Chapter 24: Master's Secret

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My master called me. He's not abroad, and he should have slept soundly at this time, so why did he think of looking for me?

I answered the phone. Master went straight to the point and said Did I go to see my father?

My first reaction was surprise, and I said how did he know, but I looked back at the mental hospital and understood, it must be that martial arts master, he gave me a small "report", so that the master and Jiang Shaoyan are together.

My heart was beating hard.

Master saw that I didn't squeak for a while, and then guessed it, and asked me again, "Xiao Leng, what do you think of me to you?" ”

I stammered, and I admitted in my heart that Master was so kind to me. After all, I am an old man, I can't lie about this kind of thing, and finally nodded in admission, and specifically said that the master treated me like his own son.

Master smiled, and my answer also made him sigh, saying that he was just an apprentice like me in his life, and he only wanted to have an apprentice like me. Then he changed the subject, saying that it was not by chance that he went to the provincial hall, there are many secrets in it, and he can't tell me now, but he stressed that if I can't trust the crow, at least I have to believe him, don't make trouble at such a critical time, and from tomorrow onwards, live as you want, and everything will be normalized.

I savored it, and a thought suddenly popped up in my head, saying that Jiang Shaoyan is not a bad person? But what other cases in the province should continue to follow up? The crow and my master are both playing a smoke bomb to close the case of the living corpse first, but in fact, they are slowly following the vine and catching big fish?

My heart is itching, because I am in a puzzle, I am completely blind, if Master can elaborate more, I understand a little more, and I will not think about it.

But the master didn't want to say more, and told me that the crow had given me a gift in the past few days, and I didn't know if I had received it, so he hoped that I could study it carefully, and if I really couldn't bear it, I would wrap it in tin foil and keep it secretly.

I knew that this gift was referring to Xiao Ding, but I didn't expect that Master also mentioned tin foil.

Master said that he was still working overtime, so he didn't continue to talk about anything, and hung up the phone.

For a while, my heart was a little uncomfortable with heat, and I was also a little shivering with cold. I stopped pushing the cart anymore, parked on the side of the road, I sat on the curb of the road, curled up in a ball, so that it would be better, and took a cigarette and thought about it.

In the end, I didn't have a clear idea, but I felt that Master had reminded me that it would not be good if I "made trouble" again. In particular, my father and I will definitely not be in danger of life, in that case, take a normal attitude towards life and wait and see.

With an "optimistic" attitude, I rode a bicycle to the suburban grave to get Xiaoding back.

I buried it for a short time, especially at night, and no one stole it. But when I arrived at the designated place to take a look, I was stunned, and an accident appeared.

Ding was quietly placed in the pit, but outside the pit, there were several large centipedes. I shone it with a small flashlight, and the largest end was estimated to be 20 centimeters long, and it was fat.

They are not stationary, they crawl in circles in a cranky manner, as if they want to rush into the pit. I don't want them to do that, otherwise how can they win the crown?

I'm wearing platform shoes, what's that? Suddenly ran over and stomped on these poisonous insects. Use the soles of your shoes to instantly press them into patties.

After these centipedes died, they all flowed out of "water", presumably venom, and I didn't want to touch it, so I swept some soil with the soles of my shoes and buried them, and then I squatted next to the pit and took a picture of Xiao Ding.

There were no poisonous insects on Xiaoding, so I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and reached over again, trying to take it out.

Can't blame me for being sloppy, just during the Ding, suddenly a little centipede crawled out of the Ding, it was really fast, swishing, going around the Dingkou, and retracted.

I bit the flashlight with my mouth to illuminate it. I could see it clearly, this centipede was black and purple, similar to the color of the inside of the tripod, and it must have shrunk in the corner just now, camouflaged to deceive my eyes.

I was taken aback, so excited that I almost swallowed the flashlight, but I also understood that this unique centipede must be very poisonous, and the big centipedes before did not dare to come in, just because they were afraid of it. It didn't bite me, but I reflexively let go, letting Xiao Ding fall back into the pit.

I have a headache, and with this black purple centipede, I don't dare to take the plunge. I thought about a stupid trick, took off one of my socks, crumpled them into a ball, and slammed them onto the mouth, so that the black purple centipede was trapped inside.

I quickly took Ding away, put it in the basket of my bicycle, and went home with it.

Along the way, I also had a very bold guess about tin foil. I also happened to have some tin foil left at home, which I once didn't use up when I had a barbecue with my colleagues.

After I went upstairs, I wrapped the outside of Xiaoding twice with tin foil, found some soil, small stones and fallen leaves, threw myself in the glass jar where silkworms had been raised, and half-buried Xiaoding in it.

