Chapter 11 Cracking the Ghost
Zhou Zhao nodded towards Ji Yun, and after taking a few steps outside, he stopped and looked back.
"Master Zhu, it's time for us to leave."
From the moment they entered the small village, Zhu Li was leaning against the wall, motionless.
His face was still expressionless, but when he heard Zhou Zhao calling him, he turned his head, his eyes full of confusion, as if he was in a trance.
"Zhu Li? Didn't the ghost eat Zhang Ruoqing's brain? Did it eat yours?"
Seeing him stunned, Min Zangzhi couldn't help but feel weird.
Zhu Li came to his senses after being stabbed by him like this. He stepped lightly and almost in the blink of an eye, he was standing beside Min Zangzhi.
Zhou Zhao looked at it and couldn't help but exclaimed, "What a light kung fu!"
With such ability, Zhu Li should not be an unknown person in the Northern Army.
After such a delay, when everyone arrived at Wujin Lane, they found that Chen Yuzhao and his party had already arrived early.
Seeing Zhou Zhao entering the courtyard, Chen Yuzhao showed a little embarrassment. He said a little embarrassedly, "There are too many people doing autopsies. When I saw you going out, I thought I would also come to the place where the murder occurred."
Zhou Zhao nodded at him and didn't take it to heart.
She is a person who has never been afraid of comparison. The more powerful the opponent, the more valuable her victory will be.
Wujin Alley during the day is far less scary than at night. Apart from the old locust trees that block the sky and sun, it is no different from other alleys.
This area was originally populated by wealthy families.
Before His Majesty founded the country, Princess Changyang married in Wujin Lane.
She has a deep relationship with her husband-in-law, and she also misses her old residence quite a bit. Therefore, after being named a princess, she bought half of Wujin Lane and spent several years building Shanming Villa, which was filled with her favorite camellias.
Except for Shanming Villa, the other residential houses have remained as they were.
However, after the tragedy happened four years ago, there were many officials visiting Wujin Alley, and then there were many rumors of being haunted. Gradually, many people moved away, and the alley became deserted.
The small courtyard where Zhang Ruoqing died was an ordinary residence next to Shanming Villa.
There is an unpainted wooden courtyard door, which is extremely smooth and covered with starch. When the door is opened, the main room is directly facing it.
Zhou Zhao did not go straight into the house like Chen Yuzhao, but stood in front of the courtyard door recalling the scene of "ghosts eating people" he saw last night.
At that time, she happened to come out of Shanming Villa. When she passed the door of the house, she felt a sudden light on the left side. She turned around and saw Zhang Ruoqing's maid opened the door of the courtyard with an unexpected " "Ghost" just hit her eyes.
She thought about it and went into the main room. She stood in front of the door but did not go in.
The moment the maid opened the door, the lights in the room were blown out by the wind when the door opened.
"Zhou Zhao, since you said that the wound on the face was not bitten by a ghost, what about the ghost eating people you witnessed with your own eyes?"
Min Zangzhi waved his fan curiously and couldn't help but ask. This matter was now spread all over the city.
"It's a pity that I left a step early last night, otherwise I would have witnessed such a strange thing with you."
Zhou Zhao raised his eyebrows, "To be precise, I only saw the shadow reflected on the window."
"The shadow is there when there is light, but it is gone when there is no light. When the light jumps, you will think that the shadow is alive. But in fact, it may be a piece of skin, a piece of wood, or even a piece of wood. A piece of steamed bun.”
Zhou Zhao's voice was loud. Chen Yuzhao, who was looking around in the room, couldn't help but look over. The little girl in front of her looks very similar to Zhou Yan, but her behavior is very different from Zhou Yan's.
She is so confident that she directly tells her opponent the clues she discovered. Will she definitely win?
Zhou Zhao understood the incomprehensible look in Chen Yuzhao's eyes, but didn't pay much attention to it. She walked straight to the lamp on the table and took a closer look.
"When a normal person hangs a person from the beam, he will definitely choose to strangle the neck and hang him upright. But the murderer chose to hang Zhang Ruoqing upside down. This is because his ghost is too short, so he can only hang him upside down. Only then was he able to bite the dead man’s head.”
Zhou Zhao said, pointing to the lamp placed on the table.
This is an ordinary oil lamp. In front of the oil lamp is a thick stack of bamboo slips, which is only slightly shorter than the lamp.
"To be precise, the lights in this room are not high enough. I wonder if you have noticed the shadows at night."
"We place an inkstone in front of the lamp. If we place it close, the shadow of the inkstone will appear on the opposite wall and become larger. If we hold the inkstone and walk forward, further away from the lamp, the shadow will become smaller."< br>
"If we hold an inkstone and the same pen at the same time and place it at the same position in front of the lamp, then the inkstone will still be wider than the pen and the pen will still be more slender than the inkstone."
"How does the murderer make a ghost-eating shadow appear on the door and window? It's very simple. Hang a shadow like an evil ghost on the face of the deceased. But in this case, people will discover the mystery as soon as they enter the door."
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"After all, if such a big foreign object hangs in front of the corpse, it would be impossible for it not to attract people's attention unless it was a blind man."
"To make this mystery unattractive, we can only make the ghost so small that you won't even notice it in a panic."
Zhou Zhao said with bright eyes, and the two groups of people in the yard couldn't help but hold their breath, listening to her analysis.
"But in this case, what should we do if the ghost is small and the human head is big? No one will be afraid of a person's face being bitten by an ant. Of course, I have already said the solution before."
"Ghosts get bigger when they are closer to the lamp; the corpse stays the same or gets smaller when it is further away from the lamp."
As Zhou Zhao said, Chen Yuzhao over there couldn't help but squat down and look at the table. He shook his head as he looked, "What you said makes sense. If that's the case, we should find it near the lamp." A carved ghost.”
"But I have looked for it, and there is no such thing. Whether it is made of wood, leather sculpture, or the steamed bun you mentioned, there is none!"
Zhou Zhao raised his eyebrows and knelt down beside him.
She glanced around, and finally her eyes fell on some gravel fragments, then she curled her lips and said, "Found it."
As she spoke, she picked up the largest piece and placed it on the table. The stone piece was green, very thin, and had a raised sharp corner on it.
"The murderer is smarter than I thought."
Zhou Zhao said, standing up, "When the maid found that her girl was dead, she was so frightened that she pushed the door open. The strong wind blew out the lamp and also blew away the stone that was in the gap between the bamboo slips. The film blew over.”
"This kind of bluestone is very brittle and thin. If it falls to the ground, it will break into pieces. Moreover, when the door is pushed open and hits both sides, it will make a loud sound, coupled with the terrified scream of the maid. The cry will completely cover up the sound of the stones falling to the ground."
"In this way, the evidence quietly destroys itself."
Everyone couldn't help but picture the murderer setting up a "ghost cannibal" scene in everyone's mind, and instantly the most horrifying scene became less horrifying.
"But the murderer is not that smart, because even if a stone is broken into pieces, it can still be pieced together again and used as evidence in court. If it were replaced by ice..."
(End of chapter)