Chapter 5 Departure
When the victim came to the door, it happened that we had just finished lunch and were sitting in the hall playing poker. ΡΡΡ.(vii) (ix) x.S.ΡΠΎΠΌ The update is so fast.
At first, I thought he was a guest, so I greeted him and asked him what he needed.
"I'm here to find my husband." When the man said this, his expression was very anxious, and his forehead was full of sweat, and he didn't know whether it was urgent or hot.
"You're the victim?" I asked him.
He nodded and said, yes.
Hearing him say this, Qibao and the others also came over, their faces full of excitement.
Feng Zhenguo said that the subject is much more decent than I imagined.
Although this man didn't sound local, he had a bit of a mountain accent.
But he was dressed very well, looking like a suit and leather shoes.
Since the Lord is here, there must be rules that should be in place, and we must not be slack.
I first asked the Shippo to lead the Lord to sit and rest for a while, and I ran to make him a pot of tea.
When I poured him tea, the victim was also anxious.
"You're Mr. Shen, right?" He held the teacup and looked at me anxiously: "Why don't we leave now?" Just go back to the village and have a look? β
"There's no hurry." I said, "Tell me about the situation first." β
"Human life is at stake!" When the victim said this, tears were about to burst out: "Our village is dying every day! If you go back a day late, you'll die one more! And so on...... Sooner or later, it will be extinct!! β
To be honest, I sometimes follow the old man.
Dealing with the world is a rule, everything likes to come slowly, but in some special circumstances.......
"Why don't we just go?" I asked, looking at Shippo and them.
"I don't have any opinion." Qibao shrugged his shoulders, put his hands behind his head, and said lazily, "Listen to you." β
Chen Qiuyan didn't speak, and nodded, it should be the same as Qibao's attitude.
"I don't recommend going straight over."
Chang Longxiang said such a sentence very abruptly, and his honest face was still full of smiles.
"Grandpa Shen said that we have to say hello to him for everything, at least we have to tell Grandpa Shen first."
I hummed and nodded: "Qibao, you go and call the old man back, and say that there is work to go to the 'door'." β
Hearing this, Shippo put a cigarette in his mouth and strode out.
"I haven't gotten to know you yet......" I took out a box of cigarettes from my pocket, took out one and handed it to him, "What's your surname?" β
"Surname Zhou." The owner of the Zhou affair cautiously took the cigarette and asked me, "You also need to collect money for things here, right?" β
"Yes." I smiled and said the old man's rules, probably saying that the money comes first, and then the work, if the money is returned, the money will be refunded ten times.
"What if someone dies?" Zhou Shizhu asked me tentatively, and seeing that my expression was a little wrong, he hurriedly put his hand: "I don't mean anything else!" I'm just worried about ........"
"If someone dies, he will still pay for it."
At this time, the old man walked in from outside the 'door', glanced at the master of Zhou, and said, "If my grandson messes up the matter and kills the people in your village, he will pay you with this life, okay?" β
As soon as I heard this, I immediately became anxious.
Ay! Why doesn't this old man leave me any room to speak?!
What if this happens...... He doesn't have my grandson!!
"Who are you?"
"I'm his grandfather." The old man said impatiently: "If you tell my grandson something, now he is the steward of the Shen family." β
As he spoke, the old man asked me, "Has the remuneration been negotiated?" β
I shook my head and said no, I was about to rush over and talk about the honorarium.
"Okay, you have an idea." The old man said with a smile: "Remember to bring all the magic weapons before going out, don't lose them, so as not to suffer a loss." β
As soon as the words fell, the old man waved his hand and left, as if he didn't care much about our work.
"Hey, this old man doesn't care." Qibao grinned, looked at Zhou Shizhu, and asked him, "How much are you going to give?" β
"Is 10,000 enough?" The man asked tentatively.
"Only 10,000?" Qibao scratched his head: "Is this a little missing?" β
"That's 10,000!! No!! Twenty thousand!!! β
Zhou Shizhu's face turned pale and said, "This is already the highest price I can come up with....... Our village is too poor....... At most, you can only come up with a thousand....... I'll have to pay for the rest of ........"
