Chapter 175: Grandmother

The sky was just dawning, and Zhong Kui appeared in the morning sun of Dongji Zhen.

Her long black hair was coiled into a bun, and she was dressed in protective clothing, following Qi Fei down to the location of the underground altar.

In that small door hole, the white bones were still sitting, the skull's face grinning, like a sneer.

"Xiao Tao checked it initially. Judging from the bone condition, it is a female, between 30 and 40 years old," Qi Fei said beside her, "However, more importantly, you should look at this." As he said this, he took out the pocket watch found on the white bones, opened the watch cover, and the black and white photo inside appeared in front of Zhong Kui.

Zhong Kui's eyebrows frowned slightly. Clearly, she discovered the same problem as Qi Fei: "Genetics is really an interesting thing." Immediately, she observed this small cave, "Hmm, it was arranged like a womb. It seems that the cause of death of this victim zero has been figured out, and we will know the past and present of this killer."

"Yes, I think I know why he suddenly stopped killing in 1984. It seems we have to go to Bai Family Village again," Qi Fei said.

"You say, does he know that we know?" Qi Fei and Zhong Kui, the two of them were speaking riddles that others couldn't understand.

Spring in Nancheng changes very quickly. Compared with the last time Zhong Kui and Qi Fei went up the mountain, in just a few days, the overlapping pine forests of Wuyin were already surging with new green, and the air was soaked with the clear fragrance of pine resin.

The pine branches were covered with pine flowers, and when the wind blew, they formed a floating golden mist in the mountain mist.

On the square in front of the ancestral residence, long tables and cedar steamers were set up. Chang Ying was wearing an apron, dressed plainly, and making pine flower cakes with the villagers.

Seeing the arrival of Zhong Kui and Qi Fei, she enthusiastically invited them to join.

"Director Chang, we have to talk aside," Qi Fei said to her without being disappointed.

Chang Ying saw the abnormality in their expressions, took off the apron stained with pine pollen uneasily, and led them towards the inside of the ancestral residence.

The noise and excitement outside could not drive away the gloom in the ancestral residence.

Qi Fei displayed the photo in the pocket watch he had taken to Chang Ying.

I saw that in the black and white photo, the lady was wearing braids, smiling brightly at the camera, with eight or nine points of similarity between her eyebrows and eyes to Chang Ying, and the boy on the side was exactly the same as her son.

Chang Ying was surprised when she saw it: "Ah, this is?"

"Sorry, I checked your personal information. You were born in November 1984, right?" Qi Fei couldn't hide his heavy mood.

Looking at this posture, Chang Ying's uneasiness was also visibly increasing: "Yes, does the case you are investigating have anything to do with me? I..." Her face was innocent and confused, "If you still want to find Bai Sanshui to understand the situation, I can call him over, he is outside..."

"No..." Zhong Kui interrupted her, "We only look for you.

The police found an interview about you, in which you told the reason why you gave up your high-paying job and came to Bai Family Village."

"Yes, everyone knows that because my grandmother is from Bai Family Village, and one-quarter of the Bai family's blood flows in my veins. I think I have the responsibility to make this place regain its vitality," Chang Ying said immediately.

"I think, when you made this decision, you were strongly obstructed by your father, right?" Zhong Kui asked again.

Chang Ying smiled: "I have never complained about my father because of this. Any father who loves his child will be the same as him, hoping that I can have a better future. After so many years, I know that he also respects my choice. I have achieved the bold words I made to him at the beginning, and he has said several times that he is proud of me."

Zhong Kui heard this, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, with a smile on her face, but her tone was exceptionally cold: "Indeed, he poured his lifelong love into you, but for this place, it may not be so."

"What do you want to know?" Chang Ying's gaze moved back and forth between Zhong Kui and Qi Fei, trying to find some answers.

Clearly, the one who wanted the answer more was Qi Fei: "Director Chang, the content of the household registration information back then was limited. We only know that your grandfather Cui Zhan's wife was named Bai Yunzhi, but we have no way of knowing more content. Can you tell us what kind of person your grandmother was?"

Chang Ying frowned slightly after hearing this: "Grandmother, in our family, is a very subtle topic. Her first half of life and second half of life seem to be two completely different people. Many of what I know were not obtained from my father. My father gets angry as soon as he mentions my grandmother.

We can all understand this.

I was told since I was a child that my grandmother left my grandfather and my father when my father was very young and eloped with another man.

Perhaps, this is a pain that my father could never heal in his life.

Maybe it was a coincidence, or a destined opportunity. When I was in college, one of my research topics was the transformation of Bai Family Village, which gave me the opportunity to contact the villagers here. I remembered my grandmother and took the opportunity to ask about her from the elderly.

To my surprise, many people remember her vividly.

Because she broke the tradition of hundreds of years for my grandfather and escaped from the Wuyin Eighteen Gates.

In the description of the elderly, she is a smart and brave woman.

Although my father is unwilling to mention my grandmother more, I can still feel from his words that my grandmother was a good mother before she eloped. I always feel that my father's love for my grandmother is buried deep in his heart, just not good at expressing it."

"Perhaps, he mentioned something about the church to you?" Zhong Kui listened quietly to Chang Ying's narration and asked a question that she had already thought of.

"Are you talking about that old church in Nancheng?" Chang Ying reacted immediately.

"Hmm."

"How do you know? Because my grandmother is from Bai Family Village, although she left the village, those beliefs are still difficult to abandon. Indeed, I remember my father missed that my grandmother took him to the Nancheng church when he was a child. It seems to be a rare beautiful memory of childhood."

Qi Fei took a breath when he heard this and said: "After October 1984, we never found any victims related to the Demon Mirror Case. I think that is because you were born in November of this year. Your arrival made the killer give up killing."

Chang Ying was completely stunned after hearing this: "This, this is..." Her gaze fell on the black and white photo again. A cloud passed through her optimistic and bright eyes, and then she shook her head slightly, muttering, "This is impossible."

"Sometimes, the most impossible idea is the fact," Zhong Kui looked at her,

"We need to collect your DNA sample and compare it with this lady in the photo." ===== CHAPTER 176 =====