I really wanted to go to Chen Laohan's house to have a look, but Boss Huang obviously didn't plan to go back so early, so he leaned in front of the car door and talked to Li Huaishan about the mountain.

He asked Li Huaishan about the ghost asking for his life, and Li Huaishan told the case in Kunming Urban Village half-truthfully, after all, it was with personal experience, and it was particularly vivid when Li Huaishan's mouth came out, and Boss Huang was stunned for a while.

However, Li Huaishan didn't put all his mind on storytelling, he would change the topic from time to time and ask Boss Huang about the situation in the village.

I really opened my eyes, it turned out that Li Huaishan's language organization skills were so strong, I knew that he was deliberately inquiring about the situation, but whenever he asked "how many households are in this place", "are there any more distinctive buildings in this area", etc., I didn't feel abrupt at all, because he could always lay the groundwork before asking these questions.

As far as my personal morality is concerned, I actually hate people who love to lie, but aside from this point of view, Li Huaishan's ability to express himself that has been hidden for many years does provide us with great convenience.

In Li Huaishan's seemingly casual question, Boss Huang showed the surrounding environment of the village in front of us little by little.

In the west of the village is a dead man's slope, what is called the dead man's slope, as the name suggests, is the place where the dead are buried, the people in the village have multiplied generation after generation in this seemingly very barren land, there will always be someone to get old, there will always be someone to leave this world, and the dead man's slope is the final destination of the deceased.

Of course, the name of the Dead Man's Slope was given by Boss Huang, for the locals, the small hill that is not too high carries too many ancestral memories, and it is a very memorable place, but it is just to commemorate it in my heart, except for the old man's sacrifice day and Qingming Festival, no one wants to go to that place.

In Boss Huang's words, the place is very evil, and many villagers who pass by there on night roads have bumped into unclean things. What's even more strange is that every day after the sun turns west, the sun shines down the top of the Dead Man's Slope into the middle of the village, and the light seems to be affected by the yin energy, and becomes gray.

I don't know if any of the villagers who passed through the Dead Man's Slope at night had ever encountered ghosts, but when I passed by the middle of the village before, I did feel that the sunlight there was a little dim, which was very abnormal.

After talking about the east side and the west side, about 500 meters east of the village is a farmland, and after the farmland and then three kilometers to the east, there is a fort built on the top of the loess slope, and the top of the slope of the dead man's slope is far away.

Boss Huang once asked Chen Lao about the hamburger, Chen Lao Han told him that that place was the place where the landlord lived before the founding of the People's Republic of China, because of the bandits in Xihaigu, the landlord's family often had their own private arms, and the courtyard wall of the landlord's house was also built into a mud wall, and there were gun buttresses on the wall buttresses, and on the four corners of the wall, there were also wooden towers in the past.

Due to the age, the wooden towers have long been nowhere to be found, and only the walls of the same color as the loess slopes stand.

Later, I checked the information, in the Xihaigu area, there are indeed many similar forts, but they can be kept to this day, but it is very rare, but all those that can stay, the quality of the project can be regarded as outstanding, which can also be seen that the people living in these forts have strong financial resources.

Boss Huang told us that the locals have an old saying, called "Don't go west at night, don't go east in the morning, and don't go north all year round." ”。

The Dead Man's Slope to the west is haunted, which has been mentioned before.

The village rumors that a few years ago, there were a few men with very strong yang energy who entered the fort before the sky was bright, but they have never come out since then, and even the villagers went in to look for them, but they did not find any trace of these people.

As for why these men went to the fort before dawn, Boss Huang couldn't say clearly, he just said that Chen Laohan seemed to be very taboo to talk about the things of the year, and every time he asked, Chen Laohan either changed the topic or pretended not to hear.

And not going north all year round, which means that the land north of the village should not be passed at any time.

But Boss Huang couldn't tell why he couldn't go to the north of the village, because Chen Laohan didn't tell him.

In fact, if you look at what Boss Huang said, you will find that there are many things he said and didn't say, but at least he made us understand one thing, there is indeed a problem in this village.

According to Gai Dong, before handling the case, you should first ask an insider about the situation, Boss Huang is obviously not a qualified insider, but he has already told us who the real insider is.

After Li Huaishan finished his long list of speeches, I opened my mouth to ask Boss Huang: "According to this, such a village seems to be unsuitable for living people, so why don't the locals move away?" ”

Boss Huang's answer was simple.

Because of poverty.

