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Published at 13th of September 2021 10:11:05 AM


Chapter 32: 32

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Dada, dada

The sound of heavy and sluggish footsteps reverberated in the narrow corridor. A man over 50 years old with a beer belly walked up the stairs drunkenly, humming a tune out of tune. His face was red, and his muddy eyes were blurred.

He didn't care that the Yellow induction light in the corridor didn't come on. He Zhuangsheng's family lives on the fourth floor. It has been ten years since he moved here from the village. He can walk home even with his eyes closed.

He Laosi died. He Laosi's family is busy today. During the day, he helps to arrange the funeral banquet. At night, he drinks a lot with the mourning guests and doesn't leave until dark.

He thought carelessly that he Laoer was dead today, and it was estimated that he would be preparing for the funeral tomorrow. All the people living in this building were close relatives, and all the relatives who did business in their families wanted to give money to them. He calculated in his heart how much money he should give the second family, but didn't notice that he had already circled the stairs again and again.

He Zhuangsheng's house is 404 on the fourth floor. He thinks the house number is unlucky, so he takes it off and hangs a mirror to ward off evil spirits. Usually, as long as he climbs a few floors, he can see the familiar mirror on the doorframe, and then push the door home.

But today, it's only a four story building, but it seems that it will never reach the end.

"I won't install an elevator for any broken building!"

He Zhuangsheng walked like a lead leg and swore a few words

This community was the resettlement house compensated by the developer when the village was demolished. In the past few years, it was still of foreign style, but in the past ten years, it has been dilapidated. There is not even an elevator. The residents can only go up and down by the narrow stairs.

He Zhuangsheng thinks it's hard to climb the stairs today. He has been climbing for a long time, but he hasn't reached the fourth floor.

A drop of water from the top of his head splashed on the back of he Zhuangsheng's neck, and a trace of chill also spread. He Zhuangsheng looked up at the black top of his head, wiped his back neck, and scolded: "whose house is flooded again?"

The residential area is too old, and the external walls have gradually cracked, especially in places like the corridor, the corners are covered with cracks. If someone's water pipe is cracked, the water in the upstairs seeps through the cracks, and the downstairs drip like rain.

He Chuang Sheng gasped for breath, but he stopped a little feebly. The alcohol evaporated from his sweat, and his chaotic brain became sober.

The paralyzed brain finally realized that something was wrong.

This is the seventh floor in all. The way he climbed just now is enough to go to the top of the building. But he turned and looked around, but he was still in the middle of the stairs. The induction lamp is out of order. There is only a faint ray of light. I don't know where it comes from. I can barely see the object. I can only see the floor clearly.

In fact, even if the induction light is not broken, he can't see the floor sign. The residential area is too old, and the floor numbers are mottled and fallen off. Most of the residents here depend on their habits, and then they judge how many floors they have climbed by looking after the door number.

He Zhuangsheng went up a few steps to see the number of the house.

However, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that the number of the door had been deliberately blurred, and he could not see it clearly.

A cold sweat came out of he Zhuangsheng's back. He rubbed his face and doubted whether he had hit the ghost wall.

Standing in the dark corridor, he raised his head and called out his mother-in-law's name. His coarse voice echoed in the stairwell, but there was no response.

Naturally, the sound insulation of the old campus is not good. As usual, he has a thing. It's also common for him to stand downstairs and shout at his mother-in-law upstairs. But now his cry is like a bullock into the sea without any response.

He Zhuangsheng's legs are a little soft, and his back is full of cold sweat. He looked at the security door, which was only a few steps away, and tried to step on his leaded leg and knock on the door. This upstairs and downstairs are all acquaintances, no matter who it is, as long as it is a living person.

He thought so in his heart, and struggled to climb up the handrail of the stairs.

Dada, dada

Dada, dada, dada

His heavy and sluggish steps began to ring again. After his footsteps, another regular step followed.

He Zhuangsheng's first reaction was not joy, but hair behind his back. Like some kind of beast sensing danger, he suddenly stopped and turned around, staring at the dark corridor behind him.

With a thick gasping voice also rang up: "which is where? Don't play tricks on me

The clattering of footsteps stopped.

The palms of he Zhuangsheng's hands were covered with sweat. He overcame his fear and looked down. However, he saw a seven or eight year old girl standing there, looking up at him.

The little girl wore two sheep's horn braids and a pink clip on her head. Her face was round, her eyes were big and black, and there were two lovely blushes on her cheek... More importantly, he Zhuangsheng knew her.

This is Niu Niu, the little granddaughter of the sixth family, who lives on the sixth floor.

