"Give me the knife." Shen Jiu glanced at Gu Yunfei and stretched out his hand to go over.

Gu Yunfei handed him the knife, and by the way, he also asked for the lamp and candle in the hand of the catcher next to him, and stuffed it to Shen Jiu together.

"You hold it for me." Shen Jiu glanced at Gu Yunfei: "I want to examine the corpse, it's inconvenient to hold a lamp in my hand." ”

"It tastes disgusting." Gu Yunfei said disgustedly.

"It's okay if you don't take it, I'll find someone to sue me when I go back." Shen Jiu deliberately glanced at Yan Suwen.

Gu Yunfei hurriedly approached the ghost drum with the lamp: "It's just talking, who am I, I can still be smoked away by the stench in this drum." But then again, your surname Shen is too inauthentic. You all know how to get something to block your nose, why didn't you think about it, and get me one. ”

"You use this." Shen Jiu got the two cotton dumplings out of nowhere and stuffed them directly into Gu Yunfei's nostrils.

Although the nostrils were plugged and breathing was a little difficult, the smell was much less. Gu Yunfei shook his shoulders and immediately stood next to Shen Jiu in good spirits.

Inside the drum was a highly decomposed corpse, and it was the corpse of a man. He had no clothes on him, but he had a pair of men's boots on his feet. The surface of the boot is somewhat worn, and the wear is concentrated on the toe and the inside of the ankle.

"The deceased, male, was about 1.75 meters tall, slightly fat, with a bulging abdomen, and should have a small belly. The cause of death is unknown, and age cannot be determined for the time being, but judging from the gray hair of the deceased, at least after the age of fifty. In addition, the deceased was an internal crutch, which is what we often call the inner eight characters. ”

"Inner eight characters, small belly, white hair, isn't this the mayor of Wuliu Town?" Gu Yunfei squinted and looked into the drum: "Although this skin has been stripped of someone, but when I look at it, it looks like the mayor who hasn't seen him since he got up in the morning." ”

"Mayor Mare? How could he die in the dark? ”

"It's not that he died in the drum, he should have been moved to the drum after death." Shen Jiu looked at it and said, "The deceased should have been skinned after death, and it was also peeled after it was cooked. The murderer's methods are very neat, and it is impossible to achieve this level without more than ten years of experience in skinning. In addition, the deceased was not put into a drum immediately after death, but was placed somewhere and stayed for a while. You see, this is something found next to the dead, a blade of grass. In addition, on the shoes of the deceased, some fresh soil was found. The dirt is not stepped on, but stained. Because under normal walking conditions, it is difficult for this part of the shoe to get dirt. So the place where the deceased stays after death is most likely in the yard or somewhere outside the yard. ”

After inspecting the male corpse, Shen Jiu frowned, and began to use a knife to look at the pile of foul-smelling carrion next to the male corpse: "This is also a corpse, but it is not an adult, but a child about three years old. The time of death, at least more than one year, and the time of burial. There was water in the place where it was covered, and the water should have contained something special in it, so that the corpse became like this. ”

"Why did the murderer put the body of a highly corrupt, long-dead child with the mayor? Could it be that this child is the child of the mayor's family? ”

"No, not the mayor's child." The innkeeper who had spoken to Gu Yunfei in the morning stood up again: "There is no such a young child in the mayor's family, not even a year ago. ”

"You kid, do you know something?" Gu Yunfei set his eyes on the inn's junior: "I can tell you, this is the second one, and the next one is you." ”

"It's not me, it has nothing to do with me, it's the mayor's own idea, and even the shopkeeper of our family is affected by him." The innkeeper was completely panicked, and his face was white and scary.

"Say, what the hell is going on!" Gu Yunfei shouted sharply, and as soon as the inn's legs were weak, he knelt on the ground: "It's her who came back, it's she who came back to take revenge." At first, I wasn't sure, but now I'm sure it's her, it's her, she's back. ”

"You kid, you're scaring and yelling about something. Who's back? Who is she? Is it the murderer? Do you know the murderer? You know the murderer, but you don't tell it, do you know what it's doing? This is aiding and abetting abuse. You county master can sit here, I asked him to arrest you back in prison and lock you up for the rest of your life, do you believe it or not? ”

"Arrest me back, I beg you, let the county lord arrest me back. I'm guilty, and I'd rather go to jail for as long as I want. The innkeeper was crazy, and moved to the county magistrate of Guangping County on his knees: "Master, you can arrest me back." "Ranwen

"Do you know the murderer?" The Guangping county magistrate also put on his own county master's shelf: "Say it, this official is in charge for you." ”

"It's a ghost, it's a ghost." The innkeeper said, lying on the ground: "It's all the mayor who has done evil." ”

"What evil he has done, you tell me carefully." The Guangping County Commander signaled to catch the inn Xiaoer who was kneeling on the ground and pulled him up.

