I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

"Tell me." Han Qi said quietly.

"I think our Kaifeng mansion has a bloody disaster recently." Cui Tao told Han Qi that she watched the stars last night and found that the guardian satellite of Kaifeng mansion was not only covered with dust, but also had a faint red light flashing, which was an omen.

Han Qi raised his eyebrows, "The guard satellite of Kaifeng Mansion?"

Cui Tao nodded hurriedly.

"Which one?"

"It's just... the one I saw last night." Cui Tao said in an uncertain tone, then scratched her cheek with her fingers, squinted her eyes and smiled at Han Qi, "Don't believe me at all, Tuiguan, come on." The next time I said that there is a bloody disaster, it will be accurate."

Han Qi looked at Cui Tao and said nothing.

Cui Tao knew that he didn't believe in evil again, so she specially said to Han Qi in a horrifying tone: "Then why don't we make a bet and stop doing things, and see if there will be bloody disasters in Kaifeng Mansion in the near future. Something really happened, Han Tuiguan There is no need to blame yourself, I will explain to everyone that it is really not because of you that Kaifeng Mansion fell into catastrophe."

Han Qi chuckled, "Threatening me?"

Cui Tao hurriedly shook her head in panic, but nodded inwardly.

"Make arrangements."

Cui Tao was quite surprised that Han Qi gave in so quickly, he didn't expect him to 'believe in evil' so quickly.

"Okay." Cui Tao said goodbye happily, turned around and took two steps outside, and then turned back, "I forgot the important thing, Xinghua Lane also has to come, break the line. Since the murderer is so particular about Fengshui The priest has spent so much time and effort for so many years, if he breaks it, he must be out of breath, and maybe he will move."

"Since it is a secret technique that no one knows about, how do you break it?"

"You don't have to figure it out, it's very simple, his layout is fierce, so pull up the banner of the spell to ward off evil, and invite two gods to break the evil." Cui Tao explained.

Han Qi found that Cui Tao's way of dealing with things was always more flexible than ordinary people, not entangled in one corner, but looking at the overall situation and looking for cracks.When many things are still tangled with others, they can be easily resolved with her without any effort.

Han Qi asked Cui Tao to arrange it anyway, and all the expenses could be reported to the public account and let the Kaifeng government pay.

"When I've made arrangements, I'll inform Han Tuiguan." After Cui Tao agreed, she jumped out of the room happily, just in time to see Bao Zheng pacing slowly.

Cui Tao hurriedly greeted Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng took a look at Cui Tao, then smiled and asked her how she feels about working in Kaifeng Mansion.

"Thanks to Baofu Yin and Han Tuiguan's support, the subordinates have the opportunity to atone for their crimes." Cui Tao respectfully said.

"Mianzai." Bao Zheng laughed again.

Cui Tao thanked Bao Zheng for cheering her up, then saluted again, and walked away happily.

Bao Zheng glanced back at Cui Tao, and said to Han Qi who came out to welcome him: "It's rare, if it's an ordinary woman, with such a background and such a situation, I'm afraid I don't even have the courage to live to meet people."

Han Qi: "A capable person doesn't judge by common sense, such as Lu Wu."

Bao Zheng was stunned, "Fortunately, this girl doesn't have Lu Wu's ambitions."

"Yes." Han Qi agreed, and hurriedly invited Bao Zheng into the house.

Cui Tao's work efficiency is extremely high, and in the evening, he invited a famous local master to perform rituals in Kaifeng Mansion.

On the second day, arrangements were made at Xinghua Lane.It's just that I spent a little more money, but it's okay, I can report it to the public account, she doesn't feel bad.

Han Qi was invited to come to Xinghua Lane to check the results. Before he arrived, he saw a golden Buddha as tall as a person enshrined at the entrance of Xinghua Lane.

This Buddha's golden body is very expensive, but she really dared to do it.

