shepherd

A strange fragrance that seems to be absent penetrated into my nose, and the younger brother lowered his voice and looked dignified:

"Let's call the police, brother, the evidence is here, this is the toe!"

I stared at the dead branch-like toe and shook my head:

"Let me ask you, how many fingers does a person have?"

"Ten roots, why are you asking this?" The younger brother didn't know why.

"Ten, ten fingers, ten toes, although the toes also have fingerprints, but in the public security system, they should not be recorded, and this thing has obviously been soaked for a long time, and the fragrance has soaked in, just like Like a pickle, even if it’s a finger, the fingerprints can’t be extracted, and it’s definitely been specially processed.”

"What special treatment?"

"We burned something last time, did you water it after the burning?"

"Yeah, it's all a mess, and I feel sick when I handle it."

"That's right, the heat we burn can burn bones? A box of ashes can be swept out after the crematorium is finished, and the chicken beak just turns white and black. What about the bone in the finger? Did you see it?"

The younger brother recalled it for a while, then nodded:

"It seems that there are indeed no bones, so it will be no problem to extract DNA from this tissue."

"It's no problem. The current technical means can extract the DNA, but it will take a certain amount of time. We called the police, and the police came to investigate. The people in the factory must be interrogated one by one. Manager Wang and the others will know that their affairs have been exposed. Putting these things together, there is no direct evidence at all to prove who put them there. As I said just now, there are ten fingers and ten toes. If they really want to summon that faun, the same craftsmanship, just wait. One year until next year's Hungry Ghost Festival, even if we tell all these facts, will anyone really believe it?

Moreover, Manager Wang knows that we are the ones who called the police, so he will definitely be on guard against us secretly. If he knows that we are investigating this matter secretly, we have no excuse to go back early, and we have to stay here. Can we have good fruit to eat? "

The younger brother gave a "tsk", sighed heavily, took out his mobile phone and took a picture, as evidence for preservation, raised his head and said:

"Brother, let's do this. These things are still burned like last time, but do you remember where the two bags were put? Let's put stones or something else in them and put them back where they were, so that they won't see them later. Someone moved their hands and feet." I broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, my junior brother was right, if Manager Wang and the others want to go back and check, they will definitely find that the bags on the roof and next to the feed warehouse are gone. It was all for nothing.Thinking of this, I hurriedly greeted my younger brother to prepare for work, and my younger brother took an unwanted stainless steel basin from another room:

"Let's not go down and burn it, go to the toilet to burn it, and flush it away when it's over."

"Good idea, do it!"

My junior brother and I were in the toilet and watched the things in the stainless steel basin burning and crackling. The junior brother took some water and poured it into the basin. The embers were extinguished. I poured the water in the basin carefully and looked at the basin. The burnt beak of the chicken in the bag, the hair and the toe were completely burnt, and there was still no bone left. The person who put the bag removed the bones of the limbs, which really made the hair stand on end.In the end, there was still a stone left in the basin, and the cow's hooves drawn on it could not be seen clearly. I took the stone out and washed it again, dried it and put it back in the bag. Put two bags into them to make them look like they were full of things, and after making sure no one saw them, they put them back to their original positions on the roof and the feed warehouse, and nothing seemed to have happened.It was late at night after all this was done, so the two of us went to bed and waited until the next day to find a way to continue the investigation.

Early the next morning, accompanied by the familiar morning reading broadcast, my junior and I woke up at the same time. Unexpectedly, the noise downstairs was even better than the loudspeaker broadcast.Just took a look downstairs, my junior brother and I immediately turned our heads and rushed downstairs, came to the weighbridge, surrounded by a large group of people, talking in a hurry, accountant Chen was on the phone, turned Stamping his feet in a circle, he said:

"Yes, yes, Mr. Ma, we will update the monitoring equipment in the factory immediately, and there will never be a next time."

Accountant Chen hung up the phone, saw me and my younger brother, nodded his head as a greeting, then raised his finger to the weighbridge, and said:

"Two ends, two ends this time, tens of thousands of dollars are gone."

