Chapter 7 Chapter Seven

One night without words, one night without sleep.The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is all over the building.Who knows how many things will happen tomorrow. I received a call from Director Sui before eight o'clock the next morning, and all personnel must go to the cemetery immediately to wait for orders from their superiors.He didn't say a word about accountant Xu, but I guessed that troubles were coming.I really can't imagine what the consequences would be if my identity was exposed to the world. Is it like in a Hong Kong ghost movie, finding a Taoist priest to lock me up with a few magic talismans, and then blowing fire can wipe me out?

It was superfluous to think too much, so I bit the bullet and went to the cemetery.Ever since I knew I was a ghost yesterday, my head was a little weak. Adding to the fact that I was drunk, I felt like my grandson was about to explode after being chanted a magic spell.Before the taxi reached the mountainside, police cars could be seen densely parked in front of the cemetery hut from a distance. A cordon had already been pulled over the pine forest on the west side, and several people in police uniforms were busy busy.It seems that this matter is really not small. Entering the management office, there is a strong smell of smoke oil.The room was full of people, except for me, everyone in the cemetery had already gathered, Director Sun was there, and of course there were a few people in police uniforms scattered around the room.I nodded embarrassedly at everyone and said hello: "Sorry, I'm late."

Director Sun frowned, he was responsible for such a big incident in the cemetery.He motioned for me to sit down, and then said: "Now we have all the people in the cemetery, and I have to tell you one thing. At around 18 o'clock last night, Accountant Xu died suddenly on the hillside on the west side of the cemetery. The cause of death is not yet known, and it is under investigation." After he said these few words, I noticed the expressions of everyone present, except for Mr. Guan who was sitting there blankly, everyone else looked terrified, as if they were thinking about it in the future. This shows his innocence.

The director went on to say: "Now the comrades from the criminal police team have come. I hope everyone can actively cooperate with the investigation and get to the bottom of the matter as soon as possible. Don't be afraid, just follow Captain Chen's instructions." After saying this, he pointed to a middle-aged policeman beside him.This policeman looked very dignified and serious, with more flowers hanging on his shoulders than others. It seemed that he was the Captain Chen that the director said. Captain Chen said: "According to the on-site forensic examination, there was no trauma on Xu Siwen's body when she died. If you have any clues, please provide us in time. We have received instructions from our superiors and need to solve the case as soon as possible. In addition, please rest assured that we will never wrong a good person, but we will never let a bad person go. Now I want to trouble everyone, our The staff prepared ink pads and glass plates, and everyone needs to print ten finger prints, and then we invite everyone to the Public Security Bureau to make some notes. Please cooperate with our work.”

I understand, this is to get us into the situation first, and then break them down individually.Well, maybe through this investigation, I can have a clearer understanding of myself. After the fingerprints were printed, the police cars roared away one after another.And one of them was the staff of our cemetery.Everyone was very silent, each with a different feeling in their hearts. In the Criminal Investigation Section of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, several policemen took us to different rooms for conversation. It was the first time I was in such a place, and I felt my whole body trembling.Although there was nothing special about this room, it was very empty, the roof was raised very high, and on the opposite wall were the eight bloody characters of "Leniency in Confession, Strictness in Resistance".I felt an indescribable coldness.There is only one chair on the side where I sit, and there are two policemen opposite, one is in charge of questioning and the other is in charge of recording.The person in charge of recording looked familiar to me, and then I remembered that he was my middle school alumni—a senior who was two years older than me.

"Gong Xiaotao, right?" The policeman who asked the question obviously already knew part of my situation. "it's me." "age?" "Nineteen." "Position?" "The one who wrote the monument." "Where was the last time you saw the deceased? What abnormal behavior did she have?" "Before I got off work yesterday afternoon, it was different..." My mind was in a mess, but I was indeed remembering.I finally understand why the police can ask so many things during the interrogation. In this environment, the feet of normal people are shaking, let alone the bad guys. Before they can ask a few questions, they are scared out of their wits. Basically, they know something. Just say what.

