Chapter 144
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Jiang Quanyu spread out his hands. "Are you angry?"
"Not really." A Miao gave him a blank look. "It's just so unexpected."
She thought Shen Xinglan was still abroad, she did not expect that he had come back...
"I didn't know until a few days ago." Jiang Quanyu apologized. "I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just didn't want to mention his name to you."
A Miao smiled. "I don't blame you, but... I can't just suddenly digest it."
"Rest assured." Jiang Quanyu patted her hand. "If you really don't want to be with him, I won't let him come near you."
A Miao bowed her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "I have an idea..."
At the same time, Shen I was beaming as he stood inside Shen Xinglan's office.
"Boss, the young lady's plane will arrive soon."
Shen Xinglan shook his fist. He was actually very nervous. After waiting for three years, he would be able to stand in front of A Miao very soon. He had already decided that no matter how angry A Miao was, he would take any punishment as long as she would return to his side.
"Brother Xinglan!" The door of the office was pushed open and Shanshan came in smiling.
As Shen I secretly curled his lip and stepped aside, Shen Xinglan looked like at her as if she were a stranger. "Why didn't you knock on the door again?"
"Oh! I forgot." Shanshan stuck out her tongue. "Sorry, I've come to show you this project." She put a blue folder on Shen Xinglan's desk.
Shen Xinglan picked it up and took a look at it. "Has it passed?"
"Mmm!" Shanshan happily said, "This is the first time I have planned it myself from beginning to end!"
"Not bad, it can start next month." Shen Xinglan handed her back the document.
As Shanshan looked at his indifferent appearance, she became a little disappointed. But since A Miao had left, Shen Xinglan had always been like this, except to Le Yi and his friends, who could occasionally see him smile...
"Brother Xinglan, let's have dinner together tonight!"
"I have something to do tonight, so eat by yourself." As Shen Xinglan said that, he did not even look at her. "Shen I, send her out."
With red eyes, Shanshan bit her lip and went out. As soon as Shen I closed the door, his face had a fierce look.
"Boss, you'll just keep her?"
After a full investigation that took more than a year, Shen I had discovered some clues. The orphanage was located in a small village and the entire village had less than 100 people. Everyone knew the seven or eight children who were in the orphanage.
Speaking about Shanshan, people commented on her that she was a beautiful and lovely girl, they also said that she had been taken away by her rich relatives and they did not know how she was doing now.
He was determined to prove that there was something wrong with Shanshan, so he rented a house to live in and told the public that he was looking for his uncle, who had been sent to the orphanage. As time went by, he and the neighbors in the village got familiar with each other.
One day, he was wandering in the east part of the village when a man suddenly rushed out.
"Ah... ah!" The man grabbed the bag in Shen I's hand, in which was the roast chicken he had just bought.
Shen I pushed him aside. "What are you doing?"
"Ah, ah ah..." The man fell to the ground, still staring at the bag full of chicken.
"Do you want to eat?" Shen I squatted down and looked carefully at his eyes. The man was dirty, even his facial features were dirty and could not be seen clearly.
When the man heard Shen I ask him, he quickly nodded. "Ah, ah!"
"Here you are." Shen I handed the bag over.
Suddenly, another man jumped out and grabbed the bag.
"Ah, ah..." The man who wanted to eat the roast chicken seemed afraid of him, and he immediately shrunk to the ground and did not move.
Seeing that, Shen I knew it was Old Zhao Liu, who raised pigs in the village.
"Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu!" Old Zhao Liu handed the bag back and said sorry to him with an apologetic face. "This is my nephew. He is mute and has a brain problem. Did he scare you?"
Liu Wei was the pseudonym Shen I used once he arrived here.
"Your nephew!" He took the bag and handed it to the mute. "It's okay, give it to him."
Old Zhao Liu pulled the mute from the ground. "Who let you run out? Thank Mr. Liu for his kindness, eat quickly!" After that, he turned to ask, "I heard everyone say that Mr. Liu came here to the orphanage to find someone."
"Yes, to find my uncle." Shen I looked disconsolate. "It's a pity that people don't know what happened decades ago."
"Yes, it's been so long." Old Zhao Liu also sighed, then chatted with him for a few words and left with the mute.
