Chapter 198. Case 22: A piggy bank
I asked Situ, what should I do now? How should Hu Zongren and I start? Situ thought about it and said, in the current situation, we just found one of the clues to all this, and we don't know more details. The crow you mentioned earlier, I think eighty percent is also something from the White Lotus Sect. The White Lotus Sect has its own unique methods for collecting animal spirits or inflicting dead spirits on an animal. If I were you and Hu Zongren, I would have inquired more about the local area, since you said that there are few outsiders in that place, then if some suspicious people have appeared, the local residents should be able to detect it.
That's right, most of the local people know each other well, otherwise when Hu Zongren and I went to knock on the door of Sister Liang's house, the neighbor on the other side wouldn't have looked at the two of us with that strange look. Situ said to me, since we know that it is related to the White Lotus Sect, then we also have an additional way to find out, so let's ask the two of you around first to see if we can find any new valuable clues, and I will immediately inform our friends on the road to learn about the activities of the White Lotus Sect in Chongqing over the years, especially in the last few years. We're always in touch.
After Situ said this, he then hung up the phone. Hu Zongren had always been worried that if too many people were involved in his affairs, it would be bad for everyone. Especially someone like Situ who is both a master and an old man. When people are old, it is impossible to drag others around the world like before. But since Situ said so, it is ironclad that he will intervene in this matter, and with such a very powerful helper joining, although there are still many crises, I am still relieved a lot.
So I relayed my conversation with Situ to Hu Zongren as carefully as possible. Hu Zongren's expression was very surprised after learning that we had something to do with the White Lotus Sect this time, and when he heard that the two of us might have been being used by the Xuanyuan Society for some purpose, Hu Zongren also showed his usual anger. He released cruel words again, this group of old shameless people, or they will kill me quickly, as long as I, Hu Zongren, am not dead, it is strange to see that I don't kill them!
So Hu Zongren and I planned to follow Situ's way, first in this small corner, to find someone to inquire, since Sister Liang's home was originally in the corner of this old wall, then if there were any suspicious people in this area, it must be much more noticeable than me and Hu Zongren. When we were about to leave, Sister Liang came back from dinner, and she asked where we were going, so Hu Zongren told her that we needed to go elsewhere to understand the situation, but Sister Liang showed a very embarrassed expression when she heard it, so I asked her, do you have anything else? Sister Liang said, this time is almost up, my father is about to wake up and want to eat later, and he hasn't started cooking yet, and didn't you say that you helped feed him before the matter was completely over?
So Hu Zongren and I glanced at each other and began to regret our previous promise a little. Hu Zongren said to me, "Well, I'll go over there and find a random restaurant to buy some ready-made food." After saying that, Hu Zongren went to buy a fried rice, and then handed it to me and said, I will never do this thing of serving people, so I will leave this glorious and great task to you. I glared at Hu Zongren, thinking to myself, glorious fart, great bird, you are just afraid that you will go in and get punched again. But I can't refuse, in front of the customer, if the two of us pass the buck to each other, how unprofessional it seems, if it spreads, how can we mix in this industry in the future. So there was no way, I took the food from Hu Zongren's hand, and turned around and walked into Uncle Liang's house, but I deliberately did not close the door, but first put the food down on the table, and then pulled up the red rope array at the entrance of the door, although I knew that this array was probably not able to stop the ghost, but it must be possible to slow it down. Then I drew a dressing on the inside of the door, so that if I had to run away due to special circumstances, I would close the door after crossing the red rope and the dressing would be in the direction I was fleeing.
Then I said to Hu Zongren, do you want to come in and accompany me? Actually, I was a little scared in my heart. Hu Zongren shook his head and said I won't come in, I'll just wait for you outside here. There is no way, I can only go alone, when I was about to open the door on the inside, I said to Hu Zongren, I don't close these doors, if I encounter any situation, you must remember to come in and help me. Hu Zongren nodded, and I twisted the door open.
