Shortly after the end of the Mingchen'an case, the Divine Eagle Brigade took over another case: when Qin Zuomei, the head of the People's Armed Forces Department of Baixia District, was repairing a private house, the craftsmen found a skeleton in the sandwich wall of a house.

The following is some information provided by the informant and some background information that the comrades learned.

Time of reporting: 2:30 p.m. on March 17, 1992.

The informant's name is Qin Zuomei, who is 43 years old, and two years ago he was transferred from the army to the head of the People's Armed Forces Department of Baixia District, Jingxi City.

A few months ago, Qin Zuomei bought a house in Impermanence Lane, Baixia District—an independent courtyard with two entrances and six houses; There are also two small yards in front and back.

Walk into the front yard door is a courtyard of more than 50 square meters, the north side of the yard is the first one to enter, the first to enter there are two wings, there is a foyer in the middle, through the foyer is the backyard.

The backyard is also more than fifty square meters large.

At the back are three main rooms.

Although the two courtyards in front and back are a little faster, the six houses are neat and decent, and at a glance, you can see that the original owner is not an ordinary family.

This is also one of the reasons why Qin Zuomei takes a fancy to this house.

This is a quiet place in the middle of the noise, out of the courtyard gate turn left and walk more than 20 meters is the front street, turn right more than 60 meters is the back street.

In fact, this small courtyard was originally only a small part of the Chejia compound, because of various reasons, a very large courtyard was divided into two courtyards, one large and one small, one east and one west.

On the east wall of the front yard there is a door made of blue bricks, which can still be seen clearly.

Originally, people who lived in this small courtyard used this gate to enter and exit, but after this gate was sealed, a small gate was opened on the west side of the courtyard, and there happened to be a deep and narrow alley on the west side of the courtyard. In this way, the small courtyard that was divided into became a separate part.

This small courtyard is very much in line with Qin Zuomei's mind, he has been in the army for many years, always running around, and has no fixed place, but now he can finally settle down. When he brought his wife, old mother-in-law and children to take a look, he thought it was good, so Qin Zuomei decided to buy this small courtyard.

Of course, the main reason for Qin Zuomei's decision was that the price was relatively cheap, the total price was only 98,000 yuan, and the homeowner's offer was 120,000 yuan.

So, Qin Zuomei sold the old house in his hometown of Tunxi, Zhedong, and bought this small yard with years of savings.

Qin Zuomei found someone to paint the inside of the house, cleaned up the yard, and bought a dozen beautiful bonsai, and a week later, Qin Zuomei's family moved in from the temporary dormitory of the People's Armed Forces Department.

After moving in, I found that the light in the house was too poor, especially in the second house, the light was particularly dim, these three main houses did not have a back window, only two windows were opened on the south side of the east house and the west house, and the lights were turned on during the day, even on sunny days.

If it is rainy, the light in the house will be even worse, the reason is that the courtyard is too small, the courtyard walls on the east and west sides are too high, and the lights are on all day long, which is difficult to accept for Qin Zuomei's lover Ren Bixia, who has always been diligent and thrifty.

If you don't accept it, you have to accept it, the house is different from the radish and cabbage, and it is difficult to return it if you buy it.

Fortunately, only the old mother-in-law was at home during the day, and the old mother-in-law was a thrifty person, and she said that she could see it during the day, and there was no need to turn on the lights to burn money.

Qin Zuomei didn't think so: "This kind of small problem can be completely ignored, forget it!" ”

Ren Bixia has always respected her husband's opinion, so she didn't say anything more.

What happened later, you can't "forget it".

So, what happened later?

As time passed, Ren Bixia's body had problems.

Before moving into the new house, Ren Bixia's health had always been good, and she usually didn't even have a cold or flu.

But soon after moving into the new house, she had palpitations, weakness, shortness of breath, often had nightmares when she slept at night, and after waking up, she was covered in sweat, and her appetite also had obvious problems.

What's more serious is that the two sons often have nightmares when they sleep at night, and before that, the two children were very healthy and have been sleeping very well at night.

Ren Bixia's mother has a serious superstitious mind, she began to doubt the new house, saying that the new house is too yin and evil, and she even suspects that the new house may not be clean, if there is no problem with the house, why should the landlord sell such a good house cheaply?

Qin Zuomei didn't believe in his mother-in-law's set, and persuaded his mother-in-law and lover not to think nonsense, how could people eat whole grains and grains without getting sick? It is normal to have a little headache and brain fever, but fortunately, the medical level is getting higher and higher.

Ren Bixia didn't think much about it, but her mother was still unwilling, so she asked her neighbors in private.

This inquiry really inquired about something.

The original owner's surname was Che, and his name was Che Huating. The reason for selling the house is very simple, his second son studied at his own expense, and he was still short of money, so he sold these surplus houses, because he waited for the money to be used, so it was cheaper by 22,000 yuan, and according to the market price at that time, the price should be about 120,000 yuan. Overall, it is more than 20,000 yuan cheaper.

