Chapter 12 Chapter 9 Discovery

I understand. I being your husband will really bother you, isn't it uncomfortable?You said that I was testing you, yes, but that was a long time ago, and now I don’t bother to test you. Since you can understand without testing, it’s better to deceive yourself and others, it’s better.But aren't you also testing me? Some people say that one side of the relationship cannot be rational. At least, you have to pretend to be confused. I have been trying my best to pretend that I don't want to wake up.But after reading your letter, even if I don't want to, I can only wake up. You say I don't love you now.What evidence?But it's just your guess. You're thinking too much.

You don't know, during your internship, there were a few days when I was very fulfilled and peaceful. In those few days, I talked about business and cleaned the room during the day, and drank a bottle of beer when I was tired. At noon and afternoon, I would pick you up from get off work when the time came, and then everyone discussed how to play next.Suddenly, I feel that it is not bad to live a lifetime like that, at least I find that there is another person in my life who is worth waiting for. Didn't you notice?That's when I started to change my attitude toward you. In fact, you want me to be a romantic person or a person who surprises you, it is very simple, but a romantic person is definitely not a person who can spend a lifetime together.I was wrong, but I never really thought about it. In the future, it is you who we will never be separated until we grow old.I'm just too one-sided.

Indeed, neither of us have been happy together lately.I have thought about the reasons, partly because of business matters, I am absent-minded and under a lot of pressure; partly because of you, you are anxious, hoping to find a gap to vent your grievances.Two unstable emotions collide, can you be happy? Also, both of us were too realistic, putting all the negative emotions on the table, without thinking about it from the other side's point of view.Let’s talk about the reality, I have never been a very active person. If I compare it to Chengyu, I am also in a state of half-carving. Please don't imply like a little girl that you don't want to wait, you want something ready-made, in fact, there is no natural good man in the world, all good men are tempered by your girlfriend or wife.Such a good man, in the end, may not be his own, it might be better to pinch one with his own hands, maybe it will be more fulfilling.

Huh, it's not that I didn't want to surprise you.You said before that you wanted a Mickey red bag, for summer, not too big, and not too many things. I bought it for you the day after you went to class. Although I couldn’t find it, I asked a friend to find it for me in Shanghai. I wanted to surprise you on my birthday.I'm just wondering, why do you always think I'm lying to you? Is it good for me to lie to you?Can get your body or soul?boring. Not to mention, in short, the last sentence, after the divorce, our son followed me, and I raised him.You said you can be friends with me after divorce, it’s ridiculous, that’s because you never loved me, I can’t be friends with you because I really loved you, don’t blame me for kicking the ball back to you, because, I haven't thought about getting a divorce yet.

If you really think I'm bad and not suitable for you.Please speak, I accept. Zhou Yun took a deep breath, neatly folded the letter he had just written and put it in the envelope.For some reason, my wife kept asking for divorce recently, and moved back to her natal home a few days ago without hesitation. He had a feeling that his relationship with her had really come to an end. I'm afraid this time, no matter how much he tried to persuade him, there was no way to bring it back. His son was obediently sleeping on the bed behind him. He was breathing evenly and sleeping very sweetly. His son had always been very obedient, just like his own miniature.He loves his son very much, and he loves his wife very much.

But the marriage has come to this point, I'm afraid no one can blame it, because everyone is right, the only thing wrong is the current economic downturn, and the mentality of the two of them.After his business failed, the couple quarreled more and more, and finally even fought. The wife finally ignored her son and decided to divorce herself. Sighing again, he covered his forehead in confusion.It's terrible, everything is not going well recently, I really want to just die like this. Suddenly, I felt someone pulling the corner of my clothes.Zhou Yun looked down and saw that it was his son.

