Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Visiting the Evil Jin Village

Chapter 28

Jincun is the village farthest from Wuning County and is closer to Shuiquan County. On weekdays, people in Jincun prefer to go to Shuiquan County for the market, and do not have much contact with people from Wuning County.

On the way, He Gongan was still talking to Qin Ye and Li Quan about the situation in Jin Village.

"The people of Jin Village are rich and despise our Wuning County for being poor. They prefer to consider themselves as people from Shuiquan County. Moreover, the people of Jin Village are very exclusive. Generally speaking, they will choose people from the same village when they marry. Among the more than 100 households, there are some relatives among them."

Villages with such close kinship ties have always been the most united and the most difficult to break through.

After listening to He Gongan's introduction, Qin Ye had a vague feeling that their investigation might not be particularly smooth.

…

It snowed heavily these past two days, and the ground was icy, so the car would slip when driving on the road.

Qin Ye and the other two did not drive the ox cart, but borrowed an ox cart from her village and headed towards Jin Village.

When they were about one kilometer away from Jin Village, a little girl suddenly ran out from the bushes and blocked the way of the three people.

The little girl was wearing a thick and warm floral cotton coat, with two small tufts of hair on her head. She tilted her head and smiled sweetly at Qin Ye: "Public Security Sister, where are you going?"

The girl looked innocent, as if she was just curious about where the three police officers in front of her were going.

Qin Ye jumped off the ox cart, squatted in front of the little girl who stopped the ox cart, and talked to the little girl with a smile. His eyes glanced at the bushes where the little girl had just run out of, and he saw a piece of pale green cloth flash quickly in the bushes.

Obviously, it was the person hiding in the bushes who ordered the girl to come and ask them.

Qin Ye realized this, but he kept smiling and said to the girl gently, "Why are you here alone in the middle of winter? Where is your home?"

"I'm waiting for my grandfather. He's going to the woods to relieve himself."

The girl answered crisply, but chose to avoid answering Qin Ye's question about where her home was, "Public Security Sister, you haven't told me where you are going!"

Qin Ye was cautious and did not tell them that they were going to Jin Village to investigate the "child abuse incident". He chose to lie: "The New Year is coming soon. We need to publicize safety work in various villages. We are planning to go to Jin Village now."

She had just finished speaking.

An old man in a torn blue coat trotted out from the bushes. Judging from his face, he should be ten years older than Public Security He.

"Hey! Nini, why did you run onto the road when I wasn't paying attention?"

The old man held the girl's hand and smiled warmly at Qin Ye and the others, "Thank you for your hard work, public security comrades. I just heard this female public security comrade say that you are going to Jincun, right? We are from Jincun, let's go quickly, Nini——"

The old man took out a piece of sugar, stuffed it into Nini's mouth, and ordered, "Run back to the village quickly and tell your grandma and your mother that the public security comrades are coming to our village to develop work. Ask them to prepare some more delicious dishes."

Nini ate the candy and nodded heavily.

Li Quan looked at the little girl, who was only five or six years old, and was afraid that the cold weather would cause the child to run too fast and get into an accident, so he quickly spoke up to stop her: "Uncle, you're welcome..."

Before he could finish his words, Nini turned around and ran back to the bushes, disappearing in a flash.

"It's okay, it's okay, Public Security Comrade, Nini runs fast, let her go."

The old man laughed and raised his hand, motioning Qin Ye to get in the car.

He took the lead and walked slowly along the road, leading the way: "Come on, public security comrades, I will take you to our village."

…

After walking for more than half an hour, Qin Ye saw a stone tablet on the side of the road with the words "Jincun" engraved on it, which looked very impressive.

She couldn't help but stare at the monument for a long time: "This monument is very impressive."

The old man was so proud when he heard this: "Of course, every household in our village contributed money to build this monument, so of course it is magnificent! It will soon be in our village, it will be there soon!"

