Chapter 6: The Secret Passage in the Garden
[The book continues from the above, the last book said that Mu Qingming broke the sinking corpse and the person was Daddy Liu, Wang Brother Liu Yang was surprised, Mu Qingming then explained why Daddy Liu was a corpse sinking man, Daddy Liu took advantage of the chaos to jump into the lotus pond and fled along the dark river connected to the Panlong River in the pool. Zhao Liang and other policemen did not know that Father Liu had escaped from the dark river, and Xingshi mobilized the groundwater to pursue him. Mu Qingming had been staying on the shore to watch, but he inadvertently saw a blood-colored butterfly, which immediately aroused his interest. The dragon locker realized that the blood-colored butterfly was a spirit, and then chased the butterfly into the park under the pretense of looking for the murder scene. I never thought that under the guidance of butterflies, I found a secret passage under a rockery in the garden. 】
"Looks like we'll have to search around here." Zhao Liang pondered for a moment and then said to Liu Yang. After all, there is a high possibility that the murderer committed a crime nearby, so he was able to quietly sink the twenty-eight corpses into the pond without realizing it.
Mu Qingming didn't pay attention to them, but then stared at the blood-colored butterfly perched on the wall.
He sensed that the clear and crystalline butterfly with thin wings and blood-colored wings was flowing with faint spiritual energy, and the blood-colored butterfly was a spirit body formed by the convergence of spiritual energy.
Spirits are not uncommon, they are not demons and monsters, but they are transformed by the combination of consciousness and spirit that make up psionic energy. It is similar to the emotional production of humans and animals, and it is very strange on the surface, but it is also harmless to humans and animals.
The appearance of spirits is not surprising. With so many people dying here, it's normal for spirits to appear. The twenty-eight female corpses were all brutally killed, and the unwillingness in her heart before she died must have become stronger and stronger.
In this case, their unwilling emotions and consciousness are combined, and it is very likely that they will transform into spirits.
It's just that Mu Qingming doesn't know what the purpose of this spirit butterfly perched on the wall full of vines? Is it a hint that there is something in his garden?
"Young Master Mu, Young Master Mu." Just as Mu Qing was meditating, Liu Yang had already put his hand on his shoulder and shook him a few times: "What do you think of Inspector Zhao's proposal?" ”。
Since Mu Qingming is a special adviser hired by the Provincial Police Department, as long as he is involved in the case, Liu Yang and Zhao Liang will first seek his opinion when there is any decision.
"Huh?" Mu Qingming came back to his senses from his stunned state, turned his head to look at Liu Yang and Zhao Liang, and asked blankly, "What is the proposal?" ”。
Obviously, Fang Cai was too engrossed, and he didn't hear a word of what Zhao Liang and Liu Yang said.
"What's so nice about a bluestone wall." At the same time, Zhao Liang looked at the place where Fang Cai Mu Qingming's gaze could reach, and muttered disappreciatively.
Of course, with his mortal eyes, he only saw the withered vines crawling on the walls, not the blood-colored butterflies that the spirit had turned into.
"Lao Zhao thinks that the murderer threw the body here, and the place of the murder must not be far away, he wants to call all the rural police in the vicinity here, and search the area around the lotus pond to find out the place of the murder, what do you think?" Liu Yang took the trouble to tell Mu Qingming again.
The rural police he mentioned were supernumerary personnel of the police department set up by the Yunnan Provincial Capital Police Department in the villages outside the north gate and west gate of Kunming in the first year of the Republic of China, and their responsibilities were similar to those of the later film police.
"No need." Mu Qingming glanced at the blood butterfly still perched on the wall, and then looked at the classical garden with three mountains and one water in front of him, and said leisurely: "A few of us are enough, there is no need to mobilize the people." ”。
After finishing speaking, he walked to Daddy Zeng, who was standing aside, at a loss and having nothing to do, and said slowly: "Please open the door and let us go into the garden to have a look." ”。
Since the blood butterfly was perched on the courtyard wall of the garden, he had to go in and see it and find out what was in the garden.
Father Zeng nodded, and after finding the key to the gate from the bunch of keys hanging from his waist, he strode up and opened the gate. At the same time, the blood-colored blood butterfly also fluttered its wings and flew up, slowly flying towards the garden.
"Look at the garden?" Zhao Liang and Liu Yang together cast a suspicious and confused look at Mu Qingming.
"Within a radius of two or three miles, there is only this garden and a building except for the lush vegetation; Think about it, if you were murderers, would you cut off the faces and nakedness of twenty-eight people in the wilderness? Mu Qingming took the lead and stepped forward, and said, "Let's go outside to look for it, why don't you take a look at this garden first." ”。
"That's right." Liu Yang and Zhao Liang thought about it, and they also felt that Mu Qingming was right; After all, it's easy to kill people in the wilderness, but it's not easy to cut off the skin and lower body.
So the two followed.
His words were also heard word by word by Zeng's father, who had just opened the door. Hurriedly turned around and waved his hand at Mu Qingming, defending himself: "Master Guan, these are all foreigners' things, and in the past, when foreigners didn't come, there were only me and Lao Liu, but I haven't seen any outsiders come in." ”。
"That's true when you're awake, but what about when you're asleep?" Zhao Liang replied casually; Although he had no malicious intent, it also made Father Zeng speechless.
Indeed, when he was enchanted by sweat medicine, he had no idea who was in and out of the garden. But when he thought of this, he found that he was still alive, and he was glad that Father Zeng also felt fear.
If it weren't for the porter hired by a foreigner, I'm afraid that Daddy Liu would not have used sweat medicine that day, but solved it with a simple and rude knife.
