Chapter 406: I regard you as a brother, but you actually...
"Oh?"
When everyone heard that the second case was more bizarre than the first, they became interested.
Zhu Xiucai urged: "Li Yaosuo, don't be too pretentious and tell me what is going on in this case."
Li Yaosuo did not dare to neglect and reported quickly:
"When we patrolled and investigated at the North City Gate, we found that many families were experiencing disharmony.
At first we didn’t take it too seriously, because this kind of thing is not under the control of our Demon Suppression Department. It should be mediated by the village elders or Fangzheng. What’s more, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and even upright officials have difficulty in handling household chores.
Things, not to mention rough guys like us?
But as the investigation unfolded, we gradually realized that something was wrong.
The disputes caused by these families were so great that they were far more than just quarrels and bickering. There were also several murders!
There are husbands and wives killing each other, brothers killing each other, and fathers and sons taking their lives.
If something like this happened to one or two families, it could be explained by an accident, but if it happened more often, it would definitely not be an accident.
So we went to the families where the disputes occurred to investigate, but most of them didn't want to make the family scandal public and refused to cooperate with us.
Fortunately, we found out that the murderers of several families where murders had occurred were imprisoned in the county government cells. So I sent people to the county government office to check the relevant criminal files and questioned these prisoners.
According to most people's accounts, they would have conflicts with their relatives, or even kill them, because they saw or heard these relatives doing things that were sorry to them, and they became angry and lost their minds for a while, and did so impulsively.
Something wrong..."
Hearing this, Zhu Xiucai couldn't help but interjected: "I'm afraid their relatives have not done anything to feel sorry for them, right?"
Li Yaosuo nodded and flattered: "As expected of Zhu Xiaoqi, he immediately understood the key."
Seeing that Zhu Xiucai was in the limelight, Cui Youyou couldn't help but frown.
He snorted softly and said: "What's the point? I also thought about it, but I didn't talk about it."
When Li Yaosuo saw this, he quickly flattered him again: "Of course we know what Cui Xiaoqi is capable of."
Seeing Cui Yougui's face lightening up, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If he wasn't being stared at by Qin Shaoyou and others, he would have wanted to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.
Fortunately, Qin Shaoyou spoke in time: "Don't worry about them, just keep talking."
Li Yaosuo responded with a "yes" and continued to describe the relevant case:
"Although those prisoners said that they saw and heard their relatives doing things that were sorry to them, in fact, according to the investigation of the people in the county prison and the descriptions of their neighbors, their relatives did not do anything at all.
those things!
When the prisoners were being interrogated in the county jail cell, a butcher who killed his own son said that all this was caused by demons.
The butcher also told the details of how he accidentally killed his son. However, not long ago, the butcher was helping to kill pigs at a family's house. It was evening and it was getting dark. He suddenly heard his son's voice outside the courtyard wall of that family's house.
He sounded like he was talking to others, but all he said were sarcastic and insulting words.
Because it was in someone else's house, the butcher was afraid that he would be laughed at and would not be able to get angry, so he endured his anger.
When he got home, he immediately beat his son severely.
His son was stunned. After asking for the reason, he cried and said that he was at home at the time and had never been near that house. There were neighbors who could testify.
Early the next morning, the butcher asked his neighbors and learned that his son was indeed at home at that time. He also went to the house where the pig was slaughtered yesterday to inquire. As a result, the family said that they did not hear anyone talking outside the courtyard wall at that time.
The butcher immediately thought of the recent unrest in the county and guessed that he might have run into someone sneaky.
He had been a butcher for so many years, and he had developed some courage and ferocity. After learning the truth, not only was he not frightened, he went home and hid the butcher's knife in his clothes, and deliberately walked up and down the street, thinking that
You have to wait until Sneaky appears, and then use his sword, which has killed countless livestock and is stained with blood, to kill Sneaky and eliminate harm for the people.
But until it got dark, the butcher was unable to encounter Sneaky again.
But his son, seeing that it was getting dark, was afraid that something might happen to him, so he hurriedly came out of his home to look for him. After finding him, he complained a few words from a distance.
As a result, these few complaints made the butcher suspect that he was a ghost. Suddenly, a ball of anger arose in his heart. It seemed as if there was a voice in his head telling him that the man in front of him was a ghost and he should be killed quickly.
So the butcher roared and rushed forward, pulled out the butcher's knife hidden under his clothes, and stabbed the son who came to look for him to death.
According to the butcher, after stabbing his son to death, he calmed down, realized something was wrong, picked up his son and sent him to the hospital. Unfortunately, his son was seriously injured and could not be saved in the end.
Oh, by the way, on the way to sending his son to the hospital, the butcher heard a strange, mocking laugh.
Based on the butcher's description and the accounts of several other prisoners who had killed their relatives, we determined that this case was caused by demons."
After Li Yaosuo finished speaking, Qin Shaoyou nodded, and when he was about to express his opinion, Cui Youwei said first:
"In my opinion, this case is most likely caused by the Liqiu ghost! This kind of evil ghost has been recorded in the book "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals". It is said that it likes to imitate people's close relatives and provoke people's anger.
, allowing people to do inhumane things such as killing relatives and children, and it can profit from it and absorb the anger, resentment and regret that can lead to spiritual growth."
This was also Qin Shaoyou's view. Seeing that Cui Youxian spoke in detail, he did not add anything more and turned to Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others: "What do you think?"
Zhu Xiucai pondered for a moment and said: "I agree with the old Taoist judgment. Liqiu ghosts are the ones who do the most to cause family conflicts and destroy people's lives."
Monk Ma said: "Before I returned to secular life, I once encountered a case of Li Qiu ghost causing harm to people. The method of committing the crime was similar to what Li Yaosuo described. I think we can start the investigation from Li Qiu ghost."
Sun Xianzong and Shan Daonian also expressed their opinions one after another, and both agreed with Cui Youke's judgment.
This made Senior Brother Cui very proud and he couldn't help but puff up his chest.
Qin Shaoyou said: "This Liqiu ghost may not be as powerful as Diao Ke, but the harm it brings is no less than Diao Ke, and it is even better in terms of impact. Li Yaosuo listed it as an important case that needs to be dealt with urgently
, what you did is right. It’s just that this Liqiu ghost is cunning by nature, so it may not be easy to find it...Do you have any good ideas?"
It was Cui Youwei who spoke first again and proposed a solution:
"The Liqiu ghost likes to see couples killing each other, and fathers and sons killing each other. The more loving a couple is, the more filial a father and son are, the more it wants to make them kill each other. Mr. Qin, don't you have a human skin mask? How about that?
Wear it and pretend to be Xue Xiaobao, and I will pretend to be your father. The two of us will find a house in the neighborhood where the Liqiu ghost is haunted, and move in to perform the act of fatherly kindness and sonship. We are not afraid that we will not attract the Liqiu ghost!"
Qin Shaoyou was shocked when he heard this proposal.
His first reaction was: Cui Youhang wants to take advantage of me! I regard him as my brother, but he wants to be my father?!
Then another question arose: Why did Cui Yougui want me to become Xue Xiaobao instead of another child?
Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others in the mission room were also shocked by Cui Yougui's proposal.
They all thought to themselves: Cui Xiaoqi is putting chicken feathers on the flagpole - what a bold person!