Many years ago, I went to Baodi, Tianjin to attend a work meeting. After the meeting, I had a dinner. The police officer from the local police station told me such a strange incident. Not long ago, there was a rumor in a village in Baodi that an antique clock was haunted, causing many victims in a row for several years.

There are several members of this family, and the head of the household decided to sell off this antique clock. No one in the household should buy it. After hearing this, my curiosity drove me to find out.

I heard from the police that seven or eight years ago, an old farmer in the village saw someone selling an antique clock at the market. He liked it very much at first sight and seemed to be obsessed with it, so he spent a lot of money to buy it.

Come down and put it at home. I can’t put it down and tinker with it every day. Don’t look at this antique clock.

Although it is old, it is well made and can still move on time. It can still tell the time every hour on the hour. The old man winds the clock every few days, and the clock has never stopped running. Although the clock also strikes the hour in the middle of the night, which affects his rest,

But when the family saw that the old man liked it, they didn't interfere, and they gradually got used to it.

The old man has two sons, both about 60 years old. Two years after buying them, the eldest son’s grandson accidentally fell into a well while playing in the yard. It was said that the well was actually a pool for storing water.

The wellhead is also large, but fortunately it doesn’t hold much water. The family found it in time and rescued the child.

Fortunately, nothing serious happened. Afterwards, the family felt strange. How could the child climb up the high edge of the well when he was only a few years old? In retrospect, just the night before yesterday, the antique clock stopped when it struck 12 o'clock in the middle of the night and did not finish the strike in the morning.

When the string was re-wound, the family members felt vaguely uneasy.

Two more years passed. During that time, the old man was not in good health. He was seriously ill and bedridden and was in a coma. His family was busy taking care of the old man and neglected the clock. No one thought to wind it. At 12 o'clock one night,

, the clock stopped unexpectedly again, and the old man passed away a few days later.

He died without leaving a will. For this reason, his children and grandchildren were still suspicious of each other, and they all complained about why they didn't wind the clock and couldn't let it stop. If the clock stopped, nothing good would happen. The second daughter-in-law also said that she saw floating things coming from the clock in the middle of the night.

The ghost came to arrest people, which made people panic, and several children had a fierce quarrel.

After the old man died, the eldest son inherited the clock. The children all objected to the broken clock, thinking that the clock was unlucky and meant to be given as a gift. However, the eldest son thought that the old man liked the clock very much when he was alive and kept it as a souvenir.

, reluctant to deal with it. Ever since the boss got this clock, he has been restless.

The chickens and ducks raised at home always died inexplicably. As people speculated, it seemed that this antique clock had indeed brought bad luck to its owner. Until recently, another food poisoning incident occurred in the eldest family, and the family

Several members of the family were admitted to the hospital, and the adults resisted

The police are now out of danger, but a child is still being rescued. What is chilling is that a few days ago, the clock stopped for no reason at 12 o'clock in the morning. Now people in the village are talking about it, saying that the clock is causing trouble.

Whoever has this Zhong Ke will die. When the boss encounters these things, he will also

I started muttering and wanted to get rid of the clock, but who dared to ask for it? After listening to what the police said, it seemed that the clock was really causing trouble and continuously hurting people's lives. As the village woman said, there was an evil ghost hidden in the clock.

, released into the world of evil when the clock strikes midnight?

After eating, I had plenty of time, so I asked the local police to accompany me to the hospital to see the poisoned family. On the way, I asked the police how the poisoning occurred and were there any signs of poisoning? The police said it was methane poisoning. That day, the family members

After eating home-made kimchi and bacon, the whole family developed symptoms such as headache, chest tightness, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

, the skin all over the body showed a slight purple color, which is consistent with the characteristics of sub-X salt poisoning. Sub-X salt was also detected in the remaining kimchi. According to the victim’s recollection, the kimchi jar had been closed before and had not been opened. During the on-site inspection, no findings were found for the time being.

There were signs of intentional poisoning, so no case was filed and the case was treated as a normal food poisoning incident.

When I came to the hospital, I saw that the old man was recovering and his body had basically recovered. However, his little grandson was still in a critical stage and had not recovered for a long time. Subx salt is an industrial salt and can easily be mistaken for edible salt. It can

The low-iron hemoglobin that normally carries oxygen in the blood is oxidized into methemoglobin, thereby losing its oxygen-carrying capacity and causing tissue hypoxia. Many families like to eat their own pickled pickles or bacon. Such foods are fermented and spoiled for a long time, which is easy to produce

Asia x salt. Come to the small

I observed the child for a while in front of the hospital bed, and suddenly found an unusual detail. The child's hands trembled slightly, which immediately caught my attention. After patiently observing for half an hour, I gently woke the child up, and I wrote a number on the palm of my hand.

I stood two meters away and asked the child to identify it. The child stared hard for a while and replied that he could not see the numbers written on it. My heart sank and I immediately called the doctor and asked the child if he had a history of epilepsy. The doctor said no and asked the child again.

Myopia or not, the answer is still no.

At this time, the child's facial muscles and eyelids twitched slightly. I immediately asked the doctor to re-examine the child. This was not just a food poisoning, but a double poisoning! The strength of the rat poison was re-identified! These symptoms of twitching of limbs and decreased vision were

It is unique to rat venom poisoning. I returned to the old man's ward and asked him carefully.

Do you have any disputes or conflicts with other people? The old man said that he has never offended the villagers. In the past, he and his sister-in-law had several quarrels over the old man's inheritance, because the old man favored whom and who did not contribute.

