No. 7 Fish House

When Xing Ting woke up, it was already the afternoon of the second day.

He moved his hands and feet, and found that the rope that bound him had long since disappeared, and then carefully looked around the house, it was a very strange room.The layout of this house is much larger than his dilapidated hut, and the furnishings in the room are all relatively high-end small items. As a thief, he has a sharp eye, and he can tell at a glance that the jade lotus fairy boy on the shelf is From the hand of Master Cao Che.

Then I saw that the brocade quilt on the bed was made of the best fabrics in the tea city, and the exquisite embroidery on it was made by the best embroiderers.

"What is this place?"

Xing Ting rubbed his temples, feeling that his body was extremely tired.He cursed in his heart, what did this damn woman do while he was asleep?To bring him to this place, could it be that he killed someone again last night?

Thinking about it this way, even if the gorgeous scene in front of him was a paradise on earth, Xing Ting couldn't sit still, he immediately got up and prepared to escape.

The door was pushed open, and a young man in gray clothes came in with a bowl of porridge.Xing Ting widened his eyes and exclaimed, "He Fu?"

He Fu smiled gently, and put the porridge in his hand on the table.Xing Ting was very surprised, could this gorgeous house be He Fu's home?

"The time you slept was longer than I expected." When He Fu spoke, he was still slow, and the slow tone made Xing Ting feel very uncomfortable.

He cut to the chase and asked, "Did I go out to kill again last night?"

He Fu nodded lightly: "You killed Ah Shou."

Xing Ting turned pale with shock, his guess became reality.

He Fu added: "I saved him."

Only then did Xing Ting heave a sigh of relief, "Can you please stop punctuating your sentences like this, it will scare people to death."

He was really worried that Ah Shou would die because of him. In this tea city, he was doing a dishonorable job, walking every day at night, and no one had ever cared about his life.Only Ah Shou, this not-so-smart fat boss once gave him a bowl of noodles when he was in the most difficult time.

He Fu sat on Xing Ting's left, his expression remained calm, as if nothing could arouse his emotions.He tapped lightly on the table with his fingers, his eyes fixed on Xing Ting, "She stays in your body longer and longer."

"Then what should I do?" Xing Ting knew that the longer the woman stayed, the harder it was for him to wake up.He used to wake up in the morning, but today he woke up in the afternoon.He slammed his fist on the table, "This damn woman, what does she want to do?"

After He Fu finished speaking, he lowered his head and looked at his palm.There was a scar on the palm of his right hand, Xing Ting took a closer look and found that it was not a scar, it was like a red line that grew naturally in He Fu's palm, the red line seemed to have life.

He stared at the red line for a long time before answering Xing Ting's words.

"She wants to kill."

Xing Ting widened his eyes and asked, "Who?"

He Fu glanced at Xing Ting and replied calmly: "The one who killed her."

Xing Ting hurriedly asked: "Do you know who it is? Then let's go and protect him quickly, and we can't let this monster kill any more people."

However, He Fu smiled slightly, his eyes sparkling with innocent innocence: "Why do you want to protect, I have already promised to help her kill that person."

Xing Ting was dumbfounded, he couldn't believe that these words came from the mouth of a policeman, and the policeman still had a pure and kind smile on his face.

"Are you crazy? That's a murderer! If you help a murderer kill, then you are an accomplice." Xing Ting said angrily, "You are a policeman!"

Facing the roar, He Fu remained calm. He put his palms together on the table, and said in a casual tone, "If I don't promise her, you won't wake up today. Dealing with others always requires a bargaining chip. The bargaining chip is your life, and the bargaining chip in my hand is to help her find the bad guy. I think it's worth exchanging a bad guy's life for yours, isn't it? "

When He Fu said the last sentence, Xing Ting was a little terrified. He felt that the He Fu in front of him was the biggest evil spirit, and what he said made one's hair stand on end.

