Zhang Fu knelt in front of the tombstone, his face was covered with blood, a pair of eyes were ripped away alive, and the blood was left on both sides of his face along the eye sockets and coagulated.

In addition to the eyes, Zhang Fu's ten fingers on both hands are also missing a knuckle, and the ten fingers are facing down, which means that someone grabbed Zhang Fu's ten fingers and pressed them to the ground, and broke them alive.

Such a brutal method is undoubtedly revealing a message that the murderer is extremely cruel.

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"Mr. Fang, according to my experience, this is not a vendetta, nor should it be a revenge killing. ”

Cao Liang spoke at this time, "We have investigated Zhang Fu's experience, before he was burned on his face, he was an ordinary migrant worker, and later entered the cemetery because of the disfigurement caused by the fire in the rented house. ”

In the past 20 years, Zhang Fu has spent most of his time in the cemetery, and he has not had much contact with the outside world, and there will be no one to offend in this job. ”

"Besides, Zhang Fu's death, his eyes were gouged out, and then his fingers were crushed alive, this kind of cruel killing method generally has only two possibilities, revenge or punishment. ”

"But the former has been ruled out by me, so there is one last possibility, that is, this is the murderer's punishment for Zhang Fu. ”

Listening to Cao Liang's words, Fang Ming's face was gloomy, "Then what do you think Zhang Fu did wrong and would be punished like this?

"Mr. Fang, we found something strange in the house where Zhang Fu lived. ”

Cao Liang said something meaningfully, Fang Ming was stunned, and then followed Cao Liang towards the place where Zhang Fu lived.

Zhang Fu has worked in the cemetery for more than 20 years, but the place where he lives is only a small wooden house, which was temporarily built 20 years ago, and Zhang Fu has lived here for the past 20 years.

At this moment, there were several Cao Liang's team members in and out of the wooden house, and they hurriedly greeted Cao Liang and Fang Ming when they saw them coming.

Fang Ming ignored these team members and walked straight into Zhang Fu's wooden house, and the moment he entered the wooden house, he understood why Cao Liang said that there was something special in Zhang Fu's house.

In Zhang Fu's wooden house, there are three coffins, a normal black coffin, a red coffin and a white coffin.

The three coffins took up almost half of the room, followed by an earthen stove, a table, and a wooden bed.

It's simple, but it's neat and clean.

"Mr. Fang, we have seen that the inside of these three coffins is empty. Cao Liang introduced the situation on the side.

Fang Ming was silent for a while, and then suddenly said: "Dig the grave, dig up the tomb that was recently buried in the cemetery." ”

"Ahh

Hearing Fang Ming's request, Cao Liang was stunned for a moment, but he was a decisive person, although he didn't know what Fang Ming's intention was in asking for this, he still nodded and did it.

Every grave buried in the cemetery is recorded, and when Cao Liang took people to dig the grave, Fang Ming was still in the wooden house, and he was observing everything in the wooden house.

Hot water bottles, thermos mugs, yellowed newspapers, old-fashioned flashlights, everything looks like a family in the nineties and early twenties, which shows that Zhang Fu is not a person who enjoys it very much, and it can even be said that he has no pursuit of anything outside his body.

Finally, Fang Ming's gaze fell on the wooden bed, and the bed was lifted, and a layer of newspaper was spread underneath, but there was obviously a bulge on the side near the inside.

When I opened the newspaper, I saw something underneath, a notebook with a red cover, somewhat similar to the one used in the 90s, with the Tiananmen Square pattern on the cover.

Holding the notebook in his hand, Fang Ming's eyes were two-colored, because there was no dust on this notebook, which could only show one point, that is, Zhang Fu often took out this notebook before his death.

Perhaps, the secret of Zhang Fu is recorded in this notebook.

When he saw these three coffins, Fang Ming knew that Zhang Fu was not just a cemetery keeper, but also had some unknown secrets hidden in Zhang Fu's body.

On the first page of the notebook, the handwriting on it was already a little yellowed, but Fang Ming could see the last time, twenty-three years ago, which means that the content on this notebook was written by Zhang Fu twenty-three years ago.

After reading carefully, Fang Ming finally knew Zhang Fu's past.

Twenty-four years ago, Zhang Fu was disfigured by a fire in his rental house, and he stayed in the hospital for half a year before he was discharged, because he was not injured at the construction site, so it was not considered a work-related injury.

The money for hospital treatment is still from the landlord, but don't think about the compensation, Zhang Fu, who was penniless and disfigured, did not have the face to return to his hometown to see his wife, and directly went through the divorce procedures with his wife, and then came to the cemetery.

