Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 69
In Liujiazhuang mourning hall, Liu Zhali stood in front of the son's coffin, held three sticks of incense, prayed in a low voice, then inserted the incense into the incense burner, turned around, and let out a long sigh.

Yingyu who was standing aside said, "Master, don't worry, where are the ghosts in this world? It must be the spirit guard who is mediocre."

Liu Charlie took a deep breath and did not speak.

……

After Li Yuanfang and Liu Da walked away, Di Renjie's eagle eyes quickly searched: rocks, trees, cliffs...

Suddenly, his gaze stopped on a short tree on the edge of the cliff.

Di Renjie walked over, only to see that two branches of the dwarf tree were broken, exposing brand new white stubbles, which could be seen to be broken just now, and the broken branches were hanging down the cliff.

Di Renjie squatted down, leaned forward and looked down, there was a protruding rock about one person's height below, with a radius of about three or four feet.

Di Renjie's gaze carefully searched the rock.

Suddenly, a flash of light in the chaotic grass caught his attention. He pushed aside the branches and tried his best to see what it was, but he couldn't see it clearly.

Di Renjie stood up and said to Wang Mang, "Jing Yang, go down and see what it is."

As he said that, Di Renjie pointed to the chaotic grass.

Wang Mang responded, tiptoed, and landed lightly on the protruding rock. He touched something from the grass, picked it up, and saw it was a string of Buddhist beads.

Wang Mang looked at it carefully, and there were four characters engraved on it, "Gift to Husband Chuanlin".

Wang Mang raised his head, looked at Di Renjie who was still standing on the top, and jumped up with one ups and downs.

Di Renjie's eyes were attracted by the beads in Wang Mang's hand, and Wang Mang handed them to Di Renjie.

Di Renjie also saw the words "Gift to Husband Chuan Lin", looked at Wang Mang, and smiled tacitly.

Di Renjie looked at Wang Mang and said, "Jing Yang, from your expression just now, it seems that you don't care much about the haunting that Liu Da said!"

Wang Mang smiled, and said in a low voice, "There's no such thing as a ghost!"

A smile appeared on Di Renjie's face: "Oh? What does Jing Yang know?"

Wang Mang looked around and found no one else, so he whispered, "Liu Chuanlin is not dead!"

Di Renjie was taken aback: "Could it be..."

Wang Mang nodded: "I have never believed that Brother Chuan Lin really fell off a cliff by accident, so last night, I was going to see Brother Chuan Lin again. Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived at the mourning hall, there was a sound from the coffin in the mourning hall. The sound is loud."

Such a picture flashed in Wang Mang's mind.

In the quiet night, dark clouds covered the sky.

Wang Mang walked slowly from the path in the back garden to the mourning hall.

In the mourning hall, the candlelight swayed in the wind, and the coffin was placed horizontally at the west end of the mourning hall.

Under the shrine, the guardian sits on a futon and takes a nap.

Suddenly there was a "quack" sound from behind the mourning hall.

Startled, the guardian opened his eyes.

Just listen to the sound of "quack".

He hurriedly stood up, looked around, and his eyes fell on the coffin at the west end, only to see the coffin lid shaking non-stop and making strange noises.

The spirit guard let out a scream, and fell to his knees with a "plop".

Wang Mang hid behind the coffin and lit the mist he carried with him with fire.

Soon, the mourning hall was filled with misty smoke, and the kneeling body of the guardian suddenly fell down.

……

Wang Mang said: "After I opened the coffin, I found that Chuan Lin's heart was still beating. So, I hurriedly brought him out."

Di Renjie asked, "What happened next?"

Wang Mang said: "Brother Lin didn't receive timely treatment and his life was dying, and I didn't have medicine by my side. So, I took him to my Baoling Hall overnight. I gave him medicine last night, can he survive? It depends on God's will."

Di Renjie sighed: "Mr. Liu is really a man with a hard life!"

Wang Mang said: "At present, the most direct way is to learn the truth from Brother Chuan Lin, but..."

Seeing Li Yuanfang and Liu Da coming, Wang Mang quickly stopped talking.

Di Renjie asked Liu Da: "Liu Da, is your son married yet?"

Liu Da replied: "Not yet. But there are quite a few people who come to say goodbye."

Di Renjie nodded: "Let's go and have a look under the cliff."

……

After a long time, everyone came to the bottom of the cliff.

Under the cliff, there were bloodstains in the pile of rocks.

Wang Mang and the others walked over.

Liu Da pointed to the ground and said, "Look, there's still blood here."

Wang Mang looked around, and there were no other suspicious footprints at the scene except blood. It seems that the people sent by Yuan Tiangang are more reliable in doing things.

Di Renjie also looked around. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and a piece of clothes hung on the tree with a whirring sound.

Di Renjie stepped forward to pick up the rags, Wang Mang nodded in secret, this is the physical evidence that he specially asked his subordinates not to take it away.

Originally, this was just in case, so I instructed my subordinates.

But he didn't expect the inertia of the plot to be so great, and the plot that should have happened still happened.

Di Renjie looked back, where Liu Dazheng was telling Li Yuanfang and Wang Mang about the process of carrying Liu Chuanlin's body.

Di Renjie took a closer look and saw that it was a piece of scarlet silk. After taking a look, he quickly put it into his sleeve.

At this moment, Li Yuanfang came over and asked, "My lord, did you find anything?"

Di Renjie shook his head: "Go, go back!"

……

In the main hall, Zeng Tai was walking up and down anxiously, looking up from time to time.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and Zeng Tai rushed up to meet him: "Mr. Ge, you are back."

It was Di Renjie, Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang who came back.

Di Renjie asked, "Your County, is there anything wrong?"

Zeng Tai hurriedly said: "It's like this. This morning, the county government officials came to report quickly, saying that a corpse was lost in the morgue."

Di Renjie was taken aback: "The body is gone."

Zeng Tai nodded: "The humble officer feels that this matter is unusual, so he came here to report it."

Di Renjie and Wang Mang looked at each other, Wang Mang nodded slightly, and Di Renjie said: "Well, this court knows about this matter, don't mention this matter to outsiders."

Zeng Tai nodded: "I understand. I'm resigning now."

After Zeng Tai left, Di Renjie and Wang Mang laughed, and Wang Mang bowed his head and confessed: "It happened in a hurry, and I didn't have time to inform you last night, so I stole a dead body privately, and I hope you will forgive me!"

Li Yuanfang looked puzzled, and said blankly: "Jing Yang, what are you and your lord laughing at, why are you stealing a corpse?"

Di Renjie smiled and said: "Jing Yang, how can you blame you for this, please follow the authority."

Li Yuanfang was full of doubts.

Di Renjie said: "Jing Yang, please tell Yuan Fang!"

Wang Mang nodded, and whispered to Li Yuanfang.

After a long time, Li Yuanfang suddenly realized: "So that's the case, so Mr. Liu is not dead?"

Wang Mang shook his head: "It's hard to say, I think Brother Lin's situation is very likely to become a vegetable."

"Veterinous?"

Di Renjie asked.

Wang Mang explained: "Oh, although people are alive, they will not wake up, just like plants such as flowers and trees, so I call them vegetative."

Now that he has traveled to ancient times, Wang Mang unceremoniously claimed the term "vegetative person" as his own.

Di Renjie thought for a while: "Jing Yang, isn't the vegetative state you're talking about a symptom of leaving the soul?"

Wang Mang thought for a while: "Almost!"

Di Renjie nodded: "This disease is not curable!"

Wang Mang nodded with a wry smile.

(End of this chapter)