Jianhua once said that Xiaojing's grades were good, but since "that incident" happened at the end of last semester, she had lost the mind to study. From the perspective of time, the murder happened after "that event", so if you figure out what happened at that time, you should be able to know why she murdered. Therefore, I asked Jianhua to tell the truth about the whole thing.
"I-I promised Xiaojing..." Seeing Hua's face was embarrassed, obviously still remembering the promise to Xiaojing.
"You still want to protect her!" Zhen Zhen yelled at her again.
She lowered her head as if she had done something wrong, and only spoke after a while: "Actually, Xiaojing once fell in love with Wu Hao..." Under our surprised eyes, she slowly recounted Xiaojing's unknown past—
After Xiaojing came to the academy, although she studied hard, she was a girl after all. At this age, wouldn't she think about matters between men and women? At this time, Wu Hao appeared in front of her. Although in the eyes of most people, Wu Hao is a person who is hated by gods and ghosts, but she was also a little girl who was not deep in the world at the time, so she walked with him ignorantly.
Although I don't like Wu Hao, since Xiaojing is willing to be with him, I also hope that they can blossom and bear fruit. However, I never expected Wu Hao to be such an irresponsible and heartless man.
At the end of last semester, I found Xiaojing crying in the bathroom one night, so I asked her what happened. She told me her period was over a month late and showed me a small stick. I didn't understand what it meant, she told it was a pregnancy test - she was pregnant!
It turned out that at Wu Hao's repeated request, Xiaojing secretly tasted the forbidden fruit with him. Neither of them had any experience in this area, and Wu Hao didn't dare to buy condoms, so they didn't take any contraceptive measures, so of course they would get pregnant.
I asked her what to do now. If she let the teacher know, she might be expelled from school. Her eyes were very confused at that time, as if she was talking to me, but more like muttering to herself: "What should I do? Xiaohao doesn't want me anymore, what should I do?" Then she told me that she had already told Wu Hao. , but the other party actually ignored her, just gave her a little money and let her solve it by herself. I was very angry at the time and wanted to go to Wu Hao with her to make it clear, but she was afraid that others would find out and told me not to go to Wu Hao or mention it to anyone.
Not long after it was winter vacation, Wu Hao patted his butt and slipped back to Canada, ignoring Xiaojing's life and death at all. Xiaojing and I don't know what to do, just know that no one should know about this, especially her parents. So she called home and lied that she couldn't buy a bus ticket, couldn't go home for the Spring Festival, and stayed in the college to celebrate the New Year.
Although the parents can temporarily get away with it, her stomach will swell day by day, and sooner or later, the teachers of the academy will find out. The only way to get rid of this problem once and for all is to… Abort the child.
For Xiaojing, this is a heavy and painful decision, but we really can't think of any other way. Although we have decided to abort the child, we have no experience in this area, and we do not know which hospital to go to for abortion. Originally, we thought of doing this operation in some big hospitals, but when we arrived, we found that there were so many people there that we were discouraged. Later, I saw a flyer from a small hospital, and I went there in confusion...
Before the operation, the female doctor said that it was only a minor operation and that there would be no major problems, and told us to rest assured. We believe that she looks like an experienced doctor, but we never expected that the operation would have an accident, causing Xiaojing's lower body to bleed heavily. At that time, I didn't know what to do, I only knew how to call Sister Yuetong.
Sister Yuetong came to help immediately after receiving the call, and sent Xiaojing to the People's Hospital. Fortunately, the rescue was timely, otherwise she would not even be able to save her. However, although her life was saved, the doctor said that Xiaojing's wall was severely damaged, and it was impossible for her to become pregnant again in this life...
It turns out that this is the secret that Jianhua has always kept for Xiaojing, and that is the reason why Xiaojing has fallen. Then I now understand what is going on in this case.
Xiaojing secretly ate the forbidden fruit with Wu Hao because she was not too deep in the world, and got pregnant. Wu Hao, on the other hand, is Xiao Kai who is not more serious. When he learned that he had enlarged Xiao Jing's belly, he didn't know what to do, so he chose to escape and slipped back to Canada as if nothing had happened. But he didn't dare to let his father Wu Yu know about it, so he came back to continue his studies after the Spring Festival, and of course he had to face Xiaojing again. And after he came back, Xiaojing, who had lost her fertility, would definitely negotiate with him.
