Chapter 44 Chapter Seven: The Two-Tailed Cat Demon

The strangest part of this case is why the two deceased appeared in the lychee garden late at night.According to my observation, there is no sign of Gao Hao's body being moved, and it is very likely that Gao Hao was killed in the litchi garden.And Gao Xian's body has been cremated, so I can only learn about his situation from Feifei. "Third Uncle was very strange that night, muttering about Qianlong from time to time..." Feifei thought for a while but couldn't remember the words "Don't use Qianlong". Fortunately, Zidie reminded her.Then she began to tell us about the situation before and after Gao Xian's accident——

Because my mother was sick and hospitalized, I rushed over to hold the funeral for her the day after my grandma left.My mother told me that according to custom, the body of my grandmother must be kept at home for three days before being cremated.But when I arrived, my grandmother's body was no longer at home. I asked my uncle what was going on with them, but none of them made it clear to me.Later, I learned from Granny Mei next door that such a terrible thing happened the night before I arrived. Maybe it was because I saw the horrible scene of grandma's fraudulent corpse with my own eyes, so on the night of doing the first seven for grandma, my uncle and the others sat in the hall without saying a word, so I had to go to the door alone to burn ghost coins for grandma.

Grandma's house doesn't have a bathroom, so it's convenient to go outside the room.The third uncle didn't know if he drank too much water that night, and he often went outside for convenience, but he always mumbled to himself every time he passed me.At the beginning, I didn't hear what he was muttering clearly, and of course I didn't dare to ask him. Later, I heard a lot, and gradually found that he seemed to be saying: "What does Qianlong Don't Use mean?" In the early hours of the morning, the uncle and the fourth uncle suddenly quarreled, and then the third uncle said that he saw grandma appearing outside the window, and then my aunt asked me if I saw my grandma.I burned Ming coins outside the door all night. It stands to reason that if grandma appeared outside the room, I would definitely be able to see it, but I didn't see anyone walking around.

The third uncle said that it must be the grandmother who came back to find someone to accompany her, and the aunt immediately turned blue with fright, and quickly said that there was something else at home and she had to go back immediately.Although the uncle and the fourth uncle didn't say anything, they didn't look very good. Only the third uncle answered the aunt's words: "Since Feifei didn't see anything, let her keep vigil for mother. I have class tomorrow. I have to go first." After he finished speaking, he did not wait for others to respond, and walked out the door in three steps at a time.

When my aunt saw the third uncle leaving, she followed suit, and the fourth uncle did the same, and left without saying a word.When my uncle saw that they were all gone, he said to me: "Feifei, you can watch here tonight!" Then he left impatiently, leaving me here alone. Maybe it was because I didn't see anything at the time, so I didn't feel scared, but I didn't understand why they were so scared.Even if grandma's ghost really came back, she is our relative, and she will definitely not harm us, so what is there to be afraid of!But then I remembered that my mother had told me that they were not very nice to my grandpa and grandma, and I had heard about it when I lived here.The fourth uncle seldom came back, and basically ignored his grandpa and grandma; although the uncle and the others lived in the village, they didn't care about what happened to grandpa and grandma.So, I think they probably know that they are not good at grandma, so they are so afraid.

I was brought up by my grandpa and grandma. Although I went to study in the city, I knew that they loved me the most, so I didn’t feel scared at all. Instead, I really wanted to see my grandma again.After all, I came late and I didn't get to see my grandma for the last time. I stayed here all night, and nothing special happened.But the next morning, people in the village exploded, because some villagers found the body of the third uncle when they passed the lychee garden... Afterwards, I asked Feifei about the situation when she found Gao Xian's body, including the blood stains at the scene, and the posture of the body lying down, etc., and finally came to the same conclusion as Gao Hao—the litchi garden was the first scene of the murder.Summarizing the information collected so far, it is not difficult to draw five common points between the two deceased:

1. They are the children of the fourth wife; 2. They all voluntarily went to the murder scene at midnight; 3. They all went to the murder scene after leaving the fourth wife's house; 4. They were all suspected of being stabbed to death with their fingers; 5. Before their death, they mentioned or came into contact with the two phrases "Don't use Qianlong" and "See the dragon in the field", which are suspected to be related to the Eighteen Palms of Subduing the Dragon. Judging from the above five points, the key to this case is why the deceased took the initiative to arrive at the murder scene, and the reason why they went there seems to be related to "Don't use the hidden dragon" and "Seeing the dragon in the field".Therefore, the investigation should start with these two words.However, apart from knowing that these two words came from the eighteen palms of the dragon, I can't think of anything else, but the two deceased were ordinary villagers, so it might have something to do with the peerless martial arts in martial arts novels?

