Zhuangzi dreamed one day that he had become a butterfly. When he woke up, he was puzzled. He asked himself whether he had dreamed of becoming a butterfly, or had he been a dream of that butterfly in the first place.

Dream or reality, do you know which one is more real?

Xing Ruyi had a dream, and after waking up, she saw Sun Xiaomei, and also saw the fox standing behind Sun Xiaomei.

Just as she wanted to open her mouth, she saw the fox make a "shhh Xing Ruyi nodded, focusing all his attention on Sun Xiaomei. Then, she noticed something different.

First of all, it is Sun Xiaomei's dress, in such a cold winter weather, she only wore a single dress and stood in front of the bed, and there was no cold.

Secondly, there is her expression, which is dumb and her eyes are empty, as if she is just a soulless shell standing here.

Finally, it's her movements. One of her hands rested directly above her chest, while the other hand made a motion that tried to cover her mouth and nose.

Just as Xing Ruyi slowly moved her body and wanted to get up quietly, Sun Xiaomei suddenly turned around and walked towards the door.

"What does she want to do to me? Could it be that they want to kill me and abduct you instead! ”

"Possibly!" The fox replied, picked up the big piece that Xing Ruyi had placed at the end of the bed, wrapped her tightly, and then took her hand and said, "Let's go over and have a look!" ”

Because it had just rained, the roads in the village were very muddy, and even the likes of Xing Ruyi and the fox were a little stumbling when they walked. On the other hand, Sun Xiaomei is walking on the ground, and can even accurately avoid the mud pits and pools of water left on the ground.

"It turns out that sleepwalking can also unlock this special function, I knew that I was sleepwalking too, so why bother walking in this mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow." Xing Ruyi cocked his mouth, looked down at his feet, a pair of boots, not to mention the workmanship and fabric, and even the color couldn't be seen clearly. Although the fox stumbled a little, she was involved, and the feet of the people were like stepping on the clouds when they stepped on the mud, and they didn't sink down at all.

Seeing that Sun Xiaomei was walking faster and faster, Xing Ruyi sighed lightly, stopped, and coquettishly said to the fox: "I can't walk anymore, hug me!" ”

"Good!" The fox responded, and without the slightest hesitation, he hugged Xing Ruyi.

Without the drag of Xing Ruyi, the fox's feet are naturally much faster, and now it is only an arm's length away from Sun Xiaomei.

Xing Ruyi shook the fox's arm and asked him, "When did you find out that something was wrong with Sun Xiaomei?" ”

"She's always been wrong!"

"I'm not referring to the thing she thought about you, but the thing that just stood in front of my bed. By the way, what about Siniang and the bell? I clearly remember that I shared a room with them, and you shared a room with Li Mao. ”

"I asked Li Mao to run errands, and it was useless to leave the room empty, so I asked Siniang and Bell to move over. As for you, your sleeping position has never been very good, and I always have to watch from the sidelines, lest you catch a cold. ”

Xing Ruyi blushed sweetly: "Okay, I know you are good to me." What about Sun Xiaomei? When did you find her in my room? ”

"When she walked into the room, of course. But I don't think she's here for you. ”

"Not at me!" Xing Ruyi frowned, and then figured it out: "Some people say that dreams are the opposite of reality, and some people say that the so-called dreams are just escaping reality, and some of the people who appear sleepwalking are hiding and escaping some things. For example, a murderer who is very hidden, when he is awake, he can hide all his movements and expressions well, once he falls into a dream, he will keep repeating those fragments he wants to forget in his dream, and when it is serious, he will sleepwalk, and when sleepwalking, he will continue to repeat those murderous actions.

I remember very clearly that when Sun Xiaomei stood in front of the bed just now, she made two movements. Her left hand seemed to be trying to press against my chest, and her right hand was trying to cover my nose and mouth. The room I live in is where my father-in-law lived before his death. If Sun Xiaomei's sleepwalking corresponds to me, it can only be her father-in-law.

In the middle of the night, the daughter-in-law ran to her father-in-law's room and made such a move, it seems that this Sun Xiaomei has more secrets hidden in her heart than we guessed. ”

"No matter how many secrets there are, you won't see through them!" The fox lowered his head and smiled at Xing Ruyi. Although it was the middle of the night, the fox rarely had its own brilliance, especially those eyes that seemed to have stars.

