"It's a small village like no other."

"Yes, since I took office in Huaxi Town, I have only been to that Shiban Village once, and the then head of Shiban Village personally led the way. This time, I didn't want to go again. The slate village, even if it is half a day, also gives people a sense of eerie and weird. I don't know if it's because of my timidity, but when I walk in the village, I always feel cold on my back, as if someone is blowing on my back. Or, as I walked, I felt someone on my back, cold and heavy. ”

"Lord Xin, but you went to Shiban Village because of Miss Wang's business?"

"Yes, it is precisely because of Miss Wang's disappearance."

"Lord Xin, you have been talking for a long time, but you still haven't said how this Wang girl disappeared? Wang Xiao's two families are both big families, whether they are welcoming relatives or sending relatives, there should be a lot of people. So many people, even if they strayed into Shiban Village, it wouldn't be that only one Wang girl was missing, right? ”

"Mr. Bai is right, although this case was reported by Miss Wang's uncle and husband's family, and it was also classified as a case of Miss Wang's disappearance, but there were as many as a dozen people involved in the missing and dead in this case, if it weren't for that, how could I go to Shiban Village in person."

"So many people died?"

"Yes, more than a dozen people died." Xin Mingjie let out a long sigh: "Mr. Bai is well-read, and he should know that according to my ancestral system, he cannot be an official in the local area. The reason why I was able to stay in Huaxi Town was because there were old cases in Huaxi Town that were not resolved, and two county magistrates were involved, and none of the people in the court were willing to go back to Huaxi Town as officials. Second, it's because of this slate village. At that time, I was just a temporary county magistrate, and it was because of Miss Wang's case that the temporary situation became the current nearly ten years. If there are no accidents, I will probably stay in Huaxi Town to do this small county order. Of course, that's what I'm willing to do. ”

"Huaxi Town is fine." Bai Ze touched his nose and said.

"I didn't say Huaxi Town was bad." Xin Mingjie hurriedly said: "Let's continue to talk to Mr. about Miss Wang's disappearance." According to Miss Wang's uncle's description, the welcoming procession felt that something was wrong soon after entering Shiban Village. First of all, the entire slate village was empty, like a village that had been abandoned for a long time, and there were no other villagers except for the funeral procession that I met at the entrance of the village. In addition, the houses in the slate village are very strange, there are many houses without windows, and through those large and small boxes, you can also see that there is no one in the house, only some very old or very broken furniture. Strangely, when you pass through those windows, you feel like you're being watched and have a lot of eyes that are always following you. ”

"Is there really no one in that slate village?"

"Yes, but there are not many villagers, and a large number of them have been disabled to varying degrees due to the previous plague. These villagers did not want to see people, nor did they want to be seen, so they dug another house under the original house, and most of their daily life was underground, and they would only come out when they had to do so. ”

"They are afraid of outsiders and they are wary of outsiders. With so many people breaking into this village at once, and blowing all the way, the villagers of Shiban Village who were hiding underground would naturally be curious, and they would also secretly observe, so the people of Wang Xiao's family had the feeling of being spied on, and they always felt that there were eyes following them. The illusions that Lord Xin had when he went to Slate Village before were also caused by these villagers, right? ”

"I'm not sure, because the village was so unusual and so weird that I still can't tell what it was like to be in that village. I estimated that the people of Wang Xiao's family at that time felt the same as I am now. When they realize that something is wrong with the village, they try to go back the way they came, but they are hit by a ghost they have never seen in their lives, and as they circle the village more and more, more and more people go missing. In the end, Miss Wang's uncle and Xiao Gongzi were a little panicked, they patiently took a few capable family members to explore the way, and it took about two hours, close to Shenshi, before they returned to their original place under the leadership of a villager from Shiban Village. But the bride who stayed there at that time and the maid beside Miss Wang, Xi Po were gone, and there was only an empty bride's sedan chair. ”

"Where did Miss Wang go?"

"No one knew, and even the local villagers said they didn't see it." Xin Mingjie shook his head: "The bride is gone, Miss Wang's uncle and Xiao Gongzi are naturally anxious, they gave the villager who led the way some silver, and asked him to mobilize the people in the village to help find it. Xi Po seemed to be scared to death by something, her expression was frightened, her eyes were round, and she was still covering the position of her heart with her hand. Afterwards, after an inquest by the county government, it was said that this Xi Po should have a congenital disease, and after encountering a sudden shock, she triggered a hidden disease and died. ”

"What about the maid?"

"The two maids both seemed to have died in an accident. One of them fell on the side of the road, his head hitting a large rock. Judging from the scene, the wound that collided with her head was anastomosis. The other person must have pulled the foot of the maid in front of him with his own hand, because some incense powder was found on the ankle of the previous maid, which matched the hand of the second dead maid. ”

Xin Mingjie first gestured a little in mid-air with his hand, then closed his eyes and said, "According to my guess at the time, it should be like this." Miss Wang originally stayed in place with Xi Po and waited, but an hour passed, two hours passed, and Miss Wang's uncle and Xiao Gongzi did not come back, they didn't know what happened, only that this village was very strange and could not stay in one place, so Miss Wang walked out of the sedan chair and waited for Xi Po and the maid to go to look for it. ”

"It's a lot like something Miss Wang can do." Bai Ze nodded.

Miss Wang took the maid and Xi Po to look for her, and before she knew it, she came to the path outside the village. The path was not the way out of the village, but the path for the people of the village to go up the mountain to hunt or gather medicinal herbs, because one side of the road was a cliff, but because of the overlapping dense forests in the village, the cliff side was even more barren and grassy.

Seeing this, Xi Po suddenly had a hidden illness, died on the spot, two maids followed, first saw Miss Wang walking and disappeared, and then saw Xi Po innocently fall to the ground, one of the maids fell to the ground because of timidity, and held the ankle of the maid in front of him in a panic, never thought, people are scary, scared to death, the maid who was held ankle was frightened, fell to the side of the road, and his head just hit the sharp stone hidden in the wild grass, and died on the spot. The last maid, in a panic, wanted to flee back to the village, but because of the loud voice, she alarmed the beasts hiding in the dense forest, and was pounced and bitten to death. ”

"Miserable! That's miserable! Bai Ze sighed: "I thought it was a match made in heaven, but I never thought it would be a fateful marriage." ”