Tang riddles

When walking across the river beach, Shen Sui showed an unusual silence.She didn't speak anymore, and she didn't give any more explanations.The words "the culprit who killed Lu Zixiu's family" were still echoing in everyone's ears, but there was no more content.

As if he could feel Shen Sui's depression, Zhang Yue stretched out his hand and stopped Pei Yaoqing, Liu Yucheng and others who wanted to ask further questions.Everyone walked to the entrance of the dock in silence.

The light dimmed, and the fire lit last night was still beating in the brazier.Kuta took the torch, lit it, and led the way.Shen Sui followed him closely and slowly entered the dock.

The feeling of mystery enveloped everyone, and several officials felt a little unstoppable fear. This cave brought them a feeling of death, as if they were standing in front of the gate of hell, adjacent to death.Even though there are many people around, it still can't hide this feeling.

"Fu Bing Lieutenant, protect the officers." Shen Sui said.

The captain of the government soldiers who was sweating on his forehead immediately responded when he heard the words, calling for the soldiers to come forward and surround the officials.

"Everyone, the next scene may not be very pleasant, hold back and don't spit it out." Shen Sui kindly reminded, but the faces of the officials behind her became even uglier after hearing her words.

Shen Sui personally raised her hand and knocked on the door of the bamboo house. When she knocked, she found that the door was half-closed. She and Hu Tuo exchanged glances, and they pushed open the door together.

The door opened, and there was a musty and rotten smell, especially the rotten smell, which almost reached the point where I had to hold my breath.Shen Sui frowned, held his breath, and stepped into the room with his boots.Hutuo beside him had already covered his mouth and nose with his hands, feeling his brain hurt from the stench.

The officials behind him hesitated at the door, the smell and the sight made it extremely difficult for them to take the step of entering the door.So only Shen Sui and Hutuo walked in.

The room is not big, and the wooden bed is on the side. The extremely ugly person is still sitting on the side of the bed woodenly, and there is still a motionless person lying on the bed.They seemed unaware of the arrival of Shen Sui and others, and they did not move at all.

Hu Tuo moved the torch closer, and was taken aback. The man lying on the bed had been dead for a long time, and his skin had begun to rot and maggots. No wonder the stench in the room was so foul, it was clearly the stench of corpses!

Hu Tuo only felt that his stomach began to churn, and it had already reached his throat, which he forcibly held back.

Shen Sui still frowned, with a calm face, and slowly said to the man who was sitting on the side of the bed:

"Miss Zhang, your sister has passed away, so she must be buried."

The man rolled his throat twice and uttered vague syllables.

"Is she your sister? Or sister?" Shen Sui's voice was soft and warm, as if he was asking a little girl of three or four years old.

After waiting for a while, Kuta thought she would not answer, but the man finally spoke:

"...my sister."

"Then, you are Mrs. Zhang, I'm right." Shen Sui said.

The man didn't answer.

Shen Sui said self-consciously: "My sister always wants to protect my younger sister. Sisters pretend to be husband and wife. From now on, you have become Zhang Dalang, and your younger sister has become your wife. It has been 14 years since you escaped on the edge of the cliff. Demon claws, you have been hiding in the mountains and forests. For 14 years, you have used great patience and perseverance to build hanging coffins for more than 80 people in the village, and dug out those who were mass buried and placed them in hanging coffins. When you finally finished burying all your clansmen, you went to Jiangling and entered Lu Zixiu's mansion disguised as servants. A year and a half ago, you put medicine in drinking water and food, causing Lu Zixiu's family to be stunned and unable to resist. You Take this opportunity to kill his whole family.

How does it taste to eat the flesh and blood of the enemy?I think maybe it's not delicious. "

"You official, do you know that cannibalism is addictive." The man said slowly with a hoarse voice.

Hu Tuo's hairs stood on end, Shen Sui remained silent.After a long time, Shen Sui said:

"So you ate two children from Yun'an Village who accidentally broke into the ruins of Zhou's Village, and an old man?"

Mrs. Zhang shook her head and said:

"I didn't eat it, but she wanted it."

Shen Sui glanced at the rotten man on the bed, and frowned even tighter.

"She was sick, and she had to eat people's hearts and livers to cure her illness. But...after eating, she still died..." Mrs. Zhang said.

Shen Sui's heart was congested and he couldn't breathe.

"Do you know Zhou Da Wednesday?" Shen Sui asked, her tone seemed to be holding back something.

"know……"

"Where is Zhu Yuanmao?" Shen Sui asked, her question seemed to have no superficial connection with the previous question.But if you think about it, there are still some.

She slowly pointed to a piece of floor in the northwest corner of the bamboo house, and remained silent.

Shen Sui said to the outside world:

"Come in a few people and pry the floor open."

A few bold government soldiers came in with crowbars, and Shen Sui said to Hutuo again:

"Give me the bamboo basket."

