Inside the dark Chai Mansion, there were no lamps and there was only a road paved with incense candles leading directly to the lobby of the Chai Family Courtyard, so it seemed more inviting. Although the weather in early autumn was not necessarily very cold, it was After all, today is the Ghost Festival. Even though the people who came with Meng Xinghe were quite courageous people, when they got close to the house where the body of the Cai family woman was parked, none of them said anything, but they still felt a little knotty in their hearts. , it seemed as if even the rustling wind noise around me was caused by those lonely ghosts emerging from hell.
Following behind Meng Xinghe, Bai Ningshuang, who also came to see Meng Xinghe's mysterious case, subconsciously leaned on Meng Xinghe's back. After all, this is a woman's family, and naturally she is not as courageous as a man. If she encounters someone who is afraid, she can only act like a little woman. If he could find a comfort in his posture, he would stick to it without reason, causing several pairs of eyes around Meng Xinghe to stare at him in disbelief. He thought to himself, Mr. Meng is different here. There are so many people here, and Miss Bai doesn't rely on her. She just hid behind Meng Xinghe and seemed to even give him a hug. It was such a blessing that she was so lucky that she couldn't stop him.
Meng Xinghe knew that the two people around him who looked at him with a color look must be Mr. Chai and Wang Guinian. Now these two people are like meeting each other late, they have found their confidants with similar interests and common interests, and they can study together. The two of them were helpless to stop their beloved Fengyue Culture from dying. Meng Xinghe just coughed twice, and the two immediately stopped laughing. They both reminded each other that there was business to do tonight, and it was important to solve the business.
At this time, Luo Feng and Xue Rengui, who were in charge of waiting for the scene for a moment, came out from the door of the opposite room. Seeing Meng Xinghe arriving, they ran over with relief, "Boss, you are here, the body of the Cai family woman Just parked inside, and just now I heard a sound coming out,"
Luo Feng screamed for injustice. Being so bewitched by him, everyone's hearts were in their throats, thinking that it was possible that the corpse had been transformed.
Meng Xinghe directly ignored the details provided by Luo Feng. He asked if all the Chai family members were in the mansion and not a single maid or servant had left. Luo Feng nodded and said that Xue Rengui was responsible for this matter. Xue Rengui said everything was normal and the Chai family Both father and son were held in a side hall by Capt. Ji, who asked Meng Xinghe if he wanted to arrest them all.
Meng Xinghe said that the matter was not urgent because it was not time yet. He asked Luo Feng and Xue Rengui not to stay here for the time being. They would go to the side hall of Chai Mansion with him first and wait for the time to start hearing the case.
Luo Feng and Xue Rengui wished they had left this haunted house long ago, and followed Meng Xinghe towards the side hall of Chai's house.
About hundreds of people in the Chai family, including maids and servants, are currently being confined by Capt. Ji in a room that is a bit wider than the main living room of ordinary wealthy people. In order to ensure that during Master Meng's trial, the Chai family cannot have anyone. Although he was not at the scene personally, Mr. Ji had already sent his men to guard every corner of the side hall. The guards were so tight that not even a mosquito could fly out.
When Meng Xinghe and the county magistrate Mr. Bai arrived, Mr. Ji stood guard at the entrance of the Chai family's side hall like a straight benchmark. When he saw the two adults arriving, he seemed relieved and walked slowly over and said: "There are a total of one hundred and fifty-three people from the Chai family inside. Except for the young master of the Chai family who is still being handcuffed inside, no one has left. Old Cai has been placed here and is under the supervision of his subordinates. The whole process went without a single glitch,”
After reporting his work to his two superiors, Mr. Ji returned to his original position and performed his duties faithfully.