Immediately after entering Xinghua Lane, I saw spell banner tents hanging on the doors of every household, swaying in the wind, and hanging wormwood, five-color silk, peach wood and other things to exorcise evil spirits.

Thought this was the end?But no, when I walked to the end of the alley, I saw three newly built stone platforms enshrining the statues of Sanqing gods, and there were incense burners in front of them, and the incense was constantly burning. After a while, I saw two households in the alley running to pay their respects.

"Ms. Cui, why did you invite two different people?" Wang Zhao felt strange.

"I don't know which family the murderer believes in, so I can only trouble both of them to do my best." Cui Tao explained with a smile.

Han Qi glanced at Cui Tao, and was speechless.

Soon afterwards, Li Yuan brought Wang Shi, the daughter of the old carpenter Wang Guan, to Xinghua Lane.

Mrs. Wang had just entered Xinghua Lane, and was really startled when she saw the battle in the alley. She would worship every Buddha and God, clasped her hands together, and murmured in a low voice.

Seeing Wang's behavior, Cui Tao whispered to Han Qi, "She must know that this lane is dangerous."

After seeing Han Qi and Cui Tao, Mrs. Wang confessed that it was her father, Wang Guan, who rebuilt this Xinghua Lane.

"That was nine years ago. The concubine was 12 years old at the time. My father was worried that I was a 'widowed woman and the eldest daughter', and it was not easy to marry a good family. Life will be easier if you won't be looked down upon in your natal family.

Daddy moaned and sighed all day about this matter, but one day he suddenly went home happily, and handed over a bag of money to the concubine for safekeeping, as well as some silver jewellery.This money and jewelry are added together, no matter what, it is worth a hundred guan.The concubine asked him where the money came from, and his father said that he took on a big job, and the employer was quick to pay him in advance.

After half a month later, the concubine saw that her father had a gloomy face all day long, panicking, as if she was worried about something.When asked why, he didn't say anything.After that, he suddenly discussed with the concubine, saying that he wanted to return the money and that he would not be able to live.

At noon that day, the concubine remembered very clearly that the concubine was taking a nap when she suddenly heard the excited voice of her father outside.The concubine opened the window to look, only to see her father standing behind the low wall outside the courtyard, bowing his head and muttering to himself, saying something like 'you've committed a crime, I'm devastated, I'm quitting'.

The concubine thought Daddy was bewitched, so she called him.He froze his body for a moment before he suddenly came back to his senses, looked back at the concubine, and rushed to send the concubine back to the house. "

In the next few months, Wang Guan left early and returned late, busy with work.Later, when the work was finished, Wang Guan came back with another piece of money, but he was not happy when he handed over the money to Wang.

He drew many more pictures and told Mrs. Wang that such houses should be avoided in the future.The Xinghua Lane in Bianjing is the worst place to go, and I don’t want to go in this life.

"Later, the concubine married far away. When my father told me that I had nothing to do, it was best not to go home. After he has gone, just bury him quietly. There is no need to make a fuss."

When Wang mentioned this, she couldn't help but burst into tears.She more or less understood that his father seemed to have done something bad in order to save her dowry back then.She was not allowed to go home because she was afraid of retribution and did not want to hurt her.

As the so-called father's love is like a mountain, it is probably so.

Wang took out a stack of yellowed paper from her sleeve, and told Han Qi and Cui Tao that this was the picture of the haunted house that her father had left for her back then.

Cui Tao took it and looked through it. These pictures included all the villainous houses in Xinghua Lane.

No wonder Mrs. Wang clasped her hands together in fear as soon as she entered Xinghua Lane, muttering something.It turned out that Wang Guan, the carpenter, had specially instructed Wang before this.

"Why does it have to be here?"

Cui Tao asked a question suddenly, which attracted the attention of Han Qi, Wang Zhao and others.

"Why do we have to build a murderous house here, why do we have to kill six couples here to sacrifice? The reconstruction nine years ago is the key."

