Chapter 30: The Secret of the Village
"At about two o'clock in the morning three days ago, I saw Yue Wenbin in the drunken dream bar in Longtan......
I looked at Gao Qiuwu and said word by word.
"Shuiyue, is this your experience with ghosts?" Gao Qiuwu cheered up and listened to me tell what happened to me.
The east was white, the rain outside the window had stopped, and my heavy narration was over, and I suddenly felt much more relaxed.
Gao Qiuwu paced in the room: "Shui Yue, do you feel that these things you have encountered have a deep connection with the Yue family?" Although I still can't come up with any specific conclusions, I believe that once one of the doubts is clarified, the other problems will be solved. "
"There are so many suspicious points, where to start?"
I said with annoyance, "
Now I want to know why Mu Tongtong is here to destroy the door, why did he let me see it three times and twice, am I really Yue Wenbin's heir? "
"Shuiyue, don't think about it, you're too tired! Investigate slowly, there will always be clues! Gao Qiuwu walked up to me, "If you trust me, give me time to sort these things out, and then we will solve the mystery one by one." "
I looked at Gao Qiuwu, can I trust him? People in this world are so complicated, even if they are like parents and brothers, they will hide their own selfishness, not to mention that he and I are just 'friends' who have been reunited for a long time!
Gao Qiuwu smiled self-deprecatingly: "I forgot that you are very vigilant!" But it doesn't matter, I'll help you in my own way - I also want to investigate the strange things that have happened in the Yue family in the past twenty years! Shuiyue, you can guard against my malice, but you can't refuse my kindness! "
Gao Qiuwu's words are still so domineering, but when I heard it this time, I didn't feel disgusted.
There was a sudden noise upstairs, and Gao Qiuwu raised his hand to look at the time, "Six and four o'clock!" Shuiyue, at this time, the Yue family should all wake up, and I have to go to make up for sleep. You should also take a good rest. "
"Hmm. Go ahead! β
I stood up to see him off. It was found that the cell phone signal had been restored.
Gao Qiuwu turned around and said, "Also, don't give up the inheritance." Because if it was someone's ploy to put you in the will, then you had to plan it! Believe me, only by staying in Yue's Mansion can you get close to the truth of the matter! "
After Gao Qiuwu left, I fell asleep intermittently, always having some strange dreams.
In the dream, I came at the behest of ...... Braving the rain.
The rain that fell at dawn showed no sign of stopping until after noon.
Not only that, but the rain is getting stronger.
At the end of the forest, you can see a steep mountain. This place is so unfamiliar, it's a place I've never been to before. I trudged through the bushes, the lush vines, the branches as hard as swords, and the slender leaves green and black...... Isn't this wild vine the one on the cliff?
But there was a mountain stream in front of him, and when he looked up, it was pouring rain.
Countless droplets of water were playing with a clatter, and I didn't go out if I knew it - I walked on the mountain path on the bank of the stream with regret.
Not only did the rain turn the creek into a moat, but it also drenched the casual shoes from the outside to the inside, making them disgusting to wear.
In the final analysis, it's not the right person to pick this kind of time and place to make an appointment with someone. Who is it...... Is it Mu Tongtong?
It's lonely to say that she is out of love, think about it carefully, this is the fourth time she has separated from Gao Qiuwu this year.
Falling out of love at the end of the season, and falling in love again when the new season comes - this woman is really realistic. Anyway, when spring comes, she will definitely fall in love with a new object again.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was stupid.
I stopped in front of the stream, tucked my umbrella between my shoulders and neck, and exhaled into my hands.
It's cold. The breath exhaled was white, and Miss Yue's fingertips were so red that she was shivering.
Boom Boom
There was a ringing sound in my ears.
I rolled my eyes to look around.
I immediately found the source of the sound, which turned out to be a mountain stream carrying mud and sand and the water was getting faster and stronger.
The water level rises and turns into a yellow-brown stream, like a herd of wild cattle running wild.
The wind roared.
"Ahh It's a flood! "
I raised my voice, but it was too late; The wind that swept up from below blew my umbrella into the distance in an instant.
The white plastic umbrella spun and fell on the lawn on the side of the mountain stream.
"Oops, nasty!"
