He immediately smiled and said, "A fellow townsman? There are not many people who know I'm from Minnan. By the way, I have to apologize to you first. I had a meeting today and my phone was off until now."
The old man was particularly easy-going and kind.
I said to him, "Professor Chen, do you remember that you pasted a picture inside your family history in your home library?"
"Oh?" He hesitated for a while.
I said again, "The pattern was a weasel in a wedding dress."
He smiled again and said, "I remember."
I nodded and said bluntly, "Professor Chen, I need your help regarding the weasel in the wedding dress."
At the moment, I captured his interest.
He let me talk.
I told him the story. Recently, a weasel has killed four tenants in a ghost house, and tattooed a weasel in a wedding dress on all their faces.
I also described the strange phenomena we had encountered in the ghost house.
Finally, I told him about Chen Yuhao being sealed in a coffin for ten days.
When I finished, Chen Sanli said earnestly, " I understand. Brother, can I find you by this phone?"
"Yes, yes." I hastened to say.
He smiled again and said, "I will book a ticket back home tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. When we meet we will talk again. This is going to be a long story."
I said to him, "By the way, Professor Chen, the weasel kept repeating something."
"What?"
I said, "Huang Erlang requited the favors of the Chen Family. He brought wealth from far away to show his appreciation, but the Chen family is very greedy and they framed Huang Erlang to death."
There was a long silence.
After what seemed like two or three minutes, he said, "This matter started because of me, then ended because of me. In the next two days I will go back home, and then I'll talk to you more."
"Thank you, Professor Chen." I hurried to hang up the phone.
In fact, I was excited. I was to face his refusal to come... but he had actually agreed.
I should have been happy because things went so well.
But I was not happy, because I thought his words were very gloomy.
"Alas. After he comes, we will talk about it." I shook my head.
The next day at noon, Chuanzi came over.
When he came, I told him about Su Yizi and asked him to help me.
He immediately agreed without a second thought and said that we were good buddies a long time ago. Good brothers don't become strangers.
I considered him really loyal. Although he had money now, he wouldn't look down upon a poor brother.
After I had a meal with Chuanzi and Li Xiangbo, I began preparing for the meeting with Su Yizi the following morning.
It was afternoon: time to decorate the scene.
Of course, I could go there that evening, but I had to wait for another person to come.
If this person did not come over, I could not take Feng Chunsheng and Chuanzi to find Su Yizi. Otherwise, we might die.
......
The next day, at ten o'clock in the morning, I took Feng Chunsheng and Chuanzi to find Su Yizi.
I called Su Yizi to arrange a meeting.
I said hello to her.
She asked me, "Is the person you were waiting for coming?"
"Yes." I smiled and said, "Let's pick a place to meet. I can not only wipe away your livor mortis, but also the curse of the Fox Empress."
"Really?" She didn't sound particularly excited.
In fact, when I met her, I also found that, no matter what she did or said, she was very calm; her mood was very stable.
Now I knew it was because she was the one who killed her roommates.
She knew the truth of the matter. Why would she be distressed?
I said to her, "Yes. We can easily wipe away your livor mortis. I'll give you an address. When you get there, just enter the house and wait for us."
After that, I hung up the phone and sent her address.
"Where are we going now?" Feng Chunsheng asked.
"To your place.".
In fact, yesterday we had chosen Feng Chunsheng's home as the location to debunk Su Yizi's lies, and spent the whole afternoon preparing it.
When we came to his home, Chuanzi and I hid ourselves.
The sofa in his living room was actually custom made. It was hollowed out to allow me to hide my whole body inside. Chuanzi hid under the bed.
We only had to wait for Su Yizi.
After half an hour, Feng Chunsheng sent me a message: Su Yizi had arrived.
Good.
I closed the message, and waited for her to come in.
I also cut a small hole into the front of the sofa. Through this small hole I could clearly see the whole room.
I saw Su Yizi enter.
