After that gunshot, the chaotic scene was suppressed.
It was a mess all around.
Tables and chairs, walls, gates, windows, these places were covered in large swaths of blood, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, the whole main room was like an execution ground, like a killing had just ended, shocking and frightening.
Father Zhang is old and his body is not good enough. The crowd turn him halfdead. He was lying on his stomach with several shoe prints on his back. On the ground, a little bit of blood seeped out, and he was motionless, already passed out.
Liu Chu asked his subordinates to go to the doctor to treat Father Zhang.
Mother Zhang thumped and knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her cheeks, “Chief Liu, my son will not harm anyone!”
Liu Chu hurried to help the old woman.
Mother Zhang was helped to stand up, she saw something, suddenly yelled, pushed Liu Chu away, and staggered to the coffin, “My son—”
Someone poured a lot of chicken blood into the coffin, and the head and skeleton seemed to have been painted with red paint.
Mother Zhang tremblingly stretched out her hand to wipe the blood from head, and she cried while wiping, the crying sound was sad, and the scalp was numb to the listeners, making them very uncomfortable.
Liu Chu frowned and looked around, “The dead are the most important. If you do this, won’t you feel uneasy?”
Those present were silent.
Everyone standing here believes that Boss Zhang’s family is unknown. One or two words will not wake them up, but will only make them sink deeper and deeper.
With a sullen face, Liu Chu asked comrades to take Mother Zhang back to the room, and said, “Si Mao , find some people to clean up.”
Si Mao responded and hurried to help.
Everyone hustled for a while, and then left wisely.
Liu Chu put the gun on the table, grabbed his short hair a few times, and pressed his hand against the table. He touched it only to realize that there was chicken blood on it, and his hand was stained with blood.
Si Mao spat on the ground, “Boss, what are they thinking in their minds, are they crazy? They haven’t figured out what kind of demons and ghosts are, and they started making trouble among themselves!”
Liu Chu found a rag to wipe the blood on his hands, his face was ugly, “Okay, don’t talk about it.”
Si Mao sighed, “Ai!”
He could only sigh, the human heart is a terrifying thing, it can kill people without anyone notice, it is more powerful than a sword that cuts iron like mud.
When Liu Chu came out from Boss Zhang’s house, he saw young man standing in a corner of the street outside the door.
Huang Dan couldn’t bear the bloody smell inside, and the most unbearable thing was the strange atmosphere that shrouded it, so he didn’t wait any longer. He stood against the wall with a wooden box and asked about with the curiosity and doubts that a person who has just returned from overseas for many years should have.
“Why did those people come to Boss Zhang’s house?”
Liu Chu kept walking, walked over and handed the gun to Huang Dan, “Eldest Young Master, this is not something you should worry about.”
Huang Dan put the gun into the wooden box, moved his nose, smelled the fishy smell on man, and frowned.
Liu Chu stayed in the house for a long time, the smell seeped into his clothes, and there was blood in his nails, he said as he walked, “By the way, what did you want to say to me when we were in the mountains?”
Huang Dan was thoughtful, if he said that the head and skeleton in the coffin did not belong to Boss Zhang, but that the real Boss Zhang was still alive on the mountain, this man would definitely not believe him, and he would ask him for proof immediately, but he could never take it out.
To say or not to say?
Liu Chu stopped, Huang Dan was slightly distracted, and bumped into his back. The former didn’t feel it, but the latter gasped in pain.
“What are you in a daze for?”
Huang Dan’s nose was red from the impact, he touched it, but there was no bleeding.
Liu Chu is much taller, and when he looked down, a person can feel strong sense of oppression. He teased, “Eldest Young Master Song, every time I see you, you cry in front of me. It’s really boring.”
Huang Dan said, “Can you just stop talking, I’m tired of listening.”
Liu Chu, “…..”
His eyes fell on the young man’s eyes, and when he saw tears pooling in the corners of his eyes, he smacked his lips in wonder, “A man, why are there so many tears? Isn’t it only women who are made of water? Are you too?”