Questions came one after another, and the more I thought about it, the more divorced I was from reality, which made me feel like I was three big heads.Just when my mind was in chaos, Zidie suddenly asked me: "Could they have something to do with the treasure buried by Gao Yao when they came to the Lychee Garden?" I can figure it out now. Gao Yao buried the treasure before his death, but only the fourth wife knew the exact location.With a strong character, if the fourth wife tells the location of the treasure, he must be the first to dig Hori.He didn't look for the treasure, which means that the fourth wife didn't tell the exact location.

The reason why Gao Hao and Gao Xian went to the Lychee Garden in the middle of the night is probably because they found relevant clues and planned to dig out the treasure and take it for themselves.It's a pity that they all missed the game and were killed in the litchi garden.Perhaps, although the fourth wife lost her rationality after defrauding the corpse, she still remembered the treasure.Therefore, when her unfilial sons and daughters tried to trick Treasure, she jumped out and killed them.If we can also find relevant clues, maybe the fourth wife will appear again.Although the fourth wife is like a wild beast now, as long as she is prepared in advance, there should be no problem in catching her.

The most urgent task now is to find clues about the location of the treasure, and the key to the clues is likely to be "don't use the hidden dragon" and "see the dragon in the field".Both Gao Xian and Gao Hao went to the murder scene immediately after leaving the fourth wife’s house. They probably found relevant clues here, so I asked Feifei if I could check the fourth wife’s belongings, but unfortunately she said: "According to the custom, grandma's things are cleaned up tonight, so most of them have been moved outside the house and burned." "Oh, that's hard to handle." I couldn't help shaking my head and sighing.

