Murder

Sima Feng personally handled the kapok incident in Qing'an City two years ago.At that time, Chi Yebai also went with him, so among the people present, only the two of them have seen the kapok man.

The kapok man looks haggard, looks weird, and doesn't behave like ordinary people.He looks upright, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his back is bent and his posture is very strange when he walks.

Sima Feng deduced at the time that the kapok man should be a deranged person, as can be seen from the fact that he tied dolls with kapok and called them his wives and concubines.Sima Feng remembered very clearly that when he was arresting the kapok man, because he resisted, he went forward and restrained him.At that time, the kapok man stared at Sima Feng through his messy hair with bulging eyes.

Ye Xianglang's expression is different from that of the kapok man, but their looks are too much alike.

Peipei, a prostitute who hanged herself in Furongyuan 19 years ago... a pair of children she gave birth to... the boy who was bought by Hanako and taken somewhere... and Ye Xianglang who is curled up on the ground now.

In the astonishment, Sima Feng quickly had a thought: Ah Si can't be blamed, Ah Si has never seen the kapok man, so he doesn't know.

His heart was filled with uncontrollable confusion and sorrow: If it was Sima Feng himself who came to look for Ye Xianglang at that time, then Chuntong would not have died.

The patrolmen took the kapok man to the government office, where Sima Liang was already waiting.

He exchanged his own face for half an hour from Mr. Shen Zhengyi and Mr. Shen: before going to court for trial, Sima Feng and Sima Liang can interrogate the kapok man first under the condition that the police are present.

Bian Jiang stayed, his back straightened, and a pair of angry eyes stared at Ye Xianglang.

Seeing everyone's eyes, Ye Xianglang was neither surprised nor afraid, but seemed to be unresponsive.His hands and feet were chained, and he knelt on the ground, bent slightly, and stretched out his fingers to pick the mud bricks on the ground intently.

Sima Feng pulled him to change his position and sat in front of him.Ye Xianglang narrowed his eyes: after changing his position, he was facing the sun, and the strong light of Haruhi hurt his eyes very much.

He couldn't find the panic and tension that ordinary prisoners experienced after being arrested. Chi Yebai, Sima Liangren and others stood aside with Bian Jiang, silently waiting for Sima Feng to speak.

Sima Feng didn't ask him about his identity, nor did he ask if he knew about the murder case, let alone whether he had anything to do with the murder case.

"Zhang Xiaocai, do you know that you have a twin brother?" He asked.

The calm expression on Ye Xianglang's face disappeared immediately.He jerked his head up, his eyes wide open, his lips trembling.

"……Who?"

"So you didn't know?" Sima Feng smiled, "I thought you were brothers, and you should be connected to each other."

"What twin brothers!" Ye Xianglang hissed as he tugged on the iron chain.The iron chain hit the ground a few times, splashing broken bricks.Sima Feng grabbed the iron chain and pressed it to the ground, Ye Xianglang couldn't move immediately.

"Do you have a brother? Did your mother tell you that you have a little brother?" Sima Feng pressed his voice in his throat and asked him every word.

Ye Xianglang held on to the iron chain tightly, his chest heaving and falling.

"He was sold as soon as the two of you were born. Where? I don't know. To whom? I don't know. How is life? I don't know." Sima Feng said, "Is he dead? He's already dead, right? What's the difference between not being able to see it anyway, and not being dead? Right?"

Ye Xianglang kept shaking his head.

"You do have a twin brother, you look exactly the same." Sima Feng patted his face, "He is also a murderer, you two are exactly the same in this matter."

"What is the young master talking about? Why don't you just ask him about the Jinyan Pond?" Ah Si said in a low voice, puzzled.

Sima Liangren smiled: "Si, learn from Lingrui. It's not that he doesn't ask, it's just that it's not a good time to ask. Just now you saw that this prisoner was caught by us and taken to the mansion He didn't change his face the whole time. He was either bold or he didn't know how to be afraid. Such a person is useless to intimidate, and neither is coercion. How can I make him relax and shake? Say something that he doesn't know, but is extremely important to him .”

