Chapter Seventy-Six: A Strange Disappearance

Zhang Youcai's face suddenly turned into a flower, and he stretched out his hand that had just picked his feet to Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan's face suddenly stiffened, whether he held it or not, but in the end he shook hands with him, thinking in his heart that he would wash his hands later, this bastard doesn't know how long it has been since he washed his feet, and I smelled a sour smell from afar, and I really buried it.

Zhang Youcai grinned, stretched out his tongue and licked his gold teeth: "It's already noon, let's go eat first, I'll be the east, let's talk while eating!" ”

There are no restaurants in the remote place where he lives, but fortunately he has a broken Wuling Hongguang that carries Jiang Fan and the three back to the town.

Zhang Youcai found a home-cooked restaurant, and at this time there were only a few groups of people eating in it, and Jiang Fan and they were directly arranged into a box by the waiter without waiting.

It can be seen that Zhang Youcai's guy is indeed not very popular, and the reputation is estimated to be rotten, and after ordering the food, the waitress ran away like a thief, looking like he would be touched twice if he stayed in front of Zhang Youcai for one more minute.

However, the dishes in this restaurant are very fast, and the table is full of wine and meat after a while, and it is estimated that they want Zhang Youcai and his gang to eat quickly, and they can leave after eating.

Zhang Youcai was very happy, and after greeting him, he picked up his chopsticks and ate them.

After shaking off his cheeks, he took a break and began to talk about his task of asking for help.

Sixty or seventy kilometers away from the town, there is a small mountain village called Xiling Village, and several strange things have happened in this village recently, and the adult men of the village have disappeared one after another in the mountains.

It is still possible to say that children run around on the mountains and disappear, but it is too strange for adult men to disappear, this Xiling Village is at the foot of the mountain, and the main source of income is to grow and pick mountain goods, what mushrooms, herbs, ginseng or something.

These men have the ability to eat when they enter the mountains, and some of them can stay in the mountains for two or three weeks, and it is impossible to get lost.

Even if there is a few accidents, one or two are too much, and now there are four people lost in a month, and there is definitely a problem.

The people in the village had no choice but to find Zhang Youcai to see.

After Zhang Youcai and the villagers went up the mountain to search, they really found traces of those men, but what was even stranger was that people only found some broken clothes and discarded packages they wore, but they didn't even see people.

Zhang Youcai thought it was an accident, he was attacked by a wild beast or injured by a fall or something, but not to mention the bones and even blood were not found.

Later, the police also came, and after some investigation of the scene, they did not find any reason, because there was no blood at the scene and no bones were found, and the disappeared were all adults, and finally it could only be characterized as missing.

Speaking of this, Zhang Youcai lit a cigarette and took a puff: "Actually, I suspect that they are not dead, but where did they go?" ”

Jiang Fan was also blindfolded after hearing this, these big men's clothes were thrown away, it was difficult for them to run away with pi shares bare.

Zhang Youcai said: "Later, I didn't give up, and continued to investigate on the mountain, and I found that there were paw prints and traces of wild beasts not far from those clothes, and I deduced that those traces were likely to be wolves." ”

"Then they couldn't have been eaten by wolves." Jiang Fan asked.

Zhang Youcai thought for a moment and said: "Probably not, they are all adults, and they are all people who beg for a living in the mountains, and there should be traces of fighting when they encounter wolves, and they shouldn't even find a little blood." ”

"It's a little weird indeed." Jiang Fan nodded in response.

"What's even stranger, I've lived in this Xiling Village for five or six years, and I've never heard of wolves and snakes and bears on Xiling Mountain. They also said that they had not seen a wolf in forty or fifty years, except when they were children. ”

"I suspected that the disappearance of these people was related to these beasts, and later organized a few villagers to follow me into the mountains to look around, and I really found it, but the wolf was too scary. I felt that I couldn't solve this matter alone, so I reported it. ”

Uncle Chen nodded after listening, "I also know about the matter, so let's go to the village first." ”

So a few people packed up their things and got into the Wuling Hongguang again, and Zhang Youcai leaned on the driver's seat to smoke, making the car full of smoke.

The group of four spent the afternoon bumping on this rugged path, and by the time they arrived, it was already getting dark, and it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as he entered Xiling Village, Jiang Fan found something unusual, there were many people gathered at the entrance of the village at the moment, as if they were arguing fiercely about something, Jiang Fan and the four of them were all "groaning" in their hearts, couldn't it be that there was another accident in this village?

Zhang Youcai parked the car at the entrance of the village, and then pressed the horn vigorously, and it didn't take long for Jiang Fan to see a fifty-year-old man walking towards this side with a few young men.

This old man is the village chief of Xiling Village, he was almost in tears when he saw Zhang Youcai, and the young men around him were obviously greatly relieved, it seems that they have really been tossed and have no peaceful days during this time, otherwise it would not be like this.

After Zhang Youcai and the village chief greeted each other, they asked curiously: "Village chief, why are so many of you gathered here, is something wrong?" ”

"Well, don't mention it."

The old village chief sighed deeply, wiped his reddened eyes, and said slowly: "Xiao Wu in the village is also missing, and his daughter-in-law is crying and shouting that she will not live!" ”

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, Zhang Youcai's face changed: "Didn't I say it, don't let people go up the mountain alone during this time?" Why don't you listen! ”

"Alas, there is no way, Xiao Wu is born with bad legs and feet, and there are not many mountain goods in the family, tomorrow is the day of the market, and he is going to go to his family's woodland to collect some mountain goods. Everybody has to eat, don't you, tell me ......?"

The more the old village chief spoke, the more excited he became, some old tears were in his eyes, he stretched out his hand and held Zhang Youcai's hand, and said in a trembling voice: "Zhang Daxian, you have to help us, this is the fifth person, there are few people in our village, you said that there are no dead people in this life, what kind of sin is this." ”

"Old village chief, don't worry, Zhang doesn't say anything else, it's the so-called taking people's money and eliminating disasters with people, don't you see that I have found a powerful helper for you?"

The village chief looked at Jiang Fan's side, one old man with two youngsters, and he didn't look like a powerful helper.

However, I still solemnly thanked Jiang Fan and the others.

Jiang Fan saw the old village chief's face full of vicissitudes of time, and said with sympathy: "Village chief, don't worry, since we are here, we will definitely solve this matter for you, at least we will not let other people in the village be killed." ”