Qin Ye was sharp-eyed and unexpectedly saw an eye painted on the "寸" on the right half of the word "村" on the stone tablet. The pupil of the eye glanced to the right, looking in the direction of Jincun, looking particularly strange.

Due to the presence of people from Jincun, she did not share her discovery with He Gongan and Li Quan immediately.

Just after passing the stone tablet, a large group of people suddenly appeared on the road ahead. Each of them had a smile on their face. They walked to the front of the ox cart and greeted Qin Ye and others.

"Oh, public security comrades, you have been working really hard in this winter."

"Come to my house quickly. I have just prepared lunch and am waiting for you to come and eat!"

"Look at this female police officer. She's so pretty. I like her. Come to my house for dinner! I'll make you whatever you want to eat."

The villagers were talking to each other and seemed very enthusiastic.

But Qin Ye soon discovered something wrong. There was not a single child among the group of people standing at the entrance of the village. It can even be said that there is no one who looks younger than her.

It's winter vacation now, and the kids are at the age when they love to play. They are busy every day, so it's impossible not to see anyone here.

It was as if someone had deliberately hidden the children.

Combined with what Xu Libai said when he came to report the case, she became more and more certain that there was something wrong with Jincun.

Qin Ye pretended to be curious and asked, "Where are the children in the village?"

The village party secretary of Jin Village was a middle-aged man in his forties. He seemed to have expected her to ask this question and smiled and said, "The children are all in the village primary school, following the teacher's class."

As he spoke, he took out his own cigarettes and shared them with He Gongan and Li Quan.

Li Quan waved his hands repeatedly to indicate that he didn't smoke.

He Gongan took the cigarette, lit it for the village party secretary, and then lit it for himself, saying with a smile: "Why do you still ask the children to go to school during the winter vacation?"

The village party secretary took a puff of his cigarette and shook his head: "In today's society, you have to study hard! Our village has never produced any educated people, so we all hope that the next generation can make a name for themselves. It would be great if we could become cadres who eat public food like you public security comrades!"

"Secretary, is it convenient for you to call all the children out?"

Qin Ye looked at his watch and pretended to be in a hurry. "Our leader said that the spirit of the safety conference must be heard by every villager, and the children must not be left behind. After the meeting here, we are in a hurry to go to Juexing Village."

The village party secretary paused for a moment, still smiling broadly: "No problem, no problem, we will definitely cooperate with the public security comrades in their work."

He turned his head, searching for something in the crowd, and soon locked onto a person: "Jin Erqiang! Go quickly, call all the villagers who didn't come to greet the public security comrades to the village primary school, and tell them that T wants to hold a meeting."

A round-headed man responded loudly and ran back to the village in a hurry.

…

Under the leadership of the village party secretary, Qin Ye and his team quickly arrived at the village primary school.

The village primary school is not very large, and there is a playground as soon as you enter the school gate. It was freezing outside and the children were sitting in a circle on the playground.

A little girl was standing in the center of the circle. It was Nini who had stopped Qin Ye on the road earlier.

"The provincial capital is so big, and the department store there has so many things."

While sharing her experiences with other children, Nini raised her hand and gestured, "I also saw a plane. I heard it was going to the capital. The teacher said that as long as we work hard, we can take a plane to the capital in the future. The capital is more beautiful than the provincial capital."

Behind Nini stood a young man wearing round-frame glasses, who seemed to be a teacher at the village primary school. He looked at the chatting children with a smile, and nodded from time to time to agree with Nini's words.

"Teacher Xia."

The village party secretary shouted at the young man.

The attention of all the children on the playground was instantly focused on Qin Ye and the others.

The braver children craned their necks to look at the police, while the less timid ones huddled in the arms of their companions, not even daring to raise their heads.

"You guys can move freely first."

Xia Zhonggang raised his hand to disperse the students sitting next to him, then turned around slowly and greeted the village party secretary and Qin Ye and others, "Party secretary, and public security comrades, you are here."

He had received a message from Nini early on and knew that the police were coming, so he had already prepared everything.

only……

Xia Zhonggang's gaze lingered on Qin Ye for a moment longer.

