Chapter 38: Wedding Video

1. "Caogang Village, yes?" Then hurry up and solve the incident here, what did Li Suqing say when I was unconscious? Xu Tian asked.

"She didn't say anything, she took this disc to show us at the beginning, and then said that the mute girl who went to the island twenty years ago was a red girl and went out, and she hasn't come back yet." Teacher Jin said.

"Out? Now in this situation, we should protect her, why let her out? Xu Tian asked.

"You don't have to worry, there are more than a dozen women with her, and there will be no problems, because the original funeral in the village is only halfway through, so they go to complete the funeral." Teacher Jin said.

"By the way, what the hell was going on at that funeral?" Xu Tian asked.

"As we see, the funeral is not for people, but for dogs. In this village, not only the men in the front street have dogs, but also the women in the back streets. Teacher Jin said.

"Then why use a human photo at a dog's funeral?" Xu Tian asked.

Li Suqing's statement is that those dogs are sacred dogs supported by the villagers, just like the customs of each region, the custom of Lijia Village is that they think that the dog god can bring them blessings, so every household has a dog. When the dog dies, the dog's owner's posthumous photo must be hung, and the dog's owner's posthumous photo must be buried with the dog's coffin, so as to reflect the dog's owner's sincere dedication to the dog, so that after the dog dies, it can become the guardian saint of the dog's owner's home. Teacher Jin said.

Xu Tian couldn't help but shudder, it sounded like such an infiltrating custom really existed.

"So that woman was taking care of the dead dog last night? That's why he picked me up at the wall before he left in a hurry. Xu Tian said.

"That's pretty much it! Anyway, the funeral of a dog is completely human, even more advanced than a human. As we said before, why no one holds a funeral after someone dies in the village, it is because no funeral is allowed in this village, and on the third day after the death, the leader of the village leads the villagers to bury the corpses simply, so now no one in the front street holds a funeral for those dead people. Teacher Jin said.

"Three days? Is there a reason for this? Xu Tian asked.

"According to Li Suqing, the three-day morgue is to ease people's souls from being wronged, because it is impossible to hold a funeral, so let the dead be mortuary for three days to solve the unfinished things in his life." Teacher Jin said.

"It does sound a lot like custom, but it's not a good aspect of custom." Xu Tian said.

"There's no way, we don't have the right to interfere with others, in this village, the life of a dog is the most expensive, and when Li Suqing comes back, he should tell us the origin of this matter, wait here!" Teacher Jin said.

"But something is wrong! If a dog's life is so precious, why do the men on Front Street hurt dogs? Moreover, several dogs died in the whole day yesterday on Front Street, and no one was seen at the funeral. Xu Tian asked.

"That's because the owners of the dead dogs have been killed, and their own dogs must be personally organized by the dog owners to handle the funeral, Li Suqing explained." Teacher Jin said.

"I think we should go to the funeral, I always feel like there's a hidden story in it." Xu Tian said.

"I see what you're thinking, do you think there's a dog-loving radical at work? But you don't have to worry, even if you want to go to the funeral, you can't go, but Li Suqing already knows about it, I have explained to her, as long as there is a disturbance, she will tell us. Teacher Jin said.

"Isn't it? Do you believe in Li Suqing so much? What if she's the murderer? Xu Tian said worriedly.

"It would have been better if she had been a murderer." Teacher Jin said with a smile.

"I see." Xu Tian said with a banging on his cloudy head. "If Li Suqing is the murderer, then it is possible that she will not tell us any information, or make up false information to tell us, if she makes up false information, we will definitely find out."

"Your head is finally clear, I thought you were unconscious and degenerate." Teacher Jin teased.

"Anyway, it's not going to happen now, I'm going to watch that wedding tape from the beginning." Xu Tian said.

Teacher Jin used the remote control to rewind the video back to the beginning, and the initial shot in the picture was the bride making up, and the room where Hongmei was sitting was the room where Xu Tian and them were now.

There are two staff members who are similar to the wedding around Hongmei who are putting on makeup for Hongmei, and there is a lot of noise in the background of the video, and it seems that there are many women in the village helping out.

"The first suspicion, it stands to reason that the wedding video should be recorded at the man's home at the beginning, and the first set of shots should be the man's way to pick up the kiss." Xu Tian said.

"Even if you asked the right question, I also found out about this when I watched the video before, so I asked Li Suqing, and her answer was that because Li Suqing's younger brother built a house on Front Street at that time, the outsider Hongmei lived in Li Suqing's home, but the person who recorded this wedding video was Li Suqing's female friend, so the first set of shots started with Hongmei's makeup." Teacher Jin explained.

"There is a certain reason, but it doesn't make sense, and is it because Hongmei landed on the island with Sitong back then?" Xu Tian asked.

"I understand what you mean, Hongmei landed on the island with a seven- or eight-year-old daughter, why can anyone marry Hongmei, and the wedding is not like a second marriage at all. Before I could ask Li Suqing about this question, she herself was the first to tell me the reason. Teacher Jin said.

"Could it be ......" Xu Tian seemed to have guessed the reason.

"That's right, Li Suqing's younger brother is a person with congenital cerebellar hypoplasia, which is commonly known as intellectual disability." Teacher Jin said.

"I see, but this is also a big question, why did Hongmei marry such a person? Although the timeline of Hongmei's landing on the island is different from what I know, Hongmei should have traveled to the island from her hometown village back then. According to the situation that Sitong and Siyan told me before, Hongmei is not the kind of character who is overly dependent on others, Hongmei's life ability is very strong, she can support her daughter alone after taking Sitong into the city, and she also adopted Xiao Ai. Xu Tian said.

"I think you misunderstood from the beginning." Xiao Ai interjected on the side.

"How?" Xu Tian suddenly had a bad premonition.

"I was taken away by Aunt Hong from this island, although I was handed over by Aunt Hong to Aunt Xu for a period of time after that, but I can already remember it at that time." Xiao Ai said.