Strangers

For a while, he wanted to get up, but he was so weak that he couldn't even move a little finger.He tried to gather a little strength, slowly closed his eyes, and then opened them again. In his pupils was an old face condescending and hooking his head.

The old woman rolled her eyes and said sharply, "Say!"

say what.His eardrums hurt.

"Did you know about that! Say!"

That matter... I want to talk and ask, if I can move my throat.

"No, no! Listen to me! There is no such thing at all! Anyone who says there is can't live! Can't!"

It seems that the old lady is completely crazy, bad luck.Ding Li laughed at himself, the remaining consciousness was only enough to think wildly, but he heard a clang, and pulled out a dagger.

"There is no such thing at all... That thing cannot be known... Kill... Kill it quickly... Kill! Kill!" The old woman waved her one arm wildly.

Countless countermeasures flashed through Ding Li's mind, but his body couldn't make any response, and the blade was about to cut through the carotid artery!

A figure flashed out and swiftly snatched away the dagger.

"Gua Po, you forgot, we can't kill people." A female voice said with a pleasant expression, "Quiet the fire first, I'll just ask him, come on, I'll help you out for a while."

"No need to help!" The old woman waved her hand, panting heavily, picked up the walking stick after a while, and walked out with a clatter.

The woman crouches down.

"You are bound by Gua Po's spell, and there is nothing I can do about it." Her voice was soft and tenacious, and she didn't sound malicious, "I didn't expect to see you again, and it's been seven years. How does it feel to carry six lives on your back? Fortunately, Gua Po is crazy, otherwise, if she thinks of that incident, even the gods will not be able to protect you."

The woman pauses.

"But I can't blame you all, it's all the surname Qi, otherwise, let alone Guapo, even I would want to kill you." After a long time, she didn't speak, and sighed softly, "Wait, I'll go and persuade you She, see if she can let you go."

Seven years... six lives... the surname Qi... that matter...

Ding Li couldn't move, so he had to take the opportunity to sort out the overloaded information in his mind. After an unknown period of time, the powerless feeling like a ghost pressing a bed suddenly disappeared.

He shook his fingers and got up immediately.

The woman from just now opened the door and walked in. She was dressed in the same way as the old woman, with her hair tied behind her head, and she was dressed in coarse clothes and shoes. She only had a young and calm face.

"You can go." She said, "One last piece of advice for you, stay away from that surnamed Qi."

Ding Li thanked him and asked directly, "Who is the surname Qi?"

The woman was puzzled: "You don't remember?"

"What is that thing, please tell me."

She was speechless and shook her head: "you don't have to ask any more, it's a good thing for you to forget."

"Amei!" A loud voice shouted from outside the room, "Get out soon! Can't you move your legs when you see a man! Bitch!"

The woman nodded to Ding Li and wanted to leave.

"Please wait a moment." Ding Li grabbed her.

She withdrew her arm and reprimanded in a low voice: "If you keep entangled and make Guapo angry, you will really die."

"It's okay, you won't kill people."

"How are you sure?"

"Because you have no malicious intentions." Ding Li decided to take a gamble, "It is said that once the incident is known, it will happen again. The reason why the mother-in-law wanted to kill the person who knew it was simply to stop the situation."

"Then you should also know that everyone who hears about that will die."

"But you and mother-in-law are both alive." Ding Li knew that time was running out, so he sped up his speech, "I am a doctor, and the last thing I want to see is someone dying. Now that there is such a big case on the island, the police are already doing their best. Investigate, it's only a matter of time before people find out about that, if you really want to stop it, you have to use more aggressive methods."

"I don't want to see people die the most?" The woman suddenly changed her tone and sneered, "As the culprit, you can really say that if it wasn't for the surname Qi, it wouldn't have existed at all. Well, I don't want to waste more money Lips and tongues, there will be no time in the future."

The woman disappeared.

After walking out of the house, Ding Li lit a cigarette.

Looking around at the sky, it was already evening, and when he walked around a few rows of poplar trees, he saw the very familiar inpatient department building in front of him. Looking back, he realized that the place where he was locked up just now was the abandoned mortuary a few years ago.

