Take the old attack to solve the case

It was already very late at night. In the Liu's ancestral hall, the night watchman seemed to hear something, took a flashlight and walked out of the room. Seeing the light in the room inside, he walked over and knocked on the door, asking: " Ancestor, are you going to wake up at night?"

"Hmm." An old voice came from inside.

The night watchman pushed open the door and saw that the old man on the bed had already sat up, so he hurried over to help him go to the next door to get up for the night, and then helped him back.

"Bajin, who is here?" The old man tilted his head slightly, as if he was listening to something.

The name of the night watchman is Liu Zhenghong, he is of the same generation as Liu Zhengguo, and Bajin is his baby name. Because both his parents died when he was very young, and there are many children in the family, he was raised by the tribe in the ancestral hall. It can be said that the old man on the bed The ancestor brought him up, so he didn't live with his son when he got older, but took the initiative to apply to guard the ancestral hall and take care of the ancestors by the way.

He said: "No one came outside, it's so late, I closed the door."

The old man listened for a while, waved his hands and said, "Go to sleep, I'll sit here for a while, there are friends coming from afar, I have to greet them."

Liu Zhenghong's heart trembled, and he quickly backed out and closed the door. After a while, he heard the voice of someone talking in the room. He was excited and scared at the same time, and hurried back to his room.

Although there were not many such things, he had encountered them a few times when he was a child. Sometimes someone suddenly spoke in the room, and sometimes he could see figures on the windows.

At first Liu Zhenghong was still afraid, but later he was not afraid, especially since he is over 70 this year, his ancestors are still the same as what he saw when he was a child, almost unchanged, which made him firmly believe that the ancestors must be related to gods, Not only can it live forever, but it can also protect the Liu family's safety.

At this time, Liu Zhenghong never imagined that there was a person in the house of the ancestor of the Liu family who was telling the ancestor that the Liu family would cease to exist if it continued like this.

"I have checked the merit book of the underworld. The ancestors of the Liu family have done a lot of great things to benefit the country and the people, so they can bless the descendants. Although your branch is not the direct branch of the Liu family, it is because of the great chaos in the world. , the people in the direct branch are almost extinct, and the remaining descendants have changed their names and surnames, and cannot inherit the Yin virtues of Liu's ancestors, so this is what you have." Li Jinrui said to the old man expressionlessly.

The old man glanced at him with cloudy eyes, then looked at Sun Liang next to him, and said, "It's really rare to see a yin and yang guide colluding with the police in the mortal world."

Li Jinrui didn't answer his words, but looked at a memorial tablet placed on the shrine in the room, and a dozen thick books in the bookcase next to him, and said: "I was surprised before, although Liu's son-in-law The branch is indeed extinct, but there are several branches, why only your branch has the Yin virtue of the ancestors of the Liu family, presumably because you still remember the names of the ancestors of the Liu family, and the other branches have long forgotten."

The photo Huang Dahong took last time was the genealogy of the Liu family, but the book in the bookcase is the genealogy of the Liu family.

Although genealogy and genealogy are very similar, if subdivided, there are still many differences.

For example, what Li Jinrui just said about the descendants and branches, in the big families in ancient times, the descendants belonged to the clan. , unless a descendant of the branch opens a case.But it is not so easy to start a sect. Unless the prestige reaches a certain level or you have made great achievements, opening a sect is a joke.

Li Jinrui was surprised that the Liu family still kept the genealogy of their ancestors, because branches are not eligible to keep the genealogy.

The skin on the old man's face moved, as if he smiled, and said: "Back then when wars broke out frequently, the members of the clan only cared about collecting the gold and silver and fled, and forgot about the ancestors. Only I went into the clan hall to keep the genealogy. come out."

His voice was very hoarse, but he could hear a sense of complacency when he said this.

Li Jinrui sneered, and said: "The ancestors passed on the Yin virtues of the Liu family to your branch, but you use up these Yin virtues for your own profit and longevity. Are you worthy of the Liu family ancestors?"

