Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 53 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (12)
There are only three words in his mind-why?Why would "that dying woman" write to herself?Why did Ai Chen disappear?Why did the murderer kill Chen Xiang?Why did the Miao family youth in front of him suddenly spontaneously ignite? ...There are too many unanswerable questions, Zhou Tong feels like a chess piece being manipulated, but he doesn't know who is playing the chess?And what purpose does this person have?
"Zhou Tong!" Seeing Zhou Tong who seemed to be demented, Li Ying rushed forward and yelled in his ear.

Zhou Tong was called out by Li Ying and almost fell to the ground.

"Crazy girl, do you want to kill someone?" Zhou Tong rubbed her ears and cried out in shock.

"I said you were the one who killed people, why...why... did this happen?" Li Ying didn't dare to look at the charred corpse, she turned her back, raised her head, and pointed backwards with her hand.

Zhou Tong ignored the gazes of Li Ying and Wang Ke expecting him to explain, but went straight to Yan Yongjie.

"Yong Jie, I'm afraid you need to take the body of this Miao family youth out for testing first."

Yan Yongjie was still holding Xuan Jingyi in her arms, she was taken aback when she heard this, but she looked at Li Ying, Wang Ke and Jin Dan next to her, then at Zhou Tong, and finally nodded.

Following her, she handed Xuan Jingyi to Wang Ke, and then took out a thing the size of a button battery from her pocket.

"This is a GPS satellite tracker, put it on me, and I can find your location." Yan Yongjie walked to Zhou Tong's side, put the tracker into his pocket, and leaned over Putting his lips to Zhou Tong's ear, he said softly: "I have seen that girl in the orphanage before, and she stayed in the orphanage with Ai Chen, I am afraid that many answers to questions can be found in her. "

Zhou Tong's chest touched Yan Yongjie's soft breasts in a detached manner, Yan Yongjie's breath was like blue in his ears, and his nose was filled with the faint body fragrance of Yan Yongjie's body, he almost couldn't help but wanted to hug Yan Yongjie into his arms.

Seeing how close they were, Li Ying immediately let out a heavy "hum" and turned her head away, but unexpectedly met Jin Dan's gaze.Li Ying's face was flushed immediately, so she had to turn another 180 degrees.

After Yan Yongjie finished speaking with Zhou Tong, she turned around and walked up to the charred corpse, took out a pair of gloves from her backpack and put them on, then picked up the corpse that was still emitting black smoke without fear.

"Be careful!" Yan Yongjie looked at Zhou Tong and said.

Zhou Tong nodded solemnly.

Li Ying quickly ran to Zhou Tong's side, putting on an attitude that Zhou Tong's life was protected by me, although she was a bit childish, she was also very cute.

Yan Yongjie couldn't help but smile.

"Be careful too." At this moment, Jin Dan finally couldn't help but stepped forward, looking at Yan Yongjie with concern and exhorting.

Yan Yongjie put away her smile, nodded to Jin Dan, but quickly avoided his fiery gaze.

"Old Wang, you don't need to take risks here, go out with me." Yan Yongjie also wanted to persuade Wang Ke.

"My old man has lived most of his life, and he has never encountered such a thrilling and exciting thing, so he must accompany him to the end!" Wang Ke sat on the ground, supporting Xuan Jingyi and said resolutely.

Hearing this, Li Ying immediately stepped forward and patted Wang Ke on the shoulder, expressing her support, with a bit of sympathy.

Seeing that Wang Ke insisted, Yan Yongjie stopped talking, and walked out of the forest with the charred body in her arms.

Chapter 14 Big Iron Box

When Xuan Jingyi just opened her eyes, what she saw was a strange handsome face, a young man she seemed to have never seen before.Then, her eyes slowly opened, and she saw the old man who was tied up by herself, the girl who held her hand, and beyond them, there was a man with a strange face, as if she had seen this face somewhere before, But I can't remember where I saw it.

