Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Third

Liu Qin and I stood in the dormitory, the autumn sun shone in, but we couldn't feel the warmth.I opened the letter and took a look. The handwriting on the letter was crooked, exactly the same as the one on the envelope, and the handwriting was deliberately hidden from people.The content of the letter reads: "Teacher Tang, I didn't have enough time last time, so I only wrote one sentence. I saw Grandpa Wu was killed that night. But I dare not tell the police uncle or tell others. I'm afraid I'll be killed too. Uncle Lin is the murderer." There is only so much content in the letter, and it is still not signed, so it is impossible to find out which student wrote the letter.I carefully recalled that a month ago, I asked the students to write notes. At that time, I received a note that said "I saw someone kill Grandpa Wu".I thought that was over long ago, but I didn't expect that student to write another letter a month ago and it was delivered to me by post.The postmark is October 8th, which means that the student who wrote the letter sent the letter to the county town during the National Day holiday, but the post office only comes to Machang Village once a month, so this letter was not shown to me until today.

"Who is this student?" Liu Qin asked me from the side. "Whoever he is! He saw Lin Huo kill someone. This is evidence. We must keep it safe." After I finished speaking, I carefully hid the letter in the pillowcase. Liu Qin asked suspiciously, "Aren't you going to call the police?" I turned around and smiled wryly: "I've changed my mind, so you should change it too. If you go to the police with just one letter, and they say it's a prank, what should you do? Now we should be getting closer to the truth, wait a minute." If you want to call the police, you must be sure to convince the police and follow our clues to investigate, otherwise the police will be futile and will cause a commotion."

Liu Qin smirked for a moment, recalling the experience a month ago, and laughed at herself that it was time to change her mind.I looked at Liu Qin and really wanted to tell her that Zhao Xiyue also wrote me a letter last night, but stopped hesitantly.Many times, every time I find clues, people hiding in the dark can take the lead, as if someone is watching me by my side.And Zhao Xiyue also mentioned in the letter that she must never trust anyone, and if she mentioned that letter to anyone, could it be that she already knew that there was a mole around me? Liu Qin didn't know what I was thinking, and asked me what I was going to have for dinner with a smile, which made me feel guilty.She just came to Machang Village, and she didn't know Zhao Xiyue and others before, so how could she be a traitor?Besides, Liu Qin was also injured by falling down the stairs because of these things, so it is unlikely to be a traitor.So, I relaxed my nerves and continued to talk to Liu Qin, but I still didn't mention the letter.The reasons for not mentioning it are because I was afraid of frightening Liu Qin, and the second was that I stuffed the letter into the stove yesterday and burned it.

Sunday afternoon was very leisurely. I was lying on the bed reading a novel, and Liu Qin was also reading. The only sound in the dormitory was the melodious sound of flipping through books.After watching for some time, someone knocked on the door outside. I thought it was Ouyang Xin, so I said the door was ajar and pushed hard.However, the person who walked in was Village Chief Wang. I turned my head to look, and immediately sat upright with Liu Qin.Village head Wang smiled at us and told us not to be nervous, he just wanted to thank us for coming. "Thank you?" I asked. "You went to see Xiaolong yesterday. It was hard work. I heard that you went there by bicycle." Village Chief Wang thanked.

"It's just a small matter. We haven't been to the county seat for a long time, so we just dropped in." I opened my mouth. After thanking Village Chief Wang, he hesitated a bit, and said after a while: "Teacher Tang, I want to discuss something with you, do you agree?" "Okay, you say." I spoke very easily, but my heart was very nervous. Seeing that I agreed first, Village Chief Wang told me happily that he wanted me to help Wang Xiaolong make up lessons.It turned out that Wang Xiaolong was discharged from the hospital today, and village head Wang took him home to slowly recuperate.However, Wang Xiaolong missed the class for more than a month, and the village head Wang wanted to ask me to help him make up lessons tomorrow.Naturally, there is no remuneration for making up lessons, and I don't want to be paid, but I can only make up lessons at night, because I have to attend classes at school during the day.

Village head Wang was very happy and said that he could send Wang Xiaolong to school at 7 o'clock in the evening without making me run around.I wanted to be polite, but Village Chief Wang explained that his home was very noisy and he was afraid of affecting the effect of make-up lessons, so he insisted on letting Wang Xiaolong make up one-on-one make-up lessons at night at school.I thought to myself that it is not safe to walk alone in the village at night. Since Village Chief Wang insisted, I might as well agree to prevent him from changing his mind, as long as he remembers to pick up the child at 9 o'clock in the evening.

After the matter was settled, Village Chief Wang was about to leave, so I stopped him and asked, "Village Chief, did you catch the thief yesterday? Did you see Tiger Lin?" "By the way! If you don't tell me, I'll forget it!" Village Chief Wang turned around and said, "Don't go out at night. The thief may be Lin Huo. He didn't bring anything when he ran away. Maybe he wants to come back to get something these days. ...After Lin Huo took the things away, the village will be as safe as before. Don't be afraid." "Yeah." I responded and sent the village chief away. When I returned to the dormitory, Liu Qin asked curiously, "You just asked about the thief and Tiger Lin. Have you met him? When?"

"Oops!" I knew I had made a slip of the tongue, just now I was chatting with Village Chief Wang, but I forgot about Liu Qin.Seeing that I couldn't hide it anymore, I told the truth, but Liu Qin didn't blame me, but agreed that my suspicion was right.For example, after I found the memory card, one day someone tried to steal it while I was in the shower. Only four people knew about it, and it would be strange if there were no moles.Also, on a rainy night a month ago, the aluminum box was always in my sight, so why was it stolen?This is definitely a ghost, only the people around can do it.

