Chapter 10: Blowing Out the Candles

Is it the wind? No, although the door was open, she didn't feel the coolness of the wind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Moreover, the way the candlelight flickered was very strange, and it flickered and stopped, as if someone was blowing on it. Wu Xi's heart seemed to be pinched by a cold hand, and she suddenly looked down at the ground. In the shadow of the candle, there was a woman squatting, she was wearing a flower cotton jacket and combing two big black and shiny braids, and she was looking up and blowing at the candle in Wu Xi's hand one by one.

Wu Xi let out an almost inaudible exclamation, threw the candlestick and stepped back, his body slamming into the table behind him. The candlestick fell to the ground and shattered, taking away the last light from the darkness.

Wu Xi held the horn tightly in her hand, although it was late at night in winter, the sweat in her palm still stained it slippery. She waved it in front of her over and over again, and where the horns skimmed, faint white light streaked out.

"Sa," a cool breeze swept past Wu Xi's right arm, and she hurriedly waved her horns to the right, taking advantage of its faint light, Wu Xi saw a lifeless pale face. She stabbed her horns in the direction of the face, only to tripped over an unknown object and slammed to the ground. The elbow was the first to touch the ground, Wu Xi felt a burst of soreness, and the horns flew away from her palm. Ignoring the pain, she groped her hands desperately on the ground, trying to find her only defense.

Wu Xi suddenly touched a cold thing, this thing was cold and stiff, but there was still a trace of elasticity that had not yet been lost. She threw it away, and it was clearly a human finger, nay, more precisely, a dead man's finger.

Wu Xi couldn't suppress the fear in her heart anymore, she desperately crawled in the direction of the gate, fortunately, by the moonlight, she saw her horns clearly and lay quietly by the threshold. Wu Xi grabbed it, due to too much force, her fingers were cut by the horns, and the blood flowed out and dripped on the floor, she didn't care so much, she held it tightly and waved it back and forth around her body, "I know it's you, Miss Lu, you died a miserable death, and you are unwilling to die, but there are already so many people to bury you, shouldn't you stop it?" ā€

"Hiss......" A strange sound like crying and laughing rushed past her ears, Wu Xi saw a figure in a floral cotton jacket walking slowly from the wall outside the house, her two big braids on her shoulders, and the face was more and more reflected, making her heart palpitate.

"Miss, you're on your way." With a shout, the figure walked farther and farther away, until it walked out of the Lu Mansion and was slowly annihilated by the darkness.

Is she gone? Wu Xi looked at the gate of the Lu Mansion with palpitations, did he really leave like this? Was she persuaded by her own words? Finding that she was indeed far away, Wu Xi slowly relaxed her heart, but she suddenly shuddered, she turned back to the main room and turned on the overhead light: Yu Xiong's body was lying upright on the floor, with two dozen thick banknotes beside him.

"There were no external injuries on the surface of the body, and there were no signs of poisoning, so the preliminary judgment is that the deceased had a sudden illness and there is a high possibility of heart disease." The small bespectacled forensic doctor said as he covered Yu Xiong's body.

"That's too coincidental," the captain of the criminal police rubbed his chin and looked at Wu Xi suspiciously, "Every time someone has a heart attack, you happen to be there, hey, I said that you had better carry a quick-acting heart-saving pill with you in the future, so that we can go to the police a few times less." ā€

Wu Xi was in no mood to joke with him, "Captain, although this matter has nothing to do with me, but I think there is something strange in this, I once saw Yu Xiong at the funeral of the flower seller, so it can be seen that the two of them know each other, do you know how they met?" ā€

"The relationship between the two of them?" The captain of the criminal police scratched his head, "Hey, don't say it, the two of them are really related, when we investigated the last case, we found that the old man who sold flowers also worked in the Lu family before, but then he was dismissed along with other workers." ā€

"Gardener?"

"Yes, yes, it's the gardener, how do you know?"

Sure enough, their deaths are inseparable from the Lu family, but what is the reason why that Miss Lu is on a killing spree? And why did she come out to kill people now after decades of silence? Wu Xi looked at the blue sky above his head, what happened here decades ago? How much evil is hidden beneath this clear sky?

"Xixi," Ren Le's trembling voice came from the gate of the courtyard, "You come here, I don't dare, I don't dare to go over." ā€

Wu Xi walked towards her, and as soon as she arrived at Ren Le's side, she hugged her, "I rushed over when I received your call, why, why did Grandpa Yu ......?"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Wu Xi helped her wipe away her tears, but found that a woman in her fifties followed her and reluctantly walked into the Lu house. "What is this?" She asked Ren Le, who was still sobbing.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce, this is my aunt. Since my parents had to stay in the hospital to take care of my grandfather, they called my aunt to take care of the family's affairs. ā€

The woman didn't look at Wu Xi, and walked straight to the main house. She glanced at the corpse on the floor and said to the police: "Is the investigation finished, if it's over, move him away quickly, my mother likes to be quiet." With that, she went to the table, straightened the portrait on it, and then carefully wiped it clean with her sleeve.

"She's cool." Wu Xi said to himself.

"Don't worry about her, after what happened to her, her personality has become a little weird."

She ...... What have you experienced? ā€

"Didn't I tell you? My grandmother died in childbirth when she gave birth to my mother, and when she died, my aunt happened to see her. I think the biggest blow in this world is to watch the person she loves the most die in front of her, which is why she is so withdrawn and eccentric now. ā€

"You said your grandmother died in childbirth? So why would she hold a grudge against your grandfather? ā€

"Because my new grandmother was ten years old when she entered the door, unlike my mother, who was still young, she felt that her mother's place had been replaced by another woman, so she couldn't stand it."

No, things will never be so simple, Wu Xi looked at Ren Le's innocent face, if her grandmother just died in childbirth, how could she still be resentful decades later? And even if her aunt doesn't want her father to marry again, it is impossible not to even come back to see her father when he is sick.

Wu Xi asked Ren Le to sit down and rest on the stone bench in the courtyard, and then walked to the main house alone, she looked at the woman who was looking at the statue in a daze, and said softly: "Auntie, do you know who the eldest lady is?" ā€