Chapter 495
Unable to Enter the Mountain
Chapter 495 Unable to Enter the Mountain
After visiting several houses without finding anyone, Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng went to the town's police station, where they retrieved information on many villagers in Yashan Village and learned about them one by one.
Anyway, their real purpose was to find out what important things were in the mountains.
Everyone knew about Huang Qi, and it didn't take long for them to learn about him.
Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at his file and asked as usual, "I saw him yesterday too. He was at the very front, holding a shovel, and he looked very excited."
"Yes, the ones at the front are all strongly opposed to building roads into the mountains. By the way, the man we were talking about in the village who fell down the mountain two years ago was his second uncle."
"Is he my second uncle?" Su Miaoyi asked.
The police checked the records: "Yes, the records show he is her second uncle, and they do look quite alike."
Su Miaoyi looked at the photo left in the system, and it did look quite similar.
She then looked at the information about their entire family.
Huang Qi was nine years younger than his second uncle.
Huang Qi's father was much older than Huang Qi's second uncle.
Su Miaoyi looked at the documents.
What important thing is in these mountains that Huang Qi even killed his own second uncle?
"What does Huang Qi do? Is he always at home?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.
“He opened a fresh fruit supermarket in our county. We have fruit trees here, right? During the harvest season, he would bring people to collect the fruit from us.”
"Do you come back often?" Su Miaoyi asked.
“When he was young, he didn’t come back often, but he has been coming back frequently in recent years. He said that the supermarket hired someone to look after his parents, and since his parents are getting old, he is worried about them, so he comes back often.”
Zhuang Yanzheng nodded.
"Does he often go into the mountains?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked again.
“Aside from the first day of the Lunar New Year for worship, he probably doesn’t go into the mountains much at other times. Especially after his second uncle passed away, he went even less often. He also strongly opposed the road construction this time. He said that his second uncle died because he didn’t go into the mountains for worship, and if the road is built, wouldn’t the whole village suffer as well? It’s not just him, everyone thinks so.”
"Are all the residents of Yashan Village locals? Are there any from other places?" Su Miaoyi asked.
"No, that's not true. Who would come to such a remote place? It's all locals."
After reviewing Huang Qi's information, I also reviewed the information of many other people.
They had a simple lunch together, and after lunch, Su Miaoyi, Zhuang Yanzheng, and Duan Wenrui discussed something.
“I checked, and there are people watching every place that leads into the mountains,” Duan Wenrui said. “We can’t even get close; they’re watching very closely.”
“But it’s not like people are completely forbidden from entering the mountains. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people have to walk around the mountains, and people go into the mountains at other times too. If there were anything in the mountains, it would have been discovered long ago,” Su Miaoyi said. “It’s not like only Uncle Huang Qi could have discovered it. Surely the whole village can’t know the secret in the mountains and keep it from Uncle Huang Qi alone?”
"Also, when the road was first being built, there was no one guarding the road into the mountains. The construction team went in and surveyed the area. It was after the survey that the villagers started to object," Duan Wenrui said. "You all saw the blueprints and topographic maps drawn by the construction team last night. If there really was something in the mountains, the construction team would definitely have found it."
“Yesterday I looked at the topographic map, and in the footage I saw, Uncle Huang Qi was indeed pushed off the mountain on the east side,” Su Miaoyi said.
Duan Wenrui glanced at her, then lowered his gaze without saying a word.
He had witnessed her miraculous abilities when he last came to deal with the matter in Yanjing Village. He never told anyone about it afterward, not even his wife, and kept the secret all this time.
Now that she's not hiding anything and is speaking so directly, she must trust him quite a bit; she can't possibly be planning to silence him later.
Duan Wenrui shuddered. "What about the other side of the mountain? Is it possible to climb up?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.
“East of Yashan Village, there are endless mountains. Those mountains are high and steep, and it’s very difficult to get up there from anywhere else unless you go up from Yashan Village. Almost no one goes up those mountains unless they use a helicopter,” Duan Wenrui said.
“There is another village called Yashanhou Village to the southeast of Yashan Village,” Zhuang Yanzheng said, pointing to the map.
"It's a very small village. The mountains surrounding the village are all steep and vertical, and the areas close to the mountains don't get any sunlight. You can't go up the mountain from this village; it's all too steep and too high."
Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng watched.
Duan Wenrui said, "There is a road to the south of Yashanhou Village that leads to the outside world, directly to the road leading to Yunguang Town, which is the road we travel back and forth on. So the designer and construction team wanted to go southeast from the mountain east of Yashan Village, through Yashanhou Village, and directly to the road leading to the town. This way, Yashan Village will no longer have to take a long detour from north to south to get to the town."
Indeed, it takes a long detour to get from Yashan Village to the town.
Yashanhou Village is located southeast of Yashan Village, but the two villages are separated by many high and steep mountains.
“This village has a large open area, as if nature suddenly gifted a flat piece of land among all the high mountains. Except for the fact that it doesn’t get much sunlight due to the mountains, it is very suitable for farming, so a small village developed. However, because of the poor lighting, the village did not grow big, and houses were only built in the places where the sun could shine on them,” Duan Wenrui said.
"Many years ago, there was a big fire in Yashanhou Village that killed many people," Duan Wenrui said. "I've heard about it too. They say there was a strong wind that day, and somehow the fire started. It couldn't be put out, and many people died. That's why the village has even fewer people now."
"A big fire broke out?" Su Miaoyi asked. "In which year?"
"I don't know, we'll have to find out more carefully," Duan Wenrui said. "But since a lot of people died, there must be records, which will make it easier to investigate."
Su Miaoyi nodded, remained silent for a while, and muttered softly, "We can't even get into the mountain from the back village of Yai Shan."
The east and north sides are surrounded by endless mountains, and it is not possible to enter the mountains.
Only Yashan Village is accessible from the mountains, but due to the religious beliefs associated with it, not many people go in; very few people come and go normally.
Now she was even more curious about what unspeakable secrets the mountains held.
From this perspective, the secret seems to be something that remains still in the mountains, unseen and undiscovered by anyone.
"I found all this out this morning," Duan Wenrui said. "Anyway, as long as I don't mention going into the mountains, the villagers are quite friendly. How about it on your side?"
“We were turned away,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.
"You absolutely must not reveal your identity as a donor, otherwise you might really be chased down and beaten, and the subsequent work will be difficult," Duan Wenrui said. "The law does not punish the masses, and the people who will be involved will be mostly elderly people, the kind that you wouldn't dare to arrest."
“Okay.” Zhuang Yanzheng nodded in agreement. “But Yanjing Village isn’t far from here, won’t we be exposed soon?”
"Keep them calm before they are exposed," Duan Wenrui said.
"Row."
"What do we do next? Contact a helicopter? Go into the mountains?" Duan Wenrui asked.
“Okay,” Su Miaoyi said.
“Okay,” Zhuang Yanzheng replied.
“I’ll contact them,” Duan Wenrui said.
Su Miaoyi thought for a moment and said, "I want to go to Yai Shan Hou Village to take a look."
"Walk."
I'll post two chapters today.
Goodnight everybody.