I couldn't help but blurt out a complaint, and then chased the umbrella and tried to walk down the mountain stream lawn, but I fell on the wet lawn and slid down the mountain stream.
"Nasty! I've had enough! "
I felt so miserable, but I held back my tears and held my body up with both hands. There was a tingling pain in my ass and elbows, which may have bruised my skin.
Umbrellas are blown by the wind by the stream.
My bangs are constantly dripping. "β¦β¦ Live...... hand..."
Just as I was about to reach for my umbrella, I heard a voice in my ears.
"Who is it?"
I asked tentatively, but no one answered. Probably listen to the sound of the wind as a human voice, right? I sniffled and bent down again to pick up my umbrella.
Shout! It's windy again.
"Ahh
The umbrella slipped out of my fingers, floated on the stream, and was finally swallowed up by the turbidity current.
There was nothing I could do but stare blankly at the scene.
It's really unlucky.
Borrow ...... from someone nearby Buy a new umbrella! Then don't wait for Mu Tongtong today, it's better to go back early and take a hot bath.
"β¦β¦ Live...... Hand ......"
When I took a step with my back to the mountain stream, the sound suddenly reappeared.
This time I heard it right, it was a human voice.
"Who is it?"
I asked as I turned around, but no one answered. A cat meow could be heard in the distance. There was a beast chasing the cat, and its greedy, vicious whistling could be heard......
Suddenly, the cat jumped in front of me with a thud. I sat down on the ground in fright. I saw a huge beast in the middle of the vine-covered forest - I don't know if it was a tiger or a mad dog, it was chasing it from a distance, and it was stopping to find its prey. You can see its anxious red eyes, like two flames in the night......
I was so frightened that I immediately got up and ran as fast as I could. At this time, "ask for ...... Beg...... You ......"
The voice lingered in my ears and lingered.
Who? Who is it? ββI looked around to find out where the sound was coming from. My heart was beating faster and faster, and I felt as if I had a very ominous premonition.
After a while, an astonishing sight came to my eyes.
A white figure passed not far in front of me, and I saw a girl about my age, with short hair, big eyes, a white blouse and a short skirt, running in a panic before my eyes.
In a hurry, I hurriedly ran with the girl, and soon ran out of the mountains and forests......
I gasped in fright; The woman, about the age of a high school student, rushed into the middle of the turbulent current, the mountain stream flooding her shoulders and the raging rapids almost swept her away.
She reached for the sky and looked like she was struggling. However, the bank of the stream was about 50 meters away from the woman, which was almost impossible for me, who was not a good swimmer.
I had no idea when I stood by the stream, and even though I had dog planing and swimming skills, I was afraid that not only would I not be able to save people in this rapid, but I might also lose my own life.
"Someone, someone! There's a girl drowning! "
I desperately raised my voice to call, but in exchange for the rumbling sound of turbid currents, as if laughing at my wasted efforts.
"I'll go find someone to help, you can hold on a little longer!"
I shouted to the woman in the stream. Jing found that the girl had run far along the bank of the stream in the other direction. The beast was about to chase after me, so I jumped into the stream in a panic and swam as hard as I could to the other side of the stream...... In the afterglow, the woman seemed to float up a little, as if in response to me. At first I thought I was wrong, butβ
The shoulders, chest, waist of the woman gradually rise slowly and accurately.
Finally, the woman stood on top of the rushing stream.
"Yikes!"
Witnessing this incredible sight, I vividly imprinted the woman's appearance in my mind.
I couldn't make out her face, but I could be sure she had her long black hair tied into a ponytail and was wearing a familiar school uniform.
The woman began to walk slowly along the water, towards me.
How is this possible? It is impossible for a human being to walk on water!
It was beyond my comprehension, and my mind was in a mess, and my body was so stiff that I couldn't move.
The woman was closing in on me.
"Don't! Don't come here! "
I screamed at the top of my throat, and the woman disappeared in an instant.
There was only a rushing torrent in front of him, as if the woman had not been there from the beginning.
Is this a delusion? Or is it a dream?
I stroked my chest and took deep breaths repeatedly, trying to sort out my chaotic thoughts.
Poo!
There was the sound of water at his feet.
Bo Bo!
There were blisters floating on the shore and bouncing up. What the? What's going on?
