Liang Xiaocheng notified the police to cordon off the wedding banquet scene, after determining that the deceased was indeed Xie Tong, I conducted a preliminary autopsy on the body, and found multiple bruises on Xie Tong's body, the real cause of death was a broken neck bone, from the bruises on the neck, Xie Tong was twisted off the neck bone to death, and the bruises on Xie Tong's body showed that he had been tortured before his death.

These bruises were not left by the same person, and there was not only one person who tortured Xie Tong at that time, and after Xie Tong's death, his body was put into a steamer and steamed, which can be described as extremely cruel and heinous.

The time of death can be preliminarily determined to be between ten and eleven o'clock in the evening, and this time is when Xie Tong's apprentice left, he was the last person to see Xie Tong, but his suspicion was quickly cleared.

Han Yu walked up to me and gently pulled the corner of my clothes, motioning for us to go with him, Liang Xiaocheng was still interrogating and inquiring with other police officers, looking at Han Yu's expression, he didn't want to disturb the others, we followed Han Yu to the steamer where Xie Tong's body was found.

Han Yu pointed to a place in the steamer for us to see, and there was a series of strange lines engraved on the outside of the steamer where Xie Tong's body was found.

"This is a Yin Deed Charm, it is a little-known incantation in Taoism, if a cultivator is profound, he can make a contract with the soul of the dead and drive the soul to work for it, such a contract is called a Yin Deed." Han Yu frowned, lowered his voice and whispered to us. "But this kind of Yin Deed requires a death sacrifice, that is, the use of a living person to sacrifice the soul of the dead, so this kind of spell is shameful to orthodox people, it seems that Xie Tong's death is not so simple."

"Could it be that this was deliberately left to disrupt the audio-visual?" Yun Duruo asked cautiously.

"It shouldn't be possible, there will be retribution for the loss of yin virtue in the Yin deed, and no one can regret it after making the Yin deed, otherwise it will be eaten back, if there is no profound Taoism, who would dare to joke about this." Han Yu shook his head affirmatively and said. "To put it simply, if the person who left the Yin Deed Charm repents, this person uses Xie Tong as a death sacrifice, and in the end, how Xie Tong dies will die!"

"What is this?" I bent down and pointed to a mark next to the spell and recognized it for a long time as a capital one.

"I don't know." Han Yu looked down and shook his head in confusion for a long time. "I know the Yin Deed Charm, but it doesn't have a capital one, so I don't know what it means."

I took a deep breath, Xie Tong's bizarre death at least showed one point, our previous inference was correct, Xie Tong's death was the same as Xiao Lianshan's reason for coming to this village, Xie Tong must be inextricably linked to that mysterious treasure.

After dealing with the on-site investigation, we rushed back to Xie Tong's house, the apprentice said that the door was locked when he left this morning, because Xie Tong often made mistakes, so he had the key, we asked him to open the door and walked in and found that the furnishings inside were very neat, but Yun Duruo soon found the clue after investigation.

Yun Duruo told us that Xie Tong's room had been cleaned up, how could an alcoholic person have the leisure to clean up the room, Yun Duruo found a broken piece of coarse porcelain in the corner of the wall, after comparison, it should be a tea bowl on the table, the apprentice said that there are four such tea bowls, but now we only see three on the table.

"There was a fight here, and the bruises found on Xie Tong's body should have been formed by the beating here, and the tea bowl on the table was knocked down during the torture, and after disposing of Xie Tong's body, the murderer cleaned up the room." Yun Duruo raised the coarse porcelain piece in his hand and said calmly.

"Since the murderer put Xie Tong's body in the steamer, it means that the murderer did not want to destroy the corpse, and it can even be seen that he is not afraid that anyone will know that Xie Tong was killed." Nangong Yi looked at us and said quietly. "The murderer is very arrogant and arrogant, since he has already killed Xie Tong here, why do you put Xie Tong in a steamer to cook?"

"Does the Yin Pact Charm you mentioned have anything to do with the steamer?" I went back and asked Han Yu.

"No, that spell is a contract, as long as you use a living person as a sacrifice to death, of course, this requires a very profound Taoism, which shows that the person who killed Xie Tong is not low." Han Yu shook his head with certainty and replied. "Contracts can be made anywhere, and I don't know why a steamer is used."

"Since you didn't want to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, then why did you kill Xie Tong and clean up the room again, obviously trying to hide something." The prince looked around the room and said thoughtfully. "Xie Tong's body can appear in plain sight, what else does the murderer need to hide?"

Nangong Yi and Yun Duruo began to carefully inspect the things in the room, and when Nangong Yi opened the cabinet, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then turned around and walked outside the room to ask the apprentice.

"Does Xie Tong usually have the habit of tidying up his room and clothes?"

"No, he's a very casual person, always throwing things around, often looking for things everywhere, how can he tidy up the room." The apprentice shook his head and replied.

