Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1826
A group of people set off from the city police station in sedan chairs and soon arrived at the city hall.

In order to prevent people from being shocked, the sedan chair did not go through the front door: the front half of the government office was converted into offices of various departments, and there were naturalized cadres and local people who came to work everywhere-they turned to enter and exit through the back door: for the sake of convenience, A few months earlier, Wang Sangou opened a back door on the back wall of the Guangzhou government office through which sedan chairs and carriages could pass.

Although the back door was deserted and deserted, it was already heavily guarded once entering the door.This is the perimeter guard, all replaced by soldiers from the Knife Drawing Squad and the White Horse Squad.Mu Min and others got off the sedan chair here, and Cui Hantang looked at the wall, which was more than two feet high.This height cannot be climbed without the aid of equipment.

Wu Mu, director of the Guangzhou branch of the Political Security Bureau, was already waiting for them in the yard.Seeing Cui Hantang's arrival, he didn't show a surprised expression - before Cui Hantang left Lingao, Daoist Dai's secret telegram had already been sent to his desk.

The New Taoism and the Political Security Bureau seem to be at odds with each other. In fact, the New Taoism is actually undertaking the work of the Civilian sect of the Political Security Bureau. The cooperative relationship between the two parties is much deeper than it appears on the surface.

"This is the scene of the crime." Wu Mu introduced, "Mayor Liu is waiting for us in the conference room..."

"Let me see the situation here first." Cui Hantang said.

Everyone was silent, watching Cui Hantang looking around, secretly puzzled in their hearts.

Cui Hantang looked over and saw that this was a side courtyard of Hou Ya.The yard is small, but the house is neat and exquisite. The yard is paved with stone slabs, and two osmanthus trees are planted in the two flower ponds in front of the main house.There are three main rooms, with Liu Xiang's office in the middle and his and Guo Xi'er's bedrooms on the left and right: Liu Xiang doesn't sleep well at night, and usually sleeps alone.

The wing rooms on the east and west sides of the yard have been converted into offices, confidential rooms, and archives from the signs hanging above.There is also a dedicated conference room.Cui Hantang looked at it carefully: the environment is quiet, without any evil spirit.Not to mention that there were eight veteran personal guards sent by the General Security Bureau standing in the yard at this time, with two revolvers criss-crossed on their bodies as standard equipment, some of them were holding double-barreled shotguns, and some had double knives in their waists.All of them were murderous, all armed to the teeth.

"Let's go, let's meet Mayor Liu." Wu Mu said.

Liu Xiang didn't come out to greet the elders, because Mu Min had already issued a death order to the staff of the General Security Bureau a few days ago, and he was not allowed to appear in outdoor public places. No contact with Liu Xiang himself is allowed without permission.

Although the witchcraft case is still kept secret, the news that someone is trying to "assassinate" Liu Xiang has spread like wildfire in the city hall.Some people in the city hall are unavoidably panicked.In order to prevent the further spread of the news, the Political Security Bureau has sealed off the inside and outside of the Houyamen, strictly prohibiting the entry and exit of personnel, and launched an investigation on all personnel entering and exiting.

The Guihuamin who were stranded in the Houya area were already a little panicked. Seeing that many elders gathered in this small courtyard, these Guihuamin cronies all whispered inwardly: This case is really serious!

Liu Xiang is resting his eyes in the meeting room at the moment. He has a problem of hyperthyroidism, and he doesn't sleep well at night. After tossing and tossing, Su was mentally exhausted and lost his shape.

Wu Mu didn't allow him to meet people for meetings, and there were so many things going on outside, so he had to read the documents and write notes to direct the work every day.As a result, it looks more and more haggard.Guo Xier felt sorry for the man, so she asked Han Yue, the newly transferred deputy chief of the general affairs department—Wang Sangou has been promoted to the chief of the department—to temporarily stop sending documents and prepare some nourishing food by herself. , serve him to eat, and take care of someone to take the screen, and serve him to rest on the bamboo couch.

At this moment, Liu Xiang only felt that his mind was chaotic, like sleeping but not sleeping, like dreaming but not dreaming, he just felt restless.Leaning on the couch also felt uncomfortable.At this time, Dimly was about to fall asleep, when suddenly she woke up with a jerk.But seeing Guo Xier looking down at him, seeing him waking up, he whispered: "Chief, Chief Mu and the others are here..."

Liu Xiang nodded slightly and said, "Help me up."

Guo Xi'er quickly reached out to help him up, and saw that he looked haggard, so she quickly wrung a towel from the washbasin next to him.

After Liu Xiang wiped off the towel, he felt refreshed, took another sip of herbal tea, and then walked out of the screen to greet him.

After some politeness, everyone sat around the conference table.Mu Min introduced: "Old Liu, this is Comrade Cui Hantang from the New Taoism who came to help solve the case. After hearing about your case, he said that he should come to your place first to see if there are any problems. —Doctor Liu said that you haven’t slept well these nights, and you’ve often been haunted.”

