Chapter 49: The Warm Resort (21)
At this point, the old man had already burst into tears.
"I didn't expect it...... I didn't expect ...... That dog-like Li Gongzi...... Unexpectedly...... It turned out to be ......"
"Unexpectedly...... forcibly took my daughter's innocence...... Woowoowoooo......oo O my poor daughter...... Woowoowoo...... Not only was he taken away from his innocence, but he was thrown into the lake......"
"Woo woo woo...... O my wretched daughter...... O my wretched daughter! Knowing it early, knowing it early...... I shouldn't have ...... in the first place. You should not indulge the ways of the beasts...... Woowoowoooooooo......oo
At this point in the story, the truth has basically come out, and the old man has long been in tears. Everyone was silent, Wang Xinru looked at the roll paper on the table, so she tore a few rolls and handed them to the old man.
"Old man, people can't be resurrected after death, please mourn and change." Wang Xinru patted him on the back and whispered comfortingly.
Everyone present actually knew very well in their hearts that he was just an ordinary country man who had never seen much of the world, and he was afraid of a hard life. He indulged in the bad behavior of that Li Gongzi, and naturally he had his selfish intentions: first, he really wanted his daughter to climb the high branches, so that she would live a prosperous life and worry-free food and clothing; The second is that he himself wants to rely on his daughter to curry favor with this Li Gongzi, so that they, the "mother's family", can one day go out of the mountains and go to the city to live a good life.
He is hateful, but also pitiful. Judging from the environment in which he lives now, the so-called compensation did not improve his life, but he ended up without a wife and daughters, and finally ended up with no personal property and a broken family.
It's just that the most pitiful and innocent person in this story is the old man's daughter who is not protected by the family and has no ability to resist.
Thinking of this, Jin Haiping spoke: "So...... How did you find out that your daughter was killed? What happened to the Li Gongzi who killed your daughter? ”
"I ...... I started ...... I don't know about it......" The old man replied with a sobbing voice when he heard Jin Haiping's question. He wrung the last bit of snot out of the paper, and then took a sip of the water that had become warm, calmed down a little, and then continued:
"That night, before my daughter came back, I had a vague feeling that something was wrong...... In the past, she was the most sensible and never came home after dark.
I was a little worried about her safety, so I went to the village chief's house to inquire about the Li Gongzi who had been pestering my daughter for the past few days, but Li Gongzi told me that he hadn't seen my daughter at all today......"
"Now that I think about it, how could I be so stupid at that time...... Then Li Gongzi ran to my house every day tomorrow, how could it be that he didn't come that day, and my daughter just didn't come home that day......"
"When I got home, my wife asked me worriedly where my daughter was. I shook my head and waited with my wife until late at night...... It was late at night, and I finally couldn't let go of worrying about my daughter, so I went out alone to look for it, but after looking around, I couldn't see any trace of my daughter......"
"Harm...... Since then...... My daughter is gone...... The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was wrong, and I also wanted to ask that Li Gongzi for an explanation. But since that day, Li Gongzi has never come to my house again...... I wanted to take the initiative to find him, but he was very protected by a few bodyguards, and I was just an old man in the countryside, so I was not qualified to approach him at all......"
"I also mobilized the villagers to protest with me, but those people only saw the money given to them by the developer, and it was clear that my daughter's disappearance had been seen by the whole village, but no one had come to her aid!!"
"Final...... It's not going to be over......"
Hearing this, Yun Lan couldn't help frowning, and asked out loud: "What you said is just a foreshadowing of the previous paragraph. What we really want to know is the curse on you, where your daughter was killed, and ...... What happened after the resort was built. ”
"This ......" the old man was stunned for a moment, and his face became a little incredulous, "You, you...... You even know the curse? ”
"Of course we do." Yun Lan replied lightly.
The expression on the old man's face suddenly became a little unpredictable, and he was about to open his mouth, but Jin Haiping spoke first:
"Old man, can I take the liberty of asking you what your daughter's name is?"
"My daughter...... My surname is Zhang, and my daughter's name is Zhang Cailan. Old Man Zhang replied slowly, but when everyone heard this name, they all gasped. So he was a little confused, and asked, "Huh?" What's wrong? The name...... Is there something wrong? ”
"Elder Zhang, this ring, I think it should have some connection with your daughter." Yun Lan took out the simple silver ring from her pocket, stepped forward a few steps, and handed it to Old Man Zhang.
Old man Zhang's eyes widened instantly after he touched this silver ring. He quickly picked up the ring and looked at the inside of the ring, and when he saw the familiar word "lamp", he touched it twice in disbelief, and then confirmed that the word was really engraved there.
