Zhang Fu was kneeling in front of the tombstone. His face was covered with bloodstains. His eyes had been gouged out alive, and the blood was left to solidify on both sides of his face along his eye sockets.
In addition to his eyes, Zhang Fu's fingers on both hands were also missing a knuckle, and the fingers were pointing downwards. This means that someone grabbed Zhang Fu's fingers and pressed them toward the ground, breaking them alive.
Such cruel methods undoubtedly reveal a message that the murderer is extremely cruel...
"Mr. Fang, according to my experience, this is not a vendetta, nor should it be a revenge killing."
Cao Liang spoke at this time, "We have investigated Zhang Fu's experience. Before his face was burned, he was an ordinary migrant worker. Later, he joined the cemetery because his face was disfigured due to a fire in the rented house."
"In the past twenty years, Zhang Fu has spent most of his time in the cemetery and has not had much contact with the outside world, and this job will not offend anyone."
"Furthermore, Zhang Fu's method of death was that his eyes were gouged out and his fingers were crushed. There are generally only two possibilities for this cruel killing method, revenge or punishment."
"But I have already ruled out the former, so the last possibility left is that this is the murderer's punishment for Zhang Fu."
After listening to Cao Liang's words, Fang Ming looked gloomy, "Then what wrong thing do you think Zhang Fu did to deserve such punishment? What can a cemetery guard do?"
"Mr. Fang, we found something strange in the house where Zhang Fu lives."
Cao Liang said something meaningful, Fang Ming was stunned, and then followed Cao Liang towards the place where Zhang Fu lived.
Zhang Fu has worked in the cemetery for more than 20 years, but the place where he lives is just a small wooden house, which was temporarily built 20 years ago. Zhang Fu has always lived here for the past 20 years.
At this moment, several members of Cao Liang's team were coming in and out of the wooden house. When they saw Cao Liang and Fang Ming arriving, they quickly greeted them.
Fang Ming ignored these team members and walked straight into Zhang Fu's wooden house. The moment he entered the wooden house, he understood why Cao Liang said that there was something special about Zhang Fu's house.
In Zhang Fu's wooden house, there are three coffins, a normal black coffin, a red coffin and a white coffin.
These three coffins took up almost half of the room, followed by an earth stove, a table and a wooden bed.
Simple, yet tidy and clean.
"Mr. Fang, we've seen it, these three coffins are all empty." Cao Liang introduced the situation from the side.
Fang Ming was silent for a while, and then suddenly said: "Dig the grave, dig out the grave that was recently buried in the cemetery."
"ah!"
Upon hearing Fang Ming's request, Cao Liang was stunned for a moment, but he was a decisive person. Although he didn't know the purpose of Fang Ming's request, he still nodded and went ahead.
Every grave buried in the cemetery has a record. When Cao Liang led people to dig the graves, Fang Ming was still staying in the wooden house. He was observing everything in the wooden house.
Thermos bottles, thermos cups, yellowed newspapers, old-fashioned flashlights, everything looks like a home in the 1990s and early 1920s. This shows that Zhang Fu is not a person who enjoys much, and it can even be said that he has no interest in external things.
Pursue.
Finally, Fang Ming's eyes fell on the wooden bed, and he opened the bed quilt. There was a layer of newspaper underneath, but there was an obvious bulge on the side near the inside.
I opened the newspaper and found something underneath. It was a notebook with a red leather cover, somewhat similar to the one used in the 1990s. The cover still had the pattern of Tiananmen Square.
Holding the notebook in his hand, Fang Ming's eyes had two colors, because there was no dust on the notebook, which could only mean that Zhang Fu would often take out this notebook during his lifetime.
Perhaps, Zhang Fu's secrets are recorded in this notebook.
When he saw these three coffins, Fang Ming knew that Zhang Fu was not just a tombkeeper in the cemetery, but Zhang Fu also had some unknown secrets hidden in him.
The writing on the first page of the notebook is already a little yellowed, but Fang Ming can see the last time, twenty-three years ago, which means that the contents of this notebook were written by Zhang Fu twenty-three years ago.
.
After reading it carefully, Fang Ming finally learned about Zhang Fu's past.
Twenty-four years ago, Zhang Fu was disfigured due to a fire in his rental house. He stayed in the hospital for half a year before being discharged. Because he was not injured at a construction site, it was not considered a work-related injury. Of course, the rights of migrant workers in that era were basically non-existent.
There was no guarantee, so Zhang Fu did not receive any compensation.
