Master Pei pondered for a moment and said, "As long as you open a few more windows, adopt more yang energy, and then hang a peachwood sword on the courtyard gate, you can resist the entry of yin qi and evil qi" Master Pei said as he walked towards the west courtyard gate.

Master Pei walked to the south side of the West Courtyard Gate: "If you can plant a peach tree here, everything will be fine." Both the peachwood sword and the peachtree can ward off evil spirits. ”

"Master, can you not tear down this door wall on the east side?" Ren Bixia said.

"This door on the east side must be torn down, it must be installed, and you can lock it, as long as there is a door. You can enter and exit through the alley gate. ”

Qin Zuomei took Master Pei's suggestion.

At noon that day, Qin Zuomei went to Che Huating to negotiate, and Che Huating immediately agreed, and he also said: He will pay for opening the door, breaking the wall and opening the window, including mud walls and painting. This can be a little bit of a shame!

On March 15th, six workers entered the site, and Qin Zuomei and several workers discussed and decided to change the east wall of the second east wing - the house where Qin Zuomei and Ren Bixia lived together.

When the workers demolished the east wall, they found something unusual, everyone knows that the thickness of the general brick wall is the length of one brick, and if it is built horizontally, it is two bricks, but the east wall of this room has the length of three bricks, which means that this wall is made up of three walls together, why build such a thick wall?

The first and second walls were supposed to be built later. Strangely, on the surface, it is not visible at all.

The workers were very surprised, so they called Qin Zuomei.

Qin Zuomei looked at the first wall that had been dismantled and motioned for the workers to continue demolishing.

When the workers moved to the north side of the wall, that is, when they approached the north wall, the two workers threw away the brick knives and ran out of the east house screaming.

"There's—there's—" One of the workers was speechless, and his face turned pale as he ran out of the East House.

"I saw a ghost—brick—there was a dead man inside the brick wall." A worker ran to the door of the hall and said loudly.

When Qin Zuomei heard this, he rushed into the east house - Qin Zuomei was a soldier, and these things couldn't scare him.

Despite this, Qin Zuomei was still frightened - there was indeed a skeleton behind the first wall.

Of course, what scared him was not only the scene in front of him, but also the events that had happened in the past few days, his wife's illness, and the nightmares of his two children were all related to the corpse in the crack of the brick wall.

Qin Zuomei chose to report the case.

At around 4:20 p.m. on March 17, two police cars stopped at the north alley entrance of Qixingmen Avenue - Impermanence Lane.

Stepping down from the first car were Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, Xiang Daimo, and a fresh face, this person is Min Haiqiang, section chief of the Baixia District Public Security Bureau; Stepping down from the second car were Ma Jianping, Lin Di, Xiao Luhan and Lu Qian. Xiao Luhan and Lu Qian each carried a criminal investigation box in their hands.

A person stood at the entrance of the alley waiting for everyone, this person was Gu Changzhong, the director of the Zhonghe Street Police Station. This person is about 45 years old and about 1.60 meters tall, and this person will assist comrades in their investigation work, so the author will make a brief introduction here.

Director Gu led Zhao Zimeng and his entourage into the impermanence alley, and everyone could only enter because the alley was too narrow.

When I was about to reach No. 157, the speed slowed down, and there were many people gathered at the door of No. 157.

There were two policemen standing inside the small door, who were arranged by Director Gu to protect the scene and maintain order.

The crowd at the door slowly made a way.

Zhao Zimeng and his entourage walked sideways into the small door.

The courtyard gate is relatively small: the height is about 1.80 meters - the door of the average house is at least two meters; The width is about 70 centimeters - the average person's door is at least 80 centimeters.

The Qin family and the six workers all stood at the bottom of the steps of the main room, Che Huating also stood among them, among these people, there was also an old lady who was over the age of six, she was Che Huating's mother, the old man stood tremblingly beside his son, Che Huating held the old man's right arm with his hand. The old man gasped for breath and coughed a few times from time to time, and he knew at a glance that his health was not very good.

"Qin Zuomei, please come over for a moment." Director Gu beckoned to Qin Zuomei.

Qin Zuomei greeted him.

"Captain Zhao, this is the informant - he is Qin Zuomei from the People's Armed Forces Department of our district. Qin Zuomei, this is Captain Zhao of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. ”

Qin Zuomei introduced everyone into the second East House.

The first wall has almost been demolished, and there is an irregular square hole at a height of about one meter and six meters, through which most of the skull head and a part of the skeleton on the west side of the skull can be seen.

Apparently, the deceased was standing and hiding in the wall.

Ren Bixia's mother and daughter's faces turned pale, before, the mother and daughter were frightened by Pei Xilu's feng shui theory, but now, the living facts are in front of them, and the mother and daughter can't help but not believe Pei Xilu's words.

