(Two-in-one chapter)

After all, the old lady was old, not only had a little back of her ears, but her eyes were not good, so she didn't recognize Dai Jialang for a while. However, she took Dai Jialang to look carefully in front of her for a while, then recognized her and said, "Isn't this the second child of the Dai family? Where would it be if it was so early?"

"Come out for a while and go to the new house to check it out." Dai Jialang said.

Dai Jialang knew that the old lady could smoke, so he hurriedly took out Greater China from his pocket and handed it over. The old lady took it without hesitation, and then went to Dai Jialang's lighter to light the cigarette, took a few sips, coughed a few times, and said, "I think your new house is more grand than that of Hongfu's family in Qian Village. It can be regarded as the first place in our village."

Dai Jialang smiled modestly and said, "It's normal."

The old lady sighed and said, "What a pity, you are not so lucky. It's the time to enjoy your happiness. I didn't expect to go there. This is also impossible."

Dai Jialang said with regret: "Yes, I have worked hard all my life and haven't had time to repay him. I didn't expect it to be gone suddenly."

The old lady sighed and said, "This is fate. Your fate has come. The King of Hell has sent someone to invite him. How can he not go?"

Dai Jialang did not take the old lady's words seriously, but just said casually: "How do you know that the King of Hell sent someone to invite him?"

The old lady came to Dai Jialang with a mysterious look on her face and whispered: "Because I saw it with my own eyes that night."

Dai Jialang was shocked and suddenly remembered the chat with Mei Xiangyue last night, and asked hurriedly: "Grandma, what have you seen?"

The old lady waved her hand and said, "It's better not to say it or not, who else would believe what my old woman said now? You young people don't believe in ghosts and gods." After that, she turned around and walked back slowly.

Dai Jialang hesitated for a moment, immediately stopped the old lady, took out a cigarette and handed her another one, and smiled and said, "Grandma, I am a person who believes in ghosts and gods. Haven't you seen it? I haven't seen it on the first day of the Lunar New Year. I'm going to the Dragon King Hall in the village to burn incense. Tell me, what did you see that night?"

The old lady clamped the cigarette on her ear and saw that there was no one around. Then she whispered: "I couldn't sleep that night and sat in the room and napped. My window was just facing your new house. My window was open at that time.

I don’t know what time it was, but I seemed to hear something. I walked to the window and looked in front. My God, I didn’t expect to see the King of Hell send someone to invite your father.”

Dai Jialang was born in a military service and had great courage. He didn't believe in any ghosts or gods. But after hearing the old lady's words, he couldn't help but feel creepy and said in a daze: "What? What did you see?"

The old lady glanced at Dai Jialang's new house, and seemed a little scared, and said in a trembling voice: "Although it was dark at that time, the moon was pretty good. I saw your father jumping off the roof of the building with his own eyes."

Dai Jialang said nervously: "What? My dad jumped off the roof of the building by himself?"

The old lady shook her head and said, "How could it be that she jumped down by herself? As the saying goes, "It's better to live than to die. Who would be willing to seek death by herself? It must be that the little ghost sent by the King of Hell was urging her so hard that she had no choice but to jump down by herself."

"The little devil of the King of Hell?" Dai Jialang said tremblingly.

The old lady took a puff of cigarette, wiped her mouth, and said, "Your father was standing on the edge of the roof, as if he was begging the King of Hell to let him go. When I looked through the moonlight, I obviously saw a little ghost wrapped around your father's back. Before I could react, your father was gone from the roof."

Dai Jialang felt his hair stand up and said in a trembling voice: "Little kid? Have you seen it clearly? What does it look like?"

The old lady said in fear: "It looks disheveled under the moonlight, and her face is pale, but just a glance and then closer, there is nothing on the roof. I thought at that time, your dad's deadline might have come."

Dai Jialang was stunned for a while, and gasped slightly and said, "Didn't you go out to have a look?"

The old lady waved her hand quickly and said, "It's too late to hide from these little kids at my age, so how dare you go out to see it? Oh, you can just know this yourself, and you must not tell it."

After saying that, before Dai Jialang could say anything, he turned around and walked along the path tremblingly. Dai Jialang stared at the old lady's back and saw her hunched over, like a child, but she looked faintly visible in the morning mist, and she was indeed like a erratic ghost.

To be honest, if it weren't for listening to Mei Xiangyue's words last night, the old lady's words would have only made Dai Jialang smile and wouldn't take it seriously at all.