"Shi...Shi Da, where is he?" Xuan Jingyi seemed to wake up from a dream, and jumped up from the big tree she was leaning against.

"Don't be afraid!" The young man stepped forward and held her hand.

The scene just now appeared in Xuan Jingyi's mind, she wanted to break free from the young man in fear.

"Who are you...why did you kill Shi Da?"

Instead, the young man held Xuan Jingyi's hand even tighter.

"My name is Zhou Tong, and we are the police." Zhou Tong said while winking at Jin Dan next to him.

Jin Dan happened to be wearing a police uniform, so he naturally stood in front of Xuan Jingyi, and then took out his police officer ID.

"Now you can trust us." Zhou Tong then slowly let go of Xuan Jingyi's hand.

Unexpectedly, Xuan Jingyi never read the police officer ID handed over by Jin Dan, but instead grabbed Zhou Tong and asked a little excitedly, "You...what did you say your name was just now?"

"Zhou... Tong..." Zhou Tong repeated his name in confusion.

Xuan Jingyi's reaction was beyond everyone's imagination, as if she found a lifebuoy after falling into the water, she hugged Zhou Tong tightly, tears pouring down like a flood that burst a bank.

"You're considered capable, kid. When did you hook up with this girl?" Wang Ke teased from the side with a disrespectful look.

Li Ying's gaze also changed from initial surprise to anger.

Only Jin Dan looked at everything in front of him with curiosity.

Zhou Tong herself was also at a loss. Suddenly being hugged so tightly by a beautiful woman, she didn't know whether it was a blessing or a disaster.

"You...you should calm down first, and speak slowly if you have something to say." Zhou Tong slowly broke free from Xuan Jingyi's embrace.

Xuan Jingyi realized that she hugged Zhou Tong like this, it was a bit abrupt, and her face was shy.She wiped away her tears and slowly calmed down.

"Zhou Tong, you must save Ai Chen!" Xuan Jingyi looked at Zhou Tong expectantly.

"Don't worry, Ai Chen is my friend, I will do my best to help her, but first you have to tell me what you know."

"I..." Xuan Jingyi looked at the people beside Zhou Tong, and hesitated to speak.

Zhou Tong saw her concerns, so she explained: "They are all my friends, you don't need to worry.".

Xuan Jingyi hesitated for a moment, but remembering Ai Chen's explanation, she finally shook her head resolutely, "I can only tell you alone!".

Zhou Tong didn't expect the girl in front of her to be so determined, so she turned her head and looked at Li Ying, Wang Ke and Jin Dan.

"What's so great, I don't want to hear it yet!" Li Ying pursed her lips, flicked her hands, and walked away.

Wang was afraid that something might happen to this girl again, so he hurriedly followed her.

Jin Dan still stood there, motionless.

"You still don't believe me?" Zhou Tong looked at Jin Dan and asked lightly.

Jin Dan also looked at Zhou Tong, he hesitated, but finally gave in.He turned around and walked in the direction Li Ying left.

It wasn't until the three of them disappeared from Xuan Jingyi's sight that she took Zhou Tong to the back of a big tree.

"Now can you say something?"

Xuan Jingyi looked around and confirmed that no one was around, so she nodded.

"What's your name? What's your relationship with Ai Chen? Why did you come here?" Zhou Tong asked like a cannonball.

Xuan Jingyi stroked her hair, recalled the past, sighed softly, and then spoke eloquently.

"My name is Xuan Jingyi. When I was young, I stayed with Ai Chen in the orphanage and became good sisters. Later, she was adopted, but we have always been in touch and maintained a good friend relationship. For several months A few days ago, Ai Chen knew that the land of the orphanage was going to be auctioned off, so she came to me and said that she would find money to buy the orphanage. I was surprised at the time and asked her where to find such a large sum of money? But she let I don't want to ask more, and then tell me, if she has anything, let me contact a person named Zhou Tong. I just thought she was joking, but a few days ago, a police officer named Yan Yongjie came to the orphanage suddenly, Tell us that Ai Chen is missing, so I remembered her explanation and hurried to find you, but you are not at school." Xuan Jingyi said here, her eyes turned red again.

