Chapter 73: Nose Cutting (Today's Second Update)
At night, Pei Yao, Chen Zhiman, and Mu Chuyu lived in Xu Lizheng's house as a matter of course.
Pei Yao lives in one room by herself, and Chen Zhiman and Mu Chuyu live in one room.
The flames jumped and flickered, and Pei Yao saw Duan Liling's soul-soothing face from the bronze mirror, and couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
Duan Liling wore my human skin mask on his face, but ...... She just brought such a one, and didn't bring an extra mask to replace, if it takes a long time to get acne and disfigure, will she kill me? Pei Yao couldn't help but shudder when she thought of this.
The knock on the door rang out untimely.
Who's going to knock on the door at this time, it's already been a change? Could it be a ghost?
"Who?" Pei Yao thought that the ghost should not be so polite, but her whole body was still tense into a bow.
"Me!"
Chen Zhiman? What is he here for?
With a full stomach full of doubts, she got up and untied the latch and opened the door: "Chen Zhutou still came to me so late, is there anything wrong?" โ
She deliberately followed Duan Liling's example, and flew the eyelashes like a small fan in front of her.
"Liling, I haven't seen you for so long, don't you want to catch up with me?" Chen Zhiman's words were full of teasing, and the two mustaches on his mouth made him more personable and charming.
It's a pity that Pei Yao is not emotional, interested, and interesting to her uncle!
She silently rolled her eyes in her heart, thinking of refusing mercilessly, but after suddenly realizing that she was Duan Liling, she reluctantly put away such an idea - she planned to refuse politely!
"Of course I want to catch up! You ignore me during the day, but I remember it, and I'll settle accounts with you in the evening! Pei Yao softly pushed open one side of the door like a girl from Chunxinlou, leaned her body against the door frame like she had no bones, and looked at Chen Zhiman affectionately and complained.
This set of actions thought it was seamless in Pei Yao's imagination, but in Chen Zhiman's eyes, it looked very contrived.
Chen Zhiman gently hooked the corners of his mouth, pulled Pei Yao's wrist and held it in his arms: "That-we'll settle the account now!" โ
Pei Yao was startled by this sudden hug, and looked at Chen Zhiman innocently with wide eyes, but Chen Zhiman planned to lean over and pick her up......
"Mu Chuyu!" Pei Yao thinks that it is more useful to call these three words now than to call them "help".
Sure enough, Chen Zhiman stopped the movement in his hand and stood up straight: "Little slippery head!" Are you trying to lie to me? As he spoke, he also gently scraped Pei Yao's nose with his hand.
Pei Yao took advantage of Chen Zhiman's gap now that he only used one arm to hold her, and slipped out of his arms sideways: "I didn't lie to you!" Look at! Where is he? โ
Pei Yao pointed behind Chen Zhiman, Chen Zhiman turned around and saw that Mu Chuyu was really behind him..... She was smiling at him awkwardly.
"Chen Zhutou, forget it tonight, there will be a chance in the future! I'll rest first, and you should go to bed early! As soon as Pei Yao finished speaking, she couldn't wait to close the door, secretly glad that Mu Chuyu was simply her benefactor at this time!
Chen Zhiman's face at this time was as ugly as eating croton, his chest rose and fell slightly, and the anger in his heart was difficult to soothe: This little rabbit cub can't even put you down with sweat medicine!
Facing Chen Zhiman's angry gaze, Mu Chuyu, who had broken his good deeds, smiled embarrassedly: Master, I'm really sorry! This is not really Duan Liling, this is Pei Yao! Can't let you play!
The next day, Chen Zhiman instructed Mu Chuyu and Pei Yao to go to the homes of the two women who had been killed earlier to inquire about the situation, while he and Xu Lizheng went to He Yuanwai's house to inquire.
The first victim and the second victim were not girls from a large family in the town, one was the daughter of an aunt who sold pancakes, and the other was the daughter of a ferry man.
As Xu Lizheng revealed to them earlier, the two women have no other similarities except for the way they died......
In the evening, Chen Zhiman, Xu Lizheng, Mu Chuyu and Pei Yao sat around the round table where the meal was set and put together the information they had collected, but in the end they found nothing, so the four of them were at a loss and had no taste to eat.
"If the real culprit in this case is really a ghost, then these three victims will always have something in common to cause death!" Chen Zhiman took a few bites of rice, put down the bowl and speculated while chewing.
What do you mean by that? I also hope that Chen Zhutou will make it clear! Xu Li was quite puzzled on the side.
"Ghosts have no body and must be attached to a physical object to exist, and the three women should have touched something ominous that should not have been touched to get this fate!"
"Could it be that evil spirits are haunting, and lonely souls and wild ghosts come to ask for their lives?" The more Xu Lizheng spoke, the creepi he became.
"Although the Three Realms are connected, they do not interfere with each other, which is the most basic principle! Wild ghosts have no body and cannot ask for their lives! Only the soul that has been attached to something for a long time can absorb the aura and form an entity to harm others! Even so, they didn't dare to stay in the yang world for a long time, and after the thing was done, they still had to go back to the thing they were attached to, and wait for the next target before acting! Pei Yao thought of what Fairy Zixia said, and then connected it with ancient mythological children's books, and then made up nonsense.
"That's right!" Chen Zhiman nodded heavily.
Pei Yao was secretly happy and turned her head to look at Mu Chuyu at the same time, and Mu Chuyu staggered a little nervously after meeting her gaze: Oops! She remembers Penglai's search for medicine, doesn't she? Does Shen Xiaoxun know this?
"Sir! Master! Oh no! Oh no! The boy ran in in a panic, and almost stumbled on the threshold.
"Knowing that there are guests here, you are so flustered, what kind of system have you become!" Xu Lizheng pointed at him and scolded.
"Sir! The proprietress of the Tianfu Inn is dead! The boy didn't bother to apologize, but replied breathlessly.
Xu Lizheng's eyes widened after hearing this, and his arm trembled in accusation. He swallowed and looked at the rest of the people.
Everyone present immediately straightened their backs and exchanged glances, and then pulled their legs and left!
"Who was the first to find the body?" Chen Zhiman walked like a fly while asking the child about the situation.
"Naturally, he is the owner of Tianfu Inn!" The family boy was carried by Mu Chuyu without touching the ground, so that he could barely be parallel to Chen Zhiman.
"Same as the previous three deceased?"
"Eun, the proprietress lay peacefully on the bed, holding a bronze mirror in both hands, just ...... It's justโshe's got her nose cut off......" replied the boy touching his nose, with pity and disgust.
It didn't take long for Chen Zhiman and the others to come to the outside of the Tianfu Inn.
The scene has been cordoned off by the town's officials, and all the guests inside have come out, pointing and watching the excitement outside the inn.
Chen Zhiman led Xu Lizheng, Mu Chuyu and Pei Yao into the inn, and accompanied by the grieving boss, they went to the scene of the murder - their own room.
"Your Excellency! You must seek justice for my mother! My lady died unjustly! After sobbing and telling the story of the discovery of the body, the boss cried silently and tugged at Chen Zhiman's sleeve and begged bitterly.
"Don't worry, no matter whether the murderer is a human or a ghost, we will punish him severely!" Chen Zhiman patted the boss's hand and asked him to mourn and change.