What made Xing Ting even more confused was why He Fu was willing to sacrifice another person's life to save a stranger whom he had only met twice.

Xing Ting expressed the question in his heart: "Why are you willing to save me?"

He Fu narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Xing Ting as if sizing up prey.

"Because I'm a policeman, I should protect you."

Xing Ting shook his body and felt goosebumps all over the place. Just now he said that he would help the female ghost to kill, but now he said that he wanted to protect him. How much truth is there in the words of the person in front of him?

He Fu pointed to the porridge on the table, "Drink it and come with me."

Xing Ting looked at the ugly bowl of porridge with some green leaves floating on it, and swallowed, he was really hungry, he hadn't eaten all morning, now looking at this bowl of porridge, it was hard to eat pharynx.

"Sorry, I can only cook porridge." When He Fu said he was sorry, there was no apology on his face, it was like a naughty child expecting others to drink this bowl of porridge like a prank.

The cry from his stomach made Xing Ting feel a little embarrassed, he picked up the bowl and held his breath and swallowed the white porridge in big mouthfuls.

"Okay, I'm done drinking. Next, you're going to kill people, you go kill them, I have to go home and rest." Xing Ting put the bowl on the table and was about to run away. He really didn't want to bear the burden of life on his body. , This weird policeman is really scary.

He Fu smiled and sat at the table, he watched Xing Ting flee but did not stop him, he just said slowly: "There is poison in the porridge, if you leave, you will only die."

Xing Ting immediately withdrew his right foot, turned around and looked at He Fu tearfully.

"What orders does the police officer have, I will go too!"

"Mass graves on the outskirts of the city."

When Xing Ting heard the name of the place, he immediately remembered what Song Ai said to him yesterday. He looked at He Fu and said in surprise, "Isn't this the place where Yuanyuan is buried? How would you know...you followed me!"

He Fu nodded noncommittally.

"Are you still suspecting that I killed those three people?" Xing Ting didn't know why he was a little angry.

He Fu was indeed following him, and Xing Ting's whereabouts had been in his eyes these past few days, but it was not because he was suspicious of Xing Ting.It was because he wanted to know who was behind this weird case.After a few days of tracking, he gained a lot. He discovered the secret of Xing Ting's ability to transform.

By the way, he also found out who the jade pendant with a human face that Xing Ting stole belonged to.

Xing Ting knew that his strength was small, and the people would not fight against officials, let alone he was a thief.If He Fu wanted to arrest him, he would have already become a frequent visitor to the cell.The most important thing right now is to follow He Fu and find a way to take out the jade pendant from his body, so that he will not disappear from this world in fifteen days.

The two walked one after the other on the way to the outskirts of the city. Xing Ting didn't speak on the way, he kept looking at He Fu.No matter from which angle you look at it, this person is very weird. From the first time they met He Fu agreed to help him, he felt very weird.

Not to mention why the policeman helped a thief, Xing Ting was surprised that He Fu could know so many incredible things.Aren't all the police stations in the tea city now promoting science and resisting feudal superstition? Why is He Fu different?

This He Fu, who is half a head shorter than him, looks gentle and delicate, and has fair skin that is not like ordinary people, is he really a policeman?

Xing Ting looked at He Fu who was walking in front of him, and he found a problem, He Fu made no sound when walking.Everyone walks, there are more or less sounds, Xing Ting has experienced some special training, he can tell who this person is from the footsteps, so his hearing is much better than ordinary people.

Facing He Fu at this moment, he couldn't hear the slightest sound, as if He Fu was not walking at all, as if he was floating.

Xing Ting shuddered, he suddenly had a feeling, is He Fu really a human?He Fu has been following his whereabouts these past few days, but he didn't feel anyone following him.Because of the thief's instinct, Xing Ting is more careful than anyone else. He is afraid that he will be caught if he reveals any clues, so he pays attention to his surroundings every time he travels.He was sure that he hadn't seen He Fu these few days.Is it possible that He Fu will become invisible, and has been wandering around him after being invisible?

