ebookland Chapter 380: The trick doesn’t matter as long as it’s useful
Chapter 380: The trick doesn’t matter as long as it’s useful
Qin Miaoxi and the other person returned to the thatched cottage with a full sense of secretiveness. Lu Qingchen seemed to be doing this for the first time and was extremely excited.
"How's it going? Did you find it?"
Qin Miaoxi carefully took out the wooden box in her arms. As the box slowly unfolded, the originally relaxed atmosphere suddenly froze, and the expressions of the two people instantly became serious.
"Witch Gu?"
There was a wooden doll lying in the wooden box, with a piece of yellow paper stuck on its chest, with its birth date written in cinnabar.
"Whose horoscope is this?"
Lu Qingchen was shocked. "Tiezhu cursed himself. Does he want to die?"
Qin Miaoxi rolled her eyes and interrupted him, "This was found in her brother's room."
"His brother wants him dead?"
"It's obvious."
She risked exterminating her entire clan and was willing to use witchcraft on her brother. How much hatred did she have and why did she hate him so much?
"Also, there's this."
Then, Qin Miaoxi took out another thing, a fire starter.
"What's so special about this? It's something every household has."
"Open it and take a look."
Lu Qingchen opened the tinderbox in confusion, but found some strange liquid inside, which was very pungent.
"grease?"
"Yes, it is extracted from animals..." Qin Miaoxi paused, "It may also be extracted from humans."
Because she smelled the familiar stench of a corpse.
Lu Qingchen was so frightened that he threw the tinder away, "Impossible! Who would be so cruel as to use human oil..."
His voice broke off, "He burned the iron pillar to death?"
Qin Miaoxi remained silent, but her expression showed her attitude. She did not comment on the fact that her own brother was the murderer.
"Tsk tsk, how cruel! Aren't they brothers?"
"One of these is his motive for murder, and the other is the weapon, but there is no conclusive evidence to prove he is the murderer. Tiezhu's mother once testified that the whole family was asleep at home that night."
Qin Miaoxi did what she said, "The testimony between relatives is not credible. I will go ask his neighbors now."
"I've asked around, and everyone is exhausted after a long day, sleeping soundly. Aside from hearing the lowing of cattle, I haven't noticed anything unusual. I don't even know if the Wang family has gone out."
Lu Qingchen pursed his lips tightly, "Maybe the previous trick can be used again."
"what?"
The two looked into each other's eyes, and everything was said without words. It was fine as long as the old tricks were still useful.
That night, a fierce wind blew in with a chill, so strong that it banged the window frames with a loud bang, making people feel uneasy.
Wang's parents were probably very tired, so they went to bed early, and soon the sound of even breathing could be heard in the house.
But their little son had no desire to sleep - the fright he suffered during the day was like a huge rock pressing on his heart. He tossed and turned in bed, his big eyes staring blankly at the swaying shadows of trees outside the window.
At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared on the window paper.
The shadow slowly fell from above without any warning, its long, black hair hanging straight down, and finally it settled steadily in the center of the window paper, motionless.
His heart suddenly tightened, and his throat seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand, and he couldn't make a sound.
Click~
It was the sound of knocking on the window door. In an instant, cold sweat soaked his inner clothes. There was a warm and wet feeling between his trembling legs. His body was stiff and he forgot to breathe.
The window had opened a crack at some point, and the cold wind blew in his face, leaving only a horrified face and frozen limbs.
The black hair blew in front of him with the wind, accompanied by joyful laughter.
"Are you waiting for me?"
In the blink of an eye, the woman was in front of his face, and her cold breath went straight to his heart along his ear. In an instant, the blood color disappeared from his face, and his eyes stared straight ahead, not daring to look around.
"Thank you for killing your brother. How can I thank you?"
The delicate hands wandered over his cheek, but he didn't feel any ambiguous palpitations, only the coldness like a snake coiling around him, and life and death seemed to be just a matter of seconds.
