I said, "As for what kind of role Chen Dabang played, I really can't make up my mind, but if it weren't for Chen Dabang, Widow Wang would definitely not know that there was such an altar in the fort." ”

Li Huaishan roughly understood what I meant: "You mean, the matter of the altar was told to the widow by Chen Dabang?" ”

I nodded: "It can be understood in this way, but it is not necessarily, maybe this matter was not told to her by Chen Dabang, but she learned the news from Chen Dabang in her own way." ”

Li Huaishan began to frown again: "What do you mean by this?" Hey, no, what kind of way are you, why don't you talk like the Seventh Master now, God is chattering. ”

I ignored the nonsense directly, and asked Li Huaishan: "What do you think, how does Chen Dabang treat Widow Wang?" ”

Li Huaishan held his head high and thought for a while, smacked his lips, and said: "Okay, he should be sincere to that widow, think about it, isn't it just a crazy woman, even if Chen Dabang doesn't want to take care of her business, others won't say anything." But look at it, not only did he accompany this woman to live in the fort, but just now in order to protect his woman, even if his arm was stabbed with a knife, he didn't say a word. ”

I nodded: "Well, Chen Dabang is really sincere to Widow Wang." I think that the people of the Chen family should know what is in the castle, and also know what the fate of the ghost debt will be, and with his feelings for the widow Wang, he will never tell the widow about the altar. But the karmic stones that appeared in the widow's house, as well as the sins that the widow is suffering now, all show that she really owes a lot of debts. ”

Li Huaishan: "Since Chen Dabang didn't say it, how did Widow Wang know about this?" ”

For this question, I can only spread my hands and two words pop out of my mouth: "It's hard to say." ”

Perhaps Chen Dabang wrote down the matter of the altar in his diary, and the widow Wang accidentally saw this diary, and not only learned that there was an altar in the fort, but also knew that the altar could bring her endless benefits, and it is difficult to say whether she knew what the price of the benefits was.

Of course, the carrier of the message is not necessarily a diary, it may also be a tape, an ancient book, or Chen Dabang inadvertently told the altar when he was drunk, or when he was talking in his dreams.

It's hard to say anyway.

Only one thing is certain, the widow learned of the existence of the altar and made a fortune with the help of the altar, and the furniture and electrical appliances in her house were the "blessings" that the altar brought to her.

Li Huaishan seemed to have a great interest in the matter of Widow Wang and Chen Dabang, and then asked me again: "Are Chen Dabang and Widow Wang human traffickers, and where have all the women from other places he brought back?" Dead, or sold? ”

I pinched the cigarette butt and sighed: "The fact that the widow has survived until now means that none of those women will survive." ”

Li Huaishan's eyes widened: "They killed people? ”

I shook my head: "It's not their own hands. The widow owes too much debt, and it is said that there should have been a ghost looking for her life a long time ago, and there is only one explanation for her survival until now, that is, someone has resisted her life. But this kind of thing is not something that anyone can take, it must be the same eight characters and the four pillars are similar, with Chen Dabang's ability, I am afraid that there are not so many people who match the eight characters. ”

Li Huaishan: "What do you mean?" ”

I said, "Do you remember, Boss Huang once said that whenever Chen Dabang brought a woman from other places into the village, it would not be long before a car with a foreign license plate would appear on the side of the fort. ”

Li Huaishan: "Ah, remember." ”

I asked him, "Have you ever thought about what kind of person the person in the car will be?" And the secret passage of the widow's house, how did it come about? ”

Li Huaishan scratched his scalp a little irritably: "Don't you keep asking me, didn't I tell you, I can't answer these things if you ask me." ”

I pouted helplessly: "I can't give answers to these two questions right now." But in any case, there must be a very common reason why that sedan can appear here. ”

Li Huaishan stuffed a cigarette into his mouth, twisted his body again, put his hand into the pocket of his jeans to find a lighter, and said while groping with great difficulty: "Did none of the women that Chen Dabang got back survive?" ”

I shook my head: "It's hard to say, this kind of thing can only be asked to Chen Dabang." ”

Li Huaishan lit a cigarette and then asked, "You asked Chen Dabang to go to the Dead Man's Slope to collect the bones...... What he collected were the bones of those women. ”

I nodded: "Well, the fort and the dead man's slope, one in the east, the other in the west, the sunrise, sunset, looking at each other from afar, most of the substitution techniques Alas, when the substitution technique is performed, it is necessary to live and die relatively, take care of each other, and live in the west, so I speculate that Chen Dabang will kill people in the east slope, and after the person dies, he will bury the body in the west slope, so that the dead will not turn into a ghost and come back to seek revenge." ”

Li Huaishan: "Didn't you just say that Chen Dabang didn't kill people with his own hands?" ”

I said, "He really didn't do it himself, he just locked people in that hut northwest of the fort and let the ghosts take their lives." Do you know why I just said that I don't care about the living? ”

Li Huaishan's head shook like a rattle.

