Chapter XXVIII
"What does my carpentry job have to do with Chunling?" As soon as the words came out, Feng Jincai seemed to think of something? Stunned, he heard some kind of signal from Liu Fan's words, and after he reacted, he looked at Liu Fan with a gloomy face, and said angrily: "What do you mean?" Do you suspect that I did those two secret doors? ”
"It's not a suspicion, those two secret doors must have been made by you for Chun Ling." Liu Fan's tone was full of firmness.
"Don't talk nonsense, I don't know how to do a secret door, and besides, I'm not related to that Chun Ling, why should I help her create a secret door?" Feng Jincai denied Liu Fan's analysis and did not admit that the two secret doors had anything to do with him.
Seeing Feng Jincai's denial, Liu Fan didn't show an expression of surprise, he had already guessed that the other party would deny it, so when Feng Jincai finished speaking, Liu Fan didn't answer, walked to Chunling's empty coffin, looked at the empty coffin in front of him, Liu Fan said while observing: "Last night I was stunned by the ghost bride who suddenly got up.
Afterwards, I carefully recalled the situation of seeing the female ghost last night, and summed up two points, first, I was frightened by the sudden appearance and instant disappearance of the ghost bride last night. Second, I was misled by Feng Jincai's remarks at that time, I didn't know who that woman was? But he told me that it was the ghost of the Spring Spirit.
There is no doubt about this sentence, but after careful analysis, it found doubts, although Feng Jincai is a puppet here, but logically speaking, he should be the same as me, he is the ghost of Chun Ling for the first time, and the house was pitch black at that time, why did he tell me that the other party was the ghost bride Chun Ling as soon as he saw that person?
I made countless assumptions and analyses and finally came to a conclusion. Feng Jincai should know the ghost bride, he was with me all the time, and he had a full view of my autopsy process, maybe I found something that caused him to be jealous, so he summoned his companions and asked the other party to pretend to be a ghost to scare me away.
Since he can summon his companions over on the spot, it means that the other party is also in this Yizhuang, otherwise, the other party would not have come in such a timely manner, then the problem will come, except for Feng Jincai, there is only his wife left in the entire Yizhuang, so I concluded that the female ghost I saw last night was pretended by his wife. ”
"The more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, you just said it, I was with you all the time last night, since I didn't leave your sight an inch, how did I report to my wife? How does she know when to come and when not to come? Also, how did she appear and disappear instantly? Feng Jincai asked rhetorically.
"Lantern, you used the lantern to report to her." Facing Feng Jincai's rhetorical question, Liu Fan's expression was very calm: "I remember that during the autopsy last night, you went to the door to sit for a while, and when you returned to the house, you didn't bring the lantern back, but hung it on the door frame, I think this is the signal you released to her."
As for how she got into the room without telling me? And how can you disappear in an instant without going out? This must have something to do with the empty coffin, because the woman never left the coffin since she entered the room last night, so I guess there is a mechanism in the coffin.
Being able to quietly enter this coffin, and leaving this place without leaving a trace, and there are no traces left on the ground, I thought about it again and again, there is only one way to do this, that is, the tunnel, there must be a tunnel leading to Feng Jincai's residence, and the female ghost is passing through the tunnel. ”
After speaking, Liu Fan squatted down and carefully looked at the empty coffin in front of him, he knocked here, patted that side, and focused on checking the wooden frame under the coffin, this wooden frame is made of the whole section of willow wood, it is a sealed rectangular base, except for the different colors, the whole coffin and the base seem to be a whole.
Seeing this, Liu Fan stood up and thought for a moment, and then he stepped into the coffin, which surprised everyone, because in their cognition, it is very unlucky for a living person to enter the coffin, and most people are taboo about this kind of behavior, but they didn't expect Liu Fan to care about this, and went directly into the coffin.
Compared with the surprise of host Qihong and Zhang Banxian, the expression on Feng Jincai's face was mostly nervous, and he saw that the cold sweat on his forehead kept rising, although Feng Jincai tried his best to pretend not to care, but the corner of his eye always glanced into the coffin unconsciously. Feeling Feng Jincai's strange gaze, Liu Fan's heart moved slightly.
The coffin doesn't show anything unusual, but somehow? Thinking of this, Liu Fan focused on the bottom of the coffin, the wooden board at the bottom did not see anything abnormal, and he groped along the edge and did not find any hidden grooves and mechanisms.
Zai carefully studied it for a long time, but he couldn't find the slightest suspicion, and after a moment of silence, Liu Fan, who did not give up, silently recalled the scene when the female ghost appeared last night, and quietly observed Feng Jincai's expression, and then, Liu Fan muttered softly: "Why can't you find the mechanism that is opened?" Don't? Is this a one-way opening? ”
Thinking of this, Liu Fan jumped out of the coffin, he asked everyone to move Chunling's coffin, and when he heard Liu Fan let him move the coffin, Feng Jincai, who could barely keep calm, suddenly stopped, and he hurriedly stood up to stop it, saying that moving the coffin was disrespectful to the deceased, and everyone was not allowed to move Chunling's coffin.
