I like you more than yesterday, slightly lacking the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 15

"Don't move here, I'll go and have a look." Liu An's face was pale, he suddenly pulled out his gun, and approached the big tree very seriously.

Bi Xia said to him worriedly: "Be careful."

Liu An turned her head and nodded towards her, then continued to walk forward.

"If the thing hanging on it is really a dead body, what can I do?" Xie Rourou was already shocked, trembling, and asked Bi Xia in a low voice.

Bi Xia's heart was already beating like a drum, his hands and feet were numb, his mind went blank, and he didn't know how to comfort Xie Rourou, so he could only tell her not to be afraid, and signaled her not to speak yet.

The two of them stood there without moving, their eyes were terrified, and they both closed their mouths and held their breath.The woods were extremely quiet, without a single sound, as if all the chirping of birds and insects had stopped in an instant.

After a long time, Bi Xia saw Liu An walking under the big tree. He picked up a wooden stick and just touched the plastic bag hanging on the tree. With a sound of swiping, dozens of sparrows with light brown feathers jumped out. He screamed and flapped his wings and rushed to the sky.

"Mom, I'm scared to death!" Xie Rourou's tense strings were frightened by those sparrows, her face was green and white.

Bi Xia was also taken aback, seeing that it was a sparrow, he was relieved.

However, Liu An in the distance, while they were in a daze, had already taken down a plastic bag with a wooden stick.With a gloomy face, he untied the plastic bag with trembling fingers.

When the contents inside were exposed to his eyes, his pale and cold face became bloodless in an instant.

He turned around again, quickly took out another bag, and there was still the same thing inside.

After a while, Liu An took down all the bags hanging on the tree, a total of 26 bags.

I saw that the black plastic bags contained rotten cats.

"Why do you hang so many dead cats on the tree? Are you sick? I was so scared to death. I thought it was a corpse..." Xie Rourou looked at the rotting cats all over the floor and couldn't help but vomit.

Liu An took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera, and took pictures of these dead cats. He frowned and said, "Cats are hung on trees after they die. There is a saying in our hometown that cats will turn into monsters when they fall to the ground. I love cleanliness and don’t want to rot in the ground. There is also a saying that the cat’s body is not allowed to be eaten by mice to give the cat dignity. But I agree that the five elements of cats belong to wood, and the five elements of humans belong to soil. superior."

Bi Xia nodded and said: "Yes, I have read a book called "Chinese Folk Taboos", which has different customs in different regions. There are many places where cats are hanged on trees to dry after they die, and they will become demons when they touch the ground. Yes. In some places, two children carried it with a wooden stick, and they had to cry and hang it on a tree, so that the cat’s soul could be reborn.”

"Okay," Xie Rourou held his forehead, "I didn't expect you all to be so superstitious... I don't think there are any people living around here, so it should be Wang Lin's cat? Where did he go to find so many dead cats? It's crazy. "

Liu An frowned, and said, "I remember Ji Yi once said that some murderers would try to dissect slugs, cats, and pigeons, etc., in order to understand what death is before they actually kill someone." He paused, "I Looking at these cats, maybe Wang Lin killed them."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of Bi Xia and Xie Rourou were as pale as a piece of white paper that had been crumpled into countless folds.

Seeing their reaction, Liu An smiled, and eased the atmosphere, saying: "I'm just talking casually, don't be afraid." Looking up and seeing that it was getting late, he walked forward, "It's getting dark, let's hurry up and go Let's go to Wang Lin's house."

The three of them walked towards the one-story house hidden in the bamboo forest ahead.

After a while, Bi Xia pushed aside the last bunch of branches blocking the front, and saw a dilapidated house.The steps were already covered with moss, and the yard was surrounded by overgrown weeds, withered and ruined, full of devastation.Although the sun is raging right now, this house also looks extremely gloomy...

"This house is too dilapidated. It seems that no one has lived in it for a long time." Xie Rourou stretched out her hand to touch the plastered wall, and immediately brushed off a few handfuls of powder.

"It seems that Wang Lin has already moved." There was a rusty lock hanging on the door, and there was no way to open it. Liu An could only look carefully at the scene inside the house through the dusty glass window, but the inside It was too dark to see anything clearly.He looked around carefully for a while, and after a long time, he said, "Today is a waste of time, let's go back."

After finishing speaking, Liu An and Xie Rourou turned to leave, but were stopped by Bi Xia: "Wait."

With doubts in his eyes, Bi Xia said, "It didn't take long for those cats to die, and I don't think it took long for Wang Lin to move away. But..."

"But what?" Liu An asked.

"But Wang Lin... why did he suddenly leave the home where he lived for so long?"

"How do you know he's lived here a long time?"

Bi Xia pondered: "On the way up, I saw a rice field, which is ripe and waiting to be harvested. The soil in that field is soft, which is obviously the result of renovation every year. There is also a ten-year-old tree over there. The branches of the cherry tree are very worn and smooth, which proves that Wang Lin climbs up to pick cherries every year. There is a potted flower on the stone bench below. It will bloom every year."

Speaking, Bi Xia picked up the potted flower and said slowly: "This potted flower has been well taken care of, the branches are trimmed neatly, and flowers have grown. This potted flower should have lived for five years, such a delicate flower, If no one took care of it, it would have withered long ago, so I think Wang Lin has lived in this house for at least five years." She paused, "A person will not easily leave the home where he has lived for so long, presumably Wang Lin There must have been some major change, or think in a bolder direction, why everything happened so coincidentally, could it be that he killed Chen Bei, so he absconded?"

