Who could the murderer be? I thought he was in Shuiliu Village.
Because the movement was very intense at that time, anyone who said a witty remark to a woman would be accused of being a hooligan and paraded through the streets. Xiaofang dug up a golden box from the Beidi Temple, so you can imagine how serious this crime was. She was imprisoned in the brigade headquarters, which was actually a so-called cowshed, or prison, and it was impossible for people from other villages to go in and take her away. It was even more impossible for Xiaofang to run away and commit suicide. And how did the woman from Xiping Village named Xiu'er secretly send Xiaofang food? This is hard to figure out.
Human greed is not limited to any period, even in that turbulent era. The villagers must have been greedy because they had seen the golden box with their own eyes. They were familiar with the village and it was possible that they could deceive the guards. Or, the guards stole the gold box from Xiaofang's neck and killed her, then dragged her out to make it look like she was hanged.
But I can’t understand why they had to cut off her hand
After touching his nose and thinking about it, he realized that Xiaofang's hands might have been chopped off because she was holding the gold box tightly with both hands.
This golden box is hidden under the base of the statue. It must not be an ordinary thing. Perhaps it was because Xiaofang came into contact with it that she became different from ordinary people, and her soul became extremely powerful after death.
The next day, the coffin was ready. Lu Fei, Wang Zijun, Qu Mo and Ma Yunxi came to see me, so I asked them to go to Shuiliu Village together. On the way, I told them the story of the evil ghost and Xiaofang. After hearing it, Qu Mo and Ma Yunxi were as sad as Shen Bing.
When we got to the field, we found that Luo Yushan, the bastard, was quite obedient and lived in the straw hut to guard the temple. I asked him if Silly Qiangzi had come back. He said that not only did he come back, but he also wanted to go to the temple. Luo Yushan was not as strong as this idiot, so he kicked him a few times and rushed into the temple gate. Luo Yushan went back to the village and moved his uncle over, and finally persuaded the idiot to leave.
I looked up to the south, which was the direction of Xiping Village. Could it be that the silly boy disappeared because he followed Xiaofang's instructions and went to see Xiu'er? After the ritual, I will go to Xiping Village to look for this Xiu'er and get some information.
Then he asked if there was no movement last night. Luo Yushan said with a bitter face: "Why was there no movement? The fire was burning in the brazier in the temple all night, and the black shadow was shaking up and down. I was almost scared to death. Mr. Xi, how long do you plan to let me see it?"
I said it would be soon, only five or six days, and the bastard almost cried when he heard that it would take another five or six days. I smiled and asked him to go back to the village and call a few strong young men, take a shovel, use a compass and a tape measure, and use the middle of the tomb and the temple as the axis to measure out a hundred meters, then use the compass to locate it, dig eight large pits, and bury the coffin.
When I came here, I bought eight paper figures from the paper horse shop, sprinkled them with chicken blood and sealed them on the facade. After the coffin was buried, Lu Fei and I chanted incantations and burned talismans, and performed a ritual for a quarter of an hour, and the eight coffins to suppress the ghost were completed.
We went straight to Xiping Village and found Wei Qing and his wife first, asking about an old lady named Xiu'er. Wei Qing was stunned when he heard it, and we didn't know what he meant. Unexpectedly, his wife Zhao Tinghua smiled and said, "There is only one person named Xiu'er in this village, and that's our grandmother."
It was really a case of searching for something without any effort. It turned out that Xiu'er was Wei Qing's grandmother! I urged Wei Qing to call his grandmother over. To be honest, I was full of expectations for this old lady, because if I could get a little clue about Xiaofang, I might be able to find the murderer and the truth behind Xiaofang's murder.