"Women are good at grooming their faces, and Mrs. Yuan is not unharmed, but she just used some methods to cover up the scars on her face."

"That method was learned by Mrs. Yuan from Ruyi, right?" Liu Sheng looked around the shop: "Can you please tell Ruyi what method you taught Mrs. Yuan?" ”

"Disguise." Xing Ruyi smiled lightly and looked at Liu Sheng's eyes: "Although you are in the government, you often walk around the rivers and lakes, this disguise technique, you must have heard of it." I divide this transfiguration technique into three classes, the first of which is to use rouge and gouache to modify the face, which can only cover up, but not change its appearance. This second class is a common method in the rivers and lakes, choosing an object, making a human skin mask, and covering the mask on the face, which can instantly change its appearance and hide its true identity. It's just that there are also flaws in this method, and the mask must fit your facial features, in short, it must be similar to yourself, but also have some subtle differences. The rivers and lakes are accustomed to it, but there are not many craftsmen who can make this human skin mask. As for me, I just learned a little bit. This third class, which is very powerful, is to take the skin of others and cover her own face. This method can completely change the identity, but because it is relatively lacking in morality, most of them will be punished. ”

"Which one did Ruyi choose?"

"When Lin Hu met with Mrs. Yuan, Mrs. Yuan used the second class."

"So, there's a third class."

"The time you saw her, Liu Sheng, was the third class. The human skin was brought by Madame Yuan herself, and I just helped her a little for the sake of the silver. As for who the face brought by Mrs. Yuan is, you need to investigate it yourself. I'm just open for business, and it's inconvenient to ask too much about the things that guests bring with me. ”

"I thought you'd cover it up a bit." There was something in Yanagi's eyes.

"I'm not a murderer, I'm not an accomplice, so there's nothing to hide. Besides, you and I are friends, and friends should be more honest and secretive, not my character. Xing Ruyi stood up with the corner of the table: "My belly is big, and I feel tired even sitting for a while." ”

"I'll go back to the yamen first." Liu Sheng followed and stood up: "Later, I'm afraid I'll have to come again." ”

"I heard the magpie say that Yizhuang is haunted, don't you plan to go and see Liu Sheng?"

Liu Sheng's footsteps faltered, but he didn't stop, but directly lifted the cotton curtain. His eyes followed Yagyu's back, and through the curtain, he saw that the snow outside seemed to be falling heavier.

In the middle of the night, the snow stopped.

The two lanterns hanging in front of the gate of Yizhuang are lit by themselves.

Suddenly, a shrill cry alarmed the rats who were stealing food in Yizhuang, and the rats fled one after another, making a "squeak, squeak" sound in the courtyard.

Yanagi stood in front of the door, looking through the crack in the wooden door and looking into the courtyard. A rat stopped, and it stood in the courtyard, looking at Yanagi through the crack, with two small black eyes.

The shrill cry resumed, and the rat scurried through the crack in the door and scurried to Yanagi's feet. Yanagi frowned and pushed the wooden door open, leaving a row of dilapidated houses wrapped in darkness. The screams came from the broken house.

"Haunted?" Yanagi clenched his sword and walked towards the row of broken houses.

The screaming, stopped.

"Squeak ......" The pitch-black wooden door opened after a screeching sound, and a sour rancid smell that had accumulated for I don't know how many years came to his face, and Yanagi frowned and walked in with his long sword.

There are two Yizhuang in Luoyang City, one is for the rich who have died, and the other is for the poor. The faceless female corpse died outside the city, unclaimed and unidentified, so it could only be placed in this poor man's village. The house was high, but it was dilapidated.

There are seven or eight bamboo beds in the village, of which the three near the door are empty, and the other few are all stocked. Yanagi moved to the fourth bed. The collapse was covered with sackcloth, which was littered with marks of rat gnawing. Covering his mouth and nose, Yanagi picked open the sackcloth with his sword. Beneath the sackcloth lay a headless skeleton, and in the skull was a shivering mouse with something in its mouth, which shone brightly in the night.

"Give it to me!"

Yanagi stretched out his hand, and the mouse snorted for a moment, and spit out what was in his mouth as if he understood. Yanagi picked it up, and it turned out to be an earring.

The earrings were still stained with some minced flesh, which should have been bitten by a rat not long ago.

Putting the earrings away, Yanagi continued to look at the bamboo bed in Chapter 5.

Laugh at...... Something under your feet. Looking down, it was a dead rat and a half-bitten skull. The rats were trampled to pieces, their entrails dripping to the ground, and some of them got on the soles of Yagyu's shoes. He was a fast catcher, so he naturally didn't care about this, but the smell was worse than that of ordinary corpses.

Moving his feet to the side, he rubbed the mud and was about to walk forward when he heard a "pop" sound in his ears. Yanagi turned her head and looked through the darkness, and she saw a woman dressed in white.

"Ghosts?" Yanagi raised his sword and pointed it at the woman in white.

The woman in white screamed, but did not run away, but held her head and jumped around in place.

