Chapter 17: Death Comes
An eerie atmosphere reigns in the village in the early morning, and ominous signs have once again befallen this seemingly uncontested hamlet. After coming down from the back mountain, I went home to have breakfast, "Ah Yuan, you seem to have forgotten to bring your mobile phone when you go out, your phone seems to have rang several times in the morning, there should be something urgent," my mother, who served me porridge, told me about the phone.
"I went out for a run in the morning, so I forgot to bring my phone, so I'm going to check it out," I just picked up my phone when I rushed back to my room and picked it up, when a rapid phone rang again...... "Ring...... Bell bell. Bell. "I was smiling when I pulled out my phone, but I couldn't smile anymore when I heard the call.
"Ah Yuan, the people from the police station told me that Zhibang died last night," After finishing speaking, Xia Rui's crying voice came from the other end of the phone, and the name displayed on the phone was Xia Rui, it was a very pleasant thing to receive a call from someone I liked early in the morning, but this phone call brought me the message of death, and then there was a heart-wrenching cry.
The sudden death note caused me to be confused for a while, and I was stunned for a while, "Where are you Miss Xia, I'll go over to find you," and told me in my heart that now is the moment when she needs me, "It's ...... Excavated cultural relics. "The sobbing voice intermittently told me where she was.
"Okay, Miss Xia, wait a while, I'll come over immediately," I stepped up my pace and ran along the village road towards the place where the cultural relics were excavated, while constantly comforting Xia Rui on the phone, and countless terrible thoughts shook in my heart, which one has anything to do with meeting Ergou last night? I hurried to my destination with a sense of confusion. There were many villagers around the chaotic scene, and the whole scene had been surrounded by a cordon, and a sense of foreboding slowly rose.
I looked around at the crowd and tried to find Xia Rui's location, just under the trees not far away, Xia Rui was sitting on the side crying, and Chen Bozheng was bothering to comfort the little girl in front of him. "Miss Xia, don't be sad, people can't be resurrected after death," no matter what Uncle Chen said, he couldn't stop the cry of the little girl in front of him, and Uncle Chen, who looked helpless, looked around looking for someone who could help.
"Uncle Chen, let me come," seeing Uncle Chen's embarrassment, I quickly walked to Uncle Chen's side and said, "Guoyuan, you are here, this little girl can really cry, she has been crying for a while, you take care of her, I will take a look at the scene," After speaking, Uncle Chen walked towards the cordon. "Miss Xia, Miss Xia, are you okay?" Looking at the crying beauty, my heart was full of pain, and I gently patted her shoulder, trying to comfort her.
Xia Rui, who was crying on the side, heard a familiar voice, she slowly raised her head, her lovely eyes were gradually flushed with red threads, and when she saw me appear beside her, it seemed as if she had found a support, "Ah Yuan, you are finally here," After speaking, she hugged me and cried loudly again, the sudden action made me stunned for a while, and I gently patted her back with some surprise, and gently asked what happened.
"Okay, I'm here, it's okay, tell me what's going on?" Xia Rui, whose emotions slowly calmed down, gradually stopped crying, she slowly left my shoulder and looked at me quietly, and then exhaled deeply, "I went to the place where the cultural relics were unearthed this morning, and found that Officer Han and other police officers were blocking the scene, and there was a dead person inside, I fixed my eyes and saw that it was actually Zhibang who worked with me, how could this be?" Xia Rui seemed unwilling to accept this iron-clad fact, and said as tears seemed to be pouring out again.
"How could your colleague die in the place where the relics were unearthed," I asked suspiciously, "We will have one person on duty every night to prevent others from stealing the cultural relics, the one on duty last night was Zhibang, who was found dead this morning, and when I arrived, Officer Han had already cordoned off the scene, I called you several times and no one answered, and I will be connected when I call again later," Xia Rui told me everything that happened.
Remembering that when I went out to the back mountain in the morning, my phone was left at home, why am I so stupid, if I take my phone out in the morning, I may be able to comfort Xia Rui earlier, I complained to myself lightly. "Miss Xia, don't be sad, I will definitely find out about this matter," my heart became heavier and heavier, thinking of the incident of Ergou last night, I couldn't help but feel chills again, looking at the beauty in front of me on the side, my courage suddenly increased a lot.
"Well, I believe you, but can I join you now? After all, Zhibang and I have known each other since we were in school, and I want to do my best," Xia Rui's face showed a pleading look, "This, okay, but if there is anything, you must listen to me," Although I knew that it would be dangerous to investigate this matter, but looking at those watery eyes, my heart softened again, how could I refuse the beauty in front of me?
"Well, I will definitely do it well, and I will never cause trouble for you," Xia Rui's face showed a happy smile again after getting my consent, "Let's go, let's go over and see the situation at the scene," I took Xia Rui's hand and walked towards the cordon, "Oh," the sudden holding of the hand made Xia Rui's heart rise a warm feeling, her face flushed slightly, and she lowered her head shyly and let me pull it.
The surrounding villagers began to keep talking to each other, "Lao Zhang, you see that there is a dead person again, I think that Bacheng will appear again next time, what can I do," Master Li, a carpenter at the head of the village, asked Lao Zhang beside him worriedly, "Hey, what are you afraid of, your son has found a good job outside, and my daughter is not married yet, it seems that she has to be sent to live with relatives in the city, and she can't be treated here," After speaking, he hurried home to arrange things, in fact, the villagers also have their own opinions.
"I see, it must have been Sun Dangjia, who died in prison a few years ago, who came out to take revenge on the villagers," said a bloated woman with a grin, "He has been dead for so many years, why should he take revenge on the villagers, and the villagers didn't provoke him, don't talk nonsense," said the emaciated woman who was standing on the side, pulling the man in fear. "What do you think, what did we do after Sun Dang's family went to prison, the village was renamed, and those cadres actually changed people's ancestral halls into loyal and righteous shrines where corpses were parked, which one do you say suffered it," the woman said as if she was really serious, and her mouth full of saliva kept spurting out.
"Then why do you say that the Sun family has nothing to do to kill the young man from outside this village," the woman on the side asked for unknown reasons, "You are stupid, I think these cultural relics are the inheritance of the Sun family, and whoever dares to dig up his things will kill whom," the woman gushed endlessly, if it were not for the native villagers of this village, I am afraid that she would have believed the words of this long-tongued woman.
Looking at the gossiping villagers on the side, Xia Rui couldn't help frowning, pulled my hand and asked, "What did they say about the Sun family?" "It was a big family who used to build a village, but later he was arrested for rebelling against the reform policy, and he committed suicide in prison after hearing that his family's property was confiscated," this story is too long, so I have to pick some simple places to tell it.
"Okay, wouldn't these relics really be the treasures buried by the big family surnamed Sun?" Xia Rui seemed to believe the words of the woman in the village, and continued to ask me, "Don't think about it, the women in the village like to talk nonsense, you don't have to believe their words," Xia Rui's question made me feel a little powerless to answer, and I had such doubts in my heart, but it has been a long time since the incident of the Sun family, so I won't come to revenge now.
"Spread them all, don't spread rumors here, and if you disrupt the order of the scene, you will be sued for obstructing official business," Looking at the chattering crowd around him, Han Dong's inner anger did not come to one place, and scolded the surrounding villagers, "Let's go, hurry, quickly pack up your things and escape out of the village to avoid it," the people around them scattered in a hurry, and they didn't look down when they left. The people in the village even chose to go out to work or take refuge in the homes of relatives in the city in order to escape the ghosts, and I felt very sad for a while when I watched the village that was becoming depressed.