Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Wild House in the Deserted Village
The rain had not yet fallen, and the village chief led the way in front.
With an embarrassed look on his face, he took a few steps to look back, and after a few steps, he turned back again, slowing everyone's pace. "Director, do you have anything to say?" Lu Qingqing walked behind the director, saw the difficulty on his face, and asked him.
The village chief smiled bitterly, he folded his hands in front of his chest, and kept patting, "Otherwise, let's go back, you see the rain is about to fall......" He stopped, hesitating.
"Director, if you have anything to say, hurry up if you don't say it, and you will get wet when the rain falls." Director Zhu Fang urged him.
"The situation of their family, they can't hide from the rain even if they go in." Seeing that everyone had no intention of going back, the director had to continue to move forward, "But it's useless to go." Yan Yan's ears are not good, and she can't hear others, so she simply doesn't open her mouth. Son Liu Baochang is crazy, he doesn't even know what his name is, and he can still hope to get something useful out of his mouth? The director was extremely reluctant to go towards the house, as if there were countless evil spirits waiting for him inside.
Finally walked to the field in front of the house. In order to make full use of the land to grow crops, people dug the originally wide road a little bit every year under the strong urging of selfishness, and now it has become the current situation - only enough for one person and a cow to walk back and forth, and the production can be walked side by side in front of the household.
The doors of the house were all open, and under the action of the wind, one by one, they were slapped on the door frame. The house was dark inside, and there were no lights on. All these scenes send a message to people - weird.
Lu Qingqing couldn't help but lean towards Xu You's side.
Suddenly, a miserable scream came from the middle hall, "There are ghosts, there are ghosts...... A figure escaped very quickly, almost hitting Zhu Fang. After all, Zhu Fang is the head of the police station, and his skills are good, his upper body is tilted to the side, his feet remain in place, and the man touched Zhu Fang's feet, stumbled, and fell into a dog eating.
The force of the fall was so strong that when the man raised his head, the flesh of his face had been scratched in several places.
I saw him: the ears and long hair were messy, the sludge and grass had been soaked and condensed on the tips of the hair after a long time of sweat, his face was oily and black, and he couldn't distinguish the specific location of his facial features, only his eyes flashed outward. He was wearing an autumn coat on the upper half of his body, one sleeve was long and the other was short, and the large hole in his chest exposed the flesh that had just been scraped on the ground, oozing blood. The lower half of the body is wearing a pair of shorts, the key parts are almost exposed, and the slippers are wearing holes in the upper, revealing the black toes inside.
The pain of the flesh scratching made him cry out so loudly that he forgot about the ghost for a moment. Everyone looked at him with questions in their eyes.
"This person is Liu Baochang." The village chief said.
What a disappointing start.
Hearing the village director talk about the situation in Yan Yan's family before, everyone always had the mentality of trying, thinking that the situation might be better. Now that I see Liu Baochang himself, I know that it is really the same whether he comes or not.
"Uh-huh......" a voice came from the back of the house, dull and painful. Wu Ping and Xu You heard it almost at the same time.
The two of them started and ran into the nave quickly, through the next door, to the inner room behind the nave. The wind was very strong, and the others couldn't distinguish the human voice from the messy sound, but when they saw Wu Ping and Xu You running inside, they followed closely.
The windows in the middle were only panes, no glass, and they were constantly flapping in the wind. Looking outside, there are neat terraces, and a figure on the ridge of the field is sprinting up the mountain.
Xu You jumped out of the window first, and Wu Ping jumped out with him. The window was very high, and the legs were hit with a lot of force, and the soles of the feet and joints were in labor. There was a pile of broken glass in the corner of the wall outside the window, Wu Ping's shoes were punctured, and after a sharp pain, fiery red blood flowed out from the tears in the shoes. It can be guessed that the dull cry of pain just now was also because of the punctured foot. Wu Ping didn't care about the pain in his feet, and chased forward with all his might.
After such a toss, the distance between the three people was widened. The man fled in front, Xu Yu chased in the middle, Wu Ping was at the end, seeing that the distance was getting bigger and bigger, Wu Ping took out his pistol and fired two shots in a row to warn, but the other party's speed did not slow down at all.
Wu Ping felt very strange, the man's foot had been punctured, but Xu You couldn't catch up. After a few more seconds, the figure of the man completely disappeared at the end of the terraces. Zhu Fang and Lu Qingqing caught up. Lu Qingqing helped Wu Ping look at his injured foot, the wound was very deep, and the bleeding should be stopped immediately.
