This day happened to be in the market, the people in Zhongyingpan and Shangyingpan came to Xiayingpan, some people were thirsty on the road, and wanted to go to Osmanthus Sister-in-law's inn to drink some tea, but saw that the door was closed.

After knocking on the door a few times, a bewitching woman opened the door, and her willow eyebrows were upside down: "It's noon, what are you doing?" It's noisy, do you want someone to rest? ”

The knocker was stunned for a moment, because the woman was too dazzling.

It is said to be dazzling because under the sun, she seems to shine.

The person is white, and the white is almost transparent, so that people don't pay attention to what her facial features are at all, and only remember the bewitching and flamboyant lips that are red.

"Osmanthus sister-in-law ......"

"The shop is closed, the proprietress is sick, and there is no water or food." The woman slammed the door shut.

The man stretched out his hand and wanted to knock on the door again, but after thinking about it, he put it down, smacked fiercely and whispered: "Hmph, the little lady is so fierce, beware that you can't get married."

turned around and thought, this woman is so beautiful, how can she not get married.

Ye Liang had actually gotten up, originally looking left and right in the mirror, intoxicated by his beauty, but was interrupted by a knock on the door, and he was really angry.

She closed the door and was just about to leave, when there was another knock on the door, and Ye Quan opened the door with a bang: "Why are you ......?"

But it's Lao Jia.

"What's wrong? Feeling sorry for Sister-in-law Osmanthus? ”

Lao Jia shook his head: "I came back from the county just now and found that some things were very strange. ”

"Well, you're a police officer in the town, if you are strange, you can investigate, don't bother me."

Ye Liang said that he was about to close the door.

"It's about Ling'er."

Lao Jia followed Ye Liang to approach your inn, and saw that everything in the inn was still the same, but it was silent, and he couldn't help but feel sad when he thought that Sister-in-law Osmanthus must be too sad and had no intention of taking care of business.

Lao Jia sat down at the table and took out a piece of paper from his pocket, on which were written some words, and the drawings were messy.

"I went to the county police station to escort Agen, and I looked through some files and found that every few years in our county, there are girls who have accidents, all of whom are 17 years old, and the day of the accident is August 15. It's just that the places I found are different, and I have written them down, Miss Ye, you see. ”

At this time, Zhao Nan also walked over when he heard Lao Jia's voice, and looked down to see Lao Jia's handwriting on the paper.

"Look here, a girl named Xiuniang died three years before Ling'er's accident, the time was August 15, and she was found hanging on a tree, here, this girl was found by a hunter, and the man went up the mountain with a hunting dog, and the hunting dog dug the ground for a long time, and found a human hand, and this, you see, this girl was burned to death, she was a widow, she had been guarding her husband's house since she was fourteen years old, and later a boy was inherited from her husband's clan, but at the age of seventeen she was burned to death along with the child. At that time, the police thought that someone in the husband's family coveted the property and set fire to the dead, but they did not find out later, so it was over. ”

"Sure enough, it's all August 15, a few years apart, but the way of death is different, and Ling'er's matter is not alone." Ye Liang frowned, and then reached out to press the center of her eyebrows, she was afraid that there would be wrinkles when she always frowned.

"Take a closer look, these ways of death, could it be gold, wood, water, fire and earth?"

Zhao Nan pointed to the words that Lao Jia had written down.

Lao Jia was stunned: "What? Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth? ”

"Yes, you see that this girl was killed by a knife, this one was hung from a tree, well, your forensic examination was indeed hanged by someone and not hanged?"

"Yes, although we are a small place, that forensic doctor is a family of forensic doctors, and my ancestors have been doing it for generations, and I asked him specifically, and he said that the mark on the girl's neck was definitely not hung by himself. Because the traces are strangled from behind, if it is hanged, it should be strangled from above, and even if a person has great determination, there will be a struggle after really hanging, and he can't control himself at all, and the traces should be repeated in many ways, the girl was strangled from behind, and then hung up along the original imprints, and after the body was placed for two days, two marks appeared on the neck, one was from the back, and the other was directly above. ”

Lao Jia explained carefully.

Zhao Nan nodded, he had also encountered several disguised incidents of real self-hanging and strangulation, Lao Jia was right.

"The deceased were all seventeen-year-old women, and they were all ......"

Zhao Nan glanced at Ye Quan, and lowered his voice: "It is very likely that they are all virgins, and there is no trace of being violated after death." ”

"Yes, Mr. Zhaonan, you're right, it looks like gold, wood, water, fire and earth, everyone dies in a different place, but the age and time of death are the same." Lao Jia slapped the table, "I found these old case records in the county seat, the first one to die, the girl who was hacked to death with a knife, was still in the former Qing Dynasty at that time, and the market was very chaotic at that time, and everyone thought it was a robber." ”

"The county town said that it was not big or small, and the time was very long, and the place of death was different, so it was true that no one would notice that these cases were connected. Lao Jia, you are a qualified and good policeman, and you can see that these cases are all connected. ”

Lao Jia patted his bald head and smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I am also selfish, if these cases are all committed by one person, then this murderer who has been killing people for nearly thirty years cannot be Ah Gen, when the first one died of a knife wound, Ah Gen was only seven years old, and when the second was hung on a tree, Ah Gen was twelve years old, and he should not have so much strength to kill and hang up." ”

"You're still worried about Sister-in-law Osmanthus?"

Ye Limit asked.

Lao Jia nodded: "After so many years of relationship, where is it said to throw it away, alas, it can only be said that there is no fate, I can accompany her to take care of her all these years, and I am also very happy to watch her take care of the inn." After all, we are both alive and can see each other, unlike her man and Ling'er, who are left with nothing as soon as they die. ”

There was a faint sound of sobbing in the room, and Sister-in-law Osmanthus was crying in a low voice.

Lao Jia sighed: "Alas, the world is impermanent. ”

"Why the hell do you kill people?" Ye Liang stared at the piece of paper, looking at the numbers on it.

At this time, I heard someone knocking on the door outside and shouting: "Sister-in-law Osmanthus opens the door, begging for saliva to drink." ”

"It's closed, there's no water."

Leaf limit returns.

The man muttered, "Isn't the door closed until fifteen?" It's only been a few days, and it's closed again. ”

Ye Liang looked at Lao Jia: "Is Sister-in-law Osmanthus going to close the door on fifteen?" ”

"Yes, she has to burn incense on the first and fifteenth days of junior high school, and sometimes she has to take Agen with her."

"Yes, fifteen is a big day to burn incense." Ye Liang pointed to the paper.

Old Jia Zhaonan's face became solemn.