In the autumn rain, in the Shizhaizi Township Police Station, the policeman Hu Yinfeng was lying in the bedroom, listening to the sound of the raindrops crackling on the window glass, looking at the dark night sky outside, why couldn't he sleep, so he simply sat up and was in a daze on the bed.

There is a power outage again, nothing is normal in this place, even the electricity is often stopped without saying hello, generally as long as it is windy and rainy, the electricity is not normal, either there is a problem with the power pole here, or there is a short circuit caused by the wind blowing down the tree to the wire. The entire police station was on duty with a few members of the joint defense team, and Director Zhang returned to the city in the afternoon, saying that he was going to attend a meeting tomorrow, so that Hu Yinfeng could keep an eye on the station. ]

In fact, Hu Yinfeng knew in his heart that this was an excuse, the director just wanted to go home to accompany his wife and children, so he was left alone on duty in the unit. Fortunately, there are few people in Shizhaizi Township, and there are not many police officers in normal times, so Hu Yinfeng can deal with it alone with a few joint defense team members.

Since graduating from the police academy a few months ago and being assigned to the Shizhaizi police station, the most remote area in Yichuan County, Hu Yinfeng has slowly adapted to the boredom, tedium and loneliness here.

It rained overnight, and the electricity went off overnight. Hu Yinfeng sat on the bed in a daze in his heart, and did not fall asleep until more than two o'clock in the morning, and after sleeping for less than three hours, Hu Yinfeng was awakened by a knock on the door.

"Little Tiger, Little Tiger, get up quickly, someone called the police, saying that the sheep was stolen. Outside the door, there was the shouting of Lao Li in the duty room of the police station.

Hu Yinfeng is more easy-going, young and young, the members of the unit have a good relationship with him, although everyone is a temporary worker, now only Hu Yinfeng is formal, but no one takes Hu Yinfeng as a leader, and Hu Yinfeng never behaves, so it has become a habit to call him "Little Tiger" or call him by his name.

Lao Li is a veteran of the police station, has been working for almost 20 years, and is almost 50 years old this year.

Hu Yingfeng got up from the bed, quickly put on his police uniform, washed his face indiscriminately, asked about the situation, and then took two team members and drove the unit's broken "dawn" towards Douweizi Village, where the accident occurred.

By the time the police car arrived at the Douweizi Village Committee, it was almost an hour later. Hu Yinfeng didn't dare to delay, and he couldn't take care of eating, so he took two team members, Liu Xiang and Zhou Kuan, to hurriedly find Dou Gaoshan, director of the Dou Weizi Village Committee, who called the police, and asked what was going on.

Dou Gaoshan, male, 40 years old, tall figure, purple-red face, very sturdy, honest and resolute, at first glance is a typical northern man. Dou Gaoshan used to be a soldier in the army for several years, and after being demobilized and transferred, he served as a cadre in the village, and is now the director of Dou Weizi Village. Hu Yinfeng has met Director Dou a few times, and he is an acquaintance.

As soon as Dou Gaoshan saw that Hu Yinfeng had brought people here, he hurriedly and enthusiastically welcomed the three of them to the village committee and introduced the original situation. It turned out that this morning, before dawn, Li Dameng from Douweizi Village hurriedly found Director Dou and said that his mother's two goats were stolen last night.

Dou Weizi has few people, the villagers live a very hard life, basically no one can afford to install a telephone, and the villagers have any important things to go to the village committee to borrow the only phone in the village to report the news, so Li Dameng found Director Dou.

Li Dameng was still in the village committee at this time, and he was waiting for the police to handle the case, so Dou Gaoshan called Li Dameng over by the way and asked him to explain the incident to Hu Yinfeng and others in detail.

Hu Yinfeng looked at Li Dameng in front of him, and couldn't help frowning slightly, this Li Dameng looks far from his name, neither tall nor mighty, and looks like he is in his early thirties, but he is thin and withered, his face looks like an ape, black and not slippery, and he is not outstanding. In particular, Li Dameng is less than 1.6 meters tall and is a three-inch ding, which is even more eye-catching among the generally tall northern men. There is only a pair of big triangular eyes, and the beads of the eyes are scattered, which makes this person quite shrewd.

Hu Yinfeng settled down and asked Li Dameng what was going on.

Li Dameng said that he and his mother do not live together, because of the heavy rain last night, worried about the safety of his mother, early in the morning to his mother's residence to see the situation, who knows that just into the fence yard, but found that the two goats under the sheep shed are missing, surprised, knocked on the door of the mother's room and asked, the mother also said that I don't know, last night was fine, then I knew that the goat was stolen, so I found the village committee to report to the police, the situation is like this.

Hu Yinfeng couldn't ask anything if he asked, so he made a report to Li Dameng, and then proposed to go to the scene of the crime at Li Dameng's mother's house.

Director Dou saw that it was not early, and said that Li Dameng's mother's house was several miles away from the village committee, and she lived on the mountainside of a small mountain, and it would take a lot of time to walk there, otherwise she would have eaten breakfast and then went.

Hu Yinfeng smiled and said: "Don't bother, I just bought some breakfast on the way, just take it with you." ”

Dou Gaoshan had no choice but to take Hu Yinfeng and others towards Li Dameng's mother's house. When he walked out of the courtyard of the village committee, Director Dou turned around and wanted to beckon Li Dameng to go with him, but found that Li Dameng, the kid, had already left, saying that he would go home for breakfast first, and then go to his mother's house when he was finished. Director Dou couldn't help sighing, didn't say anything, and walked on foot with Hu Yinfeng and the others to Li Dameng's mother's residence. Because there are sheep intestine trails all the way, plus it rained last night, it was very muddy, and you can't drive at all, so everyone can only walk.

Director Dou led the way in front, and while walking, he kept introducing: "Hey, Comrade Hu, this old lady who lost her sheep is not an ordinary person in our place, she is a famous eye-opening mother-in-law in our ten miles and eight villages." ”

Hu Yinfeng was stunned when he heard it, and he was quite surprised. "Eye-opening mother-in-law" is a kind of witch with a unique identity in the countryside in the past, who specially opened the eyes of paper such as paper cow paper, horse paper and paper people used to burn paper for the dead.

It is said that as long as these items are alive, they must go through the "eye-opening mother-in-law" to open their eyes, and then burn them, so that these things can enter the underworld with the soul of the deceased and be used by the deceased. If you don't open your eyes and open your eyes, even if these things are burned, you can't go to another world with the souls of the dead, and the feelings of filial piety and mourning of the living will be in vain.

Such superstitious practices, which used to be prevalent in some places, are now rare. Hu Yinfeng was born in the countryside, and when he was a child, he saw a "mother-in-law who opened her eyes" to open her eyes to things like paper horses and paper cows, so she was no stranger. It's just that I heard that Li Dameng's mother is also an eye-opening mother-in-law, and I was a little surprised.

Although Director Dou is a man with a big waist and a thick waist, he has some gossip when he speaks, and he is obviously very familiar with the customs and customs of this area. He couldn't help but feel a little proud when he saw that Hu Yinfeng was surprised, and continued: "It is said that I am also a cadre trained by the party for many years, and I should not believe in this kind of feudal superstitious activities, let alone make propaganda for feudal superstition. However, ** said, people should seek truth from facts. Although this old lady is an open-eyed mother-in-law, she is very mysterious, and she has done several amazing things in the past. ”

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