latelenovela Chapter 220: Archaeological Team Past
Chapter 220: Archaeological Team Past
"By the way, we also saw photos of the archaeological team here," Wu Xie said, "We can confirm that the archaeological team was here. The guide of the archaeological team seemed to be a man named Panma."
"Then where does he live?" Jiang Shen raised his eyebrows and asked,
"It's in a stilt house not far from the village entrance. We plan to go find him tomorrow," Wu Xie said, supporting his chin. "Hopefully, we can get some information from him about the archaeological team back then!"
At this time, Fatty Wang's voice came from outside.
"Come on! It's time for dinner!" Fatty Wang said to the people chatting in the room.
Jiang Shen and the others looked at the sumptuous meal on the table, then glanced at Fatty Wang who was being very attentive to Yuncai, sighed silently in their hearts, and started to eat their dinner.
The next morning, Jiang Shen and his companions, led by Fatty Wang, arrived at the gate of Panma's house.
"Brother Fatty, I have to say that you are quite good at gathering information!" Jiang Shen silently gave Fatty Wang a thumbs up. His efficiency in gathering information was almost catching up with that of the Chaoyang masses.
"Oh! It's nothing."
Fatty Wang waved his hands and was about to say something when Wu Xie ruthlessly exposed him.
"To please the girl, Fatty has become so familiar with all the village ladies in just the past few days. Every day, besides helping Yuncai with work, he chats with the village ladies. How could he not know?"
Fatty Wang: ...
"Excuse me, is Father Panma here?" Wu Xie knocked politely on the courtyard door.
A tall, middle-aged man came over and opened the door: "What's going on?"
Jiang Shen directly pulled out two stacks of red bills and stuffed them into the middle-aged man's arms. "We want to find out something from Father Panma."
The middle-aged man looked at the two thick stacks of red bills in his arms and let a few people in.
Jiang Shen looked at Old Man Panma, who was smoking a pipe in the yard, and said, "It seems that Old Man is in good health and spirits. I just wonder if any wronged spirits come into his dreams at midnight."
When the middle-aged man heard this, his expression changed immediately. "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. You can't talk nonsense without evidence!"
"Really? Ask your father if he did those things back then," Jiang Shen sat down in front of Panma's father.
"Go out first. If I don't tell you to come back, then don't come back!" After Pan Ma's father drove his son out of the yard, he looked at Jiang Shen quietly.
"When I did those things, I knew this day would come, but I have no regrets. If I had the chance to do it again, I would do it again. You can kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you!"
Jiang Shen: "It's not that serious. I just want to know the whole story of what happened back then. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about it. After all, I don't have the habit of meddling in other people's affairs."
Jiang Shen said, using the backpack as a cover to take out another 10 yuan from the space, "I'm just someone who pays for information."
Old Man Panma looked at the money in front of him and thought of his grandson who was studying in the city. Finally, he sighed and slowly recounted the old story:
"At that time, the entire country was broke, let alone us villagers who were struggling to make a living in the mountains. An archaeological team arrived here with a lot of food, including refined rice, which we hadn't eaten in years. The team leader was a very beautiful woman named Chen Wenjin.
The days of digging for food in the ravines were hard. Adults could still endure it, but children couldn't. At that time, my wife had just given birth to my little girl and had no milk, so I had no choice but to take a risk and take a few young people to the archaeological team's camp to steal food. As a result, we met a soldier who came out to urinate. We were so scared that we strangled him to death.
We decided to go all out and killed everyone in the camp, dumping their bodies into the lake. But something strange happened: the archaeologists we killed reappeared in the camp the next morning, as if they had been resurrected from the dead. But they carried a strange odor. That's all I know."
After listening to this, Jiang Shen nodded. This should be what happened when the archaeological team was replaced that year, right?
"I'll give you another 5 and take us to the lake!" Jiang Shen looked at Pan Ma.
"Okay, I'll take you into the mountains tomorrow!" Panma gritted his teeth and said, at worst he would fight to the death with that strange mermaid.
"Then let's gather at the village entrance tomorrow!" Jiang Shen said, and then led everyone away from Panma's house.
"A Jiang, how did you know about the archaeological team back then?" Wu looked at Jiang Shen.
"I tricked him," Jiang Shen said. "The old lady of the Huo family, Huo Lin, the daughter of that old lady, was also a member of the archaeological team. She later disappeared. That archaeological team came here, and I tricked him. Isn't this how it came out?"
Wu Xie: Six!