Card Room - 343. Mime private 493

[Chapter 493, clues three years ago]

Xiao Lou picked up the letter and checked it carefully. The calligraphy on the letter was chic and fluttering. Xiao Lou’s father collected a work of calligraphy that belonged to an older generation. Xiao Lou could recognize the calligraphy at a glance. What’s more, the spider dagger mark on the cantilever beam of the roof is also Chu Huaying’s unique mark, and it is impossible for others to forge it.

Therefore, this letter must have been left by Brother Nine and the others.

Xiao Lou looked at his teammates and said confidently: “This letter belongs to the handwriting of the predecessor.”

Looking at the first line of the letter, Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, “They actually went to the world three years ago? That is to say, we are in a different time and space, and cards such as smart and team voice can’t be used?”

Xiao Lou said: “Well, starting from today, we can’t talk directly with them three years ago, but fortunately they thought of leaving us with clues in this way.”

People cannot talk to the past self, but they can leave advice for the future self.

The four of Lu Jiuchuan were indeed very wise. They guessed that Xiao Lou might return to Zhao’s family to investigate the clues of the person who arranged the mourning hall. So they used Chu Huaying’s spider mark as a mark on the roof of the mourning hall and secretly hid a letter. .

Fortunately, no one found this letter for three years, but it has been found by Xiao Lou now.

Yu Hanjiang read the contents of the letter all over, and thoughtfully said: “Brother Nine and the others, it seems that they have just traveled through the night of the incident three years ago, and they saw the plot that we could not verify-first of all, Zhao Zesui, the sister got married. That night, she went to a private meeting with a masked man outside the town, and gave him a purse embroidered with mandarin ducks.”

He looked back at Xiao Lou: “Remember that you saw the handkerchief in Ms. Zhao’s room that hadn’t been embroidered. Guessing that she has a sweetheart, it seems that you guessed it right. However, her sweetheart is of special status and she would wear it on a date in the middle of the night. The mask, are you afraid of being discovered by the people in the town?”

“Well. Wearing a mask in the middle of the night, the identity of this person is definitely not simple.” Xiao Lou paused, and continued to look down at the letter: “The letter said that Chen Yu ran out of the town in a panic and burned paper for his father. His father died. This incident is not a secret. Why didn’t he set up a mourning hall in his home openly, but sneaked out to burn paper outside the town?”

“We have a custom in our hometown.” When Lao Mo heard this, he interjected, “If my parents died in a foreign country and the tomb is not nearby, we will go to the gate of the community or near the street on July 15 every year, facing the hometown. Burn some paper money in the direction. My father’s hometown is in Beijing and I’m in Jiangzhou. Sometimes I can’t go back to the grave, so I also use this method to pay homage.”

“Our home is the same. If you can’t go back to your hometown to go to the grave, you can worship the ancestors in the direction of your hometown.” Qu Wanyue also said.

“So it seems that Chen Yu’s father was not buried in Qingfeng Town? So after the birth of his son, he was outside the town, facing his hometown, burning paper money to celebrate his father?” After hearing the words of the two, Xiao Lou felt This statement is reasonable.

“How Chen Yu’s father died and where he died, we have to check again.” Yu Hanjiang said.

The changes between Zhao Zesui and Chen Yu that he saw in the ghost town at night have now been explained.

The clues that Brother Jiu saw with their own eyes on the day of the crime three years ago will definitely not be false, but what exactly these two clues mean remains to be investigated and verified by them.

Next, some clues were listed in the letter.

The first is about the mayor Qin Feng’s roster and secret rooms.

Qu Wanyue couldn’t help saying: “Qin Feng really is not like a murderer. Senior Gui said in a letter that when the crime happened three years ago, there was no secret room in his study, and there was no roster full of red crosses in the cabinet. But three years later, we discovered this… It means that Qin Feng should be like us, investigating the murderer, collecting evidence, and recording the list of the dead?”

Xiao Lou nodded: “Yes. I felt that Qin Feng was not like a murderer from the beginning. The clues were obviously too simple. Moreover, the rattles that appeared in the Zhao family and the Chen family all painted tigers, but there were some in his secret room. The rattle of the Chinese zodiac is not right at this point. However, he must know something and he is very uncooperative with us.”

Yu Hanjiang said: “This person can’t ask directly, we need to investigate through other means.”

Xiao Lou nodded, picked up the letter and said: “On the night of the incident, he said that he saw people in white clothes, including the vegetable vendor Liu Lao, the hunter Zhang Chengyu, the tofu seller Xue Ersao, the butcher Lin Yueran, and the clothing store owner Qin Ruolan. Nine brothers and others. List the detailed information of these people, do you suspect that there are suspicious people among them?”

