Chapter 2: Twenty-five Corpses
The carriage was driving slowly in Shanyin City, Lin Fei opened the window and looked outside, the surrounding shops and households did not know that such a serious incident had occurred in the city, and the laughter and shouting of children on the roadside were still lively, but Lin Fei was in no mood to appreciate it.
The Wang's dart bureau is in the northwest of Shanyin City, close to the northwest city gate, this is because there is a mountain range in the northwest of Shanyin City that stretches for hundreds of miles, and the dart bureau takes a shortcut from here, but it only dares to walk during the day, and at night it must go to the garrison that the Wang family has built a long time ago to rest.
The size and strength of the beasts in this life are stronger than in the previous life, and the wild wolf killed by Wang Mingqiang is already the size of a relatively thin tiger in the previous life. At that time, the Wang Family Dart Bureau showed off and brought back the corpses of several wild wolves, which really shocked Lin Fei. It can be seen that it is very dangerous to travel blindly at night here, and this is also the reason why the Wangjia Dart Bureau continues to do business.
The carriage passed by the government of Shanyin City, and there were two rows of neat bluestone pillars behind it, where many rich people lived in Shanyin City, and the Lin Mansion was not here because the eldest brother of the Lin family was a county official in the government, and he bought a house in the south of the city in order to avoid suspicion.
As the carriage went inside, the bluestone pillars became more and more short and stout, and the last two bluestone platforms were placed with stone statues of mythical beasts like stone lions, which were very old.
The carriage stopped at the entrance of the area, and Lin Fei and the heavily armed old man Zhao got out of the carriage and slowly walked towards the dart bureau compound in the depths. There were a few people standing at the gate of the compound who were like fast catchers to stop the two of them, but seeing that Lin Fei's face was like a crown of jade and his clothes were luxurious, his words were very polite.
"Two, there is a case in the dart bureau, and it is inconvenient for others to enter for the time being." The skinny catcher said gently.
"Two adults, I am Lin Xuechanglin's family, and he asked the two of us to come over to the scene to see the situation." As soon as Lin Fei gave up his hand, Old Man Zhao stuffed two pieces of broken silver into the sleeves of the two fast catchers, and he often did this kind of thing when he saw the posture.
"It turned out to be Lin Gongzi. Please, please, the chief catcher has already explained to us. The thin head catcher had a better attitude, and hurriedly pushed open the door of the dart game and made a gesture of please.
"Thank you."
As soon as the two of them entered the door, they felt a chill hit their faces. It's late spring, but it's cold.
They have been here many times, so the two of them know the terrain here very well. The main entrance is a table and chair made of yellow rosewood, and the furniture is very luxurious.
On the right-hand side is an open space used to store darts, which occupies a large area, and it is estimated that it should be thousands of square meters. On the left hand side is the school field of the dart game, after all, the Wang family is a military general, whether it is the practice of martial arts or the equipment is much more advanced than the Lin family, Lin Fei has gone in to observe, but a bunch of muscular men sweat is really not beautiful for men, and there is no too deep impression.
But at this time, whether it is the main entrance or the left and right sides, the beams of the entire dart game are all hung with red silk.
On the red silk hung the forty-five dead members of the Wang family, from the oldest to the smallest, from male to female.
The first person is Wang Mingqiang, the head of the Wang family!
Lin Fei took a deep breath and suppressed a churn in his stomach.
He has seen dead people, even two lives, and his own death in the previous life was also very miserable.
But he had never seen so many dead people, and they were all hanged on red silk.
"Everyone in the Wang family is there?" He closed his eyes and asked the headcatcher beside him.
"It's all there, including the external ranger Dao Zhang San."
"The desperate knife Zhang San is not weaker than me, the two knives are very dark, and he is..." Old man Zhao's voice was low, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
This kind of visual impact and severity is no longer a simple homicide, but a provocation to the government.
Wang Mingqiang is dead, can the Lin family bear it?
The county orders that were heavily protected by the county's Tuntian soldiers may not be able to bear it.
I thought that the world was rich and the people were safe, and it would be good to wait for a rich second generation to eat and die, but I didn't expect...
Lin Fei calmed down, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he stepped forward and stretched out his hand and pinched the trousers of Wang Mingqiang's clothes, the trousers were very dry and hard, as if he was dehydrated. The high-quality silk he wore was like this only a few hours after the death of the person. Lin Fei looked at the head catcher suspiciously.
The thin catcher shook his head and said, "It's really strange, but I can't tell why, everyone in the Wang family has clothes like... Like..."
"Like what?"
"Like the mourning clothes of the dead who have been buried for many years." The thin catcher said quickly, as if he was afraid that he would hear something, and immediately closed his mouth after speaking.
Lin Fei shook his head, several possibilities that could happen in his head, but none of them could be achieved in the current environment.
Is it really a dead man's clothes?
"Lord Catcher, let's take a walk here and see what the situation is, will it get out of the way?" Old man Zhao clenched his fists and asked, such an environment made him feel very depressed by an old man like him.
"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, Lord Lin has already explained." The two catchers arched their hands and immediately exited the door, apparently uncomfortable staying inside.
"Old man Zhao, what did you find?"
