After returning to the town, Si Mao told Liu Chu everything he had inquired about.

Liu Chu told him to call Old Feng.

Since Boss Zhang was resurrected and died in the hands of the villagers, the bones and head that were originally placed in that coffin were taken away to make room for Boss Zhang.

Liu Chu had no other place to put it, so he put it in his room.

Not long after, Old Feng came over, and faced the skeleton and head with Liu Chu for the third time, each time the feeling was different, and so was the result of the analysis.

Old Feng put gloves on his hands and pressed on both sides of head, looked up, down, left, and right, and leaned forward again, pinching every bone in the bone one by one.

This is Liu Chu’s request.

Although Old Feng is an coroner, he has a serious cleanliness obsession. It is conceivable how contradictory he is.

Listening to the clues found by Old Feng, it said that a bone in the left leg of the deceased was slightly distorted. Liu Chu took out those who disappeared and died in the town some time ago, compared them one by one, and got rid of them, and came up with a result. It is concluded that the real owner of this skeleton is the salesman.

He looked at the head, which was shriveled and completely unrecognizable. He had never seen what the salesman looked like, so he took so long to find out.

Old Feng took off his gloves, “Okay, the case is finally settled.”

Liu Chu said, “What’s the clue? Why do I think there are more mysteries?”

He said to himself, “Someone killed the salesman, put his bones in the restaurant, and took away Boss Zhang. What is the motive? The human skin with the minced meat and the embroidered shoes can also be inferred, no? Widow Li, but someone else?”

Old Feng said, “Don’t ask me, I can only communicate with the dead.”

Liu Chu continued, “There are many ways to kill people. Why do you have to peel the flesh and pull out the bones? Is there some deep hatred?”

Old Feng put on his top hat, “Think slowly.”

Liu Chu stayed in the room for a while, and asked his subordinates to take the bones and head for burial.

He went to a place alone.

In an alley in the south of the town, there are three families living here. The cook and his old mother live here. According to Liu Chu’s investigation, the cook is not from the town, but after he became a chef in a restaurant. Only then did he have the money to buy a property in the town and bring his old mother from the countryside to live with him.

The last time he came here, Liu Chu didn’t pay attention, but this time he took a closer look. The small green brick wall has vines winding out of it. Although it is not a wealthy family, it does not worry about food and clothing.

Boss Dai’s restaurant is big, her business is good, and she is generous, so all the staffs below are also lucky.

Liu Chu pulled the iron ring on the door, and not long after, an old woman with white hair poked her head out and asked suspiciously, “Who are you looking for?”

When Liu Chu came last time, the cook asked the old mother to go back to the house. He said, “Old folk, I am the Chief police in the town. I want to ask your son about something.”

When the old woman heard that it was a Chief Police, a look of anxiety appeared on her face, “Master Chief, is my son the one who committed the crime?”

Liu Chu said, “No, old folk, you don’t have to worry, I just want to ask him about something else.”

The old woman felt relieved, “Oh, okay, Niu dan, the Master Chief is here, come out quickly.”

Hearing his mother’s shout, the cook quickly came out of the house in a panic, “Chief Liu, I told you everything I know last time, there is no lie.”

“I’m here for someone else this time.”

Liu Chu sat on a bench under the eaves, “Do you know the salesman who disappeared some time ago and was found dead in the mountains?”

The cook said, “Salesman? I don’t know him. I stay in the back kitchen of the restaurant all day long. I don’t have many friends. I don’t know that kind of poor guy.”

Liu Chu kept staring into his eyes, and felt that the cook’s behavior was normal, and did not show any weirdness or nervousness as expected.

He stroked the engraving on the scabbard, could it be that Si Mao made a mistake in his investigation, and the cook and the salesman didn’t know each other?

But the aunt who provided the clues had no motive for perjury.

“Master Chief, come to drink tea. We are a small family and can’t afford tea, so we can only invite Master Chief to drink a bowl of well water. Please don’t dislike it.”

The cook’s old mother brought over a bowl of clear water in a broken porcelain bowl, and after Liu Chu took the water bowl, she also sat down in front of the Chief.

“It’s also thanks to Boss Dai’s generosity that we can live a good life. Boss Dai is really a good person. Unfortunately, God is blind and good people are not rewarded. Why did a murder case happen in the restaurant? What will Boss Dai do with her business in the future?”

After learning that her son did not commit a crime, the old lady chatted with Liu Chu in peace.

This old woman is really a good person, the restaurant is closed, she is not worried about her son’s job, but worried about Boss Dai.

