Chapter Ninety-One: The Water Ghost in the River I
There are rumors everywhere in the east of this county that there is a young master in this county. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
These Leng Qi didn't know, he was enlightening the third master.
The third master was clamoring to become a monk, but he couldn't stop it at first, but it was only now that he got better. It was all caused by the excesses of the Liuqing monk that night, and that mental power has been influencing the third master.
There may be a battle in their circle in the future, but after all, it is still far away from Leng Qi, at least, these days are quite idle.
The setting sun turned yellow, spilling into the house, tearing out a slender shadow.
The person outside the door didn't know Leng Qi, and he was dressed very formally. At least a middle-aged man with a leather bag and tie, Leng Qi has rarely seen it in this small county.
The man stood outside the door for a long time before he lifted his eyes that had slid to the bridge of his nose, with an official tone, "Comrade! What about your boss? “
"The boss doesn't, Leng Qi is here! Do you buy a coffin or bury a coffin? Leng Qi patted the third master on the ground and stood up.
"Oh, you're the boss! Young and promising! The man smiled heartily.
The man smiled enthusiastically, but Leng Qi smelled a strong official smell from inside. An official comes to find out why he is.
"Your Excellency has won the prize!" Leng Qi's answer was lukewarm.
The man looked around the room, a little puzzled, "The coffin shop opened, why didn't I see a coffin!" “
"The burial things are different, and this coffin is not the same, it depends on what kind of coffin the gentleman wants to buy and who he buys it for? I've got a number in mind! Leng Qi's tone was a little strange.
The man hesitated a little and walked up to Leng Qi, "My surname is Wang, and I'm a secretary!" ……“
*************************************************************************
There is a river around the county seat. The moat left during the Song Dynasty is said to be connected to the Huai River and is very deep.
Eight people died in a month, and no one knew how they died. Today's month, it's not cold, but it's definitely not hot. No one will be idle to swim in the water this season.
It's not surprising that someone drowned in the river. From the time the first person died in the river, the government organized people to fish. Scooping up corpses is an unfortunate job, but there are people who do it for fifteen yuan per person.
When the first body was fished out, the older one of the people who fished out the body was paralyzed with fright.
The soaked white, swollen, and deformed corpse was bare, and a man with jet-black handprints was pierced with white sweat. But since the body has been fished out, it can't be so much after taking the money. No one said anything, the body was covered with a white cloth, and the next thing was for the relatives to do the funeral.
When the second person died, it was already ten days later, and this time no one organized to fish, because it was a floating corpse, floating on the water, dragged to the shore with a stick, and only then did he recognize that the dead person was one of the corpses that were fished up a few days ago.
The family of the deceased said that the deceased had been suffering from a high fever and talking nonsense these days. When I woke up in the morning, there were no people. When I found it again, I was already floating on the river.
It's normal for this person to die, and it's said that it's a coincidence.
It wasn't until three days later when the third person was fished out of the river that someone panicked. Some say it's murder.
Someone in the government investigated, but the result was confusing, it was all suicide. In any case, the government has come forward, and people's hearts have been somewhat calmer.
But when the seventh body was fished up, the government could not sit still, and a long cordon was set up on the river, and the public security bureau sent five policemen to stand guard on the bank of the river day and night.
But he was still dead, and the eighth one was a police officer on guard.
Under the watchful eyes of the other four policemen, the policeman jumped into the river.
**********************************************************************8
Leng Qi looked at the tape recorder in his hand, which was one of the recordings dictated by Secretary Wang to Leng Qi's four policemen, Secretary Wang said that there was almost no logical difference in the confessions of these four people, and there was absolutely no collusion between the four people.
The recording was a twenty-eight-year-old policeman named Yang Dong, and Leng Qi pressed the button of the tape recorder:
"My name is Yang Dong! It was the afternoon of September 8 when I learned that the bureau had given the order to go to the river at night to guard the river. I didn't want to go at the time, my wife had a big belly, and I wanted to accompany her. But the task has come down.
At six o'clock, the five of us arrived at the river, where we were on our mission.
At the beginning, none of the five of us took it seriously, and we have been doing this business for seven or eight years, and we have seen not a hundred or eighty dead people, but I have seen all kinds of dead people. So we all felt that this mission was very unnecessary.
It got dark very quickly, and I don't know why I felt that way, but it was dark early that night.
The river was desolate, full of dead grass and dead trees, and it was about two hundred meters away from the nearest road.
There were five of us in different shifts, and I was the first to be in charge of nine to eleven o'clock. After a simple meal of some things bought on the street, we set up our tents, because the bureau said that it would probably take about a week.
Five people set up two tents, because Lao Pang was fatter and I was thinner, so I and Lao Pang were huddled in one tent.
It was about eight o'clock, I suddenly felt a little cold, and I asked a few people, and they all felt this way. Xu Shan's courage is a little smaller, he is a little afraid to tell us, should it really be like what the people say?
A few of us laughed at him, although I also had a little bit in my heart, but it was all because I heard too many stories when I was a child, and it was a normal reaction to be told by Xu Shanyi at this time. After so many years of public security, I feel that I am bold enough, I am not afraid of people alive, and I will not be afraid of the dead.
Xu Shan seemed to feel a little embarrassed, blushing and arguing with us, we laughed and laughed, and no one took it seriously.
Because I was the first post, when everyone else slept, I didn't sleep, sitting by the river and looking at the moon in the water, smoking, thinking about whether my wife was a girl or a boy in her belly.
I came back to my senses because I vaguely heard someone calling me, and I really heard someone calling me...... (Yang Dong's dictation seems to be a bit collapsed here)
I answered twice before I felt something was wrong, because the voice that called me was a woman, and we were five men! Where did the woman come from.
I looked at my watch, and at half past ten, I was in a daze for an hour and a half! At that time, the hairy feeling in my heart came up again, and my back was a little cold. I lit another cigarette and told myself over and over again that it was an auditory hallucination, too quiet, it must be an auditory hallucination.
I mustered my courage and called out to them a few times, but they seemed to be sleeping very well and ignored me. I yelled at them a few times, desperate to distract myself.
But the hairy feeling in my heart became heavier and heavier, and I always felt that someone was staring at me somewhere by the river, and I even thought that she was staring at me and laughing......
The hour and a half in a daze passed quickly, but when I deliberately cared about the time, I found that it passed so slowly, and every time I felt that a long time had passed, I looked at my watch and it was less than three minutes since I last looked at the time.
I don't know how many times I looked at my watch until I noticed that there was no moon in the sky anymore and I was scared...... I'm really scared......
I couldn't find the moon, but the moonlight on the river was so bright that it was like a mirror that could reflect my face......
I didn't want to look at the river, I told myself that my heart was at work! You can't be afraid, the more afraid you are, the harder it will be, so I puffed up, walked to the river, and washed my face happily.
When I finally bent down to pick up the water, I was inexplicably relieved......
But...... I see it...... I see it............ (This is followed by a long cry of pain, and the comforting voices of some people.)
I see it...... My face was pale...... It's not like I'm white...... I can't see my eyes...... I have hands on my eyes...... There are hands......