The bed of Qin Zuomei and Ren Bixia was placed close to the east and north walls of the east house - the head of the bed was facing south, the end of the bed was facing north, Ren Bixia was sleeping in the bed, and the location of the corpse was close to the location of Ren Bixia's pillow.

This means that when Ren Bixia slept, there was only a layer of wall bricks between her body and head and the dead body - the body of the deceased faced her.

It has been nearly three months since the Qin family moved into No. 157. Thinking of this, not to mention Ren Bixia, even Qin Zuomei felt disgusted and afraid.

A brick wall could not stop the smell of corpses.

People sleep in such an environment and don't have nightmares, that's weird!

Xiang Daimo opened the criminal investigation box, and Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei and took out masks and gloves from the criminal investigation box.

Lindy had a camera around her neck, and she pressed the astigmatism device, opened the lid on the camera lens, and began to take pictures.

The site was well protected, and after the two workers found the deceased's head, they did not remove the bricks, the first brick wall was a solid wall, the second layer of wall bricks - that is, the second layer where the body was located was also a hollow wall, and there was a brick wall in the innermost part - the body was hidden between the third and first layer wall bricks.

Under Zhao Zimeng's guidance, two older workers pried off the bricks on the outside of the corpse, which were glued together with cement.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei carefully inspected the second and third layers of wall tiles before the workers started, the second layer of wall tiles were glued with mud, and the third layer of wall tiles were glutinous rice juice with lime.

It is clear that the first and second walls were built later, while the third wall should be the earliest wall. In the old houses, as long as there were rich people, the brick walls were glutinous rice juice and lime sticking.

The two workers were unhurried, from top to bottom, prying one by one, and every time the two workers pry a piece turned, Zhao Zimeng had to carefully check it, hoping to find a little remnant - in fact, there could be nothing on the green bricks.

When the fourth and fifth green bricks were pried, Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, and Xiang Daimo looked at each other for a while.

All three had a big question mark in their eyes: only half of the deceased's two front teeth remained. The deceased's teeth were meant to be like this, or did the murderer treat the deceased's teeth? The three of them thought of the same question in unison.

When the seventh and eighth bricks were pried open, Zhao Zimeng's eye sockets were overflowing with disappointment. It is impossible to find the remnants, because the deceased has no clothes on his body, and although it has been a long time, if the deceased is wearing clothes, at least a little fragment of the clothes should be left. All that remained of the corpse was a skeleton, and there was no attachment to the bones.

Needless to say, the deceased was naked when he was hidden in the cracks. The murderer's purpose was very obvious, he didn't want to leave anything behind.

Half an hour later, the brick walls outside the corpse were all pried open. A complete corpse appeared in front of everyone.

It is not accurate to say that the body is complete, because both legs of the deceased were broken. Both legs are broken in exactly the same position, and the left and right legs are broken from the knees. There were also fragments of bones on the ground. Most of the fragments were kneecaps—one kneecap split into three lobes, and the other into several flaps. The deceased had been brutally tortured before he died.

When he saw half of the deceased's head, Zhao Zimeng thought that the deceased's height was about 1.65 meters. This is not the case. Because the bones that connect the thighs and calves – mainly the kneecaps – have fallen to the ground.

Needless to say, two legs were broken before the deceased was hidden in the sandwich wall. The force used by the killer was very large, otherwise, there would be no powder fracture. The deceased's legs were also hit more than once.

But this should not be a source of lethality.

After careful examination, the three people found the source of the fatality: the source of the death was in the head of the deceased, and there were three holes the size of broad beans in the back of the deceased's head. There are three holes in the top of the head. Why did the murderer break the two legs of the deceased? The reasonable explanation is that the deceased had a relatively long entanglement and struggle with the murderer before he was killed, and the deceased lost the ability to resist after his two legs were broken, and in the end, the murderer killed the deceased several times. Judging by Zhao Zimeng's experience, a hole the size of a broad bean is enough to end the life of the deceased, why did the murderer hit several times in a row?

The reasonable explanation is that the murderer was full of hatred in his chest when he struck.

The further conclusion is that it was a vendetta murder.

Over time, when the soft tissues on the bones of the deceased were completely degraded, the powdered bones could no longer support the weight of the body, and some of the fragments slowly fell to the ground.

This is also evidenced by the fact that the corpse is standing in the crack: because only one corpse can be accommodated in the crack, the lower half of the fractured part, that is, the upper end of the calf part, leans against the walls on both sides: the upper end of the right calf leans against the wall to the east of the corpse, and the upper end of the left calf leans against the wall to the west of the corpse, and the upper end of the left and right calf bones and the part that touches the wall become the two support points of the whole bone.