Chapter 285: The Portrait
Fortunately, Boss Huang is also more interesting and doesn't talk about it anymore. щ.lā
I don't know when I fell asleep, but I remember that night, the familiar dream reappeared, this time, my body had crossed the sand dunes, and once again entered the deep burial tunnel.
When the sky was slightly bright, Boss Huang got up from the kang, I didn't hear his movement because I slept late, but Li Huaishan woke up and asked Boss Huang why he got up so early.
I was actually woken up by Li Huaishan's voice, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Li Huaishan was about to sit up on the bed, and after a while, Boss Huang stepped over me.
He said: "I'll go and see Lao Chen, this old man can't get a good night's sleep." He crossed Li Huai Mountain.
After Boss Huang said this, I reacted, there were only three of us on the kang, but Chen Laohan was not there.
Boss Huang's movements were very fast, and after getting off the kang, he put on his clothes and went out.
I looked at my watch, and although it was still a little dark outside, it was already past seven o'clock in the morning.
Li Huaishan and I were not ambiguous, and got up quickly.
Before going to bed last night, I planned to get up early this morning, and take advantage of the fact that there was no one on the village road, so I first touched the widow's house to have a look, but I didn't expect to oversleep.
As soon as I got out of the bedroom, there was a window in the living room on the left, and I glanced out the window, and I saw that Chen Laohan had moved a maza, and was sitting next to Rhubarb smoking, and Boss Huang was standing next to him with his waist crossed, and he was also taking out a cigarette case from his jacket pocket.
Originally, Chen Laohan's eyes fell on Rhubarb, but as soon as Li Huaishan and I leaned against the window, he turned his head and looked at the window.
As soon as he saw us, Chen Laohan shouted at us: "You can solve this morning's meal by yourself, there is meat and noodles in the kitchen." ”
Eating is a real headache for me, although I don't get hungry easily, but the amount of food is too large, and it takes a lot of time and energy to fill myself every time.
Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, I didn't dare to delay any longer, so I could only give up this meal in the morning and take Li Huaishan out of the house.
Chen Laohan spat out a big puff of smoke and asked me from afar, "Why did you come out?" ”
I didn't talk nonsense, and asked him directly: "Where is Widow Wang's house?" ”
Chen Laohan: "The tallest earthen house in the north of the village is. ”
I nodded and immediately beckoned Li Huaishan to go out.
When he crossed the threshold, Boss Huang asked in the back: "What are you two looking for Widow Wang for?" ”
Li Huaishan and I didn't reply, we walked out of the yard quickly, and after a while, I heard Chen Laohan say in the yard: "Don't make trouble for others, stay honest!" ”
Boss Huang: "Hey, I said Lao Chen, didn't you let others into your kitchen casually?" ”
Li Huaishan and I were walking very fast, and when Boss Huang said this, we had already turned into a small road running north and south of the village.
Because of the distance, I couldn't hear the conversation between Boss Huang and Chen Laohan clearly, and I didn't know what they said later.
According to my previous assumption, at seven o'clock, there were already a lot of people on the village road, but after coming out of Chen Laohan's house, I found that there were no ghosts on the road except for me and Li Huaishan.
At first, I was a little uncomfortable with the desolation on the road, and I always felt that this phenomenon was very abnormal, but when I looked back, I understood what was going on.
It was already very cold in Xihaigu in December, and in this kind of weather, no crops could be planted, and the villagers who stayed on the loess slope had already started the annual cat winter, at this point in time, most people were staying in front of the soil kang, waiting for the cold of the early morning to be dispelled by the afternoon sun.
There was no farm work, and the weather was so cold that you could freeze your nose, and only fools went out early in the morning.
I took Li Huaishan to the north of the village and saw the house of the widow at a glance.
The house was next to the road at our feet, and it was obviously taller than the surrounding village houses, but not too high, probably five or six more bricks than the others when the house was built.
Seeing that there was no one around, Li Huaishan and I didn't talk nonsense, and went directly over the wall into the courtyard.
According to Chen Laohan's words, Widow Wang has not lived at home for a long time, but there are a few clothes hanging in the courtyard of their house that have not yet dried.
How can a widow have a man's clothes in her house?
Worried that there were people in the house, Li Huaishan and I leaned down, bent down and ran with the fastest and lightest steps, and quickly approached the door of the house.
The two of us were on either side of the door, our backs to the wall, and our eyes briefly peered over the courtyard.
It doesn't matter if you wait and see, Li Huaishan and I are both scared into a cold sweat.
It was only when my gaze fell on the northwest corner of the courtyard that I realized that there was a hut made of bricks, and the door of the hut was slowly opening.
My first reaction was, there's someone in the house! Li Huaishan also leaned over, as if he was about to rush towards the hut.
The door was opened with a wide gap, and I found that there was no one on the other side of the door at all, so I immediately reached out and pulled Li Huaishan to hold it.
