Chapter 107 I won’t hand over my silver
late at night.
Even in the county town, you can hear the chirping of crickets.
Ye Qinglan and others followed the girl all the way to Chengyang Street. In front of them was the county government compound, and behind the government compound was the stadium.
There are rows of houses near the stadium.
It is said that this government compound was originally a converted house of an old landlord, and the stadium was originally the landlord's back garden.
The houses outside the back garden were the residences of the landlord's family workers at that time.
The girl walked all the way to the two houses in the middle, carefully avoiding the gate that was about to be washed away by the flood.
After entering, I took a shovel and started digging at one of the corners.
While digging, he whispered, "Why is there nothing?"
"What? I remembered it wrong. It's not this corner?" The girl grunted as she carried the shovel to the other side and said as she dug, "Your memory is getting worse."
But not yet.
She dug four corners in succession, and just when she was about to explode, she heard the sound of iron hitting a cylinder from below.
The girl was overjoyed and quickly took a shovel to dig the hole a little bigger, and now she saw a vegetable patch.
She carefully lifted the vegetable pot, opened it, and poured it onto the ground. The white silver dollars were so exciting that she covered her mouth with both hands: "I'm rich! I'm rich!!"
After sitting there for a while to calm down, she put the silver dollars back into the altar and asked, "Mom, how could my grandpa's family hide so many silver dollars? They haven't been spent."
I don't know what her mother said.
The girl sighed, "This shows that what is destined to happen will happen eventually. You didn't get it, but it came to me instead. Who?"
When she heard the noise outside, she immediately picked up a shovel and put it in front of her, looking around in panic.
But a man walked in through the broken door: "You don't know me. But I followed you here, from your home all the way here, Comrade Shangguan Hong."
The girl's surname is Shangguan, which is not uncommon in Yulan County, as many people have this surname.
Shangguan Hong breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that the person speaking was a woman, but then she took a deep breath when she thought about how she had followed him from her home.
"You, what do you want to do?" Shangguan asked nervously, and then said: "These silver dollars all belong to my grandfather. At most, I can give you two pieces. If you don't agree, let's fight to the death."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ye Qinglan felt that the air froze a little.
Ye Qinglan said calmly: "You are accompanied by your grandmother, mother, and brother. If I steal your things, will they forcibly occupy my body? Although I don't think they have the ability to do so."
"You, you——" Shangguan Hong was shocked.
"Comrade Shangguan, I am a staff member who specializes in handling special events. This is my ID. You are standing so far away that you cannot see the content clearly. Let your grandmother help you take a look. Your situation falls within the scope of my work. Otherwise, come with me?"
Two minutes later, the terrified Shangguan Hong threw away the shovel and picked up the vegetable pot full of silver dollars.
"My grandma asked me to go with you."
Ye Qinglan nodded and said to the air:
"I'll take your granddaughter away, you should be relieved, so leave quickly. This world is far more bizarre than what you see. There are more than one or two psychics like your granddaughter. I can't guarantee that someone will summon you out and get something out of you. If that happens, both your granddaughter and I will be in danger."
A few minutes later.
Shangguan said to Ye Qinglan with red eyes:
"My grandmother said that they can't stay in the human world for long like this. Generally speaking, they will leave after three days. If they don't leave after three days, they will lose their memory of the human world after seven days.
The longest they can stay in the human world is the 57th day. If they haven’t left by the 57th day, they will dissipate. They should have left long ago, but because my grandmother knows the Yin and Yang and is worried about me, she found a way to keep them in the human world until now.
They were leaving, tomorrow at the latest. If they didn't leave, their souls would dissipate. My father and grandfather had already passed away. So she asked you to rest assured that she would not leak the secret and leave now. She also told me to tell you that if you want to find out information in the future, you must do so within seven days. After seven days, it will be useless to summon the dead. "
Ye Qinglan said, "Okay."
"My grandmother also told me to tell you that the serial killer in Yulan County ten years ago was the butcher at the food factory."
Ye Qinglan paused and said, "Thank you. We will investigate this matter further."
After she finished speaking, Shangguan Hong shouted to the air several times, "Grandma and Mom," "Little brother, little brother, you have to be good, and you can be my brother again. Don't worry, I will roast the rabbit and mom for you, little brother—"
After her relatives left, Shangguan Hong cried sadly while holding the vegetable garden.
In this row of houses, only the front one was occupied by a family, so although her crying was creepy, it did not attract anyone's attention.
After she had finished crying, Ye Qinglan said, "Let's go."
Shangguan Hong followed beside her, sniffing constantly.
He also said, "I won't hand over my silver coins! These were left by my grandpa. The old man was very stingy and favored boys over girls. He didn't give any of them to my mother and left them all to his eldest son. This flood washed him and his eldest son's family away. I was the one who collected their bodies."
“No one asked you to turn it in.”
"That's more like it."
Shangguan Hong walked and looked at her again: "Why don't you comfort me? My grandma and the others passed away, and I feel very sad."
"I've seen a lot of life and death. Your relatives loved you when they were alive, and they wanted to spend more time with you after they died. By comparison, you are lucky. People will feel much better if they think positively."
Shangguan Hong choked. How could this be considered consolation?
The two of them walked out of the stadium, and she noticed there was another person standing in front of them.
Ye Qinglan said, "One of us."
Shangguan Hong didn't ask any more questions, and they continued walking forward. When they reached the road, there was a car parked next to them.
Qianli stepped forward and opened the car door. Ye Qinglan looked at Shangguan Hong and said, "Get in."
Shangguan Hong let out a "oh" and while she was sitting on the seat, her foot accidentally stepped on a piece of soft flesh, causing her to scream. When she lowered her head, she saw a human leg and was so frightened that she almost lost her soul.
Ye Qinglan explained: "We caught two bad guys and had no place to put them, so we stuffed them in the space under the seat. Don't be afraid, they are tied up and have taken medicine, so they can't do anything bad."
She also has one tucked under her feet.
Chunyu disliked her for being so jumpy: "She is not afraid of ghosts, but people."
"What do you know?" Shangguan Hong retorted: "Ghosts can't do anything to me, but people can kill me."
The spring rain tugged at the corners of his mouth and continued to close his eyes.
Ye Qinglan told the driver that they were going to the Public Security Bureau. The county police station was also missing two people, who were washed away during the disaster relief. The car stopped, and Qianli went in to tell the police about the butcher. Even though the police were skeptical, they still secretly listed the butcher as a suspect.