"Leave me alone, go help Xu You." Wu Ping reluctantly gave the order.
Zhu Fang continued to chase forward, Qingqing stayed behind to take care of Wu Ping, she knew that Xu You was very skilled, and besides, it didn't help her to catch up.
At this moment, a blast of thunder resounded in the sky. In the distance, the water of the terraced rice fields could already be seen splashing as the raindrops fell, and soon increased dramatically, and the rain finally fell and poured down.
Lu Qingqing and the village director helped Wu Ping to walk into the house. The rain came so fast that by the time we entered the house, everyone was soaking wet, but fortunately it was not cold in the summer. Liu Baochang sat on the ground, wailing and crying, the rain washed away a lot of the sludge and turf from his hair, and the oil on his face was also diluted a lot. No one cares if he lives or dies.
The rain leakage in the middle hall was serious, and the three of them were crowded in the corner of the wall where the tiles were heavy, barely covering the rain. Lu Qingqing planned to find a stool for Wu Ping to sit down. Go to the left and go to the hall, there is only a table in it, and further inside, there is a bed. She withdrew and walked to the right, and suddenly saw a person sitting on a stool under the side wall of the hall, an old woman of sixty or seventy years old, and it was obvious that she was Yan Yan. Her ears were not good, and she didn't hear what was happening around her, so she could sit still.
Both were startled by the other's presence, "Who are you?" Yan Yan stood up with the corner of the table beside her, her body trembling a little.
Lu Qingqing slowly approached Yan Yan, "Auntie, I'm a policeman, don't be afraid." But the other party did not hear what she said.
Lu Qingqing reached into his trouser pocket, took out his documents and handed them to Yan Yan.
Yan Yan took it, stretched out her hand to the distance outside her eyes, and by the light of the lightning shining through the window, she could see clearly the police badge on it and the prominent word "public security". "Oh, comrade policeman, is there anything I need help with?" Yan Yan can read and speak, and she can also speak Mandarin, all of which were taught by Shi Jing back then.
The hall was relatively dry, and the roof near the entrance was leaking rain, and the wind was still very strong, carrying the rain from the doorway and window into the house. "Director, you can hide from the rain here, please help Captain Wu over." Lu Qingqing spoke towards the middle hall, she walked over and closed the door to stop the rain, the window had no glass, and it was the same whether it was closed or not.
The village chief helped Wu Ping to sit on another chair in the hall, there were only two chairs, and he and Lu Qingqing were standing. "This is Yan Yan, she can't hear us."
Wu Ping wanted to ask her who was the person who jumped out of the window and escaped from the back room of the middle hall, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed it back, since she couldn't hear it, it was in vain to ask.
Yan Yan was not surprised to see so many policemen suddenly appear in her home, she only recognized the village director, so she asked: "Director, comrade police were brought by you, what's the matter?" ”
The director only wrung out his clothes, and did not answer Yan Yan's questions, with Lu Qingqing here, he was embarrassed to take off his clothes, and only wrung out the places that could be wrung out, but it was still very uncomfortable to wear like this. Damn the weather, he was thinking, damn errand, he was scolding in his heart. He hoped that the rain would stop as soon as possible so that he could go back and change into clean clothes.
"I don't know how to hide from such heavy rain, what should I do if I get sick if I get drenched like this." The old man stomped his foot on the ground, very angry. The village director thought he was talking about him, thinking that this old woman was really nosy, but he looked up and found that Liu Baochang was already standing at the door of the middle hall.
When did he come in. Everyone was busy sorting out their embarrassed appearance, but they didn't notice Liu Baochang's appearance.
Yan Yan came out of the back room, holding a dry towel in her hand, probably because it had been used for a long time, it had become black and yellow. She wiped her son's head and face, until she saw the bruises on his face, "What should I do, you look like this, what should you do if I die." The old man was angry and distressed, and she didn't care about the outsiders next to her.
Xu You, Zhou Fuxi, and Zhu Fang walked in from the middle hall before and after, their clothes were not an inch dry, and their whole bodies kept flowing down. It can be seen from the expression that the person did not catch it.
Who will he be and what to do here. Wu Ping pondered.
It's not that Xu You can't catch people, with his foot strength, he doesn't need to chase for three minutes to catch people. From jumping down the window and seeing the figure of the man, Xu You knew who he was. His running movements, his back, are all too familiar - that is Cao Guisheng, and it will never be wrong.