They complained to each other. Because the old man left without leaving a message, the house left behind became the focus of the conflict.

After listening to what the boss said, he decided to see the clock with his own eyes. He rushed to the boss's house and found that the clock had been stuffed into a cardboard box by his son for disposal. He opened the cardboard box and took it out. It was an antique clock, made entirely of black sandalwood.

It is decorated with gold powder all around, and the lower end of the clock body is a base that is more than ten centimeters high. The clock door is a wooden door inlaid with two circular glasses. Through the glass, you can see the white dial inside the clock. The center of the dial is fixed with a large and small one.

Black hands, surrounded by three circles of time

There are two spring sockets on the back of the desk clock, and only one of them has a spring. This type of desk clock was popular at the beginning of the last century. Different springs control different mechanisms, and generally have other functions such as sound boxes. See

The clock really brought a chill to people. After gently winding up the clock, the hands began to move and the pendulum began to swing. The ticking sound penetrated the past and the future. The son's anxious expression made

Everyone in the room was uneasy.

After asking about a series of strange things that happened in the son's home, the first thing he talked about was the incident of his grandson falling into a well. The family also discovered that there was an extra piece of wood on the edge of the well, so that the child could climb up. Moreover, when he picked up the child from the water, there was still something in his hand.

Clutching a piece of candy wrapper of unknown origin, the family thought afterwards that it seemed like a child was attracted by a piece of candy and crawled to that dangerous place. Since nothing happened, they did not investigate and filled the well. Later, the poultry died for no reason.

, also thought that he had eaten something unclean from outside, and gradually became suspicious of this clock. Later, the old man became seriously ill. He mentioned that he had left a will before his death, but his family was scrupulous and could not inquire about it.

He was unconscious. Except for a copper ornament on his body, his will was not found when he died. In the end, nothing happened. Due to inheritance issues, the two brothers had a lot of conflicts, but they did not intensify to the point where one harmed the other. Although they both

The clock was said to be evil, but no one had seen anything unusual. Only the second aunt claimed to have seen something dirty coming out of the clock in the middle of the night.

I asked again about the recent poisoning. My son said that the whole family ate the kimchi and the rest of the family ate less and recovered quickly. Only the father and grandson were more seriously ill. The youngest grandson ate a few pieces of bacon alone, and the others ate less.

I didn’t eat it. This statement immediately aroused my alarm. Then the whole family is in line with sub-X salt poisoning. Only the grandson has symptoms of strong rat poison, so this bacon has become the focus of the problem. Unfortunately, the bacon has been thrown away

I dropped it and the bowl was washed, but no trace could be found. However, after careful search, I found a small spoon at the bottom of the cupboard in a crack that was difficult to reach. I picked it up carefully and put it into the evidence bag to take away.

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A few days later, the grandson was diagnosed. He was indeed poisoned by rat venom. Because he was discovered in time, his condition gradually improved after treatment. The strong rat venom was also extracted from the gravy residue stained on the front of the small spoon.

, a clear fingerprint was extracted from the handle of the spoon. Those who saw ghosts must have ghosts in their hearts, so they immediately compared and identified the fingerprints with the second daughter-in-law.

When it comes to fingerprint recognition, each person's fingerprint is composed of a variety of ridge-shaped graphic lines, which are different in pattern, breakpoint and intersection. They are unique and unchanged throughout life. These include vortices, arches, rings, and ridge breaks.

The characteristics of points and ridge bifurcations. Moreover, the texture is not continuous, smooth and straight, but often has interruptions, bifurcations, islands, bridges or turning points. These breakpoints, bifurcation points and turning points are called characteristic points.

The fingerprint is then identified based on the parameters of the feature points such as direction, curvature, relative position of each feature point, etc. Friends who watch American TV dramas may often see such a plot: a fingerprint is marked by several small circles, each

The annotation is a feature point, and then the corresponding position relationship of each feature point is calculated, and then compared with the fingerprint database to determine the identity.

The results came out, and they matched the fingerprints of the second daughter-in-law perfectly. After interrogation, she confessed the fact of the poisoning. It turned out that she always felt that the old man favored the eldest son, and the eldest son had a better family background, so she held a grudge and wanted to do it out of jealousy.

He took revenge. So he took advantage of his family's unpreparedness and poisoned the bacon in the cupboard, and stirred it with a small spoon. Because of nervousness, he accidentally dropped the spoon into the crack of the cupboard. As time was running out, he had no time to take it out and fled. Later, the eldest son and his family fled.

While dining, she was accidentally poisoned by kimchi and was sent to the hospital. Only her grandson ate the pickled meat and was poisoned by two kinds of poisons at the same time. Previously, the woman also spread rumors that she saw a ghost in the clock, diverting attention and confusing right and wrong. As for the previous

The case of a child falling into a well was dropped due to the long history and lack of evidence.

As for why the clock always stops at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, it turns out that one of the time-telling pinions of the mechanical clock is slightly worn. Every time it reaches the 12 o'clock mark, it cannot engage. Due to the consumption of the power of the spring, it is easy to stop after a while.

I was stuck at that moment. Regarding the will left by the old man, after my prompting, the family finally found it. The old man gave the property to his second son who was in a bit of trouble. However, the daughter-in-law had a narrow and selfish character, unreasonable speculation, and jealousy.

, causing her to commit a serious crime and be imprisoned, unable to enjoy the happiness of her family.
Chapter completed!