"No?" Chi Yan repeated these two words, and didn't even realize what it meant for a while.
He helped the butler to stand up, and the butler stood by and told him the cause and effect of this.
It turned out that they had already found out that Chi Rong had disappeared since yesterday morning. Because Chi Yuanshan had passed away and the bones had not yet been buried, Chi Rong had disappeared. The clan elder told the housekeeper to suppress the matter first and lied to the guests who came to express condolences. It is said that Chi Rong was bedridden due to the sudden death of his father, and at the same time secretly dispatched people to find Chi Rong's whereabouts.
But after searching for a day, I couldn't find it. The servant under Chi's family said that after Chi Yuanshan went to the mountain yesterday, Chi Rong went alone to the place where the old man was in retreat. Maybe he went to report the funeral to the old man in person, and no one would see you again after that. to him. No one dared to disturb Mr. Chi who was in retreat. The servant asked about Chi Rong's whereabouts while delivering the meal, but only got an answer that Chi Rong never came.
In the evening, after the housekeeper sent away the last wave of guests who came to express condolences, he personally brought two servants into Chi Rong's house to clean up, trying to find out if Chi Rong had left any clues or letters to tell him where he went.
Chi Rong's house is covered with beige wooden floors, which must be wiped by hands. When he wiped to the edge of the bed, he reached under the bed, touched something hard, and took it out to show it to the housekeeper.
It was a round, sealed iron box with a row of fine round holes. The housekeeper signaled the servant to open the box—the inside was densely stacked, all of which were all kinds of dead black bugs. Chi Rong inherited his mother's secret technique. The housekeeper served him for many years, and he knew a little bit. Seeing this, he was not too surprised, so he asked the servant to cover the box and put it back under the bed.
The servant didn't look very good when he saw so many dead bugs. He was lying on the ground trying to put the iron box back on when he saw that there seemed to be something under the bed, so he raised his head slightly and said to the housekeeper, "Master, young master is under the bed. There seems to be something, quite big."
The housekeeper's name was Li Mao, and the servants under the Chi family also called him "Master Mao".
The housekeeper was worried about Chi Rong's whereabouts and refused to let go of any clues. Hearing the words, he said, "Take it out and see what it is."
The servant reached in and reached out according to the words, grabbed a piece of something like a dry wood branch and pulled it out a little, but the thing got stuck under the bed and could not be pulled out again. The servant also put his head on the ground and leaned closer to see what it was and where it was stuck.
As a result, he saw a shriveled head, smiling at him with empty eyes.
The servant screamed in fright, and in an instant he crawled to the other side, pointing to the underside of the bed and looking at Li Mao shivering.
The housekeeper was also taken aback by his reaction, so he fell on the ground and looked under the bed himself, and was also taken aback! But after all, he has served in the Chi family for many years, he has a lot of knowledge, and he has seen some real monsters and ghosts. He quickly recognized that what was under the bed was just a mummified corpse, so he called two people over to move the bed away and put the Please come out with that corpse.
However, what happened next made Li Mao break into a cold sweat. After inspection, the corpse had been dead for nearly a month, and the owner of the corpse was none other than Chi Rong, who had just disappeared.
Under the bed of the second young master of the chief room of Chi's family, he hid his corpse, which had been dead for almost a month.
This matter is full of strangeness and strangeness. After Chi Yan and his mother left, Chi Yuanshan officially married Chi Rong's mother. After that and even now, Chi Rong is the legitimate heir of the Chi family. Specialist, he can only tell the housekeeper to suppress the matter first, and do not allow rumors to spread, and still say that Chi Rong cannot see guests while sick, and he will decide in person after Mr. Chi leaves the customs.
Maybe it was because Chi Yan and Chi Rong were related by blood after all, so Li Mao didn't hide it from him and told him the truth.
After the butler finished speaking, he hesitantly looked at Chi Yan: "Young Master, after the clan elders discussed it, they said that Er Shao's body can't always be left hanging like this, and we are going to hold a simple funeral for Er Shao today under the guise of doing things for Mr. , and then let the second young master go to the ground. If you are not busy, I will trouble you to send the second young master a ride."
Chi Yan shook his head and lowered his eyes: "He has always been at odds with me, and he doesn't necessarily want me to go, so forget it."
The housekeeper naturally knew what was going on between Chi Yan and Chi Rong, so he heard the words and sighed, but didn't force it.
Unexpectedly, Chi Yan suddenly called his name: "Li Mao."
The housekeeper raised his head and heard Chi Yan say in a very light tone, "Is Chi Rong trying to kill me about the incident in Hejiacun?" His voice was flat, because the flatness instead revealed a kind of confident determination.
