At four o'clock in the afternoon on Chinese New Year's Eve, at the reunion dinner held at Uncle Yan's house, his yard was large, four round tables were placed, and more than 40 people from the Lao Yan family gathered together.

The grandparents sat at a table, and below were the uncles and aunts, then the third generation such as me and Yanhuan, and finally the cubs, the children of my cousin's family.

The spacious courtyard has become particularly lively because of our arrival, the red lanterns are plastered with blessing characters, the frozen half pig in the warehouse, the two-foot-long Chagan Lake fathead fish and the goats that have just been slaughtered, the ingredients are complete, the middle-aged women at the aunt level have divided into several stoves to make cold dishes and fried food, and the remaining hard dishes will be served before the banquet starts at seven o'clock.

I introduced my relatives to Lu Lingyun one by one, and watched me give red envelopes to juniors, and he also followed suit.

I broke the bill again, and I thought that I would have to return the money to him when I returned to Mukden.

At the end of the night, when we had another meal of drinking and eating meat, my cousin moved his family's newly bought karaoke machine over, singing and singing, and releasing whips, messy and happy.

Lu Lingyun may have learned the lesson of the last time, no one persuaded him to drink hard, so I blocked a few bottles for him.

After eating until about 10 o'clock in the evening, the families began to withdraw and went back to make dumplings to prepare for the arrival of the new year.

My mother left early, she couldn't stand it too lively, and said that she wanted to wrap three kinds of dumplings, leeks and shrimp, pork, celery and fennel, which are my favorites.

Watching Yan Huan and their family leave, I also left with Lu Lingyun, drinking a little too much at night, my body was shaking, and I had to be supported by Lu Lingyun.

When I got home, my mother first asked me to go to the East House to squint for a while, and then asked me to eat her dumplings when they were ready.

I fell asleep groggily, but I had a terrible nightmare.

*****

I walked alone on a dark country road, my steps were fast, and my fast heartbeat made me even more frightened of my surroundings.

From time to time, I look back and see the endless darkness.

The cold wind blew on his face, and his hands and feet were already numb from the cold.

Suddenly, fireworks lit up over the village in the distance, and everything around became clear in an instant.

What the?

What exactly are you afraid of?

I ran as fast as I could, seeking the nearest distance to the distant village.

Away from the flat road, I rushed into the fields full of dry straw, and then ran to the frozen river, where the moonlight reflected like a mirror under my feet.

With a slight 'hiss' sound, I suddenly found myself on fire with my clothes.

The blinding white light surrounded my body, and I was terrified, and I tried my best to beat the flames, but the fire was like life, and the more I touched it, the faster it burned.

Exposed to the cold wind, his burned skin slowly fell to his knees on the ice, helplessly watching himself being engulfed in flames.

The charred fingers curled up in a ball, already hurting to the bone marrow but still not dead.

*****

"Ahh ————————" I exclaimed, sitting up, sweating profusely.

The wooden door of the east house was pushed open, and my mother and Lu Lingyun rushed in quickly.

"Cheng~~ Cheng, what's wrong with you?" My mother was so frightened that she hurriedly went to the kang and touched my forehead and asked.

In order not to let her worry about me, I calmed down, and whispered, "It's okay, I had a nightmare." ”

"Auntie, I'll stay with Xiaoyan for a while, you can go and get busy."

When my mother saw that I was really fine, she was relieved to go out and continue to make dumplings, Lu Lingyun found a towel to wipe the white noodles on her hands and then came to me, and asked with concern: "Dreaming?" ”

"Well, it's a horrible dream."

"Any clues?"

"Yes, on the surface of a frozen river, a man was suddenly burned to death."

"Burned?" Lu Lingyun asked with a frown.

I could only nod.

I looked at the clock hanging on the wall and said, "Let's sneak out and find the dumplings after eating." ”

Lu Lingyun agreed to my suggestion.

After half past 12, I confirmed that my mother slept in the West House and sneaked out of the house with Lu Lingyun with a lighting flashlight.

The only river within a radius of several miles is the Taizi River, which is not far from the village, and we walked along the embankment for more than an hour and finally found an anomaly.

"Brother Lu! You see!! I pointed to the ice.

I saw a black thing protruding in the middle of the river, with a strange shape like a charcoal man, and there was a smell in the air, stinky.

Lu Lingyun stopped me from moving closer to the thing, he carefully observed the surroundings and asked about the scene in my dream.

This matter is really too puzzling, a person ran and ran and burned, or on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Putting aside feudal superstitious theories such as cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, I don't know how to explain them.

Lu Lingyun took his mobile phone to call the police, although he was also a policeman, he said that it was better for the local department to deal with it.

We waited at the scene for two hours before we saw a white Santana with flashing police lights coming up.

Two people got out of the police car, one younger and one slightly older.

The young policeman's name is Bai Donghai, and just two years after graduating from the police academy, he was assigned to Longwu Town as a police officer.

The eldest is named Li Qiang, and he has been in charge of public security management and criminal cases in several surrounding villages and towns.

In rural areas like ours, there are basically no big cases, and there are constant small disputes, all of which are caused by villagers and villagers, because there are conflicts over fields, poultry and livestock, so the scope of police management is also different from that in big cities.

Li Qiang looked at the frozen middle of the Taizi River from a distance, shook his head frequently, and said: "No, we can't manage this case, let's quickly contact the city and let the criminal police come to investigate." ”

I pulled Lu Lingyun's arm and told him, this is the captain of the criminal investigation team of Fengtian City, wait until you contact the criminal police of nearby cities, it will be dawn, and when the villagers find out that there is a murder, it is estimated that the scene will not be protected.

Bai Donghai felt that it made sense, and he also persuaded Li Qiang.

This is the case, and since there is a professional, he has no choice but to agree. We took pictures of the passing ice with less professional camera equipment, and the closer we got to the charred corpses, the more terrifying we felt.

Those two cops must have had very little contact with this kind of thing, and their pace slowed down significantly, and they were still some distance away from me.

Lu Lingyun walked at the front, he stared at the traces left by the victim running on the ground, thinking.

The charred corpse was in a kneeling posture, except for the position where the calves were close to the ice, the rest was like black charcoal, and the open mouth still had teeth, and the contrast between black and white was clear, and the charred face was even more terrifying.

"How so? It's so scary. "I couldn't help but take a few steps away, in the nightmare I only saw a part, blackened fingers or something, and now when I look at the whole thing, the dumplings that I just ate in my stomach are starting to churn.

"The most tricky thing now is that we don't have Sister Zhang's help, and the autopsy is a problem." Lu Lingyun squatted next to the charred corpse, dipped his hand on the ice, I used a flashlight to help him illuminate, and found something white.

"Is it ice and snow?" I asked curiously.

Lu Lingyun put his fingertips in front of his nose and sniffed, and replied, "No." ”

"Ahh ——" We were talking when we suddenly heard Bai Donghai's panicked screams behind us.

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