"Because you're not the first to find the scene."

"Yes, that's what my lord said at the time."

"What about the murderer, but he was caught again?"

"No, I didn't." The butler said, and added: "If the murderer had been caught, the rest of the things would not have happened." ”

"You just said it was an old well?" Xing Ruyi's eyes rolled slightly.

The butler nodded.

"Is there anyone still using the old well?"

"It has been abandoned for more than ten years, and the people in the village don't say that they use it, even if they pass by in the vicinity, they have to take a detour."

"It seems that this is also an old well with a story."

"Yes! It is said that a daughter-in-law in the village threw herself into a well in anger because of an argument with her mother-in-law. Later, the village chief organized the villagers to salvage, but because the well water was too deep, by the time the daughter-in-law was found, she was already dead, and she was still staring at two eyes when she died. According to the villagers, the daughter-in-law was resentful and did not turn a blind eye.

The day after the daughter-in-law was recovered, the mother-in-law who had an argument with her hit her head against the wall for no reason and killed herself. My father-in-law was stupid, and he wandered around the village all day long, repeating only one sentence of injustice and debt. ”

"That'...... What about the husband of the deceased? ”

"Dead too!"

"How did you die?"

"I don't know, when I found it, people were rotten to a handful of bones."

"Didn't you inspect it?"

"Nope!"

"It's strange that you're dead, why don't you go and check it?"

"No one in the village reported to the official, how can the government know?" The housekeeper asked rhetorically: "Besides, there were some rumors in the village at that time, saying that this family was hooked by the daughter-in-law who jumped into the well and died, and it was revenge for the soul." The villagers were jealous and didn't want to get involved in this matter at all. If it weren't for the murder of Lao Jing again, the village chief would not want to talk more about this past. ”

"Although it is not in accordance with the law, it is in accordance with human nature."

"It's none of my business, so I naturally don't want to wade into troubled waters. The old well was also abandoned for this reason. ”

"Why is the village chief, who was reluctant to report the case back then, willing to report the case this time?"

"Or because of that old well! The villagers privately speculated that the daughter-in-law had returned. When rumors start, people's hearts are also uneasy. The village chief was worried that the matter would get bigger and bigger, and he was even more worried that someone would use this old well to make a bigger mess, so he reported to the official. ”

"This village chief has been a person who understands."

"What Madame thought of, my lord naturally thought of that day. This old well has been abandoned for a long time, and there are more shelters around it, only the people in the village know the exact location of this old well, and only the people in the village know that the villagers are afraid of this old well, which is suitable for abandoning corpses. ”

"The old well is so secret, how did the informant find out?"

"It wasn't people who first discovered the anomaly in the old well."

"Not human?"

"There is an old man in the village who has been living alone. He had neither a wife nor children. In order to pass the time, he raised a few lambs at home. On that day, the old man drove the lambs past the old well, and one of the lambs was greedy and slipped to the old well. The old man saw that the grass was lush around the old well, so he was not in a hurry to rush. As a result, the lamb ate the rope that bound the dead and hung it, and felt that the rope was in the way, so he bleated a few times. When the old man heard the lamb calling, he went up to check and found that it was a rope and pulled it with his hand. This pull pulled out a murder case. ”

"So, this murderer must be from the village."

"It must be. It is impossible for outsiders to find this old well by chance, and it is impossible for them to happen to carry such a long rope when they commit the crime. ”

"What about the rope, have you checked it?"

"I asked, but I didn't ask for anything of value. The villagers get their daily water from the wells, and each household has several ropes like this. The rope was an ordinary rope, neither newly purchased nor marked for many years, so it was impossible to identify, let alone find the assailant hiding in the village. ”

"What about the motive for the crime? Such a ferocious method, not to mention the countryside, is not common even in Luoyang City. ”

"The little girl's father and mother are also from the village, honest and loyal, and have some popularity in the village. After a few days of investigation, no one was found to have a grudge against him. The little girl is herself, according to the villagers, she is very well-behaved and sensible, and she is not the kind of person who will cause trouble and cause murder to herself. Based on the disheveled condition of the little girl, the lord focused on the men in the village who had not yet been married and had passed the best marriage. However, after some investigation, there was still no result.

This yamen is not a yamen of a family, and it is impossible for the officials in the government to only guard this case. After the investigation was fruitless, the old man decided to put this unsolved case on hold for the time being and deal with other cases first. But on the day when the old man called back all the officials on Renjiazhuang, he encountered a nightmare. ”

"Nightmares? It seems that your master still can't let go of it. ”

"As an official, the master naturally can't let go of this case in his heart, and there is really no way to put it on hold for the time being. But the nightmare that haunted the lord was obviously inconsiderate of the lord. ”

"Your master shouldn't have done something heart-wrenching because of a nightmare, right?"

"As I said, my lord is a good man and a good official. If it's just a mere nightmare, how can my lord take it to heart. The housekeeper raised his chin: "That nightmare has haunted the master for more than half a month, and the person who only tosses the master is not like a person, and the ghost is not like a ghost." At the suggestion of his wife, the lord went to the temple and asked the abbot master of the temple to recite a Buddhist scripture for him to ward off nightmares. Before leaving, he asked the master for a string of wooden beads to be supplied in front of the Buddha.

I don't know if the Buddhist scriptures worked, or the wooden beads really opened the light, stained with the breath of the Buddha, and answered that the spirit of the old man after the family was really much better, and he was no longer entangled by nightmares.

The nightmare is gone, and the old man's spirit is better, but his body is getting worse and worse. In desperation, the lady had to go to the temple again to ask the master to come over and pray for the lord. The master came to the mansion and only took a look, and then hurriedly said goodbye, saying that it was the master's problem, and it was not something that the Buddha could cure.

After that, Madame also guessed something. ”

"It's the man in the tomb!"

"Yes! He was found by his wife, his surname was Qiu, and we all called him Mr. Qiu. ”

"Surnamed Qiu, he really has some connection with this ancient tomb." Xing Ruyi somehow thought of the one he had seen in later generations.

"In the story of the king's beard, there is always a mention of a fox who looks very much like a human. Actually, it's not that foxes look like people, it's that people look like foxes. The one Wang Huzi saw was Mr. Qiu, who treated my lord, and he was also the one who lived in that tomb. ”

"Someone who looks like a fox." Xing Ruyi pondered, and subconsciously glanced at the fox.

"Mr. Qiu, who looks like a fox and lives in a tomb, said that my grandfather had a very rare disease. This disease is beautiful but not easy to treat. The key to poor treatment is that it is difficult to find a drug primer.

On that day, my lord was in a critical period of being tormented by illness, not to mention the elixir that was difficult to find, even the gods who lived in the sky, he would try his best to lure it down. Mr. Qiu told my grandfather that the medicine that can cure his illness is fresh liver, and human liver is the best. ”

"This fox-like Mr. Qiu is not a decent person."

Xing Ruyi complained, but the housekeeper did not answer her words, but continued to speak.

"Madame just mentioned that it is not difficult to obtain a human liver according to the identity of my master, and there is no need to do so many dangerous things, which will be poked and cursed in the future."

"That's right! The death row prisoner in the government is the best choice for your master. ”

"Unfortunately, it's not!" The housekeeper shook his head regretfully: "Mr. Qiu said that the prisoners on death row are either extremely vicious or have bad intentions. If my lord used these people's livers, not only would he not get better, but he would also become like them. In desperation, we came up with the idea of using someone to get their liver. ”

"That person is Kingbeard, right?"

The butler tugged at the corners of his mouth and did not answer.