But Mei Xiangyue's analysis and reasoning came first, and the old lady's chance encounter came later, so he had to doubt that the old lady might have actually seen something that night.

Perhaps my father was not the only one on the roof at that time. Judging from the cigarette butt that Mei Xiangyue appeared, there might be another person, and he stood very close to his father. The old lady was dizzy and treated that person as a little devil lying on her father.

But it's so late, who else would stay on the roof with his father?

It was already bright, and the village remembered the screams of roosters one after another, and smoke from the chimneys on the roofs of several houses had already emerged.

The overall framework of Dai Jialang's new house has been completed and is currently in the interior decoration stage. There are still many abandoned monitoring materials piled up on all sides.

The house was not equipped with a door, and the south-facing door was open. Due to a sudden change in the house, the decoration project was temporarily stopped.

There was no light in the room, and the light was a little dark. Dai Jialang followed the rough stairs to the third floor. He saw a skylight at the end, and there was indeed a wooden escalator next to it. He supported the escalator at the skylight and climbed up.

Standing on the roof, you can see the whole village’s income at a glance. To the east is a stream that will never be cut off for many years, and to the west is a asphalt road that has not been completed. Following this road, you can lead to the county town.

There are acreage land in the north. Although it is the harvest season now, nothing is planted in the land, and it is basically deserted.

There is only a hilly area in the south, with more than a dozen small hills of all sizes, covered with secondary forests, and the breeze is gentle. If you didn’t have something to do in your heart, standing on the roof on such a morning would be a unique feeling.

Dai Jialang walked to the northwest corner where Dai Ming fell down and saw the old lady walking on the path opposite, but she had not yet reached her doorstep.

However, the two windows of the dilapidated dirt house were facing him. If he stood in one of the windows, he believed that the people inside would definitely see him clearly.

Of course, the day of the accident was midnight, but according to the old lady, the moonlight was very good at that time, so even if the old lady looked poor, she might see clearly the figure on the rooftop.

However, she might not be able to identify who was standing on the roof, but when she learned that her father fell off the roof the next day, she would immediately remember what she saw the night before, and that was what she said to him just now.

Despite being full of superstition, Dai Jialang still believed that the old lady must have really seen her father standing on the roof that night. As for whether that little ghost exists, it is still hard to say.

However, Dai Jialang searched on the ground for a while, but his father left behind but did not see the cigarette butts from the Yellow Crane Tower that Mei Xiangyue mentioned. He guessed that Mei Xiangyue would have put away it.

Dai Jialang lit a cigarette, sat down on the edge of the roof, and deliberately stretched his legs out of the wall, and stretched his head out to look down.

To be honest, he felt that he might not be injured even if he jumped like this now. I remember that when the troops were conducting special training, he jumped down from four floors, and of course the sand was laid underneath.

However, he had to admit that his father had not received special training and fell down while drunk. If his head was facing down, he might not have died even if he was not killed.

Not to mention falling from a building that is more than ten meters high, some rural elderly people accidentally fell to death when walking. But the question is, did the father accidentally fall or was pushed down? Just as the old lady said just now, was there a death-seeking ghost lying behind his father at that time?

It was another sunny day. The sun had risen from the horizon to the east. The mist surrounding the village gradually dissipated, and the view on the rooftop became even wider.

Dai Jialang looked at his watch. It was the time when his brother found his father's body that morning. He stood up and came down from the roof, and began to search carefully at the place where his father's body fell.

Just as Mei Xiangyue said, the blood in the soil could be clearly identified, but no bloody stone hitting Daiming's brain was found around.

According to the doctor, Dai Ming fainted after falling from a building due to a brain impact and eventually died of excessive blood loss.

Then, the deceased should have not moved his position after falling from the building. The hard body that hits the brain should be in front of the bloodstain. How could it not be found? In fact, there is no hard object big enough near the bloodstain.

"What are you looking for?" Dai Jialang was squatting on the ground and looking around when he suddenly heard someone talking. He looked up and didn't expect it was his brother Wang Gengtian.

"Why are you here?" Dai Jialang stood up and asked.

Wang Gengtian said, "We are going to reopen today, I'll come and take a look." After saying that, he lowered his head and saw the remaining blood on the ground, and sighed, "My mother has ignored me these days, I'm afraid she will blame me for the rest of her life."

Dai Jialang comforted, "Mom is just angry for a moment, and it will naturally get better after a few days. Don't forget to feel in your heart. After all, they have been together for decades, and she will inevitably feel distressed when her father leaves suddenly."