As soon as the door opened, a cold burst came from it. Behind the door, the house with gray bricks and gray tiles and brown pillars and white walls is lifeless because no one has been living in it for too long (the meaning of vitality is not emotional. )。
Therefore, it is said that these buildings that reflect the stones of Taihu Lake seem quiet in its words, but it is better to say that brick by brick, door and column exude a gloomy atmosphere.
gave Zhao Liang and Liu Yang the feeling of coming to a barren mountain and abandoned temple, which was very uncomfortable.
Mu Qingming didn't care, he often went to places dozens of times more gloomy than this kind of place. I have long been accustomed to this uncomfortable feeling.
He stood outside the door, his eyes swept through the courtyard, and he saw the butterfly that had flown into the courtyard one step ahead of him, spinning and flying around one of the pillars.
Although the foreigners renovated and rebuilt the buildings in the garden, they were all built on the original layout. As for the Taihu Lake stone used to make the scenery in the courtyard, the ancient wood has not been rebuilt or moved, and it still maintains the previous pattern.
Mu Qingming slowly entered the courtyard and walked towards the pillar.
After Zhao Liang and Liu Yang looked at each other, they also followed. And Father Zeng was also stunned outside the door, and then followed them to the garden. His slightly cloudy eyes kept staring intently at Mu Qingming's back.
Mu Qingming and the others just walked to the side of the pillar, and the blood-colored butterfly that only Mu Qingming could see followed the breeze in the garden, and walked towards a rockery made of Taihu Lake stones in the courtyard in front of the house.
Mu Qingming stood in front of the pillar, looked left and right, and didn't see any clues to the pillar. But the spirits will fly up and down around it, and there must be some hint of something.
Thinking of this, Mu Qingming couldn't help but knock on the pillar, then pressed his hand on the pillar again, and slowly closed his eyes to concentrate.
"What is Young Master Mu doing?" Liu Yang, who didn't know the reason, looked at Mu Qingming now, as if he had seen a fool, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
But Zhao Liang, who had seen Mu Qingming's magic, was not surprised, but just pretended to be stupid and shook his head slightly.
Fang Cai's knocking and beating made Mu Qingming sure that there was no mechanism in this pillar, but just when his palm was pressed on the pillar, he immediately felt a trace of corpse qi in the pillar, which slowly overflowed from it and headed towards Mu Qingming's palm.
And this corpse qi seeped out of the ground under the pillar.
But this kind of corpse qi is different from that of the corpse raising ground, there is no sense of ferocity, only lifelessness and lifelessness. Mu Qingming immediately recognized that this was the corpse qi that only existed in the tomb.
That is, there is a burial mound in this place. Moreover, Mu Qingming also noticed that it was the overflow of these corpse qi that was entangled in the houses in the courtyard, so that although Anfu Garden had become a wild garden for a time, it was not greatly damaged.
Thinking of this, Mu Qingming opened his eyes; The Shangshan mountain-shaped landform undulates like the Yangyi of the Taiji Diagram, or more like a curled tadpole with its head facing northeast and its tail reaching northwest. And the construction of the lotus pond has formed the shape of the Yin Yi, echoing with the Shangshan Mountain, forming a kind of Feng Shui Bureau called the Yin and Yang Bureau outside the city of Kunming.
Such a feng shui pattern can harmonize the yin and yang qi of the place, and if you build a house on such a feng shui board, the person who lives in it will be refreshed every day and even keep your skin smooth. This is also one of the reasons why Wu Sangui must build the residence of his concubine here.
And because of the negative yin and yang in this place, the Tibetan wind gathers qi, and the residents are naturally relaxed and happy every day.
Conversely, this place is also a good place to build a yin house.
Shangshan, the dragon mountain, faces the water, and the cooperation is extremely exquisite. The three elements of the time and the earth, as well as the three elements of the landscape. Anyone who is familiar with the art of feng shui will not let go of such an excellent acupoint.
Thinking of this, Mu Qingming thought about whether there was really a tomb here, so he looked towards the place where the blood-colored butterfly stayed.
It is a rockery made of Taihu Lake stone, no more than a foot high, and a few evergreen Luohan bamboos are planted around the bottom, which are gently swaying in the breeze.
Mu Qingming then walked around the pillar and walked towards the rockery. Zhao Liang and Liu Yang were even more unreasonable, and Father Zeng did feel a beat when he saw this.
As soon as he approached the Taihu Lake Stone, Mu Qingming suddenly felt a strong corpse qi, which continued to overflow from the cracks in the stone. Look at the rockery made of Taihu Lake stone, it is made of nine Taihu Lake stones. A tall and eight short Taihu Lake stones, although close together, look like a gossip map.
The tall piece in the middle is the yin and yang diagram, and the eight small pieces around it are the eight trigrams.
Mu Qingming's eyes lit up, and the pattern of the eight doors and the combined rockery appeared in his mind, overlapping and merging together. The location of the Shengmen is in the northwest position.
So he strode over, stood in front of the position of the birth gate and slowly squatted down, at the same time, Father Zeng suddenly exclaimed: "Don't move." ”。
But before the words came out, Mu Qingming's hands had already secured the Taihu Lake Stone in front of him, and his arms turned it clockwise with all his might.
A dull "gurgling" sound came from under the Taihu Lake stone, and the Taihu stone also slowly swirled as his hands turned. It wasn't until he was held by him that he turned around three times in a row, and there was a clicking sound under the floor on the north side of the entire rockery.
Immediately after that, the seven pieces of bluestone flooring that were laid on the ground were connected and sunk into the ground with the sound. It fell into the ground about half a foot before it stopped; A tunnel hidden under a stone slab emerges.
"Stop!" Father Zeng shouted and rushed to the side of the dark passage and stopped Mu Qingming and them, who were about to step forward.
What's the secret behind the secret tunnel? Who is Daddy Zeng's identity? To find out what's next, listen to the next breakdown.