Chapter 16: Singleness limits the imagination
Qi Zihuan deeply felt that Mr. Mao had chosen the wrong profession and should not be a drama teacher, but should enter the career and become a leader.
His style of doing things is that every meeting must be held, and the meeting must be summarized. It's been like this from the movies to this point.
No, Qi Zihuan, Xiao Ming, Teacher Mao, Cissy, and Jack were sitting in a café for a mid-term meeting.
After the trip to Huangshan Village, Qi Zihuan was preparing for Zhang Luo again, and he opened the altar again, and slept hard for two days after finishing the work, and did not show up for a week.
Fortunately, he had already explained before, so Xiao Ming and Teacher Mao didn't bother him, but looked around for clues.
At this time, everyone talked about it carefully, and Qi Zihuan realized that there had been some new developments in things recently
First of all, Mr. Mao's police friend provided a list of 17 people, which listed all the people named Li Qiang who are currently registered in Hong Kong over the age of 70.
So Mr. Mao took Xiao Ming to visit one by one in the order of the list, until he found the seventh, and finally found the main owner.
This old man named Li Qiang is nearly 100 years old, and he is in good spirits, but he is extra wary of strangers.
Teacher Mao showed the work card of the School of Drama, claiming that they were doing a special interview, and they were welcomed into the house by the old man, but unfortunately Xiao Ming was young and vigorous, and he couldn't hold his breath, and just after chatting a few words, he opened his mouth to ask what the relationship between the old man and Chu Renmei was.
As soon as the old man heard that you dared to inquire about my aunt's secrets, he immediately became angry and drove the two out of the house.
It was also thanks to Xiao Ming's persistence that he insisted on squatting outside the old man's house, and the next day he found that the old man went up the mountain to worship, and he followed again.
After he cried about the tragic deaths of his friends Rubbish and Big B, and that he and his girlfriend had been in fear, he heard a story about Chu Renmei from the old man's mouth.
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He called her Aunt Mei, and she also doted on this child named Xiaoqiang the most among all the children and nephews in the village.
Aunt Mei is beautiful, usually loves to sing Cantonese opera, has a good voice, and even went to the city to shoot civilized dramas.
The children in the village like to surround Aunt Mei when they are fine and learn to sing with her. Among them, Xiaoqiang is not the best singer, but Aunt Mei will always take the time to help him correct his pronunciation alone.
One day, when Xiaoqiang asked Aunt Mei about the play, Aunt Mei told him not to tell anyone, and gave him a peace bracelet.
"No matter what Xiaoqiang asks, Aunt Mei will agree to you." She said.
The beautiful Aunt Mei has always been very likable, until one night, the idle man in the village, Xiao San'er, was in an empty house with the village chief, and broke the adultery between Aunt Mei and the next door Murata Qi.
Aunt Mei was tied up, and the adulterer Tian Qi was driven out of the village.
The village chief angrily asked Aunt Mei why she had done such a shameless thing. Aunt Mei didn't say a word, but it was her husband, Bu Wantian, the only teacher in the village, who knelt down to intercede for her, convinced that she had just stumbled for a while.
Aunt Mei was greatly moved, and only when only her husband and wife were left, Aunt Mei told the truth.
It turned out that Bu Wantian had already been in debt because of opium smoking, and Aunt Mei's move was to sell herself to her husband to pay off her debts.
Even so, Aunt Mei still asked Bu Wantian not to talk to anyone about opium smoking, and to treat her as if she was really committing adultery with Tian Qi, so as not to ruin the reputation of the Bu family.
Aunt Mei believes that this night was unintentionally broken, but her life was not good.
It's a pity that Aunt Mei's affection did not get a good result. After discussion in the ancestral hall of the village, most people agreed that lynching should be carried out in order to maintain the atmosphere and reputation of the village.
The people in the village beat Aunt Mei to death with wooden sticks and stones, and then rolled a straw mat, and just threw her in the desolate grave in the back mountain.
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If that's all there is to it, that's all it is.
Still that night, Xiaoqiang heard another version of the story in the woods outside the village.
In this story, the adulterer Tian Qi was invited by Bu Wantian, and the idler Xiao San'er who caught the adulterer was also sent by Bu Wantian.
One of the two insulted Aunt Mei's body, and the other stoned Aunt Mei to death, and even got a large amount of compensation from her husband afterwards.
Bu Wantian took great pains to act in such a big play, the reason was that he got acquainted with the daughter of Guangzhou's No. 1 Qian Zhuang, and he hoped that as long as he returned to being single, he could marry this young lady and get Wanguan's family fortune for nothing.
But he couldn't divorce his wife, because Aunt Mei didn't commit the seven rules. He also did not want to divorce, for fear of affecting his image in the heart of that young lady.
Therefore, Bu Wantian, who is a scholarly generation, came up with such a tortuous and vicious, almost perfect plan.
The only flaw in this plan was that it was heard by Xiaoqiang, who was hiding in the bushes, which was also Bu Wantian's retribution.
Xiaoqiang came to the deserted grave in the back mountain and told the stories he heard one by one to the corpse of his aunt, who was already unrecognizable.
Next, Aunt Mei was angry, and the whole village was vegetarian.
Xiao San'er was hacked to death by Bu Wantian, Bu Wantian was scared to death, and everyone in the rest of the village had their own ways of dying, and a total of 66 people died in three days.
Even Xiaoqiang was afraid of killing, and when he was about to leave the village, he went to put on the peace bracelet for Aunt Mei's corpse and asked not to kill again, which made Aunt Mei stop.
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has been safe for nearly a hundred years, and now Aunt Mei suddenly came out to kill again, something must have happened.
After listening to the story, Xiao Mingyang begged the old man to lead the way for him, and went to the back mountain to find Aunt Mei's corpse.
The two searched all the way, but found a construction site, due to the relocation of the airport, the Houshan cemetery was requisitioned to build a launch station.
All the graves were removed. Poor Aunt Mei was just wrapped in a roll of straw mats, and there was not even a grave, and the corpse fell into the waterhole next to it.
Xiao Ming is busy here, and Teacher Mao is not idle.
He went to the home of the first deceased, Rubbish.
He was still thoughtful, and after a careful search, he found a notice of water outage in arrears.
It turned out that on the day Xiao Ming and the others played the psychic game, the water in Rubbish's home had already stopped.
But according to Xiao Ming, when they were playing games, they obviously took a large basin of water, and they also dripped blood into the basin and drank a sip each.
Looking down the line, all the dead and those who are now hell living in villages that use waterholes as water sources.
The truth is revealed.
Because of the land requisition construction, Aunt Mei's body fell into the pool, during which the peace bracelet fell off, and Aunt Mei, who had been resentful for a hundred years, was no longer bound by her promises, and her grievances entered the water and killed people everywhere.
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Tut!
Qi Zihuan couldn't wait to cheer.
Since entering this world, he has always had a sense of superiority brought about by information asymmetry.
He dislikes Xiao Ming for having muscles and no brains, and dislikes Teacher Mao for saying that he can't do it.
But these two people, for the sake of their respective goddesses, searched the haunted house to find the ghost corpse, and in just a few days, they completely spelled out a century-old truth.
If this is a crime film, now that the motive for killing, the method of killing, and the tools for killing are all alive, people can be arrested immediately.
He thought that if he didn't have God's perspective, he would definitely not be able to find out the cause and effect so clearly in a few days in such a blank situation.
Qi Zihuan looked at the cocoon on his right hand.
Well, it's definitely being single that limits my imagination!