Xie Ma said that there is a need for a janitor in the front yard. Her cousins ​​and his wife just have nothing to do and want to hire them to be the janitor. The couple are honest farmers. Now that they are older, they work in the fields.

No, I have children at home to take care of me. But I want to live in the county town and don’t want to stay in the countryside.

Grandma Su nodded and asked Ma Xie to bring the person the next day. Only those who know the basics are reliable.

the next day.

Xie Ma brought the cousins ​​and his wife to see Grandma Su and his wife. The aunts were very satisfied with it, so they stayed in the front yard as concierges. In addition to taking care of the front yard gate, the couple were also responsible for cleaning the yard and the like.

Work hard.

Both of them are people who have worked hard all their lives. They are very agile and diligent.

In the morning, Qiu Wuhen came to the Yamen.

He saw Captain Ke in the squad room reprimanding several agents, saying that they were useless, and no one was found. However, when he saw Qiu Wuhen, he quickly came out to greet him. He nodded and bowed and said: "Mr. Qiu

,You came."

Qiu Wuhen nodded and said, "There are no new suicides, right?"

"No, the whole city is very quiet. Although we also discovered a few strange things, it turned out that they were all mistakes. They didn't want to commit suicide at all. We made a mistake. We were also scolded by others and said

We are crazy."

Qiu Wuhen was a little embarrassed. He had been like this before and was regarded as crazy by the old man. He waved his hand and said: "Keep paying attention. You can't let down your guard just because you haven't found any abnormalities during the day. If you continue to persevere, maybe when we relax

This kind of thing only happens when you’re vigilant!”

Mr. Ke's heart trembled. He nodded and said: "Yes, I also said that I was going to pull everyone back. After hearing what my husband said, I also feel that we need to be more cautious at night. Maybe something bad will happen in the dead of night.

. Let’s be more energetic. I will immediately divide the people into two shifts and take turns to be on duty. This will ensure that there are people on duty throughout the night. If something goes wrong, we will immediately control it. I would rather be scolded as a lunatic than anything else."

"now it's right."

Qiu Wuhen said goodbye and came out. He did not go home, but planned to visit the home of Qi San, who buried himself under a stone and stoned himself to death.

He came to Qi San's house. He had already asked for the specific address before. It was not too far from the Yamen. It was not completely dark yet, and there were many pedestrians on the street, even though it was freezing cold. He came to the door of Qi San's house and knocked on the door.

, the door opened, and a young man wearing sackcloth and mourning looked at him doubtfully. Qiu Wuhen introduced him: "I am Master Xing Ming of the Yamen, my name is Qiu Wuhen, I came here to find out, is this Qi San's family?"

After hearing this, the young man quickly raised his hands and said, "Yes."

Qiu Wuhen walked in and was immediately greeted by an old man. After hearing the introduction, he hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted. When Qiu Wuhen entered, he found that preparations for a funeral had already been made in the yard, and a pergola had been set up. There were several people.

He was sitting in the pergola guarding a thin wooden coffin. But he had not yet been buried, and the door panel at the end was removed, and the body was placed on the door panel, covered with a white sheet.

Qiu Wuhen was very surprised. They actually got the body out from under the rock. It was really miraculous.

The old man was Qi San's father, and he invited Qiu Wuhen to sit in the house. The family's financial situation was not very good, but it was not bad. He sat down at the round table in the house, and an old woman was trembling and didn't know what to say.

What's good is that she is Qi San's mother.

Qiu Wuhen asked them to sit down and expressed their intention to come. The two of them sat down cautiously and looked at Qiu Wuhen.

Qiu Wuhen said: "I happened to be there when your son died. I didn't see it from the front. When I arrived, he just knocked off the hoe supporting the rock, and the rock stepped down and pushed him underneath.

.By the way, how did you get the body out?"

The old man said: "We hired some masons to knock off a stone next to the rock, and the stone rolled down. We tied my son's legs with ropes before, so although he fell down, he still

Being pulled by the rope, I was able to pull it up. But it was so bloody that it was so pitiful... What happened to my son?"

Qiu Wuhen said: "Has that road been restored now?"

"I recovered. There were many people helping me at that time, including Ye Jishan who dug the small white flowers. They also wanted to take this road home, so they all came to help. After the stone fell off, there was a large vacancy, and then it was repaired.

It suddenly became a road, and now it is passable again, but it is a pity that my son..."

When he talked about the sad part, he started to cry.

Qiu Wuhen waited for his crying to stop and then said: "I was ordered by the county magistrate to investigate several bizarre suicide cases that have appeared in the county recently. Including the case of your son's suicide, so I wanted to ask him

Why commit suicide?”

