Waiting for the second morning, Liu Sheng came to the book building early, and coincidentally, Fang Po and Mu Hibiscus had just arrived.

"I hope there will be a new breakthrough today!" said Fang Po, who was walking inside, to Yanagi and Hibiscus who followed behind.

As soon as the dead man walked in, a man of about 30 years old, dressed in casual clothes and carrying a string of beads in his hand, walked up to the three of them.

"I heard that two men and a woman are looking for me, and they have something to do with the bronze vessel, my name is Lin Chi. The man said directly.

Yanagi thought for a moment and said, "Is there anything you need our help with?"

Fang Po and Mu Hibiscus were once again confused by Liu Sheng's words, so they asked, "Let's ask him for help." ”

"He knows the bronze vessel, which proves that he also knows the pattern and the three corpses to continue his life, I don't believe that he doesn't watch the news, and he is involved in a murder, and ordinary people who want to be involved. After Liu Sheng explained to Fang Po and Mu Hibiscus, he asked Lin Chi again: "It's not profitable, what do you want?"

Lin Chi stretched out his hand and pointed to the table, motioned to sit down, and said.

"Little brother, I'd better tell you about the three corpses first. ”

In Lin Chi's introduction, I learned:

In ancient times, in order to seek immortality, the emperor summoned all the capable people in the world, in order to obtain the magic method of immortality, and the warlocks who came came showed their magical powers.

But the methods given by the warlocks did not work, and the emperor was furious and ordered to kill all the warlocks in the world.

At that time, in order to save the world's warlocks, a warlock named Xu Feng presented the method of renewing his life with three corpses to the emperor, and the emperor ordered Xu Feng to complete the sacrifice himself.

At that time, the queen of the emperor's harem and the two concubines bewitched the emperor, so that the emperor made many wrong decisions, and made the people miserable, Xu Feng was to save the world's warlocks, and the second was to take this opportunity to remove the queen and two concubines for the world, so he made up three corpses to continue his life, anyway, the emperor, who was bent on seeking immortality, believed everything when he heard it.

At that time, Xu Feng said to the emperor that the three corpses needed to be ground into powder and put into a special bronze dish, refined into a pill, and released into immortality after eating, but only one could be refined, and the reason why he said that he could only refine one was because he was afraid that he would take it or let others try it.

The three corpses must be drowned ghosts who can't swim, starving ghosts and half-dead ghosts who can eat! They must be women, or they must be people who have a relationship with the emperor, let them rot naturally, and then take their skulls.

In the end, Xu Fengda said: "I have found the most suitable person for the emperor, the queen is a drowned ghost, Xiao Guifei can eat, and she will act as a starving ghost, and Wang Guifei, who fell off the horse while riding a horse some time ago, and is now bedridden, in line with the half-dead ghost." ”

At that time, although the emperor was furious after hearing this, he still obeyed Xu Feng's method in order to live forever.

In the end, there was only one pill, and the emperor was reluctant to let others try the pill, and the emperor who took the pill returned to heaven not long after.

When the new emperor appeared, he knew that Xu Feng was doing good deeds for the world, but he still killed Xu Feng, and finally in order not to let Xu Feng's efforts go in vain, he put all the warlocks he had arrested home.

After the warlocks returned home, in order to commemorate Xu Feng, they recorded the life of the three corpses in the book, which was originally a means of killing, but after a long time, some people slowly believed that the life of the three corpses was a sacrifice of longevity and a hundred years old.

After Lin Chi finished speaking, Liu Sheng said: "There are still people who believe in this, how can everyone have it!"

"If your death is near, why not try?" Lin Chi said again.

Lin Chi looked at the thoughtful Liu Sheng, and then continued: "I heard that the bronze vessel will be auctioned in the Beijing market, and it was auctioned by an old man surnamed Jin at a high price, and I can also give you the address." ”

After Lin Chi finished speaking, he stood up, took out the water cup from the backpack he was carrying, took a sip of water and said again: "You're right, it's not profitable, I can't afford to be early, I want a bronze dish after the matter is completed." ”

"You also want to live forever?" Fang Po asked puzzled.

