endless tricks

A big tree was planted in the yard of the reasoning agency. The tree was so thick that two adults could barely hug the tree with open arms.The branches are black and knotted, the rhizomes lie on the ground, and the dead leaves on the ground are like a carpet, golden and gorgeous.Yang Yuanyi guessed that the tree should be a hundred years old, and someone walked quietly behind him, and he soon noticed it.

The person who came was Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun's wrinkled face was always serious, but there was a soft light in his eyes.He said: "The president talked to me. It will be your 25th birthday in half a year. At that time, the property rights of the entire reasoning agency will be transferred to you."

Yang Yuan turned around: "In such a hurry?"

"There's still half a year left, so it's not urgent." Sun Lao put his hands behind his back and looked up at the big tree in front of him: "Do you know what strange news I am?"

Yang Yuanyi hesitated for a moment before saying: "Old tree?"

Hearing this, Old Sun smiled and said, "As expected of the writer, he is really smart." He also turned around and looked at Yang Yuanyi, the soft light in his eyes gradually became kind: "I am the one who grew up from an old tree." Strange news, the main body is the old tree in front of us. Throughout the ages, old things become fine. Ancient jade, pearls, and thousand-year-old trees can all become fine. Scholar's writing, old people's chats, boudoir chats... We have awareness in these gossip Human beings are not malicious, but more curious and yearning."

Mr. Sun caressed the trunk of the old tree, and he expressed his longing in his conversation: "It used to be a flat land, and people nearby came to enjoy the shade. Because I lived a long time, 300 years or 400 years?" He shook his head: "I don't really remember, But they thought that I would become a spirit after living for so long, so they enshrined me and respected me. Later, the times changed, people didn’t believe the old urban legends, ghosts, monsters and ghosts, and the legends were gradually forgotten, and we are also disappear slowly."

Yang Yuanyi quietly listened to Elder Sun's story about the strange past, the wind blew through the treetops, and the leaves rustled.The leaves of this old tree are still lush, even in the cold winter, it is still green.

"We, who are no longer recognized, will die even if it is a strange news." Sun Lao sat down and said with emotion: "We are not so afraid of death, but we only exist because we are recognized. If death is silent, it would be too much." It's desolate. The more melancholy the rumors are, the more they yearn for it, so the 'writer' was born."

Elder Sun looked at Yang Yuanyi gently: "Strange news is born of people, but you and the owner of the museum are born of strange news." He pointed to the direction of the fourth floor: "They treat you as their own child."

Whether it was the previous curator or the present Yang Yuanyi, they were all born because of strange news and unwillingness to pass away.Naturally, they will also be regarded as their children.

Some anecdotal reports regard Yang Yuanyi as a child, and they are delighted to see it.Some terrifying and strange news wanted to devour Yang Yuanyi and replace him.

Yang Yuanyi felt strange in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.He looked at the fourth floor, which he had never been to before. It was dark inside, hiding hundreds of unknown strange stories.They seem to have disappeared into legend and are not mentioned.They are urban legends from a bygone age, and those who remembered them are dead.

Yang Yuanyi muttered to himself, and unconsciously asked doubts: "What is a strange news?"

What is the strange news?What is anecdote?It seems that there is no difference, but in fact the focus of doubt has changed.

Old Sun said: "It's just a noun. They used to be called spirits and ghosts, but now they are collectively called strange stories."

Yang Yuanyi: "I thought all the rumors were horror stories, bloodthirsty and murderous, cruel and ruthless, taking pleasure in creating fear."

"What you said is not wrong. Horror urban legends have replaced the old ghost urban legends, with dark fear as the mainstay, and the strange stories that are born will not be good things."

Nowadays, anecdotes related to a large number of descriptions and records of horror, it is not that there are no benign and harmless anecdotes, but they are decreasing year by year, and they have been integrated into human social life.

Elder Sun said: "Compared to anecdotes, we are more willing to be distinguished - we are monsters that have become immortal, not horror anecdotes."

Yang Yuan looked up at the blue sky, and said after a while, "I understand."

Old Sun laughed a few times, stood up and patted the dust on his clothes: "I'll go to work first." After a moment of hesitation, he tentatively called, "Yuan Yuan?"

Yang Yuan tilted his head: "Huh?"

Old Sun smiled: "It's okay. It's cold outside, don't stay too long."

Yang Yuan nodded: "OK."

After Mr. Sun entered the house, the courtyard became quiet.The cold wind blows the big tree, making a 'rustling' sound.Yang Yuan looked down at the golden yellow leaves under his feet, and suddenly raised his head to look at the window on the third floor, where Wei Yanqing was standing there, smoking a cigarette with the cold wind blowing.

Yang Yuan put his toes on the ground, stood up suddenly, stepped on the window sill with hands and feet, climbed directly to the third floor and appeared in front of Wei Yanqing.Wei Yanqing stared at him for a while, threw away the cigarette, and embraced him with open arms.

