Chapter 32: Ask the world, what do you hate, teach life and death 4
As Wei Tanyi said, in the following days, corpses kept appearing in the capital. All of them died in pairs, but they were in one place, and their bodies were sprinkled with petals.
"It's acacia flower. It originally symbolizes **. This pair of dead couples must be lovers." After listening to Han Ruxu's description, Wei Tanyi just said bluntly.
"But there is no acacia tree in the capital," Han Ruxu retorted very seriously. "This is the most incredible thing in the whole case. Take a step back and say that there may be a tree somewhere, but now it is not the time to bloom, let alone so many cases. The acacia flowers needed are by no means one or two trees. "
During the conversation, the parrot shook his stool into his trough. Wei Tanyi immediately frowned and cleaned up, completely leaving the guests aside.
Han Ru saw that he was not as good as a pile of bird shit. He was so angry that he really wanted to smash the store and regretted that he had sent such a trouble-trosive guy at the beginning.
"Next time you dirty the food trough, you can eat shit..." Clean up the food trough and washed the guard Tan Yi and sat back in the master's chair. "What did you say just now? Oh, the number of acacia flowers.
"...It's an honor for you to remember."
Wei Tanyi smiled and said, "Is Lord Han jealous of a beast?"
It's furious here: "If you talk nonsense again, I'll burn your shabby shop!"
"Well, don't laugh," more or less I still believe that he did such a thing. Wei Tanyi restrained a little and crossed his fingers. "There is no doubt that there is no acacia tree in Lord Lin's house, but I found the leaves left by the murderer in his yard that day. What does Lord Han think of this?"
Although it was also seen that it was acacia leaves that day, Han Ruxu did not think much about it. On the one hand, there were flowers at the scene of the murder, so it was not surprising that there were some branches and leaves near the scene. On the other hand, they just walked to the second courtyard. Whether it was the murderer outside the house or Lin Ye died, they carried acacia flowers through the atrium at all. Not surprising.
However, since it was proposed by Wei Tanyi, he still bit his lower lip and thought again.
"Forget it, instead of thinking about this kind of thing that you are not good at, it's better for Lord Han to rush forward when you catch the murderer." Wei Tanyi waved his hand and decided to explain it directly while not forgetting to satirize his head.
"If you want to transport a large number of flowers from outside the house to the inside of the house, ordinary people will want to get things such as bags or baskets to carry, especially when these flowers are used to decorate the scene, when they enter the Shangshu Mansion must be kept secret, let alone who brought them. Since it needs to be kept secret, why do you carelessly fall on the only way?
Without giving him time to think, Wei Tanyi continued: "There are two possibilities. First, the murderer does not avoid being seen, and he holds it directly into the door with his hand. Then there are many people who go in and out of the atrium every day, and there must be witnesses, but no one knows when Hua will enter the Lin Mansion. Second, the murderer can't think of such details at all, that is to say, the murderer is either confident and doesn't care about these clues, or he is a first-time offender, and he didn't expect to have evidence.
Han Ruxu digested for a while and nodded: "What you said makes sense. In this way, the murderer is either extremely smart or a fool?"
"But which one is it?" Wei Tanyi stretched out his hand to drink tea. Suddenly, he remembered that there was no one to order tea, so he had to sigh and take the conch and put it in the tea crush. "So far, it is a man and a woman who die every time. Let's confirm that they are a couple. Why must the murderers kill them and cover them with a large number of acacia flowers. Covering their bodies? Miss Lin and Mr. Ye died in the bathtub, and there was also a pair... Oh, it was the little man who did chores in the kitchen and the maid in Mrs. Lin's room. They both died in **, and the rest of the couple must be almost the same. Don't you think the murderer is actually very harsh?
"What do you mean, the place of murder?"
The other three pairs of dead died on the street, under the trees in the courtyard and in the hut - they went to the hut to check the scene and almost killed Han Ruxu. The smell made him suspect that the two of the four were stinky to death. As far as the killing place is concerned, it is indeed very harsh. Among other things, how likely is it for two people to have a cottage in different places at the same time? It's not enough to make an appointment to die in the hut, right?
