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The crowd left in disorder, and finally there were only seven or eight people left in the courtyard, most of them were men, and the women all left without daring to stay and watch.

Shen Hao helped Mr. Shen to walk in front of Yang Yuanyi and the two of them. Mr. Shen said: "Have you seen his death? I hope you can solve these incidents as soon as possible to avoid the same tragedy from happening again."

Yang Yuan folded his hands in front of his abdomen, bowed his head and said: "Mr. Shen, although we accepted the entrustment, the information you gave is too little. Of course, it is our duty to verify the information. I just hope that if Mr. Shen knows something What, can tell us."

Mr. Shen stared at Yang Yuanyi with sharp eyes, and the latter smiled calmly without changing his expression.Gradually, Mr. Shen put away his lingering aura, stared at the white cloth on the ground in a daze, and whispered to Shen Hao after a long while, as if he was telling him to clean up the corpse

Afterwards, Mr. Shen said to Yang Yuanyi and Wang Xiaohong, "Come with me."

Yang Yuan and the others followed behind Mr. Shen and entered the room.Mr. Shen greeted them: "Sit."

The two sat down and were silent for a moment.Mr. Shen sighed, "The person who died just now was my aunt, my father's younger sister, who disappeared three days ago."

Yang Yuanyi: "The face of the deceased is blurred, can Mr. Shen recognize it at a glance?"

Mr. Shen: "The two missing people are my aunt and the other is my cousin. I can still identify the corpse just now in women's clothing."

Yang Yuanyi asked again: "There are two people missing on the surface, maybe there are other people who are missing and no one knows."

Wang Xiaohong sang and said: "Yes, maybe it is someone else who no one knows who died, not the two missing persons who are already known."

Mr. Shen affirmed his own thoughts, and Yang Yuanyi asked the reason.Mr. Shen's face was gloomy, and it took him a long time to answer: "Because only the Shen family can have accidents."

Yang Yuanyi: "The reason."

Mr. Shen: "Retribution."

Yang Yuanyi: "Mr. Shen, please clarify."

But Mr. Shen refused to speak, he repeatedly emphasized: "Shen's family affairs should not be publicized." He was quite stubborn, no matter how Yang Yuan and the other two tried to persuade him, he refused to speak.

There was no other way, so Yang Yuan had to ask from another angle: "What's the matter with the crack girl?"

Mr. Shen: "How do you know?"

Wang Xiaohong stood up with a 'crack' sound, with accusation in his tone: "Mr. Shen, you should know the nature of our reasoning agency when you entrust us with it! You are still hiding it until now, because you want to wait for everyone to die before agreeing to it." Tell us about the connection between the Crack Girl and the Shen family and the Tiangong Temple? How can we solve this problem?!"

"Wang Xiaohong, sit down." Yang Yuanyi calmly reminded Wang Xiaohong to sit back.Then he said to Mr. Shen: "As he said, the nature of the reasoning club is to solve the strange news. Mr. Shen entrusted us to believe in the existence of the strange news. If we want to prevent casualties, we still hope that Mr. Shen will cooperate. "

Mr. Shen was moved, and Yang Yuanyi continued: "The strange news is bloodthirsty, so scary, we may not be able to solve it when it grows up. From your words, we can know that the strange news has something to do with the Shen family. Yuanyuan, your daughter Shen Xiaoyue probably doesn't have time to wait for you to think about it."

His daughter Shen Xiaoyue was the last straw that crushed Mr. Shen. He frowned and told them what he knew: "Shenzhuang Tiangong Temple was a well-known place 40 years ago, and many dignitaries came to Tiangong Temple to see me Grandmother. At that time, although the Tiangong Temple was splendid, it was also insurmountably strict and insurmountable. Unfortunately, the more splendid the place, the more filthy it is..."

He first recalled the infinitely beautiful Tiangong Temple 40 years ago, and mentioned that the turning point was the reason for the fall of Tiangong Temple, fear flashed in his eyes.

"Some things happened at that time, some... family affairs. At that time, Tiangong Temple was very dull, and it was quiet and gloomy during the day. There were hundreds of people living there, but there was no sound all day long. It was so quiet that no human voice could be heard. Little bit of popularity. Slowly, from where and when, the rumors of the crack girl spread."

Mr. Shen described what a crack girl is, and it was no different from what Shen Hao said.It's just that there are other things: "Shen Zhuang has had a punishment since ancient times, which is to put people who broke the rules alive into the wall."

When Mr. Shen said this, he lowered his voice and became inexplicably gloomy.His eyeballs were staring straight at the wall in front of him, and the whites of his eyes, which accounted for most of the eyes, were cloudy, yellowish white thickened with red blood.He raised his finger and pointed to Yang Yuanyi: "There may be corpses hidden in every wall of Shenzhuang and Tiangong Temple, are you afraid?"

Yang Yuan didn't change his face, and didn't feel the slightest sense of fear.However, Wang Xiaohong was trembling, and when he heard the last sentence, he screamed suddenly, like a rooster whose throat was choked.

The shock made Yang Yuanyi's ears hurt, and when he looked over in surprise, he found Wang Xiaohong huddled behind him with his face all over his face, and said eagerly, "Yang Yuanyi, it's up to you."

Yang Yuanyi: "...Why are you able to hide against the wall while being afraid?" Obviously the bones were built into the wall.

Wang Xiaohong reacted abruptly, and jumped to the opposite side with a cry.His reaction made Mr. Shen very embarrassed. Before he could express his feelings of being frightened for 40 years, he was suppressed by Wang Xiaohong's real fear.

Mr. Shen said embarrassingly, "Your colleague has a lot of emotions."

Yang Yuanyi: "It doesn't matter if you just say it." Wang Xiaohong was just cowardly.

