Chapter 9: The Tiger is Back
At night, there was no one in Tianjiagou, but the lights in the windows of each house were on.
As he passed by the haystack where the body was found, Wei Zhun stared at the river and quickened his pace. There is a strange smell in this place, not a stench, not a fragrance, so...... I can't say it, it's just unpleasant.
The stone bridge goes to the ancestral hall about 1,300 meters, which is not too far.
From afar, you can see the light emanating from there, the ancestral hall is very old, and there is no electric light, probably the seventh woman is there, lighting a candle. There are more than 200 graves at the entrance of the ancestral hall, those who have money or those who have no money, all of them are engraved with their names, and the tombs outside are relatively ordinary, and the Tian family has a rule, and they have done things that are beneficial to the whole clan, so that they are qualified to enter the ancestral hall and be worshiped by the incense every day.
"Where is the Seventh Mother?"
Wei Zhun shouted, but no one answered.
Also, what time is it now, the seventh woman is old, I'm afraid she will go back to sleep a long time ago.
So who can light a candle?
In addition to the central hall of the ancestral hall, there are rooms on the east and west sides, the east house is dedicated to the spiritual seat, there are two cabinets three meters high, the west room is used for the other party's miscellaneous items, in most cases, that side is empty, and there are a few old shovels and hoes that no one uses.
It feels weird, there seems to be someone in the east room, there are candles lit in the atrium, but there is a black rumbling in the east.
As soon as I approached the East House, there was a disgusting smell, which was much more smelly than feces. Wei Zhun covered his nose and mouth, his fingers were about to touch the door panel, he heard the footsteps of someone outside, and he was walking very fast. Quickly retreated in the direction of the Westinghouse and closed the door.
The door panel was tattered, and there were gaps to see the outside.
Come in with a child, isn't this a tiger? He was completely naked, his whole body was yellow, and he pushed open the door of the east room bare-chested, and did not close it.
Wei Zhun jumped in his chest, and felt a little spasmodic convulsions all over his body - Huzi was obviously dead, how could he still appear here!
Huzi is really 'back'......
The sound of breathing slowed down, and it was better to stop, and there was a voice coming from there: ......Whoa, who Whew...... Ahem, ahem, aw......
The sound was sometimes loud, sometimes small, making Wei Zhun feel cold, and he could hear the clashing of his teeth, but he couldn't control it.
Huzi went out, still naked, but he dragged something out with a rope. The rope was on his shoulder, and he mustered all his strength: "Whew!"
"W-wh
"W-wh
The thing was dragged out of the threshold, like a giant caterpillar, but Wei Zhun knew that it must be a corpse. I can't see my head, I can't see my eyes, I can't see my hands and feet, my whole body is translucent, and I was dragged by the tiger in the direction of the door, and my body ...... Is it He Meiqin? Will it? It doesn't matter anymore, the rope is pulling so hard that it's almost slipping.
Huzi turned his head to look, put the rope back together, and patted the huge, fluffy strange thing: "Hehe, it'll be fine, let's go out together."
Trembling all over, Wei Zhun couldn't help but touch the cigarette, wanted to smoke one, took out the cigarette, but his hand was too tense and broken.
There are no windows on this side of the ancestral hall, so you can't see the outside.
For a while, but I don't know how many hours and seconds I walked, and when the sound was completely gone, Wei Zhun sneaked out, he went to the East House to see, the ground was all black, like slime, this smell !!
It was also quiet outside the ancestral hall, only the chirping of crickets, Huzi, noβit's 'Huzi', where did he go?
Poof!
There is the movement of something falling into the water.
Behind the ancestral hall is the river, a shallow river less than two meters deep.
Touching the dark, after passing, the tiger is no longer there, under the moonlight, in the downward slope, the river can be seen at a glance two hundred meters away. But he saw the caterpillar corpse, floating on the surface of the river...... Floating...... The transparent flesh was cracking, and pus was dripping from it, like squeezing toothpaste, black, red, yellowish mucus.
Huzi 'came back', then this corpse can only be explained as He Meiqin.
"Alas!"
was greeted by a greeting, Wei Zhun almost fell on his head, and his body also lost his balance.
The old man who shouted was Tian Guangjia, a lonely old man, in Tianjiagou, his seniority was the highest, and he was the only one left among the people of the light generation. This old man rarely interacts with people, and he is too poor, and the people in the village dislike him for his snot and sloppyness, and he has never cared about this person, and his home is more than 500 meters northeast of the ancestral hall, and he is lonely.
Fortunately, it is a human being, not a terrible thing, Wei Zhun ti's heart relaxed, and his heart was still beating rapidly: "Hey...... It's Uncle Guangjia, you're scared to death. β
Tian Guangjia's flashlight did not move away from his face: "You are ...... Director Xiao Wei?"
"It's me."
