"Do you believe there are ghosts in this world?" Qin Nan looked at Wu Fayi and asked with a serious face.
Wu Fayi was stunned at first, and then asked with a smile: "Brother Qin, do you believe there are ghosts in this world?"
Qin Nan also smiled after hearing this, thought for a moment, and then said, "Not sure."
"I don't believe it, I only believe in science." Wu Fayi said.
Qin Nan collected his thoughts, looked at Wu Fayi and said: "Last night, we encountered something on the way home.
That man was standing on the side of the road, and the man with his head hanging down was Mr. Liang. The reason why I wasn't sure was because I found that there was no snow on that thing, and a group of us didn't dare to do it in the car.
moving forward,
Later, after my cousin got out of the car, she performed some kind of religious ritual, and then the man fell to the ground in a daze."
"Later, did you see clearly what that thing was?" Forensic Doctor Wu asked.
Qin Nan smiled and shook his head: "My cousin said that we should just reverse the car and go back, so we didn't get out of the car to see that thing. At that time, the white snow was still mixed with these ghost coins, and the sound of the suona could still be faintly heard."
Wu Fayi also fell into deep thought, seeming to be thinking about how to overthrow Qin Nan's thoughts.
"Let's go to the scene and have a look." Wu Fayi said.
Qin Nan then took Wu Haotian and Liang Xuemei into his Santana. According to Qin Nan's memory, it didn't take long before they arrived at the intersection.
This intersection is not far from Liang's house, only three to four hundred meters away. Liang Xuemei and Wu Fayi are also a little confused as to why he can drive.
After getting off the car, Qin Nan and Wu Fayi searched for clues around the area, while Liang Xuemei stayed in the car. Her father's death seemed to have brought a heavy blow to her.
Qin Nan came to the place where the thing appeared yesterday. The ground was covered with snow, so there was no trace left at all.
This made him start to have difficulties. He didn't know where to investigate, and he even began to suspect that he really encountered something unclean last night.
As I thought about it, I couldn't help but feel a chill on my back, and the hairs all over my body began to stand up.
At this time, Forensic Doctor Wu patted his shoulder, which frightened him so much that he trembled. Then Forensic Doctor Wu asked, "Brother Qin, what's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing, I just suddenly remembered what happened last night..." Qin Nan smiled awkwardly.
"Okay, I don't believe this anyway." Wu Fayi sighed, and then continued to search for clues around here.
Qin Nan looked at the snow-covered field on the roadside again. At this time, he saw a black thing hidden in the snowdrift not far away.
He couldn't help frowning, and then jumped to the bottom of the fortress on one side.
He dug through the surrounding snow and dug out the black stuff, and couldn't help but be startled. At this time, Wu Fayi, who was not far away, also noticed the situation here and walked towards Qin Nan.
"This is..." Wu Fayi frowned slightly and narrowed his eyes. After looking at Qin Nan's frown, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Why is there a piece of clothing here?" Qin Nan pulled the black coat out of the snowdrift. The piece of clothing looked good, not torn or damaged, and it wasn't buried deeply. He rummaged through his pockets again.
,
There were still a few cigarettes in the pocket. Qin Nan dug at the ground with his feet and found two or three cigarette butts. They seemed to be of the same brand as the two cigarettes in the clothes. Someone should have deliberately thrown the coat away.
At this,
Or did it fall here?
"Let's keep these clothes for now, as well as these cigarette butts, which may be related to this case." As Wu Fayi said this, he took out an evidence bag from his pocket, and then put the two cigarette butts into the evidence bag.
Inside the bag.
Qin Nan looked at the sky and suddenly thought of something. He hurried to the snowdrift not far from the roadside and dug something.
"Found it." Qin Nan dug out two white copper coins from the snowdrift at a certain depth.
"Brother Qin, does this have anything to do with the case?" Wu Fayi was also confused.
