"Have you drunk this wine yourself?" I asked, pointing to the jar.

Zhao Jie said, "I have drunk, this is the medicinal wine I brewed personally, I know very well what the ingredients are in it, not only harmless, but also quite beneficial to the body, I sell this wine at all not to make money, my purpose of mixing medicinal wine is to attract repeat customers." ”

I frowned, feeling incredible.

Zhao Jie has no reason to lie, but how to explain the yin energy emanating from this wine jar?

Thinking of this, I had to say, "Drain the wine first, let me see what's in it!" ”

Zhao Jie immediately poured out the wine jar, rolled up his sleeves and reached into the wine jar to fish out a lot of things, grabbed a large handful, all of which were miscellaneous Chinese herbal medicine residues, as well as a few pieces of animal bones, sheep whips and other kidney-tonifying herbs.

I found a chopstick to pull out the dregs, raised my head to look at Zhao Jie, and asked him what ingredients were in the dregs?

Zhao Jie has a good memory, and said the names of the medicinal materials in turn, all of them are more common medicines on the market, and it seems that the problem is not in the materials for brewing medicinal wine.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for these Chinese herbs to exude corpse qi, is it because of the growth environment?

I was puzzled, but Zhang Qiang, who had been rummaging in the store for clues, called out to me, I looked up and saw Zhang Qiang's gaze fixed on the ceiling, he touched my elbow and said, "What do you see that?" ”

Zhang Qiang raised his hand as he spoke, pointing to a crack in the ceiling wall.

I saw that there were a lot of water stains on the edge of the crack, and there were green and white molds growing on the wet side, and from time to time water droplets were condensed and dripping down, and the place where these water droplets fell happened to be the place where Zhang Qiang took away the wine jar.

My heart moved, I walked over with the wine jar in my arms, and put the jar on the counter untouched, and sure enough, the water droplets that fell from the cracks in the wall happened to drip directly above the wine jar, and the lid on the wine jar had been opened by us, and the water droplets fell directly into the medicinal wine.

Zhao Jie was stunned and muttered, "Why are there so many water stains on the wall, is there a leak in the pipe?" ”

The drainage facilities of this old-fashioned residential building are very old, and there are many building materials such as water pipes, electrical wires and gas pipes buried in the walls, and many residents will seep water over time, and many residents will not know what the problem is.

I asked Zhao Jie to go to the back kitchen to find a bowl, and then moved a stool to stand on it, put the bowl in the crack of the ceiling wall and scraped it, the bottom of the bowl was filled with a lot of unknown liquid, I jumped off the bench and handed the bowl to Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang immediately took out Futong for inspection.

This time, Fu Tong was as black as ink, Zhang Qiang put away Fu Tong, and said with a solemn expression, "In my personal experience, these should be corpse oil, which is dripping from the rotting corpse!" ”

Zhao Jie was shocked, his lips trembled, "This ...... What's going on? ”

I sighed and said, "It seems that the problem is roughly clear, someone is hiding the corpse under the floor on the second floor, and the corpse has been decomposing for a period of time and flowing out of the corpse water, and it just so happens that the partition of the community is aging, and the corpse water seeps down the floor, and it just happens to fall on the jar you used to make medicinal wine, so it ......."

Zhao Jie was sweating, "No...... That's a coincidence, isn't it? ”

This is the only reasonable explanation at present, except for Zhao Jie's bad luck, I really can't find any other possibility.

Zhang Qiang said, "It's not easy, we can go up to the second floor, go upstairs to the residents' houses to check, won't we figure out everything?" ”

Zhao Jie was very embarrassed, he looked at me and said, "I had a little conflict with the residents on the second floor last month, and he probably won't let me in." ”

I wondered, "What is the reason for the conflict?" ”

Zhao Jie explained, "That's right, that day the smoke exhaust system failed, and when I was getting things for customers, a lot of smoke floated up to the second floor, and soon a middle-aged man rushed into my store and made a big noise, saying that my house was smoking him, and asked me to close down immediately, and said that he would sue me ......."

I express my understanding that there are indeed considerable hidden dangers in the management of a community like this where the first floor is full of food stalls, and the problem of oil smoke is indeed a major annoyance.

I said to Zhang Qiang, "Why don't Boss Zhao go up with us, he has had a conflict with the owner of the second floor, and he may quarrel when he goes, so Lao Zhang, you should accompany me on a trip." ”

Zhang Qiang and I immediately walked into the community, and soon we came to the door of the owner on the second floor, the sanitary environment of this old-fashioned community is quite bad, the wall next to the door is almost plastered with small advertisements for dredging pipes and recycling old household appliances, and the rusty anti-theft iron door is full of dirt, and the dust is thick and frozen.

There are footprints everywhere at the door, the mud is thick enough to form lumps, it looks like no one has cleaned it for at least a month or two, even Zhang Qiang and I can't stand it, it's too sloppy.

Zhang Qiang pulled me to the novel, "It seems that the owner is a bachelor, and if there is a woman in the house, he will definitely clean it." "I think so, but we're here to investigate the source of the corpse water, and there is no need to discuss these unrelated topics, so I knocked on the room directly.

There were footsteps in the room, Zhang Qiang and I stood outside the door and waited patiently, and soon the door was opened, and a middle-aged man with large framed eyes and beige short sleeves opened the door for us, revealing a pair of lifeless eyes under the glasses thicker than a beer bottle.

He pushed the door open halfway, only revealing half of his face, his complexion was dark and gloomy, there seemed to be no lights on in the room, and the light in the corridor was very dark, and his eyes looked a little penetrating.

"Is there something wrong?" He paused for a moment and asked fiercely.

I smiled and explained my intentions, "Hello, we are repairing the pipeline, and the owner of the dog meat shop on the first floor said that your house is leaking and wants to ask us to come up and check the pipe." ”

His attitude was cold, "What does it have to do with me if the water leaks?" You are looking for a property, don't bother me! With that, he slammed the door shut, leaving us no room for negotiation.

I touched my nose and smiled bitterly, "It seems that this owner has a deep grudge with Zhao Jie, and he may wish that the pipe would fall into the water and teach the downstairs a lesson." ”

Zhang Qiang shook his head and said, "Brother, things may not be like this, the average owner finds that his house is leaking, he is either surprised, or he will deny it, and his first reaction will never be like this." He closes the door too quickly, most likely because he doesn't want strangers to enter the house, and I guess he has a ghost in his heart. ”

I nodded and said yes, how can a normal person hide a corpse in his home, this person looked fierce when he opened the door, obviously not a good stubble, the situation we are investigating is very likely to involve murder, and the murderer Bacheng is the one who opened the door.

I was shocked when I thought of this, wiped my cold sweat and said, "There are really all kinds of people in this world, fortunately, I have come into contact with many dead corpses that are very ghostly, and normal people may be shocked when they learn about this." ”

Zhang Qiang and I have seen a lot of murders, so naturally we won't feel too nervous about it, but with so many residents upstairs and downstairs, if they know that there may be corpses hidden under the floor on the second floor, I don't know how they will feel.

We were not discouraged after returning in vain, at least we already had the direction of the investigation, and soon Zhang Qiang and I returned to the dog meat shop and told Zhao Jie what happened, Zhao Jie was shocked, "Since the residents on the second floor are likely to be murderers, why don't we call the police directly?" ”

I waved my hand and said, "It's better not to make a big deal out of it, it's not just about finding the body, we have to find a way to exorcise evil spirits, the police may cordon off the scene when they come, and it's not too late to call the police to deal with the aftermath when we solve the problem." ”