Chapter 148: The Chamber of Secrets

"There's no light source in here, so the kid must have adapted to the darkness, right?" Shen Yu leaned over and picked up a picture album, and she said as she flipped through it.

But the black room was empty, except for some traces of life, there seemed to be no Xiao Xin.

"There's another door over here." Xiao Yu shouted.

We hurried over, and saw a rusty iron door on the wall on one side of the black room, and a large rotten lock hanging from the door.

Lin Ying walked over and touched the lock, she took a few steps back and kicked hard at the iron door.

Bang Dang –

Lin Ying is really the captain of the criminal investigation team, and she is very skilled. She kicked the lock and flew away, almost hitting me on the head. She then flashed into the hut with a gun, and Shen Yu followed in.

To our surprise, there was light in this room.

A bean-like lamp flickered in front of it, a wick made of cotton wool, which stretched out a long cotton rope to a huge oil cylinder.

We approached the oil cylinder and found that half of the oil in it had been burned, and it seemed that Kui Shengchuan should have filled the oil cylinder before his death and made an everlasting lamp.

In front of the lantern is a portrait, probably for fear of moisture damage, so there is a layer of plastic cloth on the surface of the painting.

Lin Ying stepped forward to uncover the plastic sheeting, and I was surprised to find that the portrait was a man with a very similar face to Xiao Xin's face, he also had a face like a fish's head, and there were a few sparse mustaches on his lips.

Shen Yu was obviously taken aback by this fish face, but she quickly came back to her senses, approached the portrait and took a closer look, and said, "There are still words on it." ”

I also walked over, only to see that there was indeed a vertical line of small characters on the left side of the portrait, due to the age, the handwriting has been a little blurred, but fortunately, I can still vaguely distinguish the sentence -

"There is a statue of Tang Maha Dasa security guard Xikui Gongzi."

"Who is this? What do you mean? Xiao Yu asked, looking at the portrait.

I remembered that the old man of the Zhu family said that Kui Shengchuan said that the Kui family had an ancestor who also had the same fish face as Xiao Xin, so he explained to them: "This seems to be an ancestor of the Kui family, his name is Kui Zihe, and he is a Sabao in the Tang Dynasty." ”

"What is Sabao?" Shen Yu asked.

"Sabao was an official position in the Tang Dynasty, the governor of the Sabao Mansion, and some people say that it was set up to manage the Zoroastrian Temple, but now most scholars believe that it should be a non-permanent institution of the Tang government to manage the people of the Western Regions. Maha Sabao is probably the governor of all Sabao provinces in the country. ”

Shen Yu nodded, she squatted on the ground, checked it carefully with a flashlight, and then shook her head and stood up.

"This room hasn't been in for years."

"That's right, don't forget that the lock on the door is rusty." Lin Ying said, "But where is the fish-faced boy named Xiaoxin?" ”

"It's time to leave." Shen Yu walked out of the door of the hut and used a flashlight to shine a boxy mold mark in the corner of the big house outside and said, "You see, there should have been boxes and other things here before, it seems that it has just been moved, and the child either feels that he is exposed, so he carries his things and leaves, or he has been hijacked." ”

Hijack?

She was right, the child will not hold a big box when he escapes, someone should have taken the box, but does that person have anything to do with Xiaoxin's disappearance?

None of this is clear.

I was taken aback: "Could it be that more people are discovering here?" ”

"It's not impossible. Although it was dark and smelly, the things were neatly arranged, and even the quilt was neatly folded, which showed that the child was a relatively neat person. But behold, the wooden table was crooked, the stool was upside down, the basin was left on the table, and there were scratches on the wall near the door. Isn't that like the kid suddenly had a change? In particular, these scratches are more like he was coerced to take them away. ”

"So, the child's whereabouts are unknown?" I asked. And who wants to take such a strange child, and for what purpose?

I suddenly remembered something that the owner's nephew, Kui Yanxiao, had said - a woman had called him before and asked him if he could rent the Kui family's old house.

Also, the house was also pasted with couplets during the Spring Festival this year.

Rent-seeking women, people who post couplets, and people who kidnap Xiaoxin, are they the same group?

Lin Ying said solemnly: "No matter what, I'll let the people from the technical department come in and check it first, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I have to find out this child from the Kui family." ”

The investigation of the Kui family's old house came to an end, and later the people from the police station did not make any new discoveries in the secret passages and secret rooms, nor did they find Xiao Xin again.

Xiao Xin's appearance did affect the direction of the investigation of the murder of the "flower ghost" in Yuntang Town, he should have inadvertently found Shang Weimin's body in the garbage dump, and then thought it was just "food", so he got a leg back and dragged it to the dark passage of the Kui house to cut and eat.

In any case, Kui Zanxin did not kill anyone, he was just an orphan with a weakened IQ, who had lived like an animal in the dark for a long time, and who looked strange - although it was terrifying to think about, it was also very sad to think about it.

Although the clues of the Kui family's old mansion are over, this does not mean that there is no progress in the Huayi ghost case, because the forensic examination found that Shang Weimin actually died of suffocation - he was strangled to death, and there are obvious traces of resistance injuries on his body, indicating that he had fought violently with the murderer before his death.

Now it can be basically concluded that someone dressed as a ghost in a flower costume and killed Shang Minhou's corpse in the garbage dump.

Since the deaths of Lu Xianheng and Luo Laosong are also related to the ghosts of flowers, it means that their deaths are likely not accidents, but were disguised as accidental murders.

Lin Ying asked Shi Chong to lead the police to search carefully around the garbage dump to see if there were any other clues, while she followed Shen Yu to Zhenzhao's house.

She had told me the day before yesterday that there must be a house in town with a wide yard and a wheelbarrow. So Hua Hu and I stumbled around Yuntang Town like clowns for a day, although at the time I thought it was a farce, but now that I think about it, we actually found a lot of clues.

First of all, I rescued Xu Chuyue, who was almost killed, although she was afraid that the ghost in flower clothes would retaliate again, so she asked me to help hide her identity, but we still found Shang Weimin's body through her clues.

In fact, Hua Hu and I have repeatedly passed by the garbage dump, but she, known as the "dog's nose", did not find Shang Weimin's body, thinking that it may be because the smell of miscellaneous food there is too great, and there is the smell of rotting meat, so the smell of the corpse is covered.

Secondly, we accidentally discovered the fish-faced boy Kui Zanxin and dug up the secret of the Kui family's old house. Although Xiao Xin eventually disappeared, he did not find the bones of his mother Kui Yanxin.