Chapter 44 Chapter 3 The Nun Priest

I exchanged two bottles of Erguotou for a shocking story from the mouth of the old disobedient Zhibo. Anyway, the test on Yuetong’s side still had no results, so I continued to chat with him. I didn’t expect him to say that it happened more than 50 years ago. Similar corpse incidents. When he was about to ask, he found that the wine bottle in Zhibo's hand was empty, but he obviously hadn't had enough.Although it is not suitable for him to drink so much alcohol at his age, there is an ancient poem that says "to be happy in life, don't let the golden cup be empty to the moon". It is true that abstaining from smoking, drinking, sex and sexual abstinence can lead to a long life, but what is the meaning of such a long life? Woolen cloth?If I could exchange my ten-year lifespan for ten days of happy time, I'd be willing to do so, too. Isn't there a saying that goes, "One day's happiness is the enemy of a thousand years"?

I called Zhenzhen, who was in a daze by the door, and asked her to buy wine. Although she was a little unhappy, she went anyway.Although this place is relatively remote, she has slender feet and runs very fast. It shouldn't take much time to go there and back. I suddenly thought of a question, my mother-in-law said that Zhenzhen is a virgin, but a crazy girl like her, running around all day, the film may have been finished long ago.This kind of rupture caused by sports, Yipo probably can't see it! After Zhenzhen left, Zhibo began to tell me about the strange things that happened over fifty years——

At that time, it was probably the mid-1950s. I was already in my early twenties, and I had followed the master for several years.Although it was already liberated at that time, many things were still handled according to the old rules. Mummers like me and my master would often help the public with autopsies... Oh, at that time, the public office seemed to be the same as it is now, called a police station. I remember that it was late summer and early autumn, so it should be around August or September like now.The master and I were having lunch that day, when the people from the police station came and said they had found a pair of human bones outside the village, and asked the master to help.The master didn't even bother to eat, so he took me there.

Judging from the height of the human skeleton, it should be a child of thirteen or fourteen years old. The skin and flesh are all gone, leaving only bones and hair. It looks like he has been dead for several years.But the clothes are still in good condition. Although they are a little old and have been patched a lot, they don't look like they have been left in the wild for several years. In those days, there were not as many people as there are now, and anyone who had a child disappeared could be known by just asking. At that time, only Uncle Tian’s eldest son, Qiangzai, was missing in the village.However, it was only five days ago that Qiangzi disappeared, how could he suddenly become a bone?However, when Uncle Tian and his wife came, they cried when they saw the clothes on the bones.The patches on the clothes are patched up stitch by stitch by Mrs. Tian, ​​so she wouldn't recognize it!

At that time, this incident made people panic. Everyone thought that there was a monster eating children nearby, and the police station never found out about this incident, so everyone locked the child at home... The location mentioned by Zhibo is about one kilometer away from the place where Zhou Shaolong's remains were found, and the condition of the deceased is exactly the same. These two things must be related.However, the two cases occurred more than fifty years apart. If it was a man-made murder, even if the murderer was only in his teens at the time, he would be an old man now. Whether Zhibo can beat a young man in his prime is a question A question, it should not be possible to do something that consumes energy such as skinning and scraping meat.

At this time, Zhen Zhen had already bought the wine, and threw it on the table very rudely, almost without breaking it.Zhibo ignored her bad attitude, his eyes lit up when he saw the wine, he unscrewed the bottle cap and poured it into his mouth.I asked him if there was anything special about the discovery of the human bones. He was thinking while drinking, but since it was half a century ago, it was difficult to remember the details. After a long time, he seemed to remember something: "At that time, there seemed to be some... what kind of grass was it near the human bone? It was the kind of purple..."

"Lavender?" In my impression, the only purple plants in this area are lavender. "Yes, it's lavender. There are some lavender in the place where the human bones were found. It should be picked by children for fun..." Zhi Bo fell asleep lying on the table while talking.Looking at the three empty wine bottles on the table, I thought if it was me, half of the bottles fell down before I finished drinking them. I carried Zhibo back to his bedroom of less than ten square meters, covered him with a quilt and left with Zhenzhen. As soon as he left the door, the phone rang, and it was Yue Tong's call: "Amu, you guessed it right, this case is indeed related to a cult."

