The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

After the four of Lu Jiuchuan returned to the inn, Chu Huaying took the initiative to suggest: "We still have too few clues for Xiao Lou. The five people who saw the ghost at night are just suspicious, but there is no evidence to prove whether they are related to the murderer. I I think we should continue to keep an eye on Qin Feng's line, the mayor's behavior has been very strange."

Gui Yuanzhang asked, "Hua Ying, do you want to follow him?"

Chu Huaying nodded, and said decisively: "My physical fitness has been strengthened by cards. Even without the help of the invisibility cloak, I can quietly follow behind him without being noticed by him."

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said, "Of course I can rest assured of Huaying's tracking ability. I will leave the clue to track Qin Feng to you."

Chu Huaying: "Okay, I will act when it gets dark."

Lu Jiuchuan looked at Tang Ci and lowered his voice: "Have the drones on the Zhao's side been arranged?"

"Well, the person who organized the mourning hall for the Zhao family should appear soon."

Lu Jiuchuan said again: "There is one more person who needs attention. The woman who was crying at Chen's house today said that her sister had given birth and she came to visit. Qin Feng didn't know her and asked her if she came from another place. Perhaps, we Can we find some clues about her sister, Mrs. Chen Yu from her?"

Gui Yuanzhang said: "Leave this person to me, I just saw that she happened to live in the Fulai Inn."

Tang Ci said: "Let Brother Nine and I investigate the remaining five ghost witnesses."

Everyone has assigned tasks.

At night, the four acted separately.

Chu Huaying flew to Qin Feng's residence like a ghost, and climbed up to the roof silently.

The light was on in the study, and Qin Feng was looking at the roster he had written down intently by the candlelight, with a thoughtful look on his face.I don't know how long it took, but he actually maintained this movement, motionless like a statue.

Chu Huaying also waited patiently on the roof.

Finally, Qin Feng stood up, frowned and blew out the candles, put on a coat, turned and went out.

It was late at night, most of the people had already fallen asleep, the town was very quiet, and occasionally some crickets could be heard.Qin Feng deliberately lightened his footsteps, and quickly walked towards the southeast of the town. Chu Huaying followed behind him like a ghost.

To Chu Huaying's surprise, he actually walked to the door of the shop where Second Aunt Xue sold tofu.

He seemed to be hesitating, pacing up and down the door.

Chu Huaying was puzzled—when she was inquiring around the town today, Mrs. Xue told someone that she saw a ghost last night. Therefore, Chu Huaying also deliberately listened to the neighbors talking about this incident, knowing that this The second sister-in-law Xue married the second young master of the Xue family, and her husband died of illness within a few days. She became a widow and supported the tofu shop by herself.

Qin Feng came to Mrs. Xue's door in the middle of the night. Could it be that the two of them have an impure relationship?

Chu Huaying concentrated and continued to stare at the door.

After a while, Qin Feng seemed to have made up his mind, stepped forward and gently knocked the door lock.

The room was lit with warm yellow candlelight, and a thin woman in a cloak opened the door. The soft moonlight shone on her face, making her look a little pale, but this woman had delicate features and beautiful features, especially Those eyes were black and bright against the fair skin.

When she saw the person in front of her, she chuckled: "I guessed it was you. Why, come to me in the middle of the night to investigate?"

Qin Feng looked around: "Can you go in and talk?"

Second Sister-in-Law Xue said: "My husband is no longer here. Is it appropriate for you to come into my house in the middle of the night?"

Qin Feng coughed and said seriously, "I have something serious to ask you."

Second Aunt Xue opened the door with a smile, Qin Feng entered the room, and she locked the door from the inside.

Chu Huaying immediately flew up the tree, jumped, landed lightly on the roof, lifted a tile, and looked into the house.

Qin Feng was sitting in the guest seat, Second Aunt Xue poured him a cup of tea, but he didn't drink it, looked at the other party, and asked in a low voice: "I'm here, I just want to ask you a word."

Second Aunt Xue still had a smile on her face: "Is it about ghosts?"

