Daily life in Kaifeng dormitory

Murong Changqing frowned upon hearing this.

The shopkeeper continued: "At that time, that person was so frightened that he almost sat down on the ground. He didn't dare to take a second look, and ran away! Later, from time to time, someone passing by at night could hear the little The cry of the child is said to be the ghost of the young master Xie after his death."

Ni Yexin said: "Then how did the Xie family's young master die? Have you found out?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said: "It has been found out, but it is better not to find out."

"What's going on?" Ni Yexin became even more curious.

The shopkeeper said: "It was done by a servant girl next to Da Furen. That maid admired Mr. Xie, but Mr. Xie was very kind to Da Furen when she gave birth. Da Furen suffered a crime during childbirth. I heard that she would not be able to have any more children. Thank you." The master is just such a young master, and he has no intention of taking a concubine at all. The old lady persuaded the master to take a concubine several times but to no avail. As a result, the maid, who did this kind of madness, sneaked into the young master's room in the middle of the night, They hijacked the young master who was only four years old, killed him and threw him into a dry well."

Chi Long was taken aback and said, "This is too vicious."

The young master of the Xie family was only four years old back then, and he was still a small child. This made everyone feel that it was too cruel.

The shopkeeper continued: "After a while, it was finally found out that it was the maid who did it. The maid was crazy, and she was caught and was escorted to the government, so she yelled madly, saying I have wronged myself."

At that time, the servant girl was taken into prison, and she was yelling day and night, yelling for injustice and cursing the people of Xie's family with vicious words.

The shopkeeper said: "The maid yelled at the top of her lungs that if she died, she would turn into a ghost and come back to kill everyone in Xie's family! Guess what happened? Everyone was scared for a while, but nothing happened. But just a few days ago, the Xie family died!"

It was because of Young Master Xie's death that the Xie family moved down from the mountainside villa and settled at the foot of the mountain.No one lived in that villa anymore. It is said that because the eldest lady lived there and shed tears every day, Mr. Xie couldn't bear it, so she brought Xie's family to move down.

But who would have thought that after so many years, another person from the Xie family suddenly died. It was the young master of the Xie family. It was dead, and the body was stiff.

The eldest lady died of her son, she was overly sad and sick for a while.She couldn't have another child, and the Xie family was about to die out, so the old lady forcefully asked Mr. Xie to marry another house.

The second lady was a little girl, she heard that she was a bit tricky, she always wanted to make things difficult for the eldest lady, within two years she really gave birth to a son and then a daughter for Mr. Xie.

The son hadn't reached the crown yet, but he died suddenly, in a strange way, in that dry well.

Now Xie's family is in a state of panic, everyone is talking about what happened back then, thinking that the ghost of the maid back then came back to take revenge on them, first killed Master Xie's second son, maybe the next one will kill Xie The daughter of the family, and then everyone in the Xie family.

The butler said, "There are even more wicked ones!"

The young master of the Xie family died. He died in a courtyard halfway up the mountain where no one lived for a long time, and his body was still in that dry well.

That's scary enough, but it's not over yet.The young master Xie died, and the second wife was very sad. One day, she took her servants to the dry well to burn paper money for the young master, and found something extraordinary.

The shopkeeper's eyes widened and he said, "There is a bloody face on the dry well!"

Ni Ye was taken aback, and said, "Blood face?"

The shopkeeper nodded again and again.

When the people of the Xie family found the young master's body, they didn't find anything on the dry well at all, but this time when the second lady came, they found a bloody face painted on the dry well, which really frightened everyone. I found someone from the yamen.

The shopkeeper already knew these things, he had never seen anything in the small place, and the rumors about Xie's family became more and more evil, there were all kinds of haunted rumors.

After hearing the story, Ni Yexin and the others got up and left the inn, ready to go to Xie's house to have a look.

Xie's house is not small, but the gate is closed, it looks a bit desolate.

Chi Long stepped forward to knock on the door. It took a long time before someone came to open the door. It was a young man who looked at them and asked, "What's the matter?"

Ni Yexin said the reason, but the young man was skeptical and ran in to spread the word.

Soon, Mr. Xie came out in person to welcome Ni Yexin and the others in.

Mr. Xie looked quite old, with gray hair, probably not in good health, coughing while walking, and welcomed them into the flower hall.

Ni Yexin asked how young master Xie died. Master Xie said with a sad face, "I am not in good health. He often helps me run business on weekdays. Although he is still young, he is very good at doing business. His He told me that he would go out to discuss a business tomorrow, and he would leave early in the morning. The next day I got up early and prepared to send him out, who would have thought..."

Who would have thought that Young Master Xie was gone, and the servants said they hadn't seen the Young Master, thinking that the Young Master was still sleeping and hadn't gotten up, but the Young Master's room was empty, the quilt and sheets were neat, as if he hadn't slept at all, he wasn't in the room at all .

