Chapter 12 Chapter 12 I was infected with the same symptoms...
"He is a Taoist priest recommended by my friend. Well, come to think of it, he also gave me mud. We met each other while fishing and we don't have any conflicts. Besides, we are not in the same industry and have no competitive relationship. Why would he target me?" Ding He said, suddenly remembering that this person had all the points that Su Yun was suspicious of.
Su Yun immediately asked: "Who is he? It doesn't matter, you can tell us first and we will help you investigate. If he is okay, you can continue to be his fishing friend without any worries."
We are all adults now, and finding out and talking things out clearly will always help maintain a relationship better than making random guesses.
Ding He sighed and agreed with Su Yun.
Regarding this person, I heard from him that he works in environmental protection and is within the system. He has been doing design and planning work for returning farmland to forest in the northwest for many years. So he likes fishing very much because it allows him to be close to water.
This person introduced himself as Yi Shangao, a native of central China. He usually worked in the northwest and occasionally went to various places for exploration and travel. For him, traveling to other places was also a form of work.
Coming from the northwest, he more or less knew a little about the regional feng shui. He and Ding He got along very well. The former loved to tell strange stories about the desert, loess and old forests, while Ding He told him about the weirdness and evil spirits of the houses. As a man, there are very few who don't like ghost stories.
After a few interactions, the two became familiar with each other and went from being fishing buddies to good friends.
When Ding He was unable to distract himself to deal with Tianshui Garden, the first person he thought of was Yi Shangao. After a while of complaining, Yi Shangao recommended a Taoist priest he knew, saying that the other party had good skills and was an honest person, and there would be no problem in helping to look after the ground.
Ding He naturally believed in his good brother's vision, so he invited the Taoist priest to come at the original price. Afterwards, Ding He went to see the house and felt that there was nothing wrong with its construction.
Later, when Yi Shangao was conducting research in the northwest, the experts there cultivated special soil and fertilizer. Thinking of Ding He, he sent some to Ding He, saying that he would try it out. If it worked well, he would officially put it into production.
"Are you sure this soil will be put into use in the northwest?" Su Yun suddenly became a little worried. If this thing can be put into production, will it affect people like Ding He?
But then again, other people were not affected. Could it be that Ding He was the only one who had this problem?
Ding He shook his head: "Then I don't know. Speaking of which, two or three months after I used the soil, I suddenly felt unwell. He came back to see me once in the winter, and said that he was guarding the forest this year, so he couldn't come to fish with me. In addition, I was in poor health, so we contacted less and less."
Su Yun was worried: "Now, is there any way to contact him? Besides, the northwest is too far away, and I can't get away for the time being."
"I'll try. I may not be able to get in touch with him. If there is no signal in the mountains, it may be difficult." Ding He didn't dare to guarantee it.
In short, we can only wait and see. If we can't find the person, it will be difficult for Su Yun to judge the cause and effect of Ding He in this matter. No matter how difficult it is, we must contact the person first.
Su Yun asked all the questions she wanted to know and then said goodbye. After leaving the ward, she happened to see Ding Yihua coming back. Su Yun greeted him and said that if she had any more questions later, she would come directly to Ding He. Ding Yihua had no objection.
After coming out of the military hospital, Su Yun saw that the first and second chefs also had cars, so he said he would go back to the funeral home first. After all, it was relatively closer than going to Tianshuiyuan.
They returned to the funeral home one after another, and Su Yun couldn't help asking the two chefs in the front hall what clues they had found.
The master chef took out a stack of papers from his Qiankun bag and handed it to Su Yun: "Here, we didn't find anything extra after we went there, only these formations. Speaking of which, it's very strange. These formations don't look like they have been set up for many years, and they have all been destroyed by Cheng Haixiang, but the use of this formation is very subtle."
From the thick stack of papers, it can be seen that Cheng Haixiang used a lot of formations for some reason when he went to find the business card. Moreover, he had destroyed them, so it was difficult to restore the specific uses of these formations in a short time. Therefore, the master chef and the second master chef could only make rubbings of the formations first.
