It was already past 4 o'clock in the morning when Officer Li Qiang appeared at the scene of the crime, and there were still some remnants of last night's hangover. But as soon as he got into the working state, it disappeared immediately. Six victims were found at the scene of the crime, all of whom died of excessive blood loss due to carotid artery rupture and preliminary identification by forensic doctors.

"The tragedy of destroying the door, tsk, what a big hatred is this?" Police officer Xiao Zhang muttered while surveying the scene.

Li Qiang glanced at Xiao Zhang, shook his head and said: "How many times have I told you, don't be preconceived, everything must speak with evidence, so that you can discover the truth under the surface!" ”

Xiao Zhang stuck out his tongue and said, "Got it, master." ”

Everything in the house was very neat, and Li Qiang did not find any traces of fighting in the house. But the scene was unusually bloody, it was like a slaughterhouse. At this time, a painting on the wall attracted Officer Lee's attention. There was a large amount of blood splattered at the scene, resulting in blood stains on the walls, furniture, and even chandeliers...... But this painting is unusually clean! Li Qiang stared at the oil painting for a while and asked Xiao Zhang, "Do you think there is anything suspicious about this painting?" ”

"Something suspicious? Isn't it just an oil painting, it looks like it's been some years, it may be a famous painting! I can't see anything else for the time being," Xiao Zhang looked at Li Qiang and said.

"Don't you think it's too clean?" Li Qiang asked Xiao Zhang rhetorically.

"Ah, yes, none of these blood stains seem to be splashed on it, maybe it's the reason for the high hanging, right?" Xiao Zhang said.

"Maybe," Li Qiang replied thoughtfully.

But the reason that attracted Li Qiang the most was not this, but that he found this painting a little familiar. I seem to have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while. Officer Li is a rough man, and he doesn't know much about art, let alone oil painting. His biggest strength is his excellent memory, so after graduating from the police academy that year, he was assigned to the Municipal Criminal Police Brigade. This has been 10 years, and he has grown from a hairy guy to a calm, calm, and capable people's policeman.

Li Qiang carefully observed the painting, which was an oil painting of the old years, and it painted a family portrait of a middle-class in the twenties and thirties. There are eight people, old and young. There is a line of small print in the lower right corner of the painting, April 1934 Winshare Gallery.

After returning to the team in the afternoon, Officer Li looked through some old Shen Yuan cases. Only then did he find out that when he first joined the team 10 years ago, one of the evidence at the scene of a major murder case was this oil painting! Four victims were killed. So far, the case has not been solved.

The appearance of this painting seems to remind him that he still has unfinished cases waiting for him to finish......

After holding a case analysis meeting, the result was that the six victims in this case were a family, namely father, mother, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, and sister-in-law. The head of the household is a businessman with a well-to-do family. But he is kind and kind, and he has no enemies in the business field or in the circle of friends. But who would have killed this family? The method was so cruel that the autopsy report said: The six victims all cut the carotid artery and throat with sharp weapons, and died of excessive blood loss. There were no signs of a fight on his body.

"What a headache! There are no fingerprints, the doors and windows are locked, could it be that the murderer disappeared out of thin air? Xiao Zhang said as he repeatedly looked at the photos taken at the scene.

Li Qiang felt so familiar when he heard Xiao Zhang's words, because he said the same thing ten years ago. His mind was pulled back to ten years ago by Xiao Zhang's words······ ……

It was a stormy night, and the criminal police brigade received a report from the masses: a four-person murder occurred in a villa at No. 75 Dongfeng Road, and the victim was a well-known local entrepreneur Duan's family. Among them are Duan and his wife Wang, as well as a son and daughter-in-law, a total of four. The person in charge of the police is Officer Li, who has just joined the police force!

As soon as Officer Li entered the scene, he was stunned by this bloody scene! The blood on the ground had already coagulated into a porridge-like form, and the four dead fell on the floor of the bedroom and living room. All of them had died of blood loss from excessive blood loss from carotid arteries severed by sharp objects, and there was no trace of resistance. The door is locked, the interior door is locked, is he killing or committing suicide? This question has been swirling in Li Qiang's mind.

This case is the first time Li Qiang has investigated independently, and he feels a lot of pressure when he encounters such a heavyweight. He took out all the skills he learned in school and handed over to his master, but there were still no clues and breakthroughs in the case. A perfect murder case in a closed room, and in the end, the case can only be settled in the high pavilion.

But this case has become an unbreakable knot in Li Qiang's heart! He remembers every detail of the investigation of this case vividly, including all the furnishings of the crime scene. So he was surprised by the appearance of that picture!