Wei Tanyi did not answer immediately, but slowly boiled water and some tea, one after another: "No, it's the death of the dead. It must be a man and a woman, and no one can't expect that there will be feelings between them. They must choose the same place of their death, and sprinkle flowers and it's acacia flowers. It becomes an illusion of martyrdom."
"But this illusion is too thorough. How can ten people choose to die one after another!" Han Ruxu interrupted without waiting for him to finish.
"That's right," Cha finally divided into two cups. Wei Tanyi held the cup and narrowed his eyes happily. "This is another characteristic of the murderer. He wants the dead to die in a martyrdom, but he doesn't mind being seen that this is actually murder."
Han Ruqi opened his eyes wide and tried to put together the characteristics he said in his heart. The murderer seemed to be a strong martial artist, had some kind of strong obsession, no taboo, and respected death... "Is it possible that a mysterious sect pays tribute to the gods he worships?"
Wei Tanyi showed a rather unexpected expression: "Oh, Lord Han's head is so good that it exceeds my expectations." The opposite face successfully turned black.
"No, you think too much of the murderer. This may be a common problem of you people in the world. In fact, this case is as simple as it seems. Who is the murderer? Lord Han should think of - the Lin family accounted for two of the five murders and they are in the front. What does this mean? Well, let me make it more clear. When Lord Han went to the Lin Mansion to search, did he see anything very incongruous in the main hall?
***
Although I heard from my mother that there were always eight or nine-year-old girls missing in the neighboring village, Chunyan couldn't help sneaking out of the door in the middle of the night.
The wind was so strong at night that she could hardly open her eyes. She lowered her head and hugged a paper bag in her arms and walked out of the village in the cold.
The female dog in the family gave birth not long ago, and there were all kinds of fur colors. Chunyan liked it very much, but when she thought that she could not keep so many dogs at home, her parents still decided to send the puppy to the same village or neighboring village, leaving only one at home. People who were willing to keep dogs took one away, but in the end, there were still two puppies left. In addition to their own, they had to give up one.
"Hold it outside the village and throw it away. Someone pick it up with kindness. No one sees it, only starve to death." I have to say so.
Despite her reluctance, Chunyan still hugged one of them with tears in her eyes and followed her mother to the entrance of the village, throwing it behind a twiel rock. For several days in a row, she always picked up one or two bones and sent them to the puppy that had just been weaned when her parents were not paying attention. To her, the puppy barely survived, although he was very thin.
Today, during the day, my parents took my brother and her to the neighboring village to visit my grandma. It was dark that they came home and said that my parents would not let them go out. Chunyan was uneasy when she thought of the hungry puppy. She restrained her anxiety and lay down and slept for a while. After hearing that her parents and brother were asleep, she quickly put on her clothes and trousers, dug out the hidden bones from the coal ash, and went out.
The road from home to the entrance of the village has gone countless times during the day, but at night, it seems that I don't recognize it at all. After walking a long way, I can't see the familiar jujube trees and stone mills. Chunyan began to yawn, and her steps began to slow down.
"Little sister, why are you alone outside so late? Where are you going?" Suddenly, a tall figure appeared in front of her and asked her gently.
Chunyan rubbed her eyes and replied in a daze, "I'm going to send food to the little stone."
After asking where the puppy was, the man picked her up and led her to the entrance of the village. Xiaoshi was hungry all day, and now he finally ate a bone. He was so happy that he cried. Chunyan also woke up and played with it for a while before she thought of going home.
"I'll take you back. It's so late. It's bad for you to get lost alone."
Chunyan did not refuse her kindness to the stranger, and the stranger is a very kind-looking big brother. Since he can take himself to see the little stone, he should also send her home. Out of this reassurance, Chunyan dozed in his arms. When he heard him say that I would wake you up when he got home, he didn't expect that he would know where he lived, let alone see a kind of crazy smile on his brother's face.