There is a businessman named Huang De in Jinan. This Huang De started as an antique dealer. In his later years, he was already rich, so he handed over his business to his son and retired home, hoping to spend his later years safely. He felt that the old house was low and narrow, so he asked Mr. Feng Shui to choose a homestead in a secluded place and build a new house. Huang De chose a good day and moved into a new house. The new house is spacious and comfortable, but he only has a son, a daughter-in-law and a servant. If only five people live in a big house, it looks deserted.
But before long, the house suddenly became haunted. In the middle of the night, Huang De's family is often awakened by the piercing ghost cry, which is creepy. The people in the Huang family are very scared and have no peace every night.
One day after midnight, the ghost cried again. Huang De's family secretly got up and looked at it. I saw the hall flickering, and several evil spirits dressed in ancient red robes, wearing ancient gauze hats and holding knives, forks and halberds were staggering up and down. Ghosts are very tall, half as tall as some people, and their heads are almost against the roof. The people of the Huang family trembled with fear and dared not say anything. They also saw a ghost bend down, walk out of the hall to the backyard, grab two chickens from the henhouse, snap their necks and suck the chicken blood clean. Another ghost took out the jar and drank it all at once. After eating, the ghost fire disappeared and the ghost disappeared. At this time, the neighbor's cock crowed, and the eastern sky turned white.
Huang De has invited many monks and Taoist priests to exorcise ghosts since his house was haunted, but it still didn't help. Ghosts still visit Huangzhai regularly, and there are more and more ghosts, gradually increasing to more than a dozen. In this way, after a month, the neighbors knew that the Huang family was haunted and advised him to move quickly to prevent ghosts. However, Huang De is reluctant to part with this newly-built house and garden. He said, "The ghost only ate a few chickens and drank a few jars of wine, but it didn't hurt anyone. Let it make trouble! " Although he said so, he secretly invited relatives and friends everywhere and suggested that they live in his house. He thinks he's haunted because he's red. Who knows that all relatives and friends know that his house is haunted and no one dares to live there? Huang De became angry and refused to move when he saw that his relatives and friends refused to come.
At the end of the year, Huang De put the newly collected tens of thousands of silver at home. That night, many ghosts came again and killed Huang De's family of four with broadswords, even Ding Ding was not spared.
The next day, neighbors found the door of Huang's house closed and crows flew in and out of Huang's house. Everyone thought it was strange and climbed over the wall. Only then did they find that four members of the Huang family, together with five members of their family, had been killed. The scene was terrible. Five people's heads were cut off and their chests were cut open. There is no complete body.
Neighbors rushed to report the case to the police station. When the sheriff heard the news, he immediately led two police officers to Huang De's home for inspection. After inspection, I found that clothes, property and other things were not lost. Huang De's relatives and friends who heard the news found that tens of thousands of silver were missing when they visited the police station. The sheriff concluded that this was a robbery.
The princess surnamed Wang used to be a policeman in the yamen. After the change of dynasty to become the Republic of China, he was retained as the county magistrate. Sheriff Wang has cracked several difficult cases. He carefully inspected the scene and found that the front and rear doors were intact, and there were no footprints and suspicious signs inside and outside the house wall. He couldn't help thinking: Where did the robbers come in? And killing several people in a row is not something two or three people can do. Why is there no noise at night? Is the robber's tactics mysterious, or is there another reason?
At present, Sergeant Wang has ordered people to collect bodies and clean up haunted houses. That night, he stayed there with two policemen. After nightfall, there was silence all around, only the wind rustled the leaves, which added a bit of horror. Two young policemen were too scared to move a step in the hall. And sheriff Wang doesn't care. He wandered around the house alone. I thought to myself, if it is really haunted and murderous, it makes sense, but what's the use of ghosts robbing money? This must be a robber disguised as a ghost to confuse people and achieve the purpose of killing people for money.
The sheriff Wang and two policemen are in a haunted house-they stayed for several nights without seeing a ghost.
That night, Sergeant Wang suddenly realized, "If the ghost was disguised as a robber, why did he come to this house after he achieved his goal?" However, since ghosts pretend to be adults, there is naturally no possibility of invisibility. Why do ghosts disturb the Huang family for months, and everyone doesn't know how ghosts come from? Murphy, what's the mystery of this deep house compound?
Sheriff Wang heard that all the haunted places in the past were in the hall, and he suspected that the structure of the hall was abnormal. After dawn, he took an iron bar for self-defense, climbed onto the roof, and carefully looked at the place where the rafters were connected with the beams. This view, indeed as expected found that there is a particularly smooth beam. The house is newly built, and all the wood will have some white slag, but this beam is different.
He looked carefully and found some blood on it. He touched it with his hand and found a small hole that looked like a hand chisel. He inserted the iron bar into the hole, twisted it and the beam turned slightly. Halfway through, a big hole was exposed on the roof, which could accommodate several people. Sheriff Wang is very happy to find this important situation and thinks that solving the case is just around the corner. He twisted it back gently with an iron bar, restored the roof to its original state and climbed down.
Sheriff Wang went to the foreman who built the house, only to find that the door was closed. Neighbors told him that Dong Biao had moved away with his wife and children a few days ago. And gave sergeant Wang an address. He searched by address and found it was a fake address. Sheriff Wang thinks it must be one of the murderers.
A few days before the Chinese New Year, a burglary happened not far from Huang De's house. Sergeant Wang was ordered to take several policemen to investigate and collect evidence. He was busy when he heard a sound of gongs and drums. It turned out that a team of stilts came. Sergeant Wang wondered: how could the stilt team come to this alley without making trouble in the street? Then someone shouted, "Look, the stilts stepped on our driveway, this is the first time!" " "
Sheriff Wang put down his work and went out to see that a dozen people staggered over with their feet on wooden poles more than two feet high. They are all dressed in ancient costumes, some with knives and some with guns. One of them, tall and thin, seems to have just started out and can't walk very smoothly.
When Sheriff Wang saw this scene, he suddenly remembered the ghost shape depicted by Huang De's relatives, which was very similar in contrast.
He thought at that time: Could these dozens of people walking on stilts be bandits who kill people and rob money? Sheriff Wang hasn't seen it, so he dare not arrest him rashly. He used his quick wits, called several policemen and whispered in his ear, telling them to guard several intersections. Then, he walked around the front of the team on stilts, hiding in the crowd and shouting:
"Hey, Dong Biao!" Sheriff Wang is right. If there is no Dong Biao in this group, they won't mind. If there were Dong Biao, they would definitely do something. Sure enough, Sergeant Wang noticed that a dozen people were frightened when they heard his high shouts, and their eyes looked around and they were very nervous.
It's these guys! Sergeant Wang immediately pulled out his wooden pistol and shouted, "Stop the murderer! Whoever moves will be killed!"
Bandits have stilts tied to their feet and can't escape. One or two people who wanted to run stumbled and fell to the ground without running a few steps. People in the alley heard that it was the murderer who killed the Huang De family who walked on stilts, and they all brought ropes to help Sergeant Wang and police officers tie up the robbers.
It was verified that Dong Biao, the bandit leader, was among them. The robbers were taken directly to the police station, and once interrogated, they all confessed. Dong Biao took advantage of the opportunity to build a house for Huang De, secretly set up a secret door, and then dressed as a spectre, killed the Huang De family and stole a huge sum of money. They are here to sound out the wind and see if the secret of Huang Zhai has been discovered. Unexpectedly, it aroused the suspicion of Wang, the police chief who was handling the case, but was arrested.