Chapter 12

Sure enough, as soon as they walked up, the old woman greeted them first: "I remember you, the two policemen from the city who came last year."

Qi Fei smiled and said: "You have a good memory, shall we chat?"

Qi Fei had just finished speaking when he was suddenly pulled over by Wu Shanqiu. Almost at the same time, with a "splash," a basin of water was poured down from the second floor, directly onto the hunchbacked old woman.

Looking up, they only saw Gu Laotou holding the basin and walking inside.

The hunchbacked old woman was another dense curse, mixed with the Sanwu Town dialect that Qi Fei and the others couldn't understand.

Clearly, Gu Laotou didn't want the old woman to say too much.

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu exchanged a look and accompanied the old woman back to the room to wipe her clothes dry very kindly.

"You finally figured it out and came back?" The old woman lit another cigarette, took a puff with her black and dirty hands, and her mood finally calmed down a bit.

It's just that Qi Fei had no clue about her question: "Figured out what?"

The old woman glanced at the two with turbid eyes: "Don't you already know that the live-in son-in-law was killed by them?" As she said this, she waved the cigarette in her hand and pointed to the direction next door.

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu looked at each other, wondering if this was out of hostility toward Gu Laotou.

"Are you saying Yang Jinhan was killed by the Gu family?" Qi Fei asked patiently.

"Everyone in our town knows. Their girl wanted a divorce, and that live-in son-in-law wanted to kill their whole family. This old man was afraid, so he found Huang Daxian and wanted this guy surnamed Yang to die. You should have known when you came last time."

"My god, it's superstition again," Wu Shanqiu muttered.

The old woman was hunchbacked, but her ears weren't deaf, and she immediately turned to her and said: "Shh! Be careful, Daxian will be unhappy if he hears you!"

At this time, it was getting late, and coupled with the old woman's hoarse smoker's voice, even if they didn't believe it, they felt their hair stand on end.

Qi Fei went along with the flow and continued to ask: "Are you talking about the weasel fairy in the Huang Daxian Temple?"

When the old woman heard this, she knew Qi Fei understood, and immediately opened the chatterbox: "Gu Laotou must have made a wish to Daxian. When you came last time, they knew Yang Jinhan was really dead, so they specially bought a lot of incense and candles to the Huang Daxian Temple to fulfill their wish!"

"Let's talk about whether this is reasonable or not. They were afraid that Yang Jinhan would kill people, so why didn't they call the police? Why did they have to find a weasel to burn him to death?" Wu Shanqiu couldn't help but ask.

"Ha!" The old woman sneered again, "Little girl, don't talk nonsense. Huang Daxian is Huang Daxian, not some weasel. Be careful, it will come to find you! Besides, the police came every three days, so they couldn't really live in their house, right? Heh, speaking of which, this Gu Laotou was so careful, looking for a live-in son-in-law for his girl, picking and choosing, and finally picked such a non-human thing. Before they were married, he looked decent and tried every way to make the family happy. Who knew that after they were married, he was lazy and liked to play cards, losing all the money and asking them for it. If they didn't give it, he would beat them, not only beating his wife, but also beating the two old people. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep in the next room because of the noise. Later, I heard that the family couldn't stand it anymore, and the girl in the Gu family was determined to get a divorce. I heard that once she angered the guy surnamed Yang, he carried a gasoline bucket and wanted to come and burn the whole family to death. Oh my, it scared me to death. If their house caught fire, wouldn't I be in trouble too? It's a relief for us neighbors that he's dead."

"These situations, I see they are all in the police report," Wu Shanqiu said.

"Isn't it because you didn't catch this guy surnamed Yang? Otherwise, they wouldn't have gone to find Huang Daxian."

Qi Fei saw that he couldn't ask any fresh content, and just as he got up to go out, he heard the old woman muttering behind him: "It's pitiful, the girl thought this guy surnamed Yang was possessed by a ghost at first, so she spent a lot of money and took him to the mountains to see Daxian, but after Daxian saw him, she returned the money."

Qi Fei turned around sharply when he heard this: "They went to see Zhong Kui?"

"Daxian is Daxian, you can't call her name like that!" The old woman was quite into the play, but suddenly saw something outside the door and immediately raised her voice, "Ah! I said you outsiders are disrespectful, hurry up and get out of here!" As she said this, she excitedly stepped forward and pushed Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu out of the door.

The two were pushed out inexplicably, but Qi Fei soon knew the reason.

At this time, the sun was about to set, and the old street outside was empty, with only the bleak street lights on. An old woman with a hunched back, wearing a gray old-fashioned oblique-button cotton-padded jacket, stood in front of them, staring straight at them.

Qi Fei recognized her; it was the old woman he met at the Huang Daxian Temple last time.

"Perfect, I want to find Zhong Kui, where is she?" Qi Fei stepped forward and said impatiently. Zhu Ming'en was her, and Yang Jinhan was also her, as if everything had nothing to do with her but was caused by her.

The old woman didn't hear it, grinned, squeezed out a face full of wrinkles, and said: "Daxian said a distinguished guest has come, please stay in the temple for one night."

"No need, we'll go back to Nancheng after finishing our work, but I have to talk to her. Please bring her a message," Qi Fei said.

The old woman pointed to one end of the street: "I think you have already passed the time to leave."

They saw that the street was shrouded in thick fog at some point, and the visibility was only a few meters left.

"The humidity in the mountains is heavy, and people in the town don't go out after dark. You won't find anyone to ask today. Follow me closely, be careful not to get lost in the dark," the old woman said, turning around and walking in one direction.

While speaking, the sky seemed to be darker. Indeed, except for these few people on the street, everyone had already closed their doors.

The car was parked outside the town. With this visibility, it would be hard to find the car.

Reluctantly, Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu could only follow the old woman toward the Huang Daxian Temple.

These two city people were used to the hustle and bustle day and night. Sanwu Town was too quiet for them. Every step they took was exceptionally clear, so clear that someone poked their heads out of the window to look curiously from time to time, watching these two outsiders with vigilance.

The Huang Daxian Temple appeared in front of Qi Fei again.

The gate was wide open, as if it had been waiting for a long time. Bypassing the terrible statue of Huang Daxian, there was a guest hall in the backyard. As if they had anticipated their arrival, the food was already set on the table.

"Dinner prepared by Daxian for you, you two eat slowly," the old woman said with a smile, but this smile looked a bit like a fake smile.

"Hmm?" Qi Fei looked at the food and asked.

"What's wrong, Brother Fei?"

"Half of the dishes here are what my family eats often."

"Heh, what a coincidence, the other half are what my family eats often."

"How did she know?" The two said in unison.