Chapter 4 4. Ghost Mother and Daughter

"Brother Liu, what do you think that is?" I asked Xiao Liu.He stared straight ahead, calm and composed. A man with a flashlight ran over. He was a medium-built man in a leather jacket, about fifty years old, and his steps were steady. He grabbed Deputy Director Wang's hand and said, "Old Wang, why did you bring them here? Why are you pretending to be the village director again?" ah?Pretending to be the village director, Xiao Liu and I were dumbfounded. The middle-aged man shook hands with Xiao Liu enthusiastically: "It's Police Officer Liu, I'm so sorry, I'm Lin Feng, the village director, and Lao Wang is our old beater. It was broken, and after treatment, he has recovered a lot. But he often said that he is the village director. However, he is very dedicated on duty, but he always forgets things. I am really sorry, I will take you to Ma Gan’s house.”

Xiao Liu was speechless, and so were I. Except for taking us to the cemetery, what Lao Wang said was true. Ma Gan's house is in the southeast corner of the village, a small two-story building with a dilapidated sign hanging at the door: "Black Mist Hotel" I feel that things are a bit strange. There is still some distance between Ma Gan's house and the road. How could he open a hotel? The store is very deserted, no one lives in the store at all. Ma Ganma is not tall, just over 1.60 meters. She is a bit fat, has small eyes, and her eyesight is a bit poor. However, she is very enthusiastic and loves to use gestures when speaking, but she is a bit young.

I checked her ID card, the above date of birth is 1950, this year is 2008, her age is 58 years old. However, she looked like she was in her early fifties. Her sister's name is Ma Shi. According to her ID card, she was born in 1983 and is 25 years old this year. She is beautiful, well-proportioned, with fair skin, an oval face, two dimples on her cheeks, clear water-like transparent eyes, and a mole at the corner of her left eye. She is wearing gray jeans and a pink sweater, standing quietly with her mother behind. There was a strong smell of perfume in the air, which was so strong and pungent, but very fragrant and intoxicating.

I guess the perfume is coming from her. Why does a rural girl use such a strong perfume? Incredible. She was weird, but beautiful, more like a photograph than a person. I looked at her, stunned. I can imagine the shape of the perfume emanating from her snow-white skin. It should be light and foggy. She looked at us straight, neither speaking nor smiling, like a beautiful statue standing in the corner. Her charming and deep eyes gave me a feeling of déjà vu and my heart beat. In my mind, her image is not unfamiliar, we must have seen it somewhere... I searched all the memory storage space in my brain, and the result is - there is this file, unnamed!

Who is she?Why does she feel so kind to me? It's a classmate, no! It's a colleague, no! It was someone I had contacted at work in the past, no! Is it a dream? Impossible, my intuition tells me that I have met her, and more than once! However, I couldn't remember it anymore, and my headache started. "In the past few years, Ma Gan has been serving his sentence in prison. Thank you for your care!" Ma Gan's mother looked at Xiao Liu intently, and she said, "What's wrong with Ma Gan? Did he make any mistakes?" "It doesn't matter, this is what our prison police should do. I just hope that he will work hard to reform and become a new man. He has made no mistakes." Xiao Liu seems to have no idea how to tell her about Ma Gan's death. "Why is your phone turned off?"

"Where do I have a cell phone? That's his father's cell phone." Ma Ganma said, pointing to the portrait of Ma Gan's father on the wall, under which hung an old mobile phone. After Ma Ganma finished speaking, she walked to the portrait of Ma Ganpa's portrait, fiddled with the mobile phone seriously, and said while fiddling, "Boss, there are people from the prison, you should say hello to them too!" This is a bit rash. The room was dead silent. I exclaimed in my heart, what kind of family is this?Both are mentally ill. Director Lin Feng was a little impatient, and said, "Don't talk about that, it's so late, let the two police officers rest."

"Oh, we live here?" I said. "Yes! In principle, we can't live here, but there are no other hotels in the village." Xiao Liu also showed embarrassment. "No, it's more than 30 kilometers away from the county seat. It's too late, so it's not safe." Director Lin looked around, and then said, "You guys should live here, you'll be fine." "Yeah, here is the wilderness. If you don't live here, where do you live? We just pay for it." Xiao Liu suddenly changed his mind, and he whispered to me, "Do you know that there was an external transfer, that is, the prisoner was released on parole for medical treatment?" Investigation, I live in a butcher's house, the family wakes up in the middle of the night to slaughter pigs, the whole room is full of blood. I often wake up to the screams of pigs, what's even more frightening is that when eating, the family members have knives on their bodies. The profession of the police is to put your head on your waist, if you are timid, you will die of exhaustion if you are not scared to death by the criminals."

I nodded, Ma Ganma went to the back room to tidy up the room. Master Ma stood stubbornly in the corner, with her hands behind her back, leaning against the wall, her eyes fixed on us. Literally, she was staring at me. I was a little unnatural by her, my face was hot. But I was deeply attracted by her beauty, and I would occasionally look at her and meet her fiery eyes unexpectedly. My heart was beating fast. Ma Ganma poured a glass of boiled water for me and Xiao Liu, and Master Ma brought me the water. I was very nervous and anxious, and drank the water in one gulp. Suddenly, she walked towards us and took out her hand from behind. Only then did I know what it was in, it turned out to be a handful of dirty hair.