Xing Ruyi tilted his head sideways and glanced back, only to see that the so-called bright light was actually Li Mao holding a lantern behind him.

"It seems that I am not the only one who has discovered the secret of the Sun family. By the way, what about Sun Xiaomei's father-in-law and husband? In the evening, I found out that their ghosts were gone. ”

"My lady, how can you be spied on by other men, even if the other party is just a wisp of ghost." The fox said gently and domineeringly, "Don't worry, I'll let them go where they need to go." The affairs of the mortal world are solved by the people of the mortal world, and as for the ghosts, they should also return to the place where they should return. ”

"Originally, I wanted to ask more carefully. Sun Xiaomei's father-in-law has some water stains on her mouth and nose, and with the action that Sun Xiaomei made to me just now, I can be sure that the murderer is her. As for the method of killing, it should also be the safest and most silent method of suffocation.

I found some inferior rice paper under the bed, Sun Xiaomei's mother-in-law's family has been farming for generations, and Sun Xiaomei herself has never read a book, so the rice paper can't be hers. In other words, there is an accomplice behind Sun Xiaomei, or the mastermind of the whole incident. ”

Xing Ruyi said, glancing at Sun Xiaomei's back. By this time, she had stopped. Xing Ruyi looked up and saw that it was the ancestral hall of the Gou family.

"Gou Da Sheng! It turns out that there is really an ambiguity between Sun Xiaomei and this Gou Dasheng! ”

Xing Ruyi shook his head, but saw that Sun Xiaomei had already turned back. When he passed by Xing Ruyi and the fox, he turned his head and smiled at them weirdly. The smile didn't matter, and Xing Ruyi almost jumped out of the fox arms. Nothing else, she just saw Sun Xiaomei's smile and wanted to hit someone.

The rain was sunny and the second day was a nice day!

Ritchie had a dream all night, got up at dawn and went to the field. Because of Gou Dasheng's father's matter, Lai Qi's father's grave was also dug up. After the matter was over, Xing Ruyi gave him some silver taels and asked him to buy a new coffin, collect the bones of his father and mother, and rebury them.

It rained heavily for several days, and this re-burial could only be delayed. Just last night, he dreamed of his father, who told him that there was a stranger in the house, and he asked him to go and see it anyway.

Daddy and Niang are no longer there, so the home that Daddy and Niang said in the dream must not be referring to the dilapidated yard where he lives now, but the Yin Mansion that has been dug up.

When he got to the field, Ritch was stunned. He clearly remembered that after the drought was destroyed, he simply invited his father's and mother's remains home, and the dug grave was never disposed of. Right now, not only has the grave been filled, but even the surrounding dirt has been treated.

Looking around, all you can see are indistinct footprints washed away by the rain and traces left by shoveling dirt with a shovel. Recalling what his father and mother had told in his dream, Ritch did not hesitate, went home and took a hoe, and cut away the loose soil on the grave layer by layer.

When dug up to half a man's height, a human hand, a rotting human hand, to be exact, emerges from the dirt. Ritch was bold and continued to dig for soil, and a complete male corpse appeared in the grave. The man's corpse was disheveled, and he couldn't see his facial features and eyebrows clearly, but Reich knew that other dead bodies had been found in his ancestral grave, and if it was spread out, he would definitely be affected, so he didn't care about anything else, dropped his hoe, and went to the nearest county office to report the case.

Soon, the county government sent officials down. Upon examination, it was found to be a male corpse, about 7 feet tall, wrapped only in an old coat, and there was nothing else on the body that could prove his identity. Blunt force trauma was found on the head and back of the male body, and there were strangulation marks on the neck, but they were not obvious and should not have been the final fatal injuries. The time of death was about half a year ago, and after the identification of the villagers at the scene, it was believed that the person buried in the ancestral grave of the Laiqi family was very likely to be the person who was rescued by Sun Xiaomei's father-in-law.