"Consumption?" The old man seemed to twitch his eyebrows, and said, "What consumption are you talking about?"

This time there was a bit of tension in his voice.

"Do you think that your longevity is free? Even if you are an antique hundreds of years ago, you should have heard that 'there is no free lunch'." Li Jinrui said coldly.

Sun Liang, who has always been quietly pretending to be a wooden man, finally couldn't help but glance at him. Li Jinrui has always been gentle and rigorous. He has never seen Li Jinrui speak in such an arrogant and indifferent tone. The very flat tone came out of Li Jinrui's mouth, but it carried an unspeakable nobleness, which made people feel as if he was such a superior person, so he should say such words in such a tone.

There was only one desk lamp on the bedside table turned on in the room. The lamp was an old-fashioned incandescent lamp with low wattage. The whole room looked very dim, but it could be seen that the furniture in this room were all Ming and Qing styles. This bed was still the kind of bed with various patterns carved, inlaid with jade and shells. Because the light was too dark, Sun Liang could only see the closest carved pattern, which was the immortal Heshou.

The old man was sitting on the bed, his legs were flatly covered with a thick and soft silk quilt, and the quilt was embroidered with a pattern of auspicious clouds, cranes and pine trees with silk thread.

Sun Liang felt that the old man seemed to make some kind of expression, but the skin on the old man's face was too loose and wrinkled, so he couldn't tell what the old man wanted to express at all.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean?" The old man moved his hand on the quilt.

"Because you wanted to live forever, you stole the Yin virtues accumulated by your Liu family ancestors, and now in the underworld merit book, your Liu family's Yin virtues will be exhausted." Li Jinrui said.

"Steal it? I didn't..." The old man paused, his cloudy eyeballs rolled, as if he remembered something, after a long time, he suddenly trembled all over his body, his body was as thin as a handful of bones, like a tortoise in the wind. Withered grass, he said with a trembling voice: "You... you said that Liu's Yin virtue was... consumed by me..."

"You don't have to feel guilty. It's not only you who consumed those evil virtues, but also your clansmen." Li Jinrui seemed to be comforting the old man, but there was a very obvious contempt in his tone, as if saying that the old man was not only himself Corrupting the Yin virtues of the ancestors, even the younger generation can't manage well.

The old man was so angry that his face was flushed, and his hoarse voice could not help becoming sharper, he said: "We Liu clan members have always done good deeds and accumulated virtue, so how could we corrupt our ancestors' sinful virtues."

"Doing good deeds?" Li Jinrui sneered, and said, "In order to match the ghost marriage and lure others to kill a woman, and commit the same crime as the murderer, you will go to the hell of the sword; Before that, I had to go to hell for 8 years to reflect. You said that the Liu family has done good deeds? Are you kidding me!"

"Murder?" The old man moved his head and asked hastily, "What murder?"

Li Jinrui stared at him for a while, making sure that he really didn't know, and then gave Sun Liang a wink.

Sun Liang immediately stepped forward and explained the whole case, emphasizing the reason of the whole case. It was precisely because Liu Zhengguo wanted to organize a ghost marriage for his dead son, so he lured Li Fengyi's two elder brothers to kill Li Fengyi. Feng Yi also spent a little time talking about Liu Moping's guilt after Li Fengyi's death, and her subsequent poisoning.

The old man listened quietly to Sun Liang's narration without speaking.

After Sun Liang finished speaking, he stood back to his original place.

Li Jinrui looked at the old man and said, "Are you thinking that anyway, Li Fengyi has already entered Liu's ancestral grave, and she will be Liu's ghost in the future, so she won't harm her virtue? Did you choose to kill and commit suicide because of guilt? Then you are totally wrong, Liu Moping is haunted by Li Fengyi's resentment!"

"You... what did you say?" The old man panicked.

Li Jinrui seemed to think that he wasn't nervous enough, and continued: "You haven't been to your Liu's cemetery for a long time, right? For so many years, your Liu family probably killed many women because of ghost marriages. The entire Liu's cemetery is Shrouded in resentment, these resentments are corroding the virtues of the Liu family day by day, plus your immortality, how much do you think those ancestors’ virtues are left?”

