Chapter 7: The Aftermath
When I led a convoy of strong soldiers and horses to "kill" Zhao's house, there was a depressed scene.
Zhaojialou Village is still in that dilapidated and withered, half-dead appearance, from the inside to the outside, there is an inexplicable sadness. Driving on those country stone roads, it even feels as if it has been forgotten by time.
It's indescribably weird.
In a weird feeling, I drove the car and went straight to the courtyard of the Zhao family, but what I saw ...... But it's beyond my imagination.
At this time, the dust in front of the ancestral house of Zhao Haipeng's family was very thick, looking dilapidated and old, and what was particularly puzzling was that the door had been sealed with black and white letters.
Looking at the seal, my younger brother Zhang Asi was the first to run over to see it, and when he came back, he told me in horror: "Zhao ...... The door of the Zhao family is sealed! It is a seal affixed by the public security criminal investigation team for serious cases! There is a seal, and it does not look like a fake. ”
“...... The criminal investigation team ......" I muttered quietly, and then couldn't help but say coldly: "Zhao Haipeng's family...... Is there a serious case?!Three months old Zhao did not return to Jinan...... Sure enough, something happened!"
When I was nervous, my eldest brother came over, patted me on the shoulder and said, "What happened to the Zhao family, let's break in and take a look!"
Listening to Hui Sizhu's rough suggestion, I lowered my head and thought for a while, then shook my head and said: "It's not proper, we came with guns this time, if we let the people from the serious crime team target us, we will be in trouble, and now that the Zhao family has gone to the empty building, and they are controlled by the police, what can we do even if we go in......"
"This ......" Hui Sizhu scratched his head and said: "This is Zhao Jialou, and I can't find Zhao Haipeng, the compound is sealed, and I don't know why, what should I do?!
Listening to Hui Sizhu's nagging, I thought silently for a moment, and then replied: "We still have other ways, you think, although something happened to the old Zhao family and found the criminal police, then it is definitely not a trivial matter, since it is not a trivial matter, it is impossible for other families in the village not to know." ”
"In that case!" Zhang Asi took the lead and said, "I'll ask around with my brothers, right?!"
"Okay!" I nodded, and then said to the black brothers behind me, "You can walk around this Zhao family building, and when you meet the villagers, ask them what happened to the old Zhao family, and if anyone is willing to help, it is best to bring them to me and tell them...... I will give money. ”
Listening to my arrangement, more than a dozen of my subordinates immediately went to the village to inquire about the news, while my eldest brother and I sat on the steps in front of the Zhao family's ancestral house, quietly waiting for the news.
In fact, Zhao Haipeng's recent phone call can't get through, which has made me feel abnormal, but I didn't think that something would happen to the Zhao family, even if it was...... I don't think Lao Zhao will have any surprises.
After all, he is the great abbot of the Five Visceral Temple, and no one can match the ability to eat spells, and he also has the terrifying three corpses and poisonous insects to defend himself, even Wu Demon Lao and even Yin Nineteen, are also afraid of three points.
So...... Lao Zhao will definitely not die...... Absolutely not!
In my inner nervous speculation and self-questioning, our group waited from noon until the sun was in the west, and at this time, the brothers I had sent out to inquire about the news came back one after another.
The result was very frustrating, the brothers who came back told me that the villagers they found did not want to mention the affairs of the Zhao family, and everyone either avoided them like a plague god, or kept crying, in short, no one answered positively, and under the repeated questioning of the brothers, those people only occasionally said that the Zhao family had suffered a calamity and had ...... Extinct.
"No one!" scares me by the title.
The word extinction must not be used indiscriminately, it means the complete disappearance of a family, which means that not only Zhao Haipeng is dead, but even Zhao Haikun, as well as Zhao Haikun's daughter-in-law Gui Yuxiu, and even Zhao Shuihe and others are also dead.
This...... How is that possible? In these three months...... What the hell is going on?!
In a great shock, I turned back to look at the tightly closed, sealed door, and could no longer be calm.
I rushed over, but just as I was about to tear the seal and enter the Zhao family's old mansion, a leisurely, shriveled voice suddenly sounded behind me.
"There's nothing there! I want to find Zhao Haipeng, come with me. ”
The person who said this was definitely an old woman.
At the man's words, I immediately turned my head and looked at the man with complicated and eager eyes.
Standing with Zhang Asi, an old woman dressed in black, with wrinkles on her face as deep as a knife carving, holding a white-faced doll with a bleak smile on her face.
"You?!" I was surprised, and suddenly remembered that I seemed to have seen this old man when I first came to Zhao's house, but I was in a hurry and didn't ask her what her name was.
Just as I was about to speak further, the old man turned around and walked away, and as she walked, she told me, "Come with me!" and I'll take you to see Zhao Haipeng......
The way the old man turned around and left made me speechless, but in order to see Zhao Haipeng, I could only follow.
Along the way, the old man with the white-faced doll moved forward speechlessly, no matter how I spoke, but he didn't say a word.
In this way, I took people and followed her out of Zhaojialou Village, into a gloomy cemetery standing against the mountains, and bypassed many graves and broken monuments and even wordless tablets that had been stolen and dug by people, and finally came to a very short new grave.
Although I already had a premonition, when I saw the tomb of Zhao Haipeng written on it, my whole body still trembled involuntarily.
Lao Zhao ...... Dead! Dead!
“...... Why?!What the hell is going on!" I yelled, desperately grabbing the old woman and asking, "What happened in Zhaojialou Village, why did the Zhao family become extinct, you must know! Tell me! Tell me!"
When the last rays of the sunset disappeared from the sky above me, the old man stretched out his shriveled hand and pointed to Zhao Haipeng's grave and said, "Zhao Haipeng said, when you come, dig up his grave, and you will understand everything!"
"Dig up...... Grave!" I was stunned, once again in shock and bewilderment.
Although full of questions, the old man with the white-faced doll did not explain anything.
After a contemptuous smile, the old man asked me, "Why, don't you dare?!"
"Why don't you dare!" I was extremely angry by this series of accidents, and Zhao Haipeng's unexplained death made me very self-reproachful and unwilling.
After all this was combined, I let go of the old woman, and then said to the stunned brothers behind me: "You guys! Dig up Zhao Haipeng's tomb for me! I want to see how Lao Zhao died! Who killed him!"
"Huh?!" everyone was surprised by my command, so after a moment of consternation, no one did anything.
Seeing everyone's reaction, I was furious.
"Ah Si!" I roared as I walked towards Zhao Haipeng's low grave, and while digging with my bare hands, I ordered Ah Si: "Come and dig for me!"
My words are full of anger, irresistible rage.