A child stood quietly at the head of the bed, covering his face with his hands and looking out through the gaps between his fingers. His eyes were empty and without eyeballs.
call!
Lin Cheng was so frightened that he sat up suddenly, sweating profusely, and his forehead was extremely cold.
"It turned out to be a nightmare, a false alarm..."
Lin Cheng took a deep breath, got out of bed, put on his shoes, lit a candle, and went to get the urinal but found that the urinal was full. Just when he was about to leave the room to empty the urinal, he looked back at the bedside by mistake, and his hands were frightened.
With a shake, half of the yellow water in the urinal spilled onto his hand.
But this time, he did not run out of the room in panic like the previous nightmares. Instead, he seemed to wake up from a confused nightmare. He was both surprised and happy: "Taoist Master Jin'an is you!"
Lin Cheng ran over in surprise with a urinal in his hand, and wanted to hug Jin An happily with wet hands. Fatty Li shouted in horror: "Don't come over!"
There were several benches next to the bed, and Jin An and Fatty Li were sitting next to the bed. Under the slightly dim candlelight, the two of them seemed to have just woken up from their sleep, and they were looking around the room.
Lin Cheng hid the urinal and liquid-covered hands behind his back in embarrassment: "Taoist Master Jin'an, Master Li Cha, please listen to my explanation. Things are not what you think. This urinal is poured on time every day. It's not
The kind of sloppy person you think of..."
"Except for the first time I had a nightmare and forgot about it..."
"This dream seems to be repeating the first dream environment..."
Fatty Li covered his nose and asked Lin Cheng to quickly take the urinal outside and empty it out, and then fetch water to wash his hands. He asked Lin Cheng, "Don't you drink water in the summer? The smell is so spicy when you are angry?"
Lin Cheng shook his head hurriedly and hesitated, saying that he did not dare to go to the well to fetch water because there was something at the bottom of the well.
"Let's go, let's go with you to the well to fetch water." Jin An said, getting ready to go out, and Fatty Li volunteered to fetch water.
Lin Cheng looked back at the position of the bed, and hurriedly followed him. As he walked, he asked cautiously: "Taoist Master Jin'an, Master Li Cha, did you see a child beside my bed just now?"
Unexpectedly, both of them shook their heads.
Jin An thought for a while and said, "This dream is dominated by you, maybe because you woke up earlier than us."
Lin Cheng said "Oh" as if he didn't understand.
This time, Shen Zhuxiao did not come to the vigil. It was Jin An who did not allow him to come. He was just a businessman doing business. There were seniors and juniors, so there was no need to get involved in this matter.
Having repeated nightmares so many times in succession, Lin Cheng had already had a psychological shadow on the well. He pretended to find an excuse to empty the urinal and deliberately avoided the water in the well. Jin An did not force him to avoid irritating the other party's tense nerves.
An accident occurred when he went crazy. Fatty Li made two crude homemade torches, one for himself and one for Jin An. He then approached the mouth of the well and looked in.
Instead of hearing the exclamations of fear, I heard Fatty Li complaining and complaining: "It's so damn dark down there! It's like it's dark under the lamp!"
"Lin Cheng, how deep is the water in your well? Why can't you even shine a torch to the bottom?"
Fatty Li turned around and shouted these words to Lin Cheng who was emptying the urinal.
Lin Cheng was emptying the urinal absentmindedly, with all his thoughts on the well. He was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously replied: "It's not deep, it seems to be only three or four feet."
Fatty Li didn't think about it and threw the torch down into the well. In fact, the well was not very deep because the water in the well at night would reflect the light and make it look dark and deep, as if there was no bottom. The torch would soon be extinguished when it met the water.
It looked like an ordinary well, but there was no movement as Lin Cheng said. The two of them once wondered if Lin Cheng was deliberately lying? Or maybe there was indeed something in the well, but the clues were lost in the well water.
Fatty Li picked up the bucket and lowered it into the well. He held the rope in his hand and shook it vigorously. The bucket swung around in the well water for several times and found nothing unusual.
Fatty Li shook his head towards Jin An, indicating that there was nothing suspicious under the well for the time being, and then fetched a bucket of water and asked Lin Cheng to come over and wash his hands.
While Lin Cheng was washing his hands, Fatty Li asked for some details again. Seeing that Lin Cheng knew even less than them, and had repeated nightmares so many times that he did not dare to approach the well water, he spread his hands towards Jin An and said: "
It seems that Lin Cheng is indeed very timid, he has had so many nightmares and doesn’t know anything about it.”
After hearing this, Lin Cheng cried out aggrieved: "Master Li Cha, it's not that you are timid, it's that you are talented and bold. I'm just an ordinary citizen. I don't even have time to hide when I encounter this kind of thing... How can I be like you...
"
Fatty Li stared: "What's wrong with me?"
Lin Cheng timidly hid behind Jin An and said timidly: "You seemed very happy along the way..."
Jin An was amused, and then asked Fatty Li to stop scaring Lin Cheng, they still had business to do.
After Lin Cheng washed his hands several times, the three of them were ready to go outside and take a look at the endless alley with high walls.
