My name is Yang Xiaoqi and I am 25 years old. It's been four years since I graduated from the police academy. One of the things I am most proud of is that I once fought seven bandits during my internship in the police station, and as a result, the tendon of the little finger of my left hand was cut by a dagger, although it was connected after the suture. But every time the left hand clenched hard into a fist, there was a brief but violent pain.

Of course, this doesn't affect anything, but it allows me to cool down quickly in any situation.

After graduating from the police academy, I was not hired at the police station where I was interning. I traveled to two cities as a police officer, and was eventually assigned to this remote mountain town as a police officer. It is said that it is a police officer, but it is actually similar to an ordinary police officer, who often manages family trivial matters between neighbors, civil disputes, and the like.

This kind of work is extremely boring, and I can't imagine the tedium of never doing it. I never thought that this would be the result, otherwise I would not have gone to the police academy against the old man in my family.

It's not that I'm complaining about anything, in fact, when I'm bored, I always think about why I had to be a police officer in the first place, is it really that the black cat sheriff watched too much when I was a child? I'm not sure.

This town is known locally as Qingyang Town. The town is built on the mountain, the population is not large, but the area is quite large, and I often go out for ten or twenty miles and cannot find a village. If you are walking alone on a barren mountain road, you are really a little scared.

It's still daytime, and it's even worse if it's night, and even a person like me who came from a police academy doesn't want to go on duty at night. But fortunately, although the police station is also on duty at night, I have not encountered a night mission in the three years I have been here.

Because of its remote location, the conditions in the house are very difficult, and in winter there is no heating, and we can only light a few honeycomb coal stoves when we work, which is dangerous and unwarm.

There are not many people in the office, and the director knows that there is almost nothing to do on the night shift, so there is only one person who arranges for the night shift, plus an old man who watches the gate. The old man's name is Wang Dehai, and we all call him Uncle Wang.

Uncle Wang is very hot, so when I work the night shift, I always ask him to drink two glasses, of course, I have to drink secretly, I can't be caught by the director, otherwise I will be punished.

I forgot to mention that my house is not here. Although the police station also has a dormitory, I did not live in this dormitory, but rented a private house on the edge of Qingyang Town. There is no other reason for this, because the landlord will turn on the heating himself in winter. The rent is not expensive, only 200 yuan a month.

It was my turn to work the night shift that night.

I brought a bottle of Niulanshan and a pound of peanuts at home, because it was winter, it was too cold, so I didn't ride a bicycle. He put on a military coat and walked to the office.

Uncle Wang's hut is called a comfortable one, he specially bought a small iron stove that burns coal, the chimney turns two circles to the window, the stove is placed in the middle, and you can also eat shabu-shabu when you have nothing to do, which is called a moisturizer.

I went in and took off my coat, where Uncle Wang was sitting in a pot and boiling water. When he saw me go in, he said, "Xiao Yang." You're on duty again today. Come, let's eat the pot later. I bought the lamb here. ”。

"Okay. Uncle Wang. With that, I put the bottle of wine and peanuts on the table.

There is not much fun in this life, but there is a sense of fulfillment.

After a while, the pot was boiled, and Wang Bai and I took two small maza and sat next to the stove to eat the pot.

It's too cold today, and the weather forecast says it's more than 20 degrees below zero. The north wind was howling outside, which was not an exaggeration at all, and it really made a "whining" sound when the wind swept over the branches.

When I drank a few glasses of wine with Uncle Wang, his tongue became bigger, and this little old man was good at everything, but after drinking, it would become a chatter. And I basically don't say a word after I drink.

The two were just the opposite, he said his, and I just ate it there. He also knows my character, and he doesn't get angry.

"Xiao Yang. Just this road to the Li family, do you know? He said.

Lijiatuozi is the name of a village, located in the north of Qingyang Town, that is, a lonely village, and there is no village adjacent to it. There are also few households in the village, only about 30 households.

The road leading to Lijiatuozi is also very desolate, more than 40 miles of loess road, potholes, and in some places cars can't pass.

"Yes. What's wrong? I said casually.

Uncle Wang smashed his mouth, drank a glass of wine again, and said, "I'll tell you." Walked that path? ”。

I don't know why he asked, but I did walk that road once, but it was during the day, and I went with a colleague. Not to mention, that place feels like a hairy feeling when I walk in the daytime. Maybe it's because there's a cemetery there.

"Walk through." I say.

Wang Dehai smiled, leaked out his smoky yellowed teeth, and asked, "Have you walked through the night?" ”。

He laughed mysteriously, to be exact, a little gloomy. I felt a cool breeze up my neck for no apparent reason.

I shook my head.

Wang Dehai seemed to know that I hadn't walked through the night.

He lit a cigarette and exhaled a smoke ring, his eyes narrowed, as if he was trying to remember the past. Finally, he spoke, and said, "You must not go to that place at night, it is very evil." ”。

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Wang Dehai didn't seem to want to say it, so he instructed me: "As long as you avoid that place when you go to work at night." Several local police officers in our office never went to the road of the Li family. ”。

My curiosity was hooked, and I quickly filled the old man with a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "Uncle Wang, you see that we basically don't show up at night in our office, just talk about it, and let me have a long experience." ”。

I'm telling you the truth, I've been working here for three years, and I haven't heard of a police call at night.