Han Qi told Cui Tao that he had ordered people to search for the household registration records of all the households in Xinghua Lane for the past ten years, and if they found it, they would know the reason.

Cui Tao also thought so, but after a long time, it is not so easy to find the old files, it seems that it will take some time.

"Xinghua Lane should send someone to continue to guard it secretly. If I set up these things, if the murderer sees it, he should be stimulated and take action."

Cui Tao immediately said that she would stay in Xinghua Lane, and she could pretend to be a new woman who moved here.

"If there is a gentleman here, pretending to be husband and wife, it will be more similar." Wang Siniang suggested hurriedly.

Cui Tao looked at Wang Zhao and Li Cai.

The eyes of the two of them immediately lit up. Although it was a disguise, we were all in the same room and couldn't do much.But being a nominal couple with such a pretty woman is also a matter of face.Both of them wanted to tell Han Qi that they could do it, so Han Qi spoke first.

"You often come to Xinghua Lane to patrol, so it's easy to be exposed."

Wang Zhao and Li Cai suddenly looked disappointed and died down.

"Then I-"

As soon as Cui Tao spoke, she heard Han Qi speak again.

"Be a widow."

"That's fine, but it's impossible for a widow to hook out the murderer." Cui Tao reminded Han Qi.

Han Qi clearly heard her words, but turned a deaf ear to her, and turned around to explain other matters.

There were not many people present who understood Han Qi's thoughts, but Zhang Chang knew it clearly in his heart.His family's husband would not speak casually when it was not necessary, but said that he wanted Cui Tao to be a widow, which showed that he didn't want Cui Tao to put himself in danger, even if it was a small possibility.

In the evening, Cui Tao dressed up as a woman. She adjusted the color of the gouache, and when she splashed it on her face, her complexion became darker, and she also added freckles. She was wearing a condom, she was wearing a half-worn scarf, and there was a bit of a philistine in her eyebrows and eyes. No matter how you looked at her, she looked like a married woman in the market.

Seeing Cui Tao's appearance, Wang Siniang couldn't help marveling: "This is really what she looks like. The oiran's outfit last time shocked us, and this time it is even more so. No matter who she is, she is completely different from the lady herself. The feeling of the appearance!"

"Obviously the facial features haven't changed much, but people can't recognize that it's the same person." Ping'er followed with emotion.

When Cui Tao went to Tianxianglou as an undercover agent, everyone was worried that her portrait had been posted in the outer city for a few days, making it easy for people to recognize her.But when she dressed up and showed up, no one had such worries, they just thought she was the oiran, if she wasn't the oiran, no one in this world deserved to be the oiran.As for who the original Cui Tao was, everyone almost forgot when they faced the oiran.

Ping'er couldn't help asking Cui Tao curiously how she did this.

"I've pretended to be someone else before, but I was exposed at a glance."

"Then when you pretend to be someone else, do you still look at people with resentment and speak softly like you usually do?" Cui Tao asked,

Ping'er was puzzled, "What's the problem?"

"The difference in costumes and the fine-tuning of makeup are all auxiliary functions, and the interpretation of the soul is the core of character performance." Cui Tao said.

"What is soul interpretation?" Ping'er was even more puzzled.

Cui Tao was in a good mood today, so she said a few more words to Ping'er.

"Turn the character you want to pretend into a real living person, let her have a past, a present, and a future like everyone else. See, feel, talk and do things from her standpoint. Even if someone thinks If you have the same face as a little girl named 'Ping'er', let them think that you are you, and you are different from that Ping'er.

In short, it is to give up everything you originally had, and then put everything about the new person into your body. You must be sure that you are this person more than anyone else, instead of waiting for others to affirm you. "

Ping'er was confused when she heard it, and nodded half-understanding, "It means that I want to fully regard myself as that person, but it's too difficult to do, and it's easy to forget."

