Chapter 82 Chapter 82 Family (IV)

"Also? You live here too?" Fang Hui was no less surprised than Ning Helan, "Where do you live?"

Ning Helan pointed in the direction of the explosion and fire that Fang Hui mentioned before. Fang Hui exclaimed, "What a coincidence! He didn't expect that his home was so close to Ning Helan's when he was a child. How come he didn't remember seeing him when he was a child?

"So your parents..." Fang Hui suddenly understood that Ning Helan's parents died in that explosion. Is this the "thing" that Ning Guohua mentioned from time to time?

Fang Hui suddenly felt a sense of empathy and patted Ning Helan on the shoulder.

"I'm fine." Ning Helan's voice was light, but he was always like this. Fang Hui didn't know whether he was really fine or just pretending.

After climbing up some more steps, Fang Hui heard the sound of people talking. His first reaction was to squat down and hide, and he also pulled Ning Helan into the bushes beside him to hide together.

"You are here to sweep the graves, not to dig graves."

"Phew, I heard the voices of my elder brother and sister."

Ning Helan looked up and saw Fang Yu and Fang Yi.

However, the two looked a little terrified. Following their gaze, Ning Helan saw a mess on the ground in front of him.

The soil that originally covered the coffin was roughly turned over, revealing an uneven ground. The square coffin inside was completely overturned, with the bottom of the coffin exposed to the air, and the coffin lid was also opened.

The stone tablet at the head of the grave had been damaged and broken into several pieces, and the inscriptions on it had long been blurred.

"Fuck!" Fang Hui rushed forward with a face full of horror, and ran quickly to the grave that was severely damaged. His eyes were full of disbelief. He was so angry that he trembled all over, and his eyes were red. "Which bastard did this!!"

Fang Yu and Fang Yi were a little confused when they saw a stranger rushing out and cursing in front of the grave.

Fang Yu stepped forward: "Hey, may I ask who you are..."

"We are the forest rangers here. We heard the noise so we came to take a look." Ning Helan came out from behind and said. Although he looked like a forest ranger with his skinny face, he had a shovel today and had just helped the tree demon to support and fix it, so he didn't look very clean now. It was reasonable to say that he was a forest ranger.

Fang Yi put her hands on her chest, glanced at Ning Helan, and turned to look at the angry young man here.

She was slightly startled at the first sight, and saw that she had mistaken the person in front of her for her own brother. She closed her eyes and looked again. It was a thin, white-skinned stranger... not Fang Hui.

Of course it couldn't be Fang Hui, Fang Yi smiled self-deprecatingly.

Fang Hui gritted his teeth and looked at his mother's grave, which was now a mess after being dug up. He immediately wanted to find that person and fight him to the death, but he forced himself to stay calm again and again, clenched his fists and looked carefully again.

It seemed that it was not dug out, but turned out by some force... and there was a circle of light gray gas around his mother's coffin.

He squatted down and looked inside. Strangely, the coffin was empty, and there was no mother's body inside.

He remembered that his mother's ashes were placed in a square urn at that time, but now it was not inside.

"We just arrived here and saw this..." Fang Yu said, "I might as well check the surveillance."

"There is no surveillance in this area of ​​the mountain, only on the road up the mountain." Ning Helan said, and walked to the front of the grave to take a look.

This situation... is probably not man-made.

He thought of his parents' grave. If it weren't for the tree demon who helped to block it, I'm afraid it would have been destroyed like this.

Fang Yi frowned and looked at Ning Helan and Fang Hui: "Actually, I shouldn't say this, but my family's grave was dug up like this, and you forest rangers patrol it every day, don't you know anything about it?"

Ning Helan immediately apologized: "I'm really sorry, this is our negligence, we will immediately organize a special team to investigate the matter, please rest assured, we will give you an explanation."

Fang Yu was obviously very angry, but his upbringing prevented him from losing his temper here. He tried his best to restrain himself and said: "I really don't know how you patrolled. There are more than one graves of our family on this mountain, and this kind of thing happened. Look, now even the ashes are gone."

This is also what Ning Helan found strange, why are the ashes gone? If you want to use ashes to make the souls of the deceased restless, after such a long time, the people here have already been reincarnated, and the ashes are just something for the living to place their thoughts.

He squatted down to observe the grave, and suddenly felt a strange breath, very faint, the same as he felt at his parents' graves just now.

It is very likely that all of this was done by the same person.

"When I catch him, I will peel off his skin and pull out his tendons!" Fang Hui gritted his teeth. He almost went berserk just now, and he tried his best to suppress his anger to control himself.

"Fang Hui, this is just..." Ning Helan didn't finish his words. In fact, he was not sure now.

"What are you afraid of? Do you know what it is!" Fang Hui suddenly became excited, "Who! Who is it!"

"...I don't know yet." Ning Helan said.

"Damn it!" Fang Hui kicked the stone at his feet angrily.

"You two," Fang Yi looked at the two forest rangers, one calm and the other irritable, "Is there anything we can do about this? They destroyed the cemetery, and now we don't even know where our mother's ashes are..." "

I think we have to call the police." Fang Yu said.

"If we call the police, Dad will know."

"But the person who did this must not be an ordinary person. How can we find him if we don't call the police?"

Fang Yi and Fang Yu had different opinions.

"You two, I think we should call the police first. Maybe the police can find some clues that we can't find." Ning Helan agreed with Fang Yu's opinion.

"Xiao Yi, look, the forest ranger said so." Fang Yu said.

"But what should we do here?" Fang Yi was really angry and sad when he looked at the cemetery.

"Don't worry, we will take care of this place." Ning Helan said.

