The only intact thing left in the courtyard of the Wang family was the courtyard wall, and the blacksmith shop and house inside had long since been reduced to ruins, black, as if burned by a fire.

I tightened my eyebrows and said, "I can't imagine that I haven't been here for a while, and such a big change has happened, who set it on fire?" ”

"Wang Dazhui is dead, the next-door neighbor has been arrested, I'm afraid there is no one else except Mu Chengyi or Wang Daji." The eyes of the living dead looked through the toppled courtyard gate, looking at the two piles of ruins, "I think it is more likely that Wang Dajian is a little more likely, his own son is dead, and he set the house on fire in anger." And the purpose of Mu Cheng's grievance is to target the Wang family's father and son, who have poisoned Wang Da Hammer to death, so he shouldn't do such a boring thing and go to other people's houses, because in this way, wouldn't it be more impossible for Wang Da Jian to show up? ”

"Hmm......" I nodded in agreement, pushed the door open, and walked into the yard with him, trying to see if there were any traces left. It took us five minutes to walk slowly around the ruins of the blacksmith shop and the house, and we found no anomaly, because the burning of the royal house itself was the biggest anomaly.

The living dead and I were about to leave the courtyard of the Wang family and visit the homes of Xinghua Village one by one. As I passed the gate of the courtyard, I swept my gaze to the gate that I had trampled underfoot.

The battered door panels were scrambled with patterns, a bit like mosquito coils broken into countless segments but still rounded, scraped out of hard objects.

A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I thought of one thing, that is, the video transmitted back in real time through the pretender that night, when Mu Chengyi came to the courtyard of the Wang family and looked at Wang Dazhui for a long time and left the courtyard, he stood on the outside of the courtyard gate and made a vigorous gesture.

The last time we came, we didn't pay much attention to these scratches, and now that we think about it, it may not have been left by Mu Cheng's pretending to be a ghost and pretending to be a ghost, but it is very likely that it will ...... This is a vague symbol, just like the rusty horseshoe symbolizes the king's big arm, could it be that this seemingly random carved mess can make those in the know or familiar with him see the meaning at a glance, but outsiders can't peek into the doorway with great effort?!

I stepped to the side of the door and raised my hand and said, "Brother Huo, you should also stand away." ”

I took out a pen and paper, stared at the pattern while drawing a scoop on the gourd, and finally copied the scattered "mosquito coils" onto the paper, I looked left and right, and became more and more sure of my previous guess, it is a meaningless pattern for most people, but meaningful for certain people.

"Brother Xu, what do you see?" The living dead asked.

"This pattern was left by the pastor." I said analytically: "What he meant by leaving it was to tell Wang Dajian that he was the one who did all this, but it was also possible that he wanted to lead the troubles to a third party, after all, I don't know what the pattern symbolizes is to repay others for the pastor." At that time, Wang Dazhui died, and I remember that a few villagers saw the body lying in the yard and was carried into the car by our police. With a little inquiry, Wang Dajian could know what was going on, and he angrily burned down his house, which was the first possibility. And the second possibility is as you said, the house that Mu Cheng burned unjustly, the king came back and saw the door panel on the ground, and inquired about the death of his son, and became angry and went to take revenge. ”

The living dead gave a thumbs up and said, "I thought that old madman Mu Chengzhi was messing around that night, but now I have an intuition that your speculation is true!" ”

I laughed, and sent the pattern on the door panel and paper to Xu Rui's mobile phone, with the text of the above speculation, asking him to contact which intelligence agent to check if this pattern had appeared before.

I took out a cigarette and smoked it quietly, and said, "Brother Huo, let's take the Wang family as the center and visit from near to far." There are not many people in this village, and it will take less than an hour to check them all, and if there are many empty nests, maybe it will be done in half an hour. ”

"Okay." The living dead came alive twice, and I came to the opposite door of Aunt Liu's house, I raised my hand and knocked on the door, but there was no movement for a long time, there should be someone in the house, because the door was not locked. So I continued to knock again, neither light nor heavy, but I didn't expect that the door didn't open, but the next door opened, and a middle-aged man came out, and he asked, "Do you want to find Lao Litou?" ”

I was stunned and said, "yes, why didn't he open the door at home?" ”

"Lao Li Tou usually sleeps at home at this point, and his ears are deaf, so he can't hear at all." The middle-aged man explained, "Who are you?" Tell me something. ”

I pulled out my ID and said, "Police." ”

"Oh, the official is good." The middle-aged man also saluted an unstandard salute.

"You're okay too." I asked while putting my ID on: "We are not looking for Lao Li Tou alone, but visiting your whole village." ”

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he said expectantly: "This land is going to be requisitioned?" How much can I divide if I dismantle it? ”

“……”

I said speechlessly, "This big brother, you misunderstood. I'm here to find out why Wang's big arm house, the old blacksmith's shop, was burned. ”

The middle-aged man was slightly disappointed, and after a while, he recalled: "About a week ago, the courtyard of the Wang family suddenly burned, fortunately, the wind was not strong, and everyone in our village who could move gathered around to watch, and they couldn't help the fire, so they could only watch the Wang family's house burned down." Alas...... What kind of evil has this king's blacksmith family done, first the old one disappeared, then the son, and now the house is on fire again, I heard that even Sister Liu next door was arrested by your official mission and has not come back until now. ”

"Meaning, no one in the village saw who set the fire?" I stared into each other's eyes.

"I shouldn't have seen it, otherwise it would have spread a long time ago." The middle-aged man shook his head.

The living dead pulled the zombie face and asked, "Have there been any abnormal people in this Xinghua Village recently?" ”

The middle-aged man was taken aback, took three steps back and said respectfully: "I didn't see it, otherwise, the two officials sent to ask other houses, maybe they saw it." ”

"Okay." I thought for a moment and asked again, "By the way, didn't Wang Dajian reappear after he disappeared?" ”

The middle-aged man shook his head again and said, "I didn't see it anyway." ”

"This is my phone number, if you find something unusual or suspicious people appear in your village, contact me immediately, if it can play a role in solving the case, there will be a bonus, at least three thousand bottoms, no upper limit." I took out a pen and paper and wrote a note.

The middle-aged man folded the note and stuffed it into his chest pocket like a treasure, "Don't worry, I will definitely inform you when I see it." ”

……

In this way, I spent half an hour with the living dead visiting 12 homes, most of them were elderly, and some were left-behind daughters-in-law with children, and none of them had seen an unidentified visitor or who set the fire in the courtyard of the Wang family recently, but I left a number for each one.

Now there is only one family left in the courtyard where people live in the village.

The living dead and I came to its door almost without any hope and knocked on the door, and after a while, a middle-aged man opened the door inside, he must be 1.9 meters tall, I had to look up to see his appearance, this body was long enough to be a farmer who often did manual work.

"Hello big brother, we are ......"

Before I finished speaking, anger appeared on the other party's face, and "he" scolded loudly: "Blind, the old lady is a woman!" ”

"Ah......?"

My eyes froze at the same time as the eyes of the living dead, and I couldn't help but wonder if this was really a woman. The figure with a big waist and a round waist is not inferior to 99% of men, and the hair is also inch, if the other party really has any piece linked to the woman, the only thing is that the chest is slightly undulating, but under this wide plain cloth clothes, unless the chest is deliberately straightened, it is difficult to show.

I looked at this big brother carefully, oh no, this big sister, I felt that I was really blind.

"Look at what to see, and then watch the old lady gouge out your eyes!" As soon as Sister Qiang Zhuang went to that station, I felt that I was shrouded in shadows, and she said fiercely, "Knock on my door, something?" ”