Chapter 1: Handprints on corpses

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In the middle of summer, an extremely sensational event occurred in Niujia Village, deep in the Daze Mountains, which was known as the Double Corpse Case. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

That afternoon, Wu Xing was doing his summer homework under the supervision of his grandfather, and suddenly there was a commotion in the east of the village.

Wu Xing originally wanted to sneak out to dig out the bird's nest while his grandfather was dozing, but this sudden noise disrupted his plan, and his grandfather, who was already drowsy, was so frightened that he almost dropped the banana fan in his hand to the ground.

Grandpa suddenly got up from the recliner, and after dropping the sentence "You continue to do your homework", he walked out the door to check the situation.

Wu Xing couldn't sit still for a long time, he grimaced at his grandfather's back, and quietly walked to the window to listen.

After listening to it for a while, Wu Xing understood: in a pond far from the entrance of the village, two children were drowned!

In the countryside, this kind of thing will generally cause a huge sensation, and the peasants work in the fields all day long, and their lives are very boring.

When the young Wu Xing heard that someone had died, he immediately felt a little frightened, but after a little hesitation, he mustered up his courage and was ready to go to see what was going on, because in his opinion, this was a capital that could be used to brag with other children

Grandpa had already run to see the excitement, and the unattended Wu Xing immediately slipped out of the house, and when he came to the pond, there were already many villagers gathered here, and everyone gathered in a circle, pointing at the center of the crowd, all with a sad expression.

It took Wu Xing a lot of effort to get through the gap between the thighs of the crowd, and he looked down with a rapid heartbeat, and found that the crowd was surrounded by two corpses covered with tattered sheets, and the corpses revealed four mud-stained feet outside.

Wu Xing looked at his feet that were blistered white, and somehow, his legs couldn't stand, and he was about to fall to the ground softly.

At this time, a pair of calloused hands held his shoulders, and at the same time, a voice full of vicissitudes of life came into his ears: "Child, you have to remember that the dead are not terrible, but the living are the most terrible." ā€

Wu Xing turned his head and found that it was Lao Li Tou who spoke.

According to the villagers, Lao Li Tou was originally a Taoist priest, who was once criticized as a cow ghost and snake god in feudal society, and then sent to Niujia Village.

Lao Li Tou is usually kind, but whenever the villagers have a big or small thing, he is very willing to help, over time, Lao Li Tou gradually integrated into Niujia Village, even if he later set things right, he did not choose to return to his hometown.

According to Lao Li Tou's own words, there were originally two Taoist temples under his name, but they were later demolished as the four olds, and he didn't even have a home, so what did he go back for?

When Wu Xinggang remembered, he found that Lao Li Tou looked at him a little strangely, at that time, because he was too young, Wu Xing didn't know how to describe this kind of look, but he felt repulsed by this kind of look from the bottom of his heart, so he chose to stay away from Lao Li Tou.

It wasn't until Wu Xing gradually grew up and went to school that he listened to the teacher tell the story of the big bad wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, and then he understood: it turned out that Lao Li Tou looked at himself with the same eyes as the big bad wolf looked at Little Red Riding Hood.

Therefore, Wu Xing further rejected Lao Li Tou, and usually didn't even say hello when they met, even if Lao Li Tou smiled at him, he didn't see it.

At this moment, being helped by Lao Li Tou, Wu Xing showed an unnatural expression, he didn't want to lose face in front of Lao Li Tou, so he stood firm.

Lao Li Tou immediately smiled and nodded, as if he was approving him.

As soon as the people next to him saw Lao Li Tou coming, they immediately shouted: "Lao Li Tou, I heard that you used to be a Taoist priest, you can quickly take a look, if there is an evil or something, you have to say it clearly, otherwise there are so many babies in the village, I don't know who will have an accident another day!" ā€

When everyone heard this, they immediately felt justified and echoed it.

Lao Li squatted in front of the corpse and looked at it for a moment, then showed a solemn look: "The situation is a little wrong. ā€

"What's wrong?" When everyone heard this, their hearts were raised to their throats.

Lao Li Tou didn't talk nonsense, he lifted the sheets covering the corpses, pointed to the feet and neck of one of the corpses and said: "There is a slap mark on it, if nothing else, this child was killed by unclean things." ā€

When the bold villagers heard this, they approached and took a look, and then someone exclaimed, "There are indeed handprints on it!" Don't...... Could it be that there are water ghosts in this pond? ā€

Lao Li ignored the uproar, and then walked to the side of another corpse, squatted down to check.

Soon, he spoke again: "There are mudras over here, too." ā€

The crowd was all frightened, and no one said a word for a long time.

The pond in which the drowned man was about five acres in size, not too deep, and when filled with water, the surface of the water reached at most an adult's neck.

Living conditions in the countryside are very poor, there is no bathroom at home, and in the summer, both adults and children will go to the river or pond to bathe.

This pond is the first choice for the villagers of Niujia Village to bathe in summer, although there is some silt in the pond, but the water is very clear, some lotus roots are planted in the pond, in the summer, the children in the village will always go down to pick lotus flowers and pick lotus roots to satisfy their hunger.

The two drowned boys had an accident while picking lotus pods, the villagers did not think that this pond was in any danger before, everyone bathed here every summer, and no one had drowned, but now when they saw the handprints on the feet and necks of the deceased, the villagers who did not know much were all frightened.

While the crowd was silent, a bald old man walked over, and seeing that the crowd had gathered together and did not speak, the bald old man showed a puzzled expression: "What's wrong with everyone?" If you don't work in the fields in broad daylight, what are you doing here? ā€

The bald old man used to be the captain of the production team, and now he is the village party secretary, and he has a high prestige in the village. When everyone saw him coming, they immediately had a backbone, and immediately talked about the drowning people in the pond.

The village party secretary just went out to run errands, and he didn't know about the drowning people in the village, and after listening to everyone's story at this moment, he couldn't help but sigh: "Niu Erjia is afraid that he is going to die now, and two male babies died at once, and these two babies are also miserable, and they are less than ten years old, and they are all drowned." ā€

As soon as the village party secretary's voice fell, a middle-aged couple in their thirties dragged their weak legs, crying and running over, the person who came was the parents of the drowning boy, who lost their children in middle age, and still lost two children at a time, which is really too tragic.

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