"Okay." After all, he was a big buyer of tomatoes, and having breakfast was not a big deal. Lu Qingjiu agreed without thinking too much and invited Chao Qianyu into his home.
After Chao Qianyu entered the room, he saw Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua lying on the ground. His eyes lit up slightly, but soon, his gaze fell on the group of chicks around Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua. He looked up at Lu Qingjiu, opened his mouth, and was about to say something, but saw Bai Yuehu walking out of the house.
Bai Yuehu saw Chao Qianyu and said nothing, only giving him a neutral look. Chao Qianyu felt as if he were being stared at by a ferocious beast. Not only did he stop in his tracks, but beads of cold sweat also appeared on his forehead.
"Mr. Bai...Mr. Bai." Chao Qianyu reluctantly greeted Bai Yuehu.
Bai Yuehu glanced at him and said, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I saw Mr. Chao didn't have breakfast, so I thought I'd ask him to join us," Lu Qingjiu chimed in. Today's breakfast was porridge and pancakes. The pancakes were stuffed with meat. Yin Xun had chopped the meat the night before, and Lu Qingjiu had gotten up early today, wrapped it in dough, and fried it in oil. It was still steaming on the table.
"Oh." Bai Yuehu responded.
Lu Qingjiu had initially expected Bai Yuehu to refuse Chao Qianyu's offer of a meal, but he unexpectedly agreed so readily. This surprised Lu Qingjiu. Bai Yuehu was usually very protective of his food, and it was difficult for him to get a bite unless it was someone he knew well. The village ladies had coveted Bai Yuehu's tomatoes for a long time, but he hadn't given any to anyone.
But soon, Lu Qingjiu understood why Bai Yuehu let Chao Qianyu in so easily, because he didn't intend to let Chao Qianyu touch his meat pie at all.
The meat pie was well-filled and had only a thin outer layer. When you took a bite, the rich gravy filled your mouth. There was also some diced lotus root in the meat filling, which made the meat filling less greasy and gave it a lot more layers of flavor. Therefore, this meat pie was very popular, as could be seen from the fact that Bai Yuehu grabbed it and refused to let go.
And every time Chao Qianyu tried to reach out his chopsticks for the meat pie, Bai Yuehu would look at him. Lu Qingjiu had no idea what that look meant, but when Chao Qianyu was stared at by that look, he would retract his chopsticks the next moment, not to mention the two men he brought with him.
Yin Xun sat next to Lu Qingjiu. He arrived late and didn't know what was going on, so he looked at Lu Qingjiu and asked what was going on. Lu Qingjiu used his eyes to signal Bai Yuehu, and Yin Xun was a little amused when he saw this. However, he was also smart and didn't say anything, continuing to eat the meat pie quietly.
Because of Bai Yuehu's gaze, the only thing Chao Qianyu ate for breakfast was the porridge cooked by Lu Qingjiu. He didn't even get to taste the meat pie or anything else. The other three people ate their fill, but Yin Xun burped unceremoniously after finishing his meal, which made Chao Qianyu's gaze even more resentful.
Lu Qingjiu really wanted to laugh when he saw this, but he didn't want to get involved. He knew from what happened that night that Chao Qianyu was probably not a human being. Since he was not a human being, they should just solve their internal affairs internally.
This meal was probably the most resentful meal Chao Qianyu had ever eaten in his life. With his status, how could anyone not give him food? But there was a big boss sitting in front of him, and he had no choice but to give in. The meat pie with an enticing aroma was right in front of him, and he could clearly reach it with just a stretch of his hand. However, the fierce look in front of him made him lower his head to drink the porridge in the bowl, and he didn't even dare to pick up a few pickles with his chopsticks - if he told this to others, no one would believe it.
Even until the last pancake was in Bai Yuehu's hand, Chao Qianyu still couldn't satisfy his wish of taking a bite of the meat pie. Lu Qingjiu was stared at by his resentful eyes from beginning to end, and he couldn't help but get goose bumps all over his body...
