Short story department

The old man didn't say anything, and he didn't say no, Liang Qiunian got up and followed behind, and walked out.Walking all the way, I kept muttering: "Grandpa Piao, I shouldn't run away when I see you at dinner time, isn't it impolite. My mother often taught me to obediently call someone when I saw an elder. At that time, I was worried about the bastard. That's why I ran away. You see, Er Dan is such a good girl. When she was eating, she knew she had to go home. When she saw the acquaintance who cooked for her, she ran home. I can't, I am as big as Er Dan When my mother didn't call me, I didn't even know how to eat."

No matter how Liang Qiunian muttered, the old man walked in front of him without any haste, as if he didn't hear anything.Liang Qiunian didn't care, and followed along.Several times, he wanted to see what Grandpa Piao's face looked like, but no matter how fast he stepped, he couldn't catch up with Grandpa Piao.

Follow Grandpa Piao to the door of the last house in the east of the village.He looked up and found that he could clearly see the back of the small building in the open space from here.Liang Qiunian took two steps and pointed at the small building: "Where do you live?"

The old man's hand had already pushed open the courtyard door, he didn't care about Liang Qiunian's question, he didn't close the courtyard door after entering, and signaled to Liang Qiunian that he could go in.Liang Qiunian had just raised his feet when he suddenly heard a loud shout from behind: "Liang Qiunian, get the hell out of here!"

Rarely was Yao Jiuchen so angry, his eyes were wide open, wishing he could beat this troublemaker to death!Liang Qiunian didn't dare to enter the courtyard anymore, he turned around and ran towards Yao Jiuchen, shouting, "Jiuchen, don't get me wrong, I didn't climb the wall."

"Shut up!" Yao Jiuchen seemed to have had enough of his nonsense, grabbed him and pulled him behind.Staring at the half-open courtyard door in the dark as if facing an enemy.At this time, the old man's voice came faintly from behind the door: "Xiao Jiuer, you have grown up."

Liang Qiunian fanned the flames: "He dares to call you little Jiu'er! It doesn't matter if it's big or small, Jiuchen, beat him up!"

"I'll beat you! Go back."

An old voice came from the door again: "Xiao Jiuer, how old is it?"

Yao Jiuchen stared at the door sullenly, Liang Qiunian turned his head to look.I saw a face protruding from the gap between the two door panels.What kind of face should it be? Wrinkles are like criss-crossing scars, densely growing on the pale face, a pair of cloudy eyes are lifeless, and the corners of the mouth are grinning when speaking, if it is not showing a mouthful of scorched teeth, It was almost difficult for Liang Qiunian to see the mouth between the wrinkles.

Liang Qiunian wanted to cry but had no tears—Grandpa Piao showed a face, and the parts from the neck down were completely melted into the darkness, it was so frightening!

"Chenchen, I was wrong. I shouldn't be running around behind your back, shall we go home?"

Liang Qiunian's ramblings interrupted Yao Jiuchen's eye contact with the old man at the door, he raised his hand to grab Liang Qiunian, and hurried home with a gloomy face.

After a while, when I entered the house, I didn't see my third aunt.Liang Qiunian was brought back into the room by Yao Jiuchen, and the warm room made Liang Qiunian come back to life. He was about to say some petty bourgeois gossip when Yao Jiuchen sighed solemnly: "The matter of old man Jiao, Who told you that?"

Liang Qiunian lay on the bed, muttering, "Don't tell me, you don't even love dicks."

"Stop making trouble." Yao Jiuchen walked to the window and closed the curtains, "Why can't you listen to me?"

"Oh, Master Jiu, are you still ashamed to talk about me?" Liang Qiunian sat up with a big grin, with a half-smile on his face, "When you saw that old man the last two times, you opened your eyes and said nonsense, and said you didn't see it. You lied to me like everyone in the village. If I didn't see Erdan carrying a broken bowl in his hand when I took Erdan home today, I would really have thought it was Grandpa Piao."

It was precisely because of the leftovers from that night that he deduced that Old Man Jiao had been taking care of Erdan and would feed Erdan once in the evening, so he decided to sit back and wait.

"Just because old man Jiao fed the dog?"

When asked about this, Liang Qiunian shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's actually not as simple as you think. On the night of the crime, I noticed the leftovers, a bowl of noodles that Uncle Gu put on the table. And then, I looked at the dog food in Erdan's broken bowl again, it was rice and fried potato chips. So, Erdan's food was not given by Uncle Gu, who gave it to him? When did he give it?"

