Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Invitation from Hell

In a trance, I thought my eyes were dazzled, how could there be so many tongues in the perfect new house.The tongue on the ground is much bigger than that of a human being. After looking at it for a while, I finally realized that it was a pig's tongue after I calmed down a bit.His tongue was oiled and slippery like a loach, but for some reason he was thrown in Boss Mo's new house. That day, I went to Boss Mo’s house for a wedding, and one of the dishes was braised pork tongue.This kind of pork tongue must be smeared with sesame oil in advance, cooked in a large pot, and then other processes are carried out.Boss Mo is rich and powerful. In order to show ostentation, he steams the pig's tongue in a big pot, unlike poor people who steam a tongue as a New Year's Eve dinner.I guessed that this might be the uncooked pig's tongue when Boss Mo held the wedding banquet, but no matter how rich he was, he would not dump the tongue in the new house.

Anyway, I'm here, and I can't be scared away by a room full of pig tongues.Gaining my breath, I immediately raised my flashlight, trying to find the county newspaper that published Zhao Yueyue's photo.I searched back and forth for several newspapers around March 18, 2005, but after searching, only the county newspaper on March 19 was missing.Neither the photo of Zhao Xixi nor the government notice issued by Rongshui County three years ago appeared in other newspapers. "Strange? Was it taken away first?" I stood in the new house in doubt, raised my flashlight and looked around again.

Once again, I searched to no avail, and I wanted to go back to the primary school dormitory in frustration. At this time, there were soft footsteps outside the new room.I turned off the light in fear, and wanted to run out like a thief, but the footsteps were already approaching the front of the house, so I had to hide behind the house.There is no gate installed at the back, so anyone can come and go freely.After I ran out, I heard Boss Mo's voice from a distance. He explained loudly that he saw a flashlight, but he couldn't see it when he came in. I didn't dare to stay for long, and ran towards the elementary school immediately after I escaped, without daring to turn my head back.Before I slipped out, all the lights in the tile-roofed dormitories of the primary school had been turned off, but when I went back, the lights in my room were on.I was frightened for a moment, and I didn't remember that Liu Qin lived in today. It took me a while to laugh at myself for being too nervous these days.But when I slipped out, Liu Qin was already asleep. Could it be that she woke up in the middle of the night and found that I was gone, so she turned on the light in fear?

"Yeah——" I opened the door with the key, and as soon as I entered, I saw Liu Qin hugging the quilt, staring at me in horror as I walked in. "Where have you been?" Liu Qin asked in a panic. "I..." I couldn't tell the truth, so I lied, "I went to the bathroom. What's wrong with you?" "I called your mobile phone, but it was turned off, and I didn't dare to go out to find you alone. I was afraid..." Liu Qin lived in a mountain village hut for the first time, and always felt that there were ghosts everywhere at night, and she was terrified to death.

I just wanted to say don't be afraid, there are Ouyang Xin and Wu Lingchun next door, so I should call them out.But Liu Qin told me that she had already done this. She knocked on the door a few minutes ago, but neither Ouyang Xin nor Wu Lingchun agreed.I thought to myself, no way, Wulingchun likes to gossip on weekdays, but it's not that he shouldn't answer the door?Ouyang Xin is sometimes indifferent. If someone knocks on the door, he will not pretend that he is not in the room.Could it be that they all went out in the middle of the night, so late, where else to go?This is a mountain village, and there is no other place to go.

I thought Liu Qin was weak and the knock on the door was so soft that no one could hear me, so I wanted to knock on the door to ask if Ouyang Xin and Wu Lingchun were okay.If they didn't answer the door and didn't go out, who knows if they got sick and fainted.But before I left, Liu Qin pointed to the desk by the window and told me that someone had slipped a letter in from under the door just now. "A letter?" I hesitated, thinking that there would be another newspaper in blood. "Yeah. I woke up when I heard someone walking outside. When I turned on the light, the letter was stuffed in. It has your name written on it. I didn't open it. You can see it yourself." Liu Qin Said nervously.

My calm mood fluctuated again, and my intuition told me that it could not be a love letter written by a young man in the village, it must be scarier than a newspaper in blood.I walked to the desk, and under the dim light, I saw a white envelope with the words "Tang Jiuyue" written on it.When I saw the handwriting, I felt confused. It was Zhao Xiyue's handwriting.After a long time as a teacher alone, you will gradually develop your eyesight to distinguish handwriting, because many children will help each other with homework, and when you encounter this situation, you must carefully compare handwriting.

