Chapter 14 Asking for Help
I said morning, master, the woman said to drink the soup!
"Soup...... What soup? β
The master used to tell me that the more beautiful a woman is, the more poisonous her heart is.
"Why don't you keep it for yourself?"
I cringed and wanted to sneak into the room, but my wife's face became a little unpleasant.
In the end, I could only obediently accept my fate, but when I saw the big bowl of steaming things in front of me, I couldn't help but frown.
The smell was so bad that it felt like a rag had gone rancid.
"Xiaobao, don't leave a drop after drinking clean!"
The sound that was so charming to the bone made me goosebumps fall to the ground, and I quickly picked up the bowl and drank a big sip, almost throwing up on the spot, this thing is even worse than unpalatable.
I pinched my nose and poured it down, while thinking to myself, how could a woman who never touched pots and pans think of cooking soup for me, what kind of evil wind is blowing.
But not to mention, after drinking half a bowl of soup, the originally somewhat weak body was comforted, lazily dispelled the cold, and couldn't help but pick up the bowl and drink it again.
I don't know if it's because of the hot soup, I sweat all over, and it smells a little fishy.
"Take a bath first and put incense on your master, you can toss so much, maybe I can bless you more in the future"
Shi Niang said this, I think it makes a lot of sense, last night I didn't die and I really lost the blessing of the master.
After taking a bath, he knelt down in front of the master's spiritual seat, respectfully lit three incense sticks, and chattered in his mouth, and the loud voice of Aunt Li next door came from the door.
"Xiaobao, take care of your master, before dawn, you will go to my vegetable garden to steal eggplants...... Gee...... There's no shame in that! β
What's the situation, can the master do this? But I didn't see any eggplants in the kitchen?
When I arrived at the door, the two women had already pinched up, and the master was standing under the rising sun, giving me a very strange feeling, and a layer of green light appeared faintly on the skin that could be broken.
Maybe it was because I was too tired last night, I rubbed my eyes vigorously, and my mother had already scolded.
I quickly pulled the teacher back, she looked so good-looking and a woman, and a village woman scolded the street, it was really a bad scenery.
"I saw it with my own eyes this morning, you sneaked through my vegetable garden, and just now I went to see how many eggplants were missing...... Yesterday was still there, there must be such an old ......" Aunt Li gestured indignantly, my eyes were dark, and I almost tripped over.
But then I was shocked, what Aunt Li said just now was true, it was not dawn, I saw Shi Niang beating her vegetable garden, Aunt Li's vegetable garden I know, in the west of the village, I just passed from there in the morning, it is the only way to go to the Li family mine.
Suddenly remembered that I was chased by the black grandfather last night, and when I saw that I was going to be unlucky, I sighed leisurely behind me, and looked back at the incense that was already half in front of the master's tablet, and I had a strange thought.
So I decided to ask.
"Master, why did you get up so early and run to someone's vegetable garden?"
"You little calf still has the face to ask, isn't the master here to collect medicine for you? Last night, you didn't return all night without a conscience, and people couldn't sleep......"
With three points of grievance and seven points of teasing on her face, I found that this woman has become more and more good-looking recently, as the saying goes, if you want to be pretty, you must be filial.
Shi Niang said, afraid that I would suffer from the cold outside, deliberately cooked me a refreshing soup, and then I also thought that the idea in my heart was a little marginal, to say that this woman gags a top trick and secretly helps me, it is too nonsense.
Aunt Li scolded at the door for a while, and walked away, and I sat alone in the room in a daze.
Thinking back carefully about the scene last night, the Li family father and son must be in a catastrophe this time, but my bride price was also in the soup, fortunately, I had the foresight to collect a deposit of 5,000, otherwise it would really be a waste of work.
As for how to explain what happened last night, I don't have a clue, I am very sure that Li Ergou must have moved his hands and feet in the Chinese cigarette he gave me, and Uncle Gen, who was so frightened that he ran down the mountain to call the police, only saw something unclean after smoking.
But I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating the whole time last night, at least what I encountered in the passage of the pit should have happened, and the middle-aged policeman warned me not to talk nonsense.
Suddenly, I remembered that the only boy who survived the mine had a beast-like look in his eyes full of anger, or madness.
Coupled with the desperate and frightened expressions of Li Shan's father and son, I faintly felt that the collapse of the mine seemed to be not as simple as it seemed, but now all this has nothing to do with me.
