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Chapter 45: Old Cases


1986 year.

Land temple in the north of the city.

When exactly this land temple was built, there is no way to verify.

However, judging from the damage of the Land Temple alone, it may be more than 100 years old.

The temple is surrounded by dense trees, and there is only one road through the woods, and although the road surface is muddy and sandy, it is so smooth that no grass grows, and many people may still come here to worship.

Judging from the characteristics of the life of the residents here, it is normal to worship the land lord.

Since ancient times, the land lord has been revered as the "good fortune god", has the function of driving away evil spirits, avoiding disasters, and praying for blessings, and especially businessmen attach great importance to it, thinking that worshipping the land lord can turn from poor to rich, and business is prosperous.

And around here, there are some small handicraft workshops and sporadic vendors, which are the main groups of people who worship the land lord.

Therefore, although this land temple has been damaged, people will come to burn incense and worship on the second and sixteenth days of the lunar calendar.

Moreover, if it is damaged to the extent of leaking rain and water, there are always some people who repair it without leaving their names, which is considered to be a virtue.

But on the sixteenth day of the seventh lunar month of this year, something shocked people.

Early in the morning, some people went to worship.

But they found that on the beams of the Land Temple, a man, was hanging The man was not a resident of the surrounding area, dressed in relatively shabby clothes, with unkempt hair, and a bit like a wandering scavenger.

The man had no identification documents or other items on him, and his fingerprints had not been registered in the system at that time.

At first glance, there was a feeling of suicide, but after the scene investigation, it was found that there were many new Yu Qing scars on this person's body, and he should have fought with someone before his death.

However, the final cause of death was indeed mechanical asphyxiation, which is consistent with the scene of the hanging.

Because there were many doubts in the case in determining the specific cause of death, the police listed it as a suspected homicide case for investigation at that time.

However, due to the relatively secluded location of the Land Temple, there were few people who came and went during the non-worship period, and no witnesses were found for several days.

And the investigation of this person's identity is also full of obstacles.

It is not a missing person and there are no other reported disappearances that correspond to it.

Further autopsy revealed that the injuries sustained to his body prior to his death were sufficient to make him fatal.

Therefore, experienced scouts judged that this was most likely a homicide disguised by suicide.

However, a month later, the investigation into the case has not progressed.

Since the Land Temple is a public place, the various traces and fingerprints inside are extremely complex, and there are no clues to follow at all.

In particular, on the 16th of July, which is the usual day of worship, there were many people who went to the Land Temple, which also increased the difficulty of reconnaissance.

The case was unsolved, and two months later, with the consent of a certain leader, the case was classified as a "suicide", the case was closed, and the file was archived and sealed.

However, He Ruixiu, through the current method of portrait comparison, has now determined the identity of this person: the head of a non-governmental organization for the protection of cultural relics that was spontaneously organized in the south at that time.

This person's name is Wu Ji, his parents died when he was a child, and when he grew up, he was keen on the protection of cultural relics.

However, he did not have any education and could not enter the official service, so after organizing non-governmental organizations, he also began to travel around the world, especially focusing on the investigation and protection of cultural relics in some scattered temples.

There is no clue when he came to this land temple.

But what is certain is that he died on the fifteenth day of July.

This day is also known as Halloween in folklore.

As a result, this person's death has an inexplicable relationship between the folk and Halloween.

In particular, some people added fuel and vinegar to the argument that evil ghosts demanded their lives, and the originally widely respected land temple was covered with a layer of horror.

Since then, there has been less and less worship of this land temple, and many people have even chosen to worship the land at home instead of going here.

So, a small temple that was originally quite lively was left out in the cold.

Such a cold is 10 years.

In the intervening 10 years, a lot has changed here.

Affected by the regional economy, the surrounding small workshops and small traders generally suffered losses, and some families even committed suicide by jumping into the river because of their debts.

Soon, Wu Jiyu's suicide in the Land Temple, which had been forgotten, was mentioned again.

These bankrupt people believe that before Wu Ji committed suicide, the Land Temple received more worship and gave more feedback to people, and after Wu Ji committed suicide on Halloween, he destroyed the feng shui of the Land Temple, so people lost money one after another.

As a result, an issue was raised among the people: the demolition of the land temple and the construction of a new temple.

So, in 1996, this land temple, which may not be less than a hundred years old, was demolished.

Soon after the start of construction, the local cultural bureau learned of the news and immediately sent people to stop it, considering that the land temple itself has a certain cultural heritage representativeness.

However, they arrived too late.

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The Land Temple became a wasteland.