Shen I looked at their backs and thought, "How come I've never heard of Old Zhao Liu having a nephew..."
In the evening, as usual, he reported the situation to Shen Xinglan.
"Boss, I discovered a very strange situation. The people in this village never leave. They grow their own vegetables and raise their own chickens, which is almost a state of isolation from the world. I went to the county seat to ask about it. For more than 10 years, there has been no registration of any foreign population. When the children grow up, they do not leave to go to school either. They stay and work in the village."
On the other end of the phone, Shen Xinglan looked somber and pondered for a moment. "It seems that my suspicion was correct. Continue looking. Anything that has been there will definitely have left a trace."
"Don't worry Boss, I will find out!"
After a period of time, Shen I went around to Old Zhao Liu's house on purpose and met the mute several times. Every time, Shen I gave him food. After more than a year, the mute finally gave him a note.
As if nothing had happened, he took it back to the rented house. When he opened it, he found that it was a cloth strip with only one word written on it by coal:
"Danger!"
"Does he mean I am dangerous, or this place is dangerous?" Shen I wanted to think, then he took out his cellphone.
A few days later, a foreign car was passing through the village and killed two pigs. The young men in the car still had a bad attitude and were about to collaborate. The villagers shouted at the top of their voices and the entire village went to help.
Shen I took advantage of the chaos to find the mute. "Write down everything you know and I promise to take you away safely."
The mute whined a few times and cried. Then he quickly took the pen and paper and wrote a passage. He was basically not civilized, many of the words were misordered or misspelled. Shen I read it with some difficulty, but he still understood the meaning. Even though it was him, his face became very ugly.
"I'll take you away." He put away the paper and helped the mute leave.
The villagers over there had already finished quarreling and asked the driver who caused the accident to go to the county town and buy two pigs as compensation. Not long after returning to the village, Old Zhao Liu was heard shouting there.
"The mute is dead, the mute is dead!"
Everyone ran out again. As Shen I followed, he saw Old Zhao Liu and asked him intentionally, "How did he die? Where is he?"
"In the cesspool over there." Old Zhao Liu led everyone over. Sure enough, looking inside the cesspool, they saw a floating man, whose clothes and dark face indeed were the mute's.
Shen I covered his nose and said, "We must take him out!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The other villagers quickly agreed. But they also thought it stank and that wading in there was not the best way.
So, several people fished the body out with a bamboo pole. Old Zhao Liu stared at the body's face carefully for half a day, gritting his teeth and pulling human excrement and dirt away from the mute's face.
"Is that the mute?" someone nearby asked.
Old Zhao Liu also muttered in his heart. Shen I lifted the corner of his mouth. "Turns out the black things on his face are scars, do you recognize him?"
"That's him!" Old Zhao Liu could only admit it.
Afterward, everyone went to find a piece of land on the mountain behind the village to bury the mute in. Old Zhao Liu cried. Seven days after the mute had passed away, the villagers found Shen I standing at the entrance of the village with his luggage.
"Are you leaving?" A few people gathered around him.
Shen I said with some sadness, "It's no use staying. My uncle's whereabouts are unknown. My aunt went to the hospital yesterday. I have to go back and take care of her."
"Really, why didn't you say so earlier? At least have a meal before you leave!" Some people wanted to keep him longer. "Why don't you have lunch at noon and leave in the afternoon?"
Shen I pointed to the road and said, "Thank you, everyone. My car is here!"
When the villagers looked at it, they saw that a car was slowly stopping at the edge of the village. As soon as Shen I got in the car, he waved at everyone. "Bye-bye!"
"Boss!" The person sitting in the car was surprisingly Shen Xinglan.
Shen I drank a big mouthful of water. "I think the people behind this are animals!"
The mute man told him the truth, that a group of people suddenly came to the village more than 10 years ago at night. They killed everyone when they entered the village. All over 70 people died there.
Even the wind in the mountains smelled bloody that night. No one knew that a human tragedy was unfolding inside this remote village.
"What did the mute say after that?" Shen I was asked by Shen II, who was driving.
Shen II had transferred the mute, and the mute told him that the people that were now in the village had been arranged to come in later according to the previous population allocation of the village. In addition...
