Hearing my words, Zhang Ying finally realized something, and looked at me in surprise with her eyes wide open and her mouth open.

"Did the Ninth Po harm her?"

I can't answer this question for the time being.

Until now, I have not figured out the real cause of the deaths of several people, and I have no clue who is the killer who killed them. But there is no doubt that the suspicion of the nine women is increasing.

"What about the clothes, will you return them to the ninth woman after they are used up?"

Zhang Ying nodded at me.

I took Zhang Ying and ran back quickly, wanting to go to the ninth mother-in-law's house to find those costumes, maybe there would be something to discover.

But after returning to Jiu Po's house, I searched all corners and didn't find it.

And when I was rummaging through the cabinets, that familiar feeling came again, as if I was being targeted by something.

After looking around for a long time, he finally looked at the large table in the hall.

There is a seven-inch black and white posthumous photo on it, which belongs to the ninth master. When I first entered the Ninth Mother's house, I saw this black-backed photo at first glance. At that time, the corners of the mouth of this photo still hooked up a weird smile. In the past two days, I lived at Jiu Po's house, and I actually ignored this photo.

When I look at it again now, my heart keeps sinking.

I have seen the ninth master in the photo, to be exact, I have seen it in a dream.

He turned out to be the middle-aged man next to the village in the dream, and I couldn't move at a glance.

Even though the old man's face was wrinkled in the photo, the slight smile made me instantly recognizable. No wonder I thought that middle-aged man had eyes before, but I didn't expect it to be him.

"Where did I put it, I obviously came back. ”

Zhang Ying scurried in and out of the ninth woman's house, as if she was in her own home.

"If you can't find it, forget it, tell me about the Ninth Mother and Yingying, where are Yingying's parents, and what is the Ninth Master's job?" I pulled a chair and sat on the edge of the brazier, pointing to the posthumous photo on the table, and the last question was what I was most concerned about.

Hearing my question, Zhang Ying finally quieted down.

"Actually, I haven't seen Yingying's parents either. I just heard that Yingying's father died before she was born, and when she was born, her mother also died. As she was talking, Zhang Ying's voice suddenly lowered, "I heard that after Yingying's mother died, the ninth woman gave birth to Yingying, so she can see some things that normal people can't see." ”

"Didn't you take Yingying with you the day you went to the village school?" I asked.

Zhang Ying nodded, she wanted to take Yingying with her at that time.

But after the ninth woman gave them the costumes, she said that there was still something to do, and she didn't let Yingying go with them.

"What about the Ninth Master, have you seen him?"

"Yes, I used to play with us when I was a child. Zhang Ying said.

In Zhang Ying's impression, Jiu Ye is a very cheerful old man. Although I came here from other places, I was very kind to the children in the village.

And when Zhang Ying was in elementary school, Jiu Ye was still a teacher in the village elementary school.

At that time, no matter who had something to do, the ninth master would be responsible for sending the child home.

Sometimes, they even cook for their children.

It's just that Zhang Ying hasn't graduated from elementary school yet, and the ninth master has already died.

When the ninth master died, the whole village gathered in the village to help with the funeral, and even many people from other villages came. The funeral was quite grand, and it was also the first time in Zhang Ying's life that she faced life and death.

Unlike other children, Jiu Ye is Lao Zhang's godfather, and he is also equivalent to Zhang Ying's grandfather.

"I've only seen the Ninth Master quarrel with the Ninth Po once, just when Qingming was in that year. The ninth master wanted to go to the grave, but the ninth woman stopped him and refused to go. That time the quarrel was so bad that my dad couldn't pull it, and in the end he didn't go to the grave. The ninth master lived in my house for almost a week, and he didn't say a word to the ninth mother. ”

Zhang Ying suddenly raised her head and said to me.

It is a matter of course to go to the grave during the Qingming Festival, but why don't you let you go?

asked Zhang Ying, and she couldn't tell why.

She also asked Lao Zhang, but Lao Zhang's answer was that adults and children should not care.

If I hadn't asked about the Ninth Master today, Zhang Ying would have forgotten about it.

"Who are you going to grave for?" I blurted out.

"I don't know, the ninth master didn't say it, and I didn't dare to ask. It was very scary for the Ninth Master to have a temper, and that was the first time I had seen the Ninth Master lose his temper so much. After a pause, Zhang Ying raised her head and lowered her voice again, "But my dad should know that I woke up in the middle of the night in the past few days and heard Jiu Ye tell my dad a few times......"

The news I got from Zhang Ying now doesn't know if it's useful to me.

Knowing about the matter between Jiu Ye and Yingying made things in the village more complicated.

Zhang Ying went to sleep, slept with Yingying in the ninth woman's room, and left the remaining room to me.

Originally, I wanted Yingying to take out the watercolors she had painted before to find clues, but now I can only wait until tomorrow during the day to find a way. Looking at Zhang Ying's back as she got up, I stared hard at it, but I didn't see why.

Could it be that she is really like a crayon drawing, carrying the three dead classmates on her back?

glanced at the last photo of the ninth master on the table, and decided to go back to the room first.

I'm not idle, I'm drawing.

The talisman drawn on Zhang Daming's daughter-in-law's clothes during the day did not work, I don't know if it was an accident, a coincidence or a fate?

But if there is even the slightest hope, I will not give up.

This time, I drew more seriously than during the day, and I drew it directly on the rune paper, and after I finished it, I put it close to my body before lying down.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already dawn, and although it was still gloomy, the rain finally stopped.

Walking out of the room, Zhang Ying and Yingying sat facing each other, staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

"Didn't the Ninth Po come back?" I asked the two of them.

"Came back once in the morning, took something and left. ”

What the hell happened? Jiu Po has been in a panic for the past two days, and even said that she and Lao Zhang might die, and entrusted Yingying to me to take care of.

"I took those costumes...... Zhang Ying surprised me too.

Last night, Zhang Ying and I almost turned the house of the ninth woman upside down, but we didn't find anything.

But in the morning, the ninth woman took this thing and left.

"What are you going to do with the costumes?" I asked.

Zhang Ying and Yingying looked at me and couldn't answer my question at all.

Originally, I wanted to go to the village school alone to see what was going on, but thinking of Zhang Ying holding a woodcutter that night, I didn't dare to leave Yingying and Zhang Ying together.