Under the setting sun, my master had a faint smile on his face. The mountain breeze made his long gown rustle. His figure was very long, almost completely covering me. He was looking at me, his eyes were shining with a little light, very bright, and there was a kind of wisdom that saw through everything.
I was a little scared by his look. I scratched my head and couldn't help asking, "Master, is my acting so bad?"
"My acting is very good. I can win the Best Actor Award at any film festival."
My master laughed heartily: "If I hadn't stayed in your ancestral temple for most of the day, I'm afraid even I would have been fooled by you."
"What are you two talking about!"
Zhang Xinya said impatiently: "Obviously, your family members died, but you look happier than the sinking of the Japanese island!"
"It's really something to be happy about."
My master looked at me and asked bluntly: "Jingzhe, the people lying on the bed are not your parents at all, right?!"
"This is impossible!"
Zhang Xinya immediately said: "Last time I went back to their house with you, although I didn't see his mother, but I saw the photo. The two bodies, the male's face was unrecognizable, I can't say for sure, but the female still has half of her face, it's clearly..."
"Seeing is not necessarily believing. Although I don't know who the two people lying on the bed are, they are definitely not my parents!!"
I said with great confidence: "If it were an outsider, they would be my parents, but if it were me, their son, they would be very different from my parents."
The reason is actually very simple, just one sentence: too clean.
That person doesn't have a mole or something?
But the two people in the morgue were clean and had nothing on their bodies. If it weren't for the bloody and hideous death, they would really be like jade carvings.
Although it's really inappropriate to use this word to describe a couple in their fifties or sixties, but... this is the truth!
If it weren't for these small details that exposed the problem, even I would have been deceived.
I remember very clearly that there was a big mole on my father's chest. He said that it was called ambition.
Moreover, there are three moles on the back of his neck, in the middle and on both sides. He said that they are a mole of misery, a mole of wealth, and a mole of fame and fortune. If he was not burdened by his family, he would definitely be a person like him. Anyway, according to what he said, judging from the moles alone, he is almost sitting on an Italian cannon and standing shoulder to shoulder with the sun.
We don't know whether these methods of fortune-telling by looking at moles are effective, but the moles on his body are indeed the biggest sign!
Unfortunately, I didn't find any of these moles on the body. If the murderer deliberately erased them, there would be some traces left. However, the body where there should be moles was smooth, and the skin quality was better than that of a baby!
The same problem also exists on my mother.
My mother had an operation on her neck in her early years, and there were two very small wounds. However, the body clearly looked like her, but there were no these two wounds.
At that time, I felt that there must be something fishy about this matter. My parents' affairs... are not as simple as I see now!
"In fact, these two corpses should be the means they left behind to deceive the enemy."
My master said: "I have said long ago that your father is definitely not incompetent. It is estimated that he has fooled the Water Prince and the Feather Clan. These two corpses are baits to make the other party mistakenly think that they have killed them. In fact, your parents are probably still alive now, but they are hiding in an unknown place."
"What's going on?"
Lao Bai was puzzled and said: "The Water Prince and the Feather Clan remnant are not so stupid, right? If you want to deceive them, you have to be a living person. It is impossible for you to make a dough figurine and push it there. The two brothers will close their eyes and go crazy and output, and then say that they have killed the real owner. This Ah Q spirit is really invincible in the world!
But where in the world can you find people who are exactly the same as them?
Even if you find them, the DNA test is exactly the same. This is not convincing at all. It is impossible for this situation to happen!"
"But now it appears."
My master said calmly: "In fact, the secret is hidden in the ancestral temple of Jingzhe's family. Unfortunately, I still have some questions to confirm, so it's not 100% certain, so I won't tell you for the time being, lest you get excited for nothing if I guess wrong."
"Uncle, you are just keeping us in suspense."
Brother Yaozi interrupted: "It's okay if you don't tell me, then tell me what clues Jingzhe's parents left in the ancestral temple?"
"No clues left."
My master shook his head: "It's just that I saw some traces and made some bold guesses..."
Anyway, no matter what we said, my master kept silent. In the end, he was really forced to say that it was not easy to tell this matter with his mouth. When we go back and look inside the ancestral temple, everything will be clear.
In the final analysis, it's his temperament.
He is a person who never speaks out anything he is not sure of.
"Actually, Jingzhe did the right thing. He should have faked crying."
On the way to the crime scene, my master was very pleased. He touched my head and said, "After going through so many things, you have begun to grow up. You take one step and start to look ten steps ahead."
I was a person without any secrets in front of him. He guessed my intentions.
If I said that I faked crying, the reason was not as deep as he said. It was just because it was inconvenient for the government to intervene in such matters. If I told the truth, I might be sent to a mental hospital tomorrow.
Moreover, we don't need any evidence to know who is harming people. We know it in our hearts.
If there is any possibility, as long as I can take down Xing Wei, I am ready to kill him this time. It is not an exaggeration to cut him alive. At that time, the matter still involves the government. Isn't it troublesome for me?
In the words of my master, things in our line of work have to be solved by ourselves, and it is not appropriate to involve too much.
The so-called Shizui Bay is only about seven or eight miles away from here. I have been there once. It is a small village in the mountains, sandwiched between two mountains. On one side is a cliff that is thousands of feet high and is full of rocks. People have to hang on a rope to go up. On the other side is a steep slope with dense vegetation.
The two bodies were found by the shepherd. They definitely could not be on the cliff, but on the slope.
And most of the slope is low bushes and large grasslands. There is no condition to hide the bodies. If the bodies were really thrown there, the villagers would see them as soon as they left the village. It is impossible that no one found them for several days and they were found only when they started to stink.
Comprehensively considered, the bodies should be found in the only grove on the slope. The area there is not large and it is not difficult to find.
When the sun was completely swallowed by the sky and the whole world was in chaos, we finally found the place where the crime occurred in the dark grove.
The place was in a mess, many trees that were not very thick were broken, and there were still a lot of bloodstains on the ground, which clearly showed that a very tragic battle had taken place.
"It's here."
My master looked around, pondered for a moment, and ordered: "Lao Bai, use your unique skill of usurping bones to find fragrance. If nothing unexpected happens, Jingzhe's parents must have been here. See if there is any residual breath, and see if you can find them by following their breath."
"Okay."
Lao Bai responded, and suddenly thought of something, and warned Brother Yaozi with a vigilant face: "Don't fart!"
"Look at you..."
Brother Yaozi pouted and said unhappily: "It's just a fart, so what? Don't worry, this is not the time to play around, I won't torment you."
"My unique skill is called usurping bones to find fragrance. It is to find fragrance, not to smell farts. Any smell can be magnified countless times. You will know how vicious it is if you try it yourself."
Lao Bai muttered, warned again and again, and then gently closed his eyes. The bridge of his nose began to change, and the tip of his nose kept moving.
"It smells a bit strange."
Lao Bai closed his eyes and said as if in a dream: "Well, this smell... should be from the Water King. He has been here before. There is also a faint fishy smell, which should be left by the Yumin. There is also a smell of blood... No, why is there the smell of raw mutton?"
Finally, he suddenly opened his eyes and said: "Found it, the smell of a stranger, a man and a woman, they should be Jingzhe's parents, they came here not long ago, no more than ten hours, they should not go far!!"