"In addition, the orphanage had another little girl." Shen Xinglan's eyes were cold. What kind of person would have set up such a big ploy so long ago in order to have the fake Shanshan approach him?
Shen I gritted his teeth. "It's insane!"
No wonder they could not find out before, everything was fake. It would be strange if they were able to find out.
"The mute did not know whether he was lucky or unlucky." Shen II said to him, "That guy became crazy when he ran into something with his head when he was a child. As a result, he slept in a pigsty that night and was able to escape. When he was discovered that he was an idiot, they cut out his tongue and left his life behind."
"Probably afraid that in case of an accident, it would be discovered!" Shen I supposed, "After all, they are all fake."
Shen II nodded. "They didn't expect that after that, his head would slowly clear up and he'd remember everything from that night."
"But he still had to play the fool and live like that for so many years." Shen I sighed. "In that case, it's better to die."
"I have sent him to an institution, the environment there is very good. He can have food and clothes for the rest of his life," Shen II said then glanced at Shen Xinglan. "Boss, what are we going to do now…?"
Shen Xinglan looked out of the window and no one could know what he was thinking. He stayed like that for a long time before he said, "Let's just pretend we don't know anything. Let's have the woman monitored 24 hours a day. I want to know who is behind her."
Now, two years later, they still had not found anything.
"Boss." Shen II came in. "Here comes the young lady."
The cold look of Shen Xinglan suddenly softened. "Which hotel does she stay in?"
"No... no hotel."
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Jiang Quanyu spread out his hands. "Are you angry?"
"Not really." A Miao gave him a blank look. "It's just so unexpected."
She thought Shen Xinglan was still abroad, she did not expect that he had come back...
"I didn't know until a few days ago." Jiang Quanyu apologized. "I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just didn't want to mention his name to you."
A Miao smiled. "I don't blame you, but... I can't just suddenly digest it."
"Rest assured." Jiang Quanyu patted her hand. "If you really don't want to be with him, I won't let him come near you."
A Miao bowed her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "I have an idea..."
At the same time, Shen I was beaming as he stood inside Shen Xinglan's office.
"Boss, the young lady's plane will arrive soon."
Shen Xinglan shook his fist. He was actually very nervous. After waiting for three years, he would be able to stand in front of A Miao very soon. He had already decided that no matter how angry A Miao was, he would take any punishment as long as she would return to his side.
"Brother Xinglan!" The door of the office was pushed open and Shanshan came in smiling.
As Shen I secretly curled his lip and stepped aside, Shen Xinglan looked like at her as if she were a stranger. "Why didn't you knock on the door again?"
"Oh! I forgot." Shanshan stuck out her tongue. "Sorry, I've come to show you this project." She put a blue folder on Shen Xinglan's desk.
Shen Xinglan picked it up and took a look at it. "Has it passed?"
"Mmm!" Shanshan happily said, "This is the first time I have planned it myself from beginning to end!"
"Not bad, it can start next month." Shen Xinglan handed her back the document.
As Shanshan looked at his indifferent appearance, she became a little disappointed. But since A Miao had left, Shen Xinglan had always been like this, except to Le Yi and his friends, who could occasionally see him smile...
"Brother Xinglan, let's have dinner together tonight!"
"I have something to do tonight, so eat by yourself." As Shen Xinglan said that, he did not even look at her. "Shen I, send her out."
With red eyes, Shanshan bit her lip and went out. As soon as Shen I closed the door, his face had a fierce look.
"Boss, you'll just keep her?"
After a full investigation that took more than a year, Shen I had discovered some clues. The orphanage was located in a small village and the entire village had less than 100 people. Everyone knew the seven or eight children who were in the orphanage.
Speaking about Shanshan, people commented on her that she was a beautiful and lovely girl, they also said that she had been taken away by her rich relatives and they did not know how she was doing now.
He was determined to prove that there was something wrong with Shanshan, so he rented a house to live in and told the public that he was looking for his uncle, who had been sent to the orphanage. As time went by, he and the neighbors in the village got familiar with each other.
One day, he was wandering in the east part of the village when a man suddenly rushed out.