The innkeeper had a white face and looked around: "There should be people from our town among you, I don't know if you still remember the disappearance of the little girl of the Zong family." ”

"You're talking about Zong Xue, right? Just the best-looking girl in our Fog Willow Town. I heard that this girl has been married to the son of the Liu family in Gaoyi County, saying that she will marry when she reaches the age of sixteen. I never thought that when I was a few days away from the age of sixteen, this girl suddenly disappeared. Some people say that the Zong family is not satisfied with the marriage with the Liu family, so they deliberately said so. Some people also said that it was Miss Zongxue who originally had a favorite son, but because her family objected, she secretly left with that son without telling her family. ”

"This is all an outside statement, and the girl's family doesn't admit it. I live very close to their family, and on the day of this snowfall, I went to visit my grandmother, who knew that I would disappear without a trace, and I really couldn't see anyone alive or dead. Her mother, because of this incident, is sick, and she has not recovered until now. ”

"You guy, aren't you talking about the murderer of the mayor? How did it get to the missing Zong Xue. Could it be that this snow is the murderer of the mayor. This is not right, this Zong Xue is just a little girl, how did she become a murderous demon for no reason. ”

"Miss Zong Xue, she didn't disappear for no reason." The innkeeper pursed his lower lip: "On the day Miss Zong Xue disappeared, I met the mayor of the town. ”

What do you mean by that? Could it be that the mayor of the town has something to do with Miss Zongxue? Someone shouted.

The innkeeper glanced at him and nodded.

"I didn't see it with my own eyes, but these words were said by the mayor of the town to our shopkeeper himself, and I guess nine times out of ten they are true. That day, Miss Zongxue had planned to go to Gaoyi County to visit her sick grandmother, and when she passed by the mayor's house, she saw the mayor packing up the carriage, so she asked casually. Knowing that the mayor of the town was also going to Gaoyi County, Miss Zong Xue asked the mayor to take her for a ride, and the mayor agreed. But no one expected that the mayor of the town would have bad intentions towards Zong Xue, and when he saw that there was no one around, he took advantage of Zong Xue's defenselessness to knock her out and drag her to the cellar where the grain was stored at home.

After the mayor of the town succeeded, he wanted Miss Zongxue to agree to marry him as a partial house, but Miss Zongxue refused to live or die, and the mayor was worried that things would get big and get into a lawsuit, so he kept trapping Miss Zongxue in the cellar and wanted to slowly persuade her. Later, Miss Zongxue gave birth to a child in the cellar. The kid was the mayor of the town. I don't know what the boy looked like, but I learned from the conversation between the mayor and our shopkeeper that the child seemed to be born with a defect and died not long after birth. The child died, Miss Zongxue, she was completely crazy, not only holding the child all day long, but she didn't let go even when the child stinked and rotten. When the mayor saw this, he bought poison and fed it to Miss Zongxue.

Miss Zong Xue is dead, but what to do with this corpse is a troublesome matter.

As you know, the shopkeeper of my family was a drum maker before opening the inn. The mayor of the town had a good relationship with the shopkeeper of my house, and he privately approached the shopkeeper of my house and asked him to help make a drum. The mayor of the town thought very well, that is, to put the girl Zongxue in the drum, and then unknowingly transported it to the desolate place outside the city, and buried the girl Zongxue along with the drum. The drum is done, but how to put Miss Zongxue into it and how to restore the drum to its original state is a difficult problem.

The mayor couldn't do it himself, so he came to my shopkeeper again and made a deal with him privately. My shopkeeper was blinded by interests and agreed. As they transport the corpses out of town, the unexpected happens. Miss Zongxue's family met them and were very interested in the drum they were carrying. The mayor of the town and the shopkeeper of my family were weak-hearted, so they carried the drum to the ancestral hall instead, and buried Miss Zongxue and the child born to Miss Zongxue in it. Because there was a legend of a skin drum in the town, and the drum was also placed in the ancestral hall, the ancestral hall was eerie and terrifying, and no one dared to go there. But the mayor and the shopkeeper of my family were afraid of accidents, so they deliberately asked people to make up the legend of the human skin drum even more absurd and bizarre, eerie and terrifying, so that those who wanted to get close to the ancestral hall panicked and did not dare to set foot in it.

On the night when Miss Zong Xue and the child were buried in the ancestral hall, the people in the town began to hear the cry of the baby, and some people even saw a female ghost with long hair and a baby in her hand at the door of the ancestral hall. The mayor was frightened, and came to our shopkeeper to discuss, which I overheard at that time. ”

"Eavesdropping?"

"I didn't mean to eavesdrop. The night the mayor came to see our shopkeeper, I tripped over my room because I had drunk a little wine, and I fell asleep in that place. The innkeeper pointed to an unnoticed place at the corner of the guest room on the next floor and the hall on the second floor: "In a daze, I was woken up by the quarrel between the mayor and our shopkeeper, I wanted to get up and go back to the room, but because I heard these things, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to speak, and I didn't dare to let the mayor and the shopkeeper know that I was there." ”

"So, the baby cries and ghosts in Misty Willow Town are ......"

"It's Miss Zongxue and her child." The innkeeper whispered: "Legends are legends, no one has really seen them, and the real haunting in Wuliu Town is after the death of Miss Zong Xue and her child." ”