Chapter 14: Tiger Waist Mountain
For more than a week, two people died in front of the bronze bell.
This news spread quickly, making our Changxin Street bus station famous in the city.
Rumors spread in the society, and the murder of the bronze bell was made up by many netizens into a joke and circulated wildly on the Internet.
Within a few days, the bus group came and took back the small red flags of the mobile advanced collectives that had just been distributed.
Our usually most unobtrusive bus station stood on the cusp of public opinion for a while.
Lao Wu has been very busy these days, running around the city, the main station, and the public security bureau, and basically his butt has not touched the stool in the office.
The cup from which he usually drank tea finally fell a layer of dust.
After the death of Mr. Black, the lobby on the first floor was completely blocked, and all employees could only enter and exit through the side door of the corridor.
The Public Security Bureau wanted to pull the bronze bell away, but it encountered the same embarrassing situation as us, and it couldn't lift it, push it down, or pry it up.
Because of this incident, the city's public security leaders came several times, but they all retreated.
In the end, someone suggested that it be blown up. However, considering the impact of the blasting, it was decided to go through an area lockdown and wait until the matter was clarified.
I have always kept the message of the courier brother, if it weren't for this message, no matter how I guessed the whole world, I wouldn't believe that this murderous bronze bell was actually sent by Master Liu Yunbo, whom I have always believed in.
The murder of the bronze bell has become a fact, it is obvious that this Liu Yunbo can no longer be trusted!
I don't have the heart to wonder why he sent this murderous evil bell to the company, I'm just worried that I will cause some trouble to myself if I communicate with him a few more times in the past half a month.
The bracelet with black beads, the blood-stained linen strips, whatever he wanted, I must have been stupid to use him as a gunman.
In the past few days, things have been stuck in a bunch, and Bai Fan has not been contacted, and in the morning she read the news and sent a text message to ask me about the situation.
I'm afraid that she won't want to talk too much about it, so she will say that these two people committed suicide.
Bai Fan told me that she was going on a business trip to Shenzhen for a week, and when she came back to invite me to dinner, I was naturally happy.
At this juncture, I really don't have the energy to talk about love at all.
I lay in bed and categorized the people I had met recently, one by one, and the result was a mess, and the complexity of the matter was completely out of control.
Xiaoliu saw that I was frowning all day, so he asked me to rest more and drive for me for a few days. The past few days have hit me hard, and thanks to the care of this heartless little six.
I was really depressed in the evening, I bought a beer and wanted to go back to the dormitory to pour out my sorrows, and I happened to meet Lao Wu giving a lecture to the uncle in the guard room.
When Lao Wu saw that it was me, he simply asked a few words to follow.
"Hey Xiao Li, this company is in a mess, do you have something to celebrate?"
I shook my head in embarrassment.
"What's the celebration, I can't sleep because of too many things lately, so I want to get a good night's sleep after drinking some wine"
"That's okay, I just happened to be holding my breath, let's drink some of them."
Lao Wu went back to the dormitory with me, holding a bottle of beer and a bag of peanuts for each person.
Before he could touch it, Lao Wu poured half a bottle in one go, wiped his mouth, and scolded fiercely:
"Damn it, I've lived to be in my fifties, and it's the first time I've been wronged by this big head."
Lao Wu is usually touted in the company, and it is true that although these two dead incidents were not directly caused by him, the incident was on his turf, and he had to bear the pot.
"Brother Ang, I inquired about the sender of the bronze bell, do you know Liu Yunbo?"
Lao Wu shook his head helplessly.
"This person was also asked by the police, I don't know the fuck at all, I've been out there all these years, and I haven't offended any people."
I know that Lao Wu has a secret, and just because he lives opposite the archive room on the second floor of the small one, this matter is not simple.
Since he didn't want to say it, I had to think of a way to cheat something.
"Come to Angkor, do it"
Lao Wu was in a depressed mood and dried the remaining half of the bottle in one gulp.
"Angkor, mosquitoes don't bite seamless eggs, think about it, what's still the matter"
I said painlessly as I sipped my beer.
Lao Wu burped, his eyes narrowed into slits.
"I really didn't offend anyone, if you want to say that there is something really wrong, it was more than ten years ago"
As soon as I heard this, I immediately came to my senses, since I drove the last train of the 13th, I have been around the three car accidents ten years ago, and now I want to get out, at least I have to figure out the good guys and bad guys, the ins and outs.
I handed the wine to Lao Wu and asked pretending to be bland
"I know about the three car accidents in the reservoir ten years ago, so what the hell is going on?"
Lao Wu held the wine bottle and shook it with his hand.
"Oh, it has nothing to do with that, I saw a monster in that place in Tiger Waist Mountain ten years ago"
"What? Monster? ”
Lao Wu touched one with me, and then he did a third of it in one breath, and he took a breath and said:
"I didn't drive a car when I was more than nine years old, and that year I contracted a piece of land in Huyin Mountain Village, and I ploughed a tiger striped copper coin during spring ploughing."
"Tiger striped copper coins? That's a cultural relic, it's a good thing."
Lao Wu was anxious "what a"
"I also thought that this was a cultural relic that could be valuable, and I suspected that there was a tomb or something underground, so I found a few old buddies and went to dig down in the ground every night when no one was around."
When Lao Wu said this, he seemed to remember some sad past, and talked for a long time.