"Ah... ah!" The man grabbed the bag in Shen I's hand, in which was the roast chicken he had just bought.
Shen I pushed him aside. "What are you doing?"
"Ah, ah ah..." The man fell to the ground, still staring at the bag full of chicken.
"Do you want to eat?" Shen I squatted down and looked carefully at his eyes. The man was dirty, even his facial features were dirty and could not be seen clearly.
When the man heard Shen I ask him, he quickly nodded. "Ah, ah!"
"Here you are." Shen I handed the bag over.
Suddenly, another man jumped out and grabbed the bag.
"Ah, ah..." The man who wanted to eat the roast chicken seemed afraid of him, and he immediately shrunk to the ground and did not move.
Seeing that, Shen I knew it was Old Zhao Liu, who raised pigs in the village.
"Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu!" Old Zhao Liu handed the bag back and said sorry to him with an apologetic face. "This is my nephew. He is mute and has a brain problem. Did he scare you?"
Liu Wei was the pseudonym Shen I used once he arrived here.
"Your nephew!" He took the bag and handed it to the mute. "It's okay, give it to him."
Old Zhao Liu pulled the mute from the ground. "Who let you run out? Thank Mr. Liu for his kindness, eat quickly!" After that, he turned to ask, "I heard everyone say that Mr. Liu came here to the orphanage to find someone."
"Yes, to find my uncle." Shen I looked disconsolate. "It's a pity that people don't know what happened decades ago."
"Yes, it's been so long." Old Zhao Liu also sighed, then chatted with him for a few words and left with the mute.
Shen I looked at their backs and thought, "How come I've never heard of Old Zhao Liu having a nephew..."
In the evening, as usual, he reported the situation to Shen Xinglan.
"Boss, I discovered a very strange situation. The people in this village never leave. They grow their own vegetables and raise their own chickens, which is almost a state of isolation from the world. I went to the county seat to ask about it. For more than 10 years, there has been no registration of any foreign population. When the children grow up, they do not leave to go to school either. They stay and work in the village."
On the other end of the phone, Shen Xinglan looked somber and pondered for a moment. "It seems that my suspicion was correct. Continue looking. Anything that has been there will definitely have left a trace."
"Don't worry Boss, I will find out!"
After a period of time, Shen I went around to Old Zhao Liu's house on purpose and met the mute several times. Every time, Shen I gave him food. After more than a year, the mute finally gave him a note.
As if nothing had happened, he took it back to the rented house. When he opened it, he found that it was a cloth strip with only one word written on it by coal:
"Danger!"
"Does he mean I am dangerous, or this place is dangerous?" Shen I wanted to think, then he took out his cellphone.
A few days later, a foreign car was passing through the village and killed two pigs. The young men in the car still had a bad attitude and were about to collaborate. The villagers shouted at the top of their voices and the entire village went to help.
Shen I took advantage of the chaos to find the mute. "Write down everything you know and I promise to take you away safely."
The mute whined a few times and cried. Then he quickly took the pen and paper and wrote a passage. He was basically not civilized, many of the words were misordered or misspelled. Shen I read it with some difficulty, but he still understood the meaning. Even though it was him, his face became very ugly.
"I'll take you away." He put away the paper and helped the mute leave.
The villagers over there had already finished quarreling and asked the driver who caused the accident to go to the county town and buy two pigs as compensation. Not long after returning to the village, Old Zhao Liu was heard shouting there.
"The mute is dead, the mute is dead!"
Everyone ran out again. As Shen I followed, he saw Old Zhao Liu and asked him intentionally, "How did he die? Where is he?"
"In the cesspool over there." Old Zhao Liu led everyone over. Sure enough, looking inside the cesspool, they saw a floating man, whose clothes and dark face indeed were the mute's.
Shen I covered his nose and said, "We must take him out!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The other villagers quickly agreed. But they also thought it stank and that wading in there was not the best way.
So, several people fished the body out with a bamboo pole. Old Zhao Liu stared at the body's face carefully for half a day, gritting his teeth and pulling human excrement and dirt away from the mute's face.
"Is that the mute?" someone nearby asked.
Old Zhao Liu also muttered in his heart. Shen I lifted the corner of his mouth. "Turns out the black things on his face are scars, do you recognize him?"
