11. Wishing box

We first called Mao Xiansheng's girlfriend Zhang Xiaoying and asked for Li Xiang's phone number from her.

During the call, Zhang Xiaoying's tone did not show any sense of panic, and she did not mention anything about Chen Jiawen. I don't know if she learned about the murder in the hotel last night on the Internet or in other media, but if the murderer is really her, then she is definitely a master, a ruthless character with realistic acting and murder without blinking.

Is she that kind of woman?

I've met Zhang Xiaoying, and although I don't dare to say that she can see people accurately, I really don't think she will be a murderer.

It was very easy to contact Li Xiang, he was also unemployed after Mao Xiang's death, and he started looking for a job immediately after attending the funeral yesterday, but so far he has not made any progress. Qiao Wei promised him that as long as he answered some questions, he could earn a considerable amount of information fees, so Li Xiang also happily agreed to meet with us.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Xiang came to the room of the Express Hotel.

I hadn't paid attention to Li Xiang's appearance before, and the second time I met, I found out that Li Xiang was younger than I remembered, and I felt that I was less than twenty years old. I also asked him, and sure enough, Li Xiang replied that he had just passed his nineteenth birthday this year, and he had been Mao Xiansheng's apprentice when he was fifteen years old, and he knew Mao Xiansheng very well - of course, outside of Mao Xiansheng's puppet making jishu.

I didn't go around in circles with Li Xiang, and directly let him see the two knife wounds on my legs with stitches, and Qiao Wei also showed the wounds on his arms.

Li Xiang was taken aback, and he who was already sitting on the sofa chair stood up suddenly.

"Did you watch the news today? Thugs kill people in the hotel. I said.

Li Xiang was stunned for a moment, and then nodded repeatedly.

"Yesterday we were at the scene, and we also saw the murderer, and we escaped death, but we didn't tell the truth to the police, because no one would believe it, and if we didn't get it, we would be taken as crazy." I said.

Li Xiang swallowed, then nodded, and then stared at me intently to listen.

After a pause, I continued: "The murderer is several puppets with knives, living puppets who can move freely and talk! ”

"Live...... Live puppets? Li Xiang was surprised: "You said that it was a living puppet killing people in the hotel?" This...... This...... Is this weishenme? weishenme wants to kill? ”

"Hmph." I snorted and laughed, then glanced at Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei also raised his eyebrows in response, "You seem to have guessed correctly." ”

Li Xiang didn't seem to know what Qiao Wei and I were talking about, and he didn't understand that I could laugh, he still looked at me with a puzzled expression, but there was a little more tension in his eyes.

"The point of your question seems to be a little off, the normal situation should be to question how there can be a living puppet first, not a puppet Weishenme wants to kill someone. Unless......" I deliberately pulled a long tone, and then stared into Li Xiang's eyes, and his gaze immediately avoided me.

"Unless you know very well that there is such a thing as a live puppet, and you know its owner, right?!!!"

My tone suddenly hardened, and Li Xiang was so shocked that he took three steps back in a row and crashed into the TV cabinet.

"What the hell are you afraid of?" Qiao Wei also joined in the interrogation of Li Xiang, and patted Li Xiang on the shoulder from behind.

Li Xiang was so frightened that he exclaimed "ah", and then his legs were weak and he almost sat on the ground.

"What are you afraid of? Have you ever seen a living puppet before?! Qiao Wei asked again.

"I ...... I...... Well! Li Xiang finally nodded, but his panic did not subside, "I have seen it a few times at the place of work, at first I thought it was dazzling, but then I determined that it was not me who was dazzled, it was indeed a live puppet." I know what I'm saying may seem a bit mysterious to you, but the truth is that I think my master is making puppets out of puppets! ”

"You've been apprenticed to Mao Xiansheng for four years, in fact, what you really want to learn is his jishu manipulating puppets, right?" I asked.

"No...... Belch...... Yes, that's right. ”

Li Xiang's answer is really a bit strange, in this case he should answer very decisively, either yes or no, his current answer is obviously hiding something.

"Could it be that you kid killed Mao Xiansheng, right?" I guess.

"No, no, no, no! No! Absolutely nothing! It was true that I found out that my master was dead, but he committed suicide, and even if he did, it was definitely not me who did it! It's true!! Li Xiang replied quite happily this time.

"Then what did you panic about?" I asked.

"I'm thinking...... Thinking about ...... Could it be that my master is alive again? ”

"Come alive? How is this possible, he has already been cremated, and you have not followed the funeral process all the time! ”

"Yes, but you said that the puppet killed someone, this ...... This should be the ...... It's just ......" Li Xiang began to vomit again, and his eyes were rolling up and down, left and right.

"You kid tell me the truth honestly, I don't have time to waste it with you here, if you grind again, believe it or not, I'll break your nose with a punch now?!" After saying that, I dragged my injured leg from turning over and got out of bed, and after coming to Li Xiang, I grabbed him by the collar, and then lifted him off the ground with one hand.

Li Xiang estimated that he had never enjoyed such treatment, and this time he was completely panicked, he was so frightened that he waved his hands wildly, and his mouth also made some incomprehensible sounds.

Although my arm was still strong, my right leg was not strong, so I scared Li Xiang and put him down.

"Don't fight, don't fight! I said, I took a box from my master, and I saw him make a wish with that box, and then his wish would come true, and it would always come true. "Li Xiang is not Li Jianming, he is not so tough, and he doesn't need me to punish him, just a simple scare is enough to make him confess everything.

He paused, swallowed again, and continued, "I may wish to come when I get the box, but it doesn't seem to work, and no living puppets or anything like that come out. So you say...... When you have live puppets to kill people, I wonder if my master is alive again, and then he will send puppets to me. ”

"You said Mao Xiansheng has a box that can fulfill his wishes?" I wondered.

"Well, I've often seen him make a wish to the box."

"Where's the box now? Are you at home? I asked again.

"No, it's on me." As he spoke, Li Xiang also put his hand into his arms, and then took out a thin black box about the size of an Apple mobile phone from the inner pocket of his jacket.