Yu Hanjiang took the letter from him and looked at it carefully, and said in a low voice: “From the location marked on the letter, five people live in the east, west, south, north, and middle of the town. Although Qingfeng Town Not big, but Li ghosts will not appear in five places at the same time. Among them, there is a possibility that someone is deliberately lying to confuse the audience.”

Everyone was silent for a moment, Xiao Lou carefully folded the letter and put it in his pocket.

Liu Qiao suddenly said: “The nine brothers left behind all the clues to the’Ghostly Evil Case’ three years ago, but what about the recent’Girl Sunken Lake Case’? Those girls who were drowned at the bottom of the lake, who was the murderer? We have no clue yet.”

Xiao Lou also had a headache. This time, the two cases went hand in hand, and the murderer was extraordinarily cunning.

It can be said that “Murder B” took advantage of the public opinion that “Murder A” made “A ghost kills his life” and dragged these girls into the lake, making people mistakenly believe that the missing girl was also killed by the ghost.

“Murder A” found out that he hadn’t done anything, and disappeared inexplicably. He must have known that another murderer was using public opinion to commit crimes, but let the other party ignore it, but also to use the other party in turn to make the case more complicated and impossible to investigate.

They may not have met each other, but they have a tacit understanding of shielding each other.

Yu Hanjiang said: “Let’s separate the case first. The two murderers have different motives, styles, and choice of victims. The first murderer of the “devil’s murder case” should be related to the famine 20 years ago. It is the killing of the whole family, the method is extremely brutal; the second murderer is only hostile to girls around 18 years old, drowning them in the lake, he should be a paranoid personality, unable to get out of the psychological shadow left by the red-clothed girl. ”

Xiao Lou pressed his temple with a headache: “Check the first one first, at least the clues to the first case are clearer.”

***

After sneaking out of Zhao’s house, several people went to find the suspect mentioned in the letter to inquire about the news.

Liu Qiao and Lao Mo are in charge of Chen Yu’s line.

The two visited the neighbours in the neighbourhoods near the Chen’s house. They quickly inquired about Chen Yu’s father from some old people. Liu Qiao held down the earphone and whispered, “Professor Xiao, we inquired that Chen’s family had gone out of town in twenty years. In business, Chen Yu and his wife moved back to Qingfeng Town seven years ago. His father did not come back together. It is said that he passed away in other places a few years earlier.”

Xiao Lou said, “Have you inquired about where they are going to do business?”

Liu Qiao said: “I don’t know, the Chen family has always been mysterious. After Chen Yu moved back to the ancestral home in Qingfeng Town, he seldom interacted with people. He would only greet people politely. Money, food and clothing are very particular.”

From this point of view, Chen Yu’s father should have been buried in a foreign land, so Chen Yu ran out of the small town to burn paper money for his father. He clearly looked like a filial son, but the family did not worship his father’s spiritual position. This thing always felt not quite right… …Unless his father asked for it.

After a while, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue, who went to the East City for investigation, also came back. Qu Wanyue said: “The old man Liu in the East City is more than 80 years old and has passed away three years ago. According to the reaction of children nearby. , The old man loves to tell stories, and always pulls the children to scare everyone with the’Female Ghost in White’, saying that he had seen a ghost with his own eyes on a rainy night three years ago.”

Xiao Lou asked, “Is there a more detailed version?”

Long Sen said, “Wanyue tricked a child over with a candied haws. The child retelled Old Uncle Liu’s story as it was-on July 14th, there was a heavy rain, and he was awakened by a thunder in the middle of the night, thinking Went up at night, and as soon as I opened the door, I saw a female ghost with long white hair flying past the door. He was so scared that he almost peeed his pants.”

The ancients did not have the habit of wearing watches. Of course, they did not know the specific time when they saw the female ghost. However, the thunder explosion provided by the witness, Mr. Liu, was crucial.

The stormy night three years ago should be the same scene as Xiaolou and the others went to the ghost town on their first day.

It was a recurrence of the scene, and they also saw the scene of Miss Zhao’s marriage.

Xiao Lou clearly remembered that the rain stopped at Yinshi (around three in the morning). After the rain stopped, when Miss Zhao Jia got married, there was only one clear thunder in the sky.

Old Uncle Liu has passed away and is definitely not a murderer or accomplice. As an eyewitness, his description may be exaggerated, but the message “was awakened by thunder” should be the focus of special attention.

Immediately afterwards, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue visited Ersao Xue, who lived in the southeast of the town and was closest to Old Man Liu.

