Chapter 3 Chapter 2 What Happened Sixteen Years Ago

Jiang Jian couldn't answer, so he sat for a while before he said, "Then, I'd like to ask a psychiatrist to examine Wang Zhenyuan properly." I immediately objected: "That's not good for the children. I think we should go separately. I, go to the police station to find out if there is any record of drowning in that small lake, and you, I will provide you with a tape recorder. Record every sentence Wang Zhenyuan said, and pick out what he said in that dialect to study the truth of the facts." Jiang Jian nodded: "Okay, that's it." We returned to my home together, and I gave Jiang Jian a tape recorder. That tape recorder has radio recording equipment. I put a small tape recorder on Wang Zhenyuan's body. Then, no matter where Wang Zhenyuan went, as long as Within seven miles, every word he said will be recorded by me.

When Jiang Jian and I broke up, I agreed with him to meet again in five days. I believe that within five days, we will be able to record many strange words spoken by Wang Zhenyuan. Jiang Jian left with the tape recorder, and I took a break before going to the police station to check the records.The police officers were very cooperative and checked the records of drowned people over the years for me. There are quite a lot of drowned people every year. However, after checking all the way, none of them happened in that small lake! When the police officers finished their investigation, my heart was full of doubts, and I said: "No way, there should be a person who died in that lake, well, he was a man, from Hunan, about... thirty or forty age."

The so-called "approximately thirty or forty years old" is not even sure for myself. And the reason why I say this is because when I heard Wang Zhenyuan speak that dialect, his voice suddenly became very rough, and that voice sounded like a person in his 30s or 40s. The police officer looked at me suspiciously: "If you discover a murder, you should report it to the Investigation Section, not to my department." I really had no way to explain anything to the police officer, so I hurriedly said: "Please, please check the list of missing people and see if there is anyone similar to what I said?"

The police officer said, "You are speaking in too general terms!" I smiled wryly, I have no way to describe further, because I don't know what the soul attached to Wang Zhenyuan's body looked like before. Moreover, soul possession is just my illusory assumption. Whether such a thing really exists in the world, only God knows! I shook my head: "Please look for it, it's hard to do!" The police officer shook his head, but he still wrote what I said on a piece of cardboard and handed it over to a few filers who specialize in missing persons to investigate this person.

I waited patiently. After waiting for nearly three hours, only three or four file cards were handed to me. However, those three or four people were obviously not the ones I was looking for. Among them, two were women, one was an old man, and the other was about the same age and was also a man. The missing, all four of them are from Hunan.But Hunan is a big place, and none of them are from Xiangxi. I sighed, thanked the police officer several times, left the police station, and drove to the small lake. The small lake is indeed very beautiful. There are many people picnicking by the lake, the lake is very clear, and many people are boating.

I suddenly had a weird idea, I thought, if I dive down, what might I find? But I immediately dismissed this idea, because it would be too funny if I could find a soul floating in the water if I dived down! I just returned home when it was dark, and Jiang Jian didn't contact me for the next few days, and he didn't come until the fifth day of the appointment at dusk. He was carrying a tape, and when he saw me, he said: "I have sorted it out. In the past five days, the words he said in the words he couldn't understand can be listened to for about half an hour. The words are all repeated, and I edited them all!"

I hurriedly brought Jiang Jian to my study and put the tape on the recorder. In an instant, I was really nervous because I was about to hear some words, and I didn't know who said these words. , Moreover, the person who said these words should have died long ago! The tape was spinning, and I first heard a series of ugly curse words, Jiang Jian opened his eyes wide, and I said: "This man is cursing, he seems to be cursing a woman, and the words and sentences used are probably the most harmful to a woman. Insulted, he must hate this woman very much!" The tape continued to rotate, and I heard a few more organized words: "Don't think I don't know what you are doing secretly, you and that thief are trying to harm me!"

Next, there was another series of swearing words. Jiang Jian's so-called "most of them were repetitive" were those harsh swearing words. Then, suddenly there was another loud cry: "Bitch, you finally became murderous. How hateful, I was a step late, bitch, I bought that ring with a year's salary." Jiang Jian and I looked at each other, and I translated those words to Jiang Jian, who frowned tightly. Then, the man appeared to be talking to someone else, and he yelled, "What, it's only worth that much?" But then, there was another series of swearing words, and suddenly, I jumped up because I heard a very important sentence!

That sentence was: "You are so unscrupulous, this shop should be burned down, dogs entered, I remember your shop, Huahua Jinpu!" The reason why this sentence is important is because I heard a store name: Huahua Jinpu. That man must be a very violent person, because he swears at every turn, and it sounds like he spent a year's salary to buy a ring and give it to a woman. As a result, the woman took the ring The ring was given back to him, and he went to the gold shop to return the ring, probably because of the gold shop bargaining, and he cursed. And that gold shop is called Huahua Gold Shop.

I've got my first lead and am excited to keep listening. But those are some very meaningless words, most of them are cursing, lamenting his bad luck, that person must be a person with a very unsatisfactory life (if there is such a person), and he also complains a lot. I waited patiently until the end of listening, Jiang Jian asked me impatiently: "What did you find?" I said: "He once bought a ring in a gold shop. That gold shop is called Huahua Gold Shop." Jiang Jian also became excited: "That's great, we can go to that gold shop to check!" I picked up the phone book, because I had never heard the name of the gold shop, it must be a small gold shop.However, even on a small scale, I think it can be found in the phone book.