I had food in my hand, and when I opened the door, I was so scared that I almost fell to the floor. Hu Zongren and I fled in a hurry, and before we fled, we didn't have time to close the doors and curtains that were originally open, as well as the lamp at the head of the bed. And when I entered the room at this moment, I found that not only were all these things closed before, but even Uncle Liang's posture lying on the bed was the same as at the earliest.
With the faint light coming in through the door, I couldn't see Uncle Liang's expression clearly, but at this point, everything became incomprehensible, and I still had to go in and wait for him to wake up. Obviously, just now after Hu Zongren and I escaped, I don't know if it was the ghost or Uncle Liang himself, he actually got up and got out of bed, turned off the lights and closed the door, and then lay back in a proper manner. Since this is the case, this shows that the change of environment is very difficult for Uncle Liang and even the ghost to adapt.
I quietly walked over to the bed and put the food down on the floor. Then I reached out and turned on the lamp, knowing that Uncle Liang was afraid of light, so the light I unscrewed was enough for me to see clearly. Uncle Liang lay quietly, but this time it was different from before, he did not open his mouth wide, but closed it tightly, but the corners of his mouth drooped, it seemed that he was deliberately closed very tightly, and he felt a little unhappy. It's only a room apart, but it's much quieter than the outside, and because of the quiet, I don't feel comfortable up and down. I could even hear my own heartbeat speeding up from nervousness, and in addition, the sound of Uncle Liang's breathing.
While Uncle Liang hasn't woken up yet, I can't provoke him, so I plan to take this opportunity to check this house, considering that the time is a little tight, I can't check the whole room in detail, it's already a fact that there are ghosts here, I just need to find the source of this ghost's appearance, provided that it's if it's in this room. Recalling what Sister Liang said before, she had seen her father stick to the mirror in the wardrobe that night, and we ourselves saw ghost hands sticking out of the quilt. If Uncle Liang personally closed the doors, windows and table lamps, then there is no doubt that these places will definitely leave traces of agility. So looking at the whole room, there are still three places that I suspect the most at the moment, one is the end of the bed, near the spiritual seat dedicated to Sister Liang's mother, after all, it is the place in this room that can be directly linked to death. The other is the wardrobe with a full-length mirror next to me, and the bed where Uncle Liang is sleeping at the moment.
So I took out the compass and planned to start from the place of the mirror, and the results of the examination were soon evident in the compass, the whole mirror was full of agility, and it was relatively strong, and this intensity could never have been left once or twice. In other words, the scene that Sister Liang saw that night was actually just happened to be seen by her, and before that, it is very likely that Uncle Liang has been sticking it on this mirror for a while every night since he first became like this.
As for why, I don't really know yet. But when I dangled the compass around the edge of the wardrobe, there was a slightly stronger reaction in the gap between the mirror and the wood, so I went closer to see what was in the gap, but I couldn't see anything, so I took out another nail, the nail is what I usually use to tie the head of the rope nail, but this one is not tied yet, I put the nail head into the gap and scraped a few times, but the nail penetrated at once, and it seemed to be empty inside, so I pushed a little harder, The door of the cabinet with the dressing mirror was opened, and I realized that behind the mirror, there was a cabinet that could be opened.
When I slowly opened the cabinet door to the maximum, I observed Uncle Liang lying on the bed again, afraid that he would suddenly attack me again, but fortunately, he was still lying there quietly, and his posture did not change. So I turned on the light on my phone, and blocked Uncle Liang's vision with the open cabinet door, and began to look in the cabinet. The wardrobe is just like a normal wardrobe, except for some clean clothes, there are some clutter left. But Uncle Liang didn't seem to have much to change his clothes, and in the corner near the lower right corner of the wardrobe, I found a piggy bank made of ceramics in the shape of a small doll.
I took it in my hand and weighed it, there should be a lot of coins in it, but it was a coin after all, and there was definitely not much money, it may be the steel hammer that I found when I bought vegetables or things on weekdays, and I felt that it was troublesome to carry it on my body, and it was not very useful, but after all, it was money, so I kept it. I put the compass over the piggy bank and gestured at it.
Something is wrong, this piggy bank is surprisingly smart!