Everyone looked at Hu Tou'er and wondered what the only possibility was.

Hu Tou'er looked at me: "Xiao Feng, if it weren't for the fact that an outsider deliberately stuffed it in your pocket, then this finger should have flowed down the river." ”

"Flow?" I wondered.

Hu Tou'er said: "At that time, you were lying in the ditch, which was a mountain stream spring flowing down from a high place. It is likely that the fingers are flowing upstream. Well, come with me in the afternoon, and I'll take you there. ”

After eating, Hu Touer took me there, and Lao Zhang also wanted to follow. The three of us were fully armed and walked along the mountain road to the steep slope of the mountain stream, and Lao Zhang pointed to the bottom and said, "Remember, you fell down from here." ”

I looked down, and the slope was really steep, 60 degrees, and I looked a little dizzy. There was a stream at the bottom of the slope that trickled through it, and the current was so strong that it was more than two meters deep to the eye, and it was not a problem to drown a handful of people.

We didn't go down, Hu Touer took me and Lao Zhang up the slope, and the direction was to follow the upstream of the current.

We walked for a long time, and the road was getting harder and harder, with dead branches crisscrossing each step.

Hu Tou'er walked in front, did not speak, and his face was very solemn.

Rounding the two hills, we squatted down to rest, I took two sips of water, and Hu Tou'er pointed to the bottom and said, "It should be there." ”

I put my hand on the pergola to see, there was a large dry locust tree, full of scattered branches, entangled with each other, reflecting the blue sky, there was an indescribable gloom.

"Remember here?" Hu Touer said.

Lao Zhang touched me: "You are stupid, this is the place where the body was buried a few days ago, or you pointed out the direction to the police." ”

I remembered, my heart beating wildly. I have never been to this place, and the reason why I was able to provide clues to the police was because Hu Tingting told me. She said the farmer brutally killed the woman and then buried her body under a tree.

The police arrived and dug up the body.

At this moment, there is a yellow cordon next to the locust tree, and in the past two days, there has been strong wind and heavy rain, and the yellow line has been pulled to the ground, which looks extremely decaying.

Under the roots of the tree, there was a large pit that shone brightly, and the black soil was turned aside.

Hu Tou'er led us down from the hill and walked to the big locust tree. Lao Zhang said: "Boss, what are you bringing us here for?" ”

Hu Tou'er said, "Pay attention and observe. ”

Lao Zhang and I walked around the tree twice, but Lao Zhang was still careful and found that the ground was very wet, even if it rained, it would not be dry for days. After walking a short distance, we saw a mountain stream in the woods.

Hu Tou'er said: "We followed the water all the way, and we found here." ”

Lao Zhang suddenly understood, and said with his mouth open: "Boss, what do you mean...... The finger that appeared inexplicably belonged to the victim a few days ago? ”

Hu Tou'er's expression was solemn: "When eating, Xiao Feng took out his fingers, and I was immediately stunned. Why, I was at the scene when the police exhumed the body, and I saw the body unearthed. The body was not complete, some parts were cut off, and the police analyzed at the time that the woman struggled before she died, which led to the murderer's cruelty. I couldn't be sure if the corpse was missing a finger, but the finger felt the same as the corpse. ”

He explained that when the body was unearthed, it was sticky and slippery, as if it had been coated with a layer of wax. And the same goes for fingers. From this point of view, it should have been one and the same.

Lao Zhang said: "Do you remember that Xiao Feng was on duty in the middle of the night and met a strange person?" The weirdo said, 'He's kun corpse'. ”

I nodded, "Yes, I did." I still remember that sentence vividly.

Lao Zhang said: "I said at the time that the corpse is slimy, not like normal decay, and there is really a cat here." ”

I said, "Isn't the whole thing supposed to be like this, the peasant committed the crime and killed the victim. Just when the strange person saw it, he used the corpse to 'kun' the corpse. When the police found it, they exhumed the body, and only this finger remained, and it drifted downstream along the water, and it happened that I fell in the mountain stream at that time, and the finger floated on my body. ”

Hu Tou'er nodded: "Almost." ”

I winked, "No. How can you float your fingers into a stream with your fingers in the dirt? ”

Lao Zhang contemplated: "Xiao Feng, don't forget that there is an underground river system here. We didn't dig deep and didn't know the structure of the soil underneath. It is possible that the fingers somehow entered the groundwater and followed the water all the way. ”

The more I listened, the more frightened I became: "You mean, my dream actually has meaning. The weirdo gave me a dream, let me find this finger? ”

"That's right. Think about it, people originally got a corpse, but the corpse was gone, and now there is such a finger left, don't look small, it is likely to be of special use to him, he has to use it. Lao Zhangtou is Taoist analysis: "Think about the last dream, in the Fengtian Railway Station, what is the strange person like? ”

I said, "He's very thin, with a top hat and a shoehorn face." At that time, I felt as if I had seen him, but I also felt as if I had never seen him. ”

Lao Zhang said: "Actually, you have seen that strange person in reality. ”

"The one time I was attacked on duty?" I said, "But at that time, he was very fat, white and fat, like a pig, his whole body was bulging, especially his face was about the same as a bun......