Wang Gengtian sighed and said, "It's really my fault, especially your sister-in-law. I have also specifically told her to wait until her father finishes drinking before coming back, so that he must not let him drink too much.

But unexpectedly, the thief made an appointment with someone else to play mahjong in the evening, and left after cooking, leaving his dad alone there..."

Dai Jialang waved his hand and interrupted Wang Gengtian, saying, "Don't blame her anymore. No one wants this to happen. Since this is already happening, don't blame each other anymore."

After saying that, Dai Jialang took out a cigarette and lit it, and asked, "What was his posture when you saw your father that morning?"

Wang Gengtian said in confusion: "Just lie in this place."

"Face down?" Dai Jialang asked.

Wang Gengtian nodded and said, "Yes, blood is everywhere on his head and the ground. I guessed that he must have fallen from the upstairs.

I tested his pulse and seemed to be jumping, so I hurriedly turned him over and screamed a few times. Unexpectedly, he actually opened his eyes and moved his mouth a few times, but he could no longer speak.

I didn't care about anything else at that time, so I quickly ran to the monk's house to smash the door and asked him to drive his father to the hospital. However, no matter how I called, he never opened his eyes. When I tried his pulse again, it was gone."

"Have you cleaned up here later?" asked Dai Jialang.

Wang Gengtian said in confusion: "What are you cleaning up? I spent the whole day at Yunling County Hospital waiting for you to come back."

Dai Jialang hesitated and said, "The doctor said that a hole was broken in his father's head, and he died because of excessive blood loss. However, the bloodstains are all sand and there are no large stones. How did the hole in his head cause it? In addition, since he was facing down when he fell down, why was the wound not in front but in the back?"

Wang Gengtian was stunned for a while, and said with a suspicion: "What do you mean? Did someone kill my father?"

Dai Jialang hesitated and said, "This conclusion cannot be drawn yet, but some details are indeed wrong."

Wang Gengtian questioned: "What's wrong? His head will still break when he fell to the ground. His father shouldn't have died when he fell from the upstairs. Maybe he turned over himself."

Dai Jialang didn't seem to want to discuss this with Wang Gengtian more. He hesitated and asked, "Do you think there is something wrong with my dad during this period? What I mean is he has something to do with it?"

Wang Gengtian asked in confusion: "At that time, he always looked like he was worried, but it was a bit wrong to think about it carefully."

"What's wrong?" Dai Jialang asked hurriedly.

Wang Gengtian thought for a while and said, "After building a new house a while ago, he seemed very happy. After dinner every day, he would sneak around the village and tell the people in the village how much it cost to build a house, and he would always climb to the roof of the building to sit for a while at night.

But a few days before he died, he seemed not to go out very much. He didn't even come to the construction site during the day, and didn't come out for a walk after dinner at night. He didn't see him on the roof again, looking at his expression as if someone owed him money."

"Then what do you think is the reason?" Dai Jialang asked.

Wang Gengtian was stunned for a moment and said, "How do I know this? Mom went to the city, and your sister-in-law and I were busy all day long. How could we have time to figure out such things?"

Why did my father, who had originally built a new house for his family, suddenly he didn't even want to go out and sit on the roof again? But one day he climbed to the roof in the middle of the night. What happened? Obviously, there must be something that made him unable to understand or made him confused.

Seeing Dai Jialang frowning, Wang Gengtian advised: "Don't think about it all, there are no people. What's the point of thinking about these things? By the way, when are you going to go back to work?"

Dai Jialang hesitated for a moment and said, "It's only these two days."

Wang Gengtian hesitated and said, "There is something I'm just about to discuss with you. After your niece failed the college entrance examination this time, no matter how I persuaded me, I don't want to go to school anymore. Staying in Yunling County will not have any prospects. You might as well take her away."

Dai Jialang said unhappily: "I can't figure it out. Now that the family is in such a good condition, why don't you want to go to school at a young age?"

Wang Gengtian snorted and said, "Aren't you the same? My parents and I saved money to support you in school, but you didn't even pass the high school entrance exam. There was no smoke from the ancestral grave. Our family was destined to be a scholar.

Since Meizi is unwilling to study, it is useless to force her, so I might as well let her work early. Fortunately, Meizi is born well, and it would be good to marry a city man in the future. Since you can help ants find a job, can't you plan for your niece?"

Dai Jialang was a little amused, but he had nothing to say. Now, his family has regarded him as the pillar of omnipotence. If he refuses, he will definitely be called ungrateful.

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