It's haunted. The village party secretary was very secretive when he mentioned his parents and Touyun. And the quarrel that the young man mentioned, there must be a connection between them.

After returning to the village, the young man called his father and learned that his father had been sent to the town hospital because of high blood pressure. The young man did not even have time to eat, and got on a tricycle to go see his father.

When Nie Zheng saw this, she also prepared to follow. The young man hesitated a little, but still took her with him.

On the way, the two did not communicate much. It was getting dark, and the sound of dogs barking could be heard everywhere. There was no asphalt road in the village, only dirt roads paved with yellow mud and stones. There were no street lights, and the tricycle was bumping and shaking, which was enough to make Nie Zheng's stomach upset. After finally driving to the town, Nie Zheng finally took a breath and followed the young man to the ward. Seeing his father lying on the bed with an IV drip, Nie Zheng walked up and greeted the old man.

When the other party heard that he was Touyun's man, his face changed immediately, as if... he was shocked to see someone who should have been dead standing alive in front of him.

Nie Zheng prepared several speeches in her mind, but none of them worked. She decided to get straight to the point. She asked the old man, "More than a decade ago, a couple came to Huanshan to see the incense. You led them there, right? That couple was the founder of Touyun."

The old man's mouth twitched, and his eyes became cloudy. He seemed to be lost in thought. It was normal for his memory to decline at an old age. He was thinking about what happened more than ten years ago. Everything that happened in Yutou Village during that period was originally sealed deep in his heart as a nightmare.

"I don't remember anything. What is Touyun? I'm old, and the things that happened in the past have long been scattered in my mind like a gust of wind."

Nie Zheng looked at the frail old man in front of her and knew that he was different from the young man. She had something on her mind but was able to hide it. She was very cunning. She was just asked this way and would never answer any of the questions. Nie Zheng had no way to deal with him.

On the way back, she received a call from Chong Jianzhi. She was feeling a little depressed and told him everything that happened in Yutou Village.

"Your feeling is not groundless." Chong Jianzhi gave her confidence, "Just because my parents did not cooperate with Yutou Village, there must be something else going on with this batch of agarwood in the world."

"But now it's just our inference, they won't say anything."

Chong Jianzhi thought for a moment and said, "There is someone I can ask."

Chong Jianzhi once again found the partner who was suffering from kidney failure and had founded Touyun with his parents.

The other person was lying on the hospital bed, reminiscing about the past with him: "Speaking of this, I do have some memories. At that time, Brother Yuanxing and his wife went to Huanshan to look at agarwood. They looked twice in total. After the first visit, they were very happy and said that the agarwood there was of very good quality, and that it was insect-leaked agarwood... The second time they went, they were to discuss cooperation matters. It seemed that something went wrong. Brother Yuanxing and his wife came back with injuries on their bodies. They looked solemn and seemed to be worried. At that time, the news in Yutou Village came out. I wonder if you young people have any impression of it."

"Is Yutou Village haunted?"

"Yes, it is haunted. The mountains around here are beautiful and there are many tourists who go there. There were also several disappearances at that time. Your parents came back from Yutou Village and told me about it. They said that the so-called hauntings were all nonsense and the disappearances were just staged by themselves."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know the details, but they should have called the police about this. You can check the police record!"

Chong Jianzhi was inspired and immediately contacted Richard to check the police report records at the police station where his parents reported the case. Such report records will be kept forever. Sure enough, Richard replied quickly and told Chong Jianzhi that his parents reported to the police that the missing tourists in Yutou Village were staged by the villagers.

"In the transcript, your father and mother said that Yutou Village had become a place for hired murders. Some people paid villagers to kill people. The tourists who disappeared inexplicably in the village were actually silenced... And the so-called ghost news was just an excuse for the inexplicable disappearance of those tourists."

"and then?"

"I investigated the origins of the villagers in Yutou Village and found that things were not that simple. This village was established before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Many villagers in the village are veterans who escaped from Cambodia. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they obtained legal status and stayed here to get married, have children, and reproduce."

"If that's the case, then what my parents said might not be groundless." Feeling increasingly uneasy, he continued to ask, "What was the outcome of the case?"

"It was left unresolved. Half a month after your parents reported the case, they got into a car accident... The case was dropped immediately afterwards."

"Book me a ticket to Yutou Village, the sooner the better."

Chong Jianzhi had almost pieced together the complete context of the matter. What he was most worried about now was Nie Zheng. Yutou Village had lived a peaceful life for more than ten years and seemed to have started over. However, she was under the banner of Touyun, and even if she was unaware of it, she would stir up a storm again.

Those villagers who wanted to live a peaceful life recalled the crimes they committed more than ten years ago because of Nie Zheng's arrival.

It would be fine if Nie Zheng stopped asking questions, but she insisted on clinging to every clue. If she continued like this, she would definitely be in danger.

After getting on the bus to Yutou Village, he contacted Nie Zheng and told her everything he had investigated.

Nie Zheng felt a chill down her spine and her scalp tingled. She had never imagined that such a peaceful village was actually full of hidden dangers.

"It was Chong Yixing and his gang who wanted to hire someone to kill someone. During that time, my parents often had accidents, both big and small. It was definitely not a coincidence. Chong Yixing wanted to take advantage of my parents coming here to see the incense and let the villagers of Yutou Village kill them. In the end, my parents would become one of those tourists who disappeared inexplicably in the news. The day they entered Huanshan to see the incense was the best opportunity, but by some strange mistake, my parents escaped by luck and even left the village and returned to Ningjiang safely." She slowly pieced together the fragments of the story, "Isn't that right?"

The story she reconstructed was almost identical to Chong Jianzhi's reasoning. This was not a good time to brag about one's intelligence. Chong Jianzhi was already worried. He was extremely worried that Nie Zheng might encounter an accident while he was rushing to Yutou Village.

"Be careful." He couldn't help but remind her, and before hanging up the phone, he gently said to Nie Zheng, "Wait for me."

The late night was the worst. Nie Zheng locked the door of her room from the inside. She lay on the bed, with cold sweat oozing from her back. Although the doors and windows were closed, she still felt unsafe.

In the darkness, she always felt that there were eyes watching her silently.

The signal of the bus Chong Jianzhi was riding on became extremely poor while driving on the mountain road. He had to lose contact with Nie Zheng for a short time. The screen of her mobile phone was flickering, and she checked the time almost every few minutes, always feeling that time was passing too slowly, and seconds passed by.

Suddenly, there was another rustling noise under the bed. Nie Zheng thought it was a mouse again. There were so many mice here that she was used to it. She stood up and tried to pick up the broom next to the cabinet.

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