Hu Tuo handed the bamboo basket that had been in his hand to Shen Sui.Shen Sui lifted off the blue cloth covering the bamboo basket, put the basket in front of Mrs. Zhang, and said:

"Thank you for your rope, which saved my life. I split open a hanging coffin, which you worked so hard to carve, and I felt very sorry. The hanging coffin fell into the river and was destroyed, and the body was also eaten by mandrills. , only this arm is left."

Shen Sui clearly felt that her breathing became more and more rapid, and there was a faint sound of chest fistula.But she had lost the strength to get angry, and in the end she just said dejectedly:

"How many hanging coffins?"

Shen Sui recalled: "The row west of the middle is the fifth hanging coffin from the bottom."

"He's my little uncle..." she said.

Shen Sui remained silent.

"This arm, burn it, collect the ashes, and throw it into the river. You put a stick of incense for him, there is his tablet under there, and his name is Zhou Ying. He won't blame you. He was the most important person in his life. Be kind to others. And... and my younger sister..." Mrs. Zhang was talking in a rambling manner.

Shen Sui said: "Okay."

The floor was pried open, and Shen Sui led people into it.This is a long tunnel, and there is no trace of artificial carving, it is naturally formed.The space is not too big and not too small, just big enough for a person to pass while standing.The tunnel first went inward for more than a mile, then extended downward for several tens of feet, and finally reached the entrance of the cave.Once out of the cave entrance, there is a grotto room ten feet square. In the direction of the north, there is a huge card table with more than 80 tablets stacked on it.

All of them are the memorial tablets of the people of Zhoujia Village.

Before the card case, there was an even more shocking scene.A huge cross stood on the ground, and a person was tied upside down, with his arms outstretched, his feet together, his neck was cut open, and blood had already flowed all over the ground.The wound was not big, and the blood probably took a long time to drain. Only those who have experienced it know how tortured this method of death is.The blood on the ground hadn't completely dried up yet, so I'm afraid it would only take two days for him to die completely.

The cave was filled with the smell of blood and rotting corpses, and the man bound to the cross was about to begin to rot.

Shen Sui had some palpitations, his feet slipped, he couldn't stand firmly, and almost fell.Fortunately, Hu Tuo beside her had sharp eyes and quick hands, and reached out to support her, so that she would not lose her composure too much.

"Da Lang!" Hutuo was very nervous, and he also understood what the scene in front of him meant to Da Lang.

In the darkness of the fire, Shen Sui's complexion turned pale, she waved her hands to indicate that she was fine, then forced herself to calm down, and staggered forward to check.

"Yes...it's Zhu Yuanmao..." Shen Sui replied after carefully observing the people bound on the cross.The burly general who used to be an all-powerful general in the military world, with a height of more than six feet, now has the appearance of such a rotting corpse.

Shen Suiduo wanted to bring him back to life, and then grabbed him by the lapel to force him to ask about the past, but he died, so recklessly and irresponsibly, she no longer knew who to ask.After many twists and turns, I still have to start all over again in the end, I still have to start all over again!

She sat silently in the pool of blood, let the remaining blood stain her red clothes, and remained silent.

***

The disappearance case of Zhu Yuanmao's Yangtze River cruise ship was solved. Along with this case, the murder case of Lu Zixiu's family was solved a year and a half ago.These two cases involved the Zhoujiacun extermination case 16 years ago, but the Zhoujiacun case could not be filed for re-investigation due to its age and insufficient evidence.In the end, the case was settled only because of a statement from Mrs. Zhang: "It was Lu Zixiu who killed all the people in Zhoujia Village".The bloody sins of Zhoujia Village were finally attributed to a dead man.

Shen Sui was in a bad mood, during the few days when she came to Jiangling from Fengjie, she seldom spoke.She rode on a horse and followed the large army into the Jiangling mansion, her handsome side face revealed a stern look.

Xiao Zhongfei, Inspector of Jiangling Mansion, came out of the city to meet him, his red official robe seemed to flutter like his mood.He was really in a good mood, getting rid of the murder case of Lu Zixiu's family that made him grey-haired really made him seem decades younger.And Shen Sui, who solved the case, naturally became his great benefactor, and he must be thanked.

However, Shen Sui was a little cold towards him, she really couldn't muster up the energy to deal with the governor of Jiangling.Fortunately, Shen Sui's tired Zhang said that he could see that, he took the matter of dealing with Xiao Zhongfei away and handed it over to Pei Yaoqing and Liu Yucheng.

The three imperial envoys, Zhang Shuo, and the accompanying Zhang Ruohan all stayed in the governor's mansion.The Governor's Mansion has already made preparations to welcome guests, and each guest room has sent rough envoys and servants.As soon as Shen Sui entered the mansion, he called for bath water, took a bath and changed clothes.In the evening, there was another reception banquet, but he postponed it on the grounds that he was tired and sick.She couldn't muster up the energy to deal with anyone and just wanted to get some sleep.

