Zhang Jianfeng's worry finally came true. They found residual mercury in another house, but it was very small, just a little. If they hadn't searched hard, they wouldn't have found it at all. Zhang Jianfeng looked at the bit of mercury he found, with a gloomy expression on his face, and said to Xiaolan: "Paper man, mercury, what do you think of?" Xiaolan's mind was at a loss, and after thinking for a long time, she shook her head and said, "What do you think of, mercury?" What?" Zhang Jianfeng's face darkened and he said: "I thought of some very bad things. Let's bring the investigation in the village to an end. I think as long as we verify one more thing, we may be able to know all the truth." Xiao Lan He said: "So fast? Didn't you just check a little bit?" Zhang Jianfeng urged: "This is enough. Let's go out of the village before it gets dark. If we stay here at night, I can't guarantee what will happen."
Zhang Jianfeng and Xiaolan found a hotel to stay at that night. In the room, Zhang Jianfeng took the paper and the mercury he collected and looked back and forth. His face was gloomy and he didn't speak. He sighed for a long time and thought to himself, if the master knew about this, I'm afraid I'll blame myself for not investigating the case thoroughly in time, which resulted in the loss of several lives for no reason. There was a sudden knock on the door. Zhang Jianfeng quickly put the paper man away and shouted: "Who?" A timid voice came from outside the door: "It's me." Zhang Jianfeng was angry and funny, opened the door and said: "It's eleven now It's o'clock and you're not sleeping yet?" Xiaolan was wearing pajamas, her face was pale, she was holding a pillow and said, "It's all your fault, I'm so scared now that I can't sleep." Zhang Jianfeng said, "What are you afraid of? What are you doing again?" He didn't kill anyone, and he has nothing to do with the Sun family." Xiao Lan said: "These days, there are a lot of people who are implicated even though they have no connection. Don't you know, handsome guy Zhang?" Zhang Jianfeng was speechless with one sentence, and he said for a long time. "Then what are you going to do?" Xiaolan blushed for a while, lowered her head, and after a while she said in a mosquito-humming voice, "Can I sleep with you?" Zhang Jianfeng squirted all the water on the door. Top: “What?!”
Xiaolan huddled in the warm quilt and smiled contentedly: "It's so comfortable. I can have a good dream tonight." Zhang Jianfeng lay on the sofa, wrapped himself in the quilt, and said angrily: "I will remember you. This is the account." Xiaolan couldn't help but chuckled and said, "Are you wronged by letting you sleep on the sofa? By the way, why did you just take out the paper man and look at it for a long time?" Zhang Jianfeng said in surprise: "I Do you know what to do behind closed doors?" Xiaolan said, "You think I'm blind? The paper man was placed on the left side of your bed just now, but now it's on the right side. If you hadn't moved it, who else could be there?" Zhang Jianfeng He smiled bitterly and said, "It's a pity if you don't become a policeman." Xiaolan said, "Come on, why are you looking at the paper man?" Zhang Jianfeng said, "I'm judging my speculation. If this is really the case in the Sun family, it's because of their own mistakes." If you commit evil, you will not live." Xiaolan said: "What exactly is it?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "Give me the bed, and I will tell you." Xiaolan said: "Bah, I'll sleep, at least I'll know tomorrow." After that, he went straight to sleep. Zhang Jianfeng smiled bitterly and had no choice but to lie down as well.
