I really wanted to visit Old Man Chen's house, but Boss Huang obviously didn't intend to go back so early, so he leaned in front of the car door and chatted with Li Huaishan.
He asked Li Huaishan about the murderous ghost, and Li Huaishan told the story about the Kunming City Village case, which was half true and half false.
After all, it was based on personal experience, and it seemed particularly vivid when told by Li Huaishan. , Boss Huang was stunned for a moment.
However, Li Huaishan did not focus entirely on telling stories.
He would change the topic from time to time and ask Boss Huang about the situation in the village.
It really opened my eyes.
It turns out that Li Huaishan’s language organization ability is so strong.
I clearly knew that he was intentionally asking about the situation, but every time he asked, "How many households are there in this place?"
and "Is there anything more distinctive around here?"
"Buildings" and the like, but it didn't feel abrupt at all, because he could always lay the groundwork before asking these questions.
As far as my personal ethics are concerned, I actually hate people who love to lie.
But looking beyond this point, Li Huaishan's expressive ability, which he has hidden for many years, has indeed provided us with great convenience.
In Li Huaishan's seemingly casual questions, Boss Huang showed us the general environment around the village bit by bit.
To the west of the village is the Dead Man's Slope.
What is the Dead Man's Slope?
As the name suggests, it is a place where dead people are buried.
The people in the village have reproduced from generation to generation on this seemingly barren land.
Some people have to grow old, and some people have to grow old.
After leaving this world, the Dead Man's Slope is the final destination of the deceased.
Of course, the name "Dead Man's Slope" was given by Boss Huang.
For the locals, the hillside that is not too high carries the memories of too many ancestors and is a very memorable place.
But just remember it in your heart.
Except for the old man's memorial day and Qingming Festival, no one wants to go to that place.
In the words of Boss Huang, that place is very evil, and many villagers who passed there at night have bumped into unclean things.
What's even weirder is that every day after the sun turns west, the sun shines along the top of the Dead Man's Slope into the middle of the village.
The light seems to be affected by Yin Qi and becomes gray.
I don’t know if the villagers of Ye Jing Dead Man Slope have ever encountered ghosts, but when I passed by the middle of the village before, I did feel that the sunlight there was a little dim, which was very abnormal.
After talking about the east and the west, there is a farmland about 500 meters east of the village.
After passing the farmland and walking three kilometers east, there is a Baoyin "bu" built on the top of the loess slope, and the dead man slope.
Looking at each other from the top of the slope.
Boss Huang once asked Old Chen about Hamburger.
Old Chen told him that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, that place was where the landlords lived.
Due to the banditry in Xihaigu, the landlords often had their own private armed forces.
The courtyard wall of the landlord's house was also built into an earthen wall.
There were crenels on the wall for mounting guns.
There used to be towers made of wood at the four corners of the wall.
Due to age, the wooden towers have long since disappeared, and only the village walls with the same color as the loess slopes remain standing.
Later, I checked the information and found that there are indeed many similar forts in the Xihaigu area, but they are very rare and remain to this day.
However, those that can remain can be regarded as outstanding in terms of engineering quality.
From this, we can see The people who live in these forts have strong financial resources.
Boss Huang told us that there is an old saying among the locals, which is "Don't go west at night, don't go east in the morning, and don't go north all year round.".
Dead Man's Slope to the west is haunted, as has been mentioned before.
Don't go east in the morning, which means don't go to the east side of the bungalow in the early morning.
People in the village rumored that a few years ago, a few very yang-yang men entered the bungalow before dawn.
The result has been bad ever since.
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They never came out again, and even when the villagers went in to look for them, they could not find any trace of these people.
As for why these men went to Baozi before dawn, Boss Huang couldn't explain clearly.
He just said that Old Man Chen seemed to be very taboo about talking about what happened back then.
Every time he asked a question, Old Man Chen would either change the topic or pretend to be someone else.
Tsukuru didn't hear.
And it does not go to the north all year round, which means that the land to the north of the village should not be passed at any time.
But Boss Huang couldn't explain why he couldn't go to the north of the village because Old Man Chen didn't tell him.
In fact, if you look at what Boss Huang said, you will find that there are many things he said and did not say, but at least he made us understand one thing, there is indeed a problem in this village.
According to Gaidong, before handling a case, you should first find an insider to ask about the situation.
Boss Huang is obviously not a qualified insider, but he has told us who the real insider is.
After Li Huaishan finished his long speech, I asked Boss Huang: "It seems that this village is not suitable for living people to live in.
Then why don't the locals move away?"