At the scene of the murder of the four corpses, the painting was splattered with a large amount of blood, and after the DNA was extracted by the forensic department, it was placed as an important evidence in the evidence room. But later, Li Qiang clearly remembered that the evidence room caught fire in February 07, which caused all the evidence between 03 and 06 to be burned down. This painting should be in it, huh? But why is it here now?

No traces other than the four victims were recovered at the scene of the crime, and the Forensic Section did not extract anything useful from the paintings. At that time, the surface of the oil painting was sprayed with a large amount of blood, but now there is no trace of it. According to the normal way of handling the case, the appearance of this painting is not necessarily the main clue of the homicide case, but because it is an important evidence of the murder of the four corpses 10 years ago. This made Officer Lee pay attention.

"It must have been processed, but how did the painting come out of the evidence room?" Officer Li looked at the oil painting in front of him and thought hard, he was really puzzled! The fire in the evidence room was just a simple accident, and there were no human factors. The case has fallen into a bottleneck again, and Li Qiang is really afraid that it will become an eternal unsolved case like the case 10 years ago.

2 a.m. ,... Bell... Bell...... A hurried phone call came to mind. Li Qiang picked up the phone in a daze: "Hey, it's me, what's wrong?" What the? I'll rush over right away! I saw him put on a police uniform in a panic, walked out of the door quickly, came to the car in three steps and two steps, quickly started the car and drove straight to the public security bureau!

Officer Li walked into the physical evidence room of the Municipal Public Security Bureau and saw Wang Lei, a police officer on duty, lying on his back in a chair, his carotid artery and trachea had been cut. A large amount of blood gushed out, splashing all over the walls of scarlet, and it looked particularly hideous. At this time, Xiao Zhang and his staff had already begun to investigate the scene.

"What's the situation?" Police Officer Li asked Xiao Zhang calmly.

There were no clues left at the scene, and Wang Lei did not show any signs of resistance. He and I were in the same class, and when he was in school, he won the first place in the school! Ordinary people will definitely not be able to subdue him in a short time! Xiao Zhang said indignantly.

"Is something missing?" Li Qiang asked Xiao Zhang while carefully observing the scene.

"Yes, it's the painting I got back from today's case!" Xiao Zhang hurriedly replied to Li Qiang.

Li Qiang said anxiously when he heard this: "What? That painting is gone, do you look at the surveillance? ”

Xiao Zhang also shook his head helplessly and said: "Look, there was a problem with the monitoring at that time, and the picture interference was very serious, and I couldn't see anything clearly!" ”

I only heard a bang, and saw Li Qiang's angry fist smashing on the table! A policeman died in the Public Security Bureau, and important physical evidence was lost! Saying it makes people laugh out of their big teeth! But at this moment, it is useless to be angry, if you lose it, you lose it......

Li Qiang immediately organized personnel to investigate various art markets in the city, and a few days later, the painting appeared at an auction... was auctioned off at a high price of 500,000. When the police arrived, the painting had already been paid to take it away!

According to the staff of the auction, the painting was commissioned by an anonymous seller for auction, and they did not know the real identity of this person. But they can provide the identity of the person who bought the painting! is an invisible rich man in this city, his name is Qin Guozhi.

When Li Qiang and his party came to Qin Guozhi's house, the door of his house was locked. After ringing the doorbell, a middle-aged woman came out, claiming to be the nanny of the house. And said to Li Qiang and others: "Mr. Qin is inconvenient to meet guests today, please come another day." Although Li Qiang was closed, he still gave the nanny his phone number and told her: "If anything happens, call him." ”

After Li Qiang returned to the criminal police team, he asked Xiao Zhang to print out the photos of the oil painting at a ratio of 1:1, and he took the painting and ran around the painters' associations in the city. I wanted to find the provenance of this painting, and finally found an old man who knew this painting in a sunset red painters association.

The old man's name is Zhao Doujin, and he is 96 years old this year. Li Qiang showed the old man the picture of the oil painting, and he recognized it at a glance as being painted by his teacher Liu Wenxuan.

"This was painted by my teacher, I was only 14 years old when I was 14 years old, and everyone called me Little Gold! I studied painting under my teacher Liu Wenxuan, who ran a Winshare gallery by himself, and the business came and went.

Although more than 80 years have passed, I still have a deep impression of this family, because their whole family did not die well! I still remember that it was a family surnamed Xu, who opened a barber shop for a living, and people called him Boss Xu. The people in this painting have his wife, two sons, a little daughter, his parents and his sister, a family of eight. At that time, it had been a long time since I finished painting, and I didn't see Boss Xu come to pick up the painting, so the teacher asked me to go to his barber shop and said that the oil painting for Boss Xu was ready.