"We've dug up the whole field, and we've really dug up a tunnel, and the guys studied it and went down."
As I listened, I noticed that Lao Wu's eyes were red, so I picked up a beer and took a sip with him.
Lao Wu paused for a while and then said:
"This tunnel is long and dark, we are hungry for profit, and we have walked to the end with a shovel on a lighter, and it turns out that this is a monster nest, a nest of monsters, when we turned around and ran, the third child fell, and was directly taken by them, and there was no corpse."
I listened with a chill and said, "What youkai?" What does it look like?"
Lao Wu closed his eyes and said shallowly, "People don't want to look at things at a second glance."
Speaking of this, Lao Wu seemed to remember something again, opened his eyes and turned around.
"By the way, I heard from the police that this bronze bell was unearthed in Huyin Mountain two years ago, and was later taken away by an outsider who dragged the relationship with the village head, I think maybe it is this named Liu Yunbo."
"Drag the village chief relationship?"
Lao Wu's words woke me up, if the bronze bell was unearthed in Huyin Mountain, then Liu Yunbo should be the one who took away the bronze bell, Liu Yunbo can drag the relationship with the village chief, which means that the village chief must be quite familiar with him.
Liu Yunbo and the sixth uncle are good and bad, whether they are people or ghosts, they know when they see the village chief.
After Lao Wu said this, he began to drink like crazy, and after a while, he got drunk and fell on the table.
Early the next morning, I bought a bus ticket to Tiger Waist Mountain, Xiao Liu did not listen to my advice and had to follow, and the two of us rushed to Tiger Waist Mountain with the first bus.
Tiger Waist Mountain is fifty or sixty miles ahead of Tangwazi, and it was already noon when we arrived there, and as soon as we entered the village, we felt cold, not how low the temperature was, but we really felt that the villagers looked at us very strangely.
Most of the people in this village are young children and the elderly, and there are very few middle-aged people.
The two of us stopped a little brother who was driving cattle and asked, "Brother, where is the village chief's house?" ”
The little brother stared at us blankly for a long time, and suddenly, he grinned coldly.
His smile made me and Xiaoliu laugh.
"Brother, don't laugh first, where is the village chief's house, I have something to do with him"
The little cow brother's grin became bigger and bigger, and he suddenly stopped smiling and straightened his face, and the indifferent expression of his godless eyes made people shudder.
Xiaoliu was about to open his mouth, so I quickly grabbed him and continued to walk.
There were many people like the cow driver along the way, and we asked two or three people in succession, and they were all quite slow to react, as if they couldn't understand what we were saying at all.
And that look, cold, desperate, a hint of sadism.
Xiaoliu was a little scared, and asked me in a low voice, "Dude, have you noticed, these villagers are a little weird"
"It's a little weird, but it's okay, it's broad daylight, what are you afraid of"
Xiao Liu muttered as he walked, "Their eyes are like animals looking at food"
Xiao Liu's casual words made me feel excited, and said impatiently:
"Don't talk nonsense, you've seen too much of the animal world"
Except for the strange people in this village, there is no difference between my rural hometown, bricks and tiles, crops in the field, and it is still very kind.
We walked along the road to the head of the village, where there were crops on three sides, and there was no road any further, and there was an old well at the end of the road, wrapped in a red cloth, and some small red flags were planted around it.
Although our family also lives in the countryside, they are all hand-pressed wells, and this is the first time I have seen such an old round well in ancient times.
Xiaoliu and I felt curious and wanted to take a look, but when we came to the well, we were about to take a look down, when we suddenly heard someone shouting behind us.
"Don't look!!"
We looked back and saw that we were greeted by a young man in his twenties, dressed in mud and with a scythe pinned to his waist.
When the young man saw our faces, he asked, "You two are from the city, who are you here to visit?" ”
I was very happy when I saw that the young man's eyes were normal and he spoke, so I hurriedly walked over and said:
"We're from the city, and we're looking for the village chief, do you know where his house is?"
The young man pointed to a tiled house at the east end and said, "There is a tractor in the courtyard over there, and it is the village chief's house."
After the young man finished speaking, before I could ask the village chief's surname, he turned around and left.
Xiaoliu and I followed the direction of his finger and looked for it.
The yard of the village chief's house is very large, there are three mounds of corn in the west of the yard, and a tractor is parked on the other side.
The door was unlocked, and we knocked on it and no one answered, so we simply opened the door and entered the house.
The room was very simple, with futons piled on the clay kang, tables and a few pots of flowers on the ground, and nothing else.
Xiao Liu has been staring at the brick wall by the pit since he entered the house, and after looking at it for a long time, he suddenly turned back loudly and called me:
"Dude, come here, look at who is in this picture?
There were a lot of black and white photos on the wall, and I looked at one of the little six fingers, and I was speechless.
In this photo, there are five middle-aged people in camouflage uniforms, and the one on the left side of the handle is Lao Wu.
By Lao Wu's side, Xiao Liu didn't know him by his shoulder, but I never dared to forget it.
The man was short and stocky, with a scar on his right cheek, and it was Liu Yunbo!!!
Last night, Lao Wu clearly said that he didn't know Liu Yunbo, but judging from the photos, the two looked very familiar with each other.
I was shocked and sweated, and then I looked to the right, and this look directly made me sit on the ground in fright.
Liu Yunbo was on his shoulder, and it was actually the first driver ten years ago, who had died for ten years, Lao Tang!!