dead person

"What about other than that?"

Zhou Yun thought for a few seconds before continuing: "His reaction today seems to me to be too deliberate, and even those words seem to be excuses that have been thought up a long time ago."

Lao Li nodded, and gave Liu Ming another look: "Don't be silly, just learn. I know you've been studying these all day long, so you might as well pay attention to the details of your daily life."

Liu Ming? ? ?

Why is this talking about me again?

"Then, Uncle Li, shall we still go to the cemetery?"

"Hey!" A worried sigh came back to him, "If you look like you, I guess you won't have a good life after you retire."

Zhou Yun staggered half a step and let Liu Ming walk up to him in two steps.He followed behind the two of them, watching Lao Li walking towards a secluded corner of the village without hesitation.

When he first entered the village, Lao Li said that he was not familiar with the village, and now...

Zhou Yun didn't care about the situation of the cemetery.After all, Du Changyuan already had a rough idea of ​​the general direction of Du Changyuan's past.

The cemetery will definitely not find the body of Du Changyuan who is dead in Lao Li's mouth.

When the group walked to the cemetery, it was the calmest Lao Li who was surprised.The area of ​​Shizi Village is small, and there were only dozens of households in the village at most, so the location of the cemetery is naturally not that wide.But now what catches the eye is a bunch of colorful paper flowers.

The paper-tied flowers placed on the grave instead of wreaths have been baptized by the wind and rain. Some have collapsed on the cemetery, and some have been blown up by the wind and hung on the trees. The whole cemetery is full of colorful paper flowers, which is a bit creepy to look at. people.

"This is..." Lao Li came back to his senses, and carefully avoided the paper flowers and walked around the cemetery.He counted the names on the tombstones, and finally stopped at the edge of the new graves.

"Uncle Li, this is the new grave of Du Changyuan's parents. When I came last time, an old man in the village said that they all died of accidents."

"When did this happen?"

"It is said that it was not long after Du Changyuan walked through the village. First, this person named Zhao Xiujuan committed suicide, and then Du Changhong died in an accident when the mountain collapsed! You say that Du Changyuan is also miserable..."

"Are you sure Du Changyuan had already left the village at that time? Since his parents had accidents, why didn't anyone inform him to come back for the funeral?"

"It seems that there is no contact information, and I don't know how to contact. Isn't it obvious that Du Changyuan has left? You ask Zhou Yun, Zhou Yun said that he searched from house to house, but he couldn't find anyone."

Lao Li's eyes were fixed, and Zhou Yun couldn't figure out his thoughts with his cloudy eyes.

He bent down and picked up the black broken boards in front of the grave of Du Changhong and his wife.The plank is about the length of an elbow, and can be pinched into two pieces with a single pinch.

Lao Li put the broken plank in front of his nose and smelled it, then beckoned to Liu Ming and stuffed the plank in his hand for him to put away.Then he squatted down around the two new graves to pick up the broken pieces of wood on the ground, and put them together in the open space beside them.

After a while, I managed to make a silhouette of a little more than one meter.Lao Li took out a cigarette that he had quit for a long time from his pocket and lit one.

At this moment, Liu Ming vaguely felt that something was really wrong.He had never seen Lao Li in this state.

"Uncle Li, haven't you already quit?"

Lao Li was stunned, and then threw the half of the cigarette in his hand on the ground and extinguished it with his foot, and stood up: "I get used to thinking too much for a while."

He turned around and walked in front of Zhou Yun: "Are you sure he really didn't go back?"

"If he goes back, what am I going to do in this place where the birds don't shit? I really have no choice. I've searched everywhere I can."

Lao Li patted Liu Ming on the shoulder, turned his head and looked in the direction of the village: "Liu, let's go, let's go back and check his entry and exit records."

Liu Ming's eyes lit up, and the wooden board with an earthy smell in his hand was hugged tightly like a treasure, and he followed Lao Li to the outside of the cemetery.

Zhou Yun stood on the spot, glanced blankly at the cold cemetery, and followed closely behind the two of them.

Back at the police station, Liu Ming frantically checked Du Changyuan's various travel records on the computer, and even logged into the communication system to check the location of his cell phone recently.

However, nothing.There is neither his recent shopping and consumption records, nor the way he left Shizi Village.

It's as if he was so big and disappeared from the world out of thin air.

Lao Li took the piece of wood back to the police station and looked at it carefully with a magnifying glass for a long time before carefully packing it into a cardboard box and putting it away.

"Since there is no record of him leaving the village, let's find out when he returned to the village. As for the people in the new graves in the village, you can go to the criminal police team in the city tomorrow to find someone to help. cause of death."

Liu Ming opened his mouth in surprise: "My dear, Uncle Li, you are still talking about me. I think you are the one who really dares to think about it. You don't think it's abnormal for those people to die, do you?"