I went to find that his barbershop was not open, and when I asked my neighbor next to me, I said: I haven't done business for a few days! I asked my neighbor for the address of his house again, but I found that there were many people inside and outside Boss Xu's house. I tried to go and see what was going on, but was stopped by a policeman. Said that there was a murder inside and could not go in! Later, I found out that this Boss Xu didn't know why he killed his entire family, and then committed suicide himself.

Later, the teacher thought that the painting was very unlucky, so he asked me to wrap it and put it in the basement, and I never took it out. It wasn't until the teacher's death in '83 that the painting was auctioned off by the teacher's family and bought by a wealthy man. That's all I remember, and I don't know what happened after that. The old man finished telling what had happened that year.

This painting is related to a murder case, and at this time, Li Qiang has an inexplicable sense of fear in his heart. Although through the old man's dictation, Li Qiang has some understanding of the events of the year, but the specific situation is not very detailed. So he decided to drive to the city's museum to see if there was any mention in the newspapers of the year.

After coming to the museum, the staff found a local newspaper in 1934, and Li Qiang found a report in an evening newspaper in May of that year: "On the 12th of this month, a horrific tragedy occurred in a residence at No. 32 Xiguan Street, Xu Kuntai, the owner of Xu's barber shop, and his family of seven were killed, and his 12-year-old daughter disappeared, and the case is still being solved...... "A few simple sentences explain the place, events, and people." Wait, Li Qiang suddenly found that it was not 8 people who died, Xu Kuntai's youngest daughter was missing, and she did not die at the scene. But obviously he hasn't found it, otherwise Zhao Lao wouldn't have thought that 8 people were killed!

On the way back, Li Qiang kept thinking about the relationship between these two cases and this painting, and as he walked, he heard the person behind him speak: "Young man, what questions have you been bothering you recently?" ”

Li Qiang looked back and saw a blind man sitting in the corner of the wall not far behind him, and a piece of cloth was placed on the ground, which read, "Know astronomy, know geography, know the people!" Li Qiang secretly scolded in his heart, it turned out to be a fortune teller, he didn't pay attention to it, and wanted to leave. But the blind man stopped Li Qiang again.

"Young man, you must be an official in the government, do you know that you will have a big catastrophe in a few days!" The old man said mysteriously to Li Qiang.

Li Qiang didn't wear a police uniform today, he was dressed in civilian clothes, and he didn't follow other colleagues around him, this old blind man can know that he is a policeman, and it seems that he still has some ability. So he walked over with a smile and sat down on the mazar in front of the blind man's stall. He asked the blind man, "Then tell me what catastrophe I will have?" ”

The blind man didn't talk nonsense, but said, "You have to let me touch your hands and face first." Li Qiang said happily: "Okay, you can touch it." I saw the blind man groping on Li Qiang's face for a while, and then frowned and said: "Young man, you have been so murderous recently, your imperial spirit should not be evil, but recently you have received a big murderous thing, this thing is extremely heavy with murderous energy, I don't know how many lives have been broken on it, you have to be careful." If you don't get away from it quickly, you will die! ”

Li Qiang laughed when he heard this, with his previous experience, he knew that ordinary liars would definitely say at this time: "The old man has a way to help you crack it!" So he asked the blind man, "Do you have a way to crack it?" ”

But the blind man said, "There is no solution, so you can only stay away from this thing." Otherwise, your life will be ruined! Li Qiang was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "There is really no way to crack it, I can give you money."

When the blind man heard this, he laughed and said, "Where do I dare to ask for your money, I'm afraid that I won't spend it!" After saying that, he turned around and closed the stall to leave. Before leaving, he turned back to Li Qiang and said: "Young man, I touch you as a talent, it's a pity that it's so folded, I set up a stall here every day, if you encounter an incomprehensible puzzle, come to me." With that, he turned around and groped with his blind stick and left. Li Qiang was left standing alone on the street......

When Li Qiang returned to the team, he saw Xiao Zhang coming back from outside, and said to him excitedly: "Master, there is a new situation!" Li Qiang was also very excited when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Say, what's new?" ”

"I found out that there was also a murder in a neighboring city in 1983, and this painting also appeared!" As he spoke, he took out a newspaper with photos of the crime scene on it, and this oil painting hung in the corner of the photo's name. Xiao Zhang took a sip of water and said: "The victim's name is Guo Jiazhi, a well-known wealthy businessman in the neighboring city back then, a total of 5 people in his family were killed, but this time there is a survivor!" It was his youngest daughter, Guo Wenting. ”

As soon as Li Qiang heard that there were still survivors, he happily asked: "There are survivors!" Great, where are the people now? ”

"Uh... She's in... She's at Qingshan Hospital in a neighboring city," Xiao Zhang said hesitantly.

"Damn! Psychiatric Hospital! Li Qiang was stupid when he heard it, but thinking that a madman is better than a dead person, he will always get something from her mouth. So on the second afternoon, the two came to the neighboring city of Qingshan Hospital.

