Chapter 10 Chapter 8 The Scarecrow

"Damn! Are you angry?" Just as I was about to go out, I ran into Xiao Sanzi, who grabbed me and complained, "I went to Qi's house to warn them with good intentions, but before I could finish speaking, Qi Shi Mu Na bastards were beaten out. What the hell, they deserved to die. The whole town will celebrate together, I smashed my piggy bank, and happily donated a coffin to them." "Wow! I didn't expect your mouth to be so wicked." I mocked angrily. The third son smiled embarrassedly and said to me: "What? You are still angry with me. I was wrong that day, but you played me badly. After I went back, I was punished by my grandma to kneel down. I copied the scriptures all night."

"How can I be so stingy!" I coughed, the kid probably saw me as a hero after seeing my heroic actions just now, and suddenly felt that saying that would make him appear more stingy, so he quickly changed the subject: " Little Sanzi, you are a local, so you should be familiar with this area, right?" "That's right. Do you want to go shopping? I know there are a few places with beautiful scenery. I'll take you there when I have time." The third son nodded. "That's unnecessary." I hurriedly waved my hand and asked again: "Are you familiar with the three sisters of the Zhang family?"

"It's not just familiar, since sister Xiuwen left, I go to Zhang's house to help every day." He said proudly. Immediately I came to the spirit.It happened that I had no clue about what was going on now, and the Zhang family's aunt became crazy again, and I couldn't ask anything from her mouth. Maybe I could get some clues from this kid. "Little Sanzi." I thought for a while and asked, "Can you tell me about the Zhang family's affairs in detail, such as the history of the Zhang family, the relationship between the three sisters, and whether they have any strange hobbies, etc."

"Why do you ask this?" The boy looked at me suspiciously. I smiled: "Your grandma wants me to find Zhang Xueyun's body and the missing Zhang Wenyi. I want to know more about them." "Grandma really wants you to do this?" He frowned: "It doesn't make sense, why does she want you, an outsider, to take care of so much?" "How did I know that an expert always has his own reasons, and I'm mediocre, so I can't figure it out." I shrugged my shoulders and said sadly: "But if you really want to know, you might as well ask her. "

"Forget it, I've had enough of her iron pipe." The young man lowered his head and thought for a while, then said slowly: "I heard from people in the town that Uncle Zhang borrowed money to build it twenty-five years ago. This hotel, but I didn’t expect it to become more and more disappointing after it opened. Although the tourism industry had already started at that time, to be honest, few tourists were willing to come to this remote country with inconvenient transportation. Zhang’s business has never been The fire has passed, and the debt plus interest began a vicious circle. Just when they were desperate, a traveler came to their house to stay in a hotel. It is said that the person gave them a lot of money and said that they would rent the basement and the innermost one on the third floor. The room is a hundred years old, and this money has saved the Zhang family from a difficult situation, but that person is really strange."

The third son sat down on the ground and continued: "He has been in this town for two months, but he has almost never left the hostel. During those two months, he has been living a two-point line from the room to the basement, and then back to the room. A monotonous life, and then he left, but it is strange to say that since he left, the luck of the Zhang family has improved a lot, and the eldest daughter Zhang Xiuwen was born. Sister Xiuwen is a very simple person with no hobbies. She does things so-so, as if she doesn’t care about anything, but two years ago she suddenly became very stubborn and said that she must go outside to work. Aunt Zhang had nothing to do with her, so she had to let her go.”

The third son swallowed his saliva and said: "Sister Xueyun is the second daughter, and she is a very shy person. She is cowardly and fearful just like her aunt. I really can't figure it out until now, sister Xueyun committed suicide, how could she commit suicide? She is so timid, she would faint from fear even seeing blood. As for Wenyi, she is the most individual among the three sisters , dare to act boldly, she is very bold, and sometimes she will play some harmless pranks, but everyone in the town likes her very much." The third son blushed. Hehe, could it be that he is interested in Zhang Wenyi?I laughed secretly, I didn't expect that the kid's information was not ordinary and detailed.