Su Yun asked the two masters to go and have a rest, and took Lin Lang to the yard to spread out the things for inspection.
There will be certain defects after the formation is destroyed. Su Yun tried to rearrange it according to the logic of each formation, but after stacking several of them, the effect of the formation became unclear. She felt that a business card should not require a messy formation, so this formation should have other functions.
Cheng Haixiang said that he was only looking for the business card as Lai Shu suggested, and he came here without stopping after finding it. He didn't think about anything else. Even the first and second chefs who went to search didn't find anything unusual.
But does a business card need to be protected by so many formations?
Su Yiling and Ji Weitang are not difficult people to invite. They are both helpful and don't mind if you pay them a little less sometimes. Why does Lai Shu insist that Cheng Haixiang go through so many difficulties to find the business card before coming over?
With papers spread out on the floor, Su Yun sat on his recliner, his chin propped up with a sad face, puzzled.
Lin Lang was working hard on his research and even tried to repair a few formations. He was very focused on doing this kind of thing. Even though his friend had stopped and started to play dead and slack off, he had no complaints and took over Su Yun's share.
After partial repair, some contents of the formation could be understood. Su Yun picked up a few of them and found that they were all the same kind of formation.
Formation is a general category of Taoist skills, and there are many functions under it, such as teleportation formation, demon-suppressing formation, soul-guiding formation, etc. These are just general names, and the specific formation effects are different. The complexity of a teleportation formation that teleports one hundred meters is completely different from that of a teleportation formation that teleports one hundred kilometers.
Some formations are too large and difficult, so smart people will choose to superimpose them. One hundred meters plus one hundred meters will naturally equal two hundred meters. Of course, a formation is not just about overlapping two things. It must be drawn logically and be able to work.
Drawings like the ones brought back by the master chef are of the same type of superimposed formations. If you can understand one of them, you can infer the function of the entire formation. It is much easier to understand than the one arranged by the Sky Speaker.
These formations have three functions: suppression, transmission, and sacrifice.
After placing one of the corners, Lin Lang said, "This formation is usually used on large altars. The middle one is the sacrificial formation, the outermost one is the suppression formation, and the transmission in the middle is to obtain the things produced after the sacrifice and transport them to the corresponding place."
"You mean, these formations were supposed to be used to sacrifice something?" Su Yun also suspected this, but the only thing Cheng Haixiang found was a business card. What's the use of suppressing a sacrifice with a business card?
It is still useful to sacrifice to Su Yiling and Ji Weitong.
Lin Lang shook his head: "I'm not sure, maybe the item is gone. Besides, didn't you say, Director, that we can't trust everything Cheng Haixiang says?"
Who knows whether Cheng Haixiang embezzled the sacrificial offerings?
Su Yun put down the blueprint: "Yes, but now all the information comes from him alone, and we can only infer it from him. If we assume in advance that all his words are false, then there is only one result."
"What is it?" Lin Lang looked up at Su Yun curiously.
"The formation is used to suppress the sacrificial object, which is the coffin inside." Su Yun pointed in the direction of the morgue.
Lin Lang was stunned for a moment: "But, Cheng Haixiang went to destroy the formation and finally brought the coffin out. Why did he send the coffin to us? Is it for us to open it, or is there some problem behind this coffin that he can't bear and wants to outsource the disaster?"
Su Yun spread his hands and said, "I don't know. Anyway, since he said so, let's just assume that there really is a person named Lai Shu in the coffin."
After a while, the master chef came over after washing up and asked Su Yun if he had seen anything.
Hearing the master chef ask this, Su Yun felt strange: "Master chef, you usually don't care about this kind of thing, why are you suddenly asking this time?"
The master chef frowned and looked even more ferocious: "I don't know. After the second brother and I went in according to Cheng Haixiang's instructions, we always felt that something was wrong, but we couldn't tell what was wrong. It didn't look dangerous at all. Cheng Haixiang destroyed most of the mechanisms, but it just made people feel uncomfortable."
