Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Graveyard

It was so cold in the shivering morgue that my breath was covered with white hairs, and I wished I could leave sooner.But one item in the report caught my attention, so I continued to read.In the report, a broken tooth was mentioned, which was not a human tooth, but the cusp of a Chinese pastoral dog.The tooth was broken in the chest cavity of the corpse, and when it was burned, the charred flesh of the dog's tooth was glued to the bone. The Chinese Pastoral Dog is actually a native dog in the village. This kind of dog naturally likes to chew on objects, and sometimes they even chew on stones, causing their teeth to wear out or even break.Some more active dogs will run around and break their teeth.The report only wrote the objective chemical test results without any analysis.But I immediately remembered, Xiao Weihai let the dog bite us a month ago, his two black dogs are so fierce, who else but him?

In this way, the situation has changed.Before, we thought that Grandpa Wu was killed after stealing the photos, but could it be that Grandpa Wu was bitten to death by a dog, and the dog owner burned the body to avoid responsibility?This kind of thing is not uncommon. When I first came to Machang Village as a teacher, I heard from the villagers that there used to be a family member who didn’t tie up the dog properly, and the dog killed the one-year-old child next door.It was because of this incident that the dogs were tied up in the village, and no family let the dogs out casually. As I put away the report and put it back to the original place, I thought soberly: "No wonder the corpse was turned over and burned. It turned out that the purpose was to destroy the evidence and prevent people from seeing that the corpse had been bitten by a dog at a glance. But I remember Wang Jingui said that Grandpa Wu was strangled to death, could it be that Xiao Weihai stopped him from calling for help, so he killed him?"

As soon as I put the report back in place, I vaguely heard a sound in the distance, so I hurried upstairs and ran towards the women's toilet.Entering the cold women's toilet, I felt the urge to urinate, and then I remembered the purpose here.After urinating in a hurry, I tiptoed out and ran into the inpatient building without looking back. At this moment, I heard Ouyang Xin answering the phone. It seemed to be Wu Lingchun calling, and the tone must have taken the photo. Seeing that I was back, Liu Qin asked in a low voice, "Why did you go there for so long?" "Leave me alone! Is it Wu Lingchun calling? Is the photo studio open?" I asked back.

"That's right." Liu Qin nodded, "But it will take some time to develop the photos. Wu Lingchun asked us to wait for her in the hospital for an hour." "It's good if you find it!" I whispered, "By the way, I went to the morgue just now..." "Aren't you going to the bathroom?" Liu Qin interrupted. Then, Ouyang Xin hung up the phone, saw us whispering, and asked, "What's wrong?" I stood at the door of the ward, looking at Wang Xiaolong with dull eyes, feeling sad for a while.After thinking about it, I called Ouyang Xin and Liu Qin out and told about Gouya.Both Ouyang Xin and Liu Qin blamed me for being too impulsive. If I was caught, or if there were cameras or something like that, the police would suspect that I was behind the scenes.All of us slipped out, so I couldn't be bothered so much, so I hurriedly asked everyone's opinions, did they all think that Xiao Weihai's dog bit Grandpa Wu to death, so they set fire to the body.

Ouyang Xin agrees: "This makes sense, otherwise why set fire to the corpse? Of course it's to cover up the truth!" "I think so too." I nodded. "Then how did Grandpa Wu get bitten? Isn't Xiao Weihai's dog in the orchard? So, Grandpa Wu went to the orchard to find Xiao Weihai?" Liu Qin asked. "We'll have to wait for the news from Wulingchun. Agong Wu and Xiao Weihai have no friendship. He must have gone there because of the photos." I analyzed. "Oh! It's no wonder!" Liu Qinfan came to his senses, "A month ago, Xiao Weihai was shot and wounded, and he agreed not to call the police! Is he afraid that people will investigate his two black dogs?"

"And that hand," I added. Afterwards, we waited for more than an hour. Wulingchun came late, and Ouyang Xin took the initiative to tell her about the autopsy report when we met.Wu Lingchun blushed shyly for a while, then handed over the photo and asked us to observe it carefully.In that photo, Ouyang Xin is walking down from the teaching building, followed by a group of elementary school students. The background is Machang Village Primary School, nothing special.I looked at it for a long time but didn't see any clues, so I simply asked Liu Qin to look at it. She is a newcomer, so she may be able to see something wrong.

Doctors passed by from time to time in the corridor, and I saw Wang Jingui walking around at the end, feeling guilty for a moment, and hurriedly told everyone to leave the hospital quickly.As for the fruit we bought, the nurse promised to peel the fruit for Wang Xiaolong to eat, and we also fed him one, so we retreated in a hurry.We three women looked at that photo back and forth, but we didn't seem to notice it, and finally turned into drooling admiring Ouyang Xin in the photo.Seeing that we hadn't found any clues for more than ten minutes, Ouyang Xin couldn't stand it any longer. He pulled the photos and looked at them, but he still could only frown.

"Forget it! Let's ride back to Machang Village first. It's getting dark fast now, and it's too dangerous to ride at night." I looked at the sky and said standing at the entrance of the county hospital. "I developed four photos, and everyone took one each, so as not to lose them." After sending out the photos, Wu Lingchun unlocked the bicycle and agreed to go back now. Liu Qin wanted to go back a long time ago, and immediately agreed, and Ouyang Xin also had no objection, but his brows frowned even tighter.I guess, Ouyang Xin may think that this trip is rewarding, but the fog has not cleared, he must be uncomfortable.Suddenly, I felt that I understood Ouyang Xin's mood best.Four years have passed, and Ouyang Xin must have been waiting for Jiang Lin to come back every night. He often goes out at night, maybe he just wants to see her in the village.I am the same, how I hope Zhao Xiyue can reappear now, to know if she is well.