After explaining their intentions to the hospital staff, they called Dr. Bai, Guo Wenting's attending doctor. Dr. Gu Bai introduced this Guo Wenting as suffering from severe schizophrenia and personality disorder, and has a long medical history, and has been suffering from the disease since she was a teenager. The condition is also a frequent recurrence, sometimes good and sometimes bad, and I have been living in the hospital for medical treatment since the past few years.

"Does she have a family?" Li Qiang asked Dr. Bai.

Dr. Bai thought for a moment and said, "She has a cousin who comes to see her occasionally. ”

Li Qiang then asked, "Can I meet her?" ”

Dr. Bai thought about it for a moment and said, "Her condition is stable, you can see her."

"Okay, then thank you, Dr. Bai," Li Qiang said gratefully.

The two came to Guo Wenting's ward, and through the small window of the ward, Li Qiang saw a quiet and peaceful middle-aged woman sitting on the bed, holding a copy of Dream of Red Mansions in her hand and looking at it quietly, "Knock, knock, knock" Li Qiang knocked softly on the door of the ward.

"Please come in!" A gentle voice rang out.

"Hello, I am Li Qiang, the captain of the criminal police brigade in City A. We're here to find out something about you... Well, there was a murder in your home back then. Li Qiang couldn't bear to ask about the things of the year.

A trace of fear flashed in Guo Wenting's eyes, she looked up at Li Qiang, and said softly, "Why do you want to know what happened back then?" ”

Li Qiang said: "Because I have several cases in hand that have the same oil painting, and this oil painting first appeared in your home. ”

"Two police officers, please sit down, what do you think is credible for the events of the year from the mouth of one of my patients," Guo Wenting said with a smile.

"As long as Ms. Guo is willing to speak, we are willing to believe it," Li Qiang said firmly.

"Okay, since Officer Li really wants to know something about the events of the past, I can tell you my story, but..."Saying this, she suddenly smiled weirdly and said to Li Qiang, "You must not tell others to know!" ”

Li Qiang felt a chill in his heart, it seemed that this woman was indeed a little abnormal.

But Guo Wenting immediately recovered the expressions they had when they first came in, and talked softly about the events of the year......

"At that time, my father was in the steel business, and his family was very advantageous, and I had two older brothers, because I was the youngest in the family, so I was the most loved by the whole family. When my mother gave birth to me, she was not well and had always been very weak, so my father took my grandmother home to take care of our three siblings. Our family had a very happy life, and my father and mother were very loving, until that damn oil painting came along, and it changed my family, changed my life, and even changed my life!

I still remember that it was a summer evening, because my father was very fond of collecting some famous calligraphy and paintings during that time, so he was excited to get an oil painting that night. He told us that this is the most precious work in his collection, painted by a famous painter during his lifetime, and has never survived, and it is only after the death of the painter that people are fortunate enough to see this oil painting!

But I didn't like the painting, and when I first saw it, I had an inexplicable fear. The tone of the picture is very gray and late, I don't know much about oil painting, I don't know if this style of painting was popular back then. All I know is that this painting makes people feel extremely depressed, and everyone in the painting has a gloomy face, as if they are preoccupied.

In the living room where my father hung the painting, there was a stark contrast between our happy family and the family in the painting, and I saw the people in the painting with a look of resentment and jealousy every day. I said to my father: don't hang the painting, I don't like it, it's too gray. But my father said I don't understand, hang it in the living room, and the guests can only see this masterpiece when they come.

I was helpless and couldn't change my father's mind, but I didn't know that the development of things had made my originally beautiful life more and more terrifying.

I slowly noticed that everyone in my family was quietly changing. My mother became suspicious, always wondering if my father had another woman outside, and my father became more and more cold to me. Once I actually heard him say to his mother that daughters are spilled water, and only sons are qualified to inherit the family business! My brothers don't love me as much as they used to, and my kind grandmother has become very gloomy, always loving to talk to herself in a nagging voice. And I... But I saw a little girl appear in my house that no one else could see!

She was always holding a dirty rag doll, barefoot, her hair was messy and dirty, one braid was open, the other was tied with braids, she was wearing a dirty yellow dress that was almost unrecognizable, she looked down at me, and the most terrible thing was her resentful eyes, full of hatred and jealousy.

I immediately recognized her as the little girl in the lower right corner of the painting! In the painting, she is wearing a beautiful egg-yellow dress, holding a cute rag doll in her hand, and combing two neat little braids. The contrast between her in the painting and her in my eyes is too great! I told my family about her existence, but no one believed me because none of them could see it. So I became nervous in the eyes of my family and talked to myself.