Hearing similar sentences, Su Yun was startled: "Wait, did you say something similar to Cheng Haixiang? It seems normal, logical, and not dangerous, but it just feels wrong?"
As a result, the master chef and Lin Lang next to him were both stunned where they were. Things suddenly became weird, as if everyone had developed severe paranoia overnight.
The master chef wiped his face and said, "Did I get infected by Cheng Haixiang..."
Su Yun hadn't taken it too seriously before, but now she had to deal with it seriously. She stood up from the recliner and walked to the master chef: "Master chef, did you and the second master go straight in? Was there no obstruction?"
"No, the place we went to was a house in the mountains. There was an old lock at the door, and the key was used to open that lock. After entering the room, there was an open underground entrance. From then on, it was almost smooth sailing. All the key doors had been opened, and the formations had all been destroyed." The master chef explained it again.
Like Cheng Haixiang, no matter how many times he is asked, the answer remains the same.
Su Yun fell into deep thought, walking back and forth in the yard with his hands folded.
The whole thing has a flavor of a riddle. In the beginning, it was Cheng Haixiang who caused the accident in Tianshuiyuan. According to the normal thinking order, the funeral home must investigate Lai Shu and Cheng Haixiang, at least to prove that what Cheng Haixiang said was true and that Lai Shu existed.
After finding Tianshuiyuan, they inevitably have to find Ding He. Ding He provided information about Yi Shangao. Then, they explored the place where Cheng Haixiang went and found the formation.
Solving a case is actually a connecting game. Those that can be connected online are real, and those that cannot be connected are doubtful.
Looking at the overall situation, there are too many places that cannot be connected online. Because they are all fragmented clues, the connection is completely unsuccessful and nothing is connected correctly. It is difficult for Su Yun to guess where the connection cannot be made, and she cannot guarantee that the connection is correct.
After much thought, Su Yun could only record the clues temporarily and wait for news about Yi Shangao.
No accidents happened after the weekend, and even Tianshui Garden was very peaceful. Lin Lang asked if he should go over and change the stakes in Tianshui Garden, but Su Yun was afraid of alerting the enemy, so he only left the ghost and the ghost bride in Tianshui Garden to guard against any accidents. If anyone had any more accidents, the two of them could provide timely rescue.
Ding Yihua originally planned to go to the grassroots with another girl on Wednesday. He was going to the impoverished areas in the southwest, where the altitude is high and there are no roads. This time they were going there to provide aid for the development of the western region, and what they had to do was to build roads. This work was no less than changing people's social cognition.
To accomplish this kind of thing is not something that can be done by one or two grassroots staff members. The entire aid plan is based on a ten-year dimension, and Ding Yihua only needs to complete one part of it perfectly.
On Wednesday, friends were unable to see Ding Yihua off as he was a government employee after all. Only government colleagues and leaders gave him a token of their appreciation.
On Friday, Ding Yixia sent a message to Su Yun, saying that Yi Shangao had been contacted.
Su Yun was very surprised and asked on the phone: "So soon? Didn't he say he was guarding the forest?"
Ding Yixia's voice sounded even more timid over the phone: "Yes, Uncle Yi is guarding the forest, but he occasionally goes to the nearby station to report. This time it was just a coincidence."
When Yi Shangao heard about this, he took a leave of absence and went from the northwest to Bincheng. He arrived just after dawn on Friday. When Ding Yixia heard about it in the morning, she immediately called Su Yun.
Firstly, Yi Shangao heard that his fishing friend was getting more seriously ill and wanted to come and visit him; secondly, he heard from Ding He that some juniors suspected that there was something wrong with the Taoist priest he recommended and the soil he sent.
Yi Shangao didn't expect that his good intention to help Ding He caused such great harm. He felt very uncomfortable and asked for leave and came here immediately, not daring to delay at all.
When Su Yun arrived, Yi Shangao and Ding He had already finished reminiscing about the past. It was obvious that Yi Shangao felt very guilty, but when he saw Su Yun appear, he was still a little suspicious.
"Old Ding, this is what you said..." Yi Shangao had been listening for the whole morning and really didn't expect Su Yun to be so young.