Early the next morning, the two got up. Zhang Jianfeng didn't say anything about checking, and went straight to the local gazetteer, asking to see information from decades ago. Xiaolan was confused and asked him what he was looking for. Zhang Jianfeng refused to say, and just said, "Look at the passage describing the funeral of a rich family and point it out to me." Xiaolan was dizzy after checking it, and even the words seemed to be double. , and finally Zhang Jianfeng found it. Zhang Jianfeng excitedly pointed to a paragraph and said to Xiaolan: "Quick, look here!" Poor Xiaolan stared at it for a long time, but couldn't see it clearly. Finally, Zhang Jianfeng read to her word by word: "At the end of the year, The son of a wealthy businessman of the Li family died. His father mourned him and said to his neighbors: "We should spend all our wealth to bury him." At that time, there was a grand funeral. The funeral procession was more than fifty feet long. Hundreds of people worshiped together. Buddhists and Taoists were arranged in rows, flags were raised and bells were played. , the whole city was restless for several days. I heard from passers-by that the Li family spent thousands of dollars, but the funeral expenses were not much, and most of them were the golden boy and the beautiful girl and the attendants who were buried with him. A good-hearted kid sneaked into the Li family in the middle of the night, saying that the golden boy and beautiful girl and The attendants were all made by famous masters, and they were lifelike. Their bodies, hair, skin, pores, and facial features were no different from real people. There was also a wandering half-immortal who said that on the day of the funeral, he saw several spirits following him, and his face was covered by mist. After seeing his face clearly, he didn't know why. He also said that there was a person sitting on the coffin, with a melancholy expression, and he didn't respond to calls. His hands and feet were shackled. When funerals became popular, when there was a funeral for a wealthy family, the Li family asked famous masters to make dolls. . However, the funeral home refused to reveal who the famous teacher was, and it seemed that there was something unspeakable."
Zhang Jianfeng suppressed his excitement and finished reading this passage, and said anxiously to Xiaolan: "How is it? Are you very happy?" Xiaolan said with stars in her eyes: "I don't understand. Why are you happy when someone dies? You are really What a pervert." Zhang Jianfeng said with a mixture of laughter and laughter: "Did you listen carefully? Look at this sentence, 'lifelike, body, hair, skin, fine pores, facial features, no different from real people', don't you think of something else?" Xiaolan He nodded and said: "There have been many strange scholars in the world since ancient times, but no one in the world has the opportunity to recognize their talents." Zhang Jianfeng was so angry that he cursed: "You are a big head, scholar. It is related to the Sun family case. Please take a serious look at it!" It was related to the Sun family's case, and Xiaolan regained her composure a little, and said hurriedly: "What's wrong? What does the funeral of this wealthy businessman have to do with the Sun family?" Zhang Jianfeng said in a deep voice: "You forgot what we found out from the Sun family Is something coming?”
"Paper man?!" Xiaolan seemed to have thought of something, covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Could it be..." Zhang Jianfeng sneered and said: "Sure enough, the Sun family deserves to die." "Wait a minute," Xiaolan said in surprise and doubt: "These are just your speculations. There is no evidence yet. We cannot accuse good people unjustly." Zhang Jianfeng whispered: "The Sun family's grandfather has said those things, what do you still doubt? Do ordinary people fear hell for no reason?" Xiaolan said: "Everything has coincidence exceptions. I always feel that we can't draw conclusions so quickly. Zhang Jianfeng, one of your decisions is related to the life and death of hundreds of spirits. Whether they can reincarnate is in the palm of your hand. You can't be so hasty." Zhang Jianfeng sighed: "I knew you would say that. In this case, let's find the last piece of evidence in person. I think you will believe it if he tells you personally."
Xiaolan said in shock: "There are still witnesses? Didn't you say that your master is the only witness?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "Yes, I thought there were no more. People who witnessed the massacre of the Sun family with their own eyes were either dead or crazy. Madmen can't talk. But I read all the files of the Sun family all night yesterday, and I found that there is a madman who can still talk." Xiaolan asked in surprise: "Who?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "I found out through the transcripts, This series of crazy events was caused by a university teacher who was part of the expert forensics team hired by the police at that time. He once mysteriously disappeared for a week during the investigation of the case. When he came back, he said he was ill and never went out to see people again. Later, he went crazy. He often yelled and smashed things and people. It was because of him that later people died or went crazy. The strangest thing is that other lunatics showed signs of dementia, confusion, weakness of limbs, and the need to sit down. In the wheelchair, only the teacher at the beginning still had the strength to lift the vase and hit people, don’t you think there is something hidden in it?”