He Zhuangsheng stepped down two steps, waved to Niuniu and said, "Niuniu, why are you the only one? Where's your milk? "

Niuniu looked at him askew and grinned. Her round face looked flat from the side. She looked at he Zhuangsheng with a crisp voice: "yenai is at home. I'll buy ice cream to eat."

He Zhuangsheng laughs as expected. Niuniuyenai doesn't let her eat ice cream often. He waved and said, "come on, five ye will take you upstairs."

Niuniu trots a few steps to his side.

He Zhuangsheng didn't seem to see the little girl's flat body. He took her hand and said, "let's go."

Niuniu answered happily, her flat head turned around and looked at him with a round face with a blush.

It's about having a living companion. Although he is only a child, he Zhuangsheng is much steadier. He leads Niuniu up and climbs a few steps. Then he sees the house number that he couldn't reach before.

The house number says 301. It's only on the third floor.

Just climb one more floor and you'll be home.

He Zhuangsheng breathed a sigh of relief and led Niuniu to climb up quickly.

Niuniu followed him step by step, humming a happy Ballad:

"Sao qingniang, Sao qingniang, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll give you the silver bell.

Sao qingniang, Sao qingniang, it won't rain tomorrow. Here's the golden bell.

If it rains tomorrow, cut off your head. "

The little girl's voice is hollow, like a newborn suckling warbler, crisp and tender, humming a few nursery rhymes over and over again.

But after he Zhuangsheng heard the lyrics, he got goose bumps from his arms to his face. He said sternly, "where did you learn this?"

Niuniu grinned, her eyes were black and big, but there was no light, and she looked dark and unclear.

"I listen to people sing."

"It's not a good song. Don't sing it in the future."

He Zhuangsheng reluctantly restrained his anger and pulled her up. Just walking, but I feel that the small hand becomes light, the soft hand becomes a little flat, cool

He Zhuangsheng felt that there was a cold gaze staring at him. But he didn't dare to explore the strange touch in his hands. He even didn't dare to bow his head. He looked at the familiar security door with a mirror hanging on it. He threw away Niuniu's hand in a hurry, took out the key, opened the door and rushed in

The anti-theft door hanging upside down on the sweep qingniang was blown up by the wind, the corner of its mouth suddenly tilted up, issued a little girl crisp voice: "home."

***

Jiang Shu and Wang Qing also stayed to watch the night.

There is a parking space in front of the floor, which is convenient for them to monitor. Two people and Chen team and another team member Zhao Li sitting in a car, while paying attention to the flow of people between the three buildings, while re combing the case.

Both the former and the latter died of decapitation, and their bodies were hung upside down in front of their houses. It's hard not to think of revenge and homicide because they are all in the same building.

Chen team, they have listed the interpersonal relationships around the dead as far as possible, and found that the residents of this building are basically relatives.

They moved to this building ten years ago, that is, in 2009, because of the demolition of the village. Most of the people who live in this building are from the village.

He Zhuangyang and he zhuangying are cousins, he Zhuangyang is the second and he zhuangying is the fourth. Besides the two of them, there are six cousins.

Elder he died of gastric cancer a few years ago, and he died of a car accident seven years ago. The oldest of the eight cousins was he Laoba, who died in the flood 20 years ago.

Only he Laosan, he Laowu and he Laoliu, who are said to have madness, are still alive.

"The relationship between these cousins is not very good, or the neighborhood relationship of the whole building is relatively general. There are some trivial contradictions at ordinary times, but not to the extent of feuding." Chen said.

Wang Qingqi said strangely, "they are all relatives from the same village. They don't report to the group in a strange community. Their relationship is still very cold. Isn't it strange?"

With the rapid economic development of Jiangcheng in recent years, many of the surrounding rural residents have been relocated. Most of them have built large areas of houses to resettle these villagers in the relatively biased areas of Hanyang and Caiyang. Generally, when these villagers move from the village as a whole to the community, their relationship will be closer and closer. Because there are not only relocated villagers in the community, but also many tenants or commercial housing tenants. In front of outsiders, they are always surprisingly United.

Team Chen nodded: "we also feel a little strange. But I visited the residents, but I couldn't get any information. At present, we tend to retaliate. The murderer must have something to do with he, or the eight brothers. I've asked people to investigate what happened before they moved here to see if they can find a clue. "

"If it's really revenge murder, isn't it possible that he Laosan, who is still alive, is in danger?" Wang Qing hesitated.

"Don't worry, they've been watched."

