Who is my upstairs

Chapter 67
It is too weird to say that they have become sacrifices, but there is some truth in it.

Li Shaohuang quickly looked up at the content painted on the mural. Although some of the people stared at by the eyeballs were doing physical labor, some were receiving cruel punishment.

If several paintings are linked together, it is a bit like holding a weird ceremony.

In other words, if they were being punished by this sacrificial ceremony, would the situation of him and Yang Xiaofan be the same as that of the characters in the mural?

Thinking of this, Li Shaohuang touched his chin and said, "Don't rush to make a conclusion. Whether the sacrificial ceremony is being held in this painting is still uncertain. I think the only way to find out which murals these murals came from is Period, which place the tomb was excavated from, and the identity of the owner of the tomb can determine what is painted on the mural.”

"How about... let's check from the archives first? See if there are any large ancient tombs nearby that have been robbed, or...or if there are any missing persons near the Li family's ancestral house." Yang Xiaofan suggested with some uncertainty road.

She wasn't too sure about her guess, but she just felt that like the characters on the mural, she was being watched by this eyeball-like thing all the time, which made her very uncomfortable.

"Okay! Let's start with the files in the archives!"

Li Shaohuang patted the wall dust on his knees, picked up Yang Xiaofan who was limping and went upstairs quickly.Instead of guessing like this, why not go to the archives to find clues!
The incandescent lamp on the top of the archive room has long been out of use after so many years, Li Shaohuang flicked the switch, turned around and hugged Yang Xiaofan to find two stations of strong lighting equipment in another room on the second floor.

These two pieces of lighting equipment are floor-standing, and they have been charged beforehand. They are placed in the archives room, and the archives room will be illuminated brightly with the push of a switch.

Yang Xiaofan carefully tidied up the file room, and wiped all the dusty file bags with a rag.When Li Shaohuang went in, he couldn't believe that this archive room was the original archive room in Li's old house.

The file bags made of yellow kraft paper on the bookshelf occupy several rows, large and small.Neither of them is a forensic doctor, so there is no way to calculate the time and age of death based on the skeleton, and it is impossible to know the time of death of the white bone in the garden.

Without a specific time and place, finding dossiers related to the eerie events at the ancestral home is like finding a needle in a haystack.

According to Li Shaohuang's suggestion, two people started to check from the location near Li's ancestral house, and then determined an intermediate time. The two people started from this intermediate time respectively, one checked forward and the other looked backward.

There is no scientific basis for this method, and it all depends on the luck of two people.

The archives were recorded from the end of the Qing Dynasty until 1947 AD. If something important happened in the middle, it might start on one of these days.

Generally speaking, the possibility of events occurring in the first and last two periods is relatively small.

From this time point in the middle, move forward and backward in two time directions, and start searching.If you are lucky, the probability of finding it in advance will be increased invisible.

If you are unlucky, it happens to be at the end or end of this period, or it happened after 1947 at all, then what Li Shaohuang and Yang Xiaofan are doing is useless.

So, right now, I can only pray that I can find any clues in this archive room.

The first bag of files that Yang Xiaofan tore open was from [-] AD. At that time, photography technology was already available, and occasionally there were a few black and white photos in the file bag.

I have seen a few cases, although they are all rather bizarre, there are even cases where a woman was pregnant with a ghost, and nothing was born on the day of childbirth.

But it seems that they have nothing to do with what happened in Li's ancestral house.

When Yang Xiaofan looked at more than 20 portfolios in a row and felt his neck ache, several black and white photos slipped out of the newly opened portfolio.

The few corpses in the photo on the ground have lost their heads, and the blood in their bloody cavities has not dried completely, which makes people horrified to look at.

Yang Xiaofan picked up these photos and carefully looked through the files in the file bag.

It can be seen from the statement on the file that the scene in the photo is a headless murder case recorded in the Yamen at that time.

This case caused quite a stir at the time. A family was revenged by the enemy, and the whole family of more than [-] people, all young and old, had their heads chopped off overnight.

Later, after investigation by the government, it was discovered that the family's big enemy was related to a group of bandits on the hill outside the city.Taking advantage of the dead of night and the stillness of the night, these bandits chopped off the heads of the young and old of the family, chopped them into pieces of meat, put them in fresh beef and carried them out of the city with oiled paper.

The beef was originally bloody, and the minced human heads were hidden in the beef, and each person took a bag out of the city, but no one noticed.

It was only when he finally found out that there were people dead in the city that he remembered that a group of people had gone out of the city suspiciously in the morning with blood bags containing beef.

Since it was discovered that the culprit of the murder was the bandits on the hills outside the city, the officers and soldiers sent people to encircle and suppress them twice.

At the first time, due to the lack of troops and the dangerous terrain outside the city, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so there was no way to completely clear up the bandits on the mountain.However, more than [-] people were beheaded, so that the bandits on the whole mountain, as long as they heard that the officers and soldiers from the city were coming, they would be frightened and dare not go to the city to make trouble again.

The second siege was actually caused by a Mr. Yin Yang surnamed Li who came to the city. After this Mr. Yin Yang entered the city, he heard about the headless massacre in the city, and at the same time, the bandits outside the city felt revengeful. He summoned people and prepared to go to the city to do a big case to retaliate against the government's encirclement and suppression that day.

You know, it was already the end of the Qing Dynasty at that time, and the power of the Qing Dynasty was gradually disintegrating.Although the local officers and soldiers still have some strength, they are no longer comparable to those in the heyday. When the people in the city heard that the bandits were going to enter the city for revenge, they were so frightened that they shut their doors.

This Mr. Yin Yang is also considered to be brave and resourceful, and he suggested a trick to the government - pretending to surrender to the bandits.

He arranged for the common people to hide their belongings and hide in their own homes so that they would not come out. After the gangsters entered the city, Mr. Yin Yang came out in person, and with some words of incitement, led the gangsters into an underground vault.

Then the people from the government ignited the explosives that had been buried in advance, and blew up the bandits who entered the vault to pieces.Mr. Yin Yang secretly escaped from the secret passage of the vault and came back intact.

Through offering advice, this Feng Shui gentleman named Chongwen, surnamed Li, became a military adviser in the government. Any major cases that occurred here would be resolved by Li Chongwen.

This is probably the cause and effect of the first generation of the Li family taking root in this place.

The next few files are all cases related to this Li Chongwen. Although the cases are bizarre, Li Chongwen has found out the truth behind the cases one by one.

However, among so many cases, apart from the case of zombie biting, there was no case related to tomb robbery.I saw that in [-], Li Chongwen had already become a well-known detective in the local police department because of his extremely high talent for solving crimes.

Suddenly, Yang Xiaofan flipped through a dossier and mentioned that when Inspector Li was in his sixties and was about to retire, his youngest son disappeared.

The Metropolitan Police Department sent out many people to search for it, but in the end they didn't even find a single bone. The end of the dossier was only described in a few words. It was the survivors of the group of bandits who were handed over to the cottage by Li Chongwen back then. They killed Li Chongwen's youngest son Kidnapping and tearing up tickets.

The specific reason was not mentioned in a single word.

(End of this chapter)