Not long after, Qu Wanyue reported the results of the investigation: “Sister Xue had remarried to Yuezhou two years ago. However, according to neighbors nearby, she was also awakened by the thunder and remembered whether she had been drying on the quilt in the yard. Close, and ran to collect the bedding, only to see a female ghost with long hair and white clothes drifting across the wall and drifting to the direction of Zhao’s house. She was scared and hurried back to the house.”

Xiao Lou opened the map that Lao Mo left him.

From the geographical point of view, Old Man Liu lives in the east of the town, and Ersao Xue lives in the southeast of the town. Both of them were awakened by thunder and saw the female ghost. The time is very close. Perhaps the female ghost was there when the thunder sounded. Activities in the southeastern part of the town.

Liu Qiao and Lao Mo went to Qin Ruolan, the proprietress of the central clothing store.

Liu Qiao stuffed her with ingots and asked her if she knew the rumors of Li ghosts, she came over mysteriously and said: “There are real ghosts in our town. On the rainy night three years ago, I had a headache and couldn’t sleep. When the rain stopped, I got up and wanted to go to the store to tidy up the newly arrived fabrics. As soon as I went out, I saw a female ghost dressed in white with hair covering her face, drifting past the alley in front of my house, scaring me to hurry. Hide back into the house!”

Liu Qiao asked, “Did you hear thunder when you saw the female ghost?”

The lady boss thought for a while, shook her head and said, “No. The rain stopped for a long time before I went out and saw the female ghost.”

There are two people left, one is the butcher Lin Yueran living in the north of the city, and the other is the hunter Zhang Chengyu in the west of the city.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang went to investigate in person.

Lin Yueran was not as strong as an ordinary butcher. He looked gentle when he didn’t hold a butcher knife in his hand, but Yu Hanjiang could see that he had great strength and his arm muscles were very strong.

Yu Hanjiang asked bluntly: “Brother, I heard that you saw female ghosts with your own eyes three years ago? My wife likes to listen to these strange and mysterious stories, can you tell us about it.”

Lin Yueran looked at Xiao Lou with a puzzled face. Xiao Lou smiled and stuffed him with a coin and said: “My husband and I are traveling around the mountains and rivers. I just want to hear some ghost stories and relieve my boredom.”

Lin Yueran’s expression was complicated: “I’ve told this story many times. Three years ago, on the night of heavy rain, my son was crying to pee in the middle of the night. When I saw the rain stopped, I took him out to explain, and he just left the house. , A female ghost in white passed by us lightly. I was taken aback and hurriedly took my son home. I thought it was dazzling, but as a result, my son also saw the female ghost. It must not be dazzling!”

Xiao Lou asked: “It was rainy night when you saw the female ghost?”

Lin Yueran nodded: “Yes.”

Xiao Lou asked: “Did there be lightning and thunder at the time? Didn’t it mean that when the evil is infested, there will be a vision from the sky?”

Lin Yueran was stunned: “It seems like…” After a pause, he said firmly: “I did hear thunder.”

In order to prove his claim, he also called out his son.

The child is less than 10 years old, and his voice is clear and authentic: “My father is right, we all saw the female ghost, and the sky was thundering when the female ghost appeared!”

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang thanked them and got up and left. Finally, I went to investigate Zhang Chengyu’s house, a hunter in the west of the city. Zhang Chengyu was not at home. He should have gone hunting, but there were a few children playing with rocks nearby.

Xiao Lou coaxed a child over and asked, “Do you know this hunter named Zhang?”

The child got the candy and said honestly: “Yes. Uncle Zhang went hunting in the morning, and he said that he would beat some hares for us to roast rabbit meat.”

Xiao Lou said: “Did he tell you stories about ghosts?”

The child looked nervous and said: “The ghost is desperate for life, it is scary! He said that he has seen ghosts with his own eyes, so let us not go out at night, or we will be hooked away by the ghost.”

Yu Hanjiang asked in a low voice, “How did he tell you?”

The child scratched his head and said: “On the rainy night three years ago, he was awakened by thunder in the middle of the night. When he got up, he saw a ghost in white floating past the yard. She slipped and sprained her foot. The next day , Some people are missing, they can’t be found no matter how to find them, they must have been taken away by a ghost!”

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other, and saw a trace of suspicion in each other’s eyes.

thunder.

Four of the five “witnesses” said that they heard the thunder. Only the proprietress of the clothing store said with certainty that it was long after the rain stopped that she saw the ghost.

The murderer plays the female ghost and will not appear in five locations in the town at the same time.

On the night of the heavy rain three years ago, only one thunderstorm sounded after the rain stopped, and the thunder did not exceed 3 seconds. The female ghost played by the murderer could not teleport around five places in the town within 3 seconds.

Some of these people must be lying.