Chapter XXVII

Looking at the stunned three people in front of him, Liu Fan sorted out his thoughts, and then he said slowly: "Everyone was actually led into a misunderstanding by the murderer from the beginning, since the beginning of Chunling's hanging, people's subconscious thought that she was dead, even if her body was gone, people did not suspect it, they only thought that she had become a ghost."

The reason why this matter has not been revealed from beginning to end is because the theory of ghosts has always been hidden in the hearts of the common people, although those scholars who have read the classics of the saints do not believe in ghosts and gods, but the common people believe in them. Especially in this remote place in the suburbs by Yizhuang, as long as someone takes the opportunity to fan the flames, the people will spread false rumors.

When everyone believes that the Spring Spirit Girl has become the so-called resentful ghost, there is no need for the parties themselves to publicize it, and the people will subconsciously spread the incident, and in the process of spreading the matter, many people will add fuel and vinegar and try their best to improve what they have told, so that the rumors of the ghost bride asking for her life will be scattered.

With the ghost bride asking for the life of this amulet, the murderer has a lot less scruples, when the murderer kills several deceased people in turn, the reaction of the outside world is not to report to the official to arrest the murderer, but to ask the Taoist priest to ward off evil spirits, people will not report and expose clues like other cases, but because they are afraid of the female ghost asking for their lives and keep silent about it.

The murderer has the cloak of a ghost bride who is not subject to legal constraints and sanctions, as long as she disguises the scene cleverly when she kills people, and manipulates the process of killing people carefully and weirdly, she can deceive the eyes and ears of the government and the public. For example, the deceased in these four coffins, no one has been willing to investigate the cause of their death until now.

The first deceased in this case was Zhu Zishan's second son, who was killed on the night when the rainstorm washed out the talisman paper that Zhang Banxian had buried, and it is said that the Zhu family was gathering to discuss business that night, but at this moment, the crying sound that had disappeared before sounded again from Chunling's room.

A little maid told Zhu Zishan that Chun Ling had just appeared, and she was wearing the red bridal dress and was looking in the mirror in the house. When Zhu Zishan's son heard this, he immediately led a group of men to the next room to check, and when they entered the house, they saw a bronze mirror and a wooden comb on the empty dresser.

There was no Chun Ling in the room, so everyone went back, but the next morning, Zhu Zishan's second son was found dead in the bedroom, and the cause of death was suffocation. Because Zhu Zishan's second son once covered Chun Ling with a futon, everyone suspected that Chun Ling's ghost killed Zhu Zishan's second son.

Although I don't know how the government characterizes this murder? But just by virtue of the murderer's successive killings, I can generally guess that the government should ignore this case, and the reason why this is the case is probably because those people in the government also believe in the rumors of the female ghost asking for their lives and are unwilling to participate in it.

Let's first take a look at the cause of death of Zhu Zishan's second son, in fact, the murderer wanted to attack Zhu Zishan's eldest son at first, and that night the murderer took advantage of Zhu Zishan's eldest son to be drunk and unconscious, and even transferred him from the wing room to the haunted room, perhaps it was the transfer that alarmed Zhu Zishan's eldest son, and he actually opened his eyes and woke up.

At that time, Zhu Zishan's eldest son saw the appearance of the murderer, he shouted in fright, and then fainted in fright, because this cry alarmed Zhang Banxian and He Qingming, who were drinking in the courtyard next door, saw that someone outside was looking for a voice to find him, so the murderer had to give up the murder plan, turned around and fled the room. ”

"Wait, I've got to contradict you." When Liu Fan said this, Feng Jin interrupted Liu Fan with a voice, and when he saw Liu Fan looking at him, he asked: "The murderer you refer to is Chun Lingbei, I have been to the Qin Courtyard of Hongyun Inn, although Chun Ling's room and Zhu Zishan's eldest son's room are very close, but they are two separate rooms."

If you want to transfer Zhu Zishan's eldest son from the east wing to the main house where Chun Ling lives, you must first enter Zhu Zishan's eldest son's house, and then carry it to Chun Ling's house through the courtyard.

The courtyard behind the Hongyun Inn is closed, if you want to enter and exit the courtyard, you can only go through the main hall of the inn, enter and exit the backyard from a small door in the middle of the main hall, let's imagine, in the endless flow of inns, how can Chun Ling swagger from the main hall to the backyard? How can it be possible to quietly transfer people to the main house?

Don't forget, she was wearing a wedding dress at the time, how conspicuous it was, even if a strange woman walked in the inn in a red wedding dress, it would attract attention, not to mention Chun Ling, a person who was already dead, not to mention that she would disappear instantly after being discovered, which was simply impossible. ”

"I think I can do it." Liu Fan replied to Feng Jincai, and when he saw Feng Jincai putting on a deferential look, he didn't shirk it, and said directly: "When I went to Zhang Banxian to inquire about the matter this morning, he performed a trick of transferring flowers and trees to me, and I dropped the two runes between my hands.

