Shanhai Folklore Research Institute

After seeing what it was, Shen Qiming, Xuanjizi, Zhang Maocai and Gouwei couldn't help but gasp. Lin Mian was still calm. The corpses have been in close contact, and a skeleton that has been dead for many years is really not scary.

Lin Mian walked over to observe carefully, and found that the skeleton was short in stature, and the gaps between the bones were not completely closed. It should have been a child, not more than seven or eight years old.

There are only two seven or eight-year-old children in the manor, one Ye Siyun and her twin brother Ye Siyang. According to the investigation report, Ye Siyun was insane but still alive when he was discovered by the police, so there is a high probability that the skeleton in front of him belongs to Ye Siyang.

The police at that time were not as responsible as they are now, and more often than not, they were not as reliable as private detectives who took money to do things.After a general search in the manor, they failed to find any other Ye family members, so they treated the other party as a missing person and closed the case hastily. Unexpectedly, a hundred years later, Lin Mian and the others would find Ye Siyang's bones inside the piano.

Many of the bones had been deformed, and the space inside the upright piano was so small that Lin Mian couldn't imagine how a seven or eight-year-old child could squeeze himself into it.

Of course, there may be someone else who stuffed him in, but who would have such a big enmity with a child and do such a cruel thing?

Lin Mian's expression was solemn, and the expressions of the others were also not good-looking.

"You said that the other Ye family members would also die in the manor, right?" Zhang Maocai's calves trembled at the thought of this possibility.

He has been with Xuanjizi for three or four years, not to mention dead people, he has never seen a dead chicken or duck. After all, the master's business scope is very wide, such as calculating marriage, looking at the future, divination, fortune-telling, feng shui... exorcising evil spirits. It's just a small part of it!

Even if I helped move people's graves last month, in response to the socialist call of five lectures and four beauties, the graves are still placed in urns, not to mention how clean they are...

When Shen Qiming thought that when he was sleeping these few nights, there was a skeleton lying on the same floor next door, and his body was sweating again.

It is said that the son cheated on his father, and their family is cheating on their son!

Xu Shan tore off a piece of white cloth and wrapped Ye Siyang's bones. Lin Mian helped clear out an open space, and Xu Shan smiled at him kindly.

The activity room was almost turned upside down, and everyone continued to check the other rooms on the second floor. Shen Qiming's hand when he inserted the key was shaking.

The furniture next door was also covered with dust-proof cloth, Shen Qiming and Zhang Maocai huddled at the door like two quails and probed their brains, Xuanjizi held a compass in his hand, while saying that the ghost aura in the room was not heavy, but stopped not before.

Wu Ting snorted, and with a wave of his big hand, he pulled the dustproof cloth away completely, and a dozen dolls appeared in front of everyone.

Some of these dolls were placed on the chest of drawers, and some were lying on the bed. Their inorganic eyes stared straight at them, causing a chill to the back of the neck.

But Lin Mian didn't feel much. He picked up one and looked at it. There was a zipper on the back, and there was a battery in it. Hundreds of years had passed, and the battery had already rotted. He put the doll back, looked at the room again, and turned around. The head is facing the upper hook and the tail is reverent.

Assistant Lin is so courageous!

Even Bian Changfeng couldn't help but look at Lin Mian more. With his eyesight, he could naturally see that the other party was different from Wu Ting. He is calm and calm, he is a good seed, Wu Laogou can do nothing else, his vision is really good, he wants to dig people into their minds!

"What are you looking at?"

Wu Ting's voice sounded in his ears, and Bian Changfeng immediately retorted: "I'm looking at the idiot...'s assistant!"

He still remembered that Wu Ting scolded him as an idiot yesterday, and this time he finally won the game, and he felt refreshed!

Seeing his triumphant appearance, Xu Shan felt ashamed, and thought that Dean Wu was right.

Wu Ting clicked his tongue, and felt that Xu Shan was pretty good, but his vision was really not very good!

Several leaders were spat at the side, and the conscientious little assistant had roughly turned over the room.

