Soon the bell rang for the end of the morning, and it was the last class of the morning.

Because the students ate at school at noon, I was looking for a student to help me call Fan Yaoqiang out, but I didn't expect a student to come to me first.

He was on the thin side, but for a child of his age, he was neither tall nor short.

And with his delicate face, it is easy to see the shadow of Li Geng and Huang Lili.

So I asked first with a smile: "Are you Fan Yaoqiang?" ”

"It's me!" The boy replied.

A child like him, faced with a stranger, should have a curious and uneasy look in his eyes, but he didn't.

He looked at me in the eye, and it actually reminded me of calmness and composure.

"You're a cop?" He asked.

I was slightly stunned, but instead of denying it, I asked, "How do you know I'm a police officer?" ”

"Because you're not my uncle!" He replied.

It's so brief, even I, an adult, have to think about it a little before I can understand it.

Presumably, his homeroom teacher had told him that his uncle had come to look for him, but when he came out and saw that I was not his uncle, he immediately realized that it was before the police were still investigating.

I can't help but admire his alertness.

And like this kind of alertness, not to mention other children of his age, even many adults, I am afraid they are ashamed of themselves.

"You're smart, no wonder your homeroom teacher is full of praise for you!" I say, from the heart.

He smiled and asked me, "Why didn't the policeman who sent me back last time come?" ”

I felt that he was already wary of me, so I tried to be as gentle and kind as I could.

"Because I'm from the city bureau, I found some suspicious points from the case file handed over below, so I have to re-investigate!"

Don't say that I cheated on children, in fact, many times people are mistaken for police officers, and I will not deny it.

Because of this misunderstanding, it can make my investigation easier.

Fan Yaoqiang turned his eyes and looked into the distance, as if he didn't know how to deal with my words for a while.

But soon he turned back and looked at me calmly.

"Just ask!" He said.

"Why don't we find a place to sit down and talk while we eat!"

He thought about it too, nodding his head.

We found a fairly upscale western restaurant near the school and sat down.

The reason why I look for a Western restaurant is because the western restaurant is quieter and more convenient for communicating with each other.

Fan Yaoqiang seemed to have been to this place, and after I finished ordering, he actually took the initiative to open his mouth and add a cocktail.

"You're only twelve years old, and you still have to go to school in the afternoon, so are you sure you can drink?" I asked, looking at him with both eyes.

"This wine has a very low alcohol content! Once upon a time, a classmate had a birthday, and when we came here for dinner, we all ordered the same cocktail, don't believe it, ask the waiter! Fan Yaoqiang said.

The waiter didn't wait for me to ask, and preemptively replied: "The degree is really low, just like red wine!" ”

I didn't object anymore, so I just asked for a drink myself.

While I was waiting for the food to be served, I wondered how to speak.

Unexpectedly, Fan Yaoqiang looked at me with two eyes, and said first: "Uncle policeman, you are so young, can I call you big brother directly?" ”

"Okay! My surname is Gao, you can call me Brother Gao directly! I nodded and smiled, looking at him cautiously, "I heard your parents say that you don't remember what happened last time you went back to Ling County, really?" ”

Fan wanted to scratch his head strongly, and finally showed a little cramped and uneasy that a child should have.

"It's not ...... I don't remember at all, but ......"

He didn't seem to know how to phrase it, and I looked at him encouragingly, and he took a breath and abruptly changed the subject.

"You policemen all say Li Geng...... It's just that my former dad didn't kill anyone, so why do you want to continue to investigate this matter? ”

"So you actually remember that?" I immediately asked rhetorically, and followed closely, "Then why did you tell your parents that you don't remember what happened in Lingxian at all?" ”

"Can I not say that? They treat me like my own, and they're so cowardly that if I tell the truth, I'll scare them to death! ”

He let out a long sigh and lowered his head and twisted his fingers, as if he was guilty of lying to his parents.

I waited a little before I asked him again, "Then why did you go to Lingxian with your parents behind your back to do that thing?" Why do you say that Li Geng killed someone? ”

Fan Yaoqiang scratched his head again, and after a long time, a sentence came out: "You won't believe what I say, so why ask!" ”

"Tell me about it! Honestly coming this time, I'm ready to believe everything you say! I replied, trying to be as sincere as possible.

