319. Twenty-two empty coffins
Fortunately, it's Chang Kun who came.
Li Xu suddenly felt weak, and the nerves that were tense there all over his body relaxed at once, and he stroked his forehead, his hands covered with cold sweat.
Chang Kun was furious at her acting alone and making such a risky move, she didn't rebel and obediently let him roar.
After Chang Kun lost his temper, Li Xu smiled and asked him to look at the inside of the ancestral hall, those coffins and tablets, and the treacherous statues.
This is the habitat of 22 resentful spirits of Chen Zuo's family, the largest landlord in Chenjiawu more than 70 years ago, who suddenly disappeared without a trace.
With Chang Kun there, Li Xu was much bolder, and walked inside with him, and found that the two coffins in the easternmost part had clear palm prints and traces of moving, while the other twenty were intact. Obviously, the intruder just now was unlucky, and Li Xu followed up not long after he entered.
Li Xu sighed deeply about this, some people live in the world and their IQ is really hard, do you plan not to let people find out when you break in?
Li Xu told Chang Kun about the situation just now, and said that it must be a man who broke the lock and came in, because when he ran away, he seemed to hit something and made a sound, but he didn't hear who it was. When Li Xu said this, he went through the faces of all the men in the village in his mind, and at first he thought that Lou Mingjiang was also possible, his origin was unknown, and the purpose of entering the village was not simple, and it seemed to be very suitable for his temper to sneak through a few coffins, but if he thought about it carefully, it was not right, Lou Mingjiang was not stupid enough to break the door, he could climb the wall from the backyard to enter, he didn't seem to be the kind of person with insufficient IQ balance.
Chang Kun asked Li Xu to go back to the office to call someone to support, Li Xu went, just stepped out of the courtyard door and walked outside on the road when he felt that someone was peeping behind the ancestral hall, and the other party was also keenly aware of being discovered by her, and quickly ran around the wall to the back, Li Xu shouted Chang Kun's name while bypassing the corner of the wall to chase.
There are more than a dozen houses behind the ancestral hall, all of them are empty because the owners have moved away, and some of them are simply open with their gates, and between the houses are criss-crossing paths and alleys, wide and narrow, turning around and turning around. The two of them chased for more than ten minutes but didn't catch up, and the ghost knows if the man had escaped into a house and hid under the bed of a house. Li Xu stood in the middle of an old house panting, the more he gasped, the more hateful he became, and scolded: "It's not smooth to do anything if you don't have enough manpower!" ”
Then, Chang Kun went back to the ancestral hall to guard, Li Xu went to call for support, and soon, everyone came, and used the warning belt to encircle the entire ancestral hall to prevent the villagers from entering, and ordered the onlookers to stay one meter away from the warning belt and not to approach.
But even so, it couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the village chief Yu Guodong, he rubbed his two fat hands and said that as the head of a village, he had to help the police uncles anyway, and bent down to get into the cordon as he spoke, Chang Kun and Lao Miao tried to persuade him to go away, but the more he persuaded, the more energetic he became, Fu Yuxin looked and listened to it and was really impatient, and scolded Yu Guodong for a dirty word, and told him to get out. He finally walked away. Li Xu couldn't hold back at that time, she laughed loudly, and was stared at by Chang Kun, she didn't care, she still laughed, and her good impression of Fu Yuxin increased greatly, but Fu Yuxin didn't pay much attention to her.
Then there's wearing gloves and masks, and everyone who enters is required to be fully protected. Li Xu sneered in her heart while doing this, saying that if there was really any virus inside, she and Chang Kun would have been infected a long time ago, and they would have to wait until now.
Chang Kun and Fu Yuxin are in a group, Lao Miao and Ding Ping are in a group, Li Xu stands in the middle to grasp the overall situation, and the rest of the people start to work from the middle to both sides and open the coffin!
It's a human or a ghost, you have to come out and see it!
Li Xu stood on the threshold and crossed his hands to watch the whole situation closely, and the villagers of Chenjiawu, except for Qiao Lanxiang, estimated that they were all standing outside the warning belt to watch the excitement. Liang Mai's sad and mournful voice came in, probably saying that if he offended the ancestors of the Chen family, he would be punished. Li Xu thought that Yu Guodong's attitude was quite strange, didn't he have the same attitude as Liang Maize before, saying that he was haunted or something to prevent the police from entering the ancestral hall, but today he cooperated again, and he was really able to see the wind and rudder.
From the first coffin to the twenty-second coffin, after all the lids were lifted, the four of them gasped and raised their arms to wipe the large beads of sweat on their foreheads, and then nodded at Li Xu.
Only then did Li Xu walk in and inspect the twenty-two coffins.
Empty.
It's all empty.
There were no corpses. There are no bones. No clothing. There were no funerary goods. Not even a single hair. Twenty-two empty coffins neatly assembled.
Li Xu didn't know why, but he wasn't surprised at all, and after seeing the coffin, he immediately turned his mind to look at something else.
