After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 1327 Everyone insists on their own opinions

"She lay through the crack in the door and saw that under the light of the fire, many monsters rushed into the village and killed everyone they saw, no matter if they were adults or children."

"A monster kicked down her door and tried to eat her. So her mother held her and ran out the back door," the boy continued. "But from then on, no matter where they ran to, the monster would eventually catch up with them in the dark. They couldn't stay in any place for long."

He Lingchuan asked: "What do those monsters look like?"

"They are strange-looking and glow in the flames. Many have horns on their heads, each in a different shape. They can make shrill laughs and rough roars, and they can even talk."

"Why is the monster chasing them?"

"I asked her, too. Xiao An said she wanted to know. They had been running for a long time and were very tired." The boy peeled a candy and ate it. "She also said that her father was very fierce and scary. Animals and people would scream when they saw him. Sometimes, he would cut them into pieces without mercy."

"I didn't believe it, so Xiao An said that he used to live in the mountains in a big house."

Chen's wife interrupted, "She killed people and cut up animals. She sounded like a butcher! That crazy woman said her second husband was a peddler. How could a peddler do this? The girl is dishonest. She lied to scare my son."

The boy also said: "We called her as crazy as her mother. She said that what she said was true, and then ran back to the hut to find her crazy mother."

The truth? But Xiao An's account is different from what her mother said when she was sober. Which one is correct?
"It's not surprising that a mad woman gave birth to a mad boy." Mrs. Chen looked at the silver eagerly, "What else do you want to ask, sir?"

"Besides Chenjiazhuang, where was their last stop?"

"I don't know." Chen's wife asked her son to go back to the house.

Dong Rui turned the silver on the table and asked, "How do you know that Chen Fuang went to have an affair with her?"

"On the third day after that little bitch came to Chenjiazhuang, Mrs. Wu saw Chen Fuang sneaking out of the shabby thatched house, tying his belt as he went!" Chen's wife gritted her teeth, "I scolded him, but he denied it, saying that it was those cousins ​​who played with the crazy woman, and he was just watching from the side."

"Did the mother and daughter leave anything behind?"

"I don't know, at least I don't have any here."

After asking all the necessary questions, He Lingchuan nodded, stood up, left the money and left.

After leaving the house, Old Man Chen asked him, "Did the official say hello?"

"No, take me to find Sister Wu."

On the way to Aunt Wu's house, He Lingchuan also heard bits and pieces of conversation coming from other villagers' homes. Most of them were talking about trivial matters at home, and occasionally there were quarrels, arguments, and beatings of children.

There was also a pair of brothers who were cursing Green Villa for monopolizing the timber business in the nearby county.

"What are you afraid of? We in Chenjiazhuang are not easy to bully."

"Last time, when our farm sold a batch of wood, a newly opened coffin shop in Baishui Town came to buy it and offered a good price. But within three days, the Wu Ma family came and argued with the clan leader for a long time."

When He Lingchuan heard the name "Green Villa", his mind moved, but he did not stop and continued to move forward.

Aunt Wu's house was much bigger than Chen Fuang's, and it didn't have that unpleasant musty smell. It was obvious that her family was better off, and they had not suffered any losses in the previous monster attack on the village, so all the family members were there.

Mrs. Wu is thin and skinny. She looks to be in her fifties, but she is actually only in her early thirties. She is recognized as a good person in Chenjiazhuang.

Mrs. Chen had just said that Wu's temper was like a bamboo tube pouring beans, and she was frank in her actions and words. But when He Lingchuan found her and mentioned the word "crazy woman", Wu's eyes wandered a little: "I only sent her food twice, she was not clear-headed, and we didn't talk much."

He Lingchuan suddenly asked: "Have you talked to her daughter Xiao An?"

"No, no."

He Lingchuan glanced at Li Xianwei, who immediately said, "But Chen Fuang's wife has seen it, and she also said that you sent her two bowls of sweet potato water."

Mrs. Wu opened her mouth to argue, but Li Xianwei's face turned serious: "If you dare to give false testimony and delay the case, I will ask you to go back to the county and eat jail food for a month!"

What he said made no sense to Dong Rui, but Mrs. Wu was so frightened that she trembled all over and subconsciously looked out the window.

"It's no use looking at anyone." Lieutenant Li was not good at other things, but he knew the villagers' psychology very well and knew how to bluff them most effectively. "This case must be handled by Liuxian County! Think about it, this is a major case involving more than a hundred lives. Even the head of your clan, Chen, can't bear the responsibility. How dare you, a woman, take it? Are you really going to die?"

Mrs. Wu seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.

Lieutenant Li saw that there was a chance, so he continued, "If you refuse to confess the truth, you will be arrested as an accomplice who harbored clues! Once a major criminal like this is arrested, he will be stripped of his pants and beaten with 30 sticks when he returns to the county. Your buttocks will be broken, and this is just a warning. Your family will not be allowed to visit you or send you medicine. You will probably die in prison before the case is even halfway through!"