Returning to Zhiguai Zhai with his mind full of questions, Ding Li directly pushed away from the back room, and fell into the bed on his back without even taking off his clothes.

The culprit.

When the woman said this, her words were full of hatred for a murderer. He had seen this kind of look more than once in seven years.

When walking out of the operating room.

What an unpleasant memory.He looked at the spider web and smiled wryly, I really am not suitable to be a doctor.

"Don't think too much," said a voice in my head, in the same tone as last night.Loose, mocking, and gentle.

Your surname is Qi.

On Friday morning, Wei Yuanyang was standing outside the gate of the forensic department when he heard his roommates who hadn’t returned all night complaining inside.

"It's his grandma's, it's all yours! I've been rushing day and night to report, you said you've been dead for so long, and you don't do anything good to accumulate evil deeds!"

"Lei Ting, who are you talking to alone?" Wei Yuanyang asked.

Forensic doctor Lei turned his head and shook a humerus: "Follow it! Can't you?"

"Okay." Wei Yuanyang threw a box of steamed buns on the table.

"But I starved to death." Lei Ting ran to the sink and washed his hands three times, then lifted the plastic bag, "Huh? No vinegar."

"If you have to go to the cafeteria to pour the vinegar yourself, it's enough."

"Why do I keep you when I go to the cafeteria when I have time!" Lei Ting swallowed one with his chopsticks, picked up another one and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

Wei Yuanyang raised his eyes and saw the jar filled with body parts: "Don't eat."

"You say you." Lei Ting pointed at him with chopsticks, "I can't even overcome this psychological barrier, so I have the nerve to hang out in the criminal police team."

"I'm happy, can you control me?" Wei Yuanyang, not to be outdone, grabbed a bun and stuffed it into his mouth, "Liu Dui asked you if the autopsy report is ready."

Lei Ting stretched out his hand triumphantly, and tapped a thick stack of papers on the table.

Flipping through the report and going upstairs, the phone rang, and Wei Yuanyang picked it up: "Hello, Xie Yu."

There was not even a word of pleasantries on the other side: "How is the proposal considered?"

"Oh, I went there last night, and that Qian Sining said that the case cannot be solved with their abilities, so I won't accept it."

There was no sound on the other side.

"Hello? Hello!" Wei Yuanyang thought it was a problem with the mobile phone, "What broken the signal."

"I'm in the Affiliated Hospital of Medical University." Xie Yu spoke again, "The nurse said that he entered the operating room, and it would be over at eleven o'clock at the earliest. Have the examination reports on the bones come out?"

"Out."

"What was the result?"

"This one……"

"Can't you tell me?"

"……sorry."

"No, I shouldn't have asked in the first place, but knowing the content of the report can increase my bargaining chips."

"Negotiation? Are you going to negotiate with that doctor?"

"Yes. That's it for now. Goodbye."

"Hey, wait!" Wei Yuanyang went to the corner of the stairs, covered the microphone and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to negotiate with him?"

Pause on the opposite side: "It depends on the specific situation. In short, try to collect case information as much as possible."

Wei Yuanyang weighed whether to tell him the autopsy results, and finally professional ethics prevailed: "Oh, it's okay."

"Goodbye." Xie Yu hung up the phone seeing that he couldn't get the message.

At eleven o'clock in the dressing room, Ding Li took off his light green wash clothes, put on his white coat, took out the mahogany bead with a red string from his pocket, and hung it around his neck again.

Walking out of the surgery center, a man in a suit and glasses raised his hand.

"Hello." Ding Li nodded.

"Hello." Xie Yu said.

"Ate?"

"I've eaten." Xie Yu didn't want to cause trouble, so he lied.

"I'm going to the cafeteria, and I have an operation in the afternoon, let's chat while eating." Ding Li greeted generously.

So Xie Yu, who had an empty stomach, could only watch helplessly on the plate opposite him.

"The case on the island."

Ding Li picked up a piece of fish steak: "Huh?"