In the end, my father couldn't take it anymore and put me in a psychiatric hospital when I was 14 years old. The public security bureau's investigation concluded that the father was depressed because of the failure in the mall, and in addition to the mother's endless accusations and suspicions, the father finally collapsed and he killed the whole family. I survived because I was admitted to a psychiatric hospital...

Because of an accident at home, I was taken home by my cousin. But when I got home, I found that she was still there, only this time with a smile on her face, a stiff smile. It's like they're laughing at me and her.

The whole family died, and I inherited my father's legacy. I sold the house along with the paintings, and my cousin and I left the city. I want to live a new life and forget everything about the past. But after that, she still haunted me, and every time I wanted to be happy, she would appear. Then something bad happened, and my life got worse and worse!

Then one day, I noticed that when I took the medicine prescribed by the doctor, she would disappear for a while. So I went to the psychiatrist again and again over the years, and I have been living here until now, because only here will she disappear and I can find real peace. ”

After listening to Guo Wenting tell this story, which is both true and false, Li Qiang decided to meet her cousin. So he and Dr. Bai asked for the address of Guo Wenting's cousin. Her cousin's house is not too far from Castle Peak Hospital, which is only a 40-minute drive.

After meeting Guo Wenting's cousin, Li Qiang explained his intentions, but her cousin didn't want to mention the events of the year. It was only under Li Qiang's persuasion that another version of the story was told.

It turned out that Guo Jiazhi killed the whole family because he accidentally learned during a physical examination that he was actually "congenital infertility". But the three children of the family are laid out alive, which is not very ironic. He went home and questioned his wife, but she denied it. He killed his wife in a hurry, and when he was red-eyed, he thought that his son was not his own, so he didn't stop doing anything and killed everyone in the family! Finally committed suicide on the couch in the living room... And she doesn't know why Guo Wenting was mentally ill before. My cousin's family was dead, and she had to take Guo Wenting back. But not long after she got home, she fell ill again, and she chattered all day long. I had no choice but to take her to various places for medical treatment. In the end, with Guo Wenting's consent, he sold all the inheritance left by his cousin and his wife to her for medical treatment, and she was often hospitalized from time to time.

After leaving Guo Wenting's cousin's house, Xiao Zhang said to Li Qiang: "Master, this painting is too evil!" Why don't we report to our superiors and burn this painting! ”

"Report! Do you fight or do I fight, what do you say? Say that oil painting kills? Clean calves! Li Qiang said angrily.

Xiao Zhang said with an aggrieved face: "Then what should I do?" Is this case still uninvestigated? Let's go around in circles, check and check and suspect, there is no murderer, no motive, not even a murder weapon! ”

After returning home at night, Li Qiang couldn't sleep, he knew that what Xiao Zhang said was right, but he was really unwilling to give up like this! He thought about it in bed, and he fell asleep at some point. After a long time, suddenly Li Qiang felt that something was not right. Years of experience as a criminal police officer tell him that there are people by his side! Li Qiang opened his eyes violently and saw a woman standing in front of his bed! "Who?" He shouted, but the figure remained standing. Through the moonlight, Li Qiang saw the appearance of the figure clearly. "Guo Wenting! How did you end up here? Li Qiang said calmly.

But the figure still didn't react, but his mouth kept moving, as if he was constantly saying something...

Li Qiang watched her mouth open and close, as if... It's like saying "be careful"!!

"Suzu... Bell... The phone rang suddenly, and Li Qiang sat up violently, it turned out to be a dream. He picked up the phone tiredly, only to hear Xiao Zhang on the phone say anxiously: "Master, Guo Wenting is dead!" ”

"What? When was this? This news was so sudden that Li Qiang couldn't react.

Just now, the doctor on duty at Qingshan Hospital found that she had cut the carotid artery in the ward for some reason, and she had died of excessive blood loss. The public security bureau of the neighboring city learned that we had been there today, so they directly called the team to find out the situation. Xiao Zhang finished talking about what happened in one breath.

Is it a coincidence? Li Qiang just dreamed that Guo Wenting told him to be careful, and she died! He felt like he was falling into a vicious curse from which he could not extricate himself......

The next day he came alone to the road where he had met the blind man, and at a glance he saw that the blind man was still setting up a stall there. He stepped forward and said nothing, just sat down quietly. Unexpectedly, the blind man opened his mouth and said, "Young man, you are here!" ”

"Are you really blind or not?" Li Qiang asked jokingly

"It doesn't matter to you whether you're blind or not, the important thing is that you're at your limit!" The blind man said with a solemn face

"Personally, I'm not afraid of this, I just want to end this matter, and I don't want anyone to die anymore! But what can be done? Guru. This time, Li Qiang has a rare respect for the blind man.

