365 Difficult Ways To Live

Mrs. Zhou is a single elderly woman in Xi'an Village. In rural areas, women who are too old to talk about marriage do not know how much criticism they will receive. However, Ms. Zhou resists all opinions with tenacious perseverance. She has been single for 68 years. Those who urged her to get married all died, and now no one dares to talk about it anymore. She is a tenacious and overbearing flower, blooming to be self-reliant.

Grandmother Zhou is famous for her dexterity. When she was young, she worked as a tailor, carver, and craftsman. She was good at anything related to fingers. If she was born a few decades later, she might be a professional e-sports player now. Hand speed Stand out from the crowd.

She is old now, but her sword is not old. She makes some paper-cuts from time to time, which are so delicate that they can be displayed on the window wall as a treasure of the town.Her paper-cuts are quite popular, well-known in the whole village, and even spread to neighboring villages. She pre-orders and sells them. Every time before the paper-cuts are cut out, there are already buyers.

It may be due to her extraordinary talent and dexterous fingers. Granny Zhou has broken through the boundaries of normal manual activities of living people, and has begun to expand her business, developing into the non-living people's section, and successfully opened up the "Wishing Spirit" market, connecting the living and the dead. .

However, her second business section does not operate very often. Many people from neighboring villages come here admiringly. They want to ask her to call Yincao Jifu, but they are all rejected, without giving a reason, and directly refuse.

If you want to invite her to help you, you must be introduced by an acquaintance, and you must be from the village. In her words, this is called "the fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields. If you are not from the village, you don't have this treatment."

This is also the reason why Chu Yu approached Li Rufei for introduction, which was in line with the requirement of being introduced by an acquaintance, but it had to be from the village, so it depended on how good Aunt Li could speak.

"Your future daughter-in-law? No, you haven't passed the family yet. You can't be counted as a member of our village. It's against the rules!"

Grandma Zhou waved her hands, sat on the pony, spread her legs apart, bent down, and began to sharpen her scissors. The sound of scissors sounded rhythmically.

"She, she just wants to know something on her mind before going through the door, otherwise, this marriage will not be able to be concluded! Old sister, I beg you, ask her for a question, and treat it as helping me!"

Mrs. Zhou looked at Li Rufei suspiciously, and kept moving her hands: "Aren't you always afraid of me doing this before? Why are you begging me to do it now? This is the second time!"

Li Rufei hid her hands under the fat corners of her clothes and rubbed them uncomfortably, but on the bright side, her expression was well done, "Isn't this a last resort? Don't look at me begging you like this, Yanhua and my daughter-in-law, please." When it was me, tsk tsk tsk, it was full of snot and tears, I begged so hard that I couldn’t be hard enough to refuse, otherwise I wouldn’t be ashamed and come to you to ‘splash’!”

Mrs. Zhou wiped off the water stains on the scissors with a rag, switched to the other side, and continued to polish, "But you know the consequences of this matter. It is easy to invite the gods to send the gods away. It is easy to ask the dead, but if the dead If you want to take the living away, I can't control this matter!"

"I know this, otherwise, based on the relationship between me and you, I must have opened the back door for myself. I have done it countless times. I am just worried about my life. I have never dared to try! But my daughter-in-law is different. She said she Find Mr. to calculate, fate is hard, you can live a long life, you are a real warrior, dare to face the bleak ghost, you just feel free to "call the spirit" boldly, don't worry about her."

The house was silent, Mrs. Zhou stopped her movements, her graying hair was tied behind her head, her chin and sideburns were fully exposed, revealing a spirit of energy, her body did not move, her eyeballs rolled around, slanted Looking up at Li Rufei, "Is Yanhua okay? I heard she was hospitalized?"

Li Rufei shuddered. Fortunately, she was wearing thick clothes, so she couldn't see it clearly. She laughed, "Fortunately, acute bronchitis. It's an old problem. You can get back after a few days of fluid injection."

Mrs. Zhou put the scissors aside and wiped her hands, "Tell me about your daughter-in-law. After I hear it, I will decide whether to do it for her."

Li Rufei's eyes lit up, he sat up straighter, and spoke out the lines that Chu Yu explained with emotion.

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Taking advantage of Li Rufei's time of "swindling and abducting" at Mrs. Zhou's house, Chu Yu contacted the investigator in charge of the investigation to obtain information about Gong Yanhua.

