Paranormal Investigation Notes

It is very common to place some things that attract wealth and good fortune, ward off misfortunes and ward off evil spirits, such as Guan Gong statues, God of Wealth statues, lucky cats, etc., in open stores.It is not surprising that this custom is found all over the world.

However, Nanlin Street is full of gossip mirrors, which is a bit strange.

The people who come to open the store come from all corners of the country, from all directions, why are they so unified?

Combined with what was revealed in the unreasonable suicide case and the suspicion shown here on Nanlin Street, Lu Ming couldn't help thinking about it.

After sharing their findings with Zhang Dingshan and He Wei, the three soon decided to dig deeper to see if they could find any clues.

Zhang Dingshan directly called Feng Guozhu: "Send a group of security officers to Nanlin Street. Don't wear uniforms, but regular clothes. It's better to be tender-faced, and the more like students, the better."

After about an hour, a team of 20 security guards came to Nanlin Street.

Lu Ming took a look and saw that these security guards were all very young.After putting on the regular clothes, he is no different from ordinary young people.No one would suspect that he was a college student.

"From now on, you will play the role of a college student majoring in folk culture participating in social practice activities. Most shops here on Nanlin Street habitually place a gossip mirror at the bar counter. What is the purpose of this custom, and where did they know about this custom."

The young security guards showed good qualities.Lu Ming clearly saw doubts on their faces, as if they were very puzzled by the so-called gossip mirror.But they still didn't hesitate at all and took the task directly without asking too many questions.

After Zhang Dingshan finished speaking, Lu Ming added: "I will assign tasks. According to statistics, there are a total of 936 stores of various types on Nanlin Street, numbered 1 to 936. There are 23 forms here, and each form has About 40 stores and the names of the stores. Each person will get one and be responsible for the investigation of the corresponding store on the form. Also, here are some small gifts, you should bring some with you.”

Beside them is a van.The car is full of small gifts such as paper pumps, wet wipes, and key chains.The security guards each took some and set off separately.

To do a social survey, a little gift is indispensable.

The three members of the second action team were not idle either.Each of them also took a form and set off to investigate with corresponding small gifts.

The noon peak is now over.Most of the diners have already dispersed, and the restaurant is in the cleaning and preparation stage.They shouldn't be very busy at this time. Going to investigate now should not delay their time and cause resentment.

Lu Ming came to a restaurant that mainly sells skewers.

"Hello, we are not open yet, until five o'clock."

A waiter who was mopping the floor saw Lu Ming and straightened up immediately, with a standardized smile on his face.

Lu Ming looked at the bar, and saw that there was also a gossip mirror.

"Hello, hello, I'm not here for dinner. I'm a student majoring in folklore and I want to conduct a social survey. Don't worry, I'll just ask a few questions and it won't take you long. Here's a little gift , please accept it."

Lu Ming smiled and was very polite.

The waiter hesitated slightly, and said, "Okay. What do you want to ask?"

"I found that in the shops here on Nanlin Street, there seems to be a gossip mirror at the bar. Do you know the reason? Did your boss put it here?"

"Of course the boss let it go. We migrant workers, how could we care about this thing?"

The waiter said: "The reason, what else could be the reason? To ward off evil spirits."

"Did the boss say that?"

"I don't know, I guess."

Lu Ming said: "Can I trouble you to call the boss and ask? We will make a documentary after we conduct folklore surveys. This restaurant may also be featured in the film, which will have a certain publicity effect. Your boss will not refuse."

When the waiter heard that Lu Ming wanted to find the boss, he instinctively refused.But after hearing the words behind, he still said: "I don't have the boss's phone number. You can find the store manager. The store manager!"

"I'm coming."

A very neat middle-aged woman came over.After listening to Lu Ming's words, he happily took out his cell phone and made a call.

After telling the story here, she handed the phone to Lu Ming: "Nuo, you can tell the boss."

"Hello Hello."

Substandard Mandarin came out of the microphone: "Documentary, please make my shop more beautiful. You said the gossip mirror? It's to ward off evil spirits. Others do it like this, so I will do it too. Follow along with me. Flow, don't suffer... The last shop owner told me that it doesn't matter anyway, so I put one up."