Seeing Feng Jincai's appearance, host Qihong and Zhang Banxian glanced at each other, the two vaguely guessed something, and then the two turned their eyes to Liu Fan, seeing Liu Fan's firm gaze, Zhang Banxian looked at the coffin in front of him with a look of embarrassment, although he had the heart to help, but he didn't have enough strength.
At the moment, Feng Jin refused to do it, Liu Fan was thin and thin, and Zhang Banxian alone couldn't move this coffin at all. Looking at Zhang Banxian's embarrassed expression, Qihong presided over a little groaning, and then he pushed Chunling's coffin with one hand, and gently pushed the coffin off the base, and the coffin weighing hundreds of pounds was as if there was nothing in Qihong's hands.
Qi Hong's hand really frightened Liu Fan and the three of them, especially Liu Fan, he didn't expect that this old monk who seemed to be on the verge of death actually had such a strong internal force, although Qi Hong's cultivation shocked Liu Fan and the three of them, but what was even more shocking was still to come, because when Chun Ling's coffin was pushed open, a tunnel was revealed underneath.
The tunnel is dug in the base of the coffin, there are four woods around it, and there is a coffin pressed on it, no one can see the difference, the first visual inspection, the tunnel mouth is about one and a half meters long, about one meter wide, there are steps below, I don't know where it leads? As the coffin was pushed aside, the tunnel was half exposed.
Seeing the revealed tunnel, Feng Jincai's face suddenly turned like ashes, and Liu Fan entered the tunnel with an excited face, only to see him groping for a moment from the bottom of the coffin, and actually opened a one-meter-square secret door at the bottom, and after leaning out of the secret door, Liu Fan praised: "This is actually a secret door that can only be opened from the bottom, amazing." ”
"Brother Feng, what's going on?" Zhang Banxian looked at Feng Jincai with a stunned expression.
Although Qi Hong didn't speak, his eyes when he looked at Feng Jincai were also full of questions.
"This ......"
Hearing Zhang Banxian's question, looking at the puzzled expression in Qihong's eyes, Feng Jin glared at Liu Fan, then twisted his head and stood there without saying a word, no matter how Zhang Banxian asked, he just didn't say anything.
"Liu Gongzi, what's going on with this falling to the ground?"
Seeing that Feng Jincai refused to answer, Zhang Banxian's heart was itching, at this time his curiosity had been all aroused, but at this juncture, Feng Jincai pretended to be dumb, and he couldn't ask anything from Feng Jincai's side, Zhang Banxian turned his eyes to Liu Fan, hoping to find the answer from Liu Fan's side.
Looking at Feng Jincai's gloomy face, Liu Fan paused, and then said slowly: "Actually, I don't know what the relationship between Feng Jincai and Chun Ling is?" But I'm sure that not only did he know Chunling, but he was also Chunling's accomplice and accomplice, and it was with his assistance that Chunling was able to kill those people three times in a row.
Just now we said that Chunling's first target was Zhu Zishan's eldest son, but because Zhang Banxian and He Qingming suddenly appeared, she failed to kill the target. However, she did not stop there, and even changed the target to Zhu Zishan's second son, and the next morning, people found that Zhu Zishan's second son died of suffocation.
The reason why people linked this incident to the ghost bride was because Zhu Zishan's second son had covered Chun Ling with a futon, so everyone suspected that it was Chun Ling's ghost who killed Zhu Zishan's second son. However, given that it was Feng Jincai who was in charge of the autopsy at the time, I suspect that the conclusion of the autopsy of the deceased should be fake.
The reason is very simple, Chunling's room is on the east side, and Zhu Zishan's second son's room is on the west side, there is no overlap between the two houses, there is no way to open a secret door, just from Chunling's room to the west side is as difficult as climbing to the sky, not to mention that you have to go to the west side of the house to kill people unknowingly, and you have to think about how to retreat.
Under this premise, there is only one way to kill people silently, that is, to poison Zhu Zishan's second son with some kind of drug, and when the people in the inn find out that Zhu Ergongzi is dead, they will inevitably report to the official, and the government will definitely send Feng Jincai to the scene for an autopsy, so that Feng Jincai can help cover up.
To put it bluntly, that is, I think that Zhu Zishan's second son may not have died of suffocation, but of other factors, in order to link this matter with the ghost bride, Feng Jincai concealed the real cause of death of the deceased during the autopsy, and lied that it was suffocation, he was sent by the yamen, and no one would doubt his words. ”