The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

It was dusk at this time, and in order to seize the time to investigate, the six of them didn't even eat dinner, so they split up to visit the small town.

Long Sen and Qu Wanyue were in charge of the northwest region, Lao Mo and Liu Qiao were in charge of the southeast, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang simply went to the Lin family.

They were acting by the lake before, and the female corpse that Long Sen picked up was the missing girl of the Lin family, named Lin Wanru. Judging from the typical giant-view features on the surface of the corpse, she should have died within three days.Everyone in the town knew that Miss Lin disappeared inexplicably on the day of the Ghost Festival. Now that her body was found in the lake, Xiao Lou wanted to see her family's reaction.

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou sneaked into Lin's house secretly.

Surprisingly, after Miss Lin's body was sent back to the Lin family, the elders in the family had no intention of burying her in peace.Normally, if the daughter's body is recovered, the parents should prepare a coffin for her, right?

However, there was no coffin in the huge courtyard of the Lin family, but a sack in the corner. Judging from the appearance, it was likely that it contained Miss Lin's body.Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou lay on the roof, and they looked at each other. Xiao Lou said in his mind, "They just wrapped Miss Lin's body in a sack. Could it be that they plan to throw the body in the wild?"

Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "Even if they don't have a good relationship with their daughter, now that her daughter has died in vain, they don't dare to find out who the murderer is. They don't even bury the body properly...how can there be such parents?"

Xiao Lou looked into the yard, and saw the middle-aged man's face was pale, and the woman's eyes were red as if she had just cried. She walked under the tree and looked at the sacks piled up next to her, and couldn't help sobbing, "You really want to throw Wanru away?" Go to the mass grave?"

The man hastily made a "hush" motion on his lips, and lowered his voice: "She died so strangely, it would be unlucky to be buried in the Lin family's ancestral grave. People who died in vain in the small town were buried in mass graves, so that it would not It will come true."

The woman looked at the sack with unbearable expression on her face, and she looked at the sack with red eyes. In the end, she gritted her teeth and said, "Throw her into a mass grave and be swallowed by wild dogs and crows. It's better to burn her with a fire, and it will be over once and for all." I only hope that my poor daughter will have a good pregnancy in her next life..."

After she finished speaking, she found a jug of wine from the house, poured it on the sack, and set it on fire.

The raging fire quickly engulfed Lin Wanru's body, and there was an unpleasant smell of burning corpses in the air. A middle-aged man and a woman stood beside the fire with complicated expressions. After a while, the fire burned out, leaving only a mass of black ash under the tree.The man sighed softly, turned and went back to the house, out of sight.The woman bowed to Hei Hui and followed him with red eyes.

There was a conversation between the two in the house: "Pack up our things, we have to leave Qingfeng Town as soon as possible."

The woman's voice was stern: "Run? Can you escape? People who escaped from Qingfeng Town all these years have died tragically in other places. Your Qingfeng Town must have been cursed. What evil have you done?"

The man shouted angrily: "Don't talk nonsense!"

The couple began to quarrel violently.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang lay on the roof and listened to their quarrel.

Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly, and quickly sorted out the key information from the quarrel between the two. He said to Xiao Lou in his mind: "These strange things have happened frequently in Qingfeng Town these years. I have always wondered why many people in the town have disappeared. Why don't you just move? Now it seems that the people who left the town have been cursed, so they don't dare to move casually."

Xiao Loudao: "That is to say, Qingfeng Town has become a semi-enclosed space. Those who stay here, who have done bad things, may be retaliated by the 'ghost' at any time; and those who are guilty and want to move out of the town , can’t escape the murderer’s pursuit?”

Yu Hanjiang said: "Is this family surnamed Lin related to that robber named Lin Xiaofeng back then?"

There was a woman surnamed Lin in the five-member group of sworn brothers in the year of the famine. When Xiao Lou heard this, he immediately took out the drone card left by Tang Ci, and the drone took pictures of the roster in Qin Feng's cabinet , including the information of all the families in the town.

Xiao Lou quickly found information about Lin Wanru's family, and after looking it up, he said, "Lin Xiaofeng, who participated in the murder of her mother-in-law during the famine, is the older sister of the middle-aged man Lin Feng just now, and also the aunt of the deceased Lin Wanru...but Lin Wanru His death is not like that of the murderer of the ghost case, it is very likely that the murderer of the ghost case has not had time to take revenge on the Lin family, another murderer killed Lin Wanru first?"

The culprits in the ghost case were Qi Ran, who was adopted by Grandma Sun, and Han Ningshuang, Xue's second sister-in-law who lied about "remarried and went to another place".

Their means of revenge against their enemies is to lure the whole family of their enemies to mass graves and torture them to death.Once these two make a move, they will directly destroy the family, leaving no one alive, and the methods are extremely cruel.

The murderer who put the girl in red and dragged the girl to the bottom of the lake was obviously not Qi and Han.

It's just that the Lin family did a lot of evil and happened to offend two waves of murderers.Qi Ran and Han Ningshuang should be planning to destroy the Lin family as well, but before they could do anything, the other murderer couldn't wait and killed Lin Wanru, the daughter of the Lin family.

Yu Hanjiang said: "In Qin Feng's roster, I remember that Lin Xiaofeng's name seemed to be marked with a red cross?"