Just when I was worrying about not knowing where to start, Feifei seemed to think of something, and suddenly shouted: "I remembered, there seemed to be some things under the bed that were not lost." Then she led us into the room. The fourth wife's room was very small, and when the three of us walked in, there was almost no place to turn around.Feifei was not afraid of getting her clothes dirty, so she knelt down and got under the bed to find the fourth wife's belongings as soon as she entered the room.Perhaps it was because she was in mourning period, she was wearing a pair of tight white trousers, and her toned buttocks were perfectly displayed in front of my eyes after getting under the bed. There is a saying in Guangdong called "Eighteen Twenty-two No Ugly Girls", which means that there is no woman between the ages of 18 and 22 who is not beautiful.Feifei is probably only eighteen or nine years old, not only good-looking, but also exquisite and embossed.As a normal male, seeing a beautiful woman lift her buttocks in front of me, and she is still wearing leggings that make people think, my adrenaline is of course soaring immediately. Beauty is currently a pleasing thing, but unfortunately I can't appreciate it now.The room was already very narrow, in order to make room for Feifei, Zidie and I had to retreat to the corner.I hope she doesn't realize that I'm reacting like this because of seeing Feifei's ass, or she might slap me right away and give me another title-rascal! Fortunately, before Zidie noticed something strange, Feifei had already got out from under the bed holding a small dusty cardboard box.She handed over the cardboard box and said, "I found it. These are all grandma's things are left." After I took the cardboard box, I went back to the hall with them. I put the carton directly on the ground, dust off the surface and open it.There were only five books in the carton. I took them all out and found that one of them was hand-copied, and the other four were books related to Feng Shui.Fortunately, there are no martial arts secrets in these books, otherwise this case would be bizarre enough. Judging from the dust on the surface of the cardboard box, it must have been opened for a long time, so I asked Feifei if the fourth grandmother rarely read these books, but she said, "Grandma is illiterate and never reads these books. " "Isn't that a waste of effort?" Zidie felt a little discouraged. I laughed and said, "That's not necessarily true. Since the fourth wife is illiterate, these books should be Gao Yao's." Feifei nodded: "Well, I often saw my grandfather reading these books when I was young." "I didn't expect your grandfather to be interested in Fengshui..." I picked it up and flipped through it, and after only two pages, I shouted: "I see the dragon in the field!" "Did you find anything?" Zidie immediately came over, only took a look and exclaimed in surprise: "Don't use Qianlong?" Then she laughed: "Ha, it seems that we have put the cart before the horse,'seeing the dragon in the field. ' and 'Don't use Qianlong' are moves from Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, but I've heard others say that Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms actually came from it." Knowing that this case has nothing to do with those martial arts cheats, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, because the original case seemed to have taken a big step towards reality at this moment.So, I checked the content carefully. This is an old book, and it looks like it was not copied by Gao Yao. It contains nothing other than sixty-four hexagrams, not even a comment.But the strange thing is that in the center of the last page is inexplicably written a word "Knock". The handwriting is completely different from the part where the hexagrams are written earlier, and it should be written later.Although I couldn't understand these obscure hexagrams, at least I could find that "see the dragon in the field" and "do not use the hidden dragon" came from the ninth day and the second day of the Qian hexagram.In other words, Gao Xian and Gao Hao should have discovered that the location of the treasure is related to these two hexagrams, so they came to the Lychee Garden.However, how can we know where the treasure is hidden by relying on these two hexagrams alone? Just when I was puzzled by this, an old female voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Feifei, you are back. Has something happened to your aunt?" I turned my head and looked outside the door, and found an old woman in her 60s or 70s walking in with a cane. When she found Zidie and me, she asked Feifei, "Are these two..." Feifei introduced each other to us: "These two are the police. They are here to investigate the third uncle and aunt. The aunt has just left... This is Mrs. Mei, who lives next door." Then she told Mrs. Mei that Gao Fortunately, we were killed in the lychee garden, and we were attacked by the fourth wife just now. Grandma Mei shook her head and sighed: "This cat demon is too scary. If we don't get rid of it as soon as possible, our village will not have a good life in the future." "Cat demon? Why do you say that?" Although the left side of the fourth wife's face does look like a cat, she cannot be said to be a cat demon just because of this. "You are foreigners, so you may not know some things. You probably haven't heard of the two-tailed cat demon..." Granny Mei moved a small bench and sat down, telling us the legend about the two-tailed cat demon—— Long, long ago, there was a young man named Fu Sheng here.His parents died early, and he has no siblings, so he can be regarded as an orphan.He was very poor, all his parents left him was a broken hoe, and he didn't even have a place to live.In order to make a living, he had to rent a field from the landlord, and built a simple thatched house beside the field to settle down. Although Fusheng is poor, he is diligent and kind. He often helps others and never quarrels with others.He is not only good to people, even to animals.Once he found a very old black cat with its tail cut off by someone on the side of a mountain, so he took it home and took care of it carefully, and did not send it away until its injury healed.Maybe you will think that this is just a very common thing, and it is not a big deal, but you must know that Fusheng was so poor that he couldn't even eat enough for himself. Although Fu Sheng was a good man, it was a pity that he was so poor that he still couldn't find a wife in his twenties.Moreover, in the eyes of some people, his kindness is a sign of cowardice, and people often take advantage of him, especially the landlord. The landlord is a mean and mean person. He often asks Fusheng to work in his house, but he never pays him any wages.Although many people thought that the landlord did too much and advised Fusheng not to help him anymore, but every time someone said that, he just smiled foolishly, and then continued to work for the landlord. Maybe it was because of doing too many bad things. Although the landlord married several concubines, he only had one daughter.His daughter's name is Shanshan. She has been weak and sickly since she was a child, and she has to drink medicine almost every day. There is even a servant in his family who specializes in making medicine for her. When Shanshan was sixteen years old, she had a cold and became very ill. Several doctors came to see her and said they couldn't save her. They asked the landlord to prepare for her funeral.The landlord only had this daughter, so she was willing to leave so early, but after trying everything, she still had to leave in the end. Shanshan left in the middle of the night, and the landlord originally planned to arrange a funeral for her the next morning.But early the next morning, when the landlord brought his servants to her room to prepare for the funeral, he