"Yesterday was Qingming, and our staff were very busy, so we didn't notice that she was different from usual." I really have nothing to say. "Think about it more carefully." The policeman's attitude was still kind. "Want cigarettes?" He began to bribe me. "Thanks, I don't smoke." I didn't give him the chance to bribe. "Wait, I remembered. We all shared things yesterday when we were about to get off work, but she didn't seem to be interested. And she seemed to say that she didn't rush to leave after get off work."

"Hmm." The policeman was obviously not interested in the situation I provided.Maybe a few other people have already reported this problem, and it's not news when it's my turn. "After get off work yesterday, from five to nine in the evening, where were you?" I began to recall yesterday's situation, and I broke out in a cold sweat before I knew it.I got home at four o'clock yesterday.Then I ate a few bites of food and went to the nightclub to deal with important events in my life. As a result, I went to the cemetery when the matter failed.But how can I say this?

"Well, I didn't go anywhere, I just stayed at home." When the man was nervous, he stuttered when he spoke. "Think about it again, is it true that you haven't gone anywhere?" The policeman's voice became severe. I and his eyes met, like a bayonet fight, neither of us would be the first to admit defeat.I know his trick is called the aggressive method. If I admit that I have been to the cemetery at this time, a lot of trouble will follow.I can't take that risk. "I really didn't go anywhere, I was at home all the time." "Then when did you find out about Xu Siwen's death?" The police changed the subject, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

"This morning, I just found out when I arrived at the cemetery." Once the lie achieved initial success, with the improvement of self-confidence, my acting skills immediately improved to a higher level, so I told the lie this time with confidence. "Oh, good. Is there anything else you want to offer us?" The policeman's tone was much more polite, and it seemed that they were very good at playing hard and soft. "Hmm..." I pretended to think carefully for a while, the room was very quiet, as if I could hear everyone's heartbeat. "There's nothing left."