Chi Yebai looked at Sima Feng while listening to Sima Liangren's words.Sima Feng did not have the usual frivolous demeanor, he squatted in front of Ye Xianglang, very serious.

"You really don't know that you have a brother?" He lowered his voice, and his tone slowed down. "Just like you, he killed several girls and broke their hands and feet."

Ye Xianglang was trembling all over, his teeth were chattering, his fists were clenched tightly on the iron chain, and he couldn't speak a word.

"Are you happy? You have a brother." Sima Feng said, "Aren't you happy? Although your brother is also a murderer, he is your brother after all. There is a legend between the twins that he taught you how to kill What? How to use poison, how to attack, how to destroy traces... He taught you, how did he teach you? Writing letters? But neither you nor he can read. He came to you? But you obviously don’t know his Existence? He taught you, right? How do people like you know how to kill? Killing is not an easy thing, you can’t learn it, it’s too difficult, people like you..."

"Nobody taught me! I don't have a brother!" Ye Xianglang suddenly yelled, the dazzling sunlight blinded him, "I don't have a brother! I never have! No one! I did it myself!"

Gan is willing to pack things in his small yard and burn all the things used for inspection one by one.Tongues of flame burst out from the brazier, swallowing thin pieces of clothing.He squatted next to the brazier, warming up the fire while burning it, warming his hands that felt cold from washing in the water for too long.

Song Beiyan walked in from the outside with a somewhat dumbfounded expression.Gan Yue was not happy to see him like this: "Be smart, don't panic when encountering anything. What's wrong?"

"Ye Xianglang is caught, Brother Sima and the others are back." Song Beiyan scratched his head, "This case is so strange."

Ye Xianglang confessed to Sima Feng, all about how he decided to kill and dispose of the corpse.

He was indeed sold to Prince Lu's mansion when he was young, and after a few years in the mansion, he was beaten half to death for molesting the maid in the mansion and kicked out.With nowhere to go, he had no choice but to follow others to pour Ye Xiang, and so on for several years, he is now in charge of the southeast corner, including the Golden Mist Pond.

The reason why she hugged the maid in Lu Wang's mansion back then was because she wore a pair of green lotus-colored embroidered shoes on her feet and a brand-new crimson headband on her hair.Ye Xianglang couldn't explain why he liked these two things, he just said that when he saw them, he thought of his mother and wanted to get close to her.The maid naturally didn't want to get close to him, he was taciturn, and his behavior was very gloomy. After leaving the Lu Palace, he was extremely poor, and he was doing a job that was despised by others, so naturally no one noticed.

Rong Zhu was the first girl to talk to him kindly.

He liked Rongzhu very much, and said that Rongzhu's mistake was that she really shouldn't be wearing that kind of embroidered shoes and wearing that kind of headband.The desire to "get close" turned into a tyrannical desire. After wandering around for a few days, he finally went to collect sage grass to make poisonous juice, stunned Rongzhu, and dragged him into the car.It was a handle he made himself that broke Rongzhu's hands and feet.The handle is shaped like a human claw, and it can be opened and closed with great strength.Because he was beaten in Lu Wang's mansion that day, his left hand was weak. Without this handle, he couldn't even lift the bucket, so he always carried it with him.Ye Xianglang tasted the taste of a woman in Rongzhu, and was so nostalgic. Before throwing the body in the alley, he even cut off a section of hair as a souvenir.

"Brother Sima asked him why he broke his hands and feet, and why he stabbed a woman's abdomen with a knife, and he said..." Song Beiyan's eyes sparkled, a little nervous, but also a little excited, as if he knew something incredible , "He said someone taught him in a dream."

Gan Lele: "...What? What the hell? In a dream?"

Song Beiyan: "That's right."

Not only the method of killing, but also the method of making poisonous juice, Ye Xianglang also said that someone taught him in his dream.He had no intention of killing Rongzhu and the others, but after he was violent, he vaguely remembered what he heard in his dream.A person whom he couldn't remember told him what kind of medicinal herbs to find and what process to make, and told him that part of the human body was most likely to be broken, and a few stabs could kill him.He cut off the hairs of Rongzhu, Xiaoyan and Chuntong, carefully put them in sachets, and named the sachets one by one, saying that they were tokens left to him by his wife and concubine.

