Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 179 Village Chief Zhao's Secret
It is estimated that Village Chief Zhao has not seen any guests from outside for a long time, and he was very enthusiastic to see us.As soon as he got home, he yelled at his wife that there were guests at home, and asked his wife to go down and prepare a sumptuous dinner.

Li Tienan said: "Light meals are fine, don't bother too much!"

Village head Zhao said: "How can that be done, you are the distinguished guests from BJ!"

In the minds of these honest people, those who come down from BJ are all big officials.

Village head Zhao told us that due to the remoteness of Tulong Village, there will be no leaders from the city for a year or so, and it is rare to come here even for inspection work. There is no one to develop the economy, and no one to solve the sufferings of the people, so Village Chief Zhao begged us to introduce the situation of Tulong Village through the relationship of the TV station after we return to BJ, so as to attract the attention of the relevant government.

Looking at the honest village head Zhao, Li Tienan said: "Don't worry, I will definitely report the situation here to the relevant departments after I go back, and strive to improve the poverty and backwardness here as soon as possible!"

"Thank you very much! Leader, thank you very much!" Village Chief Zhao kept expressing his gratitude, and he always called us "leader".

Li Tienan said: "Village chief, you don't need to be so polite. We are all friends when we sit together. There is no leader here!"

"Hehe! Hehe! The leader is so easy-going!" Village Chief Zhao smiled honestly, showing his big yellow teeth.

The dinner was very rich. Of course, the richness here is measured by the situation in Tulong Village.

According to Village Chief Zhao, the villagers here basically live on potatoes and sweet potatoes throughout the year, as well as gnocchi.

And on our current dining table, apart from potatoes and sweet potatoes, there is also a pot of braised pork and two plates of dried bacon. Oil droplets hang from the shiny fat meat, making people salivate.

The rice we eat is also mixed with corn kernels. This kind of five-grain rice is very nutritious and very popular in restaurants outside.However, here, it is because rice is not enough to eat, so mixing corn in the rice can fill the stomach.

Probably we have been running around all day, and we are really hungry. Even the potatoes boiled in white water, dipped in some chili noodles, we all feel delicious, swallowing them one by one, and wiped out all the meals on the table .

After dinner, it was already dark, and the howling of the neighbor's black dog came from the mound, echoing on the empty hillside.

The cold moonlight sprinkled on the top of the mountain, and sporadic lights could be seen on the mound, which was very lonely.

There is no entertainment at night in the countryside. After dinner, everyone has nothing to do, so they sit around the garden and chat.

When he heard that we were going to take pictures in the mountains tomorrow, Zhao Lianqiao's withered hands suddenly trembled slightly, and the dry cigarette holder fell to the ground.

"Are you going to the mountains tomorrow?" Zhao Lianqiao had a look of surprise on his face.

"That's right! You can only take pictures in the mountains!" Li Tienan said.

Zhao Lianqiao picked up the cigarette holder, lit the dry cigarette, and took two puffs, his expression clouded.

As expected of a student of criminal investigation, Li Tienan immediately sensed that something was wrong with Zhao Lianqiao, and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Zhao, do you have anything to tell us?"

Village Chief Zhao pursed his lips: "It's best not to go to the mountains, the mountains are not peaceful recently!"

The mountains are not peaceful? !

We were all shocked when we heard that.

Li Tienan and Lao Yang looked at each other, and asked Village Chief Zhao: "Why is it not peaceful?"

"Hey, it's not peaceful anyway, you people outside should not know too much! Listen to my advice, it's best not to go to the mountains tomorrow. If something happens, don't blame me for not reminding you!" Zhao Lianqiao blew a cigarette Circle, the expression on his face is very unnatural.

We still wanted to find out something from Zhao Lianqiao's mouth, but Zhao Lianqiao didn't say anything. He couldn't pry his mouth open no matter what, and finally asked us to go back to the room early to rest on the grounds that it was getting late.

Village head Zhao's wife cleaned up all the rooms on the second floor and let us settle down and rest.

Under the dim light, the old bird asked Lao Yang: "Captain Yang, what do you think?"

Lao Yang was smoking a cigarette: "You mean that Village Chief Zhao?"

The old bird nodded: "I always feel like he's hiding something!"

"Yeah!" Lao Yang exhaled smoke rings: "But he refused to say anything, as if he kept secret!"

The old bird said: "You said that what Village Chief Zhao concealed has something to do with what we are investigating?"

Lao Yang narrowed his eyes and nodded slightly: "This possibility cannot be ruled out!"

Listening to their conversation, I didn't interrupt. In fact, I was also muttering in my heart. On the surface, this village head Zhao should be an honest and good person, but his behavior just now was really suspicious. What's the strange thing in the mountain? ?Why didn't he tell us?
Silent all night.

Really sleepy, snoring one after another.

