Chapter 5: Little Piggy

Under the solemn gaze of the police, Lu Qingjiu brought some stools from the house and brought some snacks for them to sit and rest on while they waited for the police station to send professional people and equipment.

"When did you come back here?" the young policeman sat down, but the old policeman did not move, still looking at Lu Qingjiu with some suspicion.

"I only came back a few days ago." Lu Qingjiu said, "I used to work in A City."

"What are you doing back here," the old policeman said, looking Lu Qingjiu up and down.

"This is my hometown." Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm tired of going to work and I want to go back home to farm."

The old policeman asked Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun about their identities, and when he received an answer he did not speak again, but turned his attention to the well, as if he was thinking about something, his expression becoming increasingly serious.

Yin Xun looked frightened and said to Lu Qingjiu, "What has this policeman remembered?

Lu Qingjiu shook his head to indicate that he did not know.

Lu Qingjiu told him that something had fallen into his well, so he called the police and told him not to worry.

"Oh, this well in your house." That Uncle Li said, "It's very evil."

"How," the young policeman next to him heard Uncle Li's words.

"In the past when Sake was not at home, there was often the sound of something falling in, at first we thought it was a person and came in to check, but found that there was nothing inside the well inside the days were long and we left it alone." Uncle Li seemed to feel that the policeman's expression was not right and whispered, "Did you find something in there"

"Not sure yet." The young policeman waved his hand, indicating to Uncle Li not to come along, "Hurry back."

"It's alright Uncle Li, you can go back first." Lu Qingjiu also said.

Only then did Uncle Li turn around and go back.

Lu Qingjiu looked at the young policeman and, not surprisingly, he saw a hint of panic in his eyes; obviously the young man had not been a policeman for long and was not yet calm enough to encounter such things.

The old policeman was much more composed and acted calmly the whole time, and only when the bureau sent support did he leave from the well.

It was close to twelve in the morning and the whole village had fallen into a deep sleep, leaving only the raucous chirping of insects in the grass.

The new police officers brought in specialist equipment and personnel and then prepared to go down the well to salvage it.

Yin Xun was still drowsy and dozing when the man descending the shaft said "there's a corpse" and he shivered, waking up instantly.

"Holy shit" Yin Xun looked in horror at the direction of the well, "there's really a body" he thought it was at most some dead animal or something.

The atmosphere among the people became tense as the men on the well dragged the rope hard and finally pulled the body up from the well. Because it had been in the water for so long, almost all the flesh on the body had rotted away completely, leaving only white bones with thick water plants attached to them, which at first glance looked like blackened hair.

Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu, both seeing a corpse for the first time, both covered their mouths and noses and took a few steps back, but Bai Yuehu was unchanged and continued to knock on his melon indifferently, which was out of place compared to the nervousness of the others.

"It's a female corpse." The police officer present briefly examined the condition of the body and spoke, "It's been dead for at least a year, the specifics will have to be brought back for detailed examination."

"Do you remember what happened last year?" the old policeman who had come earlier suddenly turned his head and asked the colleague next to him a question.

"You mean," the man said, "no, how did the body get dumped here?"

"It's possible." The old policeman turned his head to Lu Qingjiu, "How long has it been since you've been back"

"Several years." Lu Qingjiu replied honestly, "Two or three years, I think, and the house has been abandoned."

The old policeman nodded, "OK, you guys go to bed first, we still have to survey the scene, tomorrow you come to the police station to make a statement."

Lu Qingjiu nods his head.

The police seemed to have a clue about the body and excluded Lu Qingjiu as the first suspect, after all the decomposition of the body suggested that the man had been dead for at least a year and in that time according to Lu Qingjiu he had never returned. Of course, all these things have to be further investigated and the most important thing at the moment is to find out the identity of the body.

Although the police told them to go back to bed, Yin Xun said he didn't want to go back and insisted on spending the night with Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu looked at him suspiciously, "You're not afraid of ghosts, are you?"

"Oh, how can I be afraid of ghosts." Yin Xun said, "I, Yin Xun, have never been afraid of anything in all my life."

Lu Qingjiu: "Since you're not afraid, can you give me the blanket?"