I searched hard, but I searched carefully twice, but I still couldn't find that "Huahua Gold Shop"! Jiang Jian followed me to look for it. I saw that he searched several times in a row, but found nothing. I remembered that among my father's family, there was an old man from a jewelry and gold shop. I think he must know the gold shop. , so I quickly called him. After hearing my question, he laughed: "It's a good thing you asked me. If you ask someone else, I'm afraid no one will know. What do you want to know about this gold shop?" I hurriedly said: "There is something, where is it?" The old elder said in a teaching tone: "I heard that you are doing some weird things all day long, so... um... not doing a proper job, it's really not good, you should do a good job!" I sighed secretly in my heart, but I still listened patiently. Once he finished speaking, I agreed repeatedly, and then immediately asked: "Please tell me, where is that gold shop?" Once the old man started to teach, he refused to accept the case. He nagged me on the phone for another fifteen minutes before he remembered my question and said, "Is there a Huahua Gold Shop? In the past, there was a In Longru Lane." "What now?" "What now, it's gone a long time ago, well, let me do the math... sixteen years, sixteen years ago, a fire burned it up, it seems that someone set it on fire, but no one was caught. " I never thought that I would get such an answer! I stayed for a moment before I said, "Then, where is the owner of the gold shop?" "I don't know, it's a small gold shop, and the owner seems to be from Hunan—" I hurriedly said: "Yes, it must be from Hunan!" The old man was stunned for a moment: "How do you know?" I was afraid that he would divert the question again, so I hurriedly said: "Don't worry about it, tell me quickly, what's wrong with the boss?" "Later, the boss heard that he was poor and destitute. He set up a small stall at the entrance of Longru Lane, selling some fake jade. I don't know the details." I smiled wryly: "Thank you, I will visit you another day." I put down the phone and looked at Jiang Jian: "You heard that, the gold shop was destroyed by fire sixteen years ago, I think that must be the person who set the fire!" Jiang Jian sighed: "If there is such a person." My expression must be very serious, because I felt the stiffness of my facial muscles, I said: "There must be that person, if there is no Huahuajinpu, and if Huahuajinpu is still there, then I may still doubt it, but now I don't doubt it at all!" Jiang Jian nodded: "Yes, Wang Zhenyuan is twelve years old this year. How could he tell the name of a small gold shop that was destroyed in a fire sixteen years ago and no one knew about it?" He agreed with me, but his expression was still perplexed. Jiang Jiandao: "According to that, the man did not drown in the lake recently." "possible." "Ghosts—if ghosts really exist, can they exist for so long and possess another person?" I stood up, but I didn't answer Jiang Jian's question, because we know too little about ghosts.The vast majority of people, from a "scientific" point of view, deny the existence of ghosts (souls).In fact, it is the most unscientific point of view to deny the existence of one thing without explaining many strange phenomena! Until now, there has been no systematic scientific research on issues such as the spirit and soul after death.Even if someone is doing research, they are excluded from the field of science and called "metaphysics". Under such circumstances, how can I answer Jiang Jian's question? So, after walking back and forth for a few steps, I said, "I ask you to keep this matter a secret for now, and don't tell anyone, let alone tell Wang Zhenyuan, lest he get scared." Jiang Jiandao: "Yes. Then, should the recording continue?" "Of course, we still hope to get more clues, and we need to observe Wang Zhenyuan's actions as much as possible!" Jiang Jian discussed some matters with me again, and left.After Jiang Jian left, Bai Su walked into the study and said, "What are you guys discussing, I seem to hear someone swearing constantly!" I then told Bai Su what happened to Wang Zhenyuan. Bai Su is a woman. Women have many weird ideas, and they firmly believe in certain things that are considered unreliable. After Bai Su listened to my narration, she immediately made a judgment: "There is no doubt that the thing is a ghost. I have seen such examples when I was young." Normally, if I heard her say that, I would definitely ridicule her, but at this time, I didn't say anything, I just looked at her and encouraged her to continue talking. Bai Sudao: "The time I saw it was one of my father's subordinates. He was smoking a waterpipe in a good manner, but suddenly he yelled and said all the words of another person, saying that he was killed by a group of bandits. Abandoned in a cave, and the man who was upper body just arrived in that cave yesterday. His father stopped his nonsense by spraying dog blood on him, and immediately sent someone to the cave to check ──” I interrupted her and said, "Did you see the corpse?" "No, nothing was found. The man's body may have been dragged away by hungry wolves long ago, but his ghost remained in the cave. When someone walked into the cave, it attached to the person's body!" I was stunned for a while, the story Bai Su described was actually not new at all, similar legends can be found in almost every ancient village, and I heard quite a few of them when I was young. This situation is very similar to the situation of Wang Zhenyuan I see now. Bai Su said again: "The poor child, according to the ancient legend, as long as you drench your head with dog blood, you can drive away ghosts!" I smiled wryly: "Now, I'm afraid it's very difficult to do this. I find that people are deceiving themselves more and more. There are so many phenomena that cannot be explained, but they just don't explain them. In short, they are superstitious and inexplicable." Science, so that those phenomena can never be explained!" Bai Su said: "Then what are you going to do now?" "Me? I want to go to Longru Lane. I hope I can still find the owner of the gold shop, and I hope he can provide me with some information about the person who went to buy the ring back then." "There is little hope!" Bai Su said. "Yes, but so far, that's the only clue." Bai Su didn't object, I left the house. Longru Lane is a small alley, and the buildings on both sides are also very dilapidated. Not far away, there is a construction site, which is planning to build a 20-story building, and piles are being driven. The sound of piling was deafening, and every sound of piling caused the houses on both sides of Longru Lane to vibrate violently, as if they might fall down at any time. I walked into the alley and watched from both sides. Although there were many shops in the alley, none of them were gold shops. The alley was not long, and I quickly walked to the other end of the alley. And when I got to the other end of the alley, I almost cried out for joy!