"Well. Last night, five people said that they saw Li Gui with their own eyes. I clearly remember that after the rain stopped, there was only a thunderclap. When you said that Li Gui appeared, there was thunder in the sky. Is it true?"

"Of course it's true. I was so frightened that my legs went limp, so I hurried back to the house."

"Uncle Liu, Zhang Chengyu, and Lin Yueran also said that they saw ghosts during the thunderstorm. You four live in different locations in the east, south, west, and north of the town. How could you see ghosts at the same time as the thunderstorm?"

"Really? They also saw it?" Second Aunt Xue pretended to be surprised: "The ghost can float around, I don't know what's going on, maybe she can appear in many places at the same time?"

Qin Feng stared at her deeply: "Then do you know that old man Liu has bad ears and often mishears? He lives closest to the Zhao family. Last night, when the second lady of the Zhao family was getting married, there was a fire on the street. A bunch of firecrackers, could he have misheard the sound of firecrackers as thunder?"

He paused, and then said slowly: "I asked Zhang and Lin in the afternoon, and they don't seem to be lying. Moreover, Brother Lin's son Doudou also said that thunder was thundering when the ghost appeared, and children don't care about it." Probably lied. So..."

The woman's complexion changed, she put away her smile, and said coldly: "You suspect that I'm lying?"

Qin Feng sighed softly, looked at her with complicated eyes and said, "Ningshuang, we grew up together, in front of me, can't you tell the truth?"

The woman said lightly, "Han Ningshuang is already dead, don't call me that."

Qin Feng was silent for a moment, and then said: "Okay, Second Sister Xue. Last night it wasn't a ghost asking for your life at all... You were pretending to be a female ghost to scare people, right?"

The corner of the woman's lips raised a trace of sarcasm: "You think too highly of me, how can I fly around in the sky?"

Qin Feng said: "However, you can make kites——white kites."

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Chu Huaying hid on the roof, listening to the conversation between the two, she was very surprised.

First, Qin Feng and Second Sister Xue have known each other since they were young, and Qin Feng found a loophole in the five people's description of Li Gui, and finally proved that Second Sister Xue was lying.

Second, the second sister-in-law Xue, whose real name is Han Ningshuang, knows how to make kites. She is very likely to make a white kite, put a woman's white dress on the kite, cover it with black hair, and fake the appearance of a ghost, and then use the wind to fly the kite into the sky. , People mistakenly think that "ghosts are floating in the sky".

And she herself, pretending to be one of the terrified witnesses, is actually committing the murder secretly...

The trajectory of her movement is the trajectory of the "ghost" seen by witnesses in the town.

The first one to see was Uncle Liu, who lived nearby. He mistook the sound of firecrackers when Miss Zhao's family got married as thunder.

The second one I saw was the proprietress in the center of the town. She didn't hear the thunder.

The third one I saw was the Zhang and Lin families who lived in the west and north of Qingfeng Town. When Mrs. Xue took the kite to the northwest, there happened to be a thunder in the sky.The northwest direction was the closest to the exit of the town. She threw away the kite and left the town with the wedding party.

However, she ignored the details of the thunder. Uncle Liu was the first to say, "I saw a female ghost during the thunder." .

Second Aunt Xue was silent for a long time before she said with a smile: "Do you think I have such a great ability to make all the [-] members of the Zhao family and the Chen family disappear overnight?"

Qin Feng shook his head: "I'm not sure. We separated when we were young, and I don't know where you went or what you did in the following years."

There was a look of pain in his eyes, he lowered his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "I came back to Qingfeng Town just to wait for you. I thought you might go back to your hometown to have a look, so that I could find you. It's just that , I didn't expect that it was Xue Zhao and Mrs. Xue whom he married from a foreign country who were waiting for me."

The room fell silent.

After a while, Mrs. Xue sighed softly and said: "Xue Zhao saved my life. I married him to repay his kindness. At that time, I didn't know that he was from Qingfeng Town. If I knew, I would never Follow him back to this sad place." She paused, then said softly, "I thought you were dead long ago."