Smack! I heard the wild beast roaring at me by the stream, so I had to burrow into the water. I didn't dare to look up for fear it was waiting for me overhead. Underwater, I could still hear the beast turning after the girl, and then I heard a terrible scream......
I don't know how long it took, but I crawled out and stood on the bank of the stream again. I saw horrific sights β blood all over the floor, scattered bones, broken pieces of flesh.
There was a white short, torn into strips, wrapped around a tuft of thorns, stained with blood......
I was so frightened that I cried and ran out as I cried. Can...... Something touched my foot.
Good ice, wet and sticky.
Could it be - I got stuck in the stream, entangled in the weeds.
I shuddered and looked down.
I saw a rotting human hand soaked in purple red in the mountain stream sticking out of the water and grabbing my ankle.
"Ahh
The cacophony of the rain drowned out my frightened screams - and I felt the branches of the trees not far away.
From the middle of the intertwined branches, I saw Mu Tongtong's white figure, moving slowly with me...... Obviously, Mu Tongtong was always following me, and he also saw everything that happened just now......
In a cold sweat! I woke up suddenly, facing Aunt Shanghu's wrinkled face: "Classmate Shen, everyone is waiting for you to eat in the dining room." "
"When did you come in? What time is it? β
I got up immediately, because of a nightmare, and when I woke up the next morning, I felt so tired that I forgot to lock the door.
I was so careless!
"Twelve o'clock at noon! Mr. Shen, did you not sleep well last night? The circles under the eyes are also dark. Is it a nightmare? "Aunt Hu has no intention of leaving, it seems that she is urging me to hurry up.
"You...... How do you know? "
"Because, just now you called Yue Wenbin's name in your dream!" Hu Gu said lightly: "Does Shen know an ancient custom of our Longtan? "
"What?"
"If a man and a woman are engaged and one dies suddenly, then the other must be martyred! Otherwise...... The ghosts of the other party will haunt you for the rest of your life, even if it is the dragon king."
A chill welled up in my heart: "Are you deliberately scaring me?" "
But Hu Gu didn't answer me, and left the room without changing her face.
When I came to the dining room, the people of the Yue family had already started lunch. Except for Yue Hongxu, everyone was present, even Gao Qiuwu, who had no sleep all night yesterday, was chatting with Mrs. Yue at the dinner table, and Mrs. Yue immediately asked as if nothing had happened when she saw me: "Xiao Shen, are you still used to living?" "
I nodded and sat down in the vacant seat, opposite me was Gao Qiuwu, who looked a little haggard, but he still pretended to be very energetic, adding food to Yue Shiyin next to him, and when he saw me, the corners of his mouth gently raised an arc.
"That, why didn't Ms. Yue Hongxu come to dinner?"
I asked.
"This child is used to eating in the room, and Aunt Hu has already brought me food. You also know that she is not in good spirits...... "Mrs. Yue said, "By the way, Mr. Shen, how did you think about your will?" "
Everyone in the Yue family stopped their chopsticks and looked at me. I bowed my head and said, "I, I decided not to give up my rights for the time being......"
"Humph!" Yue Lanyue slammed the bowl on the table, and her daughter was so frightened that she hurriedly leaned towards Yue Ningyu: "I just said that there is no cat in the world who is not greedy!" Obviously you want to, why did you pretend to be high yesterday and deliberately trick us? "
"I ......"
I don't know how to explain it.
"If you can't eat, you can go back first, don't make a lot of noise at the dinner table!" Mrs. Yue said to Yue Lanyue while serving the soup.
"Good! I'll go, I'll go back to the capital now! Yue Lanyue got up and grabbed the coat on the back of the chair, "Assistant Gao, we've been living for two days, and the mourning is not about the form, right?" "
"Yes, yes!" Lawyer Gao probably didn't have a problem with his pungency, "Then everyone, from next week, the will will officially take effect." "
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After Yue Lanyue's family left, everyone also finished eating. As the executor, Lawyer Gao seemed to be very satisfied with my acceptance of the inheritance, and seemed to feel that he could complete Yue Wenbin's entrustment: "Xiao Shen, you can take my car back to the capital and move your luggage over later, I see that you are very unenergetic, take a good rest on the way back, don't worry." "
Mrs. Yue also walked over, but said, "Classmate Shen, you haven't officially gone to Yue Moye's grave to pay respects, have you?" I heard Aunt Tiger say that we weren't there last time you came, so you didn't get acquainted with it, so we just went to mourn him together. "
"You mean ......"