He Fu, who was walking ahead, stopped, and he turned sideways and asked Xing Ting, "Have you heard of the legend of Xu Yuan?"

Xing Ting raised his head abruptly, and met He Fu's clear and clean eyes. He suddenly felt a little embarrassed to be watched by such eyes for those speculations just now.

"Listen, I've heard of some..."

He Fu nodded slightly: "Then do you know that Xu's daughter was killed and haunted by ghosts many years ago?"

Xing Ting froze for a moment, recalling the stories those old people told.

100 years ago, when Xu Yuan was still in the Xu Mansion, Xu Shiqing, the master of the Xu family, had a jewel in his palm.He gave this daughter endless love, but he didn't let her take a step out of Xu's house.

When she walked out of Xu's mansion for the first time as a girl, she met a scholar.This story is the same as that written in all playbooks. A young and ignorant girl will always fall in love at first sight when she meets a handsome scholar.She also fell in love with her, and not only that, she also eloped with the scholar with some money.

Because they all knew that Xu Shiqing would not agree to this improper marriage. What kind of status is the Xu family, and what kind of status is the poor scholar? These are clearly two extreme people, and they are destined not to be together of.

The girl fled with the scholar, and they settled down in another place.I thought that happiness would start from here, but who knew it would be hell...

"After Miss Xu's family and the scholar got married, the scholar's temperament changed drastically. He changed from his previous kindness and even brought back a girl from a brothel outside." Xing Ting said, "After that, the scholar seemed to meet someone from a better family background. Good woman, he killed his wife and buried her in the backyard in order to have a better status, and then began to be haunted."

This is the version Xing Ting has heard before, he thought it was just a ghost story spread by the folks, now that He Fu asks this, is it possible that this ghost story is true?

He looked at He Fu, expecting an answer.

He Fu pursed his lips and said, "Miss Xu's family is indeed dead, but the story is not as simple as you think."

In order to be with the scholar, Miss Xu's family left Xu's mansion regardless of obstacles.

After leaving the Xu Mansion, she and the scholar settled down in a farmhouse, using the silver taels she stole from home, and she, who was ignorant of the world, thought that the person next to her pillow would give her a lifetime of stability.

She pinned all her beautiful dreams on the scholar, and at that moment, Miss Xu's face changed, the beautiful young girl from before became an extremely ugly woman, half of her hair fell out, Originally, Katsuki's fair skin was covered with wrinkles, and those wrinkles spread across her face one by one like a dry field.

The scholar woke up from his sleep, and seeing the beauty lying beside him turned into such an appearance, he was so frightened that he rolled off the bed.What kind of beauty is this, she is clearly a dead bone covered in human skin!

He had heard people say before that everyone in the Xu family had a strange disease, which was inherited from generation to generation.Therefore, the Xu family never went out easily. They were afraid of being seen after their illness, so they always hid themselves in the depths of the high-walled compound.

Xing Ting was taken aback when he heard it, because his wife became old and ugly, so that vicious scholar became murderous?

He asked: "Miss Xu's family is indeed pitiful, but does this story have anything to do with me?"

He Fu said slowly: "Of course, do you know whose tomb you went to that day?"

Xing Ting suddenly realized, "From the Xu family?"

"That's right." He Fu said, "Miss Xu's tomb, Xu Pei's tomb, has a human face in her tomb."

He Fu said: "Do you still remember that Song Ai told you that Jin Renyao was sick and he was looking for medicine?"

After this reminder, Xing Ting thought of the Xu family's strange disease, which further confirmed his guess.

"Jin Renyao is the Xu family. He is looking for medicine to treat this aging disease. Can jade pendant cure aging disease?"

He Fu smiled: "Smart."

"But why did Jin Renyao form an alliance with Yuanyuan and kill Yuanyuan?" No matter how hard Xing Ting thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.Assuming that the jade pendant is the magic medicine that Jin Renyao is looking for, then what role does the kite play in it?

Along the way, Xing Ting was attracted by the story and didn't know that he had reached the mass grave in the suburbs of the city.He Fu bent down to check the ground under his feet, and judged that the soil had been turned over.

"That's why I want you to come here. Excavating her tomb may solve our doubts."

Xing Ting looked at He Fu with his hands behind his back, standing there motionless, as if waiting for himself to start.

"Why don't you dig, but let me dig?"

He Fu replied very seriously: "Because you drank the porridge and I didn't drink it, so I have no strength."

What a high-sounding excuse, it's just lazy.

Xing Ting didn't bother to talk about him, so he took tools and started digging the graves. The graves in mass graves are very simple. You can just dig a hole and bury them, and you don't need a coffin at all.So it is very convenient to dig the soil here, Xing Ting dug up Yuan Yuan's body in a short time.

This corpse is different from the ones I have seen before. Her internal organs have been emptied, but her face has not been dug out.

Yuanyuan is like a tattered rag doll, lying quietly in the pit.

He Fu asked, "Did you see anything?"

Xing Ting said angrily: "The internal organs are gone."

"I didn't ask you this." He Fu said, "Didn't you notice that her face is different from other people's?"

Xing Ting immediately looked at Yuanyuan's face, no matter how she looked at it, she was only ten years old, and her real age could not be seen at all.

"Jin Renyao told you that Yuanyuan is a dwarf. The dwarf's body is very short and will not change in any way, but their face will change with age, but this Yuanyuan is still ten years old..."

Xing Ting immediately grasped the key point: "She will not grow old, she is the medicine Jin Renyao is looking for!"

He Fu raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said in a low voice, "If you can think like this, Jin Renyao can think like this too, so he killed Yuanyuan and ate Yuanyuan's heart."

Xing Ting was stunned, followed by a burst of nausea, he almost vomited out the porridge he ate just now.

He didn't dare to think about the few corpses he saw in the past few days. They were all done by Jin Renyao. Jin Renyao dug up the hearts of four people and ate them for eternal youth. He couldn't associate the disgusting scene with Jin Renyao himself.

Would that thin person who could be blown down by the wind at any time have the strength to kill so many people?

Xing Ting suddenly thought of the woman in his body, and he asked He Fu: "The person living in my body is Xu Pei? Why did she help Jin Renyao kill people?"

He Fu said, "She has never helped Jin Renyao kill anyone."

Xing Ting was puzzled.

He Fu said: "Did you hear the story about Miss Xu's family and the scholar just now, did it sound familiar? Many days ago, someone told the same story at the crime scene, but the protagonist of the story was not Miss Xu's family."

Xing Ting thought about it carefully, and he immediately thought of the skinny monkey Chen Qiao who kidnapped him!

"After Chen Qiao's cousin, Chen Caier, married Wang Xin, Wang Xin's temperament changed drastically. In the end, Chen Caier couldn't stand it and committed suicide."

He Fu smiled: "Yes, both Wang Xin and Scholar are flirtatious lovers who deserve to die. They both abandoned their wives, so they both deserve to die."

His tone slowed down a little, and he continued: "Because she was brutally killed by her husband, she thought that all the men in the world deserved to die, so she emptied the internal organs of these men and dug out their faces. .”

Xing Ting suddenly understood that the 'she' He Fu was talking about was the woman in his body.

"Is she Xu Pei?"

He Fu nodded: "Yes."

Speaking of this, Xing Ting suddenly remembered that the reason why He Fu said that the female ghost was hiding in his body was because the female ghost wanted to kill people.

He made a bold guess: "The female ghost wanted to kill someone to avenge herself. The person who killed her was her former husband, the scholar."

He Fu said, "Not bad."

"But Xu Pei died 200 years ago. No matter what happens, her husband, the scholar, can't live to be 200 years later, right? You promised to help her kill, but the scholar died long ago. Who do you want to kill?"