If I guessed correctly, the place of negotiation is the hillside where Wu Hao's body was found, which is also the place where Wu Yu buried the pagoda containing the ashes of the aborted fetus and the ancient sword Renxiao. Perhaps in the process of negotiation, Wu Hao once again showed an irresponsible attitude and even physically shoved with Xiaojing. In the chaos, Xiaojing accidentally discovered Xiaoren buried by Wu Yu, and in a fit of rage, she killed Wu Hao. This can explain why Wu Hao's body has so many scars, maybe Zhen Zhen is right, that's because the murderer hated the dead.
Perhaps Wu Hao's death did not relieve Xiaojing's hatred, or perhaps her mind had been controlled by Ren Xiao, who possessed evil thoughts, and after hearing about how the other four deceased played with girls in the drama club, she had a problem with her. The crazy idea of revenge of the heartless man.
Wu Yu vaguely noticed that his son had an accident, so he rushed from Canada immediately, but when he arrived, he learned that his son had died unexpectedly. Although he lost his beloved son, in grief, he discovered that his son was actually killed by the ancient sword that he had buried in the past, and he believed that all this was the result of his own evil. Therefore, he lingers in the academy all day long, the purpose is to find out the murderer and return justice to his son, and also to atone for his own mistakes.
Although Wu Yu had found out that the murderer was Xiaojing, and was willing to sacrifice himself, and set a trap for us to arrest her on the spot, but in the end it fell short and sacrificed in vain.
Now the case is very clear, almost all the suspects have been solved, the only thing to do now is to arrest Xiaojing! However, just when I was about to ask Jianhua to find Xiaojing there, she suddenly stared at the door behind me: "Xiao, Xiaojing..."
I turned around suddenly and saw Xiaojing standing indifferently at the door, sneered, "I thought you wouldn't tell anyone about this!"
"I, I..." Seeing the Chinese belt choked up, he couldn't continue speaking.
I took out my police card and said to Xiaojing solemnly, "We suspect that you are related to the six murders that happened in the college recently. Please come back to the police station with us."
"Oh, do you want to be handcuffed then?" She replied calmly, and stretched out her hands as if she didn't care. Seeing this, Zhen Zhen took out the handcuffs and stepped forward, ready to put the handcuffs on her.
When Zhen Zhen walked in front of her, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and her eyes suddenly flashed a chilling fierce light. But Zhen Zhen didn't notice her change, grabbed her hand and tried to handcuff her. She abruptly retracted her hand, letting Zhen Zhen be in the air, then quickly reached behind her back, and unexpectedly pulled out a broken sword as short as a dagger from her jacket!
Although I only saw this broken sword for the first time, I could guess with my toes that it was the terrifying weapon that had taken six lives in a row - Renxiao!
Xiao Jing suddenly showed a ferocious look on her face, holding Ren Xiao in her hand and slashing at Zhen Zhen. Because of the sudden incident, Zhen Zhen had no room to dodge, so she had to use handcuffs to resist. However, the stainless steel handcuffs made by modern smelting technology are even vulnerable in front of this ancient sword with a history of thousands of years. .
The only thing that could protect her body was destroyed, Zhen Zhen could only resist the opponent's attack with her bare hands. However, if Xiaojing's hands are just ordinary sharp weapons, then it's nothing, it's not a big deal to suffer a little bit of flesh and blood, with Zhen Zhen's close combat ability, it's not difficult to be unscathed. However, Xiaojing was holding a terrifying weapon that could kill people in an instant, and anyone who put it on would be afraid.
Sure enough, under Xiaojing's sudden attack, Zhen Zhen seemed unable to resist and could only retreat again and again. However, the bedroom was the size of a slap, and there was no way to retreat after a while.
Zhen Zhen had nowhere to retreat, but Xiaojing continued to push forward, seeing that the ancient sword was about to fall on her, when I was about to rush forward to help, there was a cry from Jianhua: "Don't!"
Jian Hua suddenly rushed out, but instead of pounced on Xiaojing, she pounced on Zhen Zhen and hugged her. It's too late to say it, and I haven't figured out her intentions yet, and a flash of red light is easy to flash in front of my eyes.
The jagged blade of benevolence and filial piety fell on Jianhua's delicate body, and the blood spattered and screamed, like a nightmare. Seeing Hua Xiangxiaoyu die, a surge of anger surged from the bottom of his heart, he grabbed a hot water bottle beside him and threw it at Xiaojing.
The hot water bottle hit Xiaojing, and the inner liner burst, and the boiling water with white smoke spilled all over her, almost completely soaking her shirt, causing her to jump up immediately. She dropped Renxiao to the ground in a panic, of course I wouldn't miss this opportunity, I rushed forward and pressed her to the ground...
