, right? ”
"Yes, Lao Zhao is indeed a good man, he has basically never made any mistakes in his life, he is honest and diligent, but unfortunately his daughter-in-law died too early, how many times have I persuaded him to find another one, but he just refused."
After receiving an affirmative answer from the village chief, I completely erased Zhao Tiezhu's suspicion and continued to ask: "This Zhao Tiezhu's father, do you have any friends who usually have a good relationship?" ”
"You are the right person to ask, it stands to reason that Lao Zhao is in Black Mountain Village, and his only friend is probably me."
"Huh?"
This answer was a bit unexpected to me, I immediately asked what was going on, and the village chief sighed: "You don't know, although Lao Zhao is honest, but he may be because his daughter-in-law died too early, he usually rarely communicates with people, and when he sees the villagers, he will say hello at most, and he will never say a word more, I don't want to be the village chief, I'm afraid I can rarely understand this person, but you can rest assured, although his personality is like this, but he has never offended anyone, he is not only introverted, There are also some cowardices, and it is definitely impossible for him to offend people. ”
Listening to the words of the village chief, I made up in my mind the image of a cowardly and honest villager with little talk, indeed, if such a person offends people, then the chance must be small and pitiful.
Since I couldn't get some clues from Zhao Tiezhu and his father Lao Zhao, I had to focus on Zhao Tiezhu's dead mother and asked, "Village Chief, can you tell me how Zhao Tiezhu's mother died?" ”
When it came to Zhao Tiezhu's mother, the village chief's face immediately changed, and said: "I really don't know much about this matter, at that time I remember that it should be Tiezhu He was born less than half a year ago, one morning a villager found that there was a person hanging from the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, and when I went over, I found out that the person who hanged was Tiezhu's mother." ”
"After Lao Zhao also rushed over, crying is dead and alive, I carefully asked Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao said that night, he and his daughter-in-law quarreled, the next day did not see the daughter-in-law, thought that the daughter-in-law was so angry that she went back to her parents' house, but who knew that she was hanged at the entrance of the village."
This was a new discovery, and I continued, "What happened next?" Is this really the case? ”
"Who knows, Lao Zhao just said this, and the real reason is only known to Lao Zhao himself, and when the police came to investigate, they also said that his daughter-in-law hanged herself, ruling out any possibility of him killing, so I didn't continue to ask, and now you suddenly mention this, I think Lao Zhao's incident this time, there may be a way to explain it."
The village chief's words made my eyes light up suddenly, and looking at his unwavering expression, I immediately asked curiously, "Oh? Do you remember any clues? ”
The village chief looked around with palpitations, and then whispered to me: "I guess, it must be Lao Zhao and his daughter-in-law who hanged themselves because of a quarrel with Lao Zhao, and the ghost of the dead is too wronged, so they will play tricks on Lao Zhao's corpse like this." ”
Looking at the old face of the village chief approaching, I couldn't wait to reach out and give him two slaps, I thought he would say some important clues, who knew that he actually gave me such a sentence.
"Don't talk nonsense, it has been found out that someone dug the grave, why are you still engaged in these illusory things, beware of Officer Yang knowing about cleaning you up."
I didn't pay attention to the village chief anymore, and when I saw that it was getting dark, I returned to Officer Yang's room, lay on the floor and prepared to rest, and was woken up in the morning for two consecutive days. Anyway, I have to go to Zhao Tiezhu early tomorrow morning and ask what happened.
Thinking about it, I fell asleep in a daze, and that night I had a very strange dream, dreaming that I was standing next to Zhao Tiezhu's father's grave in the middle of the night, and suddenly stretched out a bloody hand from the grave, which scared me to turn around and run immediately, but the moment I turned around, I found that on a big tree behind me, a woman in red clothes hanged, with a shawl and a shawl, was staring at me with blood-red eyes and sneering!
This nightmare really scared me, and when I woke up from the nightmare and sat up, I was already sweating profusely, and I turned my head to look, Officer Yang was still asleep, and the sky outside the window was already dark, I didn't need to take out my mobile phone, I also knew that it should be six or seven o'clock now, and I was used to getting up at this point in the past two days.
Just as I was about to go back to sleep, there was a sharp knock at the door.
Officer Yang was also awakened by the knock on the door at this time, and immediately asked vigilantly, "Who?" ”
"It's me, Officer Yang, come out quickly, something is wrong!" The voice of the village chief came from outside the door, and judging from his eager tone, I am afraid that something is really wrong.
Officer Yang and I hurriedly got dressed and went out, and we saw the village chief standing outside the door with a frightened face, pacing back and forth, while Lin Yingxue in the other room had already packed up and waited outside the door.
"What's wrong?" Officer Yang asked immediately.
Lin Yingxue shook her head, and the village chief stammered: "Fraudulent corpse... Cheated corpse! Zombies have killed! ”
"Where!"
Officer Yang and I were both shocked! The village chief was already frightened and incoherent, and he couldn't say what he wanted to say, so he ran ahead with us in a hurry.
After running for about ten minutes, I saw that at the door of a house in front of me was already full of people, everyone had an extremely frightened look on their faces, as if they were discussing something, and I faintly heard the sound of a woman crying from inside the house.
We hurried through the crowd into the house, and as soon as we entered, we saw a middle-aged woman sitting on the floor with her hair disheveled and crying, and the door next to her was wide open, and it seemed that the matter was in this room.
At this time, I actually didn't dare to go in, and turned my head to look at Officer Yang and the village chief, both of whom were also hesitant, and Lin Yingxue rushed into the room with an expressionless face, and then I heard Lin Yingxue's gasp.
Seeing Lin Yingxue enter, Officer Yang and I also rushed in immediately, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw clearly that this room should be the bedroom of this family, but on the innermost earthen kang in the room, I saw a familiar figure.
Zhao Tiezhu's father's corpse!
Although I didn't see the face, I could tell the identity of that person from the figure and the familiar shroud, and then, under Zhao Tiezhu's father's body, there was still a person lying there motionless at this time.
The man was burly, and Officer Yang and I walked up carefully to take a look, only to find that the man was a burly middle-aged man in his forties, staring at the ceiling motionless with bloodshot eyes at this time, his lips were purple and his face was blue, and he looked dead.
And when I was looking closely, Zhao Tiezhu's father's corpse, at this time both hands pinched the middle-aged man's neck, leaving a circle of reddish-purple marks on his neck, although I am not a forensic doctor, but from this scene I can also know that this middle-aged man seems to have been strangled to death by Zhao Tiezhu's father's corpse!