He rubbed his bleary eyes, pulled the hem of his clothes and shook them non-stop. "What's the matter? Afraid to sleep alone?" He asked softly with a smile on his face. The son shook his head, with a look of fear on his face, "Father, Mrs. Xiong is here." "Who do you think is here?" Zhou Yun didn't react for a while. "Grandma Xiong, she said she was going to eat me!" the son repeated. Zhou Yun was a little displeased, he picked up his son and put it on his lap, scolding, "Dad has taught you many times that it's wrong to lie."

"I'm not lying. Mrs. Xiong is really here!" The son became anxious. He frowned and stroked his son's hair, guessing, "Did you dream about Mrs. Xiong?" "No, it's true. She said just now that she was going to eat me, and she said it next to my pillow." The son gestured with indescribable panic. "You must be sleepy. My son is good. Dad still has some things to do. You fall asleep by yourself first, and Dad will come to accompany you later." He carried his son back to the bed and put him down. Suddenly, he found inexplicable fear in his son's eyes, staring behind him without blinking.

He was stunned, and there were two figures clearly reflected on the wall opposite him.Under the light, the shadow of the person behind him was distorted and deformed by the support, and it was tightly attached to his back like a maggot. For a moment, the son's words echoed clearly in his mind. "Grandma Xiong is here. She's come to eat me..." "She's really here!" Zhou Yun could only feel his heart beating crazily, and a gust of chill kept running around his body.He gritted his teeth, turned his head abruptly, and laughed. It's the wife. The wife who has been back to her mother's house for several days has come back.She is standing behind her.

"Why are you back? It's so late, and you didn't call me first, so that I can go out to pick you up." Zhou Yun said happily, while asking: "Have you eaten yet, do you want me to make you some supper? " The wife has not spoken.Only then did he realize that his wife's face was expressionless and numb, as if she couldn't see or hear anything.Although she opened her eyes, her sight seemed to pierce through herself, even the wall behind her. The son didn't feel happy at all, he was even more frightened, curled up in the corner of the bed, shivering while pulling the quilt.

