Shhh, the night is coming

Chapter 50 The Mystery of Calamus
Xu Ran raised his head and looked ahead. The cemetery was neither too big nor too small. There were nearly twenty grave mounds.

They are all family members of farmers in the previous and subsequent villages, and they are buried here after death, which belong to cooked graves.

At this time, Fu Sheng, who had been silent all this time, walked up to Xu Ran, bent him with his arm, and said, "I don't think it looks like a murder case."

Xu Ran withdrew his distant gaze and looked at him, "It doesn't really look like a murder case on the surface, but it can't stand up to scrutiny; you said that if a person died of illness, would it be likely that he would be at home or in the hospital? Or an unexpected situation at work; but this is the first time I have seen someone dying of illness on a grave."

"Then what if I don't want to live anymore!" Fu Sheng pointed to the place where the deceased lay and said, "Let's check this grave first, which family's ancestor it is from."

"You're right, we'll start from the grave owner's house. I'll go and see what Wen Lan and the others are asking. Would you like to see the corpse first?"

"Everyone is here, of course you have to watch." Fu Sheng walked up to Liu Hao and squatted down side by side, "You keep staring at her like this, aren't you afraid that she will suddenly sit up and hit you twice?"

"Don't fool me, kid. Although I'm older, I'm not superstitious. What's more, even if I suddenly sit up, you will be with me." Liu Hao looked at the box that Fu Sheng opened and continued, "You want to work here?"

Fu Sheng looked at the dead man's eyes with a flashlight, and began to examine the dead man's clothes. He found that rigor had formed on the corpse, and it fell apart when he pressed it lightly, and then came back again when he loosened it.

"The deceased's pupils were dilated, and his body had obvious rigor formation. According to preliminary identification, the time of death of the deceased was between 2:3 and [-]:[-] in the morning.

There are no traces of external factors on the body, there is mucus in the mouth, and green plant residue is found in the crevices of the fingers. The plant residue has a faint fragrance. At present, it is not possible to tell what the fragrance is, and further testing is needed to find out. "

Fu Sheng glanced at the burnt money ashes, and asked Liu Hao, "Have you found any ignition work such as a lighter or matches?"

"No." Liu Hao was startled, why didn't he think of looking for a lighter, "Could it be that he didn't pay attention to the corpse just now?"

"Turn over and have a look."

The two worked together to move the corpse again, and sure enough a lighter was found under the corpse, with no label on the lighter.

Fu Sheng carefully packed the lighter, the plant residue picked out between the dead man's nails, and the oral mucus in a small bag, then put away the work box and walked towards Xu Ran.

Xu Ran was asking the farmers who owned the grave of the deceased when she heard Li Cuihua yell "Ah".

Xu Ran hurried forward, "What's going on?"

"This, this is my father-in-law's grave."

Before Li Cuihua married into Wang's family, old man Wang was no longer alive, and Li Cuihua's impression of this father-in-law only existed on the day of going to the grave every Qingming.

She said: "Actually, I didn't look at the tombstone seriously every year when I went to the grave. I only heard Wang Guan say that my father-in-law's name is Wang Fugui. I didn't know what to think just now, so I just glanced at the words on the tombstone on the grave where my mother-in-law lay; the result, the result This is my father-in-law's grave.

Police officer, do you think my father-in-law found my mother-in-law and wanted her to go down with him!Police officer, if this is the case, will the mother-in-law also come to the house one day to drag someone down to accompany her? "

Xu Ran pressed his forehead and looked at Liu Hao for help, Liu Hao immediately understood, stepped forward and said to Li Cuihua: "That's all superstition, who told you that the dead can talk to the living, it's not a fairy tale Well."

"Then, why did my mother-in-law die on the grave of my father-in-law, and she was wearing new clothes. Yesterday, she was very happy and said that she wanted to buy new clothes. I should have been vigilant at that time. Why didn't I find that she was abnormal?" !"

"It's impossible for your father-in-law to call him to die on your father-in-law's grave. The police have already been involved in the investigation of your mother-in-law's case. Don't worry, whether it's suicide or homicide, we will give you a clear answer in the end."

Xu Ran watched Liu Hao and Li Cuihua explain the ghosts one after another, and his head suddenly buzzed. He was most afraid of encountering such a family member of the victim who likes to pester and insists that ghosts are haunting him.

He couldn't be bothered, so he had to patiently explain to them, and he suddenly admired Liu Hao.

"What's the matter with your inquiry, can you close the team?" Fu Sheng looked at Xu Ran with a cold face, he had already packed his things and was waiting for his car to take him away.

"can."

As soon as he arrived at the police station, Xu Ran called everyone into the small conference room and asked Fu Sheng to give a detailed report on today's old man's case at the grave head.

Fu Sheng put the things extracted from the mouth and fingernails of the deceased on the projector for everyone to see, and a small piece of turquoise mud-like object appeared on the big screen immediately.

"This is the common green plant mud in our lives. It has a faint fragrance. I need further testing to find out what kind of plant it is, and I will tell you when the time comes.

But based on my personal experience for so many years, I feel that this plant is particularly like an aquatic plant, because the light fragrance smells like water quality. "

Fu Sheng got up and walked to the big screen, pointing at the green plant mud on the screen with a laser pointer.

"What kind of aquatic plant do you feel like?" Xu Ran asked with one hand on the table and one hand resting on his chin, staring at the picture on the screen.

"calamus!"

"Calamus?" Liu Hao asked suddenly.

"Yes, it smells like calamus. I'll send it for inspection after the meeting. It should be right."

"There is a custom here. During the Dragon Boat Festival every year, every household will put a few calamus on the door. The first of the five auspicious calamus in the sky symbolizes the sword that drives away the ominous, because the growing season and shape are regarded as Feel the 'Qi of Hundred Yins', the leaves are sword-shaped, and can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits.

So the alchemists called it "Water Sword", which can cut thousands of evil spirits.Gu Tieqing in the Qing Dynasty recorded in a book that "cutting cattail as a sword, cutting canopy as a whip, and adding peach stalks and garlic, hanging on the bed and door, can drive away ghosts." "

"The saying about calamus should not only be a custom in town Q. People all over China probably believe that calamus can drive away ghosts and gods," Xu Ran quietly listened to Liu Hao, and gently put his index finger on his chin to his lips, "I also Know."

"After hearing this, why do you suddenly feel like what the victim's daughter-in-law Li Cuihua said, the old man came to look for her?"

Wen Lan looked at you and him in a daze, "I just don't know that calamus can drive away ghosts? I don't even know calamus! Does it grow in water?"

"Yes. Calamus likes a damp environment, and generally grows near water, in swamps, or on floating islands in lakes; besides, let's take a look at this again,"

Fu Sheng pressed the laser pointer, and the screen turned to the picture of the deceased's mouth, "When I was examining the deceased, I found mucus flowing from the corner of the deceased's mouth, and the color of the mucus was not right. I suspect that the deceased may have been drugged before his death. "

"Prescribe medicine? Fu Fayi, the deceased is an old lady!" Wen Lan said in shock.

Zhou Jie was also a little startled, put down the pen in his hand, took a look at everyone, and said, "It shouldn't be a fun drug!"

(End of this chapter)