The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 153 Poppies (2)

Behind the bookshelf, Lin Yubin was lying there quietly, and the horned beast was squatting on his body, staring at me with a pair of wooden-colored eyes.I was shocked in my heart, seeing that Lin Yubin was silent in just this short period of time.

The horned beast was still staring at me faintly, I couldn't help sweating on my forehead, and swallowed hard.The horned beast suddenly came alive and attacked people, it was terrifying, but Lin Yubin's life and death were unknown at this moment, since I was there, and he treated me politely, I had to go and see anyway.

I took a deep breath and wanted to take a book from the next shelf to hit the horned beast, but the book on the shelf was so tightly clamped that I couldn't get it out for a while.In desperation, I pulled out a book with all my might, and threw it at the horned beast with a loud shout.

The horned beast tilted its head slightly, and the book fell on Lin Yubin.Seeing that I missed it, my heart skipped a beat, and I was about to hit it with a book again, but at this moment, the horned beast suddenly licked its paw, and then pulled the book in front of it away.After pulling the book away, it pressed the pages of the book with its paws and read the book. His eyes didn't blink for a moment, but he was also extremely absorbed.

I have lived for so long, and this is the first time I have seen such a studious cat, and it is still a cat carved from wood.The horned beast squatted on Lin Yubin's body and read the book for a while, then loosened its claws, closed the page again, jumped off Lin Yubin's body, and glanced at me.

My heart was beating wildly at the sight of it, and I almost thought it was going to talk to me about the book.It's a good thing it doesn't have one, otherwise its brother has been such a horned beast in the library and must have read a lot of books. If I was asked by a cat, I would be a little embarrassed.

After the horned beast glanced at me, it turned and walked towards the stairs on the other side.I followed it miraculously, all the way down the second floor.The horned beast descended the stairs with the same movement and demeanor as a real cat.I followed it to the second floor, passed through the stacked bookshelves, and walked to the window sill.

The horned beast looked back at me again, jumped onto the window sill, jumped up suddenly, and jumped out of the window.I rushed to the window and looked out the window, but saw that it had disappeared, so I couldn't help but stand in front of the window for a while, until Ji Mingmei tremblingly called me at the third floor of the stairs, and then I came back to my senses Come.

I rushed to the third floor again, and together with Ji Mingmei went to see Lin Yubin who was still lying on the ground.Before we reached him, we called out to him a few times, but Lin Yubin didn't respond.My heart sank when I saw this, Ji Mingmei asked me in a low voice as she walked, her voice trembling: "Why did the horned beast jump off the roof, it... it has been here for too long, has it become a spirit?"

I thought back to the scene of the horned beast squatting on Lin Yubin's body to read a book, didn't it just become a genius? Looking at the way it reads a book, it looks like a master shaking his head.But it was unheard of for a horned beast to come back to life, so I shook my head and walked over to Lin Yubin.

Lin Yubin was injured by a horned beast, and his life and death are unknown at this moment. If something really went wrong, we can't say for sure.Thinking of this, my heart was a little heavy. Unexpectedly, when we walked up to Lin Yubin and turned him over, we were shocked at the same time.

The person lying behind the bookshelf was pale, with sparse eyebrows and thinning hair. He was actually an old man in his early sixties, completely different from the Lin Yubin we saw before!
But the Lin Yubin we just saw had a ruddy complexion and was only about forty years old.Why was he suddenly aged twenty years after being pounced by that horned beast, even his appearance changed?"Lin Yubin" on the ground was obviously dead, and the scarlet paw prints on his face were obviously caught by the horned beast just now.

"It turns out that the horned beast is not a monster, but Lin Yubin is!" I was so frightened that I almost lost my soul, "The horned beast has guarded the Donglin Cottage for hundreds of years. Show up and catch him to death!"

This is the only reasonable explanation I can think of. Otherwise, why would Lin Yubin be in his early forties when he was alive, but suddenly aged by more than twenty years after his death?Ji Mingmei had just regained her strength, and when she encountered such a horrible thing again, she couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately screamed.This scream accumulated the strength of her two frights, almost piercing my eardrum.