After seeing this technique, I suddenly opened my mouth, and instantly figured out a lot of things, so I specially went to the Hongyun Inn to check, at the beginning I didn't find anything abnormal, but when I went around to the alley behind the inn, I found a clue, behind the boudoir of Chunling, there is a hidden secret door.

That secret door is very exquisitely made, if you don't have a careful investigation, you will never find that secret door, that secret door is hidden under Chun Ling's bed, as long as you open that secret door, the murderer can escape to the back of the inn in the blink of an eye, and you can also enter the inn from the outside without alarming anyone.

Chunling's boudoir and Zhu Zishan's eldest son's house are indeed two separate rooms, but the edges of their rooms overlap somewhat, which makes the two rooms belong to a wall from a certain point of view.

Through that secret door, Chun Ling could directly enter Zhu Zishan's eldest son's room, and he could even transfer Zhu Zishan's eldest son to his own house without leaving the door. But to uninformed outsiders, these seem very weird, as if the spring spirit can be invisible through the wall, coming and going without a trace. ”

"Secret door?" Hearing Liu Fan mention that there was a secret door hidden in Chunling's boudoir, Feng Jincai's expression was a little nervous, he was silent for a moment, and then questioned: "Even if there is a secret door in Chunling's house, it doesn't mean anything?" Maybe that secret door was left behind by Zhu Zishan's inn? Chun Ling didn't know about the existence of this secret door at all? ”

"You said that was the secret door left by Zhu Zishan?" Liu Fan glanced at Feng Jincai and asked, "If that secret door was left by Zhu Zishan, then do you think he would let Chun Ling live in that room?" Don't forget, in addition to a secret door leading to the back of the inn in that room, there is also a secret door leading to Zhu Zishan's eldest son's room. ”

"Well...... this" shouldn't be, he laughed dryly, Feng Jin groaned slightly, and then his tone changed again: "Brother, although the secret door is not left by Zhu Zishan, it may not be made by Chun Ling, the procedure of making the secret door is very cumbersome, and it is very easy to produce noise, how can Chun Ling create a secret door without knowing it?"

Not to mention whether she can make a secret door as a weak woman, even if it is assumed that she can make a secret door, then how can she avoid everyone's eyes and ears? Not to mention anything else, just the secret door that leads to Zhu Zishan's eldest son, Zhu Zishan's eldest son has been resting in that room all day, if Chun Ling makes a secret door to his house, how can he not know? ”

"That's a good question, that's what I admire about Chunling." When Liu Fan said this, there was a hint of admiration on his face, seeing that everyone was looking at him, Liu Fan didn't sell it, he said directly: "Why do I say that these two secret doors are made by Chunling?" Because this secret door can only be done by Chunling, first of all, the location of the secret door.

When Zhu Zishan married Chunling, the furniture and furnishings in the room were added later, and throughout the boudoir, only Chunling's bed was the most hidden and safest, so there was a secret door for furniture and then there.

Since it is the first furniture and then the secret door, then the next is when to make the secret door, as we all know, Chun Ling has been squeezed out by Zhu Zishan's family after passing the door, even the maid dared to bully her, at that time she lived under the supervision of Zhu Zishan's family all day long, and there was no chance to make a secret door.

But when the rumor that Chun Ling hanged himself and caused the ghost bride to ask for her life spread, everything was different, since Chun Ling's house became a haunted house, that house became a forbidden house, no one dared to live in it, no one dared to touch that room, and even the furnishings in the house did not dare to move, which gave Chun Ling a chance.

Those maids and housekeepers often hear strange noises coming from Chunling's room, which is actually the noise generated when making the secret door, and the reason why everyone didn't find anything when they pushed the door in to check the situation was because the traces produced by the secret door were all under the bed, because of the cover of the bed, so everyone couldn't see the abnormality.

As for the secret door leading to Zhu Zishan's eldest son's room, in fact, the principle is the same as above, the makers don't need to enter the inn from the front at all, they only need to pass through the secret door under the bed of the Chunling boudoir, and they can make it.

Zhu Zishan's eldest son drank heavily all day and did not return, and most of the time he stayed up all night and did not live in the house for a long time. In this way, the murderer has plenty of time to make the secret door, and even if someone hears the abnormal noise, they will think that it is the ghost of the spring spirit, and no one will think that it is actually the murderer who is making the secret door. ”

"It's as if you saw it with your own eyes, but your analysis is wrong, you can go and inquire, Chun Ling doesn't know carpenter work at all, and he doesn't have those tools." Feng Jincai shook his head.

"Chun Ling doesn't know how to work as a carpenter, but that doesn't mean you don't know how to work as a carpenter." Liu Fan looked at Feng Jincai with a pun.