Update announcement: The wood broke out a little, and it was decided that from now on, there will be two changes a day, 4,000 words per update, a total of 8,000 words. I hope that all the bosses will vote for the wood on a monthly basis. Thank you!

By the way, Mao Sui recommended Wood's new "Three-Eyed Forensics" (ISBN 1049391), which is a modern detective of urban supernatural abilities. All book friends are welcome to give advice.

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Meng Tianchu asked: "I heard that a woman died in that courtyard before, right?" ”

The villager who spoke just now said mysteriously, "Yes, the woman in the past and the woman who died the day before yesterday were strangled to death by the ghost. ”

Meng Tianchu said angrily: "In front of the public, you can't talk about it. ”

Seeing that the official was angry, the man quickly shut up and retreated into the crowd.

Meng Tianchu said: "What kind of ghost do you always say, what kind of ghost, have any of you really seen the ghost who strangled someone?" Is it a male ghost or a female ghost? ”

Everyone saw that Meng Tianchu was angry, and no one dared to speak, Meng Tianchu pointed to the person who spoke just now, and asked the person to say, and the person said: "Master, I haven't seen anything, I won't talk nonsense anymore." ”

Wang Yi said: "Now that the master asks you to say it, you will say it." ”

One of the older men said: "I haven't seen us before, master, you are also a scholar, you know, so if you kill someone, why did the two women die in the house with the doors and windows closed?" If someone else killed him, how did the killer get out of that room? ”

The villagers all nodded. whispered.

Meng Tianchu knew that what this person said made sense, and this was something he couldn't explain, and it was not unreasonable for others to have such questions, so it was not unreasonable to guess at will.

Meng Tianchu didn't answer his question and asked, "Then did this Liu Si say anything before jumping off the weir?" ”

The woman said, "Yes, yes, I remember clearly, when he jumped off the ground." He smiled and told me and my children that we must not go out at night in the future. He said that he would meet a ghost, and he said that when he came back last night, he saw the woman who died in the house, and she asked him to go with her. ”

- It's true! Meng Tianchu's head was big, he looked at Murong Yuxue beside him, who had not spoken, this girl had been listening very quietly, her eyes were wide open, as if she was listening to such an attractive story.

The older man said, "We were all there. Liu Si did say so, and his woman didn't lie. ”

Meng Tianchu looked at the others, and everyone nodded vigorously, for fear that Meng Tianchu would be suspicious.

Meng Tianchu said: "What about the dog baby? Is the dog baby there? ”

A thin middle-aged man walked out, still holding a hoe in his hand, and said, "I'm a dog." ”

Meng Tianchu thought that the dog baby was at least a young man, but he didn't expect that a middle-aged man who was about the same as the deceased would come out.

Meng Tianchu said: "Tell me about last night. ”

Gouwa said: "Liu Si often comes to my house to drink, but last night it was too rainy because of the rain. He couldn't go, so he drank a few more glasses, and he was anxious to say that he was afraid that his family would be worried at night, so it was easy to wait until the rain stopped, and he pulled his legs and left, because my house had to pass through the haunted house when I got to his house. So I told him to go faster when he passed that place, and he didn't think of it, alas! I knew I would have preferred to stay with him for the night. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "What house do you have to pass by when you go to his house?" ”

The dog baby nodded and said, "Yes, there is a long detour to other places." ”

Meng Tianchu said to the woman: "You just said that your man's clothes were wet when he went home, but the dog baby said that he waited for the rain to stop before leaving, how could the clothes on his body get wet?" ”

The woman said, "I also asked him last night, and I thought he had come back in the rain, and he said that he had seen a ghost." I was afraid of falling into the ditch before I got my clothes wet. ”

This bizarre suicide case that I came across by chance. It's a little weird, and it's connected to that weird house. Meng Tianchu decided to go to the house first to have a look.