I was trembling from her call, and was about to stop her, when someone at the stairway suddenly said in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Ji Mingmei and I looked up at the same time, only to see Mrs. Lin standing there with a tea tray in her hand, looking at us in horror.I was speechless for a while, I didn't know how to explain the cause and effect to her, so after the three of them stared at each other for a while, Mrs. Lin asked tremblingly, "He... what's wrong with him?"

I swallowed, and said with difficulty: "The horned beast jumped down from the roof, scratched... scratched Mr. Lin..."

No one will believe this when I say it, so I feel very guilty when I say it.Mrs. Lin walked towards us slowly, her eyes full of vigilance.Ji Mingmei and I moved away silently, and Mrs. Lin approached slowly. When she saw the people on the ground clearly, she trembled, looking extremely shocked and a little puzzled.

We thought that she was also frightened by Lin Yubin's sudden aging, but at this moment, she suddenly said a word that we couldn't think of at all-she actually yelled tremblingly at Lin Yubin on the ground: "Dad !"

She was originally Lin Yubin's wife, but at this moment she actually called Lin Yubin father?

Ji Mingmei and I were stunned, it was more inconceivable than seeing a horned beast hurting people, we both stared at her with wide eyes.Madam Lin panicked for a moment, and the tea tray in her hand fell to the ground.The teacup rolled from the plate onto the floor, and the brown tea flowed all over the floor. It looked like Lin Yubin had spilled brown blood all over the place.

Mrs. Lin threw herself on Lin Yubin and cried out in grief, "Father! Daddy! What's wrong with you, Daddy?"

Ji Mingmei glanced at me, and said bewilderedly, "It wasn't Lin Yubin who died, but Mrs. Lin's father?"

I just turned the corner at this time, and it turned out that it was not Lin Yubin who was thrown down by the horned beast, but his father-in-law.But what we saw before was obviously Lin Yubin, why did he become Mrs. Lin's father after being knocked down by the horned beast?
When we were downstairs just now, Lin Yubin poked his head out of the window and talked to the steward at home. The steward saw him as normal; and the man we saw when we went upstairs also poked his head out of the window. The one who went out.This shows that what we and the steward saw was indeed Lin Yubin.

He was even the one who screamed behind the bookcase when the horned beast jumped from the roof.But the strange thing is that after the horned beast threw him down, the person who fell to the ground immediately became Mrs. Lin's father.It's like Mrs. Lin's father has been wearing Lin Yubin's skin until the horned beast throws him down, and then he shows up back to his original shape.

But can a person really wear another person's skin?Is it because the horned beast saw through that this person was not Lin Yubin, that's why it jumped off the roof and attacked him?

Putting a horned beast on the roof originally meant that it would protect the house.But this is just a moral, who knows that the horned beast in Donglin Thatched Cottage can really do it.This kind of thing that only appeared in "Liao Zhai" actually happened before our eyes, and my mind was a little confused for a while.

"What's going on here?" Mrs. Lin kept shaking her father's body, but she didn't get any response at all. Naturally, she knew that he was in danger, so she turned around and asked us tremblingly.

Fortunately, the bloodstains on the corpse's face were shocking, obviously it was impossible for someone to grab them, so Mrs. Lin didn't suspect us for a while.I was horrified and puzzled, I opened my mouth to speak, but I couldn't say a word. It was not until a while later that I sorted out the matter, and then told her everything I had just experienced.

Mrs. Lin was also stunned when she heard that, she looked around and asked, "What you saw was Yu Bin, but it was my father who died? Then... what about the others?"

Ji Mingmei and I shook our heads at the same time, and Mrs. Lin also had a confused look on her face.It wasn't until this moment that I saw what kind of book I was throwing over just now. It turned out to be Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List".The horned beast was squatting on the dead body to read a book just now, and when I thought of this, my back felt cold, and I thought that the look it gave me before it left was looking at the ingredients, right?
Donglin Thatched Cottage is full of books, and there is nothing else. We have checked all the bookshelves, and there is no one else.I have also looked outside the window. There is an open field in front of Donglin Thatched Cottage. If someone comes downstairs from the window, they will definitely be found.Therefore, unless the person who died was "Lin Yubin", there is no way to explain where "Lin Yubin" went.

