Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 86 Zhou Tong Detective Series IV: The Skinner (20)
An old man was standing in front of a wooden house, the little girl speeded up and ran to the man.

With a kind face, the elder put his arms around the little girl and gently stroked her head.

The little girl pointed at Zhou Tong and chattered.

"Hello, I..." Zhou Tong greeted while flipping through the Tibetan phrasebook.

The old man smiled and said in a calm tone, "What do you want from me?"

Zhou Tong was overjoyed. It turned out that the village head could speak Chinese, so he put away the handbook in embarrassment.

"I'm here to visit an old friend."

"Oh, I don't know who you are looking for?"

"Dawa." Zhou Tong said the name of Liang Xiaowu's father.

The village chief looked at Zhou Tong in surprise, and looked him up and down carefully, how could he know Dawa at his age.

"Who are you from Dawa?"

"I am a friend of his son Nima Tsering."

"Is Nima Tsering still alive?" The village chief was so excited that he grabbed Zhou Tong's hand.

Zhou Tong didn't expect him to react so strongly, and said quickly: "It's a long story, he just passed away not long ago."

The village chief was also stunned for a moment, let go of Zhou Tong, and sighed long.

"This time I came here entrusted by him, hoping to help him pay homage to his parents and fulfill one of his wishes." Zhou Tong said nonsense.

"Come in and sit down, have a cup of buttered tea, and talk slowly." The village head led Zhou Tong into the house.

The furnishings in the wooden house are simple, and there is a strong smell of ghee.

The village head poured tea for Zhou Tong and brought some small cakes before sitting down.

"Nima Tsering is young, how could it be like this?"

"He was seriously ill, so..." Zhou Tong decided to talk nonsense to the end. Why did Nima Tsering leave the village back then?Why did you never come back as an adult?There is something irrational here.

"It's so pitiful, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it." The village chief shook his head again and again.

"Nima Tsering is very good outside. He is a great person. It's just that heaven is jealous of talents..." Zhou Tong squeezed out a few tears from his eyes, and then continued: "Before he died, he told me that his parents had He died, but he has never been able to come back to worship and fulfill his filial piety, and he never forgets in his heart, hoping that I can help him come back to worship and fulfill his wish."

"This child's filial piety is commendable." The eyes of the village chief also turned red.

"Village chief, I wonder if you can take me to worship Dawa's family?" Zhou Tong asked sincerely, wiping away tears.

"This..." The village head showed embarrassment.

Seeing this, Zhou Tong quickly asked, "Is it inconvenient?"

"That's not true. Maybe you know that when a fire broke out suddenly, their family was buried in the sea of ​​fire. We didn't even know that Nima Tsering survived. According to our customs, the dead are sent to the sky burial platform. Sky burial, so if you want to worship, you can only go there. But it’s getting late now, and the road to the sky burial is not easy, why don’t you stay here for one night, and I’ll arrange someone to take you to the sky burial early tomorrow morning .” The village chief explained.

"So that's the case, that's really troublesome for you." Zhou Tong was a little puzzled. Their family was burned to death, and the corpses must be horrible. How can they be buried in the sky?However, he did not express these questions.

The village head then arranged a sumptuous dinner for Zhou Tong, and his family members were also accompanying him.The village head's wife has passed away, and the only son left is his dependent life.

But Zhou Tong is not used to these foods, and everything is just tasted.

He asked about the situation of the fire that year, but the village chief didn't seem to know too much, and only said that it might have been an accident.He asked some more about the situation of Dawa's family, but the village chief said only trivial matters, which were of no value at all.

Zhou Tong chatted for a long time, but didn't get any clues. She was not interested, and after a few gossips, she found a reason to leave the village chief's house and planned to take a stroll in the village.

Coming out of the village chief's house, he was greeted by a gust of cool wind, which lifted his spirits.

The weather is clear tonight, the starry sky is bright, and the houses in the village are lit with fire, which is warm and peaceful.However, the village seemed a bit too quiet, except for the occasional two or three barking dogs, there was no one walking around in the village.

