004, people and ghosts in the same village

Click on the warehouse to check, it feels much better than before, Li Mi now has two toxicology tests and one DNA comparison of black technology, and there is also an auxiliary investigation function that is not used for the time being.

He said in his heart that if he could draw a few more times, it was estimated that he would be able to get together several major departments of criminal investigation to play mahjong.

After picking up and going out, Shen Luo was already waiting impatiently, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand was inserted and pulled, as if he couldn't poke it on Li Mi's head.

Li Mi touched her nose, it was only half a pillar of incense left and right, this girl is so hot-tempered?

Only Cao Shaocheng was looked at twice by Shen Luo when she came out with the Great Sage's relic, she seemed to be very interested in the sword, but because of her identity, she was too embarrassed to ask more.

It was noon when the three of them arrived all the way to Beishi, Wushan County, and it was not far from the ferry where Li Mi woke up, and they thought that Quliu Village had to take the ferry.

Seeing this, Li Mi proposed to have lunch and then hurry, Shen Luo agreed, so the three of them entered an inn and sat down.

After consulting for opinions, Li Mi asked for a meat and three vegetarian dishes and three bowls of rice, and hastily spent fifty yuan, which was good and cheap.

This table is that ordinary people want to add some oil and water to the next restaurant, and they must be able to afford it, which shows that the country of the Great Zhao Dynasty is rich and the people are strong, and the people are enough to live and work in peace and contentment.

After eating, Li Mi called Xiao Er, who ran errands at the inn, and asked the boatman at the ferry how long it would take to go back and forth, and whether he could pick up passengers at noon.

Xiao Er's face was a little strange, and he asked, "Guest officer, do you mean the ferry port overgrown with reeds in the northwest?" ”

Li Mi nodded.

"Forgive me for talking too much, may I ask the guest officer where he wants to go by boat, it will work by land, I can give you instructions."

Li Mi said the name of Quliu Village.

With a click, the wooden tray in the little second-hand fell to the ground, and his whole body shrank back as if frightened.

Shen Luo, who was chewing slowly, frowned slightly, and looked at the other party with some displeasure.

Xiao Er reacted after a while, apologized while panicking to pick up the tray on the ground, and then left in a hurry without saying a word.

Li Mi felt strange in his heart, and called the innkeeper again to ask about what happened just now.

Just as the three words 'Quliu Village' were spoken, the shopkeeper's hand that was originally holding the abacus froze, and even the smile on his face towards the guests froze.

The atmosphere was a little strange, and Li Mi repeated the question just now, "Shopkeeper, do you know where someone can take us to Quliu Village?" ”

The shopkeeper finally reacted, but his face was full of horror, and he waved his hand again and again: "I don't know, I don't know." ”

It was clear that the shopkeeper did not want to answer this question.

Although Li Mi felt strange, he saw that the shopkeeper was really unwilling to answer this question, and he had no choice but to put his doubts aside for the time being.

After eating, Li Mi slapped the money on the table, and the three of them got up and left.

When leaving the inn, the shopkeeper was still leaning on the counter absentmindedly making calculations, and even Xiao Er, who came out of the dishes, deliberately avoided them.

Li Mi walked in front, Shen Luo and Cao Shaocheng followed, and asked a few more people when they left the inn, but they ran away in fright when they heard the three words of Quliu Village, and they didn't dare to talk at all, and they were a little bold, but they only looked at the three of them weirdly, and then sighed and walked away.

After asking all the way, Cao Shaocheng complained: "Why are they all like seeing a plague god, do the three of us look like ghosts?" ”

"It's not that you look like ghosts, it's that there are ghosts in that village." Li Mi was also troubled, but this voice came from behind the three of them.

The three of them turned around, and behind them there was an old man wearing a hat, his face was wrinkled, and his hands were also ravines, looking very old.

The old man smiled at them and walked over.

He walks in a somewhat awkward position, probably with a lame leg.

Li Mi asked, "Who are you?" ”

He had an impression of the old man, whom he had just met in the inn, and sat at a table in the corner not far from them.

"Everyone here calls me a cripple."

"Do you know this place in Quliu Village? Why do you say there are ghosts there? ”

The cripple god looked at the surroundings mysteriously, stepped forward, and said in a low voice: "This place in Quliu Village is known to everyone in this area, and it has a great reputation. It's just that the reputation is not a good reputation, it's just some rumors of ghosts. ”

"Haunted by ghosts?" Li Mi became interested.

"It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that ghosts are haunting," the cripple paused, "but it's true that the village is haunted!" ”

Li Mi thought for a while and asked, "Can you elaborate on it?" ”

The cripple's voice was even lowered, "Quliu Village is a forbidden place, many people say that there are people and ghosts in the same village, and outsiders will be sucked dry of Yangshou if they enter, and they will bleed and die violently within seven days!" ”

"People and ghosts in the same village?" When Shen Luo heard this, he sneered mercilessly, and the ridicule in his eyes was very heavy.

"Hey, girl, don't laugh, this is a very serious matter," the cripple confessed to the sky, "Many people pass by Quliu Village, but they don't believe this, and in the end, they were asked for their lives by the ghosts, and they died in vain." ”

When Li Mi heard this, he glanced at Cao Shaocheng, and it was obvious that the cripple's rather supernatural remarks failed to scare them.

"What about the people in the village, is it possible that outsiders will be asked for their lives by ghosts, and the people in the village will be fine?" Li Mi asked him.

