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[Chapter 493, clues from three years ago]

Xiao Lou picked up the letter and looked at it carefully. The calligraphy on the letter was elegant and elegant. Xiao Lou's father had collected a calligraphy work belonging to an old man. Xiao Lou could recognize the calligraphy at a glance. What's more, the spider dagger mark on the roof beam 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 Jiu and the others.

Xiao Lou looked at his teammates and said firmly: "This letter is the handwriting of senior Gui."

Yu Hanjiang looked at the first line of the letter and frowned: "They actually went to the world three years ago? In other words, we are now in a different time and space. Cards such as telepathy and team voice cannot be used?"

Xiao Loudao: "Well, starting from today, we can't talk directly with them from three years ago. Fortunately, they thought of leaving us clues in this way."

People can't talk to their past selves, but they can leave advice to their future selves.

The approach of Lu Jiuchuan and the others was indeed very wise. They guessed that Xiao Lou might return to the Zhao family to investigate for clues about the person who arranged the mourning hall. Therefore, 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, and now it was successfully found by Xiao Lou.

Yu Hanjiang read the contents of the letter and said thoughtfully: "Brother Ninth and the others seem to have traveled back in time to the night of the crime three years ago, and saw the plot that we cannot verify - first of all, Zhao Zesui, his sister got married. That night, she went to have a private meeting with a masked man outside the town and gave him a purse embroidered with mandarin ducks."

He turned back to look at Xiao Lou: "I remember you saw the unfinished embroidered handkerchief in Miss Zhao's room. You guessed that she had a sweetheart. It seems that you were right. However, her sweetheart has a special status and she had to wear it for a date in the middle of the night. Are you wearing the mask to avoid being discovered by people in the town?"

"Yes. Wearing a mask in the middle of the night, this person's identity must not be simple." Xiao Lou paused and continued to read the letter: "The letter said that Chen Yu ran out of the town in a panic to burn paper for his father. His father passed away. This matter is not a secret, why didn’t he just decorate the mourning hall at home openly, but instead secretly went to burn paper outside the town?”

"There is a custom in our hometown." Lao Mo heard this and interjected, "If the parents died in a foreign land and the grave was not nearby, every July 15th we would go to the gate of the community or near the street, facing the grave of our hometown. Burn some paper money. My father's hometown is in Beijing and I am in Jiangzhou. Sometimes I cannot go back to visit the grave, so I also use this method to pay homage."

"The same goes for our family. During festivals, if we can't go back to our hometown to visit our graves, we go to our hometown to worship our ancestors." Qu Wanyue also said.

"So it seems that Chen Yu's father was not buried in Qingfeng Town? So after his son was born, he burned paper money to announce the good news to his father outside the town, facing the direction of his hometown?" After listening to what the two people said, Xiao Lou felt This statement is also reasonable.

"We have to check how Chen Yu's father died and where he died," Yu Hanjiang said.

The strange movements of Zhao Zesui and Chen Yu seen in the ghost city at night have now been explained.

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

Next, the letter also lists some clues.

The first is about Mayor Qin Feng’s roster and secret room.

After Qu Wanyue saw it, she couldn't help but said: "Qin Feng really doesn't look like the murderer. Senior Gui said in his letter that when the crime occurred three years ago, there was no secret room in his study and there was no roster full of red crosses in the cabinet. But we discovered these three years later... Does this mean that Qin Feng should be investigating the murderer, collecting evidence, and recording the list of the deceased, just like us?"

Xiao Lou nodded: "Yes. From the beginning, I felt that Qin Feng did not look like the murderer. The clues were too obvious. Moreover, the rattles that appeared in the Zhao family and the Chen family all had tiger patterns, but there were tigers in his secret room. The rattle of the twelve zodiac signs is not worthy at all. However, he must know something and is very uncooperative with us."

Yu Hanjiang said: "We cannot ask this person directly. We need to investigate through other means."

Xiao Lou nodded, picked up the letter and said: "On the night of the crime, the people who said they saw the ghost in white included the vegetable seller Mr. Liu, the hunter Zhang Chengyu, the tofu seller Xue Ersao, the butcher Lin Yueran, and the clothing store proprietress Qin Ruolan. Brother Ninth and the others You have listed all the detailed information of these people, are you suspecting that there are suspicious people among them?”