The horned beast guarding the roof came back alive to hurt people, and the dead Lin Yubin suddenly became someone else. She stayed at Lin's house for a while, and then she went out to find someone to report to the official.

Ji Mingmei didn't want to stay with the dead, so she went downstairs with me and waited for the people from the town hall in front of the Donglin Thatched Cottage.The people from the town hall came soon.The mayor drove the rest of the people away, and knelt down to check the corpses by himself, making sure that the people on the ground were dead.

Not long after, the manager of the Lin family rushed back from the printing workshop.Under the confrontation between the two, the steward also insisted that it was Lin Yubin who talked to him on the third floor before, and it was all fake.This also confirmed our statement, so the people in the town hall were dumbfounded for a moment, not knowing how to characterize this matter.

With no other choice, the town hall had no choice but to ask someone to go to the beam to check the original location of the horned beast.Fortunately, there is a ladder next to the bookshelf, which must be used to access the top books on the shelf.A man from the town hall climbed up the ladder, but couldn't reach the roof, so he put his foot on the bookshelf.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he put his feet on it, the bookshelf shook and almost collapsed. The people underneath hurriedly stabilized the bookshelf so that he could step on it and look at the beam.The man looked at it carefully and came down and said, the vacant marks on it are indeed like a cat squatting there for a long time, and then suddenly got out, and lost a few cat hairs on it.

As he spoke, he handed the cat fur to us, and I took a look at it. The fur was the same wood color as the horned beast we saw, thin and soft, and it was undoubtedly the fur of a cat.I looked at it for a while and couldn't see anything, so I handed it back to the town hall.The mayor of the town is meticulous and told us not to tell what happened here, so as not to cause uneasiness among the villagers in the town.

Now that Lin Yubin had disappeared, the most important thing right now was to find him first. However, many people searched all over the Lin family, only to find that Lin Yubin had disappeared without a trace, as if he had evaporated from the world.In desperation, the mayor had no choice but to ask us all to go to the Lin family hall and ask the details of the matter again.

The first thing is that the dead Lin Yubin suddenly became his father-in-law Yuan Chumo, so was it Lin Yubin or Yuan Chumo who was in the Donglin Cottage at that time?According to Mrs. Lin and the manager of the Lin family, they all thought that Lin Yubin should be in the thatched cottage at that time, because he was usually there at that time.

But when they asked seriously, they were not sure whether he was there at that time, because no one had seen him go to the thatched cottage.And if he is not in the thatched cottage, no one can say where he would be at this moment.As for why Yuan Chumo appeared in the thatched cottage, no one knew.

So there is no way to investigate this matter immediately, unless Lin Yubin can be found first.The mayor asked the people from the Lin family to tell them a few places, and ordered the people from the town office to look for them, and all the people from the Lin family were also sent out.Because we are witnesses, we cannot leave Donglin Town until the matter is clear.

Fortunately, we have never met Yuan Chumo, and we came to find Lin Yubin, so the mayor did not suspect that we killed Yuan Chumo, and did not restrict our freedom.We can go back to the hotel as much as possible and accept the summons at any time after we find Lin Yubin.

Lin Yubin couldn't be found for a while, and we were useless at Lin's house, so we went back separately first.We walked out of the Lin family together with the mayor. Mrs. Lin was busy confiscating her father's body, so the steward of the Lin family sent us out of the gate.After leaving the gate, we asked the steward to go back, but the steward hesitated for some reason, as if he had something to say.

"Do you have anything else to do?" The mayor asked him a little strangely.

"That," the steward stammered, "father-in-law, originally he was not allowed to go to my library..."

"What do you mean?" I wondered, "Mr. Yuan is the in-law of the Lin family, but he can't go to the library?"

(End of this chapter)