I have to say that the job this time made the investigator exhausted physically and mentally. On the one hand, the higher-ups were pressing hard to get the information, and on the other hand, they had to keep it secret. The news of Gong Yanhua's assassination had to be kept low-key. The investigator felt like It's a crab with its legs bound, unable to crawl sideways, and can only move slowly with the last bit of strength.

However, Chu Yu was quite satisfied with their efficiency, and after only seven or eight hours, new progress had been made.

Muyu: "Chuchu, I checked the victim's medical records and found that she has been taking sleeping pills, as well as sertraline, buspirone and other drugs. I just asked Datuo and said that it is anti-anxiety."

Investigator: "I also visited all pharmacies in the county. The victim had a lot of minor illnesses and often bought anti-inflammatory and painkillers. On the 23rd, the victim bought alcohol and gauze at the Cangping pharmacy, which is the nearest pharmacy to Xi'an Village. , she also asked the pharmacist how deep the knife must go into the skin to be fatal."

Fang Datuo: "I learned from Xiangzi Village next door that before Chen Mu was killed, he and the victim Gong Yanhua lived there. Everyone who went to school knew them. After Chen Mu died of poisoning, the breakfast shop was closed again, and Gong Yanhua also disappeared for a while, often staring at her husband's portrait in a daze.

But five years ago, that is, one year after Chen Mu's death, Gong Yanhua suddenly proposed to move, and his son and daughter-in-law took her to live in the city for a few days. A distant relative in Xi'an Village talked about it, so the two families exchanged houses. Gong Yanhua lived in Xi'an Village for five years, and gradually came out of the haze of her husband's death. He sells vegetables and fruits, and gets along well with his neighbors.

She had a violent temper when she was young, but she became much milder after she got married, and she hardly ever quarreled with anyone. She grew and sold vegetables, talked and laughed with other vendors, and had a good relationship with others, so there should be no possibility of vendetta. "

After hearing this, Chu Yu felt mixed emotions in his heart. Although Gong Yanhua seemed to be back to normal, talking and laughing every day, he was taking sleeping pills and antidepressant drugs at night. What he feared most was not decadence, but the fact that his mental state was like a puddle of mud. But you have to pretend that nothing happened, which will only aggravate the condition.

Moreover, she was in a negative state within a year after her husband's death, and she did not hide it at all. But one year later, that is, five years ago, according to her son Chen Feng, she put away Chen Mu's portrait and no longer displayed it. and suddenly had to move. After moving to Xi'an Village, he suddenly returned to normal, working normally every day, talking and laughing with neighbors and friends, and began to hide his emotions.

The portrait and the original home are old things, which will remind her of the past, what she has experienced, why suddenly escape from the past, and pretend to be her mental state?

Five years ago was a sensitive time. In this year, Bai Mengmeng of Wangjiang City died in January, Lu Xuanwen of Changyan City died in May, and Mu Shangqing disappeared in November. After that, everything was peaceful and "good weather" for five years Until recently, the phantom of the Sophora japonica flower appeared, and Gong Yanhua also became abnormal. He always felt that Chen Mu had returned, and he put up the portrait of Chen Mu again.

Gong Yanhua's injury looked supernatural, as if Chen Mu's soul had floated back and wanted to have a "ghost affair" with his wife, and was about to take her away, but Chu Yu firmly believed that this was a man-made crime, only involving There are supernatural factors, and it is not known whether the murderer deliberately arranged it or did it unintentionally.

If it was deliberately arranged by the murderer, how did she get in and out of Gong Yanhua's house without being discovered by the security team?How did she create the effect that Chen Mu was haunted by ghosts, making Gong Yanhua think it was real?In the end, how did you turn out the portrait of Chen Mu and put it away?

Chu Yu learned from Li Rufei that when she visited Gong Yanhua on the morning of the 27th, she did not notice the portrait on the TV cabinet in the living room, indicating that the portrait was probably displayed after she left.

According to the information provided by Chen Feng, the portrait was hidden in a secret place by Gong Yanhua, and even he couldn't find it. If it was not taken out by Gong Yanhua himself, but by the murderer after committing the crime, it can only show that the murderer is an acquaintance. From Gong Yanhua's mouth, I learned where the portrait was hidden.

