Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 37
"Fei Xiao, help me quickly!" Wang Zijin yelled, jumped up and grabbed the woman's wrist.

But the force of the fall was too great, even though he was a big man, he was still carried by Zi Mo and fell off the cliff.

At this critical moment, a white hand slantly stretched out, grabbing Wang Zijin who was about to fall.The man was wearing a wide hat, with only a pointed chin exposed, he looked exactly like Scarlet.

"Zi Jin, let go, you can climb up only if you let her go." Fei Xiao lowered her head and said to him, her tone was cold and emotionless.

"No, I know your ability, can you pull the two of us up, can't you? I can't just watch a living person die in my hands."

"With my current strength, I can only pull one person up." Feixiao seemed to be out of strength, she let go of her hand, and Wang Zijin fell another inch, "Besides, if you look back, is that really a living person?"

Wang Zijin felt a chill in his heart, he suddenly felt terrified, and hurriedly lowered his head to look.

The mountain stream was shrouded in clouds and mist, so I couldn't see clearly, but I could still vaguely see that I was holding a life-sized puppet in my hand.

She has flying black hair and piercing eyes, but there is a half-smile expression on her face, which is extremely weird.

It was the puppet he saw curled up in the wooden box a few days ago.

He was so frightened that he couldn't even speak. As soon as he let go of his hand, the puppet fell under the cliff with a strange smile, deep in the clouds and mist, and there was no reply for a long time.

"Why do you want to spoil my good work? Without you, all the plans will go smoothly." Seeing that the trick was broken, Zhou Tian, ​​who was behind him, stood up fiercely, picked up a wooden stick, and walked towards the two of them.

"It's a bad thing for you?" Fei Xiao grabbed Wang Zijin's wrist, raised her arms, and pulled him a little closer, "Master Zhou, you are not in need of witnesses, and you came to us to cooperate with you in this good show." Is it?"

"Now I don't need any witnesses. I'll send you to the underworld to meet Zimo." Zhou Tianwang said coldly, took out a short knife from his pocket, and rushed towards Feixiao.

"Fei Hong! Be careful behind you!" Wang Zijin reminded him loudly.

"Zi Jin, climb up quickly, I won't last long!" Fei Xiao ignored her own safety and used both hands, just wanting to drag him up the cliff as soon as possible.

At this moment, with a flash of silver light, Zhou Tianwang's dagger had already been inserted into Fei Xiao's neck.

Wang Zijin felt that the hand holding his arm was loosened suddenly, and the endless power went away. Under his gaze, Fei Hong smiled at the corner of her mouth, tilted her body, and fell limply to the ground.

"I didn't expect it to be so easy. You will be next." Zhou Tianwang held a short knife and walked towards Wang Zijin who was crawling on the edge of the cliff step by step.

"Fei Xiao, Fei Xiao, you won't die so easily, will you?" Wang Zijin hurriedly crawled to Fei Xiao's side, only to see the corners of his lips slightly raised, still showing his usual cynical expression.

He lifted the bamboo hat covering Feixiao's head, but he was so frightened that he let out a loud cry.

This time, not only Wang Zijin, even Zhou Tianwang forgot to commit the crime.

Because what is hidden under the bamboo hat is not a human face at all, half of the face has no facial features, just like a flat chopping board, only the mouth looks like a real person, which looks extremely scary.

Also a puppet.

"How could this be? How could this be? Besides me, why would anyone else make such a puppet?" Zhou Tianwang was so frightened that his face turned pale and his whole body trembled.

As soon as Wang Zijin saw that Feixiao was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief, took out the dagger in his arms, turned around and rushed towards Zhou Tianwang.

It's a pity that although he is brave, he lacks exercise and has no strength to restrain a chicken.After the two fought for a while, he was firmly strangled by the neck, and he couldn't even breathe.

"Just because of your appearance, you want to fight me?" Zhou Tianwang's eyes were bloodshot, his hair was disheveled, like a ghost in hell, he raised his knife and stabbed Wang Zijin in the chest, "I will send you off now You go to hell!"