No valuable clues were found, and the two policemen were obviously not very happy.The senior obviously didn't recognize that I was his alumnus, so he routinely brought the few pages he had just recorded in front of me for my signature. I finally breathed a sigh of relief, but luckily I didn't leak any flaws. When sending me out, the policeman didn't give up, and told me to contact them if I remembered anything, and left me his pager number.I was a little flattered and said yes again and again. The person had already left the interrogation room, but he saw Team Chen approaching hurriedly, with a majestic and intimidating face.He walked up to the two policemen and said, "There is something new, I want to interrogate him again." I was stunned. Back in the interrogation room, my heart was pounding. The police officer who was in charge of the interrogation just moved a chair for Captain Chen.Captain Chen cut to the chase: "Gong Xiaotao, right? Let me ask you again, where were you from 5:00 to 9:00 last night?" "I am at home." "You're lying. We checked and found that these are the footprints you left in the cemetery last night." Captain Chen showed me the photo in his hand, which showed my shoe prints.Captain Chen's eyes were fixed on me like knives, trying to take everything he wanted from my eyes.It suddenly occurred to me that during this period of snow melting and continuous rain, footprints could easily remain. "Did you know the news of Accountant Xu's death a long time ago?" Captain Chen asked another question that I couldn't avoid. "I don't know, I only found out when I came to the cemetery this morning." My thinking has long been confused.In order not to arouse their suspicion, I bit the bullet and continued to lie. "No, Mr. Guan called you once at nine o'clock in the evening yesterday, and you called back from the public phone. This is the proof that call station 126 came." He held a copy of the call log printed out by the paging station in his hand. , with the official seal on it. The efficiency of the public security organs is really high, and the relevant evidence was obtained so quickly, which is beyond my expectation.At that time, I was still a fledgling child after all, and Captain Chen's two actions really frightened me.So I went to drink alone, vomited in the cemetery after getting drunk, and Teacher Guan called me to tell me about it.Of course, I deleted all the plots in which I wanted to have a good night and Teacher Guan and I conspired to follow Accountant Xu.Captain Chen and the two police officers looked at each other and nodded to each other. It seems that I should have confessed to the truth this time, so they let me out. Around eleven or twelve o'clock, everyone finished recording their confessions.The Public Security Bureau still sent that Ivek to take us all back to the cemetery. The old Wangtou hurried to cook.Teacher Guan leaned back on the chair with a pale face.The director and Zhang Da were smoking non-stop.Brother Meng and I were also silent.Director Sun paced back and forth thinking about these difficult issues.Accountant Xu's body has been taken to the funeral management office, where her husband took over. Who killed Accountant Xu?All are silent, but all are thinking. Everyone feels depressed in this atmosphere. Brother Meng stood up first and said, "I'm going out to take a breath." It seemed that he couldn't bear this awkward atmosphere any longer, and walked out of the room directly. The director followed suit and stood up, smiled unnaturally and said, "It's too choking in the room, I'm going out to smoke." The others are competing with each other for endurance, and no one is willing to leave first. In the open space in front of the cemetery, Director Sui and Zhang Da stared at the pine forest to the west in a daze.The director gave Brother Meng a cigarette, and Brother Meng, who didn't smoke very much, took the cigarette and took two puffs fiercely. "Xiao Meng, who do you think killed accountant Xu?" the director said coldly. "Director, then I'll just say it straight?" Brother Meng looked at the hut of the cemetery management office, but no one came out. "I heard that Accountant Xu was scared to death, but what can scare a living person to death? Only—ghosts. People can't do this. Of course, it is not impossible for people to pretend to be ghosts. Zhang Da recently It is almost crazy to transport a large number of stone tablets out of the warehouse. He has stolen nearly twenty stone tablets. This is not a small number, and he can directly make tens of thousands of yuan in profits. I guess Accountant Xu found out After the monument was lost, he refused to go out to count the number of monuments after get off work, and then called Zhang Da to ask why the number was wrong. This incident made Zhang Da murderous? Director, I am just talking casually, so you can listen casually." In any case, I chose to play a few more books of Zhang Da in front of the director at this time, and I think it would not reach his ears. If we take the opportunity to get rid of this wolf that endangers the world, wouldn't it be for the sake of the people. The director nodded, Brother Meng would like to go with him this time. The director has long suspected that Zhang Da did it.Zhang Da has always been sinister, vicious and domineering. After taking possession of Accountant Xu, he has been depressed by the director.The director has already discovered that there is a problem with the number of steles recently, but he still dares not speak out.As long as the difference in quantity is not large, one thing more is worse than one thing less.Before get off work yesterday, the director noticed that the two of them were flirting