"The timing of his death is too coincidental." Lao Li didn't raise his head, and his tone of reply was indifferent, so that Liu Ming couldn't hear the sadness and joy for a while, and no matter how many thoughts he had in his heart, he never uttered a word. .

No matter how stupid he is, he has been with Lao Li for a long time, and he roughly knows when it is best not to provoke Lao Li.

The two of them were spontaneously busy with the matter at hand, completely forgetting Zhou Yun who came back with them.Zhou Yun rubbed his hands somewhat awkwardly: "Then, the case I reported..."

Only then did Lao Li raise his head and look at him solemnly, then turned around and picked up a notebook and handed it to him: "Fill in a file first, then go back and wait for the notification."

"I don't have anything to do? I think there are only two of you, and you are quite short of manpower. Otherwise, I will stay and do chores for you. After all, I am familiar with it in the long run..."

"No need. If there is any news at that time, we will notify you."

"You're welcome, if you need to check something, I can get someone to help you..."

Zhou Yun wanted to fight again, but Liu Ming directly pushed him out of the gate of the police station: "You are the only one who can help you, the one who doesn't even know where his friends are going. Forget it, go back quickly, when the time comes If there is any news, I will notify you as soon as possible."

Lao Li's eyes fell on Zhou Yun who was jumping outside the door and wanted to come in, and asked Liu Ming who turned back: "Tell me, is there any way to bring a person back to life?"

"Perhaps..." Liu Mingxuaned for a long time, then suddenly continued excitedly, "Maybe that person is not dead yet?"

"Then, why would someone bury their child alive?"

"That……"

Liu Ming thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reason.Even if he is a worthless person, he will be like an old man when he returns home.No matter how distasteful my parents say, they always want to give him all the good things.

This question is really beyond the scope of his thinking.

"If that's the case, the person who should have died came back, and several people in the village died one after another. What do you think is the reason?"

"Revenge."

After saying these three words, Liu Ming slapped himself.This is something that has no door, and talks nonsense about everything.

"But, after so many years, why did you come back now? What happened in the middle?"

Hearing Lao Li's muttering, Liu Ming looked up at the sky helplessly.His brain hole is really too bold.

Not to mention whether someone would bury his son alive, even if he came back to take revenge, he wouldn't take revenge until he disappeared.

Besides, it's unfounded.

Lao Li moved a stool and sat under the eaves outside the police station, his whole body was warmed by the sun.He closed his eyes and collected his thoughts for a while, then turned around and called Liu Ming.

"Early tomorrow morning, you will go to the criminal investigation team in the city to find someone named Wei Qinglong, and he will know as soon as you tell him. By the way, you can go to the archives room and give the files of those people in Shizi Village to him." I'll bring one back."

"Uncle Li, do you really want me to go?"

"Didn't you always think about encountering a big case before? Why is it so critical?"

"I just think it's all because of your overthinking. How could there be such a lunatic in our backcountry..."

"Give me the pair of shoes you picked up this morning. Tomorrow morning, I want to go to the village again."

Lao Li didn't explain anything to Liu Ming anymore, he just took the bag containing the shoes from him and wandered around the town.There are only so many people in this town. Whenever he shows up with a new face, as long as he has appeared in the town, these people will definitely have some impressions.

He also felt that the thoughts in his heart were extremely absurd, but he just felt that he seemed to have missed something important, and he had to sort out all this before he could feel at ease.

When the sound of the scooter disappeared at the entrance of the village, Wang Changlin straightened up, hammered his sore shoulders and went out the door.

It's time to accept the results.

The village was still as quiet as usual, occasionally seeing two or three places of cooking smoke.With his hands behind his back, he walked on the road in the village with a sneer on his face, and vaguely felt the happiness of Du Guoquan at that time.

No matter who came to the village or what happened outside, these people would never open the door and walk out of their yard to take a look.

After all these things, the rest of the people in the village who always want to live a few more days, in fact, what is the difference between death and death?

He strode towards the attic, jumped in and stopped under the stairs in the attic.

Du Guoquan's body was crooked and paralyzed on the ground, already stiff, and the clothes under his body were also stained with the filth of incontinence after death.He followed Du Guoquan's line of sight to the watchtower, and the familiar nursery rhyme resounded in the stairwell.

The village had not heard Xie Changlan's cry for several days.

Du Wenlong sometimes wondered if his brother and daughter-in-law had also died silently.However, he really didn't have the courage to open the gate of his own yard to take a look at Wen Hu's house.

Although he couldn't hear Xie Changlan's cry anymore, in recent nights, he would always hear the cry of a child.

After listening to it for a long time, he always felt that the cry of the child was exactly the same as that of his daughter who had died a long time ago.Crying for his father, crying for him to save her, crying that she was wrong, and never dared again.

He also frantically searched his yard many times in the direction of the crying, but found nothing.Now, he dare not close his eyes again.

Don't dare, stay alone in the dark night again.

He felt that if this continued, he would definitely die.

And night is drawing near.