"Don't try to run!"

The roots of my teeth itched, so I picked up the sticks on the ground and ran around the thorn bushes to the Nanxi River.

There are many exits from this thorn bush, but the location is at the entrance of the village, so if this person wants to go back to the village, he must pass through the Nanxi River in the south, and there is actually only one direction to escape.

Without stopping, I came to the Nanxi River with a stick again.

Not to mention, when people are unlucky, they will stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, but if God is on your side, it is to think about what you want, and you are very lucky.

As soon as I got to the river, I heard someone behind a straw stack by the river, and it sounded like it hurt.

I slowed down and walked towards the haystack, and the man seemed to hear something, and at once he jumped out from behind and ran along the river.

"I'll fuck your uncle!"

I cursed, raised my stick and threw it hard, the distance was too close, and with a "snap", I knocked him to the ground. The cloth on my face also fell off, revealing a face, leaving my mind blank for a while.

Ma Yongde!

Ma Yongde, the head of Hongcun Village!!

"Virtue ...... Uncle De? ”

I stopped, I didn't know what to do for a while, Ma Yongde is usually highly respected and prestigious in the village, otherwise he would not be able to be the head of Shanghong Village, and he is also the uncle of my own family, and he has been eating at the same table for three generations.

I don't understand why he burned me? Why did you kill Uncle Chen Jiu?

Even, there was also the original burial of the corpse in the peach forest that caused the corpse mutiny, which was also done by him.

All this seems to have nothing to do with his identity as the village chief, and he has not been on my suspicion list all along.

At this time, Ma Yongde was lying on the ground, probably a little dazed by my stick, his expression was in a trance, his body was still twitching, he looked very painful, and his face was distorted.

I took a closer look and found that there was basically no good cloth on his body, his whole body was scraped by eagle thorns, and there was blood all over his body. Eagle thorn is a kind of stinger, also called witch thorn in the local language, if you are stabbed, it will be very painful and unbearable. Now he's scratched all over his body, and the pain just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.

When I was in junior high school, I tried to stab a witch very badly, and I was stabbed to death with only one stab, and it was said that there was a neurotoxin on it, like being stung by a bee, and the wound was small but hot.

Just in case, I hurriedly picked up the stick next to me again, Ma Yongde also came back to his senses a little, and when he saw me, he smiled bitterly twice, and said: "Old and old, after all, you are not as good as you offspring." His tone was calm, and there was even a sense of inexplicable relief.

"Uncle De, this is the last time I'll call you Uncle De." I gritted my teeth and said, "Now that it's over, shouldn't you give me and the people of Hongcun an explanation, don't think about what you did!" ”

The previous events were one after another, and the evidence was ironclad, and he was not allowed to quibble at all, but now he has been arrested and revealed, and the stolen goods have been obtained, even if I can't accept it anymore, I have to accept it head-on.

Moreover, with Chen Jiutong's foreshadowing that helped me and harmed me before, I also felt the unpredictability of people's hearts once.

After Ma Yongde heard what I said, he smiled, the expression on his face was very strange, and he didn't resist anymore, he lay straight on the cold ground, and said, "Since it fell into your hands, I have nothing to say, you ask." ”

I didn't expect him to be quite single, so I asked directly unceremoniously: "Chen Jiutong's house was burned by you?" ”。

"Yes." Ma Yongde nodded very dryly.

"Where's Uncle Chen Jiu?"

"It's my hand, too."

"Which peach forest is the corpse and you buried it?"

"That's right!"

"Why?"

I was angry and said: "Why are you doing this, you are the village chief of Hong Village, everyone is pointing at you, but you are harming people behind your back, Uncle Chen Jiu should have died a good death, but he was killed by you, and the eight corpses of Taolin, if you weren't finally restrained, do you want the whole village to suffer?" ”

My chest rose and fell violently, the belief in my heart that had been in my heart for a long time collapsed, and I could accept Chen Jiutong's desire to harm me, because he was for his own benefit, and he only harmed me.