with each other, as if there was some ulterior motive. He thought they were having an affair again, but he didn't expect Accountant Xu to die.Could it be that Zhang Da was motivated to kill because of emotional entanglements or because he was afraid that the matter of stealing the stele would be leaked?One day husband and wife, one hundred days of kindness, although the director and accountant Xu can be considered a dewy couple at best, but hearing that she died is still heart-wrenching.It's a good thing to just keep doing nothing and try to push everything on Zhang Da. It's also a good thing to take the opportunity to get rid of him. Thinking of this, the director whispered to Brother Meng: "Xiao Meng, we both have the same idea. Zhang Da must have killed accountant Xu. When the police interrogated you in the morning, did you say these things?" Brother Meng nodded, "I told the truth." There was a sneer at the corner of the director's mouth, and he patted Brother Meng on the shoulder, "Okay, let's tell the truth, Accountant Xu's case will definitely be solved." Only Director Sun, Lao Wangtou, Zhang Da, Teacher Guan and I were left in the room.Director Sun looked at Teacher Guan, then at me, and then at Zhang Da. His eyes were really strange.From that look in my eyes, I seem to feel that Director Sun seems to understand the truth behind all these things. Zhang Da smoked one cigarette after another.His hands were shaking all the time. No one knew better than him what it was like to be in prison. People who came out of that social class never wanted to go back. He is also recalling everything that happened yesterday. After get off work in the afternoon, Zhang Da pulled two sacks of fruit and went straight to his mother's house.Zhang Da is the only son in the family, although he is usually a heinous person, but he also has advantages - he is an out-and-out filial son.His father died early, and he took good care of his mother.In addition to finding a nanny to take care of my mother's diet and daily life, I also insisted on going back to see her every week.After leaving a few bags of fruit to his mother, he went to his friend's house to pick up the car without eating, and then drove the Cherokee straight to the cemetery. On the way he encountered a strange thing.It was strange to say that he was driving alone, but he always felt that there was someone in the car.The oppression is very real. As the car drove faster and faster, Zhang Da found out of the corner of his eye that a woman was sitting in the seat on his right, holding a box with both hands.He was all too familiar with that box, it was the blue urn of more than 300 yuan sold by the funeral home.Because he saw it from the corner of his eye, he couldn't see the woman's face.Zhang Da suddenly felt cold all over. He slowed down the car and turned his head to look to the right. There was nothing on that seat. When he turned his eyes to the front and concentrated on driving, the woman holding the urn appeared in the passenger seat again from the corner of his vision.Now Zhang Da panicked, he gritted his teeth and turned around suddenly, the passenger seat was still empty. Zhang Da clenched the steering wheel and gritted his steel teeth.Out of the corner of my eye, the woman was still sitting there.Zhang Da carefully took out a dagger from his pocket, turned around suddenly, and at the same time stabbed the dagger in his right hand against his wrist, and made a "bounce pipa" move very quickly, everything happened in a flash. In the next second, Zhang Da saw clearly that there was no one in the co-pilot's position.And the dagger was stuck in the leather seat of the Cherokee's co-driver, and he couldn't pull it out.Zhang Da turned around and wanted to help the steering wheel, but it was too late. For some reason, there was a large pile of sand in the middle of the dirt road ahead.Although he slammed on the brakes, the car slammed into the pile of sand and dust.Zhang Da's head hit the windshield, and although it wasn't broken, it caused a big bump.It's a shame that this Cherokee is an old model with a carburetor, and it doesn't even have an airbag. It was almost a minute or two before he came back to his senses. He opened the car door and went down to have a look. He almost fainted from anger.It turned out that the car had already reached the intersection in front of the School of Mining, and it took less than ten minutes to reach the cemetery on the mountain road.I don't know which farmer built the house, but dumped the soil in the middle of the road.Zhang Da came down to check the condition of the car. There was nothing wrong with the body. The front bumper was slightly scratched, and there was a dent on the right side.Damn it, who dared to pile up dirt here and crash Lao Tzu's car.Zhang Da was so angry that he pulled out the dagger from the car seat, put it in his waist, and went straight to the farmer's house. This section of road is located at the junction of Hongxing Township and Jiguan District. It belongs to the three-way zone. Except for a dirt road in the middle that can be used by cars in both directions, there are few people on the side.On the south side of the road is a Christian church, and there is a construction site under construction. It is said that a villa complex will be built.But on the side of the road, there is only one house being built, and the bricks have been laid to the height of a person.Next to it is a small work shed with lights inside. It seems that the sand pile must have been unloaded by their family. "Is anyone there?" Zhang Da covered his head and walked to the door of the shed.The setting sun was like blood, and disappeared below the horizon