Liu Xiang nodded and said: "Doctor Liu is right, I haven't slept well these few nights."

Cui Hantang looked at Liu Xiang without saying a word.After looking up and down for a long time, he reached out and grabbed Liu Xiang's eyes.Liu Xiang was already dazed by his gaze, he quickly stretched out his hand to slap his fat hand away, and said angrily, "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? Hehe, hehehe..." Cui Hantang smirked with a wretched voice that didn't match his figure, and said a line that everyone is familiar with from a charlatan, which shocked everyone: "This layman , I see that your seal is dark and your eyelids are black, there must be some unforeseen disaster sooner or later!"

Liu Xiang's face turned dark when he heard it. He was already upset and felt that he had made a fool of himself, which greatly affected his reputation.Although this Cui Hantang is not a very close acquaintance, he has eaten and drank together in Lingao and Qiongshan, exchanged experience on using the life secretary, and scolded the mother of the executive committee.I didn't expect to come up with such an unlucky set of Jianghu tactics first.Pulling his face and pointing his hand: "Fatty Cui, everyone is talking about business here, you should be more serious!!!"

Cui Hantang was not angry either, he smiled and said, "Hey, don't worry, I'm just talking to you about business." Then he coughed twice, straightened his face, and said to Liu Xiang, "Stand up, let me turn over Open your eyelids to see. I suspect that you have been bewitched!"

"Ah?" Liu Xiang turned pale when he heard the shock, but he didn't care to change his words, and quickly asked, "Fatty, don't you lie to me, is this really the case?"

"Calm down, it's just a mere Gu worm, it's nothing more than skin ulceration all over the body or a swollen bump on the stomach, making him fatter than me, or parasites crawling out of the whole body." Cui Hantang said calmly.

Lin Baiguang next to him saw that Liu Xiang's face had turned green, and he quickly smoothed things over: "Okay, Daoist Cui! We don't engage in feudal superstition. It's not that everyone doubts your ability, so stop playing tricks and tell me what's going on. Bar!"

Then Cui Hantang put away the tired look: "Of course, but I can't tell for a while now, let's go to the scene to find out the reason why Mayor Liu was recruited? I think Bureau Mu must be you Have you checked the scene already?"

Although the detection work is in charge of the Political Security Bureau, Wu Mu has no experience in criminal investigation, and the on-site investigation work in this area is actually handled jointly with the police station.

"Yes, but only some strange things were found, which is of limited help to solve the case."

As she spoke, she took out a tray from the next room, with a glass test tube in the middle, stuffed with a small piece of tissue paper: "This is the stain that was collected on Mayor Liu's window, and there are flies gathering. It should be Some kind of animal blood, excrement, or rotting matter - the specifics will not be known until Lingao's analysis is done; in addition, there is a small scratch on the rear window sill, which is a little smaller than an ordinary cat's claw , but it doesn't look like a cat, but rather..." At this point, Mu Min stopped talking, as if hesitating to speak.

"Like a baby's footprints?" Cui Hantang sneered.

Mu Min immediately stopped talking, and Liu Xiang's face turned pale again.

"To be honest, I don't believe in these things." Mu Min said, "I probably heard from Liu San and a few old officials that this thing might be a 'little ghost'. The things left at the scene all show that these people are I'm picking living souls and refining ghosts. But these are all deceptive ghost tricks, there can't be any real 'little ghosts' in the world..."

Cui Hantang shook his head and said, "Director Mu, what you said is of course reasonable in our opinion, but you have to think about it: the source of the art of harvesting soul witchcraft is said to have existed in the Han Dynasty, and the witchcraft in the Han Dynasty It is also possible that the spells were introduced from the Western Regions and the Mongolian plateau. These evil spells can be passed down for thousands of years, until the 21st... cough, cough, they are still passed down to this day, so how could it be a simple deception with no effect at all?"

"You mean..." Mu Min tried to figure out what he meant, "There really are 'kids'?"

"Indeed," Cui Hantang nodded vigorously, "Not only that, but Mayor Liu is probably poisoned by Gu."

All the elders present except Liu Xiang looked at him with the look of being insane, but it was Lin Baiguang who calmed down and said, "What do you mean?"

"Let's go to the scene and have a look, so that I can judge more accurately."

The scene was in Liu Xiang's bedroom in the courtyard, just a few steps away from the meeting room in the east wing.

Liu Xiang's bedroom is the east room of the main house. It is a very common architectural style in the local area. There is an open veranda in front, and rolled up bamboo curtains hang on the veranda. The paper on the windows has been replaced with glass, and curtains are hung inside.

Mu Min pointed to the window and the door and said, "That's where the stains were found. You can see that there are still some left."

Cui Hantang raised his eyes and saw that the doors and windows were inlaid with glass, and there were some stains on them. He walked over slowly, raised his hand to dip a little carefully, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and said with a sneer: " Little trick." Then he asked, "Where's that paw print?"

(End of this chapter)