The dense water steam steamed her cheeks, and she submerged her head and face in the water.The underwater world is a strange world.No disturbances can be heard, no disputes can be seen, only silence.Her long hair was scattered in the bathtub, floating on the water, like a soft black cloud.

She thought of Mrs. Zhang. She heard that her boudoir name was Ruijin and her younger sister was Ruixiu. They were actually twins.Many, many years ago, when they were very young, Zhang Yue's family carried them through the streets of Jiangling City, envious of others.They are the famous "Twin Flowers" in Jiangling City.Their father is Sima from Jiangling Mansion, a local high-ranking official from the fifth rank, and a poor student who studied hard for ten years to obtain fame.Although their mother, Mrs. Zhou, was only the daughter of a carpenter's family, she and Zhang Yue were a married couple who never left.Zhang Yue's parents died young, and it was the Zhou family who worked hard to support him in education and married his daughter to him.He is very competitive and has never disappointed his father-in-law's family.

Ruijin Ruixiu used to be very beautiful. Although she was not well-read in poetry and books, she was also beautiful and intelligent.Everyone thought that they would marry a promising man in the future and live a happy life.But fate made a great joke to them, and since then they have run counter to their ideal life.Just like the keel of the ship that collapsed outside the track, it is impossible to turn into a beautiful ship and sail down the river along the track.Ruijin was disfigured and was beaten when she was working in Lu Zixiu's mansion. She had no money for medical treatment and became an ugly monster ever since.Shen Sui had never seen Ruixiu's face before, because when she saw her, she had turned into rotting bones.

Shen Sui will never know how beautiful Xiuwai Huizhong's twin flowers used to be.It was like she would never know how happy their life was.

Ruixiu died, Ruijin's wish was to have her sister cremated and her ashes thrown into the river to accompany her parents.The same is true of her last wish, she killed people, many, many people, there is no way out, she understands.After this autumn, she will be executed.Fortunately, they have such a method called death to fulfill their wish to sail down the river.

Just a few days ago, Shen Sui personally cremated Ruixiu's body and Zhou Ying's arm, and threw them into the river.When she was trapped in the hanging coffin, she originally wanted to bring that arm up and examine it carefully.But when Kuta told her that there were two people in the dock on the river beach, she suddenly understood that there was no need for her to examine the scorched arm, because all the fragments of the story had been collected and she understood the story.

This is a story that only she can understand in an instant. If she understands it, she would rather never read it.

Sixteen years ago, a fire broke out in Zhoujia Village, destroying everything of 16 households, including a pair of twin flowers of Cardamom Nianhua. Seventeen years ago, a fire broke out in Chang'an City, destroying a mansion, a home, and another pair of twin flowers.

Today, of the twins, one is in a wheelchair, the other is hoarse, and their scars are covered up by tattoos.They wear masks, they can no longer restore their former appearance, and they have embarked on a road of no return.

"Wow", she stood up from the bathtub, crystal liquid dripped from her face, whether it was water or tears.The phoenix nirvana on the back is also rolling water droplets, dripping from the realistically drawn phoenix eyes, which are the tears of the phoenix.

She stepped out of the tub, took a dry towel to dry herself, and began to dress.Obscene trousers, underpants, chest cloth, just put on underwear, "squeak", the door of the outer room was pushed open.Shen Sui didn't care much, because before Shen Jin told herself that she wanted the bluebird to sort out her suitcase, she even left the door open.Shen Sui shouted:

"Here we come, Bluebird, the suitcase is beside the couch."

The visitor didn't answer, but the sound of footsteps came in her direction, slowly bypassed the screen, and entered the bathroom.With her back to the screen, Shen Sui twisted her long hair with a dry towel, she didn't care for a while, now she is full of other things, and her mind is not on these trivial matters at all.Until she sensed a sight behind her.

"Blue Robin, what are you doing here, the suitcase is..."

She turned around and saw Zhang Ruohan standing quietly by the screen looking at her.

The air condenses instantly...

The author has something to say: This chapter is very sad, until I finish this chapter, I feel that I have completed the first stage of writing riddles - expressing clearly the emotional source of the protagonist's obsession.Shen Bozhao, why is she so persistently embarking on a road of no return, I hope someone can understand her emotions.She did it for revenge and redress, but before that, she wanted to find out the truth of the tragedy that year, and then decide whether she wanted revenge or redress.She didn't know anything about that year, she had to find out, otherwise she would die with regret.

Some people think that the routine of this article is very similar to "Langya Bang", and the above passage is the most fundamental difference between "Tang Mi" and "Langya Bang".This is a completely different story from "Langya Bang". Mei Changsu knows everything, so he is in control of everything.But Shen Sui knew nothing, because she knew nothing, so she wanted to solve the riddle, so this is Tang riddle, not Langya Bang.