Zhao Xiyue and I have known each other for a year, and we like to read, so we often exchange our reading experience.Zhao Xie had no money to buy books, so she borrowed them from me. Sometimes Lin Huo would not let her leave home for too long. When returning the books, she would often include a note and write a few words of thanks to me.After a long time, I became familiar with Zhao Yue's handwriting.Maybe someone can imitate Zhao Xie's handwriting, but how many people in Machang Village have seen Zhao Xie's handwriting?This is a mountain village, not a crouching tiger, hidden dragon metropolis.

At least Zhao Joy is still alive!I tore open the letter happily, took out the letter inside and took a look. There was only one sentence written on it: "I will meet you at the old horse farm at 11 o'clock tomorrow night. I have something to tell you." The old horse farm is an abandoned military horse farm. There is an army stationed here, and once the army withdraws, the old racecourse will no longer be used.The horse farm village is named after the old horse farm, but it is said that many people died in the war there, and the haunting is very serious, so people in the village don't go there.Now that Zhao Xixi told me to go there to meet her, doesn't that mean I was told to go to hell.

"What's wrong? Who wrote it for you? Why didn't I tell you directly?" Liu Qin asked in wonder. I froze for a moment and replied, "Nothing." Seeing that I refused to speak, Liu Qin stopped asking, and then pretended to be asleep.I turned off the light and sat on the bed alone, thinking quietly.The source of all the weirdness seems to be the secret that Zhao Yueyue wanted to tell me at the wedding banquet, but unfortunately she was taken away by Lin Huo before she finished speaking.Since Zhao Xixi is not dead and can write letters, why not explain it clearly in the letter.TV dramas often have plots of "I can't explain clearly on the phone, but we can talk in person", but Zhao Xixi's situation is different now, wouldn't it be great to be able to explain clearly in the letter?