"By the way, do you know a tourist named Li Shuren who came here more than two years ago?" I suddenly thought of something and asked.But considering that there are so many people coming and going in the hotel every day, it is very slim to remember a person, and I don't have much hope. Unexpectedly, Xiao Sanzi's answer was so straightforward, "Yes, I happened to be helping in the store the day he came. He claimed that he was the son of that weird man twenty-five years ago, and wanted to get back what his father had put here before, and then I lived in that weirdo's room."

The third son recalled, with a strange expression on his face, "That guy is indeed the son of a weirdo, and he himself is a weirdo. Shuren Li has lived here for half a year, wandering between the basement and the guest room every day like his father, even eating They were all sent to his guest room, and one day he suddenly left without saying goodbye, and just left. "However, my aunt was very strange afterwards. The weird man should have left nothing behind twenty-five years ago. What exactly was the thing Li Shu said? Did he take it away in the end? The people in our town almost took it away. It's been a long time guessing that these are casual chats. Hey, I remembered." The third son suddenly jumped up from the ground, "It's that Shuren Li! Since he left, Sister Xiuwen insisted on going out to work. At that time, I thought there was something wrong with the two of them, could it be that sister Xiuwen went out to find him?"

I sat on the ground quietly without saying a word, my head was almost crushed by the huge information provided by the third son. After a long time, I managed to sort out some things. The strange person who came to Heishan Town twenty-five years ago must be that immortal monster Li Shuren!But why did he come here?What to do?And he even rented the basement of the hotel... Could it be that he is a Frankenstein deliberately hiding in this remote village, doing research on immortality?Depend on!How could this kind of lame plot that can only be found in low-level sci-fi movies appear in real life!