"That's him!" Old Zhao Liu could only admit it.
Afterward, everyone went to find a piece of land on the mountain behind the village to bury the mute in. Old Zhao Liu cried. Seven days after the mute had passed away, the villagers found Shen I standing at the entrance of the village with his luggage.
"Are you leaving?" A few people gathered around him.
Shen I said with some sadness, "It's no use staying. My uncle's whereabouts are unknown. My aunt went to the hospital yesterday. I have to go back and take care of her."
"Really, why didn't you say so earlier? At least have a meal before you leave!" Some people wanted to keep him longer. "Why don't you have lunch at noon and leave in the afternoon?"
Shen I pointed to the road and said, "Thank you, everyone. My car is here!"
When the villagers looked at it, they saw that a car was slowly stopping at the edge of the village. As soon as Shen I got in the car, he waved at everyone. "Bye-bye!"
"Boss!" The person sitting in the car was surprisingly Shen Xinglan.
Shen I drank a big mouthful of water. "I think the people behind this are animals!"
The mute man told him the truth, that a group of people suddenly came to the village more than 10 years ago at night. They killed everyone when they entered the village. All over 70 people died there.
Even the wind in the mountains smelled bloody that night. No one knew that a human tragedy was unfolding inside this remote village.
"What did the mute say after that?" Shen I was asked by Shen II, who was driving.
Shen II had transferred the mute, and the mute told him that the people that were now in the village had been arranged to come in later according to the previous population allocation of the village. In addition...
"In addition, the orphanage had another little girl." Shen Xinglan's eyes were cold. What kind of person would have set up such a big ploy so long ago in order to have the fake Shanshan approach him?
Shen I gritted his teeth. "It's insane!"
No wonder they could not find out before, everything was fake. It would be strange if they were able to find out.
"The mute did not know whether he was lucky or unlucky." Shen II said to him, "That guy became crazy when he ran into something with his head when he was a child. As a result, he slept in a pigsty that night and was able to escape. When he was discovered that he was an idiot, they cut out his tongue and left his life behind."
"Probably afraid that in case of an accident, it would be discovered!" Shen I supposed, "After all, they are all fake."
Shen II nodded. "They didn't expect that after that, his head would slowly clear up and he'd remember everything from that night."
"But he still had to play the fool and live like that for so many years." Shen I sighed. "In that case, it's better to die."
"I have sent him to an institution, the environment there is very good. He can have food and clothes for the rest of his life," Shen II said then glanced at Shen Xinglan. "Boss, what are we going to do now…?"
Shen Xinglan looked out of the window and no one could know what he was thinking. He stayed like that for a long time before he said, "Let's just pretend we don't know anything. Let's have the woman monitored 24 hours a day. I want to know who is behind her."
Now, two years later, they still had not found anything.
"Boss." Shen II came in. "Here comes the young lady."
The cold look of Shen Xinglan suddenly softened. "Which hotel does she stay in?"
"No... no hotel."
