"When was the last time you saw Duan Qirui? When? Jiang Dong asked Tao Yiran, who was standing in front of him.

"It should have been half a month, during that time everyone was busy with the sculpture exhibition, one day the teacher said that he was a little tired, and wanted to go out for a walk, my sister and I also jokingly said that everyone would go together after the sculpture exhibition, and then I didn't see the teacher after that day." Tao resolutely recalled.

asked some more questions about Duan Qirui, but didn't find anything, so Jiang Dong sent a message to Li Yifan to see if he had found it.

"Not yet." Li Yifan immediately replied that at this moment he was downstairs, in room by room, knocking on the floor, touching the wall, looking for the secret door.

"How did you meet Duan Qirui?" Wang Xi, who had finished checking from the studio, walked out and asked the two sisters and brothers curiously.

"Haha, that was ten years ago, when Mr. Duan came to our village to sketch, I was only in my twenties, and my brother was only a teenager." Sister Tao said with a smile.

"We really met four years ago, when Mr. Duan took in our sister and brother, and later praised my brother for his talent in sculpture and accepted him as an apprentice, and he was also his first apprentice."

"Four years ago, Duan Qirui should have been a sculpture lover that no one cared about." Han Shuo asked curiously. "I guess I can't support myself, why did I take you in?"

"Maybe it's fate." Sister Tao was still smiling. "I have been taking care of the teacher's daily life over the years, and it is really not easy for him to watch him persist step by step to his current achievements."

"Tao Yiran, I see that among all the students of your teacher, it seems that you and your sister know that he is making sculptures out of ashes." Han Shuo looked at Tao Yiran and asked.

"Well, after all, this kind of thing is not acceptable to everyone, I heard the teacher say, at first, the teacher also decided to do this after a psychological struggle." Tao said resolutely, and couldn't help but show an admiring expression. "At that time, it was also forced to make a living, and if it wasn't for the teacher's friend who introduced the sculpture business, there would be no achievements of the teacher later."

"Since you are your teacher's student, you must know the difference between making a sculpture out of ashes."

“…… There is a difference, at first I also thought it was just a psychological effect, and then I found that some of the substances in the ashes will be different from ordinary gypsum powder after special processing and stirring, I don't know if the teacher added special materials in it, the finished sculpture is more refined and refined, and the feel is different, after a fine step of glaze and processing, it can even make it appear crystal clear visual poor, of course, most of these are also related to lighting. Tao resolutely explained.

"I've been listening to you for a long time, and I feel that the main thing is in those other additives." Han Shuo said with a sneer. "It's been a long time, and you don't know."

"......" Tao resolutely clenched his fists, raised his head and replied with a smile: "After all, I am still a student, and this kind of thing will not be told to me by the teacher Baoding so soon." ”

"Found it." At this moment, Jiang Dong received a text message from Li Yifan.

Jiang Dong whispered to Wang Xi next to him. "Wang Xi, you and Lao Xu go downstairs to meet Li Yifan, let's go down later."

Watching the two policemen go downstairs, Sister Tao and Tao Yiran were obviously a little nervous.

"Does the person who sold your sculptures know that your sculptures are made from human ashes?" Han Shuo continued to ask, bringing back Sister Tao, who had lost her attention with Wang Xi and Xu Youliang, who had left.

"Some people know, after all, Mr. Duan still has a nickname in the circle." Sister Tao smiled and said, "Soul sculptor, specializing in making sculptures for the dead. ”

"It's called that, and people are coming to buy sculptures! It is not only a sculpture made of the ashes of a dead person, but also the appearance of a dead person. "Han Shuo is becoming more and more unable to understand the lives of these artists, or these people who buy art, after all, there is no wonder without buying and selling.

"Hehe, not everyone's thoughts want you to be so backward, now this kind of thing is not uncommon in many places, instead of burying your relatives in the cold ground and going to worship when it is clear, it is better to carve it into a sculpture and let him be by his side all the time." Tao said with a smile.

"Nowadays, many families are willing to spend a lot of money to make such a sculpture for their dead children, and these finished products are taken away, and some people will make an object for their wives or husbands, such as their hands or half of their faces."

Han Shuo couldn't help but think of the woman's hands that were sealed in plaster again, and now he couldn't help but tremble all over his body when he thought of such an act, he really didn't know what the deceased and her family who agreed to do this thought, isn't this just a dead body.

"I was stunned to say this, I didn't expect that there were so many people doing this." Han Shuo swallowed his saliva, to be honest, Han Shuo himself thought about throwing ashes into the sea after he died decades later, but he didn't expect that there are so many burial methods for ashes now, and he also checked the Internet when he went back yesterday to do a survey on various festival burials, and it was really like what Sisi said, there are all kinds of them.

"We're going to take the ingredients back to the sculpture and inspect them." Jiang Dong pointed to the few packets of things in Wang Zhi's hand and said, these are the ingredients found in the studio, which are exactly what Tao Yiran is using.

"Team Jiang, we found a suicide note in the computer downstairs." Wang Xi watched Jiang Dong walk down and whispered to him.

"Suicide note?" Jiang Dong frowned, why didn't he find the underground passage, but found a suicide note.

"What suicide note?" Sister Tao, who followed closely, asked the police with a puzzled expression.

"Boss, come and see, in the easternmost room, I found a dark compartment with a computer and ...... There is also a video and some materials of the deceased. Han Shuo said, pointing to the room inside.

The dark grid was found by Li Yifan, the room leading to the underground passage that he saw in the original dream was on the west side of this villa, and everyone had no way to check it in him before, which Jiang Dong deliberately created an opportunity for him, he simply checked the ground and wall of each room on the first floor, and then found this dark grid and an underground warehouse in this small room.

"Uncle Xu and I have both read it, and we can be sure that it is a suicide note." Han Shuo got up from the computer and gave up some space for Jiang Dong. "There should be another floor below this room, but I haven't found a way to get in.

Jiang Dong didn't care so much, but sat there silently looking at the suicide note on the computer, from the beginning to the end, full of apologies and remorse, and more to say one creepy thing.

And the person who made the payment was Duan Qirui.