Liu An and Xie Rourou looked at her fixedly, very surprised.

"Your assumption is very reasonable, and there are traces to follow," Liu An looked at Bi Xia in shock and said, "It's amazing, it's amazing."

"Goddess Detective!" Xie Rourou also looked surprised, smiled and hooked Bi Xia's hand, and said in admiration, "I've known you for so long, I didn't expect you to be so smart? It's so hidden, I Didn't find out at all!"

The corners of Bi Xia's mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "I've already said that I don't have any hobbies. I just like watching American dramas and mystery novels. If I watch too much, I can draw a picture from the gourd."

"Don't be modest, I think if Ji Yi was here today, he would definitely look at you with admiration." Liu An smiled meaningfully.

Bi Xia's expression froze: "Why should I make him look at me with admiration?"

Liu secretly smiled twice: "Because you are his... little assistant."

Xie Rourou on the side also laughed: "Because he is you...a male god."

"He is indeed my male god, but don't get it wrong, he just worships it..." Bi Xia coughed, and he felt that this explanation was very forced.

"What, Bi Xia's male god is Ji Yi, not me who is handsome, gentle, and well-behaved?" Liu An looked at everything, looked at Bi Xia teasingly, and asked Xie Rourou with a smile.

Xie Rourou opened her mouth into an apple shape, gave him a blank look, and said with a sneer: "The god Bi Xia is not an old driver."

"Hahaha——" Liu secretly smiled, looked at Xie Rourou with a playful expression, "but your male god is me."

"Yeah, you're not with me."

"I can think about it."

"Really?"

"fake."

"go away!"

"Fuck what?" Liu An leaned closer to Xie Rourou, and smiled pickily, "Fuck the sheets?"

Xie Rourou: "..."

Bi Xia silently watched the two immersed in flirting with each other, looked up at the sky, the sun was setting heavily, falling on the flowers and leaves, like layers of snow.As twilight was about to fall, she cheekily interrupted the two of them: "It's getting dark, I think you two are going to bicker until dawn, right?"

Liu secretly smiled and said: "If Rou Rou wants to, I can bicker with her until next year."

"Boring, I'm going home." Xie Rourou snorted and walked forward alone.

Liu An and Bi Xia looked at each other and smiled, and when they were about to follow, they heard Xie Rourou in front of them screaming horribly: "Help!"

Hearing the cry, Bi Xia's face turned pale immediately, and he had a bad premonition in his heart, and Liu An beside him rushed over like the wind.

Bi Xia quickly ran over in a panic, and saw Xie Rourou accidentally fell into a deep pit.It turned out that the rectangular manhole cover of a side ditch well was gone, forming a big pit, more than half a meter deep, covered with weeds, and you couldn't tell if you didn't look carefully.

"You hold my hand, and I'll pull you up." After a while, Liu An pulled Xie Rourou up with great effort.

"Rourou, are you okay?" Seeing that her leg was broken and bleeding, Bi Xia took out a tissue and wiped the blood on her leg, and asked worriedly.

Xie Rourou was frightened, she hugged Bi Xia, her face was livid, and she said in a crying voice: "Below... I see a lot of bones down there!"

As the sun sets in the west, clouds and mist surround the afterglow of dusk that spreads everywhere. Under the shade of flowers and moons, the night is still clear.

When I got home from the suburbs, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.Bi Xia found the medicine box, unscrewed the alcohol bottle, dipped a cotton swab in it, and disinfected Xie Rourou's worn-out legs.

"Ah, just lightly..." Just as Bi Xia wiped Xie Rourou's legs, she heard her scream.

Bi Xia relaxed his movements, and said: "Oh, I told you not to go, but you didn't listen. Now it's better, such a big piece of skin has been worn off my leg."

"If I had known that today would be so miserable, I wouldn't have gone if I was killed." Xie Rourou sighed, with a mournful face, "You know which big pit I fell into at that time, it hurt so badly, and then I touched it casually, Just grabbing a skull, do you know how I feel?" She paused, "At that moment, I felt like I was already alive or dead... What's the name of that poem?"

"Life and death are boundless..." Bi Xia glanced at her with a faint smile in the corner of his eyes.

"Yes, life and death are boundless, that's it! When I looked at the skull, I really didn't feel it at all, and I was completely shocked."

"I thought you were so scared that you might have to slow down for a while, but I didn't expect it to be all right so soon?"

"If those skulls are real, I may have a shadow in my life." Xie Rourou patted her chest, and said with a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, they are all fake. They scared me to death..."

At the side of the deep pit, Bi Xia and Liu An were struck by lightning when they heard Xie Rourou say that there were bones.

Liu An jumped down immediately, and after confirming that there were indeed bones, she called the police station.Two hours later, many policemen came and found six skulls neatly arranged in the pit.However, after inspection, the police found that these skulls were not real human bones, but highly simulated models...

Why are these skull models hidden in the pit?How did those 26 cats end up hanging from one tree?Why did Wang Lin move?

Originally thought that new clues had been discovered, but unexpectedly, there were still mysteries waiting to be revealed.Is it closer to the truth, or further away?In the silent night, no one knows.

The next day, which was Monday, Bi Xia woke up late and almost came late again.She rushed to the company out of breath, sat in the office, stared at the computer, glanced at the folders piled up on the desk, and listened to the sound of typing around her, and felt that everything that happened yesterday was like a dream.

I have to admit that she likes this kind of exciting adventure, and she also knows that she doesn't like restraint in her bones. Day after day, the boring work and life in the cubicle are like a sharp knife Her heart, which wanted to run wild, split into petals.

(End of this chapter)