When I woke up in the morning, I heard faint crying, and then I heard Zhao Lianqiao yelling at his wife: "Old lady, don't cry, BJ's guest is still sleeping!"

The wife sobbed and said, "Don't you cry? Why don't you cry? I was hoping to transport those two little piglets to the city to sell for money during the Chinese New Year, but now it's good, both piglets have been killed, woo woo woo, I don't know what is so bad!"

"Okay, okay, keep your voice down, don't let BJ's guests know about this, in case you scare them..." Before Zhao Lianqiao finished speaking, he heard the sound of the door opening from the next door, and Li Tienan's angry voice sounded : "Village Chief Zhao, what happened at your house last night? What kind of piglet was killed? I heard everything!"

We were all awake at this time, and I raised my chin to Old Yang: "Captain Yang, something seems to be wrong, follow me out to have a look!"

Lao Yang nodded and called Lao Niao out of the room with the others.

Seeing that we were all awake, Village Chief Zhao got a little anxious, stomped his feet, pointed at his wife and said, "Look, look, you damn old woman, why are you crying, you've provoked everyone!"

"Village Chief Zhao, did something happen to your house last night?" Li Tienan walked over first.

The corner of Zhao Lianqiao's mouth twitched twice, and he shook his head in denial: "No! Nothing happened! Did my wife and I wake you up? I told her to keep her voice down..."

"Village Chief Zhao!" Li Tienan slowed down his tone: "Since we are here, we are all friends. If you treat us as friends, you shouldn't hide anything from us! Just now I heard your wife crying. Something must have happened, right?"

Zhao Lianqiao's expression changed, he bit his lip and did not speak.

Finally, Zhao Lianqiao's wife couldn't bear it any longer. She pushed Zhao Lianqiao away and came to Li Tienan: "Get out of your way, old man, I'll tell you what you don't say!"

"Don't say that, old lady!" Zhao Lianqiao frowned.

"Old Zhao, don't talk, listen to what your wife has to say!" Lao Yang stopped Zhao Lianqiao, and Zhao Lianqiao sighed slightly, squatting beside him, smoking a pipe by himself.

"Auntie, just ask if you have anything to do, we will definitely help you if we can!" Li Tienan said to Zhao Lianqiao's wife.

"It's like this! A little piglet in the pig farm behind our house was bitten to death by something last night. This is not the first time, another little piglet in my family was also bitten a few days ago He's dead!" Zhao's wife wiped her tears and complained endlessly: "When I went to the pig farm last night, I saw that the little piglet was still fine, but when I went this morning, I found the piglet was dead. Not much, and I hope to sell these two little piglets for money at the end of the year!"

"Huh? The piglet was killed? Was it killed by a wild wolf or something?" Li Tienan asked.

"I thought it was something, why didn't you dare tell us!" The old bird rolled his eyes, feeling that Zhao Lianqiao was making a fuss over a molehill.

"It's not that simple!" Zhao Lianqiao, who was smoking a pipe, finally spoke up: "There are very few wolves in the Huangpiziling area now. I didn't tell you because I was afraid to scare you!"

"Scaring us?" The old bird laughed: "Old Zhao, you underestimate us, don't you think we will be afraid of dead pigs?"

Zhao Lianqiao sighed heavily: "The death of those two piglets is very unusual. I can take you to the pig farm to have a look, but you have to be mentally prepared!"

We agreed wholeheartedly, thinking to ourselves, isn’t it just two dead pigs? There’s nothing to be afraid of. Everyone here has seen a lot of dead people.
But we were obviously wrong. Zhao Lianqiao didn't lie to us. When we followed him into the pig farm behind the house, we were indeed frightened by the sight in front of us.

The dead piglet was not inside the farm, but outside the pen of the farm.From inside the piglet's nest, there was a shocking bloodstain, like a red boa constrictor, extending out of the fence, and there were large splatter-like bloodstains on the walls on both sides of the pigsty.The dead piglet was half-hanging on the fence. The most horrifying thing was that the piglet's neck seemed to have been bitten open by something. It was bloody and bloody, and the broken neck was clotted with black blood.The pig's head was only a thin layer of skin connected to the body, and it was tilted to one side, and the two eyeballs turned upside down to look at us, inexplicably horrified.

The most disgusting thing was that under the broken neck of the pig, the minced meat had already begun to rot, and pieces of white maggots were rolling in the flesh, all white, and the sound of maggots rolling could be heard faintly.

Whoa whoa—

There was a sound of nausea one after another, and several young police officers covered their mouths. Fortunately, they didn't have breakfast, otherwise they would all have to spit it out on the spot.Even so, two guys also spewed out stomach acid.

The strong smell of blood soared into the sky, making us unable to open our eyes.

We looked at each other, what could tear a piglet like this?

(End of this chapter)