Zhou Tong wanted to ask someone again, but he walked all the way, but there was no one there.In desperation, he decided to go back to the village chief's house to sleep, and wait until tomorrow to make plans.

When he was about to turn around and go back the same way, he found a person hiding in the shadows of a side road, staring at him blankly.

Zhou Tong was startled, but he kept his composure and continued to walk forward, but slowed down.

The secretly observing person also quietly followed behind him, keeping a certain distance.

Zhou Tong remained silent. He was going to go back, but he walked out of the village, which was a quiet and deserted place.

The man actually followed out of the village and hid behind a big rock.

Zhou Tong looked around, saw no one around, and was far away from the village, then turned to the boulder where the man was hiding, and said aloud: "You have been with me for so long, you should be able to come out now."

Although the sound was not loud, it was clearly audible in this secluded place.

After a while, the person behind the stone finally poked his head out.

Under the starlight, Zhou Tong finally saw clearly that the person who came was the little girl who had brought him to the village chief earlier.

"Why is it you? Come out quickly." Zhou Tong couldn't help laughing. He thought that this little girl might be greedy and wanted chocolate.

However, the little girl changed from her innocence and romance in the daytime, and looked very vigilant. She looked back for a long time to confirm that no one was following, and then timidly walked out from behind the stone.

Zhou Tong touched his pocket and found that he was still carrying a piece of chocolate, so he took it out immediately.

"Do you want this? Give it to you."

But the little girl shook her head, pushed his hand away, and said something in Tibetan that he didn't understand.

Only then did Zhou Tong realize that the little girl was unusual, so he immediately walked up to her, squatted down, and asked word by word: "Speak slowly, uncle can't quite understand."

The little girl seemed to understand what he meant, so she slowed down her speech and said, "Nima Tsering...Nima Tsering."

"Do you know Nima Tsering?" Zhou Tong finally heard the name clearly. If this little girl knew Nima Tsering, it meant that Nima Tsering had come back.

The little girl nodded.

Zhou Tong wanted to ask many questions, but he couldn't express them for a while, and was sweating profusely, regretting not letting Zhuo Ga come with him.

But before he could speak, the little girl pointed to his pocket very cleverly.

Zhou Tong understood immediately, and took out the Tibetan conversation manual from his pocket.

The little girl snatched the manual over immediately, turned to one of the pages, pointed to a word, and repeated the word hastily in her mouth.

Zhou Tong turned around and saw clearly the word the little girl was pointing at, and beside it was a Chinese explanation in thick black font: Danger.

"Danger? What danger?" Zhou Tong asked hastily.

The little girl pointed to him, and then to the words in the manual, and repeated this several times.

"Me? I'm in danger?" Zhou Tong said while pointing to the word in the manual, and then pointing to himself.

The little girl nodded vigorously this time, then put the manual into Zhou Tong's hand, and ran towards the village.

Under the faint starlight, Zhou Tong was left staring at the hazy village not far away with a face full of astonishment.

How can you get a tiger cub if you don't enter the tiger's den?Zhou Tong didn't think much about it, he came to a conclusion and made a decision.

But he was also more careful and vigilant.

The village chief's house has two floors, and they lived on it, and built a bed for Zhou Tong on the first floor.

Zhou Tong chatted with the village head for a few more words before lying down to rest.

Thinking of the little girl's appearance, he didn't dare to sleep, pretending to close his eyes, but carefully paying attention to the movement around him.

I don't know how long it has passed, but Zhou Tong is still struggling to keep himself from falling asleep. Just when he was about to be in a daze, there was a sound from upstairs.

Zhou Tong immediately became excited, rolled up his body, and held the dagger in his arms with his right hand, ready to fight back at any time.

Sure enough, the village head came down from upstairs. He walked up to Zhou Tong, patted him lightly, and said, "Little brother, little brother."

