Volume 2: Hundred Ghosts and All Living Beings Chapter 27 Investigation(1/2)
Upon hearing the request for money, Hao Feng immediately drooped his face.
"Brother, after all, I want to recognize you as my master and tell you all my secrets. Why do you still charge me?"
"Tsk, I've never heard of it. Do brothers settle accounts openly? It's not like I'm forcing you to say, what's the point of collecting some money? There is no such thing as a free lunch, let alone a free ritual."
Gu Chuan raised his head and smiled happily, "If you pay me, maybe I can teach you how to use your eyes.
Of course, he actually didn't believe it when he said it, but at present he was very poor and penniless. If he could make some money, he would make some money. How could a mere nigger still be able to deal with the two of them?
Hao Feng seemed to be moved by Gu Chuan's words. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded, "Tell me the number?"
"One thousand and three."
"Mom, robbery?" Hao Feng raised his voice excitedly, and a damn voice came from downstairs, "Xiao Hao! Did you call me?" Hao Feng quickly shut up, and then whispered, "Brother, you can't be cheap.
Do you want some?"
Gu Chuan waved his hand and sat on the sofa, "No need to discuss, you can think about it yourself." He pointed to the thing in the room.
Hao Feng gritted his teeth and finally compromised.
"make a deal!".
Gu Chuan raised his eyes and said immediately, "Pay first!".
Hao Feng's mother also came up at this time. Seeing Xiao Hao's sad face, she said cautiously, "Xiao Hao, I'm going to go to your sister's place. I've prepared food. If you're hungry, just go down and eat. Don't show it all day long."
You have such a bad look on your face, who can you show it to?"
After a few words of explanation, she took the bag on the sofa and went downstairs.
Gu Chuan raised his eyebrows and said, Hao Feng's mother is not at home tonight, so it doesn't matter. One more person will be another burden.
I hope the guy under the bed doesn't cause any trouble.
He turned back to look at Hao Feng, "You have a younger sister? Why don't you live with you?"
Originally asking casually, Hao Feng said solemnly, "Her name is Su Qin. She is not a biological sister. I don't know where my mother recognized her from. At first, I was worried that she was deceived."
Hao Feng scratched his hair irritably, feeling quite distressed.
"Let's not talk about her, brother. Let's talk about what we will do tonight."
Gu Chuan rolled his eyes, "Prepare paper, pen, ink and sword!"
"What? Brother, have you watched too many movies? Catching ghosts is not catching zombies." Hao Feng lamented.
Gu Chuan hit him on the head, "You idiot, can't you just pretend to scare that ghost?"
"Then what should we do next?" Hao Feng touched his head and asked doubtfully. Gu Chuan took a breath and slowly said one word, "Wait!".
This is Dongxiang Village.
It's about an hour's drive from the city.
Only then did Xiao Yu and Yu Hai find the place where Jiang Chenglian was. They searched for the person from all over the country and arrived there as soon as they inquired.
This is a brick house. The green tiles are covered with moss. There are two pear trees planted next to it. The branches of the pear trees have grown past the beams of the house, and there are large and small pears on them.
Jiang Chenglian was sitting on a bench in the courtyard, waving a cattail leaf fan with one hand, not knowing what she was looking at. There was a little black dog tied up in the courtyard, which barked non-stop when it saw strangers.
Noticing Xiao Yu and Yu Hai, she stood up with her back hunched over and walked into the house.
Yu Hai quickly ran forward, but before the old woman could close the door, she said in a hoarse voice: "You foreigners, why do you come to my place?"
Yu Hai held the door with his hand and told her directly that her son had committed suicide. They were the police and came to ask her about the situation.
At first, Xiao Yu was worried that the old man wouldn't be able to bear the news, but looking at his expression, he seemed to already know about it.
There was no trace of sadness in his expression.
"I see."
The old woman's eyes were extremely cold, her bloodless lips opened, and she only said this sentence.
Yu Hai was so strong that Jiang Chenglian couldn't close the door and didn't intend to close it, so he let the two of them follow him into the main room.
The main room is very spacious, with a painted red wooden cabinet placed in the corner next to the wall.
As soon as you enter the door, you can see a black and white photo frame hanging on the front wall.
The person in the frame is very old, with a wrinkled face, wearing a Chinese tunic suit, and is unsmiling.
There are half pieces of sweet potatoes placed on both sides of the ground, with three burnt incense sticks stuck on them. These are things left over from ancestor worship in the countryside during the New Year.
There was still black paper ashes there that had not been cleaned up. It looked like the paper money had been burned not long ago.
