1. The Corpse in the Attic
On a dark and windy night, Tonghua held a flashlight and explored the old house alone. The old house had been uninhabited for many years, and the power supply was cut off, so it was pitch black inside. The wall was drafty, and the cold wind blew Tonghua's nightgown up, as if a Only an invisible ghost hand was caressing her. However, Fairy Tale was not afraid, but was extremely excited.
On the second floor ceiling, due to water seepage, yellow stains formed after drying. Suddenly, she found that one of the stains looked like a human figure with limbs spread out! The attic was directly above the room.
Tonghua climbed up to the attic carefully. The attic had always been a place where sundries were stored, with few people coming and going, and thick dust was everywhere. Tonghua took a flashlight and scanned the area. I dreamed that someone had died, so I went to see it. Determine the location of the human-shaped water stain, where there is a bulge like a grave.
Tonghua walked forward and lifted the carpet, only to see a corpse underneath! The corpse had been highly decomposed, exposing bones, and fat and muscle tissue had turned into corpse water, soaking the ground, so that a human figure appeared on the ceiling below. The clothes on the corpse were not damaged because they were made of synthetic fiber, and it was vaguely clear that they were from more than ten years ago. Is this the truth she is looking for?
2. The shuddering memory
When Fairy Tale was very young, he often had the same nightmare. As he grew older, the dream became clearer and clearer!
Tonghua's hometown is in a small town. After graduating from junior high school, she moved to a big city with her parents. She has not been back for more than ten years. A few days ago, she was invited by her good friend Tang Yan to return to the small town to attend a junior high school reunion. .
More than a decade has passed, and Tang Yan has married, which makes Tong Hua, an older single woman, very envious. Tang Yan introduced her husband: "This is my husband Wang Zhihui, a psychology expert." Wang Zhihui was gentle and polite, and smiled at Tong Hua.
Everyone gathered together and chatted casually, and accidentally touched upon Wang Zhihui's specialty – dream interpretation. Tonghua suddenly had an idea and told her that she had been entangled in nightmares for many years. After hearing this, Wang Zhihui expressed his willingness to help her. She will go to her own clinic in a few days.
A few days later, Tonghua came to Wang Zhihui's clinic, accompanied by Tang Yan, and told her dream: "At that time I was very small, it seemed, still a baby. I was lying on the bed, next to me was my aunt. At this time, someone knocked on the door. My aunt opened the door and a man came in. The man hugged my aunt and they began to kiss. Then they took off their clothes and lay on the bed. Later, the man strangled my aunt's neck. My aunt was in pain. The body was twisting, and soon it stopped moving, and then… I can't remember clearly…"
Wang Zhihui explained: "Dreams are the subconscious's reflection of memory. Dreams are formed only when there is a foundation of memory. Can you tell me when this dream started?"
Tonghua shook his head and said, "I can't remember clearly. It seems that I have had this dream since I was old enough to understand. Could it be that I have remembered it since I was a baby?"
Wang Zhihui told her: "Infants have memories, but because their consciousness is not fully formed, their memories are unconscious and fragmented. And because of the long time, generally after adulthood, these memories will be buried in the memory. In the abyss, projection to the subconscious mind forms a dream. Therefore, this dream may reflect a real memory. "
Tang Yan asked in surprise: "It can't be true? Your aunt was killed next to you?"
Tonghua nodded blankly and said, "I do have an aunt, but my parents told me that when I was very young, I asked her to take care of me one day, but when I came back, I found that she had disappeared. At that time, she was in love. She was having a quarrel with her grandparents, and everyone thought she had eloped. Could she have really been murdered?"
After Tonghua returned home and calmed down, she decided to find out the truth about this matter. She asked her parents about the whereabouts of her aunt, but they both said that they had never heard of her for decades. My grandparents have passed away. No matter how heartless my aunt is, she should have sent me a message, unless she is really dead…
Tonghua asked Tang Yan, a government official, to help investigate the records of unidentified corpses or unsolved cases in her hometown, but to no avail. Tonghua then made up her mind to return to the old house alone to find the truth! A corpse was found in the attic of the house!