Zhou Tong pretended not to pay attention, and continued to sleep as if he hadn't heard.

Seeing that he was still, the village chief waved to the upstairs, and his son also came down.

The village chief spoke to his son "Ji Li Gua La" in Tibetan, but Zhou Tong couldn't understand him, so he had to lie still and wait and see what happened.

After the village chief finished speaking, he left the house alone, leaving his son to watch Zhou Tong.

Although Zhou Tong couldn't understand what the village chief said, judging from the current situation, it seemed that the village chief had something important to go out.He wanted to follow to see what happened, but the son of the village chief was watching him covetously, how could he get out?He didn't have much time to think of a perfect solution. Once the village chief went far away, he couldn't keep up even if he wanted to.In desperation, he decided to take the risk.

Zhou Tong pretended to turn over and dropped the dagger in his arms to the ground on purpose.

The son of the village chief was a little surprised when he saw a gleaming dagger falling out of him, and instinctively went forward to pick it up.

It was too late to say it, but at the moment when he bent down, Zhou Tong suddenly jumped up and punched his acupuncture point.Before he had time to react, he fainted on the ground with a "plop".

"Fortunately, I learned two tricks from Yan Yongjie, and it finally came in handy today." Zhou Tong clapped his hands triumphantly, then quickly put on his coat on the bed, and pushed the door out.

As soon as he went out, he was taken aback by the sight in front of him, and he didn't have to worry about not being able to keep up.Because all the men, women, old and young in the village came out with torches, the whole village was ablaze like daytime.The villagers consciously lined up in a long line, and under the leadership of the village head, they walked along a mountain road to the holy mountain Gangrenbuqin.

Zhou Tong didn't dare to get too close, slipped cautiously to one side of the team, and quietly followed behind under the cover of stones and weeds.

Turning and turning in the mountain road, after walking for about half an hour, a large flat land appeared on the side of the mountain road, which seemed to be artificially opened up.

This flat land is half the size of a football field, which is more than enough even if the whole village gathers on it.

But Zhou Tong didn't dare to go up. The flat ground has a wide view and there is no place to hide. He can only continue up the mountain road, then climb up a big tree, hide among the dense leaves, from top to bottom, secretly look away.

The hope didn't matter, and he almost fell from the tree.On that plain, a man and a woman were tied to a thick tree stump, surrounded by menacing villagers holding torches.

The man and woman were none other than Chen Siguo and Chang Ning who returned to Lhasa before him.

The village chief walked around Chen Siguo and Chang Ning slowly, uncharacteristically, with a ferocious expression.He didn't know when there was an extra cane in his hand. On the cane was a bony bull's head. Against the backdrop of the fire, it looked even more terrifying.

"Kakibuyas..." the village head pointed at Chen Siguo and Chang Ning with his cane, and shouted loudly in Tibetan.

Chen Siguo and Chang Ning couldn't understand what he said, but they saw that the surrounding villagers were getting more and more excited, shouting continuously, waving the torches in their hands, and their expressions were also very unfriendly.

"Don't act recklessly, let us go immediately, we are the police..." Chen Siguo grew up abroad, and he has never seen such a battle. It would be fine if he was facing criminals, but in front of him were all ordinary villagers.

"As a psychologist, I can tell you professionally that in this situation, it's best to keep your mouth shut." Chang Ning said beside Chen Siguo. She didn't want Chen Siguo to be self-defeating and further anger the villagers.

Chen Siguo knew that Chang Ning was not joking, so he had no choice but to swallow the rest of the words abruptly.

At this time, the village head suddenly raised his hands, and everyone immediately fell silent.

"You have desecrated the sacred mountain and committed unforgivable crimes. In the name of Master, we will punish you!" The village chief said to Chen Siguo and Chang Ning in very clear Chinese.

"Old man, I think there may be some misunderstanding, can you listen to our explanation..." Chang Ning said softly.

"Needless to say, you witch, the master has already determined that you are blasphemy devils, and you must be burned at the stake!" The village chief interrupted Chang Ning roughly.