Xiaolan's eyes tightened and she said: "Do you suspect that he is really crazy? Are the others pretending to be crazy because they are intimidated?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "On the contrary, I suspect that he is the only one who is pretending to be crazy." Xiaolan shouted : "Impossible, why is he pretending to be crazy?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "I don't know the inside story. If you doubt my inference, let's go and ask him face to face. There are many deep secrets hidden in the Sun family case. So many years have passed, and it’s impossible for the two of us to get the full picture." Xiao Lan said: "Let me calculate, it has been more than sixty years since the Sun family's case. Is that person still alive?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "I have asked, and he is still here. He is almost a hundred years old. It's really difficult for him. God's retribution is really unsatisfactory." Xiao Lan asked inexplicably: "What does it have to do with heaven's retribution?" Zhang Jianfeng leisurely said He said: "When I was a child, I once heard Master say that those who escape from the truth of the world and are obviously capable of saving the world, but choose to hide out of fear and love for their own selfish interests, will often suffer incomparable pain in their hearts and lose their lives beyond the boundaries of life and death. With courage, I just want to finish this life quickly and get the chance of reincarnation. And God is fair. While it gives humans the right to choose to live, it also cruelly gives those people as long a life as possible, so that They stay in the world and suffer more for those who could have escaped the catastrophe. Those people have to pay their debts all their lives and experience the feeling of life being worse than death. Without further ado, let’s go find that person quickly. He is He is the only witness of survival!”
The university teacher's residence was not far away, just near the only mental hospital in the city. According to the family, they were afraid that if there was one, they would be sent to the hospital in time. Decades have passed, and the house has long been dilapidated, and the family members have died and scattered. However, because of the case of the Sun family, no one dares to take a chance on the house. Over time, the house has become like this. It is preserved and looks out of place against the surrounding high-rise buildings, reflecting the sensational traces of history.
{Now the teacher is taken care of by volunteers, so there is no one around him at ordinary times, so Zhang Jianfeng and Xiaolan were able to enter smoothly. As soon as she entered the room, Xiaolan was startled. She saw an old man with a stooped body, holding a vase, standing unsteadily. Xiaolan hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, sit down quickly!" Hearing the stranger's voice, the old man suddenly shook his whole body. Without saying a word, he turned around and threw the big vase towards Xiaolan. Xiaolan was immediately dumbfounded. She watched the vase hit her and lost the consciousness to avoid it. At this critical moment, an arm stretched out in time and smashed the vase to pieces. Zhang Jianfeng stepped in with a smile and said: "Teacher Sun's sword is still young. I wonder if he had such grace sixty years ago?"
Froth flowed from the mouth of the old man, his eyes looked at Zhang Jianfeng dreamily, and he murmured some words that were incomprehensible. Zhang Jianfeng didn't seem to be afraid of him at all. He walked to the window with his hands behind his hands, and suddenly let out a long sigh and said: "The setting sun is stained with blood, and the Sun family dogs are not crazy. I pray to the Buddha for mercy. What kind of retribution will be like?" The old man's body was slightly shaken again. , Zhang Jianfeng turned around and said: "This is a poem you wrote back then. What kind of retribution? I have been guessing this riddle for decades, and it is time to solve it." The old man suddenly raised another vase and smashed it. After passing by, Zhang Jianfeng turned sideways and said, "Why bother? Don't you think you have lived in this world for too long?" "Zhang Jianfeng!" Xiaolan was shocked: "How could you say this to an old man?"
Zhang Jianfeng turned a deaf ear and continued to ask: "It's just that you went too far in writing this poem. You thought that the Sun family was secretive and no one knew the secret, so you wrote this poem to cover up your words and deeds, making people mistakenly think that you He really wanted to work hard to find out the murderer. But..." Zhang Jianfeng suddenly stopped, leaned over and said in a low voice: "When you wrote this poem, you had already guessed all the secrets of the Sun family, right? ?" The old man's whole body was shaking violently, and he wanted to look around for something to throw. Zhang Jianfeng shouted: "Stop! Stop doing useless work. Do you think that when we came here and said such things, we were just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse? —Are you just guessing? To tell you the truth, we also guessed the Sun family’s secret!"
The old man seemed to have been shocked by electricity. He trembled a few times. He sat slumped on the chair and said in a low voice: "You... what did you guess?" Zhang Jianfeng said slowly: "The secret of the Sun family's sudden wealth. , the secret of the Sun family's fear of hell, and the secret of the Sun family's belief in Guanyin, because they know that they will not survive for their own sins, because they know that God's laws are clear and retribution will not be good, and the Sun family's case will happen sooner or later. They are based on the production of The Golden Boy and the Beautiful Girl It’s your job to bury servants, right?” The old man’s eyes suddenly rolled several times, and he suddenly fell to the ground and burst into tears. This action really startled Xiaolan: "Uncle, you...if you have anything to say, please tell me."