Not a ghost!

Yanagi put away his sword, and at the same time figured out who made the scream he had just heard at the door.

"Who are you?"

"Who am I? I'm your lady. Hehe, husband, you're coming to me. The woman in white let go of her hand and walked towards Yanagi in a swaying manner. When he got closer, Liu Sheng saw clearly that the woman was wearing a middle coat, and in addition to the dry grass and mud spots, there were blood stains and rat hair on the clothes.

Lunatic?

Yanagi squinted at the woman's unfocused eyes, and then moved them from them to her ears. The blood on her body was stained when her ears were broken and dripped down, and as for her ears, they must have been bitten by the mouse in the skeleton.

"The lady is not a madman, the husband is a madman. The lady was afraid, and the husband hugged her. The woman in white seemed to be smiling, crying instead of crying: "Husband, the lady tells you that there are ghosts here." ”

Seeing that the woman in white was about to rush at her, Liu Sheng pointed at the long sword in her hand, and the woman immediately cried wolf: "Husband Junhuai, husband bullies the lady, husband doesn't want a lady?" ”

"I'm not your husband!" Knowing that it was unreasonable to talk to a madman, Yanagi still talked about it.

"You are the husband of the lady, you are the husband of the lady. Hehe, you are exactly the same as the lady's husband. After a while of howling wolves, the woman in white laughed again, she shook to the skeleton where Liu Sheng had just stayed, and hugged it through numbness: "But, why has the husband become like this? ”

A crazy woman, Liu Sheng didn't bother to pay attention, and seeing that she didn't continue to pounce on him, he put away his long sword and walked to the fifth bamboo bed. When he opened the sackcloth, he saw a fresh corpse, and he knew it.

"Lao Chen!"

According to rumors in the city, the day after Lin Hu sent the faceless female corpse to Yizhuang, Yizhuang began to be haunted, and Lao Chen had left Yizhuang to return home because he was afraid. But now, Lao Chen is lying in the Yizhuang he guards, and like the corpses parked here, they are covered with tattered linen.

How did Lao Chen die?

Who was sent to Yizhuang by Lao Chen after his death?

He was alone, with neither a wife nor children.

Just as Liu Sheng stretched out his hand to check, his hand was held by Lao Chen, who was lying on the bamboo floor. Bowed his head and met Lao Chen's open eyes. Looking at each other, Lao Chen actually signaled him not to speak.

Liu Sheng was puzzled, but Lao Chen quietly wrote the word "ghost" in his hand.

Liu Sheng frowned, but Lao Chen turned over and sat up, covered his mouth at once, and dragged him to a darker corner of the wall with great speed.

"Shhh

As soon as the words fell, a white shadow rose at the door, and a faint fragrance was permeated. Ignoring Lao Chen's obstruction, Liu Sheng stood up from the corner and looked into the courtyard through the broken window lattice. I saw that there were four more men and a red sedan chair in the originally empty courtyard.

An invisible wind gently blew the sedan curtain, and Yanagi saw the bride sitting in the sedan chair, and the bride's eyes were also looking at him through the window lattice. Liu Sheng saw clearly that the person sitting in the sedan chair was none other than the faceless female corpse he had seen outside the city.

"Don't look, don't look, you'll go crazy if you do." Lao Chen tugged at Liu Sheng's sleeve and shook his head: "Lord Liu, Lord Liu, listen to me, squat down quickly, and don't let the female ghost in the sedan chair see you."

"She's gone!"

"What?"

"She's gone." Yanagi looked at the empty yard and the thick layer of snow in the yard: "The sedan chair man, the sedan chair, and the female ghost sitting in the sedan chair are gone. ”

"You see her?"

"See."

"And she saw you too?"

"See."

"It's over, it's over, if you don't make it tonight, you'll be like Miaomiao." Old Chen anxiously circled in place.

"Who's Miaomiao?"

"My daughter." Lao Chen pointed to the crazy woman in white: "She is my daughter Chen Miaomiao." ”

"This madman is your daughter?"

"My daughter is not crazy, she wasn't crazy." Lao Chen covered his face in pain: "I have been poor since I was a child, and in order to make a living, I had to come to this Yizhuang. The guard of the dead, no girl is willing to follow me, I just live alone, more than 20 years. When I was in my thirties, one night I heard a baby crying outside, and when I went out, I saw that it was a pretty white girl. I picked her up and named her Chen Miaomiao. She became my daughter.

This Yizhuang, usually no one comes, and I don't want people to know about Miaomiao's existence, so I have been hiding her very well. I didn't have any other thoughts, I just thought, Miaomiao will grow up sooner or later, and she will find her mother-in-law's family, if people know that she is my daughter......" Lao Chen said, beating his legs hard: "They all blame me, they all blame me, I shouldn't, I shouldn't let Miaomiao come to me." The corpse is very evil at first glance. With her face gone, can she stop? ”

"Wonderful She ......"

"I was driven crazy by that faceless female ghost."