After finishing the meal, Bai Yuehu naturally picked up the bowl and went to the kitchen, leaving Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun in the room to digest the food.
"Hey, Mr. Bai, what are you doing in the kitchen?" Chao Qianyu asked, looking at Bai Yuehu's back. He wondered if there would be any meat patties in the kitchen.
Lu Qingjiu answered honestly: "Washing dishes."
Chao Qianyu's expression twisted: "Washing dishes?!"
Lu Qingjiu asked, "What else?" Bai Yuehu was the one who washed most of the dishes in the house. He and Yin Xun were used to it.
Chao Qianyu: “…” He was silent for a while, as if he was digesting what Lu Qingjiu said.
Lu Qingjiu was full and in high spirits. He stood up and asked Chao Qianyu to go pick tomatoes in the field. Chao Qianyu took a deep breath, glanced at the empty table reluctantly, and said, "Okay."
Lu Qingjiu looked at him and couldn't help but reveal a hint of smile in his eyes. Maybe next time he went to the town, he could bring two meat patties to Chao Qianyu, but today... they probably could only drink porridge.
After drinking a belly full of porridge, Chao Qianyu felt resentful but had no choice but to follow Lu Qingjiu to the nearby vegetable garden to pick tomatoes.
The tomatoes grown by Bai Yuehu were indeed very different from the tomatoes beside them. Almost every one of them was round, plump, and rosy in color, without a single scar or even a single insect hole. Vegetable farmers usually sprayed their vegetables with pesticides to prevent insects from infesting them, but Bai Yuehu didn't use any of those, and no insects dared to target his tomatoes.
There were a lot of tomatoes in this batch, and several people spent an entire afternoon picking them. After weighing, they weighed more than a thousand pounds, more than the first batch.
Lu Qingjiu kept several dozen kilograms for himself and sold the rest to Chao Qianyu.
Chao Qianyu didn't say anything more and directly paid Lu Qingjiu's bill. Then he broke off a cucumber from Lu Qingjiu's house, took a bite, and said, "Are you selling your cucumbers?"
"Cucumbers?" Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't sell cucumbers. I didn't grow many, and there aren't enough for my family to eat."
He showed a regretful look to Qianyu: "What about the other dishes? I'll take them all."
Lu Qingjiu glanced at the vegetable patch and didn't let go: "Let's talk about it when it's ripe. I'll call you if there's any extra."
"Okay." Chao Qianyu nodded and prepared to leave with Tomato. But before leaving, he remembered something and reminded Lu Qingjiu, "Go to the town less recently. The town is not peaceful."
"What happened?" Lu Qingjiu seldom watched local news and didn't know much about what was happening there.
"People died." Chao Qianyu said, "I guess a few more will die." After he said this, he glanced towards where Lu Qingjiu lived and said, "It's safer to stay in the village."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Okay, I understand, thank you."
He nodded to Qianyu and drove away with his two men.
Lu Qingjiu returned home and saw Bai Yuehu lying on the chair looking at the sky again. He seemed to be particularly interested in the sky recently and even didn't sleep.
"What are you looking at?" Lu Qingjiu asked casually.
Bai Yuehu said, "Look at the things in the sky."
Lu Qingjiu raised his head and followed Bai Yuehu's gaze, but he only saw white clouds hanging in the blue sky. He looked for a while and made sure that he didn't see anything: "Where is the thing?"
Bai Yuehu pointed above his head.
Lu Qingjiu knew that he couldn't see it, so he gave up and shrugged and went into the kitchen to cook.
After revealing that they could speak human language, Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua no longer liked to stay in the pigpen and began to wander around the yard. Lu Qingjiu was worried that they would have a conflict with Ji Zai, but seeing that both sides were at peace, he gave up and let them be.
The main dish for today's lunch is boiled beef. The beef was bought earlier and taken out in the morning to be thawed in advance. Lu Qingjiu also planned to fry some meatballs and make tomato meatball soup with the tomatoes picked today.
Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun both can eat spicy food, so Lu Qingjiu put more chili peppers when making the boiled beef. However, the chili peppers were a bit irritating to the eyes after being put into the pot. Lu Qingjiu's eyes turned red, and he was about to find a wet towel to wipe them when the phone in his pocket rang.
Lu Qingjiu frantically picked up the phone and saw two words displayed on it: Hu Shu. Why did the police call him? Did something happen again? Lu Qingjiu frowned, but still pressed the answer button and said, "Hello."
"Hello, is this Mr. Lu?" Hu Shu's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Yes." Lu Qingjiu said, "What's the matter?"
"It's like this." Hu Shu said, "I want to ask you about the well in your yard..."
Lu Qingjiu asked doubtfully: "Well? Wasn't this case closed? What happened again?"
Hu Shu said, "It's a long story. Are you free tonight? I'll come over and we can talk in person, okay?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay." He agreed.
Hu Shu is a policeman after all. Since the police have this request, Lu Qingjiu naturally has the obligation to cooperate as a citizen. He just doesn't know whether Hu Shu will have dinner at his house tonight, otherwise Bai Yuehu will be unhappy again.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Qingjiu, who was still taking a nap, was woken up by a phone call. When he picked up the phone, he found that Hu Shu had already arrived at his door.
"Ha..." Lu Qingjiu, yawning, opened the door for Hu Shu with sleepy eyes and said, "Officer Hu, come in."
"Still taking a nap?" Hu Shu said, "Sorry to bother you."
Lu Qingjiu rubbed his hair: “You can sit anywhere, I’ll go sober up… Just don’t sit in that rocking chair.”
The rocking chair belongs to Bai Yuehu. Although no one knows where he is now, if he comes back and sees Hu Shu sitting in his chair, who knows what will happen.
Hu Shu didn't think too deeply about this and just found a wooden stool to sit on.
Lu Qingjiu went back to the house to wash his face and comb his hair to sober up. Then he returned to the yard and sat down opposite Hu Shu. He said, "Officer Hu, what can I do for you?"
"When you first arrived here, did anything strange happen in your backyard?" Hu Shu asked.
"Yes." Lu Qingjiu said, "I had a nightmare."
Hu Shu asked, "What happens next? After the case is over, are there any other problems with your well?"
Question... Is it a problem that everyone who has prayed will have their hair grow? Lu Qingjiu thought about it and felt that he definitely couldn't say this, so he said vaguely: "What's the matter? Why are you asking this suddenly?" Logically speaking, since the case has been closed, no matter what impact the well will have in the future... As long as nothing goes wrong, the police should not pay special attention to it.
"Well, it's like this." Hu Shu hesitated slightly. "I want to know if the well behind your house still has an impact, how do you deal with it? Do you ask someone to help you, or do you do it yourself?"
As soon as he said this, Lu Qingjiu immediately understood what he meant. He asked, "Is your police station encountering another case of this kind?"
Hu Shu coughed dryly: "This was originally kept secret..."
Lu Qingjiu blinked and didn't respond, waiting for Hu Shu to continue.
"But you also know that some things really can't be explained by common sense." Hu Shu's tone was a little bitter. "We also started investigating in the direction of human intervention, but the deeper we went, the more wrong it seemed..."
Lu Qingjiu asked: "What's going on?"
Hu Shu hesitated for a moment: "Can you promise not to tell anyone else what you are going to say next?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "I can guarantee this."
Hu Shu nodded, took out a dozen photos from his arms, and placed them in front of Lu Qingjiu: “Take a look at this first, be prepared, it’s a bit bloody.”
Lu Qingjiu picked up the photos and began to look at them. As Hu Shu had said, these photos were extremely gory. They included two deceased people, both of whom had died in horrific conditions, covered in wounds, as if they had been tortured. The following photos were posthumous portraits of the deceased. In the photos, a man and a woman, both had bright smiles and looked like they had lived a good life.
Lu Qingjiu looked at the photo for a while, but didn't see any clues in it. He said, "I saw it, and then what?"