I didn't understand what Mrs. Yue said next.
"The weather is not bad today, and the rain has stopped, why don't we go to Yue Moye's grave?" Although it was a question sentence, Mrs. Yue called Hu Gu, "You go and prepare candle paper money." "
Hearing this, Lawyer Gao stopped, and I saw that his eyebrows were furrowed, as if he was thinking about something: "It's just right, take me with you, I also want to sweep the grave of my old friend by the way." "
Mrs. Yue nodded: "Would you like Assistant Gao to come along?" "
"Okay, ha, I'm looking for a chance to worship!"
The tombs of the Yue family for generations were built next to the cliff, a small hill with good terrain. Just after the rain, the white flowers blooming on the mountain have not yet withered, and after a night of rain, they are even more delicate and compelling.
"The Yue clan has always practiced husband and wife marriage." Mrs. Yue said to us that she ordered Aunt Hu to put the sacrificial items in front of a new grave, which was Yue Moye's tomb.
After a brief worship, I suddenly noticed that there was a scarlet sedan chair parked behind the tomb, just like I saw it last time at the Dragon King's marriage!
"That'...... What is it? β
I asked, and by this time Mrs. Yue had come to her husband's grave, silently mruning the weeds.
The one who answered me was Hu Gu: "That was the bride who was originally paired with the Dragon King, and then the female tourists didn't see anyone alive or dead, so we kept the sedan chair here - this Dragon King's marriage must be presided over by the man of the Yue family, anyway, one day it can be used, and the Dragon King will not be unaccompanied!" "
When I saw Aunt Hu say this, a sly smile flashed across her face, and it quickly disappeared - did you mean to let me come to the funeral?
As I walked over, I wondered if the bones of the female tourist had really been in this sedan chair. His hands unconsciously touched the sedan curtain, but he remembered the hallucination of the dragon king's marriage that day, and he didn't have the courage to push it open.
A pair of big hands opened the sedan chair without hesitation, and I turned my head and met Gao Qiuwu's smiling eyes.
There was nothing in the sedan chair except a hijab and some broken fibers, and my anxious heart calmed down.
"What is this?" Gao Qiuwu pulled out a small piece of shiny stuff from the rag.
I took it and saw a gleaming silver shard, some of which had been oxidized and darkened.
"It's not a female tourist thing!"
I said with certainty, "I can see that this is an antiquity, how can ordinary people take this to the sedan chair!" If this is the bride's body, does it prove that the female tourist disappeared before getting on the sedan chair? "
Gao Qiuwu shook his head: "Not necessarily, it may also be the person who stole the bride, or it was left by the murderer." After all, the bones were unrecognizable! "
"Come and see, it's weird!" In the afterglow, Yue Shiyin stood in front of Yue Zhenxing and Mu Lingbo's graves and shouted. But I smelled something I hadn't seen in a long time. In the distance, there was the sound of wheat straw being put into the stove and burning, and there was a faint fragrance, which smelled of wheat straw smoke.
My extrasensory ability has been restored, but unfortunately, Mu Tongtong's former residence looks so bleak and desolate.
It's so close to the ancestral tomb of the Yue family!
Just as I was meditating and reminiscing about the past, the wooden door was pushed open with a "clang", and a woman in a pink cloth shirt and white pants walked out, a shriveled stall owner.
"Yikes! Who should I be, isn't this a little house finch from the field, what, you flew out and you know to come back and see, I thought you were eaten by a dog and forgot about us all with a conscience......"
Yue Shiyin ran over unhappily and dragged me aside: "Shui Yue, who is this person, why is he talking so annoying?" "
I smiled helplessly: "It's okay, I bought something from him." "I thought he would come and shout and kill, this attitude is intriguing.
"Shriveled stall owner, why are you here?" I also pretended that nothing had happened.
"It's been abandoned for so long, and I'm taking care of it."
When Yue Shiyin was there, the shriveled stall owner was polite to me, and lowered his voice when he spoke.
