Qiu Wuhen and Qian Jinzhi took Xiu Niang to his house. As they walked, Xiu Niang said to Qiu Wuhen: "Wang Xiaosi's matter has nothing to do with me. I didn't scare him to death. I just wanted to scare him."

He was angry."

"I don't know why he jumped off a cliff and died later. I just heard about it. It's true. I just want to say it out loud. Please believe me, sir. His death had nothing to do with me."

"Why are you trying to scare him?"

"Yinchai actually has always had a very good relationship with me. She takes care of me like a younger brother. To be honest, I was often bullied in school, and Yinchai came out to protect me, so I am very grateful to her."

"But I never dared to tell her that I actually like her very much. Most of the boys in the school like Meifeng. It should be said that I am the only one who likes Yinchai. Although she is plain in appearance, she has a kind heart."

Qiu Wuhen laughed dryly, thinking about using the word "kind-hearted" to describe Yinchai. It is estimated that only the embroiderer under his protection can say this.

The Yinchai resorted to such tricks, even sacrificing his body to get the Buddha and Demon from Monk Anti-Kong. This has nothing to do with being kind-hearted.

The embroiderer wondered what she had said wrongly, and looked at Qiu Wuhen in fear.

Qiu Wuhen motioned for him to continue, and then he continued: "After I learned that Yin Chai died, I felt like a thousand arrows piercing my heart."

"Later, we went to her house with her parents to help with the funeral. We learned from her parents that what happened at that time was related to a villager named Wang Xiaosi."

"It was he who instigated Yinchai and the others to go to Yeji Temple, and that's why they encountered that terrible thing, and they all went crazy. That Yeji Temple is very evil."

"I felt that if it hadn't been for the instigation of the woodcutter Wang Xiaosi, Yinchai would not have died. I hated him very much. It was so unfair that he was still alive after Yinchai died, so I decided to take revenge on him."

"But he is a woodcutter and strong, and I, a weak scholar, cannot beat him in a fight. I can only find ways to scare him."

"So when I went to help burn Yinchai's clothes, I secretly hid the clothes and shoes she was wearing at the time, and then took them home."

"I have found out clearly that he lives in Jishui Village. I have also gone there specifically to know the specific address of his home."

"That day I wore Yinchai's clothes, skirt and shoes. Although she is a girl and I am a boy, we are about the same height, short, fat and thin."

"I also deliberately put on rouge, because I know how she puts on makeup. She treats me like a younger brother and won't hide anything from me, so I know everything. I walk a bit like a girl, so I imitate her.

It should be relatively easy.”

"And it was at night, so he couldn't see clearly from a little distance. Wang Xiaosi originally felt guilty about Yin Chai. He could recognize Yin Chai's clothes at a glance because they were very gorgeous.

she."

"The clothes she wore that day were very beautiful and orange, so I took that outfit to the back of their house at the edge of the village, changed into clothes, and pulled her hair into a bun like hers."

"He usually goes to the hut when he is about to fall asleep, so when he came out, I saw it was him from a distance, standing under the tree that he must pass on the way to the hut."

"Sure enough, I scared him half to death. When I saw that I had scared him, I ran away immediately. I immediately changed into my robe and ran away. That was the first time."

"Then I went to look for him the second time, trying to scare him again. I saw that he had gone up the mountain to chop wood, so I waited on his way down the mountain."

"After he arrived, it was almost dark by then, so I changed into Yinchai's clothes and stood under the tree. He could see me when he turned the corner."

"Sure enough, I was very happy when I scared him that time and ran away. But I just wanted to scare him, and he was obviously fine both times. His death really had nothing to do with me."

Qiu Wuhen couldn't help but frowned. If what Xiu Niang said was true, was this just an accidental incident? Could it be that Wang Xiaosi was haunted by ghosts these two times and jumped off a cliff to commit suicide in despair?

This is obviously wrong, because Wang Xiaosi was with him before he jumped off the cliff, and judging from his mental state at that time, he did not have any thoughts of extreme depression or suicidal thoughts.

He must have been frightened, but this fright cannot be equated with depression and suicide. He did not commit suicide because of depression.

Qiu Wuhen clearly remembered Wang Xiaosi's behavior before jumping off the cliff. He jumped off the cliff as soon as he put the basket down without any warning.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, Qiu Wuhen does not believe that it was because Xiu Niang was frightened twice, which caused him to jump off a cliff and die due to depression.

While talking, they had already arrived at Xiu's mother's house. Qiu Wuhen did not go in and asked him to go in and get the dress and shoes by himself.

Qiu Wuhen recognized it at a glance, and it was indeed the same set of clothes and shoes that Yin Chai was wearing at that time. He measured the shoes with his hands, and extracted the shoe prints in his mind, along with the footprints extracted on the spot after scaring Wang Xiaosi twice.

are consistent.

