We ran into the yard towards him and found that he was holding a girl of about 17 or 18 years old, with her eyes closed and her face very pale. He just looked at us dully, then said nothing and continued to walk into the house mechanically like a zombie.
If my guess is right, this girl should be his daughter Xiaolei. Although she doesn't look very good, she is still alive, so we are relieved. When we entered the house, Pang Furong had already put his daughter in bed. He looked up blankly at the noose on the beam, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then a trace of sadness returned.
He sat in the bedroom dejectedly, covering his face with his hands and said, "Xiaolei is still alive, but she is frightened, I don't know if she will wake up.
I felt very sorry for him now. His lover was killed, his wife hanged herself, and his daughter was frightened. Compared with my situation of being punished by heaven, it was much more cruel. I walked to the bed and looked at Xiaolei carefully. Her forehead was dark. She must have been infected by her mother's evil spirit, which made her mentally uneasy. So I asked him to get yellow paper and cinnabar, draw a cleansing talisman and burn it, and let Xiaolei drink the talisman water.
After a while, Xiaolei woke up slowly. The father and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly. The scene was tear-jerking and made Qu Mo and I feel sad. Xiaolei cried for a while, and then her emotions gradually stabilized. Then she talked about her mother hanging herself yesterday.
First of all, we were all extremely surprised and suspicious when we heard her say that her mother had not left the house since the night before yesterday until yesterday afternoon. So it was not Shuzhen who killed An Daiyun, so how did Pang Furong calculate that the murderer was his wife? Did he make a mistake, or was it a deliberate illusion to confuse us
Pang Furong guessed what we were thinking from our suspicious eyes and said with a sad face: "Whether you believe me or not, I never thought of harming them."
From his simple explanation, I could tell that he was sincere. He had no reason to kill his lover and then his wife. From my careful observation of him, there were no loopholes in his expression or tone. After a murderer kills someone, no matter how well he hides, there will always be loopholes, but he didn't.
I nodded to indicate that I believed him and let Xiaolei continue. According to Xiaolei, her mother had been restless all day yesterday, walking around the house and couldn't sit down. In the afternoon, she suddenly asked her to go to the store to buy gold ingot candles. These things are usually used to worship ancestors, why did she buy these for no reason? Xiaolei asked her curiously why, and was scolded. She just had to go to the store as she asked.
When she got home in just ten minutes, she found her mother had hanged herself. She quickly loosened the rope and let her mother fall to the ground, but she was already dead. She lay on her mother's body and cried for a long time before she was about to go out and call for help, but her mother suddenly opened her eyes and grabbed her throat.
Xiaolei was almost scared to death, but fortunately, rural girls are strong and struggled to break free from her mother's hands. But the corpse jumped up and grabbed her, so she couldn't run out of the house. After struggling for a few times, she was quick-witted and grabbed the rope. She was as smart as me and hung the corpse back up again, and then she managed to get out of the house. She ran to an abandoned brick kiln in the south of the village. She was extremely frightened and the intense exercise made her faint.
Pang Furong went on to say that he searched all over the village and found his daughter there in the morning. He thought his daughter was dead and wanted to die with her, but fortunately he found that his daughter was still breathing, so he carried her back.
At this time, someone was heard shouting in the yard: "Lao Pang, what happened to your family? Why were you yelling last night?" It might be a neighbor. A middle-aged man appeared at the door of the house and continued: "At dawn, I saw your wife jumping out of the house and heading east. I was almost scared to death!"