He said that now there is one young man in the village, all of whom have gone out to work, and some of them have mixed a little better, so they have taken out the old people and women in the family, but most of them still have no ability to earn a stable place to live outside, so they can only go out to work alone, leaving the old people, children, and their wives behind.

That's why Li Huaishan and I have been in the village for so long, but we rarely see young men.

Boss Huang also said that according to the customs of the locals, the women in the family are not allowed to go out to see people often, so most of the time only men go out to work, women stay at home to take care of the children, occasionally there are more independent young women who go out to work, when they return to their hometowns, they will be regarded as an outlier by the old people in the village, and their treatment is similar to us outsiders.

In other words, as long as the women in the village leave their homes to work, this small village full of loess will no longer be their hometown.

I'm not in a position to talk about the strange customs of the place, but I know that things that shouldn't exist will sooner or later die out in the wind and sand with the passage of time.

Perhaps in five or ten years, the loess slope of the hundreds of village houses that bears this bearer will only be a piece of loess.

Boss Huang's words made me more interested in Chen Laohan.

Since the people who mixed better have left with their families, why is he still here?

Seeing that the time was not early, Boss Huang said that he was a little hungry and asked us if we should go to Chen Laohan's house for dinner first, I really wanted to see Chen Laohan as soon as possible, so he simply said that I was also hungry.

Boss Huang took the first step, and Li Huaishan and I dragged our suitcases and followed him all the way, passing through most of the village and coming to the easternmost part of the entire village.

Along the way, I kept an eye on the surrounding situation, and when I walked to the middle of the village, the sunlight obviously became a little gray, and Boss Huang seemed to hate such sunlight, and suddenly accelerated his pace as he passed through the middle of the village.

Since Boss Huang wants to go to Chen Laohan's house to buy a cow carcasse, why didn't he park the car in the east of the village?

Here I have to briefly explain the road conditions in the village, compared with the urban village in Kunming, the road here is a little wider, but the ground is all natural loess layer, probably because no one has repaired these roads for many years, so that the road is potholed, very difficult to walk, although the local cloudy rain should not be much, but in case of rain, the car is parked in one place, the loess on the ground becomes mud after being damp, and the car wheel may sink into.

In case this kind of thing really happens, Boss Huang will ask the villagers to help him push the cart, but the villagers will never help, and when the time comes, they will either abandon the car, or call the towing company in the city, and when the trailer company comes here, maybe the cattle corpse of Chen Laohan's family will stink.

So Boss Huang had no choice but to park his car in the west of the village, where there is the only stone road in the village, although it is not very easy to walk, at least there is no need to worry about his car dying in the rain.

The above content is not my speculation and conjecture, but the bitter water that Boss Huang poured out of his heart on the way to Chen Laohan's house.

I can feel that it really takes a lot of courage for Boss Huang to travel thousands of miles to such a place to buy dead cattle. At the same time, I was also puzzled where Chen Dabang parked his car.

When he came to the door of Chen Laohan's house, the door was pushed open.

As soon as Boss Huang saw the door moving, he immediately raised his hand and motioned for me and Li Huaishan to stop.

We immediately stopped, and we saw a hairy head squeezing out of the crack in the door.

It was a very sturdy old scalper, and I was standing not far away looking at it, and it also stopped, blinked, and looked at me with very gentle eyes.

Behind the cow was an old man who was a little depressed, and when he saw his cow stop, he immediately frowned, and then he raised his head, and his eyes also fell on me.

I just rolled my eyes and glanced at the old man quickly, then moved my gaze to the cow.

Just now, the moment I and Lao Niu looked at each other, I felt that there seemed to be something different on it, I can't tell what it was, but I could feel that what was on it was what was on me.

It's a weird feeling, as if my right hand is still on me, but it's on someone else.

In addition to gentleness, the old cow's eyes also revealed a little excitement that almost couldn't wait, and such eyes seemed to want to tell me that it had been waiting for me for a long time, and I finally came.

All the weird feelings were quickly forming in my mind without warning, and I immediately understood that it was intuition.

At this time, the old man standing behind the cow said: "Go out and have a look, and take another walk while you still have some strength." ”

The ox seemed to understand the old man's words, and it lowered its head slightly, and slowly crossed the threshold.

When the door was opened just now, it still looked very strong, but after looking at me a few times, all its strength seemed to be drained, except for the fact that there was still a little excitement in its eyes, but its demeanor and movements showed signs of aging.

I realized that its end was approaching.

(End of chapter)