Yanagi laughed, and then said, "He doesn't need to live forever when he gets sick, because his illness is poor. ”

"Haha, smart, the bronze vessel is an old object in ancient times, plus the legend of the three corpses continuing to live, it must be priceless, I am the owner of the antique shop, if you need help, you can come to me at No. 88 Antique Street at any time!"

After Lin Chi finished speaking, he left Liu Sheng's contact information, and then left the library directly, and after a while, Liu Sheng received an address in Beijing on his mobile phone.

Liu Sheng felt that he took Ren Xiadong to Beijing, after all, both of them were northerners, and they were relatively familiar with Beijing.

When he was leaving that afternoon, Liu Sheng suddenly thought in his heart, "Youyou drowned ghost, Sister Lei starved to death, who will be the half-dead ghost?"

Liu Sheng thought about it, and suddenly said to Fang Po, who sent the two to the airport: "Recently, I went to the hospital to check the list of all the terminally ill people, and it was almost a month." ”

Yanagi felt that if someone used this kind of sacrifice, it would require terminally ill dying people to be half-dead ghosts, so he collected eligible patients, and in the end, there was really no way, so he came to lure the snake out of the hole.

After a two-hour flight, Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong walked out of Beijing Airport at four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Oh, it's a good feeling to go back to the north, the smell of smog and car exhaust, ah! the smell of home. Ren Xiadong opened his arms, closed his eyes and took a deep breath and said.

Liu Sheng didn't say anything, because he just wanted to find out about this matter quickly, although it was not his job, but this matter made Liu Sheng very interested, and he wanted to find out about this matter anyway, and he just wanted Liu Jing to feel better, of course, Ren Xiadong was here to play.

Liu Sheng took a taxi directly and took Ren Xiadong to the old man's house, the old man Jin lived in an alley, which was full of courtyards, and the people who could live here were rich people, of course, the people who lived here usually either walked birds or tinkered with antiques or antiques.

When he came to the door of the old man Jin's house, he saw that the door was not locked, but the door could not be opened, Ren Xiadong stepped forward and knocked a few times, but there was no movement inside, because Liu Sheng knew that there would be victims if it dragged on, and Liu Sheng, who couldn't wait to solve the case, wanted to kick open the door in a fit of anger.

As soon as Yanagi raised his legs, an old man's voice appeared behind him, "Young man, be merciful at your feet, the door is carved from fine wood." ”

Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong turned to look at the old man at the same time, the old man was full of white hair, wearing a Tang costume, with genetic Buddha beads around his neck, and a birdcage in his hand, looking very tough, not looking like an old man at all.

Ren Xiadong pointed at them and asked, "Is there anyone in this family?"

Liu Sheng grabbed Ren Xiadong and said, "Don't ask, he is." ”

Then he looked at the old man and said, "I have come today for the bronze vessel." ”

Since the old man cherishes this wooden door so much, how can ordinary people care so much about other people's doors, so Liu Sheng believes that the old man in front of him is the old man Jin.

Old man Jin was not reluctant, but said directly: "Please inside." ”

There was a handle in front of the door, Old Man Jin turned it lightly twice, and the door opened, Old Man Jin brought Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong into the living room, and then poured a cup of tea for Liu Sheng and each of them.

Before Liu Sheng could ask again, Old Man Jin took the initiative to say: "I did photograph the bronze dish some time ago, but the day before yesterday, a person suddenly came and stole it over the wall." ”

"Why didn't you call the police?" Liu Sheng hurriedly asked, feeling that Old Man Jin was lying to himself, and the things he had just bought at a high price were stolen by people, and he was so calm.

