Before the liberation of the village, the village was divided into the east village and the west village, which I knew when I was in the village, but because my attention was all focused on the family that disappeared and the later Li Da leather craftsman, I ignored a question, that is, which village these missing children came from, and according to the police investigation, the missing children were all from the former West Village without exception.

Now that this pattern has been found, it is not difficult to determine the list of children who may go missing on Chinese New Year's Eve, and then you can take care of these children in a close-knit way. And according to Tang Hui's excerpts, the police did exactly that.

On Chinese New Year's Eve 2004, the county bureau dispatched a large number of police to Hump Village. At that time, the police suspected that it was a retaliatory gang child trafficking case, so they set up an ambush in the village of Huojiao early on, just waiting for the criminals to be caught. But in the end, the police did not catch anyone, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, a thirteen-year-old boy mysteriously disappeared in plain sight.

The police officer at the scene recalled: The room was filled with a crisp sound, then a blinding white light, and choking black smoke, as if it were flashbang and smoke bombs. When everything is over, the child to be protected is gone.

Later, the county bureau also conducted a follow-up investigation, but there was no result, and in addition, since 04, the village has not reported any disappearances, and the content of the entire excerpt ends here.

After reading it, I asked Tang Hui how the police at the missing child's house that day were doing.

Tang Hui's answer surprised me very much, he said: "There were two people in the child's house at that time, one had an accident when he was on duty in 06, and a falling object hit the top of his brain and died on the spot; The other is Zhang Rui, who is at the desk next to me, and she has always been very haode. ”

"It's been pretty haode?" I'm curious.

"yes!" Tang Hui replied: "From 01 to 04, the police who followed up the case in Huojiao Village have more or less encountered accidents and been injured, it seems that she is the only one who has nothing to do, got married last year, and just gave birth to a child not long ago." ”

After listening, I hurriedly asked Qiao Wei if he was also divided into men and women. Qiao Wei shook his head in denial, and then guessed: "It may be that someone superior has broken her." ”

"What if no one breaks it for her?" I threw my question to Qiao Wei again and said, "Is it possible that she did some special things when she was at that child's house, so she avoided the evil spirit?" ”

Qiao Wei held his chin and thought about it seriously, "It's not that this possibility is completely impossible, the safest thing is to ask her face to face and hear what she has to say." After speaking, Qiao Wei set his eyes on Tang Hui.

Tang Hui looked dazed, obviously not understanding what Qiao Wei and I were talking about just now. So I told Tang Hui about my experience with Qiao Wei in Humwaist Village in the past few days in the most brief way.

Tang Hui listened carefully to everything I said, and then nodded solemnly and said, "I have long felt that something is wrong here. My dad's classmate is an old policeman, and once when he came to my house for a drink, he told me not to touch some mysterious cases that could not be solved, and they privately called these cases 'ghost crimes'. Are you two determined to get rid of that ghost who was causing trouble in the village? ”

"It's not about catching it." Qiao Wei smiled and said, "It's to open the light for him and send him to Bliss early." ”

"That's your style! Well, if there is anything I need help with, just say it, as long as I can do it, and it doesn't violate the principles, I decide to spare no effort! Tang Hui patted his chest and said.

Qiao Wei didn't say anything polite to Tang Hui, and directly asked Tang Hui to help with two things.

The first thing I did was to arrange for Qiao Wei and I to meet Zhang Rui. Coincidentally, Zhang Rui happened to hold a full moon wine for the child today, and Tang Hui was going to participate in it in the evening, so Qiao Wei and I decided to pretend to have a chance encounter with Tang Hui in the hotel, and then find an opportunity to ask Zhang Rui about the situation.

The second thing is to ask Tang Hui to help confirm which village the families whose children have disappeared or suffered disasters in the eight years from 2005 to 2012 come from. Because I have visited the village before, I still remember the approximate family name, and Tang Hui also has the detailed information of the people in the village that he can borrow and check by himself.

This work was time-consuming and troublesome, but Tang Hui still helped to get it done before getting off work, and the result once again surprised me.

In the thirteen years from 2001 to 2012, most of the years were in which the children in the West Village disappeared, except in 2008, when a child in the East Village disappeared. And Tang Hui also found out the special features of 2008, in that year, none of the children in the West Village were in the age group of twelve or thirteen.

This is undoubtedly a significant and extremely helpful discovery! Before, I was thinking that this ghost who caught the child was just taking revenge on Nishimura, but now it seems that this is not the case, although this ghost does give priority to Nishimura, but he did not let Higashimura go when Nishimura has no target.

Why?

I hit a wall on this question, so I asked Qiao Wei some questions about ghost behavior, focusing on how ghosts choose their targets if they want to kill people.

Qiao Wei replied: "Ghost killing is just one word, resentment!" For example, if a person is killed, he doesn't know who killed him, only that the person who killed him was wearing a red sweater. So if the person who was killed turned into a ghost, he would specifically find the person in the red sweater, regardless of whether the person in the red sweater was the one who killed him. ”

I nodded, and carefully tasted the word "resentment" mentioned by Qiao Wei.

Suddenly! I discovered a major misunderstanding, and at the same time remembered something that I had overlooked! I was so excited that I jumped almost all at once.

"I see! I was misled by the ghost wish! ”

"What? What does this say? Qiao Wei leaned forward from the back of the sofa, staring intently into my eyes.

"First of all, we assume that the murderer who snatched the child is a ghost." I said this to Tang Hui, and then continued to look back at Qiao Wei and said, "We thought that the ghost turned into a dragon at the request of the people, and then took the child as a tribute. But if this is just a ghost simply responding to people's wishes, then the children who were captured by the dragon should be evenly distributed in the east and west villages, but this is obviously not the case now. So this ghost who catches children must have a 'grudge' against Nishimura! ”

"Hmm~hmm~! You continue! Qiao Wei nodded frequently.

"The question is, who would have a grudge against a twelve- or thirteen-year-old child in Nishimura? And when this kind of resentment has nowhere to be sprinkled, will it be angry with the children in the East Village? I think the most likely people to do this are two or more children from Nishimura who died when they were twelve or thirteen years old! ”

"Nishimura's dead child?" Qiao Wei frowned, "Then this range is a bit big, you have to go back to the village and ask from house to house!" We can't go back, or Tang Hui, you can go on a trip? As he spoke, Qiao Wei also looked at Tang Hui.

Without waiting for Tang Hui to reply, I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "No!" If I'm not mistaken, it should be the child of the family that was killed by Li Da Leatherman! Do you remember, the family of ghosts that came out of the wasteland that day, there were old men, there were adults, but there were no children! Do you think it was Li Da Leathersmith who moved his compassion and let his children go? ”

Qiao Wei thought for a moment and shook his head.

"I don't think so." I continued: "Li Da cobbler must have been mad when he knew that his son had fallen into the hands of the Japanese devils, and it was impossible for him to let go of the child of the informant's family! The child who was killed by Li Da Leathersmith became a ghost after his death, and he became angry with the twelve or thirteen-year-old children in the same West Village. So I started with children of the same age in Nishimura. There are no people of the same age in the West Village, so they will find the East Village instead. ”

"So, where will the child's body be?" Qiao Wei asked me again.

I can't answer that question for the time being. The cobbler must have not been at that family's house at that time, but took them somewhere else, which is known only to the cobbler himself. However, I have a hunch that as long as I meet Zhang Rui, I will definitely be able to find the clue where the bones are!