The wife finally moved, and she stretched out her right hand, which was always behind her back.She actually held a sharp, cold kitchen knife in her hand. Before he could react, he was really pierced.With sluggish movements and unhuman strength, his wife stabbed the heart with a kitchen knife. In the last moments of his life, all he heard was his son's screams of terror.With his last ounce of strength, he firmly grasped the knife inserted into his chest, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Son... son, run away..." Sure enough, before the evening, I saw the news of a family in the western suburbs being victimized on TV.It was still the mother who killed her husband and son. The son's body was missing, and the mother's head was cut off. Then the police sealed off the scene. The injury of Lin Zhiyan, an old girl with a childlike face, unexpectedly healed in a day and night, and she was able to get out of bed and walk around.What is the structure of this guy's body, I can't wait to dissect her to see. It can be regarded as a supernatural event that a large area of ​​soft tissue contusion can heal so quickly. "This is the benefit of exercising more. My mother, I have always paid attention to exercise." She showed off her well-proportioned figure in front of the mirror, looking like an idiot looking at herself. I ignored her. From room 402, I went back to the temporary place on the sixth floor, and told her what happened the day, and then I sat on the sofa in silence, listening to the recordings of Lin Zhiyan and the old man Yang Junfei repeatedly.Listening to it over and over again, I can almost recite every word they say. If Yang Junfei wanted to pass on some information, but in a very secretive way, so that the monitors could not find out, he could only rely on this method.I firmly believe that there must be something hidden in these recordings, but I have not discovered it for the time being. Finally, let me hear some clues. Yang Junfei reported the daily accounts every day, but he never mentioned Xiong's mother-in-law, the progress of the investigation or any emergencies encountered, etc. He did not emphasize anything in the communication.But every day, he would mention one thing, which is the breakfast shop. He goes downstairs to the hotel where he lives every day, to a street breakfast shop for breakfast, and he is very punctual, at 6:11:15 every morning. He proudly repeats how delicious the snack bar is every day, so that he doesn't want to go late. This in itself is a very contradictory thing.Anyone who knows this guy's character knows that even when he is handling a case, he will never get up early. This bastard is so big, and he still likes to stay in bed, which is very embarrassing. There is something wrong with the breakfast shop, perhaps, he left some clues there! I took off the earphones, stood up quietly, paced around in circles, and kept thinking. After a long time, I stopped, and suddenly raised my head and said to Lin Zhiyan, "I have something to do." She was startled, and then said happily, "You found a clue." "Probably." I didn't answer directly, but said lightly: "Tomorrow morning we get up at 5:30, and we have to go to a place on time at 6:10." "Where are you going?" she asked suspiciously. "You'll know when you get there." I smiled slightly.Old man, I want to see what clues you have left for us. I hope it is worth my thinking and detours. After finding you, I will beat you to death.Otherwise, it will be difficult to solve the depression in my heart. You bastard old man, you must hold on and wait for me to beat you alive. We got up early the next morning, just a quarter past five.He walked out of the gate slowly, drove the POLO given by Zhang San, and drove towards the Moore Hotel in the center of Lingshan. When I came to the street where the hotel was located, it was exactly ten past six.I saw that on the side of the pedestrian street downstairs of the hotel, there is indeed a breakfast shop for deep-fried dough sticks. The owner is a middle-aged woman. placed on the ground. "Boss, two fried dough sticks, two bowls of soy milk." I walked over calmly, looked at the menu, and ordered a few things at random. "Then it will take a while, about ten minutes, I just arrived, and the fritters are still fried." The proprietress said. "Well, we can wait. It smells so good, does the boss get up so early every day?" "Hey, the people who work here don't come here until after seven o'clock. I came early today, usually at half past six. Come, take a seat first." The proprietress politely wiped the table and beckoned us to sit. Down. "It's okay, let's stand for a while." I replied politely, and secretly pulled Lin Zhiyan who was about to sit down carelessly. "Why, let this beauty wake up so early, I'm so tired, I can't sit down for a while." She glared at me. I stared back, and whispered: "Idiot, why do you think the old man must emphasize that he came here at six ten in the morning?" "Didn't you explain it? He's telling us that the clue is in this breakfast shop." She pouted, very