"I think you care a lot."

Ding Li took a bite of braised pork: "Oh."

"The old man yesterday."

Ding Li shoveled a spoonful of Kung Pao Chicken: "Old man?"

"..."

"Sorry, I get hungry very easily when I stand on the operating table, so go on."

Xie Yu raised his eyes from the dining table and looked at him: "I'm not a policeman. The investigation is purely a personal interest. If you think there is some information that the police should not know, I can promise not to disclose any of it."

"So?" Ding Li asked.

"I think we can work together."

Ding Li's tone was non-aggressive: "What are you going to use to cooperate with me?"

Xie Yu straightened his back: "What do you need?"

"I wonder if there was a murder in the hospital seven years ago."

"Then what can you offer."

Ding Li thought for a while: "Your novel material."

Xie Yu's eyes turned cold: "I never told you that I write novels."

"From the content of the conversation between you and your sister yesterday, most people can guess it."

"The problem is that most people don't bother to listen."

"It wasn't deliberate either. You were standing next to me all the time, and your sister was so imposing. It was hard for people around you to pay attention."

Xie Yu looked at the smile on the other side and knew that he had met a character who was evenly matched.

Twenty minutes later, Xie Yu's cell phone rang, and the moment he hung up the phone, he no longer had any doubts about Wei Yuanyang's ability to act.

"He has already found it." Xie Yu repeated, "The police station file shows that there was no murder in the hospital seven years ago, but four people disappeared between July and August, including two patients, a nurse, and a cleaner. work."

Ding Li brought two cups of coffee: "Could it be the ones on the island?"

"The file says the DNA was compared, no."

"Will there be other missing persons that have not been recorded."

"I don't know."

"Whose shoe is that?"

"Looking for it."

"What did the autopsy report say about the severed hand?"

Xie Yu took a sip of coffee: "He said he had a confidentiality obligation and he didn't want to disclose it."

"I need the autopsy report. If the police officer still refuses to disclose it, you can ask for me." Ding Li looked at the pattern on the paper cup, and slowed down his speech, "Are those five severed hands? Four belonged to two individuals, while one belonged to an elderly woman."

This person really held important clues.Xie Yu suppressed the excitement in his heart, dialed Wei Yuanyang's number again, hesitated for a moment on the other side of the phone, and finally admitted.

Ding Li nodded: "Come here first today, I should prepare for the operation."

"What is that?" Xie Yu asked.

"I also want to tell you." Ding Li replied, "Unfortunately, I don't know."

It was late at dusk.

Getting closer to an unpleasant memory bit by bit, this is the only thing Ding Li can be sure of.

At the tea table by the window, he made a cup of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Four missing and two dead, four plus two equals six.He didn't know what happened to those six lives, but he believed that he would not harm anyone anyway.

But will Ah Jing do it?He's not sure.

Negotiating coldly, taking advantage of each other, planning to show off his cleverness, if possible, he didn't want to do any of them.But if you want to get closer to Ah Jing step by step, you have to use these. If the self who was forgotten in that incident, walked over step by step until he became an appearance that he couldn't even recognize.

Ding Li didn't even have that confidence anymore.

"I'm a doctor, and the last thing I want to see is someone dying." Before he could say this sentence, he knew that only half of it was sincere, and the other half was an acting skill to win favor.

——It deserves to be self-defeating, making myself a hypocrite who can be seen through at a glance.

Ding Li slipped three rock candies into the cup, and Xie Yu's phone call interrupted his train of thought in a timely manner: "I found that old woman, her name is Chang Shulan. She makes a living by fortune-telling and divination, and she calls herself a divination woman. She lives with an adopted daughter at No. 174, Tongxin Lane. According to neighbors, she had two adopted sons who died in a car accident seven years ago, and her right hand was also broken at that time, and she has been insane ever since.”

"You guys are so efficient." Ding Li laughed.

"Surveillance video with proper reasoning, it's easy to do."

"That old woman is very powerful, you have to be careful."

"The follow-up work has been handed over to the police. They are checking whether the five hands belonged to her and her two adopted sons."