He said as he looked me in the face, as if he was afraid that I would refuse.
"I still have two children to take care of at home, so I ......."
"Ten thousand." I said, "It's not easy for everyone, let's understand each other, is that okay?" β
At that time, the eyes of the Zhou Affair were red, and the hand holding me kept shaking, and he thanked me repeatedly.
"My car is parked right outside! Let's go now! β
"You go out and wait a while, I'll go pack my bags first, and I'll be right away."
"Huh! Good! β
After Zhou Shizhu left, Qibao spoke, looking at me a little unhappily: "That person is not poor, I saw the car he drove, why is the price so low?" β
"It's not easy for anyone these days, if you can make people feel better, let's accumulate 'yin' virtue." I comforted: "Anyway, we are not short of money, so we should go and practice!" β
Hearing me say this, Shippo had no problem and accompanied me to pack my luggage.
Seeing him like this, I feel 'very' excited, and it is estimated that he is about to suffocate after this period of leisure.
After packing up the equipment, I closed the 'door' of the store and took people directly into the car of the owner.
Due to the relatively large size of Chang Longxiang, it was obviously inappropriate to sit in the back, so he could only be arranged to sit in the co-pilot, while Qibao Chen Qiuyan and I were crowded in the back row.
"Where's the mouse?" I asked Shippo and lowered my voice, "Where did that beast go?" I didn't see it when I closed the door! β
"In the bag." Qibao pointed to the trunk and said helplessly: "That 'fat' mouse seems to want to go out with us, and while I am packing up my things, I will get into my luggage bag at one end, and I can't pull it out." β
As soon as I said this, the owner of the car suddenly handed me a cigarette, but I didn't answer it, and said no.
"Don't you want to know about the haunting? I'll tell you now? β
"Okay."
Zhou Shizhu opened the window, slowly 'smoked' a cigarette and chatted with me, and his tone was much calmer, just like the initial anxious and almost crying look.
"This has to start from half a month ago........"
According to Zhou Shizhu, there was a crazy 'woman' in their village, who was not very normal in her brain, and should have been born with a 'spirit' mental illness.
Not long ago, that crazy 'woman' disappeared, and she should have run into the mountains and 'lost' her way.
"Although she is a madman, she is also a member of our village......." Zhou Shizhu sighed, and said with a slightly complicated expression: "We also sent people to search the mountain, but we couldn't find it after seven or eight days, and I should have starved to death in the mountain." β
"And after that?" Qibao asked curiously, "Is your village haunted?" β
"Isn't it......." Zhou Shizhu sighed, his face turned white, and he seemed to be a little afraid: "Since last week, there have been a lot of deaths in our village, all of them are dying......
"How did they all die?" I asked.
"There are six deaths in total, and if we don't catch up when we go back, we may have to die seven." Zhou Shizhu said cautiously, his eyes were full of fear: "The first person to die was the village chief's son, who sleepwalked in the cowpen in the middle of the night, and let the cow die alive, and his whole body was full of holes, but he didn't scream, and he didn't say anything until he died, and he was found the next day." β
"Horn-topped people?" I was stunned: "What kind of death is this?" β
"The second person who died was called Lao Gang'er, who lived next door to the village chief's house, and the two of them were basically next to each other." Zhou Shizhu said.
Qibao was also interested in this matter, and was busy asking how this person died?
"Crushed to death." Zhou Shizhu said.
As soon as I heard this novel way of dying, let alone Qibao, I was a little curious.
Is there such a thing as squeezing people to death?
"He had an iron cabinet in his house, about as wide as the saddle, and not deep, and no one knew how he got into it......."
When Lord Zhou said this, his voice gradually trembled.
"I went to the site to see it....... He didn't feel like he had gotten into it himself....... Instead, it's like being squeezed into it alive........ The joints on my body are all deformed........."