gentry

Chapter 49
As it was getting late, Xiao Man came to the door of the last house listed on Luo Fei's paper with his tired body.Xiaoman weakly pressed the doorbell.

After a while, a woman's greeting came from inside: "Come here."

As soon as the door opened, Xiaoman saw a middle-aged woman in a cloak standing in front of her.

"who are you looking for?"

Xiaoman cheered up: "Is it Mrs. Wang? I'm a police detective from the patrol room. You called the police, right?"

"Are you a police detective?" Mrs. Wang hesitated.

Xiaoman showed her police officer ID: "Is there any problem?"

"Uh, it's nothing, I just didn't expect there to be a policewoman in the patrol room, please come in! Come in!" Mrs. Wang said as she turned sideways and spread her hands to let Xiaoman in.

Xiaoman then walked into the courtyard of the alley, and within a few steps, she suddenly felt her feet go limp, and looked down to see a blue brick she was stepping on shaking up and down.

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly led Xiaoman to the other side, "Be careful, a hole has been dug here."

"That's why you called the police and said someone would set the fire tonight?" Xiaoman asked while walking.

"Um, yes, my husband dreamed about it." Although Mrs. Wang was a little embarrassed, her tone was firm.

"Dream?" Xiaoman's heart was half cold at this moment.

"Ever since the first case of arson was published in the newspaper three weeks ago, he couldn't say that something would happen, and he was in a panic! Then the second and third fires broke out, and he was nervous It’s like a madman, digging sand and soil for a while, setting up a big water tank and saying it’s a fire, and digging a hole in the patio for a while.”

As the two of them entered the hall, as soon as Xiaoman stepped in, Mrs. Wang immediately pointed to the floor of the living room and reminded Xiaoman: "Be careful of your feet!"

"This is." Xiaoman looked down and saw a few large nails with sharp pointed points standing in the center of the main room. Looking up, there was a fishing net hanging beside the door, and there were some spell-like figures painted on the surrounding walls.Seeing this, Xiaoman couldn't help feeling that the main room was haunted.

"Here, these are all caused by my husband." Mrs. Wang said and pointed around, "It's been a few days since he has nightmares every night, dreaming that his house is on fire, and talking to himself what Mr. Jin wants To kill him?"

"Who is Mr. Jin?" Xiaoman asked curiously.

"I just don't know! Ask him nothing and he won't say anything, he's so mad, please sit down." Mrs. Wang sighed.

"Thank you." Xiaoman sat on a vine and continued to ask, "What does your husband do, and do you have any enemies?"

Mrs. Wang, who was sitting across from Xiaoman, thought about it, and finally shook her head and said: "My husband is the editor of the newspaper, and he has been working peacefully. I don't have a job. I usually play mahjong. I never cause trouble, and I don't borrow money." , won’t you have any enemies?”

Xiaoman glanced at the back of the main room, and asked casually, "Where's your husband?"

Mrs. Wang was full of helplessness: "He is sleeping in the house. Now he dare not sleep at night, even dare not turn off the lights. Only when he has had enough troubles during the day can he barely sleep for a few hours."

"Then, has your husband been stimulated recently or..." Xiaoman said suddenly hoarse, and then swallowed hard, "...Can I have a glass of water? I'm a little thirsty after running all day."

Mrs. Wang hurriedly got up after hearing this: "I'm sorry, I'm going to make tea right now. The servants are all scared away by him. I'm not used to having no one to take care of me for a while."

After Mrs. Wang left to go to the kitchen, Xiaoman wandered around the main room for a few more times. Suddenly, a picture on the beam caught Xiaoman's attention. The painting was colorful, and seemed to depict many people. .Xiaoman immediately moved a chair, stood on it and looked over the beam.Unexpectedly, when I got closer, I realized that it turned out to be an erotic picture.Xiaoman blushed and jumped down hastily.Just as Xiaoman was about to move the chair back, there was a sudden noise from the study behind her.Xiaoman walked slowly towards the study again, and when he got close, the door was open.Xiaoman walked in slowly, only to see that the doors and windows were closed tightly and the light was very dim.Later, Xiaoman saw a shrine on a wall, which enshrined a frighteningly shaped dragon head statue.When Xiaoman wanted to take a closer look, a black figure suddenly jumped out from behind, swinging a wooden sword and slashing at Xiaoman.

The vigilant Xiaoman turned around to avoid the wooden sword, and then pushed the future man against the wall.

"Who are you, Detective Patrol Room?"

The man lay on the wall and wailed repeatedly: "Ah! Help..."

At this time, Mrs. Wang hurried over with a teacup: "Hey... Misunderstanding! Detective, he is my husband Wang Jifu!"

Xiaoman was taken aback, then let go of Wang Jifu.

"What are you doing? Go mad at other police detectives!" Mrs. Wang gave her husband a hard look, then walked to the window, and threw open the curtains.The sunlight instantly illuminated the whole study room, and Xiaoman could see clearly Wang Jifu's appearance.I saw the man in front of me with a haggard face, unshaven beard, sunken eye sockets and blackened eyes, and he kept muttering to Xiaoman: "Please, don't set me on fire, please."

