Hearing the Zheng family's answer, the old Taoist priest looked at Jin An in surprise, as if to say, is it really the old Taoist priest who said that the bride stole the groom's body?
Old Taoist priest: "This door is locked, who has the iron key?"
Soon someone from the Zheng family sent the iron key, and then forced it into the hands of the old Taoist priest. Even if he beat him to death, he would not dare to open the door.
Ahem, the old Taoist priest calmly thrust the iron key into Jin An's hand again.
Jin An was speechless and glanced at the old Taoist priest who was hiding behind him. The old Taoist priest said shamelessly: "In order to prevent the people inside from escaping, the old Taoist family and I went to find some rope nets to seal the house."
After listening to the old Taoist priest's words, all the Zheng family members who came with them came over with gratitude. When the old Taoist priest coated the rope net with cinnabar to ward off evil spirits, and then attached a few yellow talismans to surround the southeast, northwest, and top of the roof, Jin was allowed to
Open the door.
Squeak——
When the door was pushed open, a cool breeze blew out, making the Zheng family who stood nervously outside the house shiver. I don't know if this was their psychological effect, or if this house had not been occupied for too long and lacked popularity.
Even the wind caused by opening the door is eerie.
Jin An walked into the house holding a candle.
The old Taoist priest entered next.
The Zheng family turned around and looked at the dark surroundings, hesitated for a while, and then followed in panic into the house.
This room has been sealed and controlled ever since the death occurred. The air in the room carried the smell of blood that had not yet dissipated. Jin An and the old Taoist priest subconsciously frowned as soon as they entered the room.
The first thing the two of them noticed was the broken screen that had been trampled on the ground. Behind the screen was a large bed. Although the blood-stained bedding on the bed had been taken away and burned by the Zheng family, there was still a lot of it left on the edge of the bed and on the floor.
Bloodstains.
The Zheng family stood together nervously. Only Jin An and the old Taoist priest rummaged through the room. In fact, there were not many places to hide people, they were just wardrobes, behind curtains, on the beams, and under the bed.
After searching the closet and the beams, no clues were found. The two came to the bed, which was the only place they had not checked. The reason was that the space under the bed was narrow and difficult to get through, so they did not search immediately.
People are sometimes very contradictory. When they are about to open the closet door, their brains will uncontrollably imagine that there is a stranger hiding in the closet. When they come to the bed, they can't help but imagine that a pair of hands will stretch out under the bed in the dark, especially when they are in bed.
In this haunted house where someone had just died not long ago, these horrific scenes in the brain could not be suppressed. The Zheng family, who were afraid of hiding behind the two people, huddled together at this time, not daring to take a breath, hoping to find something here
The groom's body was lost but he was afraid that the groom's head would suddenly roll out from under the bed.
This contradictory mentality made them hold their breath and feel suffocated.
Compared with the nervousness and fear of ordinary people, these scruples were completely invisible in Jin An. He lay down on the cold ground, holding a candle in one hand, supporting the ground with his elbow in the other, and moved little by little under the narrow space of the bed.
Boom!
As soon as he entered under the bed, his body was blocked by something. Holding a candle in his hand, he turned around and saw a pale and bloodless face.
Jin An's heart was strong. He held up a candle and illuminated the person hiding under the bed. It was the missing body of the groom. His two non-reflective eyes were open, as if looking at him silently.
Half of the groom's corpse was eaten by the bride, so half of the mutilated body was patched up by a papermaker. However, the papermaker's skills were not exquisite and the repair marks were rough. You can tell the authenticity at a glance.
The dim candlelight flickered on Jin An's face and the dead man's face, and the clouds and clouds changed erratically. People couldn't help but worry that the groom's corpse would suddenly blink its eyes, pretending to be a dead body and hurting others. Jin An just lay with their heads side by side.
He has been looking at the dead quietly.
"Little brother, what's going on under the bed? Why are you suddenly silent?" The worried voice of the old Taoist priest came from outside the bed.
