Chapter 9 Chapter 6 Dongmu County

Since Qiao's family is as huge as an aircraft carrier in Dongmu County, there will definitely be people who gossip about her family's every move. The philosopher once said that in life, there are many fleeting moments, like the farewell at the station, just hugging each other, and in a blink of an eye, they are all gone. Many times, you don't understand, and I don't understand, just like that, you change when you talk, you get tired when you listen to it, you get tired of watching it, you get full when you follow it, and you get tired when you walk Break up, love and love will fade away, just think about it.

Perhaps it can be put another way, the horrible experience can also be fleeting, but it is extremely difficult to make it fade. When I drove into Dongmu County, my mind was still throbbing and I couldn't get over it. There is always a strange thought in my head, what is that quilt?It's obviously made of paper, but why did I treat it as silk in the first place?Are these really just vertigo?No, even with hallucinations, I can't drive what I just experienced. The blood-red quilt was obviously not prepared for living people. Who put it where?Or, no one did it at all. If you think about it this way, there will be more problems.Finally, it protruded from the quilt, as if it was in the shape of a human being. Could the thing in the quilt be a human?No, definitely not people.

My head became more and more confused, and the more I thought about it, the more afraid I became, and I shivered violently.What would have happened if he hadn't stopped just now and just ran over the quilt?I don't know, but the result is definitely not optimistic. I drove very slowly on the road afterwards, afraid of other situations.It took half an hour to drive the remaining six kilometers.Street lights were lit on both sides of the national highway, and Dongmu County finally arrived. This small town in the deep mountains has almost no products, and the tourism industry is still under development. If we have to talk about nearby resources, there are probably only timber left.There were not many trucks coming in and out of the town, and each truck was loaded with logs felled from the deep mountains.

The streets in Dongmu County are a bit dilapidated, and the buildings are also outdated.There are several brand new office buildings standing in the bustling area, and the neon lights on the top of each building are flashing with dazzling logos: "Joe's Real Estate Development Irresponsible Company" is such a mouthful, and it has no moral and cultural name, it should be The property of Qiao Yu's parents. No wonder her family became the richest man in the area. Qiao's family probably took over all the municipal construction and building construction in Dongmu County. I randomly found a hotel with a good environment to stay in, and accidentally looked at the name of the hotel. "Joe's Building" is still the property of Qiao Yu's family. I can't help but pay a little attention to their family.

After putting my luggage in the room, I walked to the pedestrian street and found a very lively barbecue stall. I ordered a few skewers of squid, some ribs and chicken skin, and picked some vegetables. I ate and drank with a bottle of beer.While eating, use your ears to capture useful information. Since Qiao's family is as large as an aircraft carrier in Dongmu County, there will definitely be people who gossip about her family's every move. There are no bars or even nightclubs in this small county town. The ordinary life is noisy and boring, only the pedestrian street is still lively.If a person drinks too much, if he usually hides it, he will naturally steal it out to show off.What's more, people like to gossip, men, women, old people and children, gossip by eating and drinking, this is the universal way of the Chinese.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a few men not far from my table to start talking about the Qiao family. "Stop the Qiao family's daughter died. Just eight or nine days ago, she died in an apartment in Germany. It is said that she died in a terrible state." One of the men said with gusto, "Many members of Qiao's family rushed to Germany to deal with the funeral. They only got back their daughter's body in the past two or three days, and they haven't had time to bury it yet." "I've heard about it." The man opposite him nodded, "I heard that he died of drug overdose, he really deserves retribution."

"You are all wrong." Don't shake your head mysteriously, "I heard from my niece that her daughter committed suicide because of a man from the same school. She chased that man for a long time, but he ignored her, so she simply committed suicide. Before he died, he was still clutching the man's photo." Hearing these words, I almost spit out all the beer I just drank in my mouth. What is this all about? When did I become the object of Qiao Yu's pursuit?Moreover, this kind of emotional disputes that are pure rumors ran from Germany to this small place surrounded by mountains and basically isolated from the world. The human nature of gossip is really terrifying!

The four people at the side table became more and more suspenseful about Qiao Yu's death, but it was basically useless information.Just when I was about to give up and go back to the hotel, someone at the other table couldn't help it. There were two men and a woman on the table, and they were probably listening to gossip with pointed ears. As they listened, one of the women said, "I heard people say that Qiao Yu's death was caused by an evil spirit." As soon as her words came out, everyone was stunned. "There is indeed such a saying." The rest of the people seemed to think of something, and someone said: "After all, the daughter of the Qiao family hastily ran to Germany within a few days after her return. The town has not been peaceful recently. Several people died, and the murderer was not found."