Ding Li was a little sympathetic: "If so, do you want to interrogate?"

Xie Yu took it for granted: "The verification is an interrogation."

☆, charm

The police search for corpses lasted for two full days. Dozens of nets were cast in Rongshu Lake. Except for some broken wine bottles and rotten branches, the biggest harvest was a [-] bicycle.Therefore, even though the adoptive daughter insisted that the old man's hand was cut off by her, and the two righteous brothers were hacked to death by her with a hatchet and thrown into the lake, the prosecution could not prosecute the crime of intentional homicide without enough evidence, let alone the autopsy Reports indicate broken bone ends were not sharps, but...

"It was run over, crushed, or bitten off by something." Wei Yuanyang said, "I really don't know where those reporters found out, but now it's good, some say zombies, some say beasts, and some say yes A perverted ogre who comes out in the middle of the night to eat people's heads for fun."

"Didn't you say it belonged to a monster?" Ding Li sat on the stone railing by the lake in a white coat.

"Yes, there are a few of us." Xie Yu stood by, the wind blowing from the lake.

"By the way, the owner of that sneaker has been found." Wei Yuanyang said, "It was a second-year junior high school student. His family said that after dinner that day, he said that he would go downstairs to play football for a while, and then he disappeared. I know why the shoes are on the island, but the kid usually likes to read detective novels and horror comics, so he probably came here to explore in the middle of the night when he heard about a case.”

For a while, Ding Li and Xie Yu were thinking about each other without saying a word.

"Actually, this is not a problem with novels and comics, is it? It's also because their parents didn't educate them well and let the children run to such a dangerous place alone in the middle of the night." Wei Yuanyang glanced at Xie Yu's expression from time to time, wanting to see Did the detective novelist ooze an iota of remorse or guilt.

Facts have proved that Xie Yu is indeed a creature with no expression: "I wonder if 'that incident' refers to 'ghost eating people', assuming that those people disappeared because they were eaten."

"How do you say that?"

"Leaving aside the exaggeration of the rumors, one, no one knows what 'that thing' is, because those who experienced and heard about it all died. - Those who experienced being eaten died naturally, and those who heard about it Lured by bizarre incidents to die. Second, the last time it happened was a few years ago. ——The disappearance of four people was seven years ago. Third, as long as someone knows, it will happen again. ——If someone knows, he will be lured Eat. Four, if it hasn’t happened for a long time, it will never happen again. ——After it hasn’t happened for a long time and is gradually forgotten, no one deliberately lands on that island in the middle of the night, and no one will be eaten.”

Wei Yuanyang touched his chin: "Is that so..."

"That's terrible." Ding Li retorted with a smile, "I made it so clear on purpose here that day, everyone around me knew it, and they were all going to be eaten."

Xie Yu turned his head and thought about it again: "Indeed, there is a problem with my deduction just now."

"Unless they don't want to be regarded as psychopaths more than murderers." Wei Yuanyang shook his police cap to fan the wind, "Otherwise, as long as everyone knows that they will be eaten by monsters when they go to the island in the middle of the night, those people will definitely not go there. So if 'that matter' refers to 'glam eating people', then there is no need to hide it from the mother and daughter."

"Not necessarily." Ding Li said, "If they are regarded as crazy, no one will believe their words."

"And according to the forbidden fruit effect, the more things people can't get, the more people want to get them, and the more things are concealed, the more people want to know. If 'that thing' is 'charm-eating people', their cover-up can only cause The opposite effect." Xie Yu said.

"What the hell is that thing?" Wei Yuanyang leaned on a telegraph pole.

Ding Li suddenly saw Xie Yu's eyes narrowed: "Did a disappearance case happen earlier in this place seven years ago?"

Wei Yuanyang hesitated for a moment and said yes.

"Now is not the time to fulfill the obligation of confidentiality." Xie Yu stared at him, "What is the specific situation?"

"That's quite a lot." Wei Yuanyang muttered, "Nearly a hundred people have disappeared, from the police station to the present."