On the ride back, none of us spoke, we were all thinking about something.In the evening, we rushed back to Machang Village. Xiao Weihai just drove back from the orchard. When we saw his car, we were so scared that we all flew away.Unexpectedly, Xiao Weihai drove the car very fast and drove it up.I was so scared that I thought Xiao Weihai was going to run us over, but I saw him chasing us in a van and blocking the road. Xiao Weihai stopped me first, and then asked from the driver's seat: "Did you see my dog ​​when you came back?" "Those two biting black dogs?" Liu Qin snorted, "I didn't see it!"

"Strange! Why is it missing!" Xiao Weihai muttered, turned the car around, and drove out of the village, continuing to look for his dog. I watched the car drifting away, thinking that it couldn't be such a coincidence, we just found out today that the dog's tooth was broken in Grandpa Wu's body, and Xiao Weihai's dog disappeared?In this way, if the police want to compare the dog teeth in the village, wouldn't they be unable to find a match?Did Xiao Weihai's dog really disappear, or did he destroy the body to prevent the police from taking advantage?After the van drove away, I regained my senses, and then rode back to the elementary school.

After going back and forth, the four of us were all exhausted and our buttocks were worn out. After entering the door, we each lay back on the bed.After a while, I gritted my teeth and got up, wanting to boil hot water to take a shower, and then vaguely saw a white envelope sandwiched by the window.Suspiciously, I raised the curtain and pulled the letter in vigorously, thinking who wrote to me again?Please, it must be a love letter, not a threatening letter! I tore open the envelope and took out the letterhead inside, and I was stunned.This is Zhao Yue's handwriting, it's definitely not bad.In the letter, Zhao Xiyue wrote: "Tang Jiuyue, don't let anyone see this letter, you can't trust anyone now! If you want to know the truth, then come to the cemetery behind the village tonight. Waiting for you there. You must be thinking, why I didn’t say it in the letter, because I can’t explain it in the letter, I can only tell you in person. See you at midnight tonight. Zhao Xixi. November 18.” "Sister Joy is not dead, thank God." I thought fortunately, but I wondered why Zhao Xiyue would go back to the village, didn't she want to borrow money to escape?Come back this time, sister Joy just to tell me the truth?She has made it clear!We were at the Earth Temple a month ago, and she said all she could, except that she didn't know the reason for her disappearance again. Liu Qin was lying on the bed, woken up by the sound of me flipping the letter paper, she glanced at me in a daze, and asked me what's wrong, I said I'm going to boil the water first, you can go to sleep.Liu Qin was like a pig, she closed her eyes and fell asleep again. I picked up the letter and closed the door quietly, boiling water while thinking about the letter.This handwriting doesn't look like imitation, but what Zhao Xixi wanted to ask me this time, does she still have a secret to keep?Why didn't you say it last time? While I was lighting the fire, I took the letter and read it again, and this time I was stunned again.It is now in late October, and it is not yet November, but the date of signing the letter is "November 18".This weird date has appeared several times in my books and letters. I don’t know why Zhao Xiyue deliberately wrote it down several times. What kind of password game is she playing? "What are you looking at?" At this time, a man's voice came from behind, and I was startled, so I burned the letter.Looking back, Ouyang Xin was standing behind, holding a bundle of firewood for me.I was beside the open-air stove, took a long breath, took the firewood and said that I was thinking about something just now and didn't look at anything.Ouyang Xin didn't ask any more questions, and when he gave the firewood, he said that he was here to light the fire and asked me to go back and rest.I remembered that Zhao Xiyue had warned in the letter not to trust anyone, so I concealed the letter. I really don't know how to choose between the good sisters I have known for a year and the colleagues I have worked with for a year. This night, after everyone took a shower and fell asleep, I quietly opened the door and ran out in the dark alone.The cold wind was bleak at night, my teeth chattered, and I walked out of the school in a panic, and walked towards the cemetery behind the village.It was even scarier than the old racecourse. There were piles of graves in disorder. I heard that some of the graves had no descendants, and no one cared about the coffins out of the ground. Some wild animals dug up the coffins and gnawed the bones on the ground. I became more courageous, and after walking a certain distance alone, I gradually lost my fear.The cemetery is surrounded by mountains, and there are piles of grass and trees, unlike the old horse farm which has a large area of ​​grass, with a wide view.When I walked nearby, in order to avoid danger, I checked the mobile phone signal in advance.It's close to the village, and although the mobile phone signal is only two bars, it's still much better than that at the old racecourse.If I call for someone, or shout, the people in the village will definitely hear me. I fumbled into the cemetery, there were no strange birds and insects chirping, only the sound of my breathing intersecting with the sound of the wind.It was my bad luck that I walked into the depths of the cemetery and stepped on a coffin protruding from the ground.The lid of the coffin was rotten, and there was a big hole. My foot got stuck in it, and I sprained it, which almost hurt me to death.At this moment, a person came from the dense forest. I lay down on the ground and saw a pair of shoes in front of me, but they were men's shoes!