"Then how did you find this place? What's the relationship between that young man from the Miao family named Shi Da and you?" Zhou Tong was afraid that she would cry again, so he hurriedly asked.

Xuan Jingyi held back her tears, and looked around vigilantly again, then mustered up her courage, and said: "I... Ai Chen and I actually knew each other before we went to the orphanage, and Shi Da, and Chen Xiang..."

"What did you say!" Zhou Tong suddenly interrupted Xuan Jingyi's words.

Xuan Jingyi was also taken aback by Zhou Tong's sudden action, not knowing what she said was wrong.

"You said you knew Chen Xiang?" Zhou Tong grabbed Xuan Jingyi's shoulder.

"You hurt me." Xuan Jingyi cried out as she struggled.

"Yes... I'm sorry." Zhou Tong let go of Xuan Jingyi, but his painful expression did not change at all. After taking a deep breath, he asked, "What is the relationship between you?"

Xuan Jingyi felt sad when she recalled the past, she saw that Zhou Tong had calmed down, and then she said: "Ai Chen, Chen Xiang, Shi Da and I are all from the same Miao village, and we all had a very happy family. Until one day... our parents went hunting together, and our children played carefree in the stockade, looking forward to eating delicious wild boar at night, but our parents did not bring back wild boar, but He carried a large rusty iron box back to the stockade. And all the disasters started that night..."

When Xuan Jingyi said this, her body couldn't help shaking.

Zhou Tong didn't urge her, but gently held her shoulders to calm her down slowly.

Xuan Jingyi's eyes gradually blurred, as if she had returned to that evening more than ten years ago, and saw the tragic and frightening scene again...

"This time we will let Shi Da be the groom!" Xuan Jingyi pushed Shi Da out of the crowd.

Shi Da's face was flushed, and he held his little hand, looking at a loss.

"Who will be the bride?" A sweet-looking little girl asked with a smile.

"It's up to you, Ai Chen!" A little boy with missing front teeth shouted, spitting.

"No, no, I've already been a job yesterday, it's time to go to Xiang'er!" The little girl named Ai Chen hurriedly pushed out a little girl in checkered clothes beside her.

"Okay, okay, then let Chen Xiang be the bride!" Several children immediately echoed loudly.

Shi Da sneaked a glance at Chen Xiang, his flushed face seemed to be on fire.

Chen Xiang walked over generously and took Shi Da's hand.

"Good Luo, we're married!" A group of children immediately booed and surrounded the two of them, and then held them up high.

Shi Da's face was full of happy smiles, he was a bit shy at first, but now he held Chen Xiang's hand tightly.

When all the children were having fun, they saw Ai Chen, Chen Xiang, Xuan Jingyi and Shi Da's parents came back from the forest.

The children immediately put down the game at hand and rushed to the adults.

I thought the adults would bring back wild boars or hares, but when I ran closer, it turned out to be a big rusty iron box.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a big iron box, it is more than one meter long and half a meter wide.There is also a strangely shaped lock on the iron box, and engraved on the lock is a pattern that looks like a dragon but not a dragon, or a snake but not a snake. Its teeth and claws are frightening.

"Father, mom, what are you bringing back? I want to see, I want to see!" Shi Da was the first to rush to the front of his parents, uncles and aunts, running around the big box. .

As soon as he finished speaking, several little girls also ran up, dragging their parents and arguing non-stop.

"Small bunnies, roll aside and play, don't get in the way!" Ai Chen's father, Ai Tian, ​​was the oldest, and he was usually unsmiling and vicious. There was no child in the village who was not afraid of him.

Sure enough, as soon as he opened his mouth, all the children didn't dare to make any more noise, but Shi Da still pulled his parents' sleeves very aggrieved, sullen.

"Ai Chen, take them aside to play." Ai Tian told his daughter.