Huang Dan wiped away his tears, crying in his voice, “Women are made of tofu.”
Liu Chu raised his eyebrows, “Then what you made of, Young Master Song?”
Huang Dan said, “I’m the same as Chief Liu. Whatever Chief Liu does is what I do.”
Liu Chu was blocked.
Huang Dan slowed down, his thoughts did not disperse, and he was still clinging to the main topic, “Chief Liu, what I want to tell you is about Boss Zhang.”
He let out a breath, “How can you be sure that a shriveled head and a skeleton are Boss Zhang? Could it be a mistake?”
Liu Chu was still staring at the corner of the young man’s eyes, a little red, “What?”
Huang Dan looked up, “Chief Liu, are you in a daze?”
Liu Chu looked contemptuous, “You treat me same as you, and who are still in a daze. I don’t have that much time.”
Huang Dan, “……” Lie.
Liu Chu stepped forward, “Young Master Song, please speak louder when you speak, don’t hold it in your throat, it’s blurry, no one can hear you clearly.”
Huang Dan face twitched, blaming him now.
Liu Chu walked away, then turned back, and stopped in front of the young man with an impatient face, “Hurry up, talk quickly.”
Huang Dan said, “Chief Liu, can I ask you why you don’t want to see me?”
Liu Chu was stunned, and he laughed mischievously, “What else could be the reason, of course it’s because you, Eldest Young Master Song, are too hypocritical, so hypocritical that people dislike you.”
Huang Dan raised his eyelids, he was no stranger to the word hypocrisy.
No matter when he was studying or working, he would inadvertently hear people around him commenting that he was arrogant, unsmiling, and he smiled once for the first time, and even smiled fakely and disrespected people.
After Liu Chu finished speaking, he waited to see the eldest young master’s reaction, but he didn’t expect that the other party didn’t mind and there is no change on his face.
Huang Dan pursed his lips, “I know.”
Liu Chu didn’t understand, “Know what?”
Huang Dan said, “I’m a hypocrite.”
Liu Chu was stunned.
He glanced at the young man, there was no trace of anger on his face, let alone any signs of counterattack, there was a feeling of fists hitting cotton.
Whoever it is, will be unhappy to be called hypocritical.
Liu Chu looked down in interest.
Huang Dan skipped this topic and repeated what happened to Boss Zhang just now, “After the skin is peeled off, there is only a skeleton left. Everyone is the same. How did you confirm his identity?”
Liu Chu stared at him immediately.
Huang Dan said, “I have read some crime-solving books abroad and listened to many related lectures. There can be a strange phenomenon in the world. They are strangers who have never met before, but their appearance and figure are extremely similar, but they’re just not related.”
“Through this, I thought of the salesman. When woodcutter found him, there were only a few pieces of meat and bones in the grass, and torn clothes, and his load fell on the ground. Widow Li was similar, just a few pieces with minced meat, and a pair of embroidered shoes.”
After a pause, Huang Dan said, “There is also Boss Zhang.”
“I remember that Boss Zhang’s head was shriveled, his face was blurred, and it was impossible to see anything from the skeleton.” He said, “Is there a possibility…”
“Is there any problem about the identity of the deceased corresponding to those bones, heads, and flesh?”
Liu Chu remained silent.
Huang Dan didn’t say any further, this person will investigate.
Liu Chu’s eyes were sharp, “Why did you tell me this all of a sudden?”
Huang Dan said, “I just remembered.”
Liu Chu didn’t understand what he meant, “I can’t tell, Young Master Song remembers the information of these cases quite clearly.”
“Interesting.”
Huang Dan shrugged, “Chief Liu also knows that my grandma is in charge of me, wishing that I would stay in the mansion all day long, never leave the gate. Now I have something to do, so I won’t be bored.”
Liu Chu’s eyes did not move away, “Just because of this?”
Huang Dan said the original owner’s lines, “I can still show off.”
There is pride and complacency in his words, which is very suitable for the young master who has returned from overseas, “As it is now, even Chief Liu has been affected by my words, isn’t it?”