Wei Zhun looked at Hanoi again, and the body was gone, leaving a thin skin bag floating on the water.
Tian Guangjia stood on the other side of the river, didn't come, far away from the bridge, he sighed: "It's a big night, what are you doing here?"
"Nothing."
This night passed, and Wei Zhun ran back to his residence, which was the first time in his life that he was afraid of the dark. There will always be a feeling that in the dark, in Hanoi, there are 'people' who have been reborn and come out naked, which seems like a good thing, but it is too scary.
Too sleepy to get some sleep.
At seven o'clock, there was a knock on the door, and Tian Zhaolu was outside.
Take a deep breath, God forbid, don't die anymore. It could be 'so-and-so is back', 'so-and-so is not dead', this is in the daytime, not in the night, and it will not be scary.
"Zhaolu, what's wrong with you?"
Tian Zhaolu's face was obviously not a ghost, and he was still very confident and angry and shouted at Wei Zhun: "Director Wei, the glass of my house has been smashed, you have to take care of this matter."
It turned out to be a petty thief.
"I won't trouble the village chief about this, I'll look for you."
Wei Zhun put on his pants and asked, "Have you lost anything?"
"I didn't lose anything." Tian Zhaolu crossed his hands on his hips: "If you don't lose something, you can't do it, my glass is broken and needs to be repaired, so I can't spend money to buy it." There was a theft in the village, and you, the director, have to figure it out for me. β
I've always looked down on myself, and now I'm looking for something wrong, and I'm really shameless.
Get dressed, Wei Zhun wants to take a look, maybe he can use the money in the village to get a piece of glass first, everyone knows that Tian Zhaolu's family is not short of money, and the old man has business in the town, but he is such a person, he doesn't pull out a dime. Before he went out of the door, Tian Zhaocai also came and blocked Wei Zhun.
This person didn't even bother to call the director: "Wei Zhun, I have something to do with you."
Tian Zhaolu said that he was not available: "I came first, there was a theft at home, and the glass was smashed, you have something to say."
"What?! Your glass has been smashed, too?"
It's strange that these two brothers came for the same thing.
I went to Zhaolu's house first, but the glass I visited was gone, not smashed by someone, but someone broke the nails on the window, and then forcibly took it down.
Glass shards are missing.
Wei Zhun was attentive, and saw that where the glass was originally fixed, there were finger marks falling on the dusty wooden frame.
"Hey, yes." Tian Zhaolu was confused, and he came up to see it: "Grandma's, which bastard is looking for a beating, and dismantling Lao Tzu's glass."
The thief couldn't be found in a short period of time, so Wei Zhun let him take some time.
"Director Wei, I'll leave the matter to you."
"You can't pretend nothing happened, my house is still waiting for the glass to be used."
It seems to be a big deal, isn't it just a piece of glass, how much is it?
Walking back, Wei Zhun thought about this, the thief just steals the glass, not anything else, this is too funny, is there such a stupid person in the world? Besides, what can be stolen from the stove.
passed by the door of Zhaofu's house, and saw Xiaowei sitting at the door, crying and mourning.
"Xiaowei." Wei Zhun passed: "Where's your father?"
"I went to the ancestral hall, and the village chief said that he would find someone to cremate my mother."
After chatting for a few words, someone hurriedly came over and called Wei Zhun: "Director Wei, why are you here, come with me to the ancestral hall, the village chief is looking for you."
At the entrance of the ancestral hall, the village chief, Tian Zhaofu, Huang Daoshi and several other people were standing.
"Master Huang, did Wei Zhun really come last night?"
Huang Daoshi told the truth, but his psychology was not a taste, and he felt that he had harmed Wei Zhun: "Village chief, Wei Zhun can't steal the corpse, what's the use of him asking for a corpse, I didn't see the woman's body in the church."
"Then he might be hiding." One said.
What the Zodiac priest said made sense: "Then what is he doing hiding a dead man?"
"Who knows, I'll have to ask him himself. Village chief, the body is gone, only Wei Zhun has come, who else can he be. β
As soon as Wei Zhun arrived, he heard others mention his name, and his tone was still very fierce.
"Village Chief, what's wrong?"
Tian Qingsheng asked, "Did you come here last night?"
Wei Zhun stared at the Huang Daoist and followed the 'um' in response.
"Where did you get the body?" The village chief continued to ask.
This is a great injustice, how could he touch the corpse, it was obviously - 'Huzi' did it. But when he says this, who can believe in himself.
"Why don't you say it?"
"I didn't move the body, and when I came over last night, the body wasn't there." Wei Zhun felt that these people, especially the village chief, were willing to listen to lies instead of the truth, and it would be self-defeating to say them.
Tian Zhaofu was speechless on the side.
The village chief said cruelly: "Find a few people, the whole village will find me, I don't believe that dead people can run away with long legs."
He passed by Wei Zhun with an extremely distrustful face.