In order to recover the damage to the cultural relics to the greatest extent, the Cultural Affairs Bureau carried out a two-week excavation of the ruins.

In reality, however, since such temples were only public institutions of worship, they had very limited access to artifacts, including ruined earth statues, offering tables, a few incense shrines, and a few porcelain.

These cultural relics were confiscated by the Cultural Affairs Bureau in the past, but after several administrative ownership changes, where they are now need to be inquired by the government departments.

Many of these materials are not recorded in official sources, including some of them also come from the legends of the side doors found on the Internet.

Whether it was tracked by He Ruixiu or Li Ruofan, the two are basically the same, and after all the information is integrated, it does form a relatively clear cause and effect.

The progress of Oliko and Ma Fei's side is also relatively smooth, and the screenshots of all the objects on display in Doredo Green are clearly recognizable.

To contact the cultural relics management department, He Ruixiu feels that his current ability is insufficient, and before the network is launched, even if you are a criminal investigator, it will be difficult for you to get into the big yamen.

Fortunately, Li Ruofan worked for a long time, and through some personal relationships, he determined the current location of the original batch of cultural relics.

If there are no surprises, they should be on display at the Museum of Urban Construction.

After getting the news, He Ruixiu immediately got up and flew towards the City Construction Museum with Li Ruofan.

The Urban Construction Museum is a modern museum built 20 years ago to commemorate the development of urban construction.

The entire museum is dominated by impressionistic materials such as photographs, and a selection of early building materials and artifacts are included.

And the cultural relics of that land temple are displayed in an inconspicuous corner with the courage to "say no" to feudal ideology and resolutely dismantle the typical examples of buildings that affect the emancipation of people's minds.

He Ruixiu carefully identified those cultural relics, and in the information he and Li Ruofan had obtained before, the broken land statues and offering tables were all there, as for the incense shrines and porcelain, it was not clear how many there were, and there were currently 7 pieces.

He Ruixiu compared the screenshots sent by Group B one by one, but did not find any similarities between the two.

At present, the director of the museum has brought the handover book of these cultural relics at Li Ruofan's request.

The curator is now in his 60s, and he should have worked when the land temple was demolished in 1996, but he was transferred to the curator five years ago, so the origin and events of these cultural relics can only be understood from these handover books.

The handover document records the entire process of these artifacts from their excavation to the present.

Initially, a total of 10 cultural relics were excavated from the demolished land temple, including 1 statue, 1 offering table, 3 incense niches, and 5 porcelain.

After changing hands several times, in 2016, a piece of porcelain was legally auctioned, and its buyer was Doredo Green.

If you want to find the reason for the auction, it sounds a little ridiculous now.

Because at that time, these cultural relics were to be sent to the urban construction museum, and the museum party after investigation, it was determined that one of the porcelain was more special, and the overall design did not match, and among the 5 pieces of porcelain, only this one was a single piece, and the other 4 pieces could be paired in pairs, and it was not beautiful if it was placed alone.

After investigation, this porcelain did not have too deep history, so it was auctioned.

He Ruixiu looked at Li Ruofan, "This reason is really far-fetched. ” The director of the museum said, "This is just an official statement.

In fact, there are some reasons for auctioning it.

To tell you the truth, my previous director told me that because the cultural relics of this land temple were involved in a Halloween suicide case decades ago, when the museum was built, the person in charge felt that it was not clean and did not want to accept it.

At that time, the Cultural Affairs Bureau was still a department, probably because of this statement, and I didn't want to keep these things.

After several negotiations, it was finally decided to put these artifacts in the museum. ” However, at that time, the person in charge of the museum always felt that it was a bit unlucky to collect these things, so he insisted on selling one to solve the obscurity.

Moreover, the location where these cultural relics are located is a location that has been surveyed by feng shui masters, and its display cases are also special.

You see. ” The curator pointed to some inconspicuous corners of the display case, where some runes were actually carved.

"In order to ward off evil and suppress disasters, these runes were engraved in the design.

To tell the truth, at least when the museum was built, the cultural relics management department and the person in charge of this museum were still very superstitious.

Speaking of this, the museum director actually sighed.

Li Ruofan glanced at those runes and smiled slightly, "I don't know what feng shui master cheated money."

In my opinion, these runes are only somewhat decorative.

Okay, He Ruixiu, you find the one that was auctioned from the handover book, and match it with the picture sent by Group B.

Let me take a look at whether there is any so-called bad luck in these things on display. ” With that, Li Ruofan opened the toolbox he was carrying and took out a piece of rune paper from it. i0 t1706231537: