"Aren't you afraid of your soul being scattered?" The ghost servant pressed on step by step.
Huo Yan hesitated for a moment before saying, "As long as we can find the murderer, even if his soul scatters, it doesn't matter!"
The two ghosts clashed swiftly, brushing past each other in mid-air. A violent burst of energy shook the leaves in the yard. However, only Man Yuanyi and I could witness this spectacular scene; no one else felt a thing.
I took this opportunity to let Wu Xin tell the truth.
Wu Xin was so frightened by me that he couldn't resist my interrogation and could only confess honestly: "This matter started five years ago. Five years ago, when Huo Yan and Luo Qingguo were in love, Luo Yujia began to have murderous thoughts. She felt that if Huo Yan became her stepmother, and this "stepmother" had a son, she was worried that her family would favor sons over daughters. All the property that originally belonged to her would be divided in two, or even taken away by the "stepmother's" son. She was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, and she had already started planning to kill her stepmother."
"At the time, I had just met an old man who knew a lot about ghosts. He told me that for money, he would help people get rid of disasters. He could help me with many things, including murder, for money. But I didn't need his help, so I wanted to advertise for him so I could make a profit. So I put ads on Weibo, in middle school and high school groups, and so on. For a while, no one paid any attention to me. They thought I was crazy. Not long after, my high school classmate Luo Yujia, who I hadn't contacted in years, contacted me. Her purpose was to help her kill someone and asked me to do her this favor."
"She promised me that once the matter was settled, she would give me one-tenth of the Luo Group's assets. I was working hard at the time and was broke, so I thought I might as well try this great opportunity to make money... So I helped her invite the Yin-Yang master Bo Hongshan, who used his Yin-Yang magic to trick Huo Yan into eating human feces at mealtime, causing her to die. I didn't expect Huo Yan to harbor a grudge because of this. Luo Yujia didn't pay me accordingly, but instead arranged for me to work at a courier company, saying that promotions should be achieved step by step, and that I had to discuss the matter of the property with her father."
"I compromised and started working at the courier company... I heard from Luo Yujia that she originally wanted to kill Huo Liang, her father's godson, but because she thought he was handsome and had a crush on him, she didn't do it. Until recently, she heard that Huo Liang was going to marry Zhao Xi, so she asked Bo Hongshan to kill Zhao Xi... You all know what happened after that. This is all I know. Please let me go!"
After Wu Xin finished speaking, we all looked at each other in bewilderment. I wasn't surprised that Luo Yujia hired someone to murder Huo Yan for status and wealth, even though the truth was out. But the fact that Zhao Xi was going to marry Huo Liang was something I couldn't keep my composure.
But I can’t say anything at this moment. The most important thing right now is to solve the life-and-death crisis.
So, I reorganized Wu Xin's account and, connecting it with the context of my recent investigation, arrived at a more accurate answer: Five years ago, Luo Yujia commissioned the Yin-Yang master Bo Hongshan to use his Yin-Yang magic to confuse Huo Yan and cause her death, in order to preserve his position and wealth within the family. This was the premise. Later, Huo Yan's body was originally to be cremated, but Bo Hongshan stole it, using a different identity. He secretly buried it in the company restroom and planted winter willows underneath. Over the course of just two or three years, the winter willows, absorbing the corpse's cold and yin nutrients, grew stronger and stronger, providing the corpse with excellent nutrition. Soon, Huo Yan's body entered a cocooning state, guarded by a ghost.
Years later, Huo Yan overhears someone discussing her past, unleashing a rage she'd harbored for years. She appears before us as a dung-eating ghost. Initially, she's driven to murder by sheer resentment. Later, upon learning that Zhao Xi is marrying the man she loves, Huo Liang, Luo Yujia again asks Bo Hongshan to kill her. Under Bo Hongshan's instructions, Huo Yan acts with purpose, using her ghost chrysalis to search for a girl named "Zhao Xi." While her plan could have been successful, I intervened, leading to failure. I also chased Huo Yan away after she successfully cocooned herself.
When Yin-Yang Master Bo Hongshan learned about this, he asked Luo Yujia to find a way to kick me out of the company.
Connecting the past and the present, they fit together perfectly without any sense of incongruity.
So the question is, the murderer of Huo Yan was not Luo Yujia, Luo Yujia was just the planner, and the one who really killed Huo Yan was the Yin-Yang master Bo Hongshan... This makes the problem even more serious!
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