The blind man also said with a straight face: "It's not difficult to say, it's not difficult to say, it's not difficult to say, things have causes and effects, you have to find the right cause first, and then unravel the effect." There must be a dead ghost behind this great evil thing, and it is also the root of all causes, with such a big grudge that he has now, there must be a corpse in the world, find his bones and burn him with pure yang fire, maybe things can still turn around. ”

"What is the Pure Yang Fire?" Li Qiang asked suspiciously

"Isn't the fire set by the people of pure yang the fire of pure yang!"

Then the blind man added, "It's better to be a child!" ”

When Li Qiang heard this, where did he find a boy? Then he took out his mobile phone and dialed Xiao Zhang's phone: "Xiao Zhang, let me ask you something." ”

When Xiao Zhang heard that it was his master, he was busy and said, "What's the matter with the master, you can tell it!" ”

"You're still not that or something," Li Qiang said a little embarrassed.

"Where is it? Master, just say it! Xiao Zhang listened to a foggy head.

"It's just that you're still not a virgin," Li Qiang asked through gritted teeth.

"What? Virgin? "Xiao Zhang was also blindsided when he heard it." This, this should be considered right, anyway, no, no, I haven't touched a woman, a woman. Xiao Zhang also stuttered embarrassedly.

As soon as Li Qiang heard him, he still had a bottom in his heart, and said, "That's fine." You come to me now, I'm in the Western Suburbs Cemetery. Remember to bring a bucket of gasoline and a lighter, and two shovels! ”

Xiao Zhang was even more confused, and just wanted to ask why, Li Qiang hung up the phone, and he had no choice but to do what the master said.

Speaking of which, why go to the Western Suburbs Cemetery? It turned out that this was also what the blind man said to Li Qiang, and he said that before the liberation, there was only one regular cemetery in the city, that is, the Western Suburbs Cemetery, and it still retains the straight and modern. At that time, the people in the city were buried there after they died, and of course there were some mass graves scattered everywhere, but in recent years, the urban planning and transformation should have been leveled and moved. At that time, Xu Kuntai's entire family was dead, and no one must have moved his grave. So if his bones survive, then they must only be in the western suburbs!

The blind man finally told him again and again that he must find it before midnight and burn it immediately, and at last he returned and burned the painting with fire, and it was done.

When Xiao Zhang came to the western suburbs, the sun had set, and he saw Li Qiang squatting on the ground smoking one cigarette after another, and hurriedly called him: "Master!" I've brought everything you want! ”

"Stinky boy! It took so long to come, and if it was too late, it would be a mistake," Li Qiang scolded.

Xiao Zhang scratched his head and said, "Master, you, this is not bad for me, take the things you want for a while, and look for them, but that's all there is to it." Say, what do I do? ”

"Dig a grave!" Li Qiang slowly spit out two words from his mouth

Xiao Zhang was stunned when he heard this, and said to Li Qiang: "Ah! No, master, let's go to the western suburbs to dig graves this big night? Are you blowing the lamp too much? ”。

"Don't talk nonsense, follow me, you will dig wherever I tell you to!" Li Qiang was in such a hurry, he was really afraid that something would happen after midnight. Xiao Zhang is afraid of this, thanks to the fact that both the master and apprentice are policemen, otherwise he really feels like he is going to rob the tomb.

The master and apprentice walked around the cemetery, and finally found a large tomb in the innermost part. On the tombstone, the words "The tomb of Xu Kuntai's family of seven" were simply written.

Finally found it! Li Qiang breathed a sigh of relief and said to Xiao Zhang: "That's it, dig!" ”

So the two of them dug up with a shovel, and I dug up with a shovel, and finally dug up something after digging for a long time, I thought it would be a few thin coffins, but I dug up the white bones directly. I thought it might be that there were no seven coffins prepared for a while, so they were buried with grass sweeps.

Li Qiang gathered all the bones together and asked Xiao Zhang to pour gasoline and prepare to light the fire. But at this moment, a cold wind blew, and the originally calm sky suddenly rose suddenly, and the surrounding area was immediately dusty, and there were suddenly many more figures around the originally silent surroundings, and they all looked at the two people in front of them with dull eyes. Xiao Zhang was already timid, and his son was about to pee, and the lighter in his hand was very uncompromising and Xiao Zhang couldn't beat it.

Li Qiang looked down at his watch, seeing that it was about to be 12 o'clock, he was in such a hurry, the blind man said that he must burn it before midnight! He quickly touched his body and found a very old zippo lighter. It was given to him by his ex-girlfriend, and it was also his amulet, and he also saved his life during a mission and blocked a bullet for him. At this time, he threw the lighter in his hand to Xiao Zhang without hesitation, and Xiao Zhang didn't dare to delay any longer, so he turned on the lighter and hit it hard......