annoyed and I called her an idiot again. "That's one of them. There's another point that I didn't think of until I saw this breakfast shop." I waved my hand with a look of resentment, "I'm afraid he wants to tell us the table number." "The table number?" She asked in confusion. "That's right. You see, at 6:11 in the morning, the proprietress of this store doesn't arrive until 6:30 most of the time. He comes at 6:11. How can he eat in this store every day? There's something weird about it." I explained slowly: "Actually, what he really wanted to emphasize was the number eleven." "Yes." I went to table eleven and stroked the table, and sure enough I found something on it. Lin Zhiyan glanced at it, and said in surprise: "This is indeed the president's handwriting, but what does it mean?" I saw six inconspicuous English letters engraved on the corner of the table: AEH, FCD.I looked at the string of letters and pondered for a moment: "This should be a coordinate. There is nothing difficult about such a trick, you don't know it. The twenty-four letters in English represent twenty-four numbers, AEH It's one-five-eight, FCD is six-three-four." "One-five-eight, six-three-four? I'm afraid these are not standard latitude and longitude coordinates." Lin Zhiyan shook her head, "Did you make a mistake?" "Of course not, go get the map of Lingshan City in the car and come out to have a look." After arriving in this city, I bought a local map by the way in order not to get lost. , and scales are also used to mark the scale. I packed the soy milk and fried dough sticks, and took out the map in the car. Sure enough, the coordinates given to us by the old man Yang Junfei refer to the scale on the edge of the map. "158, 634, um, it should be 15.8 centimeters wide and 63.4 centimeters long on the map. There it is!" I followed the scale with my finger, and finally my index finger stopped In the southwestern suburbs of the city, a certain location in Lingshan. "Where is the thing the president left for us?" Lin Zhiyan looked up at me. I said "hmm": "It is possible that the things he left are there, and it is also possible that after his investigation, the source of everything that happened is there. In short, as long as we go there, we will be very close to revealing the truth." Lin Zhiyan frowned, "Look at this location, it happens to be the place where wolves gather recently, it's very dangerous." "No matter how dangerous it is, I have to go, maybe the old man is there too." I said resolutely. "Speaking of which, I've been thinking about a question recently, and I can't find the answer with the search tools on the Internet." She tilted her head and thought for a while, then asked in confusion: "What is Xiong's mother-in-law? Why is it different from the story we know?" Totally different? Are these events really connected to this fairy tale?" "This is what I want to know too. Recently I have worked hard to study a lot of documents, but it is difficult to match the situation here." I sighed: "About Xiong's mother-in-law, actually, I think its source comes from' Mahu', there should be no doubt about it. 'Mahu' is also a creature used to scare children. "The south is called 'Mahuzi', the northeast is called 'Tiger Mother', and Bayu is called 'Mahu'. They are all the same thing. The custom of using 'Mahu' to scare children dates back to the Tang Dynasty. Documentary research, such as Li Kuangyi's "Zi Xia Ji" in the Tang Dynasty, mentioned "Fei Ma Hu": the common fear of babies is called "Ma Hu Lai". "Yan Shigu of the Tang Dynasty also said in "Daye Supplementary Notes": Up to now, the child is crying, but it will stop when people say 'mahu is coming'. "As for 'Xiong's Po', in Chongqing, Chu, Hunan, and Guizhou, there are variants such as 'Human Xionggapo', 'Bianpo', and 'Yirenpo', all of which are apes, mandrills, baboons and other animals in the dialect. "Horse monkey", also known as "mu monkey" and "macaque" are closely related. The word "mahu" in the Central Plains spread to the Jianghan area, and it is very likely to be corrupted into the dialect "horse monkey", and it is attached to ape Therefore, the Xiong's mother-in-law has become a rumor of the Xiong's mother-in-law. From this point of view, the Xiong's mother-in-law entered Sichuan by water." "Wait a minute, I've been confused by you. What is this 'mahu'?" Lin Zhiyan covered her forehead with a dazed expression. "The so-called 'Mahu' is further explained in the "Zi Xia Ji" by Li Kuangyi of the Tang Dynasty just mentioned: the vulgar baby is called 'Mahu Lai', and those who do not know its origin, and those who test the thorns for the bearded god, are not. General Ma Hu of the Sui Dynasty abused sex cruelly, and Emperor Yang ordered the Bianhe River to be opened. The prestige was so strong that the childish children feared the wind and threatened each other saying "Ma Hu came". The childish language was not correct, and they turned Hu into Hu. Just like Xianzong The Chaojing general Hao Yu is feared by all the Tibetans, and if the baby in his country cries, he