This is a children's room, more precisely it should be a daughter's room, from the wallpaper to the bed frame to the wardrobe are all pink, Lin Mian guessed it should be Ye Siyun and Ye Siyu's room.

Except for the furniture and dolls, there are only a few oil paintings left for other decorations, and everything else has disappeared. I don’t know if they were confiscated and recycled a hundred years ago or were sold by that runaway intermediary. Lin Mian can’t see much. Useful leads.

Because there was Ye Siyang's skeleton in front of him, Lin Mian also carefully checked inside all the cabinets and under the bed, but he did not find the bones of the Ye family.

Shen Qiming and Zhang Maocai, who had been silently watching his every move, couldn't help but secretly heave a sigh of relief when they saw this.

Finally, Lin Mian looked around the whole room again, feeling inexplicably familiar... Where is it?

His eyes accidentally fell on the chest of drawers by the wall... It was the "painting that can laugh" that Shen Qiming was talking about!

Except for the glass vase and the white rose in the bottle, the chest of drawers, the doll, and the pink wall are all exactly the same as in the painting!

Lin Mian's eyes lit up, but soon her shoulders drooped, so what if she figured it out, it could only mean that the painting was in a corner of her daughter's room.

The little assistant frowned in surprise and discouragement, and the rich expression fell into the eyes of the dean, making the latter's heart beat violently again uncontrollably.

It's so cute... Dean Wu coughed lightly to hide his emotions.

Of the remaining three rooms, one is the master bedroom where Shen Qiming slept before, and the other two are the study and the bedrooms of Ye Siyang and Ye Sijun.

The bedroom of the two boys was almost the same as the daughter's room. It was basically emptied, not even a doll, and it was obviously cleaned. Lin Mian suddenly realized that except for the picture of the picnic, Ye Sijun had left almost nothing in the manor. Mark of!

Is it a coincidence or someone erased it on purpose?

"Does Ye Sijun really exist?" Shen Qiming whispered, "The fourth child on the picnic picture might just be the child of Ye Di or Zhang Ruomei's friend."

Xuanjizi nodded in agreement when he heard the words: "I suspect that the Ye family members may all have mental illnesses. The adopted son Ye Sijun does not actually exist, but they imagined it. As for the 'Ye Sijun' seen by the nearby residents, it is probably the same as the one in the picnic picture. It's a similar situation, just someone else's child."

He has encountered this kind of situation before. There is a family who is suspicious all day long, thinking that the house is not clean, but after he goes there, he can't even detect the ghost. People in the circle heard that the family members were actually mentally ill, and they were scaring themselves.

Is that the truth back then?

A little confusion appeared in Lin Mian's eyes.

At this time Shen Qiming had already opened the last closed door on the second floor - Ye Di's study.

According to the investigation report, after Ye Di went crazy, he locked himself in the study all day long, and Zhang Ruomei even sent him food. Lin Mian thought that he should be able to find some clues here.

Lift off the dust-proof white cloth, and you can see the small study room at a glance. The thick oak desk and matching armchairs, the ink-colored antique shelf, and the most conspicuous thing is the tall solid wood bookcase, which occupies the entire wall and reaches the ceiling. .

There is nothing on the antique shelf, and the valuable antique collection on it has been searched out like the previous rooms, but the books in the bookcase are still there.

The pages of these books have turned yellow after years of baptism. Lin Mian took a look at them. Most of them are related to business management. It is not surprising to think of the Ye family's industry.

But in the lower part of the bookcase, he noticed some other books.

"The Interpretation of Dreams", "Intimate Relations", "Neurotic Personality in Our Time"...

"Ye Di is reading a book on psychology, and he also thinks that something is wrong with him." Wu Ting's sharp eyebrows frowned slightly.

"But it may just mean that he is normal." The expression on Gouwei's face became even more puzzled, "People...don't people often say that only crazy people think they are not crazy?"

According to the investigation report, the Ye family adopted an eleven or twelve-year-old boy named Ye Sijun. As a result, there were no traces of other people's lives in the entire manor, but he was the only one.

Just when they guessed that the Ye family members were all mentally ill, they found that Ye Di seemed to be very sober, not as crazy as the outside rumors said.