Perhaps the matter of the memory card was leaked by Wu Lingchun's big mouth, but I went to see Zhao Xiyue last night, and I am the only one who knows about it. Who can secretly report and let Tiger Lin go and arrest me? It's been an afternoon, and I can't even think about it. Liu Qin saw that I had a headache from thinking about it, so she told me not to think about it.The night fell quickly, we had dinner and had nothing to do, so we walked together on the playground, blowing the cold autumn wind.Both Ouyang Xin and Wu Lingchun closed the door, bored in the dormitory, and did not come out.I looked at the lights they turned on, and couldn't help but think about the traitor. Is there really a traitor among the four of us?In the mountain villages in the real world, it is unlikely that there are monitors. I can't think of any reasonable explanation except for the traitor.

When the whole body became hot, Liu Qin and I returned to the dormitory and rolled up under the quilt to sleep.This night, I was also half asleep and half awake, afraid that Zhao Xiyue would look for me.In the morning, I woke up and saw that there were no letters left inside or outside the dormitory. I couldn't help being disappointed. I didn't know whether the good sisters of the past were alive or dead, and my heart hurt badly. On Monday morning, Ouyang Xin went to ask some old teachers if there was a second clinic building in the village.Unfortunately, the conclusions drawn are all negative. Apart from the teaching building, the village has never built a second health center building.Back then, the village was so poor that it would be nice to be able to build one building, but there was no financial capacity to build a second one.Wu Lingchun also took advantage of his big mouth and asked around, but to no avail.

On Monday afternoon, I had no class, and I wanted to make up lessons for Wang Xiaolong in the evening, but Bao Zhupo came to the school to find me.Ouyang Xin was very surprised when he saw that I was in contact with Bao Zhupo, because apart from Liu Qin, I didn't mention what happened last night to them.It is not important for Bao Zhupo to find me, because now it is November, and the pine fungus in the mountains has grown well, and she wants me to go pick them together. Pine fungi grow in pine forests, and they grow the most in April and November. Villagers will pick them vigorously in these two months and use them as food.Pine mushrooms are delicious. In the mountains where there is no pork to eat, that is my yearn.As soon as I heard the invitation, I readily agreed and boldly walked out of school with Bao Zhupo.The others still had to go to class, so they couldn't follow. They were so jealous that they asked me to come back and share some.Ouyang Xin was the only one who was not too happy, fearing that something would happen to me in the mountains.The pine forest is in the old racecourse. If it were the same as before, I would definitely not dare to go there.But as soon as November comes, more people will go to the old racecourse. No matter how daring Lin Huo is, he dare not choose to appear at that time. On the trail to the old horse farm, Bao Zhupo and I met more than 10 villagers, all of whom went to the pine forest to grab pine fungus.I see that Bao Zhupo likes to talk to everyone, and I feel relieved. As long as she has company, maybe she can get rid of the habit of stealing things.When we arrived at the old racecourse, everyone dispersed and walked into the pine forest in different directions.Bao Zhupo was also going to be separated from me, so I was so scared that I hurriedly asked her for a sickle to defend myself. "Bao Zhupo, don't go too far, it's getting dark quickly, we have to go back early." I told nervously, and at the same time, I thought, everyone must be afraid that they will not be able to get the pine fungus if they are crowded together, so I still miscalculated if we separated up. "Don't be afraid! The wild boar was beaten to death by the groom king in 1995, no more!" Bao Zhupo replied loudly. The Groom King is Wang Jingui's father. His real name is Wang Heizi. He used to be a groom at the old racecourse, so everyone called him Groom King.I have heard that there are wild boars in the mountains, but I have never seen them, and now I have a little desire to see them.However, I didn't dare to go deep into the pine forest. I just wandered around the edge for fear of getting lost or encountering a forest tiger.How do you know, I was greedy, I saw many pine fungi, picked them all the way, and walked into the depths without knowing it, and there was no one around. "Bao Zhu Po!" I broke out in a cold sweat and shouted loudly. However, no one answered, only heard the strong wind blowing, rustling the pine forest, as if someone was walking nearby.I turned around in panic and looked, but I couldn't see anyone. This didn't make me feel at ease, but made me even more scared.For a moment, I was too lazy to pick pine mushrooms, and ran out of the pine forest in a panic.As I was running, a road hidden in the grass came into view. I was suspicious and stopped. This is a deep mountain, how can there be a road, will you not encounter ghosts hitting the wall?But I looked along the end of the road, and there was a two-story white building in the pine forest over there, but it was climbed by many green plants, and it was difficult to detect its existence from a distance.Immediately, my curiosity got the upper hand, I was no longer so afraid, and I boldly walked towards the building.Before I got closer, I saw a sign on the side of the road overgrown with weeds. It was written in red paint on a wooden board with a white paint background-"Epidemic Prevention System". The sign was covered in dust, and the white paint was so old that it was a little yellow, exuding a sense of history.After reading the content on the sign, I realized that the second clinic building is in the pine forest!Because the racecourse is easy to transmit diseases, every time you enter the racecourse, you have to be disinfected in the epidemic prevention station in the past.Therefore, in the pine forest of the old horse farm, a building combining an epidemic prevention station and a sanitation center was built to deal with the infectious diseases of the old horse farm and the health problems of management personnel.The villagers only remember the health center in the village. When we asked them, no one remembered that there was a second one in the old horse farm! "Oh my god! Is this where Jiang Lin used to be? Is this the place the camera captured?" I was out of breath for a while, looking at the building in Songlin, hesitating whether to go in now, maybe Jiang Lin is missing The answer is in the building. I walked slowly and hesitantly for a few steps, and the building was almost in front of me. I suddenly felt that the soles of my feet were sticky, and when I looked down, I was so scared that I retracted my feet.