"Of course it's difficult to do, otherwise everyone will be a master of acting." Cui Tao told Ping'er that if you want to learn, you have to think about it often and practice repeatedly.

Ping'er nodded hurriedly and said with great interest, "I want to learn."

"Then I want to learn too!" Wang Siniang joined in the fun.

Anyway, the three of them moved into the house in Xinghua Lane at the moment, and they didn't have much to do.

Cui Tao put the peanuts, Gu Guazi and some snacks on the table, and while eating, ordered the two to play each other from now on.

"What does it mean to play the other party?" Ping'er was stunned.

"You are stupid, I play you, you play me." Wang Siniang said that it was not difficult, and after looking at Pinger for a while, she closed her cracked mouth and turned into a pursed smile. The toothy kind.You should also walk lightly, twisting your waist slightly.

Immediately, Wang Siniang sat down at the table gracefully, raising her hand to grab a handful of peanuts and eat them beside her.Cui Tao immediately picked up a bamboo stick and beat her, telling her it was wrong.

Ping'er chuckled, and corrected Wang Siniang, "I always eat like this."

After sitting down, Pinger raised her little finger, only her index finger and middle finger gently took a peanut, then peeled it gently, put a peanut into her mouth first, and chewed a few times with her lips slightly, Then put the second one into your mouth and continue chewing.

Wang Siniang stared at Pinger's eating in astonishment, curled her lips in distaste and said, "My mother, with your skills, I can finish a plate of peanuts."

Cui Tao knocked on the table with a bamboo stick, signaling Wang Siniang to continue the performance.

Wang Siniang had no choice but to raise her chubby little finger, lightly take a peanut from the plate, and eat like Pinger.But his face couldn't help showing his disgust for this way of eating.

Cui Tao then asked Pinger to play Wang Siniang.

"Then what should I play her?"

When Ping'er looked at Wang Siniang, Wang Siniang immediately slapped the table and stood up, stepped on the stool, and shouted rudely: "You two birds, see if I don't cut out your mouths and tongues, and I'll take your skin and send you into the Dung pit, drink three catties of its urine first!"

Ping'er was dumbfounded and shook her head, saying that she couldn't do it, she couldn't act.

"How do you play with people? Who said that you want to learn at the beginning? It's hard for Mrs. Cui to be in the mood to teach us, and you're so hypocritical. Whether you want to learn today or not, you have to learn from me!" Wang Siniang refused. I love Pinger's stinking problem.

Ping'er hurriedly looked at Cui Tao for help, but saw Cui Tao cheerfully peeling and eating peanuts, but just looked at her quietly, showing no intention of helping.Ping'er thought about it again, and it was indeed her own request, so she had to bite the bullet.

She coughed twice, and then, like Wang Siniang, slammed the table, then raised her leg and stepped on the stool, maintaining this indecent position uncomfortably, trying to open her mouth to swear, but she hesitated a few times and opened her mouth again. Closed and unable to speak.Finally, under Wang Siniang's repeated persecution, Ping'er finally spoke with red eyes and trembling voice.

"You, you... two... pinch, pinch... bird, see if I don't cut out your mouth and tongue, peel off your skin, and send you...into... a cesspit, drink three catties of it first—"

"There's still a word missing, hurry up!" Wang Siniang urged.

Ping'er blushed, tears streaming down her face, and cried, "Piss!"

"No, you've stumbled too much, repeat it."

Ping'er blushed even more, and she looked at Cui Tao for help again, seeing that Cui Tao had no intention of saving herself, her nose twitched and cried fiercely, she closed her eyes, and finished the sentence in one breath.

Afterwards, the house fell into a long and eerie silence.

Ping'er wiped her tears with her sleeve, wondering why the two of them reacted so quietly and didn't laugh at her?She suddenly heard Wang Siniang suddenly shout.

"Han Tuiguan!"