In the interrogation room, Xiao Jing, who was wrapped in bandages like a mummy, sat on a chair with a blank expression. She has confessed to killing Wu Hao and his son and the other four deceased, and is ready to explain the whole story to us in detail—
I want to see that Hua has already told you about me and Wu Hao! At that time, I was really stupid and naive, and I actually liked him as a useless scum.
I have already told you before that no one like Wu Hao likes him, but I am confused with him. But apart from me, he really didn't get along with other girls. I'm so sure because he doesn't know anything at all.
The first time we had sex was in his rented house outside the academy, and he begged me for a long time before I nodded, but when I closed my eyes and let him undress and wait to be one with him, he didn't know how getting Started. In the end, he even had to turn on the computer, watch the movies he stored in the computer, and learn to do it. Even though he followed the hero and heroine in the movie, his actions were rude and made me uncomfortable.
You may wonder why I was with him, and no one in the academy knew about it except Jian Hua. In fact, he deliberately did not let others know. Don't look at his usual stinky fart, in fact he is very inferior and has no self-confidence at all. He is afraid that if his classmates know that we are together, he will make fun of him. So he didn't want others to know, and he didn't let me tell others.
In addition, there may be a reason, although I have always been reluctant to believe, but it should be the case. That is, he doesn't like me at all. What he likes is Jianhua, and he is with me because I can easily get him, and he can use me to get close to Jianhua. Therefore, he never wanted to disclose our relationship, especially in front of Jian Hua, he always pretended to be estranged from me. But he didn't know. In fact, Jianhua knew about our relationship early on. Because Jianhua was my best friend in the academy, I didn't think there was any need to hide anything from her.
Jianhua is indeed my best friend, at least until I aborted the fetus, I regarded her as my closest sister.
After experiencing the abortion that almost killed me and learning from the doctor that I would no longer be able to have children, I felt very disappointed for a while, and felt that the whole world was sorry for me, and that Jianhua was deliberately hurting me. From that day on, I often walked to the hillside behind the teaching building by myself, and stayed there quietly, crying silently.
I don't know why I ran to that place, I always felt like something was calling me there. There my grief was briefly appeased, but at the same time I felt an inexplicable rage.
After the new semester started, although Wu Hao came back from Canada, he ignored me. I can't have children in this life because of him. Of course, I won't give up easily when he treats me like this. So I asked him to the hillside, ready to show him off.
I don't know why I asked him out for a showdown on the hill, I just thought I'd feel safe there. I made an appointment with him to meet there after the late repair, but he was an hour late, knowing that before that, he was rarely late for appointments with me. I know that I don't have much place in his heart anymore, so when I see him, I feel very angry, and his indifferent attitude makes me even more angry.
However, only these are not enough to make me want to kill him. What annoyed me the most is that he actually said to me: "I am with you, just to get close to Jianhua, you really thought I would like it. You!" I didn't expect that I paid so much for him, and the exchange turned out to be such a ruthless remark, how could I not be angry
I almost went crazy with anger and jumped at him and scratched and bit. But there are differences between men and women, no matter how angry I am, I can't compare to him in terms of strength. And he didn't pity me at all, he slapped me hard and pushed me to the ground. After he pushed me down, he called me "crazy woman" and wanted to leave.
I didn't want to let him go like this, I wanted to teach him a lesson, and even wanted to kill him, but I couldn't beat him at all. Suddenly I had a very strong desire for power, for power to kill him.
At the moment when I had this thought, it was as if someone said to me in my mind: "The strength you need is here..." I felt that there was something I wanted where I fell, so I dug out the ground with all my might. soil. Sure enough, I just dug for a while, and I found a short sword that looked like a dagger.
When I picked up this short sword, my heart seemed to have exploded, my whole body trembled with anger, and I immediately shouted to catch up with the heartless man who hadn't gone far...
After killing Wu Hao, I didn't feel scared, but felt an inexplicable pleasure. This feeling is so strong that I have the urge to kill again. However, I don't want to kill innocent people at will, I just want to kill those heartless people like Wu Hao, and the drama club has given me the best platform to find prey.
Among the boys in the drama club, many of them are playboys like Wu Hao who came purely to chase girls, and they all died without regret. So, I hooked up with them on purpose, then followed them into the middle of nowhere and killed them when they wanted to be with me.
As for Wu Hao's father, I think you all know more or less. This old man is very good. He found my photo from Wu Hao's belongings and speculated about our relationship. He also pestered me again and again, asking me to give him the dagger I found on the hillside.
I had grown tired of his pestering, and I wanted to kill him from the time I quarreled with him in the woods by the lake. But now that I think about it, he probably deliberately angered me, because he had no evidence to prove that I killed his son, so he wanted me to kill him, in order to burn all the jade and stone. The night he asked me to meet on the hillside, if I hadn't happened to see you going there, his plan might have worked.