After hearing this, Nangong Yi walked back to the room and pointed to the wardrobe and told us that the clothes inside were folded, but according to the apprentice's understanding of Xie Tong, he could not have such a habit, which showed that these clothes were not sorted out by Xie Tong, but that the murderer folded the clothes after killing Xie Tong.

"The murderer is looking for something! The room was cleaned up to cover up the fact that the murderer had searched the place. I suddenly understood and said to the others.

Nangong Yi nodded, she thought the same way, the murderer did not scruple about killing Xie Tong, but did not want anyone to know that he had searched in Xie Tong's room, indicating that what the murderer was looking for was extremely important and did not want others to know.

I suddenly thought of Xiao Lianshan, who had been here for a long time, Xie Tong probably knew something, and it must be related to that mysterious treasure, from the bruises on Xie Tong's corpse, it can be seen that he was tortured before his death, and he must have been forced to ask him what secret.

But if the murderer really found what he wanted, why bother cleaning up the scene in one fell swoop, which shows that Xie Tong didn't say the answer the murderer wanted until he died, so that the murderer could only find it by himself, and the result should be in vain and finally vent his anger and kill Xie Tong.

"If Xie Tongzhen knows any secrets about the mysterious treasure." Yun Duruo looked around the room and slowly shook his head and said. "Seeing that Xie Tong's conditions are not good, if he really guards the treasure that can make him rich in the world, why don't he find it himself?"

It seems that if you want to understand the beginning and end of the matter, you must first investigate from Xie Tong, but unfortunately he lives alone except for the apprentice, there are not many people who know him, but the situation we investigate from the apprentice's mouth is not of much value, the apprentice said that Xie Tong's cooking skills are very exquisite and skillful, relying on this craft in the village, although it is not enough but more than the bottom, Xie Tong has no ambition and has a mouthful of wine, and he forgets everything.

As for Xie Tong, he really doesn't have anything to be picky about except that he likes to drink, he is kind and doesn't have quarrels with people, he is the type of good person.

"Did Xie Tong mention anything to you before he died?" Yun Duruo asked seriously.

"Nope." The apprentice shook his head blankly.

"You have been in contact with Xie Tong the most, have you noticed anything wrong with your usual time recently?" Nangong Yi asked seriously.

"Something is wrong...... "The apprentice may have been unsettled because he witnessed Xie Tong's terrifying death, and kept rubbing his hands and thinking timidly for a long time." Something happened some time ago, and I don't feel right anyway. ”

"What's the matter?" Han Yu asked.

The apprentice said that half a month ago, he and Xie Tong were preparing the dishes for the next day's banquet, and suddenly three people came to Xie Tong, and they spoke very tongue-twisting and a little slurred, and later the three people said that they were from Fusang.

"Fuso people?!" My eyes lit up and I looked at my apprentice and asked anxiously. "What do those three Fuso people look like?"

The apprentice said that the three Fusang people, two men and one woman, came at night, and Xie Tong talked to a man, and the apprentice still remembers that person vividly, because the man has long hair, hanging down to block half of his face, giving people a very gloomy feeling, but what the apprentice remembers most clearly is that the man is holding a person in his hand.

"A man in your hand?" I asked with a frown.

"The man was holding a doll that was exactly the same as him, and the doll could move, and when the man was talking to Xie Tong, I found that his lips had not moved at all, but the doll in his hand was opening and closing his mouth, and the sound came from the puppet's mouth." The apprentice's expression was a little panicked when he said this, and the scene he described was a little weird to my imagination.

"It wasn't a puppet who spoke, and although the man didn't open his mouth, he knew ventriloquism." Nangong Yi said to us very calmly. This is a common trick used by Yanshi, and there were such people as early as the Warring States period, because they were good at making humanoid puppets and wooden mechanisms, and they were mainly performed for princes and nobles at that time, and later spread to Fuso...... By the way, the man was a Fuso man, and after the Yanshi's technique was transmitted to Dongying, he became a puppeteer, and the person who controlled the puppet technique was called a puppeteer. ”

Nangong Yi told us in detail that the puppeteer generally refers to connecting the puppet puppet with a very thin wire, and the hand of the controller is hidden in the puppet, and the puppet's movements are controlled through the movement of the fingers, and combined with ventriloquist to achieve the effect of performing with a fake puppet.

"What about the other two?" After listening, Han Yu asked.

The apprentice said that the other two people, one of them was a woman, wearing a crimson trench coat and even her hair was red, and she was very conspicuous in the night, the woman had been standing behind the man holding the doll, and had never said a word, and the other man was very lean, dressed in black, and it was difficult to be seen if he was not careful in the night, and he had not spoken as much as the woman.

The three Fusang people described by the apprentice were not the three people who were killed, according to the time calculation, Xiao Lianshan had already contacted Xie Tong before he came here, if Xie Tongzhen was inextricably linked to the mysterious treasure, then the Fusang people knew this secret far before Xiao Lianshan.