Chapter 19: Psychological Warfare
"About the teahouse, it's a bit eyebrow-raising......" Li Sheng stopped halfway through his words, as if he was afraid of someone else sitting in the car.
When Lin Daxiong heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand, "Go on, Wen Xiang is not an outsider. ”
Li Sheng nodded, Nobita's words were more subtle, "not an outsider" Another layer means that Wenxiang is not an ordinary person, and can accept information beyond secular concepts.
"I found out that the owner of the teahouse called him Ah Kun, after many years, the guys who used to work in the store couldn't be contacted, but I found a person, this person used to live near the teahouse, and he had a close relationship with the guys in the teahouse shop, and he may know some things." As Li Sheng spoke, he opened the window and lit a cigarette.
Wen Xiang was in a fog when he heard this, and he frowned for a while, and Nobita hurriedly told him about an email he received by chance three years ago. Hearing this, Li Sheng glanced back, both strange and curious about how Nobita could tell him about it, but what Wen Xiang said next impressed Li Sheng.
"I think if we can find the person who took these pictures of Ah Kun, everything will be over." Wen Xiang thought for a while and said calmly.
Lin Daxiong nodded in agreement, and asked Li Sheng, "Didn't you startle the snake?" ”
"No, I only looked for him once, this old man is very strict-mouthed, he won't say anything, the more this is the more I think he is suspicious." Li Sheng smoked his cigarette and paused and continued: "This is not the crux of the matter, the key is that this person lives in Da Niu Village now, and as far as I know, you just moved in three years ago, and he arrived later. ”
"Big Cow Village?" Da Ambition is low, is there always someone spying on him? No, there must be something else hidden in this!
"Old Man Chen's affairs, we can take a break for a while, why don't we go to Da Niu Village first and see if you can ask something?" Li Sheng asked sideways.
Lin Daxiong thought for a while, slapped his thigh and said, "It's okay, go to Da Niu Village!" ”
Because Daniu Village is located in the mountainous area, there was heavy snow some time ago, the road was muddy and bumpy, and the three of them decided to put the Audi car on hold in Jinping County first, and rented a thick and durable double-row seat into the village.
It is a small village, surrounded by mountains and green grass on the periphery, very different from the outside city, with mostly adobe houses and very dilapidated tiles, which look like an isolated village.
As soon as he entered the village, Lin Daxiong found that the scale of the "Daxiong Primary School", which had not been returned for a while, had significantly expanded, and many of the newly built school buildings were still under construction.
Zhang Zhengming stood in a conspicuous position, holding a construction drawing in his hand and pointing from the side, seeing a car entering the village, he hurriedly looked over, and saw Lin Daxiong in the passenger seat at a glance, and immediately greeted him.
"All the money above, right?" Lin Daxiong was the first to ask, what he was most worried about was that after Liu Xi lost his memory, he would withdraw the money.
Zhang Zhengming was a little overjoyed when he saw Nobita coming back, and when he heard this, he stretched out three fingers and said: "Qian Lao has already called, and even the junior high school can be done at the same time." ”
"That's good, you're busy, I still have something to do." Nobita patted Li Sheng on the shoulder as he spoke, signaling him to continue driving towards the village.
"Okay, okay." Zhang Zhengming glanced at the car, then retracted his neck and greeted.
The car traveled all the way to the village, stopping in front of a patchwork of side-by-side cottages, Wen Xiang in the car was paying attention to the surrounding environment all the way, at this time it was close to evening, and few villagers in the village came out to do activities again.
Li Sheng tightened his collar and got out of the car, looked around for a while, pointed to a bungalow made of bricks and said, "This is it." ”
Lin Daxiong glanced up, and most of the surrounding houses were made of adobe, but this one stood out from the crowd, and it seemed that it should belong to a wealthy family in the village.
Nobita is also a man with a face in the village, and it is only fitting for him to step forward and knock on the door, so he stepped forward and pulled the knocker, slapped it twice, and after about ten seconds, someone inside answered and pushed the door open.
The one who opened the door was an old man in his seventies, he glanced at Nobita, his brows furrowed, Nobita also frowned, he had lived in the village for so long, he had never seen this person, and he was about to speak, but the old man took the first step and asked cautiously: "What are you doing?" ”
"Old man, we are reporters in the city, we met last time." Li Sheng greeted him and said respectfully.
The old man frowned and looked at Li Sheng, and there was a lot of impatience in his words: "What else is going on?" ”
"That's right, after listening to your introduction last time, the editor-in-chief asked me to take a deeper look at it, and then I plan to open a column, called 'Those Things in the Teahouse'." Li Sheng and Nobita glanced at each other and said with a smile.
The old man pondered for a while when he heard this, and Nobita obviously saw a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes, and then the old man still said that young people were not good at work, so he acquiesced to the three of them entering the courtyard.
When I walked in, I found that there were two rooms inside, judging from the appearance, one was a kitchen room and the other was a main hall, and a flock of ducks were raised in the yard, quacking.
Walking into the main hall, Lin Daxiong was about to speak, but after the old man closed the door, he came over to look at Li Sheng and said, "What do you want to interview?" ”
Nobita tugged at Li Sheng's collar, this guy didn't have a door on his mouth, and it was easy to leak when he spoke, so he immediately turned around and gave Wen Xiang a look, and motioned for him to come.
"That's right, the editor-in-chief believes that the teahouse has a long history and a strong cultural atmosphere, so he plans to open a special column, so that contemporary young people can learn the cultural accumulation of that era." Wen Xiang pushed his glasses and said with a pander.
The old man nodded, brought a few cups of tea from the inner room, placed them on a cedar table in the main hall, and waved for the three of them to sit down.