Qiu Wuhen returned all the clothes and shoes to Xiu Niang and said, "You'd better burn them to Yinchai immediately."

"Okay, I'll burn it right away."

Qiu Wuhen said: "If you are telling the truth, I will let you go for the time being. But if I find that you have hidden something from me, or there is something important that you have not told me, hehe, then we will settle the old and new accounts together.

, don’t blame me for not reminding you.”

The embroiderer trembled and promised repeatedly that she would never dare to do it again, and that everything she said was true.

Qiu Wuhen and Qian Jinzhi left Xiu's natal family.

Qian Jinzhi asked: "It seems that the mystery of Wang Xiaosi's suicide can be solved by catching the person who is pretending to be a ghost. It seems that is not the case."

"There should be other reasons. Maybe we can turn our attention to Qi San first. Didn't Qi San send a letter to Yeji Temple and saw something written on the table saying that he was going to die on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month?

A note? Maybe that was an important clue to his death. Wang Xiaosi also received a letter from the same tea guest, asking him to send it to Yeji Temple. The two are inevitably connected.

We have figured out why Qi San committed suicide, and we have also figured out why Wang Xiaosi died. However, there is one thing we haven't figured out about the Yinchai case, and we need to investigate it together."

"What's up?"

"The palm print under the bed, the palm print we found under the bed in Yeji Temple is that of Yin Chai. This is very strange, why is it Yin Chai's? Could it be that ghosts floated out from the tomb and left it there?

?"

Qian Jinzhi nodded and said: "Yes, we have checked her grave at that time, and there was no sign of being dug. This means that she did not climb out of the coffin at all. I really don't know how to explain it."

Qiu Wuhen smiled and said, "But that doesn't mean it's completely unexplainable."

"Do you think this embroiderer did it? Why did he crawl under Yeji Temple's bed just to scare Wang Xiaosi? It doesn't make sense."

"Of course it's not his palm print. The fingerprint has been confirmed to be that of Yin Chai, so it can only be that Yin Chai got under the bed. But now I think about the traces under the bed. This is a person lying under the bed, with his body following the direction of the bed.

Because in addition to the palm prints, there are also traces of elbows, body, knees and feet on the dust under the bed. So it can be said that Yinchai wanted to get under the bed to hide. As for why I

It’s not very clear yet.”

"Are you saying she hid under the bed to scare people?"

Qiu Wuhen looked at her and said: "You have to get out of the theory of ghosts and gods. As a person who solves cases, if you attribute everything to ghosts and gods, then there will be no need to solve the case, and the case will be much simpler."

Qian Jinzhi said: "Of course I know this, but I don't understand, if it's not ghosts and gods, why would you leave fingerprints under the bed when you die? You told me that everyone's fingerprints are different.

."

"Yes, besides ghosts and gods, there are other possibilities to explain this. For example, she got under the bed before she died."

Qian Jinzhi's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Yes, what you said makes so much sense.

But why did she crawl under the bed? And she never told us that she crawled under the bed."

Qiu Wuhen said: "You have forgotten that they were at Yeji Temple at that time and drank water and fell asleep. In other words, they stayed at Yeji Temple for a relatively long time. Yeji Temple is relatively still

The bigger one, maybe she got under the bed at that time."

"It's a pity that all the people who went to Yeji Temple at that time died, so no one can tell us what happened at that time and why she got under the bed."

Qiu Wuhen said: "Besides that day, it is possible to go at other times. So, it's not that it can't be explained at all, but we can't find a way to verify this yet."

"Because everyone who knows about it is dead now, but we can leave this here for now and look for opportunities to check back later."

"What should we do now?"

"Check that tea guest. That tea guest is the one who asked Wang Xiaosi and Qi San to deliver the letter. I have extracted the fingerprints on his envelope, so we still have a way to locate him. Maybe we can find him if we find him.

Know exactly what happened."

"Then how do we check? Should we go directly to the teahouse and ask?"

"This might be a way. We have already asked where the teahouse where Qi San works is. Let's go to that teahouse to check."

The teahouse was quite far from home, and Qian Jinzhi's carriage followed him. The two of them got on the carriage and headed there.

Soon the carriage and horses arrived under the teahouse. Qiu Wuhen and Qian Jinzhi went in and found a seat by the window to sit down.

It's almost noon now. There is no sun today, it's cloudy, and it looks like it's going to snow. There are almost no people in the teahouse, and it's deserted.

Generally speaking, the business of teahouses is not very good in winter because it is too cold. The teahouses are relatively empty, although each teahouse is equipped with a stove, so you can enjoy tea while warming yourself.

However, this kind of stove is not the same as the air conditioner in modern society. The air conditioner can make the entire room very warm. In the teahouse, only the hands and feet are warmed, while the body is still cold, and the tea will soon get cold.
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