Uncle Wang put the cabbage in the pot, stirred it with chopsticks, and said, "Look at your baby, why are you interested in everything?" ”。

I smiled and didn't answer, just urged him to say quickly.

You may not know it, but every night when I talk to people about some evil things, I feel very excited, especially in winter, when the north wind is blowing outside, the house is warm, and I talk about some things that make people feel terrible. I won't change that feeling even if I give me a big girl.

Wang Bodao: "I was thirty-six that year. It was also a big winter, and I remember it was about ten o'clock that night. I'm coaxing the kids on the kang. I heard the village chief shouting on the loudspeaker, saying that Qi Lijuan in the village was missing, and asked everyone in the village to go out to help find it. ”。

I listened to it and felt a little fake, and asked, "Why is a good person gone?" ”。

Uncle Wang glared at me, but you didn't listen.

"Listen to it. You say," I said with a hippie smile.

Wang Bo continued: "I was also working in the village committee at the time, so of course I can't ignore this kind of thing. I organized seventeen or eighteen old men in this village to go out and look for it.

Of course, I can't be idle, just ask around the village to see who saw Qi Lijuan. Good thing there's a clue.

Someone told me that he saw this girl in the afternoon when he was in town, and the man asked her where she was going. Qi Lijuan said that she was going to her grandmother's house in the Li family.

As soon as I heard this, I was angry, I must have stayed at her grandmother's so late. Why did Qi Lijuan's parents still let us come out to find someone.

I went to Qi Lijuan's house, and his father also went out with everyone to find someone. Only her mother was at home.

I asked, sister-in-law, you are too inauthentic. When your children go to grandma's house, they want us to find them. This big night does not let people stop.

I had a fire in my heart, so my words were a little excessive, but I didn't expect that girl to stare at me when she heard me say this, as if she wanted to scold me.

At this time, just in time for her man to come back, he asked what was wrong.

I told him that someone in the village had said that Qi Lijuan had gone to her grandmother's house.

And guess what? ”。

I shook my head and urged him to speak.

Uncle Wang drank the wine in the cup and said, "His father said that his mother-in-law and mother-in-law were gone two years ago. Also, his wife's mother's family is not the Li family's son, it is in our town. Do you think it's weird? ”。

I said, "Maybe that person heard it wrong, or maybe this Qi Lijuan said it wrong." ”。

"That's right."

"Oh? And what about later? "I'm interested.

Uncle Wang lit another cigarette and said, "Later, I took someone to the road of Li's house to find it." As a result, Qi Lijuan was found in that cemetery. The girl knelt on a grave like she was stupid, holding a comb and muttering."

"What did she say?" I asked.

She combed the weeds on the grave again and again with a comb, and said, 'Grandma, I'll comb your hair..... Grandma, I'll comb your hair....." Uncle Wang said in a gloomy voice.

I didn't feel comfortable listening to it, and I asked, "What about later?"

Wang Bodao said: "Later, that girl entered the mental hospital in the county. If you were alive now, you would be in your forties. ”。

There's nothing evil about this, looking at what he said about the mysterious gods, isn't it just a hallucination that people are crazy. I used the knowledge of the police academy to give the answer.

It was already past nine o'clock after eating. I put on a military coat and went to the duty room, Uncle Wang drank a little too much, and fell asleep on the bed in the house.

When I arrived at the duty room, I sat on a chair wrapped in my clothes and fell asleep. This dress belongs to my father, it is very fat and can be used as a quilt. But I'm a bit taller, so I'm not clumsy to put on. When I was on duty in winter, I often wore this military coat with a badge on my shoulder, which was warm and convenient.

I fell asleep slowly, but not deeply. In a daze, I felt a woman with a disheveled hair standing outside with a comb in her hand. He said, 'Grandma, I'll comb your hair.' Grandma, I'll comb your hair.'"

Suddenly, the woman entered the house, holding a red mahogany comb in one hand and a small mirror in the other. As he leaned towards me, he lowered his head and combed his hair in the mirror, muttering, "Come, I'll comb your hair... Come, I'll comb your hair...".

The hairs on my body stood up one by one, and my hands began to clench into fists, clenching very hard.

The piercing, short-lived pain in my left little finger immediately woke me up.

Subconsciously, that punch was still punched. Nothing hits, it's just a knee-jerk reaction of humans.

Light sleep is prone to nightmares, and it was only then that I realized that I was already drenched in sweat.

I lit a cigarette, and I didn't feel sleepy anymore, so I just sat there.

There was a slight noise outside, and my brain was stirring, and my eyes were on the window. I saw a twenty-eight cart lying on the ground outside.

With a "bang", a man broke in.

Dead, dead. He shouted.

My head exploded, and it was the first time in three years that I had come across a person who had reported a crime like this. Asked, "Who died?" Where is it? ”。

The man seemed frightened and stammered, "Lee... Plum... The Li family... Li Jiatuozi... on the way. ”