They had just opened the courtyard door, and sure enough they saw an alley with high walls outside like a sky. The high walls of blue bricks were so high that it was so oppressive that the sun couldn't get in and the vision was dim.
While Jin An was still looking up and down the Gaoqiang Alley, suddenly, there was movement from the quiet yard behind him, and the sound was particularly loud in the empty yard.
Plop!
It was the sound of water splashing from a well when a bucket was hit.
He immediately turned around and looked behind him, and saw that the rope on the pulley was descending rapidly, as if something heavy was pulling the barrel to the bottom of the well.
The rope quickly dropped to the bottom and collapsed!
The rope suddenly tightened.
There is something underneath the well crawling along the rope towards the wellhead.
It was this familiar and terrifying scene again! Lin Cheng was so frightened that he turned around and ran away, but Fatty Li grabbed him by the collar.
This time Lin Cheng got dressed and went out.
"Come on, come with us and take a look." Fatty Li looked eager to try, which frightened Lin Cheng so much that he thought he might not encounter a lunatic on this trip!
How can anyone be so keen on the evil that they not only refuse to hide but also rush forward to join in the fun!
Lin Cheng looked sad and didn't want to get close to the wellhead, but it was no longer up to him. The tall Fatty Li held up the back of Lin Cheng's clothes like an eagle catching a chick, and accompanied Jin An towards the wellhead.
"These two are really fierce men! Did they cause evil on their own, or did something underneath the well cause evil?" Lin Cheng muttered in his heart. Even though he was unwilling to do so, he finally followed him to the well.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped into the yard, what they saw in front of them was not Lin Cheng's house, but another strange scene. A house with closed doors and windows. A violent quarrel was going on. There were sounds of things being beaten, and there were sounds of men and women arguing loudly.
, there are also the sounds of children crying and the old lady trying to persuade them to fight.
The man found that the longer his child grew, the less he looked like him. He was quarreling with his wife, asking her if she was stealing men behind his back, and asking who this bastard belonged to.
Because the doors and windows were closed, we could not directly see the scene inside the house. We could only see the figure reflected in the window paper as the burly man raised a kitchen knife and hacked his wife to death frantically. Blood spattered on the window paper, and the wife soon became silent.
The old lady was crying and yelling from inside the house, telling her grandson to hide and not let his crazy father find him.
"Ah!" Seeing the murderous eucalyptus, timid Lin Cheng screamed in fright.
The window of the house was pushed open from the inside, and a cold and numb man's face stained with blood poked out. He looked around outside, then slammed the window again, and the sound of banging and chopping could be heard in the house.
Soon after, a cold and numb man with blood all over his face pushed open the door and walked out. He held his wife's head, which was still bleeding, in his hand, and committed suicide by throwing himself into a well.
One night, the family suffered a tragic accident, and a crazy old lady rushed out of the house. She kept repeating "grandson, grandson" in her mouth, and finally rushed out of the house and disappeared into the night.
"This kind of death is the most common in our Criminal Investigation Department. Since ancient times, adultery has resulted in human death." Fatty Li said with deep feeling, and the three of them walked out from behind the shade of the tree in the yard.
Jin An thought of more. He pondered for a while and said, "It seems that the members of this family are trying to maintain their grievances."
"Use this family's resentment to raise a vicious ghost."
"Let's go, it seems there is no answer we are looking for here." Jin An did not enter the house, nor did he check the body in the well, but walked straight outside the house.
As soon as they came out of the yard, the scene in front of them once again turned into a high-walled alley.
"Is the door you mentioned far from here?" Jin An asked Lin Cheng.
Lin Cheng shook his head in fear, too frightened to speak. He didn't know whether he was saying he didn't know, or was too frightened for a moment to recover. Jin An stopped asking him any more and took the lead into the high-walled alley.
After walking for a while in Gaoqiang Hutong, he met the crazy woman carrying a basket that Lin Cheng had mentioned. Jin An recognized this crazy woman at a glance as the old lady who ran away from home in a frenzy after her family was destroyed.
"Have you seen my grandson?" The crazy woman opened her bloodshot eyes and stared at the three people in front of her.
Jin An raised his hand and touched the basket on her arm: "Isn't he sleeping soundly in the basket?"
One sentence was like waking up someone from a dream. The crazy woman was holding her grandson's mummy and crying loudly. Even if the three people walked around her, she didn't react.
It wasn't until he was very far away that Lin Cheng hesitated to ask Jin An how he was in such a dark environment, and the basket was still covered with cloth, so he could see that the crazy woman's grandson was in the basket?
Jin An: "Look at the world with your heart."
"She loved her grandson so much. When her son went crazy and killed his wife, she didn't forget to tell her grandson to hide him. She would definitely go find her grandson afterwards."
In the long, narrow and deep high-walled alley, there was only the sound of the slow footsteps of three people. The two torches could barely illuminate the surrounding area, but could not illuminate how deep the high-walled alley was.
However, this time when he entered the Gaoqiang Hutong, his mood was different. Lin Cheng found himself in a calm mood. He knew very well that this was the sense of security brought to him by the Taoist priest's back in front of him.
Along the way, Jin'an handled things calmly and gave people a sense of security.
Finally, the three of them found the door Lin Cheng was talking about.
To be continued...