Yu Hanjiang took the letter from him, looked at it carefully, and whispered: "Judging from the locations marked on the letter, the five people live in the east, west, south, north, and middle of the town. Although Qingfeng Town It’s not big, but evil ghosts will not appear in five places at the same time. Among them, it is very likely that someone is deliberately lying to confuse the public.”

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

Liu Qiao suddenly said: "Brother Ninth and the others left behind all the clues of the 'Ghost Seduction Case' three years ago, but what about the recent 'Girl Sinking in the Lake Case'? Who was the murderer of those girls who drowned at the bottom of the lake? We don’t have a clue yet.”

Xiao Lou also has a headache. This time there are two cases going hand in hand, and the murderer is particularly cunning.

It can be said that "Murderer B" took advantage of the public opinion that "murderer A" created "the ghosts are demanding their lives" and dragged these girls into the lake, making people mistakenly think that the missing girls were also killed by the ghosts.

"Murderer A" discovered that the person he did not kill was also missing inexplicably. He must have known that another murderer was taking advantage of him.

Public opinion commits crimes but leaves the other party alone in order to take advantage of the other party and make the case more complicated and impossible to investigate.

They may have never met each other, but they have a tacit understanding of covering for each other.

Yu Hanjiang said: "Let's separate the cases first. The two murderers have different motives, styles, and victims. The murderer of the first 'Li Gui Suo Murder Case' should be related to the famine twenty years ago. Once he committed the crime, He killed a whole family with extremely cruel methods; the second murderer was only hostile to girls around 18 years old and drowned them in the lake. He must have a paranoid personality and could not get rid of the psychological shadow left by the girl in red. "

Xiao Lou pressed his temple with a headache: "Let's check the first one first. At least the clues of the first case are clearer."

***

After the few people sneaked out of Zhao's house, they split up to find the suspect mentioned in the letter to inquire about the news.

Liu Qiao and Lao Mo are responsible for Chen Yu's line.

The two visited the neighbors near Chen's family, and soon found out about Chen Yu's father from some old people. Liu Qiao held down the earphones and whispered: "Professor Xiao, we found out that the Chen family went to other places in the past 20 years. To do business, Chen Yu and his wife moved back to Qingfeng Town seven years ago, and his father did not come back with them. It is said that he passed away in other places a few years ago."

Xiao Lou said: "Have you ever found out where they go to do business?"

Liu Qiao said: "I don't know. The Chen family has always been quite mysterious. After Chen Yu moved back to his ancestral home in Qingfeng Town, he rarely interacted with people. He would only say hello politely when he saw people. The neighbors only knew that his family was quite mysterious. I am very particular about money, food and clothing.”

From this point of view, Chen Yu's father should have been buried in a foreign land, so Chen Yu went outside the town to burn paper money for his father. Although he seemed to be a filial son, his father's memorial tablet was not enshrined at home. This thing always felt wrong... …unless his father asks for it.

After a while, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue, who went to Dongshi to investigate, also came back. Qu Wanyue said: "The old man Liu from Dongshi is over eighty years old and passed away three years ago. According to the reactions of the children nearby, , the old man loved to tell stories, and he always used the word 'Female Ghost in White' to scare the children, saying that he saw 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 into coming over with a candied haws, and the child retold Old Man Liu's story exactly - on July 14th, there was a heavy rain, and he was woken up by a thunder explosion in the middle of the night, thinking He went to get up for the night, but when he opened the door, he saw a female ghost in white clothes and long hair flying lightly from the door. He was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. "

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

The rainy night three years ago should have been the same scene as the first day Xiao Lou and the others went to the ghost town.

That was a reenactment of the scene, and they also saw with their own eyes the scene of Miss Zhao's marriage.

Xiao Lou clearly remembered that the rain stopped at Yinshi (around three o'clock in the morning). After the rain stopped, Miss Zhao's wedding, there was only one clear thunder in the sky.

Old man Liu has passed away and is definitely not the murderer or an accomplice. As a witness, his description may be exaggerated, but the message of "being awakened by thunder" should be the focus that requires special attention.

