Chapter 68 Chapter 68 The truth about the immortal's magic
Chapter 68
"Because of the fact that we sent our eldest daughter to the afterlife, my mother never spoke another word to us until she died."
When Zhang Dayong mentioned Mrs. Zhang, he showed a rare sense of guilt in his eyes. "My mother relied on the help of our neighbor Yang Mazi's family for the last two years of her life. But later, Yang Mazi's family moved to the city."
Ever since Mrs. Zhang had a falling out with Zhang Dayong and his wife, she has been living alone in the most remote area of Yaoxia Village. The only neighbors around are Yang Mazi's family.
After Yang Mazi moved away, Zhang Po was the only one living on the outskirts of the village.
Later, the lonely Mrs. Zhang was brutally murdered.
At this point, Zhang Dayong burst into tears: "I should live next to my mother! I should live next to my mother!"
He cried heartbreakingly, but no one in the interrogation room sympathized with him.
Wen Tingting turned her back, exhaled secretly, and muttered softly: "It's really pitiful for your mother to have a son like you."
Judging from Mrs. Zhang’s behavior alone, she is not a bad person. Instead, she is a rare “good person” in the entire village.
Qin Ye didn't say anything, but drew a circle around the names of Yang Mazi and Xiantu with the tip of his pen.
Before Zhang Pozi was murdered, the people she had most frequent contact with were Yang Mazi's family, so we can definitely get more clues from this family.
As for the immortal disciple mentioned by Zhang Dayong...he had every motive to kill Mrs. Zhang.
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When Qin Ye and others walked out of the interrogation room, the sky was already turning pale and the lights in the offices of the bureau were gradually lit up.
As soon as they returned to the first team's office, Murong and Liang Dong, who stayed in the office, immediately surrounded them. Murong asked, "Captain Qin, have you found out the result?"
Qin Ye nodded and handed the transcript in his hand to Murong.
Seeing this, Liang Dong, who had been silent all the time, also came up to Murong and started to look through Zhang Dayong's confession with him.
Liang Dong's education level was not high. He had only read less than half of the book when he burst into swear words in anger: "What a bunch of beasts! They do such a conscienceless thing, and they are not afraid that their son will have no butt!!!"
He is the only one in the Criminal Investigation Team who is married and has a child, a daughter.
At first, he was a little unhappy about having a daughter. But later, when he held that soft and tender little ball in his arms, his heart, no matter how rough and hard it was, softened, and he felt more and more that his daughter was good.
Liang Dong really couldn't imagine why someone could be so heartless as to do such a cruel thing to his own daughter just to have a son.
Thinking of this, he cursed more and more harshly, and didn't even notice that Qin Ye and Murong's faces beside him slowly changed.
Qin Ye had no choice but to change the subject and interrupt Liang Dong's passionate cursing: "According to the clues Zhang Dayong gave us, we will split into two groups - Li Quan, Liang Dong and I will go to capture the immortal disciple Zhang Dayong mentioned, and Brother Qian will take Tingting and Murong to inquire about the whereabouts of Yang Mazi's family."
This time, no one, including Liang Dong, objected to her arrangement.
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Suburbs of town.
Zhang Dayong was escorted by Liang Dong and Li Quan, staggering in front and leading the way.
Qin Ye followed the three people, climbing over one ridge after another. Just when she began to wonder if Zhang Dayong was playing tricks on them, she heard Zhang Dayong say, "The courtyard where the immortal disciple performed a ritual to pray for a child... is... right in front..."
She looked up and saw a lush fruit forest in front of her. She walked along the forest for nearly a kilometer before she finally saw a small courtyard in the distance.
The gate of the courtyard is tightly closed and hidden among the shadows of the trees. Ordinary people cannot discover the mystery inside at all.
Qin Ye lowered his voice and said to Zhang Dayong: "Knock on the door."
Zhang Dayong nodded and, according to the previously agreed-upon code, knocked three times lightly and five times heavily.
He repeated it three times before footsteps were heard in the yard: "Who is it?"
Qin Ye and the others had already retreated to both sides of the courtyard gate, leaving Zhang Dayong at the gate to talk to the people in the courtyard: "It's me, Zhang Dayong, Brother Chang, I want to ask the First Immortal, when will my family be able to have a boy."