in a blink of an eye. In the shed there was a broken table with a lamp on it.It is said that the desk lamp is actually just a lamp holder with a light bulb installed on it.The lights were dim, and an old man was sitting beside the table, with a wrinkled face, smoking a cigarette by the table, who seemed to be the guard of the shed. "Old stuff." Zhang Da hurt people as soon as he exited, "Who told you to dump the sand in the middle of the road? Your family drove the road?" The old man was very scared and didn't dare to say anything, just staring straight at the villain in front of him. Zhang Da touched the big bump on his head, and the fire didn't come anywhere.He kicked the table over and the lamp holder fell to the floor.The room was dark as the light bulb burst in a shower of sparks.Seeing that there was no light in the room, Zhang Da was a little scared, so he didn't want to be ambushed by the old man, so he had to back out of the hut while cursing to embolden himself. The old man didn't follow, probably because he was frightened.Regardless of these, Zhang Da looked at his watch. It was already 5:40, and ten minutes had passed since his date with accountant Xu. If she went to the forest and found no one, wouldn't she be scared to death.Zhang Da wanted to call Accountant Xu, but he didn't have a mobile phone.It's a pity that with Zhang Da's economic strength, it is only equipped with a Motorola Chinese display pager.Not everyone can afford a big brick mobile phone like Accountant Xu's.There are no houses nearby, and it is even more difficult to find a public phone.What to do?Zhang Da was so anxious that his head was covered with white hairs. There was a sieve at the entrance of the construction site, and a shovel beside it. Zhang Da used the shovel to dig up the soil without thinking.He pushed the sand that blocked the car to the side of the road, and worked so hard that he was out of breath within a few minutes.The pile of sand is not big, but digging it is far from as simple as imagined. People are tired enough, but the sand is not so rare. It was completely dark, Zhang Da had no choice but to turn on the headlights.There was no sound in the shed, the old man must have been frightened to death by his torment.There was no one on the side of the road at all, so Zhang Da had no choice but to keep digging, just want to get out of this ghost place as soon as possible, and meet Accountant Xu's alluring body in the woods as soon as possible. More than ten minutes passed, and there was not a lot of sand in front. I believe that with the Cherokee's climbing ability, the sand should be able to handle it.Zhang Da threw the shovel into the car and caught fire. The car shot out like an arrow from the string. Hongxing Township was not far from the cemetery, and Zhang Da speeded up the car, and it took only a few minutes for Cherokee to arrive at the cemetery.When turning around the western hillside, Zhang Da slowed down the car and turned off the lights.Originally, he was having sex in the wild, so he didn't want to be seen by Teacher Guan.This pine forest in the west is very familiar to Zhang Da, accountant Xu guessed rightly, last summer he often found women to fool around here.Turning the corner from the mountain road came a small intersection, from which you could drive directly into the clearing among the pine forests. Zhang Da parked the car smoothly in the open space, turned off the engine, and the whole world immediately became quiet.It was quiet all around, without any sound.The pine forest is so dense that there is no light outside. Zhang Da called Accountant Xu's name in a low voice, but no one answered. Nearly half an hour has passed since the agreed time, and accountant Xu hasn't come yet?Still feel afraid to go back?Zhang Da felt very disappointed, but decided to go out of the woods and look in the direction of the cemetery management office.He was afraid of being discovered by Teacher Guan, so he walked out of the pine forest in the dark without a flashlight. In the distance, the hut of the cemetery management office can be seen with lights on, and the only light in the mountains is very dazzling.Zhang Da walked in the direction of the management office, stepping deep and stepping shallowly, trying not to make any noise.When passing the edge of the bushes, something under his feet tripped him suddenly.It came down so suddenly that he didn't have any precautions, and fell into the dirt on the side of the road. It was Accountant Xu who tripped him up.Zhang Da touched her with his hands, and was grasping her huge breasts.Zhang Da was startled by the fact that someone was lying in the field, but then he realized that it must be Accountant Xu, lying here and waiting for him.Thinking of this, he was not polite, and wandered his hands around Accountant Xu's body, and even reached into his clothes to stroke deeply.Accountant Xu remained motionless, allowing him to be frivolous.Zhang Da was very happy, it was the first time to taste delicious food like this, it was too exciting. Accountant Xu's breasts are one size larger than ordinary women's, which is the main reason why she can attract Zhang Da.Zhang Da used to sit in the office every day facing this pair of big breasts, drooling half a catty.Now that this beauty has been captured, the pair of tits naturally became his main target.He deftly put his hand into Accountant Xu's bra, and kneaded it up and down, feeling the warmth and softness of his hands.But the feeling was different from what he thought. Accountant Xu's chest was cold, as if he had lost his body temperature. Zhang Da withdrew his hand, took off the Motorola big man display pager from his waist, pressed the