Old man Jin listened to Liu Sheng's questioning, without a trace of dissatisfaction, but said with a smile: "Look at my things here, which one is not more valuable than a bronze dish, the thief just stole the bronze vessel after he came, which is enough to prove that he just wants a bronze dish, if I call the police and provoke the thief, if he comes back to retaliate, I will lose more than I gain, it is not worth it, I am very grateful to him, I didn't touch anything else." ”

After hearing this, Liu Sheng felt that what Old Man Jin said made sense, looked at the cameras around him again, and said, "I need to see the surveillance that day." ”

Old man Jin took a sip of tea, then waved his hand, and continued: "I have never been a thief before, so there was no monitoring before, and it happened the day before yesterday, so I pretended to be monitored, and the reason why I am polite to you is also afraid that you will do unimaginable things to these treasures in my collection." ”

Old man Jin saw that Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong had no ill intentions, but just came towards the bronze vessel, so he asked again, "Do you want to treat people?"

"We're here to investigate the case, and it has something to do with the bronze vessel. ”

After that, Liu Sheng told the old man Jin about this visit, and the old man Jin also said that he could not do anything, and the things had been stolen.

Yanagi knew that if something was lost, it would definitely appear in Chongshi, because the places where the crime occurred were all in Chongshi, and if the murderer wanted to sacrifice, he would definitely have to be in Chongshi.

On the plane back, Ren Xiadong said: "Bai is here." ”

"It's not in vain, at least I know that the murderer has come, even if it's not the murderer, it's the murderer's helper. Yanagi said with a squint.

It was already midnight after returning to Chongshi, the two went home and slept for a while, and the next morning, Liu Sheng took Ren Xiadong to the bureau, and the two ate pancakes while waiting for the police officers to come to work.

After the two finished breakfast, the police officers came to work one after another.

"How's it going?, did you find it?" Fang Po asked urgently.

Liu Sheng shook his head, saying that he didn't find it, Fang Po also began to frown, and the clue was broken again, he thought it was a suicide case, but he didn't expect it to be more and more confusing now.

"Yanagi Sheng! This is the list of terminal illnesses you asked to check in the past month, there are 10 people, 8 of them are old people, which one do you think is the murderer?" Mu Hibiscus said to Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng didn't even look at it, and said directly: "Go and find out who these ten people have been to Beijing two days ago, and if not, check their families!"

Mu Hibiscus didn't dare to slack off, because he didn't listen to Yanagi, and there was no other way, at this time, the police in the bureau were in a desperate situation, feeling that this murderer was too cunning and had no clues at all, so everyone's hopes were pinned on Yanagi.

Liu Sheng is also very uncomfortable now, if there is no one he wants among these ten people, then there will be no clues at all, the heavy market is so big, if there is no evidence to find a person, it is looking for a needle in a haystack.

Just when everyone was silent, the policemen who went out to look for the tattoo artist came back and said: "We have asked the tattoo artists in the whole city, and no one has ever tattooed this pattern, and no one has even seen this pattern." ”

At this time, Fang Po slammed the water cup on the ground and shouted loudly: "The murderer is too cunning! I will not let the crime be committed again within my jurisdiction! If I catch him, I will definitely break him into pieces!"

Fang Po's mood is very understandable to everyone here, this is the biggest case that has occurred in Chongshi in recent years, but it has made the entire police station helpless, which makes Fang Po's face somewhat unbearable, and he also began to doubt whether he still has the ability to be a good policeman.

Of course, at this time, Yanagi sat on the side, his hands on his head, his eyes closed, and his mind kept thinking about what had happened in the last few days.

"Youyou is not a suicide, it is related to the continuation of the life of the three corpses, the murderer wants to continue his life, so he needs Youyou and Sister Lei to make a medicine primer, and he also needs a bronze dish, then the murderer must be a seriously ill person in the family, no, where is the half-dead ghost, is there another victim we haven't found yet." ”