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  In the 1980s, China was experiencing a severe crackdown, and such cases were receiving even more attention. Perhaps Old Wan was a good person, perhaps the power of mothers everywhere could change everything. No one wanted to see that young mother fall, an unreasonable woman who had been violent for her son had actually received the greatest forgiveness. Old Wan decided to consult with his superiors and try to handle Ma Wenjun's body as soon as possible.

  The ambulance "Ural" with flashing red and green lights took away the body, promising to arrange for forensic experts to wait overnight, if quickly, by tomorrow noon the child would be sent back, humanity and law compromised at this moment.

  The quiet mountain village was once again plunged into panic, with a series of deaths occurring one after another within a month. Adults no longer allowed children to go out alone, and elderly people simply stayed at home sorting out their most precious belongings in preparation for the countdown to death. At that time, a rumor began to spread among the crowd: Hongcun village was going to be wiped out, with two people being sent to the underworld every month, and who knows who would be next?

  Lao Wan shifted his attention to the people who had a grudge against the Ma family. The three Ma brothers, Lao San Ma Dapao was reckless and impulsive, often offending others without considering the consequences. However, he had twin daughters of his own, so why would anyone seek revenge on his younger brother instead of targeting him directly? Lao Er Ma was timid and introverted, rarely interacting with villagers, and focused mainly on farming. His wife, on the other hand, was a loudmouth who loved to argue with others, having recently gotten into a heated argument with a neighbor over a chicken that had damaged their vegetable garden. However, after summarizing the situation, Lao Wan found that these were just trivial neighborhood conflicts without any deep-seated grudges. Moreover, the eldest son of the Ma family was working outside and was not present at home during the incident, leaving only children and elderly people in the household.

  That night, Lao Wan and his two brothers all stayed at Xia Laoliu's house. This case was indeed as Lao Wan said, quite tricky.

  Because the police were involved, nothing was done to ordinary people like Wen Bin. The next day at noon, the forensic doctor sent back the body of the child and said that the conclusion still needed further confirmation. Preliminary suspicion is homicide, death by neck suffocation, no other obvious external injuries, time of death around 5 pm that afternoon.

  On the third day, according to custom, the child should have been buried. Following the rules, white-haired people do not send off black-haired people, and children under 16 years old are not allowed to hold a funeral procession. Usually, family members would find a place to bury the child quietly, without setting up a tombstone or holding any rituals. This means that no grave mound can be built, and the ground must be leveled flat. However, Ma Lao'er's wife refused to do so, insisting that the child's unjust death must be avenged before burial. One thing was that after Ma Wenjun died, his eyes had not closed, and his mouth was still open. People said that the child died unjustly, and he did not want to leave, with many words left unsaid to the adults, so he lingered on.

  But the weather was no longer waiting, so Ma rented an ice coffin and placed the child's body in his original room. Three meals a day were still delivered as usual to change, because they couldn't hold a funeral, many villagers came privately to offer condolences, and Cha Wenbin, being an outsider, also sent a gift of money through Xia Lao Liu.

  So far, the most unexpected clue in all the investigations for Lao Wan was that there was only one person's handprint left on the coffin lid of Kong Lao Taigong, which was discovered by Cha Wenbin when he went to investigate again on the second day.

  "How can a dead person kill someone, it's nonsense." Old Wan had already made such a conclusion the night before, and was certain that the child's death had nothing to do with the two old men of the Kong family. Although the Ma family didn't want to accept it in their hearts, the police were present and could only be forced to accept it. So Mr. Kong prepared to send his parents' coffins to be reburied on the mountain the next day, as agreed with Cha Wenbin to lift the coffin early the next morning.

  A rooster leads the way with a coffin, a filial son kneels and weeps inside and out. An old man's new grave is added with yellow earth, don't say that funeral expenses are another burden.

  Early in the morning, under Lao Wan's supervision, the Kong family followed Cha Wenbin into the Grand Hall. The skeletons on the ground were still scattered around, and Cha Wenbin silently picked them up one by one. To avoid missing any, Old Kong specially prepared a flashlight to shine it all over the place again. Suddenly, Cha Wenbin shouted at him: "Don't move! Give me your flashlight!"

  Zha Wenbin, holding a flashlight, crouched on the ground like a thief, his eyes fixed tightly on the coffin lid. The light from the flashlight pierced through the morning indoor air, and the continuously flying dust formed a beam of light.

  "Officer Wan, can you come in for a moment?"

  "Oh?" Old Wan immediately understood with his intuition what the young man had discovered, and saw Cha Wenbin take out a handful of quicklime from the cloth bag and lightly sprinkle it on the palm of his hand towards the coffin board, while the air began to chill.

  "Puff" sound, the lime powder instantly floated up, and then they slowly fell on the coffin lid with vermilion paint, a child's palm print appeared! The two of them looked at each other, Old Wan hurriedly called people to come in, this was a major discovery, the only place in the house that had not been disturbed by outsiders was this coffin, such an important thing he had forgotten to check last night!

