"Mom, why do those dead people point to the old well in our village?"

Huzi's innocent voice came to our ears abruptly, and a group of people stopped their movements and looked at Huzi and Huzi's mother who was holding Huzi.

Syllable!

A loud voice came, and Huzi's mother slapped Huzi fiercely.

"What are children talking about? Who made you run out blind early in the morning! ”

When Huzi's mother spoke, she looked at Huzi who was slapped by her and her face was flushed, her eyes showed distress, but she was more at a loss.

Mother Tiger looked up at us, and looked at my mother, I couldn't see what kind of eyes they had, and years later, I realized that it was a kind of secrecy about some kind of fear.

In Wangjia Village, old trees can't be cut down, and old wells can't even be mentioned.

Since that day, there have been many unfamiliar faces in Wangjia Village, who sometimes set up tents in the wilderness around Wangjia Village, and sometimes they are digging around Wangjia Village with shovels.

The collective death incident in Wangjia Village caused a great sensation at that time, and all 27 lives died mysteriously overnight, and the forensic doctors were unable to find out the cause of death of these people, these people were not poisoned, their internal organs were intact, and there were no injuries on the body surface.

There is basically no relationship between these deceased, and the only thing in common is that they all belong to Chen Tiantian's construction team, and the people who died are the people who cut down trees that day.

But no one who has seen their deaths believe that they are capable of doing things.

The police interrogated the men and women of Wangjia Village, young and old, but they could not find out at all, and the confessions of Wangjia Village were surprisingly consistent - the ancestral teachings left by the ancestors, the tree, could not be moved.

Those policemen had no choice but to investigate my grandfather in the end, and my grandfather, who was the person concerned, was taken to the police station by them three times for questioning, and there were no clues in the investigation.

Later, two policemen came to look for grandpa, at that time my friends and I were playing with spinning tops on the wheat field, grandpa was smoking dry tobacco next to him, grandpa saw two policemen coming towards him, took the initiative to greet him: "Comrade policeman, this is watching the children of the grandchildren playing, can't leave, all of them have been interrogated three times, is it possible to suspect that I am a murderer?" ”

One of the young policemen said with a blank face: "According to the latest clues we have learned, Chen Santian had an argument with you before cutting down the tree, and he also threatened your grandson, is there such a thing?" ”

Grandpa knocked his pipe and said, "Yes, but so what? As the secretary of Wangjia Village, I should persuade him to say a few words, but if I disagree, I naturally let him say a few words, he is disobedient and has to provoke that thing, and if he dies, can he blame others? ”

"That thing? Are you referring to the tree, or the wild goose in the tree? The young policeman was unimpressed by his grandfather's words, and he ridiculed him in a strange manner, with a hint of contempt in his eyes. As a cadre, but he took the lead in rectifying some feudal things in the old society, if it weren't for the director's order not to embarrass you, do you think you would still be able to sit here well? ”

When Grandpa heard this, he laughed and said: "Even if that kid knows each other, young man, your director's mother has to be a guest when she looks at me, what are you talking to me about here, Zhang Wang Li, read a few books to become a scientist or an educator?" ”

The young policeman snorted, and said in an even more disdainful tone: "It's better than not studying and relying on relationships to get to the top." ”

Grandpa said: "Whether it depends on the relationship, you can ask your director, young man, I see that you are still young, I advise you not to touch the affairs of this Wangjia Village again, otherwise you will be burned and burned in the same fate as Chen Sansan." ”

The young policeman looked at his grandfather disapprovingly and said, "Are you threatening me?" ”

Grandpa looked up at the policeman in front of him, I knew that with grandpa's character, once he was angry, this little policeman would not be enough for him to pinch with one hand, but grandpa stared at the eyebrows of the policeman in front of him for a while, and his tone suddenly eased a lot.

"Comrade policeman, there is no need to talk about this anymore, if you don't believe in evil, you can go and gouge the roots of the sycamore tree, the wild geese you said are still buried in it, you have the ability to investigate it yourself, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, what can you ask by just opening your mouth and asking others?"

"You!" The young policeman was choked by his grandfather, and the older middle-aged policeman next to him stopped him, then handed a cigarette to his grandfather, and said with a smile: "Secretary Wang, this is my nephew, I have just arrived at the bureau for less than half a year, and the child has a temper, you forgive me, in fact, we have nothing to do, then you can play with the grandchildren, and we will go first." ”

Grandpa said with a straight face: "Don't send it." ”

"What are you crazy about!" The young policeman pointed to his grandfather's nose and said.

The middle-aged policeman insisted on dragging the young policeman away, but the young policeman was still very unconvinced and said: "Obviously, the investigation found out that he had been a bandit in Shandong before, why didn't he ask?" If he were still a member of the underworld, he would have been able to murder them all! ”

The two of them haven't gone far, what they said naturally let us listen, grandpa was a ringing horse in Shandong for two years when he was young, no one knows what he did, but the fact that he was a ringing horse is not a secret in our village, you can ask a little investigation.

The middle-aged policeman glanced at my grandfather with an embarrassed face, he asked the young policeman to go first, and then turned around and walked to his grandfather, took out a whole pack of osmanthus cigarettes from his pocket, grandpa's eyes lit up, took the cigarette handed by the middle-aged policeman and put it on his nose and smelled it, looked up and said: "I see that you can still be a man, so I will give you a reminder, your nephew has drilled the tip of the horns, and the top of his head is covered with a black veil, he will definitely commit taboos, nine times out of ten he will not survive, you better stay away from him, so as not to be dragged into the water." ”

The middle-aged policeman was stunned when he heard this, he seemed to suddenly remember something, patted his head and said: "Look at my memory, Secretary Wang, I just remembered who you are, I really don't know Taishan, my uncle is an old Chinese medicine doctor in the town hospital, he has mentioned you to me many times before, just now I was really offended, my name is Liu Quan, my nephew's name is Liu Yong, in the future, Secretary Wang will have a useful place to order, you look at my nephew ......"

After that, the policeman named Liu Quan and his grandfather talked about something, I didn't pay attention to what they said, I only knew that Liu Quan and his grandfather talked for a long time that day, as if discussing something, their voices became smaller and smaller, and finally it was like a warbler whispering, not much louder than the voice of a mosquito.

I vividly remember that day was the day after the mass death in Wangjia Village.

After Chen Tiantian's gang died, the people of Wangjia Village no longer dared to go out at night, and when I got up to pee at night, I always had to wake up my mother and accompany me, otherwise I would always feel as if the dead people were watching me somewhere.

Wangjia Village, which was originally shrouded in shadow by tall plane trees every night, was finally fully and clearly reflected in the watery moonlight after the plane trees collapsed.

In the daytime, I thought that after the plane tree that covered the sky and the sun fell, Wangjia Village, bathed in the sun, would become bright and warm, but no one thought that from that day on, the temperature in Wangjia Village suddenly became colder, not only Wangjia Village, but also the villagers in the surrounding ten miles and eight villages felt a chill.

The cold of July made many people think of the collective death incident in Wangjia Village, and all kinds of rumors began to spread, making the already panicked villagers of Wangjia Village even more panicked, even if they suddenly heard a dog barking in the middle of the day, they could be frightened, let alone at night.

People say that the 27 people who were killed by the phoenix corpse in Wangjia Village were cursed.

In those days, Wangjia Village became silent at night, even tall and strong men did not dare to walk alone at night, always feeling that there were people staring behind them, especially passing by the village where the plane tree was located. It's now empty, and the families at the front don't know where they've moved.

Until the first seven days after Chen Sansan's death, another person died in the place where the phoenix's corpse was buried.