Qin Wufu hummed sullenly, and Wang Hao took the initiative to reply: "My name is Wang Hao, and his name is Qin Wuyun!" ”

Qin is useless: "......"

From the topography point of view, Chenjiayuan Village is located in a basin in the west of Daliang Mountain, and it can be seen that there were also prosperous people here, with hundreds of large and small houses, but there are very few brick houses, and most of the houses are adobe houses.

Qin Wufu drove around the village in a car, and did not encounter a single person, the whole village was silent, only a few distant dog barks were heard occasionally.

Look closely, almost every door is an iron lock, some have rusted, the Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door have long faded color, but vaguely recognizable "auspicious", "rich" and other words, the yard is also overgrown with weeds, a withered and dilapidated appearance.

Qin Wufu said to himself: "This is simply a ghost village. ”

Wang Hao looked back and forth, and was quite helpless in his words: "There is no one, where can we find Chen Wu?" ”

The night is getting thicker, the sky is dim and gloomy, and the white floc floating inexplicably above the silent village seems to cover the sky and the sun, and it looks like a fog, and those dilapidated old houses stand quietly in the thick fog, looming, and it seems that there are secrets hidden everywhere.

Smoke curled from the sky above several old houses, but it looked inconspicuous under the same lead-gray canopy, floating for a while before dissipating without a trace.

Qin Wufu threw the cigarette butt out of the car window, raised his hand to start the car, and drove towards the nearest old mansion where smoke was rising.

There was only an old couple in the old house, the old woman was lying on a wooden rocking chair in the hall, her face was sallow, her eyes were closed, if it weren't for the slight rise and fall of her chest, Wang Hao almost thought that she was out of breath, but the old man could still walk on his side, stirring the noodle soup in the rice pot.

Qin Wufu knocked on the iron door a few times, and the old man quickly walked over, an old man in his sixties, wearing a gray down jacket, picking his teeth as he walked.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Uncle, we are from other places." Qin Wufu squeezed out a smile and handed over a cigarette through the iron door, "Come here and ask about something." ”

"How many years have our village been deserted?" The old man took the cigarette, looked at the brand, and put it behind his ear, "I haven't done the job of buying a daughter-in-law for a long time." ”

"Uh...... Not to sell women. Qin Wufu handed over another cigarette and helped him light it, "We are here to ask you about someone." ”

The old man smoked a cigarette, looked the three people outside the door up and down for a while, raised his hand to open the iron door, and let them enter the room to talk in detail.

"Who are you here to inquire about?" The old man flicked the ashes of his cigarette and beckoned them to take dried dates from a dustpan and eat them.

Qin Wufu thought for a moment and asked, "Uncle, how long have you been living here?" ”

"That's the old elder." The old man laughed, "I was born here, and I have lived in the mountains all my life, and I am sixty-six this year, so you can count it." ”

"Okay." Qin Wuru went straight in, "Do you know Chen Wu?" ”

"I want to think about it." The old man pondered for a while, and then said hesitantly, "This name sounds familiar. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." The old man suddenly patted his head, "It's my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law is a good girl, she is kind and filial, but it's a pity that she died early." ”

"Dead?" Qin Wufu asked eagerly, "When did you die?" How did he die? ”

"This ......," the old man frowned, took a big puff of his cigarette, and put his hand on the corner of his forehead in thought, "I want to think about it...... Looks like he fell to his death, right? ”

"How could she have fallen to her death?" Qin Wufu immediately asked.

"This girl didn't know whether she was alive or dead, and she ran to the coffin mountain, and if she didn't pay attention, she fell off the mountain." The old man picked up another cigarette and lit it, "Her good relationship is really affectionate, and her sister-in-law died, and he also jumped into the well to be martyred." ”

"Nice?" Both of them widened their eyes in surprise, and Qin Wufu hurriedly asked, "Can you tell me what the hell is going on?" ”

"That's a long story." The old man looked unbearable to look back on the past, "My sister-in-law was originally the most beautiful girl in our village, diligent and capable, but she was already selected as a daughter-in-law by our village chief at that time, and the son of the village chief was not bad, so the two families of this family acquiesced." Originally, it was a sure thing for the concubine and the son of the village chief's family to get married, and I was waiting to drink their wedding wine, but later, a man came out halfway, saying that he came to Daliangshan for a trip from other places, got lost, and wanted to stay in the village for a few days, so he lived in the sister-in-law's house. ”

"And then?"

"What else?" The old man spit out a puff of cigarette, pinched a dried date and chewed it in his mouth, "To say that the people in the city are more cultured and polite than us countrymen, the man lived in the sister-in-law's house for a few days, and told the sister-in-law some novelties every day, and slowly the two of them had feelings, and the sister-in-law found the village chief's son and said that he wanted to withdraw from the marriage, how could the family agree, thinking that the people in the city poured some confused soup into the sister-in-law, and found someone to clean up the people in the city that night."