"How about I pledge myself to you?"
The woman smiled shyly, "Can I come to see you every night from now on?"
I don't know what words stimulated him, but I heard him scream, "I didn't kill my brother. It wasn't me. Don't come looking for me."
There was a knock on the door, and Tiezhu's mother asked anxiously, "Son! What's wrong? Open the door."
But this little noise did not affect the "tenderness" in the house, and the woman's gentle voice instantly became gloomy.
"What did you say? You didn't kill him?"
"Of course not. He's my own brother. He'll marry me and raise my children in the future! How could I possibly kill him?"
"Then why is there a voodoo doll with his birth date and horoscope in your room?"
He was horrified. He didn't expect the female ghost to be so powerful that she even knew there was a voodoo doll in his house.
"Well, I did that for fun. I didn't want my brother to die."
"You hate him, you want him dead, if he dies you will be the only son of the Wang family."
"No, that's what the village chief told me. He said that this way my parents would only love me."
The woman paused and continued, "And what about the tinder in your room? There's human oil on it."
"No, that's not human oil, it's just some random candle oil I bought."
[Wow, I only bought it from that vendor because it was cheap. Is he really that greasy? I'm in big trouble now.]
"You said it wasn't true? Your brother sold you to another family as a son-in-law, and when you found out about it, you killed him in anger."
"No, I didn't know about this beforehand. I only found out about it today."
Suddenly, a cold and suffocating feeling came from his neck. The female ghost pinched his neck tightly with both hands and growled coldly: "It's you, you are my benefactor, why don't you admit it?"
Wow~
The quilt covering him was soaked at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a strong foul smell came out. He tilted his head and collapsed, fainting.
The pretty face hidden behind the black hair was grinning in disgust. It was Qin Miaoxi's face. She cursed in her heart: What a cowardly waste.
The knocking sound turned into a banging sound, and the flimsy door was knocked out. Qin Miaoxi let go of her hand and jumped out of the window.
Almost at the same time, Wang's parents rushed into the house, but saw only the wide-open windows and their son fainted on the bed.
"Son!"
"What is the taste?"
"Peeed."
"You didn't even know to close the window for your son, causing him to wet the bed."
"..."
On the roof of Wang's house, Qin Miaoxi and Lu Qingchen lifted a tile and secretly peeked at the actions of the three people in the house.
"You fainted after just a few words. How dare you kill someone?"
"It shouldn't be him."
"Oh? Why? Doesn't the human oil in the fire stick count?" Lu Qingchen was still skeptical.
"It was sold to him by someone else, he didn't make it himself."
"That can't be..."
Before he could finish his words, there was a knock on the gate of the courtyard and the neighbors came to ask what had happened after hearing the crying.
The person who came was an old lady, and they overheard some useful information while she was talking.
At midnight, their cat ran to Wang's house to steal dried fish and was beaten by Wang's youngest son.
After everyone left, Qin Miaoxi stared at Lu Qingchen sharply, "Is this the result of your investigation?"
Lu Qingchen lowered his head guiltily, "I... the old lady wasn't there when I went to ask, otherwise I would definitely know that the Wang family didn't go out last night."
Qin Miaoxi: "..."
He is not good at anything and is the best at making trouble.
"Okay, it's not all for nothing this time. Didn't he just say that the village chief taught him how to make a voodoo doll?"
Why did the village chief do this?
Is he going to use Tiezhu's brother to deal with Tiezhu?
The deaths of both Tiezhu and Xu Xiaoru were more or less related to the village chief. In addition, he had been avoiding questioning and his behavior was suspicious.
"Since the village chief is in trouble, let's go scare him again while it's dark!" Lu Qingchen patted his chest and promised, "I'll go this time, and I guarantee I'll catch him easily."
"Haha, I'm not looking down on you, but you can't defeat that old fox."
"Then what should we do? Should we wait for him to reveal his true identity?"
"No, we can piss him off."