Team Chen said helplessly: "he Laosan is ill and has been kept at home all the year round. He Laoliu's legs and feet are inconvenient, and he is also at home most of the time. Only he Laowu will go to he Laoer's home today to help manage the funeral. In order not to scare the snake, I sent two people to protect him secretly. "

While they were talking, Jiang Jiu was looking through the materials, which contained the detailed information of he's brother. He looked at the person in the photo and the man who was drunk and entered the door of the fourth building. He was a little uncertain and said, "was he Laowu in there just now? His name is he Zhuangsheng, right

Chen team smell speech to see, but only time to see a bloated figure.

When he thought that his teammates were following he Zhuangsheng, he thought that Jiang Jiu was wrong. But out of caution, he said, "I'll contact them to ask."

But when I called, there was no response.

Several times later, team Chen's face sank: "most of the time there is an accident. Let's act separately. Wang Qing, please ask Zhang Peng to find someone. Zhao Li and I will go upstairs to find he Zhuangsheng. "

Then he opened the door and went to the fourth building. Jiang Jiu followed them up the stairs.

He Zhuangsheng's house is on the fourth floor. Three young people climb the stairs very fast. In a flash, they arrive at the 404 door. Team Chen knocks on the security door with a tense look. A woman in her fifties comes to open the door. Through the security door, she asks: "who are you? Which one are you looking for? "

Team Chen showed his police card and said, "is he Zhuangsheng at home? We have something to ask him

But the woman said, "he didn't come back. He's running funerals and drinking with people in the old two's house. It's estimated that he won't come back until midnight."

Team Chen's heart leaps and suddenly looks at Jiang Jiu.

Jiang Gu recalled the back of the man who walked into the fourth building and affirmed: "I should not be wrong. It's him."

Chen team eyebrows almost tied, quickly said to the woman: "our colleagues see him back, we have something important to find him, please call him, ask where he is now."

The woman's expression was obviously not happy, but because the other party was a policeman, she had to take out her mobile phone and dial he Zhuangsheng.

The phone was soon connected, but there was no voice from he Zhuangsheng, only a faint sound of water dripping.

Ticking, ticking, ticking... The law reminds people of some terrible fact.

"Something's wrong." Team Chen's eyes darkened.

But he couldn't understand why he Chuangsheng had gone into the building with them so quickly.

The woman looked at them in panic. She seemed to be aware of something. She yelled at her mobile phone, but there was no response. The call interface was cut off in ten seconds. It seems that the murderer just wanted to announce the death of he Zhuangsheng.

Team Chen gritted his teeth: "I transferred people back and searched the building door to door! The murderer must be hiding here! "

Jiang Shu didn't answer him. He just went to the stairs and looked up.

The Yellow induction light was on overhead. He narrowed his eyes slightly, but could not see the end of the top of his head.

The building gave him a bad feeling. From the beginning, it was like walking into a dark nest. But he never found the owner in the nest.

*

Team Chen brought the men back, and the scattered police soon gathered together. The two policemen who protected he Zhuangsheng also came back. They were two tall and strong young policemen. They were helped back by their teammates.

"What's the matter?"

There is no worry on the teammates' faces, which means they are not injured. But look at them and know that the situation is not right.

One of them rubbed his temple and said, "we've been staring at he Zhuangsheng until Lao Zhang and Wang Qing called us."

In their memory, they have been monitoring and protecting he Zhuangsheng outside the house until the anxious Lao Zhang and Wang Qing come to them. They are just like being forced to wake up in a dream, and they are all dizzy.

Team Chen gritted his teeth: "at half past eight, he Zhuangsheng came back alone. I've called you at least five times. "

The two young criminal policemen were obviously aware of the problem, and they were all in a panic.

But in their memory, they have been staring at he Zhuangsheng. One of them quickly took out his mobile phone and found that there was a missed call from team Chen on it.

He put down his cell phone and murmured, "it's too evil. We really have been staring at he Zhuangsheng, and we have not heard the vibration of mobile phones. "

Jiang Gu pursed his lips and said, "maybe it's just an illusion for you."

Chen team took a deep breath, Su Rong said: "it's important to find someone first, and then we'll talk about other things." Then the search task was quickly arranged.

The building has a total of seven floors. On the first floor, there are five families, five criminal police members, plus Wang Qing and Jiang Shu, which are more than enough.

After the task was arranged, everyone immediately took action.

Jiang Shu wants to go to the top of the building. He volunteered to go to the seventh floor with Wang Qing to find someone.

A group of people went up the narrow stairs. When Jiang Shu came to the fourth floor, he stopped and said in a soft voice, "I smell the smell of blood."

He folded his eyes, sniffed carefully, and then asked the lion dragon in the bag: "do you smell it?"

The lion dragon gave a meow.

He smelled it, too.

Jiang Shu's brow twisted heavily and went up again, thinking about what kind of monster it was.