I'm still honestly trying to find a way, and marrying Yingzi is the right topic.
This person was afraid of chattering, and was thinking about it, when he heard Shi Niang and Yingzi greeting him.
"Xiaobao, are you alright? Don't dare to take such a risk in the future! Yingzi's face was a little disgusted and pitying, and he looked me carefully left and right, and then he was relieved.
What happened in the Li family's mine last night has been spread in the village, and this kind of thing can't be hidden.
I didn't dare to tell Yingzi that I went to the Li family mine for the bride price that his father proposed, but now that Li Ergou is about to go to prison, others shouldn't dare to rob me.
Originally, I thought that when things were over, I would be able to return to my old chaotic life, but it turned out that I was still naΓ―ve.
When the middle-aged policeman appeared at the gate of my yard, it was already more than ten days later.
The police uncle told me that Li Ergou's father and son were very guilty, even if they didn't die, it is estimated that they would not be able to come out in this life, and in the pack of Chinese cigarettes they picked up on the mountain, a substance that can make people hallucinate was detected, and I can't remember the name.
"How did those three people die?"
The middle-aged policeman lit a cigarette in his hand and told me that the three people were killed by Li Shan's cronies under his command, saying that they had accidentally discovered that the Li family was hiding the secret of the government's mining of black mines, and wanted to blackmail them.
As for why their bodies were in such a strange state, it was because Li Shan got a jar of liquid nitrogen from somewhere else and blocked the three people in a secret room, freezing them alive.
In order to hide people's eyes and ears, and cause panic, people dare not approach the location of the black mine again.
"Just to keep the secret, I first killed three people, and then concealed it, delaying the rescue of the trapped miners......"
The middle-aged policeman didn't finish his words, but threw the cigarette butt directly on the ground and stomped it out with his foot.
"Don't talk about that, I have something to ask for your help today!"
I had already guessed that it would be good for this guy to come to me, so I instinctively wanted to say no, but the next sentence of the middle-aged policeman attracted me.
"No one can do this but you!"
I admit that this sentence made me very useful, and I didn't even know how to follow the middle-aged policeman and get into a four-wheeled car to the town.
I wondered that since this middle-aged man came, the master stayed in the house honestly for the first time, and I didn't say a word when I went to ask for leave.
"I heard that your master found you a beautiful master?"
Perhaps to ease the tense atmosphere, the middle-aged policeman handed me a cigarette and asked casually.
But my attention was on the photos in my hand, which were taken very clearly, and they were all taken by the same person.
There are local close-ups, as well as overall environmental framing.
It was a man, a man with half of his face smashed by something.
At first glance, I immediately thought of the miner I had met that night a dozen days earlier, the one who had guided us along the way to save the last survivor.
"Shouldn't you be in charge of this? Why are you pulling me on? β
The middle-aged policeman squinted at me, and I suddenly realized that this man's expression was very similar to that of a fox, and he had just stolen a chicken.
"If it's just an ordinary murder, of course it won't come to you, this person died a strange death......"
This cunning policeman has a very good set of methods to invite you into the urn, which aroused my curiosity but pretended to be okay and drove the car by himself.
Eventually, I couldn't help it and asked.
"What's the weird thing, isn't it just a miserable death?"
"Just look at this!" The middle-aged policeman threw me another paper bag, and after opening it, there were several more photos.
The photo is a blurry back, and when I saw this back, I shuddered inexplicably, this back is so familiar.
"It's not ......"
I didn't say it all, the middle-aged policeman hummed, which counted as an answer.
"Taken that night?"
After saying that, I felt that it was wrong, the scene around the figure was not near the mine, neat houses, slightly potholed stone roads.
"It's ......" I sat up straight, a chill coming over my head.
The car creaked to a halt and I almost hit the windshield in front of me.
"That's right, it was taken in town, and it was the night of three days ago!" The middle-aged policeman turned his face to look at me, his eyes were bloodshot, and I noticed that this guy had a somewhat haggard face, and he probably hadn't slept well in the last few days.
"How is this possible!" I screamed, and looked closely at the blurred back in the photo.
The same tattered clothes can't be distinguished, and the black piece on the body should be stained with soot, and the back is turned sideways, revealing half of the flesh and blood face.
Even though half of the face has been ruined, the half-drooping chin and the scarlet tongue that protrudes more than half are still fresh in my memory, and I guess I will never forget it in my life.