CHAPTER XXIX

"Ugh."

The paper man sighed silently.

The wrinkles on his face squirmed, and he pursed his lips in resignation, motioning for Zhao Fusheng to place the file on the table.

Half an hour later, one of his sleeves shook twice, and a hand slowly came out of the sleeve and slashed the file in front of him.

This scene caught Zhao Fusheng's attention.

Compared with the paper man's face, which is as old as seventy or eighty, his hands are well-proportioned, and his complexion is white and flawless, like a well-maintained twenty-eight girl.

Zhao Fusheng's gaze fell on his fingertips, thinking of his weird wide black sleeves, which seemed to be hidden inside.

To be able to raise such a pair of hands, the paper figure must have used some secret method.

It's a pity that she just had the courage to lift the sleeves of the paper figure and didn't see any clues.

She was thinking about things in her heart, but her mouth said:

"You've got pretty good hands."

The paper man's face remained unchanged, and he quietly blocked Zhao Fusheng's temptation back:

"My family has been a craftsman for generations, and what they do is exquisite skills, and a pair of hands should naturally be cherished."

He obviously didn't want to bother with this topic, and as he spoke, he slowly spread out the file with the flick of his fingers.

The two men with their own intentions suddenly stopped exchanging words, and both turned their attention to the file.

It reads: Dahan June 206......

"Yes, forty years ago, my grandfather did join forces with Si Sulong, the commander of the demon suppression at the time, to solve the ghost disaster of the Liu family." He took a brief look and looked up at Zhao Fusheng.

The new Demon Suppression Commander was really young, but he was surprisingly not stupid, and he faintly gave the paper man a feeling of extreme difficulty.

"You're here for the case of Rice Hutong, right?"

Wan'an County was abandoned by the imperial court, and now the situation is not good, many wealthy families in the county have moved away one after another, if the situation is allowed to worsen, at most half a year, Wan'an County will become a dead city.

"Not bad."

Zhao Fusheng saw that he didn't read the file, but took the initiative to mention the ghost case in the alley, obviously the paper man Zhang had been mentally prepared for her arrival, and pretended to intimidate Zhang Chuanshi before, probably because he wanted to test his temperament and verify that he was a person.

She rewrapped the dossier and said half-truthfully:

"You also know, now that I'm the commander of Wan'an County's Demon Town, there are some things I can't escape—"

As she spoke, her gaze fell on the paper man's face, observing the expression on his face.

The relationship between the Zhang family and the Demon Suppression Division is close, and some of the rules of the Demon Suppression Division must be clear.

When she said this, the paper figure Zhang did not refute, Zhao Fusheng sighed, and immediately realized that his guess was probably true.

Every once in a while, the Demon Suppression Division has a standard for solving ghost cases, and it cannot be violated.

Fan Bi Die concealed this when he talked to her at that time, probably because he wanted to seduce her.

She took a deep breath, suppressed the unhappiness that arose in her heart, and continued:

"I have to go to the alley, but I haven't really dealt with ghosts yet, so I don't have much confidence in this business."

The paper man Zhang nodded and said:

"Do you want to ask the ghost of the alley, want to inquire about its identity, and find out its killing rules?"

"Yes." When it comes to this, Zhao Fusheng naturally won't hide his intentions:

"I'm not strong yet, and I don't have a lot of experience, it's the first time I've dealt with a ghost, it's best to drive it away, if not, of course I'll give priority to saving my life."

"That's nature." The paper man nodded in agreement.

"According to Brother Fan, there is a Confucius Temple on the street of Yaofan Hutong, and the predecessor of this Confucius Temple is the Liu Family Ancestral Hall.

For Zhao Fusheng calling his ancestors by name, the paper man Zhang was not angry.

Most of the ghost riders are ferocious and violent, and calling people by their first names is not a big deal.

He thought for a moment and suddenly asked:

"Do you think this ghost disaster is the ghost disaster of forty years ago?"

Zhao Fusheng did not answer him, but changed his voice and said:

"I didn't get much clue about this ghost disaster from this past file, but I did see something interesting." When Zhao Fusheng said this, it was the first time that the paper man showed an interested expression on his gloomy face.

His eyebrows are slightly long and gray, and the long hairs at the end of his eyebrows droop slightly, giving him the posture of an old dragon clock.

At this time, his eyebrows were raised, the corners of his drooping mouth were barely raised, looking at Zhao Fusheng, under the miserable white light, his smile seemed to be a little ill-intentioned:

"What do you see?"

"Liu Huacheng, the head of the Liu family, was an official in his early years, and the official went to the right supervisor of the Kyoto Imperial Captain, and then abandoned the official and returned to his hometown to take over as the head of the Liu family, and later on his 60th birthday, suddenly there was a ghost in the house."

The paper man's expression changed suddenly.

His strange smile froze on his face, and a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then his expression became cautious, looking at Zhao Fusheng's eyes faintly guarded.

"Looks like I guessed right."

When Zhao Fusheng saw him like this, he couldn't help but sigh:

"There is a reason why Liu Huacheng resigned and returned to his hometown."