He can feel that something is wrong, but at present, the other party's behavior is beyond his understanding of the demon clan. He looked up, the yellow light lit up the top, and the handrails of the stairs whirled up, as if there was no end.

Wang Qing was scared by his appearance and stammered: "brother, can't you make it?"

Jiang shook his head and said, "go upstairs first. It's different from those I've seen."

If he guesses correctly, maybe they are not in the same space with each other. So he felt a strong sense of disobedience from the moment he saw the building.

Can open up a space, this is a lot of ancient big demon can't do things. Now what is here?

What kind of revenge can it have with his brother?

Thinking, they have reached the seventh floor.

The seventh floor is clean. The walls are white. There is no rubbish on the ground. There are several pots of green pineapples along the corridor. It seems that only one family lives there.

Wang Qing raised her hand and knocked on 701's door.

It's a kind-hearted old man who comes to open the door. The other person's gray hair is properly combed into his back, and he is wearing a long sleeve shirt and trousers. If it's not for the deep wrinkles on the other person's face and only by his body shape and temperament, the other person should look only in his fifties. The old man pushed the presbyopic glasses: "who are you looking for?"

Wang Qing shows his police officer card and asks if he has seen he Zhuangsheng.

"What old five?" The old man opened the security door and said, "isn't he doing the funeral in the old man's house? He doesn't usually come to me

Then he pointed to the other residents of the building: "I live on this floor. There is no one else."

"Are you from Hejia village, too?" Wang Qing asked again.

"Yes, it's been ten years."

They were still talking, but Jiang's eyes crossed the old man and looked into the room. The curtain was drawn in the room, and the light was dim. But Jiang's eyesight was good, so he saw the tidy living room and the paper man on the tea table.

Those paper men are the women who are hanging downstairs.

Colorful, some have been cut and put aside, some are only semi-finished products.

Jiang Jiu's eyes moved from the room to the old man and asked a irrelevant question: "did you cut the paper people hanging downstairs?"

The old man turned his eyes to him, looked back at the living room and shook his head: "I didn't cut it. It should be he Laosi. He can do it, too. You young people may not understand it. It's called Sao Qing Niang. It's said that she can exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters. In the past, every household in the village would hang up. Later, she moved to the community and didn't hang up much. I don't know how she is now thriving again. I used to cut these and sell them, but now I'm too old to work. "

As he spoke, he raised his hand and hammered his waist.

The sleeve of his shirt went up with his movements, revealing a small section of skin above the back of his hand. Jiang Jiu noticed that the skin above the back of his hand was covered with large dark purple patches.

Or, in other words, it's the spot.

Jiang Shu looked back quietly and asked casually, "do you know why the eight brothers of he family have a bad relationship? We have inquired with quite a number of residents, but they do not seem willing to say so. "

The old man's back straightened up again, and he still gave a gentle smile, but there was a faint difference in his smile: "they dare not say it."

Wang Qingli asked: "what do you mean? Why dare not say? What happened in the village before moving to the community? "

The old man still shook his head: "they don't want to say, and I'm a stranger. If you want to know, go and check the flood twenty years ago."

Then he turned back to the room and closed the door.

At the moment when the door closed, Jiang Jiu noticed that his steps faltered, but soon it seemed as if someone had helped him, and he stood firm again.

The door closed completely.

Wang Qing muttered: "do you think the residents of this building are strange?"

They are very indifferent to each other. The dead two and four are grandparents, and they should have a higher rank in the village. However, when organizing funerals, it is rare for young people to go to worship. On the contrary, the old five are in charge of the overall situation. Besides family members, no one else was sad at the funeral, just like he Laowu. When his cousin died, he could drink with others and get drunk.

Jiang said: "you go and tell team Chen that most of old five he is gone. You'd better ask them to find out what happened in Hejia village in the flood 20 years ago. I'll stay and look for clues. "

Wang Qing doubts a way: "here still have what clue?"

Jiang Shu gave a mysterious smile and whispered in his ear, "that old man is not a living man."

“……”

Wang Qing's scalp was numb, and his back was covered with goose bumps.

He shook his voice: "brother, don't scare me."

Jiang Shu chuckled and two dimples appeared on his cheek: "OK, I won't scare you. Go and tell team Chen."

When Wang Qing saw that he was getting serious again, he thought that he was really frightening him. But still ran down.

Jiang Jiu turned to gaze at the security door of 701. He probably knew where the access to another space was.

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Hungry greedy: let me come to Kangkang. What kind of monster is it this time?

Sao qingniang: knock Li Ma! Go away! Stay away from me!!!

——————

Without dragon, greedy can finally swallow the bonus alone.

It seems that it's a good thing that dragon doesn't appear?

Draw 100 red envelopes, everyone.




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