Episode 9 Chapter 94 Behind the Mirror
The man who was replacing the glass must have thought I had committed murder and arson, so much so that he was unwilling to help me install the mirror. He told me that there was a hook behind the mirror and I just had to hook it to the expansion screw on the wall. It was very simple. After that, he ran away without waiting for me to say anything.
But the handprint on the wall was really scary. I wanted to wipe it off with a towel dipped in water, but then I thought, what if it was really evidence? If I wiped it off, wouldn’t it destroy the evidence? What if they determined that I was the murderer? And I was suspected and treated as a suspect more than once. I became more cautious and wanted to call Shan Ranjin, but he had just come and left in the morning, and now it was only noon and I called him again. I really thought it was endless.
But I am not in this line of work after all. After looking at it for a long time, I could not see anything except that it was creepy. Later, I had no choice but to send a text message to Shan Lanjin. After only ten minutes, someone knocked on the door. I saw that it was Fan Zhidong and another person outside. I opened the door and Fan Zhidong told me that they were visiting the third building, and then the police called and asked them to come over to take a look, so he and his colleagues came over.
Besides, I had basically never seen this person, and even if I had seen him, I would not have any impression of him. So I took them to the bathroom. Fan Zhidong saw the handprint behind the mirror and asked if I had taken it myself. Of course I said no, how could I be so bored. The police officer next to Fan Zhidong was about 40 years old and had more experience. He pinched a little bit on the edge with his hand and said it was blood, which had dried for too long.
If there are bloodstains, it means someone has died, and this time the death has come to my house. I suddenly remembered that I always felt there was someone in the bathroom. Could it be the wronged soul of the handprint? But I couldn't tell Fan Zhidong and the others about this. Fan Zhidong and the other policeman didn't have any specific idea after looking at it. But Fan Zhidong suddenly blurted out like a fool and said, there couldn't be a body on the wall.
He felt that he had gone too far when he said this, and I told him not to talk nonsense, as this was a matter of life and death. Finally, Fan Zhidong discussed with the police officer and said that we should let Deputy Shan come and see it himself, after all, this matter involved me. Fan Zhidong then told me that Shan Lanjin had specifically told me not to talk nonsense about my case or make a rash decision.
At that time, I felt like I was a VIP among the suspects, awesome.
Later, Fan Zhidong called Shan Lanjin. Actually, I never understood why Fan Zhidong called Shan Lanjin "Deputy Shan". When I asked Fan Zhidong, he said he didn't understand what the position was. Everyone in the bureau called him that, so they followed suit .
Shan Lanjin told Fan Zhidong and the others to go do their work first, and he would come over to take care of my situation. When Shan Lanjin came back, he told me that he had a feeling after he left that there was something wrong with the mirror in my bathroom, and sure enough, it turned out to be true. I said his intuition was pretty accurate. Shan Lanjin said that when we played hide-and-seek, he saw me touch someone at the door of the bathroom, and he had always had a suspicion in his mind, but he had never gotten any confirmed clues. Now that I changed the mirror, the problem really came.
Moreover, Shan Lanjin actually said the same thing as Fan Zhidong. He guessed that there was something on the wall where the mirror was placed in the bathroom, and it might be someone's corpse.
I could say Fan Zhidong was talking nonsense, but since Shan Lanjin said so himself, I had to believe him 80% of the time, because Shan Lanjin's words were basically true, which is why I didn't doubt anything he said. Shan Lanjin said that since this had already happened, we should find out everything at once and knock the wall open to see if there was anything inside.
Afterwards, Shan Ranjin took pictures of the handprints on the wall as evidence, but while he was taking the pictures, I saw the phone in his hand suddenly fall to the ground. It was not because he didn't hold it firmly, but it was as if something hit his wrist hard and knocked the phone off.
And soon, blood bubble-like palm prints appeared on Shan Lanjin's wrists as if he was burned. All this happened so quickly, Shan Lanjin told me to get out first, and then Shan Lanjin and I came out of the bathroom one after another. When I came out, I heard the crisp sound of the mirror inside "crackling", which was the sound of being smashed.
Shan Rankin said: "It saw that we had provoked it, and it started to get angry."
I had never encountered such a situation before, so I asked Shan Lanjin what to do. Shan Lanjin said that if I tried to knock on the wall forcefully, something might happen. I had to find someone to see what the thing was first, and then stabilize it before exploring what was inside the wall. Moreover, according to the current situation, there was definitely something inside the wall, but I was not sure whether it was a corpse.
I asked Shan Lanjin if he was okay and whether he should apply some aloe vera gel, but Shan Lanjin said it was okay, it just looked scary, but actually he didn't feel anything and it didn't hurt, just a little numb. As he was talking, I saw him rubbing the area with his hands. It looked like a blood blister just now, but now it looked more like a scar. I said it wouldn't stay there forever, and Shan Lanjin seemed to have encountered this situation before. He said he had a way to make it go away and I didn't need to worry.
Shan Lanjin said that this matter should not be delayed, since it was angry and the longer it was delayed, the more trouble it would cause . He suggested that I ask the old lady to take a look, because Master Nan's whereabouts were a bit uncertain and it would be difficult to find him at once. I said I would go now, but Shan Lanjin said that he would go with me, because he was afraid that something would happen if I went alone.
I asked if they didn't need to guard the house, and Shan Lanjin said Fan Zhidong and the others were here, so it shouldn't be a big problem if they were to look after it. So we went to Huguo Road, and the old lady was still guarding the store as usual. Suddenly, when she saw Shan Lanjin and I come in, she looked around, lowered her eyes, and said at the same time: "Seeing that you came in with a strange smell, I knew you had encountered a difficult situation."
After saying that, the old lady stood up from the chair and came to us. She looked at the place where Shan Lanjin's wrist was. I couldn't help but admire the old lady's eyes. Although she was old, her eyes were not cloudy at all. The old lady said that it was not a human mark and asked where it was done.
So I told the old lady everything that had happened before. She said that in this case she would have to go with us, but in this situation she didn't have to go. That thing had been in my house for a long time and she had noticed it. She said let her daughter-in-law go with us, because an acquaintance was coming to see her in the evening and she couldn't let that person go empty-handed.
I asked if this would work, and the old lady said it would work, as long as we gave her time to find the things on the wall, and we didn't need to drive them away, we just needed to temporarily calm them down. So she called her daughter-in-law over, explained some things to her, and gave her some things to take with her, and then she came back with us.
During this period, Shan Lanjin used the free time to arrange for people to come and demolish the wall. They arrived at my house almost at the same time. The old lady's daughter-in-law took out some incense and a copper incense burner and placed it at the bathroom door. Finally, after burning paper money and muttering something, she inserted the incense into the copper incense burner. She said that it was safe before the incense went out and we didn't have to worry, but we had to stop immediately after the incense went out. If we hadn't finished yet, we would have to think of another way. She said that the method the old lady taught her could only be used once and could not be reused.
She said that the incense used by grandma was specially made, and different from ordinary rosin. One stick of incense can burn for an hour - that is, two hours, so it should be enough. Ordinary rosin can burn for about a quarter of an hour - about half an hour.
Hearing that it could burn for two hours, I felt a little relieved. So after the incense was lit, Dan Ranjin asked the people to start working. They drilled and hammered, and their movements were quite efficient. They soon discovered that there was actually a mezzanine in the wall behind the mirror, and there was indeed a corpse in the mezzanine.