Seeing the cold light flickering, the knife was as cold as frost, and it was about to pierce his heart, Wang Zijin couldn't help crying secretly.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a black light flew obliquely and hit Zhou Tianwang's head accurately with a bang.The whites of his eyes rolled, his body went limp, and he passed out on the ground without even making a sound.

The dagger in his hand snorted against Wang Zijin's ribs and pierced heavily into the wet soil.

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Wang Zijin managed to save his life, and hurriedly pushed Zhou Tianwang who was pressing on him away, his legs were weak, and he stood up tremblingly.

The black light hit the target, circled half a circle in the air, and immediately flew back to the depths of the snow and mist.

He looked at where the black light came from, and saw a half-grown boy coming out of the confusion, frowning at Zhou Tianwang who was lying on the ground.

"Ah Yang?" Wang Zijin couldn't help being taken aback when he saw the young man, and became more and more confused.

"It's me," Ayang nodded to Prince Jin, and inserted "Guihuilai" into his waist, "Master Hu asked me to protect you. I have been following your carriage."

"Fei Hong? He didn't follow? Where is he?" It turned out that there was no one alive on this dangerous journey except him and the murderer Zhou Tianwang.If he had known this, he would never go up the mountain.

"He's at Zhou's house. Since last night, he's been summoning Xiangmo's soul."

"Xiang Mo?" Wang Zijin immediately understood who he was referring to, "That woman, is she a relative of Zi Mo? She pretended to be Zi Mo and lived in that house to find her relatives?"

"Yes," Ayang nodded, with a smug smile on his young face, "And I have always been helping her."

"You? Help her?"

"Xiangmo is Sister Zhou's own younger sister. She came here because she lost contact with her sister. I happened to meet me, so I told her about Sister Zhou's past and helped her perform the scene."

"Then why did you do this?" Wang Zijin felt more and more chilled as he heard it, he never thought that he would be so scheming at such a young age.

"Because I was there on that snowy night two years ago." A Yang said with a serious face, "And I accidentally discovered that the person who fell off the cliff with us in the car was not a living person at all." human, but a puppet."

"Ah? Why is that?"

"I guess he killed his wife a long time ago, but the disappearance of a living person for no reason will inevitably arouse suspicion, so I made a realistic puppet and staged this good show of falling off a cliff." A Yang With tears in her eyes, she said, "Sister-in-law Zhou is a good person, she treats me like a sister, that's why I made such a bad plan. Xiangmo and I have a good plan, as long as she pretends to be Mrs. Zhou, sneak into Zhou's house, and find the quilt The hidden corpse, the truth will come to light! But she never expected that after searching for a full year, she still found nothing."

"Ah! I got it!" Wang Zijin suddenly realized, "So Zhou Tianwang wanted to repeat the old trick, made a puppet for a year, and wanted to use the same method to kill Xiangmo?"

Ayang choked up and nodded.

"Is Xiangmo's life in danger now? Let's go back quickly."

Wang Zijin and Ayang supported the fainted Zhou Tianwang, slipped out of the deep mountain step by step, and rushed back to the town until night fell.

I saw the lights in Zhou's house flickering, and Feixiao was dressed in white, sitting upright in front of the bed in the side room. There was a beautiful young woman lying on the bed, her breathing was steady, her face was ruddy, and she seemed to be fine.

"Zi Jin, you're back?" Seeing the muddy Wang Zijin, Fei Xiao nodded at him and smiled slightly.

"When did you know the truth? You kept it from me until the last moment?!" Wang Zijin was so angry when he saw him, why was he always the one who was deceived?
"From the time he showed us the little doll." Fei Xiao replied triumphantly, "The doll is obviously not made recently, judging from the degree of wear and tear on the joints and the traces of modification, it has been done for at least a few years, and it has been changed. More than a thousand times."

"Why didn't I see it?"