Meng Xinghe didn't go into the house to check, and he and Mr. Bai stood outside without saying a word. Mr. Bai, a foil, didn't know what Meng Xinghe was planning. Is he really going to wait here for the dead Cai family woman to return to her body? The Chai family is here to settle accounts. Let alone other people who come to Dongcang County to watch the excitement tonight, even he, the county magistrate, has to cast an admiring look at Meng Xinghe. From ancient times to the present, except for some ambitious people, Such cases have been written about in strange books, but there is no official book that records them. If Meng Xinghe can really predict that the Cai family woman will be resurrected through corpses, I am afraid that his name will be spread throughout most of the Tang Dynasty in a day. , after all, for being able to do such a wonderful thing through the ages, others not only admire and envy him, but also praise him from behind.
Meng Xinghe didn't think too much about the complicated thoughts of Mr. Bai next to him at the moment. He looked up at the full moon in the sky, with a faint three-point halo, quietly rendering a vast and boundless sky with a few surrounding stars. Erratic, dotting the sky, suddenly there is a long and soft cloud, like a colorful veil spread in the sky. The time at this moment has passed the first half of Hai hour. In the silent night, you can only hear the rustling. The sound of the rustling wind blowing through the trees is like the scene in a ghost novel where pedestrians on the road at night hear ghosts scattering sand in the sky above.
The time was almost here, and Meng Xinghe whispered to Chief Ji to bring out the Chai family's young master and Chai Jinyan, while the others stayed in the house.
Ji Captou immediately took the two father and son out of the room. When Chai Jinyan saw Meng Xinghe, he was not too nervous. On the one hand, he was carrying more than ten jade Buddha pendants. On the other hand, even if he saw those dirty things, here After all, there were officials and government servants here, so the lonely ghost did not dare to approach and hurt him.
Chai Jinyan, who behaved normally, didn't care whether he was really calm or Meng Xinghe who was holding on. However, through the corner of her eye, she saw that the Chai family master didn't seem to be as courageous as him, and his face was a little pale.
Old Man Cai was also brought over by Luo Feng at this moment. Before the trial, Meng Xinghe had clearly stipulated that no matter what they saw later, no one was allowed to make a sound, so as not to disturb the ghosts and gods, and both sides were reviewing the case. No fighting is allowed during the process, and anyone who breaks the rules he has set will be severely punished.
Since it was a matter of ghosts and gods, Meng Xinghe tried his best to make the trial process as mysterious as possible. Although Old Man Cai wished that Mr. Chai would die a good death, in order to see his daughter and avenge her injustice, he silently nodded in agreement.
The Chai family father and son did not object, and forced themselves to nod calmly.
Seeing that both parties had no objections, Meng Xinghe took out three small cyan porcelain bottles from his body and said: "This is the sacred water given to me by the Taoist Master. As long as you apply it on your eyes, you can see things that you can't normally see." , but everyone must remember that no matter what you see later, don’t make a sound, otherwise the magic water will be ineffective. When those things see you, don’t blame me for not daring to see you rashly for the safety of other people. "Save," the people who were directly involved in the trial tonight were divided into three groups. Meng Xinghe gave each group a bottle of divine water that he claimed could see ghosts and gods, and then led about twenty people to the place where the body of the Cai family woman was parked. Chai's lobby.
Outside the lobby, the doors and windows had been covered with yellow talismans that Chai Daguan had found from nowhere. It looked like those abandoned gardens where monsters and ghosts often appeared. In the second half of this hour, Meng Xinghe led a group of people and People directly or indirectly related to this case quietly came to the lobby of the Chai family. Putting aside the shadow of today being the Hungry Ghost Festival, they went to a place where dead bodies were parked in the middle of the night. They didn't tell them what they shouldn't see if they saw something later. The things are frightening, and just the feeling of the night being as cold as cold water can make people feel chilly.
Meng Xinghe asked people to squat outside the lobby and wait for the Cai family girl to return to the sun. Everyone obeyed and squatted outside waiting, staring intently at the door covered with yellow symbols.
Time passed by minute by second, but the closed door was still lifeless, without any movement. Seeing that it was not long before midnight, the Cai family woman might not be able to come tonight if she didn't return to the sun. .