Because I know that centipedes, a poisonous insect, like this kind of environment, I plan to observe the purple centipede and Xiaoding for a while in this way. Of course, I also pulled out the socks while I was free, otherwise I would always be blocked on Xiaoding, and the black purple centipede would be suffocated to death.

After cleaning it up, I went back to my bedroom and went to sleep. I slept very badly this night, on the one hand, thinking about Sun Jia's death, on the other hand, I occasionally got up and ran to the glass tank to take a look.

I found that there was a tin foil wrap, and this tripod had lost its ability to attract insects, and there were no cockroaches in my house.

I don't understand why tin foil has such a bizarre use, but I believe the answer will become clear sooner or later.

I didn't go to work the next day, so I was at home to recuperate. In fact, the so-called raising is very simple, that is, to stay idle and watch TV or something. In the evening, Xiaofan came to me with packed meals.

Of course, the two of us were not polite, so we ate and drank casually in the living room. Xiao Fan told me some things today.

This time I was not there, Brother Liu also died, there was a serious shortage of forensic doctors, Zhang team reported to the province, and a forensic doctor surnamed Li came in the morning to examine Sun Jia's body.

Xiao Fan was responsible for recording, judging from the autopsy results, a large amount of alcohol and a little diazepam tablets were found in Sun Jia's stomach, and there were no fatal injuries on the body surface.

In normal times, I would definitely be dissatisfied with this conclusion, because I have also seen Sun Jia's condition before his death, but now I don't have anything to say, I just said to Xiaofan, indicating that I know.

Xiao Fanken told Sun Jia about it, in fact, he also had some ideas, he looked at me incredulously, and asked rhetorically, "Brother Leng, you don't have anything to say?" ”

I shook my head and diverted from the conversation to something else.

Xiao Fan said another thing, in fact, he really didn't take it as an important matter, just like telling a joke. He said that several colleagues in the police station today, including him, Team Zhang and Yin Yin, received a strange phone call, but they didn't show it, and after they connected, the other party kissed and flirted.

I was shocked, and suddenly I felt that this call was unusual.

Of course, in addition to talking about these two things at this meal, I was quite happy with Xiaofan at other times. After that, Xiaofan comforted me a few words, all of which were words like letting me see it, and left.

I had another good night's sleep and woke up to work in a "normal" state.

In the next month, Forensic Doctor Li did not leave, but set up a team with me to take charge of the forensic work in Wuzhou City. During this period, there were no strange cases, and those things were pressed in my heart, and they were slowly fading.

At work, I seem to be back on the same trajectory, but my family has changed a lot.

I caught the black purple centipede, I didn't expect it to be a female, it was originally with eggs, it really did it, so it hatched the eggs in Xiaoding, so that there were a bunch of centipede cubs in the glass tank.

I used to be influenced by my master to raise silkworms blindly, although I was a layman compared to professional insect breeders, but I also knew some common sense things.

I remember that it took a month and a half for centipedes to lay eggs to hatch, how could it take a month for the black purple centipede to get all these cubs out in Xiaoding?

In addition, the cub centipede should be milky white and look like a borer. Some of these cub centipedes in front of me actually had other colors, some were pure black, and some were red.

I had a thought that these cub centipedes had mutated, and it should be this little ding who could stimulate and assist them in mutating.

It's only been a long time since I discovered the two uses of Xiaoding. Master asked me to study Xiaoding more. I used to feel like coping, but now I'm addicted.

This little tripod has a name, called X. I thought it was too ugly, so I simply changed my words and called it Moding.

I remember that Master also had a house in Wuzhou, and it was still in the suburbs, so I called him and asked him to lend me the key, and I also made it clear that I wanted to use his house to catch and raise insects, after all, it was close to the wild.

The master answered in one go, and said to find a man named Iron Donkey and give me the key to his house.

I didn't think I knew the iron donkey, but one night, when the iron donkey knocked on my door and brought the key, I found that the iron donkey was the one who protected my father.

This is the second time we have met, and Master must have told him something, he was much more polite to me and smiled.

People sent things from afar, and I couldn't receive them, so I coaxed them to leave, and asked him if he wanted to come in and have a drink. The iron donkey shook his head and said that he would go back immediately, and this time it might not be peaceful.

This sentence made me sensitive, thinking that my father had something. But he reassured me and made a strange set of gestures.

He seemed to be setting up a formation, using his fingers as flags or something.

I couldn't understand what he meant, he didn't explain anything specifically, and after leaving the mystery behind, he turned around and left