"No! Impossible! You...you lied to me!" The old man couldn't sit still at all, and he struggled to get out of bed while shouting "Bajin".

"Grandfather, what happened?"

There were hurried footsteps and answers outside the door, Li Jinrui glanced at the old man, held Sun Liang's hand, made a gesture, and the two disappeared in place.

Hearing the old ancestor's shout, Liu Zhenghong hurried over. He had never seen the old ancestor so panic-stricken. What's the matter? It's so late, where are you going?"

"The cemetery, I'm going to the cemetery." The old man was about to walk out trembling.

"Ancestor, slow down, I'll support you." Although Liu Zhenghong didn't understand why the ancestor wanted to visit the cemetery when he saw the "immortal" who came from afar, he never hesitated about what the ancestor said.

The two walked out with their arms.

In the room, Sun Liang pulled Li Jinrui's hand and asked, "Is it true that Liu Moping was poisoned because of Li Fengyi's resentment?"

"No, I lied to him." Li Jinrui's expression was calm.

"Ah?" Sun Liang was dumbfounded. Li Jinrui's appearance just now did not seem to be deceiving at all.

"However, most of what I just said is true. When a family lives together, whether it's blessings, merits, or disasters and resentments, they are all in common. A family that has been doing good all the year round can prosper for several generations, or even dozens of generations, but as long as If you do evil things, sooner or later you will bring disaster to your descendants, no matter how powerful the clan is." Li Jinrui dragged Sun Liang out of Liu's ancestral hall slowly.

"What will happen to the Liu family in the future?" Sun Liang asked.

"Who knows? It depends on how they choose. If they work hard to make up for it and do good deeds, it shouldn't be ruined." Li Jinrui said lightly.

……

Two days later, on the twentieth day of the Chinese New Year, Liu Zhengguo came to the criminal police team and surrendered himself.

The next day, the oldest old man of the Liu family passed away. It is said that he was a centenarian who had never been married and had no children. However, the entire Liu family buried him, and even some people who had gone abroad all came back. , One by one, they cried at the grave of the old man as if they were children who had lost their parents.

A reporter took a video of the scene, and Sun Liang looked at the name on the tombstone.

Liu Feng.

The top name on the Liu family tree is precisely Liu Feng, he is the true ancestor of the Liu family.

The author has something to say:

When I was in elementary school, there was a classmate who had an old lady in his family. She was the grandmother of my classmate's father. They were called old lady in their family.

The old lady has been in poor health, not because she is sick, but because she is too old to walk.

My classmate's parents are very kind to the old lady and have always taken good care of her.I still remember that my classmate's father carried her downstairs from the fourth floor every day, and let her sit downstairs and bask in the sun.

To tease the children, sometimes tell us stories, and take them back to us when we get off work. We go up and down twice a day, but we are always smiling.

One year later, the old lady fell ill. I don't know the specific illness, but I only know that she will be hospitalized.

The elderly are hospitalized, not to mention how much it costs, but it is very troublesome to take care of them. My classmate’s parents are only workers and have no money to hire a nanny. They can only go there at noon and at night to deliver meals. Breakfast will be early when I go to work. Send it over, and go to the hospital if you have a little rest time.

Seeing that she had to spend so much money and take care of her grandson and granddaughter-in-law, the old lady called the whole family to her side and touched them one by one.

My classmate said that the old lady said at the time, I can't bear your hard work, so I'd better go.

Then she died.

……

Many years later, when my primary school classmate and I met again, we talked about the old lady.

My classmate said that the old lady's health has long since failed, but she is reluctant to part with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, so she has been working hard to live.

Later, seeing that he made his grandson so hard, he left.

This is probably how the old man treats his offspring.

……

The ancestor of the Liu family didn't know at the beginning that he was harming the family's morality. He just lived hard and wanted to watch his descendants.

He didn't know about Liu Zhengguo's behavior. As for dark marriages, the custom was like this, and he didn't think it was a bad thing.