Meng Tianchu instructed the woman to transport Liu Si's body back to the county yamen, and he would go back later to carefully examine the cause of death. Later, they came to the door of the house, and Meng Tianchu found that the door was wide open.

He thought about it, when he walked on the ground in the morning, he got out of the car and closed the door on the ground, he looked back at Murong Yuxue who was standing behind him, because he didn't tell other people that he and Yuxue stayed in this mansion last night, after all, they were still girls, although the two of them didn't do anything, but they always wanted to avoid suspicion.

Murong Yuxue was also surprised, and asked in a low voice, "Master Meng, didn't you close the door?" ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, it seemed that he was not mistaken, then, who opened this door again? Meng Tianchu stood at the gate and looked at the situation in the yard, and sure enough, he found footprints on the ground, he squatted down and took a look, judging from the size of the footprints, it should be a man's foot, and his height was about one meter seven.

Wang Yi said: "Look, there is also a straw sandal. ”

Meng Tianchu looked up and saw that there was really a straw shoe not far away, he stepped forward to check, the straw shoe was stuck in the mud, thinking that the man was in a hurry, and accidentally stepped on a recess, and the straw shoe sank in, and he didn't have the intention to pick it up and leave. Meng Tianchu looked at the footprints that went out and came in, and deduced that the person had left the straw sandals here when he went out. Did he see anything? Why is it in such a hurry?

He suddenly remembered that the deceased named Liu Si seemed to have a straw shoe missing from his foot, could it be that he came here when his woman and the whole village were looking for him everywhere? No wonder you can't find him, but what is he doing here?

Meng Tianchu was full of doubts in his heart, handed over the straw sandals to Wang Yi, and asked him to put them on for the deceased to see if it was his, and wait for Wang Yi to leave. He looked around the yard, and because it was full of puddles and silt, it was clear from the footprints that the man had been somewhere.

Murong Zhenxue and Zhu Hao followed behind him, the footprints disappeared at the kitchen door, and he looked at the stairs to see that there were no footprints on the ladder upstairs, and the person should have left before he had time to go upstairs.

Meng Tianchu walked into the kitchen. Sure enough, there were footprints everywhere in the kitchen, but it wasn't cluttered. Thinking that the man was looking for something, he followed the footprints all the way, and in front of the pyre where the firewood was placed, the footprints were gone. Meng Tianchu squatted down, the light in the kitchen was relatively dim, he asked Zhu Hao to find a lamp, and waited for Zhu Hao to leave the kitchen. He said to Murong Yuxue behind him, "I saw this kitchen door open by itself last night. ”

When Murong Yuxue heard this, she felt a chill down her spine, and said, "Then have you come down to take a look?" ”

"I came to see it, but I didn't go into the kitchen, I just looked outside the door. ”

Meng Tianchu didn't tell Murong Yuxue what she had found here, he was worried that she would be afraid.

This Zhu Hao took a lamp and walked in, and the room was immediately much brighter.

Meng Tianchu took the lamp and motioned for the two of them to stand farther away. Don't block the light outside, he looked carefully at the pyre, there wasn't much firewood, pulled out the firewood, he suddenly noticed something, he put the lamp on the ground. Looking closer, it turned out to be a hole about ten centimeters in diameter, the hole was uneven, and some hairs were found in the gap at the entrance of the hole, he carefully took out his hand towel and wrapped those things, and went back to test the results immediately, hoping to help solve the case.

He looked at the entrance to the cave and saw that it was dark, so he took the lamp closer and saw that it was a sandwich wall. He motioned for Zhu Hao to come over. asked, "Look at this wall, you can help me go behind this wall and have a look." Is it intact, or can it be opened to the outside. ”

After a while, Zhu Hao came back and said, "I looked, the back wall of this courtyard can be directly led to the outside." ”

Although this is a hole that can lead to the outside, but people can't get out, is it that the owner deliberately set aside it for the family cats and dogs to go out?