Then he took out his work diary and took out a piece of manuscript paper sandwiched inside.

Ding Li unfolded and read: "Incomplete statistics on the number of missing people. In the 20s, there were 50 people; in the 31s, 60 people; in the 14s, 70 people; in the 5s, 80 people; in the 22s, 90 people; from 17 to the present, 2000 people. people."

Xie Yu looked at the island in the middle of the lake: "I know what that happened."

Ding Li turned his head, Wei Yuanyang instantly stood up straight.

"That thing is nothing, the rumor about that thing is that thing itself. Someone tells you not to think about an elephant, and an elephant will appear in your mind. Someone tells you that there is no such thing in this world." On the contrary, you believe that that thing really exists. In fact, the word "that thing" was originally a very vague reference. Once you start paying attention, you will find that everyone is talking about it, and about that thing All kinds of rumors about the matter made it even more an unspeakable mystery."

"But what does this have to do with the disappearance case?" Wei Yuanyang asked, "And those severed hands? And the mother and daughter? And the charm?"

"That incident is not completely groundless, but a rumor derived from the bizarre disappearance case." Xie Yu continued, "As for the purpose of its existence, it is to lead people to investigate, so that the disappearance case can be heard more. ——Using the first bizarre event as bait, it triggers the second bizarre event, which becomes the pavement of the third event, forming a cycle of endless cycles. As for the charm, there may be no such thing at all, or there may be a kind of The concretization and generalization as a last resort may not be 'enchantment', but 'disenchantment'."

"Disenchantment?"

"A rational explanation that makes people stop looking for the truth." Ding Li said.

Xie Yu nodded: "Correct answer."

The alleys twist and turn, and the wires tie the narrow sky.

Ding Li stopped and looked at the dark blue house number, No. 174, Tongxin Lane.

Regarding the truth about that incident, I think I already know it. Guapo is right, there was no such incident at all.He said so.

The woman called Amei hesitated, and finally opened the wooden door.

"Guapo is asleep in the back room, don't wake her up." She said softly.

Ding Li stepped lightly and looked around: the light is dim, red and yellow, talisman paper, turtle shell, bamboo shoots, rice bowl, copper basin filled with water, a strange room that is not inferior to Zhiguai Zhai.

"Sit." She poured a cup of tea.

Ding Li took his seat.

"You came here to ask about that matter." The woman said, then changed her words, "It happened seven years ago."

"Yeah." Ding Li took the cup, "Will the police come to you again?"

"Probably not anymore. Before the divination woman was crazy, she used to divination for a big man. The Public Security Bureau sold him to save face and let me out."

The woman spoke very lightly, but Ding Li knew how big the person who could make the Public Security Bureau sell face must be.

"That's good." He said, "After all, the police came here because of me. If you are all right, I will feel less guilty."

The woman smiled very lightly: "If you feel guilty, you shouldn't have involved us in the first place."

Ding Li didn't argue: "It's true."

"Are you sure you want to know what happened seven years ago?"

He took a sip of his tea and nodded.

"Where do we start?" the woman asked.

"That person." Ding Li said.

The woman stroked her flat sideburns, her fingers curved beautifully: "That man surnamed Qi cannot be called a human being. There are many rumors about him. Some people say that he is a monster transformed from a book, with no blood and flesh. Some people say that he is a loose fairy." , never grow old and never die."

Ding Li dug out the photos on his phone: "Is that him?"

The woman looked at it: "Yes. It is said that he can send all kinds of demons and heretics to heaven and earth, omnipotent, but only we know that his most special power is the words he wrote."

"Character?"

"His character is mantra." The woman paused, "Let's put it this way, our house is clearly a hexagram shop, but in fact it is also in the business of exorcising evil spirits. Your hospital is one of our regular customers. More than ten years ago, the banyan tree Something happened to Lin, Gua Po read it and said it was a man-eating evil, very dangerous, although she couldn't get rid of it with her strength, but fortunately it was dying. So she asked the hospital to dig out lakes around it to subdue it , and ordered not to say anything, so as not to kill those who do good things. Although the fire cannot be covered with paper, there have been some rumors in the hospital, but it has never become a big climate, and no one died because of it. Everything was going well, but seven years ago, You're in the hospital."