Following the direction that Accountant Chen pointed, my junior brother and I both saw two calves placed on the weighbridge. Same as last time, the cowhide was completely stripped off and turned over to cover the carcass. The difference was that, The last time the meat on the cow's head was removed, this time, the meat on the limbs of a cow was removed, the four legs were white and pink, and the other calf looked quite It is complete, but the tail is like a red chain, like a duck neck that wants to be chewed by someone, section by section, without any flesh on it.This method is impossible for ordinary veterinarians to do without spending hours. It is too delicate, as if they have never grown on them, and they are born with a skeleton.

My junior brother and I were speechless in surprise. I looked around. Zhao Cong and Zhang Yi were not there. It should be a routine inspection in the cattle farm. Accountant Chen ordered the workers in the factory to dispose of the corpse. Knowing who did it, and the appearance was really unacceptable, no one dared to share the rest of the calf and eat it, so several workers in the factory discussed how to deal with the two corpses, and the crowd watching People also gradually dispersed.Accountant Chen turned around and walked to the office, staggering and absent-minded, the younger brother stopped her:

"Sister Chen, I want to ask you something."

"Come to the office, it's air-conditioned."

My junior and I followed and entered Accountant Chen's office. After a short silence, the junior said:

"Sister Chen, you still can't see anything on the monitor?"

"Yes, just like last time, Mr. Ma asked me to contact me to reinstall the surveillance system. There are too many dead spots in the old surveillance system."

"Do you have the floor plan of our factory? Our instructor said he wanted to ask if there is any floor plan in the factory. We can use it as a case study of cattle farm construction during lectures." Although I know that the instructor does not have this requirement, I don't know what the junior brother wants the floor plan for. But I nodded in agreement.

Accountant Chen said yes, and then took out the construction drawings of Fuyuan Niuye. The younger brother thanked him and took out his mobile phone to take a few pictures, and then gave me a wink, which means: Don't you say something?

I coughed and cleared my throat, but my voice was still hoarse when I opened my mouth. I hadn’t brushed my teeth after getting up, and I hadn’t opened my throat. I cleared my throat again:

"Ahem, Sister Chen, I already have a cow's head, cow's legs, and cow's tail. Does it have anything to do with "Four Deaths and One Life"?"

Seeing that I was so straightforward, accountant Chen didn't have any psychological construction for a while, and his eyes were wide open. He picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip. His hands trembled a little. After I caught her nervousness, I added:

"Xiao Wu told us."

Accountant Chen swallowed the water in his mouth and spoke slowly:

"Worshiping the God of the Bull," Accountant Chen paused, and then said: "Four deaths and one life" is what is required to worship the God of the Bull, but I really don't know what it is, I only know that four dead objects and one Living creatures, these three calves do correspond to the cow's head, cow's legs and oxtail, but if it is the five parts of the cow, the remaining two are not clear, and I don't see that this is related to the "four dead" Lifetime' what's the connection. "

I didn't get any new information. I was a little disappointed. It seems that Accountant Chen knew very little. When he came out of the office, Accountant Chen said to us:

"I think it's someone from the factory."

My junior brother and I turned our heads and nodded slightly. Accountant Chen wanted to say something more, but in the end he didn't say anything.After feeding the cows and returning to the house, I stood still and thought for a while, picked up the electric kettle and went to the faucet outside to get some water, and then sat and waited for it to boil. My junior saw my series of operations in the room. He cares about me very much:

"Brother, are you begging madly, why don't you let this drink?"

"I have a bold idea." I ignored him.

"Put away your bold ideas first, and take a look at what I just discovered." The younger brother pointed to the enlarged factory floor plan on the computer screen and said to me.

I leaned over to look, and there were circles drawn by two juniors on the map. Taking a look at the positions of the circles, they were the dormitory building where we lived, and the corner of the feed depot, where the two bags were found. Click on the picture and put forward his thoughts to me:

"When our factory was built, the gate didn't just face south or east, but a little east by south, and then we put the whole factory area in a rectangular frame," said the younger brother, opened the drawing software and drew A box enclosing the entire factory area, "Next, we can find the center point of this rectangle by connecting the diagonals of this rectangle, right?" Diagonal lines, and the intersection point, that is, the center point of the entire factory area, is the warehouse opposite No. 8 and No. 9 cowsheds.