Seeing that Wang Jifu was talking nonsense, Xiaoman couldn't ask anything, so he drank up the tea Mrs. Wang brought, so he had to give up.

Mrs. Wang stood at the door, with a sad face on her face: "Detective, you are leaving now, won't you send someone to protect us at night?"

"Mrs. Wang, what your husband needs is not protection, but a doctor." After Xiaoman finished speaking, she turned and left dejectedly.

Before taking a few steps, Xiaoman was suddenly stopped by a fortune teller.

"Fortune-telling, to seek good luck and avoid bad luck, do you want to do a fortune-telling, miss?" the fortune-teller said pinching his fingers.

"No need." The exhausted Xiaoman immediately walked away from the fortune teller.

"No money." The fortune teller smiled as he followed Xiaoman.

"Are you finished?" Xiaoman suddenly felt that the voice was a little familiar, turned around suddenly, and began to look carefully at the fortune teller in front of him who was wearing a Taoist robe, wearing small sunglasses, and stroking his beard, "Luo Fei?"

As Xiaoman said, he grabbed the other party's beard, but the other party immediately shouted: "Ah, it hurts, let go."

"It's really you? What are you doing here?" Xiaoman asked in surprise.

"I think the clues of this family are very interesting, so I will come and see for myself." Luo Fei said, stroking his beard in a mysterious way.

"Then why didn't you go in with me just now?"

Luo Fei lowered his glasses and stared at Xiaoman with his eyes exposed: "Mrs. Wang secretly reported to the police without telling her husband. If you investigate as a police detective, you won't be able to find anything. If you want to approach a superstitious person, how can you tell me?" What better role than a fortune teller?"

Xiaoman nodded: "So, have you been to his house?"

"Yes, before you come." Luo Fei hugged his shoulders and looked at Xiaoman, "Tell me first, what did you see at Wang's house?"

"I saw that the walls were covered with symbols, and there was a monster in the house, which showed that Mr. Wang was very superstitious. He had dug traps in the courtyard, there were nails on the ground at the door, and there was a net beside the door, which showed that he wanted to catch ghosts." , That's right! He also hacked me with a sword, which shows that he has a tendency to violence, and I saw a painting on the beam of the house." Xiaoman blushed when she said this.

And Luo Fei pretended to be careless and asked: "Oh? What painting?"

Xiaoman shook her head: "Oh, it's just an obscene painting, which is enough to show that he is a pervert. In short, this Wang Jifu is a psychopath."

Luo Fei took down his eyes, shook his head and sighed: "You have only learned how to see, but you haven't learned how to observe. The talisman painted at Wang Jifu's house is a fire-avoiding talisman, and the dragon head in the altar is called Chi kiss, which is an animal to avoid fire. The one who cuts you is exorcising evil spirits." The mahogany sword, and the erotic picture on the beam is a picture of avoiding fire."

"That thing can avoid fire?" Xiao Man's eyes widened, doubtful.

"It is said that Vulcan is a goddess, and she will run away when she is shy when she sees erotic pictures." Luo Fei said as he untied his Taoist uniform and took out a half-smoked cigar. "I talked to Wang Jifu. Although he was overly nervous, his thoughts But he is very clear, convinced that there are ghosts coming to harm him, and all these ghost-exorcism measures he has taken are based on evidence, and they cannot be done by a crazy person."

"Clear thinking? He still wants to dig a hole to catch ghosts. Is this called clear thinking?" Xiaoman asked back.

"The upturned nails on the ground of his house, the net beside the door, and the traces of the traps dug and filled in the courtyard, these are not used to deal with ghosts, they are used to deal with people."

Xiaoman listened to Luo Fei's analysis, carefully recalled what she saw at Wang's house, and nodded thoughtfully.

Luo Fei lit the cigar, took a puff, and continued: "Obviously, this Wang Jifu wanted to catch the arsonist alive at first, but after the third fire broke out, he suddenly changed his mind and turned to the gods for help."

"So Wang Jifu must be hiding something from us." Xiaoman said with certainty.

Luo Fei lit the lighter in his hand again and looked at the flames fluttering in the wind: "There must be some kind of connection between these three fires and Wang Jifu."

At this moment, Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei a little nervously: "So he said someone is going to burn his house down tonight, isn't he talking nonsense?"

Luo Fei nodded sternly.

As they spoke, the two came to a grocery store diagonally opposite the Wang family.Afterwards, Xiaoman continued to monitor Wang's house for any suspicious persons approaching, while Luo Fei went to the grocery store to make a phone call.But neither of them noticed that in the darkness at the end of the alley, there was a figure watching them quietly. After watching for a while, the man lowered his head and opened the flip cover of a beautiful pendant. Inside was a photo of a portrait. , and that person was the Captain who had been imprisoned for ten years.

(End of this chapter)