Judge Lu Tong suddenly stood up. Because of his strong strength and suddenness, the heavy chair he was sitting on was knocked backwards. The friction between the legs of the chair and the ground was very painful.
His face that originally looked tired turned pale in an instant that was visible to the naked eye, so fast that even the strongest painter in the world couldn't keep up.
It was not the first time that Jiang County Cheng and the two yamen servants met, but they were still scared. Jiang County Cheng did not dare to look at it and had already turned his eyes away. The yamen servant even closed his eyes when opening the sack.
The person who should have been the most scared here was actually the calmest one at the moment.
Qi Bao'er even jumped down to the ground and squatted down in front of the sack. He supported his chin with one hand and took a small thin stick in the other hand at some point, flipping through the contents of the sack and looking carefully.
There were one, two, three and four people present: "..."
Okay, indeed he is worthy of being named the county head by the emperor himself.
Lu Tongpan and others looked scary, but to Qi Baoer, it was nothing. It was just the fake ghost trap that scared the survivors of the Ma family out of their wits.
Just because it has been soaked in river water, the paint on the fake ghost has been washed or fainted. Things that were originally like the underworld can no longer be described using the word "underworld".
Qi Bao'er first pulled out the three heads that were sewn together. The middle one was deflated, which should be used to fit a real head. Qi Bao'er didn't deliberately open it to see what it looked like. She didn't have any bad taste.
So thick.
The left and right heads were made solid with stuffing, which was actually not bad. They were sewn together with cloth. The bottom of the face was white cloth, and then a scary grimace was painted on the white cloth with paint.
The one on the left was supposed to have seven bleeding holes, a big red lip, and a split mouth that took up half of the face and went straight to the root behind the ear.
The original appearance can still be roughly seen, but the paint has been blurred after being soaked in the river water. The whole face looks like the eyes are blurred together and connected. There are no eyeballs in the eyes, and the nose is also blurred and connected to the eyes.
, the mouth appeared bigger and more ruthlessly cracked.
Not to mention, it is not unusual for ordinary people to be frightened to death when they suddenly see such a face at night.
The right side of the head was filled with carved wood. The middle of the head seemed to have been chopped open with a machete, until the chin was only a little connected, and the face was divided into two sides.
The paint on this side of the head is even more dizzy. One side is darker and the other is redder. The original appearance is no longer visible, but the strange thing is that these two sides now have their own pattern.
If you look closely at the left side, you can see half of the old man's sad face, and if you look closely at the right side, it looks like half of a distorted and howling face.
Qi Bao'er made a 'tsk' sound and used a thin stick to pull the fake head aside. I don't know if it was a coincidence or intentional, but after she pulled the fake head aside, it turned out to be face down.
Praying that Bao'er didn't pick at the other things in the sack, she saw that the exposed corner had been washed very clean.
Thinking again about the situation in Yuehu Bay that Jiang County Cheng just mentioned, it is not difficult to guess that the reason why the old man was poisoned by long-term exposure to arsenic was probably because of the things in the sacks.
This is also true. Many people in Yuehu Bay are so poor that they cannot afford fabrics, and the same is true for the elderly people who are poisoned.
His granddaughter will be married to another family in the village early next year. After the old man picked up this ghost costume, although he was frightened, it was not cloth, so the old man put aside the scariest hood and washed it from the neck down.
clothes and skirts.
Qi Baoer threw the stick away and walked back, then jumped back on the chair and sat down, "Mr. Jiang, can Doctor Wei confirm that these clothes have been soaked in arsenic water for a long time?"
His head and face were locked and he couldn't see anything to be afraid of. After all, Jiang County Magistrate was the magistrate of a town, and he was more courageous than ordinary people. Although he was still scared, it did not affect his normal thinking and speech.
"Yes, Doctor Wei is very sure about this. Doctor Wei also said that this costume of pretending to be a ghost is obviously used to harm others, but since he is pretending to be a ghost and wants to harm others, it should be a series of tricks."
This can be determined by confirming that the ghost costume has been immersed in arsenic water for a long time.
However, Lu Tongfan had a different opinion, "It is also possible that he killed someone and silenced him."
It's just that the cost of silence is a bit high and troublesome.
Arsenic is not cheap. It is an exaggeration to say that it is sold at a sky-high price per gram.
County Magistrate Jiang glanced at Qi Baoer vaguely, and saw that Judge Lu Tong, who was still a little pale, had sat down again. He had no intention of asking the county leader to leave, so he knew that Judge Lu Tong absolutely trusted this young man.
The county boss did not avoid her even if it was related to the case.
So, he no longer said carelessly: "I wonder if the person pretending to be a ghost is very familiar with the person pretending to be a ghost, and for some reason I can't do anything to him/her directly, so I thought of this twist."
method.
As for being able to soak clothes in arsenic water, I suspect they have a lot of arsenic in their hands."
Because there are many, it is not rare, and because there are many, it is not easy for people to notice that the quantity is small.
Lu Tongpan and Jiang Xian Cheng looked at each other, both of them had a big feeling.
Why is this case becoming more and more unclear the more we investigate it?
Originally, Judge Lu Tong only brought Qi Bao'er to see if the Ma family's extermination case was related to evil spirits. If so, ask Qi Bao'er to solve it. If not, he would go to the next place to explore again.
After all, the Lutong Magistrate is the general magistrate of Yong'an City. Cases in Ping'an Town should be resolved by Ping'an Town itself. If they really cannot be resolved, they should be reported to the county first.
Instead of him going to the city to convict the murderer and helping to investigate the case in the town.
But now this case obviously involves some unknown forces. The people who can produce a large amount of arsenic cannot be just one or two people. Judge Lu Tong has reason to suspect that there should be a considerable force behind the Ma family's extermination case.
This made him unable to leave immediately with confidence.
"Bao'er, investigating the case is boring, why don't you go back first, and my uncle will trouble you again after the case is over."
It is true that Qi Baoer has no intention of staying in Ping'an Town anymore. She is not willing to blend in with all the chaos in the world, nor is she suitable to blend in.
"Okay, Uncle Lu, then I'll go back tomorrow."
It happened that her fourth uncle had finished his exam, so she passed by his place and went home with her second uncle, second aunt, and fourth uncle.
Qi Baoer left as soon as he said he wanted to, without any nostalgia.
The next morning, he took only twelve people with him and left in a carriage.
Neither Lu Tongpan nor Jiang County Magistrate came to see him off. It was not that they were rude, but that the Yamen received another case in the middle of the night last night, and a body was found in the yard next to Dr. Wei's Medical Clinic.
Ping'an Town has been relatively peaceful in the past ten years. At least the people in the town live a peaceful life. There are many people who don't close their doors at night, and there are not many but some people who return home in the middle of the night.
The people who were on duty that night didn't find anything unusual on the road, and the few people who were returning home in the middle of the night didn't encounter anything strange on the road either.
Under the premise that the person wearing the ghost costume was going to the hospital to scare Ma's family, Judge Lu Tong and Jiang County Magistrate both decided to conduct a radial investigation from the hospital. Based on the above reasons, it was very likely that they were pretending to be ghosts.
The people were hiding near the hospital before sneaking into it.
After this investigation, my dear, in the small courtyard next to the medical center, a young man in his twenties was suspected to have been dead for three or four days. It was because of the weather that the body smelled only when he was close to it.
A rough calculation showed that the time of the young man's death was very close to the time when someone went to the hospital to play ghost.