"This is actually what we want to know. We can't figure out why my son committed suicide? We still haven't figured it out. Before he went out, he happily said that he had dug a basket of flowers and would definitely make a little money.

A sum of money can help celebrate the New Year. I can pull out a few more feet of fabric and make a few more new clothes."

"What did your son do before?"

"They are just helpers, doing temporary jobs in the city, and working wherever they can to earn money. We used to farm in the village, but later we felt that farming was too expensive, so we rented the land to others and asked them to help farm.

Anyway, the food at home is enough, and you can earn one share, which is better than living in the countryside. He also said that he should have known that he should have come out a long time ago, so he would not have to wait until now."

"He was looking forward to it with all his heart, and his life was getting better day by day. Why did he die? If he fell off the cliff by himself, it might be excusable. But so many people saw him digging a hole under the rock, and

Smash the hoe that is supporting the rock and let the rock crush him to death. Oh my god, I can't understand why he would choose such a method to die. He has no reason. Really, I can't think of any reason for him to do so.

To do this?”

Qiu Wuhen said: "Recall, did he do any weird behavior before this? Or is there anything that you think is strange?"

The reason why Qiu Wuhen asked this was because these four suicides were very weird. Since they were weird things, there might be weird reasons. If no normal reason could be found, could there be some weird reason?

What about this?

Qiu Wuhen wanted to see if he could find a breakthrough from this angle.

After hearing Qiu Wuhen's words, the old couple frowned and thought.

Qi San's son said: "My father said that someone asked him to deliver a letter to Ye Jishan three days ago. Could this be related to this?"

Qiu Wuhen felt a shiver in his heart. Everything related to Yeji Temple felt weird to him. Because that temple was really evil, and every evil thing before that was finally found, at least in his opinion, it could be explained.

reason.

He immediately said: "What is going on? Can you explain it in more detail?"

The old man said: "It's like this. My son recently worked as a tea doctor in a teahouse. One morning three days ago, a tea customer brought a letter to him."

"In addition, I gave him fifty coins and asked him to send this letter to Yeji Temple to the deaf-mute monk. If he is not here, just put the letter on his bed."

Qiu Wuhen's heart moved and she quickly asked him: "Who is this person?"

"I don't know either. That's what my son said. He didn't describe the person's appearance to us. He just said he was a tea guest."

"He came home, told us, and went out. He didn't come back until the afternoon. I asked him if the letter had been delivered, and he said it had been delivered, but the monk was not there."

"He found the place where the monk lived. The room was clean. The entire Yeji Temple had collapsed and was almost in ruins. Only that room was clean."

"There is a bed and a futon in the room. There is a quilt on the bed. It is also very clean. It should be where he lives."

"My son put half of the letter under the bed and left it half exposed, so that it would not be blown away by the wind. The monk could see it when he came, and then he came back."

As soon as she said this, the young man said: "No, my father said that he also saw a piece of paper on the table, pressed with a stone, and there was a sentence written on the paper. Why didn't you say it?"

The old man was a little embarrassed and said, "That's nonsense."

Qiu Wuhen said: "Let me tell you, any clue is very important to me, and it is also very important to find out your son's death. Don't you think your son's death is very strange? I don't know if it is."

There’s something fishy in it.”

"Well, my son said, what was written on the note was: Qi San died on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. My son only saw this sentence, and there were some words that were written in a very sloppy way."

"He didn't know many words, so he got very angry when he read the first sentence. He thought it must be someone deliberately playing a prank. The whole thing made him rush to Yeji Temple, but when he saw such a sentence, he was disgusted to death.

So in a fit of anger, I crumpled the paper into a ball, threw it under the bed, and then left."

Qiu Wuhen couldn't help but feel moved after hearing this, and said, "Are you saying that there are words at the back of the letter, and your son didn't read it?"

"It's not that he doesn't read, it's because he doesn't know much about literacy, and the words at the back are too sloppy, so he didn't see it. But when I think about it carefully, it's really strange. It actually says that my son died on the second day of the twelfth lunar month.

Thirteen, but isn’t today the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month?”

"If I hadn't seen him dig a hole by himself and let the rocks fall and crush him to death, I would have really suspected that the tea guest had set a trap to kill him.

"But even so, I felt it was very strange, so in the afternoon I went to ask the teahouse shopkeeper and other tea doctors whether anyone asked my son to deliver something in the morning three days ago."

"But both the shopkeeper and the tea doctor said they didn't remember. It's really strange. It's such a winter and there aren't many people drinking tea in the morning. How could they not remember? They were obviously trying to frustrate us."

Qiu Wuhen's heart moved, and he felt that this was a very strange thing, and it was necessary to investigate. However, the teahouse was closed at this time, and the tea doctors had all gone home, so they could only investigate it in the morning tomorrow.
Chapter completed!