Hu Shu said, "The problem lies with this photo." He held up the photo of the deceased at the time of his death. "This is the scene we discovered on the 7th, but this—" He pointed to the photo of the deceased, still alive and smiling brightly. "This is the photo we got from their relatives on the 12th. The date on the photo shows that the photo was taken that day."
Lu Qingjiu asked, “Could it be that relatives or friends are lying?”
"No, that's not it." Hu Shu said, "There were more than one person who saw them. If they were lying, it wouldn't be possible for such a large-scale lie to happen, and for everyone to be so sure of it."
Lu Qingjiu said: "So what you mean is... the dead are resurrected?"
Hu Shu sighed deeply. The bloodshot in his eyes and the stubble on his chin told Lu Qingjiu that he had obviously been troubled by this matter for more than a day or two, and he looked extremely haggard.
"Yes, he's resurrected." Hu Shu said, "We had been looking for the identity of the deceased, but we didn't find it. We were wondering if he was from another place. Later we discovered that the reason we couldn't find him was that he was actually still alive." Since he was alive, there would definitely be no one around him to call the police. In addition, all the identity documents on the deceased's body had been taken away, making the search impossible to carry out.
Lu Qingjiu frowned and said, "Then... is it possible that the murderer disguised himself as the deceased?"
Hu Shu said, "That's impossible. After the deceased was resurrected, they lived with their families for at least a week. They disappeared only after the police came to their door. During this time, their families didn't notice anything unusual."
Lu Qingjiu fell silent. Indeed, if all possibilities were ruled out, then there would only be one fact left, one that people were unwilling to accept but had to accept. This case was indeed full of factors that were difficult for science to explain.
Lu Qingjiu returned the photo to Hu Shu and said, "Hmm... This is indeed very strange. So, what did Officer Hu want to ask me today?"
Hu Shu said, "I just want to ask how you finally solved the problem of the well in your backyard?" Lu Qingjiu was the most definitely a supernatural case he had ever encountered. Coupled with the situation that the two thieves encountered a few days ago, he couldn't help but guess that these things might also exist around Lu Qingjiu.
Lu Qingjiu tapped his knees with his fingers and said, "It's like this. The well in my backyard isn't actually solved. It just stopped causing trouble. After the case was over, I did invite a witch to come to my house to perform a ritual, but it seems that witch no longer takes over this matter."
Hu Shu said, "What do you think about this case?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "I want to ask, is this the first time you have encountered such a case? Have you never encountered it before?"
Hu Shu sighed again. "I guess you've encountered this before. Wasn't your previous case also considered a paranormal event? In fact, if we investigate this kind of thing and find that it's such a case, we usually close the case. But we can't close this one because... just yesterday afternoon, we found the third body."
Lu Qingjiu was stunned. Indeed, if it was found out that it was revenge by ghosts and gods, it would be fine. After all, the murderer and the killer were gone, and the case was closed. But if the ghosts and gods refused to stop, then the case would probably never be closed unless the culprit was found.
Having said that, Lu Qingjiu basically understood the situation, but he couldn't make any promises to Hu Shu because he was also an ordinary person. He said, "How about this, you go back first, I'll think about it, and if I can think of anything I can help you with, I'll call you."
Hu Shu looked at Lu Qingjiu. Seeing his calm expression and firm tone, he knew that this was basically the only way the matter could be resolved. He put his things away and said, "Okay, I'll go back and wait for your news."
Lu Qingjiu saw him out the door.
After Hu Shu left, Lu Qingjiu sat on Bai Yuehu's rocking chair, waiting for Bai Yuehu to come back. These past few days, Bai Yuehu really liked running outside, but he didn't know what he was doing. With his lazy nature, it was hard for him to stand up and walk a few steps on weekdays...
About half an hour after Hu Shu left, Bai Yuehu came back.
"Moon Fox." Lu Qingjiu climbed up from the chair and said, "You're back."
"Yeah." Bai Yuehu responded.
