Demon Book Strange

In the evening, the whole Shanghai Beach is soaked in the orange glow.On the tree in the backyard of You's house, there are crows sitting on the branches and "croaking".In the wing room in the backyard, You Wensheng cleaned up the room.In the front yard, the sound of younger brothers and sisters cooking together can be heard from time to time.

After finally tidying up the old wing room and placing his personal belongings, he sat by the window and watched the crows on the branches.

"Quack-quack-quack-quack-"

When did the crows come to this house?

"Brother, dinner is ready!" My sister's voice came from the front yard.So he stood up and walked towards the nave hall in the front yard.When he stepped into the hall, a black shadow rushed into his arms like a fly.The black shadow shouted, "Brother You——"

You Wensheng's heart skipped a beat, and his expression changed leisurely.When he raised his hand to block the pillar and bump into the person in his arms, that person was grabbed, and it was You Wenyue who grabbed the person.

The person being caught paddled towards You Wensheng in mid-air, trying to hug the other person's waist: "Brother You, Brother You, you are back, the little cat misses you."

To save his "little life", You Wensheng, who was not knocked into the air, reached out and slapped the opponent on the head: "Oriental cat, don't be so big or small."

The boy said "Ouch", covered his head with his hands, and said aggrievedly: "I know that Brother You is back, so I am excited."

You Wenyue let go of the boy: "Go wash your hands and get ready to eat."

Dongfang Mao stood up and saluted Second Brother You: "Yes, Inspector You."

You Wenyue stretched out his foot and kicked Dongfang Mao's ass: "Now you are the inspector."

In the scene in the cafeteria, after he was demoted, Dongfang Mao was promoted and became the new inspector.This kid is a bit unreliable, and I don't know if he can do it.

On the round table, You Wensheng looked at the big messy pot of stew in the middle of the table and the big bowl of white rice in front of him, and asked, "What... is this?" The dishes used are so similar?

Dongfang Mao picked up the chopsticks: "It's dinner made by Xiaozhu and Brother You. This meal is delicious."

You Wenyue said, "Eat quickly." Then, he put his chopsticks into the big basin.

You Wenzhu picked up the white rice and said to his eldest brother, "Elder brother, eat it quickly, or it will be gone."

Then, the three of them opened their mouths wide and started eating quickly.You Wensheng looked at the three ugly people in shock, and couldn't believe it. These were the young master and young lady who had been educated since childhood.Of course, it didn't take long for him to understand what "or it would be gone" meant.

A large pot of vegetables and a large pot of rice gradually disappeared in the "bloody mouth" of the three.The three people in front of them were destroying the food in front of them, as if they had been reincarnated from starvation.Seeing that the food was gradually disappearing, You Wen swallowed, mustered up the courage to pick up the chopsticks and put them in the basin to pick up the dish made of something unknown, and then put it in his mouth.

Things that I thought were unpalatable turned out to be good.

It's just that the appearance of the dishes is really ugly.

After eating, the three people except You Wensheng burped on the chair with their bulging stomachs. You Wensheng twitched his eyes and asked, "Is there any tea?" Nothing, seems a bit unaccustomed.

Three pairs of eyes, six eyes looked at him at the same time, and said in unison: "No." Then, You Wenyue stood up, "I'll go buy. Kitty, you and piglet clear the table."

Dongfang Mao patted his chest with his hands: "Second brother, go, I will definitely clean up this place."

After You Wenyue left, Dongfang Mao and You Wenzhu skillfully cleaned up the bowls and bowls on the table.Looking at the two people at work, You Wensheng could easily guess that Dongfang Mao was the "guest" at home, and at the same time guessed that he might be the only one left in the Dongfang family next door.

You Wensheng took out a pocket watch from the pocket of his vest jacket to check the time, and asked, "Are you also in the police station?"

Dongfang Mao was wearing a patrol uniform, with a gun and baton pinned to his waist, and his police cap was on the table, so he guessed his identity.Oriental Cat smiled like a cat: "Yes..."

So, he told what happened in the central arresting room a few days ago, and proudly boasted that he replaced Brother You and became the inspector, while Brother You was demoted to the arresting house on Xiafei Road as the third High-level patrolling.