"I didn't expect you to be so smart, the Fan brothers seem to have lost their eyes." Paper Man Zhang shook his head and said:

"It seems that I was not wronged this time, I asked for it! Self-inflicted. ”

He sighed, and continued:

"How did you guess that this ghost disaster in the rice alley is the same disaster forty years ago?"

Zhao Fusheng met the paper man Zhang for the first time today, and he didn't know much about the old man's temperament, and when she heard him ask like this, she instinctively felt strange in her heart, as if she felt that something was wrong.

She was cautious, and she believed in her own judgment, and once she was unconscious, she did not answer his question, but carefully recalled what happened after she met the old man.

After the two sides met, he immediately attacked Zhang Chuanshi, deliberately showing his means to deter himself, and was finally shocked by her.

After that, he showed cooperation, and even intentionally revealed part of the secret of making the 'ghost lantern' to her.

When mentioning the past forty years ago, he also seemed to have been prepared, as if he had guessed her intention early on.

Most importantly, he mentions the ghost case from forty years ago, as if he was deliberately guiding her to think about it and grouping the two cases into one.

She was suddenly alert, and she was suspicious of the case in the alley.

"I think you must have merged the two ghost cases into one because a month ago, someone from the Confucius Temple came to ask for help, asking the Demon Suppression Division to fulfill the agreement made forty years ago, right?"

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, the paper man Zhang simply asked and answered to himself and uncovered the mystery.

"Not bad."

Zhao Fusheng hesitated for a moment and nodded.

After Su Long dealt with this ghost disaster back then, he must have learned that one day the ghost case of the Liu family would happen again, and it should have been an agreement made between him and Liu Huacheng back then, so forty years later, a young man came to pass on the letter, mentioning the past forty years ago.

It is precisely because of this premise that when she heard that the rice alley was haunted, she combined two cases from different eras into one, guessing that it should be the same ghost.

She was confident in her speculation, but the reaction of the paper figure made her vaguely uneasy.

Zhao Fusheng thought back again and again about his understanding of this case, and couldn't find any mistakes for the time being, so he had to temporarily endure the apprehension in his heart, and listened to the paper man Zhang continue:

"You've guessed right, forty years ago, when my grandfather dealt with this ghost disaster with Su Long of the Demon Suppression Division at the time, there was indeed a follow-up agreement."

He seemed to be a little lacking in qi, and his tone was very long when he spoke, and the words he said did not make up for the uneasiness in Zhao Fusheng's heart, but she did not interrupt the words of the paper man, but listened to him quietly.

"You really came to me for this matter, in the entire Wan'an County, I'm afraid that only I can answer your question."

The paper man Zhang 'hehe' laughed twice, and under Nadala's eyelids, his eyes glistened in the pale light, giving people a sense of bad intentions.

"Speaking of this ghost case, I have to talk about Liu Huacheng, the head of the Liu family."

His gaze fell on the file held in Zhao Fusheng's palm, and then the corners of his mouth were pursed:

"You must also have a general understanding of this person's origin and origin, in addition to the records in the dossier, Fan Bisheng should have told you a lot."

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

She heard something from the words of the paper man, this old man is not a stranger to the Fan brothers, and he also has a certain understanding of the temperament of the two, and he is very sure that it is Fan Bi who will die if she raises the case with her.

"I won't go into the details, I'll start with what you think is wrong." At this point, he paused for a moment:

"This former head of the Liu family can be regarded as a figure, he was once an official to the right supervisor of the Tingwei Division, do you know what kind of official the right supervisor is?"

Zhao Fusheng shook his head calmly.

The original Zhao Fusheng's status was meagre, and the paper man Zhang knew where she came from, so I am afraid that the eighteenth generation of 'her' ancestors would have been cleaned up, and it would be useless to conceal it.

What's more, she really doesn't know much about the official position of the 'Right Supervision Division', which is related to Liu Huacheng's past, and it is always good to inquire about it clearly.

"The right supervisor of the Kyoto Imperial Governor - is in charge of the prison and adjudicates the case." Seeing that her expression was calm, and there was no embarrassment and twisting, the paper man Zhang couldn't help frowning imperceptibly, and then looked at her deeply:

"This head of the Liu family broke a case and beheaded a prisoner when he was in Kyoto."

When Zhao Fusheng heard this, he knew that this should be the crux of the matter.

Liu Huacheng's resignation and return to his hometown may be related to this case, perhaps this case is the reason why his home was haunted on his birthday.

"After all, it's an old case from decades ago, and I don't know much about the specific situation, but I know that after the death of this criminal, the ghost was immediately resurrected, and a ghost disaster was formed in Kyoto at least above the level of evil!"

The paper figure had a serious face.

Zhao Fusheng's heart jumped, and he suddenly remembered that on this file forty years ago, Su Long reminded at the end: If you don't have a Ling Si who controls ghosts above the level of demons, don't set foot in the Liu clan ancestral hall.

It turned out that decades ago, the ghost of the Liu family was very likely to have reached the evil level.