"Do you know what sect it is?" I asked anxiously. "Christianity." I almost fell over when I heard that. "You're having fun with me again." I said helplessly.If someone else made such a joke on me, I would definitely greet her mother, but no matter how Yuetong tricks me, I can only accept my fate, who told me I owe her. "The piece of paper found in the deceased's schoolbag, after frequent processing, the writing on it can be seen clearly. It is not 'believe in what you get buffalo', but 'believe in God and get eternal life'. Here are some introductions about Christianity , and wrote the address of a nearby church. The plant residue on the bicycle gear has been tested and confirmed to be lavender, so you might want to check out that church.”

Didn't Zhibo say that lavender was also found at the scene of the corpse incident more than 50 years ago?Could it be that the two deceased were killed because they had been to the same place? "Has the identity of the deceased been confirmed?" This question is very important. If the identity of the deceased cannot be determined, the direction of the investigation is prone to deviation. "It has been confirmed. DNA testing has confirmed that he is Zhou Shaolong." After finishing the conversation with Yue Tong, I made a call to Liu Nian to ask if it was possible for the head to open its eyes. The answer I got was: "The possibility is very low, but it cannot be said that it is absolutely impossible. A person dies after a short period of time. Within a period of time, there may be a phenomenon of muscle contraction, so it is theoretically possible to open the eyes, but the probability of occurrence is probably only one in hundreds of thousands. Like you said, you can still open your eyes three years after death , the possibility is even lower, maybe only one in a billion, it can only be said that this possibility cannot be ruled out.”

The reason why I asked Fleeting Nian specifically was to confirm whether Zhibo was drunk and talking nonsense. Since Fleeting Nian said it was possible, then Zhibo's words had a certain degree of credibility. After hanging up the phone, Zhen Zhen and I came to an orphanage located between Huaishi Middle School and Zhouwu Village, which is not far from the place where the two corpse cases happened more than 50 years apart.The orphanage is called the Smith Children's Orphanage, and it appears to be a non-government institution.We came here because there was a church in the orphanage, and that was the church that the handwritten leaflet said it was.