Jiang Quanyu spread out his hands. "Are you angry?""Not really." A Miao gave him a blank look. "It's just so unexpected."She thought Shen Xinglan was still abroad, she did not expect that he had come back..."I didn't know until a few days ago." Jiang Quanyu apologized. "I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just didn't want to mention his name to you."A Miao smiled. "I don't blame you, but... I can't just suddenly digest it.""Rest assured." Jiang Quanyu patted her hand. "If you really don't want to be with him, I won't let him come near you."A Miao bowed her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "I have an idea..."At the same time, Shen I was beaming as he stood inside Shen Xinglan's office."Boss, the young lady's plane will arrive soon."Shen Xinglan shook his fist. He was actually very nervous. After waiting for three years, he would be able to stand in front of A Miao very soon. He had already decided that no matter how angry A Miao was, he would take any punishment as long as she would return to his side."Brother Xinglan!" The door of the office was pushed open and Shanshan came in smiling.As Shen I secretly curled his lip and stepped aside, Shen Xinglan looked like at her as if she were a stranger. "Why didn't you knock on the door again?""Oh! I forgot." Shanshan stuck out her tongue. "Sorry, I've come to show you this project." She put a blue folder on Shen Xinglan's desk.Shen Xinglan picked it up and took a look at it. "Has it passed?""Mmm!" Shanshan happily said, "This is the first time I have planned it myself from beginning to end!""Not bad, it can start next month." Shen Xinglan handed her back the document.As Shanshan looked at his indifferent appearance, she became a little disappointed. But since A Miao had left, Shen Xinglan had always been like this, except to Le Yi and his friends, who could occasionally see him smile..."Brother Xinglan, let's have dinner together tonight!""I have something to do tonight, so eat by yourself." As Shen Xinglan said that, he did not even look at her. "Shen I, send her out."With red eyes, Shanshan bit her lip and went out. As soon as Shen I closed the door, his face had a fierce look."Boss, you'll just keep her?"After a full investigation that took more than a year, Shen I had discovered some clues. The orphanage was located in a small village and the entire village had less than 100 people. Everyone knew the seven or eight children who were in the orphanage.Speaking about Shanshan, people commented on her that she was a beautiful and lovely girl, they also said that she had been taken away by her rich relatives and they did not know how she was doing now.He was determined to prove that there was something wrong with Shanshan, so he rented a house to live in and told the public that he was looking for his uncle, who had been sent to the orphanage. As time went by, he and the neighbors in the village got familiar with each other.One day, he was wandering in the east part of the village when a man suddenly rushed out."Ah... ah!" The man grabbed the bag in Shen I's hand, in which was the roast chicken he had just bought.Shen I pushed him aside. "What are you doing?""Ah, ah ah..." The man fell to the ground, still staring at the bag full of chicken."Do you want to eat?" Shen I squatted down and looked carefully at his eyes. The man was dirty, even his facial features were dirty and could not be seen clearly.When the man heard Shen I ask him, he quickly nodded. "Ah, ah!""Here you are." Shen I handed the bag over.Suddenly, another man jumped out and grabbed the bag."Ah, ah..." The man who wanted to eat the roast chicken seemed afraid of him, and he immediately shrunk to the ground and did not move.Seeing that, Shen I knew it was Old Zhao Liu, who raised pigs in the village."Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu!" Old Zhao Liu handed the bag back and said sorry to him with an apologetic face. "This is my nephew. He is mute and has a brain problem. Did he scare you?"Liu Wei was the pseudonym Shen I used once he arrived here."Your nephew!" He took the bag and handed it to the mute. "It's okay, give it to him."Old Zhao Liu pulled the mute from the ground. "Who let you run out? Thank Mr. Liu for his kindness, eat quickly!" After that, he turned to ask, "I heard everyone say that Mr. Liu came here to the orphanage to find someone.""Yes, to find my uncle." Shen I looked disconsolate. "It's a pity that people don't know what happened decades ago.""Yes, it's been so long." Old Zhao Liu also sighed, then chatted with him for a few words and left with the mute.Shen I looked at their backs and thought, "How come I've never heard of Old Zhao Liu having a nephew..."In the evening, as usual, he reported the situation to Shen Xinglan."Boss, I discovered a very strange situation. The people in this village never leave. They grow their own vegetables and raise their own chickens, which is almost a state of isolation from the world. I went to the county seat to ask about it. For more than 10 years, there has been no registration of any foreign population. When the children grow up, they do not leave to go to school either. They stay and work in the village."On the other end of the phone, Shen Xinglan looked somber and pondered for a moment. "It seems that my suspicion was correct. Continue looking. Anything that has been there will definitely have left a trace.""Don't worry Boss, I will find out!"After a period of time, Shen I went around to Old Zhao Liu's house on purpose and met the mute several times. Every time, Shen I gave him food. After more than a year, the mute finally gave