Fan Yaoqiang glanced left and right, and suddenly leaned closer to me, lowering his voice as much as possible.

"Brother Gao, I often dream of it...... Li Geng kills people, really! Especially...... Before I returned to Ling County, every night I would dream that Li Geng was holding a woodcutter and viciously slashing at a person! I think...... If I don't hurry up and prove that Li Geng has killed people, I will definitely die myself! ”

When he said the last sentence, his voice trembled slightly, and he looked very scared.

I asked him, "Why do you think you're going to die?" ”

"Because ......" he looked left and right again, and suddenly shuddered, "Brother Gao, I think there are really ghosts in the world, and this dream I have is...... The ghost who was killed by Li Geng wants me to avenge him! ”

His face was pale, and his lips trembled, so much so that I felt a slight hair.

So I hurriedly patted his hand as a sign of comfort.

"You don't believe what I say, do you? I don't believe in the world...... Are there really ghosts? He asked me immediately, with a look of disappointment on his face.

"No, I believe it!"

I nodded, wondering if I should explain to him more, when the waiter brought the food.

I shut up and took a sip of the cocktail, feeling that the alcohol content was not too low.

Looking up at Fan Yaoqiang, he also took a sip of his wine glass.

I thought that since he was so sensible, he should not get himself drunk, so I didn't stop him.

After that, while eating, the conversation continued.

"Do you remember anything before you were four years old? Like what...... That night in the sawmill, half of your biological father Li Geng's hand was sawed off by a hacksaw, what happened that night, do you remember? "I asked the most important question.

"I really can't remember this exactly!" Fan Yaoqiang shook his head blankly, "I just remember that my mother coaxed me to sleep, and when I woke up, it was already my grandmother in front of me!" The old woman beat me viciously, saying that I took Li Geng...... It was my dad who killed him! Then they gave me to my current parents! ”

It is not unusual for a four-year-old child to remember so many things, but he has no memory of what happened in the sawmill.

And that ghost is the one who is giving him a dream now?

I felt as if I had fallen into a big pit, as if everyone was telling the truth, but there were many loopholes and doubts in everyone's words.

Including this twelve-year-old.

A twelve-year-old is not supposed to be the age to be scheming, but I don't know why, I just feel like he's not completely telling the truth.

Of course, that's just my feeling, and I feel that there will be times when things go wrong.

So I tried to convince myself of what the kid said, and asked him, "Since you often dream that your biological father Li Geng killed someone, why can't you tell what the surname of the person killed by Li Geng is, and where is it?" Also, the burial site you provided didn't find any bodies, if you say ...... The ghost really exists, so has this ghost asked you a dream again to tell you where his body is? ”

To tell the truth, in the face of a twelve-year-old child, I'm afraid that only I, a "supernatural" investigator, would seriously discuss the topic of ghosts with him.

The police officers who had contact with Fan Yaoqiang before would 100% think that he was "ghosts and dreams", which is nonsense.

So much so that Fan Yaoqiang actually lowered his head and was stunned there for a long time before swallowing the food in his mouth and looking up at me.

"Do you really believe what I say?" He asked. Not excitement, but surprise.

"Don't you want me to believe it?" I asked rhetorically.

"Of course I want you to believe it!" He blinked, showing a very touched look, "The previous police asked me where I knew that Li Geng had killed someone, and I said that I had a dream, and they immediately looked disgusted, as if I was a madman!" ”

"Then tell me, have you had this kind of dream again in the recent past? Did you figure out in the dream, what was the name of the person Li Geng killed, and where was the correct place to bury the body? ”

"Nope!" He shook his head, but quickly, nodded again, "I mean, I continued to have that dream, but I still don't know who Li Geng killed!" Because...... I only saw Li Geng kill people, and the place where I saw him kill people was in a cave, and a big locust tree grew outside the cave! After they killed someone, they buried the body under the big locust tree! ”

"Them?" I immediately caught the language in his words, "You mean, when you dreamed that Li Geng was killing someone, there was another person?" ”

"yes!" He nodded, "There's another woman, but...... I can't see what that woman looks like, I just know that it must be Li Geng who killed people! ”

I didn't expect that this murder case, which I don't know existed, would involve a woman.

But, because a woman was involved, I actually began to believe that this child was telling the truth.

(See Chapter 010 "The Upper Body of the Ghost")