Ding He nodded: "Yes, this is Yunyun. Don't look at her young age, she is very powerful."
Yi Shangao looked Su Yun in the face and extended his hand: "Hello, I'm Yi Shangao, so can I call you Director Su?"
Su Yun shook hands with him and said, "No need, Uncle Yi. You can just follow Uncle Ding and call me Yunyun. I am a junior. I am sorry to trouble you to make a special trip for this matter."
Speaking of this, Yi Shangao still felt guilty: "Hey, how can you say that you are bothering me? Old Ding, you should have told me earlier. It has been delayed for so long and I didn't know about it. What if when my forest guarding period is over, you will - Hey, let's not talk about this. Yunyun, do you have any ideas?"
"I have two questions. First, you should know the identity information of that Taoist priest. Can you tell me where he came from? Second, I want to ask, was that mud really studied by experts from your research institute?" Su Yun had these two questions, and he could have asked them over the phone, but he didn't expect Yi Shangao to come over in person.
Yi Shangao immediately gave a positive answer: "Of course, I met the Taoist priest in the northwest. He said he was a wandering Taoist priest. I only left his phone number. You can contact him to ask about the situation. As for the soil, we specially developed it using Northwest soil. It has been put into use this year and the effect is also good."
The Taoist priest's contact information was pushed to Su Yun. He was not in a hurry for the moment. Su Yun was more concerned about the research and development of the soil: "But, according to the inspection of my employees, the soil has a strong stench of corpses. Logically speaking, it would not be possible to achieve this level if it were not a rotting zombie. Are you sure that this soil was researched and not dug out from somewhere?"
After hearing what Su Yun said, Yi Shangao was also dumbfounded. He was old and had seen many things. He had also heard of similar things, such as planting things in the soil to change the feng shui and curse the people in the house.
Good things are called talismans, which can protect the house and bring peace to the family. Bad things are called unlucky things, which are purely for the purpose of killing people.
After thinking for several minutes, Yi Shangao shook his head and said, "I still don't believe that the experts would use such soil to treat the forest. I packed the soil myself. Apart from the stench of fertilizer, there are no other problems."
Ding He was in poor health and had a bad memory. He had said this before. Now, after listening to Yi Shangao's story, he finally remembered: "Hey, that day, Old Yi, you personally delivered it to us. Didn't we lay the soil together? And then we happened to dig up earthworms, so we went fishing?"
Hearing this, Yi Shangao paused, then clapped his hands suddenly: "Yes! This soil needs to be laid in the ground for at least half a month. We dug a big hole, caught several earthworms, and then spread the soil casually, and then made bait to go fishing."
"That's right," Ding He lost himself in memory. "It was still summer then, and the smell was already very strong. I've seen rotting corpses before, but the smell at that time wasn't from a rotting corpse. It was definitely the stench of fertilizer."
Occasionally, there are dead workers on the construction site. The most unfortunate ones are those who are discovered a long time after their death. That smell, once smelled, will never be forgotten. Ding He just woke up a few days ago and was not in good spirits. Su Yun said that there was a lingering corpse smell in the soil, so he didn't think much about it.
I have been treated with the prescription given by the master chef for several days now. Now I feel more energetic and my memory is clearer.
Su Yun was even more confused: "Since you know the smell of a corpse, how come you don't know that the smell of the soil in your own garden has changed?"
Ding He counted the dates in his mind and said, "Come to think of it, I hadn't taken care of the garden for about a month before I was suddenly admitted to the hospital. It was around mid-September to mid-October last year. I don't know if you've seen it, but my wife had a movie tour at that time, and my wife and I went to participate in the roadshow and preview."
He hadn't taken care of the garden for a month, and then when he got home he had to deal with various things that had accumulated in the company, and had no time to take care of the garden. Before he had time to spare, Ding He fell ill, and no one paid attention to the problems in the garden. He himself didn't have the energy to do it. Except him, no one in the family recognized the smell of the corpse, so it has dragged on until now, and he has been in the hospital repeatedly.
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