[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qingming deduced that there must be a hidden secret to the death of the eldest lady of the Chen Mansion through the discussions of the people under the Chen Mansion, and after proposing to see the file, he was pulled by Zhao Liang to the police station. After reading the dossier at a glance and ten lines, Mu Qingming locked on the murderer of the fourth aunt was Wu Ma; After the repetition of Mu Qingming's case, Zhao Liang analyzed the case, and what he said was reasonable and reasonable, so that Zhao Liang was cheerful, and the two visited Chen's mansion again at night to arrest Wu's mother, Wu's mother did not resist and was arrested, and under interrogation, she said that she killed the fourth aunt just for revenge. 】

Mu Qing meditated for a while, and felt that it was better to tell Zhao Liang about the bone comb, so he looked at Zhao Liang, who was standing opposite him, confused, and said: "Daddy Liu in Yunjin Night Market has a family craft, which is to make combs from bones, and this comb was handed over to Daddy Liu after the fourth aunt asked someone to dig out the leg bones of the eldest lady. If Inspector Zhao doesn't believe it, just ask Daddy Liu himself. ”。

But he never said that there was soul refining on the comb.

"But what does this have to do with Mama Wu being the murderer?" Zhao Liang asked with a frown.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly; Do you remember that night in Chen's Mansion, I handed over the money to Wu's mother? After seeing Zhao Liang and nodded, Mu Qingming said again: "At that time, I saw a few scratches on the outside of Wu's mother's wrist, just because she quickly retracted her hand, I didn't see how many there were, but I took my life to guarantee that it was indeed scratches." ”。

Saying that, Mu Qingming put down the teacup, and after scratching his left wrist with his right hand, three bright red scratches appeared on his skin.

He stretched out his wrist to Zhao Liang and said slowly, "That's it." ”。

"What does this mean?" Zhao Liang asked stupidly, and the confusion in his heart was even greater.

"It shows that when Mother Wu tightened her neck with a rope from behind the fourth aunt, she was scratched by the struggling fourth aunt." Mu Qingming beckoned to Zhao Liang and said, "Come, our case will repeat once, and you will strangle me from the rope behind me." ”。

"Oh." Zhao Liang was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a few seconds, he began to untie the belt around his waist.

"What are you doing?" Mu Qingming was taken aback when he saw this, and shouted, "I asked you to find a rope without saying to take off your pants." ”。

"There's no rope, so let's use this." Zhao Liang said that he had untied the belt, walked behind Mu Qingming, and put the belt around his neck without saying a word.

Mu Qingming was strangled by his belt, and he was suddenly suffocated; Then Zhao Liang exerted force in his hand and tightened the belt a little tighter, Na Mu Qing's face turned blue, the roots of his ears and neck were red, and his mouth let out a whine*, and his survival instinct drove him to raise his hand and reach to the back of his head and scratch it indiscriminately.

After a while, he grabbed two or three small openings on the back of Zhao Liang's hand.

Zhao Liang gasped in pain, and hurriedly let go of Mu Qingming.

Mu Qingming, whose face turned from iron blue to red, coughed violently a few times, and then said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "See? Whoever has scratches on his hands is the murderer who strangled the fourth aunt. ”。

Zhao Liang looked at the blood marks on the back of his hand, nodded his head, and fastened the belt.

They were all busy interrogating that day, and the Chen Mansion was in a mess, so they ignored this detail; Thinking of this, Zhao Liang cast an admiring look at Mu Qingming.

"It was precisely when I noticed this that I kept doubting Mother Wu. But I didn't know her purpose before, but now I know more or less why she committed it. Mu Qingming gasped a few times, and after the suffocation disappeared, he continued: "The file I read just now records that Mother Wu is the personal maid of the eldest lady, and she was already when the eldest lady was a child; And our people pay attention to the deceased, perhaps because she knows that the fourth aunt dug up the leg bones of the eldest lady and made a human bone comb, and started her own revenge plan. She is also a subordinate of the Chen Mansion, so she is naturally familiar with the work and rest rules of the fourth aunt and the topography of the Chen Mansion. So all kinds of signs indicate that Wu's mother is the murderer. ”。

Zhao Liang frowned and pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement with his words, and then said: "No wonder you want to read the file, it turns out that you are looking for a motive for the crime." ”。

"Finding a motive is only one thing, and the other is that I thought the murderer was the same person at first, but now it seems that it is not the same person at all." Mu Qingming, whose complexion had returned to normal, took another sip of tea, stared at the tea pole floating in the cup and said leisurely: "But if as I analyzed, Mama Wu is the murderer of the fourth aunt, I am afraid that the fourth aunt is the murderer of the eldest lady." ”。

Zhao Liang was stunned when he heard this, tilted his head slightly and looked at Mu Qing in a daze and asked, "How do you say this?" ”。

"Remember what I said, the people said that the death of the fourth aunt is exactly the same as that of the eldest lady? And that's what you have in your files. Maybe Mother Wu wants to use the same way of death to punish the fourth aunt for this slut. Mu Qingming slowly finished saying this under Zhao Liang's repeated nods, and couldn't help but sigh.

To this day, he still remembers that when he first met his fourth aunt, the other party was generous, spoke softly and politely, and no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a woman who dared to kill people resolutely.

However, Mu Qingming, as an old immortal who has lived for more than three hundred years, has long seen this kind of thing. Whether it is a human or a demon, there is no shortage of men and women who look harmless to humans and animals, but are actually femme fatales.

Maybe the fourth aunt is really just looking gentle and gentle on the surface.

He was thinking about it, and after Zhao Liang had already put the file back into the bag, he said, "Let's go." ”。

"Where are you going?" Mu Qingming, who came back to his senses, asked after putting down the teacup.

