"How can it not be a ghost?"

The shopkeeper muttered quietly on the side, but Xing Ruyi didn't hear it, and gently combed the child's hair with his fingers. Liu Sheng glanced at the shopkeeper and didn't say anything.

The shopkeeper didn't notice it, and muttered in a low voice.

"The people outside said that it was the female ghost in the forest who killed someone, cut off her heart, and took it back to make food for the ghost baby. Otherwise, how could there be so many strange cases suddenly happened in our Yang family set, which has been peaceful for 10,000 years. ”

"What did you say?"

Involved in the case, Liu Sheng's attention instantly shifted from Xing Ruyi's body to the shopkeeper's body.

The murder of Yang Jiaji is indeed strange, the causes of death of the deceased are similar, but there is no inevitable connection between them. The only thing that can tie it together is the piece of oiled paper used to wrap the buns found at the scene of the murder, and the fact that the deceased were all late returnees.

"I didn't ...... I didn't say anything, the little one just said it casually, and it couldn't be taken seriously. ”

The shopkeeper knew that he had missed his mouth for a moment, so he hurriedly turned his face away, and waved his hand a little weakly. Liu Sheng was obviously not so easy to fool, he stood up directly, walked up to the shopkeeper, lowered his head slightly, and stared at the other party's eyes that wanted to dodge.

"This is not a public court, and I will not take what you say seriously."

The shopkeeper pursed his lips, and his hands were at a loss.

"But if you don't say it, when it is dawn, I will ask you to go with me to the yamen."

"No, no, no! I don't go to the Yamen, I'm too timid to go to that kind of place. The shopkeeper waved his hand again and again, even if the lights here were slightly dim, Xing Ruyi could see that the little two were so frightened that his face turned white: "What the little one just said was just something that was pleasant to hear." If the official wants to know, the small one is just it, and the official must not take the small one to the yamen. The little one still has his father and mother, if he knew that the little one was taken to the yamen, he might be scared of what he would be. ”

Liu Sheng let out a light "um" and sat back down, but his eyes were still locked on the flustered face of the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper rubbed his hands, and then continued: "Actually, the one that the official found is not the first one that happened on the Yang family set. ”

"Huh?"

"Don't worry, the little man didn't say this nonsense for no reason. The official also knows that people come and go in places like ours, and they are the most informed when they inquire about the news. This Yang family set is big and big, and small is small, and it is not very easy to hide one thing from the airtight.

On the first day that the official and the official came here, the little one heard the news and knew that the official came to investigate the murders that had occurred in the Yang family market in recent days. But don't hide it from the official, the first deceased is actually the third. The first two deaths are all related to the Yang family. ”

"The Yang family?"

"Well, it's the place where the lightning fell, the richest family in our Yang family, the Yang family. Speaking of which, this thing is also very strange. The shopkeeper looked at the child in Xing Ruyi's arms and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "The little one remembers it quite clearly, it was something that happened shortly after the Yang family girl was buried in the grove." Count carefully, it probably happened half a month after the girl was buried.

On that day, the little one got up very early, because there was a group of distant customers living in the store, and they were going to leave early in the morning. Although the little one was sleepy and panicked, he dozed off and got out of bed and went to the backyard to feed the guests' horses. Just as the fodder was about to be fed, the little one heard someone whispering on the other side of the wall. ”

"The little second brother's ears are very spiritual, and he can hear others talking through the wall."

Xing Ruyi dozed off, adjusted the posture of the child in his arms, and then held his chin and posed as if he was listening to the story carefully.

Madame laughed, not the little ears, but the louder voices of the two men. Also, at that time, the genius was bright, and the days on our Yang family set have always been slow, and at that hour, if there was no incident, no one would have crawled out of the bed. The little one estimated that the two who spoke didn't expect that there was still a small one standing in the wall. ”

"What did they say?"

At first, the little one was confused, but then he understood. Those two were servants of the Yang family, and they came out early in the morning to find someone, and it seemed that a maid next to Miss Yang was missing. ”

"Just looking for someone?"

"If it's just looking for someone, the little one wouldn't dare to stand here and talk to the two of them for a long time. At first, those two did come out to find someone, but unexpectedly, what they found was not a living person, but a dead person. The little coward, and in that state of confusion and staring, suddenly heard this, and was also startled.

The two people who spoke didn't seem to be much bolder than the little ones. The voice of the voice went from loud to small, and at the end, there was even a trace of trill, which was the kind that was particularly afraid. ”

"Did they say how people die?"