3. Searching for the murderer in a vast sea of people
Tonghua hurriedly called Tang Yan and asked her to bring the police over. Half an hour later, Tang Yan and her husband and the police arrived. Seeing this scene, Tang Yan couldn't help but gasp and said, "It's so scary. The murderer is actually here. There is a corpse hidden in your attic. Your family has lived under the corpse for more than ten years. It's horrifying to think about it."
Tonghua turned pale with fear and stayed at Tang Yan's house that night. After comparing the dental molds, the police confirmed that the corpse was Tonghua's aunt. The forensic examination concluded that the corpse had a fractured neck bone and was strangled to death, just like Tonghua. The memories of infancy are exactly the same! Tonghua provided the police with clues about the matter, but the police thought it was too mysterious and did not accept it.
After investigation, the police believed that the most likely murderer was my aunt's lover. However, because it happened so long ago, everyone only remembered that the man was called Wang Haijun, a migrant worker from a southern province, and they could not remember anything else. Therefore, The police investigation came to a standstill.
Tonghua returned to the city and continued her life. Unexpectedly, a month later, Tang Yan suddenly called Tonghua from another city and told her that they had found the murderer!
Tonghua half believed and half doubted, and rushed to a remote village in a southern province according to the address. Tang Yan and Wang Zhihui came out to greet her and took her into a dilapidated old house. It was dirty and messy, and there was a person lying on the bed, moaning constantly. When Tonghua got closer, he found that it was a man in his fifties or sixties. The hardships of life had left deep marks on his wrinkles and white hair. The man was already in a dying state.
Wang Zhihui explained to Tonghua: "He is the murderer Wang Haijun, but when we found him, he was almost dead."
Tonghua looked at the man with mixed feelings and asked, "Do you still remember the name Yue Qianqian?"
The man, who was already in a semi-comatose state, said with difficulty after hearing his aunt's name: "I hurt her, I'm sorry for her…" After that, the man closed his eyes and stopped breathing!
Tonghua sighed, dealt with the murderer's affairs, returned to her hometown, and told her parents about the incident. Since the murderer had been found, the matter was over. Tonghua returned to the big city and continued her life. The ancestral house was considered unlucky because someone had died there. Tong Hua's family did not want to return to this sad place, so they entrusted Tang Yan and her husband to deal with it. They sold it for about 500,000 yuan, which was a very good price in the small town. For this, Tonghua gave them a commission of 50,000 yuan.
4. An unexpected turn
As time passed, just when Tonghua was gradually forgetting the incident, an anonymous letter from his hometown broke the peace.
Tonghua opened the letter and looked through the documents inside, her face gradually becoming serious. These documents were all photocopies of real estate transactions, revealing a shocking truth.
The Tong family entrusted Tang Yan and Wang Zhihui to sell their old house in their hometown. The buyer was actually Wang Zhihui. He invested 500,000 yuan, and then took advantage of the new development plan for his hometown and the skyrocketing real estate prices to sell it off, making a huge profit of nearly 10 million yuan.
Why would someone reveal this information to me? Actually, there was nothing wrong with letting Wang Zhihui buy the old house. After all, the price of 500,000 yuan he offered was quite reasonable. Tonghua felt that there was a conspiracy. , she couldn't see through the truth inside.
Tong Hua secretly speculated that everything was a conspiracy designed by Tang Yan and Wang Zhihui. No matter how precious their friendship was, it could not resist the temptation of money. She thought that as a government official, Tang Yan would naturally know that her hometown was going to be developed, and the Tong family's old house would be worth tens of millions by then. In order to take the old house for themselves, they used the fairy tale dream to lead her to the old house and found the bones. Because the old house had been murdered, the Tong family felt it was unlucky, so they sold it at a low price and took the opportunity to let Wang Zhihui Swallow it. Tonghua regretted it so much, he was just delivering it to her!
There are still two things that the fairy tale doesn't understand: how did the couple find the real murderer? In addition, who leaked the property information to him?
In order to find out the truth about this matter, Tonghua remembered a friend who wrote suspense novels, Liu Shengyang, so he sent an email to tell him the whole story and asked him to help investigate. Liu Shengyang was also very interested and readily agreed. .