Master Xie immediately asked everyone to find the young master, not because something happened.

Mr. Xie said: "My youngest son has never been in trouble, and he is very smart. He disappeared suddenly, and I was very worried about him. I didn't dare to think if something happened."

In the end, something really happened. Everyone searched around, but no one could find the shadow of Young Master Xie, so they ran to report to the police.

On the evening of the second day, someone suddenly ran down from the mountainside and said that they found a corpse in the dry well of the deserted house, and it turned out to be the young master's.

The desolate house had been abandoned for a long time, because the young master died in the dry well, so Mr. Xie felt that the villa was not clean and there must be something sinister, so he took everyone to move down.

Although it has been moved down, the desolate house is just unoccupied, and there are several servants who take turns to guard it.

After all, the Xie family's business is very big, and they also need a place like a warehouse for the other party's goods, and this desolate house happens to have a subdivision area that is used for stacking goods.

When the servants were patrolling the deserted house, they suddenly found a drop of blood at the gate of a courtyard. The blood had dried up, but it looked very strange.

No one has cleaned here all year round. There is a layer of soil on the ground, and the blood is on the soil. It must have dripped on it recently.

The servants looked around the yard, and saw another bloody handprint on the dry well.

This frightened the servant. At that time, he thought something terrible had crawled out of the dry well, so he boldly took a look inside. It was so dark that he couldn't see clearly, so he lit a lantern and went inside again. Look, it's even more scary.

There was a dark shadow inside, as if someone was in a dry well.

That dry well was inherently unlucky, all servants of the Xie family knew that the eldest young master of the Xie family had died in the dry well, the servant was so frightened that he froze his ass and hurried to call for help.

A lot of people came, and they braved each other, so they fished out the dry well, and it turned out to be a corpse, and it was the corpse of the young master of the Xie family.

The body of the young master of the Xie family was found. Like the elder master of the Xie family, he died in the well, which frightened everyone.

The second lady ran over and saw the corpse, and immediately passed out.

The body of the young master of the Xie family was stiff, his head was smashed from behind, blood was all over his body, there were many abrasions on his body, and several fractures.

Someone came from the yamen, and he quickly called Wu Zuo to come for an autopsy.

Ni Yexin frowned, and asked, "Master Xie, does the young master have any enemies?"

Master Xie shook his head and said, "No, he is kind. I have never heard of him. Is there anyone who can't get along with him."

Young master Xie doesn't have any bad habits, he doesn't have bad friends, and he doesn't go to brothels and Chu houses. He usually doesn't have a young master's airs, and the servants like him very much.

Although he is the second wife's son, but because the eldest lady's son is dead and cannot have another son, the eldest lady is very kind to the young master.

All the servants of the Xie family knew that the eldest lady treated the young master better than the second lady treated the young master.

Some people also said that when the young master was young, he really looked exactly like the young master, very similar, probably because of this, so the eldest lady loved the young master very much.

Not to mention the old lady, the old lady only has such a grandson, and she will give everything that is good to the young master.

When Ni Yexin heard this, he rolled his eyes and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Xie, the grimace on the dry well is..."

"Ghostface?" Mr. Xie was taken aback for a moment, then he understood, and said: "It was all spread by others randomly, there is no such thing as a grimace, but it is... you can go to the villa and see for yourself, I don't know what it is thing."

Ni Yexin and the others are of course going to the villa, after all that is where the young master Xie's body was found.

After they visited Mr. Xie, they immediately went to the villa, and a servant took them there.

The villa is halfway up the mountain, and the road is easy to walk. It looks like it was built before, and the mountain is not very high. It doesn't look like it will take long to walk up.

They arrived at the gate of the villa after a short walk, and when they saw the gate, they knew that the villa was indeed well built, much better than where Xie's family lived now.

It's just that no one has lived in it for too long, the villa is cold and gloomy, and there is no popularity at all, and it feels gloomy in broad daylight.

Ni Yexin and his group walked in, and the servant took them to the dry well.

Ni Yexin looked around and said, "Huh? Why is there no one? Didn't you say that there are some servants patrolling here?"

The servant said: "After something happened to the young master, the master asked people to remove all the goods here, and no one dared to guard here, so they all evacuated. This place has been deserted for a few days."

Originally, the deserted house was still a warehouse, but now no one came here at all.

They entered the deserted house, turned around and walked in. The place was surprisingly big, and finally came to a yard behind the house.

The yard looks like it has been unoccupied for a long time. The house is full of soil. There is not much soil on the ground, but there are many footprints. It seems that many people came because of the discovery of the corpse a few days ago. very messy.

The servant stood at the gate of the yard and didn't dare to go in. He looked scared and said, "It's there, my lords."