"I have nothing to say to you. If it's because of my son, then leave as soon as possible. I have nothing to do with that bastard."
"Mother-in-law, at least you call him son. If he commits suicide, are you really indifferent?"
Xiao Yu spoke calmly and tried to persuade her, but the old woman gave her a hard look.
"Does he still have me as his mother in his heart? Every time he comes back and opens his mouth, money comes. He is unfilial! Suicide? It would be better to die, but far away!"
Yu Hai's face was gloomy. He had checked the information before and found that although Jiang Mingguo was a homeless person, someone in his account sent him money every month.
Most of the money he spent was busy tinkering with those gadgets, and the remaining money was barely enough for him to live on.
The person who sent the money was Jiang Chenglian.
She has a pension of up to 3,500 yuan and spends 2,000 yuan every month.
Xiao Yu was confused by what she said. Yu Haike confessed that Jiang Mingguo had not been back to Dongcun Village for nearly five years, and everyone in the country knew about it.
On the other hand, Jiang Chenglian himself often traveled to and from the city. That book was taken by Jiang Chenglian when his son committed suicide, and the surveillance video clearly showed it.
"Let me show you something." Xiao Yu took out the thick book from his bag, but Jiang Chenglian's expression remained unchanged.
"Old lady, I'm a big kid and I don't know a single word. Why are you taking out a book and showing me what to read?"
The old woman looked at the two of them inexplicably.
"You put this book in your son's home! Don't you know?"
Yu Hai also thought that the old woman was quibbling. After all, she always had him as a son in her heart, otherwise she would not send him money every month and visit him secretly.
She sneered, "Didn't those people tell you that I broke off the relationship with that unfilial son five years ago? I will go see him! I want to kill him when I see him! Even if I die first, I will not even have a corpse.
He won’t even let anyone meet him!”
Jiang Chenglian's breathing was very rapid, and her whole body was shaking with anger, as if she couldn't breathe.
Both of them were surprised by this. They had heard from the villagers that mother and son were not getting along, but they had never imagined that they would be in such a situation that they would never interact with each other until death.
"In this case, we won't bother you anymore. Please take good care of yourself." Xiao Yu poked Yu Hai with her elbow and signaled to leave first. This situation is a bit troublesome.
But Yu Hai hesitated and asked again: "Just because of money?"
Jiang Chenglian became even more excited. She pulled Yu Hai and pointed at the old man hanging on the wall, "Five years ago, five years ago, I made that bastard swear on him whether he killed his father who was lying in bed! You
Guess what, this bastard can't even tell the truth!"
This matter spread all over the country, saying that Jiang Mingguo was like a man possessed, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find the real estate certificate of his house.
His family only has this house, which is where the old couple spend the rest of their lives.
His father was originally very ill, but his condition improved a lot, but he made such a fuss and died the next night.
Originally, he hadn't found it a few days ago, but when he heard that his father was dead, he shamelessly asked Jiang Chenglian about the real estate certificate under the pretext of mourning.
Opening your mouth and keeping your mouth shut is money.
She never imagined that her ancestors, who had accumulated hundreds of years of virtue, would be defeated by this bastard.
She asked Jiang Mingguo to swear in front of his father's body whether he was the one who was so angry, but he swore that he was not, and then turned around and asked about the money.
After asking this, she was tired, so she asked him to keep vigil for her father for seven days and then severed ties with him. This family did not need him.
At first he made trouble and even smashed the mourning hall. The police came to mediate but it was of no use.
Later, she chose to compromise and transfer money to him every month without letting herself see him.
After hearing this, both of them were surprised.
On the way, the two began to discuss what Jiang Chenglian said.
Since then, mother and son have never seen each other again, so who is Jiang Chenglian who appears in the community?
"It seems that someone used the magic of disguise as a cover-up. Since it involves the Hundred Demons Sacrifice and is related to prison, it must be those evil disciples who did it."
Xiao Yu's guess is very reasonable, and the biggest suspicion is the cult.
"Suppose they used Jiang Chenglian's face to teach Jiang Mingguo the method of the Hundred Ghosts Sacrifice to mislead him, but the prerequisite is that he is really under the mother-child curse."
In order to verify this matter, the two went to ask other people in the village.
But that's not the only thing that's confusing.
"Why doesn't Jiang Mingguo have the same last name as his father?"
One family explained it.
The Jiang family is an old man. The reason why Jiang Mingguo did not take his father's surname was because his father came from behind. After giving birth to Jiang Mingguo, his father died. Jiang Chenglian was already older, and later on, Lao Ma from the same village often helped him.
To be continued...