Lin'an, China, in a small hotel outside the train station.

A man in his early twenties sat nervously on the edge of the bed smoking a cigarette, picked up his phone from time to time to look at the time above, and every time he finished reading, he would look nervously at the door, and then he got up and carefully opened the curtains to look at the door of the hotel, watching if anyone had entered the hotel.

Every time he walked in, the man would immediately walk to the door and look out through the cat's eyes, expecting that it was the person he was waiting for.

It had been five hours since he got off the train, it was getting late, and there were few pedestrians in sight on the road, and the person he was waiting for still hadn't appeared.

The man opened the suitcase and carefully pulled out a box. He looked at the box for a long time, then opened the lid, looked at the porcelain inside, reached out and touched it, and recalled the incident in Shimen, Hebei Province yesterday that he could not forget in his life.

When he closed his eyes now, he could remember the old man's eyes that had widened before he died.

The man's breathing became rapid, he felt a cigarette with a trembling hand, opened the mineral water bottle again, drank all the rest of the water, and found that there was no water, he immediately got up and prepared to go out to buy a bottle, who knew that as soon as he opened the door, he saw a woman standing outside the door.

The woman is none other than Ge Chengli, who was said by Hou Wan not long ago to be a silent rabbit, but is actually a lone cuckoo, and is also the mastermind who designed to kill Wei Chiran.

The man was surprised when he saw Ge Chengli: "Mr. Ge, why are you here in person?" ”

Ge Chengli didn't talk nonsense, went directly to the door, then closed the door, and asked directly: "Where are the things?" ”

The man immediately took out the porcelain box from the suitcase again and respectfully brought it to Ge Chengli: "The thing is here, please take a look." ”

Ge Chengli didn't take out the porcelain box, just glanced at it, and asked without raising his head: "The old man's matter has already been reported, but the police don't know who the murderer is, but they will find you soon, so after you finish the last thing for me tomorrow, I will arrange for you to leave the country immediately." ”

The man's hands were trembling: "Mr. Ge, didn't we talk about it?" Get this thing back, and it's over. ”

Ge Chengli looked at the man and said in a deep voice: "Zhou Xianwei, your life is now in my hands, whether you are dead or alive, it all depends on my thoughts, before taking this porcelain box, I asked you to take it, but I didn't let you hurt people's lives, but what about you?" If you kill someone directly, you will bear this life debt. ”

Zhou Xianwei pointed at Ge Chengli: "You ......"

Ge Chengli took out a card: "There is a card here, there are two million in the card, it is very safe, the police will not find this card, you use it first, but be cautious, tomorrow you go to Lin'an Yizhen Auction House and auction a piece of porcelain, the information is here." ”

Ge Chengli took out a document from her bag and handed it to Zhou Xianwei.

Zhou Xianwei hesitated, and finally took it and looked at the text and pictures on it.

Ge Chengli said again: "This thing, I have estimated, the final transaction price should be about 1.5 million, maybe it can't arrive, after you take a picture, immediately take the car to the nearest Anshui Town, and then I will go to see you, give me the thing, I will arrange for you to leave immediately." ”

Zhou Xianwei asked: "The price is different this time." ”

Ge Chengli said: "Double." ”

Zhou Xianwei said: "A word is a certainty. ”

Ge Chengli said: "You can check the overseas account now, I have already paid the money for the first time, and half of the payment has been made for the second time." ”

Zhou Xianwei picked up his phone, opened the APP on it, and after a quick check, he looked at Ge Chengli and nodded.

Ge Chengli turned around to leave, and when she grabbed the doorknob with her hand, she turned around and said, "Also, if you don't use that kind of ability, you will die." ”

Ge Chengli finished speaking, and Zhou Xianwei walked into the bathroom and took off his clothes in front of the mirror. In the mirror, Zhou Xianwei's body has been deformed, like crumpled soil.

After Zhou Xianwei looked at it for a while, he immediately put on his clothes again, clenched his fists and took a deep breath.

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Hebei Shimen, Wanhe Village.

When the off-road vehicle stopped, Wei Chiran hadn't woken up until Xie Meng, who was driving, woke him up, and then he opened his hazy eyes and asked, "Arrived?" ”

Xie Meng said: "It's here, what's the matter?" Still thinking about Lao He's words? ”

How could Wei Chiran not want to? He originally wanted to tell all the things and the plate, but Lao He stopped him, and instead asked him to do 517 a favor first, investigating a murder case that had just occurred in Shimenwanhe Village, Hebei, and said that he would talk about it after the case was clarified.

Wei Chi nodded and said, "I know what Elder He means." ”

Xie Meng asked, "What do you mean?" Tell me about it? ”

Wei Chiran said: "I asked him for help, even if I owe him a favor, if I do 517 a favor and let him help, we can be considered even, right?" ”

Xie Meng shook his head and smiled: "You think of Lao He too much. ”

Wei Chiran asked, "What does that mean?" ”

Xie Meng said: "If you are a person from 517, then Lao He will not owe you any favor for helping you, understand?" ”

Wei Chiran looked at Xie Meng, a little surprised, and thought for a long time before asking, "Why?" ”

Xie Meng asked, "What why?" ”

Wei Chiran asked: "No, that's it, I ......."