There is a dry well in the corner of the yard. The well is the most common circular well. The mouth of the well is wider than the shoulders of an adult, and the mouth of the well is not very big.

As soon as they entered, they saw the so-called "ghost face".

Ni Yexin froze for a moment, and said, "So it's a snake pattern totem."

On the outer wall of the dry well, a snake pattern totem was painted with red blood. Because the well wall is uneven, it looks a bit weird. At first glance, it really looks like a grimace.

Murong Changqing frowned.

Ni Yexin immediately asked the servant standing tremblingly outside the courtyard, "When did this pattern appear?"

Jia Ding said: "I don't know exactly when. After the young master died, he reported to the officials. The people in the yamen took the young master's body away. At that time, there was nothing on the well. I was there at the time, clean and tidy. .”

Later, the people from the yamen came here several times to investigate the case. When they came for the third time, they suddenly found such a pattern on the wall of the well.It was a cloudy day at the time, and the sky was gloomy. The police officers and officials were taken aback and couldn't see clearly. As a result, the rumor of the "ghost face" appeared.

People in the town don't understand the snake pattern totem, they only know that there is a grimace on the dry well in the deserted house, maybe it's the face of the servant girl who turned into a ghost.

Ni Yexin walked over, squatted by the well, carefully looked at the snake pattern totem painted on it, and said, "It's really painted on blood, but judging by the color of the blood, it shouldn't have been painted for a long time. Who painted it?" went up?"

Murong Changqing also came over to check it out, and after taking a look, he said, "It's very similar to the snake pattern totem from before."

Ni Yexin knew which snake pattern totem he was talking about. They investigated a case of the Yang family before, and someone suddenly drew a sign of a snake pattern totem on the courtyard wall of the Yang family. It was almost exactly the same as this snake pattern totem. There was a dragon Horns and claws.

At that time, Miss Yang told them that someone had discovered her murder, and that the snake pattern totem that suddenly appeared was here to threaten her.

But Miss Yang didn't know what the snake pattern totem meant, and she didn't know who drew the snake pattern totem.

Ni Yexin reached out and touched the snake pattern totem, then stood up and took another look into the dry well.

Ni Yexin said: "According to the analysis of Young Master Xie's body, Young Master Xie should have been thrown into a dry well."

The well is not too deep, and there is not a drop of water in it. It seems that it has been dry for a long time.

Ordinary folk wells are generally 20 to 30 meters deep and one to two meters wide.This well is obviously shallower, but at least ten meters long.A fall from this distance is definitely enough to break a bone and die.

There was indeed a bloody handprint at the mouth of the well. Ni Yexin raised his eyebrows when he saw it, and said, "No wonder it scares people."

The bloody handprint was near the mouth of the well, with the fingers protruding out and the palm inside. At first glance, it seemed that something was about to crawl out of it and leave a mark.

Ni Ye thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid this young master Xie was thrown down after his head was smashed. The murderer probably thought he was dead and was about to throw him into the dry well, but he suddenly woke up again. He reached out and blocked the mouth of the well."

Murong Changqing frowned upon hearing this.

Chi Long said suspiciously: "But my lord, if the murderer knocked the head of the deceased first, there should be blood here. But there is nothing here."

Young Master Xie had a big hole in the back of his head, and he must have bled a lot at that time, and there were also a lot of blood on his body.

Even if this was not the scene of the first crime, when the corpse was being transported, it was impossible that there was not a drop of blood around, only a bloody handprint at the mouth of the well.

Ni Yexin said: "This is too simple. Someone must have cleaned up the blood. Can't you see it?"

Ni Yexin pointed around and said, "Look at the houses next to you. There are pictures all over the houses, and the windows are all dusty. But you look down at the ground."

Everyone lowered their heads and glanced at the ground. There were footprints everywhere, which looked messy, and there seemed to be no clues.

Ni Yexin said: "Don't look at the mess on the ground, but you don't think the ground is too clean. There is almost no soil, but there are messy footprints. It has not been cleaned for at least a few days. Logically speaking, there should be a lot of dirt on the ground. It will be a little slippery when walking up, but I found it when I came in, and it is very clean here."

The servant at the gate of the courtyard showed an expression of enlightenment, and looked carefully at the ground. Except for the messy footprints, there was really not much soil.

Ni Yexin walked out of the courtyard and kept walking, looking down at the ground.

Murong Changqing immediately followed him.

Ni Yexin laughed and said, "This murderer is not very smart. He only knows how to clean up the blood all the way, but he doesn't know how many holes he left."

Murong Changqing looked down, after leaving the yard, there was indeed a very clean area on the right, with almost no soil on the ground, but the left side was different, the left side was the way they came, and the ground was covered with dust.

Ni Yexin walked along the clean land, and soon turned into a nearby yard.The yard was also clean.

Murong Chang took a look at the yard affectionately and asked, "Is it here?"