Chapter Seventy-Four: The Strange Story of the Mourning Hall
It was still ten o'clock in the morning, and the sky was gray, cloudy and cold.
There is no need for Jiang You to carefully look for the house number, there is a cordon at the mouth of the alley, and a group of neighbors are surrounded on both sides, gossiping in a mess.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”
"You don't know yet? I heard that there was a corpse inside! ”
"Old Mrs. Zhu? Can't it, what age is it, still cheating corpses? ”
"The bitter master himself said it, and it was yelling in the middle of the night last night!"
"Yes, I just fell asleep last night, and I heard a ghost fox howl outside, and it blew up at that time, and I heard that there were still dead people?"
"Who died?"
The old man was about to speak, but was interrupted by the police officer next to him, "What nonsense!" , inside is a burglary, a corpse, what kind of corpse? Day by day, I know that these feudal superstitions are scattered, scattered! ”
The police waved their hands again and again, and the onlookers only took a few steps back, lowered their voices, and still muttered to each other, pulling their necks from time to time to peek into the alley.
There was a low roar of the engine in the distance, and a middle-length and long-haired young man with a stone sword behind him drove quickly on a motorcycle, and with a piercing sound of brakes, the young man got out of the car in a dashing manner, parked the car on the side of the road, and walked towards the alley.
"Hey! Ay! Don't you have long eyes, don't you see that this is pulling the cordon? Go inside, stop! ”
Jiang You didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he took out a card with red letters on a black background and slapped it on the face of the police officer, "Do you know?" ”
The police officer stared wide-eyed, there were a few big characters written on it, and below was Jiang You's name and photo, he immediately took out his mobile phone, called up a picture, and after careful comparison, he immediately changed to a smiling face, "You are a comrade of the Investigation Bureau, but I can wait for you, you come quickly." "Just be courteous, and pull up the cordon.
Jiang You glanced at him indifferently, crossed the cordon, and walked towards the alley.
The crowd in the back still whispered earnestly.
"What kind of unit is this Bureau of Investigation? I've never heard of it! ”
"This young man is still carrying a sword, can't he be a Taoist priest?"
"Lao Wang, the comrades of the Investigation Bureau are here!" The police officers behind him shouted, and three policemen suddenly came out of a family in front of him, and when he saw Jiang You, he walked over quickly, and the leader stretched out his hand.
Jiang You shook hands with him, "Hello, I'm Jiang You, and I've been assigned full responsibility for this case." ”
"Hello Investigator Jiang, we are from the Wutong District Police Station, we have been notified from above, and we promise to fully cooperate with you, this time the matter is very tight, you can go in and take a look!"
Jiang You and the remaining two nodded, and walked into the door together.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw several middle-aged people in the courtyard wearing linen and filial piety sitting on the maza with red eyes and tired smoking.
"Officer, is this the one we're waiting for?"
"This is Investigator Jiang, who was specially sent from above to deal with your affairs, you must cooperate well!"
A middle-aged man nodded hurriedly, "Investigator Jiang, I can be regarded as sending you." The man took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Jiang You, Jiang You took it, the man's fire quickly followed, and he lit the cigarette for Jiang You, and the man gave the three policemen a cigarette.
Jiang You took a deep breath, spit out a cyan smoke and asked, "Tell me everything you know!" ”
The man nodded, a frightened expression flashed on his face, "Last night, our three brothers sent our friends who came to mourn to the door, and found that the eldest sister was not there, and thought that it was in the mourning hall, so I went inside to find the eldest sister, and when I went in, I found that the house was dark, and the ever-bright light was also extinguished, and the lamp was lit, and there was no one in the house who found the eldest sister, so I called her, and the bell rang in the house, and we looked around and found that the bell actually came from the coffin!" ”
Speaking of this, the policeman next to him gasped, although this was the second time he heard it, he still felt a chill behind him, after so many years of working as a policeman, it was the first time he had encountered such an evil case.
"And then?" Jiang You asked expressionlessly.
"Of course we hurriedly opened the coffin, who knows, inside.... Inside......."
At this time, the man's red eyes were already filled with tears, and two lines of tears flowed down, and he couldn't say the whole thing with a choked sob.
The brothers on the side hurriedly stroked their backs and comforted them.
"What did you see in the coffin?"
The policeman on the side sighed, "Investigator Jiang, you better go inside and see for yourself." ”
The man squatted on the ground to hide his face and wept bitterly, the three of them bypassed the man and entered the house, the mourning hall was already in a mess, the pictures on the table were poured on the table, the tribute fruit was scattered on the ground, and the white candle was also poured.
"The coffin is in the back, you go and see, we won't follow." The police said.
Jiang You walked directly towards the coffin, the coffin lid was tilted in half, revealing a corner, and as soon as Jiang You got closer, he smelled a familiar stench, which was the corpse stench emitted by the dead.
He grabbed the lid of the coffin with one hand, flipped it to the ground, and looked inside.
A female corpse stared at him with wide eyes, lying on her back with a frightened face, with a few scratches on her clothes, the blood on her body had turned black, one hand on her lower abdomen, a black screen mobile phone was pressed underneath, half of the skin and flesh of her face disappeared, her gums were exposed, and there were traces of gnawing at the edges.
And the original owner in the coffin, Mrs. Zhu, has disappeared.
Jiang You has seen a lot of all kinds of tragic corpses in the past few days, most of which were caused by his own hands, in the face of this sudden female corpse, it was not enough to make him change color, he calmly observed, and found that there was a messy scratch on the coffin board that fell to the ground, as if someone had scratched it with his fingernails.
He squatted down, quickly swiped the fingertip of his index finger with the nail of his thumb, and a few drops of blood flowed out, and stroked the scratch with his index finger, and sure enough, it made a sizzling sound, but it quickly recovered, and the residual strange qi on it, although it had been for a while, could not even consume a few drops of Jiang You's blood, so he judged the approximate strength of this strange thing.
The few people waiting at the door didn't hear the expected exclamation, and thought, "Sure enough, it's a professional, this psychological quality is not blown." ”
Soon saw Jiang You come out, and just as he was about to speak, Jiang You took the lead in coming to the courtyard.
"Clear! Now all the personnel are waiting at the mouth of the alley. ”
Dai Xiao's family asked, "Investigator, do you have any conclusions?" ”
"I probably know what's going on, I can't tell you yet, but now cooperate with my work."
The policemen present were all told by their superiors to cooperate with the investigator's work unconditionally, and of course they would not question it at this time, but were glad that they could get out of the matter.
When all the personnel went out, only Jiang You was left in the courtyard.
He pulled out the sword of victory and evil on his back and looked at the mourning hall.
There was a glint in his eyes.
"Quiet!"