Seeing Liang Qiunian still smirking like that, Yao Jiuchen couldn't help but sigh.He knew that Liang Qiunian was smart, but now he still felt that he was underestimated.

Today, Liang Qiunian has been unable to stop what he wants to say and do.Yao Jiuchen's sigh was for him, not for himself.

"Why are you sighing?" Liang Qiunian didn't want to accuse Yao Jiuchen of lying, he believed him.Even if he lied, Yao Jiuchen had no bad intentions towards him.It's just that he couldn't see him being so worried, "I already know who the murderer is, so you don't have to worry so much."

Yao Jiuchen remained silent, and lifted the cloth on the table to reveal the messy things inside.Liang Qiunian saw that there were torn clothes, candles, multicolored thread, cooked food, dough...

"Things are not as simple as you think." Yao Jiuchen sorted and put away the things, "Do you think that person is heinous?"

Liang Qiunian lay on the table and said lazily, "Without great hatred, there is no great evil. Unless you are born a wicked person."

Hearing this, Yao Jiuchen's hands froze.Looking at him with a little surprise: "How did you know? You were still suspicious of the village chief before."

Directly turning Yao Jiuchen's eyes, Liang Qiunian smiled and said that his doubts about the village chief and the others had grounds.Let’s talk about the village head first—the village head mentioned Sanyi, but in fact, Sanyi didn’t have the time or opportunity to tell the village head that Yao Jiuchen was back.Since the village chief knew about it in advance, it means that he rushed to Uncle Gu's house at least 10 minutes earlier than other villagers at the time of the incident; then Uncle Chen, when they met Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen was holding new clothes in his hand to prepare for the crime. Dressed up for Uncle Gu.At that time, the villagers in front had just squeezed into Uncle Gu's yard. In other words, it was the second time that Uncle Chen had returned to the scene of the crime.The last one is the old man next door, Liang Qiunian chuckled: "You don't need me to tell you. If he really heard the screams and ran to Uncle Gu's house, he would still be free to see if the douche is fastened or not, and if he has eaten anything." ?”

"Then what did you come up with?" Yao Jiuchen asked.

Liang Qiunian shrugged, curled his lips, and then looked at Yao Jiuchen with a half-smile: "They all know who the murderer is, and they are covering that person."

And you?Yao Jiuchen, are you also like them?Covering up the crime, my dear, don't scare me.

Liang Qiunian nervously waited for Yao Jiuchen's answer, but Yao Jiuchen fiddled with his things as if nothing happened.The atmosphere in the room is weird and tense

Liang Qiunian suddenly chuckled: "That's why I said Erdan is a good girl. Dogs, after the owner dies, they don't want food from others, but Erdan not only ate it, but also ate it very well. Huan." Speaking here, his face sank, "I know, it was a person it knew and liked who gave it food. Calculating from the time, it was this person who killed Uncle Gu. Moreover, the neighbor uncle deliberately concealed this matter. This made me even more sure that he had seen the murderer. The murderer had a good relationship with Uncle Gu, and Uncle Gu took care of Er Dan after his death, so as long as he followed Er Dan, he could find the murderer."

Hearing this, Yao Jiuchen was calm and calm, soaked his hands in cold water, picked up the dough and kneaded it.A pair of eyes were drooping, and the long eyelashes fluttered occasionally, making the people around me fascinated.

Yao Jiuchen said unhurriedly: "His name is 'Jiao Wang'. We have to start talking about it in 1955. In that year, a father and son beggars came to the village. My great-grandfather was kind enough to let them live in the village. The big beggar does not speak, the little beggar does not know how to communicate, and the great grandfather gave them the surname "Jiao". In addition to farming, the big beggar built a small building on the open land. It took him three years to build the building. OK. On the first day of the lunar calendar in 59, the big beggar had a long talk with my great-grandfather. Seven days later, my Yao family moved with my family. On September [-], someone was killed in the village for the first time, and human blood and internal organs appeared for the first time on the second floor of the small building. , skull bowl."

Liang Qiunian scratched his head: "The amount of information is too much to digest. By the way, why did you move away? Isn't your Yao family a big family? You know that father and son did it, why don't you arrest him?"

Yao Jiuchen shook his head: "I can't catch it."

Why can't I catch it?Liang Qiunian really wanted to ask, but seeing Yao Jiuchen's worried expression, he couldn't say that. He just watched Yao Jiuchen knead the dough into the shape of a person in a daze.He lightly poked the dough man with his fingers, and asked, "You, did you already know that the murderer is Jiao Wang?"