Ding Li's heart skipped a beat.

"It was a summer day, and Guapo was taking a nap. People from the hospital hurriedly knocked on the door and said that three people had disappeared in two months. Guapo went to the island to look for a few days but couldn't find the reason. In the end, my elder brother found out and said There is a man surnamed Qi, through the words written by his hand, nothing can be gathered."

"What's the meaning."

"It means that he can bring back to life the evil things that should have passed away with time." The woman gritted her teeth, "It was you who told him the rumor seven years ago and made him write the curse about 'that thing' Wen, the evil will come back to life and eat more people."

Ding Li didn't say a word, but clenched his fingers tightly on the teacup.

The woman looked down, and gradually softened her tone: "The Guapo knew about this, and immediately went to him regardless of the danger. At first, she tried to persuade him to remove the spell, but he ignored it at all, and it was completely ineffective to cure him with magic. When news of her disappearance came again from the hospital, Gua Po decided that she couldn't delay any longer, after some investigation, she finally found the weak point surnamed Qi."

Ding Li looked up: "What."

"you."

He froze.

"We bound you with a curse, tied you to the island, and asked him to bring all the curses he had written. He did so, tore them up and burned them all in front of us. The second brother was going to cut the grass and roots, but unfortunately Gua Po didn't Seeing the true face of the surname Qi, he said that we only kill evil things and never kill people, so he asked me to get on the boat and send you away first. Unexpectedly, as soon as we landed, two banyan trees suddenly shook without wind and made a loud rustling sound. Turning back, I found that there was no one on the island, only five bloody severed hands remained."

"What's going on here?" Ding Li asked.

"It should be that evil thing suddenly appeared, dragged the eldest brother and the second brother, and when they were struggling to crawl forward, they bit off and swallowed it." The woman said lightly, "I have no ability to deal with it. If I stay longer, I will definitely die." It doesn't matter if I'm eaten or I die, I'm afraid it's more difficult to destroy the power that fuels the evil. At this time, it was daylight, and I found the unconscious Guapo on the shore, covered in lake water, with her right hand broken. After waking up, she It's crazy, and no one will know what really happened on the island."

Ding Li was silent for a long time: "I have one last question."

The woman raised her eyes: "Why don't you remember these things, right?"

"Ah."

"It is precisely because of this that I can conclude that the person surnamed Qi is definitely not a human being. Part of those spells must be about himself. Once they are destroyed, he will be completely forgotten like 'that thing'."

It's night time.

Ding Li was lying by the window of Zhiguai Zhai, the ashtray on the window sill was more than half full.

Downstairs is very lively, small yellow and white lamps are lined up along the street stalls, the bald man is bargaining, two girls are blowing steaming wontons, the middle-aged man is squatting on the ground trying mobile phone cases, the mother is holding the child, The father who came back from the trot handed over two bunches of candied haws.

Ding Li watched in a daze, the peach wood beads were picked off by him and held loosely in his left hand.

Take a deep breath and let it out long.

Ah Jing, I have always believed that I can approach you step by step.

But when I walked within reach, I realized that behind you was a completely incomprehensible world.

I really don't understand why you are standing there.

And how can I stand on an equal footing with you.

☆, chest of drawers

Report the whole story, nodding and shaking his head, jumping from the desk to the ceiling, swinging on the lampshade.

Qi Harmony laughed.

"Why is Boss Qi so happy?" the kid asked.

"It's funny just thinking about that guy's embarrassment." The corners of Qi Xie's mouth couldn't help but rise.

"That's right! You can't even figure out this point, you stupid human beings are so stupid!"

"It is indeed a stupid human being." Qi Xie asked, "How about what you were asked to do?"

"It's done, it's done! The scale leader has been found! It said that there is only one condition to send it!"

"what."

"Be king!"

"Wang?" Qi Xie shook his folding fan, "This is not my specialty."

