False evidence

Chapter 369 Cigarette Butt
In reality, Lu Ming and Jiang Yazhen had always had a good relationship, and the Lu couple had a very high opinion of their future daughter-in-law.

Because of this, Lao Lu could vaguely see that the woman who came out of the bamboo forest seemed to be Jiang Yazhen!

The father and son were both puzzled. Wasn't Jiang Yazhen supposed to be dead? How could she be alive again?
And would he appear outside the funeral home at this hour?
Although the father and son were honest, they were not without cunning. They looked at each other and both thought: Could it be that the Jiang family fabricated the news of Jiang Yazhen's death in order to avoid returning the betrothal gifts?

It was still dark, and there was some distance between them. Logically, the father and son should have gone up to take a closer look and confirm the man's identity.

Lu Ming had originally planned to do the same.

But just as he was about to get off the bus, the woman's walking posture suddenly became strange.

She was walking normally, but suddenly, her upper body tilted sharply, and she seemed to trip.

She looked like she was about to fall.

But the strange thing is that she didn't fall down. Instead, she just leaned to one side, dragged one leg, and moved forward step by step!
The father and son in the car gasped as they watched.

Because a woman's posture is something a living person could never deliberately convincingly achieve; it's as if—

If half of a person's skeleton has collapsed, they shouldn't walk with their feet bent!

This really scared the father and son.

Both of them recalled that the police had come to their home yesterday to inquire about the situation and had also said that Jiang Yazhen was dead!
The village where the father and son lived was very close to the funeral home. There were always two villagers who worked at the funeral home eating at the restaurant.

Old Lu had heard these two talk a lot about strange things that happened at the funeral home after they got drunk.

The first thing Lao Lu thought of was—this woman is Jiang Yazhen, she's come back from the dead!

As he watched the woman walk away with an eerie gait, Lu Ming was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

He wanted to get out of the car and rush up to Jiang Yazhen to apologize.

Old Lu is superstitious and won't let go of him.

The father and son argued for a while, and finally had to make a decision.

Old Lu said that there's always a reason why a corpse comes back to life. Either it has unfulfilled wishes, or it's seeking revenge for a grudge.

If she really comes back for revenge, she'll definitely target Lu Ming, and might even bring disaster to the entire Lu family.

When a person dies, they become a ghost and gain abilities that the living do not have.

The father and son were right there in the car, so close to her, but she didn't come looking for them. Instead, she just kept walking away.

Perhaps... she has other unfulfilled wishes.

Old Lu gritted his teeth and said, "Let's get out of the car, but don't go over there. Just follow her and see where she goes. If she really resents our family and comes back to take revenge, let her come at me! If she has any other unfulfilled wishes... let's follow her and see if we can help her get things done. Then our family will have a clear conscience."

So the two got out of the car and followed the woman at a distance...

Lu Mingshu got excited again at this point and shouted:
"That's Ya-zhen, it's her!"

Gao asked in a deep voice, "Did you get a clear look at her face?"

Old Lu said, "In the end, we still couldn't see her face clearly, but I'm sure it wasn't a living person!"

"What makes you so sure?"

"Officer, could someone who could walk more than 20 miles like that be alive?"

Old Lu stood up, his shoulder tilted to one side, and he limped forward a few steps.

I, Erpang, Monkey, and I were all stunned.

A normal person can imitate a disabled person, but it takes a lot of physical effort to imitate an awkward movement for a long time.

When I first arrived in this city, I had a period of time working as an extra in a film studio.

The film, which only covers one day's worth of scenes, is divided into three stages: youth, middle age, and old age.

I played a cripple back then.

That director had very high standards. Aside from changing makeup, he was meticulous and didn't mind wasting time on minor characters.

By the end of the day, I had walked about four or five kilometers back and forth, limping on one leg.

That night, when I took the subway back to school, someone actually mistook me for a cripple and offered me their seat.

The next day, my legs hurt so much that I could hardly walk.