When I saw you, I knew that he must be trying to force me to shoot, and then let you catch me. I knew that Jianhua was resting in the dormitory and didn't go to repair at night, so I quickly ran back to the dormitory, while Jianhua was in a daze, I used her mobile phone to send you a message, and took the beads she put on the bedside. Chain, and then meet Wu Yu on the hillside.
After coming to the hillside, Wu Yu really wanted to force me to take action, angering me again and again, but at the same time he tried every means to delay the time. I knew he wanted to wait for you to come up, so I didn't talk to him any more, and just stabbed the dagger directly into his chest.
I'm afraid Wu Yu once told you that I killed his son, but since he wants to make you arrest me at risk, there must be no substantial evidence against me. So I deliberately dropped Jianhua's bead chain when I ran away, so that you would doubt Jianhua, but not me...
Xiaojing's description is roughly the same as my speculation, but I haven't been able to figure it out at all, that is why she chose Jianhua as the target of the blame, didn't she say that Jianhua is her best sister in the academy? When I expressed my doubts, she sneered: "Sister? Yes, I did regard her as my closest sister, but since the moment Wu Hao said that I was with me just to get close to her, I never did. Treat her like a sister."
I really remembered two poems: "Human feelings are like thin sheets of paper, and world affairs are like a new game of chess. Easy to rise, easy to retreat, easy to reverse and easy to restore the hearts of petty people." the distance.
Volume 10: The End of the Sword of Obsession
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After the cross-examination of Xiaojing, Zhen Zhen and I planned to visit Jianhua in the hospital. By the way, we sent the evidence of Broken Sword Renxiao and some other cases to the technical team for examination.
The blood of the six previous deceased people was instantly drained when Ren Xiao slashed their skin, almost dying at the sight of blood. However, the weak Jianhua miraculously survived after being stabbed, and Renxiao's "blood-sucking" ability seemed to have no effect on her. Of course, this sword alone was enough for her, and seeing the wound on her back made me feel distressed.
Although Jian Hua's body was a little weaker, the doctor said there was nothing serious, but it was inevitable to stay in the hospital for ten days and a half months. In the ward, Yuetong pointed at my nose in front of everyone and scolded me for a long time, saying that instead of taking good care of Jianhua, I hurt her instead. If it wasn't for seeing Hua's help, she would definitely continue to scold. Originally, I wanted to give the evidence directly to her, so as not to have to go to the technical team again, but now it seems that it is better to make a trip.
On the way to the technical team, I called Master Mu Gezhang and asked him two questions. One is why Xiaojing came to the hillside for no reason, and she couldn't explain it clearly; the other is why Renxiao didn't want to see Hua's life. For the first question, he gave me the answer without thinking: "That's because 'like things cluster together'!" Then he explained to me in detail—
In fact, this is another manifestation of mind power. But before I explain this, I have to tell you something about abortion. In a sense, abortion is tantamount to murder, whether the doctor who performed the operation or the parents of the fetus are murderers.
A doctor who accepts money to abort someone else's conscience, is no different from a killer, and has his own condemnation.
Parents, no matter what the reasons, what difficulties, or whether they are willing or not, whoever fails to let the fetus be born safely is a sin and will inevitably bring bad luck.
In fact, even if the fetus was obtained by a murderer, the fetus itself is not guilty at all. If the mother voluntarily aborts, it will definitely attract the entanglement of the baby. If the parents aborted for their own reasons, it is even more sinful.
If an abortion is a last resort, you can be at ease if you don’t see it. Whether forced or caused by external forces, it is a sin to fail to bring the fetus to the world safely. It is the duty of parents to protect their offspring, and it is a sin to cause their offspring to die just for the sake of enjoyment and reckless consequences.
Maybe I'm talking so much that I might confuse you, or maybe I can keep it simple. If you are a fetus still in the womb, then you must be very eager to be born, but in the end you are killed without even seeing what the outside world looks like. What do you think? The promise is yes, that is resentment!
Although the fetus is very fragile, it is also life after all, and it also possesses a certain degree of psychic power. They can feel resentment when they are stillborn, no matter what the reason for their failure to be born, they hate their parents, they hate the doctor who performed the operation.
Although the fetus's mind power is relatively weak, because they have no distracting thoughts in their hearts, the only thought is to come to the world. If you die unfortunately and cannot come to the world, you will have a very powerful mind power, which is for the baby's resentment. Infant resentment is more terrifying than the so-called "ghosts" in the world, and often causes the parents of the fetus and the doctors who perform the operation to suffer.