After waiting for nearly half an hour, there was no unclean thing, not even one or two ordinary strange screams. Everyone was guessing whether Master Meng had been deceived by his so-called Taoist priest and was about to calm down. He was perfunctory and smiled secretly, preparing to see how Mr. Meng would lie next so as not to be laughed at by everyone.
At this moment when people were distracted, a gust of cold wind roared past, and even the bright moon in the sky was blown into the clouds, causing the sky and earth that were originally illuminated by thousands of miles of silver light to suddenly become dark. Then, there was a big "wow" A strange cry, whether it was a civet cat or a wild fox, immediately made people nervous. Everyone stared at the opposite side attentively. No one dared to take a big breath. Meng Xinghe could even feel something warm next to him. He You know, that's Miss Bai's delicate body.
Next to him was Meng Xinghe, a warm-smelling soft jade man who was not distracted. He was hiding in the dark and staring straight ahead like everyone else.
"There seems to be movement in the room," Xue Rengui, who was also lurking, said, but was immediately caught by Luo Feng's hot eyes, and he immediately covered his mouth.
However, at this moment, the door opposite, covered with yellow symbols, suddenly opened without any warning, frightening the twenty or so people outside.
Everyone held their breath and looked quietly, only to see a woman with disheveled hair and wet clothes walking out of the door in front of her with stiff and strange steps. The old man of the Cai family almost screamed, that was his daughter, and Chai The father and son's faces were ashen and they hid in the crowd and did not dare to look at him.
The woman from the Cai family came back to life, and there was a commotion among the crowd. There was an urge to scream out of fear.
Meng Xinghe signaled everyone not to move, let alone make a sound, because with the divine water, the resurrected Cai family woman could not see them. As for what the woman was going to do, Meng Xinghe did not say whether she wanted revenge or vengeance, but everyone was worried in their hearts. Knowing that the dead come back to life, of course it is for revenge.
But when they saw the Cai family woman floating strangely from the entrance hall, just as Meng Xinghe said, with the divine water, she could not be seen at all, so everyone looked at the resurrected Cai family woman with confidence. Her appearance, clothes, and figure were all... It was exactly the same as the Cai family woman lying dead on the door panel before. Luo Feng and Xue Rengui, who were in charge of guarding, deeply agreed with this. Thinking of the woman's frighteningly white face, they both became frightened at the same time.
After the woman flew past everyone, Meng Xinghe waved his hand and directed everyone to follow the woman's pace to see where she would go.
I saw the woman walking aimlessly and walking alone, until she came to the well in the backyard of Chai's house. She seemed to be nostalgic and stood by the well with her hair down, crying quietly, which was really pitiful.
Crying, crying, the woman suddenly turned her face, her pale and bloodless face suddenly staring at Meng Xinghe's group of people.
"Chai Shaoqing, where are you?"
The long dragging voice made people's hair stand on end. The man who had been replaced by the woman as Chai Shaoqing, the eldest son of the Chai family, also had his legs weak and fell to the ground in involuntary fright.
"Ghost,"
Unable to stand the strange sound, the young master of the Chai family roared in fear, and the woman by the well floated to Chai Shaoqing's side and smiled coldly at him with her cracked white lips.
"Chai Shaoqing, give me back my life,"
The Cai family woman suddenly pinched Chai Shaoqing's neck tightly. Because of Meng Xinghe's previous rules, no one dared to show up to save him, so they could only watch as Chai Shaoqing was dragged to the well by the woman.
"Come down and stay with me,"
She suddenly smiled strangely, and on her pale face was a stiff smile after revenge. Then she saw Chai Shaoqing being forcibly pushed into the well by the woman. There was only a splash, and not long after Chai Shaoqing's hasty cry sounded in the well. Completely falling into silence, Meng Xinghe glared at a large group of people, just watching the life of Chai Shaoqing wither away. Not even Chai Shaoqing took action to save his son, let alone others, so he could only let him He allowed himself to be avenged by the Cai family woman,