Chapter 95: Digging into the ground to find out the truth
More than a year ago, Aunt Li Zhi, who had been lonely and widowed, suddenly came to the house of several relatives who had not been in touch for a long time. Li Zhi's aunt never dreamed that Li Zhi, who had not seen her for many years, would actually bring his wife and children to her home.
What made her even more overjoyed was that Li Zhi's family did not come to visit relatives temporarily, but planned to live in the Li family's compound. According to Li Zhi, his aunt was old and needed to be taken care of, so he brought his whole family to live here just to fulfill his filial piety.
Li Zhi's aunt was very happy, because although there was also a nephew Li Shuangxi who came to take care of her, after all, Li Shuangxi had to go to work, and it often took ten days and a half to come to the Li family's compound. Now that a nephew has taken the initiative to take care of himself and get along day and night, how can the lonely old man not feel comforted?
In the few months since Li Zhi's family moved in, Li Zhi and his wife really took good care of his aunt, which made Li Zhi's aunt very moved. Anyway, he has no children, so he was moved by Li Zhi's filial piety, Li Zhi's aunt made a will, and after her death, the Li family compound was given to her nephew Li Zhi.
Perhaps because of this, when Li Zhi's aunt died, her nephew Li Shuangxi actually did not attend her funeral. For this reason, the people in the village talked a lot, and they all praised Li Zhi's filial piety.
Li Zhi is a face-saving person, he cried for a long time in front of his aunt's spirit, and asked the people in the village to invite Li Shuangxi to attend the funeral, and claimed that as long as Li Shuangxi came to his aunt's funeral, although his aunt's will gave Li Zhi's compound to Li Zhi, Li Zhi still took care of his family affection and was willing to negotiate property rights with Li Shuangxi.
But the people who went to invite Li Shuangxi failed to find Li Shuangxi, and later Li Zhi and several other people went to look for each other, but they didn't see any trace of Li Shuangxi. So, because Li Shuangxi was jealous of Li Zhi's Li family's compound, in a fit of anger, rumors of running away from home to work spread around.
What Officer Liu told me made me secretly happy. I have a strong feeling that maybe this Li Shuangxi did not go out to work, but lay under the pile of debris in the Li family's compound forever.
If this is really the case, then my judgment that I feel that there is yin energy under this pile of debris has been confirmed. Moreover, the yin qi was not strong, and it seemed to be suppressed by something, which should be the reason why the cold ghosts were afraid of the hot steam pipes.
My train of thought gradually became clearer, and I dared to conclude that the haunting of the Li family compound was not really haunted by ghosts, but should be a problem with the steam pipes. As for the miserable old woman's cry, it had nothing to do with the ghost at all, but just the sharp sound made when the steam passed by, because it should be Li Shuangxi buried underneath, and he turned into a ghost after his death, and it was impossible to make the old woman's cry.
It's just that it's inconvenient for me to tell Officer Liu about this conjecture, so I just looked at him and smiled without saying a word. Officer Liu looked at me in surprise for a long time, and suddenly slapped the steering wheel and said, "Yes, Li Zhi, this kid probably has a real problem." Otherwise, why did he go out early this morning? No, I still have to ask the leader for instructions and dig up the Li family's compound to see the situation. ”
I have already guessed from his words. Although it is rumored in the village that Li Shuangxi has run away from home to work, there has been no news for more than a year, which should be a missing case in the eyes of the film police officer Liu.
After getting my hints, combined with Li Zhi's strange words and deeds, Officer Liu began to wonder if this Li Shuangxi was killed by someone, and he was buried under this Li family compound. If this is really the case, then Li Zhi is suspected of murder.
Officer Liu's application was quickly approved by the bureau leaders, but because he was not too sure, Officer Liu asked the thermal power plant to come forward and forcibly excavate the ground of the Li family compound in the name of repairing the pipeline.
The construction team soon came to the Li family's compound, and the gate of the compound was also crowded with villagers watching the excitement. After comparing the drawings and determining the specific location of the pipeline maintenance point, the debris pile was removed.
As we moved away from the pile, Officer Liu and I looked at each other. The dirt under the debris pile seemed a little out of place with the rest of the compound. It's just that I don't know if the difference between this piece of ground is caused by the long-term accumulation of debris, so I have to suppress the excitement in my heart and quietly watch the technician digging.
After digging more than a meter deep, the construction workers cheered and finally found a stone slab the size of floor tiles. Sure enough, there was a maintenance point for the steam pipes underground, and the villagers erupted into a state of agitation, and began to believe what Officer Liu and I said that the haunting was actually caused by the failure of the steam pipeline.
The thick pipes cut through a portion of the dirt, and the dirt around them was wet. At the request of Officer Liu, the technicians explained to the villagers the connection between the haunting and the problem with the pipes.
Due to disrepair, a small upper crack has appeared in the steam pipe. Normally, there is nothing unusual in this pipe, so no one can detect the existence of this rift.
It's just that when the thermal power plant supplies high-temperature steam to the scrap iron treatment plant every night, when the high-temperature steam with great pressure flows through the Li family's compound, due to the damage of a hole, when the steam leaks out from the mouth, it makes a sharp whistle, which is why the villagers hear the old woman's cry at about 11 o'clock every night in the Li family's compound.
As for the shaking in the Li family's compound, it was not caused by steam, but it was indeed related to steam. The maintenance nodes of the steam pipeline are designed with alarm devices in mind.
Since the pipes are buried underground, there is no way to use sound or light to warn of faulty pipes, and vibration alarms can only be installed on the maintenance nodes. In this way, when there is a problem with the steam pipeline, the vibration alarm device will work under the impact of high temperature and high pressure steam, resulting in the "old woman crying" at the same time, the hanging lights and household objects in the Li family's compound also begin to tremble.
The people breathed a sigh of relief that the haunted mystery that had tormented them for more than a year had finally been solved. Although I didn't see the body I expected to be dug up, I wasn't disappointed, because when the pipe was dug up, I began to feel a yin aura gradually building up, and it was only because it was daytime that no real ghosts appeared.
Officer Liu also had a disappointed look on his face, and he shook his head at me. After taking a closer look at the equipment at the pipeline maintenance site that had been buried a decade ago, the construction crew called the thermal power plant and asked for a new unit that could be replaced.
Officer Liu sighed and said to me: "Ling Sen, the mystery of the haunting of the Li family's compound has been solved, and the rest of the matter is for the construction team of the thermal power plant, it's none of our business, are you going into the city with my police car?" ”
I shook my head and said slyly, "Officer Liu, if you want to solve the mystery of Li Shuangxi's disappearance a year ago, you might as well wait a little longer, the show has just begun!" ”
This book is derived from the king of books