Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Eight Letters from a Dead Corpse

Above Laoma Village, the air seemed to be frightened. The moment the coffin was opened, a gust of wind blew away the strong stench in the coffin.My intestines and stomach squirmed for a while, and I felt that someone was stirring my stomach with my hands, and the bitter bile rushed to my throat.The probe saw that the people in the coffin all retreated together, screaming and bouncing away, as if they would die a second later. At this moment, the inside of the coffin was unexpectedly filled with a layer of broth, red, green, yellow, and black mixed together, combined with the rancid smell, could make a fat person vomit into a thin person in an instant.Grandpa Wu was put into the coffin in the state of a skeleton. Even if the skeleton could rot, it is impossible for a pile of fleshy water to come out.Enduring the nausea, I stood on tiptoe and looked in. There was an inflated corpse inside the coffin, which looked like a balloon, and it seemed that it would explode if I poked it.The face of the corpse has been distorted, and it is impossible to recognize who it is, but the black hair on the head is floating in the corpse water, and the length should be female.

This situation caught everyone by surprise, and the police didn't know how to deal with it, so they all stared blankly.I looked at the side for a while, and suddenly felt that the clothes on the corpse were very familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere.Thinking about it carefully, my whole body froze, it was Zhao Xiyue who passed through it!Since I left the Earth Temple that night, more than a month has passed, and I have never met Zhao Xiyue again. Could it be that she died long ago? However, I just received a letter from Zhao Xiyue last Saturday, and I came to the cemetery to wait for her that night. It took only a few days, why did she run into the coffin.The degree of decay of the corpse is not like two or three days, at least more than ten days, or even more than a month, and Grandpa Wu was buried more than a month ago.I thought about it, and recalled that on the day of the burial, everyone had a funeral banquet in the village, and everyone heard the sound of knocking on the coffin. Could it be that Zhao Xixi was put in it then?

As soon as I thought of this detail, the policeman wore gloves, took a bottle of corpse water, and slowly lifted the fat female corpse out.At this time, the corpse water and dirt were swept away, and I saw that the mouth of the female corpse was sealed with something like tape, and her limbs were also bound.I stared blankly at all this, thinking that everyone actually buried Zhao Xiyue alive, and the world will never know her fear and despair in the coffin. On the night of the wake, Zhao Xixi came to me and asked me to borrow money. She needed money to escape.Later, I went to the Earth Temple with the money, but Zhao Xixi disappeared, and there has been no news since then.I stood on the edge of the cemetery in a daze, recalling that I had left the coffin with Ouyang Xin for a while during the wake, and crawled to Xiao Weihai's house to see if the aluminum box was in his house.If someone took advantage of that time to put Zhao Xiyue in, although it would be difficult, it would still be possible. After all, the coffin was very rough and the nails were not fully nailed.

While I was still thinking about it, the police wrapped up the body and put it away, and then fished out a charred skeleton from the yellow-green body water in the coffin, which should be Grandpa Wu.In this case, the body must have been destroyed, and it would take a long time to find evidence to pinpoint the murderer.Li Zhou, Wang Jingui and other corpses were packed, but they all looked at me in unison, as if I did this. Aunt Liu stood a few feet away from me, she immediately jumped out and said, "Teacher Tang and Teacher Ouyang were keeping watch that night. Why did the people in the coffin change? You two should explain to the police."

Ouyang Xin looked at me, then at Wu Lingchun, unable to argue.I have lied a lot lately, so I made up an excuse on the spot without even thinking about it: "That night, Ouyang Xin and I left for an hour or two because I had diarrhea and asked him to accompany me to the school toilet, and I had diarrhea many times just came back." Everyone heard my justification, but no one believed it. The police immediately asked everyone to separate, and they wanted to ask who stayed behind to guard the coffin after it was sealed.Both Ouyang Xin and I know that this is a procedure of going out of the way, and all fools know that we are the two who are most suspected.But in fact, we really didn't put Zhao Xixi in the coffin. We crawled to Xiao Weihai's house that night, someone must have tampered with it during that time.