Liu Chu’s face twitched.
Huang Dan could feel that the man’s vigilance against him had decreased, and the possibility of suspecting him as a murderer and a demon also decreased accordingly.
“Although I am the eldest young master of the Song family, the Song family does not recognize my ability and thinks that I am an embroidered pillow, which is not useful. If I can show some performance in this case, they should have new perception of me and treat me well.”
Liu Chu sneered, “You are quite clear.”
Just as Huang Dan was about to speak, he heard the man’s next sentence, “Young Master Song, you are not an embroidered pillow.”
Liu Chu bent his back slightly, with a smile on his lips, and said wickedly, “You are an embroidered quilt, a little more useful than a pillow.”
Huang Dan, “……”
Liu Chu turned left, walked into an alley, and sent a rare invitation, “Young Master, I’m going to eat now, do you want to go?”
Huang Dan didn’t say anything and just followed.
He had to seize every opportunity he had to get in touch with the big demon suspect.
As long as Huang Dan fills in that person’s name at the bottom of the task screen when the demon turns into someone’s appearance, the task will be successful. He is afraid that when he is drinking cold water and stuffing his teeth, the demon had already changed in the other person before he could finish filling the nama and task will fail.
The transformation between heaven and hell depends entirely on luck.
Huang Dan and Liu Chu sat down in the tavern. They ordered a plate of sauced beef, a plate of peanuts, ten steamed buns, and a jar of Shilixiang wine.
When the food and wine were on the table, Liu Chu poured the wine for himself, “Young Master Song, I paid for soup for you last time, this time it’s on you.”
Huang Dan was speechless. The purpose of this man’s invitation was to settle the debt and eat for free.
He looked at the food and wine on the table, picked up a piece of beef with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth, “I don’t have any money with me.”
Liu Chu took the piece of beef away, “No money? Are you kidding me?”
Huang Dan went to the plate again, “Not a cent.”
Liu Chu didn’t believe it, “You are a dignified eldest young master of the Song family, is it possible that you will not bring money when you go out?”
Huang Dan said, “Possible.”
Liu Chu took the chopsticks from the young man’s hand and slapped them on the table, “Young Master, don’t eat yet, come on, look up and look at me.”
Huang Dan looked at the man.
Liu Chu propped his head up, with a half-smile, “This tavern is on the East Street, crowded and chaotic. With my foot strength, it’s no problem to take the opportunity to run away, but you, Young Master Song, are not a martial arts practitioner. You probably haven’t even reached the door before you will be caught by the guys, and then, what will you do?”
Huang Dan said, “It’s okay, you have money.”
Liu Chu twisted his face, “I don’t have money.”
Huang Dan said, “It’s in your left pocket, I saw it.”
Liu Chu, “……”
Huang Dan took his pair of chopsticks away from the man’s hand, “Chief Liu, these dishes don’t cost much in total, so you can put it on first, and I’ll treat you later.”
Liu Chu hehe, collapsed.
Half a month’s salary was lost just like that. His fate clashed with this person as soon as he met. The horoscope is seriously inconsistent.
Liu Chu looked at the table of wine and food, his heart was bleeding, and he quickly pick beef to eat with sauce.
Huang Dan also likes to eat beef, but he eats very slowly, chewing slowly a few times, and there is only a little minced meat left on the plate, “Chief Liu, why don’t you eat the peanuts in front of you?”
Liu Chu took a bite of steamed buns and a sip of wine, “I have bad teeth.”
Huang Dan, “……”
There was a scent of wine floating from the opposite side to his nose. Huang Dan couldn’t help pouring a glass, the scent was overflowing, spreading quietly in his mouth, so strong that he felt a little dizzy.
The owner of this body is used to drinking foreign wine, and has never drunk the authentic Shilixiang from Yueshan Town. The first sip feels sour, and the second sip feels sweet.
When Liu Chu came back after paying the bill, he pushed the young man lying on the table, “Young Master? Eldest Young Master Song? Song Wang?”