"Isn't Yin Xun with you?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"No." Bai Yuehu said, "Has a stranger come to your house?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "It's like this. A policeman came to our house just now." He told Bai Yuehu what Hu Shu had told him. During this time, he carefully observed Bai Yuehu's expression. Seeing that he didn't show any impatience, he finished his story.
Bai Yuehu didn't react after hearing this. Just when Lu Qingjiu thought he wouldn't be interested in this matter, he asked, "Another one died?"
Lu Qingjiu nodded, and he remembered what Chao Qianyu had told him when he left in the morning: "By the way, Chao Qianyu told me to be careful when I go to the town recently, saying that the town is not peaceful. It seems that this is what Hu Shu said." This indirectly proves that the person who did this was indeed not a human, but a non-human like Chao Qianyu.
Bai Yuehu asked, "Where did he die?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "It is said that the body was found on the road between the town and the city. When it was found, the body had been run over twice. The identity of the deceased has not yet been found."
Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, as if he was thinking about something. He said, "I want to see the photos of the two dead people."
Lu Qingjiu felt relieved, knowing that Bai Yuehu was interested in this matter. He said, "Okay, I'll find time to go to town to get the photos tomorrow."
White Moon Fox glanced at the sky and said, "It's better to hurry up. In a few days, the moon will be full."
Lu Qingjiu then remembered that Bai Yuehu had been watching the sky these past few days. He asked, "Does the full moon have any impact?"
White Moon Fox said, "Well, some things like the moon."
Lu Qingjiu felt that it was definitely not a good thing...
Since Bai Yuehu is interested in intervening in this matter, it couldn't be better. Otherwise, although Lu Qingjiu is worried, he doesn't want to deliberately trouble Bai Yuehu to take action. After all, he doesn't understand this matter. What if the murderer is particularly cruel and hurts Bai Yuehu?
In the evening, Lu Qingjiu called Hu Shu and told him that he would come to the police station the next day and asked him to prepare the photos.
Hu Shu was also smart. He didn't ask why, but just said hello.
The next day, Lu Qingjiu drove his own pickup truck to the town and got the photos from the police station.
Hu Shu asked, "Are you willing to help?"
Lu Qingjiu said helplessly: "He is just taking a look first and may not be able to give any critical opinions. Have you confirmed the identity of the deceased?"
"No," Hu Shu said, "The body was too damaged and the identification information was taken away. We are still looking for it."
Lu Qingjiu asked, "What about the surveillance? Did they capture anything?"
Hu Shu said: "Oh, don't mention it. The body appeared suddenly in the surveillance. It wasn't there in the first frame, and in the next frame it was lying on the ground." This is why they are so sure that it was not a human crime. If the surveillance was destroyed, then it is possible, but how can they explain the situation where it appeared in the next second?
Lu Qingjiu took the photo and left, promising to reply to Hu Shu later, and then drove back home.
Bai Yuehu was still sitting in the yard. When Lu Qingjiu saw him, he handed the photo to him.
Bai Yuehu took the photo, looked at it carefully, and finally his gaze stopped on the photo of the living person. He gently raised his hand, put the photo of the living person to the tip of his nose and sniffed it.
Seeing his actions, Lu Qingjiu showed a curious look.
Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, but handed the photo to Lu Qingjiu and said, "Would you like to smell it?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Qingjiu imitated Bai Yuehu's movements and sniffed the photo, then showed a look of astonishment. There was actually a scent of incense and candles on the photo. Although it was very faint, it was extremely clear. Lu Qingjiu was afraid that she had smelled it wrong, so she sniffed a few more photos. Only then did she realize that all photos of living people had this smell, but those of the dead did not.
"Is it the smell of incense and candles?" Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu to confirm what he smelled.
Bai Yuehu said, "Yes, the smell of incense and candles." He laughed, which was rare for him, "It's the smell of that guy."
Lu Qingjiu said: "That guy... refers to the murderer?"
"No." Bai Yuehu opened his thin lips and uttered a word: "It's an evil spirit."
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