So what exactly is he here for?What did he leave behind?Why did he come back two years ago, did he come to put things away, or did he come to take away the things left behind?No, he probably didn't take anything with him, otherwise he wouldn't have left a note that said "No. 15, Sixth Street, Heishan Town, I have something to post there, and someone who is destined can take it." So where exactly is what he left behind?what exactly is it?There is also a doubt. Thirty years ago, the corpse of a village girl became a so-called ghost, and her bedroom happened to be in the basement of the current hotel... Is there any connection between them? "Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you in a daze?" Little Sanzi yelled at me who had been sitting still. I came back to my senses with great reluctance. The kid blinked at me again, and said in a low voice, "By the way, didn't grandma want you to find Sister Xueyun's body? Maybe I have a way. You wait under the old banyan tree by the river at eight o'clock tonight. Me, see or leave!" After finishing speaking, he ran away in a hurry, and didn't even give me a chance to refuse. He didn't know what kind of tricks that guy was trying to play, so mysteriously. In the silent night, the first quarter moon elegantly sheds dim light, shining on the large area around the banyan tree, which not only does not help to improve the vision, but blurs the vision.What a cold night!I shuddered, damn it, it's already 8:15, that guy dared to let me go, let's see how I can beat him to death tomorrow! I couldn't stand the cold, and when I was about to go back home, I suddenly saw a black shadow running towards here. "I'm sorry, there are some things to be done, so I'm a little late!" Xiao Sanzi shouted in a low voice. "What have you prepared?" I took the bag on his back and looked through it. It’s not a big deal, but I was really shocked when I saw it. The bag was full of scarecrows. They looked exactly the same as when I saw them looking for Zhang Xueyun’s body by the river a few days ago, but the size was bigger. smaller. "You just prepared these?" I said dumbfoundedly: "Brother, we are looking for the lost corpse now, I thought you would have a good idea! The result is old-fashioned again. What do you want to do now, call the soul or let her His body came out automatically?" Little Sanzi ignored my sarcasm, pointed to the hillside ahead and said, "When we get to that hillside, you go to the left, and I'll go to the right. Every thirty steps, grab a handful of scarecrows and throw them out. How far is it?" How far away. We will meet at the top of the slope, and if Zhang Xueyun's body is there, the scarecrow will stand up." I glanced at the ordinary scarecrows in the bag in disbelief, "Is there really such a miraculous thing?" The third son smiled at me, "These scarecrows can feel the aura of corpses. When you first came to this town, didn't you see how they found sister Xueyun's body? Believe me, I'm right!" I looked at him suspiciously, "Even if these things really have that kind of magic power, how do you know that her body will definitely be on this hillside?" "Can you not tell me?" Little Sanzi looked at me in embarrassment, and seeing that I shook my head without hesitation, he sighed, "I was the first to discover that sister Xueyun's body was missing this morning. You stole it for a certain purpose, but soon overturned this idea. Then I thought of Wenyi, she loves her sister so much, she must not want sister Xueying to be burned after death, not even a whole body .” He looked at the hillside not far away and said: "This small town is about the size of a palm, and everyone knows each other. Basically, there are no vacant houses. It is difficult to hide things. A dead body is even more difficult. So the only choice is the hillside. I, sister Xueyun and Wenyi have loved to hide things there since childhood. It can be said that this is our secret base. Although the hillside is not big, But there are many dark holes of different sizes underground, and the openings of the holes are hard to see even in the daytime, if it were me, I would also hide Sister Xueyun's body here!" "What a brilliant reasoning!" I applauded. It's still true as the saying goes, you can't look at the surface when you look at people. The little Sanzi looks simple and honest and has no brains. He actually has such a strong logical thinking, but to be honest, his method is worth a try, at least it is better than mine now. It's so much better to have no clue where to start! The night was very gloomy, and the moonlight shining from the top of the head added a gloomy feeling to the hillside.The north wind howled, mixed with cold air, cutting his face like a knife.If I were at home, I believe I should be drinking hot chocolate milk while sitting on the massage chair with my legs crossed and watching TV comfortably.Alas, I don't understand what I'm thinking anymore, I don't enjoy my blessings, but I came here to suffer for my willful curiosity! While silently counting the steps in his heart, while feeling sorry for himself, he threw a handful of scarecrows out forcefully.I should be an atheist, although I gradually began to believe that there are many mysterious events in the world that cannot be explained by science, but what am I doing now?Like those magic sticks that I have always looked down upon, sprinkle those boring scarecrows, and pray that they will sense Zhang Xueyun's corpse soon, is there a mistake?I feel like I'm about to become a magic stick! I glanced at the scarecrow in my hand, these things are really ugly!The uglier it looks!They are just human figures made of straw. Could it be that they are really endowed with certain powers? Although I did see that the scarecrow who was thrown into the river stayed in the center of the turbulent river in violation of any physical principles, but this did not explain anything.What if that was just a coincidence?It's just that there's a dark eddy there, or something is holding the scarecrow up. If that's the case, wouldn't it be embarrassing for me to believe so stupidly? More than half of the hill has been walked up, and the more I think about it, the less confident I become. Forget it, after this last sprinkle, I think I'd better go back to the hotel.I wrapped up my coat, grabbed another handful of scarecrows in the bag and threw them out vigorously. I was about to turn around and go back home when a scene suddenly caught my eye, and I was stunned. The scarecrow that fell on the withered yellow grass moved violently, as if it was alive.They propped up their bodies with slender hand poles, and slowly crawled towards me bit by bit. The bone-piercing cold suddenly rose from the soles of the feet, climbed up the spine, and climbed up the back of the head. I almost felt that my hair was standing on end up. fear!It's fear!The familiar feeling of fear is still fresh in my mind, as if I have returned to midnight last night. My whole body was trembling with fear, and I only felt something slowly moving towards me, making harsh and unpleasant noises. The noise was like some heavy object being dragged on a sharp stone, and it was like using a fingernail to scratch hard on the smooth glass. But I didn't expect this to be the last sound I heard, and suddenly my eyes went dark. On the third night in Heishan Town, unluckily, I was knocked out for the second time...