After a few seconds, the door was completely open, and there was no one in the doorway, but it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.
Li Huaishan breathed a sigh of relief, turned over and pointed to the door behind him, intending to ask me if I wanted to go in.
The doors and windows of this house were tightly closed, and even if I used the Divine Concentration Technique, I could not see the situation in the house under the vision of the Great Qi Quicksand, and in desperation, I could only cautiously raise my head and glance into the window.
As soon as my eyes fell on the room, my heart trembled again.
As I looked through most of the living room, I saw a pale face, and when I looked into the room, the other person also squinted and stared at me.
Fortunately, I was still calm, and immediately noticed that my eyes in the window were not shining, and when I looked closely, I realized that what I saw was not a human face, but a portrait on the offering table.
Then I listened carefully to the movement in the room, and it was very quiet, and after such a long time, there was not a sound at all.
I can basically conclude that there really is no one in the house.
I tried to push the door, but it was locked, and I couldn't open it at all.
Li Huaishan saw my action of pushing the door and asked me in a low voice, "Is there anyone in the house?" ”
I nodded and asked him, "Do you pick locks?" ”
Li Huaishan rolled his eyes: "Big brother, if I knew how to pick the lock, I wouldn't have to sleep at your door for a night." ”
It's a hassle to not open the door, it seems that there will be time in the future, and we should study the craft of picking locks.
The door wouldn't open, so I had to shift my gaze back to the window, which was still the same teacher's shaft sliding window, and the glass on the window frame was first fixed with fine nails, and then plastered with glue around the edges.
Kicking the door is definitely not good, the sound is too loud, and although the sound of smashing the glass will be quieter, it will still alarm the neighbors of the widow Wang.
In desperation, I had no choice but to take out my teeth and start to remove the glass.
Scrape off the holes around the glass with your teeth, then pinch the thin nails that hold the glass in place with your hands and pull them off one by one.
After tossing back and forth for more than a minute, I removed a piece of window pane, and then I reached into the window, unscrewed the window, and pulled the window open.
When I was pulling out the nails, I still made some noise, but there was still no reaction in the room.
Li Huaishan saw that there was really no one in the room, so he said to me boldly and with confidence: "I don't see it, your methods are quite professional." ”
I frowned: "Professional fart, if this is a sliding window, the two of us will have to smash the glass." ”
As I spoke, I grabbed the edge of the window and drilled into the house.
Li Huaishan also frowned and said, "Listen to what you mean, do you still want to learn to pick locks?" ”
After I entered the room, I quickly swept the living room again, and made sure that there was nothing abnormal before I spoke: "Learn, you must learn." ”
Li Huaishan pouted his lips while drilling into the house: "What are you doing with that thing, we are not thieves." ”
"As long as it is a craft that can come in handy in the future, we all have to learn it."
As I spoke, I walked over to the offering table and took a closer look at the furnishings.
As soon as I entered the house, I smelled a heavy rotten smell, which was the smell of rotten fruit, with a little bit of alcohol pungent and a little sweetness in it.
As I had guessed, the smell came from the offerings on the table, and it was now impossible to discern what was in the plates, some of which had rotted into water, and some of which were left with nothing but a black, fluffy mess of filth, and the only thing that could be identified was a pair of completely black banana peels.
Next to the offering table was a brazier, in which most of the ash and two unburned sheets of yellow paper were piled up lifelessly.
I pinched a bit of it with my hand, put it in front of my nose and sniffed it.
Even though the climate was unusually dry, the ashes were still a little damp, and there was a rancid smell of fruit, presumably when the fruit was rotting, and the rotting liquid flowed down the corner of the table into the brazier.
At this time, Li Huaishan also came over, he looked at the portrait on the offering table, and asked me, "This person is the man of the king's widow, right?" ”
I threw away the ashes in my hand, clapped my palms, and said to Li Huaishan: "I'm afraid that the news that Chen Laohan got is different from the actual situation. ”
Li Huaishan: "Huh? Then he asked me what I meant by that.
I pointed to a laughing shrine in the corner of the room: "The statue was supposed to be placed there, but it is estimated that during Halloween, the widow set up an offering table and moved the statue out of order to worship her deceased husband." Braziers and tributes are also prepared on Halloween. If you see how thoroughly these tributes are rotten, it means that the widow has not touched the offerings since Halloween, or that she is not able to put away the contents on the table. In other words, she was already crazy on Halloween's day. ”
After listening to my words, Li Huaishan was stunned at first, and then smiled: "Are you being caught by a ghost or what's wrong, why did you suddenly start reasoning, is it that the detective has seen too much recently." ”
Seeing his prodigal appearance of a hippie fortune teller, I was immediately annoyed: "Don't be a hippie fortune teller here, you give me a serious look!" ”