Chapter 230 Crying at midnight Part 4
"Does the little girl you two saw look like the clay doll in the ancestral hall?" Lin Xiuyuan asked after seeing their reactions.
Jian Xing hesitated and said, "I'm not sure, but hearing Chu Ning and the others talk about it, there are indeed some similarities."
Lin Xiuyuan walked to the edge of the roof, looked down at the villagers who were still circling the house, then looked up at the village hidden by the grove.
"Wait until these people disappear, then we'll go take a look at the ancestral hall."
Du Nuo looked at the villagers with dark complexions who continued to appear in the grove. He couldn't help but complain, "The director is a big liar. She clearly told me that this is a variety show about decryption."
"I got scared twice today!"
Zheng Yilun: "That's not good of you. I've never been scared once."
Everyone: ………
I don’t know who was frightened by the crying.
Lin Xiuyuan was too lazy to expose him.
He lowered his head and continued to flip through the work record book he found in the house, trying to make clear the blurred handwriting on it.
Why is there such a work record book?
Where did the homeowner get so much cash?
What is the purpose of the names recorded above?
Why would the villagers who died like this appear and confess to the clay dolls in the ancestral hall?
Why did the villagers chase them after the old woman fainted?
What is the relationship between the little girl and the clay doll mentioned by Shen Jingwen and the others?
Why do middle-aged men chop people when they see them?
There were too many questions tangled in his mind, but unfortunately everyone was so scared at the beginning that they were so busy running away that they forgot to look for clues.
There are too few known clues at the moment, so we can only wait until these people stop chasing them, and then solve them one by one.
Variety shows will definitely not let the guests work until dark.
It was almost time. The extras playing the villagers all retreated like the tide.
This is also a signal to tell everyone that it is dark.
The eight people waited until all the villagers disappeared into the grove before they put down the ladder and came down from the roof.
After going downstairs, Lin Xiuyuan suggested that everyone search the room again to see if there was anything missed.
Sure enough, when An Chuning stood up while rummaging through the drawer, she accidentally knocked over all the tablets placed by the host family, and she saw the words written on the back of the tablets.
After death, one will go to the skinning hell and suffer the punishment of skinning for a hundred years.
This is what is written on every tablet.
"Come here!" She called everyone over.
Lin Xiuyuan moved the fastest.
After seeing the words clearly, he frowned and said, "Have you studied the punishment methods and crimes targeted by the Eighteen Hells?"
"What sin did you commit in your life to be sent to the Flaying Hell?"
Everyone looked at each other, wondering who would study this for free?
There is no other choice but to continue looking for clues.
After searching for a long time, I only found a project drawing for building a bridge.
They even searched inside the coffin, but found nothing else, so they moved on to the ancestral hall.
There was no villager in the ancestral hall at night.
There was only the whistling wind, the crumbling door, and the faded red silk.
An Chuning: "Look, this is the clay doll that Brother He Nan and I saw."
She didn't dare to point, but used her eyes to signal everyone to look.
Ana Shen tried hard to identify the face of the clay doll.
Apart from the two braids, she could not see any resemblance between the clay doll and the little girl.
"It must be a coincidence. This clay doll is not that little girl."
Isn’t it?
An Chu Ning felt it was strange, "Even if it's not, there must be some connection between the two."
Zhou Wei: "We can only speculate now, without any evidence to prove our idea. Let's first look for other clues in the ancestral hall."
Everyone started searching.
With so many people around, Zheng Yiluan became bolder. He looked at each tablet one by one and found that the sentence they saw was written on the back of each tablet.
He was watching so intently that he didn't notice a pair of hands reaching out from under the table next to him.
The hands held Zheng Yiluan's feet.
"Ahhhhhh Mom! Help!"
Zheng Yiluan swung his legs wildly to push the hands away.
Everyone was frightened by his noise. They turned around and saw the old man under the table.
This was the person that Lin Xiuyuan and the others met.
"Old man?" Lin Xiuyuan tried to communicate with him.
The old man crawled out from under the table and looked at everyone fiercely. "You are not from this village, why are you entering our village's ancestral hall! Get out!"
Lin Xiuyuan: "Old man, we have no ill intentions. We are here to investigate a case. We heard that many people have "died" in this village. We are here to save you."
He didn't say that he was here to find the murderer, because maybe everyone in this village was a murderer.
Everything that happened here was due to revenge, but no one knew what caused this revenge.
By accident, his words made the old man look surprised, "You were sent by Master Yan, right?"
"Is Master Yan okay? He was the one who taught us to do all those things. It doesn't make sense that everyone here is dead, but he is still okay."
The old man rushed to Lin Xiuyuan, stretched out his hands and tightly grasped his arms, his eyes flashing with ferocity.
Zhou Wei, Jian Xing, and Du Nuo rushed forward and tried to separate the two people.
Lin Xiuyuan shook his head to stop their actions, "I'm fine."
"Old man, I don't know the Master Yan you mentioned. We are sent by the authorities."
"Officials? Take me to jail! Quickly!"
The old man let go of Lin Xiuyuan's hand, put his hands together, and stretched them in front of Lin Xiuyuan.
He put on an expression as if he couldn't wait to be caught.
Those hands remained stretched out like that, as if he would not give up until Lin Xiuyuan caught him.
Lin Xiuyuan had no choice but to say, "Find a rope."
Zhou Wei found one from outside and brought it in.
After tying the old man's hands, Lin Xiuyuan asked, "Can you tell me why I took you away?"
"This is my retribution for what I did wrong."
Jian Xing: "What did you do wrong?"
"It's an outrageous thing, and the whole village participated in it."
"She was crying and shouting there, begging for mercy from us, hahahahaha, but no one was willing to let her go. If we let her go, the workers in the village wouldn't get paid."
"Master Yan said that sacrificing her would benefit the entire village."
"Juanzi, your parents agreed! Why did you come back to us? Parents' orders! Your life was given by your parents! It's their right to take it back. Why do you come back to hurt the person wearing you!"
"Hahahaha, listen! The crying has stopped. Hahahaha, another person has died."
Everyone was reminded and realized that the crying sound that had been lingering in their ears had stopped at some point.
Lin Xiuyuan looked around and his expression changed.
"Where's He Nan?"
Everyone was shouting and searching, and finally they saw Henan lying on the ground in a small house nearby with a clay doll in his hand.
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