Ping'er's arm that wiped her tears froze immediately, and then she turned her head and saw Han Qi coming.She covered her face, cried more fiercely, and ran directly to the back room.

Han Qi didn't expect that when he just arrived, he heard Ping'er yelling and cursing, as if she was in pain and crying?

Wang Siniang held back her laughter, and quickly ran to stand behind Cui Tao without saying a word.

"The graves of the other three couples have also been found. The coffins have been opened and examined, and they all have silver needles." Han Qi put all the silver needles on the table.

Cui Tao looked at the silver needles, they were all the same size, length and thickness.

"The same goes for all the rope buckles. Since there is no evidence of two people committing the crime so far, I am more inclined to think that it was committed by one person." Cui Tao speculated, "It has been nine years, what kind of person will people keep ignoring?" For defense?"

Han Qi ordered Zhang Chang to put on the table all the files recording the household registration of Xinghua Lane in the past ten years.A thick stack looks like a lot of trouble.

Cui Tao flipped through the pages without saying a word, "I thought it would take a few days to find these things, but I didn't expect Official Han to find them so quickly."

Han Qi didn't say anything, Lian Mou also brought two copies, and read them carefully.

"I have summoned nearly a hundred people to look for it, so it will be faster." Zhang Chang couldn't help but replied on behalf of Han Qi.

Cui Tao immediately praised Han Qi for his serious attitude in solving the case, and asked Zhang Chang to look for it together.

Two hours later, the three of them read all the household registration records, and copied down all the records about Xinghua Lane.Finally, looking at it together, it is found that the residents of Xinghua Lane have moved frequently in the past nine years, and no one has lived here for more than three years.

In fact, the reason for this is easy to guess.

In Xinghua Lane, there were frequent couple suicide cases, which made people feel unlucky, and there were also rumors of hanging ghosts that made everyone panic.In addition, these villains in the alley have extremely poor Feng Shui. The scientific point of view is that the layout is unreasonable, which will give people a negative hint psychologically, making the residents feel uncomfortable, and they will naturally act in a trance when they are in a bad mood. If you are in a trance, you will naturally feel that everything is not going well, and you will think it is bad luck. This echoes the legend of Xinghua Lane, so the residents who can move out have moved out.

But Xinghua Lane is located in Bianliang, Tokyo, where land is very expensive. Even though there are some legends, there are still many people who do not believe in evil and are greedy for cheap, and want to buy a house at a low price and settle in Bianjing.But every time when the new residents have almost forgotten the legends of the past, the suicide case of the couple occurs again, which will trigger another wave of relocation.

"No one in the alley has lived here for more than nine years, so the murderer may not be an acquaintance living in the alley."

"What happened to Xinghua Lane nine years ago, so that the whole alley was repaired and rebuilt?"

Cui Tao did not find this information in the household registration information, but she found a family named Tao, who moved out of Xinghua Lane not long after the reconstruction of Xinghua Lane was completed.A month after that, Xinghua Lane had its first couple suicide case.Later, a second incident occurred, and other residents in the alley began to move out one after another.

Cui Tao felt that the Tao family was the key, but it was too difficult to find it after a long time. "Even if we can find other old residents in Xinghua Lane nine years ago, and know why each household was remodeled at that time, it will be fine."

Han Qi ordered Zhang Chang to copy down the situation of all the residents in that year, and ordered Wang Zhao and others to start searching for them immediately.Of the dozen or so households, one or two are still in Bianjing and have not moved away.

After Han Qi left, Ping'er, who had been hiding in the back room, came out with red eyes, and sighed that she had no face to live.

"Officer Han Tui heard what I said, how can I see him again in the future!" Ping'er stomped her feet anxiously, blaming Wang Siniang for letting her learn those dirty words, which made her make a big fool of herself in front of Official Han.

"Don't take yourself too seriously. Official Han didn't even mention it, didn't even ask about it, so it doesn't matter how you are." Wang Siniang rubbed her nose, feeling embarrassed for Ping'er.She won't admit it, admitting it must be worse, Ping'er complains.