"For so many years, although the rumors of the haunting of Quliu Village are boiling, and the people in the village are also afraid, because of the curse, no one can move away, and they can only live with ghosts for the rest of their lives, which is why there are crazy rumors outside that people and ghosts are in the same village." The cripple sighed.

"The haunting in the village can be known to everyone, I'm afraid that there are many people who have died, right?" Li Mi and Shen Luo glanced at each other and asked, "Is it that as long as outsiders inadvertently break into the village, they will die inexplicably?" ”

The cripple nodded, "Over the years, there have been twenty or thirty lives for the ghosts." ”

Li Mi's heart was shocked, and Shen Luo, who had not intervened beside him, secretly clenched his hand holding the embroidered spring knife.

Li Mi continued to ask: "Looking at your appearance, you should know Quliu Village very well, could it be that you are from the village?" ”

The cripple said that he had been in the village before, and that some of the secrets he spoke about were from the word of mouth of the locals, and the other part was heard from the village a few years earlier, and it is unknown whether there was any oil and vinegar added to them.

Li Mi pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "Cripple, you spend so much money with us, it shouldn't be out of some ancient way, let's say, what do you want?" ”

Seeing that his heart was punctured, the cripple rubbed his hands and smiled a little embarrassed, "I know how to get to Quliu Village, and I don't charge you more, just enough for the round-trip fare and a little tea money." ”

It turned out that I wanted to make quick money.

Li Mi glanced at Shen Luo quietly, and saw that the other party nodded, so he agreed, "Okay, you take us to Quliu Village, and tell us about what you know about Quliu Village on the way." ”

Seeing that they agreed so happily, the cripple responded happily, and then took Li Mi and the three to the ferry.

He went to the reeds on the side of the ferry for a long time, and soon appeared rowing a small raft, beckoned, and called Li Mi to get them on board.

The small raft was not large, and it barely squeezed four people, but fortunately, Li Mi and they didn't have many things, just dry food and water and personal weapons.

The only thing that made Li Mi feel distressed was that the cripple asked for two taels of silver on this trip, but the locals didn't dare to approach Quliu Village, so the cripple was willing to give them a ride, and Li Mi could only eat coptis dumbly, and he recognized it.

"Look at the three of them are all noble-looking people, and it is indeed a bit too much to receive two taels of silver, but I can't help it, the children in the family are infected with a bad disease and urgently need money," the cripple chattered while rowing, "I didn't dare to take this job, Quliu Village is an ominous place, I take you outsiders to it is a bad conscience, but the child's medical money can't be delayed, plus you have this intention, I will follow." ”

Li Mi interrupted him with a wave of his hand, not wanting to listen to these nonsense words, and asked, "Apart from us, has anyone been to Quliu Village recently?" ”

He thought about it for a moment and roughly described, "For example, a young scholar with a book basket on his back, or a young man surnamed Cui? ”

Shen Luo also took out a portrait from the baggage, the material is a good beetle red sandalwood, the face of the portrait is like a crown of jade, the figure is slender, and there is a green jade pendant hanging from the waist, which is lifelike.

The cripple glanced at the portrait, held his waist and thought for a while, and then continued to row the raft, "There shouldn't be, this place in Quliu Village is very evil, if there are outsiders who break in there, we will all hear about it." Moreover, the place is extremely remote, and it is almost impossible for outsiders to find it silently. ”

Li Mi secretly wondered in his heart, Cui Qian disappeared from the ferry to the northwest, where there are 100,000 mountains, and the only place name that appears on the map is Quliu Village.

If Cui Chu hadn't gone to Quliu Village, would it be difficult for him to go into the mountains to cultivate immortals?

Li Mi shook his head, feeling that the information that Xing Cripple had was not comprehensive enough, and whether Cui Chu had been to Quliu Village or not, he had to enter the village to verify it.

"There have been too many rumors of haunting in Quliu Village over the years, such as seeing grimaces on the pillow, the red-clothed weirdos always appearing on the Taishi chair in the ancestral hall, and the heart-rending ghosts crying on Midnight Mountain, these have all been spread, and the locals have not dared to mention this place, as if the three words of Quliu Village will be tainted with ominous."

Hearing the cripple say this, Li Mi smiled and said, "Then you are very strong, it seems that you are not so afraid of this curse?" ”

The cripple sighed: "Alas, I'm also afraid, what's the use of being terrible, the child's evil disease has no money to treat, maybe he will give up one day." When I think of the child's life, I feel that my rotten life is nothing to be afraid of, the big deal is that the ghost is haunted and died there. ”

Cao Shaocheng said: "You can see it, and the more you live, the more you understand." I know a doctor of the rivers and lakes, known as Li Ghost Hand, if I want to be able to pick up my life from that ghost village this time, I have to introduce him to you. ”

The cripple arched his hand, "I will accept your good words first." But everyone doesn't need to panic so much, although Quliu Village has a curse, as long as they can leave within seven days, their lives are still fine. ”

"Seven days? Will this ghost still kill people in time? It looks pretty well-behaved. Cao Shaocheng joked.

"Yes, although I don't know what you have to do in Quliu Village, but listen to my advice, you must leave there before the seventh day, otherwise you will die in Huangquan!"

Li Mi just smiled, he didn't care about these words, he believed that there were ghosts in this Quliu Village, but it must be pretending to be a ghost.

What kind of secrets are buried in this village?