Chapter 291: Nine Lives (No.)
To be honest, this case can't be investigated at all, and nothing is left at the scene except a plastic rope used to tie up cats. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAs for the footprints and the traces left when climbing the locust tree, they have long been made unrecognizable by Xiao Liuzi's trip up and down. Besides, it was just a dead cat, and there was no way to file a case, and then the police officers of the police station went to a nearby alley to learn about the lost pet, and found nothing abnormal, so they thought that someone was playing a prank, and did not investigate again.
But in January, March and April of 98, there were three identical cat killings in No. 89 Hospital, and all the dead cats were hung on the big locust tree, and Grandma Cai persevered to report the case three times, hoping to find the murderer of the cat. However, the police station did not receive a report of the loss of pet cats from nearby residents, and arranged for a special person to go to the courtyard to investigate, but there was no clue.
Naturally, it was impossible for the police station to waste too much police force on a few dead cats, and this matter was put down again.
It is said that later Grandma Cai also organized nearby neighbors and tenants to squat in the courtyard at night, hoping to catch the murderer of the cat, but still found nothing.
After turning the pages, it can be seen that the police station does not attach importance to this matter, the police report is very simple, and there are no photos of the scene, it seems that if you want to know more about the situation, you can only go to Courtyard 89 to find Grandma Cai.
I thanked Deputy Director Li, made a copy of the useful information, and hurriedly walked out of the police station.
On the way home, I kept wondering, what exactly does it mean to hang four dead cats on the big locust tree? On the surface, it should be a kind of intimidation of the residents, and the old couple of the Cai family must not be the target of intimidation, everything happened after Lao Zhang moved in, and it should be related to Lao Zhang.
But if Lao Zhang came to Beijing to avoid debts and lived in a miscellaneous courtyard, then when he saw the dead cat and saw this naked intimidation, he should have made some moves, either move away and hide again, or find a way to catch the intimidator, but the strange thing is that he doesn't seem to think that this matter has anything to do with him, and continues to live in the hospital for half a year until there is a car accident, which is really unreasonable.
Of course, it may be that Lao Zhang has done a lot of coping in private, and of course I can't get any information from the police station, so I can only hope to talk to Grandma Cai and see what I find. But one thing can be judged, this is by no means a prank of cat abusers, skinning, disemboweling, especially in the top of the cat's head, and hanging, it looks more like some unknown horror ritual.
Walking back to his alley, he happened to pass by Ma Wu's lottery ticket sales point, and was about to go in and talk to the two of them, when suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. I took out the copies from my bag, looked at them again, listed the time when the dead cat appeared, and turned out the time of Lao Zhang's accidents, and compared them. Hurriedly recorded it on a piece of paper, and hurriedly ran into Ma Wu's lottery ticket sales point.
Ma Wu was not there, only Lu Xiaojuan was the only one in the store, and when she saw me coming in, she hurriedly got up and greeted me out. I couldn't care about being polite, and asked her anxiously, "Xiaojuan, can you help me adjust the time when Lao Zhang won the first prize a few times." ”
Lu Xiaojuan nodded, skillfully operating in front of the computer, and asked me a little anxiously: "Uncle Chang, what, do you have any clues?" I shook my head, "Not yet, it's just a conjecture, but the Cao team will come back tomorrow, and he will check it better, but you don't have to worry, Lao Zhang's matter has nothing to do with you." ”
Lu Xiaojuan nodded worriedly, and soon, she took a pen, wrote a few numbers on the paper and handed it to me.
As I guessed, a few simple numbers tied me up like an invisible net. The connection between these numbers is obvious, the time when Lao Zhang encountered an accident, pushed forward three days, is the time of the cat killing incident, and the cat killing incident is pushed forward by four days, which is the time when Lao Zhang won the lottery.
That is to say, there is a direct causal relationship between these events, winning the lottery, there is a dead cat, accidents, everything is reincarnated in situ, then the breakpoint of this reincarnation is from Lu Xiaojuan copied Lao Zhang's lottery numbers, so Xiaojuan will fall into this reincarnation? But these are still too early to conclude, several key questions have not yet been answered, how did Lao Zhang lose in the gambling game in Beijing, and how did he predict the winning numbers of the lottery? What is the purpose of his room of radios? What was the use of the few pieces of paper full of numbers in his bag? Why did Handan Zhao Shaocheng live in Courtyard No. 89 after that?
To be honest, the complexity of Lao Zhang's experience has far exceeded my imagination, and all I can do at present is to visit Grandma Cai, and then go into Lao Zhang's room to check, and see if Team Cao has a way to find Wu San and find that Zhao Shaocheng through him. But I vaguely felt that perhaps the truth of this matter would be introduced into the fog of countless coincidences, and there would never be a day of re-discovery.