Mrs. Wu clenched and opened her hands several times, and even walked to the door and looked around twice before she whispered, "Let me first say that this has nothing to do with me."

"That's fine, that's fine, just tell me." Li Xianwei turned around and comforted her, "Just tell me the truth, and nothing will happen."

Mrs. Wu couldn't sit down either, so she stood up and said, "When the caravan brought back the mother and daughter, Chen Fuang and his brothers went to the clan leader to plead for mercy, and let the crazy woman Ah Hui take care of the cowshed. In fact, they wanted her to be pretty. When I went to deliver food to Ah Hui, I saw these men coming out of the thatched cottage. Anyway, she was half crazy and an outsider, so the people in Chenjiazhuang didn't bother to care, so they were free and bold..."

He Lingchuan interrupted: "There are five of them in total, right?"

"Ah, yes."

"Chen Fuang's wife said that the mother and daughter also disappeared inexplicably on the night the monster attacked Chenjiazhuang."

Mrs. Wu rubbed her palms on her trouser legs several times, looking hesitant.

Li Xianwei was unhappy: "It's already so late, why don't you confess!"

"Actually, I don't know when they disappeared." Mrs. Wu whispered, "That noon, I went to deliver food, but I heard Ah Hui yelling in the thatched cottage, 'If you dare to sell my daughter, I will fight you.' Then there was a series of ping-pong sounds, and the voices of Chen Fuang and his men, 'Hold her down, she's getting even crazier.' I didn't feel like listening anymore, so I went home."

"When I went there again in the afternoon, the hut was locked. I looked through the crack in the door and saw that it was empty. No one was there."

He Lingchuan spoke at the right time: "Where is her daughter?"

Mrs. Wu shook her head: "I don't know. I went to ask Chen Fuang what happened, and he said that Ah Hui ran away with her daughter. I wanted to ask a few more questions, but Chen Fuang got impatient and called me a nagging woman and kicked me out."

He Lingchuan nodded: "Let's talk about that girl Xiao An."

"Ah Hui's daughter is a little weird, too. She's weird and can't play with other kids. The kids all laugh at her, saying she's a crazy child born to a crazy woman." Mrs. Wu thought for a while, "Xiao An always told me that she wants to go home, but her mother doesn't. Mother and daughter often quarrel over this."

He Lingchuan raised a question: "Xiao An said that her family is in Xingyun Village, but her mother said that they are from Maodun?"

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Wu said immediately, "I also found it strange. Later I thought about it and wondered if her mother was from Maodun and married to Xingyun Village?"

"Do you know these two places?"

"I've never heard of it." She had never left the area within fifty miles of Chenjiazhuang in her life.

The last question: "Did the mother and daughter leave anything behind?"

Mrs. Wu shook her head like a wave drum: "Nothing!"

After the questioning, He Lingchuan stood up and prepared to leave, but Aunt Wu remembered something: "Oh, oh, there is one more strange thing: Xiao An mentioned to me that her father is particularly terrible."

"Her father?" County Lieutenant Li had just heard this from Chen's wife. He didn't care. "Are you talking about Ah Hui's dead husband?"

"I thought so, but Xiao An said she lived with her father for a while and ran away a while ago."

A while ago? He Lingchuan and Dong Rui looked at each other, and Lieutenant Li asked, "Ahui's second husband died not long ago. Did Xiao An think that she escaped?"

The child did not know what "death" was. When he saw that his father no longer appeared and his mother took him away, he might have thought that he had escaped.

"I do not know either."

He Lingchuan suddenly asked: "How terrible is her father?"

"She discovered privately that her father would lock animals and people in stone houses or cages and let them scream in pain. Xiao An heard that kind of scream more than once, and every time she wanted to cover her ears." Aunt Wu said, "It sounds like her father is a butcher. She also told me that her father always locked them in a cave. There were two big stones at the entrance of the cave, one was very white, and the other was..."

She tried to recall for a while: "Oh, it was bright red!"

"Very good." He Lingchuan encouraged her, "Anything else?"

"Oh, yes, I remember now." Aunt Wu added, "Xiao An said that her father could help her drive away the monster, although only temporarily. Her father was also very good to her. If she hadn't wanted to go home so badly, she would probably have stayed with her father forever."

"Father?" He Lingchuan hesitated for a moment, then stood up and said, "Thank you, Aunt Wu. You're fine now."

After the questioning, Aunt Wu breathed a sigh of relief and everyone left the house.

At night, the lights in Chenjiazhuang were only sparsely lit at around 10 o'clock. When He Lingchuan passed by a house, he could still sense someone peeping through the crack of the door.

This village is not friendly to them either.

Li Xianwei also got into the mood: "Where is the next location?"

"Thatched hut."

If there are any clues, they are probably hidden in the thatched hut where the mother and daughter have lived for many days.

While walking in the farm, Dong Rui suddenly remembered something and took out his small bagpipe and blew it hard.

Without the sound of the flute, he seemed to be performing a pantomime.

But after just twenty breaths, the nearby trees rustled, and something jumped over:
Ghost ape.

(End of this chapter)