The three of them glanced at each other, found a seat and sat down, and after pretending to ask some questions, the old man's answer made Nobita very disappointed, and he didn't say a word about Ah Kun's news, and seemed to deliberately avoid it.
In the end, Li Sheng couldn't help but ask: "Twenty years ago, did anything special happen in the teahouse, I heard that the boss Ah Kun disappeared overnight. ”
"Why do you ask this again?" The old man's vigilance was very high, and his face changed suddenly when he heard the words.
Da Xiong leaned in his heart, daring Li Sheng had asked this question before, and he had not received any useful information.
"We're just curious, we don't mean anything else, and we hope you don't mind." Wen Xiang privately took Li Sheng and stepped forward to explain.
Li Sheng also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly took out a tobacco and handed it over, but the old man reached out and shook his head.
The old man closed his eyes slightly, his hands hung on the chair, as if he was summarizing the words, and after a while, he opened his eyes and slowly spoke: "I'm old, my brain is not enough, you can write down what I will say in a while, and I won't say it again in the future, this is the last time I say it." ”
"Okay, don't be in a hurry, speak slowly." Lin Daxiong was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out a paper and pen and looked at him pretendically, waiting for him to continue.
"It's been 20 years, and I really don't remember what happened at that time, but I remember that there seems to be a person in the teahouse." The old man reached out and took the tea on the table, brought it to his lips and took a sip, and then said: "I don't remember what he looked like, but I remember that he was carrying a huge package in his hand, and he looked very anxious, and his legs were limping when he walked. ”
According to the old man, the three ** Zhi understood what the old man saw and heard back then.
It turned out that twenty years ago, there was a disabled person in the teahouse, this person directly found the boss Ah Kun as soon as he entered the door, the two should have known each other before, and then because there was no consensus on something, the two had a quarrel, Ah Kun slammed the door and went back to the house, the disabled person went out of the teahouse, and lived in the hostel next to him, and the old man worked in this hostel.
One night, a man in the teahouse disappeared, and Ah Kun led a group of people to search almost the entire street, and finally found a pool of blood next to a well in the back room of his teahouse, and everyone looked into the well, and there was a coffin inside.
Ah Kun immediately asked people to fish up the coffin, opened the coffin and saw that the guy was lying in it and still had a breath, but this guy became a fool after being rescued, and everyone said that the teahouse was haunted, which made people panic, and finally the guys who could leave were gone, and the business in the teahouse was also yellow, and Ah Kun had no choice but to sell the store and go away.
Hearing this, Lin Daxiong felt more and more that there was something strange in this, first of all, twenty years ago was in the early eighties, when the whole country was in the midst of a severe crackdown, no one dared to commit a crime in that situation, and secondly, there was a big problem in the motive, if it was the hand of the disabled person, why didn't he take Ah Kun to open the knife and use his buddy as a backing?
Nobita couldn't say these suspicious points in front of the old man, so he could only take notes and ask, "Old man, do you remember what the disabled person looked like?" ”
"This ......" The old man thought for a while, shook his head and said that he had forgotten, but the moment his eyes swept over the three of them, he suddenly pointed at Li Sheng, a puzzled light flashed in his cloudy eyes, and he said: "Don't you say that I haven't felt it yet, that disabled person is a little similar to him!" ”
This sentence really made Li Sheng's body tremble, and thinking back to what the old man had just said, he felt goosebumps popping up on his body.
Li Sheng swallowed his saliva, and was about to speak, but the old man took a breath and said first: "After all, it's been twenty years, and I can't remember the person's appearance at all, I just feel that his eyes are very similar to yours." ”
Lin Daxiong looked at Li Sheng unconsciously when he heard this, this guy's eyes have been shining since he was a child, and he is very charming, which makes people jealous.
Then Li Sheng didn't react much, just lowered his head and smoked, Nobita saw that the old man had nothing else to say, and pretended to ask some other things about the teahouse, and exchanged pleasantries for a while.
"Uncle, I see that you have a few spare rooms here, can you stay here for one night and leave tomorrow." Li Sheng suddenly raised his head, took out three hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to the old man, and said respectfully.
The old man pushed away the money and said unexpectedly: "It's okay to live, but you don't want money." ”
At this time, it was already late, Wen Xiang sat on the chair and yawned, and the old man stood up and motioned to arrange a room for the three of them.
Since there were only two spare rooms left, Wen Xiang lived in one by himself, and Li Sheng and Lin Daxiong simply squeezed into one room.
As soon as he entered the door, Nobita hurriedly closed the door, lowered his voice and said, "I suddenly remembered something!" ”
"How?" Li Sheng asked with some confusion.
"I don't know if you remember, there was a man in the photo I told me about in the email, and then you said you didn't see it, and when I went back to look at it, the man disappeared inexplicably." Lin Daxiong's face was stunned and said.
Li Sheng thought for a while, nodded and said, "There is such a thing, I have also received that photo, and I have indeed not seen the man you said." ”
"Do you have that picture in your phone, I'll see." Lin Daxiong seemed to suddenly realize something and asked.
Li Sheng took out his mobile phone, flipped through the photo album for a while, and suddenly flipped to the photo, clicked the screen casually, and enlarged the photo several times.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Nobita pointed to the guys in the teahouse in a hurry on the video, and said in a deep voice: "If I'm not mistaken, the place where the man was standing at that time was not far from this teahouse, but you look at these guys, their eyes are scattered, their faces are purple, and they don't look like a normal person at all!" ”
After Nobita said this, Li Sheng looked at it for a while, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and said in a low tone: "It's not like a living person!" ”