Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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As soon as the people left, they were the only two people left in the room.
The weather was bad today. There was still some sunshine when they set out, but it became completely overcast when they arrived in the village. There were thick dark clouds overhead, making the sky gray and dull.
Xue Meng couldn’t sit still for a while. He exchanged some words with Xiao Xiaoyu in the group, but always got a message that the message failed to be sent, so he suggested: “Let’s go for a walk outside.”
Jiang Lan nodded and followed him out but stopped in front of an empty house and looked inside carefully.
This kind of old house had been deserted for who knows how long. No one had lived in it for a long time. The doors and windows were closed tightly, and the inside could only be vaguely seen through the broken half window.
Xue Meng followed him and looked in: “Black houses are so scary, why are you looking at this?”
He had always been very generous, and he even muttered that he had brought a peace charm with him before he came. But when he entered the village and chatted nonsense with Party Secretary Huang, he almost regarded himself as a villager.
Jiang Lan glanced at him and said, “Don’t you notice there’s something wrong with this house?”
“What’s the problem?” Xue Meng stretched his head and took another look, his expression gradually turning frightened: “Is there a ghost inside?”
Jiang Lan:……
Turning Xue Meng’s face to the window, Jiang Lan smiled and said: “Didn’t you find that the furniture in these houses is very complete, and there is nothing missing?”
If there hadn’t been a layer of dust inside the house, it wouldn’t have looked like an abandoned house without an owner.
Xue Meng took another careful look and said, “Yes.”
He saw that there were even changed bedsheets on the bamboo bed, as if the owner had just left temporarily.
“But didn’t Party Secretary Huang say that all these families have moved away?”
Jiang Lan looked at him expressionlessly: “They didn’t bring anything with you when they moved?”
“And he said left, not moved.”
The Chinese language was broad and profound, and when people said left, it could have many meanings.
Maybe they moved away, maybe… they died.
Xue Meng obviously understood what he meant. He was a little at a loss and said: “Maybe the master is planning to come back in the future? Didn’t they not move the furniture?”
Jiang Lan shook his head: “While walking along the way, I looked at the vacant houses, and there was no shortage of furniture or items inside.”
One such house could be said to be a coincidence. If they were all like this, then there was obviously something wrong.
Xue Meng was still a little confused: “But this is a dozen households. Even if there are only two people in a family, there are more than twenty people, right? How can they all be dead?”
The information they obtained was the statistical information from last year. At that time, the data showed that there were still 45 households in the village. How could it be possible that more than a dozen households died in a year? This was too scary.
“It may be that the person died long ago but they did not cancel the account, or maybe something happened in the village.”
Jiang Lan looked very calm. He turned around and walked towards the woods to the north: “Let’s go to the cemetery and have a look. You should be able to get some clues.”
Generally speaking, there was a cemetery in the village. Looking at the direction the four men were carrying the coffin, the cemetery should be over there. It was just blocked by a forest and could not be seen from the village.
Xue Meng felt a little unsure, but seeing Jiang Lan’s calm expression, he reluctantly calmed down and followed Jiang Lan step by step.
The weeds in the village were very prosperous. They followed the traces of weeds trampled by the villagers, and soon approached the forest.
The forest was quite large, and it took about ten minutes to walk through it. The two walked inside for a while, and then they vaguely saw a black building standing at the other end of the forest, about two or three stories high, cylindrical, and its purpose could not be seen.
The two of them were about to speed up and go to the front to take a look, but unexpectedly bumped into Party Secretary Huang head-on.
Both sides looked at each other, stunned.
Secretary Huang’s expression suddenly became ferocious: “Why are you here?!”
Xue Meng was frightened by his twisted expression, and he didn’t answer the question for a moment. At this time, Secretary Huang seemed to be a different person from before.
Jiang Lan took a step forward and said with a natural expression: “It’s too boring to stay in the house, and the mobile phone signal is not very good, so we came to the woods to get some fresh air.”
He seemed puzzled: “Can’t we come here?”
Huang Zhishu rolled his eyes and looked at the two people, and after a long time he said in a strange tone: “That side of the forest is the village cemetery. Outsiders are not allowed in, for fear of offending the ancestors.”
Jiang Lan said oh, pushed Xue Meng and said, “Sorry, we didn’t know. Then let’s go back. Is the funeral over?”
Secretary Huang grunted gloomily: “You two, wait a little longer. In a few hours, they will all be back. I will call them over then.”
Jiang Lan smiled and said yes, and the three of them returned to the village together.
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