When Dongfang Mao was talking proudly, You Wenzhu stretched out his hand and patted him on the head: "My second brother will resume the position of inspector one day."

Dongfang Mao let out an "ouch" and was so aggrieved that he thought—why do the You brothers and sisters always like to hit him on the head?

You Wen made an appointment to buy English tea with the French on the first section of Joffre Road. After that, he turned into an alley and raised the curtain of a restaurant to enter.

The shop smelled of opium.In the opium room in the store, the skinny Chinese lay on the couch and smoked opium, as if they were sucking their own lives.Their expressions were blurred, as if they were in the Taoyuan Township where the fairy music was fluttering.

He was an acquaintance with the shopkeeper. Wearing a melon cap and a long black coat, the shopkeeper wrapped up opium the size of a baby's fist and gave it to You Wenyao: "Second Young Master You, take it."

You Wen asked to accept it, and then gave the money: "Thank you."

After that, he left the opium den.

Joffre Road, which was just lit up with lights, began to enter the world of night, and people who came to the French Concession to have fun began to make noise.After returning home with the foreigners who passed by, You Wenyue made a cup of tea for his elder brother himself.After getting the "unpalatable" evaluation, he said with a smile: "In the future, I will definitely be able to brew the taste that my brother likes to drink."

You Wensheng felt that he was talking nonsense.

After a busy day, Dongfang Mao climbed over the wall and went back to the house next door. After the eldest brother and younger sister fell asleep one after another, You Wenyue took out the tools for smoking opium in his room, and then leaned against the wall with his eyes closed while biting the stick pumped up.

In the early morning of the next day, I put my hair back with both hands, and then tied a small bunch of gray hair on the back of my head with a rubber band, then put on my police uniform and went out.

As soon as he left the house, he saw Dongfang Mao greeted him with a steamed bun in his mouth: "Second brother." Randomly, he handed over the paper bag in his arms.You Wenyue reached in and took out the steamed stuffed bun and stuffed it into his mouth.

The two were walking on Xiafei Road in the early morning. The shops on both sides of the avenue opened one after another. There were stall owners selling steamed stuffed buns, wontons and dumplings. They also had all kinds of snacks.

"Brother You has returned to China, what is he going to do?" He gnawed on the steamed stuffed bun, Dongfang Mao's cheeks were bulging, he asked somewhat vaguely.

"He can do whatever he wants." You Wenyue took out another bun from the paper bag in his arms.The news of his return has spread, and I believe that the concession authorities, the warlords occupying Jiangsu, the Shanghai trade roads, and even the gangsters will all offer him an olive branch.

"I always feel a little uneasy..." Dongfang Mao muttered.

You Wenyue reached out and rubbed his head: "If it's that person, it's fine."

When we arrived at Xiafei Road arresting room, Dongfang Mao was about to say hello. When we went to the central patrolling room on Xue Huali Road in Lujiawan, the guard at the gate of Xiafei Road arresting room said: "You Wenyue, Mr. Yan said that someone committed suicide in the Rainbow Movie Park. , let you go there."

You Wenyue said "received" and went into the gun room of the arrest house to collect the gun.

When he walked out of the trap room, he saw that Dongfang Mao was still there, and asked in surprise, "Why are you still there?"

The oriental cat jumped up, wrapped its limbs around his waist, and the man flicked his non-existent tail, showing a cat-like expression: "Together, together."

You Wenyue grabbed the person on his waist and "teared" it off: "Let's go."

When the two arrived at the movie park, Yan Shu had already been waiting for a long time.A circle of young people surrounded the suicide scene, and there were patrols guarding the body.When You Wenyue squeezed in and saw the female corpse on the ground, they frowned—this was already the fifth "suicide" corpse.

The female corpse's limbs were distorted and ugly, her eyes burst and her brains bloomed.

A pool of fresh blood soaked the ground.

Leafless five-petal blood flowers slowly grew in the blood on the corpse and on the ground.It doesn't stop growing until it reaches about the height of a person.

