The church bell rang twice, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and the city under the cover of night gave people an eerie feeling, and there was no sound to be heard in silence, like a ghostly ghost.

This is a fairly old coastal city, in the south of our country, in this city there are many foreign concessions, naturally there are also some churches and public charities, the nursery is one of them, founded by a devout Christian Paul, the purpose of which is to let more homeless orphans have a living environment.

In the old society, there were really not many foreigners who came to our China to do charity, and Paul was one of them, at least he let those homeless orphans who should have died a place to eat and clothe themselves.

A few years later, the founder of the first man, Paul, died, but the nursery was retained as a public charity because too many people were involved in the war.

Because of the sharp decline in the population, many originally happy and harmonious families have become separated and families have been destroyed.

War is cruel, but war also promotes the progress and development of mankind, but those who start wars and participate in wars do not think that war itself is ominous.

Lao Ziyun, the good soldier is ominous, even if it is a fight for justice, but the real itself is the trampling on civilization, and after an unusually protracted war, the main product is victory and defeat, and the destruction of the family is the inevitable result, and the orphan is the dregs of the war.

Whether it is a just or unjust war, who has ever considered that those who have lost their families, lost loved ones, and have since become orphans in war, are innocent, but are deformed products of war.

When Paul founded this orphanage, it was based on God's principle of loving the world and the equality of all living beings, and during the war years, there would be orphans at the door of the orphanage every day. Some of them really can't afford to raise them, and more of them are already homeless.

Paul's heir was also a devout Christian, who had grown up in an orphanage and later succeeded Paul's work by collecting donations from the community to care for these homeless orphans.

Until modern times, countless elite talents have come out of this orphanage, and they have made great contributions to society, and the director does not know how many times he has changed, but the concept of the orphanage has never changed.

When Paul founded the orphanage, he was a Chinese expert. But he still does not have a strong understanding of ancient culture, and he does not say the phrase that all beings are equal, but he replaces this sentence with another sentence: "All people are God's people, so they do not distinguish between high and low, and treat them equally." ”

This sentence was later engraved on a rockery facing the gate of the orphanage, and became the supreme law and concept of the entire orphanage.

However, in the past two years, orphans have frequently died inexplicably in orphanages, and the current director, Charlie Liu, reported to the police that someone was playing the role of the god of death and harvesting the souls of these orphans.

After the local police intervened in the investigation, although they found that the death of the orphan was somewhat strange, they could not find any useful information. He arrested the dean Charlie Liu into the police station for interrogation, but every interrogation resulted nothing, Charlie Liu had no motive and no time to commit the crime. Because of insufficient evidence and the pressure of public opinion, the local police really had no choice but to release Charlie Liu temporarily.

on the car. I smoked a cigarette and looked at the information that the fat man gave us when we came out, and it was very detailed, but it was of little use. There is nothing to be seen from these materials at all.

I used my mobile phone to check the information of Charlie Liu, Baidu Encyclopedia said that Charlie Liu took over the orphanage ten years ago, since he took over he has been committed to how to make the children of the orphanage live a better life, can be called a model worker, and the evaluation of him on the Internet is also very high, saying that he is a person with a conscience and great love.

And the dead orphans have also gone through all the rescue, but it is useless, after autopsy and autopsy, no fatal causes and external injuries have been found, and there are no traces of poisoning, so the death of those orphans is very strange.

I discussed this matter with Qin Yue, and Qin Yue smiled: "It seems that you haven't finished reading the information, all the key points are on the last two pages, this is a habit of Liang Fatzi, he likes to put important things at the end, in his words, this is called the finale." ”

Envy!

I scolded, and quickly went to the last two pages, it is estimated that this is encrypted information, Liang Fatzi deliberately marked it with a red pen, three years ago, Charlie Liu once called the police and said that there was a person who was always hanging at the door of the orphanage, originally he thought he was coming to claim orphans.

After all, most of the orphans in the orphanage are children born from disaster areas or hospitals that no one wants, and now the children are growing up, and the parents have repented of their actions, and the reunion of father and son [father and daughter] is also a good thing, as long as this person comes up with relevant certificates one by one to prove that a child in the orphanage is related to him, Charlie Liu is also happy to let the child return to the arms of the family.

However, Charlie Liu inquired and found out that this person was not here to claim the child, but to make a deal with himself.

The man said that he wanted to collect the souls of some children, and as long as Charlie Liu wanted, he could donate a large sum of money to the orphanage, so that the orphanage would be more financially funded.

