I couldn't force Nie Cai to bring her daughter out for me to ask, so I had to look at the front and back of the house again.

Because there is only one street in the entire Gaopo Village, two long rows of houses with red bricks and black tiles are neatly arranged on both sides of the street.

Naturally, the front doors of the two rows of houses are facing the street, and the back doors of these two rows of houses have a vegetable patch for themselves. Beyond the vegetable patch, there is a large field of crops.

At the back door of Nie Cai's house, there is also a vegetable field for itself, which is at the turn of spring and summer, and all kinds of vegetables in the vegetable field are growing gratifyingly.

I stood in front of the vegetable field and looked into the distance, and I saw that at the end of the crop field, there were rolling mountains.

Village Chief Zhang pointed to the high mountain and said that the old site of their Gaopo Village was in that mountain.

When I asked the police if they had found any suspicious clues in front of the house and behind the house, Village Chief Zhang looked at me suspiciously and asked me, "Since Comrade Gao has come to investigate, hasn't he contacted our local police?" Comrade Gao...... What kind of identity is it? I see that the words of several countries on your certificate will not be ...... What kind of journalist or something, right? ”

It's not the first time I've encountered a problem like this, so I took out my ID again and told him I was a "difficult case investigator."

"I'm in a different system from the local police station, so I usually try not to disturb the local police station! For example, I think the case of the old village chief's suicide is quite suspicious, but if I am sure that the old village chief committed suicide in the end, then I am now contacting the local police station, isn't it adding to the burden on them out of thin air? ”

After all, Village Chief Zhang is only a village chief in a remote village, and he doesn't know much about the police system, so my words made him more and more confused, but he couldn't ask questions, so he could only nod his head in approval.

"At that time, the little girl was screaming in the house, and the neighbors heard it and ran over, so they ...... To be honest, the scene has been damaged, and by the time the police came to investigate, the house was full of footprints and handprints of neighbors! Village Chief Zhang told me.

And I had already expected an outcome like this.

In fact, in our country, the rural population is relatively concentrated, and the legal awareness of most peasants is still very weak, so once there is a case, rural people will always flock to the scene.

A small number of them are eager to help, but most of them are crowded to see the excitement.

By the time the police came to investigate, it was basically difficult to find useful clues.

So I skipped this question and asked when the grandparents of the little girl, that is, the son and daughter-in-law of the old village chief, were lost.

Village Chief Zhang replied: "It was the day before the old village chief died!" At that time, several people had been lost in the village in a row, so his wife disappeared in the morning and did not return in the evening, and the villagers thought that the two of them might have suffered bad luck, but they did not expect it...... The two of them just got lost, and the old village chief also ......"

When Village Chief Zhang said this, he sighed even more, and then continued.

"Many days have passed since the death of the old village chief, and not even one of the seven lost people, including his husband and wife, has been found!"

I couldn't figure out what the connection was for a while, so I had to say goodbye to Nie Cai and ask the village chief to take me to visit the homes of several other lost people.

According to the people in the village, the seven people who went missing all got up quietly in the middle of the night and left.

The family all found the door open the next morning, but the man was nowhere to be seen.

I asked if there were any cameras installed in the village, and he said, "Because we are a government-built resettlement house, when we first moved here, there were indeed several cameras at the head and end of the village. But it's been six or seven years since we moved out, and nothing has happened quietly, so those cameras have long been discarded! ”

"Do you have a rough estimate of where these people have gone?" I asked again.

"It's hard to estimate!" Village Chief Zhang shook his head, "After our village moved out of the mountains, many girls in the village married into nearby villages and even in the county seat, and some boys married women from other villages, but ...... These days, relatives and friends have all looked for places, and there is never a trace of those seven people! ”

I lowered my head to think about it, and suddenly a possibility came to mind.

"Will it ...... Have these people gone back to your old village in the mountains? I asked.

"This ......"

There was a look on Chief Zhang's face that made me feel uncertain, as if I had asked a question that was difficult for him to ask.

So I immediately asked, "Is there anything bad to say?" Still is...... Village Chief Zhang has already been to the old village? ”

"I haven't been!" Village Chief Zhang hesitated to answer, "The police comrades who came to investigate before also thought of this possibility, so they specially asked our village people to take them to the old Gaopo Village where we used to live, but the result was ......."

He suddenly stopped, and his face showed a little embarrassed and worried.

I immediately realized that something else strange had happened to the villagers.