I didn't feel sleepy that night, I could hardly sleep, so I simply turned out a dozen thick genealogies and carefully checked them. I remember seeing a special kind of witchcraft in the family tree, which is the so-called life sustaining technique. One of his ancestors seems to have studied it carefully, but there is no result, it turns out that he has never taken it seriously, and only thinks it is an ethereal myth. But when I think of the cat's bizarre death, I don't think it looks like a simple animal cruelty, could it be that there is really a life-sustaining technique in this world?
At about eleven o'clock, the mobile phone suddenly "dripped" and rang, I took the mobile phone and saw that it was a text message from the Cao team, telling me that he and Xiaolei would take a plane back to Beijing early tomorrow morning and meet at my house at noon.
With vague memories, I finally found a record of life renewal in the genealogy. The story takes place in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and a series of missing people occurred in Laizhou, Shandong. At that time, the prefect of Laizhou was called Han Jie, and he was Chengzu's staff in his early years. After the success of his ancestors, he served as the prefect of Laizhou and worked for eight years.
In the land of Laizhou, when Chengzu went south, it was a battlefield, and there were some hills and mountains around, and bandits gathered. Han Jie was born in the imperial examination, and he has some skills, and he used both grace and power, and it didn't take long to clear the bandits, and the Laizhou Mansion was quite stable. But in the eighth year of Yongle, on the Mopan Mountain in the east of Laizhou, meteorites fell from the sky, the earth shook the mountains, and leveled more than ten acres of mountains and forests.
A month or two later, there was a mass disappearance of people in Laizhou.
First of all, the farmers near Mopan Mountain disappeared for no reason, and a total of three people did not know their whereabouts. Two months later, a talented scholar in Laizhou Mansion disappeared near Mopan Mountain, and the two traveling caravans disappeared on the official road north of the old state mansion to Zhili, and even one of the errand officers who went to Mopan to investigate the disappearance of the population was missing. Within a few months, the number of missing people reported by the government reached 15, and although the government widely spread the eyeliner, there were still no clues.
For a while, the whole Laizhou Mansion was rumored that the meteorite that fell that day was actually an ancient mythical beast, called the Monkey, which looked ugly and was the size of a cow, but it liked to eat human brains, and those who disappeared were taken away by the Monkey, the brains were eaten, and the bones were thrown into the mountain stream. This story is told in a way that many people believe it to be true, and they dare not go at night.
Han Jie didn't believe in the existence of such a monster, and he ate more than a dozen people, but no one had ever seen it with his own eyes, let alone left any traces, which was absolutely impossible. And it can't be wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, these fierce beasts, a few years ago, during the war, the trees on the nearby mountains were burned out, and there were no fierce beasts in a radius of 100 miles. This unsolved case has been clueless for almost a year, but there are more than thirty missing people, Han Jie has no choice, so he sent a letter to my ancestor Chang Wannian.
Chang Wannian also lived in Chengzu's shogunate in the early years, but he felt that Chengzu was too suspicious, and he liked to get rid of things that he couldn't control, and the art of yin and yang ghosts and gods might bring ruin to the Chang family, in addition, at that time, the Liu family was in power in the court, and always stumbling on the Chang family was also the reason why the ancestors stayed away from the court.
But Chang Wannian and Han Jie have a deep friendship, and Han Jie had no choice but to ask the ancestors who lived in seclusion in the capital to come out of the mountain to help solve the mystery of the disappearance.
When the ancestor arrived in Laizhou Mansion, he led people to investigate the situation of all the missing people, and confirmed that the missing places were all Mopan Mountain and the official road under the mountain. During the visit, the ancestors found that there were three small population towns around Mopan Mountain, among which Hekou Town and Dongshan Town on the south side of the mountain had reports of missing people, and even many residents of the town moved to Laizhou City for fear of the infestation of wild beasts. Only in Chengning Town, north of Mopan Mountain, everyone doesn't seem to care about any beasts, and there are no reports of missing people, let alone relocation.
The ancestor asked the people of Chengning Town about the cannibalism of the beast, and everyone shook their heads and said that they couldn't tell clearly, but they often showed an unfathomable smile. It seems that if there is a beast, it does not seem to be active in the north of Mopan Mountain.
But the ancestors believed that if the legend of the beast was true, then the bones of the missing people would have been found in the Mopan Mountain, and if there were horse bandits, the missing people would have been captured in the mountains. The ancestor consulted with the Han prefect, brought more than a dozen officials in the city, and recruited some villagers, brought enough food, and went into the mountains to check.
(The face of Confucius, but the Tao is followed.) The Tao is a thing, but it is in a trance. In a trance, there is an image, and in a trance, there is an object. There is essence in it, and its essence is very true, and there is faith in it. From now upon and from ancient times, its name has not been left to read the public. --Tao Te Ching)