The shopkeeper thought about it carefully and shook his head: "No, the little one only heard one of them say to the other person that the maid died so miserably, and her heart was dissected." Another person said that he knew the dead maid, and she was served by Miss Yang in the yard, because of the matter of Master Yang's concubine, which made Miss Yang very unhappy, and privately asked this girl to teach the girl who accompanied the funeral. Then, the little one heard the two people muttering, saying that the maid's death was revenge. ”

"Isn't it a burial companion? Didn't you voluntarily jump into the coffin? If it is voluntary, where does it come from? ”

"This ......" shopkeeper scratched his head: "The matter here, how can the small one be clear." If the lady asks the little one, the little one can only say that the affairs of the Yang family are very strange from beginning to end. The little one thought that even though the people of the Yang family had said that it was revenge, the matter of accompanying the funeral maid must also have an inside story. However, we are all outsiders, and the Yang family is not a family that anyone can easily provoke, so we talk about it in private, and no one dares to let these discussions reach the ears of today's Yang Mansion family. ”

"According to what you just said, this maid should be the first person to die strangely in the Yang family's set."

The shopkeeper nodded.

"So, who is the second person?"

Yanagi asked.

"It's also the Yang family, but it's not a maid, but a servant, and he died at the side door of the Yang family. When it was discovered, it was already broad daylight, so there were still a lot of onlookers at that time. On that day, the little one happened to pass by, so he also stopped by to join in the fun. ”

"Just by the way?"

"It's a wayway, it's really just a way. If the official doesn't believe it, you can ask our shopkeeper. Every few days, the little one has to go to the street where Yang's house is located to buy things. That day happened to be the day of purchase. Because something happened to the Yang family, there were some things, but the small ones were not bought, and they were reprimanded by the shopkeeper. Oh, those things that I didn't buy were all in the Yang family's shop, and in other places, it's not that there are none, but our shopkeeper is more picky and doesn't look down on other people's goods. ”

"You go on."

When the little one heard the news and rushed over, there were already many people gathered around them. Thanks to a small cleverness, I found a gap to get in. As soon as I entered, I saw the housekeeper of the Yang family, with an iron and blue face, which was more ugly than a dead man.

The little one didn't want to face the butler, so he went straight to the dead man on the ground. A man, about the same size as the little one, was dressed in the clothes of a servant of the Yang family, and lay on his back on the ground. The man's face was small and he couldn't see it clearly, because it was covered by something. The clothes on his chest were ripped open, bloody, and scary to look at. Listening to the discussion of the people next to him, he said that his heart was dug up, and there was only a bloody hole left. The little one wanted to see more clearly, but the housekeeper suddenly got angry, called many people out, and dispersed us. ”

"Since there are dead people, and the matter is so big, why don't you see the officer?"

"More is better than less. The little one guessed so. At that time, it was the time when the Yang family was out of balance, and the haunted things in the grove had not subsided, and when this kind of thing happened again, the Yang family would definitely have to think of a pressure. You are the official in the government, whether this case has been reported to the government or not, you may know better than the smallest. What the little one heard was that the Yang family came forward and calmed things down. I heard that I gave the man's family a lot of money. ”

"This first, the second dead are all from the Yang family, so what about the third?"

Xing Ruyi dozed off again, but there was not the slightest sleepiness in his eyes. She tilted her head sideways and landed her gaze on Yanagi's face.

"It's a beggar."

"Beggars?"

"The official is right, he is a beggar. Actually, it's not really a beggar. The shopkeeper quickly took it: "That person's surname is Chen, what is his big name, the big guy doesn't remember anymore, anyway, everyone on our Yang family set calls him Chen Laipi." Just by hearing the name, you two will know what this person is.

Earlier, when Chen Laipi's father and mother were alive, his family was still okay. It seems that he also married a daughter-in-law for him, but the Chen family did not make a big deal, and only posted red happy words at the door. A few days later, his daughter-in-law disappeared, and I heard that she was sold by Chen Laipi. The money from the sale of his daughter-in-law was used by him to pay off the gambling debts he had owed.

Because of this incident, Chen Laipi directly his mother to death. Later, his father also died, and he simply sold all the rented houses in the family and roamed all day long. When the weather is nice, just find a random place to nest. When the weather is bad, I live in the abandoned City God Temple over there. He often steals other people's things when people are not paying attention, and he has stolen them a few times in our store. Once he was taken by the shopkeeper, and he was beaten well, so he didn't dare to come again.

After that, he was reduced to a beggar. I heard that when Chen Laipi died, he was also gouged out. ”

"It's not a heart, it's a skin missing." Liu Sheng rubbed his forehead and glanced at Xing Ruyi: "I don't know if Madame has ever seen this skin that has just been peeled off?"