Zhang Panshan stood up immediately: "Come on, I love playing cards the most."
"The good news is that I have very good luck with cards, and I am almost certain to win every time.
The three opponents were also very good-tempered and didn't get angry even after losing so badly.
Instead, he told me not to let them off just to save their face.
Their friendly attitude made me feel embarrassed. I felt like I had met some very good friends here. I decided to add their contact information and go fishing together in the future."
Shangguan Cong handed the money in his hand to Zhang Panshan: "Brother, you have been fishing for such a long time, do you know what it feels like to be immersed in water?"
Without waiting for Zhang Panshan to answer, he muttered to himself, "When you first enter the water, your nose will feel a strong sour and astringent sensation, and then you'll smell a distinct fishy odor.
Once you lose the strength to struggle, you can only watch your life slip away with your eyes open.
If you’re lucky, you can even see your body becoming swollen.”
Seeing Zhang Panshan's serious expression, he quickly changed the subject: "Brother, did you drive when you came here?"
"Here we are, parked on the road behind. Why didn't you drive over? I can take you back later."
Shangguan Cong shook his head: "We drove too, not far from your car.
Brother, listen to my advice. Never drive when you are tired, otherwise you will hurt yourself and others.
Now, your fishing rod is moving, go and pull up the fish."
“After hearing his reminder, I saw the silent fishing rod make a sound, so I temporarily put the cards on the table and left.
When I came back with the fish, I found that they had come behind me at some point.
"Brother, the fish you caught today are all very big. If I could eat them, I would definitely buy one back."
"Brother, you'd better release the fish. I don't recommend you eat fish these days."
Through the bright moonlight, I found that the faces and lips of the three of them were unusually pale.
Not only that, their hair was actually dripping with water.”
Looking at their miserable state, I kindly reminded them: "Brothers, you guys are going into the water in the middle of the night with your clothes on. Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?
And that brother from before, your hands are so cold, yet you're still fooling around with them. Aren't you afraid of getting sick when you get old?"
Shangguan Cong raised his hand and patted him: "Thank you, brother. We have something else to do, so we'll leave first. It's nice to meet you. Don't forget us."
“After they left, I realized that I wasn’t far from where they were playing cards. If they had gone into the water, I couldn’t have failed to feel the ripples in the lake.
Moreover, someone actually had water plants on his head, which would require him to stay in the water for a while before they could wrap around his body.
Then I thought about it, the money they gave me when they played cards was all in cash.
Think about it, in this era of extremely developed payment, how many young people would carry cash with them?
This discovery made my heart skip a beat, and I quickly went over to take a closer look at the place where we had sat.
We found that the place where they had sat was soaked with water, which meant that they were already covered in water when they arrived.
Not only that, there were even bloodstains on the grass where they had sat.
Master, I have a bold guess. Do you think they killed someone and dumped the body, and then saw me here alone?
They wanted to trick me into thinking I had noticed the bad things they were doing, but after observing me, they found that there was nothing wrong with me.
He used the excuse of playing cards with me to create an alibi for himself.
By then, I will become an excuse for them to clear their names.
Tell me, if that’s the case, then I’m guilty of harboring someone.”
Zhang Panshan became more and more excited as he spoke, feeling that the direction of his reasoning was completely correct, and that it would be a loss to the crime-solving world if he didn't become a policeman.
Su Yan: "It's good that you're alert, but your guess is completely wrong. Think about it, if they really were murderers, they wouldn't show up in front of you so brazenly.
You should first look at the money you just won."
Zhang Panshan took out the money doubtfully: "These people are so dirty, the money is soaked."
When he saw the money in his hand clearly, he was so scared that he almost threw his phone away: "Master, this money is ghost money!"
[Ghost money, this is a path I never imagined, so I said the person playing cards with him just now was a ghost.]
[If it were me, I would rather meet a ghost. If it was really a murderer, Lao Zhang might have lost his life.]
[These ghosts are fine, why do they come up here to play cards with others? Aren't there enough ghosts below for them to form a table?]
[I was fishing and quietly packed up my fishing rod and went home.]
Su Yan: "If you look closely at the date of the ghost money, you will find that it was circulated several years ago.
It is basically no longer available on the market.”
Zhang Panshan now felt that he was surrounded by ghosts. He held his cell phone close to his body to seek a little comfort.
"Master, what do you mean? Have they been dead for a long time?"
“On the contrary, people who have been dead for a long time are holding the latest version of paper money burned by their families.
Most of the ghosts who used ghost money in the past were newly awakened ghosts whose families had not yet given them money to burn, so they could only pick up discarded money from the roadside.
Zhang Panshan's teeth were chattering now: "So, they are freshly baked ghosts."
"Yes, the three of them were in a car accident on their way back from drinking with friends. The accident happened near the bridge not far from you.
They came to you because they wanted you to call the police and have their bodies retrieved."
At this point, Zhang Panshan wasn't as scared as before. Instead, he felt a little sad: "Are all three of them dead?"
"It has been three hours since they fell into the water. There is no possibility of survival."
"Then I'm going to call the police now."
After calling the police, Zhang Panshan began to pack up his tools. When he saw the fish in the bucket, he remembered what his poker friend had just told him.
His mind raced, and he realized the subtext: the water today has soaked our bodies.
Even though Zhang Panshan knew that there might be corpses and other things in every river.
But knowing something and hearing it with one's own ears were different. He just felt sick to his stomach now. "For the sake of our poker friends, I'll let you go today."
Afterwards, Zhang Panshan took the police to the place where the three people fell into the water.
He hid behind the police car and watched the car soaked in water being lifted out of the water.
When the forensic doctor covered the faces of the three people with the white cloth, he saw that they looked exactly like the three card-playing friends he had played with before.
As he turned to leave, he heard a voice from behind: "Thank you."
Zhang Panshan said with a bitter face: "No need to thank me, we should not meet again in the future."
Because today's divination was relatively simple, and it wasn't too late after Su Yan finished calculating for Old Zhang, she drew another person.
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