He had not expected that this female police officer would be so beautiful. She was much prettier than those rich ladies in the provincial capital who believed in the chief immortal in order to maintain their beauty.

…

While everyone was exchanging pleasantries, Qin Ye quietly looked around the environment of the village primary school.

The village primary school in Jincun has a two-story teaching building. It is the only primary school in the county with a teaching building. On the wall of the teaching building, there is a painting of a little boy sitting at a desk reading a book.

The little boy's eyes were exactly the same as the eyes on the word "Village" on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village, and his pupils also glanced sideways in the direction of the village.

"Public Security Qin, are you looking at the graffiti on the wall?"

Xia Zhonggang noticed that Qin Ye stared at the painting for a long time. Without waiting for her to ask, he explained, "I drew this painting to tell children that only by reading can they gain knowledge and understand the truth."

Qin Ye retracted his gaze and smiled politely at Xia Zhonggang: "Teacher Xia's painting is very good. Please, Teacher Xia, call the children to the meeting."

…

Soon, all the villagers gathered on the playground.

Li Quan and He Gongan had done safety publicity in various villages before. This time, although it was an excuse Qin Ye made up on the spur of the moment, the two of them were able to deal with it with ease.

While the villagers' attention was focused on Li Quan and He Gongan, Qin Ye secretly left the crowd and went up to the second floor of the teaching building alone.

Just now she discovered that the classroom in the middle of the second floor seemed to be the largest, but the door was tightly closed and there was not even a window on the wall.

When she got closer, she saw that the classroom was locked with four locks of different cylinders, obviously to prevent anyone from breaking in.

The faint smell of burning incense paper wafted through the crack in the door, and there was some cigarette ash on the ground that had not been cleaned up.

"Xiao Qiang, does it really hurt?"

A crisp little girl's voice faintly reached Qin Ye's ears from the corner of the classroom.

She immediately recognized that the person speaking was Nini.

As soon as Nini finished speaking, another sobbing male voice was heard. The boy named Xiaoqiang seemed very aggrieved: "It hurts, but my mother said that this can drive away evil spirits. It will make me like you, so that I can go to the provincial capital and get rewards from the chief immortal."

Qin Ye's eyes turned cold and he tiptoed to the side of the classroom.

In the classroom, the little boy lifted up his clothes, revealing a stomach full of burn blisters. Nini's eyes were full of heartache. She wanted to touch her little friend's wound, but her little hand hung in the air for a long time, not daring to touch.

"But... Teacher Xia didn't let me tell you. I'm only telling you. Don't tell anyone else..."

Nini finally withdrew her hand and rolled up her sleeves. On her white and tender arm, there was a dark blue pinhole. "In the provincial capital, a beautiful auntie drew a lot of blood from me. Teacher Xia said that the auntie is a first-class believer of the First Immortal. I drew blood for her, and I will become a first-class believer when I grow up."

"By then, I can live in a big house in the provincial capital, drive a big car, and have lots of beautiful dresses to wear."

Nini naively envisioned the future, "I want to take my parents, grandparents, and sister to the capital by plane!"

The little boy looked at Nini with envy and sniffed: "Well, then I'm not afraid of pain! I'll go find Teacher Xia tomorrow and ask him to continue until he uses the treasure tripod to steam away the bad blood in my body!"

Qin Ye's hair stood on end as he listened to the conversation between the two children.

Her fingers were firmly grasping the door frame, and she endured it again and again, forcing herself not to rush in immediately to ask the two children for answers.

Obviously, it would be unwise to alert the enemy now.

If it is true that all the people in Jin Village believe in the First Immortal, once the villagers find out that the three of them have come to investigate the First Immortal, they will probably not be able to leave even if they want to.

Just then, footsteps were heard in the corridor.

Qin Ye wanted to find an empty classroom to hide first, but suddenly a hand stretched out from the small house behind her and pulled her into the room.