The scale of the church is small, and it adopts European Baroque style. It should be built in the early Republic of China, and it may have a history of more than one hundred years.However, it looks quite solid, unlike the current tofu projects, which have been listed as dangerous buildings for thirty or fifty years. Today is Sunday and there is worship in the church.When we arrived, the pastor was already leading the believers to sing Amen hymns, and it seemed that the service would end soon, so we did not rush in, but stood outside the door and waited, while observing the situation inside.After all, this is a small church located in a remote place, so there are not many believers who come to worship, but I found foreigners.Compared with us, foreigners attach great importance to religious belief. Although from a personal point of view, religion is a product of politics, but people without belief are indeed more likely to degenerate and even commit crimes. After the solemn worship ceremony, an old nun in her sixties with a kind face and believers sent each other outside the door talking and laughing. When she saw us, she showed us a friendly smile and asked humbly: " Need help? Son of Heavenly Father." "Hello, my name is Mu Shenyu. I'm an agent of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. There was a murder case nearby, so we came here to ask some information, hoping to get some clues." I showed my police ID and said, "Excuse me. What should I call you?" "May the Lord forgive the sins of the deceased and lead his soul to heaven, Amen!" The old nun drew the sign of the cross on her chest, "Just call me Sister Yuan just like other brothers and sisters, I hope I can help busy." "Have you seen this boy?" I handed Zhou Shaolong his student ID card, which had his headshot on it. Sister Yuan looked at it for a while and then returned the student ID to me: "This kid often came to play some time ago, but he hasn't been here these days...May the Lord bless his soul!" "Who has he come into contact with here?" She showed compassion on her face, and said slowly: "He is a good boy. He often comes to play with the children in the yard after school, and teaches them to write. He has contacted all the people in the yard. He even asked Pastor Liang Confession." Confession is a religious ceremony, simply speaking, it is to confess one's sins in front of the clergy, in order to get God's forgiveness.However, what crime can a teenager in his prime have?Perhaps, I can get some clues from his confession.However, when I asked Sister Yuan to introduce the pastor for us, and expressed the hope that I could learn the content of the confession from the pastor, I got this answer: "I would be happy to take you to see Pastor Liang, but I am afraid he will not tell you the confession. The content tells you, because as priests, we have an obligation to protect the privacy of believers." "However, this may be related to the cause of Zhou Shaolong's death. Instead of protecting his privacy, it is better to give him justice and find the murderer." Although I also understand the other party's difficulties, I feel that justice for the dead is better than keeping the truth for the dead. Privacy makes more sense. "This child has been liberated, and the worldly affairs have nothing to do with him, and the Lord will make arrangements. What we have to do is to pray for him, not to expose what he doesn't want others to know." Although her expression is very kind, her attitude is very firm. Head-to-head confrontation will not solve the problem. Since the other party cannot be forced to tell the content of Zhou Shaolong's confession, he can only use indirect methods to obtain relevant information.Because Sister Yuan still had a lot of work to do, she left after introducing Pastor Liang to us. Pastor Liang is a middle-aged man in his forties with a very friendly attitude. When we saw him, he was teaching the children in the orphanage to write in the house behind the church.These children are between the ages of three and ten, most of them are girls, and there are only two boys, but both have obvious disabilities.One of them seems to be of low intelligence, scribbling on paper with a smirk.The other one is better, intelligence should be fine, but the natural cleft lip makes him look a bit weird.I paid attention to what they were writing. The younger ones were writing their own names or scribbling, while the older ones were copying the leaflets of "Believe in God and Get Eternal Life". "Brothers and sisters, what can I do for you?" Pastor Liang asked the older children to take care of the siblings, and then walked with us in the small garden outside. "Do you know him?" I handed Zhou Shaolong his student ID card. "Yes, he often comes over to help the children in the academy to write. Although he is sometimes naughty, he is very caring and a kind child. However, I haven't seen him for a few days. I don't know him. How is it now?" Pastor Liang said, with a look of worry on his face. "He has...passed away." I couldn't bear to tell the other party the sad news. Pastor Liang was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure, and made a sign of the cross on his chest: "May the Lord lead his soul to heaven!" We were silent at the same time, and Zhen Zhen broke the silence after a while: "Isn't the orphanage funded by the government? Why is there no teacher to teach the children to read?" Pastor Liang replied with a smile: "This college was founded by a pastor named Smith. It is not a government agency, so it does not receive government funding. The daily expenses mainly rely on donations from believers. Because the government did not assign us teachers. So we teach children to read by ourselves.” Zhen Zhen nodded with a vague understanding, and I continued to ask: "General orphanages are managed by government departments, how can you operate them by yourself?" Pastor Liang slowly explained: "Actually, before I came here to serve as a pastor, the government did ask to take over the orphanage. But because the orphanage was founded by Pastor Smith, the director asked the church for help, and the church came forward to deal with the government. Stand as it is. And I have been sent here to serve as a priest because of it." I don't care about how the orphanage works. What I care about is what relationship Zhou Shaolong has with the people here. The purpose of asking this question is just to make the other party relax a bit so that I can talk.I hope to be able to set out the content of Zhou Shaolong's confession. After talking with Pastor Liang about some innocuous matters, I began to ask questions related to Zhou Shaolong, but when I tentatively asked about the content of the confession, he explained it to me responsibly: “Confession is a believer’s confession to the Lord. As priests, our role is to be the messenger of the Lord, so we must never reveal the content of the confession to a third party unless we have the consent of believers." Everyone is dead, where else can I find him to agree!Do you want to go to heaven to find him?Although I never burn incense and worship Buddha, the sister-in-law Yipo believes in is one of the saints of Buddhism, and I have been blessed by my mother-in-law for many years, so I can be regarded as a Buddhist. It has nothing to do with heaven.Of course, even if I can go to heaven, it will be something after death, and it may not be able to solve the current problem. One plan fails after another, I plan to use another method to obtain information: "Is there anyone in particular that Zhou Shaolong can talk to in the courtyard?" "He and Meilong get along the most. In fact, every time he comes here, he also comes to look for Meilong." "Who is Meilong?" "She's an orphan in the courtyard. Alas, she's actually very poor... Hey, she's right there!" Following the direction indicated by Pastor Liang, I saw a beautiful young girl about fourteen years old. , but wearing a very strange clothes.Maybe, I can get some clues from her mouth.