I followed Zhang Kailong along the provincial highway for three hours, and drove on the country road for about half an hour, and finally came to Hewang Village.

Hewang Village is Zhang Kailong's hometown and a village on the edge of the Yellow River.

"Chiron! Are you back? ”

"Yo! What kind of wind blew Captain Zhang here? ”

……

Obviously, Zhang Kailong is also a promising person in the village, and he became the captain of the Public Security Bureau in his early thirties. As soon as he entered the village, many people greeted him.

Hewang Village can only be regarded as Zhang Kailong's hometown, after he picked up his parents a few years ago, he sold the old house and has not returned for two or three years.

We first bought some gifts in the small supermarket in the village, which is simple and nothing more than daily necessities such as cigarettes, alcohol, sugar and tea.

Old man Gao should be almost eighty years old, living in an alley at the east end of the street, Zhang Kailong said that he also had a wife when he was young, and then for some reason, he went crazy inexplicably, and then disappeared directly.

Before he disappeared, he did not give birth to a boy and a girl to Old Man Gao.

He does have a nephew, but as the saying goes, "there is no filial son in front of the bed for a long time", let alone a nephew!

The three of us (including the driver of the car) walked one after the other into a courtyard without a gate, and in front of us were three small adobe houses.

"Is Uncle Gao at home? Uncle Gao......"

Zhang Kailong shouted twice.

"Who?"

An old voice came from the room.

"It's me, I'm Chiron! Come...... Come and see you! ”

Saying that, Zhang Kailong glanced at us and walked in.

"Chiron? Profound! It's Joon's boy, you're ...... Why are you back? ”

I followed Zhang Kailong into the house, and was immediately robbed by a strong smell of coughing, the smell in the room was too bad!

An old man with a bald head and a wrinkled face curled up on the earthen kang, and the quilt and mattress were so dirty that they couldn't see the original color.

Seeing that we were carrying something in our hands, the old man's eyes turned green, and he hurriedly shouted for us to sit casually.

They say they sit casually, but how can there be clean seats in the house! There were two chairs and a small bench, but there was a thick layer of dust attached to them, and it was impossible to sit on them.

"Uncle Gao, we won't sit down, I just want to ask you something!"

Zhang Kailong said softly.

The old man Gao smiled embarrassedly, and kept muttering, "I'm old, and my legs and feet are not good, so I don't ......use it."

Hearing that Zhang Kailong was going to ask him something, the old man was also stunned, straightened his waist hard, and replied: "You ask me about things?" I...... I haven't left this house in more than ten years? ”

Old man Gao became a little overwhelmed.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll just ask." Zhang Kailong hurriedly explained.

The old man nodded.

"Uncle Gao, we have encountered a case in the bureau, so let's not talk about it......"

Zhang Kailong told the murder before and after, focusing on a pinhole in the center of the eyebrows and a copper gourd.

The old man nodded slightly as he listened, and his face changed halfway through hearing this, and his whole body began to tremble.

Seeing this, I thought to myself, there is a door!

"Chiron! You're a cop now, and you're going to have to solve any case, but ...... But I still advise you to leave this matter alone! I'm afraid that if you want to take care of it, you can ...... I can't manage it. ”

Looking at Old Man Gao's face and tone of voice, I concluded that he knew what was going on, but he just didn't want to say it.

"Uncle Gao! You also know that I am a policeman, and if I am a policeman, I have to investigate the case! If you know anything, tell us! These hundreds of dollars can be regarded as a thank you for providing clues! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Kailong took out three hundred yuan from his pocket.

Maybe Old Man Gao hasn't seen money for a long time, let alone a hundred-yuan bill, and the moment he saw the money, his eyes lit up.

But he still didn't reach out to take it.

Zhang Kailong smiled and put the money on the kang, pulled his face, and said in a low voice: "Those five girls died so miserably, they all died, and their souls were still sealed in the copper gourd, and they were replaced by ......."

Before Zhang Kailong's words could be said, Old Man Gao interrupted: "Kailong! Don't talk nonsense, I'll tell you everything I know, and as for what to do next, decide for yourself! ”

Only then did I understand that Zhang Kailong just now used the method of agitation and pity, he knew that the old man Gao had no children under his knees, and he also liked children the most, so he played the card "The deceased is a child".

"This should be the 'Twelve Soul Snatchers'!"

Old man Gao's face changed, and he lowered his voice and said.

"Twelve Soul Snatchers? It's ......"

The three of us heard this name for the first time, so naturally we didn't understand, Zhang Kailong hurriedly asked.

"This is one of the most vicious ghost cultivation techniques in this area of the Yellow River, and the last time I heard someone use it was ...... forty years ago."

Old man Gao said that a few decades ago, there was a kind of folk witchcraft in the Yellow River area called "raising little ghosts".

Speaking of which, "raising little ghosts" is just a very general term, and the specific points can be subdivided into several factions.

Among them, the old man Gao belonged to the kind of faction that made a fortune by relying on ghosts when he was young. This faction can be regarded as the most "clean" faction, which only seeks wealth and does not harm others.

When the old man Gao was young, he liked to gamble, and he found that among the people who gambled together at that time, there was a person surnamed Wang who blocked three times a day, and he would win every gamble, which aroused his curiosity.

One night, after the king gambled three times. happily went home with the money, and the old man Gao quietly followed him and hid outside the window of his house.

The man surnamed Wang was a bachelor who lived alone, but after squatting outside the window for an hour, he heard the man surnamed Wang not knowing who he was talking to.

Suddenly shocked him into a cold sweat, he wanted to leave quickly, but after thinking about it, maybe there was a master behind his back.

At that time, the old man Gao was also red-eyed, so he listened to it with courage.

Listen carefully, the one surnamed Wang seems to be feeding a child......

At this moment, the old man Gao, who had calmed down, panicked again: This guy didn't steal someone else's child! But it's not right to think about it again! There was only his own voice in the room......

The more I thought about it, the more wrong I became, and the more curious I became.

Finally, I mustered up the courage and pushed the door open.

After pushing the door open, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

There are no children, and there are no so-called extraordinary, and the one surnamed Wang is incense on a tablet! There are also a few red eggs in front of the tablet.

When the surnamed Zhang saw the old man Gao, his face changed, and he hurriedly used his hand to cover the rank, but he was still seen.

Seeing the names of the people on the ranks, Old Man Gao felt terrified.

This turned out to be Li Mingwei's tablet.

Li Mingwei accidentally died a child in the village half a year ago, how could his tablet be in the house of this surnamed Wang!

At the beginning, the surnamed Wang also tried his best to quibble, saying that the two of them had relatives, and this was to help worship and ask for good luck.

But when he was young, the old man was not good at men and women, and he didn't believe in these nonsense at all, and in the end he had no choice but to explain everything: it turned out that his trick to winning every gamble was to raise a little ghost at home.