Xiao Lou found the page in the roster from the drone, nodded and said: "The five people investigated by Mr. Shao are Zhao Lang, Chen Yu, Xue Ming, Lin Xiaofeng, and Lu Cheng. Among them, the Zhao family and the Chen family are three-year-old The former disappeared; the Xue family died earlier, probably after Han Ningshuang married Xue Zhao; the remaining Lin Xiaofeng and Lu Cheng happened to be married, but they did not have children, and their names were beaten. The red cross should be dead."

Yu Hanjiang said: "It seems that the murderer of the ghost case has already eliminated all five people who killed my mother-in-law back then. Those who have not died on the roster are their collateral relatives. Nine clans, kill all people with the same surname?"

The names of Lin Feng and Lin Wanru are also on Qin Feng's roster, and they haven't yet been marked with a red cross. This shows that Qin Feng guessed that Qi and Han's crazy revenge is to drive out all relatives and descendants of these people.

And the other murderer picked Lin Wanru and let Lin Wanru's parents go. It must have nothing to do with the famine 20 years ago. The murderer's motive is still unclear. Seeing that it was getting late, Xiao Lou pressed the voice headset and said: "Time is running out, everyone should go back to the inn to meet up as soon as possible, after dark we will be sent to the ghost town again."

Liu Qiao and Qu Wanyue said in unison, "Got it."

After a while, the six of them met at the Fulai Inn, and Xiao Lou held down the voice headset for an analysis meeting.

Qu Wanyue told her teammates what she had learned: "Two years ago, a strange incident happened in the town. A bride hanged herself in her new house on her wedding night."

Liu Qiaodao: "What I heard was the same. We visited some families in the town, and they all said that this was the only case where something happened to the wedding. The groom's name was Long Yan, the son of a wealthy businessman in Qingfeng Town. Everyone called him Young Master Long San often goes out of town to do business. The bride's surname is Lin and she is a local."

Surname Lin?Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang immediately became alert.

Xiao Lou asked: "What is the relationship between the bride and the dead Lin Wanru?"

Qu Wanyue said: "Her name is Lin Wanqing, she is Lin Wanru's cousin."

Yu Hanjiang asked: "This Lin Wanqing hanged herself on the wedding night?"

Qu Wanyue said: "People in the town say that. The third young master of the Long family is rich and generous. He invited many people from the town to a wedding on the day of his wedding. At that time, there were two people in the backyard of the Long family. The banquet with more than a dozen tables was very lively. According to the rules of Qingfeng Town, after the bride and groom worship, they are not sent to the bridal chamber immediately, but the bride is sent in first, and the groom continues to entertain the guests outside and toast the guests. "

Liu Qiaodao: "It is said that for nearly an hour, the groom's official and the guests were busy drinking in the yard, and no one paid attention to whether someone had entered the new house. After the guests all dispersed, around early morning, drink The half-drunk bridegroom was escorted to the new house, and when he opened the door, he saw the bride hanging from the beam by her hair, already dead.”

Xiao Lou looked at Yu Hanjiang: "The bride definitely didn't commit suicide, it was the murderer's hand."

Yu Hanjiang nodded in agreement: "This bride surnamed Lin was the first to be killed by the murderer in the Shenhu case. Perhaps, it is also closely related to the murderer's motive for killing."

Xiao Lou sighed softly: "Unfortunately, the bride's body has not been found, and I can't confirm the murderer's modus operandi when he killed the first time through an autopsy. But it can be guessed that the murderer probably strangled the bride to death first. , and then pretended to commit suicide, and hung the corpse on the hanging beam with hair. The murderer was able to enter and leave the wedding banquet scene of the Long family smoothly, so he should be an acquaintance of the Long family, right?"

Yu Hanjiang asked: "Xiao Liu, for the wedding banquet that day, only those who have an invitation card can enter the backyard?"

Liu Qiaodao: "Yes, the Long family can be regarded as a big and prestigious family in the local area. Most people are not qualified to attend the wedding banquet of Young Master Long San. It is said that there are many nursing homes guarding the door of the Long family. There is no invitation card. don't go."

Yu Hanjiang said: "If the murderer would fly over the walls and sneak in, there are so many people at the lively wedding banquet, it would be easy to be discovered. Therefore, it is more likely that the murderer walked in openly with an invitation."

Xiao Lou suddenly asked: "By the way, where is the third young master of the Long family?"

"He's dead too. However, three months after the bride hanged herself, he accidentally fell into the river and drowned..." Liu Qiao couldn't help but become serious when he said this: "It seems that this dragon The third young master was also killed by the murderer? I don't believe there is such a coincidence."

The bride hanged herself at the wedding banquet, and the groom fell into the river and drowned three months later...

In addition, the female corpses in the sinking lake case were all dragged into the lake, which shows that the murderer is very good at water. It is easy to think that the third young master of the Long family didn't fall into the river when he went out—but was dragged into the river by the murderer .

Xiao Loudao: "Can we still find the guest list for the Long family's wedding banquet? The murderer is probably among them."

Yu Hanjiang thought for a while, and said: "The Long family's wedding banquet was held two years ago, and the world where Brother Jiu and the others lived was three years ago. Brother Jiu didn't know about the Shenhu case at all, so he probably wouldn't wait in that world for a whole Years. It seems that we have to figure out a way for this matter.”