Master Chen stopped two steps away from the body and refused to move forward. He pinched his nose and said to Shen Qingqing: "The body is over there. Why don't you open it and take a look yourself? I won't interfere.
"
After a pause, he added: "But I advise you not to read it. The two government officials who were frightened and fainted in the evening haven't woken up yet."
"No need to open it to see." Shen Qingqing responded, calmly took out two incense sticks from the cloth bag, lit them with an oil lamp, and inserted them into the head and feet of the corpse respectively.
Master Chen was surprised by what he saw. He followed him and asked, "What are you doing? Are you doing this to send his ghost back to the underworld?"
"Soul-calling." Shen Qingqing flicked the incense ashes and said calmly: "The victim's body is used as bait, and the soul-calling incense is used as a lure. The wandering ghost will come back to look for the body after being guided."
"Oh, so that's it." Master Chen nodded as if he understood, then shrank his neck and hid further.
Meng Yuan on the side couldn't help but ask: "But if his soul was locked into that black hole by Chen Qiankun, how could he come back?"
"I can't come here, but doesn't this indirectly mean that Chen Qiankun killed him?" Shen Qingqing replied. As he spoke, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and caught a glimpse of Lin Ziyan, who was huddled outside the door with his head peeping out. He frowned slightly, "Mr. Lin, you
What are you doing? Hide and seek?"
Lin Ziyan looked up at the sky and replied dryly: "Ah... I'm looking at the moon. The moon is so round today."
Shen Qingqing looked away, looked at Master Chen suspiciously, and asked, "What's wrong with him?"
Master Chen explained in a low voice: "Mr. Lin, he is afraid. He is especially afraid of things that have no skin and are bare."
Afraid that Shen Qingqing might not understand, he enthusiastically gave an example: "Just the skinned loach or eel, they are so slippery, if you get closer you can still see traces of flesh..."
Lin Ziyan's violent voice sounded outside the door: "Chen Dezheng, if you dare to say one more word, I will transfer you to the mountains to find someone tomorrow!"
Master Chen immediately covered his mouth, "Okay, I won't say anything anymore. Sir, please calm down."
"Oh, I didn't expect that the upright county magistrate would be afraid of this." Shen Qingqing sighed exaggeratedly, shook his head and said, "Then he will be uncomfortable next."
Master Chen and Lin Ziyan asked at the same time: "Why?"
Shen Qingqing pointed to the burned incense, "The soul-calling incense is gone, but Zhang Xiong's ghost hasn't come back yet, so he was killed by Chen Qiankun."
"Chen Qiankun has a special method for killing people, and that is skinning."
Lin Ziyan's face fell, and after a long while, he said weakly: "Is it still too late to resign?"
"Maybe you can try it."
Shen Qingqing knew he was joking, so she agreed with a smile, dusted off the incense ash on her hands, walked towards the door, and talked to Master Chen as she walked: "Tell me about the missing persons situation in our county now."
"In the past two months, there have been three missing persons registered in detail. According to the visits and surveys, there should be some homeless people and people living alone who have disappeared. However, because no one knows the specific situation, we cannot judge whether they have moved elsewhere.
, or really disappeared.”
Master Chen quickly explained the general situation, and then asked Shen Qingqing expectantly: "Master Shen, do you have a way to calculate where those people are?"
"Do they have their birthdays and horoscopes?"
"It's true!" Master Chen laughed, "I paid special attention to their family members when they came to apply for office. I asked them carefully in all aspects, not only their birthdays, but also their height, height, fatness, and what they like to eat!
"
Master Chen rushed back to the study, took out the registration information booklet, found the line recording the birth date and showed it to Shen Qingqing, "Here, it's right here."
Shen Qingqing glanced at it, took out the copper coin and made a prediction.
Master Chen stood by eagerly and asked eagerly as she collected the coins: "How is it? Do you have any clues?"
"The person is dead." Shen Qingqing's face was a little cold.
Before Master Chen could ask the next question, she reached out to flip through the book and found another person's birth date.
After she finished calculating everything, she closed the book and said in a calm voice: "Like Zhang Xiong, they were all killed by Chen Qiankun."
Lin Ziyan asked with a pale face: "Peel the skin?"
"Well, according to the hexagrams, their bodies were thrown in the southeast, in a ruined temple against the mountain."
Meng Yuan's eyelashes twitched slightly, "The ruined temple you are talking about is not the same ruined temple that caught the old man last time, right?"
"It should be."
Lin Ziyan was so nervous that he didn't even dare to express his anger, "So, are we going to find the body now?"
"Don't worry, the body is there, you can look for it anytime, but if you disturb the people behind the scenes, things will be difficult to handle later."
Shen Qingqing thought for a moment and said: "Let's do this. You guys stay still for now. Meng Yuan and I will go over to explore the situation. If we are sure that the man is also hiding in the ruined temple, we will take action again."
"Okay, everything is up to you."
After the arrangements were made, Shen Qingqing and Meng Yuan rode directly to the ruined temple in the southeast.
After sending away the little ghosts trapped in the ruined temple last time, the gloomy air above the ruined temple obviously dissipated a lot, but this time when I came here, the gloomy and murderous air came back, and it was obviously stronger than last time.
strong!
Shen Qingqing watched from a distance for a few times, then got off the horse, took out a glass bottle from the cloth bag, poured out two Qi-holding beads, handed one to Meng Yuan, and pressed the other under his tongue.
He also explained: "The aura over there is very chaotic. If possible, we should do our best not to take action. After we find out the situation, we will make long-term plans."
Meng Yuan nodded, "Understood."
The two tied their horses in the nearby woods and walked towards the ghostly ruined temple.
Not far forward, she could smell the unique smell of blood and corpses in the air. Shen Qingqing pinched her nose and looked at Meng Yuan with a bitter face, "It's over.
Damn it, this time we have to be smoked to heaven."
"How about you wait here and I go over and take a look?"
"Let's go together. If anything happens, we'll have someone to take care of us." Shen Qingqing quickly put on a mask, gritted her teeth and stamped her feet, risking her life.
The two of them did not dare to go through the main entrance. They walked around the grass next to the ruined temple to the back of the house, and then climbed up to the roof along the pine trees behind the house.
Due to the old state of disrepair, the roof was very unstable to walk on. Shen Qingqing took every step carefully for fear of accidentally making a hole in the roof and falling into the arms of a corpse.
Finally, they came to the ridge of the roof. The two squatted on the left and right sides respectively, and gently removed a tile. The moonlight fell into the house through the gap between the tiles. In the hazy white light, Shen Qingqing saw that the ground was peeled off.
Skinned corpse!
Dirty blood, black water, white bones, scattered limbs, exploded brains...
The picture was so bloody that Shen Qingqing, who boasted of having seen big scenes, couldn't help but shudder!
Meng Yuan held her hand tightly and said warmly: "Sit down first, stop looking, I'll check."