It's cloudy outside today and the night is dark.

Cui Tao held a ladle in one hand and a lantern in the other, and asked Wang Siniang to follow her out with a bag of flour.Ping'er was sent to sleep in the back room, crying like that, it's better to go to bed early.

After a while, the two turned back, but the bag of flour was empty.

Wang Siniang then went to sleep in the East Wing.

Cui Tao removed all the plates and other things on the table, and sat directly in the middle of the table with closed eyes and meditated.

In the middle of the night, when the oil lamp was about to burn out, Cui Tao, who was drawing air into his body, felt a wave in the distance.She opened her eyes suddenly, picked up the wooden stick in her hand and ran out directly.Xinghua Township is pitch black, only the cool night wind blows.

Cui Tao listened carefully to a whispering voice coming from the end of the alley, and immediately shouted: "There is someone at the end of the alley!"

Immediately, she ran to the end of the alley.

Li Yuan and the others lurked on the wall to watch the night, and when they heard Cui Tao's shout, they immediately became alert.They took the lead in chasing and running to the end of the alley, but the small voice disappeared, only a strong smell rushed towards them, but they saw that the three statues of Sanqing that were originally placed here were all splashed with black and smelly things .Taking a closer look with a lantern, I was even more startled. It turned out to be blood.There was a blood-stained clay pot, which was thrown on the ground next to the idol.

"It's fish blood. If it defiles the statue, it will not be effective."

Cui Tao illuminated the ground with a lantern, and Li Yuan noticed that there was a layer of white flour in front of the statue, and there were two obvious small footprints on it.

The footprints were stained with flour and there were traces. Everyone followed the traces to the back wall of this family at the end of the alley, and found a trace of flour residue on the top of the wall.

Li Yuan then led people to surround the entire house and went in to search.The backyard wall was turned over, and there were traces of flour on the ground, but it disappeared in the middle of the courtyard. After all, the amount of flour sticking to the soles of the feet is limited, and it is almost gone after a few steps.

There is a family of seven living in this house, with two elderly people in their sixties and three children.When the whole family heard the noise in the yard, they all put on their clothes and pushed the door out, obviously they all looked like they had just woken up.

Li Yuan searched the house inside and out, and also checked everyone's shoes, but found no trace of flour on the soles of these people's shoes.

However, there is an eight-year-old boy in this family. The size of his shoes is just about the same as the shoe prints left in front of the Sanqing statue.

Li Yuan immediately asked him if his fish blood was on the portrait.The child shook his head in denial, but the child's father slapped him on the buttocks, scolding him for being naughty again.

"This child has been acting since he was a child, and loves to cause trouble. I beg all the officials to be kind, and forgive him for his ignorance!"

The two old people felt sorry for their grandson, and knelt down and begged Li Yuan to forgive the child for being naughty.

Li Yuan then discussed with Cui Tao: "It seems that the child is just naughty?"

The house has three rooms, the husband and wife live in the east wing, the main room is for two elderly people, the side room to the west of the main room is for the three children, and the other one is for the kitchen and storage of sundries.

Cui Tao pushed the doors of these rooms, and there was an obvious 'squeak' sound when they were opened and closed.And when Li Yuan led someone into the courtyard, the doors of these three rooms were all closed.

If it was really a child of the family who had just poured blood on the statue, no matter how in time he hid the white flour-stained shoes.When he fled back, there should have been the sound of opening and closing the door, but at that time everyone was carefully distinguishing the sound, and they didn't hear it.

Cui Tao then asked the child if he did it.The child cried and shook his head in denial.

But the child's father didn't believe it, so he slapped him again, scolding him for lying a lot, but now he lied to the officials, "You want to kill us all! Why don't you kneel down and apologize to the officials!"

Cui Tao looked around and saw a well on the east side of the courtyard.