Meng Tianchu said: "Tell me, what is the point of this cave entrance staying in this place?" ”

Zhu Hao said: "In the past, some people in the countryside who lived under the mountain left a small hole in the kitchen to facilitate the spring water on the mountain to be opened up with a section of bamboo and then led to the water tank of their kitchen, even if there is no spring water, the rainwater can be eaten." ”

Murong Xue said: "I also know this, my family used to do this when they were in the countryside, and cooking is enough, but there is no water source in this location that can lead water to my kitchen?" ”

Zhu Hao said: "I just paid attention to it, and there is indeed no water source that can be brought to the house, so it may be that the owner of this house is used for other purposes." ”

Meng Tianchu stood up and blew out the light, the room darkened, and the hole was gone.

If it is said that the owner deliberately left this hole, then it should be made a little more beautiful, and it should be placed here, compared with this kitchen and this house, it is really incongruous. Fortunately, the light in this kitchen is not very good on weekdays, the hole seems very private, and now there is no rain outside to see anything clearly, if it is a rainy day again, then you must be able to see it when you are cooking.

The three of them walked out, and Wang Yi also came back, saying: "The straw sandals are really Liu Si's, and his woman also said that the straw sandals were made up by her for Liu Si." ”

Meng Tianchu looked back at the kitchen again, since the straw sandals were Liu Sidi, then the person who came should be him, because there were no other footprints in the courtyard except for the footprints and carriage prints when he left in the morning, and Murong Zhenxue let himself carry the car, so the footprints in the yard were easy to recognize. What is he doing here? Did you see anything when you walked to the pyre? He probably saw the hole too, maybe there was something in the hole at that time, which frightened him, so he left in a hurry, and didn't even pick up the straw sandals, but what he saw now, no one knows.

After inspecting the mansion, Meng Tianchu returned to the county government with Murong Yuxue and Zhu Hao, and went directly to the mortuary, preparing to inspect Liu Si's body.

Two corpses have been placed in the mortuary in less than three days, one is Zilin's, he has already checked it, notified Zhuge Xin, and probably pulled it away soon, Zilin's cause of death is very simple, he was strangled by his hands, there was no poisoning, and there was no sex before death. The other one is Liu Si, who hit the ghost.

Meng Tianchu found that there seemed to be more things about ghosts and spirits in the countryside than in the city, and anything could make them talk about it, he used to go back to the countryside for the summer vacation, as if when adults were in the courtyard at night, they were most enthusiastic about talking about such things, but now in ancient times, it is more normal.

After examination, although Liu Si died of drowning, it was due to type ** drowning caused by neuroinhibitory cardiac arrest. That is, the real cause of his death was not drowning, but death from shock due to some factor that stimulated the nerves and caused the heart to reflexively stop.

Usually, this occurs because cold water irritates the mucosa of the throat, causing glottic spasm, or causing reflex vagus nerve suppression, leading to cardiac arrest and death from shock. However, Liu Si is familiar with water, so this situation is unlikely. It is likely that he was frightened and stimulated by the cold water in early spring, which caused cardiac arrest and drowned.

What is the source of this scare? Could it really be that female ghost with no head?

Coming out of the mortuary, Meng Tianchu yawned tiredly, because he hadn't slept the night before, and he was close to the busy day, seeing that it was getting dark again, Murong Zhenxue saw that he seemed to be very sleepy, so he said, "Why don't we get here today, you can also go back and sleep well." ”

Meng Tianchu thought that the things he brought back from the ghost house had not been tested, and he didn't want to rest, even if he really felt a little tired, he developed a habit, when he encountered a case, when there were clues, he never gave himself time to rest, if someone really saw him sitting or lying down, then he must have suddenly lost the clue and entered a dead end.

After Meng Tianchu said goodbye to Murong Yuxue, he returned home and went straight to his own laboratory in the study, this room is usually not allowed to enter, only he has the key.

When he entered the house, he closed the door, lit the four lamps, closed the curtains, and then took out a handful of hair-like things that he had taken from the house, and began to examine them.