Yang Yuanyi hugged Wei Yanqing's shoulder, leaned his head on it, and murmured: "There is too much information, I need to slow down."

Wei Yanqing narrowed his eyes, picked him up like a child, turned around and walked back to the room, and was not willing to let him go in the room.Yuan Yuan finally got close to him again, so naturally he couldn't miss the good opportunity.Caressing Yang Yuanyi's back, Wei Yanqing said, "Take your time, I'm always here."

Yang Yuanyi closed his eyes: "...I don't believe you."

Wei Yanqing half coaxed and half sincerely promised: "I apologize, and I will never lie to you again. I have never lied to you except for feigning death to conceal my identity."

Yang Yuan snorted and laughed twice: "You didn't bother to lie to me before."

Horror and strange news is not very paternal, and it is impossible to put Yang Yuanyi, who was still a cub at that time, in his eyes.It is not to look down upon, let alone to deceive.

Wei Yanqing climbed up the pole, and replied rather shamelessly: "It means that I take you seriously, otherwise I would bother to lie to you?"

Yang Yuanyi: "According to you, is it my fault?"

"Of course not, it's all my fault." Wei Yanqing immediately denied it, and took all the faults on herself.The hand caressing Yang Yuanyi's back slowly changed, and began to draw circles, reaching towards his waist.The extremely flexible waist has two beautifully shaped waist dimples.

With a 'pa' sound, Yang Yuan patted Wei Yanqing's unruly hand away, pushed his shoulder and looked down at him: "Don't mess around."

Wei Yanqing: "Husband and wife are obliged, it's not a mess."

Yang Yuanyi pinched his ears, leaned forward and warned seriously: "I still have the number, and I can customize tens of thousands of plaques at any time. If you dare to lie to me again, next time it will be 1." Tablet."

Thinking about the last time he split the four-day tablet, Wei Yanqing immediately assured him, saying: "Except for the suspended animation, I have no secrets."

Yang Yuanyi said coolly: "Don't set up a flag as a human being, Brother Wei."

In the past, Yang Yuanyi was coaxed by Wei Yanqing to call him brother, and then he was coaxed to call him husband. After he was 20 years old, he had a ghostly husband, so he only called him once or twice in his dreams.Now, Wei Yanqing still wants to coax her sweetheart to call her brother Qing, but Yang Yuanyi, who is already a social person, ignores the past indifferently.

"What's your name?"

Wei Yanqing: "Anything you want. You can call me whatever name you like."

"What's going on with the Wei family?"

Wei Yanqing: "At the beginning, I was trapped in the old house of the Wei family. When I was unstable, I needed a normal human identity. It happened that the youngest son of the Wei family had a new funeral, so I went to take the place. They may have noticed that they have not been close to me. Leave After that old house, I seldom go back. I don’t want to leave, and they don’t want to stay.”

"At that time, you were sick all day long, and it seemed that you would not live long. They were afraid of the pain of losing their loved ones, and they also wanted to follow your wishes, otherwise they would not have brought me into Wei's house to congratulate you."

Chongxi is not all about marriage. At the beginning, it is as a bonded brother, connected by fortune, to wash away illness.Later, they became child brides-in-law, and the brothers Jieqi became brothers.After all, the curator plotted against him, but it was not enough to push the child who had been raised for more than ten years into the fire pit, but Wei Yanqing made up his mind to bury this matter in his stomach until the day of death, and he would not say anything about it.

He also thought that if the urban legend about them spread again one day, maybe they could still be together.

As soon as Yang Yuan saw that he was in a daze, he knew that he must be planning some bad ideas, so he broke away from Wei Yanqing's embrace, stood up and stretched, and said: "I'll go downstairs to find Uncle Sun to see if there is any entrustment, let's go first." gone."

Wei Yanqing still had Yang Yuanyi's body temperature, and held his wrist with nostalgia: "There is no commission, and scary and strange news don't happen every day. It's useless if you go, and you will be blinded by Wang Xiaohong's bald head. Stay here and let's do something fun."

As soon as Yang Yuan looked at Wei Yanqing, he suddenly smiled: "I have been a widow for four years, and I am used to being single." He grabbed Wei Yanqing's right hand and pressed it, and said sincerely: "You can too." After speaking, he turned around and left.

Wei Yanqing shook his right hand twice, expressionless: "Sure enough, I'm still angry."

Isn't it insulting for a wife to use her right hand while she's around?

After a long while, Wei Yanqing sighed, and said quietly: "I knew I should split more tablets, so that Yuan Yuan can calm down."

As soon as Yang Yuan went to look for Mr. Sun, it happened that the other party was spreading a book on the table and reading it page by page with a magnifying glass.As he passed, he caught a glimpse of the scarlet pages and stopped, only to find colored pictures on them.Looking closer, the color picture is actually a photo, and the photo is an uncoded murder photo, bloody.

"What is this?" he asked curiously.

Elder Sun looked up, turned the page and said, "A pregnant woman who died at the hands of a horrible and strange story."