When the child was forced to kneel down to apologize to Li Yuan and others, Cui Tao stopped them and told Li Yuan that she found a little trace of flour by the well.

Li Yuan picked up a lantern to see, and found that it was so.Looking at the well again, it's a little deep, mainly because it's too dark, and the inside is dark, even with a lantern on top, it's still not clear.

"Is there water in this well?"

"Yes, our family draws water from this well."

"This well was there when you moved here?"

"Yes." The couple later told Cui Tao that their family of seven moved to Xinghua Lane two years ago.

"Have you noticed any abnormalities in this well recently?" Cui Tao asked again.

"It doesn't seem to be. By the way, sometimes I remember that I put the bucket aside, but when I fetched water again, I found that the bucket was in the well."

This is a hand-operated well with a well rope wrapped around the handle and a wooden barrel tied to the other end of the rope.

Cui Tao asked Li Yuan to send people to guard the well, and at the same time send people to surround the entire Xinghua Lane, so that no one can enter or leave, including children.

Cui Tao originally planned to go down to the well to have a look, but it was too dark, the well was deep and narrow, if the other party was a master at using needles, it would be unsafe to choose to confront each other at this time.

"Miss Cui suspects that that person ran down this well just now?" Li Yuan asked.

Cui Tao nodded and asked Li Yuan to notify Han Qi of the situation as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, someone over there said that Han Qi had come.

When Han Qi saw Cui Tao, he told her that his people had already inquired about the situation of the Tao family nine years ago.This also explains why these victims were defenseless against the murderer.

"Gnome." Cui Tao finished speaking, and then asked Han Qi if she was right.

Han Qi nodded, and asked Cui Tao how he found out in a little surprise.Then he heard Cui Tao briefly heard about what happened here, then went to look at the footprints in front of the Sanqing statue, and then stared at the well with a frown.

"There should be not only water in the well, but also other passages." Cui Tao told Han Qi about her concerns, and suggested that he should not send people to trespass, and put safety first.

In the end, Han Qi still decided to wait until dawn tomorrow before considering investigating the situation in the well.

The group returned to Cui Tao's house temporarily.

Only then did Cui Tao understand, "Wang said that when she witnessed her father talking to himself behind the low wall, it was actually his father who was talking to the murderer, but the murderer couldn't see it from Wang's perspective because of his short stature. To him. After Wang said that he called his father, his father looked back at him in a daze, came to him in a hurry, and sent her back to the room. I suspect that the murderer might threaten Wang's life and force Wang If you close it, you will commit a crime."

"The dwarf looks like a child, which explains why so many victims are defenseless against him, and why the murderer has less strength, and it takes more effort than others to move and hang the victim." Han Qi agreed. road.

"I really didn't expect him to be a dwarf, but he is so small, why would he do such a thing?" Ping'er was shocked and asked inexplicably.

"If you start out as a child, you find that you are not tall, and your peers have grown into adults, but he is still a child, and even because of this, you are always looked at differently, or even laughed at. Would you feel uncomfortable and want to change?

There are some fallacious rumors in many places, saying that dwarves are actually cursed because they are not tall, and it will be bad luck to associate with such people.I guess the murderer must be eager to break the curse, so that they or their descendants can live like normal people.But I don't know who was deceived by some evil person, taught them this kind of magic, and made them think that they could get rid of the curse in this way. "

Ping'er nodded, somewhat understanding, but also somewhat puzzled, "I'm going to kill someone if I'm laughed at, so I'm going to kill Wang Siniang hundreds of times. The dwarf's situation is indeed worthy of sympathy, but it shouldn't be a reason for them to kill people."

"Finally I heard you say something beautiful. You are right." Cui Tao praised Ping'er, then turned to Han Qi, "In order to find out about the Tao family, did the official Han not sleep all night?"

Han Qi agreed lightly, as if he didn't care about it.