The names on those tablets are all surnamed Chen, from the ancestors of the Chen family to the grandchildren, there are 22 men, women and children. The portraits are all painted, old, yellowed on paper, a few blurred by moisture, almost difficult to distinguish, and it is evident from the brushwork and a few details that they were made by the same painter.
The middle three tablets of the row of tablets against the wall are higher than the others, and at first I thought it was the reason why these three people were relatively high, but I realized that there was a black box under the base.
Chang Kun carefully took out the box and opened it, and inside was the Chen family tree that was almost old, but fortunately, it had not all fallen apart. Comparing the name on the tablet with the genealogy, it can be determined that it is the extinction gate, plus the two tombstones in the locust forest, which means that the Chen Zuo family, the largest landlord in the village more than 70 years ago, suddenly died, and no one was spared.
Oh, no, the bodies are not in the coffin, and you can't just arbitrarily say that they are all dead, you can only say that you can't see people alive, you can't see corpses when you die.
Lao Miao went out to ask the village chief, and also said that there seemed to be no grave of Chen Zuo's family in the cemetery outside the village. Therefore, they analyzed at that time that there was a particularly major change in the Chen family, and the bones of the whole family were gone. Either it was a mass murder, and the body was dragged deep into the mountains and buried.
Li Xu calculated the time, more than 70 years ago was the war of aggression against China, she had seen the materials in this area before, the Japanese war of aggression against China basically did not involve Jiangcheng, so what happened 70 years ago, will make the Chen family tragically wiped out and even have no bones?
Nobody knows.
On the last page of the Chen family tree, there are two names circled with cinnabar and erased, if you are very hard and carefully identify, you can barely see that the first name is "Chen X Zi X", and the back name is "Chen X", the word "X" is really unrecognizable, these two names are probably the two of the Chen family's concubine who died that year and her son who died young, buried in the locust forest.
Where are the bodies of the other twenty-two members of the Chen family?
Could there be some connection between the tragedy that occurred in the Chen family more than 70 years ago and the serial deaths that are happening in the village today?
In the end, among the villagers who stayed in the village, only one person was surnamed Chen, could he be the surviving descendant of the Chen family?
Thinking of this, Li Xu couldn't help but turn around and fixed his eyes on Chen Qiaobin in the crowd, a man in his thirties, taciturn, but he didn't give people a gloomy feeling, on the contrary, he looked clean and neat, his expression was always calm, and he was very thoughtful in dealing with people.
Although Li Xu has not had a formal communication with Chen Qiaobin, his impression of him has always been good, unlike the villager named Yu Wei, who hooks his head and faces obscenely and trivial; is not like Yu Guodong, who is bullied and flattered when he sees people, talks about people, and talks about ghosts; It's not like the barefoot doctor Yu Tianguang, his whereabouts are uncertain, his mind is unfathomable, and it is very suspicious, at least when a few police officers in the office talk about it, they are much more suspicious of Tianguang than others.
Chen Qiaobin used to be a teacher, and he resigned and returned to the village to farm after being excluded by his school colleagues.
And what Li Xu cares about most is Chen Qiaobin's opinion on the continuous deaths in Chen Jiawu, which he believes are murders.
He is the only villager who thinks so.
While thinking about this, Li Xu was still staring at Chen Qiaobin outside the guard belt in a daze, he had been standing there casually, occasionally glancing at the gate of the ancestral hall, or saying a few words to the people next to him.
Then suddenly, Chen Qiaobin seemed to feel that someone had been watching him, and moved his gaze to Li Xu's face, and the four eyes slammed into each other, but no one dodged or hidden, just a few meters away, you look at me and I look at you, and there is a little equal and evenly matched in weight.
It wasn't until Chang Kun called Li Xu inside that she withdrew her gaze and turned around and walked back into the courtyard.
They stayed in the courtyard of the ancestral hall until the verification team sent by the bureau arrived, and then Chang Kun took Ding Ping to ask the villagers about these coffins and the landlord's house more than 70 years ago, and asked for a long time, only the widow Shi Lianjuan vaguely said that she had heard a little from the old people before, saying that the Chen family was haunted and died overnight, and the maids and servants of the Chen family all fled and the short-term workers all fled, and the other families surnamed Chen in the village were afraid of revenge by the ghosts, so they all moved away slowly, and almost the entire village was deserted, about the same time, In addition, there is a village in the mountains over there where two families with big surnames fought for land, and several people died, and the party that suffered the loss wanted to fight again, and then the county sent officers and soldiers to come over, arrested a few of the starters, and then persuaded and mediated, and allocated funds to move the family surnamed Yu to Chenjiawu, which was almost vacant, and since then, the surname Yu has become the surname of Chenjiawu, but it may be convenient, or there is also a superstitious meaning in it, and the name of the village has not been changed.
It turns out that in a village called Chenjiawu, the surname is mostly because of such a long past.
Although Li Xu did not believe this statement very much, he did not doubt it too much, after all, the key to the matter is not the later situation, but what happened to the landlord Chen Zuo's family on that night more than 70 years ago, and where the whole family of more than 20 people, old and young, went.
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