found her sitting at the dressing table combing her hair.This frightened everyone. The servants thought they had seen a ghost, and they all ran away in fright, only the landlord did not run away. The landlord didn't run away not because he was brave, but because his feet were so frightened that he couldn't run even if he wanted to.When Shanshan saw the landlord standing outside the door, she went up to greet him and warmly took his arm.The landlord was frightened by her, and immediately peed out.However, he soon discovered that Shanshan's body was warm, and she could clearly see her feet, so it should be a human, not a ghost. Afterwards, the landlord asked Shanshan if anything special had happened the night before, and Shanshan told him that she was having a hard time last night, but then fell asleep in a daze.Then she had a dream, dreaming that the bull's head and horse face were coming to catch her to the underworld, but suddenly a fairy appeared and took them away.This fairy is very strange, with a pair of cat ears on his head, cat-like eyes, and two tails. The fairy said to her in a dream: "Your life span is over. Although I have driven away the bull's head and horse noodles for you just now, they will definitely come back again and take you to the underworld. If you still don't want to die, you must die." Find a man who can extend your life as soon as possible, and marry him immediately." She asked the god where to find this man, and the god said: "The first person to work in your father's field tomorrow is the one who can prolong your life." Afterwards, the landlord asked Shanshan if anything special happened the night before, and Shanshan told him that she felt very uncomfortable all night last night, and then fell asleep in a daze.Then she had a dream, dreaming that the bull's head and horse face were coming to catch her to the underworld, but suddenly a fairy appeared and drove them away.This fairy is very strange, with a pair of cat ears on his head, cat-like eyes, and two tails. The fairy said to her in a dream: "Your life span is over. Although I have helped you drive away the bull's head and horse noodles just now, they will definitely come back again and take you to the underworld. If you still don't want to die, you must do so as soon as possible." Find a man who can extend your life to you, and marry him immediately." She asked the god where to find this man, and the god said: "The first person to work in your father's field tomorrow is the one who can prolong your life." After hearing Shanshan's words, the landlord immediately took people to inspect the field.It was just dawn at this time, and the landlord thought he would have to wait for a long time before he saw someone going to work in the field.However, when he first came to the field, he had already seen a person weeding in the field, and this person was Fu Sheng, whom he usually looked down on the most. Although the landlord doesn't like Fusheng very much, he always thinks he is too simple and straightforward, and to put it bluntly, he is stupid.But he is the only one who can extend Shanshan's life, even if he doesn't like it, there is nothing he can do about it.So he asked his servants to arrest Fusheng, and took him home without saying anything. Fusheng didn't know why he was caught by the servants and brought to the landlord's house. He didn't know about Shanshan until he put on the bridegroom's official clothes, and the landlord wanted to recruit him to be his son-in-law.Although he and Shanshan have never met before, and they don't even know how old she is, and the landlord often bullies him, this marriage is still forced.However, with his family background, being able to find a wife is already a manifestation of his ancestors, not to mention that doing so can save Shanshan's life, so he has no objection.Of course, even if he objected, it would be useless, the landlord would still insist. Since she came back from the dead, Shanshan's body has miraculously recovered, and she no longer suffers from frequent illnesses as before, and she is accompanied by medicine every day.Her temperament has also changed a lot. Before, she was often unreasonable, but now she is completely different, like a lady who is elegant and intelligent. Shanshan's changes made the landlord feel very strange, but her resurrection from the dead is already miraculous enough, these changes are nothing, perhaps because she was blessed by the gods, so it happened.After all, she only came back to life by dreaming of a fairy, and she could more or less absorb a little bit of fairy energy in her dream.After having these thoughts, the landlord felt much more at ease, and went around telling others that his daughter had met a fairy. Shanshan, whose temperament has changed drastically, is very kind to Fusheng, and of course Fusheng, who is simple and honest, dare not disrespect his wife in the slightest, so the two have treated each other with respect since the day they got married, and their love is so enviable to others.But the landlord is not like his daughter. He never regards Fusheng as one of his own. He still looks down on him. Kick.Therefore, after Fusheng entered the landlord's house, he still failed to live a good life. Fusheng suffered a lot in the landlord's house, and more or less thought of leaving.But whenever he returned to the bedroom and was served by Shanshan tenderly, his heart could not be hardened, so he had to continue to be beaten and scolded by the landlord every day. However, Fusheng's bittersweet life did not take long to end, because the landlord died suddenly three months after he married Shanshan.And he died horribly, a hole appeared inexplicably between his brows, as if someone poked it out with a finger. After the landlord died for no apparent reason, his wife and concubines began to argue about splitting up the family, but after a few days of quarreling, they all died, and they all died in the same way as the landlord. Hole.At that time, everyone suspected that Fusheng killed them, thinking that he killed them in order to obtain the landlord's property.But Shanshan said that the landlord didn't trust Fusheng at all, and he was afraid that he would steal things, so he had servants to follow him wherever he went.And after the landlord died, she followed Fusheng every day. If Fusheng killed someone, she couldn't possibly not know about it. Now that Shanshan proved Fusheng's innocence, the yamen naturally let the matter go. After the funeral of the landlord and his wives and concubines, Fusheng inherited all the landlord's property as a matter of course. After that, Fusheng and Shanshan lived a happy life as husband and wife, but this kind of life only passed for a year. One night a year later, Fusheng woke up feeling dry mouth, so he got up to drink water.When he returned to the bed, he suddenly felt two furry, tail-like things.He was startled suddenly, thinking that animals like cats and dogs jumped onto the bed. In order to prevent the animal on the bed from hurting Shanshan, Fusheng did not dare to disturb it, so he tiptoed to the table and lit the oil lamp, and then walked to the bed with the oil lamp, trying to see clearly what animal was on the bed, and then tried to get rid of it. it drives away.However, when he approached the bed, he was terrified by the scene in front of him and screamed. What he touched just now were indeed two tails, but these two tails were protruding from Shanshan's back! After Shanshan was awakened by Fu Sheng, she immediately realized that Fu Sheng had found her tail.She told Fusheng not to panic, sat down and listened to her explanation slowly, and then asked Fusheng if he still remembered that she once rescued a black cat.Fu Sheng thought about it, and remembered that such a thing did happen, but it had been many years. Shanshan smiled and said to him, "Actually, I am that black cat..."