Okay, now that I've finished talking about baby complaints, let me tell you why Xiaojing came to the hillside for no reason. In fact, the reason is very simple.
There is a pagoda buried by Wu Yu on the hillside. Inside the pagoda are countless fetal remains, all of which are infant complaints. Although there is benevolence and filial piety to suppress these infantile grievances, when other infantile grievances appear nearby, the former will attract the latter, which is to gather things together.
Xiaojing became a crowd, and she was followed by infant complaints, and she was still trapped in love at the time, her thoughts were quite chaotic, and it was almost a matter of course for her to be led to the hillside by the infant complaints in the pagoda...
After listening to Master Mu's explanation, I began to understand why Master Ye Zhen asked Wu Yu to bury the pagoda in a remote place, because he was afraid of attracting complaints from nearby infants. Maybe this is fate. Wu Yu never dreamed that the remote place where he buried the pagoda would be built into an academy, let alone that his son would come here to study.
Regarding the second question, Master Mu did not give me an answer immediately, but instead asked me a very strange question: "What nationality does Jianhua belong to?"
"Of course it's Han Chinese!"
"That's weird, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out..." He kept muttering to himself on the phone, and he couldn't explain what was going on until he hung up.
When we hung up the phone, we had already come to the technical team, and Lang Ping looked at me with very resentful eyes when he walked into the office. I think that after seeing Hua's accident, he should have received a lot of lectures from Yuetong, but I can't blame him for that! Although it wasn't my fault, I couldn't bear the look in his eyes, so I asked Zhen Zhen to hand over the evidence to him, and then "escape" as quickly as possible.
Zhen Zhen opened the bag containing the evidences, took out the evidences one by one and put them on the table, but after she took out a few pieces, she suddenly exclaimed: "Ah! Why are they missing?"
When I asked her what was missing, she didn't answer right away, she just reached out and rummaged in the bag for a while, and then she just poured out all the contents in the bag and counted them one by one.
"Renxiao is gone!" She didn't say, I also found out that Renxiao was gone. But the strange thing is that there are a lot of other evidences, but the broken sword is missing.
I saw with my own eyes that Zhen Zhen wrapped Ren Xiao with kraft paper, sealed it with adhesive tape, and then put it into the bag. And now that it's gone, it must have been lost on the way, so I asked her to think carefully about what special things happened along the way. After thinking about it for a while, she suddenly realized, "I see, a man touched me when I left the hospital, and I think that's when he stole it!"
In my impression, a man did touch her when she left the hospital, but I was on the phone with Master Mu at the time, so I didn't pay much attention, and I didn't even see the man's appearance clearly. So I asked her to describe the other person's appearance.
She thought about it for a while and then said, "He is about 1.8 meters tall, with a medium-thin body and a fair complexion. He looks quite handsome, but he is a little melancholy in his handsomeness..."
"Why is the person you mentioned so like the captain's former boyfriend!" Lang Ping interrupted suddenly.
"It's not like, I think that person is Xiao Xiang." Although I am extremely reluctant to believe this fact, Xiao Xiang does have the ability to get the other party's things at the moment of collision. Although some skilled pickpockets can do it, how can ordinary pickpockets play this tattered broken sword idea
Why did Xiao Xiang steal Ren Xiao? Could it be that Kun He, who has been missing for two years, is also in his hands? What does he want these two ancient swords for? Could it have something to do with his disappearance? A series of questions made my mind extremely confused, and the answer could only be found after I found Xiaoxiang.
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"Xu Jing has confessed to all the accusations. A total of six lives were taken, and the death penalty is inevitable. The 19-year-old Xiao Nizi is so cruel, she wants to put the blame on her friends." Liang Zheng handed a file to her. to the Minister.
After taking over the file, the director did not open it and read it. After a moment of silence, he said, "Has the murder weapon in the case been recovered yet?"
The muscles on Liang Zheng's face twitched slightly, and his eyes showed an uneasy look: "I haven't found it yet, but it's not a big problem."
"'It's not a big problem' means that Xu Jing has already pleaded guilty, and it doesn't matter if he has the weapon, or do you think the person who stole the weapon would not use it to kill people?" The director stared at Liang Zheng with sharp eyes. The latter was silent, and for a long time he put on a slightly more relaxed tone: "Azheng, there are only our two brothers here, so I will speak bluntly. As far as I know, the person you suspect of stealing the weapon is your already Xiwang, the old subordinate minister who has been missing for two years."