"It's true. Qiao's daughter's friend is also my daughter's friend. I heard that several died in vain, and one was sent to a mental hospital." The man who had just begun to speak nodded. Afterwards, the people at the two tables joined together to form a table, continuing to gossip happily.I stayed and listened, but I didn't hear any other meaningful news, so I left slowly. Sitting on the bed in the hotel, I looked at my watch. It was half past eleven. Yang Junfei had included the names of several people in Qiao Yu's investigation, all of them were girls. He said that Qiao Yu had had contact with them after returning home. Well, I heard gossip today and heard that several of her friends died, which is consistent with the old man's investigation.

Looking at the list printed out in my hand, I laughed bitterly.If the source of the "shoes to bed" curse is this small town, who among those names died and how many are still alive? Tomorrow, I'd better go to Qiao's house first to see if I can find some clues, and then go to ask those girls one by one. I tiredly rubbed my temples with my hands, stared at the shoes on my feet in a daze for a while, and then went into the toilet for a brief wash.Put the changed shoes together with the hotel slippers into the shoe cabinet, out of sight. I turned on the lights in the corridor of the room deliberately. I stepped on my socks, hugged the white quilt to the sofa, and lay down. Alas, I have already had a psychological shadow on the bed and shoes. If I don’t deal with this matter as soon as possible , I probably have never dared to sleep in bed for the rest of my life, nor did I dare to bring any shoes into the bedroom!

