Chapter 289: Strange Village Survival Guide 24

"Later, Zhang Yan dragged him down to the kitchen... I didn't see it, but I heard the sound of the kitchen knife chopping off his hands, which soon woke up Aunt Liu in the other room."

Li Yiming wiped his face and gritted his teeth and said, "Auntie Liu shouted and asked what they were doing. Then Zhang Yan asked how she was still alive. Auntie Liu cursed her a few words. I didn't hear clearly. Then... Auntie Liu kept shouting. It was a very miserable kind of shouting. She shouted for a long time, and then there was no movement."

"I found I could move, so I quickly got up and ran out—"

He finally raised his head, glanced at Mingnan and Lin Jing, and said in a hoarse and trembling voice, "I ran into them later, and you all know the rest."

As if he was afraid that they wouldn't believe him, he raised his hand and said, "I swear, I really said everything! And it's all true!"

Given his cowardly nature, he would definitely not dare to swear if he told a lie in such an environment.

Mingnan was inclined to believe that this was the truth.

Zhang Yan couldn't accept it at all. She kept shaking her head, "How is this possible? Li Yiming, are you out of your mind? How could Lao Zhou do this to me? And you were right next to him, and you knew it but didn't stop him? You just like to be cuckolded, don't you?"

Li Yiming also got angry and shouted, "I said I couldn't move at that time, don't you understand? I couldn't move!"

Gao Shuangbin disdains to expose it, "You speak as if you can do anything if you can move?"

Li Yiming: “…”

Seeing his cowardly look, Zhang Yan became angrier and she picked up something and was about to hit him without even looking. Mingnan glanced at it and suddenly saw something and grabbed her hand.

"What are you doing?"

Zhang Yan struggled hard, and Mingnan frowned and said, "Don't move."

"Zhang Yan, I know it's hard for you to accept, but what has happened cannot be changed. We can only try our best to find a solution. And if Sister Nan hadn't knocked you out, who knows what would have happened later."

Lin Jing couldn't help but speak for Mingnan.

Jiang Man also nodded. "We saw you sharpening a knife in the kitchen with our own eyes. Aunt Liu and Lao Zhou are indeed dead. One is in her room, and the other is in the kitchen. The corpses... I suggest you don't look at them."

Zhang Yan didn't give up yet and turned to look at everyone else, but no one refuted her.

Her heart sank completely.

Yan Zhen said in a deep voice: "Actually, you can look at your hands and clothes."

One word can awaken a dreamer.

Zhang Yan put down what was in her hand, turned around slowly and saw that her palm was covered in blood.

She lowered her head again, and her clothes were covered with red spots of varying shades.

“Aaaaaa——”

She couldn't bear the stimulation and screamed loudly.

Lin Jing couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward and patted her on the back and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. It's all in the past. It's not your fault that you were controlled."

Zhang Yan turned around and hugged her, crying bitterly, "How could this happen? How could this happen? I killed someone, there is so much blood..."

An Jiale also came to comfort her.

Mingnan stood aside, picking and choosing from the things Zhang Yan had just grabbed, and took out an amulet tied with a red rope.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the color of the amulet seemed a little dull.

Jiang Man walked behind her without her noticing and asked softly, "Whose is this?"

"It should be Lao Zhou's."

Mingnan handed him the amulet.

"How can you be sure?"

Gao Shuangbin also squeezed over to take a look and asked curiously, "Zhang Yan, Li Yiming, is this yours? Or is it Aunt Liu's?"

Li Yiming shook his head repeatedly, "I never wear this thing."

Zhang Yan raised her head from Lin Jing's embrace, stared at the amulet for a while, and choked up, "It's not mine either. I wanted to buy one before, but Li Yiming said it looked unfashionable and wouldn't let me buy it. If I had bought one earlier, maybe this wouldn't have happened."

As she spoke, she started crying again.

Mingnan had a guess in his mind and stood up and walked out.

An Jiale asked: "Nan Nan, where are you going?"

"I'll go see if Aunt Liu has any amulets."

"Ah?" Several people were surprised, "Aren't you afraid?"

"I'll go with you."

Jiang Man followed immediately.

The two went to Aunt Liu's room. The bloody smell in the room was still very strong. Mingnan squatted down, holding his nose, looked at her left and right hands, and said, "I'm sorry."

Then he lifted her collar and saw that she was also wearing a red rope around her neck, with an identical amulet tied underneath, the color of which was also dull.

Jiang Man saw it and compared it with Lao Zhou's. "They should have bought it at the same place."

Mingnan thought more, "Why do they wear amulets? Why don't they wear Buddhist beads or jade pendants?"

Jiang Man was stunned. "You doubt——"

“They are related.”

Mingnan stood up and looked carefully at Aunt Liu's room.

She opened the closet door and saw that half of it was filled with women's clothes and the other half was filled with men's clothes.

There were two boxes of cigarettes, matches and a lighter in the drawer.

Jiang Man also moved upon seeing this, his eyes fixed on the TV cabinet. There was a drawer at the bottom of the cabinet, he opened it and saw the household registration booklet.

"Mingnan——"

Mingnan came over immediately and asked, "What did you find?"

"Look."

Jiang Man took out the household registration booklet and turned to the page for the head of household. The name on it was Zhou Youhe, also known as Lao Zhou.

The next page, however, was not written by Aunt Liu, but by a person named Xu Lian, who was Zhou Youhe's spouse, who was deceased.

Next is his daughter, Zhou Xueqin, who is now deceased.

And then it was gone.

There would definitely be no reason why Lao Zhou's household registration booklet would appear in Aunt Liu's house.

Either this was originally Mr. Zhou's house and Aunt Liu came later, or this is Aunt Liu's house and Mr. Zhou lives with her.

But no matter which possibility it is, it shows that they have known each other for a long time, and Lao Zhou is from Luoyang Village!

From the very beginning, he knew the situation in Luoyang Village, and he deliberately lured them here.

Some things just can't stand thinking about them; the more you think about them, the more terrifying they seem.

It can be said that Lao Zhou had been keeping an eye on them from the very beginning, and it was still unknown whether the car accident was an accident or man-made.

"Did you find anything?"

Gao Shuangbin shouted.

Mingnan gathered his thoughts and said to Jiang Man, "Let's go back first."

"Um."

When the two returned to the next room, Jiang Man took out the household registration booklet and said, "Take a look."

"What is this? Household registration booklet?"

Gao Shuangbin took it, and the others immediately gathered around to take a look.

When I saw the name above, my mind went wild.

"No, am I seeing things? Is this Zhou Youhe the same Zhou Youhe we met?" Gao Shuangbin murmured.

"What do you think?"

Jiang Man leaned against the door and asked back.

"He is from Luoyang Village?" An Jiale was confused. She pressed her head and asked in confusion, "Then why did he lie to us before?"

Mingnan sat down on a plastic stool, curled his lips and sneered, "Do you remember the questions I asked you when we were having a drink together?"