But I can't accept Ma Yongde, he is the village head, a respected elder, and the backbone of the village, but he not only wants to harm me, but also Uncle Chen Jiu, and almost hurt the whole village!

"Why, hehe......"

Ma Yongde suddenly laughed, laughed for a while, and then said angrily: "I am the village head, I want to protect Hong Village!" ”

"You're lying!"

I didn't believe it, and said: "For the sake of Hongcun, you killed Uncle Chen Jiu, and for the sake of Hongcun, you caused the Taolin corpse mutiny?!" ”

"You know what!"

Ma Yongde suddenly glared at me and said murderously: "You only see one side of the matter, for the safety of the entire Hong Village, what is the death of a few people?" Some people are a scourge to keep it, like you! ”

"What?!" My heart jerked, and I unconsciously took two steps back.

What do you mean? Are you a scourge? Where to start?

I don't know why, I suddenly remembered what the little paper ghost said to me when I was in the bamboo forest: You, it's no longer yours.

There is also what the old paper man ghost said: Keep you, after all, it will be a scourge.

Why are the two sentences similar to what Ma Yongde said?

Whom have I harmed? If I am not me, who am I?

The clues before and after were connected, and I felt a panic in my heart, I thought that everything was caused by the child's soul in me, but now it seems that it is far from that.

I was caught up in the whirlpool, and there was a deeper reason!

"What the hell do you mean?" I was terrified, this is a kind of horror of my own transformation, not like the persecution of ghosts and ghosts, like the gangrene of the bones, I can't shake it off.

Ma Yongde smiled bitterly a few times, the murderous aura on his face slowly disappeared, and muttered: "Xiaochun, you are too young to know that people's hearts are sinister." ”

"What do you mean, just say it clearly?" I was a little anxious, the people around me were talking and didn't know what I wanted to do.

Ma Yongde shook his head and said, "You remember one thing, everything I do is to protect this village, and our destiny is one." ”

"Don't play dumb riddles, count them clearly!"

I was most annoyed by this kind of hazy words, so I directly put a stick against Ma Yongde's neck, and said angrily: "Ma Yongde, you are less verbose, and you keep saying that it is for Hongcun, okay, I won't care about you about Uncle Chen Jiu's matter, you are for self-interest, but how do you explain the matter of Taolin burying the corpse?" If all eight corpses ran out, how many people in Hongcun would have been bitten to death and bitten? How do you explain it!! ”

Ma Yongde glanced at me with some pity and shook his head: "I can't tell you." ”

"Why?" I was stunned.

"Because you know that there is no benefit, but it will harm you, and even harm Hongcun, if it weren't for this, I would have gotten rid of you a long time ago!" Ma Yongde said, and at the end of his words, there was a touch of hideousness in his eyes.

Thousands of alpacas are running wild in my heart, and Nima is saying this again! The leather-clad man used to say this to me over and over again, so that I don't have to know too much!

it! You are all human spirits, just keep me in the dark and be a fool!!

After a pause, Ma Yongde looked at me very seriously and said, "Remember Uncle De's words, the person who helps you is not necessarily a good person, and the person who harms you is not necessarily a bad person, don't open the bronze door, never!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and ran to the side.

I didn't expect him to run away suddenly, and by the time I remembered to chase him, he had already reached the river a few steps and plunged into the Nanxi River.

"Uncle De!" I screamed, and hurried to the river, but saw nothing but the rippling waves.

I was a little blocked in my heart, I didn't know whether to believe Ma Yongde or not, many of the things he said may have lied to me, but there is one sentence that is irrefutable, that is, if he had already made up his mind to kill me, I would not have been able to resist.

He is the head of the village, an elder who is highly respected in my heart and has watched him grow up, and if he wants to harm me by means, there are many ways, such as poisoning and stumbling.

Based on the trust I had in him, the odds of me being able to get past it were slim.

And I don't know what it means that he jumped into the river, and with so many wounds on his body, is this to escape, or to commit suicide?

……