coobybook Chapter 437 Hanged
Chapter 437 Hanged
"Gulp, gulp, gulp..."
"Ohh Ohh ohh……"
……
"Hiccup...Who? Who's crying there?"
A skinny, dark-skinned man was humming a tune and staggering on his way home. Suddenly, he heard someone crying, which scared him and made his dizzy head clear up a little.
He raised the torch in his hand and looked around carefully, but there was nothing around except a somewhat dilapidated house and some trees.
Just when he thought he had heard it wrong, the "woooo" crying sound came again.
Now, the man was sure that he really heard the crying.
He held the torch tightly in his hand, took a few steps forward bravely, burped, and shouted unhappily: "Who is crying there? It's late at night, and you are playing tricks!"
But apart from the crying, no one answered.
The man frowned and pushed open the dilapidated door with curiosity.
It was pitch black inside the door. As the man took a step inside, a cold wind blew in his face, causing his torch to shake.
He tightened his clothes, put out his hands to block the wind, held up the torch, looked around, and pricked up his ears, but unfortunately he found nothing.
The man walked out with some disappointment, and saw something hanging brightly on a big tree not far from the gate. It seemed like a person.
He thought he was dizzy because he drank too much, so he rubbed his eyes and walked closer, only to find that there was indeed a man whose face he couldn't see clearly hanging on the tree.
At this time, another gust of sea breeze blew, and the man hanging on the tree began to shake. The man was frightened awake.
At this moment, the well under the tree made gurgling and humming sounds, and the man swinging on the tree slowly turned around, his empty eye sockets facing the man under the tree, with a weird smile on his face.
"Ah! Ghost! Aaaaaaah!"
The man was so scared that he wet his pants and ran back screaming.
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The next morning, the village chief brought several villagers to Su Ci's courtyard to look for Li Lianhua and Su Ci.
As soon as the village chief saw Li Lianhua, he pulled him aside and said earnestly, "Young man Li, something happened in our village last night. We don't have much experience, so we would like to ask you and Doctor Su to take a look and help."
Li Lianhua was stunned, and looked at Su Ci, puzzled: "Village Chief, what happened? Please tell me slowly, don't be anxious. We will help if we can."
The villagers who followed over talked about what happened last night.
"Mr. Li, Wang Goudan saw a dead person on his way home last night!"
"Doctor Li, the death of that person was so strange, as if he had been possessed by a ghost. His eyeballs had been dug out, and he was dead as hell, but he could still smile. I took a few glances at him, and it was really scary."
"Doctor Li..."
"Mr. Li..."
Li Lianhua put her fist to her lips and coughed, clearing her throat. "Everyone, don't get excited. Talk slowly, one by one."
The village chief also tapped his cane and shouted, "Quiet! Stop shouting."
Seeing this, the villagers shut up.
The village chief said to Li Lianhua, "Young man from the Li family, Wang Goudan heard crying on his way home last night. He was curious and ran into the house where the crying sound came from. He saw someone hanging from a tree.
He ran to my house to ask for help. When I found someone to go to the house, the man had already fallen to the ground. Erwazi bravely went forward to check and found that it was Wang Mazi who died.
Wang Mazi's eyes were dug out, but he still had a smile on his face, which was really creepy."
Li Lianhua frowned and asked in confusion: "Didn't you go to the county to report this matter? I remember that Magistrate Lu was a good official. Why did you think of looking for us?"
The village chief sighed and said helplessly: "If it were in the past, we would not have the audacity to trouble you.
However, two years ago, Master Lu was transferred away, and the new master is a person who doesn’t care about things. Therefore, we can only come to you and ask you to help find the murderer. Otherwise, I’m afraid that our village will be in trouble again. "
Su Ci: "Village Chief, has Wang Mazi offended anyone? Who owns that house?"
The village chief thought for a moment and said, "Wang Mazi is an honest man. You can't do anything wrong even if you hit him with three sticks. I haven't heard that he has offended anyone before.
We are all fellow villagers who know each other every day. Even if there are occasional minor conflicts, they will not lead to murder or such cruel means.
As for that house, it used to belong to Mr. Wang. However, after Mr. Wang became a juren in five years, his family moved away. I heard that they moved to the next county and became a legal advisor to the county magistrate.
"Yes, yes, yes. Mr. Wang's family moved away five years ago. I saw it with my own eyes. At that time, I asked their family members why they moved. His mother said that she and her son wanted to live in the next county to enjoy a better life." said a middle-aged man.
"Yes, I saw that too."
"Me too."
Li Lianhua nodded and said gently, "Village Chief, where is the body now? I'll go check it out first."