Huang Dan raised his head, leaned back a little and leaned on the back of the chair, his face was flushed, he had drunk too much.
Liu Chu held his forehead, took the knife in one hand, and grabbed the young man with the other, “Hurry up, I don’t have time to play with you here.”
Huang Dan’s legs were limp, and he had no energy. He was pulled up a little, and then fell back down.
Liu Chu patted the young man’s face, the skin against is hand was smooth and flexible. He caressed it unconsciously.
Huang Dan closed his eyes, frowning slightly, “Don’t touch me, it hurts.”
Liu Chu was stunned, he supported the young man who fell forward, “Why are you acting spoiled when you’re okay?”
Huang Dan’s expression was uncomfortable, “It’s too rough, it’s uncomfortable.”
Liu Chu opened his hand to look at the palm, there were calluses on it, and it would be rough to touch. He had reacted to something, his face was ashen, “Why do I have to care about this?”
Pushing the man down on the chair, Liu Chu called a waiter to stop him, “Go to the Song Mansion to call for someone, and say that Young Master Song is drunk.”
When the guy saw that it was really Young Master Song, he sighed.
Looking down at the young man, Liu Chu asked inexplicably, “A man, why is his face so slippery? Is it because studying overseas?”
He unconsciously bent over to get closer, something attracted his attention, and he wanted to study it.
At this moment, Huang Dan opened his eyes, saw a face that was close at hand, and said in a daze, “Why are you so close?”
Liu Chu take smell of wine from the young man. Don’t know if he was irritate or what, he took the knife and left, walking very fast without looking back.
Huang Dan rubbed his temples.
Was it because his vision is blurres just now? He has feeling that the man’s hem was turned up, and there was something holding it up from inside.
“Mr. System, is Liu Chu gay?”
System, “He is nothing.”
Huang Dan said, “I thought about it and found that I still don’t understand. Mr. System, can you explain it more clearly?”
System, “Asexual.”
Huang Dan wanted to roll his eyes, “then why did he leave?”
System, “Sorry, I don’t have permission, I can only answer these questions for Mr. Huang.”
Huang Dan said, “It’s okay, thank you.”
He pondered over and over the two answers he got, but he still didn’t think about anything. He couldn’t figure out why a person who is asexual, can be hard.
Not long after, people from the Song Mansion came to pick him up, and Huang Dan was helped into the carriage. He accidentally glanced at a corner and found black official boot there.
As soon as the carriage left, Liu Chu came out from the corner. He tugged at the hem of his clothes, looked around after a few steps, found a place to sit, and closed his eyes, concentrate on tip of his nose and entered a state nothingness where there is no desire.
In the afternoon, Liu Chu took Old Feng to Boss Zhang’s house for a more in-depth examination of the head and skeleton.
After hearing Liu Chu’s words, Old Feng also became suspicious, but he couldn’t find out the key points for a while, key things that could confirm the identity of the deceased.
The moment Old Feng withdrew his gaze, he gasped, “Xiao Liu, come over and see if the left and right sides of the deceased are crooked?”
Looking at it, Liu Chu found that the bone on the left side was lower than the right side, and the gap was so small that it couldn’t be seen unless you looked carefully.
Old Feng pondered, “Either he was born with a slanted shoulder, or he used his left shoulder all the year round.”
Liu Chu frowned.
The entire Yueshan Town is neither big nor small, It’s not easy to find those villages that haven’t been grouped together
Si Mao and the others investigated village by village.
When people are free, they tend to think about things. Liu Chu didn’t allow himself a moment of leisure. He went up the mountain again and again, trying to find out where Boss Zhang was, but to no avail.
Boss Zhang seemed to be integrated with that mountain.
Liu Chu didn’t find Boss Zhang, nor did he find clues to the bones. He walked to the Song Mansion unknowingly, turned around, and returned the same way.
In the afternoon, the two servants at the gate of the Song Mansion looked at each other in dismay.
Servant A, “Chief Liu is here.”
Servant B, “Yes.”