The cook on the side seemed a little dissatisfied with what his mother said, and started to dissuade her, “Mother, stop talking, go back to the house, Boss Dai is a rich person, this loss is nothing to her, so you don’t worry about people.”

While drinking water, Liu Chu secretly observed the mother and son. The cook seemed to be very protective of Boss Dai on weekdays, but judging from his tone today, his attitude towards Boss Dai was a bit strange.

Boss Dai, who has always been famous for her coquettishness, did not expect that there are people who hate her and others protect her. For example, this old lady is worried about her, and Liu Chu is silent.

However, the immediate question is whether the cook and the salesman have known each other before.

Judging from the cook’s reaction, he is not familiar with the salesman.

Liu Chu shifted his gaze to the cook’s old mother, “Old folk, I don’t know which village you two are from?”

The cook seemed to be about to say something, but the old lady had already said, “We are from Huangshi village.”

“Huangshi village? That seems to be very close to the village where the salesman lives.”

Liu Chu stared at the cook again, wanting to see if his expression would change, but to his disappointment, the cook still had nothing unusual.

“Master Chief, you don’t know that life in the mountains is hard for us. The mountains block the connection between the village and the outside world. Some people can’t leave the mountains for the rest of their lives. Those so-called neighboring villages are actually separated by several mountains. If it’s a big deal, we’ll never see each other.”

The old woman on the side sighed and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand full of age spots. Mountain people like her son had suffered a lot for being able to work as a chef in a restaurant.

The cook turned his head, “Mom, what are you talking about? Chief Liu is here for something important, and you keep saying whatever you want.”

The old lady was yelled at by her son, and she pursed her mouth in grievance, “Mom will not talk, not talk.”

Liu Chu raised his eyebrows.

After the old woman left, the cook smiled dryly at Liu Chu, “I’m sorry, Chief Liu, my mother is getting old and likes to chatter.”

“It’s okay, it’s like this no matter how old you are.”

Liu Chu put down the bowl and said, “Since you don’t know the salesman, I’ll take my leave first.”

“I originally wanted to find someone to help him collect the corpse. Unfortunately, this salesman has no relatives or friends. Now the bones are placed in a restaurant, and there is no one to help him bury them.”

The cook sighed, “Ai, pitiful… We mountain people are doomed to suffer in this life.”

A dark light flashed in Liu Chu’s eyes. The cook should have known that he would come to check after that incident, so he had already thought about how to deal with him.

At the beginning, Liu Chu’s questions and the cook’s answers were all reasonable, but it’s a pity that his attitude was too calm.

The people in the town only know that when the salesman was found, he had a few bones and a load, but there were no skeleton, and he was not in the restaurant, and had been buried in the mountains long ago.

Just now Liu Chu intentionally mentioned that and the cook was very secretive and showed his flaws in front of him.

The cook didn’t show a trace of surprise or doubt, which only shows that he knew that the skeleton was a salesman from the very beginning.

In this way, everything can be connected. The death of the salesman must be related to his friend cook, and it is even very possible that the cook used the excuse of inviting the salesman to dinner, saying that tricked the salesman into the restaurant, and then killed him.

Of course, these are only Liu Chu’s conjectures. The specific role of the cook in this case needs to be investigated further.

When Liu Chu came to the cook’s house again, he was already dead, and he died in his own room.

The cook’s body was divided into two, the upper body was on the ground, and the parts below the waist were missing.

Old Feng said, “The deceased’s upper body has only one wound, which is at the waist. Xiao Liu, look, the flesh around the wound is all rotten, and it was not injured by a weapon.”

Liu Chu murmured, “Been bitten?”

Old Feng said, “It’s not sure yet.”

He glanced around and said, “There is not a drop of blood on the floor, walls, and all the tables, chairs and benches in this room, which means that the blood of the deceased was drained before being cut open.”

Liu Chu said, “Did an acquaintance do it? Take advantage of his unpreparedness?”

Old Feng said, “I told you last time, don’t ask me about living people.”

Liu Chu frowned, “I thought the cook would do something, and specially sent people to guard around his house, but I didn’t expect something to happen.”

Old Feng patted him on the shoulder.

Liu Chu’s face was not looking very good, “There are more people involved in the case.”

These clues he just found will be broken as soon as he say it.

The cook line didn’t work as it should, it’s already useless.

Liu Chu rummaged through the room and found several gray-black animal hairs in different places. “Old Feng, look at this.”

Old Feng took a look at it, “The deceased raised something.”

Liu Chu frowned. He came here twice, but he didn’t hear anything, and his subordinates didn’t report it to him.

Old Feng and Liu Chu looked at each other and thought of a possibility.