Although Ai Chen was reluctant, she didn't dare to disobey her father's words, so she had to pull up Xuan Jingyi and Chen Xiang who were beside her, then pushed Shi Da, and walked away with a group of children.

But Ai Chen, Xuan Jingyi, Chen Xiang and Shi Da didn't really leave. They made a small detour, ran back to find a hidden place, and secretly looked at it full of curiosity.

"Shihu, go and invite the wizard, let's carry the things to the ancestor worship hall first." Ai Tian said with a heavy expression.

Shi Hu didn't dare to be negligent when he heard the words, and ran out in a hurry.

Ancestor worship occupies a very important position in Miao society.They believe that although the ancestors are dead, their souls will always be with their descendants. They must offer wine and meat to their ancestors during festivals and festivals, and even their daily meals should always be respected to their ancestors.The place where the ancestor worship ceremony is held is the ancestor worship hall.

The ancestor worship hall is the largest building in the whole village, and it stands at the highest point of the whole village.

Ai Tian and the others almost struggled to carry the big iron box to the ancestor worship hall.And the four children headed by Ai Chen also followed behind, touched up carefully, and hid in the side hall.

Not long after, under the guidance of Shi Hu, the great wizard in the village walked up slowly with a cane.

"Great wizard!" Ai Tian looked at the great wizard who was like a dead tree, and shouted in a heavy voice.

The great wizard raised his head, glanced at him, then nodded, but didn't speak, just walked straight towards the iron box.

As the great wizard approached, everyone slowly stepped aside.Next to the big iron box, only the great wizard was left.

He leaned on his crutches, squatted down slowly, stretched out his hand like a dead branch, and caressed the iron box carefully.When he touched the iron lock on the box, his whole movement stopped, and his eyes, which were originally a little dull, also released a strange light.

"Wuzhai, this... this is something from Wuzhai!" The great wizard's expression was full of fear, but also a hint of excitement.

Ai Tian and the others heard the great wizard's words and thought of all kinds of legends about Wuzhai, they shuddered and their complexions immediately turned pale.

"Really...is it really from Wuzhai?" Ai Tian didn't believe it at first, but now that he heard the great wizard say that, he thought it was almost the same.

The great wizard nodded very positively.

"Where did you find them?"

"I... we also found this thing by accident, and... we didn't know that it belonged to Wuzhai... Then... what should we do now? Why don't we take it away immediately?" Ai Tian, ​​who has always been calm , Speaking even became stuttering.

The great wizard hesitated for a moment before saying, "Don't worry... I'd better carry it to my room first."

"Great wizard, this is not acceptable! It is said that whoever takes something from Wuzhai will suffer bad luck!" Ai Tian waved his hands quickly, for fear that the great wizard would really want to keep this thing.

"Presumptuous! Do you want to disobey God Chi You's will!" The great wizard angrily hit the crutch in his hand on the ground.

When everyone heard the words, they immediately prostrated themselves and bowed respectfully in front of the great wizard.

"What! Why are Mom and Dad so afraid of the Great Wizard? The teacher at the school said that these things are superstitions!" Ai Chen whispered in the dark with some indignation.

Chen Xiang at the side quickly stepped forward to cover Ai Chen's mouth, and then whispered in her ear: "Don't talk nonsense, if the great wizard hears, we will be in trouble!"

"Then what should we do now?" Xuan Jingyi was the most timid, she asked with some fear.

"Are you interested in what's in the box?" Ai Chen pushed Chen Xiang's hand away.

The other three children were taken aback for a moment, but they nodded together obediently, obviously they were full of curiosity.

"That's easy, let's sneak to the great wizard at night to find out!" Ai Chen's tone was very excited.

But the other three children showed timid expressions.

"Shi Da, you are a boy!" Ai Chen said excitedly.

Shi Da really "hummed", and then said: "I'm not afraid!"

"Chen Xiang, Xuan Jingyi, how about you?"

"I...we..." Xuan Jingyi cast her eyes on Chen Xiang for help.

(End of this chapter)