He stood up abruptly and looked at Yun Lan in disbelief: "You...... Aunt, girl, this ring, you, you, you...... Where did it come from!? ”
"It'...... It's your daughter's relic, right? Yun Lan was not in a hurry, and answered the question.
"Yes, yes! I'm pretty sure of it! It's my daughter's relic! The old man shouted excitedly. Then, as if he had thought of something again, his face turned pale in an instant, and at last he took two steps back sharply, and said in a trembling voice: "Girl! You...... Your ring...... Where did ...... come from? Wrong...... Wrong! You guys...... Who the hell is it!? ”
"Old man, what's going on? We're not bad guys, don't get excited, let's talk about something slowly. Xu Wenlong saw the sudden change in the situation, and hurriedly stood between the two to play a round. Seeing this, Yun Lan's eyes narrowed slightly.
"This was given to me by an old woman at the ticket office when we went to the 'Qianhu Playground'." Yun Lan spoke slowly, and saw that the old man's body shook suddenly with what she said, and the corners of her mouth showed an imperceptible arc, "What...... If I'm not mistaken...... That old woman should be your wife, right? ”
"You, you...... No...... How can it be...... My wife passed away years ago! She loves her daughter very much, and this ring is buried with her...... You even said......"
"How could it not be? Your daughter was violated and killed, and the resentful can curse all the accomplices of your village, why can't your wife appear in the form of a soul and hand us this important token to save her painful daughter from the sea of suffering? Yun Lan's words became more and more harsh, and the tone became more and more cold, and the old man Zhang in front of him was speechless for a while, and could only be stunned on the spot.
Perhaps having a similar experience with Zhang Caideng, the balance in Yun Lan's heart has turned to the source of Zhang Caideng's death.
"What? Speechless? Yun Lan let out a sneer, and Jin Haiping realized that she was not in the right mood and tried to calm her down. But Yun Lan ignored it at all, and continued to be aggressive: "When I was telling the story, I picked myself very cleanly, and kept saying that it was for the good of my daughter, but have you asked your daughter's wishes!" Does she want to go to town! Does she want to get married! After all, it's all your own selfishness! It's just that you can't do it yourself, so you let your daughter bear all this!! ”
The more Yun Lan spoke, the more excited she became, and finally she even yelled. For a while, everyone was frightened by her high-pitched emotions, and no one dared to speak.
Yun Lan's tears were already rolling in her eyes along with the condemnation of Old Man Zhang. Blackie rubbed her thighs lightly and whined softly. At this time, she also realized that she didn't control her emotions well, so she took a deep breath, forcibly held back the tears in her eyes, organized the words in her heart, and then said in a slow tone: "Okay, let's talk about what happened after that." ”
Old man Zhang's lips squirmed, and the look of loneliness and shame on his face had already overflowed because of Yun Lan's blatant condemnation just now: "After that...... Because of us, the largest lake is this 'Qian Lake'. Everyone eats it with other and has been good before. Afterward...... It's been five or six months since my daughter died...... When we dream at night, we can always dream of some filthy or drowning and suffocating dreams. At first, everyone didn't pay attention to it, until later, when two workers who had come to build the resort drowned in the Qianhu Lake, everyone really panicked. ”
"The dream felt real and desperate...... Even me...... I've dreamed of ...... too," said the old man, the corners of his eyes getting moister, "Since then...... My wife and I, or the whole village, know how my daughter died...... The developer's son, Li Gongzi, was already timid and afraid, but when he saw that the town was spreading the news about my daughter, he was so weak that he fled back to the city overnight. ”
"But I heard that on the night of Li Gongzi's return, it suddenly rained heavily, and the wheels slipped, so the whole car fell down the mountain......
Since then, the resort has been under construction, but several rituals have been done and more workers have been brought in to speed up the process, and I have never seen the Li Gongzi again. ”
"Now...... Guys don't have nightmares all the time anymore. But slowly, everyone gradually found that everyone's movements were getting slower and slower, and their bodies were getting heavier and heavier. Even if he is the strongest young man in the village, no matter how hard he tries to run forward, he can no longer want to run fast. ”
"Time passed slowly, the resort was built, but we, the villagers, were moving more and more slowly. The resort is newly opened, and some of the attractions in the village are also taken care of. So the next day, there were several waves of people from the city who came to enjoy life for vacation. ”
But something even weirder and bizarre happened...... Just after the third day of our safe and uneventful stay, all the tourists died in the resort that night! The method of death is very uniform, and it is all disembowelment...... At the same time, some employees of the resort died......"
"We were all terrified when we learned the bad news! I think it must be because my daughter's grievances are too big and I hate these foreign tourists, so I killed them all......"
Speaking of this, Old Man Zhang's eyes and tone revealed unconcealable fear.