Er stood up: "Alright, it's time for me to go." ”

Meng Tianchu also stood up: "I'll send you." ”

Qin'er blocked it with her hand, smiled, revealing a mouthful of white and neat teeth: "Send you a thousand miles, you must say goodbye in the end, talking about Miss with Childe today, it also invisibly warns me, I have a fate with Childe but I don't have a chance to stay together, Miss and the person she has to wait for are the same, and I didn't wait for a result in the end, I don't want to be the same as Miss, I don't want to end up with a chicken and egg, Childe, take care, Qin'er is here to say goodbye." ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Qin'er's distant figure and couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, a woman came out from behind the bamboo forest, also dressed in white, and walked to Meng Tianchu's side.

Meng Tianchu didn't look back, but said: "I didn't expect that a story could make a person wake up, but it's not easy. He turned his head to look at the woman: "Good news, thank you for your hard work." ”

The woman in white was Zuo Jiayin, and said with a smile: "I hope I didn't really freak her out just now." ”

Meng Tianchu gently hugged Zuo Jiayin and said with a smile: "Your performance today is really exciting, you just floated over the grave and disappeared into the bamboo forest, I was still thinking, don't you accidentally fall down, you have a child in your belly." ”

Zuo Jiayin smiled, gently stroked his already bulging belly with his hand and said, "I still want you to say it, naturally you are extremely careful." ”

The two people walked out of the bamboo forest hand in hand, and several villagers walked by, and one of them said happily when he saw Meng Tianchu, "Master Meng." Why are you here? ”

Meng Tianchu took a closer look, it turned out that it was the last time Liu Si was in the case, and he was watching a lively villager at the scene.

Meng Tianchu said: "I'm just going to go shopping." ”

When the villager saw the direction Meng Tianchu came from, he said to Meng Tianchu very solemnly: "You won't go to that woman's grave, will you?" ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, and the villager became even more nervous, and said, "Master Meng, you are so young, but don't mess with those unclean things. ”

Meng Tianchu naturally knew that these simple villagers were doing it for their own good. So he nodded in agreement.

The villager said, "That place is very evil. We're not going to that place now. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Everyone is dead. What are you afraid of? ”

The villager hurriedly said: "Don't say that, just the day before Miss Zilin moved in, my second child saw a woman in white standing in front of the window in the attic of the house. ”

When Meng Tianchu heard this, he felt strange, that mansion should be unoccupied, before Zilin moved in. How could anyone be?

But looking at the serious look of the villager, Meng Tianchu said, "Your second brother sees the ground? Where is he? Can you let him tell me about it? ”

The villager was so happy that he immediately stopped a boy in front of him who was leading a buffalo, who was about seven or eight years old.

The child walked up to Meng Tianchu, and the villager said, "Second brother, tell Master Meng again about the female ghost you saw under that haunted house that day." ”

Meng Tianchu thought to himself, how could he tell the child like this. Such a big child should be very scared, so he smiled and said to the child, "Probably you are mistaken." Maybe it's the upstairs curtains blown up by the wind. You think it's a person. ”

But the child said very seriously: "What a big sister, wearing a white dress, but she has no head. It's scary. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Since you don't have a head, how do you know that it's a sister?" ”

The child said, "That boy doesn't always wear skirts." ”

Meng Tianchu thought about it, so he felt that this matter was a little strange, and after thinking about it, he said to the villager: "Do you remember the woman who died in this mansion before, when she died, when did the old man of her family find her dead in the house?" ”

The villager thought for a while and said, "I don't know this very well, you can ask the old man of our village, he seems to be more clear." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then please trouble my brother to take me to find that old Zhang Tou." ”

The villager immediately agreed, handed over the farm tools in his hand to another villager, and then walked in the other direction with Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin.

Walking under an old locust tree, the villager pointed to a man in his fifties who was enjoying the shade under the locust tree, and said to Meng Tianchu: "He is the old man." ”

Meng Tianchu and the villager stepped forward, and the villager said, "Old Zhangtou, Master Meng has something to ask you in the yamen." ”

The old man looked up and saw a young man standing beside him, saying that he was from the yamen, and immediately stood up.

Meng Tianchu said with a smile: "I just came to ask you, do you know the specific situation of the first dead woman in the haunted mansion before?" ”

Lao Zhangtou thought for a while and said, "I don't really know, but when I went to work that morning, I passed by the house, because my field was behind their house, so I had to pass by in front of their house every day, and I got up early during that time, and that day, when I arrived at the house, the sky was also bright, and I saw the master of the house come out of the gate, saw me, and greeted me." I asked the old man to go there so early, and he said that he was going to the county seat and had a business to do. At that time, I thought that it was not easy for these businessmen to make money. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then how do you know that the woman in that room is dead?" ”

Lao Zhangtou said: "I don't know, who said I know?" I just told people that I said hello to the old man that morning, and the old man said something upstairs and said, 'I'm leaving, you have to eat well at home, I'll be back in the evening' or something. Later, when I came back from my work in the fields, I passed by the house, and saw that the young lady of the family was still standing in front of the window looking at me, and I wondered if this rich woman was so idle that she had done her own work for an hour or two, and she was still standing there

Panic. Later, when it was dusk, I heard that the old man had died. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Do you remember when you really saw that woman standing at the window looking at you?" When the old man spoke to the woman upstairs, how did the woman answer? What you won't see is another woman without a head. He thought of what the kid had said before.