"If you want me to say, this murderer must be that old man. Come think about it, big guy, this person was originally going to tell the old man's fortune, but I took him away. After a good meal and a good drink, people changed their minds and didn't count it for the old man, but for me. As a result, the old man held a grudge and killed the man. ”

Just when the villagers were talking, Village Chief Gou, who had disappeared for a few days, appeared.

"Do you remember how the old man died? Although the people of their family claimed that the old man was sick and died, as far as I know, the old man hanged himself. It's just that his family lied that he died of illness in order to cover up the truth and escape responsibility. Sun Xiaomei, you can tell me if what the village chief just said was made up. ”

"That's right, little sister, how did your father-in-law die? At that time, you said that he died of illness, but I didn't believe it, how tough that person was on weekdays, why did he suddenly die of illness. Aunt Wang, who helped Sun Xiaomei take care of the child, was also a relative of her own family, and when she heard what Village Chief Gou said, she couldn't help but ask.

Sun Xiaomei looked at everyone in embarrassment, and finally fell on Village Chief Gou, gritted her teeth and said, "That's right, my father-in-law didn't die of illness, he ...... He hanged himself! ”

"So, is it really this Taoist who was killed by your father-in-law?"

"Nope! No! Even if my father-in-law hanged himself, it cannot prove that the Taoist in this tomb was killed by my father-in-law. My father-in-law is a person, you don't know, don't say it's murder, even kill chickens and dogs, he doesn't dare. ”

Perhaps because of guilt, Sun Xiaomei began to try her best to prove her dead father-in-law. In the end, he even did not hesitate to kneel in front of the officials, and said: "Please be aware of the big brothers, this person's death has nothing to do with my father-in-law, let alone our family!" ”

"Since it has nothing to do with it, why did your father-in-law hang himself?" Village Chief Gou changed his face, and walked up to Sun Xiaomei in three steps and two steps, seemingly questioning, but in fact he was pressing.

Sun Xiaomei gritted her teeth and lowered her head: "How did my father-in-law die, don't you know the village chief?" ”

"Sun Xiaomei, I warn you not to talk nonsense!"

"There is a big drought in the village, there is no grain harvest, my family is not in good condition, and I still have a young child to feed. My father-in-law had no choice but to go to your house to ask for rice and grain, but you refused him. My father-in-law saw that the rice at home was no longer enough to survive, so he had a desperate end and wanted to save some rations for us.

As the head of a village, isn't it your responsibility? Doesn't my father-in-law's death have anything to do with you? If you had lent us some food in the first place, why wouldn't my father-in-law think about it? If my father-in-law doesn't die, I will marry him...... How could he die? ”

After Sun Xiaomei finished speaking, she cried again.

Xing Ruyi originally thought that he could watch a good show, but he didn't expect that when it came, Sun Xiaomei and Gou Dasheng would continue to cover each other in such a way. She let out a sigh of relief, pushed through the crowd of onlookers, and stood in front of the male corpse.

"This person was indeed not killed by Sun Xiaomei's father-in-law? The reason is very simple, because only the murderer will move the body with a weak heart. ”

"Has this body moved?" A villager asked in a whisper.

"Of course I moved, and this can be proved by adults!"

"The girl was right, the body did show signs of moving. Look at this corpse, the elbows and thighs and the part of the driving dirt are all stained because they are buried in the ground, but the mud on the palms and soles of the feet is caused by dragging.

Also, because of the decay of the corpse, the wear and tear caused by dragging on the bones is also relatively clear. Judging from the body as a whole, it should have been wrapped and dragged by someone with something softer, and the time was in the rainy days. ”

"Thank you, sir!" Xing Ruyi nodded to the villagers, and then said loudly to the villagers, "Just before this heavy rain fell, we found the Dry Fish in this same tomb. At that time, the few people who wanted to come over there knew it best. ”

"That's right! It was Miss Ruyi who took us to dig it, and I remember very well that there was only a coffin in the pit at that time, and there was no corpse! ”

"I can prove it! This girl is telling the truth, and he is telling the truth, because I was there on the day of the drought! ”

Xing Ruyi looked at these people with satisfaction, turned around, and smiled at Village Chief Gou: "Village Chief Gou, can you tell me, is it necessary to hide the body of a dead person and cover up the truth?" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)