Ancestral halls, that is, temples that worship ancestors or sages, no matter where in China, ancestral halls are all over the city and countryside.

A place, the ancestral hall is the largest family temple, as an important local public building, generally placed at both ends of the village and town, near the mountain or where there is a slope, the scale is mostly not too small, less than two in, more than four or five in, the building is gradually coiled up according to the terrain, and the main building is generally placed behind the hall. In ancient Chinese Confucian ethics, the concept of family is quite profound, and often a village lives with one surname or multiple surname tribes.

Of course, there are also limits to the level of building ancestral halls, which are divided into ancestral halls, branch ancestral halls and family ancestral halls. At that time, the ancestral halls were built in the cemetery, called the tomb shrine, and then set up the "family ceremony" that is, the ancestral hall system, and called the family temple the ancestral hall.

Most of the ancestral halls have a hall number, the hall number is written by the clansman or the calligraphy master of the foreign surname, made of a golden plaque to hang high in the main hall, next to the surname of the origin, the glory of the clan, the chastity of women and other plaques, the exquisite is also equipped with a couplet.

According to historical research, if it is the imperial seal of the emperor in ancient times, it can be made 'straight plaque'. The size and number of plaques in the ancestral hall are the capital of the clansmen, and some of the ancestral halls have flagpole stones in front of them, indicating that the ancestors have made meritorious names or have been reused in the army.

Generally speaking, the ancestral hall has a surname and an ancestral hall, and the old family rules were very strict, not to mention the foreign surname, that is, the women or minor children in the clan are not allowed to enter without permission, otherwise they will be severely punished, and the light is a bamboo stick, and the heavy is expelled from the clan.

Then, the place where the bodies of local bigwigs such as Old Man Mu and Mu Yufei are placed is, of course, the ancestral hall in the town.

It is said that the cause of Mu Yufei's death was exactly the same as that of Old Man Mu, the neck was cut off with a rope, and after his death, the murderer cut his throat with a blunt instrument and bled out, which was extremely cruel. I don't know what the local police station is thinking about, no one cares about such a big case, and the body was hastily placed in the ancestral hall, and the reason for this is definitely problematic.

I don't know who has said that hospitals, schools, prisons and ancestral halls, these four places are places where unjust souls gather, and at that time, Qiu Yan found out that that kind of statement was not groundless.

In fact, there are many places even so, such as hospitals, although people come and go during the day, everyone does not feel and do not notice anything, it is these ordinary and ordinary places, when it comes to night, it seems to become another country, a dark and cold corner. I don't know if you've ever visited a patient at night, but it seems that no matter how hot the climate is, somewhere in the corridor of the hospital, it's always cold, the cool breeze hits, and the pores are dilated with the air, which is very uncomfortable.

With the exception of ancestral halls, humans have an innate reverence for the place where the corpses are placed. Therefore, the ancestral hall inexplicably has a sense of depression, as if there is a thin veil shrouded in a layer of mystery, with a hint of weirdness.

"Is there anyone guarding nearby?" Qiu Yan asked in a low voice as he glanced around.

"No, cremation has been practiced in recent years, and corpses are rarely stored in the ancestral hall, so the old man who used to be a guard went back a few days ago. The little third son shook his head.

"Good, so I'm relieved. Qiu Yan took out the wire he was carrying, broke the cumbersome old-fashioned copper lock in three or two times, pushed the door hard, and with a 'creak', the closed sandalwood door slowly moved to the left and right, revealing a gap that could allow two people to pass side by side. The cold air continued to pour out through the crack in the door, and it seemed to be a little colder than the cold air flow outside.

With a light step, he closed the door. Qiu Yan wrapped his coat and walked in first.

"Mu Yufei's body is in the innermost one, according to tradition, it should be side by side in the coffin under the corpse of Old Man Mu. Walking in the hall, the little third son's lips trembled coldly. Qiu Yan nodded and quickened his pace.

Under the exploration, the coffins of Old Man Mu and Mu Yufei were indeed the same as described by Xiao Sanzi, and they were placed in the innermost room. Qiu Yan ignored Old Man Mu's body, after all, he had been dead for many days, and although the climate was cold now, the body was still decomposing, and it was worthless to examine. Qiu Yan jumped over in one step, pried open the lid of Mu Yufei's coffin, took out the flashlight prepared in advance, and began to examine his body.

"He had no water in his lungs or stomach, and it seems that he had been thrown into the water after he had died. Qiu Yan pressed his lower abdomen, and then stroked his hand along the fatal wound on the corpse's neck, and his face began to become solemn. "It's weird.." Qiu Yan muttered.

"I know!" Suddenly, the little third son was also paying attention to the wound with his eyes down, and suddenly shouted excitedly. "The murderer must be left-handed!" he explained to Qiu Yan proudly, pointing to the wound. "His fatal wound was on the neck, indicating that the murderer attacked him from behind, and the knife wound was from right to left, and the left knife was slightly higher than the right one, which showed that the murderer used to hold a knife in his left hand, and it seems that we should pay more attention to left-handers in the future. ”

"No, the killer is not left-handed. Qiu Yan thought for a moment and pointed to the strangulation marks on the corpse. "The cause of Mu Yufei's death was that he was strangled by a rope from behind, and finally suffocated to death. If you look closely at the strangulation marks, will you find that the right side is slightly higher than the left side? This shows that he is accustomed to the right hand, and people are accustomed to that hand, and in their minds, they will subconsciously think that the dominant hand is stronger than the other hand, and no matter what they do that requires the cooperation of both hands, the main force will often be the dominant hand. ”

Xiao Sanzi defended unconvinced. "But the knife wounds on the corpse were obviously caused by left-handers, could it be that there was more than one murderer?"

"No, it's the same person, it's just that the guy is quite cunning, at least he knows how to confuse the public. Qiu Yan then gestured with his palm. "Although the incision is from left to right, and the right side is a little higher than the left, if you look at the rightmost entry point, it is the deepest in the whole wound. ”

In other words, the murderer did not wipe Mu Yufei's throat with his left hand behind his back at all. On the contrary, after he strangled Mu Yufei, he put the body on the ground, and on the front of the body, he used his right hand to hold the handle of the knife and cut his throat. ”

"Tsk, I see. The little third son suddenly realized, suddenly frowned slightly, stared at Qiu Yan with puzzled eyes, and asked suspiciously. "Are you really about the same age as me? As if you know everything, and you are so experienced in autopsies? Honestly, what kind of person are you, Liang Qiuyan? Seeing that you are dressed luxuriously, you are definitely not an ordinary person, what do you want to do when you come to Foshan Town, a poor and remote place?"