The "......" lighter finally lit, and the faint blue firelight was particularly strange in the dark night. Xiao Zhang dared to throw the lighter into the pile of bones, the fire borrowed oil, and the fire was like a pillar of fire with a "bang ......".

All of a sudden, the wind was blowing, and the ghosts were crying and the wolves were howling...... The figures that had been wandering around just now now dissipated with the wind like gravel in the wind. Li Qiang exhaled deeply, and when he looked at Xiao Zhang again, he was already scared to pee.

"Master, don't look for me again if you have this in the future, I'm still a virgin! If you hang up like this, won't you die unjustly? Xiao Zhang complained to Li Qiang.

Li Qiang smiled: "If you weren't a virgin, you wouldn't need you!" ”

"Ahh Then I'll hurry up tomorrow **ah" Xiao Zhang said half-jokingly, half-seriously.

This matter is always over, but the painting is still in Qin Guozhi's hands, this invisible rich man has a perverse personality, how can he let Li Qiang burn the painting?

After returning home in the evening, he checked the Internet to see if there was any information about that year, but found nothing. The only house that can only be found back then, Xu Kuntai's current address is No. 16 Shengli Road. "16 Victory Road? It's so familiar, isn't this the villa of the invisible rich! Li Qiang remembered that this was the address of Qin Guozhi's house.

The next night, Li Qiang and Xiao Zhang came to Qin Guozhi's house again, and Xiao Zhang stepped forward and rang the doorbell for a long time, but no one answered. So he tapped the door a few times, but the door opened at this time, and it turned out that it was not locked. Xiao Zhang shouted a few times at the door: "Is anyone there?" We are the police! We were here the other day! Anyone? "Stop shouting, something isn't right, let's go in and have a look." Li Qiang stopped Xiao Zhang and pushed the door in.

The villa was surprisingly quiet, not as brightly lit as the other day, except for a few dim wall lamps that flickered on.

Suddenly, a shrill beep sounded, and it sounded like it was the kitchen. The two walked in quickly, and it turned out that a pot of water was boiling. Xiao Zhang quickly turned off the fire, and when he turned around, he found a woman lying on the side of the cupboard, and a large pool of blood under him, obviously the nanny that day. He looked busy and said to Li Qiang: "Master! There is a case! ”

Li Qiang walked over, squatted down to check it, shook his head and said, "It's dead, notify the team to come to investigate the scene, I'll go upstairs to have a look first." After speaking, he walked up to the second floor quickly, and when he came to the second floor, Li Qiang found that the door of the study was ajar.

He gently pushed the door open, and the room was surprisingly dim, the only light coming from a lamp on the desk. On the swivel chair behind the desk sat a man, with his back to the door, apparently Qin Guozhi. The painting hangs on the wall behind the swivel chair, and he seems to be looking up at it.

"Mr. Qin?" Li Qiang called him tentatively, but the man in the chair did not react. Li Qiang slowly stepped forward and pushed him, but he still didn't move. Li Qiang suddenly realized something, and suddenly walked to the front of the swivel chair to take a look, shocked!

Qin Guozhi died, looking at the painting with wide eyes, his eyes full of horror. His mouth was wide open, as if he was going to say something before he died, but apparently he couldn't make a sound. He had a hideous wound on his neck, and the blood from all over his body flowed out of it like water that had opened a floodgate, and the blood flowed on his body and on the ground.

Only then did Li Qiang realize that at this time, his feet were all porridge-like plasma coagulated by Qin Guozhi's blood. He followed Qin Guozhi's eyes and looked at the oil painting, and the expressions of the people in the painting were still all on their minds, except for one......

Li Qiang had seen this painting several times before, and the center of the painting should be Xu Kuntai, the boss of Xu in the barbershop, but Li Qiang never noticed that there was anything wrong with Xu Kuntai in the painting. But at this time, Xu Kuntai's eyes were squinting at the lower right corner of the oil painting, and Li Qiang followed his gaze and also looked at the lower right corner of the painting.

It was the little girl, her head slightly bowed, unable to see her eyes clearly, she was wearing an egg-yellow dress, and she was holding a cute rag doll in her hand. Suddenly, the little girl in the painting raised her head and looked at Li Qiang strangely.

Li Qiang now finally understands what the problem is, it's a little girl! There was never a little girl's bones! Because she was never found!

For a moment, Li Qiang only felt that the world was spinning, the surrounding walls began to fall off, and all the layouts of the room returned to 81 years ago...... The surrounding shadows are like a black-and-white movie.

"Brother, brother, wait for me!" A cute little girl was running after the two boys in front of her.

"Zhenzhen, slow down!" The girl was followed by a middle-aged woman who was a little fat.

