"My lord, this is it," Jiang Xixi pointed to a wooden door in front of him, "This is the Wen family, although the second son of the Wen family was still young at the time, he should know something about Mrs.
Zhong." ” Cheng Muyou nodded, motioned for Jiang Xixi to step forward and knock on the door, and just after a few knocks, the young man she saw last time opened the door and poked his head out, "Lord Jiang, why are you again?"
” "I'm going to bother you again this time, but the situation is urgent, so Lord Cheng also came over in person."
The young man of the Wen family saw that there were two people standing behind Jiang Xixi, one of them was Cheng Muyou, the commander of Xin'an County, and the other was a woman under twenty years old, her eyes were bright, and there was an indescribable charm all over her body.
"Lord Cheng came to the cold house in person, it's a small faux pas, please sit inside."
As he spoke, he opened the door.
Cheng Muyou raised his hand to stop him, "I know more or less about the situation in your house, so don't go in, the province will disturb your father, let's find a secluded place, I have a few questions for you to ask clearly." ” The young man nodded, and several people came to the big banyan tree last time again, now it is getting late, except for a few of them, there is not even half a shadow of a person here, Cheng Muyou sat on the ground without mind, and looked at the young man, "How much do you know about Granny Zhong?"
” The child was taken aback, "Granny Zhong?
What the adults are talking about, is it the old woman who has made umbrellas all her life and sold them all her life?
” Cheng Muyou nodded, and the woman beside him also took two steps forward, looking at the young man intently.
"She doesn't have a good reputation in the tun, greedy for money, whoever doesn't take care of her business is equivalent to having a feud with her, I remember once going out with my brother, accidentally stepping on her stall, and she chased her two streets, not to say that I broke her umbrella, and finally my father was impatient with her, so he had to pay for the umbrella, which was the end of the trouble.
But later her only son died of illness, and everyone sympathized with her, and they didn't care about her on weekdays, and they took care of her business. ” "You're talking about Zhong Hui?"
"It's him, it's strange to say, this Brother Zhong is completely different from his mother, he is very kind, he smiles at everyone, I don't remember him blushing with anyone.
I remember that in the days when my brother had an accident, Brother Zhong came to the house every day to help, and at that time, my father and mother were almost broken, and my brother's funeral can be said to be single-handedly taken care of.
One night, I saw him sitting outside the house secretly wiping his tears, saying that his brother was so pitiful, how could such a good child go.
It's a pity that good people are not rewarded, not long after my brother left, Brother Zhong also got sick and went overnight. ” "Ill?
Can you be more careful, what kind of disease does Zhong Hui have?
Yan Niang grasped the key point in his words and asked relentlessly.
The young man scratched his head, "I don't know, Granny Zhong said that he had a fever in the middle of the night and was convulsed all over his body, and he didn't even have time to ask the doctor, so he went."
The next morning, we found out about it, but by that time, he was already in the coffin, and we didn't even see him for the last time. ” "The funeral was done so quickly, and the people in the tunzi were not suspicious?"
"Granny Zhong said that people can't spend the night at home when they die, that's why they are in such a hurry, but," he looked up at Yan Niang, "Why should you doubt it, Granny Zhong is his own mother, he died, she cried so much that she almost lost her breath, can she hide anything from us?"
” It was the middle of the night when they left the Wen family, and the three of them walked in the direction of Xin'an Mansion on the silent and uninhabited street, along the way, no one spoke, everyone was reminiscing about the young man's words, but some people thought more shallowly, and some people had already touched the bottom of the mystery.
When he arrived at the gate of Xin'an Mansion, Cheng Muyou stopped, he looked at Yan Niang, "Miss Yan, what do you think?"
” Yan Niang stared at him, "It's better for Master Cheng to talk about his opinion first." ” "To find out whether those people died at the hands of Granny Zhong, it's actually very simple, Zhong Hui's grave is behind the mountain, I will let people open the coffin tonight for an autopsy, if it is found that Zhong Hui did not die of illness, but was killed by sharp weapons like those people, you can basically confirm the crime of Mrs.
Zhong."
Jiang Xixi spoke, "My lord, the knife wound on the bones of the corpse penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and Mrs.
Zhong had more strength when she was young, so it was not impossible to do it, but after all, she was just a woman, and she didn't know kung fu, how did she kill so many people without making a little noise?"
” Cheng Muyou sneered, "Do you know that there is a flower called a mandala." ” "Mandala?"
"Grind this flower into powder and then pour it into water, only half a scoop, it can make people soften their bodies, they can't struggle, if you add rice wine, the effect is better, less than half an hour, you can make people scattered, lethargic."
Jiang Xixi exclaimed, "So this woman first charmed people and then took their lives?"
” Cheng Muyou nodded, "Wen Xiu who fell in the well, and Chen's mother-in-law who froze to death in the snowdrift, must have been put down by her medicine first, and then found a suitable time to throw them into the well and bury them in the snowdrift, she is very shrewd, knowing that by doing this, those corpses can't see anything abnormal, and the people in Tunli only think that they have an accident."
As for the fleeing travelers and Li Meng, they were first bewitched by the medicine, and then they were killed by her and buried in the vegetable garden.
She thought that she was dealing with a ghost, but there was a person who took her crime into his eyes, and that person did not want to go along with her, so he also became a ghost under her knife. ” Jiang Xixi felt a chill behind her, "That person is Zhong Hui, and it can only be Zhong Hui, he is in the same room as Mrs.
Zhong, it is impossible not to find out what she has done, so I went to the Wen family to help after Wen Xiu's death, in fact, it was all caused by guilt."
Jiang Xixi raised his head, "But my lord, tiger poison does not eat children, is there really such a vicious person in this world who kills his own son?"
” "Yes," Yan Niang took over the conversation on the side, "That's why she was selected by Tu Mo and became her own stand-in." ” Cheng Muyou and Jiang Xixi were both surprised, and asked at the same time, "Miss Yan, what do you mean by this?"
” Yan Niang stood in the shadows under the wall, her skirt fluttering in the wind, looking like a ghost.
"The man-eating sheep monster is called the earth mole, which is a fierce beast living in the underworld, and if the earth mole wants to come to the world, it must find a substitute to replace itself in the underworld.
This stand-in is not something that anyone can do if they want to.
The living and the dead can be seen by the Yin soldiers at a glance, but the earth mole is different from the ordinary necromancy, it is the blood of Chiyou, so the person who is its substitute must bear a blood debt, and it must be an irreredeemable debt of sin.
With such a blood debt, it is difficult to distinguish between a human being and a ghost.
Yan Niang glanced at Cheng Muyou and Jiang Xixi, "Do you think there is anything worse in this world than killing your own son?"
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