A few days later, Tonghua suddenly received a text message from Tang Yan, inviting her to visit her new house. Tonghua decided to pretend that she knew nothing and went to Tang Yan's new house to investigate secretly. When he saw people, he was hit on the back of his head suddenly. Tonghua fell forward and became unconscious, knowing nothing.
When she woke up, she was shocked to find that she was holding a fruit knife covered with blood, and Tang Yan was lying on the ground, her body already cold.
"You murderer! You actually killed my wife, and you two are still good friends!" Wang Zhihui shouted at Tonghua. He came in with a group of people and saw this scene as soon as he entered the door.
Tonghua panicked, dropped the knife and stammered: "No, I didn't kill him, I didn't kill anyone…"
Wang Zhihui immediately called the police and Tong Hua was arrested on suspicion of murder. She refused to admit that she had killed Tang Yan and only said that she was framed. However, no one believed her. Even the wound on the back of her head was believed to be caused by a struggle with the deceased. Caused.
Tonghua's face turned pale, and she felt that she was doomed, so when Liu Shengyang came to visit her, she seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw and shouted, "Mr. Liu, you must save me. I didn't kill anyone! Yes, it must be Wang Zhihui found out that I was secretly investigating them, so he tried to frame me. He was the one who killed Tang Yan!"
Liu Shengyang shook his head and said, " I won't go to see if I don't dream about other people dying . Wang Zhihui has a perfect alibi, and there are many people who can testify. He was attending an academic forum at the time. After the forum, he went home with a group of people and then saw To that scene."
Tonghua was extremely disappointed. At this time, Liu Shengyang said, "But don't worry. They designed the whole conspiracy very well, but I still found a loophole."
Tonghua noticed that Liu Shengyang used the plural "they" and looked at Liu Shengyang in confusion. The latter explained: "I believe you are not the murderer, and Wang Zhihui has a perfect alibi, so the only possibility is that There was a third person who killed Tang Yan. It would be fine if it was just one incident, but there was also Wang Haijun, the murderer of your aunt. After investigation, I found that he did not die of illness, but of poisoning. Regardless of Wang Zhihui and Tang Yan, Or you didn't have the chance to poison, so the one who poisoned must be a third person! And he is the starting point of all the conspiracies!"
5. Homicide by a Third Party
Liu Shengyang did not disappoint Tonghua's trust. He quickly found the suspicious points in Tang Yan's murder case. Based on the principle of presumption of innocence, the police agreed to release Tonghua on bail, but she would be restricted and forbidden to leave the town. Tonghua had no choice but to move into the old house again.
Every day and night, there are policemen watching outside the old house to prevent Tong Hua from escaping. Liu Shengyang keeps a close eye on Wang Zhihui every day, trying to find out the third person hiding behind the scenes.
On a stormy night, Tonghua went to the window to watch the rain, but found that the police who had been watching her day and night were gone! Suddenly, Tonghua heard the sound of glass breaking downstairs, so she quickly took a flashlight and went downstairs to check the situation.
She went downstairs and saw that a glass window in the hall was broken. A man in a raincoat was crawling into the house with a sharp blade in his hand that was shining with cold light!
Tonghua screamed in fear, turned around and ran upstairs, hid in the bedroom and locked the door. The man in the raincoat chased her upstairs with heavy steps and kicked the door hard. Bang! Every The old house trembled with the shaking of his feet, and Tonghua's heart also beat wildly. "Click", the rotten door cracked open with a huge gap, a sharp knife stabbed in, and fiddled with the bolt randomly.
Tonghua hurriedly picked up the phone to call Liu Shengyang, but the call was unsuccessful. Seeing that the man in the raincoat was about to break in, Tonghua gritted his teeth, opened the window, and climbed out.
This old house is designed with rainwater eaves to let the rain fall along a line and avoid falling below. Tonghua walked carefully on the rainwater eaves. The heavy rain soaked her whole body and she was shivering with cold. The strong wind made her shaky and she was almost dying. She looked back and saw the man in the raincoat had also climbed out and was chasing her.
Tonghua was so frightened that her heart was pounding. She slipped and fell to the ground without paying attention. Tonghua felt a sharp pain and looked up to see the man in the raincoat hesitating whether to jump down. She quickly seized the opportunity and climbed up. He stood up and stumbled toward the street light.