Charlie Liu flatly refused, saying that even if he knelt down and begged those rich people for alms, he would never sell the child's soul, and scolded that person as a demon and a messenger of Satan.

The man didn't know who Satan was, but he could see from Charlie Liu's attitude that it was okay, but he still didn't give up, and he walked around the orphanage every day when he had nothing to do.

Charlie Liu was afraid that something would happen, so he called the police, but this kind of thing did not attract the attention of the police at that time, thinking that it was just a mentally ill person talking nonsense, and just drive the person away.

However, shortly after the man disappeared, graffiti often appeared on the walls of the orphanage for no apparent reason, but no investigation was made into how the graffiti appeared.

However, the children in the orphanage were very interested in the graffiti, and Charlie Liu did not pursue it further, but the incident happened a few days later, one morning, when Charlie Liu and the staff in the orphanage called the children up for breakfast, they found that one of the children was out of breath.

At that time, Charlie Liu immediately called the phone number of the nearby hospital, and the relationship between the orphanage and the hospital was already good, and it was the hospital's job to do free physical examinations for the children on a regular basis.

I've heard of the dead. The hospital quickly sent staff, and after examination, there was no external injury, and it was not suffocation, it can be said that it was a completely normal death.

The first case of orphan death did not attract widespread attention, and even Charlie Liu only investigated for a period of time, and stopped the investigation after nothing was gained.

However, strange things happened at this time, every once in a while a strange graffiti would appear on the walls of the orphanage, and then a child would die. The cause of death could not be found.

In one year, more than 20 orphans died in the entire orphanage, which is the highest mortality rate since the orphanage was built, except for the years of war and chaos.

If it weren't for an accident, Charlie Liu would never have imagined that the children's deaths were deliberately done by someone, from the detection of food to the inspection of various settings, no problems were found in the orphanage, but the children still died one after another.

One night, after Charlie Liu had dealt with the matter at hand. Because I was concerned about the safety of the children, I didn't turn on the flashlight in the middle of the night, and went directly to the place where the children slept.

I checked at the door of the children's dormitory and found nothing unusual. Just as he was about to go back, he suddenly saw two little girls walking out of the other door hand in hand, ghostly.

Charlie Liu touched the cross hanging on his chest, ready to ask the two little girls why they didn't sleep in the middle of the night.

However. At this moment, he suddenly noticed that the two little girls' feet were dangling, and she was not walking. It's floating, drifting forward.

This really startled him, but even then he didn't alarm the two little girls, but kept following behind.

Because he had already discovered that one of the little girls was the one who had just died last month, and the little girl who was holding hands with him was not dead yet, but the closest seemed to be in a bit of a depression.

As a dean, Charlie Liu is absolutely qualified, he not only gave these orphans a living environment, for them to be fed, clothed, sheltered and transported, but also opened cultural classes to teach these children to read.

Although the textbook is only a Bible and some primary school textbooks, for these fatherless, motherless, and homeless orphans, it is a great blessing to be able to receive an education.

And Charlie Liu is very good at getting along with the children, is a good psychological mentor, and is friends with every child in the orphanage.

Although he knew that the situation at that time was not good with the occasional writing, in order to avoid more children from being injured, he still chose to follow.

The two little girls disappeared after they walked outside, Charlie Liu searched for a long time and didn't find it, just when he was about to give up, he suddenly found that there was an inexplicable extra pen on the wall, a pen that could move by himself, and he was painting a graffiti, but from the dignified appearance of the brush, it was definitely not just as simple as graffiti.

Charlie Liu shouted, went directly to catch the paintbrush, I have to admire Charlie Liu's courage, in the middle of the night, the moon and stars are scarce, I just witnessed the souls of the two children disappear from here, and I saw only a paintbrush but I was scribbling.

This kind of scene, put on ordinary people, has long scared the soul away, where do you dare to catch that paintbrush? Doesn't this show that there is evil at work?

After grabbing the brush, he seemed to feel that there was an invisible person attacking him, although Charlie Liu was also good, but it was obvious that he suffered a loss when he fought against an invisible person, and he was knocked to the ground after a while, and the brush was also snatched away.

When the invisible man was leaving, he said something that Charlie Liu remembered unforgettable, what he said was: "If you refuse to make a deal with you, then I can only do it myself, and I will come again." ”

The next sentence amused me, isn't this a classic line of the gray wolf? But I can't laugh after laughing, because this person will really come back later, although the children in the orphanage are all orphans, but they are also a living human life, he dares to attack the children in the orphanage, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not attack those ordinary children, so this case cannot be delayed for a day, and if this person is caught a day earlier, several lives may be saved.