Qin Feng smiled wryly and shook his head: "I was also saved by kind people."

The room fell into silence again, and both of them seemed to be lost in memories.

A lot of information is blurred in their conversations, but it is certain that they knew each other when they were young.Moreover, Qin Feng has never been married, and many matchmakers broke into his house to offer marriage to him, but he rejected them all—the person he was waiting for was the second sister-in-law Xue in front of him, her childhood sweetheart formerly known as Han Ningshuang.

The light in the room was dim, and the shadows of the two of them swayed slightly on the wall.

Qin Feng stared blankly at the shadow on the wall, Han Ningshuang dialed the wick with a bamboo stick, and said expressionlessly: "For the sake of our acquaintance since we were young, I can tell you that the people of the Zhao family and The members of the Chen family deserve what they have done, so don't be so persistent in investigating them. You won't forget how they treated your mother-in-law back then, right?"

Qin Feng's face was pale, and he didn't reply.

Han Ningshuang said word by word: "They chopped off my mother-in-law's hands and boiled them in a pot; chopped her legs into minced meat, cut off her ears and soaked them in wine..."

Qin Feng said sharply: "Stop talking!"

Han Ningshuang stopped describing, her expression was cold.

Qin Feng stood up in despair, and said: "I hate them too! But those beasts are already dead, and their crimes are not as good as their wives and children. The descendants of the Zhao family and the Chen family were as old as us at that time. know what?"

Han Ningshuang sneered, "Didn't those children survive after eating their mother-in-law's flesh? Why can't they pay for the sins their ancestors did?"

Qin Feng: "..."

Han Ningshuang said: "Blood debts are paid in blood. Qin Feng, I advise you not to investigate further, otherwise, I might attack you." She paused and said, "It's getting late, you should go back. If you come to my place in the middle of the night, you will gossip if you are seen."

Qin Feng stood up with an ugly expression, walked two steps and then turned around and said, "Where did you take those people?"

Han Ningshuang sneered: "I won't tell you. Of course, you can expose me in front of everyone tomorrow, saying that I played a ghost by flying a kite on the night of July 20th, and that I killed the Zhao family and the Chen family." There were more than [-] people, and then according to the rules left by our ancestors, they tied me to a wooden frame and burned me alive."

Qin Feng's face turned green and pale one after another: "You are so stubborn! You kill innocent people indiscriminately, what's the difference between you and those beasts? Do you really think I can't bear to expose you?"

Han Ningshuang turned around, gave him the back of her head, and ignored him.

Qin Feng slammed the door out with a look of despair.

Chu Huaying watched this scene from the roof, not knowing what to say.She followed Qin Feng back home, and found Qin Feng sitting slumped at the table, picked up a brush, dipped it in red paint, and marked all the names on the roster with red crosses one by one.

Qin Feng blew out the candles and fell asleep with his clothes on. Chu Huaying flew to the street next to him, pressed the earphones, and quickly told Lu Jiuchuan all the information he had seen.

Lu Jiuchuan was startled when he heard this: "Could it be that Han Ningshuang is the murderer?"

Tang Ci said: "The so-called fierce ghost turned out to be the white kite she flew. That is to say, during the famine that year, the 'mother-in-law' she was talking about was captured by the hound organization and tortured to death. She and Qin Feng should both be mother-in-law The child I raised was fortunate enough to escape from Qingfeng Town, but after a few years, the two got separated for some reason."

Lu Jiuchuan followed Tang Ci's speculation and said: "Qin Feng likes her, and went back to the town to wait for her. She was rescued by a young man named Xue Zhao, married Xue Zhao, and became Xue's second sister-in-law. Back to Qingfeng Town, to Xiao The people in the town launched a crazy revenge?"

"I remember that the drone captured the information of everyone in the town." Tang Ci turned on the drone and took a look, saying: "Based on the age of Second Sister Xue, when the famine happened 20 years ago, she was only 9 years old. For... Tiger."

On the drum surface of the rattle, a little tiger happened to be drawn.