Chapter 51: A Strange Death
Will it be haunted?
Gu Shiwei scoffed at this, if there were really ghosts in this world, where would the traitors in the court still have the turn to get Han Shiyan's mouth, they would have been devoured by ten thousand ghosts.
"Please also ask Jiang Lao to take us over to take a look, and tell me how Chu Liangchen died?"
The old man surnamed Jiang nodded and did not refuse.
She had seen that this place was as complicated as a spider's web, full of winding paths, and it was impossible to find the direction without a guide. At this time, he was taken by Jiang Lao, and Gu Shiwei was even more stunned.
This place is really a battlefield arranged by God for Jing Li, he will never get lost, and he can find people quickly.
Gu Shiwei thought about it and glanced at Wu Jiang, who was looking around beside him......
She deliberately chose Jing Li to come over, just because she wanted this person to be used by her, and Bisheng was replaced with this rice bucket.
"Before I say it, I want to ask the adults one more thing, do you have a relationship with my fog umbrella? It's no wonder that the old decay is clinging to us, but the adults seem to know us a lot. I don't come often, I don't know where we are, we bet on everything, and usually choose to roll the dice directly. ”
"We just eat together, if there is anything that the Imperial City Division looks down on...... Please also speak up, let's change! ”
Gu Shiwei shook his head, "I used to be in Suzhou and had a chance to go there. ”
Gu Shiwei said, his gaze a little distant.
She hadn't just been there, when she left Bianjing with ten miles, and like many people here, she was a fugitive who couldn't see the light.
The first money she earned was won from the fog umbrella.
Wu Jiang listened and poked his head out curiously, "What is the fog umbrella?" How come I've never heard of it? ”
Gu Shiwei glanced at him, "It's about to arrange ten copper plates for you, and two copper plates will be left for you, so that you won't starve to death." There are eight big sons left, whether they gamble or cheat, they will scrape back from you one by one. ”
"Holding an umbrella in the fog is pure comfort."
Jiang Lao was stunned at first when he heard this, and then laughed.
Master Gu laughed. Giving people who are dying of starvation food something to eat is immeasurable. ”
As he spoke, he immediately changed the topic and returned to Chu Liangchen, "It was Chinese New Year's Eve, and Chu Liangchen looked for me early in the morning and paid off all the money he had credited from us. When he moved here, he had brought his brother with him. ”
"That child was seven or eight years old, and he was born exceptionally white, and he was a jar of medicine."
"He had read books, and although he was young, he could write well, and many people asked him to write letters to his family. Last winter, when the child was seriously ill, Chu Liangchen took an ancestral jade ruyi as collateral and took a sum of life-saving money from me. ”
"I didn't pay much attention to what happened, but the kid must have died early. On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was only Chu Liangchen's body in the house. ”
Is Jade Ruyi?
Gu Shiwei listened carefully and did not interrupt him. Even Wujiang has settled down a lot.
Jiang Lao said, remembering the scene he saw when he approached Chu Liangchen's house that day, and his face became more and more bad.
It was almost dark when it was almost dawning. He was in the underground gambling house when he heard the sound of firecrackers outside, so he climbed up from the bottom of the well.
During the New Year's Festival, there will be people in Bianjing City who will put lights and explode firecrackers, and the curtains stewed at night are particularly fragrant, and he uses more, and he only feels bloated at this time.
Usually at night, the dark dwelling like a tomb is also brightly lit at night, and no matter how poor you are, you can't help but light the New Year's lamp.
Jiang Lao thought that he was pacing outside, looking at this rare light of thousands of homes, he heard a noise, and many people shouted "snake snake snake"!
Where something happens, how can there be no other old Jiang?
In this cold winter, the snakes are hibernating, how can there be snakes?
"When I arrived, Liu Yi was outside Chu Liangchen's house, and Liu Yi was a snake catcher. The snake was extraordinarily active, about a foot long, with a total of three teeth. After Liu Yi caught the snake, we went in to take a look. ”
But he saw that Chu Liangchen lying upright on his broken wooden bed, his hands open. His legs twisted together, how to describe it? It's like two snakes entwined, how can a person's legs be twisted like that? ”
"That room was sprinkled with funeral papers, on the bed, on the floor, everywhere."
"On the floor next to the bed were several empty wine bottles that had fallen to the ground. Chu Liangchen's body was crawling with snakes, and when the snake catcher caught all the snakes, we found that one of his faces had been bitten to pieces......"
Wu Jiang's eyes widened when he listened, "This is very likely to be murder!" Why don't you report to the police when someone is dead? ”
Jiang Lao glanced at Wu Jiang with a difficult look, "My lord, I'm afraid I don't know, the people here are rootless duckweed, and it is already a great fortune to have a straw mat to wrap the body after death." No one knows anyone well, and no one will report to the official for anyone. ”
What he didn't say was, what's the use of reporting to the officer?
The government came to investigate, maybe they had to clap their hands and say fast, they died well! This fugitive doesn't even need to open a guillotine!
Today, the Imperial City Division and Kaifeng Mansion came to find Chu Liangchen, isn't it in response to his conjecture, this person has done the murder deed.
Wu Jiang was instantly silent.
"Here we are, here it is!" Jiang Lao said, pointing to a dark low house.
The door of the room was hidden, and he stepped forward and pushed it open with a gentle push. In this room, a large window was taken out of the place near the bed, and the edge of the window was pasted with clean white paper.
Next to the bed was a small table made of elm, with a simple inkstone and a brush, which had been pricked.
It should have been prepared by Chu Liangchen for his younger brother who can read and write.
Gu Shiwei bent down and walked in.
The house had not been cleaned up, and the money paper was still there, as if it had been pasted on the ground and blended into the house.
The money paper sprinkled at the funeral was a copper plate cut from white paper, and it was stained with scarlet blood, exuding an ominous atmosphere.
Other than that, the room was very empty, and it could be said that it was destitute.
Jiang Lao and Wu Jiang didn't come in, Gu Shiwei turned his back to them, picked up a bloody piece of paper money and put it in his arms, and bowed down and walked out.
"What's the deal with the haunting?"
Jiang Lao nodded with a pale face, "About two or three times." Someone heard the sound of snakes squirping, and the laughter of children, giggling. ”
"Someone else passed by at night and saw a black ghost on the window...... Long hair, extraordinarily long neck, twisted and twisted...... The house was empty for some time. ”
Gu Shiwei nodded, "What is Chu Liangchen's jade Ruyi like, do you remember?" ”
Jiang Lao shook his head a little embarrassed, "I don't remember what it was." Just remember that the style is not very new, and there is nothing special. It's not big, about the size of a palm, and the jade quality is not bad. ”