Chapter 98: Bringing Monsters into the House
Linghua struggled to catch up, but saw a figure flash past her, galloping in front of the girl and stopping her.
"I hit it so hard just now, I have to see if I get hurt before I go." Henggu stood in front of the girl, squatted down and touched her head, "Does your ass hurt?"
"I'm the head! It's not an ass!" The girl opened Henggu's hand, raised her leg and was about to run away, but Henggu grabbed the back collar.
She hugged the thing in her arms tightly and stretched out her leg to kick Henggu, "You bad guy! Catch me for something!"
Henggu pointed to the tip of his nose in surprise: "Am I a bad person? If I were a bad person, the snow in June would flood Nango."
"Then why did you arrest me? Let go of me!" The girl struggled with wide eyes, like an angry kitten.
Henggu took out a small box from his bosom and handed it to her: "You are a girl, you should be able to like this, so I will give it to you." But it's been sitting for a long time, and it doesn't necessarily work well, so don't blame me."
Linghua fixed his eyes and saw that the small box was the rouge that Henggu wanted to give but couldn't give to her.
The girl glanced at the delicately made copper box, and forgot to run for a while, looking at the small box with blazing eyes and wanting to reach for it, but just like that night with sweet corn soup, she put her little hand down again, and tightly protected the things in her arms.
"Don't you want it? There's no poison in it, don't believe me, wipe your face and show you." Henggu said and dipped some rouge and turned two rounds of pink and tender on his cheeks.
The girl giggled at his appearance, and as soon as her hand was released, the contents of her arms fell to the ground. The two looked at it, and it turned out to be some fried crispy meat and fried lotus root slices.
"It's been spilled, it's all sprinkled, what can Auntie eat......" The girl hurriedly patted the lotus root that spilled out of the paper bag, patted the dust on it, and a trace of golden aura flew out from the lotus root and dissipated.
Linghua sensitively sensed this aura, which was clearly the same as what Zhen'er saw on the night she died!
Reaching out and grabbing the aura to perceive it, a familiar feeling lingered in my heart. Linghua intertwined his spiritual power with this subtle aura, and he never thought that this aura would suddenly increase.
A golden light flashed in the distance, and Linghua sensed the light and whispered, "Is it 'Jianxin'?"
Heng Gu looked into the distance in surprise when he heard Linghua's words, but he couldn't see anything.
"Connoisseurship? Where is it? Shall we chase after it?" Henggu shook his head, the rouge on his face disappeared, and he ran to Linghua's side to prepare for it.
Linghua looked down at the girl holding the food, she wanted to put the food on the ground into the paper bag and hesitated.
She bought the lotus root slice back, and the residual aura suggests that the owner of this power may be related to the person who made the food.
"I'll take you to buy new bags, these are also considered to be scattered by us, and we should compensate you for new ones." Linghua took out a piece of broken silver and stretched out his hand to the girl, "Let's go."
The girl glanced at the silver in Linghua's hand, and hesitated to reach out to take it, but heard an excited shout outside: "I got it!" The corpse has been caught!"
"It's the child's corpse!" Heng Gu looked at the source of the sound, and Linghua also followed the sound.
The girl saw that the focus of the two had shifted, and ran away with the food in her hand.
Zhen'er's body was sent to Yizhuang, and on the second day of the salvage, the people of the original family were called to the county government to identify the body.
When the son-in-law of the original family arrived in Nanxiang, he didn't even put his luggage home, so he hurried to the county office to meet his father-in-law and his wife.
Linghua looked at the somewhat empty Yuan Mansion, and couldn't imagine how Yuan Qiuying would feel when she saw Zhen'er's corpse at this moment, and would she regret it? Or is it as cold as ever?
She activated the Mind Mirror, revealing a tearful face.
It was the original master, he was in tears, and he didn't know what to say in his mouth, which was incompatible with the two silent faces around him.
