Chapter 3: Commissioner Zhang
When the old village chief said this, A Chong fell to the ground with a gulp and was unconscious. Everyone rushed to the kang in a hurry. When they raised their hands, they found that the black blue on their arms had spread to their chests, and a faint smell of fishy smell. Their body was also cold and hot.
It was already midnight now, and everyone was at a loss. It was not right to stand there and it was not right to walk.
The old village chief was still steady, rubbed his old face hard and said, "Everyone should go back first. It's so late, and it's raining outside again, and it's not easy to walk out of the village. Everyone can't do anything when they stay here. Zi Yang's mother, you can take care of this child at night. I'll call someone to report the case tomorrow. Everyone should leave... The doors and windows are closed when they go home at night... I'll wake up when I sleep."
"Also, no one of you is allowed to tell outsiders what I said tonight! Otherwise I will tear his mouth!"
Everyone walked out in groups of three or three, and Zi Yang's father was walking to the end to see the old village chief. Before leaving, Zi Yang's father stuttered: "Old village chief, A Chong's father died inexplicably. Is he being plagued by evil spirits when he went to rob the tomb..."
The old village chief shook his head and said, "It's not about going to rob the tomb. There is only our ancestral tomb near that place. A Chong's father said he would never touch it."
"I always feel that A Chong's father's death is a bit strange. Have you noticed that before A Chong's father's accident, those outsiders had come several times. After the accident, I never saw those outsiders who exchanged food again in the village?"
Zi Yang's father was shocked: "Did those people harm A Chong's father?"
The old village chief said, "You think, the food was so expensive that year. No matter how capable the people from outsiders were, where did they get so much food? In the end, maybe they couldn't get the food for exchange, just..."
Zi Yang's father said, "Then why didn't you report the case?"
The old village chief rolled his eyes and said, "Do you know how serious it is to resell cultural relics and antiques? If we investigate, who can escape the relationship? I think I almost got rid of the onion sold back then!"
The old village chief turned his back and walked away angrily.
The heavy rain lasted for a week, and the roads in the village were washed away. It was not until a week after the sun was opened that the village sent people to report the case. During this period, A Chong had been recuperating at Zi Yang's house, drowsy, and was awake and sleeping.
The next day, two specialists came to the county town, one fat and the other was thin. The leader was a white and slightly fat middle-aged man. The man had his hair meticulously combed, and his front was a little bald, under his slender eyebrows, his eyes were thin and long, and his expression was very kind.
The younger young man introduced: "This is a commissioner Zhang from the provincial capital. He is stationed in our county and rarely comes out. This time he can come here to give your old village chief a face, so you have to treat him well."
Because the village is poor and there is not even a guesthouse, these two people are arranged at Lao Li's house in the "place of the incident".
I heard that he was a specialist from the provincial capital. Lao Li's family had never received such a high-level official. The family was nervous and treacherous to empty the bedroom of the main room for the old and young as an office.
Commissioner Zhang has seen the world, and the old village chief and a bunch of people were about to come up to report the situation. Commissioner Zhang waved his hand and signaled not to hurry. He took out a towel, water cup, and notebook from his bag. He wiped his face with a towel dipped in water, poured a cup of warm water and slapped his mouth. Then he sat on the stool seriously, holding the notebook with his left hand and holding the pen with his right hand, looking at the fellow villagers, and asked with a smile: "Who do you say first?"
The old village chief was a person who had seen the world. At this time, he calmly stepped forward and "reported to the chief..."
Commissioner Zhang smiled and said, "I am not the leader, so you just call me Commissioner Zhang. Uncle, you look very old, sit on the kang and talk."
The old village chief climbed onto the kang without hesitation and talked about the incident of the fool attacking that night. He also described the situation of A Chong's family, hoping that the organization could allocate some relief funds so that the village could raise the orphan.
As for the death of A Chong's parents, it was also mentioned in a brief statement. It was only said that it was an accidental death, and the process of tomb robbing and food exchange was never mentioned. It can be seen that the old village chief was quite scheming, and the focus was on describing the miserable family background of A Chong, and his main demand was to hope that the organization would allocate relief funds.
While listening, Commissioner Zhang wrote and painted on his laptop. After listening to the old village chief’s description, he said kindly: “Don’t worry, I will react upwards about the child. In addition, I met the Green Hair Monster that night, were there any witnesses?”
The old village chief said to Zi Yang's father a little reluctantly: "Who, you saw it with your own eyes that night, tell the specialist." Then he coughed and said, "Let's focus, don't make any useless." After that, he gave him a look.
Zi Yang's father walked up and rubbed his big hands to tell the story that night again.
The people next to him also described what they saw and heard. Commissioner Zhang nodded patiently after listening to it, and asked, "Where is that corpse?"
The old village chief said: "It's not easy to deal with when it's hot, and it smells bad in a few days. The villagers are afraid of attracting mosquitoes and plagues, so they burn it with firewood."
After hearing this, Commissioner Zhang fell silent, his face calm and expressionless.
The old village chief looked at each other, feeling unsure. Everyone was silent for a while, and Commissioner Zhang turned to Zi Yang and asked with a smile, "Little boy, someone said that you were late to go home, saying that you had met a water ghost?"
The old village chief said: "What do they know about these little kids? They fell in the water puddle and said they had met a water ghost. Commissioner Zhang, don't listen to them."
At this time, Zi Yang was squeezed on the door frame by the adults in the hall. Seeing that the adults had said a lot, they just didn't mention what he and A Chong were doing. They were very anxious. When the old village chief was frightened, they didn't dare to say anything. Seeing Commissioner Zhang's encouraging eyes, he stammered and said what happened to the playground that evening.
Then he said, "I, I don't know if the water ghost we met in school is the same as the one that caught the fool uncle to death. At that time, we only had to pull A Chong out, and no one saw anything under the water. However, A Chong's hand was caught very hard and became more and more swollen. Uncle, can you treat him?"
Commissioner Zhang frowned with two slender eyebrows, "Where is that kid? Call him over and I'll take a look."
At this time, A Chong was still sleeping in the wing room. Zhang's father carried him over and placed him on the kang, muttering, "The child is scared. The cold has not been cured."
Commissioner Zhang looked at A Chong's face, flipped his eyelids, and touched A Chong's pulse with his hands. His brows became tighter and tighter. However, the villagers were whispering, saying, "After all, they are the commissioners from the county town. They are not only here to solve the case, but also to take the pulse."
Commissioner Zhang lifted A Chong's sleeves, saw Wu Qing's arm, and sniffed his breath, his brows tightened even more, and pondered, "Where did this child fall?"
Zi Yangdao, “The playground behind our school.”
Commissioner Zhang stood up and said in an unquestionable tone, "Go and take me to see."
Chapter completed!