It was only then that Chen Siguo and Chang Ning realized that it was useless to say anything else. These villagers were most likely followers of Esoteric Buddhism. Someone had arranged behind this, and they would fall into a trap just waiting for them to go up the mountain.

At this time, some villagers have already started to pile up branches and sticks around them. It only takes one spark, and they will be buried in the sea of ​​fire in an instant.

Chen Siguo and Chang Ning began to struggle hard, but they were bound by tendons, the more they struggled, the tighter they were bound, it was futile.They never imagined that they would die inexplicably in the snow-capped mountains, and the expressions of despair appeared on their faces.

A villager stepped forward with a torch in his hand, ready to light the pyre.

But at this moment, there was a loud noise on the mountain, a huge rock rolled down from the mountain, and brought the surrounding glaciers and snow, pouring down with the momentum of thunder.

The names of the villages on the platform suddenly became a mess, and they fled in all directions.

Chen Siguo and Chang Ning were miserable. They had just escaped the fire, but now they were about to be buried by ice and snow.

But at this time, a familiar face appeared in front of them.

"Zhou Tong!" Chen Siguo and Chang Ning shouted in unison.

This avalanche was Zhou Tong's masterpiece. He wanted to tease them proudly, but time was running out, and he really didn't have the extra time.

Zhou Tong raised the knife and quickly cut open the tendons on the two of them.

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations, and it was still half a beat late. The snow waves like a tide buried the three of them in an instant.

Zhou Tong hugged her head and let it wind and snow, always curled into a ball.After that momentum disappeared, he jumped out of the snowdrift like a monkey.

"Chen Siguo! Chang Ning!" He yelled loudly, searching for the two of them in the soft snow with difficulty.

"I'm here." Chen Siguo emerged from a snowdrift, followed by Chang Ning and jumped out beside him.

Zhou Tong couldn't help being overjoyed to see that both of them were fine and were not hit by the solid glacier.

"This is not a place to talk, follow me!" Zhou Tong stepped on the deep snow and walked to the two of them with difficulty.

Hearing this, Chen Siguo looked around. Although the villagers retreated temporarily, once the avalanche was over, they would definitely come back.Knowing that time was running out, he immediately followed Zhou Tong up the mountain.

But Chang Ning was stunned for a moment, looking at Zhou Tong, his eyes were rosy, as if the grievances of many days were going to be vented at this moment.

Zhou Tong didn't understand her thoughts, she just thought she was frightened, seeing that she still didn't leave, she quickly turned her head, took her hand, and urged, "Go, we won't be able to leave when they come up!"

Chang Ning held back tears and held Zhou Tong's hand tightly, as if a fire was burning in his heart, he completely forgot that he was in a dangerous situation, and there was a feeling of happiness lingering in his heart.

Chapter 18
Zhou Tong, Chen Siguo, and Chang Ning were worried that the villagers would intercept them at the foot of the mountain, so they dared not go down the mountain, so they had to go up the mountain, hoping to find another way down the mountain.

Zhou Tong asked Chen Siguo and Chang Ning as they walked, how did they come here, and how were they caught by these villagers?

It turned out that Chen Siguo and Chang Ning had found clues. Ning Xi had bought a lot of books about Mount Kailash in a bookstore, and had asked the Mountaineering Association about climbing Kailash.Based on this, they judged that Ningxi most likely went to Mount Kailash, so they followed him all the way.

But what they didn't expect was that they hadn't found Ningxi yet, and they were attacked and knocked out just as they went up the mountain. After waking up, they found that they were tied up by a group of villagers.Not long after, he was lifted onto the platform.

"What about you? Why did you appear here by such a coincidence?" Chen Siguo couldn't help asking.

So Zhou Tong also told about Liang Xiaowu.

"I didn't expect Xiao Wu's life experience to be so bizarre." Chang Ning sighed after hearing this.

(End of this chapter)