Wei Chi didn't know what to say, and at this time, a 517 staff member came to knock on the window.

Xie Meng opened the window, and the staff said, "Director Xie, the formalities with the local police have been handed over, they have withdrawn, and we can enter the venue." ”

Xie Meng said: "You guys investigate first, and we'll go over immediately." ”

After the staff left, Wei Chi looked at the village in front of him through the windshield of the car window, and asked, "What is the case?" I don't give a briefing before I come. ”

Xie Meng opened the car door: "Let's go, just go and see the scene." ”

Xie Meng led Wei Chiran into the village, and walked for a while before he came to the door of a family in the village.

This family has a large courtyard, which is the largest family that Wei Chi Ran saw along the way, the courtyard is very clean, there is a row of chicken coops in the corner of the yard, and directly opposite is a large tiled house, and there is a side house next to the tiled house. The staff of 517 had already taken pictures in the house for evidence, and a woman's cry could be heard inside the house.

Wei Chi Chi walked to the door and saw an old lady crying in the house, and a 517 staff member in front of her was comforting her.

Xie Meng didn't speak, just looked at Wei Chiran.

Wei Chiran asked strangely, "What are you looking at me for?" What exactly is the case? ”

Xie Meng said: "You take a look at this house first, and tell me how you feel?" ”

Wei Chi then took a few steps back and looked at the tile house: "House? Isn't this a tiled yard? ”

Xie Meng said: "This is an old mansion, how old is it?" Although the original site has been rebuilt, but the old part, is the Ming Dynasty Xuande period repaired, very particular house, the previous area is far larger than now five times larger, you don't look at this tile house, this is just the front yard, there are several rooms in the back. ”

Wei Chi nodded and looked around: "In other words, it was a big family who lived here before?" ”

Xie Meng explained: "The big family is not accurate, because this house was given to a retired official by the emperor at that time, as for the real name of this official, what exactly he does, although it is all in the classics, it is all fake." ”

Wei was stunned for a moment: "Fake? Why? ”

Xie Meng said: "The identity is special, but we found out this person's information in the alien way, he is a person from the iron-clad gate, before entering the court to become an official, he washed his identity, but the alien person did not let him go, but unfortunately, when he was an official, he was protected, and the alien did not dare to move him easily, so after he returned to his hometown, he came to find him, who knows, he had already prepared, here invited a group of dead soldiers on the rivers and lakes, laid an ambush, and basically dealt with the people who pursued him, leaving only a living mouth, Let him go back and tell the people at the Iron Gate that he would not hand over that thing. ”

Wei Chiran understood in front, but he was confused in the back, and hurriedly asked, "What is it?" ”

Xie Meng said: "When this person left the other way, he once took away a thing, what is this thing and what it is for, we haven't found out yet, even I, the cargo chaser, don't know what it is." ”

Wei Chiran immediately realized something: "You mean, the current case is directly related to that thing?" ”

Xie Meng shook his head: "It's not clear, let's go to the scene of the crime first." ”

Xie Meng led Wei Chiran through the first tile house and the second tile house, and when he came to the third tile house, he found that the door of the tile house was open, and there was an authentic entrance in the house, and there were two strange statues of characters at the entrance.

Wei Chiran was a little surprised: "What does this mean?" ”

Xie Meng explained: "These two statues mean black and white impermanence, probably that's what it means, carved from Qingtian stone, and under the tunnel is a cellar, guess what's in the cellar?" ”

Wei Chi tentatively said, "Could it be a tomb?" ”

Xie Meng nodded and said: "Yes, that's right, it's the cemetery, starting from that official, the bones of all the descendants of their family are placed in it, and this is also the scene of the crime." ”

Wei Chiran's curiosity was aroused, these cases were something he had never encountered in Chinatown before.

But what exactly is the case?

When the lieutenant entered the cellar with a sigh of relief, he found that the cellar was very large, like a large wine cellar he had ever seen, but the cellar was not as gorgeous as he imagined, there were no frescoes, no ornamentation, and as far as the eye could see, there were six walls on the left and right of the cellar, and ten lattices were chiseled on each wall, and the bones were placed in the lattice.

Wei Chiran asked, "Just put the bones here directly?" ”

Xie Meng nodded: "This method is a bit similar to the way the Khitan people buried their bones in the past, and it has nothing to do with the burial culture of the Central Plains, so we speculate that this person should have been a nomad, and then by chance, he came to the Central Plains and worshiped the Iron Cloth Gate." ”

Wei Chiran walked slowly along the wall towards the front, and when he reached the end, he found that it was stopped, and within the area where it was stopped, in addition to the bloodstains, there were signs placed by the police, as well as the outline of the victim's body before his death, and most importantly, at the end, there was a pit that was dug.

Only then did Wei Chi Ran realize that this was a murder case: "Homicide? ”

Xie Meng nodded and said: "Yes, the murder case, the victim is the current owner of this house, named Xia Sheng, seventy-six years old, and the woman who cried before is his wife." ”