Charlie Liu reported the case again the next day, but the police detained him on the grounds of propagating superstition, but when they could not find the slightest evidence, they took it for granted that the director of an orphanage, a person of high moral character, was obviously not good.

The local police were smashed several times because of this incident, saying that they were incompetent in handling the case. also wronged a good person indiscriminately, and used a good person as a shield.

Caught can't be sentenced, there is not enough evidence, and you can't let go, if you don't let go, you are guilty of public anger, the local police are really out of line, and they have to report the case, and after reporting it layer by layer, it was called as a supernatural case in the hands of Liang Fatman, who is scratching his scalp for something he doesn't want. But this case is urgent, no matter what, it has to be solved first.

So Liang Fatzi handed over the case to us, the fat man and Huang Tian went to the front station, first to investigate, after Qin Yue and I came back from our hometown, we didn't have to report from the headquarters, we could go directly to the city where the crime occurred to meet the fat man, and jointly investigate the case, and be sure to solve the case in the shortest possible time. Bring the guy who collected the souls of children to justice.

"What do you think about this case?"

I monk dossier, brick glanced at Qin Yue and asked.

"Is there any smoke? Let's start with one. Qin Yue didn't care about me lighting it for her after I lit it, took a puff, and spewed out the light blue smoke and said, "Kill." But have you ever thought about it, this city is located in the coastal city of our country, is it possible that people from abroad come to commit crimes? ”

Foreign? I didn't think about this, but those foreign people would come to this place. That's a terrible thing, but I'm surprised that there are still people abroad who know how to collect people's souls. And it's a child?

"I'll leave this matter aside for now. When we get there, they will naturally tell us the results of the investigation, and we will discuss what to do when the time comes. ”

I stretched, leaned back comfortably, and looked at the scenery ahead, and now I was about to leave a trail of after-effects, and the first thing I thought about wherever I was was whether or not I would run into a ghost.

In fact, how can there be so many ghosts in this world for us to bump into? Even if I have a special physique, I shouldn't, most of these are on our own initiative, otherwise ordinary people may not be able to see dirty things once in their lives, but we keep encountering them.

When I came home this time, it was a sensation in the whole village, some were older than me, some were younger than me, and some children could make soy sauce, and they were envious to see that we brought such a beautiful woman.

I also enjoy this kind of gaze, no matter how good you are, you will marry a country girl, Lao Tzu's girlfriend is a typical goddess level, and there is no comparison between the two.

My parents were also dumbfounded when they saw Qin Yue, and my father quietly grabbed it aside and said, "Good boy, no wonder you are always reluctant to introduce you to someone?" It turns out that you already have such a good girlfriend, work hard, Dad is optimistic about you. ”

I fainted to death, is this still my old man? Compared to the mother, it is a little more reliable. When she asked Qin Yue to drink tea in the living room, her mother asked her in the kitchen under the pretext of asking me to help her choose vegetables: "Xiaoliang, do you think it is difficult for such a woman to live a good life with us?" How I look a little hanging. ”

"Don't worry, Mom, isn't your son still unsuccessful? Let's talk about it when we get it. ”

During the meal, her mother's unintentional words almost caused a family war, and her mother asked Qin Yue what she was doing.

"Forensic doctor, autopsy!"

Qin Yue's voice was not loud, but in the ears of the second elder, it was undoubtedly a nuclear bomb explosion, and the two of them were stunned for a long time, and then my mother dragged me out and said, "I said, how did you find someone to deal with dead people?" Do you know bad luck? No, I strongly disagree. ”

"Your mother is right, I feel a burst of heart beating when I sit with him and eat, good fellow, is it fiddling with the dead, I said that your kid's head was squeezed by the door or kicked by the donkey? How can you find such a woman as a daughter-in-law? ”

Father also came out to help, I sighed, it's over, I originally brought Qin Yue over to say hello to you, and it can be regarded as meeting the old people in the family, but I didn't expect them to react so violently.

"Don't you want me to be with Ryoko?"

Just as we were arguing outside, Qin Yue came out of the room with a smile, looked at my parents and said.

"Well, that's not what I mean, girl, you see that if you change jobs, we are still very welcome, you also know, rural people are more superstitious, and they are more taboo about dealing with dead people, if you can change jobs for our Liangzi, I will raise my hands in favor."