Servant A, “Chief Liu has left again.”
Servant B, “Yeah.”
On the second day, the servant stretched his neck to look, but he didn’t see Chief Liu’s figure appearing. Both of them sighed.
If they walked a little further, they would be able to see the messy back of Chief Liu.
The town was quiet for a few days, and a villager died. Someone said that Boss Zhang had summoned a demon and brought bad luck to the town.
In less than a stick of incense time, the rumors spread wildly.
At night, Father Zhang and Mother Zhang came back from the outside, opened the door and saw several figures in the main room.
The light was dim, the main room was dead silent, and the outline of the coffin was somewhat blurred.
Father Zhang looked wary, took his wife’s hand and asked, “Who are you? Why are you at my house?”
The few figures stood upright, and no one spoke.
Father Zhang and Mother Zhang came closer, only to see clearly that it was a few paper figurines whose eyes had been gouged out.
Mother Zhang was frightened and fainted on the spot.
The family members of the dead villager did nothing but walked back and forth in front of Boss Zhang’s house, making people panic.
When Liu Chu heard about this, he sent a policeman to Boss Zhang’s house and drove the villager’s family away.
That didn’t put the matter to rest.
Some time ago, a few people disappeared in the town, the salesman and Widow Li died, and there were still a few people who could not be found alive or dead, all of them were brought out by troublemakers and said that they were eaten by demons. They went to Boss Zhang’s house like a swarm of bees.
Father Zhang glared at the crowd angrily, “My son is a human, not a demon.”
The abuse from the crowd continued one after another.
“Yueshan Town has always been peaceful. He is the one who brought the demon here. He deserves to die. Why did he want to kill us?”
“Get out, get out of here!”
“Go away—”
Father Zhang trembled and looked at them. These people usually see that their Zhang family is rich. They either borrow money or borrow food. Although his son is not generous, he has helped these neighbors many times. The daughter-in-law of the family is about to give birth, and will give some medicinal materials for free to help them.
But now their Zhang family is in trouble, and their son died tragically at the hands of demons, leaving only a mutilated skeleton.
And these people they had helped, not only did not come to help arrange the funeral, but instead surround their Zhang family tightly even water can’t get through, saying that their Zhang family was unlucky and attracted demons, causing the whole town to follow the bad luck.
Especially those families where people died were even more emotionally holding torches. If there were no policemen stopping them, those might burn them and the house to vent their anger.
Thinking of this, Father Zhang glanced at the crowd. Those people who had been helped by their family, the one wearing a sleeve full of patches was the daughter-in-law of the Wang family. Back then, her family couldn’t afford the medicine for her dystocia, so they personally gave it to her. Not a penny was confiscated.
The old lady Wu who wore a blue turban, her old man broke his leg that year, and there was not a single grain of rice at home. When she came to borrow food, his wife gave her a bag of new rice without saying a word. At that time, Mrs. Wu shed tears and said that she would be a cow and a horse for their family. The sincere gratitude is still in mind.
And that Elder Zhao in a long gown…
But these so-called people who were grateful to the Zhang family, who said they want to repay the kindness of the Zhang family, now look angry and gnash their teeth, as if they want to swallow their Zhang family alive. Even if their son is only a skeleton, they still don’t let it go.
“God, please open your eyes and look at this town, look at our Zhang family, my son was also killed by a demon, he is also a victim!”
At this time, Father Zhang seemed so helpless and lonely, he no longer wanted to look at the ugly faces of those people, even it is just a glance, “Son, you are gone, your mother is also ill, our family will finally be reunited.”
He murmured, grabbed a handful of paper money, and threw it into the brazier.
A gust of wind suddenly swept past, and the flames swayed. The crowd outside finally calmed down a little amidst the shouts of the policemen.
However, this day is not destined to be peaceful. They saw someone running over in a panic at the end of the street, and didn’t know what to shout to the crowd. The crowd immediately became noisy like a frying pan.
Someone screamed at the top of their lungs, “Run, Boss Zhang is back!”
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