This is by no means an exaggeration. People will definitely feel uncomfortable if they do things they are not used to for a long time.

In my opinion, Lao Lu's imitation was quite accurate, but he said he couldn't imitate it at all! And that woman, with a posture that would make most people's muscles ache, walked for at least ten kilometers!
Zhai Yutian interjected, "The deceased did indeed have multiple fractures on the right side of his body, and his right leg bone was broken into three pieces."

After hearing her description and combining it with Lao Lu's demonstration, I was able to visualize the scene even more vividly.

Gao He asked, "And then what? You kept following that woman, where did she eventually go?"

"That's the weird part...she went back to her own home!" Old Lu said, clapping his hands. "She went to the factory!"

Gao He frowned: "I don't understand, is it home or factory?"

Lu Ming said, "It's her family's factory. Ya Zhen's father used to build a small factory on his own land to process plastic raw material granules. Ya Zhen and her family also lived there. Later, land use management became stricter and the industry was not doing well, so the factory closed down. Ya Zhen and her family moved to a new house in the suburbs. That small factory has not been demolished to this day and is still abandoned there."

"And then?" Gao He's brow furrowed.

Both Lao Lu and Lu Ming showed expressions of horror.

Old Lu said, "We followed her all the way there, and suddenly Ya Zhen's walking became normal... well, not exactly normal, she still had a slight limp... After seeing her go inside, the more I thought about it, the more eerie it seemed..."

I told Lu Ming to wait outside, but he refused, so we both went inside... It was already getting light. But we searched everywhere and couldn't find Ya Zhen... The factory was completely empty; there was nobody there!

Gao He asked, "Where is the factory?"

Lu Ming gave me the address, and I immediately got up and called Erpang and Monkey to go outside.

Gao He hurriedly exchanged a few words with the Lu family father and son before following them out.

"What? Planning to go straight there?"

Gao He looked at me with a rather unfriendly gaze. "Is there something you can't tell me again?"

I asked, "Isn't finding Jiang Yazhen's body the most important thing?"

Two cars, one in front of the other, were parked in front of the abandoned factory.

I turned off the car lights and was about to turn off the engine when someone suddenly knocked on the driver's side window.

I was startled by the sudden knocking sound.

I rolled down the car window, and outside was a boy who looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old.

The boy chuckled and bowed to me, pulling a cigarette from his pack and offering it to me. "Brother, please have a smoke."

I glanced at the cigarette in his hand but didn't take it. "What are you doing here in the middle of the night instead of going home?"

The boy's smile became even more forced. "Big brother, we want to go home, but there are no buses around here. Could you please give us a ride? I'll pay you! Just take us to the No. 9 bus stop!"

As he spoke, he reached in and forcefully placed a crumpled banknote on the dashboard.

"Oh my, we're from the same hometown, judging from our accents!"

Sitting in the passenger seat, Erpang reached out and took the cigarette from the boy.

I frowned subconsciously.

Before I could speak, someone knocked on the passenger window again.

The car window rolled down, and Gao He poked his head in: "Aren't you getting out of the car? What are you dawdling about?"

Erpang straightened up. "Hey, Brother Gao, there's a little brother here..."

He pointed in my direction as he spoke, but then froze in his seat as if in a trance.

The windows on both sides of the front of the car were open. Gao He was on the right, but all that could be seen on the left was a vast expanse of fields.

The boy who wanted a ride has disappeared!
"What about people?"

Erpang snapped out of his daze and turned to look around.

"who?"

Gao asked a question, then frowned and asked me, "Out of cigarettes?"

Me, Erpang, the monkey in the back row, and Gao He outside the car.

Of the four people, three were focused on one point.

Gao He asked me a question, and Monkey, Erpang, and I all looked at Erpang's raised hand.

Between his two fingers was not a whole cigarette, but a crumpled, obviously half-smoked cigarette butt!

(End of this chapter)