"Boss Qi is planning to use the scale leader to deal with Guixintang!" The little ghost swung to the table, "But there is a place that won't work!"

"how."

"If you want to subdue the scale leader, you have to be stronger than its current master, and its current master is Master Xun of Guixintang!"

"Oh?" Qi Xie stopped his fan.

"If you want to deal with Lord Xun, you have to surrender Chief Lin first! If you want to conquer Chief Lin, you have to be stronger than Master Xun! Oh, it won't work to go around!"

Slowly closing the fan bones, Qi Xie reached between his eyebrows: "What is this Guixintang?"

"Boss Qi, don't blame me! I can't say it! Master Xun is also someone I can't afford!"

"Yes, it seems that this time I really ran into big trouble."

"No and no! With Boss Qi's temperament, this is not troublesome!"

"It was true before, but it's different now."

"What's the difference!"

"In the past, I didn't ask for anything from people and things, and I just wanted to be at ease with the situation, but now..."

"What now?"

Qi Xie smiled faintly: "Someone will stay in a small puddle even if they die of thirst. If I insist on forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes, wouldn't it be unreasonable?"

"I don't understand, I don't understand!" The kid shook his head, and suddenly jumped towards the door, "The woman surnamed Qian is here!"

Knock, knock, twist the handle, and the door is pushed open.

The little ghost dodged the black high-heeled shoes that stepped on it, and jumped onto her right shoulder. Assistant Qian brushed it unconsciously, and it turned to the left again. It was not until Qi Xie coughed that the copper-green little monster slid down the skirt , stay under the table honestly.

A folder is handed over.

Qi Xie didn't answer: "I'm too lazy to read, just talk."

Assistant Qian opened it, picked up the key information and said it again: "The client's surname is Feng. She is a woman in her 40s. She lives with her son, mother and husband. She moved into a new home two months ago, and her mother fell ill the next day. She got better after being hospitalized, but her health got worse when she returned home. Ms. Feng suspects that there is a problem with Feng Shui in her new home, let us see if we can solve it.”

Qi Xie leaned back in the chair: "This is Fang Xun's professional scope, isn't it enough to find him?"

"Fang Xun has seen the floor plan, and the layout of her house is basically fine."

"Then it's time to see a doctor."

Assistant Qian smiled: "There's no reason to block door-to-door business."

"How many."

She compared a number.

"Rough enough."

"Old rules, four for you, six for Jingfang."

Qi Xiong stood up with his sleeves straight: "Then let's go, go early and come back early."

Master Zhang parked the car and waited where he was, Assistant Qian followed the address to find the door of the unit.

801. The three of them got out of the elevator, and the hostess surnamed Feng was already waiting at the door.

"Please come in." She greeted.

Fang Xun walked slowly at the end, looked up and saw the gossip mirror hanging on the door frame.

"This is what the previous master asked to hang up." Ms. Feng explained.

"Oh?" Fang Xun looked around, "Has anyone seen this before?"

"I've seen it. The whole house is decorated according to the master's instructions. It doesn't matter if you don't need to change your shoes. The floor is not clean."

Fang Xun still took off his shoes, walked around the brand-new living room with bare feet, and said, "What kind of master, isn't it the one from Shanghai whose surname is Xie?"

"Xie?" Ms. Feng shook her head, "That master's surname is not Xie."

"Why isn't the surname Xie? Didn't he call himself 'Xie Tianji'?"

Assistant Qian refrained from laughing out loud.

Fang Xun poked at the toad on the coffee table: "I saw it as soon as I entered the door. Who else would know it but him? There are messy things all over the room. The broken mirror at the door is sold to you for nine and a half yuan."

"Nine and a half dollars?"

"It's nine hundred and five."

Ms. Feng was a little embarrassed: "Nine hundred and eight."

"Oh, the price has increased again." Fang Xun said as he was about to pick up the five emperors' copper coins on the wall, but was dragged back by Assistant Qian calmly.

Ms. Feng asked tentatively: "Then according to Master, is there any problem with this house?"