The old man was crying and out of breath: "He...he guessed everything. I...what else can I say?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "I did indeed guess it, but you are different from me. You In the investigation team at that time, we had so many convenient conditions. You were missing for a week. I think you should have gone to the mountain village to see it. You really saw the cruel scene, so you escaped back in a hurry. I was afraid of being haunted by evil spirits, so I wrote a poem like this and then pretended to be crazy until now." Xiao Lan interrupted: "Wait a minute, can you stop guessing the riddles and tell me what evil the Sun family has done." Zhang Jianfeng squinted his eyes and said, "Didn't you guess it?" Xiaolan said, "My guess is that they wasted a lot of money and made these useless things, but what does this have to do with making a living for themselves?"
Zhang Jianfeng couldn't laugh or cry and said: "I almost told you the answer, but you actually guessed such an answer. You are really stupid." The old man sighed and said: "The reason why the Sun family made those dolls so lifelike has caused many wealthy businessmen to They are rushing to buy it because the doll is not a doll." Xiao Lan asked strangely: "What do you mean the doll is not a doll?" Zhang Jianfeng said leisurely: "That is to say, the doll is made of real people! "Xiaolan screamed: "What?!" Zhang Jianfeng said: "Pour mercury directly into a living human body, and the person will die instantly. The whole body will be stiff and charred, keeping the shape before death, and the eyes will be wide open, no longer like a living person. Strange. The numerous murder cases in that village are probably the work of the Sun family."
The old man said: "Exactly, the Sun family deceived their trust, coaxed them into making that gesture of folding their hands, and then killed people invisible." Zhang Jianfeng said: "I would like to ask where the Sun family poured the mercury from. ? I read previous records that when making dolls with real people, they cut a hole in the head and poured them directly. But if the Sun family had done the same thing, the people in the village should have discovered such a big wound long ago. "The old man said: "You are right, the method used by the Sun family is much crueler than this. They directly cut the throat and poured in the mercury." Xiaolan said "hmm", her face changed suddenly, she covered her mouth and He ran out the door. "Slit the throat?" Zhang Jianfeng was also stunned, and even though he was always brave, he couldn't help but feel goosebumps all over his body: "No wonder the Sun family's case is so terrible." He calmed down and said to the old man: "Also, The people of the Sun family died very regularly, strictly according to generation, in circles without any disorder, as if they were deliberately arranged like this. But there was no trace of corpse removal at that time, how could this be? The old man said: "When the murderer committed the murder, it was during the Sun family's grand ceremony. The so-called grand ceremony refers to the first day they used mercury to kill people. An old Taoist priest told them to form a circle according to their seniority and pray to heaven. The center of the trouble lies with the Grand Master of the Sun family. Even if the sin remains unsolved, I hope that it will not affect future generations and let the older generation bear the responsibility. However, I did not expect that this approach would offend God, so it allowed those evil spirits to kill people, and the Sun family was wiped out overnight. It will not only harm the descendants, but also the servants."
Zhang Jianfeng smiled and said: "So that's it. There is one last thing I don't understand. You are willing to pretend to be crazy all your life to escape this truth. Why are you willing to tell me frankly now?" The old man sighed: "Young man, you You have to bear the responsibility for the mistakes you made. From today on, you have to be like me and end your life here, if you don't want to die."
Zhang Jianfeng was stunned for a long time, then suddenly laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, look what this is?" The old man watched in horror as the cursed case file was slowly turned page by page in Zhang Jianfeng's hands: "You...how come you are not cursed?" Zhang Jianfeng said coldly: "I am a disciple of Zhongnan Mountain, so naturally I will not be possessed by these evil spirits. Maybe you don't know that my master was also involved in the Sun family case that day. , but you can’t find the truth and return empty-handed. If you were willing to tell the truth, the Sun family’s case would have been solved long ago, and there would be no need to wait here for a lifetime. You are the only one who has done your own evil. The longer you live, the more punishment you will receive from God. Three lives Sin can only be redeemed by reincarnation. Just take care of it yourself." As he said that, he strode out without waiting for any reaction from the old man.