"Of course, this is very relevant. In addition to seeing that thing last night, we also saw these paper money flying in the air.
And all the paper money is covered with snow. Judging from the snowfall last night, the snow should not be very thick, and these paper money are almost all located at the same level..."
As Qin Nan talked, he walked to another piece of snow and dug out another piece of paper money.
Wu Fayi thought for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason. Qin Nan quickly explained: "This proves that these paper money only appeared during that time last night. I have a guess.
Assuming that the thing we saw last night was not a ghost, then it must have been designed by someone to deliberately let that thing appear in front of us."
Wu Fayi thought for a while and it seemed to make sense, but he noticed something was wrong.
"Brother Qin, if someone deliberately designed it for you to see, it seems a little strange. If the 'ghost' is someone pretending to be someone, then why are these paper money floating in the air?
Was it windy at that time last night?" Wu Fayi said.
Qin Nan recalled carefully that there was no wind at that time last night, but the paper money was indeed floating in the air, and when the 'ghost' appeared,
The paper money is still floating in the air.
Qin Nan fell into silence immediately and began to doubt whether his reasoning was correct.
Wu Fayi on the side also frowned, looking at the paper money on the ground. He was thinking according to Qin Nan's thinking. He felt that it seemed to be the case, but something was not quite right.
He looked around and saw only the snowy fields around him.
When he saw the two yellow horn trees across the road, he couldn't help frowning, and then climbed up the ridge of the fort and walked under one of the yellow horn trees.
He looked at the location of the Santana again, and it was right under the yellow horn tree.
Wu Fayi thought of a possibility, and hugged the tree with both hands. The circumference was a little more than one meter, and the diameter was as long as a small arm.
Just as he was hugging him, he saw a neat tooth mark on the tree trunk in front of him. This tooth mark was not a tooth mark, but looked more like a sawtooth mark. It was very obvious.
He walked around the tree and found that there were neatly arranged tooth marks on the trunk of the tree. At this time, he thought of a tool.
"Brother Qin! I have a new discovery here!" Wu Fayi shouted to Qin Nan who stayed where he was. As soon as Qin Nan heard about the new discovery, he hurried to Wu Fayi's side.
"Look, what is this?" Wu Fayi pointed at the trunk of the tree and said.
Qin Nan was a little confused after seeing it. He seemed to think that the teeth marks on the tree were not surprising. Maybe someone deliberately put so many teeth marks on the tree.
"Do you know some electricians who stepped on the telephone poles wearing those things on their feet and climbed up directly?" Wu Fayi raised his head and pointed to the tree.
"Universal cat claw?" Qin Nan stared at the tree in front of him with wide eyes. He looked at the location of the tree and then at the Santana parked under the tree.
"Did two people commit the crime?" Qin Nan said to himself.
"It's not completely impossible, I think we should think of every possibility." Wu Fayi said.
Suddenly Qin Nan seemed to have stepped on something. He lowered his head and saw that there was a plastic bag on the ground, and there was a small stack of paper money in the plastic bag.
Qin Nan couldn't help but smile when he saw it. It seemed that what happened last night was man-made, but why did they do that?
Did you deliberately dress up as the old man of the Liang family to cover up the evidence of killing Liang Xuemei's father?
The biggest headache for Qin Nan and the others right now is that the villagers are very resistant to police autopsies and so on, and the people in Shennong Village are also very feudal and superstitious.
Qin Nan and Wu Fayi returned to the car. At this time, Liang Xuemei had already fallen asleep on the back seat, with undried tears still in the corners of her eyes.
Qin Nan and Wu Fayi did not exchange what they had just investigated after returning to the car, because now except for them, it seemed that everyone in the village was the target of suspicion for them.
Of course we have to exclude Zeng Li and grandma.
Not long after, a few people returned to the Liang family courtyard. At this time, Zeng Li danced a strange dance in the courtyard again...
[Author's digression]: The event in this chapter is January 1st