Yin Xun: "I don't I have a chill down my back"

Lu Qingjiu :""

In the end, he gave up fighting with Yin Xun for the quilt and silently went to get another clean one.

Lu Qingjiu didn't sleep too well this night, as he kept thinking about the body, causing him to get up the next day and yawn when he came back from a trip to the police station with the police to take a statement.

The backyard was surrounded by police, saying they were protecting the scene, although in terms of time this scene was no longer of much value, after all, too much time had passed and most of the evidence should have been destroyed.

A few days later, the police withdrew protection from the scene and Lu Qingjiu found some time to go to the police station to make a statement.

After returning from the police station, Lu Qingjiu went to the neighbour's house and asked Li Xiaoyu to fetch some straw for the family's pigs, which Li Xiaoyu did happily, while his father curiously asked about the Lu Family's backyard.

"There really are corpses," Uncle Li was smoking and almost dropped his cigarette when he heard this, "then the sounds we heard during that time"

Lu Qingjiu laughed dryly, thinking that it was better not to look into some things, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it anyway.

Aunt Li also said, "Then you should pay attention in the future, and remember to ask a divine woman to come if there is anything else, ouch, what a sin."

Lu Qingjiu nodded, indicating that he knew.

When he came back from the police station, he bought some fresh beef and spices from the market next door, to be brined and eaten underneath. Lu Qingjiu cut up some diced beef, chopped it up and stir-fried it, added carrots, onions, peas and corn to it, passed it over a high heat and then covered the ingredients with leftover rice, then steamed it directly in the pot, after which the rice was ready to be eaten as a dish.

While he cooks, Bai Yuehu watches and occasionally gives a hand.

After the rice was steamed, Lu Qingjiu took the pot out and divided it into three portions, then drizzled it with soy sauce and stirred it all together before eating.

The vegetables and rice were evenly blended and full of flavour in the mouth, simple and filling, and all three ate happily.

"Don't forget to water the vegetables in the field later, Sake." Yin Xun's mouth slurred, "The seeds have just been planted and there is no shortage of water."

"I'll go." Bai Yuehu butted in.

"No need for that." Lu Qingjiu tried to push back.

"I'll go." Who knew that Bai Yuehu's attitude would be very firm, "You can just marinate the beef at home."

Lu Qingjiu didn't think it would be a good idea to let Bai Yuehu do such menial work, but when he thought about it, Bai Yuehu was not a human being, so perhaps it would be easier to work in his own way, so he agreed to his request without further ado.

After a brief nap, Lu Qingjiu called the telecoms company again and asked them to renew the internet connection and TV signal, and they said they would send someone over tomorrow.

Lu Qingjiu went with him to feed Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua, who grunted happily as if to thank Lu Qingjiu. Li Xiaoyu was talking to Xiao Hua in the pig pen, occasionally reaching out to touch the short fuzz on Xiao Hei's body, which would later become tangled, but for now it was still fluffy and looked like a cute kiwi.

Xiao Hua proudly refused to be touched by Li Xiaoyu, but his sister Xiao Hei was not at all reserved and was touched by Li Xiaoyu, exposing her pink belly.

Back in the house, Lu Qingjiu cut the beef he had bought this morning into large chunks and washed them, then put them into a pot of cold water and strained the blood out of them over high heat. Lu Qingjiu also added some chicken feet and feet tendons to the pot and cooked them together, so that they could be used as a snack instead of melon seeds in the evenings.

Having been back home for a few days now, Lu Qingjiu has become accustomed to the slow pace of life here. There's no need to rush anything, it's always done anyway.

When Bai Yuehu returned from watering the vegetables in the field, he had some mud on him.

"Or do you have any spells to wash clothes" Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu a little expectantly, "do you have any?"

Bai Yuehu: "Yes, there is."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Really?"

Facing Lu Qingjiu's starry eyes, Bai Yuehu hesitated slightly and said, "But there is an after-effect."

"What are the after-effects?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"It's easy to get hungry after using spells." Bai Yuehu said, "Trouble."

Lu Qingjiu: "Well, I'll wash it then." He was about to say that he would eat if he was hungry, but then he somehow remembered the image of Bai Yuehu swallowing that huge gecko the other night, and felt that he should not expect to feed Bai Yuehu in just a few meals.

