At night, Sichakou Village is very quiet, and the occasional sound of insects adds a sense of tranquility to the night. But in Wu Qiang's home, this kind of silence can only make people feel dull and depressing.

Qiao Wei sat on the edge of the kang and looked at the old man in the rocking chair opposite. This man has been leaning back in the chair from beginning to end, and he can only sit like this all the time, because he was half paralyzed five years ago, and he needs someone to take care of his daily life and diet, he is Wu Qiang.

Wu Qiang seems to be in his last years, but he is actually only sixty-two years old.

He left Heitong Village in '79, after which he traveled to Shenzhen, and later worked hard in Shanghai for a while. Perhaps because of bad luck, Wu Qiang's twenty years of hard work did not bring him great wealth. In the two thousand years, Wu Qiang returned to Heilongjiang with hundreds of thousands of savings accumulated over the years.

Wu Qiang did not choose to return to Heitong Village, nor did he settle down in Jiangkou Town, but chose the remote village of Sichakou Village, where he married his current wife and built a room to retire in the village.

Wu Qiang's wife is thirteen years younger than him, a widow, and she has a nineteen-year-old son. After following Wu Qiang, she gave birth to a son named Wu Xin, who is now eleven years old.

Although Wu Qiang and his wife came together later, after Wu Qiang was paralyzed, Wu Qiang's wife has been serving carefully. The eldest son, who is now in his thirties, takes care of Wu Qiang more like his own father, regardless of whether this filial piety is based on money or not, for Wu Qiang, the status quo seems to have made him very satisfied, but the sudden arrival of the police and Qiao Wei obviously broke the original harmony of Wu Qiang's family.

Weishenme Wu Qiang will be the next victim of serial murders? What is the basis for such a judgment? Wu Qiang's wife and children will naturally ask such questions, and the police did not shy away from directly stating the reason why they came.

Wu Qiang's wife and children resolutely did not believe that Wu Qiang would do such a thing, but Wu Qiang always remained silent. This silence was not a silent protest, but a tacit acquiescence - he admitted everything in his own way. Then the whole house fell into dead silence.

The hour hand of the old-fashioned wall clock on the wall has been shifted to nine o'clock in the evening, and the rhythmic sound of bells makes the silence of the room even more abrupt.

The door to the outhouse of the house finally opened, and Lei Qishan walked in from the outside.

Qiao Wei got up and asked, "How is it?" Did you find it? ”

Lei Qishan shook his head at Qiao Wei, then went into the room and dragged a chair to sit in front of Wu Qiang and said, "You are Wu Qiang, right?" ”

Wu Qiang glanced at Lei Qishan blankly, and then nodded lightly.

"Let me introduce myself, I am the captain of the criminal police team of the city bureau, and the person in charge of this arrest operation. We now suspect that Sun Fuhai is the murderer who committed nine murders in a row in Heitong Village, Jiwang Village, and Lianjiangkou Town, and his next target is you. In addition, we believe that he has now reached the fork in the road, and is always waiting for an opportunity to make a move on you. ”

"I deserve it, as long as it doesn't involve my wife and children, he can do whatever he wants to me." Wu Qiang finally stopped being silent.

"You can rest assured that we will never let him hurt anyone again. But all guilty should be punished accordingly. Lei Qishan said.

"I know what you mean, I know what I should come will come. If I can keep my family safe, I can do anything. ”

"Good. We don't need you to do anything, as long as you stay at home. Also, don't forget what you just said. After speaking, Lei Qishan got up and walked towards the door.

Qiao Wei also followed Lei Qishan out of Wu Qiang's house, and asked Lei Qishan how he planned to find Sun Fuhai, the eldest of Sun.

Lei Qishan replied that he had not found any evidence to prove that Sun Fuhai was the murderer, and everything was still at the stage of speculation. Even if Sun Fuhai is really found, if Sun Fuhai refuses to admit that he killed someone, the police will have nothing to do with him.

It is precisely because of this that Lei Qishan came over to ask for Wu Qiang's words, and he pondered that if he saw Sun Fuhai, he might be able to persuade Sun Fuhai to admit everything through Wu Qiang's words at that time. Of course, the premise is that the nine murders were indeed committed by Sun Fuhai.