Just as Chu Yu was thinking, her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. Now she and a member of the action team are conducting a crime simulation at Gong Yanhua's home, recreating all the activities of Gong Yanhua from waking up to being injured on the morning of the 27th.At the same time, it was verified whether the murderer might have hidden at home in advance and carried out a sneak attack while Gong Yanhua was washing.

Chu Yu opened the door and saw Li Rufei standing at the door with a happy expression on his face, as if he had won a battle and came to ask for credit.

"Girl, your method is really effective, she agreed!"

Chu Yu nodded, and immediately notified Fang Datuo and Song Qingyang to get ready. She changed into plain clothes and followed Li Rufei out the door.

On the way, Chu Yu pretended to be chatting, and chatted with Aunt Li again, "When you went with Aunt Gong the day before yesterday, did she bring anything?"

Li Rufei was wearing a long coat. She was afraid of the cold. The weather at the end of October was not too cold, but she was already wrapped up airtight. Compared with Chu Yu's cool thin sweater, it was like spring and winter.

"She was carrying a bulging messenger bag with money in it. I told her not to use it, but she still insisted on thanking Mrs. Zhou, but Mrs. Zhou probably confiscated it."

Being blown by the wind, Chu Yu rubbed his hands: "The temperature has cooled down a bit these days, Aunt Gong is like you, put on a coat."

Li Rufei turned around and looked at Chu Yu from head to toe, "She is about the same as you. She was dressed coolly, but it was a bit cold the day before yesterday. She put on a coat and looked fatter. But no matter how much you wear, you won't lose weight." You look fat, a girl in the city, with a slender figure, look at your thighs, tsk tsk tsk, probably not as thick as my arms."

Chu Yu smiled, "Then I'm at a loss. After eating so much, I still can't grow a catty of meat, and I can't afford the price."

Li Rufei grabbed her arm, holding a stick like a black bear, "Girl, you said that after you understand the situation from Mrs. Zhou, you can call back Yanhua's soul, and then send Brother Chen's soul away! "

Chu Yu nodded solemnly, showing the professional demeanor of the director of the "Superman Division", "Of course, don't worry!"

Entering Mrs. Zhou's house, Chu Yu was brought into the bedroom, and Li Rufei stayed outside. Before Chu Yu entered the bedroom, he turned and glanced at her. He saw her sitting on the bench, turning on the TV to pass the time. It seemed that she was already familiar with Fushi According to the rules, outsiders are not allowed to be present.

Mrs. Zhou's house has been renovated twice. From the inside, it looks like a small bungalow in the city. The walls are white, and the bed is carved with wood. It's just that there are many old-fashioned accessories on the table and cabinet, revealing the sense of age.

From the moment Chu Yu entered the room, Mrs. Zhou just gave her a few glances and didn't speak, as if she was not very welcome, but she didn't show any resistance.

After entering the bedroom, Chu Yu found that there was a T-shaped wooden frame in the center of the room, with a cone hanging from the top of the straight end, and a round wooden plate covered with a layer of soot.

Mrs. Zhou lit two sticks of incense, and the white smoke floated up, which had a drowsy effect. She drew the curtains again, and the whole room suddenly looked dark and gloomy. Only the outlines of things could be seen, creating a good atmosphere. Haunted atmosphere.

Chu Yu stood by the wooden frame, waiting for instructions. Mrs. Zhou's eyes were very bright, shining in the dark, looking deep and strange. These eyes stared at Chu Yu for a long time, and Chu Yu did not avoid it. Meeting her gaze, the two of them seemed to be telepathic.

After a while, Mrs. Zhou finally opened her mouth and said the first sentence: "Go to the front of the burning incense and call for the invitee."

Chu Yu stood motionless, his eyes were no less deep than Grandmother Zhou's, "Grandma Zhou, will all our activities and conversations today be kept strictly confidential?"

"Of course, this is the rule."

"No matter what it is, whether it's crime, infidelity, betrayal, anything immoral or even evil, you won't reveal it to the second person?"

Mrs. Zhou's voice was steady and powerful, "You don't have to worry about it. If any information about Wenling is revealed to the outside world, I won't be alive now."

Chu Yu nodded, stood in front of the incense burner, clasped his hands together, and read softly: "Yihan, if you hear me, please come out."