Before setting off, Qin Shaoyou called the mayor to him and ordered: "Tell you people in the village to close the doors and windows after dark. No matter what noise you hear outside, don't go out until the rooster crowed and the sun rose.
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The township head hurriedly nodded in agreement, and then asked cautiously: "Sir, will that ghost... come tonight?"
"Probably will come."
Qin Shaoyou pointed at the two thugs who were handcuffed by Monk Ma.
"Since the ghost has started killing, it won't stop easily, so there is a high possibility that it will come to take the lives of these two people tonight."
Then he ordered: "Please arrange it so that the families who are close to these two scoundrels will move to other houses tonight. Then ask the other families to find ink thread or red string and string five pieces of chicken comb blood dripped on them.
Copper coins are hung on their respective doors."
The township chief quickly wrote down Qin Shaoyou's instructions, not daring to forget a word of it, and then asked expectantly: "Sir, by hanging the copper coins, can you prevent the evil ghost from entering the house?"
Before Qin Shaoyou spoke, Zhu Xiucai rolled his eyes at him and said angrily: "What good thing are you thinking about? If the evil ghost is so easy to guard against, what else do we need as night watchmen? These copper coins can at most stop the evil ghost and let us
I can rush over to save you."
Hearing that copper coins could not protect against evil spirits, the mayor was a little disappointed.
But he immediately summoned all the villagers and announced these arrangements, asking them to follow them seriously and not to be careless.
Otherwise, we should go to their house tomorrow to play the suona and have a feast.
In fact, the villagers will strictly follow the instructions without the township chief's instructions.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to be hanged by evil spirits with a coffin rope.
People who lived near the two rogues' houses hurriedly went back to pack up their belongings and move out.
Some villagers who could find accommodation elsewhere also packed up their things and left Nanquan Township to join relatives and friends.
But more people still have nowhere to go but to hang copper coins on their doorsteps.
This also made the roosters in the village suffer.
Especially some fierce roosters are considered by everyone to be full of fire and yang energy.
Villagers lined up to ask for their rooster comb blood. The villagers not only used the rooster comb blood to drop it on copper coins, but also smeared it on their own bodies.
When Monk Ma and others saw this scene, they only thought it was funny.
Although cockscomb blood has the effect of warding off evil spirits, it is far from enough to ward off the evil spirit that killed Xu Er.
However, after seeing that the fear of the villagers could be alleviated by injecting cockscomb blood, Monk Ma and the others did not dissuade them.
It was only when someone put blood from the cockscomb on the center of the eyebrows that they would say: "The center of the eyebrows is not a happy place! The center of the eyebrows is Yintang. If you put blood on the center of the eyebrows, wouldn't it become Yintang blood? It is unlucky."
When the villagers heard this, they thought it was true and quickly wiped the blood from the cockscombs between their eyebrows, lest the blood really enter the Yintang and bring bad luck!
On the other side, Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai worked hard and arrived at Lingjie Village in less than half an hour.
As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, he showed his waist badge to the villagers guarding here. Just as he was about to ask for the address of the Fan family, he heard the villagers ask: "You two adults are also here to investigate the murder of the Fan family?"
"Huh?" Qin Shaoyou's face condensed, "The Fan family was wiped out?"
The villager nodded and said, "Yes, there is no one left in the whole family. They are all dead. When the official came to investigate yesterday, I saw the scene of Fan's family dying outside. It was really tragic."
Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai looked at each other without saying a word.
After asking for the address of the Fan family, they immediately rode there.
On the way, the two of them discussed in whispers.
"The entire Fan family must have been killed by that female ghost, right?"
"Probably. And yesterday, an official came to investigate, indicating that the Fan family either died the day before yesterday, or died earlier... It seems that the female ghost first killed the Fan family who were related to each other, and then went to find grave diggers.
The rogue corpse is asking for his life."
While talking, the two of them arrived outside the Fan family compound.
There were many villagers watching the fun, and there were also a few night watchmen and government officials maintaining order.
Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai got off their horses and stepped forward to report their identities and names. Soon they saw a small flag officer from the Demon Suppression Department and a head catcher from the Yamen, rushing out from the Fan family courtyard.
When the flag official saw Qin Shaoyou from a distance, he became enthusiastic and said, "Qin Xiaoqi, I have admired your name for a long time, and today I can see you in person. You are indeed a heroic young man and a talented person!"
Qin Shaoyou knew very well that the few cases he had solved had not spread yet, so the little flag officer's words of 'his name has been admired for a long time' were either polite words, or he was referring to the name of his 'brother-in-law from a hundred households'.
Judging from the enthusiastic attitude of this small flag officer, it is probably the latter.
After some introductions, Qin Shaoyou learned that the flag officer was named Guo Qiang, and the head catcher who was investigating here with him was named Shi Cheng.
At the same time, I also gained a preliminary understanding of the tragedy of the Fan family’s annihilation.
What surprised Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai was that the way Fan's family died was different from Xu Er's.
They didn't hang him, they cut him in half!
Zhu Xiucai frowned and muttered: "Beheaded in half...what kind of pretext is this?"
Qin Shaoyou shook his head, he couldn't figure it out either.
Guo Qiang and Shi Cheng looked at each other and asked, "Why, Mr. Qin, you also encountered a murder case?"
Qin Shaoyou nodded and escorted his colleagues' corpses home. They found out that Xu Er's family had hanged him and told Guo Qiang and Shi Cheng.
After listening to this, Shi Cheng also fell into confusion: "If that female ghost is really asking for her life according to the laws of Daxia, then there is nothing to say for her to hang the rogue who dug graves and robbed corpses, but she shouldn't have killed the Fan family in half...
… Although it’s not allowed to build a body and create a ghost, it’s not a crime that would lead to death, let alone having the whole family beheaded in half, right?”
Guo Qiang guessed: "Could it be that the Fan family did something to the body after they got it? That's why the ghosts asked for their lives?"
Qin Shaoyou sighed: "There must be something wrong with the Fan family, but I don't know what they did."
They came to Lingjie Village originally to investigate the Fan family, but they all died before they could see them.
I asked Guo Qiang and Shi Cheng again, and they both said they didn't find anything strange in Fan's house.
At this time, Zhu Xiucai suggested: "Why don't we open the coffin and conduct an autopsy to see the condition of the body?"
Qin Shaoyou thought about it briefly and agreed to the suggestion.
Guo Qiang and Shi Cheng naturally had no objections.
A group of people came to the village elder to inquire, and soon found out where the young master of the Fan family and his ghost wife were buried together. After rushing there, they saw a new tomb.
The tomb was quickly opened, but there was only a coffin inside.
"Something's wrong..."
Zhu Xiucai frowned and said: "Generally, two coffins are used to bury corpses together for underworld marriages. Why is there only one coffin in the tomb of the young master of the Fan family? The Fan family cannot afford to buy extra coffins, right? What's more?
According to the gangsters’ account, they brought the corpse and coffin together.”
Why did the Fan family do this? What on earth were they doing?
Everyone couldn't help but frown.
The coffin lid was quickly opened.
But it was empty inside, not a single corpse.
"Where's the body? Was it taken away by ghosts?"
Zhu Xiucai and others looked confused.
Qin Shaoyou saw a handprint on the back of the coffin lid.
Red bloody fingerprints!
Whose handprint is this?
Was it left behind by the stolen female body? Or by the young master of the Fan family?
Aren’t they all dead? Why are there bloody fingerprints on the back of the coffin lid?