"Because you didn't pay attention to it, you only paid attention to the fancy tricks performed by the puppet." Fei Xiao teased him, and continued, "Zhou Tianwang is a carpenter, and he put so much effort into making a doll that looks like his wife Ouch, what is it for? Besides, his wife was probably still alive at that time, so naturally it wasn’t to pay tribute to the deceased.”

"I understand!" Wang Zijin slapped his hands and suddenly realized, "That's the prototype, he made a small one for the convenience of making a big one that is exactly like a real person!"

"Yes, that's why I thought, is the one who fell off the cliff really his wife? If so, there is a possibility of her surviving if no body is found. But a year later, when he saw his wife come back, why didn't she disappear? Delighted, but frightened like this?"

"Because he knows very well that it is impossible for his wife to survive." Wang Zijin followed his thoughts and suddenly realized, "Most of his wife was killed by him, let alone fell off a cliff. death, so he starts to panic when he sees a woman who looks and behaves like his wife."

"Anyone would be afraid." Fei Xiao snorted coldly, "It can be seen that the real ghosts are mostly hidden in people's hearts."

"Then he planned to kill his wife for the second time?"

"But witnesses are needed. It just so happens that we are here at this time. We are both strangers and scholars who seem helpless. I would not let this opportunity pass me by."

Looking at the flickering candle, Wang Zijin was silent for a while, and suddenly heard the woman on the bed humming softly, and woke up unexpectedly.

She looked around with a blank expression, "Am I still alive?"

"Xiang Mo, you are still alive, this young master saved you! Last night Zhou Tianwang had already strangled you to death, but he recalled your soul." Seeing this, Ah Yang rushed forward and grabbed her hand. hand.

"It's really great..." The woman smiled, and looked at Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao weakly, "From the day you came here, I had a hunch that the truth might be revealed soon, and now it seems that it is so. "

"Now all that remains is to find your sister's body." Fei Xiao nodded and smiled, "As long as you find that skeleton, you can punish the murderer."

"I know where it is..." Xiangmo burst into tears suddenly, covering his face with his hands, tears kept flowing from his fingers, "She was buried in the stone slab under Zhou Tianwang's bed, I seemed to see my sister when I was unconscious , she told me herself."

No wonder the girl searched for it for a year but found nothing. How could the murderer be so bold that he hid the dead under the bed where she slept every night.

Wang Zijin recalled Zhou Tianwang's simple and honest face, and shivered out of thin air.

People's hearts are unpredictable, and the world is like frost.

Who would have imagined that this man who seemed to be honest and simple, but who was as terrified as a frightened bird, would have such a vicious heart.

Looking at the indifferent and handsome side face of Scarlet under the lamp, he finally understood a little bit why Scarlet was unwilling to deal with human beings.

In the next few days, the police from the government dug up a rotten female corpse under Zhou Tianwang's bed, and Zhou Tianwang was also arrested and imprisoned. According to him, it was because his wife didn't like him doing carpentry work at home every day. Son, the two had frequent quarrels, and he started to do harm to others.

Ayang took Xiangmo away and flew away, and the "Guihuilai" that caused all these incidents is now in Feixiao's hands.

"Hey, it is said that Lu Ban once built a wooden bird that soared into the sky and never fell for three days and three nights." At this time, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao embarked on a journey again. His wife is also a master, and the wooden figurine she made can carry water and firewood for others, which has brought convenience to countless people. They are also ingenious people, why would someone use their skills to do such a cruel thing?"

"How can I know this? The same tool, in the hands of different people, will have different effects." Fei Xiao raised her hand and threw the "Guiguilai" in her hand, "But there is one thing I want to know. But there was never any doubt."

"What makes you so convinced?" Wang Zijin asked curiously.

I saw that black light drew a circle in mid-air, and then flew steadily towards Fei Xiao's arms.Feixiao stretched out her hand, grabbed it lightly and deftly, and said coldly: "Sin is like this 'return'. The world throws it far away, thinking that it has left itself, but in fact there is always someone One day, it will come back to me."

(End of this chapter)