For Lei Qishan's Jihua Qiao Wei did not put forward any comments or suggestions. How to arrest people is what the police have to do, and Qiao Wei just returns to Wu Qiang's house, where he does his job - ready to deal with the ghosts who may invade.

Killing time in a daze never seems to be a difficult thing for Qiao Wei, for Wu Qiang, who is already half-paralyzed, being in a daze is something he does every day, but Wu Qiang's family obviously can't stand this silence, his two sons yawned one after another, and Wu Qiang's wife was already sitting on the kang head and kept pecking rice.

Qiao Wei said kindly: "Otherwise, you can rest first, Wu Qiang has me and the police watching here, it should be fine." ”

The two sons hesitated to glance at their old lady, and the woman looked at Wu Qiang in the rocking chair without thinking. Wu Qiang's eyes were still dull, and he was silent for a while before beckoning his wife to her, and then Wu Qiang whispered a few words to his wife.

His wife's expression was complicated, sometimes nodding and sometimes shaking her head vigorously. It felt like Wu Qiang was explaining what was going on with his wife.

Zuihou, Wu Qiang's wife stroked Wu Qiang's hand a few times with tears in her eyes, and then got up and beckoned her two sons to leave the house. So only Qiao Wei and Wu Qiang were left in the room.

Wu Qiang took a deep breath, and then said to Qiao Wei with a wry smile: "Can you please close the door?" I have something to say to you. ”

Qiao Wei nodded in response, then went to the door and closed the door.

"What do you want to tell me?" Qiao Wei asked.

"You didn't say what you do, but I can tell that you should be someone who is good at dealing with ghosts, right?" Wu Qiang asked.

"Yes."

"That's it. Actually, someone came to me a week ago, but this person should have long since ceased to exist. ”

"You mean...... Sun Erxiao? Qiao Wei guessed.

Wu Qiang nodded calmly and said, "I should call him Second Brother Sun." I was the one who overturned his fishing boat forty years ago, and I dragged him into the river with my own hands. ”

Such a confession surprised Qiao Weiwei!

"You're going to kill him?" Qiao Wei asked hurriedly.

"I didn't mean to. At that time, I was the most water-based in the village, and later a few people in the village who usually played with me came to me and said that they wanted me to play tricks on Second Brother Sun. They said that as long as I overturned my second brother's fishing boat and pretended to be a big fish to scare him. I thought it was quite interesting, so I went, but after I dragged Second Brother Sun into the water, a few boys who dived with me drowned Second Brother Sun in the water, and later divided his body. ”

Wu Qiang paused, and continued: "I'm scared, very, very scared, when the police go to the village, I want to confess to the police. But they said that I was the mastermind, that I killed the second brother Sun, and that I went to the police and was the first to go to prison, so I didn't dare to go. Later, they dragged me to Second Brother Sun's house and forced me and Second Sister-in-law Sun...... Ay! ”

Wu Qiang didn't continue, just sighed heavily.

"Then Second Brother Sun came to you this time, what did he say?" Qiao Wei asked again.

"He was covered in water, and he just stood in front of me and stared at me, but Zuihou he left without saying anything, leaving only a headless river fish on the ground. I know that since I left Heitong Village, there have been deaths in the village one after another, some of those people killed Second Brother Sun together, and some of them bullied Second Brother Sun's second sister-in-law. I fled in the south for twenty years, and I was tired, so I came back here to wait for retribution, but I didn't expect this retribution to come for a long time, and as a result, I got married and had Wu Xin...... Can I ask you for one thing? ”

"Well, you say." Qiao Wei said.

"Can you take me to the river? I want to atone for my sins, I know that my life is not long in coming, the police are guarding me like this now, and you are also watching here, Second Brother Sun will definitely not have a chance to attack me. But you can't keep it for a while, and when I die, Second Brother Sun will come to take my son's life, so I must let Second Brother Sun take me! I know he's in the river, and I hope you'll help me get to the river. ”

Qiao Wei didn't agree immediately, but looked into Wu Qiang's eyes.

From Wu Qiang's eyes, Qiao Wei could see a kind of persistence, a kind of attachment to death.

At this moment, Wu Qiang's wife suddenly pushed the door and broke into the house, and shouted with a panicked face: "Oh no! Wu Xin...... Wu Xinta...... He's gone!!! ”