"Did Amu tell you?" A trace of anger flashed in Liang Zheng's eyes, but it disappeared immediately, and muttered to himself, "Impossible, he is more nervous than me about Xiaoxiang, and he will never tell you this. things…”
"You don't need to be suspicious of people, you don't need to be suspicious of people. Doubting your subordinates is a taboo to be a superior. You don't need to doubt your subordinates. They are all very loyal to you, but I also have my own way." The director smiled slyly.
Liang Zheng nodded silently, but thought to himself: If you dare to tell me that you are not suspicious, I don't believe that you have not placed a crony in my place. But who is this man? Except for Amu, everyone else is possible.
The two remained silent, both guessing each other's thoughts, as if they were enjoying this kind of non-malicious intrigue between brothers. After a long time, the director first broke the silence: "Okay, I believe you know how to deal with this matter. As long as there are no similar murder cases, I will not ask again. Let's talk about another case..."
"Is there another strange case from the criminal investigation side to be handed over to us?" Liang Zheng's eyes flashed with anticipation.
The director smiled and said, "This time, it's not that the criminal investigation has a case to transfer to you, but Lao Hua is going to borrow troops from you again."
Liang Zheng frowned slightly suspiciously: "Laohua? There are so many strange cases in his small county town. He will not give up and still want to recruit Amu as his son-in-law!"
"Hehe, maybe it is!" The director smiled, but quickly put it away: "Actually, it's not Lao Hua who wants to borrow troops from you this time, but his daughter Zi Die, who is just following for her daughter. I'm just asking for favors. Speaking of this girl, she's really capable. She's now transferred to a police station in another county to be the deputy director. However, she encountered a strange case when she took office, so she came to you help."
"It turned out to be the girl Zi Die, no problem. I think Amu will be happy to help her. This stinky boy has been thinking about Xiao Xiang recently, and I also want to find a chance to calm him down." Liang Zhengdun After a while, he said: "By the way, what kind of case is that, Zi Die has always been very strong, and she should not ask others for help casually."
"Lao Hua didn't make it clear on the phone, but just said that there was a cat-faced monster in the county where his daughter took office, and there was a murder case, just like those legends of scaring children. If he hadn't told me this very seriously. I thought he was just joking." The minister also seemed to be skeptical.
"Cat-faced monster..." Liang Zheng thought for a moment before showing a triumphant smile: "This case must be very interesting!"
Volume 10 The Sword of Obsession
The inspiration for "Sword of Obsession" came from a thing that Master Mu told a certain Qiu.
Master Mu's family was a family of military generals in the Ming Dynasty, with a strong family style and martial arts for generations. Because of his great deeds, his ancestors won the appreciation of a certain prince, and gave him a portable sword that was cut like iron and mud to his ancestors.
Since then, this sword has been handed down from generation to generation, and it has been a family heirloom of the Mu family from generation to generation. After several generations of inheritance, until the Manchu Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the ancestors of the Mu family did not want to serve for the Manchu Qing court, so they voluntarily gave up their careers, opened a family escort agency, and made a living by darts.
The weapons at that time were mainly swords, and there were not many people who could use swords, and the Mu family was no exception, so the swords were collected. After several generations, the Mu family produced a master swordsman, and the sword was able to see the sun again. Strange to say, since the ancestor of this master swordsman started darts with his sword, his business was surprisingly good, and every dart trip went smoothly. Even if you encounter some bandits and bandits occasionally, you can easily repel them, even without damage.
Because the business of the escort agency is getting better and better, the Mu family thinks that they are under the shade of their ancestors, which adds a few superstitious colors to the swordsmen. After that, the descendants of the Mu family would go to the main room to ask for a sword to sit in their own house for a few days, regardless of which room suffered bad luck. What's interesting is that this method can try all things, as long as there is a sword in charge, it can basically eliminate disasters and solve problems. In the period of the Republic of China, most of the Mu family had been separated due to social turmoil, and the sword fell into the hands of Master Mu. Master Mu's father had seen this sword when he was a child. At that time, the sword was placed in the house of Master Mu's great-grandmother. It is said that during the years when the great-grandmother was seriously ill, only in the room where the sword was stored would she feel more comfortable. According to Master Mu's father, when he walked into the room where the sword was stored, he would feel that the temperature was obviously lower than that of other places, and there was a chilling feeling.
In 1958, the government launched a large-scale steel-making campaign in order to "catch up with the United States", and basically all the metals that could be used for steel-making by the people were confiscated to refine those scrap steels that demanded quantity but not quality. Master Mu's grandfather couldn't bear the destruction of the sword, so he had to give the sword to a son of a military martyr with a red root, in order to prevent the sword from being destroyed.
Volume 11 cat face mother-in-law introduction
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The night sky is clear, the clouds are light and the wind is clear, and the moonlight is exceptionally bright.