In fact, that night, Han Qi spent the whole night in the stalls of the yamen, and finally found the current residence of an old resident connected to Xinghua Lane, and sent Wang Zhao to look for her overnight.

At this time, Wang Zhao brought this person over.

Cui Tao immediately looked at the person who came. She was a middle-aged woman who was nearly forty years old. She was dressed in ordinary clothes, a little fat, and her hair was a little messy. It was obvious that she was called over in a hurry before she had time to tidy it up.

This woman is Mrs. Su, an old resident who lived in Xinghua Lane nine years ago. Before that, Mrs. Su had lived in Xinghua Lane for eight years.

After Mrs. Su greeted everyone, she stated the situation of Xinghua Lane back then.

At that time, there were indeed a bunch of dwarf fathers and sons living in Xinghua Lane.His father's name is Tao Jiuzhang. He is 35 years old and not tall, reaching only to the waist of an adult man.His son, Tao Gao, is nineteen years old. He is shorter than his father, and has a tender baby face. He looks as old as a child of seven or eight years old. At first glance, no one would think that he is close to age. .I heard that Tao Gao's mother was a normal person, but later she saw that her son was not as tall as his father, so she ran away with others in a fit of anger, so only Tao Jiuzhang and his son depended on each other.

Although this Tao Jiuzhang is small in size, it has excellent locksmithing skills, especially in making mechanism boxes.Many wealthy families asked him to do this kind of work, so he made a lot of money.In the entire Xinghua Lane, Tao Jiuzhang's family is the richest.

"The reason why the houses in Xinghua Lane were rebuilt and repaired was because the houses in the alley were bought by Tao Jiuzhang at a high price. However, he did not go through the procedures for the transfer of title deeds. He also allowed us to continue to live, but he rebuilt the houses. Time to ask everyone for help.

At that time, everyone asked Tao Jiuzhang why. He said that it was to do more good deeds and break the curse of their Tao family.From now on, the house in Xinghua Lane will be used to accommodate refugees.But we are all old neighbors, and if he wants to continue to live, he welcomes it, saying that this is also a kind of good deed.Everyone felt that there was an advantage and that there was nothing to lose, so no one moved out. "

Later, Tao Jiuzhang died of illness, and the residents of Xinghua Lane found that Tao Gao didn't know about his father's purchase of Xinghua Lane, and there was no document to prove the original transaction, so they discussed and cheated Tao Gao together.Tao Gao didn't know whether he really didn't know or didn't care, and then moved out of Xinghua Lane.All the residents were happy to take advantage of it, but not long after, a couple in the alley committed suicide, and then another couple.

"Everyone thinks it's evil, and also thinks that the legend of the hanged ghost is unlucky. Originally, when the house was sold to Tao Jiuzhang, they had made plans to move, so they sold the house again one after another, and moved away from Xinghua Lane."

"Will Tao Jiuzhang be buried at that time?" Cui Tao asked.

Mrs. Su immediately nodded and said: "When he left, he was buried in Qingliupo outside the city. We felt sorry for the poor child, so we all helped out together."

At dawn the next day, Cui Tao suggested that Han Qi should not rush to send someone down the well. If there is only one exit, the murderer must still be inside and cannot get out.If there is another exit, if you want to run, you will have already run away, but there is no need to worry.It's better to go to Qingliupo outside the city to dig a grave first.

Han Qi felt that there must be a reason for Cui Tao's insistence, so he agreed to Cui Tao's suggestion.

An hour later, everyone dug up Tao Jiuzhang's coffin in Qingliupo.The coffin was only four and a half feet long. After prying it open, it was found to be an empty coffin without bones.

"What's going on?" Li Yuan stretched his neck, making sure that the coffin couldn't be more empty, and asked in surprise.

Cui Tao snorted coldly, "Sure enough, as I expected, Tao Jiuzhang's tomb is located under Xinghua Lane, and the well is the entrance to the tomb."