will stop if he is afraid of him." I swallowed my saliva, "Now I can only use this document as a reference. In fact, I don't know how credible what he said. In short, things like Terrible Crying are just like what Li said." , not one. "Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty also cited Ma Qiu, Liu Hu, Huan Kang, Yang Dayan, Bei Houli, Hao Xuan, and Liu Qi in his "Gai Yu Cong Kao" Volume 39 "Wei Er Tiao" , Xielu Xiuge, Yawu Tower and other folk creatures that scare children, but for some reason, the little-known Mahu is changed to "Mahu"? Why is the term "Mahu" similar everywhere? "Some people say that through the book "Liaolai", the legend of 'Mahu' to scare children existed in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it is not clear whether it is Zhang Guan and Li Dai. Moreover, the records of Mahu are old things in the previous dynasty. After a long time, it seems that Li Shi's words are more like the novels of the Six Dynasties, and it is inevitable that there is suspicion of attachment. "I carefully read Li Kuangyi's "Zi Xia Ji" several times yesterday. The whole text is nonsense, but I found two points that are credible. One is that the creature that scares children like 'Mahu' is definitely not The second is that the etymology of the people was unknown at that time, and began to be dubbed as "the bearded god who tested the thorn". "Hu", which is homonymous with the word "Hu", is a word of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which originated from "beard", that is, Hu people have many beards, Xu Shen's "Shuowen" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Hu, Niu Yi Chui Ye. It is only used to explain the wattles, and the Wei and Jin Dynasties have no meaning of beards. Then the 'Mahu' turned into a hairy monster, probably at that time. thing." Lin Zhiyan nodded, "Well, speaking of it, although I was born abroad, my parents did scare me with allusions about the Xiong's wife. The Xiong's wife in my memory was indeed skinny and hairy, but it was not like what you described That's it." "This starts with the study of phonology. The image and name of Xiong's mother-in-law have been constantly changing throughout history." I explained: "Some people say 'Mahu' in the literature" is a word for recording phonetics. , and words like 'Aohu' originate from the ancient sound 'Xiexu', which makes sense. "So if 'Mahu' is said to be a monster, I think it spread to Jianghan, it may have become a monkey-like creature, and spread to southern Fujian, it became a tiger and a 'sloppy child' in the Central Plains , Cantonese "Yawupo", these are not unusual. As for "Aunt Tiger", the wolf is still called "Mahu" in Shandong dialect, and it still scares children. It is "Mahu" that can be misrepresented as a wolf A case to prove it. According to the literature, the creature Xiong Jiapo must have existed, and maybe the gathering of wolves in Lingshan has something to do with it!" "You mean that wolves will be influenced by Xiong's mother-in-law?" Lin Zhiyan was taken aback: "How is this possible!" "There is nothing impossible. Since the data records that Xiong's mother-in-law once had the image of a wolf, it is not surprising that it can affect the behavior of wolves." I thought about it: "Actually, the meaning of 'Mahu' in today's Lu dialect as a wolf has already started a long time ago. "One of Pu Songling's stories is called 'Dream Wolf', in which there is a sentence 'I want to feed Mahu with a child', and another story called 'Song of Suffering' also says 'Sloppy is like a wolf', which can be seen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, "Mahu" means wolf, which is already a popular local dialect. "In the earlier literature, there is a Tang Dynasty Huilin "All Classics Yinyi" Volume 41 mentioned: "Yegan, Yunshegan, Sheyinye"; Sima Biao and Guo Pu also said: "Yegan can connect trees '; "Guangzhi" says: "Nests in dangerous rocks and high trees", so you know it is not a wild fox; people in Huainan call it "Mahu". Then it is also described in "Zen Sutra": "Seeing a wild fox , I saw Yegan again, so I know the two are different, the wild fox is bigger than the wild.' Liao Xilin's "Continuation of the Sutra Sound and Meaning" Volume 9 also added: "Yegan, Sanskrit Sigara, this cloud Yegan. Blue-yellow It is shaped like a dog, screams at night in groups, and sounds like a wolf'. It can be seen that the shape of the "Mahu" in Huainan is like a wild wolf. Considering the diversion of the Huaihe River, Huainan and Shandong are roughly similar. It is possible that today's "Mahu" and wolf refer to the original so-called Of course, as far as I know, the eventual corruption of 'Mahu' into wolves should really have happened in the Tang Dynasty." I stretched myself, "Let's talk about other similar stories. According to Western research, it is believed that Green's "Little Red Riding Hood" came from the Frenchman Perrault in the seventeenth century. After decades, it was discovered that this story may be circulated. in France and Italy in the fourteenth century. "Now I have