Under the bright moon, there is a small and peaceful village called Qianwen Village. In this quiet night, all the families in the village have closed their doors to rest, only the house of the fourth wife still reflects the dim light.
Si Po's dilapidated little house has not been so lively for a long time, at least in the impression of the neighbors, it has not been tried in the past ten years. This night, the fourth mother should feel very happy. What she liked most before her death was liveliness.
However, the old man who likes to be lively can only lie quietly in the small room, on the wooden bed that has accompanied her for most of her life. Her old and withered face, against the backdrop of the moonlight shining through the window, looked very peaceful, but there was a bit of mystery in the peace. The tiring life has come to an end, and the time to relax has finally come.
Outside the room is a hall of less than 20 square meters. There is a lively place where the fourth wife has been missing for a long time. Four of her five children are here. She hadn't seen them for a long time, and although three of the four lived in the village, it was rare to see each other on weekdays. The last time they met was during the Spring Festival, they just pretended to come over and sneak around and left.
Therefore, when they come this time, the fourth wife will definitely be very happy. However, this is just a guess by the neighbors. At this moment, no one knows what the fourth woman is thinking, because she passed away this morning.
According to the custom of Qianwen Village, deceased cannot be buried immediately after death, but must be buried at home three days later. During the three days, the children must guard the spirit day and night, one is to show filial piety; the other is to prevent spiritual animals from approaching the corpse and causing the corpse to be deceived.
Although the children of the fourth mother were not filial before her death, some things had to be done after her death, otherwise outsiders would gossip. Others may not matter, but the eldest Gao Qiang and the eldest Gao Xian are the village head and teacher respectively. Although they are not good to the fourth wife on weekdays, it has long been a matter of street talk, but it is better to be known than to be seen by others, and their appearance is still necessary. Do it enough. Especially Gao Qiang, he wants to continue to be the village head, and of course he has to establish a positive image of a dutiful son in front of the villagers, just like he talks about his integrity and law-abiding every time he speaks.
However, the vast majority of people say one thing and do another, although they came right away after the death of their mother, although they tried their best to show their filial piety in front of outsiders during the day. But in this quiet night, when no outsiders were present, they gradually took off their false disguise and returned to their original ugly nature.
"There are just four of us now, do you want to play some mahjong?" The first one who couldn't hold back was the second sister, Gao Hao, who fights in Sifang City every day. Itchy hands.
"Well, good! I'll go to your house and bring a mahjong table. There's not even a TV here. It's boring! The third child, you have also been there to help." Will care if others want to.
Although the third child, Gao Xian, was quite reticent in his heart, his job as a teacher was arranged by the other party, and he often had to ask the elder brother who was the village chief for help on weekdays, so he could only swallow his anger.
The fourth elder, Gao Cai, looked at the scene in front of him with a cold eye, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. Fortunately, he was not as useless as the third child back then, staying in this shitty place, or else he would have to be like the third child now, and he must be obedient to the boss. Although he suffered a lot from working hard outside, he felt that it was all worth it when he saw the servile appearance of the third child. At least he dared to say no to the unreasonable request of the boss, instead of just bowing his head and saying nothing like the third.
Gao Hao's residence is not far from here. After a while, she and the third child brought the mahjong and mahjong table, and the sound of playing mahjong followed in the quiet small village.
In the room separated by a wall, in the noisy mahjong sound, the fourth woman was still lying quietly on the bed, the moonlight shining through the window on her peaceful face was extraordinarily mysterious.
A mysterious and elegant shadow suddenly appeared on the window. It was a tiny shadow. Its owner was a black cat whose whole body was as black as ink. It was indistinguishable from you and me. black cat.
In the room, only the fourth woman was lying quietly on the bed. The four people in the hall were fighting in Sifang City, and they didn't notice the movement in the room at all. Or, they don't care what's going on in the room at all.
The black cat stood on the windowsill and silently stared at everything in the room. After a long time, it was sure that there would be no danger in this room, so it jumped from the window to the bed in an elegant manner, and then climbed onto the fourth woman calmly, standing on her chest and quietly staring at her old face. .
The black cat under the moonlight seemed to have a mysterious smile, like a hunter catching prey.
The four people in the hall were still fighting in Sifang City, and they were unaware of what was happening in the room until a sharp scream came from outside the house, and the terrible nightmare started...
two
It is night, the first seven of the four wives.
According to the "Tibetan Sutra of the Dead", on the seventh night after a person's death, his soul will return to his home to visit relatives and friends.