  As the lime powder was slowly blown away, a string of handprints gradually began to appear in many places on the coffin lid, and a clear logic could be restored, which was that the owner of this hand had opened the coffin!

  That was the handprint of a minor, and all that needed to be done was to take this handprint for comparison. As it turned out, the handprint indeed belonged to five-and-a-half-year-old Ma Wenjun, but how could he possibly open the coffin sealed by Cha Wenhong with an axe at his age and strength? Was he just curious when he entered the hall and saw the coffin? Then was the coffin already opened before he came in? If so, who did it? If not, then how did he do it?!

  The complexity of the problem far exceeded their imagination, and just as they were still looking for other clues, Cha Wenbin suddenly thought of someone: Bai Qianli! The person who was invited back by Old Kong but suddenly disappeared at the last moment, which was also what he had been thinking about in the past few days. Recently, there have been no outsiders coming to Hongcun, and the village feud couldn't find a suspect, so Cha Wenbin decided to propose his own doubts to Lao Wan.

  That afternoon, Cha Wenbin, Pangzi and Ye Qiu went to Xia Laoliu's house together. Lao Wan was studying the case. Because he walked in a hurry, he didn't even bring his clothes, so he had to wear Liu Ye's clothes. Seeing that it was the young man who provided the key clue that morning, Lao Wan was very happy. He thought this person was meticulous and responsible, and also heard about his emergency handling at the scene the day before, which made him feel relieved, otherwise there might have been a bigger conflict.

  "Officer Wan..." "Just call him Uncle Wan, I and Old Six were comrades-in-arms before, you and Little Yi are also friends, right? All from the same generation."

  "Alright, Uncle Wan, I want to tell you something. The other day, Kong Lao Da wanted to move the grave and found a master from outside who came. His hometown should be around Fujian, he called himself Ba Qian Li, said he was a Taoist priest from Lvshan. However, this person ran away at the critical moment of moving the grave, he should be someone with some skills, but he got the direction of the grave wrong, and..." At this point, Cha Wenbin felt a bit embarrassed, he didn't know how to describe the killing of the yin ghost to a police officer.

  Lao Wan asked seriously while taking notes with a pen: "Go on, what else? Tell me, young master."

  "Uncle, don't make fun of me, I'm also a Taoist. Maybe you won't believe what I say and think it's absurd, but that hundred-mile-away really did kill an evil spirit, I saw it with my own eyes! That evil spirit was untouchable, if touched, it would be punished by heaven."

  With a "huff", Old Wan spat out the tea in his mouth and shouted: "Old Six, come here for a moment! This kid wants to report a murder and arson case to me? But, Big Nephew, you said he killed a ghost...!" Old Wan couldn't help but laugh again: "This is something we police really can't handle!"

  This guy gave Cha Wenbin a slap in the face, and his face turned red with a "whoosh". It's really hard to understand when you tell this to the police. Cha Wenbin felt very embarrassed and immediately got up to leave. But at this time, Xia Laoliu came in and said: "Old Wan, you little devil, I'll say something good. In the past, I didn't believe in that stuff either. My old man always liked to talk nonsense with me, but I never paid attention to him. What he said happened, whether you believe it or not."

  "So you think I should file a case, just because someone killed a ghost?"

  Xia Lao Liu said: "I know you don't believe in gods and ghosts, you're not wearing a talisman on your waist, are you? In the past, I didn't believe it either, but what happened was that my son's half-life lesson made me believe. This child, he and his master are both high-ranking people who can see things more clearly than us ordinary people. Old Wan, not everything needs to be proven with evidence, I don't believe you've never encountered any strange things while licking blood from the knife edge every day?"

  "That's not it, there have been many strange cases in the criminal investigation team that I've seen before, but most of them have found real reasons, you can't talk about feudal superstition, you have to talk about science."

  "Go on, science, don't you still have some unsolved cases?" Xia Lao Liu really got into a dispute with Lao Wan. He pulled Cha Wenbin and said: "Wenbin, this Lao Wan is a stubborn person who won't admit defeat even when faced with evidence. He's the type of person who won't shed tears until he sees the coffin. Why don't you find a way to make him experience it personally? Maybe then he'll listen to what you have to say next?"

  "There's nothing to be afraid of! I just have work on hand, when I'm free, wherever you want to go, I'll accompany you."

  "Come on, Old Wan. If not, you'll have to follow us tonight. Wenbin, get something to open his eyes."

  Lao Wan smiled and said, "I've collected so many corpses that I don't remember how many. I've even caught people in the cemetery several times. What's there to be afraid of? Alright, tonight is just tonight. Nephew, you can try your best to scare me, it doesn't matter."

  "Tonight?" Cha Wenbin silently turned his head and said: "Tonight is unlikely, today is the fifteenth of July in the lunar calendar, it's the Ghost Festival..."

  "Ghost Festival, Ghost Festival is great!" Old Wan also came with enthusiasm: "You didn't tell me that a Taoist priest killed a ghost, tonight you can let me see the ghost with my own eyes and I'll really believe you, I guarantee it with my police badge, how about it?"

  "Alright, I'll come back tonight..."

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