It was a dark time, at least for Zhang Fu, and it wasn't until three or four years that he came out of the shadows, but even so, he still didn't dare to appear in front of the living, because he couldn't stand the disgust or sympathy of the other party.

A lonely man with a rich inner mind, Zhang Fu chose to write down everything in the form of a diary, and this habit lasted for more than ten years, until ten years ago.

Zhang Fu's diary was almost at the end here, and what caught Fang Ming's attention was a passage in it.

"I met him, I never knew that there were ghosts in this world before I met him, he opened my eyes, so that I could see the ghosts of the whole cemetery, so that I could communicate with the ghosts, and I was no longer alone. ”

Judging from the handwriting, Fang Ming could detect Zhang Fu's happy mood at that time, without the slightest fear of seeing a ghost, but more happiness, because the ghost did not dislike his hideous face.

The following days were very dull, Zhang Fu was immersed in dealing with ghosts every day, and he felt that the ghosts of these cemeteries were his relatives and friends.

However, things changed six years ago.

"He came, and after six years of opening my eyes to heaven, he reappeared again, and he gave me a task that I wanted to refuse, but he told me that if I refused, not only would I die, but these ghosts would die. ”

"He killed several of my friends in front of me, which made me angry, but I knew that I was no match for him, he was a demon, and I had to agree to his request in order to prevent more friends from being killed. ”

"Every month, according to his request, I dig up the ashes of the corpses that meet the requirements and put them in the three coffins he brought to me, and he will come once a month to carry the coffins away, and the next day, he will bring the empty coffins. ”

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Seeing this, Fang Ming's pupils shrank, and the content behind it was almost the same, probably Zhang Fu was recounting the pain in his heart.

Until the last page.

"In the past two months, there have been no new dead people coming in the cemetery, but he actually dug up the ashes of my friends, which is not acceptable to me, I have to resist......"

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The content of the notebook ends here, Zhang Fu mentioned resistance, but the specific how to resist is not written on it.

Fang Ming was silent, and at this moment, Cao Liang walked in from the door.

"Mr. Fang, there is a major discovery, after we dug up the latest grave buried in the cemetery, the urn inside was gone, and judging from the color of the soil, this grave should have been dug up twice not long ago. ”

Cao Liang's expression was slightly excited, but Fang Ming just handed him the notebook and motioned for him to look at the contents.

"What is this?"

Cao Liang took the notebook and quickly read the contents, and the shock on his face became stronger and stronger.

"This Fu Prison guarded and stole himself, helped people steal the urns of the dead in the cemetery, and then transported them through these three coffins?"

Taking a deep breath, Cao Liang suppressed the shock in his heart, but his face showed confusion, "I've seen people stealing all kinds of things, but I've never seen anyone stealing ashes, and even if you want to steal the ashes, you can just take them away, why do you want Zhang Fu to put them in these three coffins?"

Because these three coffins have different meanings, the black coffin is for the deceased who have married but are not yet seventy years old, the red coffin is for the deceased who is over 90 years old, and the white coffin is for the deceased who died before the age of majority. ”

Fang Ming explained, people living ninety years are considered happy and mourning even if they die, so red coffins are used in many places, while normal people die black coffins, and white coffins are only used by those children who die or are not married.

These three coffins are not simple, they are all made of more than 100 years of wood locust wood, but there is a proverb in the folk called: mulberry, jujube, du, pear, acacia, do not enter the yin and yang house. ”

"These five kinds of wood are generally not used to make furniture or coffins, and locust wood originally has the effect of attracting yin spirits, but if it is made into a coffin, it is equivalent to a closed space, trapping yin spirits in it. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the people behind Zhang Fu asked Zhang Fu to dig up the ashes that were all ghosts who did not go to the underworld, and dug up his ashes, and these ghosts were trapped in the coffin, and then taken away. ”

"So, stealing the ashes is not the purpose at all, the real purpose is for those ghosts. ”

Fang Ming had a look of certainty in his eyes, this was the purpose of the people behind Zhang Fu to do this, and choosing Zhang Fu was just to keep things from being discovered.

In other words, Zhang Fu's death was because he did not complete the task assigned to him by the people behind him and was unwilling to dig the grave again, so the people behind him were angry and killed him brutally. ”

Cao Liang also quickly made a judgment, after all, he is a criminal policeman with rich experience in solving cases, and many things can be inferred by drawing inferences.