"thanks, thanks."

After making a note on the form, Lu Ming came to the second store.

The owner of this store happened to be here, so he met Lu Ming directly.

"To ward off evil spirits. The landlord said, he said that all the shops here are like this, so I put it up."

After investigating 40 companies in a row, whether it is a restaurant or a supermarket, a tobacco shop or a massage shop, as long as the boss can be contacted, the results obtained by Lu Ming are almost all the same.

Avoid disasters and evil spirits, attract wealth and happiness.As for where this statement came from, it is nothing more than the former boss, landlord, peers and the like.

Those whose bosses could not be contacted also got similar results from store managers and clerks.There are also those who do not cooperate, but the number is small, only two, which is not enough to affect the overall statistics.

Human psychology is very strange.Lu Ming could clearly sense that quite a few of these bosses actually didn't believe this at all.But in a certain environment, people have a herd mentality.

Since everyone is doing this, then I should do the same, there is no harm anyway, right?Might be useful.

At night, after summarizing all the investigation reports, Lu Ming saw that the investigation results of the rest were no different from his own.

The answer is still that answer.The sources are still those few.

The next day, another investigation started again.It was still the twenty security officers.It's just that the scope of the investigation this time has been changed from Nanlin Street to other places.

The security officers began to count the proportion of shops outside Nanlin Street that had gossip mirrors.

A total of [-] blocks were randomly selected this time, some of which are adjacent to Nanlin Street and some of which are far away.It took a whole day, and a total of more than [-] statistical results were collected here by Lu Ming.

Lu Ming saw that, except for Nanlin Street, only about 12% of the shops in the rest of the blocks were equipped with gossip mirrors.However, Nanlin Street is as high as 97%.

Even for this 12%, the two blocks adjacent to Nanlin Street contributed most of the figures.If these two blocks are removed, the overall proportion will be reduced to less than 10%.

This shows a clear trend.

It is almost a unique custom in Nanlin Street to place gossip mirrors to avoid disasters and evil spirits.Except that the two closest blocks are slightly affected by this, and the probability of placing gossip mirrors is a little higher, there is no such custom in other blocks.

Then an obvious question is why there is such a custom in Nanlin Street?Is there any connection between this custom and that kind of unreasonable suicide?

It is impossible for a "serious" investigation team to find out this step.For that same reason, they follow "common sense".According to common sense, how could it have something to do with suicide?
Does a shop or home without a gossip mirror have a high suicide rate among its residents?absurd.

But the action of the second team is different.

For Zhang Dingshan, Lu Ming, He Wei, and Lu Qingliang, no matter how weird and weird things are, as long as they show suspicion, they will definitely continue to investigate, and they must dig out the deep logic behind it before they agree give up.

Putting it into this investigation, investigating the source of this custom in Nanlin Street has become the next thing to do.

"Most of the shops on Nanlin Street are tenants, and most of them are not long ago. This custom existed before they opened the shop. To investigate the source of this custom, you still need to find the landlords of these fronts. , as well as aborigines, and owners of old shops that have been open for at least ten years."

"It's simple. I'll ask Director Feng to make a statistical form."

Lu Ming picked up the phone and called Feng Guozhu.The next day, a document was delivered to several people.

The document lists in detail the property owners of each store on Nanlin Street, as well as the opening time of each store.If the business has been in business for more than ten years, the contact information of the boss is also listed.

Next is a new round of interviews.

Blue Lake City, in the suburbs of the city, in an old community of a certain age, a group of elderly people are sitting at the door of a chess and card room basking in the sun, chatting casually.There are several mahjong tables in the chess and card room, as well as chess, go, etc., and some people are also fighting enthusiastically.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Liu Baohua here?"

The arrival of Zhang Dingshan and his party of three attracted many eyes.

Young people rarely come to this kind of chess and card room for the elderly.

"I am, are you looking for me?"

At the door of the chess and card room, an old man with a birdcage in his hand and a half-bald head looked at the three of them.

