Chapter 6: Go out to hunt ghosts
As I said earlier, young people in the village of my age have nothing to do in this poor mountain village after school, and most of them choose to leave their hometowns to work in the bustling city.
When they came to the busy urban forest with reinforced concrete pouring alone or in groups, the gap between urban and rural areas was clear at a glance, coupled with vanity, young and impetuous and blind psychology, they were eager for a better life, and were more fascinated by the fragrance of rouge in the depths of the lights, wishful thinking of getting rich overnight, money, beauty, and luxury...... Driven by various desires and interests, due to the lack and distortion of outlook on life and values, the inappropriate way to choose success, the wrong value orientation or the eagerness to achieve results, it is easy for them to go to the road of committing crimes and being criminalized.
When they die in a foreign land, their heads are in different places, and even the bones can't be found, Master and I should go out, find their corpses to clear their grievances for them has become the last consolation for their families, this is the original intention of our master and apprentice to go out to hunt ghosts, our master and apprentice are the modern ghost hunters hidden in the folk, we are not Xiangxi corpse chasers, we are authentic Mr. Yin and Yang, but often do some things to go out to catch ghosts, in the master's self-deprecating words is a bit unprofessional, but our master and apprentice are iron-clad and have a clear conscience, Just like Master said, 'Born in the mortal world, but seek peace of mind'.
Living is the jargon in the master's mouth, and it also means going out to hunt ghosts, and the ghost hunting notebook will start to record tonight.
The night was silent, I don't know what time it was in the morning, someone smashed the broken wooden gate in my yard, I poked my head out of the bed, thinking that this is the ghost, the broken wooden door can withstand your smashing! When the wind blows, it will fall apart.
"Erdan" I heard someone shouting, and I looked very anxious when I heard the sound.
It's Master, I didn't dare to delay, I climbed up on the top of the bed and went out to open the door for him with the moon on his bare buttocks, and I saw him with a panicked look and asked:
"Master, what's the matter, the sky is still clear? You don't sleep anymore."
"Erdan, hurry up and get dressed, we're going to go far away." The master hurriedly put down this sentence and left.
"Hey, it's all younger and noisy, and it's still a toss at night."
"Go out" I yawned a few times on the broken wooden door, because of the peculiarity of the profession I knew that there must be nothing damn good.
Since I'm going to go far away, I'm going to dress up carefully, and if I meet a beautiful girl, I won't lose the people of our Yamane Village.
I found a few pieces of clothes at the bottom of the box from the broken wardrobe that my mother sent to my house when she got married, and put them on the body to look at the smelly left and right, to say that these clothes were bought by my mother to prepare for my blind date to wear, usually don't say that I am reluctant to wear it, but I am reluctant to look at it after a few glances, for fear of seeing dirty, what to do when the girl is not in the blind date.
On the other hand, I really can't find a decent one except for these clothes, no matter what, it's true that I can't embarrass the master anyway.
I wore a pair of black trousers on the lower half of my body, a pair of brand new leather shoes on the legs, a small sweater on the upper body, and a jacket printed with a Donald Duck pattern on the outside.
After washing, I ran to the master's house, and my father wore a tunic to see that I ran away before tying the door back to the house.
When I ran to Master's house, his Tianjin Dafa had already started, and the exhaust pipe kept emitting white smoke, as if he had been waiting for me for a long time.
"Erdan, sit at the back" Master was very angry at my late arrival and delayed time, mainly because it was too long.
I haven't sat down yet, the car has already set off from the bumpy mountain road, this is the first time the master has taken me out of the door, I am excited and scared, I am not really going to hunt ghosts, I curiously looked at the people in the front seat are the old Uncle Zhang and the old Aunt Zhang who live in front of the village, the old Uncle Zhang bowed his head and was silent, just repeatedly rubbed the black stubble on his chin with a sad face, and the old Aunt Zhang was crying and chattering.
"In the first half of last night, Tingting also called the village chief's house and said that she felt so cold, I asked her to wear more clothes, if she felt tired, don't do it and hurry home, this is not the second half of the night The three tigers called again, isn't it Tingting who is seriously ill, old man, I always feel that something bad has happened."