I sighed, and then explained to him: "Because these things Chen Dabang did, to put it bluntly, it was illegal detention, and the person was not killed by him, but by a ghost, I guess he didn't feel sorry for others, and he wasn't even suspected of abduction, you say, how should this kind of case be judged." We can't kill him and the widow of the king, and if you tell them that you want to send them to the bureau, they will have nothing to fear, because there is no way to judge this kind of thing. On the contrary, if we manage too much, Chen Dabang may not be able to be sideways, and he will die left and right anyway, so he will not cooperate with us at all. To be honest, I don't care at all whether the widow is dead or alive, but what will happen to the villagers, if there is no pile of bones, I can't guarantee that all the villagers will survive. ”

Li Huaishan: "Aren't these things done by Chen Dabang considered abduction and trafficking of women?" ”

I asked him, "He didn't sell people, so how can he be trafficked?" Maybe it's not even a crutche, I guess that the women he brought were all paid by him, and before they were imprisoned in the hut northwest of the fort, Chen Dabang should have been very good to them. ”

Li Huaishan spat out a large puff of smoke from his mouth: "Hearing you say this, this thing is really difficult to do." But you can't just leave it at that, right? ”

I smiled, "Of course not. There are some things that we can't manage, but I think that there should be a way for them to manage them. ”

Li Huaishan nodded, and asked me after a while: "By the way, you didn't say it just now, what's going on with Chen Dafa?" According to your meaning, he should be a member of Shantang, since he is a person of Shantang, why should he owe a debt to the dead? ”

I said, "It's hard for me to make up my mind about Chen Dafa, but I guess he probably suffered that kind of misfortune to protect the people in the village." The previous generation of Lingniu lived past the age of twenty, and the descendants of Shantang should have realized that something was going to happen, I estimate that there should be many people in the village who are in debt, if it wasn't for Chen Dafa taking the initiative to make sacrifices, it would not be just his family of five who died. ”

Li Huaishan: "There are many people in the village who are in debt? ”

I nodded: "The fort is so close to the village, and the landlord who built this fort is also so close to the village, and the bloodline of their family should have taken root in the village a long time ago. If you owe a ghost debt, you have to pay the debt to the father and the son, and the children to pay the debt. ”

Li Huaishan's eyes widened: "So, Chen Dafa is a hero." ”

I shook my head: "It's hard to say, after all, some things are just my speculation, if you want to verify the authenticity, you have to ask Chen Laohan and Chen Dabang." ”

Li Huaishan nodded thoughtfully at first, but after a while, he asked another question: "You said, ten years have passed, and the ghost hiding in the fort hasn't troubled the villagers?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Assuming that Chen Dafa did sacrifice himself for the people in the village, then his sacrifice should not be meaningless, perhaps it is because of his sacrifice that the village has been kept peaceful for ten years." If Widow Wang hadn't owed so many debts, she would probably have been able to live in peace for the past ten years. But it's useless to say these things now, and when Rhubarb dies, the ghosts that are pressed on it will eventually come out. ”

With that, I took another cigarette out of my pocket and lit it silently.

Li Huaishan was also quiet for a while, but he was not a person who could endure loneliness after all, and after a few minutes, he asked endlessly: "How do you know everything?" ”

I raised an eyebrow and turned to look at him, "What do you mean I know everything?" ”

Li Huaishan said a little unhappily: "I can't think of what you think of, it's strange, I think your previous IQ is about the same as mine." ”

I smiled and said only two words: "Ancient books." ”

Li Huaishan immediately rolled his eyes at me twice, and squirted out a word from his mouth: "Damn!" ”

is still the same sentence, because he understands, so he sees through it, Li Huaishan is only because he doesn't have any understanding of similar things, and his mind is full of questions.

After that, Li Huaishan began to smoke sullenly, and after a long time without saying a word, I leaned my head against the wall again, looked at the slightly yellowed sky, and spit out a few puffs of smoke in a row.

Two and a half days, two and a half days later, the real test is coming, and when Chen Dabang comes back with those bones, Li Huaishan and I will be busy.

Looking at the wind and sand blowing from behind the wall battlements, I couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in my heart.

Those of us who are mixed up in our profession either spend our days in retreat, using all our lives to pursue the unsightly and untouchable path, perhaps not seeking eternal life, but only seeking an epiphany; There are also many people like me and Li Huaishan, who are running around, tired and tired, not to mention tired, and often hovering on the edge of life and death.

You say, "What are these people trying to do?"

The second master said that when people live in the world, they must always do a few things that do not seek gains and losses, but what can be regarded as not seeking gains and losses?

(End of chapter)