Song Yi

Chapter 202

Du Wenhao smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, we are holding lanterns and torches, ghosts can't get in, but Daoist, you have to be careful, you have caught so many ghosts, they may be angry with you, and they will come to trouble you! "

At this moment, the old Taoist stared at the lake suddenly, screaming in horror: "Ah..., there is a ghost! Let me go! Let me go quickly...! Ghost...! There is a ghost...! Oh my god! Help..." Struggling in panic, the dao crown fell off, the hair bun fell apart, and the gray beard shook wildly.

Xue Fei'er and the others wore gas masks and looked around in panic, but they didn't see any abnormal changes. They looked at the old man strangely.

At this moment, the old man was scared out of his wits. His arms were grabbed by Du Wenhao and Sha Pang respectively, and he couldn't break free.His eyes were wide open, staring at the lake, screaming in terror, his whole body trembling like chaff.Immediately, everyone smelled a bad smell. It turned out that the old Taoist had already become incontinent from fright.

Du Wenhao laughed loudly, and put on a gas mask for him. After a while, the old man stopped screaming and gasping heavily.

Du Wenhao said: "You are old-fashioned, pretending to be a ghost, but you didn't expect to be frightened by ghosts and gods, which is also a cycle of retribution! I warn you, as long as I tear off this mask on your mouth, you will immediately see ghosts again. Do you want to see ghosts again?" Scared to death, just be honest! Where is my sister?"

The old Taoist panted heavily and rolled his eyes, and said: "Mister's spells are superb, and the old Taoist is convinced. I..., I really don't know where she went..., please forgive me..."

"You still dare to quibble? Well, I'll expose your trick first! Let off fireworks!"

Wu Cong took out a firework from his arms, ignited it and stretched it out into the sky, and heard a bang, a flame shot into the air like a meteor, and bloomed into colorful flowers in the night sky.

Soon, there were shouts all around the house, and countless lanterns and torches appeared.Come to the small lake together.

Du Wenhao ordered the old man to be escorted to the pavilion on the hill, and first took off the old man's gas mask. Seeing that he was fine, he asked everyone to take off the gas mask.

Looking down from the hill, countless lanterns and torches illuminated the haunted house, and I heard a sharp voice yelling from a distance: "What a boy, dare to pretend to be a ghost! Don't move...! Be honest...!" Looking from a distance, It seems that someone is arresting someone.

After a while, those lanterns and torches avoided the lake and came to the foot of the hill. The first one was Du Wenhao's father-in-law, Pang Jinghui, who came forward and said with a smile: "Wen Hao, you are right, there are quite a few pretending to be ghosts." All of you have been caught! Bring them here!"

The policeman and Min Zhuang brought a dozen people up from the hill, one of them was Qiao Yusheng who claimed to be caught by a ghost in a dream, and several other men and women, some of them wore long black robes but had no heads!Pang Yuqin and the girls trembled in fright.

The arresters quickly tore off their black robes, and only then did they realize that these people had long black robes propped up on their heads by bamboo poles, making them look as if they had no heads.All the girls were angry and funny.

More than a dozen policemen and Min Zhuang came over with some paper wolves and threw them on the ground with a smile.

Pang Jinghui asked sharply: "Tell me, who told you to play tricks here?"

Those who were arrested all stared at the old man with white beard: "It's him!"

Du Wenhao glanced at Qiao Yusheng: "Young Master Qiao, did you dream of a female ghost catching you today?"

Qiao Yusheng's face turned pale: "Mr. Du, this old man asked us to do those things. All of this is a scam laid out by him, so that he can deceive people and money."

Du Wenhao turned his head and asked the old man: "Now that everyone has stolen goods, do you still want to argue? Tell me quickly, where is my sister?"

The old man collapsed on the ground: "I... I really don't know, last night she was on the locust tree by the lake, and ran away after encountering a ghost. Our people frightened her by bumping into ghosts around, originally trying to scare her unconscious Catch her so that she can cheat you of money, but she runs too fast, and her martial arts are very high, our people dare not approach her at all, and she ran south, but we didn't catch up."

Pang Jinghui interjected: "That's right, when I caught these people just now, I already asked shopkeeper Lin where they were going, and they also said the same."

Disappointed, Du Wenhao looked up to the south, wishing he could have clairvoyant eyes and ears to find Lin Qingdai's whereabouts.

Xue Fei'er asked: "Brother, since they pretended to be ghosts, why was the old man so frightened just now? Could it be that he really saw a ghost just now?"

The old Taoist said anxiously: "There really is a ghost! It's on that lake! It's true!"

Hearing his shrill voice, everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and looked at the dark lake.

Du Wenhao said: "There are no ghosts in the world. There is a reason for those people to see ghosts by the lake. You may not have noticed just now. In the middle of the night, near the lake in the small courtyard with locust trees, there are bubbles bubbling out. , that is a ghost!"

Everyone was puzzled and looked at him.

