Volume I: Chapter 20: The Strange Case of the Old House
The three of them drove to the old mansion near the Dongyi Dragon Stone Bridge, which was surrounded by a police cordon, and there were only three police officers and a fat man in a suit and leather shoes in the martial law area.
Xiahoudun got out of the car, crossed the warning line, and looked up at the abandoned house. The house is a Western-style building, with a total of three floors from the outside, which is quite imposing.
"Hello, no entry within the warning line!" A police officer walked over and said to Xiahoudun.
Xiahoudun took out his ID, glanced at the policeman, and continued to observe the house, "I'm here to handle the case." ”
"This is Team Leader Xiahou." Xu Xu hurriedly ran over, took out his documents, and explained: "It was called by the Cui Bureau." ”
"Oh," the officer reacted, "Didn't you say that Team Leader Xiahou wasn't there?" ”
"Originally, I wasn't there," Xiahoudun's face revealed a trace of helplessness, "I was disturbed." ”
The police officer obviously couldn't understand Xiahoudun's words, he smiled awkwardly, and then called the fat man in a suit and leather shoes over: "Team leader Xiahou, let me introduce you, this is Hao Jiansheng, who reported the case, and is also the owner of this villa." ”
"Didn't you say the abandoned house? How can there still be an owner? Xiahoudun asked suspiciously.
Hao Jiansheng sighed and said, "It's also my fault for being troublesome, it was indeed an abandoned mansion originally, and I only bought it last month." ”
Xiahoudun asked: "The house that has been abandoned for so many years, can you buy it to live in?" ”
"You misunderstood," Hao Jiansheng began to explain to Xiahoudun with a helpless face, "I like to collect cultural and antique Wu on weekdays, and I have some spare money recently, so I want to apply for opening a private museum." ”
Xiahoudun nodded and said, "It turned out to be a museum, which is a good thing. ”
"Who said it wasn't," Hao Jiansheng shook his head and said with a sad face: "Who would have thought that I asked my assistant to take the construction team to the site yesterday, and this happened." ”
"What happened?" Xiahoudun asked.
"Alas!" Hao Jiansheng sighed and said: "Early this morning, I asked my assistant Sun Jie to take the construction party to investigate the site so that they could be renovated and renovated, but after they arrived, I couldn't contact them, so I came over to see them myself, and found that they were all killed by ghosts!" ”
Hearing this, Xiahoudun asked with some confusion: "How do you know that it is a powerful ghost?" ”
"That's right," a police officer took out a mobile phone and handed it to Xiahoudun, "The informant reported a homicide at the time, but when the police entered the scene to investigate, they found this mobile phone, which should have been left by the construction party when they took pictures at the scene." ”
Xia Houdun took the mobile phone and looked at the photos inside, and indeed there was a little girl with bloody eyes, a knife in her hand, floating in the air in some photos. He glanced at Xu Xu and asked, "You call this thing a ghost?" ”
Xu Xu was stunned by Xiahoudun's sudden question, and she said deliciously: "Isn't it?" ”
"Show me." Xiahou Yuan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, finally spoke, he took his mobile phone, looked at the photos inside, and then looked at Xiahouyuan with a confused expression, "What is this?" ”
Xiahoudun didn't answer, just shook his head helplessly, and continued to ask, "Where is the deceased?" ”
"Over there." A police officer replied, pointing to the three body bags that had been placed aside.
Xiahoudun walked over, unzipped the three body bags, and saw the bodies of a woman and two men, all of whom had their hearts hollowed out and their bodies amputated, each with their mouths open, and no tongue in their mouths. Strangely, the three deceased died in a tragic state, and there was not a trace of blood on their bodies. Xiahoudun put on gloves and picked up the woman's amputated arm to take a closer look, and found that the section was smooth and flat.
"This female deceased, is it your assistant?" Xiahoudun turned his head to look at Hao Jiansheng.
Hao Jiansheng looked at the woman's corpse, suddenly lost control of his emotions, choked up and said, "Sort of." ”
"Sort of? What do you mean by 'counting'? Xiahou Yuan asked on the side.
Hao Jiansheng took a deep breath, calmed down, and said: "Actually, she is also my partner, and she is also the person I have always loved, I originally planned to confess to her when this museum was completed, who would have thought that she would be killed by a ghost like this." ”
"If it's really a terrible ghost, then this terrible ghost is really quite distracted." Xiahou Yuan's tone was teasing, he put back the body parts, closed the zipper of the body bag, and then looked at Xiahou Yuan and said, "Let's go, let's go into the scene and have a look." ”
Xu Xu saw the Xiahou brothers walking towards the house, so he said to the police: "Let's hand over here, please go back." ”
"So, what to do with the corpse? Shall we take it away or how? A police officer asked.
