"There is no light source here, so the child probably has adapted to the darkness?" Chen Yu leaned over and picked up a picture album, and she said while flipping.

But the dark room was empty, and except for some traces of life, there seemed to be no Xiao Xin.

"There is another door here." Xiao Yu shouted.

We hurried over and saw a rusty iron door on the wall on one side of the black room, and a decayed lock was hung on it.

Lin Ying walked over and touched the lock head. She took a few steps back and kicked hard towards the iron gate.

Bang-

Lin Ying was indeed the captain of the criminal investigation team, and she was extremely skilled. The lock was kicked away by her and almost hit me on the head. She then flashed into the hut with a gun, and Chen Yu followed her in.

To our surprise, this room was bright.

A bean-like light flashed in front of it, it was a wick made of cotton wool. The wick extended with a long cotton rope and led to a huge oil cylinder.

We approached the oil cylinder and found that the oil inside had been burned halfway. It seemed that Wei Shengchuan had filled the oil cylinder before his death and made an eternal lamp.

There is a portrait in front of the eternal light, probably because it is afraid of moisture and damage, so there is a layer of plastic cloth on the surface of the painting.

Lin Ying stepped forward and uncovered the plastic cloth. I was surprised to find that the portrait was a man with a very similar face to Xiao Xin. He also had a fish-like face, and there were a few moustaches on his lips. With the shaking of the eternal light, his face looked particularly bizarre.

Chen Yu was obviously startled by the fish face, but she quickly came to her senses, approached the portrait and looked carefully, and said, "There are still words on it."

I walked over and saw that there was indeed a small vertical line of characters on the left side of the portrait. Due to the age of time, the handwriting was a little blurred, but fortunately I could still vaguely identify the sentences-

"There is a statue of Xiwei, a security guard at Mahadasa, Tang Dynasty."

"Who is this? What does it mean?" Xiao Yu asked, looking at the portrait.

I remembered that the old man from the Zhu family said before that Wei Shengchuan said that the Wei family had an ancestor who also had a fish face like Xiao Xin, so he explained to them: "This seems to be an ancestor of the Wei family. His name is Wei Zihe, and he is a Sabao of the Tang Dynasty."

"What is Sabao?" Chen Yu asked.

"Sabau is an official position in the Tang Dynasty and is the chief of the Sabau Mansion. Some people say it was set up to manage the Zoroastrian temple, but now most scholars believe that it should be an institution that the Tang government does not set up to manage the people of the Western Regions. Mahada Sabau is probably the chief of all the Sabau Mansions in the country."

Chen Yu nodded, she squatted on the ground, checked carefully with a flashlight, and then stood up with a shake of her head.

"No one has come in this room for many years."

"Yes, don't forget that the lock on the door has rusted." Lin Ying said, "But where did the fish-faced boy named Xiao Xin go?"

"It should be left." Chen Yu walked out of the door of the cottage and shone a square mold mark in the corner of the big house outside with a flashlight, saying, "Look, there should be things like boxes here before. It seems that they have just been moved away. The child either felt exposed, so he took the things away, or was hijacked."

hijack?

She was right. The child would not carry a big box when he ran away. Someone probably took the box away, but does that person have anything to do with Xiao Xin's disappearance?

None of these are clear.

I was startled: "Are there many more people who are finding out here?"

"It's not impossible. Although it's black and smelly, the things are placed quite well. Even the quilts are neatly folded, which means that the child is a relatively neat person. But look at it again, the wooden table is crooked, the stool is upside down, the basin is also left on the table, and there are traces of scratching on the wall near the door. Isn't this like the child suddenly encountering a change? Especially these scratches are more like he was taken away by coercion."

"So, the whereabouts of that child are unknown?" I asked. And who is going to take such a weird child away, and what is the purpose?

I suddenly thought of something that the owner's nephew Wei Yanxiao said - a woman called him before and asked if he could rent the old house of the Wei family.

Also, couplets were posted during the Spring Festival this year.

Are the same group of people looking for rent, those who post couplets, and those who hijack Xiao Xin?

Lin Ying said seriously: "No matter what, I will ask the people from the technical department to come in and check it carefully. Even if I dig three feet into the ground, I have to find out the child of the Wei family."

The investigation of the Wei family's old house came to an end. Later, the police station did not make any new discoveries in the secret passages and secret rooms, nor could they find Xiao Xin again.

Xiao Xin's appearance did affect the investigation direction of the "Flower Clothing Ghost" murder case in Yuntang Town. He should have accidentally found Shang Weimin's body in the garbage dump, and then thought it was just "food", so he got a leg back and dragged it to Wei's secret passage to cut and eat.

No matter what, Wei Zanxin did not kill anyone. He was just an orphan with weakened IQ and lived like an animal for a long time in the dark ground. He had a strange appearance. Although it was terrifying to think about it, he felt very sad when he thought about it carefully.

Although the clues of the Wei family's old house ended, this does not mean that there is no progress in the case of the flower-clad ghost, because forensic examinations found that Shang Weimin actually died of suffocation - he was strangled to death, and there were obvious signs of resistance on his body, which shows that he had fought fiercely with the murderer before his death.

Now it can be basically concluded that someone dressed up as a flower-clad ghost, killed Shang Weimin and hid the corpse and garbage dump.

Since Lu Xianheng and Luo Laosong's death were also related to the flower-coated ghost, it means that their death was probably not an accident, but was disguised as an accidental murder.

Lin Ying asked Shi Chang to take the police officers to search carefully around the garbage dump to see if there were any other clues, while she followed Shen Yu toward the Qi Zhao family.

She told me the day before yesterday that there must be a wide yard in the town, and the family also has a wheelbarrow. So Hualan and I jumped around Yuntang Town like clowns for a day. Although we thought it was a farce at that time, now when we think about it carefully, we actually found a lot of clues.

First, I rescued Xu Chuyue, who was almost killed. Although she was afraid that the flower-clothed ghost would come to take revenge again and asked me to help hide my identity, we still found Shang Weimin's body through her clues.

In fact, Hua Yan and I have passed by the garbage dump many times, but she, who is known as the "dog nose", did not find Shang Weimin's body. It may be because the scent there is too much and the smell of meat rot, so it covers up the smell of the body.

Secondly, we accidentally discovered the fish-faced boy Wei Zanxin and dug out the secret of the Wei family's old house. Although Xiao Xin finally disappeared, he did not find the remains of his mother Wei Yanxin.
Chapter completed!