Sitting in the dark room, I thought again, was Zhao Xiyue coerced by Lin Huo?After all, it was Lin Huhu who killed, not Zhao Yueyue?However, when Wang Xiaolong's group of children saw Lin Huhu digging up the body that night, Zhao Yueyue was also there, so she might know who the deceased was.The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. I always felt that Zhao Xiyue shouldn't be hiding too. Now the answer that can explain this situation is—maybe the person under the orange tree was killed by Zhao Xiyue. Can such a weak woman kill someone? I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I woke up when I heard a door closing in the dark.The sound of closing the door is very soft, if you fall asleep, you will not be woken up at all.But I didn't fall asleep, and Liu Qin was pretending to be asleep. As soon as the voice came, Liu Qin shone a light on me with her mobile phone. In the dim light, she looked at me in panic and asked if I could sleep with her.Such a small bed, two people squeezed together, it was not me who kicked her out of bed, but she kicked me out of bed, it was so boring. I got up gently, wanting to stick behind the door and listen to the movement.It's midnight now, and everyone is supposed to be asleep. Where can Wu Lingchun and Ouyang Xin go?With the sound of the door closing just now, I couldn't tell who came back, but when I got close to the door, there was no movement.Liu Qin couldn't fall asleep anymore, and insisted that I sleep with her, and under her soft and hard soak, I lay down. Liu Qin asked in a crying voice, "Is everything so scary here?" "No." I replied confusedly.Machang Village used to be very peaceful, but I don't know when it became turbulent. Maybe Ouyang Xin and Wu Lingchun often go out at night, but I didn't notice it before. "Don't turn off your phone in the future, okay? If you go out at night, I won't be able to find you or anyone else, I..." Liu Qin begged timidly. I nodded, then turned sideways and asked, "Did you really not see who put the letter in just now?" "No. I didn't turn on the light at that time, I couldn't see anything, and there was a door, so how could I see it." Liu Qin whispered, "Who wrote it for you, don't you know?" I hesitated for a while, wondering whether the letter was really delivered by Zhao Xixi. Although the handwriting was the same, her behavior was too weird.Tomorrow night at 11 o'clock to the old racecourse, Zhao Xixi is not afraid of ghosts, I am!Also, since Zhao Xiyue has come to my dormitory door, why didn't he come in and explain it directly.Therefore, I suspect that the letter was written by Zhao Xie, but the person who sent the letter was not Zhao Xie, but another person. Who is that person?Lin Huohu has become a street mouse now, and everyone shouts and beats him. Zhao Xixi dare not show up in Machang Village, and he certainly does not dare.In this way, who did Zhao Joy hire as a helper, and how did that helper get in touch with Zhao Joy?The old horse farm is nearly one kilometer away from the village, and there are deep mountains and old forests. I was very scared to go there during the day, let alone midnight.But I am ashamed of Zhao Xixi, in order to hear her finish, after thinking about it, I decided to go there tomorrow night.I only hope that Zhao Xixi and Lin Huo are separated, otherwise Lin Huo will kill me when he sees me. In fact, I can call the police and let the police accompany me quietly.However, Zhao Joy is already pregnant, and she certainly doesn't want to be sent back to her hometown.In case the dead person under the orange tree was killed by Zhao Xixi, wouldn't I send her and the child in her belly to hell?The question of whether to call the police or not should be postponed until I come back from the old racecourse tomorrow night to make a decision. Maybe I will go there, and there is no one there.But for the sake of safety, I must find a companion to accompany me, otherwise a girl who goes to the old racecourse in the middle of the night will not be found out if she is killed. But, who should I ask to accompany me? This question haunted me, and I did not fall asleep until it was almost dawn.Liu Qin got up earlier than me, and she went to the steamed stuffed bun shop in the village to buy two sesame buns for my breakfast.The steamed stuffed bun shop was opened by a woman surnamed Zhu, and everyone called her "Bao Zhu Po".Bao Zhupo is a warm person and greets everyone with a smile.Bao Zhupo's husband works outside and only comes back after Chinese New Year. I have been in Machang Village for a year, and I have only seen Bao Zhupo's husband once.This is the case for many families in the village. There are only about 30 households in the village, and the steamed stuffed bun shop doesn’t make any money. Po Zhu, who usually grows some side dishes to sell, is a relatively business-minded woman in the village.When Liu Qin bought steamed buns with Bao Zhupo, Bao Zhupo saw that it was a new teacher, so she immediately sent an extra steamed bun, and even dragged Liu Qin to chat about some village affairs.When Liu Qin came back from buying steamed buns, she asked me where I had been last night, because she had heard from Bao Zhupo that the pig tongue from Boss Mo's house had been stolen and was still dumped in the new house. I rubbed my sleepy eyes and said in a daze, "You think I'm going to steal a pig's tongue? I'm not a starving ghost." "Then where did you go last night?" Liu Qin asked me seriously. I said guiltyly, "Didn't I tell you last night, I went to the bathroom." "That's right. I forgot." Liu Qin smiled shyly, and said, "The people in the village are really strange. Since they stole the pig's tongue, why did they dump it in their house? Is there any grudge? No, I don’t want to. It’s almost time for class, let’s go together.” I thanked Liu Qin, went to wash up first, and then ate the buns she bought before going to class together.Every time, I can always forget my troubles during class, and I temporarily forget what happened last night.I was on my way, but Principal Zhang came to look for me. Ouyang Xin and Liu Qin were still standing outside the classroom.Principal Zhang would never interrupt the class like this. I thought to myself that there might be something urgent, so I came out and asked what was wrong.Unexpectedly, Principal Zhang said that Wu Lingchun didn't have class today, and no one answered when she knocked on the door of her dormitory.Principal Zhang was afraid that something might happen, so he asked some of our young teachers for questioning. Liu Qin and I glanced at each other, which meant that it was Ouyang Xin who came back in the middle of the night, and Wu Lingchun might not have come back since he went out.Now that the sun is shining on our ass, why hasn't Wu Lingchun come back? Could something really happen?I asked Principal Zhang if he had called Wu Lingchun's mobile phone, and he said that he had called many times, but no one answered.Principal Zhang didn't think Wu Lingchun had gone out and didn't return, but thought she was sick and fainted in the house, so he wanted us to go and open the door together. There is a difference between men and women. I know that Principal Zhang is taboo about this matter. It would be better to have women present.So, I walked down with Principal Zhang and others, and at the same time wondered what happened to Wu Lingchun.When Ouyang Xin came to the door, he told us to get out of the way. He slammed hard, and the door opened.I was dumbfounded and thought, so the door is so weak, let alone guard against forest tigers, it can't even guard against a fart. When the door was knocked open, we walked over suspiciously, wanting to see if Wu Lingchun was in the room, but unexpectedly saw something surprising.