The housekeeper opened his mouth, and turned his tongue a few times with different words, and finally said: "... I only know that the Second Young Master did set up a game before, and wanted the Young Master to come back, but it should not mean to harm the Young Master. Clear."
Chi Yan could hardly control the sneer in his heart. Hejiacun's appearance, as long as he stepped into it, it was clearly a dead end. to bring him back? If he hadn't come across that strange thing in the Nuo Temple by chance, he would have been dead by now. Besides, if Chi Rong was trying to lure him back, why did he talk to Chi Rong twice in total after he came back, and let him leave quickly
He shook his head, didn't look at the housekeeper anymore, turned around and left, Xu Rui was still waiting for him at the door.
Chi Yan nodded to Xu Rui, and the two left Chi's house and returned to Xu's house. It was already lunch time, and Xu Rui and Xu Xin's brothers and sisters left Chi Yan to eat with them. The kindness was difficult, Chi Yan said to the driver, please go back to rest in the afternoon before picking him up, and called Ye Yingzhi to tell him that he was staying with the Xu family brothers and sisters.
In the dining room, you can also hear the noise in the main hall of the front yard, which is chaotic. Xu Xin was curious, jumped out to ask, and came back after a while to spread the news to Chi Yan and Xu Rui: "Oh, brother, you and Xiaochi went to Chi's house while you were working hard, and something happened again. It's the one who has been making trouble several times. Let the owner of the horse door help find his son, and his son has been found."
She said she found it, but her expression didn't show any joy or happiness, so Chi Yan guessed that it wasn't easy.
Sure enough, Xu Xin continued: "But the body was found, found in the forest in the mountains."
Xu Rui put down his chopsticks: "What happened again? Do you know the cause of death?" A few days ago, Lin Zhu, the second sister-in-law's son, also disappeared first, and then the body was found. The cause of death has not yet been found out.
"That's just weird," Xu Xin said. "There were many people who saw the corpse at the time. There was a young Tianshi surnamed Jiang who was very surprised and panicked when he saw Ma Tian's corpse. The master of Mamen noticed this person and grabbed him It came out. This Jiang Tianshi is about the same age as Ma Tian, and he has no experience. After being asked a few questions, he couldn't support all the moves. He admitted that he and Ma Tian had an argument in the back mountain two days ago, and he was impulsive. He killed Ma Tian with the wrong hand, but he was also afraid of the power of the Mamen master, and was afraid of being discovered. And deal with it, let him be a ghost, and go back to his relatives to report his grievance. He had already done a good job in his heart, but he didn't expect to see Ma Tian's body again today. Of course, he was frightened. Exposed."
Xu Rui frowned: "Didn't he say he burned Ma Tian's body?"
Xu Xin said: "That's right. He said he remembered it clearly, but later he sent a few people to the back mountain with him to dig. Even after digging around a few trees, they didn't find the burned bones he said. Remains. Now his whole person is crazy, and no one can tell whether what he said is true or not, so he is still arguing ahead. "
Chi Yan suddenly interjected: "Xiaoxin, let me ask you something, did you say when Ma Tian died according to the condition of the corpse? Is it like Lin Zhu last time, or the actual time of death is earlier than the time of disappearance? a period of time?"
Xu Xin nodded: "Yes, how did you guess?"
Chi Yan didn't speak, he only felt cold all over. He suddenly had a conjecture.
Li Mao didn't lie, but Chi Rong, who was talking to him these days, should no longer be human.
This explains it all.
When he was still human, he suddenly wanted to come back for some unknown reason, but when he came back, he was already dead, and he realized this and noticed that something was wrong, so he kept telling him to go.
He didn't go by himself, because he knew that he shouldn't be able to go.
It wasn't that Chi Rong died suddenly for some reason and turned into a mummified corpse that seemed to have been dead for nearly a month, but that he had indeed been dead for nearly a month. Counting the time, it should be when the incident in Hejiacun was triggered, when the two police officers disappeared. If what Li Mao said is true, then it can be assumed that Chi Rong set up a bureau in Hejia Village to lure him back, or even kidnapped him back there without knowing it, but this bureau was instead taken by another The use of people has turned into a dead end that can put oneself to death, and Chi Rong also died in the process.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was some truth to this speculation, but there were still some details to add, about the death of his father, about the deaths of Lin Zhu and Ma Tian. He also needs to obtain a message through Yingzhi brother.
Thinking of this, Chi Yan couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly contacted the driver to pick him up, and said to Xu Xin and Xu Rui: "I have to go back quickly, I have something to do, you guys should be careful recently, it's best to bring some magic tools to exorcise ghosts and keep them safe. wait for my call."
If all his guesses are true, then...
Can't stay in this place anymore.