In the small house of the fourth mother, in the hall, her four children are all wearing linen and filial piety, and their expressions are solemn. Seven days ago, they were still chatting and laughing here, building a square city, but now they are uncharacteristically unsmiling. All four were silent and sat silently, as if each had something on his mind.
Si Po's granddaughter Feifei squatted outside the door alone and put the incense candles into the brazier for incineration. When she was about to put a coin into the brazier, a crystal tear swept across her fair face and fell on the coin. On—almost every coin was stained with her tears. Her movements are very slow, but she is very serious and careful, trying to make every coin completely turned to ashes, as if every coin is attached to her thoughts of her grandmother.
The four people in the hall remained silent all night until someone finally broke the silence at midnight. The first to speak was the third child, Gao Xian, who was restless all night, like sitting on pins and needles. He didn't want to speak at first, but the silence brought by the silence made him feel an indescribable fear. He wanted everyone to speak, so he spoke first: "Then...you say, will mother come back tonight?"
However, he didn't seem to be good at talking, and the other three immediately looked at him as soon as he opened his mouth, each with a complicated look, with fear, anger, and a hint of unease. However, they did not answer, as if no one had spoken at all, the hall returned to silence again, and everyone returned to silence again.
After the calm lake ripples, it will soon return to calm. But who has ever thought that the calm is only the surface of the lake, and the bottom of the lake may be turbulent.
The eldest, Gao Qiang, has been smoking, and before the third one can speak, there are more than twenty cigarette butts under his feet. At this moment, he was still smoking, and there was no change on the surface, but the cigarette between his fingers was almost burning to the end, but he didn't notice it at all.
"Oh!" Gao Qiang exclaimed, and the scorching stinging pain between his fingers made him quickly throw the cigarette butt away. The other three were startled by his scream, and cast a surprised look at him like a startled bird. He was greatly embarrassed, pretended nothing had happened, and quickly lit another cigarette to hide his embarrassment.
Silence, long silence, dead silence. Gao Xian couldn't bear this terrible silence, so he repeated the topic just now: "You said, mother will be back tonight?"
"Third, shut up!" Gao Qiang shouted in anger, like a thunderbolt in this silent late night. Gao Xian shrank his body immediately, and the color of fear showed on his face.
"Wouldn't it be great if mother came back?" The fourth Gao Cai took out two cigarettes, threw one to the third brother, lit the other one himself, looked at the elder brother with a provocative look, and let out smoke leisurely.
"What do you want to say!" Gao Qiang glared at the fourth brother.
Gao Cai sneered disdainfully, took a breath of cigarette, and said, "Mother has been a little confused these past few years, but she still knows who is good to her and who is not good to her."
"Shut the fuck up!" Gao Qiang glared angrily, stood up and threw the cigarette in his hand under his feet, and said viciously to the fourth brother: "You don't come back once a year, how dare you say that I am right? Mother is not good! If you want to say that you are not filial, you and the fifth sister are the most unfilial!"
Gao Cai also stood up and roared at the elder brother: "My fifth sister and I went outside to make a living, just like you, spend all your father's money to buy an official and come back to be your village chief, how much do we eat outside? Do you know how hard it is? If you have the conditions, who doesn't want to come back to see your mother every day?"
"Don't say it so nicely, if it wasn't for the things in the lychee garden, you wouldn't come back from the boss!" The second sister Gao Hao said, and Gao Cai's face immediately sank.
The two brothers continued to quarrel, and Gao Hao spoke for the eldest brother from time to time, making the fourth brother blush.
The third child, Gao Xian, remained silent, because his goal had been achieved. He just wanted to hear some voices so that he would not be afraid of being quiet. He lit the cigarette in his hand and leisurely enjoyed the tranquility of the quarrel, his eyes fell to the window inadvertently, and then he screamed: "Mother, mother is really back!"
Everyone's eyes turned to the window. There was an old female figure outside the window. Against the hazy moonlight, under the messy hair was a terrifying face that was half human and half cat! Fearful screams sounded in the hall, and the monster outside the window showed a mysterious smile, and then disappeared into the night.
"Go out, go out and have a look." Gao Qiang's momentum when arguing with his fourth brother just now disappeared, replaced by cowardice.
Gao Cai didn't reply, his anger disappeared instantly, and he sat down slowly, as if thinking about something. Gao Hao and Gao Xian were the same, sitting on the stool without saying a word. Seeing that there was no response from everyone, Gao Qiang stopped talking. The hall was silent again, a dead silence, a silence full of fear.
Outside the door, Feifei was still burning coins for her grandmother, turning a deaf ear to everything that happened in the house.
The next day, a male body was found lying down in a lychee garden...