This is not the case, the second child of the Che family went abroad to study, which is true, but this has almost nothing to do with the Che family's sale of the house.

The reason why the Che family was in a hurry to sell the house was because Che Huating's two daughters had often slept at night since the door of the East Courtyard was blocked, and collapsed at the most serious time and were sent to the hospital for rescue.

Che Huating asked Mr. Feng Shui to come to the house to take a look, Mr. Feng Shui said that the yin and evil qi in the courtyard were too heavy, as for why the yin qi was heavy, Mr. Feng Shui did not say.

But Ren Bixia's mother heard the meaning of Mr. Feng Shui's words, so she continued to inquire about the neighbors.

It really made the old man ask, in one of the six houses, two women had been hanged.

It is precisely for this reason that the Che family separated these six houses separately, and it is precisely for this reason that Che Huating was assigned to this separate courtyard, Che Huating had never heard of those unclean things, and thought that he had taken advantage of it, so he moved to this separate courtyard with his family.

Later, because the family fell ill every now and then, and heard some rumors, they moved back to the east courtyard and rented out the house.

After the house was rented, the tenants changed one after another like a marquee, and they moved away after not living for half a year, and then later, no one dared to rent a car for Huating's house, there was no way, Che Huating decided to sell the house, Qin Zuomei went from the army to the locality, and he was not familiar with the place, so he bought the house of Che Huating's family by mistake.

Since knowing the truth, Qin Zuomei, who has never believed in superstition and self-styled atheist, has also muttered in his heart, and his mother-in-law's body has also had a little problem, so he has to take this issue seriously and consider it.

The old mother-in-law offered to find a famous feng shui master to come to the house to see what was strange. Qin Zuomei nodded in agreement.

So, the old mother-in-law invited a feng shui gentleman, this person is about seventy years old, surnamed Pei, named Xilu, he has relied on showing people feng shui all his life, and he is quite famous in the south of the old city - it was the neighbors who introduced him to the old mother-in-law.

On that day, Qin Zuomei and his lover specially took a half-day off.

Pei Xilu took the compass and looked at the four directions of the front yard, the southeast, the northwest, and then turned around in the foyer of the first entrance, and finally walked into the third main house of the second entrance.

Qin Zuomei's family of three followed closely behind, and they didn't dare to come out, Pei Xilu seemed to be in trouble, and this family of three looked solemn.

In the East House, Pei Xilu spent the longest time, and he placed the compass under the four walls of the East House for a while, and then looked at the brick walls, pillars, and herringbone beams of the East Wall for a minute or two.

Before speaking, Pei Xilu focused on the two doors again; The first gate was the one that had been sealed off on the wall of the east courtyard of the front yard; The second gate is the one that opens behind the wall of the west courtyard in the front yard - out of this gate is an alley - since it is separated from the Che family compound, the west courtyard gate and the alley are the only passages in and out of Che Huating's house.

The name of the alley is "Impermanence Lane", this alley is south to Zhonghe Street - that is, the front street, north to Qixingmen Street - that is, the back street, the alley is very narrow, only one bearer can pass, if it is two people meet head-on, then it is necessary to turn a little sideways to pass; The biggest feature of "Impermanence Alley" is that it is long and has many curves, which means that you can't see the end of the alley from one end of the alley.

The walls on both sides of the alley are very high, especially the west wall of the alley, which is at least three meters high.

The name of the alley is also very special, "Impermanence Lane", and when the name is mentioned, people will think of black and white impermanence.

Qin Zuomei's old mother-in-law thought so, but she didn't say it—the old man was worried that his daughter and son-in-law would mutter.

But Ren Bixia's mother knew the origin of the name, and the old man learned a lot of information about the past of the Che family compound, including the environment in which it was located, from the neighbors.

First, the east side of the alley, originally the Che family compound, was later divided into a large and a small courtyard, it is said that the ancestor of the Che family is a red-top merchant, and the famous red-top businessman Hu Xueyan in history is about the same, specializing in the business of the court, as long as it is the palace needs things, the Che family is operated, because the Che family has a thick foundation, therefore, all the buildings in the Che family compound are very particular, Qin Zuomei is interested in the impermanence of the lane - the house at No. 157 Zhonghe Street, this is probably the main reason!

Second, the west side of the alley was originally a family of eunuchs surnamed Yin, and later the Yin family was defeated due to convictions, and the imperial court transformed the Yin family compound into a prison, which held some death row inmates.

This is the reason why the west wall of the alley is about one meter higher than the east wall: the east wall of the alley is the courtyard wall of the Chejia compound, which is three meters high, and the west wall is the courtyard wall of the Yin family's compound, which is four meters high.