Chapter 3 Is this what a human being does?
Xiao Yu's thoughts were guessed, and he felt complicated and it took him a long time to speak.
"That's right... I and the government have sent additional personnel to search the surrounding towns and caravans, but we haven't found any trace of my eldest daughter-in-law."
"Several other villagers came forward to testify that they had heard a woman's agonizing screams from the Fang family a few nights before the eldest daughter-in-law 'disappeared.'"
"So I suspect she's not missing, but murdered. If we can find her whereabouts as soon as possible, the case will definitely progress further."
He just shook his head again: "But we searched the entire Fang family, the surrounding rivers, and the wasteland, but we didn't find any bones."
What he didn't say was that he never expected that the thin and weak female fortune teller in front of him could tell from his expression and between the lines that he was lying.
And he actually managed to easily calculate the evidence he had spent half a month searching for with just a few bamboo sticks...
Are the fancy tricks of the charlatans really better than actually investigating the case and presenting evidence?
Guess what? ...
"So, Mr. Xiao—" Xu Chuchu interrupted his meditation, "Can we still cooperate properly?"
He was slapped in the face on the spot, and the atmosphere was so tense that even his followers felt embarrassed.
Their young master has such a high status, how could he have ever been ridiculed like this?
Xiao Yu took a deep breath and snapped his folding fan shut: "Yes, of course not!"
He lowered his head to look at the girl, who was only as tall as his shoulder, and gave a gentlemanly smile. "I'll have to trouble the female fortune teller to continue her work and help find the body of my eldest daughter-in-law."
Xu Chuchu's mouth twitched. What a guy! I just like this kind of shameless person. He was in the wrong first but still acted so self-righteous and elegant.
I hope you can be as generous when paying me.
Because the sun was still bright, Xiao Yu wanted to find the body today, so he kept urging Xu Chuchu to "perform a ritual" to find the body again.
Xu Chuchu took the opportunity to raise the price, and seeing that Xiao Yu agreed without blinking, he told him another fortune.
Because the Gu Gua she had just drawn already had the meaning of high mountains, this time she used the simpler copper coin number method.
The divination method is to take out a handful of copper coins, throw them on the ground three times at random, and then count the number of copper coins each time. Repeat this six times in total to get six groups of eighteen numbers. Then, based on the annotations of the "Book of Changes", you can roughly determine the direction and distance of the hidden body.
After taking the position, Xiao Yu did not ask Xu Chuchu to go with him. He only sent his men to send her back to the yamen to rest. He then rushed up the mountain in a hurry, as if he was going to compete with someone.
Xu Chuchu was happy and at ease without any help. He stayed in the yamen to have a business meal, and then leaned in a corner to rest with his eyes.
This body is still too thin. I have only done two fortune-tellings today and my energy is almost exhausted.
You must know that not long ago she was a talented female fortune teller who became famous at a young age in the 21st century. She could interpret characters, tell fortunes, subdue demons and monsters, and was omnipotent. In the local area, she could get whatever she wanted. She was a perfect heroine.
But later, because he was too young and didn't know the rules of the trade, for the sake of some petty profits, he changed the feng shui of the ancestors of a notorious gambling king, asking him to move his graves and change his fate, move into his old house, and then became a gangster, causing countless innocent people to suffer.
As a result, she was punished by heaven and was sent to this remote mountain village in ancient times. Not only did she lose all her Taoist skills and had to start her practice from scratch, but even her appearance was mostly ruined.
Now I can only look for opportunities to do good and eliminate evil, accumulate good karma, and hope to make up for the mistakes of my previous life as soon as possible.
However, the spiritual energy in Fengyang Mountain was thin, and her practice day and night had little effect. She could only fight with the little ghost.
If you want to make further progress in your cultivation, you can only wait for the right opportunity to appear.
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As Xu Chuchu was thinking this, she fell asleep unknowingly. Before she had enough rest, she was gently woken up by someone.
"Master, Master, wake up."
Xu Chuchu saw that it was Xiao Yu's follower, and said to her with a sly look on her face, "Master, our young master has solved the case. Please come over and take a look."
"The case is solved? So quickly?" Xu Chuchu looked out the window at the dark night.
It's not even the next day yet, how can this young man be so efficient?
Then she fell down again: "I know, I will go find him tomorrow."
"Master, the Master has instructed you to be here tonight. Please don't make things difficult for me." The attendant pleaded in embarrassment. "The Master also said that the remuneration can be increased if we work at night."
"You should have said so earlier." Xu Chuchu stood up straight after hearing this. "It's our job as a physiognomist to be available at any time. Come and lead the way."
Xu Chuchu originally thought that Xiao Yu was also in the yamen. After all, the bodies that were dug out were usually kept in the yamen for the coroner to perform an autopsy.
Unexpectedly, the attendant took her directly to the street and back to the gate of the Fang family's courtyard.
"Fortune teller, our young master is waiting for you inside. You can just go in. I won't see you off." The attendant made a gesture of invitation to her, turned around and ran away, not daring to stay even a moment longer.
"Wait!" Xu Chuchu felt helpless.
Buddy, please at least leave a lantern for us. It’s the middle of the night and the fortune teller’s eyes can’t even shine.
There was no choice, Xu Chuchu pushed the door open and walked in. She thought she would have to grope in the dark, but she saw some light in the main hall. She thought Xiao Yu was there, so she went straight in.
After taking only two steps, he felt a surge of evil and sinister energy coming towards him, and thought to himself that something was wrong.
When I looked again, I found that there was a coffin placed in the middle of the hall without me noticing!
There was also a rotting, pus-oozing female corpse lying in the coffin, with clothes and flesh stuck together, emitting an unpleasant and disgusting stench. It was most likely the body of her eldest daughter-in-law that Xiao Yu had found in the afternoon according to her algorithm!
Drag the corpse of an unjustly killed person back home and place it in a graveyard in the middle of the night, and then call her over to see it?
Oh my god, who can do such a thing?
Xu Chuchu did not dare to be careless. He pushed the coffin lid up with force, pasted several yellow talismans, and placed his peach wood sword across the coffin. He was sure that the wronged spirit would not come out to cause trouble, and only then did he feel a little relieved.
Looking at the main hall again, in addition to the coffin, there are several other items on the wooden table in the middle that were not there before.
Xu Chuchu looked at them one by one and found a few large rusty iron needles, a shiny used incense burner, half a box of incense ash, a handful of melon seeds, a woman's handkerchief, and a whisk commonly used by Taoist priests.
These things...if you don't know about them, you might think that some evil Taoist priest is performing rituals to summon spirits.
Even though Xu Chuchu was proficient in Taoism, he couldn't see how these things could be connected.
Wait, where's Xiao Yu? I called her over so late at night, why didn't I see her?
Xu Chuchu felt a chill in her heart. Could it be that the wronged spirit had killed this young man before she came?
"Xiao..." She quickly turned around to look for him.
When I turned around, a deathly pale face was right in front of me.
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