With a smile on Lu Ming's face, he said respectfully: "Hello, sir, we are students of the Folklore College, and we are here to do a social survey. We want to ask you a few things, okay?"

The old man seemed to be very interested in talking. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Isn't it just for chatting. Okay, let's ask. Xiao Zhao! Bring three horses."

"Hey! Here we come!"

The middle-aged man with a big belly called Xiao Zhao brought three Maza.He Wei piled up a smiling face, took out a small gift, and distributed it to the old people who were chatting in the sun.Especially Liu Baohua, who directly gave three times the amount.

Liu Baohua had a sense of accomplishment of "I let you all shine today", and looked at the three young people more and more pleasing to the eye.

"It's like this. We found out that you have a shop on Nanlin Street, and you have lived in Nanlin Street for a long time. You only moved here a few years ago."

"Yes. There are too many people on Nanlin Street and it's too noisy. It's not as clean as here."

"That's right. We noticed that on Nanlin Street, no matter what kind of shops, restaurants or supermarkets, they have the habit of putting a gossip mirror on the bar counter. You are an old man on Nanlin Street. Do you know how this custom came about? ?”

The old man Liu Baohua became more and more proud: "You are asking the right person when you ask me. Newcomers don't know about this kind of thing, and young people don't pay attention. Only old people like me know about it."

"Yes, yes, aren't we here to ask you?"

Lu Ming became more respectful: "Can you tell us?"

"You mean Nanlin Street? I also know that I used to have a house there, but I moved here after it was demolished."

"I've heard of it too."

The old people talked about it one after another.

Seemingly feeling that his "uniqueness" and "uniqueness" were broken, the old man Liu Baohua was a little dissatisfied: "The dolls are here to ask me!"

Lu Ming said respectfully: "Everyone, don't worry, tell them one by one. We must ask as much as possible. Sir, you should speak first."

Liu Baohua's complexion improved a little: "Nanlin Street...it's so evil."

He Wei took out the recording pen before and recorded the old man's words in detail.She herself listened attentively.

"In the past, there was a big archway at the west end of Nanlin Street. You all know how this archway came to be. Don't you know? I know."

The old man said triumphantly: "That archway has been around for a long time. It has been there since my grandpa's generation."

"I really don't know that."

"Old Liu, don't be a fool, what happened to the archway? What does it have to do with it?"

Liu Baohua said: "At that time, our Blue Lake City was just a small town. There was a rich man named Zhou in the town. That's right, the old Zhou who died last year was his ancestor. Zhou is still ruthless, forcing people to go fishing in the lake in strong winds and rainy days. Usually, he does things like bullying men and women."

"Tsk tsk, Lao Zhou's cerebral hemorrhage, maybe it's the retribution of the ancestors."

"Don't interrupt, listen to Lao Liu."

"The second son of the rich man's family, one day he robbed a farmer's youngest daughter to be his sixth concubine. This girl is also very temperamental, she would rather die than surrender. Taking advantage of the rich man's son not paying attention, Hit the wall and die.

For rich man Zhou's family, death is a big deal.The bastard son felt nothing but a pity, so he just threw it out and buried him. "

The old man Liu Baohua spoke vividly, as if he had experienced it himself.

"This kind of thing, Mr. Zhou's family has done a lot. No one can control it. If someone dies, just throw it out and bury it. Where is it like now, when a person dies, the security officers can't wait to investigate the eighth generation of the ancestors. clear."

The old man Liu Baohua sighed a few words, and continued: "Do you know where the Zhou family's corpse is dumped?"

When it came to the critical moment, the old man Liu Baohua lit a cigarette slowly, and took a puff full of intoxication, causing the rest of the old people to urge: "You old Liu, don't be fooled!"

"Tell me! Where is it!"

Old man Liu Baohua took a puff of cigarette, and said slowly, "It's at the memorial archway."

Take a day off tomorrow...

Last month, I said that I will try my best to ask for two days off at most this month. From the current point of view, I can only ask for one day off tomorrow. Give yourself a thumbs up.

Resume update the day after tomorrow.