The old man smiled. said: "Master, don't look at me in my fifties, my mother-in-law also added a big fat son to me last year, I am not old." That morning, however, the old man said something to his wife, but the lady said nothing, probably seeing me. So I'm sorry. ”

Meng Tianchu and the villagers on the side all laughed. Zuo Jiayin was a little embarrassed. The old man continued: "That young lady used to stand at the window and look out, how could I not know? She's so pretty, let's see if it's always okay. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded with a smile and said, "You are really funny, of course, if you are sure that you can see that young lady clearly and see the face, then there should be no fake." ”

The old man said, "There will never be a fake." I dare to vouch for it with my head! ”

After hearing this, Meng Tianchu returned to the yamen suspiciously, thought for a long time, called Wang Yi, the head catcher, and asked him if they had come to investigate the scene of the case at that time.

Wang Yi nodded and said: "I have investigated, at that time, master, you had a case and went on a business trip to other places, and after receiving the report, the county magistrate asked me to bring two brothers and a stranger to take a look." If it is indeed a homicide. Then send someone to inform you. ”

"Oh, tell me about it."

Speaking of this, Wang Yi was still afraid. He said: "When we arrived at the house, we found that the gate had been smashed, and the old man knelt on the ground and hugged the woman and cried. After understanding, I found out that the master of the house came back to the house and saw that the door was closed, and he didn't answer, so he went out and asked some people in the village to help open the door, because the door was closed from the inside, the same as Ruan Zilin's case last time. After everyone worked together to knock the door open, they found that the inside was still pressed against the top door bar. I had the body examined and found that he had been strangled to death. I double-checked the doors and windows again and saw that they were all closed from the inside. When I asked everyone present, they all said that they had not entered the door at that time, let alone touched the doors and windows. This is very strange, the doors and windows are closed from the inside, so how did the murderer go in and kill people? Even if you kill someone, how do you get out of this room? ”

Meng Tianchu frowned, thinking: It's impossible to commit a crime in another secret room, damn! It seems that this haunted house has done something with itself!

Wang Yi continued: "At that time, everyone thought that it must be a ghost strangulation place, and only a ghost can kill people invisibly!" So they were all scared, they were all so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they slipped away one after another with excuses. We also felt strange, and went back to tell the eldest master, who personally came to inquire about it, and the result was the same, and came to a conclusion, it must be the ghost who strangled the woman. After the master of the house learned of this result, he was also very scared, and found some Taoist monks and monks to do a supernatural ritual, and then quietly buried the person. ”

Meng Tianchu asked, "Why didn't you tell me about this?" ”

Wang Yiqi said: "The ghost strangles to death, who dares to do it?" If you are accused of bewitching the public, you will be killed! Therefore, the county magistrate did not file a case, and strictly forbade everyone to spread the word, so he didn't tell you. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled bitterly and shook his head, of course he wouldn't believe in any ghosts pinching people, so to figure out all this, he decided to open the coffin for an autopsy.

Cai Zhixian's consent is required to open the coffin for an autopsy, but what Wang Yi said just now made Meng Tianchu dispel this idea and decided to make his own opinion, even if he exceeded his authority, Cai Zhixian couldn't do anything about him.

Hearing that the coffin was going to be opened, Wang Yi was so frightened that his face changed, but he didn't dare to disobey, as long as he called Qi Zuo and a few fast catchers to follow Meng Tianchu to Sunset Village overnight. The village was notified in advance, so Li Zheng also brought a few young men to wait at the entrance of the village.

The group went straight to Shui Muyan's grave, at this time there were a few thunderstorms in the sky, and the wind blew the embroidery forest to a sand sound, Meng Tianchu looked at everyone, and found that a few young men were a little scared and were looking around, and he couldn't care about it, so he gave an order: "Dig it for me." ”

Everyone immediately took action, and for a while, the sound of the bamboo forest was the sound of sand falling on the bamboo.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky and landed right on the grave, and a group of men immediately dodged away, and several people also screamed loudly. One of the villagers threw the guy in his hand and stumbled out, shouting loudly, "Ghost." ”

The village chief was about to stop it, but Meng Tianchu stopped him and said, "Don't care, I'm about to see the coffin, everyone hurry up before the heavy rain comes." ”

As soon as they heard this, they hurried back to the grave and began to dig it up tremblingly. After a while, the coffin was revealed, Meng Tianchu approached with a torch, and said to Wang Yi, "Open the coffin." ”

The coffin was finally opened, and with a bang, the coffin board was lifted, and everyone was immediately stimulated by the smell of the coffin and couldn't open their eyes, and the strong smell of corpse decay made many people avoid it.

Meng Tianchu looked at it as if nothing had happened, because the past few months were all winter, and it was buried in the depths of the low-lying bamboo forest, the temperature was low, the humidity was high, and the burial was very deep, so the decay rate of the corpse was relatively slow, although a few months had passed, it was still only in a period of high decay, although the chest and abdomen of the corpse had mostly decayed, but the head and face were still basically intact, and the clothes worn by the corpse were soaked in corpse water and changed color.

Meng Tianchu lowered his head and carefully examined the corpse for a while, and said, "Carry the coffin back to the yamen together." ”

After the body was carried back to the yamen, Meng Tianchu stayed in the mortuary for a long time, and after examining Shui Muyan's body, he returned home exhausted, he wanted to sleep first.