The next morning, I was awakened by the sound outside the house. I opened the curtains and looked outside. It was the noise of the lawnmower from the school opposite. Fortunately, I slept soundly all night.I washed my face indiscriminately and rinsed my mouth, looked at me in the mirror who looked tired, and smiled helplessly. Qiao's house is very high-profile, and almost everyone in the town knows it. It is not far from the county center, and it surrounds more than ten acres of land with a high wall. From the outside, you can only see the top of a red circular building, like a steeple. . Qiao Yu's funeral has been held since yesterday, and today most of them are friends from non-relatives who come to pay homage, so the gate under the wall is open, and an endless stream of strangers can enter with just a little registration. I followed the crowd into the compound.The status of the landowners of the Qiao family is fully revealed by the buildings inside the wall. There are Chinese-style pavilions and several European-style buildings inside, which are neither fish nor fowl, and are very uncoordinated.I really admire the ability of the planning designer hired by his family. A mourning hall has been set up outside the main building, and Qiao Yu's black and white photo is enlarged and placed in the center, and a wreath is waiting for the wall that extends from the mourning hall to the outside. few.I took a few sticks of incense and some paper money from the side, and burned them in front of her portrait. The lit incense was inserted into the huge incense burner, and then I stared at Qiao Yu's photo for a while. "Are you Xiao Yu's friend? It looks strange." The middle-aged woman in black plain clothes at the side saw me in a daze, and asked after being slightly startled. "I'm her alumni." I responded politely, this woman vaguely looks like Qiao Yu, she should be her mother. Sure enough, Mother Qiao sighed: "My daughter has very few friends, and no one in her class came. Even her friends who played with her since she was a child are also avoiding her. It's really heart-wrenching!" I didn't respond, I just slandered the case in my heart. The reputation of Qiao's family didn't seem to be generally bad. Adults befriended you because of money. Although there are some students who are snobbish, they mostly do things as they please.Qiao Yu probably didn't behave very well in school, so it would be strange if his classmates came to the meeting! Mother Qiao struggled for a while, and suddenly pulled me back enthusiastically, "Since you're here, come in and sit down! I rarely see Xiao Yu's peers, and if there are classmates who accompany her more, Xiao Yu will be happy even if she turns into a ghost. " "..." I don't know how to complain anymore.What does it mean to become a ghost? I am also very happy. As expected, like a daughter, like a mother.Before Qiao Yu died, she said bitterly that she would not let me go even if she turned into a ghost, which has made me palpitate until now. There wasn't much expression on my face, and I didn't refuse her invitation, so I pretended to ask casually, "Can I visit Qiao Yu's bedroom?" Mother Qiao was surprised for a moment, but finally nodded, "Xiao Yu didn't like people entering her room, but it doesn't matter anymore since no one is there." She led me around in this huge building, and stopped in front of a door after a few minutes. "This is her room. You can do whatever you want. I still have guests to greet, so I won't accompany you any longer." After Qiao's mother opened the door, she looked inside the door reluctantly, and then slowly left. I walked into the room and scanned the room for a week with some surprise.Qiao Yu's bedroom is not feminine, the walls are painted in cool colors.The floor was covered with thick carpets, but because of the color, the soft carpets did not look cozy at all. This room with at least 50 square meters looks very empty. Although the furnishings are exquisite, there is no trace of the atmosphere that human beings should live in. It even makes me feel cold and desolate. I am clearly in the room, but it is like walking in late autumn full of sycamore trees. On the deserted street with leaves, the loneliness is terrible. This Qiao Yu's taste is really unique. Could it be that her heart is as desolate and lonely as the layout of the bedroom?People are dead, and I don't know. In a conspicuous place on the desk, there is a group photo, six inches in size. There are nine girls standing side by side in the photo. Looking at their backs, they should be in the yard of Qiao's house.In the middle stood Qiao Yu, she was wearing her high school uniform and she had a fake smile. I took out my phone and took a picture of that photo, then looked for something more useful.In fact, what I care most about are Qiao Yu's shoes and bed. Her bed is very big, soft and comfortable. It is located in the center of the room, opposite to a 50-inch LCD flat-screen TV.I didn't find anything special on it, so I moved my eyes to the shoe cabinet next to the door.The shoe cabinet in Qiao Yu's room is so big that it can hold hundreds of pairs of shoes. But when I opened the cabinet door, it was empty and there was nothing inside.I froze for a moment, then frowned, the shoe cabinet obviously still had the smell of shoes and traces of visits, judging from the traces, the shoe cabinet was full of shoes not long ago. "My sister went crazy and lost all her shoes before she left for Germany." Suddenly a voice came out and answered my question. I turned around and saw a man who was slightly older than me. He was about twenty-six years old, very thin, and looked excessively drunk. Before I could speak, he had already mentioned me a lot, with a puzzled look on his face, "Why are you in my sister's bedroom? Strange, your face seems familiar to me, where have I seen you before?" He spoke very fast, and he remembered something shortly afterwards, "Damn, you are that man!" After saying this sentence that completely puzzled me, he ran away, shouting as he ran: "Dad, Mom, the man who pinched the photo of my sister before she died appeared, and he is actually in our house!" I finally came to my senses, and hurriedly followed him out of the house, mixed into the crowd, and slipped out of Qiao's house. Alas, trouble, not only was I misunderstood by outsiders, even Qiao Yu's family was completely misunderstood.How can I explain it?Said that your daughter is holding on to my picture to curse me? This statement will probably be more troublesome! There is no way to stay in the hotel now. Before Qiao’s family reacted, I took away the luggage in the hotel, checked out, and then put a hat on my head to cover my face, and went to the small hotel next door to use it. Another ID issued by the detective agency opened the room. Sitting on the bed and taking out my mobile phone, I stared blankly at Qiao Yu's group photo of the other eight people, then took out the information that the old man sent me, and compared it with the three people Qiao Yu might have contacted when he returned to China.The photos of these three people are impressively listed. I don't know if other people have something to do with this incident. The matter seems to be much simpler, at least the scope has become much narrower, as long as one of these eight people is known and asked what happened to Qiao Yu when she returned to China, it seems that the clue can be cleared up. But, is it really that simple?For some reason, my bad