Chapter 10 Broken red flowers pave the road
"Be careful of Gu Yunqing?" Feng Yushu lowered his head cautiously and glanced at the two corpses lying by the river. He raised his eyes and met Ye Miaozhu's eyes. The two looked at each other.
Ye Miaozhu felt an unknown fire in his chest: "Yun Qing died in front of me, how should I be careful?"
"Xie Sining died too, and she even called her aunt. How should I be careful? "Ning Zhe raised his hand and took Feng Yushu's phone and said, "Two minutes will prove that you are Zhang Yangxu and not something else."
The other end of the phone was silent.
Gu Yunqing's body is still lying on the laundry slope by the river bank. The mechanical watch on his wrist has not malfunctioned due to water ingress. It is still ticking, the second hand is circling, and the transparent time is dripping down. .
“It’s been one minute.” Ning Zhe said.
There was still silence on the other end of the phone, except for the rustle of clothes in the evening breeze. Ning Zhe lowered his head and glanced at the time: "It's been 1 minute and 20 seconds."
"Ning Zhe Zhe, the land where your old house is located has three versions of the demolition contract negotiated for the residents.”
When the time came to 1 minute and 47 seconds, Zhang Yangxu’s voice finally came from the loudspeaker.
"Version A, after demolition, residents can obtain housing in designated buildings with an area that is about three times the original residential area, and discounts will be given for making up the remaining area."
"Version B, a large cash compensation at a fixed price. ”
“In version C, residents can choose a house close to the size of the original residence within the range given by the developer, plus It must be cash compensation.”
Ning Zhe said, “That’s right, I came home just to read the compensation contract. My grandparents are both illiterate and are afraid that they will be cheated.”
But when the conversation changed, he said again: "But this is not enough to prove that you are Zhang Yangxu. How about telling me something I don't know?"
In fact, what Zhang Yangxu just said was enough to prove his identity, but Ning Zhe felt that it was not enough. He wanted to verify one of his guesses on Zhang Yangxu.
“You can’t sign the B version of the contract.” Zhang Yangxu said in a calm voice: “The difficulty of paying large amounts of cash is the most difficult of the three versions, so the number of copies of the B version of the contract we prepared is also At least, long before the bidding begins, the large compensation contracts have been finalized through various channels, and you are destined to compete. Not even there.”
“Hey, you bank robbers haven’t even bought the headgear and stockings, and you’ve already finished dividing the loot.” Ning Zhe applauded him: “Tell me, Mr. Zhang, why should you be careful?” Gu Yunqing?”
“Let’s meet”
“OK.”
The place where Zhang Yangxu agreed to meet was still on the street in front of the ancestral hall. After seeing two strange and violent corpses in succession, both Feng Yushu and Ning Zhe were extremely wary of this place, but Ye Miaozhu seemed a little indifferent.
"If you don't go now, you will have to go sooner or later." She said: "After today, the taboos will change tomorrow. Can you still not go to the ancestral hall to read the almanac?"
This is true, but her indifferent attitude still surprised Ning Zhe. Also, if a person is not afraid of death, he has nothing to fear.
The twenty-third day of the fourth lunar month, 02:33 in the morning.
Ning Zhe arrived at South Street of Hejiacun, where the clan ancestral hall dedicated to the snake god was located. Zhang Yangxu had been waiting at the door early.
Feng Yushu reluctantly followed Ning Zhe and Ye Miaozhu. She had a weak temperament, and she became even more timid after knowing that Xie Sining who was following Zhang Yangxu was a dead person. She was unwilling to return to the ancestral hall at this time.
Ning Zhe did not force her to follow him. He just said, "You wish for your own blessings" and set off for the appointment with Ye Miaozhu. In the end, the fear of being alone outweighed the others, and Feng Yushu had no choice but to stay a few steps behind and follow.
After the three of them approached the ancestral hall, the nervous Feng Yushu finally breathed a sigh of relief. There was only Zhang Yangxu at the door of the ancestral hall, and no one else was seen.
"Hey, where is Xie Sining?" Ning Zhe waved and asked.
Zhang Yangxu smiled bitterly: "I asked even though I knew it."
"I see, then, congratulations on your survival." Ning Zhe immediately understood: "Tell me, how did you survive from that thing? "
Zhang Yangxu did not rush to explain. Several people confirmed each other's identities first, and then asked: "First of all, I want to confirm one thing. Mrs. Bai called before I said you saw something by the river... was it Sining?"
"Yes." Ning Zhe did not deny: "We found Xie Sining's body in the river."
Zhang Yangxu breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and said, "As expected...Okay, let us exchange information, I will go first."
At the entrance of the ancestral hall, Zhang Yangxu talked about all his experiences since he and Xie Sining left the ancestral hall until now:
After Feng Yushu’s reminder call to him was hung up midway, Zhang Yangxu’s heart was filled with joy. Confuse.
At 00:30 in the morning, Zhang Yangxu and Xie Sining left the ancestral hall and walked up the river. No abnormality was found on the quiet road. Only some red paper was scattered at the door of a few private houses. , which were left after the firecrackers exploded. Hejiacun let off a lot of firecrackers yesterday.
After walking for a while, Xie Sining suddenly looked embarrassed and told Zhang Yangxu that he was a little anxious.
A woman’s physiological structure is different from that of a man, and it is almost impossible to hold back the urge to urinate. Zhang Yangxu did not criticize her harshly, so he leaned against the willow tree by the river and stepped aside to let Xie Sining go first. After the physical problem was resolved, the two continued walking upstream of the river.
Later, Zhang Yangxu and Xie Sining went north and arrived at the central area of Hejia Village.
Along the way, they found that the further north they walked, the denser the firecrackers and paper on both sides of the street became, and the road was covered with broken red flowers, as if they were seeing someone off or celebrating some happy event.
In the distance, Zhang Yangxu looked across the wide street and saw an antique and luxurious mansion. The main entrance alone was more than 3 meters high, and the wall was more than 5 meters long - Zhang Yangxu Estimates of elements such as building height, angles, floor space and orientation are always accurate.
On the door of the mansion hangs an article in large Chinese characters with yellow paint on a black background - 'He's Mansion'.
Seeing that the one-and-a-half-hour agreed gathering time had passed halfway, Zhang Yangxu did not try to enter the He Mansion to continue exploring. Instead, he chose to return to the ancestral hall and call Ning Zhe and others to make plans together.
The two of them walked back along the street covered with red paper on both sides, chatting all the time.
Then, Zhang Yangxu received a call from Feng Yushu on the road. The woman told him to be careful with Xie Sining in an extremely frightened tone on the phone, saying that she and Ning Zhe had seen something by the river... …But before he finished speaking, the phone was forcibly hung up.
“After the call was hung up, I immediately thought that Sining and I had stopped by the river on our way to He Mansion. If Feng Yushu’s call was not a joke, it meant that I was waiting by the river. During the time when Si Ning was urinating, something happened to her Something happened."
"What happened at the river led to her death, and her identity was assumed by something else."
Zhang Yangxu finally said: "Ning Zhe, There must be something weird about that river.”
"No, no. There may be other reasons why Xie Sining died by the river, but it should not be directly related to the river itself." Ning Zhe spread his hands: "Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu have already tried with their lives."
(End of this chapter) )