some doubts about the authenticity of their research. I think the story of Little Red Riding Hood may have come from the East. Since the image of the 'Mahu' monster may have been created in the Tang Dynasty, and corrupted into the prototype of Grandma Wolf, I guess This early legend of "Wolf Grandma" began in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and spread to the Western world through the Hudi in the north. "With regard to this delusion, if the guess is generally correct, then the legend of the 'Mahu' monster that was produced at that time must have a very simple plot. Perhaps it is only the rough airs of the monster cheating on children. The wolf grandmother who was later passed on to the West I met Little Red Riding Hood in the woods, and swallowed the real grandma alive. And the 'Mahu' who stayed in the mainland gradually became a bear spirit tiger knocking on the door, and gnawed on the accompanying younger brother. Rheological Evidence may also be sought from similar legendary voices from the Western Regions." "If it's like what you said, I don't understand. Why did these 'mahu' become relatives such as grandmothers and grandmothers?" Lin Zhiyan asked in confusion: "When I was a child, when I cried, my mother would cry. Tell me this story, that Mrs. Xiong would sleep next to disobedient children at night, and then eat the children's fingers and toes. "The child asked naively: Grandma, what are you eating? Grandma Xiong said: My good grandson, I am eating peas. When I grew up a little bit, I became depressed. Could it be that the child's fingers and toes were eaten? Does it hurt? Kind of funny!" "Don't ask me, I don't know about these things. After all, I only started researching the monster Xiong Jiama when you came to me." I smiled bitterly: "But one thing is certain, that is the monster Xiong Jiamao, maybe it is real. It exists, and it is in this city. If my guess is correct, there is an organization that wants to use this monster to do something. As for why they collected forty-nine boys and girls under the age of nine, it is estimated that It is to achieve a certain condition for using that monster." "Che, I thought you knew everything. But why would the child's family be killed? Wouldn't it be easier to just abduct the child? Killing people everywhere like this will only mobilize the police to search, even at the expense of Solving all the cases made it even more difficult for them to abduct children." Lin Zhiyan was still puzzled. I looked at her without blinking, shook my head for a long time, and said bitterly: "Think about it, if a child sees their closest relatives disappear before their eyes and kill each other before their eyes, what will they do?" "It will be very scary." "Yes, you will be extremely afraid, you will be scared to death, and you may even fall into a state of autism." I said slowly: "Humans are very strange creatures. Sometimes a person's willpower will determine a person's life. destiny." "Well, it's an old saying, thoughts determine character, character determines life, and life determines destiny." Lin Zhiyan interrupted. "Whether it's an old saying or not, it does make sense." I sighed again: "I'm afraid that in order to achieve a certain condition, what the organization needs is this kind of child who is afraid, scared and autistic." Lin Zhiyan held her chin, and imitated me and sighed: "These children are so pitiful." "Okay, that's it, I won't say much, I'll contact Zhang San, let's get ready and set off to the coordinates of Lingshan tomorrow morning." I started the car and drove to where I lived. "Why did you call that bastard?" She glared at me angrily. "He's good at it." I replied. "I can't trust him!" Lin Zhiyan objected. "Why, because of a woman's sixth sense?" I asked. "Wrong, it's the seventh sense. I just think there is something wrong with him." She said through gritted teeth. "I think you are purely prejudiced. I don't know why you always dislike him." I shrugged. "Anyway, he's going. I trust him. We won't discuss this matter!" Seeing that I dismissed her appeal, Lin Zhiyan's face darkened, and she sulked without making a sound.I ignored her and just ran through the recent events in my head. Mrs. Xiong, perhaps, it is really lurking somewhere in Lingshan, staying there quietly, waiting for something silently.That organization can now be defined as a cult. They use specious Hakka witchcraft, and they don't know what they are planning. According to data records, after the Ming Dynasty, there were no more eyewitness reports about "flax", as if they all disappeared overnight. What happened at that time? Could it be that the cult's real intention was... I couldn't help but tremble all over. That thought was just too scary.If things are really as I guessed, things will be really troublesome. In any case, let's go to the coordinates given to us by the old man Yang Junfei first.Perhaps, there will really be amazing discoveries. My heart is expanding, and my curiosity is burning hot.For some reason, suddenly, I am looking forward to this trip.