Suddenly, Tonghua tripped over something and fell to the ground. She looked closely and saw a person lying on the ground. It was the policeman who was watching her, and he was no longer breathing. Tonghua was horrified and looked back. The man in the raincoat was already chasing her. Come up.
Tonghua wanted to stand up, but she found that her ankle was in excruciating pain. It turned out that she had sprained her ankle when she fell. She gritted her teeth and walked a few steps, but fell again. At this time, the man in the raincoat had caught up with her. Holding a sharp knife, he approached step by step.
The man in the raincoat suddenly said, "You Yue family's women are all bitches. Not only did you seduce my man, you also want to harm my son! Go to hell!"
This is a woman's voice! Tonghua was stunned! Seeing that the man in the raincoat had already rushed over, Tonghua grabbed something and hit him. He saw an arc of electricity flashing, and the man in the raincoat twitched all over, his body softened, and fell down. On the ground.
Tonghua looked down and found that he was holding a policeman's electric baton.
Liu Shengyang's voice came from a distance: "Fairy Tale, are you okay?"
Tonghua felt so relieved that he almost collapsed.
6. Confused Memory
In the hospital, Liu Shengyang told Tonghua: "Wang Zhihui has confessed, and the truth is out. The mysterious third person is his mother. She killed everyone, including your aunt!"
It turns out that more than 20 years ago, Wang Haijun, who came here to work, was actually married in his hometown and had a two-year-old son, Wang Zhihui. But after Wang Haijun came here, he concealed his marriage and started dating Tonghua's aunt. When his wife Liu Yaming came to the town from afar, she found out that Wang Haijun had another woman and was furious. But Liu Yaming thought that it was Tonghua's aunt who seduced Wang Haijun, so one day she came to confront her. In a fit of rage, Liu Yaming accidentally killed Tonghua's aunt and hid her body in the attic. At that time, Tonghua, who was only a few months old, was at the scene.
After his aunt disappeared, Wang Haijun was afraid that others would find him in trouble, so he abandoned his wife and children and fled. But Liu Yaming stayed in the town and raised his son Wang Zhihui with great difficulty. Not long ago, Tonghua returned to the town and accidentally found a Liu Yaming was very scared at first, but soon she found that everyone thought Wang Haijun was the murderer. So she secretly returned to her hometown, poisoned Wang Haijun, and told her son to take Tonghua to find Wang Haijun. Confusing vision.
After the Tong family entrusted Wang Zhihui to sell the old house, Wang Zhihui learned from his wife that real estate was about to rise sharply, so he bought it himself. Tang Yan was greedy at first and conspired with Wang Zhihui. But after a long time, she found that something was wrong, especially her mother-in-law and husband. Being sneaky and scared, she told Tonghua the truth anonymously. Tang Yan's actions were discovered by Liu Yaming, who thought that Tang Yan was harming his son. In a rage, he conspired with his son to lure Tonghua to kill Tang Yan and frame her.
After Tonghua was imprisoned, everything seemed to be done, but Liu Shengyang saw through the existence of a third person and bailed Tonghua out. Seeing Liu Shengyang staring at Wang Zhihui, Liu Yaming was very worried. In a hurry, she decided to He tried to kill her, but failed.
"I still don't understand why I dreamed that my aunt was killed?" Tonghua asked doubtfully, "Is it really the memory of a baby?"
Liu Shengyang smiled slightly: "Babies have memories, but they are fragmented and they won't remember the whole thing."
Liu Shengyang said that after Liu Yaming killed her aunt, she found Tong Hua next to her. But she was also a mother after all, and out of maternal instinct, she couldn't bear to kill a baby to silence him. She stayed in the town and became a nanny for the Tong family. , and took care of Tonghua until she was three years old. Tonghua had no memory of her because she was young. During the period of taking care of Tonghua, Liu Yaming wanted to test whether Tonghua had any memory of her infancy and to vent his anger. The story of my aunt was told to the fairy tale as a story, and the characters and some of the content were replaced. The fairy tale was vaguely remembered and deeply rooted in my mind, so I kept dreaming about it when I grew up.
"The story Liu Yaming fabricated led to his eventual arrest by the law. Perhaps this was God's will!" Liu Shengyang sighed.