night vision light button, and used the weak light to illuminate Accountant Xu's face. Accountant Xu stared at him with rounded eyes, with an expression of indescribable horror. Zhang Da understood that this was a dead body, Accountant Xu was already dead. "It's not me." He let go of his hand suddenly in fright, and then quickly arranged Accountant Xu's clothes to restore them to their original state.Zhang Da is quite courageous. When he was in the funeral parlor, in order to earn money, he put on shrouds for the dead.After dealing with these, he used the pager to take pictures of the surrounding roads, trying to remove all the traces of his footprints and his fall just now.He found Mr. Guan lying next to Accountant Xu again.God, what the hell is going on here?This time, I can't do it well by jumping into the Yellow River and I can't wash it off.Who killed these two lives?Not me, really not me.Zhang Da crazily leveled the soil on the ground, took off his shoes, ran back into the woods, and drove away. Only then did he recall that when he was digging the sand just now, he heard a shrill and long howling from the cemetery, like a bird, beast and human wail, and he thought that the sound was made by Accountant Xu.Who killed her?And who killed Teacher Guan?Before he had time to think about it, Cherokee went down the mountain in a hurry. It took Zhang Da less than twenty minutes to drive home along the original road.He was really terrified, he didn't even know that the speed of the car was above 100 mph just now.After shutting himself in the room and washing his face, he took a deep breath, it was dangerous. The self in the mirror was exhausted.Zhang Da tried his best to recall what happened just now, but he turned a deaf ear to the singing of men and women singing like killing pigs in the karaoke hall downstairs. My own eyes in the mirror gradually widened until I felt scared at last. He suddenly thought of something, which even made him feel more eerie than seeing the two dead bodies just now. When I came back just now, I was still taking the road in Hongxing Township. The car was driving very fast. Why is there no sand pile in the middle of the road?Even a little bit.What about the shed on the side of the road, the half-built house?It's a pity that I didn't pay attention to it just now because I was so patronizing and afraid. Zhang Da thought of the old man he had seen in the shed just now, he remained motionless and did not say a word.The image of the old man emerged under the light, so much like a legendary ghost.No, I met a ghost today.That sand mound?Is it a sand mound?Could it be that I dug a grave? On the way to work the next morning, Zhang Da paid special attention to that section of the road.There is indeed a family building a house, and there is also the shed next to it.He finally breathed a sigh of relief.But how could the old man make that pile of leftover sand disappear in twenty minutes?It's unimaginable. As the cemetery got closer, Zhang Da's heart also rose to his throat.Sure enough, as he expected, more than a dozen policemen had already been there to investigate the scene.Zhang Da became nervous again. After getting off the taxi, Zhang Da looked towards the pine forest while walking towards the door of the management office.A long isolation belt was stretched on the hillside, and there were policemen with cameras taking pictures on the ground. "Here we are, good morning." Zhang Da only paid attention to the situation over there, and didn't even pay attention to the greetings from others, so he was shocked. Zhang Da turned around and almost jumped up when he saw the person greeting him in front of him.It was none other than Mr. Guan who had "died" last night. "you you……" "What's the matter with me?" Although Teacher Guan's face was pale, he still maintained a modest and gentlemanly demeanor. "It's okay." Zhang Da's sweat was already dripping down. After being sent to the criminal police team, he was also asked a lot of routine questions.Fortunately, nothing was seen. After the questioning, he was successfully sent back to the cemetery. Everyone just stayed there quietly, recalling Accountant Xu's voice and smile, lamenting the ups and downs of Songhai in the world, and wondering who the murderer was.Time just stayed in this difficult afternoon and refused to leave. I really couldn't bear Director Sun's sharp gaze, picked up the brush and paint, and walked out the door and said: "I still have two monuments to be painted, I'm going to work." In fact, among all the people , the most nervous one is me.I guess they didn't think of that.They were just surprised and horrified by this incident, not knowing who the real murderer was.And I, I think I can guess the truth of the matter.It must be my hand. Although I know that I am a ghost, it is only two days, and I haven't had time to find the feeling and rules of being a ghost.Now that I am already a ghost, it may mean that more terrible things will continue to happen around me.I was afraid that I would hurt others and tried to keep a distance from them as much as possible, but things still happened.I have a weakness. Every time I drink alcohol, I lose consciousness and don't know what I have done.Thinking of last night, I can't help but take a deep breath.The driver took me up the mountain, and I got out of the car to vomit. Judging from the site inspection photos taken by Captain Chen, my footprints appeared not far from the grove, and the time was around six or seven o'clock in the evening. time.Accountant Xu was frightened to death by something unknown, so the answer should not be wrong. It wasn't people who frightened her to death, but ghosts.And that ghost was me.