"Why do you bear old lady say such unlucky things, my two children are healthy" Uncle Zhang scolded for a while, and Aunt Zhang stopped talking, but cried even more.
The three tigers are my hair small, we grew up with bare buttocks since childhood, I graduated from junior high school, this goods did not finish the fifth grade and went out to work in a city, and when I came back for the New Year a year ago, I also brought back a very delicate city chick, white and clean, and I called a brother when I saw me beautifully, my bone frame almost broke this girl, to say that this going out to work is stronger than nesting in this poor ravine, I really envy the three tigers, ambitious, and then look at yourself, a sigh, you see my life.
Tingting is the sister of the three tigers, to use the current words that is to get rid of a beautiful embryo, she is a flower in our ten miles and eight villages, all say that the girl in the mountains Shui Ling This is not false in her at all, I heard the people in the village say that she found a very rich money in the city, and she will enjoy happiness in the future, and she will never have to go back to this poor country to suffer, is this an invitation to her parents to go to her in-laws?
Master drove the car out of the bumpy mountain road to the wide road, the car gradually stabilized, and I slowly fell asleep in my thoughts.
I don't know how long the car was driving in the dark, and I stopped at a place where I said my name, and I woke up to the noise of the door clattering and crying, and I looked out the window when the sky was just dawning, and at this time Master and I were already on the outskirts of a certain city, and several buildings under construction were a little desolate, and the wind in the early spring of March was still a little cool, so I followed everyone out of the car.
I saw the three tigers crying like tearful people, and knelt down in front of Lao Zhang and his wife.
"Dad, mother, my sister, she was harmed......"
Old Aunt Zhang heard a slap in the face of the three tigers, "Mother, how to explain to you during the New Year, I must take care of your sister, how did you promise your mother?"
"Useless things" Uncle Zhang kicked the three tigers to the ground, and the old couple threw themselves at the corpse wrapped in a white cloth.
"Girl, daughter, what's wrong with you, didn't you call your mother yesterday, why did you say you just didn't listen to your mother and go home" The old couple lay on the corpse and cried.
Master gave me a look of hope and motioned for me to help the three tigers up, and I realized that I would drive the three tigers up.
"Three Tigers, what's going on, tell my brother" the master asked in a calm tone.
"Brother Zhuzi, my sister has been missing for three days, I have been looking in the city for three days, all the streets and alleys have been searched and my sister has not been found, I don't know why I found here all the way, just when I really couldn't hold on and was about to go back to the city, a voice appeared in my head, saying you go to the stinky ditch next to me to take a look, I just stepped forward to take a look, and I saw my sister lying inside"
So mysterious, I looked back at the corpse under the white cloth that had receded, Sister Tingting was still wearing a plum-red down jacket on her upper body, is this still the once beautiful and flawless Sister Tingting, she often played with me when she was a child, at that time, I was still joking with others, and when I grew up, I must find a beautiful daughter-in-law like Sister Tingting, but now, ...... My heart trembled, it turned out that Onmyoji was never far away from death.
Hearing these words and the current scene, the master locked his eyebrows for a while, and anyone could see that this was the most cruel way to cruelty to women.
This was the first time I had been so close to death, and I felt an extremely strong fear in my heart, and I wanted to retreat, but Master seemed to notice the change in my heart, and he patted me on the shoulder as if to say don't be afraid of Master's presence.
A middle-aged policeman got out of the police car next to us and walked towards us, and he said in a mournful tone:
"We have sorted out the first-hand information of the scene, and we have also taken photos, and the forensic doctor has confirmed that the victim has been dead for more than three days......"
"What" I haven't heard the police finish screaming, because when I came, I clearly heard Aunt Zhang say that Sister Tingting called home last night.
"What's wrong with you, young man, why are you so flustered, if you don't know clearly, we will arrest you as a suspect"
Master stopped me behind him and explained:
"Last night, this child called home, saying that she felt cold, and the old sister-in-law Zhang asked her to wear more clothes, comrade police, did you make a mistake in your judgment?"
Hearing our questioning, the female forensic doctor stepped out of the police car.
"How can it be, I have been in the industry for more than 20 years, how can I make a mistake in judging this most basic common sense, I swear in the name of my forensic doctor, judging from the characteristics on the corpse, the victim has died unnaturally for more than three days, this will not be wrong, you have to believe us"
"No, comrade policeman, you have thought too much," said Master.