The immortal disciple called Brother Chang heard that it was Zhang Dayong's voice, and without thinking anything else, he opened the gate directly.
The next second, Qin Ye dodged and kicked, and Brother Chang inside the door instantly lost his ability to move and was pinned to the ground by her.
She grabbed Chang Ge's collar, forced him to look up at Zhang Dayong, and asked, "Zhang Dayong, is he the immortal disciple you mentioned?"
Zhang Dayong bent down to take a look and nodded repeatedly: "It's him, it's him. That's the room where he performed the ritual for us to have children."
He did not forget to point to the house on the far right of the yard.
Brother Chang realized what had happened only then. He tried to struggle to no avail and could only yell at Zhang Dayong: "Damn it Zhang Dayong! How dare you call the police to arrest me?!"
Qin Ye took out the handcuffs and handcuffed Brother Chang directly: "Where is your chief immortal?"
Hearing this, Brother Chang came back to his senses from his fury, his cold eyes fell on Qin Ye, and he smiled: "The famous Captain Qin Ye - Shouxian asked me to tell you that he can kill you once, and he can also kill you a second time."
Upon hearing this, everyone present except Qin Ye was shocked.
"What the hell are you talking about!"
Li Quan was the first to react. He went up and wanted to beat up Brother Chang, but Qin Ye stopped him with his hand: "Now is not the time to be angry. Let's go to the room where the ritual is being performed first."
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The room where the ritual is performed is simply furnished, with only a table in the front, on which are placed candlesticks, incense burners and the "statues" for worship.
At the back of the room, there was a small bed embroidered with strange patterns. At the head of the bed was a wooden box also painted with patterns. A rope wrapped in yellow cloth extended from the box, and there seemed to be something hard tied to the front end.
Zhang Dayong saw Qin Ye staring at the wooden box, raised his handcuffed hands and bowed devoutly, then explained to her: "This is the immortal platform used by the immortals to inquire about the first immortal."
Qin Ye was confused: "Ask about the immortal's immortal platform?"
Zhang Dayong nodded heavily: "Through the immortal platform, we can ask the chief immortal whether this baby can be born as a boy. As long as the chief immortal agrees, the baby will definitely be a boy."
Hearing this, Li Quan couldn't help but mutter, "Why does it sound so mysterious?"
"It really shouldn't be so mysterious."
Qin Ye took over the conversation, walked forward, grabbed the "rope" wrapped in yellow cloth, and pulled it hard.
Zhang Dayong was so frightened that his face turned pale: "Qin Public Security! You..."
He was about to say that this was disrespectful and the First Immortal would blame him, but when he met Qin Ye's cold glance, he swallowed his words silently.
The next second, Qin Ye tore open the yellow cloth, revealing a piece of mouse-gray wire. At the bottom of the wire is a small square that looks like a small iron.
"What is this? Like an iron?"
Li Quan had often gone to the Qin family's tailor shop to help, so he knew the appearance of the iron very well.
Liang Dong and Zhang Dayong had never seen an iron before. They just thought it was strange, but they couldn't tell what it was exactly.
Qin Ye turned his head and looked at Brother Chang who was handcuffed to the window railing.
When the other party saw her looking at him, he sneered: "It seems that the first immortal guessed correctly. You really know this thing."
Qin Ye did not respond, but said to Liang Dong and Li Quan: "Smash the box open, don't damage the things inside."
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The box was smashed open, and hidden inside was a machine similar to a black and white TV.
"What...what is this?"
Zhang Dayong never thought that there was such a thing hidden in the box. "Or is it the first immortal?"
Thinking of this, he clasped his hands together again and wanted to bow and worship again.
Qin Ye looked at the old-fashioned B-ultrasound machine in front of him and thought it was true, but at the same time, he thought it was ridiculous: "This is a B-ultrasound machine. Use it to take a picture of a pregnant woman's belly and you can know whether the fetus is a boy or a girl."
Zhang Dayong's gesture of worshipping the Immortal was frozen in place: "Qin Gongan, what did you say?"