As I spoke, I suddenly understood, and slapped my thigh suddenly: "No wonder in my dream, I saw this man both familiar and as if I had never seen it." I saw him once in reality, he was very fat, and the whole person was out of shape, and in the dream he returned to normal, so I didn't recognize him. ”

Lao Zhang nodded: "Such a master has practiced incredible evil arts, and it is reasonable to say that he is fat and thin. ”

I took out my fingers from my pocket and trembled: "Old Master Zhang, what should I do?" ”

"That's why I brought you here." Hu Tou'er said: "This finger is too secretive, it is a curse or a blessing to stay by your side, doesn't that weird person want this thing, you give it to him." ”

I walked to the pit where the body was dug up, took out my fingers, looked at Hu Tou'er and then at Lao Zhang, the two nodded, and I threw my fingers into the pit.

"So it's for him?" I said worriedly.

Lao Zhang patted me: "Don't think about it, anyway, we gave it out, there is enough sincerity, whether you can get it is his business, go back." ”

I thought back to the man's shoehorn face in my dream, greasy and scared.

This is the first time I've messed with people in the Dao, I've only seen Wang Shenxian and Granny Fengyan similar people, although Granny Fengyan is a little gloomy, she is still a good person. But right now, this man seems to be entangled with me, and even appears in my dreams, and I can't estimate his Taoism.

We walked back, and Hu Tou'er said, "Xiao Feng, you might as well take two days off." I'm going to give you a fake. ”

"Why?" I was stunned: "I'm doing a good job." ”

Hu Tou'er said: "You did a good job, it's right, but since you came here, our forest farm has had accidents five times, not to mention the rest, that weird person may be wandering around the forest now." Guarding such a master, the people in the forest farm are panicking. We all know he's coming at you, so it's good for you and for us to take two days off to get out of the way. ”

I was depressed, thinking about it, as the weather was cold, the atmosphere of the forest farm was becoming more and more solemn and dignified, which was by no means auspicious.

Back at the station, Hu Touer told everyone that Feng Ziwang was going back to take two days off, but everyone didn't react. I went back to the house to pack my things and spent the night depressed.

The next day, the driver Lao Huang brought the supplies over, and I followed the car down the mountain and all the way back to the town.

Standing on the street, I was stunned and remembered something. Huang Xiaotian told me that after passing the three levels of trial, he could officially cooperate with me.

I've already passed three levels. The first level is in a nameless town, the second level is to find a corpse at the bottom of the tree, and the third level is a strange dream. Before I knew it, the three levels had come over, so it should be about the same.

I didn't go home, I took the car directly to the Zhaojia Temple. In the afternoon, I arrived at the mother-in-law's house in the eye of the storm, knocked on the door, and no one answered for a long time, so I added a little more strength, and the dog barked in the yard, and a voice came: "Who?!" ”

The voice was very loud, as if he had eaten gunpowder, and his temper was rushing.

I heard that it was the voice of the dog master, and hurriedly greeted me, saying that I was Feng Ziwang. After a short time, the courtyard door opened, and the dog master came out with a tired face, and was stunned when he saw me: "You are here." ”

I saw something was wrong and poked inside: "What's wrong?" Dog. ”

The dog master sighed: "Xiao Feng, my mother-in-law is no good." ”

"Ahh I called out, "She...... She ......"

The dog said: "The night before yesterday, it suddenly didn't work, and it was sent to the hospital for first aid, which was considered to have saved a life, but the hospital issued a critical illness notice, and now my mother-in-law has organ failure and is terminally ill, which is a matter of the past two days." I'm guarding this stall at home, and your Aunt Hong is taking care of her in the hospital, so if you go now, maybe you can see her one last time. ”

I'm not a good taste, my mother-in-law has a miserable life, the man was killed by martial arts, and the child also died. The lonely old man, in his old age, had the opportunity to go out to see something, and his life had just improved, and the lamp was dry, and he couldn't see it.

I asked the dog for the address of the hospital, stopped a taxi on the side of the road, and rushed to the hospital non-stop.

I didn't see my mother-in-law much, but anyway, she was kind to me, and I would definitely go to see her when she was dying. Again, I still care about one thing, my mother-in-law really wants to have a crane to travel west, what should she do with her old fairy Huang Xiaotian?