Everyone gasped and stopped talking, this is too weird, people have been dead for three days, why did they call home last night, and then think about what she said on the phone, I feel cold, although this is the spring of March, but this spring cold is thrown in the ditch can not be cold? The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became.
The policeman and the female forensic doctor stood aside with nervous expressions, they whispered something and didn't know what they were muttering, they must have encountered supernatural events for so many years, it can be seen that they must not have encountered such a strange thing.
After a while, the police and the female forensic doctor turned around and said, "You first help the victim's parents up, since the victim does not have too many obvious injuries on his body, we decided to conduct an autopsy on the body, so as to clear the victim's grievances and return justice to the victim, which is why we have been waiting for your family to come."
Uncle Zhang, who was crying like crazy, heard that the forensic doctor was going to dissect Sister Tingting, and immediately held the body in his arms.
"You, no one is allowed to touch my daughter, whoever moves me, I fought with you, my daughter was so badly harmed, you still have to use the knife on her, what kind of heart do you have, you are also people with children, do you still have a little human flavor?"
"The families of the victims, we are also doing this to find valuable clues and evidence from the victims themselves, so that we can find the murderer and bring him to justice, we cannot let them go unpunished, if that happens, we are not doing our duty as a police officer and a forensic doctor."
It is not difficult for the police and forensic doctors to understand the excessive words of the old Aunt Zhang, people's hearts are full of flesh, whose children are hurt, not to mention the death so miserably, let the police, the forensic doctor and several other police officers persuade them, the old couple just can't listen, and the scene is deadlocked.
Master just went to the side and smoked a cigarette, and now he folds it back.
"There is no need to autopsy the corpse, I can find the murderer, let's take her to the funeral home first," the master said as if confident.
I stood aside and looked at the master, and said anxiously, 'Father, what can you do at this time?"
Several police forensic doctors were shocked at first, and then said: "This big brother, you are legally responsible for saying this, this is not a child's play about death."
"Give me three days and I will definitely be able to find the murderer, and if I can't find the murderer after three days, I am willing to take the charge of the criminal suspect and go to jail with you," the master said, handing his ID to the middle-aged policeman.
The policeman took the certificate and felt incredible, if this person was not a psychopath, why did he dare to take care of such a murder case.
"Erdan, follow me," I followed the master to the corpse, the master instructed me to wipe the mud off Sister Tingting's face, the master gently opened Sister Tingting's right eye, all the whites of the eye, there was no black pupil at all, the master began to stroke the ghost door on his forehead, he himself said to himself, "It has indeed been three days since I died, and the soul has already left"
I feel unhappy in my heart, 'Your sister, everyone has been dead for three days, the soul must have left early, and the three-year-old child can also see it, this matter is a big deal, I see how you end'."
I couldn't understand what Master had done to the corpse, and after a while he stood up and said to Sanhu Pull your parents into my car, and then he said to the police at the scene:
"I'll leave it to you, please"
With great effort, the three tigers and I finally pulled the old Uncle Zhang, who was crying and wiping away tears, into Master's car, and Master also got into the car and was about to drive away, when the middle-aged policeman came up and asked:
"Dare to ask who Comrade is?"
"Like you, uphold justice and peace on earth"
"You are Mr. Yin and Yang", for some reason, the policeman seemed to wake up, and said:
"I'm waiting for your good news, be sure to pay attention to safety, remember"
Damn, I'm a little surprised, Nima, the police also believe in ghosts and gods, this is too fucking fucked up, then again, the police don't have three heads and six arms, the police are also people, I think he must have met a very powerful Mr. Yin and Yang before, so he believes in the master, the reason why he dares to let the master do this, if the case is solved, the credit is theirs, if it can't be broken, the responsibility will be put on the master and the victim's family, who let you live and die and not let the autopsy.
The police have the difficulties of the police, and they can't do it too much, not to mention that this murder case is so entangled in fog, people have been dead for three days and can still call home, think about it, the hairs stand on end, and what is it that guides the three tigers to find here, ghosts, that must be ghosts who died unjustly, can you find a more reasonable explanation than this? The police must have understood the reasoning.