Boss Huang’s answer is simple.
Because of poverty.
He said that now one after another young people in the village have gone out to work.
Some people are doing better, so they take out the elderly and women at home, but most people are still unable to earn a stable life outside.
A person can only go out to work alone, leaving the elderly, children, and his wife behind.
This is why Li Huaishan and I have been walking around the village for so long, but we rarely see young men.
Boss Huang also said that according to local customs, women in the family cannot go out to meet people often, so most of the time only men go out to work, and women stay at home to take care of their children.
Occasionally, relatively independent young women go out to work.
When they When we return to our hometown, we will be treated as aliens by the elders in the village, and we will be treated just like outsiders like us.
In other words, as long as the women in the village leave the house to work, this small countryside covered with loess will no longer be their hometown.
I am not qualified to comment on the weird local customs, but I know that those things that should not exist will sooner or later disappear in the wind and sand as time goes by.
Perhaps in five or ten years, this loess slope, which hosts hundreds of village houses, will only be left with a piece of loess.
Boss Huang's words made me more interested in Old Man Chen.
Since all the better people have left with their families, why is he still here?
Seeing that it was getting late, Boss Huang said he was a little hungry and asked us if we wanted to go to Old Man Chen's house for dinner first.
I wanted to see Old Man Chen as soon as possible, so he simply said that I was hungry too.
Boss Huang went first, and Li Huaishan and I dragged our suitcases and followed him all the way through most of the village and arrived at the eastern end of the village.
Along the way, I kept paying attention to the surrounding situation.
When I reached the middle of the village, the sunshine became obviously gray.
Boss Huang seemed to hate such sunshine, and he suddenly accelerated his pace as he passed through the middle of the village.
Since Boss Huang wants to buy a cow carcass from Old Man Chen’s house, why doesn’t he park his car in the east of the village?
Here I have to briefly explain the road conditions in the village.
Compared with Kunming's urban villages, the roads here are slightly wider, but the ground is all natural loess.
This is probably because no one has repaired these roads for many years.
As for the potholes on the road, it is very difficult to walk.
Although it is not likely to rain often on cloudy days in the local area, if it does catch up with rainy days, park the car in a random place.
The loess on the ground will turn into mud after getting wet, and the wheels of the car may sink.
Go in.
If this happens, Boss Huang will ask the villagers to help him push the cart, but the villagers will never help him.
At that time, they will either abandon the cart or call the towing company in the city and wait for the tow truck.
When the company comes here, maybe the cow carcass in Old Man Chen's house is already smelly.
That's why Boss Huang had to park his car in the west of the village.
There was the only stone road in the village.
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Although it was not easy to walk, at least he didn't have to worry about his car being killed in the rain.
The above content is not my speculation and conjecture, but the bitterness poured out from Boss Huang’s heart on the way to Old Man Chen’s house.
I can feel that it does take a lot of courage for Boss Huang to travel all the way to such a place to buy a dead cow.
At the same time, I was also puzzled as to where Chen Dabang parked his car.
When he arrived at the door of Old Man Chen's house, the door happened to be pushed open.
As soon as Boss Huang saw the door move, he immediately raised his hand to signal Li Huaishan and me to stop.
We immediately stopped and saw a furry head squeezed out from the crack in the door.
It was a very strong old ox.
I stood not far away and looked at it.
It also stopped, blinked and looked at me with very gentle eyes.
Behind the cow followed a slightly lethargic old man.
When he saw his cow stopped, he frowned, then raised his head, and his eyes also fell on me.
At that time, I just rolled my eyes, glanced quickly at the old man, and then moved my eyes to the cow.
Just now, the moment Lao Niu and I met our eyes, I felt that there seemed to be something different on it.
I couldn't tell what it was, but I could feel that the thing on it was on me. something.
This feeling is very strange, as if my right hand is still on my body, but this hand is also growing on someone else's body.
In addition to being gentle, the old cow's eyes also revealed a bit of excitement that seemed impatient.
This look seemed to want to tell me that it had been waiting for me for a long time and that I was finally here.
All the weird feelings quickly formed in my heart without warning, and I immediately understood that they were intuitions.
At this time, the old man standing behind the cow said: "Go out and take a look, and take a walk while you still have some strength."
The cow seemed to understand the old man's words.
It lowered its head slightly and slowly crossed the threshold.
When the door was opened just now, it still looked very strong, but after looking at me a few times, all the strength in its body seemed to have been drained, except that there was still a bit of excitement in its eyes, expression and movements.
But they all showed signs of aging.
I realized that its end was coming soon
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