At this time, looking outside the bed from the perspective of under the bed, the old Taoist priest could not be seen in full. He could only see a pair of feet beside the bed and a black figure that was stretched very long by the dim candlelight.
"I'm fine."
Jin An hummed casually and began to hold a candle and carefully look at the space under the bed. There was nothing hidden under the bed except a corpse. Could it be that the groom climbed out of the coffin and possessed one of the people guarding the mourning hall?
body, and then walked back to the scene of the murder?
Jin An frowned and thought.
Because the black dog follows the body thief by smelling it, what if there are no body thieves in this world, but the deceased himself?
If he really wanted to die in peace, why didn't he go to the Zhang family to seek revenge, but instead came to the scene of the murder?
With this doubt, Jin An observed the space under the bed several times in a row, and he really made an unexpected discovery. He found a place under the bed board that looked particularly clean compared to other dusty places, as if something had been posted here.
Things are stained with dust.
Jin An thought for a moment, took out a yellow talisman from his arms, and pasted it under the bed, which matched it perfectly.
Jin An, who already had the answer in his mind, stepped out from under the bed, patted the dust off the five-color Taoist robe, and then asked the Zheng family to call more servants to move the bed.
The old Taoist priest was surprised when he heard this: "Really under the bed?"
"Um."
"There is no body thief, and the bride is not the real culprit. The groom has died with his eyes open, so he brought us here to find clues and avenge him and his deceased wife."
Jin An briefly talked about his findings, and the old Taoist priest's expression instantly became solemn, but the ones with the most astonished expressions were those of the Zheng family.
The Zheng family found it difficult to accept this result, and stood up and retorted loudly: "This is absolutely impossible! My nephew fell in a pool of blood that day, and the bride went crazy and kept eating my nephew, crying while eating, and her body was covered in blood!
We saw this with our own eyes!”
Jin An glanced at these cold-blooded executioners with cold eyes: "Even you said that the bride is crazy. For some people with evil intentions, it is nothing to control a person's mind or cast a curse to make a person suddenly gain or lose.
A strange thing."
The Zheng family did not dare to look directly at Jin An and fled in panic under the pretense of calling someone.
With the help of more than a dozen people, the bed was quickly moved. When the missing body of the groom was actually found, the Zheng family who had yelled the most fiercely at the Zhang family and asked the Zhang family to hand over the body were frightened for a moment.
Dare to take the initiative.
Seeing the false affection of these people, the old Taoist priest shook his head. Instead, he and Jin An, two outsiders, took the initiative to bury the groom's body and carefully move it into the coffin.
Then he turned the big bed sideways and re-examined the bottom of the bed board. Sure enough, he found the abnormality described by Jin An.
"The yellow talismans that can control people's minds include the mind-controlling talisman and the villain talisman. I can name more than a dozen yellow talismans. It seems that the real murderer is someone else. It's a pity that the bride's death was in vain! I'm afraid that
At that time, the bride's mind was still there, but she couldn't help it, so she would be sad and despairing and shed tears!" Thinking of the bride's tragic death, the old Taoist priest cursed angrily.
"Now that the person has been found, why not return the bones of the ancestors of the Zhang family to him!" The old Taoist priest glared at the Zheng family.
The Zheng family members lowered their heads with guilt: "It was Master Six who dug the graves and replaced the bones. Even we don't know where the bones of the Zhang family's ancestors are."
"Master Liu is not at Zheng's house now. He heard that the body was missing and took people out to find my nephew...I, I, I will send people to find Master Liu right now."
"If the murderer is not the bride, who else could be so cruel to my nephew?" The Zheng family ordered people to find Mr. Zheng Liu, and then looked at Jin An and the old Taoist priest in fear.
Jin An's tone was cold: "Being able to stick an evil talisman under the bed in advance, and being able to silently remove the evil talisman afterwards, only people within the Zheng family are eligible."