My father was a little embarrassed, but he still said what he meant, and after I finished speaking, she really changed jobs and we were still a fart together?

There are more wolves in the entire polling bureau, and it is not easy for me to grab a piece, so don't pick and choose. I really want my son to be a bachelor for the rest of his life!

"Yu Liang, what do you say? If you think so, I'll leave right away. Qin Yue was also angry.

I said in my heart, yes, Dad, I'm sorry, in order to leave cigarettes for the descendants of the old Yu family, my son is disrespectful, and I can only offend you when you are old.

"Dad, I think you seem to be a carpenter, right?" I used words to wrap around my father. He can't say anything about me now.

"Yes! What's wrong? It's okay with your dad and my job, right? My father took the bait, and I immediately followed his words and asked, "Then have you ever made a coffin board for someone?" Forensic doctors are good at dealing with the dead, but coffins don't seem to be used to hold food, right? ”

Burst!

Qin Yue made me say this sentence so happily, knowing that I was talking to her, so she stood aside and watched the excitement.

"This ......"

Dad was suddenly stuck by what I said, the coffin is naturally pretending to be dead, over the years, my father has made coffin boards for others, and he has been doing this since he was young, and he originally wanted my son to inherit his father's business. The sin has been implemented very quickly recently, and I have gradually lost my job as a coffin, which is why I dare to follow the third uncle to the mason.

"You little rabbit, I'm doing this for your good. You actually exposed Lao Tzu's shortcomings in turn, believe it or not, I will whip you? ”

My father was so angry that he raised his slap to hit me, how could I stand stupidly and be beaten? Hurriedly ran away for a distance and said, "When you did this, your mother didn't dislike you. It's called family genetics, so don't blame me. ”

My father made me gasp with anger, but he couldn't say anything to me. I can only squat on the ground and sulk.

"Okay, don't talk about it, since I'm not welcome in this family, then I'll go, Ryoko, let's go, uncle, aunt, I'm sorry, you won't let me be with Ryoko, I'll lie to be with him, and you're going to hold your grandson in a year, right? Good bye. ”

Qin Yue watched us quarrel for a while, and suddenly spoke, as soon as she spoke, her words were amazing, and she directly dumbfounded us, my parents didn't know what to say, I was even more dumbfounded, what kind of rhythm is this? Wang Laohu robbed relatives?

Just when I was stunned, Qin Yue dragged me to the door by the collar of my neck, then took out a red brocade box from his arms, opened it, took out a huge diamond ring, handed it to me, and said, "Quick, kneel down and propose to me, immediately, immediately." ”

I'm dumbfounded, what is this? Propose in this situation? Or do you come to the Western rules? My brain is dying.

My parents were also dumbfounded, in just a few minutes, a large group of people gathered in front of our house, and some young people kept screaming: "This is called romance, Brother Liangzi, hurry up, my mobile phone is ready and waiting to take pictures and post on Weibo." ”

"Slow, since this is the case, we won't stop it, daughter-in-law, wait a minute, we don't have good things in the rest of the family, but we can't lose the daughter-in-law who hasn't passed the door, I'll go get something."

My mother saw that things had come to this point, and she had to agree if she didn't agree, plus Qin Yueren was really good, but the work made his mother uncomfortable, since I didn't have an opinion, they couldn't stop it anymore.

Soon, the mother came out of the room, holding a red sandalwood box with intricate patterns carved on it, which looked particularly beautiful.

"Since you are proposing, naturally you can't use your things, let alone go back to the house outside."

Mother spoke, we naturally obeyed, Qin Yue quietly winked at me, I don't know if this is a blessing in disguise or what, but I know that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I must not miss it, there will be no such shop in this village.

Naturally, the neighbors in the same village also came to see the excitement, but they were all blasted out by their fathers, saying that they wanted to pass on the family heirloom and that outsiders should not see it.

Back in the hall, my mother removed the meal, then put two chairs in the middle hall, sat on one side with my father, and then said to us: "We are Chinese, we don't need the etiquette of those foreigners, we have our own etiquette, which is much more romantic than foreigners." ”

As she spoke, my mother beckoned me to come over, and took out a ring from the red sandalwood box and asked me to put it on Qin Yue, which was considered an official marriage.

After I took the ring, I couldn't help but gasp, this is a pure gold emerald ring, more valuable than the diamond ring, more importantly, the shape is simple and generous, full of classical beauty.

"Look at what's written on the inside of the ring." (To be continued......)