him a note.As if nothing had happened, he took it back to the rented house. When he opened it, he found that it was a cloth strip with only one word written on it by coal:"Danger!""Does he mean I am dangerous, or this place is dangerous?" Shen I wanted to think, then he took out his cellphone.A few days later, a foreign car was passing through the village and killed two pigs. The young men in the car still had a bad attitude and were about to collaborate. The villagers shouted at the top of their voices and the entire village went to help.Shen I took advantage of the chaos to find the mute. "Write down everything you know and I promise to take you away safely."The mute whined a few times and cried. Then he quickly took the pen and paper and wrote a passage. He was basically not civilized, many of the words were misordered or misspelled. Shen I read it with some difficulty, but he still understood the meaning. Even though it was him, his face became very ugly."I'll take you away." He put away the paper and helped the mute leave.The villagers over there had already finished quarreling and asked the driver who caused the accident to go to the county town and buy two pigs as compensation. Not long after returning to the village, Old Zhao Liu was heard shouting there."The mute is dead, the mute is dead!"Everyone ran out again. As Shen I followed, he saw Old Zhao Liu and asked him intentionally, "How did he die? Where is he?""In the cesspool over there." Old Zhao Liu led everyone over. Sure enough, looking inside the cesspool, they saw a floating man, whose clothes and dark face indeed were the mute's.Shen I covered his nose and said, "We must take him out!""Yes, yes, yes!" The other villagers quickly agreed. But they also thought it stank and that wading in there was not the best way.So, several people fished the body out with a bamboo pole. Old Zhao Liu stared at the body's face carefully for half a day, gritting his teeth and pulling human excrement and dirt away from the mute's face."Is that the mute?" someone nearby asked.Old Zhao Liu also muttered in his heart. Shen I lifted the corner of his mouth. "Turns out the black things on his face are scars, do you recognize him?""That's him!" Old Zhao Liu could only admit it.Afterward, everyone went to find a piece of land on the mountain behind the village to bury the mute in. Old Zhao Liu cried. Seven days after the mute had passed away, the villagers found Shen I standing at the entrance of the village with his luggage."Are you leaving?" A few people gathered around him.Shen I said with some sadness, "It's no use staying. My uncle's whereabouts are unknown. My aunt went to the hospital yesterday. I have to go back and take care of her.""Really, why didn't you say so earlier? At least have a meal before you leave!" Some people wanted to keep him longer. "Why don't you have lunch at noon and leave in the afternoon?"Shen I pointed to the road and said, "Thank you, everyone. My car is here!"When the villagers looked at it, they saw that a car was slowly stopping at the edge of the village. As soon as Shen I got in the car, he waved at everyone. "Bye-bye!""Boss!" The person sitting in the car was surprisingly Shen Xinglan.Shen I drank a big mouthful of water. "I think the people behind this are animals!"The mute man told him the truth, that a group of people suddenly came to the village more than 10 years ago at night. They killed everyone when they entered the village. All over 70 people died there.Even the wind in the mountains smelled bloody that night. No one knew that a human tragedy was unfolding inside this remote village."What did the mute say after that?" Shen I was asked by Shen II, who was driving.Shen II had transferred the mute, and the mute told him that the people that were now in the village had been arranged to come in later according to the previous population allocation of the village. In addition..."In addition, the orphanage had another little girl." Shen Xinglan's eyes were cold. What kind of person would have set up such a big ploy so long ago in order to have the fake Shanshan approach him?Shen I gritted his teeth. "It's insane!"No wonder they could not find out before, everything was fake. It would be strange if they were able to find out."The mute did not know whether he was lucky or unlucky." Shen II said to him, "That guy became crazy when he ran into something with his head when he was a child. As a result, he slept in a pigsty that night and was able to escape. When he was discovered that he was an idiot, they cut out his tongue and left his life behind.""Probably afraid that in case of an accident, it would be discovered!" Shen I supposed, "After all, they are all fake."Shen II nodded. "They didn't expect that after that, his head would slowly clear up and he'd remember everything from that night.""But he still had to play the fool and live like that for so many years." Shen I sighed. "In that case, it's better to die.""I have sent him to an institution, the environment there is very good. He can have food and clothes for the rest of his life," Shen II said then glanced at Shen Xinglan. "Boss, what are we going to do now?"Shen Xinglan looked out of the window and no one could know what he was thinking. He stayed like that for a long time before he said, "Let's just pretend we don't know anything. Let's have the woman monitored 24 hours a day. I want to know who is behind her."Now, two years later, they still had not found anything."Boss." Shen II came in. "Here comes the young lady."The cold look of Shen Xinglan suddenly softened. "Which hotel does she stay in?""No... no hotel."