"Don't you like to drink my high powder?" After Zhao Liang showed a mysterious smile to him, he said slowly: "Then the tea leaves of the Chen Mansion are definitely not bad." ”......

When I arrived at Chen's Mansion, it was already the hour, and it was generally impossible for this gatekeeper to open the door to outsiders. But Zhao Liang is the inspector of the official family, and explained that this time he came to the door to investigate the case of the fourth aunt, and the porter did not dare to turn him away.

After entering the door, Zhao Liang said to the concierge, "Take us to find your mother Wu in the house." ”。

The porter did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly locked the door and led them through the courtyard to the courtyard where the servants lived behind the side hall.

Mother Wu has been in Chen's Mansion for a long time, and she was conscientious in her past work, so Master Chen did not treat her badly; Instead of letting her other subordinates live in a room, she was given a small hut for herself.

Zhao Liang and Mu Qingming followed the porter to the door, and they heard the gentle sound of wooden fish coming from the house.

The porter gently pushed open the door and said to the house: "Mother Wu, Inspector Zhao and Young Master Mu of the Police Department are looking for you." ”。

"You go down, we have to talk to Mother Wu about something." Mu Qingming waved his hand, signaled the porter to retreat, and walked into the house with Zhao Liang.

The porter answered, and left with curiosity.

The house where Wu's mother lives is not big, and the furnishings inside are very simple. Except for the wooden bed and wardrobe in the corner, all that remains is the delicate Buddhist altar placed next to the wall opposite the gate.

The Buddha is enshrined in a statue of the Dharma * kind, the lines are warm and smooth, the overall statue is vivid, and the momentum is majestic Guanyin statue.

In front of the statue of the deity are offerings of fruits, oil lamps, candlesticks and incense burners. Mother Wu turned her back to Mu Qingming and knelt on the futon in front of the Buddha platform.

The sound of a wooden fish came from in front of her.

When Mu Qingming and the others stood behind Mother Wu, the sound of the wooden fish stopped abruptly, and then Mother Wu took the lead in speaking: "Young Master Mu, I knew you would come back, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. ”。

The tone is flat and unwavering.

Mu Qingming smiled indifferently and said bluntly: "Mother Wu, can you let me see the back of your hand?" ”。

"Don't look at it, I have scratches on the back of my hand." Mother Wu seemed to guess why Mu Qingming came to visit late at night, and she didn't hide it, but Mu Qingming and Zhao Liang were both slightly stunned, and they were suddenly speechless.

"If you kill someone, you will pay for your life, and if I kill someone, you come to arrest me, I deserve it." Wu Ma continued to kneel on the futon, raised her eyes to look at the benevolent Guanyin statue in the Buddhist platform in front of her, and said slowly: "I am willing to pay for my life." ”。

Mu Qingming and the others didn't expect that Mother Wu would generously admit that she had killed someone. It seems that in Wu's mother's opinion, she just killed someone, and there was no fuss.

As soon as the words landed, Mother Wu resolutely stood up, turned around after a full robe, and looked at Mu Qingming and groaned.

"Mother Wu, why do you have to kill the fourth aunt?" Zhao Liang looked at the old servant, who was over half a hundred years old and had begun to grow wrinkles on the corners of his eyes and forehead, but was still strong, and asked softly.

With such a tough body, it's no wonder that she can strangle the thin fourth aunt too easily and hang it on the beams of the house.

The north wind whistled through the door and the temperature plummeted inside.

"Fourth aunt, she deserves to die." Mother Wu, who was still calm, suddenly looked gloomy after hearing the words, her eyes flashed with a cold murderous aura, and she said fiercely: "This slut actually dares to ask someone to dig out the leg bones of the eldest lady to make a human bone comb. ”。

"How did you find out about this?" Mu Qingming asked again.

"My job in the Chen Mansion, in addition to making tea for the guests, is to clean the house for the lord and wife." Wu's mother paused and continued to say slowly: "One day when I went to clean the house, the fourth aunt was taking a lunch break. I didn't know that she was in the house and pushed the door in without saying a word, just in time to hear her talking in her sleep. She said with a smile in her sleep, probably talking about Chen Li, you are an old and ugly woman, and you still occupy the position of the eldest lady when you die, and the old lady must dig out your bones to make a comb. ”。

"Humph!" Mother Wu snorted angrily and said, "Seeing that the fourth aunt was smiling so proudly, I really wanted to give her two slaps at that time." ”。

Chen Lishi is the eldest lady of the Chen Mansion. This name was on the archives of the police department before, and Mu Qingming had seen it many times.

But at that time, I was stunned again, and I didn't dare to speak out after weighing it repeatedly, and slowly retreated. Thinking about it in hindsight, this was nothing more than a dream, the deceased was afraid that this little slut would not dare to do this, but she did not expect that she would really buy a bone comb and come back a few days later. I repeatedly thought it was just an ordinary bone comb, but after I was never at ease, I still went to Daddy Liu in Yunjin Night Market and bought three different combs, namely sheep bones, beef bones and pig bones. Mother Wu said and walked to the side of her bed, bent down and reached under the pillow to find a comb, walked back and handed it to Mu Qingming.

Zhao Hao looked at it curiously, and saw that the smooth and white moon-shaped bone comb had eighteen teeth, and there was no pattern carving.

But it's strange to say, this human bone comb has nothing special except for the special material, and Xiao Shizhu didn't feel the soul breath hidden in the comb after starting it.

Mu Qingming, who raised his eyes to look at Wu's mother, flashed a trace of surprise in his eyes. And Wu's mother raised the corners of her mouth and smiled lightly.

Why does the comb lose the breath of the soul? And has Mother Wu ever cast soul alchemy on it? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.