"Lao Wang seems to be pinching something in his hand, I'll take it out and take a look."
"Be careful, old man." Lin Fei arched his hand and stepped aside, watching Old Man Zhao jump up and break Wang Mingqiang's left hand.
This light jump must be about half a meter high, is it really the force that I underestimated?
"Hey, it's just a small stone, I don't know why Lao Wang is still pinching it when he is dying." Old man Zhao spread out his hand, and there was a small pebble that could be seen everywhere in his palm.
Lin Fei took the stone, looked left and right, and couldn't see the fame, so he could only put it on his body first and go back to study.
"There doesn't seem to be a sword wound either." Lin Fei asked
"It's really not, their expressions are also very consistent with the appearance of self-hanging, it's really strange."
"Did someone force them to hang themselves, or..."Lin Fei couldn't think of a reason, so the two of them walked around the dart game carefully, and found nothing abnormal, even the kitchen still had half of the meal made yesterday. It's like these forty-five people were doing things normally, and suddenly they committed suicide by hanging up red silk together.
Lin Fei carefully observed everyone's expressions, all of them were bulging eyes, their mouths were closed, and they were typical of self-hanging.
The strange thing is that in addition to their facial expressions, there is no trace of a major struggle in their bodies, and there is no subconscious action of grasping the rope with both hands when hanging themselves, and everyone hangs their hands, as if their bodies have long since died, and only their heads are still struggling.
Like a zombie in a coffin.
Lin Fei trembled, yesterday he also saw the second child of the Wang family listening to the play and drinking together, how could he become a zombie and be hanged?
In addition, it is not possible to find the footsteps that were stepped on when hanging yourself.
There are no clues in the whole room except for strange and strange.
The two had no choice but to withdraw from the dart game, and after telling the two catchers at the gate, they got into a carriage and drove back to the Lin Mansion.
"Old Man Zhao has any ideas, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Lin Fei saw that Zhao Si wanted to speak and stopped, so he asked.
"Brother Fei'er, I don't know if you know, Lao Zhao was a wandering prodigal before I entered the Lin Mansion more than twenty years ago."
"Old Man Zhao left a big name when he wandered around back then, so naturally I have heard of it." Lin Fei didn't know what he meant by this, but it didn't prevent him from holding Zhao Si.
Fei Ge'er smiled, whatever the name breaking, he bragged about it by himself. But I did see some strange things when I was out and about..."
"Like the Wang family today?" This kind of big case, if it is not an isolated case, should not be impossible to spread, either because the distance is too far and the information is inconvenient, or someone has suppressed it.
"Not really, but it's weird." Zhao Si hesitated, but continued, "I don't know if Fei Ge'er has heard of it... Goblin? ”
"Demon?" Lin Fei was stunned, he had naturally heard of it, not only the scripts he had heard in this life but also the various demon stories in his previous life, but did such a thing as a demon really exist.
"Naturally, it's not the kind of demon in the script, but something that can be seen, but can't be hit," Zhao Si stuck his head back into the carriage and whispered as he drove the car, "It's like a shadow that shines down." ”
"I haven't heard of it, Old Man Zhao said this, I must have seen it?" Lin Fei didn't scoff, but was a little curious, if such a thing really existed, the forty-five members of the Wang family would be wiped out, and how could Old Man Zhao live peacefully for more than 20 years?
"Of course, I haven't seen it, but one of my brothers told me before he died. But this is also the reason why I was shocked and talked nonsense today, and Fei Ge'er will listen to it as a story, so I don't have to take it too seriously. ”
"To put it bluntly, I'm also quite interested in these gonzos."
"Well, my brother also used to make a quick sword, and the two of us always sneaked up on the rafters of the mountain bandits, that is, the goods that the mountain bandits robbed, after robbing us, we took half of them, and then gave half to the poor people nearby." Old man Zhao chirped his mouth, as if he was reminiscing about the past. Fortunately, the old horse knows the way, even if the old man Zhao is not good at driving the horse, the carriage is still walking steadily according to the old road.
"Then all of a sudden, about a month before my brother died, he told me that he seemed to have collided with something, and that he had committed a taboo."
"What taboo?"
"I don't know the specifics, he only told me that one night he met a person who was exactly the same body as him and dressed exactly the same, but he couldn't see his face."
"Can't see your face? Is it faceless or masked or? Lin Fei couldn't help but interrupt, which made him suddenly think of the faceless man in the previous Miyazaki manga.
"It's not that it's faceless or something, according to him, it's an empty piece of face, you can't see anything, but it's not pitch black, hiss... My brother and the old man I couldn't speak, and I couldn't describe what it was. Then my brother tried to go up and see what was going on, but he found that it was like a shadow, and it was dangling with him, and he couldn't touch it. ”
"And then? Your brother died in two days? ”
"Fei Ge'er is smart! Within two days, my brother was inexplicably dead. The point is that he also died upright, except that he was not hung on the white silk, which was exactly the same as those in the Wang family today! Before my brother died, I told me that this thing looked like a legendary demon! ”
Then there was silence between the two, not knowing what they were thinking. After being quiet for a long time, just before the carriage arrived at the door, Lin Fei took the initiative to speak.
"Old man Zhao, I want to practice martial arts."
"Good!"