"Ah."

Liang Qiunian's heart skipped a beat!

Compared to the old man who knew who the murderer was but kept it secret, Liang Qiunian, the messenger of justice, felt guilty.He asked, "Why did you kill Uncle Gu?"

"do not know."

"What are you going to do?"

Yao Jiuchen tied the colorful thread in his hand to the doughnut, shaking his fingers, and tightly bound the doughnut with the colorful thread.Afterwards, he gently placed it on the table, and said in a usual tone, "Send God off."

A moon is missing from the night sky.

The sky on this side is like the curtain splashed with ink, covering the quiet ancient village.Every family seemed to know something, drove the poultry and livestock into the nest early, went back to the circle, turned off the lights and locked the locks.The deathly stillness spread silently in the village.

Liang Qiunian was carrying a large black bag, and followed behind Yao Jiuchen, walking cautiously on this road, only the creaking sound of stepping on the snow, accompanied them to move forward slowly and continuously.

Pass through the small village and look out from the edge of the clearing.

The open space is still the large open space, dark and gloomy, and the small building is still the dilapidated small building.For some reason, after taking a second look at the small building, it looks like the mouth of a beast, waiting for you to tear off your flesh, chew your bones, and suck your blood.Liang Qiunian subconsciously swallowed his saliva, feeling fear like a slippery and cold snake coiled around his waist, slowly tightening his neck along the spine.

Thinking that Jiao Wang was in the small building at this moment, his hands began to tremble subconsciously.

Yao Jiuchen firmly held Liang Qiunian's trembling hand, and smiled faintly at him, "You're so cowardly."

"Heartless, you!" Liang Qiunian felt like crying, "I've lived so long, how is this the first time? You don't know how to be gentle."

Hearing this, Yao Jiuchen's smile became even stronger, highlighting his already pretty face with a hint of charm.

The sense of fear was dispelled by Yao Jiuchen's face, Liang Qiunian thought that he must get a photo of Yao Jiuchen and wear it on his body in the future - to ward off evil spirits!

Yao Jiuchen didn't know about Liang Qiunian's dirty little thoughts, so he asked him to put down the black bag, took out the small noodle man tied with colorful thread from it, and told Liang Qiunian, "I'll walk in front later, you take Other things follow me. Don't worry about what I say, you don't make a sound. I will reach out to you three times. The first time, you will give me the rags; the second time, you will give me the cooked food; You have to light the candle for me three times. Then, you turn around and call the name 'Jiao Wang'. You can't stop calling until you reach Jiao Wang's house. Don't look back on the way."

"What about you?" Liang Qiunian asked worriedly, "You, can you deal with Jiao Wang alone? When will you go home?"

Yao Jiuchen smiled lightly and said nothing, stretched out his hand to touch Liang Qiunian's cheek, that's all.Liang Qiunian knew that no matter how much he asked, Yao Jiuchen still wouldn't say what he didn't want to say.Immediately, he nodded his head cruelly, picked up the black bag with one hand, and took out the old suit from it with the other.

When everything was ready, Yao Jiuchen looked at Liang Qiunian with tender eyes.He said, "It's starting, don't be nervous."

Liang Qiunian was speechless, watching Yao Jiuchen hold the doughnut in his palm, and took out a piece of paper from his pocket.It was densely written with zang text that he couldn't understand.Liang Qiunian couldn't help wondering, would Yao Jiuchen know how to write?

"Hold Buddha's feet temporarily." Yao Jiuchen said with a smile, "Follow me."

He passed by himself with a light fragrance.

Yao Jiuchen walked seven or eight steps away and began to speak in a low voice.Liang Qiunian knew that he was reading zang characters on the paper, those characters should be spells or something.It's a good thing that Yao Jiuchen knows a little bit about everything, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hug Buddha's feet.He tried his best to think about Yao Jiuchen's good, Yao Jiuchen's bad, and Yao Jiuchen's beauty, and used these to dispel the fear and anxiety in his heart, and followed Yao Jiuchen closely.

They walked about 200 meters away, and suddenly a cold whirlwind blew across the open space.The whirlwind was very strange, it only surrounded Yao Jiuchen and did not affect Liang Qiunian at all.Why can't I feel the wind when it's only an arm's length away?Liang Qiunian's eyes were wide open, and he even wanted to touch the whirlwind.But he was holding things in both hands, so he could only use his eyes to stare at the whirlwind wrapping around Yao Jiuchen bit by bit.