"I'm very curious, why don't you think Mu Tongtong will come back to see, school will start in ten days, take advantage of this time to come back and sweep the grave of your family. Or, do you all know she's not coming back? β
As I spoke, I pulled Yue Shiyin into the door. Seeing that her face remained unchanged, she probably didn't know who Mu Tongtong was.
"Tut-tut...... That's a nice thing to say! You yourself are back to throw yourself into the net, and there are two dragging behind you, and I am not a Longtan tiger's den here. The blind woman of the shriveled stall owner suddenly appeared, and the folds on her face did not make her look kind, but more petty. The shriveled stall owner stood to the side rubbing his hands awkwardly.
I was startled and stepped back......
I caught a glimpse of the blind mother-in-law's disgusted eyes, and I didn't dare to ask her again, so I had to whisper Yue Shiyin: "Yue Shiyin!" Do you know why there is a small room here that is vacant, because there are miscellaneous items in the village? "
Yue Shiyin hesitated, muttered a muttered sentence in her mouth, I didn't hear it clearly, and she pointed at the shriveled stall owner again.
I understand, Yue Shiyin is not the Yue family's home, and she still has to ask the shriveled stall owner.
But the answer I got was astonishing: "It's useless for the Mu family to come back, the house in the house has already been rented out to someone else in the village." "
Others? I was surprised: "Mu Tongtong's room, have you also rented it out?" "
"Rented, all rented!" The shriveled stall owner didn't care. The blind woman's face was full of viciousness.
"All rented?" That's even more strange, how can this poor and remote place suddenly come to rent a house? Whoever wants to travel will also find some beautiful scenery and convenient transportation! Who's going to be here......
"They are all hardcover men, young girls, although it is summer, but the dew in the middle of the night in the mountains is heavy, and it is still easy to catch a cold. We can't let them get sick! Even if Mu Tongtong came back, there was no place for anyone to live, so he just had to sleep on the floor in the barren mountains and mountains, and make do with it! "The shriveled stall owner is getting impatient. But I feel like he has something to say.
"How?" Gao Qiuwu grimaced.
"It's useless for you to yell at me, I told you that the house is rented out......," the shriveled stall owner returned to the house angrily. I stood still and didn't move: who would come here to rent a house and stay for a long time? Yue Shiyin remembered and pulled me, "Something happened on the edge of the ancestral grave!" β
The joint burial tomb of Yue Zhenxing and Mu Lingbo was dug up, and the coffin and the bones became scattered!
When Mrs. Yue saw this scene, her face turned pale with anger! That was the first time I saw on Mrs. Yue's face other than calm. Hu Gu scolded: "Which bastard who has been cut by a thousand knives dares to do such a ghost trick on the ancestral grave of the Yue family?!" However, all they answered was a stream of mockery. Yue Hongxu was still silent, just took out the vermilion lacquer and painted the seal characters on the stone tablet on the grave red, and painted it very seriously, over and over again, until the red of the vermilion lacquer became like blood. The blue-gray stele looked at me innocently, and I sat at its feet, leaning my head against it.
Everyone went down the mountain in silence, each with their own thoughts. When parting, Gao Qiuwu whispered to me: "This is not a good thing. At the very least, we were right, that everything was deliberately planned! "
"Xiao Shen, I think this may be the Yue family's own ghost." Gao Qiuwu said while driving, "People do everything for the sake of the inheritance, and if they want to use this method to scare away other heirs, they can enjoy the inheritance for themselves - that, Yue Lanyue is more like a person who does this kind of thing." "
"But how did the suspect know we were going to the grave today?"
I asked him rhetorically.
"Uh...... Maybe it was arranged a long time ago, anyway, the Yue family would always go to worship. The more Gao Qiuwu said, the more uncertain he became, "Actually, I'm just speculating, and I don't want you to worry too much." "
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
I squeezed out a smile, what I had experienced recently had already made me courageous, "By the way, why did you go to the mountains after dinner last night?" "
"Ah, I haven't been to Longtan Township for a long time, so I took a casual stroll." Gao Qiuwu turned his head, "It's raining so hard, where else can I go?" Last night, I also rushed back to prepare to stay in Yue's house, but I met you. "
I looked at him, and I always felt that he was hiding something, was he so active in helping me obtain property just to fulfill Yue Wenbin's last wish?
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