Holding the divination knife tightly, my eyelids were twitching wildly.
I stared at the burial clothes on the bed for several seconds, and then my eyes darted left and right, even under the bed. I quickly glanced sideways, but found nothing.
The handle of the divination knife is wrapped with a green hemp rope, and the green hemp rope is soaked in black dog blood, which has the effect of warding off evil spirits.
Holding it for a long time at this time slightly dispelled some of the chill from my body.
I calmed down, then stood up, and frowned at the burial clothes for a while.
At this moment, I couldn't be sure at all whether this was the boy I saw putting next to me before, or another "person" that He Fei and I deduced.
After all, it couldn't be Huo Kunmin's wife Qi Si.
She is now trapped in the fast water and cannot get to the shore...
When I thought of this, my heart skipped a beat.
I directly excluded the boy because I ignored a fundamental issue.
This is also the reason why He Pheasant and I speculated that there is a third "person"!
After the boy who died young takes revenge, he will only haunt his biological father!
There was someone else who harmed Huo Kunmin, and the one who was placed in the coffin was probably the third "person"?
I closed my eyes, calmed my thoughts completely, took off the burial clothes from the side of the bed, and placed them on the table in the room.
Then I went to He Zhi's room again. After knocking on the door, He Zhi's confused voice came from inside the room, asking who it was.
I hurriedly asked He Zhi if she had any questions.
He Zhi was obviously sleepy, and he replied without hesitation that he would talk about it in the morning if he had anything to do.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, He Fei is okay. Although she has injuries on her legs, her skills are still good. She is much better than me after all.
However, I still warned her to be careful. I might be targeted by something, and she should also be careful.
In the end, I didn't know whether He Zhi answered me. After waiting for a while, the wind started blowing in the courtyard.
The cool night breeze blows on my body, making it chilly.
In addition, I felt like there were always eyes staring at me from the dark, which made me extremely uncomfortable.
Unable to stand in the courtyard, I returned to the room.
I closed the door directly with my backhand, my head ached slightly, and I couldn't suppress my sleepiness at all.
I used the divination knife as a door valve and crossed it across the door.
This way, nothing should be able to get in.
I went back to bed and lay down, and I fell asleep quickly.
The rest of the night felt much more peaceful, with no dreams or other incidents.
I slept until dawn, and when I opened my eyes, the sun was dazzling in the room.
I sat up, calmed down a little, and stretched my neck again.
Glancing at the burial clothes on the table, I got dressed and got out of bed. When I went to open the door, the fortune-telling knife was still pinned to the door valve.
I took off my fortune-telling knife and pushed the door open. The sun was shining brightly in the side courtyard. He Zhi was already sitting next to a stone table. She was playing with a few copper coins in her hand, seeming a little bored.
It was obvious that He Pheasant had a good rest, with a rosy complexion and full of energy.
Just then, He Pheasant turned back to look at me, pouted, put away the copper plate and then said: "You are finally awake, you won't go back to sleep until noon." However, there was a little doubt in her eyes, and she asked me if I had gone there last night. He called her and said she was being targeted by something?
After being reflected by the sunlight for a moment, the ironing finally made me wake up completely.
I smiled bitterly. He Zhi must have been too sleepy last night, so he didn't remember clearly what I said.
After a brief pause, I recounted what happened last night and went to the room to take out the burial clothes.
He Zhi's expression immediately became more solemn, and the serious look on his childish face was really good-looking.
I was only slightly distracted, and then I immediately dismissed the distracting thoughts.
He Zhi asked me to take the burial clothes and put them on the stone table.
When she said this, her expression was still full of confusion, and her eyes kept falling on the burial clothes in my hand.
After I put down the burial clothes as she said, He Zhi immediately took out a small fire stick and lit a corner of the burial clothes.
Amid the chissing sound, a faint orange flame rose.
But under the sunlight, the fire was very unclear.
There were more doubts on He Zhi's face, and his eyebrows were furrowed.
At this moment, two people suddenly walked in hurriedly at the entrance of the courtyard.
The one at the head was the coachman who brought us here last night, and behind him was a thin man with a round face.
The man was dressed in yellow cloth, a gray and black mandarin jacket, and a hat on his head. He was clearly in the attire of a butler.
When the two of them arrived in front of He Zhi and I, the driver first greeted us with a respectful smile, and then introduced the person behind him, saying that he was the housekeeper of the villa, who was here to pick us up to meet the owner of the house.
At this moment, the flames on the burial clothes were extinguished inexplicably.
He Zhi's eyelids twitched slightly, and I was also a little frightened.
The coachman was still smiling at first, but when he saw the burial clothes, his expression changed.
The same was true for the housekeeper, whose face turned slightly pale, with uneasiness and fear in his expression.
He looked alert and carefully asked us if we encountered anything dirty last night. !
When he said this, he tilted his head slightly forward and moved closer to us.
All in all, his demeanor and movements were very confusing, as if he was frightened.
My heart trembled, He Zhi also looked at me, and we both looked at each other.
I immediately asked the butler to tell me, what else happened in this villa?
This scene frightened the coachman greatly, and he looked confused and uneasy.
I could tell at a glance that he obviously didn't know what the butler was talking about.
However, the coachman and we both arrived last night, so it’s normal that he doesn’t know.
But He Zhi and I did not interfere with the housekeeper.
The housekeeper lowered his head and thought for a while, and then he whispered extremely cautiously: "The eldest young master disappeared some time ago, and after the madam jumped into the river, many strange things happened in the villa. I don't know whether it was the eldest young master who "came back" or the madam. …”
"A servant got up in the middle of the night and fainted in the yard for no apparent reason. When it dawned, someone found him wearing a dead man's clothes. Moreover, the dry well behind the villa was full of blood... There have been several servants these days. Missing, unknown whereabouts..."
"The weirdest thing is that from time to time, letters in blood will appear in the yard in the middle of the night, saying "pay off debts!"
When he said this last sentence, the butler's eyes became more panicked.
He stared blankly at the burial clothes, beads of sweat falling from his forehead.
I frowned even more tightly. The butler's words almost confirmed He Zhi and I's inferences.
He Zhi suddenly said that he wanted to see the dry well.
The housekeeper said cautiously that we should go see the head of the family first, he is waiting for us.
I nodded and told He Zhi to meet Huo Kunmin first and ask him some questions along the way. We had to have a plan.
The affairs of the Huo family are too difficult. Originally, the boy who died in infancy killed someone in revenge, so there would be no murderous corpse.
But it happened that Huo Kunmin's wife Qi Si died in the rushing water, and she was suddenly rushed to death.
Now there is another sneaky thing in this villa. The combination of these three things is not only dangerous, but also the situation is more complicated. If we don't pay attention, He Fei and I may have our lives involved.
