179. The Sealed Haunted House (Da Zhang for Support)(2/2)
Wang Qilin asked, "Okay, Wang Xiaoer, my official name is Wang Qilin. We were a family five hundred years ago, and the family didn't speak two families. Then I'll ask you something, you can answer truthfully. Is there anything strange about this inn?"
Wang Xiaoer scratched his head and said, "There is no inn? Is there something strange about it?"
"What's the matter?" Wang Qilin stared at him and asked.
Wang Xiaoer smiled and said, "Brother of my family, I have been very poor for so many years. Isn't that a little weird?"
Wang Qilin waved his hand and told him to get out.
His brother is not very clever.
Xu Da smashed open a pile of bricks and stones, and smoke filled the dust, and a strong wind blew out suddenly.
It was weird, the dust floating at the door was not blown!
Dou Dachun and his party shivered and retreated repeatedly: "Damn it, the wind is cold!"
Wang Qilin walked over quickly and took a look, and his eyes suddenly jumped up.
The doors and windows of the house were blocked by bricks and stones, and only a ray of sunlight shone in through the newly opened hole, making it in a daze and could not completely illuminate the house.
The dim light shone blurred the room, illuminating the scene inside.
There is no furniture in the house, but there are many corpses!
The corpse hanging on the beam of the house, the corpse curled up on the ground, the broken corpse, the burnt corpse, and more than a dozen corpses!
Wang Qilin has been in Tingtianjian for a while and has seen big scenes such as Hundred Ghosts Crying to the Sky and Guizuyi, but this is the first time I have seen this scene today.
So many corpses!
Xu Da was about to come over to see him, but Wang Qilin grabbed his collar and dragged him over, saying, "Clog the door."
He pulled Manager Mo over again and said, "Come and take a look."
Manager Mo subconsciously looked in, then screamed and retreated suddenly. There was a step at the door of the house. He did not stand firm while retreating, and fell to the ground by stepping on the air, and then got up and continued running out.
Dou Dachun quickly stepped up and held him down. He dragged him back and asked, "Master Qi, what's wrong?"
Wang Qilin said: "Be mentally prepared, there is a case in your yamen."
Dou Dachun and others came over to look at it, and after reading it, they all looked bleak, as if they were losing their parents.
Manager Mo knelt on the ground with his legs weak, and he kowtowed and shouted, "Sir, please spare me, sir, please be aware! I don't know, really don't know! It's impossible, why is this happening? How can this happen?! The house is clearly sealed, please ask the master to calm the ghosts in the room!"
Wang Qilin squatted in front of him and asked, "Tell me what you know in full."
Manager Mo raised his head and said in panic: "Mr. Wang, the house is indeed haunted. This room used to be my and my wife's bedroom, but my wife is jealous. Later, I married a young man and she committed suicide!"
"After she committed suicide, the room was haunted, and there were always people saying that they saw my wife's ghost floating inside."
"In fear, I found a master of Xuanmen to come to see him. The master said that my wife was wronged by death. She didn't know what method she used to avoid the evil and stayed in the house and became a ground-bound ghost. This ground-bound ghost was not easy to deal with, so she could only find a monk to save him, but the way to save him was to recite the seven-day "Mantra of Rebirth"."
"But it's hard to find a monk, and it's not just a group of monks. This group of monks recite scriptures in my inn for seven days. How can I do business in the inn? So I used another method given by the master, which is to use bricks and stones to seal the doors and windows and lock them inside."
"Master Wang, please clearly see that this house was blocked fifteen years ago. Some of the guys at that time are still working in my inn. You can ask them, it was okay at that time, and there were no dead people inside at that time!"
"Everything is normal for fifteen years. I haven't had any weird things!" At the end of his speech, he was about to cry.
Such an inn run by two generations of talents is probably going to be destroyed in his hands. How can he go to meet his parents and ancestors after his death?
Before his father died, he grabbed his hand and said his last wish, that is, to build this Tongfu Inn into a century-old store.
Now a century-old store is gone, but there is a ten-year-old store.
Wang Qilin wanted to ask again, and Xu Da waved to him: "Master Qi, come and see, it's strange."
"What's weird?"
"Looking at the people inside, this is so weird, right?"
Wang Qilin looked closely and said that someone had hanged himself, which was normal.
Some people had shattered the corpses into several pieces, but the corpses were thrown together. It looked like the wounds were not as if they were chopped by sharp blades, but more like they were smashed with hammers and stones. Many places were covered in blood.
This is very strange, but what's even more strange is that someone's body is intact, but there is a lot of hay wrapped around it. Xu Da whispered: "I look like a bitter grass."
Bitter grass is also called noodle grass and shoulder pole grass. Some rural areas in Jixiang County are also called water leeks. This is a kind of aquatic grass, which is very dangerous. People often drowned in the ponds in the rivers and ponds, but they are entangled by this water grass and can no longer swim.
Wang Qilin also felt strange and said, "These people died differently, right?"
"Yes, fourteen people, fourteen ways to die! Some of them are burned to death. How could people be burned to death in this room? There are no traces of burning." Xu Dadao.
Dou Dachun analyzed: "Can someone throw the body here? Is this a place to throw the body?"
Wang Qilin shook his head and said, "How to throw away the body? The doors and windows are closed, there are no loopholes on the roof, and there are no tunnels on the ground."
Dou Dachun said, "How did that person get in? The body can't be in, and the person can't be in, right?"
Wang Qilin thought for a while and said, "Four corpses, fourteen corpses..."
A flash of inspiration in his mind, he walked to Manager Mo and asked, "Shopkeeper, what day is your wife's anniversary?"
Manager Mo said, "On the tenth day of July!"
Wang Qilin nodded slowly.
The Mo family’s wife has been 14 years since her death. Will this be related to the fourteen corpses?
He asked again: "There are fourteen corpses in the room, and these are fourteen people. Are there any inexplicable few people in the inn in the past ten years?"
The shopkeeper didn't want to speak but stopped.
Wang Qilin poked the demon sword to the ground and said with a calm face: "When is it now? How dare you hide it from me?"
Manager Mo smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Wang, it's not a villain who wants to hide it from you. You also know that there are dragons and snakes standing here, and both humans and demons are there. People often leave without saying goodbye, so even if there are fewer people in the inn, we didn't notice it clearly."
This is not a shirk. At the beginning of the founding of the New Han Dynasty, pedestrians must seize the tooth card that records their identity.
Later, life was peaceful and the rules gradually disappeared. Just register, so some people left as soon as they said they could, and the inn could not control it.
Wang Qilin asked Xu Da to cover the opened hole with raw cowhide, and then he took Manager Mo away and arranged for the yamen runner to watch Tongfu Inn.
You are allowed to enter but not leave!
He originally wanted to investigate Zhang Ruhui, but there was no news on Zhang Ruhui, but he discovered another major case.
The two cases were quasi-incidence, which gave him a great headache.
What's even more troublesome is that in the afternoon he was checking the missing people in Jixiang County in Jixiang County over the years. Dou Dachun suddenly hurried in with a anxious expression.
"Is there any bad news?" Wang Qilin sighed.
Dou Dachun said: "No, there is no bad news."
Wang Qilin asked, "What's that? Why do you have such an expression?"
"There is bad news," Dou Dachun said embarrassedly, "I sent someone to the mansion to inquire about the news back. The mansion and even the court did not order Li Ying to be dismissed and brought him to prison. Zhang Ruhui was messing around!"
Chapter completed!