Du Wenhao said: "Well, let's do an experiment and we'll find out." Du Wenhao asked Detective Dong and a few others to put on gas masks, and put them on for Lao Dao and Qiao Yusheng. The two stood back to back, and then removed their masks.

Soon, the two people by the lake were terrified and screamed desperately that there was a ghost, their voices could not be more shrill.After a while, the two were so frightened that they passed out.But the detectives wearing gas masks next to him were fine.

When the two were brought up the hill, both of them collapsed on the ground in fright, and it took a long time to recover.

Du Wenhao pointed to the small lake at the foot of the mountain, and said: "The bubbles on the surface of the lake should be some kind of gas that can make people hallucinate. These bubbles did not appear when we came during the day and night. , Bubbles came out when it was midnight, so I guess there is some kind of hallucinogenic gas at the bottom of the lake that bursts out intermittently with time and regularity, and this interval happens to be at midnight."

Du Wenhao pointed to the surrounding terrain again, and continued: "This gas is similar to some kind of miasma, suspended in low-lying places. The terrain on all sides of this small lake is relatively high, except for the small courtyard by the lake. The hallucinogenic gas was deposited around the small courtyard. Puling and his wife went to the lake to vomit. After smelling the hallucinogenic gas, they hallucinated and saw ghosts. I didn’t smell this kind of smell.” Turning around, he asked the old man, “How did you plan to use this so-called haunted house to deceive others, tell me honestly! "

The old Taoist said dejectedly: "A few years ago, Master Qiao came to me and said that his house was haunted by ghosts. His son Qiao Yusheng lived by the lake at that time. The haunting scared Qiao Yusheng to death. Master Qiao asked me to help catch ghosts. I I just performed rituals by the lake, but it was useless. Later, it was still haunted and scared several servants to death. After Master Joe moved away with his family, the place was deserted. I learned that ghosts only appear during the daytime. And other times will not appear, so I thought that I could use this to pretend to be Dao Xinggao and make money. I found someone who looked a bit like Qiao Yusheng to pretend to be Qiao Yusheng, and I also found a few people to help pretend to be ghosts, and set up a trick to swindle money."

"How did you think of lying to me?"

"I heard that Mr. Du, you sold 10 taels of silver for a single prescription. I know you are rich, and you just came to the capital not long ago. You probably don't know about Qiao's ghost house, so I set up a trick to deceive you."

"Tell me what happened."

"First, I asked the fake Qiao Yusheng to go to your pharmacy several times to see a doctor. He said that he was scratched by a ghost, but it was actually our people who caught him. I also made up ghost stories to arouse your curiosity. We have people in front of and behind your house. So, sister Ling followed Qiao Yusheng to Qiao's compound, we already know. She was deliberately led to the haunted small courtyard by the lake, trying to make her see the ghosts. She was not fooled the first time, she only observed from a distance, and was fooled the second time Yes, on the pagoda tree at the back of the yard, when midnight came, our people left with an excuse. When she followed Qiao Yusheng out, she saw a ghost. Our people pretended to be a headless ghost to scare her, trying to scare her into unconsciousness, but failed. She succeeded, and she also escaped. At that time, we thought she had returned to your Wuweitang. Later, the guards found out that she hadn’t returned to the pharmacy. "

Du Wenhao said: "Take us to the place where you last saw my sister last night! Hurry up!"

Pang Jinghui ordered the police to take Lao Dao, fake Qiao Yusheng and others into custody, and asked them to identify the place where Lin Qingdai was last seen.It was far away from the place where Lin Qingdai's embroidered shoe was found during the search during the day, in a barren grassland.

Du Wenhao asked the police and the minzhuang to line up in a long row, carrying out a carpet-like search with lanterns.Finally, in an inconspicuous grass, I found a well!
Although the mouth of the well is relatively large, it is hidden in the tall weeds, and it is impossible to find it if you don't get close. Because the Qiao's compound is too big, even though a lot of Kaifeng Prefecture's most of the policemen and minzhuang were mobilized yesterday. Searching, but it still seems that there are not enough people, and many places have not been searched carefully.During the day, they focused their search on the place where they found the embroidered shoes and the place where the weapon cut off the branches. But they didn't expect that Lin Qingdai was running at full speed at a very fast speed, and she ran tens of feet in a blink of an eye. , it was far away from the place where she slashed with a short blade and ran off the embroidered shoes, and Du Wenhao and the others couldn't find it until daytime.

Du Wenhao lay on the mouth of the well and called loudly, but there was no answer from inside. He used a lantern to look after the well, and the well was too deep to see to the bottom.

A coil of beef tendon rope was found beside the well, with a bucket tied to one end.Apparently it was used to lift water in the past.Even after several years, the tendon rope is still very strong.

Du Wenhao took a small clod of soil and threw it into the well. He listened carefully, but he couldn't hear the sound of water. He was convinced that it was a dry well. Without saying a word, he wrapped a tendon rope around his waist.

Pang Yuqin hurriedly asked, "Sir, what are you going to do?"

"I'll go down the well to have a look, I'm worried that Sister Qingdai fell into it."

(End of this chapter)