premonition floated up and down the water level like a fishing buoy, making me panic. There is still some time in the afternoon, so let's go to the first girl's house on the information first. After thinking for a while, I went out and drove towards the house of the girl named Zhang Youhan. Zhang Youhan was a sophomore in the provincial capital more than 500 kilometers away, and had just turned 20 not long ago.Her family is well-known locally, her father is the chief of the police station, and her mother works in the court. This girl is very familiar with Qiao Yu, but they often confront each other. I don't know if the adults behind the two girls are instigating. The children of the rich and the official's family have reached a certain point, and the circle of acquaintances has been fixed. benefit. Her home is easy to find, in a good location in the county, and lives in the only villa area developed by Qiao's Group. I went in with an off-road vehicle, and no one stopped me. I didn’t even ask about it. I think Dongmu County is relatively poor, and there are very few people who can buy a car, especially those who drive in and out of an off-road vehicle. The security guard didn't dare to offend, if he wanted to go in with two legs, it would be even more difficult. I drove the car to the address given to me by the old man Yang Junfei, I parked the car and looked at Zhang Youhan's house.The single-family villa is about 500 square meters, which is considered a luxury house in a developed city, but it is really not worth mentioning in a small place in Dongmu County where there is no money, no resources, and land that is not valuable. I found the place, but I stood at the door in a daze, not knowing how to find an excuse to go in. When I came, I had already called Zhang Youhan’s school. She asked for leave to go home a week ago, and she has not returned yet. Because of this, it is very likely that she is in the house in front of her. After hesitating for more than ten minutes, I finally decided to pay attention to knocking on the door first, and I will talk about the subsequent excuses later. Walking to the railing of the villa garden, I pressed the video doorbell, and the monotonous doorbell rang. I waited for more than 20 seconds but no one answered the door. Just when I was about to give up, I heard a desperate scream Came from inside the room. I glanced at the cool-toned surveillance camera not far away, and found that the power light was dim. I don’t know how long this thing has been broken. I didn't hesitate anymore, quickly climbed over the low decorative fence, crossed the front garden, and followed the scream. Zhang Youhan felt that he was sick, so sick that he always had hallucinations.Since returning to her hometown some time ago and returning to the university dormitory for a few days, she felt that something was wrong. The school’s dormitory conditions are not bad. There are only four bunk beds in a huge room. People sleep on the second floor. The first floor of the bunk beds is a desk and a cabinet. , at least find a luxury rental house outside the school to live alone. Because the other three girls in the dormitory pushed her aside! The idea of ​​moving out has been raised many times by my parents, and my parents always refuse.My mother told her to keep a low profile in the city. Although my family can domineering like a local emperor in this small place of Dongmu County, when they really meet powerful and rich people, it is no better than crushing them to death. An ant has difficulty. But Zhang Youhan has always been very arrogant, especially after knowing that the other three girls in the dormitory have no background, no money, and no status. If you have nothing to do, call her a small report. This made Zhang Youhan very uncomfortable, but in Dongmu County, he could borrow his parents' official authority, but here he really has nothing but a lot of living expenses. The first time I noticed something strange was the night before a week.The lights in the dormitory were on, and the other three girls chatted like three ducks for a while, and one of them went to the toilet with the toiletries.I saw that when she passed through the center of the bedroom, she even made a circle, deliberately bypassing the empty center, and walked close to the bed. It happened that Zhang Youhan saw it, and she blinked, but she didn't want to ask.After all, usually she and that girl really don't match each other.After the girl came back, the second girl also went, also bypassing the center of the dormitory, and walked carefully to take a shower. Then, the third girl did the same. Zhang Youhan saw it, and she didn't understand why the three girls in the same bedroom could avoid the center of the room.Obviously there is nothing there!The third person had just come back, she couldn't help being curious, and asked, "Hey, why don't you walk through there?" The other two girls glanced at her, and the girl who rushed back lazily said, "Xiaoyang, don't tell her." Xiaoyang has a very good personality. Usually he just smiled when he was bullied by Zhang Youhan, but this time he patiently explained: "Youhan, you don't know. It is said that the whole school has spread the word!" Her tone suddenly dropped: "People have died in our room." "Have people died?" Zhang Youhan was taken aback, "Who died, I have lived in this room for two years, why have I never heard of it?" "Really, it is said that it happened more than two years ago. A senior sister hanged herself because of a broken relationship, right in the middle of this dormitory. "Do you see that there is still a hole in the ceiling? At the place where the ceiling fan used to be, that senior sister tied the ceiling fan with a rope and put the other end around her neck... she died a miserable death with her tongue sticking out. At that time It was summer vacation, and everyone else in the dormitory had gone home. It took more than ten days for her body to smell so bad that the dormitory supervisor noticed it. It is said that when the body was removed, even the ceiling fan was broken, and the school just I made up my mind to simply replace the ceiling fans in all dormitories with air conditioners.” Xiaoyang said with a pale face. "seriously." Zhang Youhan was a little scared. "real." Xiaoyang thought for a while, and added: "It is said that the bed that senior sister sleeps on is the one you sleep on." "Wow!" Zhang Youhan jumped off the bed in fright, his face was green and white, and his sleepy body was shaking constantly. Oh my god, if that's the case, she definitely wouldn't dare to sleep in that bed.But what about tonight?Where should I sleep?Is she going to humbly beg someone in the dormitory to take her in for a night? Seeing how terrified she was, who was usually arrogant and annoying, the three girls not far away finally couldn't help laughing, covering their stomachs. One of them even took out his mobile phone and took a picture of Youhan trembling with fear. Following the bedmate's laugh, Zhang Youhan finally came to his senses, and said angrily with a dark face, "Are you kidding me?" "I'm sorry, Youhan, I didn't expect you to really believe such a mysterious story!" Xiao Yang laughed until tears fell. "You! You!" Zhang Youhan's fingers trembling while pointing at the three girls, she gritted her teeth, her face was as red as fire, she climbed into bed without taking a bath, and covered her head tightly with the quilt. But, that night, horrible things started to happen...