Before we hid in the warehouse opposite the No. 7 cowshed and peeped into the breeding area. Just next to the warehouse where we stayed, there was a rough room of the same size. The "warehouse" was also marked on the drawing. After it was built, it was used to store feed and other items, but for some reason the house was not finished, and there were no doors and roofs, so it was called a warehouse, which was basically equivalent to a yard surrounded by four walls. Due to the open air, it could not put any grass. Things like that, now there are some building materials such as bricks and yellow sand piled inside, and the top of this is covered with a waterproof cloth.

"If you take the midpoint of this rectangle as the origin, then the dormitory building we live in is in the southeast direction, and the second place where the bag was found is in the southeast direction."

"so what?"

"So I don't know," the junior brother spread his hands, "I've been wondering whether the 'four deaths and one life' has something to do with the orientation these two days. Didn't the ancients really like to practice Fengshui? If these few The things in the bag are the preparations for summoning the God of Mu. Could it be buried according to the location, and it is unlikely to be placed randomly. There are fingers, hair, etc., and the hard work of preparing the materials results in them being handy It should be impossible to lose it. But this one south, one southeast, if it is one south, one east, it makes sense, this southeast... I may be wrong."

"Not necessarily, I think your guess is reasonable," I patted my junior brother on the shoulder, "I also have a guess, but I have to drink this pot of water to know the answer, you will look at me later , wake me up when you see something wrong with me, and I just want to try this tiger whisker bracelet to see if it works. By the way, there is one more request, don’t shoot a video.”

Junior Brother patted his chest and pointed at me: "Don't worry, Rui Sibai."

I drank the cold water, lay down on the bed, and emptied my mind. Just as I felt a little sleepy, my junior suddenly said:

"You said so many cows in the factory drank the water, but they didn't seem to have any special reaction."

"A child is not a cow, and you know the dream of a cow." I suddenly lost sleepiness, and could only lie down and brew again. After a while, I found that my mind was too much and it was difficult to calm myself down, so I turned on my phone and played the high school math class. After listening to the teaching video for two or three minutes, I yawned three times in a row and felt drowsy.

As expected, I returned to the familiar field path, with the boundless cornfields still on both sides. This time, I didn’t need to speed up. The bull monster, no, the shepherd, was less than a hundred meters away from me, and the eyes met. In an instant, a chill came to my heart.However, I clearly saw the changes in Mu Shen, which proved my guess was right!In the next moment, the Faun rushed towards me like a hill, and opened his mouth wide at the same time, the black dead air in his mouth overflowed like substance, pouring out like a weight.The God of Mu is coming, but I can't move. I can only watch the big black mouth approaching me like a swamp. 50 meters, 40 meters, ten meters, I even felt that I smelled a strong rancid smell, I could only instinctively put my hands in front of me, and prayed that my junior could wake me up.

Suddenly there was a loud roar of a tiger, and the big black mouth in front of him, accompanied by all the surrounding scenery, rippled like a stone falling into the calm water, and the opened mouth of the Mu Shen shrank suddenly. It is also like a reflection in the water, and its whole body fluctuates, as if it is in a wave of water.The next second, the things in front of my eyes shook even more violently, almost churning into a ball.I shuddered and woke up.I was seeing pushing my arm, holding a mobile phone in one hand, apparently taking a video of me.

My arms still kept the palms crossed outwards in my dream, and while preparing to post to Moments with a sinister smile, my junior said to me:

"Your bracelet is broken."

Panting heavily, I felt the dizziness of the rest of my life. The bracelet was indeed broken, and the original silvery tiger whiskers had also dimmed a lot. Now it looked like plastic silk.

"Did Xiao Wu ever say that a tiger's whiskers would break?"

"He wears three at a time, and you only have one, probably not strong enough."

"It makes sense," I sat up, "My guess is right. The Faun in my dream just now has no legs, and he can't run as fast as you said before."

"Because we burned the contents of two bags?"

"I think it's like this. The first time we burned the bag, so the faun in our dream had no hind legs. This time we burned another one, and the front legs were gone, and when it came towards me, it moved slowly. Yes, I didn’t run as fast as you said. This shows that if we can find all the bags, every time we burn the contents, part of the body of the God of Mu will be lost, and part of his ability will also be lost. If all the bags are burned, God of Mu will lose There should be no way to be summoned, all in all, this ceremony has been destroyed by us, but we don’t know how much we can destroy it when the Ghost Festival comes.”

"Then, as I said, look for it from the direction first?" The junior brother looked at the phone, talking, but the wicked smile on his face became more and more obvious.