However, it happened so suddenly that I didn't think about it at all. I didn't know how to explain many things, so I chose to keep everything secret.Ouyang Xin thought the same as me, and chose to remain silent. It was all thanks to me making up an excuse before the police, and he heard everything from the side.And it has been more than a month now, it is impossible for ordinary people to remember clearly what happened that night, the more vague the answer, the more believable it is, unlike on TV, where the answer is smooth every few years. Others were also questioned, but they couldn't answer anything, so the police could only start with the body and evidence.This time, not only us, but even the police were very surprised. How could there be such a criminal with high IQ in the village, which is rare in a hundred years.Although I am the suspect of Li Zhou and the others, they have no direct evidence yet, so it is impossible to arrest me immediately.Wang Jingui couldn't draw a series of conclusions just by looking at the corpse, so he transported the corpse out together with the police.However, the coffin was not taken away, but some evidence was collected in a pretentious manner, and a few photos were taken at the scene before it was reburied.

The opening of the coffin caused a big commotion in the village, and the villagers rushed to tell the story. No one had eaten at lunch time, and they were all discussing whether the murderer was Lin Huo.But I don't think Tiger Lin can be the murderer. First, Zhao Xixi is pregnant with his child, and second, he is a fugitive. How dare he put someone in a coffin? If someone sees him, he won't be able to escape .When I returned to the dormitory with Ouyang Xin and Wu Lingchun, Liu Qin also came back. When I asked her where she had been, she said that she was changing her homework in the office. Because the mobile phone was in silent mode, she didn’t realize that I had called her. .

Regarding the opening of the coffin, Liu Qin was very surprised. She also asked: "Did the police not arrest anyone? This is definitely not a prank. There must be a murderer." "What are you arresting? At least they won't come to a conclusion until they have finished researching the evidence. It won't be that fast." I replied absent-mindedly. Wu Lingchun was in our room. Hearing what we said, she asked, "Tang Jiuyue, did you really have diarrhea that night? How do I remember that you borrowed a lot of money before going to the wake, saying it was..." "Didn't I tell you all the things before?" I sighed, "What I told the police just now was all lies, and I must not tell the truth. Now the situation is getting more and more complicated, and I don't know what to do. Speak to them."

Wu Lingchun looked at me thoughtfully, recalling a month ago, the day after the three shots, I counted things one by one, and started to be shocked again.Then, Wu Lingchun looked at Ouyang Xin who was silently in a daze, and asked in a low voice: "Then you really don't know why Zhao Xiyue was put into the coffin?" Ouyang Xin nodded, and Wu Lingchun said, "Then I won't dare to go to the toilet at night. Who is the murderer? When did the village become so scary!" "Will the police suspect us?" At this time, Liu Qin asked worriedly, "Because of Lin Shuxiang's incident, many things cannot be reported, even if there is evidence, can't they say it?"

"That's what I said, but if I can help Sister Xie find her murderer, even if I am confessed by Lin Shuxiang, I will tell the truth to the police." I said seriously, "Now we will see what the police can find. I will sort out the evidence I have obtained so far in the past few days, and find out what can help, these things must be related, " Seeing that I was so sure, Liu Qin didn't object, and only asked me what evidence I had.I closed the doors and windows tightly, and then analyzed it with three other people. Now the only evidence is the memory card, and the rest are speculations, which cannot be established.A fire broke out in the pine forest last night, and the notebook I finally snatched from the health building was also burned. That should be the most important evidence. If I can get it, it should make the case final.