Lu Qingjiu drove Bai Yuehu to have a bath and took his dirty clothes to the front yard to start washing them himself. As he washes them, he plans to go to town in a few days to buy a washing machine, otherwise it will be a waste of time.

Bai Yuehu comes out after a shower and a change of clothes, and sits quietly watching Lu Qingjiu at work again. He doesn't seem to be very active, he's been lazy all day, not even bothering to say anything if he doesn't have to, and now his eyes are half closed and he looks like he's about to fall asleep.

Bai Yuehu's nose twitched as the brisket cooked in the house, giving off a tantalising aroma.

Lu Qingjiu felt that he was like a child with a craving for meat and laughed, saying, "It's marinated beef, it's not ready yet, so I won't be able to eat it until tonight.

Bai Yuehu said, "I don't want to go."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What?"

Bai Yuehu: "Too lazy to go"

He said lazy so justifiably, but Lu Qingjiu dumbfounded, he said, "Okay, then you sit for a while, the day after tomorrow will be the market, I will buy some other snacks, and then buy a few small chickens this yard is empty."

Bai Yuehu said, "It's up to you." He lay back in his chair and half-closed his eyes again. The warm sunlight cast on his cheeks, and when Lu Qingjiu looked at them from his angle, he saw that his eyes had a very beautiful golden colour, and when Lu Qingjiu tried to look closer, Bai Yuehu had already closed them.

Lu Qingjiu put his clothes to dry, then suddenly remembered something and turned around to go to the pig pen, only to see Li Xiaoyu, the little one, asleep with the two piglets, and he climbed in through the fence, holding Xiao Hua in his left hand and Xiao Hei in his right, both sleeping happily.

Lu Qingjiu looked at Xiao Hua Xiao Hei and then at the little white pig next to him, and felt that something was wrong. After careful study, he found that Xiao Hua's piggy bank was exceptionally clean, the straw seemed to be newly replaced and there was no bad smell.

Lu Qingjiu called out, "Li Xiaoyu, Li Xiaoyu".

The child was woken up by Lu Qingjiu, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, he rubbed Xiao Hua's head in his arms and said, " Brother Lu ".

Xiao Hua grunted as she was rubbed by Li Xiaoyu and buried her face in the child's arm.

"Why are you asleep in there?" Lu Qingjiu said, "It's a pigsty."

"Oh, I was telling Xiao Hua Xiao Hei a story and I fell asleep by accident." Li Xiaoyu was a little embarrassed and hurriedly sat up, trying to get out of the pigpen. Li Xiaoyu, somewhat embarrassed, hurriedly sat up and tried to crawl out of the pigpen, while Xiao Hua Xiao Hei woke up because of this, grunting and expressing her displeasure at Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu said, "You can't sleep here even if you want to, be a good boy and come out."

He stepped into the pigpen and took Li Xiaoyu out, patting the straw crumbs off him, "Let's go home and sleep."

Li Xiaoyu leaned his chin on Lu Qingjiu's shoulder without saying anything, but quietly turned towards the two little piggies

Blink.

Lu Qingjiu didn't notice his little gesture at all.

After sending Li Xiaoyu home, Lu Qingjiu rolled up his sleeves and went back to his pigsty and said to Xiao Hei Xiao Hua: "Don't play with the children every day, they haven't finished their homework yet, you're not even two or three days old pigs, why don't you behave yourselves? "

Xiao Hua :""

Xiao Hei :""

"Don't pretend you don't understand me." Lu Qingjiu knew that his pigs were clever, and when he saw them staring at him with innocent little round eyes, he said angrily, "How can you abduct children into a pigsty? Next time I see you, I'll"

Xiao Hua: "Hmph." You just what

Lu Qingjiu, a patriarch, was righteous: "I won't let him fetch you hogweed."

Xiao Hei sobbed in anguish and Xiao Hua turned his buttocks towards Lu Qingjiu, who said, "He knows his pig is smart, but what is this weird illusion that he is bullying kindergarten children?

Lu Qingjiu gave his pig a few more words of advice, to the effect that he should not play silly with the children every day, but should do something educational and proper, but he honestly did not know what was educational and proper, he just said it.