Yang Yuan paused when he pulled the stool away, and frowned: "What strange news is so cruel?" He actually dealt with pregnant women.

"It is named 'deformity' in the files." Mr. Sun picked up the presbyopic glasses on the table and put them on his eyes. He looked up and saw Wang Xiaohong and a few others were there. It killed 90 pregnant women in just two years. It has not been arrested so far, and its temperament is cruel and perverted. It usually sneaks into the homes of pregnant women, cuts open their abdomen, takes out the fetus, and then tramples the fetus to death. The pregnant woman also suffers from blood loss. Too many deaths."

Wang Xiaohong hugged his arms and shuddered: "Damn it! It's too perverted."

Yang Yuanyi: "Why is it named 'deformity'? Is it only picking on pregnant women?"

Elder Sun nodded: "Only pick pregnant women, and they always attack them when they are alone at home. This thing has amazing jumping ability, and it seems to be able to hide. It is very good at hiding traces, and it is also very good at escaping. I have been with it before. I had a face-to-face meeting, but I still ran away. As for the 'deformation', it was named by the curator. Because the pregnant women picked and killed by this monster had all the fetuses in their wombs were deformed."

Wang Xiaohong hugged the pillow and squeezed his bald head tremblingly: "No, it is a deformity itself, so it hates deformities all over the world, right?"

Elder Sun looked serious and said in a heavy tone, "Xiao Hong, wear a hat."

Wang Xiaohong was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Yang Yuan and the others, and found that they were all wearing anti-light sunglasses at some point.Suffering such great humiliation, she buried her head in the sofa in grief and anger: "You guys are too bullying."

Old Sun: "Don't bully Xiaohong." Then he said in a low voice, "Where did you buy the sunglasses? Buy one for me."

Yang Yuanyi: "I will send you a link then."

Old Sun: "Okay." Sitting upright, he coughed: "Okay, let's get back to the point. At the beginning, some people made the same guess as Xiaohong, but even if they faced each other head-on, no one had seen the monster. So it is still uncertain. Because if you hate 'deformed children', it should be together with other 'deformed children' who grow up. But it only picks pregnant women who are pregnant with 'deformed children', so there is no way to determine what it is."

Yang Yuanyi shrugged his shoulders: "It is possible that it is a 'deformed child' and hates those pregnant women who know it is a 'deformed child' and give birth to it—well, but in the 90s, B-ultrasound seems not to be popular. Pregnant women may I didn't even know I was carrying a defective child."

Strictly speaking, it is not that B-ultrasound is not popular, but that the idea of ​​B-ultrasound has not yet been fully popularized to cover all regions of the country.

Old Sun: "The reason why I suddenly found out this file from more than [-] years ago is because this monster haunted the south recently and killed three pregnant women in the same way."

Yang Yuanyi: "The news is not reported."

Elder Sun: "There is a similar organization over there that is handling this case, but they are helpless at the moment. Because they are cooperating with the police, they will find the reasoning agency when they report it there. I sound a little familiar, so I found the file to look. It really is 'deformity'."

As soon as Yang Yuan took over the bloody file, he flipped through a few pages and stopped on a photo.The photo is the ceiling of a rental house, and a large footprint appeared on the ceiling.

"Uncle Sun, are these footprints?"

Elder Sun glanced and said, "This monster has a strong jumping ability. Do you know which floor this rental house is on? The eighth floor. One bedroom and one living room. On the eighth floor, there is only one anti-theft door, and even the windows are installed Iron railings. The doors and windows are closed, and the pregnant woman died in the living room. The living room is facing the balcony. The balcony is not equipped with guardrails, but you can go in and out. There are three footprints, from the ceiling to the wall, and then to the balcony. Footprints. It means that this monster can go from the living room to the balcony within three steps, and on the eighth floor, if the jumping ability is amazing and you can find a good foothold, you can easily go up and down the stairs. It is not difficult for Weiwen."

Yang Yuanyi: "Where does it haunt?"

Old Sun: "Zitong County."

Yang Yuanyi: "When are we going?"

Old Sun: "Do you want to accept this commission?"

Yang Yuan put the back of his hand on his chin, staring at the photos on the table. "I have nothing to do recently, I just went out for a walk."

Old Sun: "Where's your partner?"

Yang Yuanyi: "President, I'll be with him."

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohong and the others looked up at the third floor, Wei Yanqing waved his hands, and smiled calmly and smugly.Wang Xiaohong chiseled the pillow, and sighed again: "Even the president can find a wife, why can't I?"

Wu Wei and Xia Lanlan glanced at Wang Xiaohong's bald head at the same time, and laughed coldly.With that shiny head, you can't sleep at night?

The matter was decided in this way, Yang Yuanyi and Wei Yanqing took over the commission of the 'deformity' case, and set off for Citong County three days later.

The author has something to say:

Citong County is actually Jinjiang, also known as Quan'an.Participating in the essay contest, in order not to play, I used Jinjiang's nickname instead.