Fang Yi and Fang Yu looked at Ning Helan deeply, accepted his words, and then left.

Ning Helan breathed a sigh of relief: "Fang Hui, your brother and sister have a really good temper..." Turning around, he saw Fang Hui clenching his fists tightly, looking like he was looking for someone to fight to the death.

Ning Helan walked around the cemetery, and the surroundings were not damaged. It seemed that the purpose was very clear.

Looking back and seeing Fang Hui still standing there, Ning Helan simply walked around. The surrounding graves were intact. The purpose was too obvious.

He came for the graves of Ning Helan's parents and Fang Hui's mother.

But why?

If Ning Helan's parents subdued demons and punished evil and promoted good during their lifetime, and were hated by those demons and came to take revenge... then why did Fang Hui's mother die? His mother should be just an ordinary person, and should not be targeted by demons.

Ning Helan folded his hands, put his fingers on his lips and thought, and after walking back, he inadvertently glanced at the broken tombstone.

On the tombstone was written "Tomb of my beloved wife Ji Ruoyu, husband, Fang Chengli".

"Ji Ruoyu..." Ning Helan squatted down and took a closer look. He seemed to have heard this surname somewhere.

Fang Hui seemed to have calmed down. He also squatted down, picked up the broken pieces of the tombstone with his hands, and blew away the dust on it.

"Your mother's name is really nice. This surname is very rare." Ning Helan said.

"Hmm..." Fang Hui looked at the tombstone, and the anger just now disappeared, and turned into a gentle look, "I heard from my mother that this branch of her family is the descendant of Ji Chang, King Wen of Zhou..."

But this is too far away and too long to talk about.

"Ning Helan, lend me your shovel." Fang Hui looked at the messy ground and said, "I want to restore this place."

Ning Helan handed him the shovel. The tomb had been destroyed to the point where it was almost unrecognizable. It was not something that could be done by one person in a short time.

"Do you need help?" Ning Helan asked.

"Thank you." Fang Hui did not refuse.

The two dug the soil and filled the pit. Half an hour had passed unknowingly. The workload was still huge. Ning Helan saw a small figure hiding beside him.

Looking closely, it was the little tree demon from before.

"Big brother..." The little tree demon saw Ning Helan and called him, "I want to help."

Ning Helan was still a kind-hearted little demon, and chuckled: "You are too young to help."

The little tree demon heard it and turned around and ran away. After a while, he ran back, followed by several tall tree demons.

"Big brother, I called my family." The little tree demon said.

Fang Hui heard the voice and turned his head to take a look. The trees in the forest that seemed fine just now suddenly moved, and tall tree demons appeared in front of him.

Fang Hui remembered that it was said in the Demon and Ghost Record that this kind of tree demon only appears in unpolluted forests. They are kind by nature and will help lost travelers or injured animals.

With the help of the tree demons, the grave was restored quickly. The uneven soil around it was filled up, and the coffin was put back into the grave pit and placed straight. However, Fang Hui looked at the empty coffin with a dull look in his eyes.

"Little brother, do you want to cover this coffin?" The tree demon stretched out its long branches and pointed.

Ning Helan looked at Fang Hui and said, "Cover it first, but don't fill the soil yet."

When he was about to leave, Fang Hui stared at the grave as if he was thinking about something.

"Fang Hui?"

"I want to install a camera here... just in case the man who destroyed the tomb comes back again..."

"With the power of this man to destroy the tomb, I guess the camera won't work."

"Then install a few more, or... or I'll guard here."

Ning Helan put his hand on his neck, turned his head and saw the tree monsters talking next to him. He went over and said a few words to them, and the tree monsters nodded.

Unknowingly, it was already afternoon when they went down the mountain. Fang Hui was very curious about what Ning Helan had just said to the tree monsters.

"Nothing, just ask them to help keep an eye on your mother's grave. They should be more useful than cameras."

"..."

Fang Hui was moved. Although this young Taoist priest may have some problems with his brain circuit, he is still very reliable at critical moments.

"When we catch this guy, I will definitely treat you to a meal." Fang Hui said sincerely.

"...Ah." Ning Helan obviously didn't hear what he said.

"Ah?"

"I almost forgot. I ordered a cup of coffee for you when I ordered takeout this morning. Since you didn't come back, I put it in the refrigerator."

Fang Hui was startled and moved again. He said with tears in his eyes: "Little Taoist priest, from today on, I will work like a cow for you! Just tell me what you want!"

Ning Helan curled his lips slightly: "Working hard?"

"Working hard is not possible."

"Then you are talking nonsense."

The two of them went down the mountain and saw several men in work clothes at the foot of the mountain, and two familiar people.

Qin Yang and Officer Xiao Liu.

"Why is Brother Yang here?" Ning Helan did not forget that he was from the Criminal Investigation Brigade. Would digging up other people's ancestral graves also fall under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Brigade?

The person who was talking to Qin Yang was from the Land Administration Bureau in this area.

Ning Helan and Fang Hui walked over. Before they could say anything, Qin Yang noticed them and his face suddenly changed.

"Yang... Ouch..." Ning Helan just opened her mouth and was hit on the head by Qin Yang.

Fang Hui next to her was not spared either and was hit hard on the forehead.

"Xiao Lan, why are you running here instead of staying at home?" Qin Yang looked at Ning Helan, "Look, your hair is messy and there is so much mud on your body..."

"I didn't do anything... Brother Yang, why are you here?"

"Someone called the police and said that his family's grave was dug up." Qin Yang said.

Fang Hui was silent. It seemed that his brother and sister called the police.

Qin Yang told them that although digging graves was not their responsibility, this case involved the theft of ashes, which was a criminal case