No one paid attention to this matter at the time, and the sister-in-law also stopped for a few days, but one morning a few days later, the village chief's son came to the sister-in-law's house to find the sister-in-law, and found that the two had slept in the same bed, and he was furious on the spot. The village chief's son turned around and went back to the village to shout for someone, shouting that he would soak the adulterer ** in the pig cage, and then the sister-in-law and the city people packed up their things and planned to run away. The two of them were driven up the coffin mountain by the villagers, and the sister-in-law fell down the mountain with a stumble, and the mountain was under a dense forest, and the villagers could not even find the body later, and they suspected that they were taken away by the wild beasts, and the city man who was captured alive later jumped into the well at the sister-in-law's house. ”

Qin Wufu nodded thoughtfully, pondered for a while, and asked, "Chen Wu...... Sister-in-law, do you remember where you were? ”

In the southeast corner of Chenjiayuan Village, there are two lonely adobe houses, surrounded by a small courtyard, in which there is a tall locust tree, the branches and leaves have fallen, and the shriveled and blackened fallen leaves can be faintly seen on the ground where the wild grass grows.

Qin Wufu walked around the courtyard, then returned to the car, took out his gloves, put his travel bag on his back, and walked outside the courtyard gate with a crowbar.

The iron courtyard door has been rusted and crumbling, and some iron bars have even been completely broken, leaving only the lock arm exposed, Qin Wufu asked Wang Hao to help hold the lock, inserted the crowbar into the middle of the two lock arms, and with a little force, the rusty iron lock was opened.

He took the iron lock in his hand, took a deep breath and went in, and Wang Hao and A Ning also walked into the courtyard one after another.

The yard is not big, standing in the center you can see everything, the west side of the yard is a row of bud rice silos built with broken bricks and wooden stakes, due to disrepair, has collapsed most of them, next to the bud rice silo is a simple dry toilet, it looks like there is only a pile of broken bricks and rotten wood, the east side of the yard is a small vegetable field, what has been planted is no longer verifiable, the ravine is almost filled with rotten leaves.

In the middle of the courtyard is a red brick road covered with weeds, and at the end are the two adobe houses.

As concocted, the wooden door was quickly opened, and A-Ning didn't ask anything, and honestly followed them into the room, looking around.

The place where they were at the moment must have been a hall and kitchen, and there was a half-man-high stove on the ground on the right, and a large iron pot that was almost rotten was placed on it, and the rest of the place was empty and cluttered, and the rags and all kinds of miscellaneous items that had long been indistinguishable were scattered all over the ground.

Qin Wufu glanced around and decided to start with the east side room first.

This is a typical rural bedroom, with a clay kang on the south side and a cabinet against the wall on the north side, on which are also placed hot water bottles, teacups, candlesticks, wine bottles and half a box of cigarettes, all covered with dust.

On the east side of the room are several wardrobes, Wang Hao opened one of them, and the pungent musty smell immediately came to his face, and the cabinets were full of messy clothes, which looked damp and heavy, tangled, and the texture and color could no longer be seen.

The situation on the kang was not much better, a dirty pillow was placed on the edge of the kang, the hole that had been bitten by the rats revealed the blackened chaff, the same damp and worn mattress was covered with rat droppings, exuding a foul smell, and a quilt that could barely see the color was piled up messily on it, and it was also full of holes, and the cotton was torn out.

Qin Wufu looked around, and couldn't help but be suspicious: judging from the situation in the room, it didn't look like men and women fleeing in a hurry at all.

And, why is there only one pillow in this room that looks like a master bedroom?

He thought for a moment, and motioned for the two of them to follow him to the room on the west side, which looked much neater than the messy east room, although it was also covered with dust.

The room is simply furnished, with only a wardrobe, a writing desk and a wooden bed.

There were very few things in the closet, equally damp and rotten, and the wooden bed was full of bedding, dirty and long-time home to mice, but it was neatly folded, and two pillows were placed at the head of the bed, covered with faded pink pillows.

Qin Wufu looked at the wooden bed, tried to push it with his hand, and felt that it was not heavy, so he beckoned Wang Hao to move the wooden bed to the side, and suddenly, a lot of black things were revealed.

Qin Wufu took the wolf's eye flashlight and shone it, only to see a few open wooden boxes on the ground, which contained some daily miscellaneous items, such as old books, cotton shoes, thimbles, etc., he used a crowbar to fiddle in the box for a long time, and did not find any special items, he was disappointed, and suddenly found that there were traces of rubbing on the cement floor under the wooden box, as if these wooden boxes had been moved.

He reached out and grabbed a wooden box, dragging it vigorously while shining a wolf's eye flashlight under the wooden box.

Half a wooden door appeared on the ground.

Wang Hao and A Ning immediately came over to help remove the other wooden boxes, and soon, a one-meter-square entrance was exposed to the light of the flashlight.