"Yes, I think your guess is right, just follow the direction, let's look in the three positive directions of the center point first, are you listening to me?" I turned on the phone, and sure enough, my video appeared In the circle of friends of the younger brother, the title is "The Boy with Flower Hands". In the video, my crossed hands are twitching on my face, accompanied by the sneer of the younger brother, which seems very rhythmic. The comment area is either a series of "ha", or Said that I would pay it back sooner or later when I came out to hang out.

"Good job, brother."

Hearing my compliment, the younger brother put away his phone, the smile on his face also restrained a little, and he pretended to be serious and said:

"Okay, let's look for it according to the direction, act in unison, take a few ziplock bags, if we find it, we will pour out the contents directly, and then put some stones, so that no trace will be left."

"Go now, do it during the day, there is no need for night, so as not to arouse suspicion." "Okay."

My junior brother and I took a few ziplock bags, put on our white coats and put on masks. The junior brother grabbed gravel from the ground and put it in our pockets. Seeing how we were dressed, we looked like we were about to conduct an experiment. When we were ready, we would Swaggeringly entered the breeding area.

Sure enough, the younger brother's guess was very correct. We dug out a bag with a cow's head embroidered with gold thread in the yellow sand at the junction of the dairy cow breeding area and the calf breeding area in the west, and poured out the contents. After changing some stones into it, they put them back in the distance. The younger brother picked up the shovel next to it and gave it a solid shot.

On the north side of the factory is the No. 7 barn where the experimental cattle we selected are closed. Across the wall is the elementary school that broadcasts morning reading and poetry readings every day with a loudspeaker. However, the entire north wall is used to pile manure. There are many ways to use manure. The farm will clean up the manure in the cowshed every day and transport it to a special cellar for fermentation, which can produce clean energy or be used for adding poultry feed. , although it is not a fermentation tank for Fuyuan Cattle Industry to treat manure uniformly, the cow dung in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th houses will be temporarily piled up in this place after shoveling, which leads to the north of the factory area. It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that fly maggots are everywhere in a place we usually don't want to get close to. It is also a luxurious five-star cafeteria in the eyes of flies.

In front of my junior brother and I was a majestic Huangshan Mountain, a yellow dung mountain, my junior brother and I looked at each other, I stretched out my right hand, spread it out, and pointed my fingers together towards the dung mountain: "Please, young master."

"Brother, please go first."

"You go first!" "You go first!" After prevaricating for a long time, we reached a consensus, "Together together." "Together together, alas, you are too polite."

We found two shovels, and we started to move the mountain. After more than a dozen shovels went down, the upper part collapsed. Fortunately, the sun has been very hot in recent days, and the dung has dried up a lot. It is almost like a clod, otherwise it would have collapsed. This time, the feet of the two of us can no longer be obtained.A few more shovels went down, and we actually dug out a bag. Looking at the bag, we entered the familiar mutual invitation link again.

In order not to be found by the two of us shoveling shit, I had no choice but to wear two layers of handbags, lifted the bag out, and then lifted the bottom of the bag to pour out the contents, and then followed the same pattern to cover the dung mountain again go back.After doing all this, my junior brother and I were sweating. On the one hand, we were nervous, and on the other hand, we were wearing white coats and masks in the summer. It was really hot.

There is only the east side left, along the wall, we walked east, we were dumbfounded when we got there, there is a stagnant river on the east side, the younger brother still fished here, and that bastard was caught here.We were surrounded by weeds. We were afraid of encountering snakes and insects. We took wooden sticks and swept around for a while, but found nothing. Standing by the river, my junior brother and I were helpless. We couldn’t be in the river. This river is stagnant water, and the water quality is not very good. It is clean, and you can see traces of oil on the surface of the water. It is precisely because of this turbid water quality that some fish live happily in it.

Fishermen like this river very much, and my junior brother also likes it very much, but now this river has become an obstacle for us to find the last bag.In desperation, my junior brother and I had no choice but to go back to the house first, because the clothes we were wearing were too hot, and we couldn't bear it.

After entering the air-conditioned room, we felt as if we had come to heaven from hell. We took out the ziplock bag in our arms and poured the contents into a stainless steel basin.My junior brother and I looked at the things in the basin. At this moment, I felt that I might finally understand what "four deaths and one life" is.