"Tell me, how much does it cost to get rid of it?" Zhixi asked again.
I said: "This is not about money, it is about opportunity."
"What opportunity?" Zhixi asked.
"What a shame! You don't understand even if I tell you. I will ask my uncle to tell you personally when he comes back next time."
After throwing the question to her uncle who didn't know when they would see each other again, Zhixi stopped asking any more questions.
After that, I used my mobile phone to check the latest flight from the provincial capital to Jinling.
Unfortunately, the flight is not today, but tomorrow morning at 6:30.
I asked Zhixi for her opinion, and this time, she was obviously more anxious than me.
"If there is no plane, then take the train. What time is the nearest train?"
I checked the train again. Fortunately, there is one in the afternoon and it will arrive at Jinling at about twelve o'clock in the evening.
"That's it for this class, let's go." Zhixi said and stood up to go out.
I was a little curious and asked her with a smile: "What's wrong? You refused to go home before I asked you to, why are you so anxious now?"
Zhixi turned her head, with a look of fear on her face, and said, "I'm afraid that if I stay one more night, I'll encounter those messy things again. I want to live a few more years."
"That's right!" I gloated: "I asked you to go back a long time ago, but you didn't."
"Oh, by the way, where did you go after Wang Hu took you away yesterday?"
"I don't remember." Zhixi said.
"How come you don't remember?" I asked.
"Oh, if you don't remember, you just don't remember. How can there be so many reasons?"
"Anyway, I was taken away yesterday morning while I was still sleeping."
"During this period, I was in a daze throughout the whole process. It felt... just like a dream."
"I forgot everything I saw and heard in my dream. When I woke up, I was already standing at the entrance of your village. Then I saw your uncle and followed him back.
here."
"Then when did you wake up?" I asked.
"Last night, it was eleven or twelve o'clock, I can't remember clearly." Zhixi thought for a while and said.
"I slept in your room last night, but it was not the room I chose. Your uncle asked me to sleep here."
"When I slept until midnight, I was woken up by a gust of wind, and then I saw in the yard, your uncle was talking to the underworld guy we met on the mountain that night!"
"I was too far away to hear what they said. I only remember that at the end of the conversation, the Yin Chai made a cut on your uncle's arm with his finger, and then left."
"What happened next?" I asked.
"Then I couldn't sleep anymore, and I still can't sleep until now."
"I've been worried about you, but don't think too much about it. It's the same as what I just said. I'm afraid that if you die, no one will send me back."
"By the way, what happened to your nose? Did you get punched?" Zhixi asked, pointing at my face.
"It's nothing, there was a little accident." I said.
Zhixi's words made me completely let go of the fear I had for my uncle.
After learning that my uncle had not lied to me and that Zhixi was safe and sound, I breathed a long sigh of relief, but when I turned my head, I thought of someone else.
A person who was involved in the whole thing from beginning to end.
"Have you seen Wang Hu?" I asked.
"I didn't see it." Zhixi said.
I thought about it, got up and went out.
Zhixi asked me where I was going, and I said I was going to see how Wang Hu was doing.
Perhaps because she was still wary of what happened before, Zhixi did not come with me.
I walked out of the door and rushed towards Wang Hu's house. The closer I got, the more villagers I met on the road.
When I arrived at the door of Wang Hu's house, I saw the village chief and others. The crowd formed a circle, wondering what they were discussing.
I wanted to get closer and take a closer look. Someone saw me coming and shouted, "Village Chief, there's no need to look for him, Chen Xian is here!"
After I finished speaking, the crowd all looked at me.
The village chief walked up to me and said with a slightly nervous expression: "Chen Xian, I know Wang Hu did a lot of wrong things, and I can understand that you are angry because of that girl, but even then, you can't,
well……"
I didn’t understand what the village chief meant, so I asked, “Village Chief, what’s wrong with Wang Hu?”
"What's wrong? You still have the nerve to ask? You know what you're doing!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, and before I could see who it was, another voice came.
"Chen Xian, I really didn't expect you to be this kind of person! That's a living person! Just kill him if you say so? Just kill him. You still treat him like that. Do you want him to die in peace?"
After hearing this, I already understood that something was wrong, so I quickly asked: "Is Wang Hu dead?"
"Are you interesting, Chen Xian? It's now, what are you pretending to be with us?"
The village chief also wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said: "Chen Xian, this is a society governed by law. Killing people must pay for their lives. Don't blame the village chief for being cruel. Just now, I have called the police. The police will be here soon."
"Get out of the way! Get out of my way!" I got excited, pushed through everyone, and came to the door of Wang Hu's house.
Although the door of Wang Hu's house is closed at this moment, I can still smell the strong and pungent smell of blood coming from through the door.
I turned around and glanced at the villagers behind me. They all had complicated expressions and were whispering.
Turning around, I pushed open the door and checked the time. The scene in front of me made my scalp numb and the hairs all over my body trembled!
It is true that I have killed hundreds of pigs in my life, I have taken over countless jobs, and I have seen countless dead people.
But that scene, to this day, is still deeply etched in my memory.
In the middle of the living room of Wang Hu's house, there was a corpse hanging upside down, a corpse with human skin peeled off and bloody flesh!
It's like a fresh tomato that has been peeled and placed on a chopping board, but still has 'juice' flowing down.
Tick tock! Tick tock!
I fell into a sluggish state.
Until a word from a villager.
"No one in the village knows that Li Jiangshui was a master at skinning animals during his lifetime."
"A few years ago, the secretary named Wang from the next village went up to the mountain and shot a white fox. Li Jiangshui skinned the fox skin. It was so clean that the skin was sold for a lot of money!"
"Li Jiangshui knows how to do it, and you will definitely do the same. You must have peeled off Wang Hu's human skin too!"
"It's not me!" I shook my head in defense.
But my explanation seemed so feeble in the eyes of the villagers.
The villagers seemed to believe that I was the one who did this. The crowd swarmed me and knocked me down until the police arrived. I was handcuffed and escorted to the car. For the first time in my life, I was put in a police station.