Gan Lele: "...this lie is too, too disrespectful."

Song Beiyan nodded, and knelt down to burn with him.

"But what he said was very true. He also said that after killing Rongzhu, he was in constant panic, but he didn't expect that no one went to Jinyan Pond to investigate, so he saw Xiaoyan wearing green lotus-colored embroidered shoes, and he didn't know what to do. I want to be close to her."

"Damn!" Gan Lexie pouted, "Get close, huh, funny. His way of killing people is more brutal and bolder each time. Chuntong is similar to him in age, and instead of looking for little girls, he focuses on her. Chuntong, why? Because he thinks he is so great that he can kill people without anyone noticing, and this kind of change cannot be explained by some instigation in a dream."

Song Beiyan nodded repeatedly: "Brother Chi said the same thing."

He also told Gan Lele that Ye Xianglang and Mumian were twin brothers.

Song Beiyan: "Gan Lingshi, you said that the person who taught Ye Xianglang to kill is the soul of the kapok man?"

"It's just an excuse." Gan Yue asserted, "How could such a mysterious thing happen."

"If it's an excuse, how did he know the details of the kapok man's murder?" Song Beiyan asked in a low voice, "That man really doesn't seem to know that he has an older brother. How did he know? Who told him?"

"It doesn't matter who told him." Sima Liangren sat on the chair and said while combing his beard. "The murderer will be punished if he kills someone. As for who taught him, that's another matter."

"I think it's the same thing." Sima Feng disagreed with his father's statement. He walked half a circle in the study and took out a booklet from the bookshelf. No one will know the details of how to wring off the hands and feet, and no one will teach Ye Xianglang to name the hair after cutting it off, and treat them as his wives and concubines. Father, this is not a coincidence or accident, too Similar."

"You want to investigate?" Sima Liangren glanced at his son, the small tortoiseshell comb in his hand was shining, "How to investigate? The people who investigated with you back then, except Mu Ya, were from the government. What reason do you have with him? Can you check it out?"

Sima Feng was taken aback: "What is reason and ability? If there is a person who instigates others to kill, he is a potential sinner and will create more murderers. Isn't this a reason? The Sima family has been involved for so many years. Foundation, isn’t it called ability?”

He put the file on the desk, stirring up a thin cloud of dust.It's just that before the dossier was put down, Sima Liang reached out and grabbed it into his arms.

"The reason is too far-fetched. Do you really believe Ye Xianglang said that there is such a person? If you really want to investigate, you can find out more reasons to convince me. Although you are the head of the Sima family now, there is no one in the world. I have a bit of a reputation, but when it comes to the Sima family, I am more famous than you." Sima Liangren said, "Convince me first, otherwise you are not allowed to act without authorization!"

Sima Feng was very discouraged.But what his father said made sense, so he had no choice but to accept it.

"As for the ability you mentioned... Lingrui, the foundation of the Sima family for so many years is the ability of the Sima family, not your ability." Sima Liang put down the small comb and rubbed the tip of his beard. It is not a good thing to be humble and decent to put the credit and face of others on yourself."

Sima Feng looked at him angrily without saying a word.

Sima Liangren: "What's wrong? Am I wrong?"

Sima Feng: "Father, don't call me Lingrui. It's too ugly."

Sima Liangren: "Let's not talk about it, I came here to tell you about Wen Xuanzhou."

He bluntly pulled this topic away, and Sima Feng was very helpless.My father is a strict wife, so my protest is really useless.

"What happened to Wen Xuanzhou?" he asked.

Sima Liangren opened the file in his hand and found the record of the kapok man.

"It's strange to say that if it wasn't for the case of Ye Xianglang, I really wouldn't have remembered how I met him." Sima Liangren said, "I had a drink with him in Qing'an City 19 years ago."