On the way home, Chi Mu noticed that there were obviously more villagers going out today.
"Strange, why are so many people out today? Aren't they all afraid of the murderer?"
Chi Mu felt very strange and stopped a villager to ask.
"Uncle, why are there so many people on the street today?"
The people who were stopped by Chi Mu looked at Chi Mu strangely: "Today is the day of sacrifice, everyone has to go to the Hunchback Temple to burn incense. Aren't you from our village? How come you even forgot this?"
"Oh, look at my memory. I forgot about it when I was busy these past two days."
Chi Mu pretended to forget and patted his forehead.
After this person left, Chi Mu looked towards the Hunchback Temple on the back mountain. He didn't expect that today was actually the day of sacrifice.
Chi Mu decided to go to the Hunchback Temple this afternoon, just under the pretext of burning incense, to observe it carefully.
As soon as he reached the door of his house, Chi Mu discovered that smoke was coming out of the chimney.
"Huh?"
Chi Mu's eyes narrowed. It was impossible for Xiaoxin and his mother to cook, so the person who was cooking at home now was his father?
Has father returned from selling the game?
Chi Mu quickened his pace and walked into the house, and found that his father was busy cutting vegetables and cooking.
"Dad, you're back."
"Well, come over and wash your hands and have dinner. I made a little more money from selling the game this time, so I bought some roast chicken."
My father spoke in a deep voice with a smile on his face.
Looking at his father's sturdy back, Chi Mu suddenly had an illusion that the middle-aged man in front of him was really his biological father.
"good."
Chi Mu didn't know why he was so obedient to wash his hands and sat at the table waiting for his father to bring the meal.
Xiaoxin and Chimu sat at the table together, eating roast chicken while talking about what happened at school. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
After his father sat down beside him, Chi Mu planned to ask his father what he thought about the recent deaths in the village.
"Father, after you left yesterday morning, Zhang Mazi from the village died, and this morning Jiang Shaobo's body was also found by the river at the west end of the village...why don't you go hunting in the back mountains recently?"
The father picked up the food and put it into his mouth without changing his expression: "If we don't hunt, your mother won't have money to buy the medicine she needs. We will never stop hunting.
I know all about those dead people. Haha, the reason they were killed and treated so miserably afterwards is that they deserved it.
I am upright and have never done anything as shameful as they did. I stand tall and proud, so why should I be afraid of this?"
My father's tone was full of disdain for the dead. It seemed that my father knew very well what kind of people those male dead were when they were alive.
This surprised Chi Mu as well.
Because most people in the village knew what kind of people the deceased were when they were alive, but only my father was so determined and not afraid of being targeted.
Such confidence definitely does not come out of thin air, my father must know more information!
"Wait, Lame Li said the other day that the village was not peaceful because some unclean things came down from the mountain and entered the village... and my father often went hunting in the back mountain, so there shouldn't be any connection between them?"
Chi Mu pondered in his mind, and then remembered his previous guess.
One of the murderers might not be a person at all, but an "it". If this is true, these three clues can be reasonably connected together.
The dirty thing that Lame Li mentioned was also the "it" in the murderer's mind. Both the father and Lame Li should have their own speculations about the murderer's identity.
The two of them were probably speculating about the same 'it'. Lame Li knew this because he often handled funerals and knew many Feng Shui secrets.
My father knew that 'it' existed. It is possible that he found some traces while hunting in the back mountain, which made him know of 'it's' existence.
"So, there was actually more than one murderer who killed those people who peeked at Widow Chen?"
Chi Mu once again had a new understanding of the murderers.
Since there is more than one murderer, why do they always arrange the scene to look the same after each night's end, so that the victims all die in the same way?
Could it be that it was just to make the villagers believe that these murders were all committed by the same person?
——"These murderers are very cunning. They deliberately made the victims die in the same way as Widow Chen, so that all the villagers would think that there is only one murderer."
——"There is nothing wrong with what they did. Once the identity of the first murderer is exposed, the villagers will no longer suspect others."
——"It seems that both Cripple Li and my father know the identity of the murderer?"
......
After Xiaoxin finished his meal and returned to his room, Chi Mu no longer had any concerns. He lowered his voice and asked his father.
"Dad, can you tell me what happened to Lin Zhang's wife? Did he marry someone from the next village?
You often go to other villages to sell game. If Lin Zhang's wife married to the next village, you should see her often, right?"
Chi Mu stared into his father's eyes, unwilling to miss any clues.
He asked his father this question because he couldn't understand the rule.
[3: The younger sister was carrying a doll on her back, and the mother's head was chopped off and buried in the ground. The younger sister loved to eat candy, but her candy was crushed and the doll was thrown away.]
The sister mentioned in this rule has many characteristics that match Lin Miaomiao.
So, this means that Lin Zhang’s wife did not actually marry into the next village, but had died.
Her head was directly looked down and buried in the ground!
As Chi Mu expected, after hearing this question, a trace of panic flashed across his father's eyes, and then he looked at Chi Mu in surprise.
"Xiao Mu, why are you asking me this question? Everyone in the village knows about this. Lin Zhang's wife did marry to the next village.
I...I met his wife when I went out to sell the game this time."
My father answered slowly and calmly. While speaking, he picked up the bowl and took two big mouthfuls of rice. He looked flawless.
But Chi Mu saw everything about his father's behavior.
When a person is lying, he likes to do other actions to cover up himself.
Ninety percent of what my father is doing now is lies!
"Well, I heard some rumors these days, and I thought Lin Zhang's wife didn't marry to the next village."
"You said these are just rumors. Rumors are just rumors after all. They have no credibility..."
My father replied in a low voice, finished his meal in a few bites, and stood up and left the table.
This action further confirmed Chi Mu's idea that Lin Zhang's wife definitely did not marry into the next village.
The father knew it.
But why did he hide this fact?
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