Immediately afterwards, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue visited Xue Ersao, 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: "Second Sister-in-law Xue remarried and went to Yuezhou two years ago. However, according to nearby neighbors, she was also awakened by the thunder and remembered whether the bedding she was drying in the yard was there. She ran to collect the bedding, only to see a female ghost with long hair and white clothes floating over the wall and in the direction of the Zhao family, which frightened her and hurried back to the house."

Xiao Lou opened the map that Lao Mo left for him.

Judging from the geographical location, Uncle Liu lives in the easternmost part of the town, and Sister-in-law Xue lives in the southeast of the town. Both of them were awakened by the thunder and saw the female ghost. The time was very close. Maybe the female ghost happened to be there when the thunder sounded. Activities in the southeastern part of town.

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

Liu Qiao stuffed her with a piece of silver and asked her if she knew about the rumors about ghosts. She came over mysteriously and said, "There really is a ghost in our town. On that rainy night three years ago, I had a headache and couldn't sleep. When I heard that the rain had stopped, I got up and wanted to go to the store to sort out the newly arrived fabrics. As soon as I went out, I saw a female ghost in white clothes with hair covering her face, floating past the alley in front of my house. I was so scared that I hurried Get back inside!"

Liu Qiao asked: "Did you hear thunder when you saw the female ghost?"

The landlady thought about it carefully, shook her head and said, "No. It was a long time after the rain stopped that I went out and saw the female ghost."

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

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang went to investigate in person.

Lin Yueran was not as strong as an average butcher. He looked quite gentle when he was not holding a butcher knife, but Yu Hanjiang could see that he was very strong and the muscles in his arms were very strong.

Yu Hanjiang asked bluntly: "Brother, I heard that you saw a female ghost three years ago? My wife likes to hear these supernatural stories the most. Can you tell us about it?"

Lin Yueran looked at Xiao Lou with confusion on his face. Xiao Lou smiled and stuffed him with a piece of silver and said, "My husband and I are traveling around and just want to listen to some ghost stories to relieve our boredom."

Lin Yueran looked complicated: "I have told this story many times. Three years ago, on a night of heavy rain, my son shouted that he needed to pee in the middle of the night. I took him when the rain stopped.

We took him out to relieve ourselves. As soon as we went out, a female ghost in white passed by us lightly. I was startled and quickly took my son home. I thought it was my eyesight, but it turned out that my son also saw a female ghost. It was definitely not a eyesore! "

Xiao Lou asked: "The night you saw the female ghost was a rainy night?"

Lin Yueran nodded: "Yes."

Xiao Lou asked: "Was there lightning and thunder at that time? Didn't it say that when evil spirits appear, there will be visions from the sky?"

Lin Yueran was stunned: "There seems to be..." After a pause, he said firmly: "I did hear thunder."

To prove his statement, he also called out his son.

The child, less than 10 years old, said in a clear voice: "My father is right, we all saw the female ghost. There was thunder in the sky when the female ghost appeared!"

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

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

The child got the candy and said honestly: "I know you. Uncle Zhang went hunting in the morning and said he would hunt some hares for us to roast rabbit meat."

Xiao Lou said: "Has he ever told you stories about evil ghosts?"

The child looked nervous and said: "The ghost is asking for our lives, it's scary! He said he had seen a ghost with his own eyes and told us not to go out at night, otherwise we will be lured away by the ghost."

Yu Hanjiang asked in a low voice: "What did he tell you?"

The child scratched his head and said: "On a rainy night three years ago, he was awakened by thunder in the middle of the night. When he got up, he saw a female ghost in white floating from outside the yard. He slipped and sprained his foot. The next day , someone is missing, and I can’t find him no matter how I look for him, he must have been lured away by a ghost!”

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other and saw a hint of suspicion in each other's eyes.

thunder.

Four of the five "eyewitnesses" said they heard thunder. Only the proprietress of the clothing store said with certainty that she saw the female ghost long after the rain stopped.

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

On a rainy night three years ago, there was only one thunder after the rain stopped. The thunder lasted no longer than 3 seconds. It was impossible for the female ghost played by the murderer to teleport to five places in the town in 3 seconds.

Some of these people must be lying.

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