"Forgive me, the county government will arrange for an autopsy for the little master, and it won't disturb the little master, please rest assured." Looking at the face of the original master, he said cautiously.
As if he hadn't heard the words of the catcher, the old man still looked at Zhen'er's corpse and muttered alone: "Retribution, it's all retribution...... It's me
I have done too much sin, so I will experience it twice in just three months, which is the punishment that God thinks I have too many sins......
Chu Qiyang saw that Master Yuan was already immersed in his emotions, so he said to the catcher: "It's okay, let's check it, the most important thing is to find the murderer."
He looked at Yuan Qiuying, and the woman beside him just stared at the stump under the white cloth in a daze, with no tears or light in her eyes.
Chu Qiyang left the county government with two lost souls, and in this cruel incident, it seems that he was the only one who escaped.
Linghua continued to look at the situation in the county office, Zhen'er's body was sent to the work place, the white cloth was lifted, and a relatively well-preserved body appeared in front of him.
But a lot of the flesh and skin of the severed corpse were gone, revealing Sensen's white bones.
"Wang Yanzuo, this is the corpse of Yuan Tingzhen, and the head has been sent to be taken from the cellar and put together." Standing far away outside the door, he explained, "This corpse has been soaked underwater for five days, and it has been entangled in seaweed and buried in the sand under the water, so that it can't float at all.
Wang put on a hat, face covering, and gloves, and leaned over to check the wounds on Zhen'er's body: "These places are all bitten."
"Bitten? The murderer has become more and more serious. The first few times I just gnawed off my head, but now I still eat meat, this kind of behavior, isn't this kind of cannibalism?" Catching Kuai, he shuddered as he picked up his head and carefully inspected the fracture, "The murderer's technique of gnawing people seems to have always been very skilled, and his teeth are really good."
Wang Chengzuo lowered his head and looked solemn: "The wounds are indeed traces of gnawing, but they look more like venting anger than eating meat."
Catching the eye, he came to the door but didn't dare to enter the door: "How can you see it?"
Wang Qizuo pointed to a wound on Zhen'er's thigh, on which a large piece of flesh was missing, and the tooth marks were faintly visible.
"If you wanted to eat a piece of meat, what would you eat?"
Quickly put his hand in his mouth, and Big Banya bit down vigorously: "Of course I ate it like this."
Wang Qizuo nodded when he saw his movements, "Generally, if you want to eat something that is more difficult to chew, normal people will use their upper teeth to exert force downward, so that the tooth marks will be heavy on the teeth and light on the lower teeth."
"But when you come in, the teeth marks on the deceased's body are heavy in the lower teeth and light in the upper teeth, and the wounds are torn, not the incisions left by the neat teeth, but the tears after biting the flesh."
"You mean that the murderer just wants to tear the flesh off to vent his inner emotions, not to eat people?" He threw the mask back again, wondering, "Does he have a hatred for these children?"
Wang Qizuo put away his face and said anxiously: "I will know if I have hatred to catch him soon, this is the sixth in half a year, and there are dead babies almost every month. If he doesn't catch it, I don't know how many babies will die because of him."
Hearing this, Catchy Kuai's face was solemn, and he said "farewell" and left in a hurry.
Linghua retracted his gaze, walked to the window and looked at the quiet river outside, how many secrets were buried under this river?
Being able to dig a pit at the bottom of the river and bury a corpse in it, how can ordinary people have such magical powers? Not to mention that you have to hold your breath in the water, if you are accidentally entangled by the aquatic plants at the bottom of the river, you will be difficult to protect.
What kind of character can do so much in the water? Why does this man have both demonic and spiritual energy?
Linghua remembered the marks left by the two forces on Zhen'er's body, and the trace of aura was clearly consistent with the breath attached to the sprinkled lotus root tablets today, and this weak spiritual power could actually communicate with the aura of the "Jianxin", could this be the aura on the fragment of Jianxin?