"No problem." Fang Xun took it for granted, "What problem can there be with so many things?"

"Then my mother is always sick... By the way, come and see her bedroom." Ms. Feng opened a door in the corridor.

Qi Xie was the closest: "Can I go in?"

"of course can."

"Is the old man not here?" Qi Xie looked into the dim room.

"I was helped by my son to go downstairs for a walk. She always said that her chest hurts when she stayed in the house." Ms. Feng opened the curtains with a snap, and the room was lit up.

The area is small, the cabinet next to the door is brand new, the bed in the middle is also new, and a few clothes are folded on the matching chair, only a chest of drawers in the corner is out of place, old, waist height, dark brown, and a piece is broken Handle only.

Qi Xie walked over and touched along the texture.The fingertips have the unique touch of old wood, smooth and moist, very comfortable.

"Is this cupboard bad?" Ms. Feng asked quickly.

"No, I have to use a cupboard." Qi Xie's gaze shifted to the countertop.

There are two small vases against the wall, with a few knitting needles stuck in them, the edge of the marble paperweight has been knocked off, the light bulb of the desk lamp is gone, and the dark green drawstring is hanging straight.A few writing brushes were stuffed in the pen holder, shedding hair to varying degrees, and opened dirtyly.

"This furniture is too broken. We originally said it would be fine to stay in the old house. My mother refused, so she insisted on bringing all of them with me. So I only moved the chest of drawers. But the old man is also nostalgic, and he collects dozens of old things. I can't bear to throw it away." Ms. Feng wiped the countertop casually.

The countertop was covered with a clean white crocheted tablecloth, and a few pieces of paper were flatly pasted on the tablecloth, pressed by a piece of glass and glowing yellow.

Qi Xie looked at them one by one: the old two-cent bill, three newspaper clippings, movie ticket stubs from [-], a group photo of his daughter and son-in-law when they were young, and a photo of his grandson when he was [-] years old.

As if aware of something, Qi Xie smiled, then squatted down, groped for a while at the bottom of the cabinet, and took out half a piece of wood.

Four inches long and one inch wide, with a notch recessed on each side.

"Oh, why are you here?" Ms. Feng was surprised.

"Is there any glue?" Qi Xie asked.

"It seems to be in the cupboard." She opened the top drawer and pulled out half of it.

Qi Xie unscrewed it, carefully wiped the section of the thing, bent down, and installed it on the third drawer.

Only then did Fang Xun realize that it was a broken handle, and he turned his head and asked, "Sister Qian, is he here to repair the furniture?"

Assistant Qian smiled and shrugged: "I don't understand either, just look at it."

The anti-theft door was turned by a key.

Ms. Feng let out a hey in surprise, hurried back to the living room, and shouted guiltyly: "Mom, I came up early today."

The old man changed his slippers: "Dabao went out to play with his classmates, and I'll be back."

"This child!"

"Don't blame him, I let him go, and he sent me to the elevator before leaving." The old man saw three more people in the room, and immediately looked displeased, "It's Fengshui again! Tell you not to do this Things, take a look at a room made for you, it's full of smog!"

"Old lady, we are friends of Sister Feng, who are in the furniture business." Qi Xie went up to meet her, "A while ago she said that she had an old chest of drawers at home, and she was going to keep it and pass it on to her son, and she didn't know how much it would be worth in the future. Let's make an estimate."

When the old man heard this, he chuckled: "How about an estimate for that broken cupboard?"

"Yes." Sister Feng hurriedly said, "Now it's fashionable to collect old furniture, and some cabinets can be worth hundreds of thousands."

"Come on, that cabinet was made by your father when he was young. His poor craftsmanship can be worth a few dozen dollars!" The old man staggered into the bedroom, pointing to a cabinet leg, "See, it's still crooked It's gone." She was taken aback as she spoke, and stretched out her hand to touch the smooth wood in surprise, "How can this be repaired!"

"Don't pull it yet, it's not glued yet." Qi Xie reminded.

"Why! Where did you find it?"

"It's under the cupboard."

"I've searched for it several times, but I can't see it.