The whole thing just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

"Damn it!" Just as everyone was lost in thought, Shen Qiming suddenly shouted in horror from behind.

Subconsciously, Lin Mian turned his head and saw the tall bookshelf toppled down. He couldn't help but slowly opened his eyes.

Zhang Maocai and Xuanjizi were caught off guard by this turn of events, and stood there dumbfounded. Lin Mian had already recovered his senses and quickly pulled them out of the scope of the bookshelf.

But of course the bookshelf couldn't really hold everyone down, Wu Ting supported it with one hand.

The bookshelf weighed at least a few hundred catties, and seeing how Wu Ting was supporting it with ease, Lin Mian couldn't help but sigh: Mr. Dean is really strong!

Out of the corner of Wu Ting's eye, he caught a glimpse of the little assistant's expression of "you are so powerful", and the villain in his heart cocked his tail proudly.

what is this?The ancient monster can be even more powerful!

Director Bian on the side didn't see it, he didn't know what to be proud of holding the bookcase with one hand, so he suggested that Wu Laogou perform a fire ring on the spot!

Wu Ting was about to push the bookcase back when Lin Mian suddenly said, "Wait a minute."

Seeing his solemn expression, Wu Ting thought for a while, and then slowly put the bookcase down on the ground, and then everyone understood why Lin Mian called to stop.

There is a shallow pit on the wall behind the bookcase, and another skeleton lies quietly inside.

Different from the skeleton in the activity room, this skeleton has already grown up, and judging from the shape of the pelvis, it should be male. Combined with the composition of the Ye family's family members, it is not difficult to guess that the other person should be Ye Di.

"He, how did he get in here?" Shen Qiming was about to collapse, suspecting that his father didn't buy a manor but a cemetery, otherwise why would there be so many bones?

Lin Mian was thinking about another problem. Ye Siyang was stuffed into the upright piano, Ye Di was "built" into the wall, and the attic was sealed... The Ye family hid themselves.

"They're really trying to avoid something!" Zhang Maocai suddenly felt chills all over his body. This luxurious villa and even the whole manor made him feel suffocated.

Not only him, but even Gouwei felt very uncomfortable. It was not night yet, and they didn't see a single ghost or demon, but for some reason they had already started to panic psychologically.

The torrential rain never stopped, and the heavy raindrops crackled on the glass windows. Lin Mian and Xu Shan simply buried Ye Di's bones, and everyone went back to the first floor.

Shen Qiming went downstairs very fast, fully showing everyone what a flexible fat man is, then picked up the kettle on the coffee table, and took several sips.

Shen Qiming calmed down, staring at the pouring rain outside with a worried expression.

Lin Mian was a little strange, so he heard him muttering in a low voice, "How can we get to the hotel in such heavy rain..."

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Assistant Lin suddenly understood that the owner of the manor didn't plan to stay in the villa at night, probably because he was frightened by the "laughing painting".

Lin Mian looked at the time and it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. She didn't expect them to stay on the second floor for so long.

Shen Qiming took out his mobile phone and wanted to use the app to call a taxi, but it was raining too much, not to mention the suspension of taxis, and even the takeaways in the surrounding area were much less, and it took almost two hours for the remaining few to deliver.

Zhang Maocai's stomach was rumbling. According to his own words, he was frightened and hungry. Lin Mian was fine, but he looked at Wu Ting and Gouwei who were sitting on the sofa, and asked Shen Qiming if there were any ready-made ones in the villa. Ingredients.

Shen Qiming was also worrying about dinner, and nodded after hearing the words: "Auntie Housekeeper bought a lot of vegetables and put them in the refrigerator."

Rolling up his sleeves, Lin Mian walked towards the kitchen, and stopped abruptly at the door.

Two or three meters away, a fat rooster with bright feathers and piercing eyes was looking at him without fear, and the plastic rope that was originally tied to the paw had been loosened at some point.

Lin Mian:! ! !

The author has something to say:

I found that I quite like Director Bian's hahaha, refill~

感谢在2021-11-1218:00:00~2021-11-1318:00:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: 5t51;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: Pipa Xing, Judy~1 bottle;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!