That demon was covered with long hair, came over and ate the cook, leaving the upper body, because the lower body was eaten first, and he didn’t eat anymore when he was full? Or put it in the house temporarily, and come and eat it when it is hungry?

Liu Chu held a few hairs and squinted his eyes. The modus operandi seemed to be the same as the previous cases, but there was a strange feeling in his heart, as if it was deliberately created by someone, with the purpose of blaming the demon.

Although the death of the cook was covered by Liu Chu, many people in the town watched. Boss Dai was called by Si Mao, and she stood in the crowd with nothing to do with herself, and ignored other people’s pointers point.

Si Mao said, “Boss Dai, why don’t you go in and have a look?”

Boss Dai is still wearing a cheongsam today, which is moon white. Compared with usual, it is much more plain, and her figure is still very enchanting. She looks at Si Mao with winks like silk, “Little policeman, I am a woman, It would be a nightmare to see bloody scenes.”

Si Mao stared blankly.

Boss Dai chuckled, “Little policeman, you are so cute.”

Si Mao’s face flushed.

The people around spat, scolding Boss Dai for being so shameless, the one who died was the cook of the restaurant, who hooked up with a man at the door of his house?

Liu Chu helped arrange the cook’s funeral. The old woman’s intention was to carry the coffin back to her hometown for burial, and return the fallen leaves to their roots.

Liu Chu asked Si Mao to find a carriage to pull the coffin. It was a long way from the town to the countryside, and he was afraid she had to take a rest on the way.

On the day of departure, the sky was gray.

The old woman grabbed Liu Chu’s hand, and she said thank you to the Chief with snot and tears, and said that the mountains are better than the towns, but she shouldn’t had listen to her son when he asked her to stay in the country, and insisted on coming. In the end, the day just got better, and his life was gone, and he was still dead without a whole body, and she didn’t know which god she offended to treat her son like this.

Liu Chu said a few words of comfort, “Old folk, did anyone come to your house before your son’s accident?”

The old woman said no.

Liu Chu sent people to watch over the surroundings, knowing the daily movements of the cook’s house, whether he went out, what he did, who he met outside, and what he did. These subordinates would report to him. The reason why he asked was because he wanted to heard the unexpected answer, but no.
Just as the coachman was helping the old woman into the carriage, the old woman suddenly remembered something, “By the way, Master Chief, the night before Niu Dan’s accident, he said he was going to meet an important person.”

Liu Chu frowned, “Did he say who it was?”

The old woman shook her head and said no, “He didn’t come back until midnight.”

Liu Chu’s lips twitched lightly, how did a cook manage to slip out under the noses of his subordinates, and then slip back again? Who is the important person?

Watching the carriage leave, Liu Chu went to Boss Dai.

He also sent people to watch nearby. When he passed by, the brother was squatting in the alley with his eyes closed and his head nodding.

Liu Chu kicked over, “I asked you to watch over people, did you run here to sleep?”

The policeman was kicked and his body was tilted. He was terrified and quickly got up from the ground, “Boss, I have been watching. The door is closed. No one has come out this morning.”

Liu Chu said angrily, “Both of your eyes are closed. When I came over, you didn’t respond. Can you see the family coming out?”

The policeman laughed, scratched the back of his head and said, “I just took a nap.”

Liu Chu laughed, “Go back to sleep now and ask Si Mao to stand up.”

The policeman shivered, “Boss, give me one more chance, I promise I won’t be careless!”

As he spoke, he couldn’t hold back, yawned, and tears came out.

Liu Chu’s face was dark, “Hurry up!”

The policeman ran away quickly.

Liu Chu pulled the door knocker, Boss Dai’s personal maid opened the door, “Chief Liu.”

Liu Chu asked about the night of the fifteenth day.

The maid said that the master was not feeling well that night, so she left the dinner at the door, and after a while, the meal was still where it was.

Liu Chu half-believed the maid’s words. When Boss Zhang died last time, Boss Dai was in the attic, but the maid replied that she had never been out of the house.

“Go and tell your family’s master that I’m here.”

The maid went and came back again, she lowered her eyes and said, “Chief Liu, my family’s master hasn’t gotten up yet.”

Liu Chu looked at the sun, “Then I’ll come back later.”

He came over in the afternoon, but he didn’t see anyone. The maid said that the master had gone out.

Si Mao said he didn’t see it.

Liu Chu asked, “You really haven’t left for a moment?”

Si Mao said no, then he looked guilty again, “Boss, I had a stomachache and left for a while.”

“……”

As Liu Chu walked around the town, the sky gradually darkened. He didn’t meet Boss Dai, so he didn’t know where she went.