Mr. Shen smiled, and moved his eyes from the wall behind Yang Yuanyi to him: "A similar incident happened 40 years ago. At that time, my elders, almost all the members of the Shen family died. Today's deceased—— It was my aunt, the last elder. A similar incident happened again 20 years ago, and almost my peers died that time, leaving me and my cousin who is now missing. We were not in Tiangong Temple at that time."

The Shen family has lived in Tiangong Temple for generations and is stubbornly conservative and feudal. 40 years ago, there were rumors of a girl with cracks, and the elders of the Shen family almost died, only the married daughter of the Shen family escaped. 20 years ago, the rumors of the crack girl were rampant, causing people to panic.The Shen family once again lost a large number of people.At that time, neither Mr. Shen nor a cousin was in Tiangong Temple, so they escaped, but Mr. Shen's wife did not escape death.

Exactly 40 years ago and 20 years ago, the two aunts and cousins ​​who escaped the catastrophe came back to Tiangong Temple, but were killed immediately within a few days.Next, it was Shen Xiaoyue's turn.

Mr. Shen: "She wants the Shen family to pay with their lives."

Yang Yuanyi: "Her?"

Mr. Shen's eyes flickered: "It, the crack girl."

Yang Yuanyi found a loophole in Mr. Shen's words: "Putting people alive into the wall is a punishment unique to Shenzhuang, not Tiangong Temple's private property. Why does the cracked woman take revenge on Shen's family alone?"

Mr. Shen: "Because basically it is up to the Shen family to decide whether to put people into the wall. But putting people into the wall is a very serious punishment, unless he commits a heinous crime. The Shen family will investigate clearly before the punishment. It will be misjudged and will not be wronged.”

Yang Yuanyi looked closely at Mr. Shen: "Then why do you want to take revenge on the Shen family?"

"Because of the Shen family's judgment and action, the Crack Girl took revenge on the Shen family." Mr. Shen replied dejectedly, as if he was puzzled and saddened by the fact that the Shen family's just actions only resulted in the death of their children and grandchildren.

Yang Yuanyi suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Mr. Shen often suffers from insomnia?"

Mr. Shen was taken aback for a moment, then nodded: "I often have nightmares."

Yang Yuanyi lowered his eyes with a calm expression: "I see, thank you for your answer. Let's go back first."

After finishing speaking, he picked up Wang Xiaohong's collar and walked outside. After leaving the small courtyard, he suddenly turned around and found Mr. Shen standing at the door with a blank expression, watching them off.Yang Yuan turned around and said, "It's contradictory."

Wang Xiaohong: "What?"

Yang Yuanyi: "Mr. Shen mentioned retribution, and said several times that his family's ugliness is inconvenient to publicize. But just now he said that the crack girl took revenge on Shen's family because of the punishment of building a wall. Isn't it contradictory?"

If Mr. Shen thinks this is revenge caused by the punishment of building walls, why does he still mention family scandal and retribution?On the one hand, he said that it was the revenge brought about by the punishment of building the wall, and on the other hand, he thought it was the retribution brought about by "family ugliness". Isn't it contradictory?

Wang Xiaohong reacted: "Is he lying? If he didn't lie about the revenge of the Shen family by the crack girl, it means that he and Shen Xiaoyue are both in danger at present. Lying under the premise that their lives are threatened may be to defend A certain secret. And this secret is related to the Shen family, Tiangong Temple, and also related to the origin of the rumor about the crack girl."

There must be a source for the emergence of strange stories in every city. Some of them may be due to the age and cannot be traced, but some rumors such as the crack girl, which have only been passed down for decades, can be traced back to the source.The rise of the Crack Girl's strange news is closely related to Shen Zhuang's punishment for building walls, and the killing of Shen's family should also be related to the secret that Mr. Shen tried to hide.

Yang Yuanyi: "Starting from the investigation of the Shen family in Tiangong Temple 40 years ago, we should be able to find out the reason for the appearance of the crack girl."

Wang Xiaohong plucked his hair, and said hesitantly, "Should we still go to Shen Xiaoyue?"

"Go." Yang Yuanyi didn't intend to change his mind.

The two walked towards Shen Xiaoyue's courtyard under the moonlight. It seemed that because of the death, Tiangong Temple fell into dead silence and darkness.The strange rumors about the crack girl spread, and many tourists were curious, but now they checked out and went to live outside.The eaves of the Tiangong Temple overlap, the courtyard is deep, and you can only see a corner of the sky when you look up, which is very depressing and gloomy.

Shen Xiaoyue's courtyard is very quiet, without lights.The two climbed the wall into the courtyard and tried to knock on the door, but someone answered after a while.Yang Yuanyi and Wang Xiaohong looked at each other, pushed the door open and entered.

There is a small desk lamp in the room, and the interior is decorated in European style, quite luxurious.There was a woman in pajamas on the leather sofa with her back to them, facing the wall, motionless.

The two walked around the sofa and walked in front of the woman, and saw that it was a young woman, about 23 or [-] years old.He looks quite handsome, but his eyes are dull and his complexion is not good.His face was as white as a piece of paper, very pale, but he was wearing bright red lipstick, which made him look even more bewitching.

She is Shen Xiaoyue.

Shen Xiaoyue: "Sit down." Her eyes were still fixed on the wall, which was white and empty.

Yang Yuan followed her line of sight and saw a gap the size of a palm on the snow-white wall.He said suddenly, "There is an eye in it."

Shen Xiaoyue was shocked all over, and suddenly turned her head to stare at Yang Yuanyi, and after a while she denied it with a rough voice: "No."

Yang Yuan asked back, "Did you see it?"

Shen Xiaoyue answered irrelevantly: "Not now, she's not here."