Xu Xu turned his head to look at Xiahoudun, who was walking towards the house, thought for a while, and said, "The team leader should mean to leave the body here." ”
"Okay, then I'll trouble you then." The officer beckoned his colleague to get into the car and left.
Hao Jiansheng saw the police leaving, and hurriedly asked Xu Xu: "What about me?" Where do I go? ”
Xu Xu pointed to the abandoned mansion and replied, "Of course you go in with us." ”
"Me? Get in? After hearing this, Hao Jiansheng was so frightened that he didn't know what to say, so he had to look at Xu Xu blankly.
Xu Xu smiled and said: "Don't worry, the general team leader didn't say to the client that it was in a state of emergency, but there was no danger." ”
Hao Jiansheng suddenly trembled nervously, "No, I won't go in, there are ghosts!" ”
Xiahou Yuan glanced back at Hao Jiansheng, who didn't dare to come over, and shouted, "Come here, it's okay." ”
"You don't want your sweetheart to die in vain, do you?" Xiahoudun shouted at Hao Jiansheng, "Hurry up!" ”
Hao Jiansheng thought that for the sake of the dead Sun Jie, he should indeed find out the truth of the matter and avenge Sun Jie. So he was bold and walked towards the Xiahou brothers with Xu Xu.
When Xiahoudun saw Hao Jiansheng coming, he smiled slightly, and prepared to step into this old mansion. As he entered, he noticed a bloody handprint on the right side of the door, and leaned down and began to observe.
"Did you find anything?" Xiahou Yuan asked on the side.
Xiahoudun glanced back at Xiahouyuan, then pointed to the corridor leading to the living room in the villa, and said, "You see that this corridor is so long, and the ground is so clean, why is there a bloody handprint on the door frame alone?" ”
Xiahou Yuan thought for a while, then looked up at the blood stains on the ceiling and the chandelier, and replied: "Presumably the deceased was killed in the corridor, and the blood splashed on the ceiling, and the deceased did not die at first, grabbed the door frame and wanted to escape, but was carried back by the murderer, so there was no blood on the ground." ”
After listening to Xiahou Yuan's explanation, Xiahou Yuan stared at him in surprise for a while, and then said with a wry smile: "Your brain hole is too big, it's a pity that you don't make up novels." ”
After hearing this, Xiahou Yuan asked angrily, "Then what did you say was the situation?" ”
Xiahoudun stood up, pointed to the blood stains on the ceiling, and said, "You see that this roof is covered with cobwebs, and the blood splashes on the roof but not on the cobwebs, this is too strange. ”
Xiahou Yuan looked up at the ceiling, nodded, and said, "It's really too strange. ”
"Mr. Hao," Xiahoudun looked at Hao Jiansheng who came over and asked, "Where did you find the deceased?" ”
Hao Jiansheng pointed to the depths of the corridor, "It's in the living room at the end." ”
Xiahoudun nodded, and the ward said, "Let's go, let's go to the living room and take a look." ”
"No," Hao Jiansheng grabbed Xiahoudun and said, "I don't lie to you, there are really ghosts!" I see ghosts! ”
After hearing this, Xu Xu said with a cry and laughter on the side: "We are here to catch ghosts, are we still hiding?" ”
Xiahoudun signaled Xu Xu not to talk nonsense, then looked at Hao Jiansheng and said, "What kind of ghost did you see?" ”
"It's the same as in that photo," Hao Jiansheng gestured and said, "I was in that living room, and as soon as I turned around, I saw Sun Jie's body and a large mirror, a floor-to-ceiling mirror, that is, at that time, I saw a little girl with a knife behind me in the mirror, and when I turned around, I found that there was nothing!" I was so scared that I ran out. ”
"Mirrors? As I expected! Xiahoudun smiled and motioned to walk in the direction of the living room.
Everyone followed Xiahoudun to the living room, first looked at the blood stains on the surrounding walls, and then turned around and found a large floor-to-ceiling mirror. The floor-to-ceiling mirror is also Western-style, the workmanship is very fine, the materials are also exquisite, and it looks a little old. Xiahoudun looked in the mirror and didn't see anything at first, but slowly, he noticed that a little girl in a dress who looked less than ten years old with bloody eyes and a knife in her hand appeared, floating behind himself in the mirror, staring at him viciously.
"That's her!" Hao Jiansheng shouted when he saw this, and grabbed Xiahou Yuan beside him and didn't move.
Xiahoudun shook his head helplessly, walked to the mirror, and stretched out his hand, pulling the little girl out of the mirror. As soon as the little girl was dragged out, she was stunned for a moment, then cried in fear, and then the blood from her eyes and the knife disappeared.