She was still wrapped up tightly to hide her livor mortis.
It wasn't comfortable, so after she came in, she took off her outer clothes.
She didn't see me after she came in, so she took out her cell phone and began to call me.
Just when she phoned me, Feng Chunsheng's door suddenly closed.
Bang!
The iron door closed.
Su Yizi hurried to pull the door, but it wouldn't budge.
Hiding behind the sofa, I plugged directly into the power supply.
Suddenly, the sound of rustling sand spread through the room.
"He he…" A strange voice echoed in the room.
"What's happening?" Su Yizi panicked.
The voice of an old woman resounded, "Su Yizi, you drank corpse oil. You wanted to deceive everyone."
She suddenly looked up and said, "I didn't drink corpse oil! Who are you?"
"Ha ha." The old woman's voice rang again, "No corpse oil? You lie. You thought you could trick everyone? You can't cheat the person who wanted to help you, Yu Shui. And you can't cheat me. Today, your roommates are coming for you."
Su Yizi looked around again. She found that the voice of the old woman was coming from four loudspeakers placed around the room. She immediately shouted, "Yu Shui, are you here?"
She took a step forward, trying to find me.
"My fox…"
A rather hearty but plaintive voice rang out in the room.
"Who are you?" Su Yizi curled up in the corner, looking at the stereo set on the ceiling.
From the stereo came a voice, "Oh, Su Yizi, did you forget me? I am your roommate, Zhu Wei. You were my friend, and what did I get? You cut off my legs. You cut off my legs."
"I didn't, I didn't." Su Yizi cried.
Three more voices rang out from the stereo.
"Su Yizi, return my face!"
"You took away my heart... You took away my heart!"
"Su Yizi, you're a jerk. Where's my hand? I am poor; I became a ghost with no hands."
All of a sudden, her four roommates found her to demand her life.
She cried and roared, "Yu Shui, where are you? Get me the hell out of here! You took my money; you must help me to wipe off the livor mortis! Why do you let my roommates' ghosts, torment me? Get me the hell out of here!"
"He he. Su Yizi, why did you peel my face? Why did you peel my face?"
She curled up into the fetal position and said, "It wasn't me! It was the curse of the Fox Empress!"
"The curse of the Fox Empress?" The voice of Zhu Wei came out again, "You can't fool me! I am from the northeast Fox King's family. There was never a curse of the Fox Empress; you did it. You did it. All four of us died by your hands."
This sentence completely defeated her psychological defenses.
She suddenly stood up and said angrily, "Yes. I killed you! I killed you!"
laughing strange burst of female laughter broke out from the stereo.
This time, it seemed to have completely stimulated her anger and fear.
A person, whether indignant or fearful, was very easy to anger.
She said, "It was you! You laughed at me all the time; laughed at my lack of musical talent. I was your friends on the surface, but in fact, in my heart I planned to kill you."
She said, "You despised me. You said I could not afford expensive instruments, and said I had no money, and said I would never be successful. I hate you! I hate you!"
The voice of Zhu Wei came out again, "You just wanted to be famous."
She pointed to the stereo and said, "Yes, I just want to be famous. Who doesn't want to be famous? Zhu Wei, you raised two foxes in the bedroom. Your fox told me in a dream how to achieve success in music. I knew I had to kill you."
I was a little puzzled. What did Su Yizi hear that made her kill her roommates?
She said that fox the told her in the dream that no instrument was as wonderful as the human voice. The instrument was dead; the person was alive. Using a living body component to make a musical instrument would improve the timbre of the instrument a hundred fold.
Aha!
Su Yizi's four strange instruments were actually made out of her roommate's missing body parts?
She laughed more loudly. She looked up and said, "The drum made of a human face, the dulcimer made of a heart, the erhu made of a leg bone, the sanxian made of a hand tendon. That fox said that if I had these four instruments, I could become the greatest artist in the music industry. The timbre of my instruments was a hundred times better than yours."