Ultrasound machines were not popular in that era, and there were probably only a few of them in the entire Wuning City's hospitals. People like Zhang Dayong, who had only left the village a few times in his life, naturally had never heard of them, let alone seen them.
After listening to Qin Ye's explanation of the function of the ultrasound machine, Li Quan suddenly realized something: "In other words! This so-called immortal disciple Brother Chang is using the ultrasound machine to help the villagers determine whether the baby is a boy or a girl!"
Liang Dong heard this and pulled Brother Chang to his side: "Tell me, if it turns out that you are pregnant with a girl, what would you say to make these villagers believe you?"
At this point, Brother Chang was too lazy to hide it from them and said bluntly: "If it turns out to be a girl, I will mix some abortion medicine in the magic water for the pregnant woman. In less than two days, the baby will be aborted. Then I will tell them that they are not pious enough and the First Immortal is unwilling to give them the child."
If the pregnant woman is carrying a boy, Chang Ge says that this is the "gift from the First Immortal"; if she is carrying a girl, it means that "the time has not come yet" and she needs to worship the First Immortal more devoutly and perform more pious rituals in order to obtain the "gift."
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible."
Zhang Dayong slumped down on the ground, "You lied to me, you lied to me. The First Immortal cannot lie to his followers. It's impossible... I clearly sent my daughter to the afterlife. The First Immortal said that this way, I can give birth to a boy."
Seeing Zhang Dayong's crazy expression, Brother Chang laughed and taunted him, "Idiot. How could I fool you fools if I didn't make it a little mysterious? In your whole village, your mother is the only smart person. What a pity... Smart people don't live long."
As he said this, he looked at Qin Ye meaningfully again.
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Zhang Dayong didn't know how he walked out of the yard.
He just felt that the sun in the sky was too bright and it hurt his eyes.
Faintly, he seemed to hear Daya's heart-wrenching cry again: "Dad, Mom, I will also respect you, please don't kill me, please, don't kill me for my brother..."
There was also Mrs. Zhang who hit him hard with a stick, crying and cursing in despair: "The Immortal is a liar! A liar! How can you have the heart to kill your own daughter just for the words of a liar?!"
It's too late, everything is too late.
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On the other side, Wen Tingting, Qian Yaguang and Murong successfully found Yang Mazi's family.
Yang Mazi, as his name suggests, has pockmarks all over his face. After listening to the people's explanation of their purpose, he smiled and wrinkled his pockmarked face, and warmly invited them in: "You came to ask about Aunt Zhang. She is a first-class good person."
While Yang Mazi was pouring tea for several people, he was praising Mrs. Zhang and kept saying good things about her.
Wen Tingting looked at Yang Mazi's house calmly.
The whole house is decorated in a particularly warm style, with traces of children's lives everywhere. On the cabinet in the living room, there is a wedding photo of Yang Mazi and his wife.
According to the villagers' confession, Yang Mazi made a lot of money when his wife was pregnant. In order to give his wife and children a better life, the family moved to the city before his wife gave birth.
Thinking of this, Wen Tingting smiled and asked, "Comrade Yang Mazi, where is your wife?"
Yang Mazi froze while putting down the kettle, then quickly smiled again: "She is in the next room coaxing the child to sleep."
Following the direction of Yang Mazi's finger, the few people could indeed faintly hear the sound of a woman singing a lullaby.
Qian Yaguang was much more direct than Wen Tingting. He frowned and said, "Yang Mazi, you should also know about Mrs. Zhang's abortions, right?"
Yang Mazi was so scared that he trembled and hesitated for a long time, but he still said: "I know, I know. But... Public Security Comrade, Aunt Zhang is also doing this for the villagers, you must not blame her for this matter."
"Don't you know?"
Murong glanced at Yang Mazi with a half-smile, and felt that there was something wrong with this man. "Mrs. Zhang is dead. She was stabbed more than 20 times."
Yang Mazi's expression froze. Just as he was about to speak, a hysterical scream suddenly came from the next room: "Ah! Baby! Baby!"
Wen Tingting stood up quickly and ran to the bedroom.
Yang Mazi was unable to stop her, so she pushed the door open and saw Yang Mazi's wife holding a fake doll in her arms, screaming shrilly.
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