There is only one elderly person in this household, and according to the resident next to him, this is a nail household, and he has a little mental problem.

Due to the construction of the urban area, the residents here have already moved and left, and the remaining families are about to leave, but this old man is unwilling to move out no matter how high the price offered by the developer.

The old man told us that he slept late, and in the early hours of the morning in the last few days, he could hear a noise outside, and he could see a black ghost walking on the side of the road with a hammer in his hand.

My heart was shaken, and I thought of the dark shadow at the scene of the crime

So I was going to ask Lao Zhang to come with me to visit again.

Just then, Huang Na appeared and told us that two bruises were found on the deceased's body, one on the waist and one on the thigh.

These two bruises have been around for some time, and they are almost healing, and they cannot be seen unless they are particularly careful.

I asked her to pay a little more attention, hoping to get some more clues from the corpse.

Lao Zhang flipped through the previous criminal record files to see if he could find any similarities from previous cases.

I've been working for a short time and have little experience. Lao Zhang told me that he had been in the criminal police team for more than 20 years, and had handled hundreds of large and small cases, but he had never seen such a brutal murder method.

Lao Zhang and I have been looking through for a long time, but we still have no gains, and we have not found any similar cases in the local area.

So I called Lao Zhang and went with me to the residential area next to the construction site.

Indeed, as the policemen said, there are very few people living in the housing area here, and there are still some furniture items at the door of some houses that have not had time to be taken away.

The policeman Xiao Zhang told me my house number, but when I arrived at the street entrance, I couldn't remember whether it was No. 03 or No. 30.

So I knocked on the door of room 03, and it was a middle-aged woman who looked at us with a very impatient face, "Didn't you just come here!" Why are you here again, are you bothered? With that, he slammed the door shut.

I patiently knocked on the door again, and asked through the door, "Is there an old man living here?" ”

The woman shouted in the room, her voice coming from near and far, "That old neurotic lives at number 30, don't bother me!" ”

smiled bitterly at Lao Zhang, and then came to the 30th, sure enough, it was a rickety old man, and when he saw us, the old man's eyes seemed to flicker.

After we identified ourselves, we asked the old man, and what he said was not much different from what Xiao Zhang told us, and I continued to ask, "What kind of ghost are you talking about?" When do you see it at night? ”

The old man seemed a little frightened, and said intermittently.

Since a week ago, the ghost would appear around 12 a.m., carrying a hammer in his hand, swinging back and forth, not like a human walking.

He said it was a ghost, someone had killed him, and now he was coming back to take revenge.

As he spoke, the old man's emotions became more and more excited, and he began to shout, "The head knocker has come to take revenge!" The head-knocker has come to take revenge! ”

It seems that the old man does have a little mental problem, and Lao Zhang was worried that he would lose control of his emotions if he continued like this, so he pulled me away.

I asked Lao Zhang if he believed that there were ghosts and gods in the world, Lao Zhang shook his head, and asked me if I believed it, I firmly did not believe that there were ghosts in the world, and someone must be deliberately making ghosts.

I asked several families in the neighborhood in turn, and their answers were all similar.

Regarding the deceased and her husband, they all said that they were a very honest couple, who had never quarreled with anyone in normal times, and were very kind to the neighbors, and would visit the door from time to time to bring some fresh vegetables. For Liu Guilan's death, they all showed varying degrees of regret.

According to what they said, Liu Guilan and her husband Xie Shouyi are very popular people, but why is the middle-aged woman at No. 03 so impatient, is there any conflict between them, or there is something wrong with the woman.

I told Lao Zhang about the idea, and he agreed, but we didn't want to provoke too much, so we left the residential area and came to the vegetable market where they sold vegetables.

It was a small market, the entrance was half blocked by vendors, the smell of poultry meat was in the air, and the ground was covered with a layer of dark muddy water.

Seeing me and Lao Zhang coming in, the noise of the market suddenly became much less, and many vendors turned their eyes over, not knowing what was going on.

Lao Zhang pointed to a shirtless butcher and motioned for me to come forward and ask about the situation.

I came to the butcher stall and just spoke, but he waved his hand and shouted, "Go, go, go away, don't get in the way of my business!" ”

I was embarrassed and looked back at Lao Zhang, but Lao Zhang smiled slightly and didn't speak.

I asked a few other vendors, and they told me that Mr. and Mrs. Liu Guilan were two very honest people. In this market, it is common for quarrels and even scolding, but Liu Guilan and Xie Shouyi almost never contradict others. I don't care if I let others take advantage of it, and occasionally I take the initiative to add a few vegetables to others.

There is also a very good relationship between the two husband and wife, no one has ever seen them quarrel, usually when they are tired of selling vegetables, they will take the initiative to wipe each other's sweat and beat their shoulders, and they are recognized as a model couple.

I have no doubt about this, and it can be seen from Xie Shouyi's performance at the time of the incident that if it is not a couple with a good relationship, it will not be able to show such sadness.

Someone saw that I had been asking about Liu Guilan and his wife, and thought it was strange, so they asked me if they had committed something, and said that they usually came to the market early to set up a stall, but today it was noon, and I didn't see them, did something happen.

It seems that Liu Guilan's death has not yet reached the vegetable market, so I shook my head and motioned him not to ask more. was about to tell Lao Zhang what he had learned, but when he turned around, he found that Lao Zhang was gone.

I felt strange, looked around, and around the corner of the market, I only saw the back of Lao Zhang running.

I hurried to catch up, and Lao Zhang, who looked like an old man, ran up but walked like flying, and it took a while to catch up, and at this time it was already far away from the market.

I asked Lao Zhang what was going on, and he told me, "The woman in household No. 03 just now has been staring at us in the vegetable market, and I didn't pay attention to it at first, but then when she saw me looking at her, her face changed and she ran away." I couldn't find it when I chased it. ”

I glanced at Lao Zhang and said categorically, "That woman, there is definitely a problem!" ”