"Don't cry." Xiahoudun squatted down, took out a tissue and handed it to the little girl, then turned his head to Xiahouyuan and said: "What kind of ghost is this, this kid is a mirror spirit, a kind of phantom spirit produced because the mirror reflects the surrounding spirits for a long time, and it can produce a mirror spirit, which means that this mirror has a history of at least a hundred years, you earned it, Mr. Hao." ”
"What a cute little girl." When Xu Xu saw the mirror spirit, he couldn't help but lean over.
"Where did you hide them?" Xiahoudun asked the mirror spirit.
Jing Ling wiped his tears, pouted, looked at Xiahoudun for a while, and then pointed to the mirror.
"It's naughty!" Xiahoudun pinched Jing Ling's face and said, "Quickly release them all." ”
Jing Ling still pouted, the tears in her eyes did not disappear, she thought for a while, and with a wave of her hand, the blood stains in the living room suddenly disappeared, and Sun Jie and the two construction workers also appeared in front of everyone and looked at everyone in surprise.
"Sun Jie." Hao Jiansheng rushed to Sun Jie's side and shed tears excitedly, "You are still alive." ”
And Sun Jie, like the two construction workers, didn't come back to her senses for a long time, "What's wrong with me?" ”
"You have been brought into the illusion by the mirror spirit," Xia Houdun stood up and said to the others, "The mirror spirit is good at illusion, it can create illusions and attach its own image to mirror-like objects, such as mobile phone screens or televisions, everything we have seen just now is the illusion created by this mirror spirit. ”
"But why is that?" Hao Jiansheng asked suspiciously.
"Probably Jing Ling made this place her home," Xiahou Yuan explained on the side, "She saw the construction team coming over to redecorate the house, and thought that you had invaded her home." ”
Hearing this, Jing Ling cried bitterly, "They're going to throw me away, and I won't have a place to live!" ”
"No," Xiahoudun squatted down again and comforted Jing Ling, "they are going to build a museum, you have such a history, it will definitely be preserved." ”
"What is a museum?" Still pouting, Jing Ling asked.
"It's just a place where there are a lot of antiques and cultural relics," Xiahoudun explained, glancing at Hao Jiansheng, "They are not here to demolish your house, but to make your house beautiful." ”
Jing Ling listened, and gradually stopped sobbing, she looked at Xiahoudun, and asked in disbelief, "Really?" ”
"Really! It's true! Hao Jiansheng also squatted beside Jing Ling with interest, "Uncle will decorate the most beautiful room for you to live in at that time." ”
The mirror spirit didn't speak, just smiled slightly, and hid in the mirror shyly.
Hao Jiansheng saw Xiahoudun stand up, and also stood up, "She...... And she went back? ”
Xiahoudun nodded and said: "Under normal circumstances, the mirror spirit will not appear, and it will not affect our daily life, after all, the mirror is their body, and this mirror spirit appeared because she thought that the house would be destroyed, so she was a little anxious." ”
"Oh oh......" Hao Jiansheng bowed slightly and said, "Thank you so much." ”
"That's what I'm supposed to do." Xiahoudun smiled at Hao Jiansheng, then patted him on the shoulder and said: "I hope you treat this mirror well, and also treat every piece of cultural antiques in your collection, they are all witnesses of history, many of them are older than us, not only have economic value, but also their cultural value." ”
"Yes, yes," Hao Jiansheng hurriedly replied, "I'm a collector, so don't worry." ”
Xiahoudun nodded, glanced at Sun Jie, who was being comforted by Xu Xu on the side, patted Hao Jiansheng's shoulder again, and said, "I wish you happiness, and I also wish you a smooth construction of your museum." ”
"Thank you," Hao Jiansheng looked at Sun Jie, and then at Xiahoudun and said, "When the museum is completed, you must come to visit." ”
Xiahoudun nodded, and walked towards Xiahouyuan, who was waiting on the side, "It's almost time to close the team." ”
Xiahou Yuan smiled bitterly, and the ward glanced at Xu Xu on the side, and left with Xiahou Yuan.
The Xiahou brothers took Xu Xu back to the unit, and after packing up the things for the meeting, they went to pick up Xiahou Ling. The three brothers and sisters ate dinner outside, walked around the mall for a while, and when they returned home, it was almost ten o'clock.
Seeing Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Ling laughing and going upstairs, Xiahou Yuan came to the study, turned on the computer, and checked the email. He found that there was a reply to the blood identification submitted before, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart, he knew that if Xiaoling was not his own sister, then everything would make sense, and the mystery of his identity would have a direction to find, but at this time, he was suddenly a little afraid to face this reality.
He hesitated for a moment, thinking that what should be faced is always what he has to face, so he clicked on the email. Skipping the data he couldn't understand earlier, his eyes went straight to the identification results. As a result, he and Xiahou Ling had brothers and sisters as the same father and mother.