trickster

"Haha, how is that possible? Of course it is the melted water on the snow mountain. The focus of this story is the unique brewing process. I don't think you are interested in listening carefully." Chen Shen smiled happily. "As for the logic part, most of the legends are So, even if it really happened, those reasonable details have disappeared long ago, and it has become what it is now. The real situation is that there is no more than a deserted land, no wine, no soul. Handicrafts, like tablecloths.”

A tablecloth with a soul... Chen Shen, this guy, even complains about himself, but...

"Is the village deserted?" Lin Huai was a little puzzled, "Where did you hear this legend? Didn't it come from the villagers?"

"I also heard it from someone, and I went to that village to see it, and there was no one there."

"..."

"what happened?"

"Have you been to the nearby villages?"

"went."

"Then... are there any legends about ghosts in the nearby villages?"

"Well, no one knows that there used to be a village there."

"I find it very strange," Lin Huai said while organizing his thoughts, "The story must be passed down, but the original village is empty, and the only value of this story that can be passed down is that the lake is haunted. People in the village used it to scare children from running around, but you said that people in the nearby villages don’t know about it..."

"I've also thought about the problem for a long time. Speaking of it, do you think there is any metaphor in this story, such as a treasure map?" Chen Shen smiled.

"It's unlikely." Lin Huai was speechless. Chen Shen is really good at making jokes. "Speaking of which, who did you hear this story from?"

"Sister Song Yun."

Hearing this name, Lin Huai was taken aback for a moment, and a strange feeling appeared in his heart, which even he couldn't figure out.

"Why would she tell you this story...?"

"I also find it a bit strange. This story is quite different from the ones she usually tells me. The place names appearing in it are real, and they must have been told by someone." Chen Shen lowered his eyes, and then turned to Lin Lin. Huai laughed.

"Does she usually tell you stories?" Lin Huai asked, the past between Chen Shen and Song Yun seemed closer than he thought.

"It will be one a week, and then she will ask me what I think about it."

"What do you think of this story?"

"I said 'a very common legend' at the time."

"Normal?" Lin Huai frowned.

As if thinking that Lin Huai would ask such a question, Chen Shen smiled: "In what framework should it be placed? Compared with those myths and legends such as killing fathers and taking mothers, and wheel torture, it is indeed very common."

Lin Huai found that what Chen Shen said was very reasonable, and he couldn't refute it at all: "Speaking of it, you noticed that the story was different at the time, didn't you ask where you heard it from?"

"I didn't ask." Chen Shen shook his head. "At that time, you had to say that this was just an ordinary story."

"Then... you became concerned later, is it because you missed her..." So he went to the local area to see her, Lin Huai was in a complicated mood.

"That's not true. I suddenly remembered it when I went abroad," Chen Shen said, "I just didn't expect to find out that it was a deserted village. It felt very interesting, and I also needed materials to sell things, so I used it by the way."

That's right, Lin Huai choked, how could he casually adapt a story that he thought was meaningful and use it to deceive, after all, he was thinking too much.

At this time, the two colleagues helped the drunk lady up. He looked at Lin Huai and Chen Shen, and Lin Huai also realized that it was not appropriate for him to chat with Chen Shen.

"Then I'll go first." Chen Shen said.

"Well, come back early." Lin Huai said.

Seeing Chen Shen walking away, Lin Huai took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Wen Li'an, asking if he could leave. Wen Li'an replied quickly, and the two made an appointment to meet at the gate. At the gate, Lin Huai Huai met an unexpected person. Jiang Ke hadn't left yet. He was chatting with a lady with his head down. He seemed to notice Lin Huai's gaze. He raised his head and nodded politely.

Lin Huai should have nodded in response to the end, but he didn't move, and Jiang Ke didn't care, and continued talking to the lady. Lin Huai looked at Jiang Ke, and the illogical story kept spinning in his mind, just Like a ghost, the last inexplicable impulse was still not suppressed.

"That village story—" Lin Huai raised his voice.

Jiang Ke raised his head, as if to indicate that he was listening.

"Is that a family story about ambition?"

Jiang Ke's expression didn't change. For a moment, Lin Huai also regretted that his words were too abrupt. It sounded incomprehensible to others, not to mention how much Jiang Ke knew, but he didn't expect Jiang Ke to answer.

"Yes."

Jiang Ke said that Lin Huai was taken aback for a moment. He looked at Jiang Ke, and the other party looked very teasing. It was thrown to him like a reward, and he is now willing to answer questions.

"This story, do you know what's behind it?"

"Are you here to ask Chen Shen?"

Lin Huai wanted to deny it at first, but then he realized that if it wasn't for Chen Shen, he wouldn't care about this seemingly insignificant or even weird story, but Jiang Ke seemed to be just asking and didn't care about the answer.

"There's no story behind the story, but it's a story of ambition."

"Is it to commemorate the son of the protagonist's husband and wife?" Although it is unbelievable, this answer is reached under logical deduction. Since this story is illogical and it is not a ghost story used to scare children, it must need a successor , the village has been deserted, so only the family in the story and related people are left to be passed on, but a weird story also needs to have the value of passing on, either to commemorate the hatred, or...to commemorate the people in the story The one who unified the two families, and the latter is more likely.

"I think so."

Although the answer was deduced by him, Lin Huai is still a little inconceivable, to commemorate this spirit, what is this?

"The family spirit sounds creepy."

Jiang Ke smiled slightly, noncommittal: "So I have to say, it's really interesting to see your friend take it out to trick you."

"Is this story widely spread?"

"I don't know, people's mouths are not things that can be controlled."

Lin Huai nodded. This was true. He hesitated for a moment, but he still thanked Jiang Ke. At this time, Wen Li'an's car also came. He turned his head to look at Jiang Ke one last time, and got into the car.

"I saw Chen Shen." After Lin Huai buckled up his seat belt, Wen Li'an glanced at him, "Is he following us or something?"

"There is a case." Lin Huai explained.

"Then who was the person you talked to him just now? It's rare to see you take the initiative to talk to someone."

"A witness in a previous case." Sure enough, his behavior just now was not quite like him.

Lin Huai adjusted the backrest, leaned back, and fell into deep thought with his chin propped. Wen Li'an wanted to keep silent, but he realized that this thinking was different from the past. Lin Huai looked more distressed before. , now I am a little more confused.

"What's wrong, is there something wrong?"

"Chen Shen, there's something wrong with him." Lin Huai raised his eyebrows.

"...Did you just see it?" Wen Li'an couldn't help but laugh.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with him, and I always feel that I'm supercilious."

"Isn't this the most wrong thing about him? I can't even find his major faults." Wen Li'an said lazily.

Wen Li'an really has been trying to figure out Chen Shen's fault, Lin Huai couldn't help but give Wen Li'an a glance: "Can't he be wrong?"

"Who knows," Wen Li'an said frivolously. Seeing Lin Huai's expression was a little upset, he asked, "What happened again that made you finally sober?"

Lin Huai hesitated for a moment before answering: "Can you check something about me, the kind that is kept secret." After thinking about it, Wen Li'an was the most reliable. He would check it out through formal channels, and his elder brother would definitely find out. And other people he knows who can help him basically have the possibility to communicate with his elder brother. Fang Shu is on Chen Shen's side, Wei Yan is impartial, and morality takes precedence over personal feelings. Only Wenli Ann can help him.

"what's up?"

"Help me find out if there is something wrong with a person's death. Her name is Song Yun."