So I asked again, "But what?" ”

"But...... It's been six or seven years since we moved out, and in that time few people have gone back to where we were, so ......" he stopped again, and after a long while, he finished his words with a look of shame, "we can't find the place where we used to live!" ”

I was so surprised by this that I couldn't help but blurt out, "How is that possible? That's where you've lived for a few lifetimes, just a few years, and you can't find that place? ”

"yes, we think ...... I'm ashamed! Village Chief Zhang shook his head again and again, "We went more than once, and the second time, I personally led the way!" But...... When I got to the mouth of a forest, I got lost, and if it weren't for the accompanying policemen with pointing instruments, we wouldn't even be able to find our way back! ”

I was even more curious and asked, "How many times have you been there?" Did they all get lost when they walked to the mouth of the forest? ”

"yes!" Village Chief Zhang nodded, "I went there three times, the first one was the way led by one of the most powerful hunters in our village, this hunter often goes into the mountains to hunt and collect medicine, and it can be said that he is very familiar with the terrain in the mountains, but ...... On the first day, he took a few policemen and turned it dark at the mouth of the forest, but he could not find his way into the mountain. The next day, I personally led the way, and I lost my way at the mouth of the forest. Later, a few days later, several villagers went into the mountain with the police, this time going deeper, but as a result, not only did they not find their way into the mountain, but one villager got separated and turned out of the mountain the next day. After that, we did not dare to go further into the mountains, and the police comrades did not dare to force us anymore. ”

I became more and more convinced that there was some supernatural element to this.

And this supernatural factor, since every effort is done to prevent people from going to Lao Gaopo Village, then if you want to uncover the mystery, I am afraid you still have to go to Lao Gaopo Village.

So I asked the village chief, "Can you take me into the mountains tomorrow?" Rest assured, I have a very advanced direction finder to ensure that you will not get lost in the mountains. And I don't ask to go to the old address of your village, just lead me to the mouth of the forest! ”

"This ...... I'm afraid it's a little difficult! Village Chief Zhang immediately looked embarrassed, "I couldn't enter the mountain three times in a row before, and another villager almost couldn't come back the third time, so ...... The people in our village did not dare to go further into the mountains, and even the police comrades did not ask our village people to lead the way. ”

"Or else!" I immediately said, "You help me ask the other people in the village to see if anyone is willing to help me lead the way, and you tell them that if they are willing to help me lead the way, I am willing to pay 300 yuan for the way!" If you are delayed on the way, I will add two hundred when you go back to the village. ”

A few hundred yuan is nothing to the city people, but it is not a small amount for the rural people who have not been out of the mountains for too long.

So Village Chief Zhang thought about it for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay!" Comrade Gao has said everything about this, and when I have dinner, I will go door-to-door to help you ask! ”

It was almost evening, and I didn't think I could find anything in the village, so I asked Village Chief Zhang if he could help find a place to stay in the evening.

Village Chief Zhang said: "The small two-story building at the east end of the village was built by a foreigner when he moved here three years ago. Because he has always been single and has a lot of empty rooms at home, he opened a small supermarket and a hotel room upstairs. If there are guests from other places, he will not only rent the house to the guests, but also help the guests cook the dishes. ”

The two-story building at the east end of the village was the only one in the entire village, so I noticed it as soon as I entered the village.

However, I only saw a plaque hanging above the door of the small building, which said "Xinglong Supermarket", but I didn't expect that it also functions as a restaurant and a hotel.

So I thanked the village chief and asked him to find the guide and come to the small supermarket to find me, and then I went to the small building.

Because the resettlement house was not built on a traffic artery, there were few outsiders in the village, and the small supermarket was basically only patronized by people from the village.

However, there are more than 400 people in this village, and there is only such a small supermarket, although the business is not very good, but it will not lose money.

And as I approached the small two-story building, the first thing I heard was the sound of eating and laughing.

I'm someone who has a fiancée, and that laughter seems quite ambiguous to me.

It may be because there is a supermarket inside, and two glass doors are installed in the small building.

But when I looked through the glass door, I only saw rows of neatly arranged goods, but I couldn't see half a figure.

So I coughed loudly as I reached open the glass door.

The laughter ceased immediately, and a girl ran out from behind a row of shelves, glanced at me with a blushing face, and then squeezed out of the glass door with a low face and ran away.

A young man of twenty-eight or nineteen years old also came out from behind the shelf, he was more than 1.8 meters tall, and he was obviously stronger and burlier than me.

(See Chapter 337 "Handsome Guy from Out of Town")