When You Wenyue arrived, the five-petal blood flower was still slowly growing, which proved that the deceased had just committed suicide not long ago.An old man came in with a basket and began picking flowers.She reached out and grabbed a five-petal blood flower that was slowly growing and blooming from the corpse, and then the broken flower branch, where the flower branch was cut off, drips of blood flowed out.After that, put the flowers into the basket.

You Wenyue said, "Old man, don't pick flowers."

The old man squinted his eyes on his wrinkled face: "Take this flower home and cook it, it can prolong your life."

Human blood corpse flowers, for those old people who stepped into the coffin, they couldn't be better.

The Oriental cat showed cat-like eyes: "Old lady, what you want to eat is just a dead body."

The old man was taken aback for a moment, and said with a smile: "I dare not, I dare not."

Dongfang Mao pointed to the human blood corpse flowers in her basket: "Those are part of the corpse."

The old man took out a human blood corpse flower and handed it to the young man: "Try it."

Oriental Cat shook his head: "I don't eat human corpses."

The old man smiled "hehe" and continued to pick until he had picked a whole basket.

On the other hand, when Yan Shu saw You Wen asked to come, he said: "She is a character in the movie park. She committed suicide by jumping off the theater building more than 20 minutes ago. The people in the movie park said that there is her play today. And yesterday she also said that she went to the International Settlement to buy rouge and gouache today. Therefore, she has no reason to commit suicide."

You Wenyue nodded: "Homicide is the same murderer as the previous four suicide cases."

Yan Shu said: "In these five murder cases, the murderer did not leave any clues. If the case is not solved as soon as possible, there may be new victims." So, the patrolling guard said, "Take the corpse back to the morgue. Autopsy."

The patrol agreed, and Yan Shu said, "Let's go, go back to the central arresting room."

After handing over the corpse still growing with human blood corpse flowers to the police, the three of them went back to the central patrol room and entered the chief inspector's room.Yan Shu spread the materials of the five cases on the table and said, "Did you see anything?"

You Wenyue looked at the case documents on the table, and involuntarily rubbed his fingers against his lower lip.

Dongfang Mao looked left and right, but didn’t see any problems. He looked at You Wenyue who was thinking, and after a while, You Wenyue said: “The five deceased didn’t know each other, and their identities were different. Yes, a female student, a theater actor, a female doctor, a female shopkeeper, and a female revolutionary. Except for the female revolutionary, the other four did not have any enemies. Therefore, there is a high probability that the murderer and the deceased did not know each other. The big possibility is that killing without discrimination... No, it should be said that killing with distinction."

Dongfang Mao was confused when he heard that, "Is it indiscriminate killing or discriminating killing?"

You Wenyue smiled and said, "It's killing without distinction, but it's also killing with distinction. Although the people who were killed did not know each other, they had one thing in common."

Oriental Cat asked: "What do they have in common?"

You Wenyue said: "First, as a woman. Second, as a new woman."

Yan Shu nodded: "Then you are right. The No.1 victim, a female student, once led the students to shout the New Women's Declaration on the street; the No.2 victim, the shopkeeper, kicked out her brother who only knows how to eat, drink and play. , and inherited the family business; No.3 victim, female doctor can freely contact male patients; No.4 female revolutionary who died, engaged in revolutionary activities in Shanghai Beach; Singing for fun. This is what the five victims have in common."

You Wenyue said: "As long as the breach is found, the murderer will have nowhere to hide."

The oriental cat flicked its non-existent tail, with a cat-like expression on its face: "Look at me catching this stinky mouse out of the gutter."

You Wenyue stood up: "In the next few days, I will check." After speaking, he left the chief inspector's office and returned to Xiafei Road to patrol.

The next day, a gentleman named Zhou Shuren published an extremely satirical article "Zhun Fengyue Tan·Help the Falun Gong" in the newspaper.He said: "...For example, there is one thing that is important, and everyone thought it was important, but he appeared as a buffoon, turning this into a joke, or making a special show of unimportant points, making the matter Pull people's attention away, this is the so-called "joke". If it is a murder, he will talk about the situation on the spot and the detective's efforts; if it is a woman who died, it would be even better, and the name is "Yan Corpse". , or introduce her diary."