After educating the pigs, Lu Qingjiu went back to the house, where Bai Yuehu was still sitting in the courtyard, sleeping. When he saw Lu Qingjiu coming, he grabbed one and tossed it to Lu Qingjiu, who caught it, wiped it and nibbled on it: "You grew them at home".

"No, the neighbour's are ripe and gave me a lot of them, so I brought you a bag too." Yin Xun said, "It's not too bad."

"Well, what fruit do you grow at your house?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Cherries." Yin Xun said, "but they're not tended to much, and they're so sour I don't even like to eat them."

"Just take it and sell it." Lu Qingjiu said.

"It's too lazy to go, it's not like there's much." Yin Xun says.

The cherries are quite expensive here, but there is no market for them because they are so expensive that not many people buy them, and they are so sour that no one buys them, so he doesn't bother with that.

"You pick them, and I'll make cherry jam." Lu Qingjiu said, "We can make water to drink in the summer."

Yin Xun smiles, "That's great." The cherries may be sour, but they have a great flavour when made into a sauce, especially in the summer when they are used in water and then chilled, making a glass of them a delight in the summer heat.

Lu Qingjiu told Yin Xun to go and wash the plums while he went to check on the marinated beef, to which Yin Xun nodded.

The beef was almost marinated and Lu Qingjiu tasted it to make sure it was fully flavoured, so he planned to make beef noodles for dinner.

Lu Qingjiu's phone rang while he was working on the beef.

"Hello, is this Lu Qingjiu?" the person on the other end of the line asked.

Lu Qingjiu heard the voice of the man, the policeman who had come here that night to respond to the police.

"It's me, what can I do for you?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Just so you know, the body has been identified as Fu Ziying, do you know this man?" the policeman asked.

"Don't know it." Lu Qingjiu said, "Never heard of that name."

"All right." The policeman seemed a little disappointed.

"Does the killer have a clue?" Lu Qingjiu asked, a little puzzled.

The policeman hesitated for a moment: "Think carefully if there's anything else you've missed that you shouldn't have been told about."

Lu Qingjiu listens quietly.

"Actually, six months ago, I think, someone kept calling the police station to report that there was a death at Shuifu Village." The police said, "It kept calling for a week and at the time we thought it was a prank because no body was found."

Lu Qingjiu was a bit confused: "So could the person who reported the crime be related to the murderer?"

The policeman said, "That's the problem."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What's the problem?"

The person who reported the incident identified himself as Fu Ziying," the police officer said.

When Lu Qingjiu heard this, goose bumps rose on his arms: "No way."

"We couldn't see the phone number for the report either, but the recording was still there and we interviewed Fu Ziying's family on the recording to confirm it was her voice." The police officer whispered, "But the forensic officer is pretty sure the body has been dead for a year."

Lu Qingjiu: "Could it be that it was not Fu Ziying's body?"

"No, the dna matched up too." The policeman said.

Lu Qingjiu creepy: "So the dead Fu Ziying reported himself"

There was silence on the other end of the line, and apparently the police were a bit overwhelmed by the paranormal events.

"No, then why didn't she report it in the first place." Lu Qingjiu felt a little strange after she slowed down, "Why six months ago"

"There's another very important clue in the phone recording." The police officer said, "At the time she said that it was a man who died, so we suspect"

Speaking of men, Lu Qingjiu immediately recalled the image he had seen that afternoon, a man with his back to him, smashing a woman's face with a stone, in front of the well, and he said, "Can I ask how Fu Ziying died?

The policeman wondered, "How do you know?"

Lu Qingjiu laughed dryly: "I've been having strange nightmares for a while now."

To be honest, if it wasn't for the paranormal incident that the deceased reported, the police officer would have suspected Lu Qingjiu of having a motive for the crime, and he said, "What else did you dream about?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I dreamt that a man was wrapped in hair and dragged into a well together."

After saying this, Lu Qingjiu and the policeman both fell silent and after a few moments Lu Qingjiu laughed bitterly, "Hey, I don't think there's a man's body in the well, is there?"

Police: "Just wait, we'll come back and have a look."