"Mom, you see my brother, they don't play with me!" Zhenzhen said to her mother coquettishly.

"Silly girl! How can a girl play with a boy? What do you see this is? "Mom pulled out a rag doll from behind her like a trickster.

"Ragdolls! Give it to me, give it to me! Zhenzhen became excited all of a sudden, and jumped up and down to ask her mother.

Suddenly, the picture turned, and my mother fell ill and died. Zhenzhen is very sad, but she is also scared because she finds that not long after her mother died, a new mother came to the house.

The new mother is beautiful, but she doesn't like Jinzhen. Dad took care of the business in the store all day, and his two older brothers didn't care about him. The new mother always doesn't give Zhenzhen enough food, and her eyes become more and more disgusted day by day.

Zhenzhen and her grandmother talked about the new mother's bad treatment of her, but the grandmother said very indifferently: "A girl doll is going to marry sooner or later, don't gossip about your second mother!" ”

Since then, Zhenzhen has lived in this family with patience, and it didn't take long for the second mother to be pregnant with a baby, and the whole family spoiled her as a treasure. Dad, in particular, shouted "my baby, my baby".

He didn't remember calling his little daughter that before, and he never realized how yellow and skinny her little daughter was.

There is no servant in the family, and the housework has always been an unmarried sister-in-law. But now all the housework is done by Zhenzhen, because the sister-in-law has a good relationship with the new mother.

The picture turns again, and the new mother herself accidentally falls down the stairs and has a miscarriage. But she said that Zhenzhen pushed her down because she resented her.

Dad was very angry and beat Zhenzhen hard and locked her in the firewood room, she was so scared that she couldn't say anything, just kept crying. She couldn't understand why she had been locked up for nothing, and she couldn't understand why God had treated her like this, she had never done anything bad.

Zhenzhen was locked up in the firewood room for three days, during which time no one came to see her and brought her anything to eat. In the end, it was the sister-in-law who didn't want to do housework anymore, so she mentioned that Zhenzhen should be released. But the father and the new mother were still reluctant, but they had to agree when they thought that there was no one to work.

However, Zhenzhen died. She was hungry and freezing in the dark wood house, and died on the night of the third day. Zhenzhen has been thinking about a question for the past three days, why is she so miserable? In the end, she thought of her mother, because she didn't have her mother.

The death of a child in the family in that year was not a big deal, so the father threw Zhenzhen into the ditch of the dead child in Nanshan. But he didn't know that Zhenzhen had come back with him, wandering around every corner of the house every day, and she hadn't thought about harming people at that time. Within two days, she heard her father and new mother talking about her mother. It turned out that his own mother was killed by his father, just to be able to marry a new mother to enter the door.

Zhenzhen is furious! She began to hate everyone in the family. On the night of the 7th day of her death, she quietly came back with all the hatred, all the resentment. She used her father's razor to kill all the people in the family one by one, and imprisoned everyone and her own soul forever in that family portrait. Let these people never be reincarnated and exalted in the painting, just like herself!

This is the end of the picture, and Li Qiang finally understands that the little girl has actually died a long time ago, just because her indifferent family didn't tell others, everyone thought she was missing.

A faint gust of wind blew, Li Qiang heard the footsteps of a child, he slowly turned around, and saw a small figure standing behind him, but at this time, her face was pale, and she was holding a blood-dripping razor in her hand......

Li Qiang's memorial service was held on Saturday morning, and Xiao Zhang, as his apprentice, helped the master throughout the whole process. It's just that he can't figure out how the master died? He didn't hear the master's voice downstairs for a long time that day, and he didn't answer his calls.

By the time he realized that something had happened and ran up, it was too late, Li Qiang fell in a pool of blood like that, his body was throbbing and throbbing because of excessive blood loss, and his hands were still instinctively covering his neck.

Xiao Zhang stepped forward to hug Li Qiang and helped him stop the bleeding with his hands, but he was not in a hurry for a long time, he could only call Li Qiang loudly in vain: "Master!" Master! It's okay, the ambulance will come soon, don't sleep, master! Master... Master...! ”

Li Qiang lay quietly in the crystal coffin, wearing a brand-new police uniform prepared for him by Xiao Zhang, waiting for everyone's mourning. Everyone slowly walked past him and put down the white chrysanthemum in their hands. Xiao Zhang was the last person to offer flowers, he came to Li Qiang's side, helped him sort out his hat and collar badge, and said to him softly: "Master! Go all the way..."

But just as Xiao Zhang turned around and was about to leave, Li Qiang suddenly opened his eyes and looked at him with a weird smile. It's just that Xiao Zhang didn't see it himself......

At the auction, an overseas Chinese businessman auctioned off a genuine painting by the famous painter Liu Wenxuan in the thirties of the last century at a high price of 2 million......