Every time I approach the truth, there will always be accidents, either God is playing tricks on people, or there are ghosts around me, otherwise it would not be such a coincidence.Once again, I began to doubt these people, but my mind was weird and I didn't want to think about it. We discussed for a whole noon, but there was no conclusion, because we had to go to class, so we broke up hastily.In the afternoon, someone came to ask about the fire, and asked all the people who went to pick pine fungus, but no one admitted it.Among the people who went, there were several men who had the habit of smoking, so they became the objects of suspicion.During class, I casually looked at the students. Wang Xiaolong still didn't come. Maybe he was too embarrassed to see me. It seemed that I wanted to find an opportunity to have a good talk with him. This day, I was in a daze, always feeling that Zhao Xiyue was still watching me from the dark.And I was also thinking, if Zhao Xixi died, how could she write me a note last Saturday night?Can dead bodies write letters?In this matter, there is only one reasonable explanation - that note was written a long time ago, and Lin Huo used it to lure me out, trying to kill me, after all, I am one of the people who know the most truth.Thinking of it this way, it makes sense, that is why Lin Huo didn't run away, and insisted on staying for so long. At night, I started to have nightmares again. Either Lin Shuxiang was chasing me with his burnt face, or Zhao Xixi crawled out of the mud and grabbed my feet.In the middle of the night, I woke up from a dream and couldn't fall asleep.I turned on the light, and Liu Qin was in a deep sleep, still talking in her sleep.After rubbing my forehead, I picked up the quilt and curled up on the bed, involuntarily thinking about those messy things again. In the early morning, I still couldn't sleep. After I opened the door, the grass outside was covered with a layer of hoarfrost, and my exhaled breath turned white.I wanted to boil some water and wash Liu Qin's face later, when a strange call came to my mobile phone.When the bell rang, how I wished it was Zhao Yueyue, and she would tell me that she had fled to another place.Unfortunately, I got through the phone, but the other party was Li Zhou. He told me to find a way to go to the County Public Security Bureau today, saying that he had something to talk to me about. I can't refuse, I can only agree, and this is expected.However, Ouyang Xin was not called by Li Zhou, and I was the only one who asked Principal Zhang for leave.On this day, Mrs. Bao Zhu was going to the county town to buy flour, so I gave her a ride, not daring to ride a bicycle on the mountain road alone.Originally, I thought Li Zhou suspected that I was the murderer, but I didn't expect to go to the County Public Security Bureau, so he asked me to go with him to the county hospital.After seeing Wang Jingui and another male doctor, I realized that Li Zhou asked me to identify Zhao Xiyue's clothes, and there was no special important matter.Wang Jingui also said that even if clues can be found within a day, they still have to report the results for approval, and they will not lock the prisoner so quickly. China's work efficiency is such that he can't do anything about it. I didn't see the body, they only showed the cleaned clothes and shoes, I don't know what happened to the bloated fat body.I nodded to them and admitted that the clothes were indeed worn by Zhao Yue, and there was nothing wrong with that.At the same time, I looked back at them nervously. These people must know that the deceased was not the real Zhao Yue, but Tian Yinghua, but they thought I didn't know.Soon, Li Zhou sent me out and told me to go back to school quickly. I stood at the gate of the hospital and looked at my watch. It was only 11 o'clock in the morning, and Mrs. Bao Zhu was still buying flour and other things in the market, and she would not return until 14 o'clock.I really had no choice, so I ate a bowl of Guilin rice noodles on the street, and then went to an Internet cafe to waste time, which was considered a refreshment.In the Internet cafe, I listened to side songs, read the news, and chatted online with my former classmates.After a while, I remembered that the memory card was still on me, so I borrowed a card reader from the network administrator to study the photos and videos on the memory card. Last time, we didn't have much time, and we had to go back to the county by bicycle, so we didn't study it carefully.I wanted to see it again a long time ago, but there is no computer in the village, so I waited for several days before I got the chance.Although those photos and videos can be regarded as evidence, they did not capture any substantive pictures. Those people either died or ran away, which did not play much role in the case. It seemed that I couldn't research anything, so I wanted to zoom in on the photos of the health building, trying to find out whether Jiang Lin had captured some imperceptible clues.I zoomed in on several photos one after another, but to no avail.I was about to give up and wanted to continue chatting with my old classmates, but at this time I found that there was an important detail in the memory card that was easily overlooked.