The landlord paid for the hospital treatment, but forget about compensation. Zhang Fu, who was penniless and disfigured, had no shame in going back to his hometown to see his wife. He just went through the divorce procedures with his wife.
Arrive at the cemetery.
Those were dark years, at least for Zhang Fu. It was not until three or four years that he came out of the shadows, but even then he still did not dare to appear in front of strangers because he could not stand the disgust or disgust of others.
It's a look of sympathy.
A person with rich inner thoughts but loneliness, Zhang Fu chose to write down everything about him in the form of a diary. This habit lasted for more than ten years until it changed ten years ago.
Zhang Fu's diary has almost come to an end here, and what caught Fang Ming's attention was a passage in it.
"I met him. Before I met him, I never knew that there were real ghosts in this world. He opened my vaginal eyes so that I could see the ghosts in the entire cemetery, so that I could communicate with ghosts.
He is a lonely person."
Judging from the handwriting, Fang Ming could detect Zhang Fu's joyful mood at that time. He was not afraid of the ghost at all, but more happy because the ghost did not dislike his ferocious face.
The following days were very dull. Zhang Fu was immersed in dealing with ghosts every day. He felt that the ghosts in the cemetery were his relatives and friends.
However, things changed six years ago.
"He came, and after six years he appeared again after opening my heavenly eyes. He gave me a task, which I wanted to refuse. However, he told me that if I refused, not only would I die, but also these
All ghosts will die."
"He killed several of my friends in front of me, which made me very angry, but I knew that I was no match for him, he was a devil. In order to prevent more friends from being killed, I could only agree
His request."
"Every month, in accordance with his request, I dig out the ashes of eligible corpses and place them in the three coffins he brought me, and he will come over once a month to transport the coffins and wait until the third
The next day, the empty coffin was brought over."
…
Seeing this, Fang Ming's pupils shrank, and the following content was almost the same. It was probably Zhang Fu describing the pain in his heart.
Until you see the last page.
"In the past two months, no new deceased have entered the cemetery, but he dug up the ashes of my friends. This is not acceptable to me. I must resist..."
…
The content of the notebook ends here. Zhang Fu mentioned resistance, but the specific details of resistance were not written in it.
Fang Ming remained silent, and at this moment Cao Liang walked in from the door.
"Mr. Fang, we have made an important discovery. After we dug up the latest tomb buried in the cemetery, the urn inside disappeared. And judging from the color of the soil, this tomb should have been dug up twice recently.
Digged."
Cao Liang looked slightly excited, but Fang Ming just handed him the notebook and motioned for him to read the contents.
"What's this?"
Cao Liang took the notebook and quickly read the contents, the look of shock on his face getting stronger and stronger.
"This blessing was stolen by someone who helped others steal the urns of the deceased in the cemetery, and then transported them away through these three coffins?"
Taking a deep breath, Cao Liang suppressed the shock in his heart, but a look of confusion appeared on his face, "I have seen people stealing all kinds of things, but I have never seen people stealing ashes, and even if they want to steal ashes,
You can just take him away, why should you put Zhang Fu in these three coffins?"
"Because these three coffins have different meanings. The black coffin is for the deceased who was married but under seventy years old, the red coffin is for the deceased who is over ninety years old, and the white coffin is for minors.
It’s just for the dead.”
Fang Ming explained that even if a person dies at ninety, he or she is mourning, so red coffins are used in many places, while normal people use black coffins when they die. White coffins are only used by those whose children died young or who were not married.
use.
"These three coffins are not simple. They are all made of locust wood that is more than a hundred years old. However, there is a proverb among the people: Mulberry, jujube, Du, pear, and locust will not enter the Yin and Yang house."
"These five kinds of wood are generally not used to make furniture or coffins. Locust wood has the function of attracting Yin spirits, but if it is made into a coffin, it is equivalent to a closed space, trapping Yin spirits in it.
in."
"If I'm not wrong, the people behind Zhang Fu asked Zhang Fu to dig out the ashes of ghosts who had not gone to the underworld. These ghosts were trapped in the coffins and were later killed by people.
Take it away."
"So, stealing ashes is not the purpose at all, the real purpose is for those ghosts."
There was a look of determination in Fang Ming's eyes. This was the purpose of the people behind Zhang Fu, and choosing Zhang Fu was just to prevent the matter from being discovered.
"In other words, Zhang Fu died because he failed to complete the task assigned to him by the person behind him and was unwilling to dig another grave. This made the person behind him angry and brutally killed him."
Cao Liang also quickly made a judgment. After all, he is a criminal policeman with rich experience in solving crimes. Many things can be inferred by analogy.