Chapter 18: The Old Man's White Affair
Putting down the phone, my face was a little ugly, I was going to rest, but now I don't have this idea.
Xie Dacheng, I don't really want to touch him before I have the key evidence, so I can only go directly to Chen Zhi.
After finding out the information of the victim and finding out the home address, I was going to go directly to see it.
Passing by Lao Zhang's office, I looked inside, and he was sitting on a chair with his head tilted to the side, apparently asleep.
It is also true that everyone has been very nervous recently, and even I am a little tired from the continuous high-intensity investigation.
Without waking him up, I left the police gate alone at night.
Chen Zhi and his wife have not returned for many years, and this time they should have stayed in the old man's house.
I followed the address to the door of their house, not like a common residential building, but a compound courtyard.
Standing in front of the door and knocking on the door, after a long time an old woman came out in a coat to open the door, her body was a little scary, and her voice was hoarse and a little abnormal, and asked me who I was looking for.
I said that I was a policeman and came to find Chen Zhi and his family, and the old woman let me in, and pointed out Chen Zhi's house by the way.
Looking around, there were about five or six families living in this courtyard, and Chen Zhi's house was in the northernmost corner, and the house was much smaller than the other ones.
From the outside of the house, it was pitch black, it should be that there was no light, I don't know if they were asleep, I knocked on the door, and after a long time I didn't hear anything from inside.
The old woman who opened the door for me had been standing in front of her door and looking at me, and the pale yellow light came from the room, and her thin figure made people look a little creepy.
I went over to ask her if she knew where Chen Zhi had gone, she just stared at me and shook her head, a cold wind blew, and I even felt her body being shaken by the wind, crumbling, as if she was going to fall down at any moment.
Looking at her thin shadow, I suddenly thought of the dark shadow.
The figure that existed in front of me was obviously so illusory and unreal, the difference was that the old woman in front of me was about to shrink into a ball, and the black shadow was tall and not like a normal person.
I told her to hurry back to her room and sleep, so that she didn't catch a cold, and since they weren't at home, I would come back tomorrow.
The old woman did not respond to me, but stared at me, she was very old, but her eyes were not cloudy like ordinary old people, but very clear.
She kept staring at me, and I felt a little hairy in my heart until I walked out of the courtyard gate, and I could feel her gaze coming from behind.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I heard the sound of the door closing behind me, I couldn't understand the meaning in her eyes, as if she wanted to see through me, so that I couldn't forget her eyes for a long time.
Lying on the bed in the dormitory, I always think of her eyes, and when I close my eyes, I can feel her strange eyes appear in front of me.
I slept all night, and when the alarm clock woke me up, I found that I had a terrible headache.
I washed my face with cold water, trying to sober myself up, but it turned out to be in vain.
I just wanted to change into my uniform, and I thought that I would go to find Chen Zhi later, so I put on civilian clothes.
When I came to the office, Huang Na was coming in from outside, holding a cup of soy milk in her hand, and when she saw that I was not wearing a uniform, she asked me if I was going.
I told Huang Na that I was going to go to Chen Zhi's house to have a look, and she said that there was nothing to do today and that she would follow me over to have a look.
I didn't refuse, and went to Lao Zhang's office to take a look, and he seemed to have slept in the office all night, stretching his waist, with a tired face.
I was going to let Lao Zhang rest for a day, but today I went by myself, but he waved his hand and refused, saying that he was not so old and still had some strength.
Smiling, I stopped talking.
When I came to the compound, I found that the courtyard was already full of wreaths, incense candles, and several long bamboo poles were inserted around the courtyard, and white cloth was put on, which caused the light in the courtyard to be much weaker than the outside, and it was full of people and was busy.
I remember when I came here last night, there were no of these things in the courtyard at all, and although the light was not very bright, they were still very conspicuous, and I could see them at a glance.
It seems that it should be doing white things for the old man, I was surprised how these things suddenly filled the compound, and I told Lao Zhang and Huang Na, and they also expressed a certain degree of surprise.
One after another, people came to participate, carrying wreaths and red envelopes. Wu Li greeted the guests at the door, and when she saw us coming, she greeted us.
I was a little embarrassed, everyone had more or less prepared something, but our group came empty-handed, and many people looked at us, probably thinking it was a little strange.
Wu Li didn't care, she seemed to be a little excited when she saw our arrival, and she didn't mention the matter of solving the case, she just beckoned us to sit down in the courtyard.
Chen Zhi was busy setting up tables, chairs and benches on the side, and when he saw me, his face changed slightly, and he quickly returned to normal, came over to say hello and continued to be busy.
I found a corner on the very edge and sat down, looking at the crowd walking around the courtyard, the old man should have had a good popularity and prestige before his death, and almost everyone here had a sad face, and was very sorry for the old man's death.
Soon the people who had come to participate in the white ceremony arrived, and the whole courtyard was full of people, and they couldn't hear each other's voices in a noisy.
At this time, a thin figure wearing a Taoist robe walked up to the stage, and the voice below quickly fell silent.
I looked over and found that the person presiding over the ceremony on the stage was actually the old woman I saw last night, she was wearing a robe that didn't fit well, and she was trying to stand up straight, but she was still very rickety.
The old woman's steps on stage were very slow, moving step by step, as if she was stepping on the hearts of everyone in the audience.
It took a long time for her to slowly walk to the stage, as if with a lot of strength, standing on the table on the stage and panting.
I don't know why she was asked to preside over this white affair, but she turned her head to look in my direction.
There were very few people sitting in my direction, and there were only three of us at the table we were sitting in, so I was pretty sure she must be watching me.
Her eyes were still so scary, and she suddenly turned her head to scare me into a clever way, Huang Na reached out and tugged at my cuffs, I realized that I was a little out of shape, and quickly returned to normal.
The old woman turned her head and began to preside over the ceremony, but at this time, she was completely tired, and her movement of wielding the bamboo sword was very dexterous, which was similar to her before.
I watched with great interest as she waved her words on the stage, the bamboo sword in her hand lit with a paper talisman, and the firelight imprinted her figure on the white cloth behind her.
I think it's a little funny, the shadow of a thin person is stretched slender, I was looking at her shadow, but suddenly I saw that behind the cloth, there seemed to be a person.