Why didn't she sense the existence of the Mind Mirror, if it was really as the golden light indicated, she should have been able to sense the location of the Residual Mirror.
I still have to go to the girl to ask for the location and see for myself.
"Eternal Age." Linghua looked back at the man behind her who was quietly looking at her in a daze, "You are here to watch the movement in the mirror, if there is progress on the county government's side, you can find me through spiritual sense."
Henggu stood up like an abandoned pet, pouted and complained, "Where are you going?"
Linghua touched his head: "It's all women here
It's inconvenient for you to move around, so I'll ask if it's easier."
Heng Gu looked at her helplessly, and sat in front of the mirror resignedly: "Okay, don't worry, go and ask, I'll wait for you here."
The door was gently closed, and Linghua walked to the next room with the route in his memory. Now that everyone was working, the room was empty, and she looked at the small ear room next to her.
"You really deserve it, my death, yours' death! Retribution is not happy, your father does not want to avenge my son, and now his own grandson is also dead, all dead, all dead!"
"Hahahaha...... It didn't disappoint me!"
Linghua broke into the door without knocking: "You deliberately told Yuan Qiuying about infanticide?"
"It's you, guest." Cui Ju got up from the ground, her whole face hidden behind her long waterfall hair, but Linghua could still see her crazy eyes.
"What do you know? Are you here to ask the teacher about sin?" She suddenly reacted and walked towards Linghua step by step, "Even you know these things?"
Linghua said lightly, "I know that Yuan Qiuying has confessed everything to me."
Cuiju's surprised face peeked through her hair, "She said it all? Well, she really gave up on herself and didn't care about anything...... Hahaha, then what am I afraid of?"
She peeled off her dry hair and sneered, "Guest, you've found the wrong person, it's not me! It's not me who really wants her child to die without a place to be buried! Before I could do it, she was the first to do it.
I escaped that day to find out that she had already let her child explore the way, and it was really amazing, really powerful!"
"She"? Linghua's mind suddenly flashed the picture of the characters of the original mansion that he had drawn.
There is a person who hides in the shadows from beginning to end, and has only appeared once since Zhen'er's death, and this person is the biggest beneficiary of Zhen'er's death - Chu Qiyang's concubine.
According to Cuiju's guidance, Linghua turned around to a remote place, and a woman's voice came from a lonely courtyard.
"I said that you should not go again, not long after you went last time, Cuiju's son died, and it was very infiltrating. Let me ask you, did you really not go out before Zhen'er died?"
「…… No, no."
"You are not allowed to lie to your mother, have you really never been there?"
"Auntie, why don't you always let me go and chat with my brother, I'm really bored! At home, you asked me to play stupid, I couldn't even talk if I wanted to, and finally someone could talk to me, so you let me go to my big brother! Mother~Is it good~"
"No! I ask you, what do you say when you go out? Did you reveal your identity?"
"I ......," the girl said, stumbling, "I just say that I have two younger brothers, and there are two more children in the family, and everyone doesn't like me anymore......
The woman was silent for a moment, "I don't like lying children."
The little lady cried: "Auntie, I was wrong, I said that I was a child of the original family, and I also said that they all bullied me. But that brother was really nice, he gave me candy to eat and paper tigers to play with......
"Smack"!
A crisp slap fell on Linghua's ears.
"A-Niang explains your affairs, you have the right to be the wind in your ears! How do you know that the person must be good? The day after you ran out to meet him, the kid started to have abdominal pain.
A month before Zhen'er died, you ran out and came back with the candy man, and the next day Zhen'er also had abdominal pain. Is it all a coincidence?"
"Auntie, Rourou didn't do anything! I just talked to my big brother and didn't do anything else......" The girl choked with tears.
"Just because you only talk, you have to be a dumb person in the future."
"A-Niang?" The girl cried out in horror, "A-Niang! Not! Uh-huh!!"