Humans in All Heavens: Starting with Detective Dee

Di Renjie looked up.

Liu Da and Li Yuanfang are coming this way.

Li Yuanfang blinked, and Di Renjie gave him a look, meaning that things here were all settled.

"Liu Da, take us down the mountain to see where your young master fell."

"Yes, sir." Liu Da dared not delay and quickly led the way.

On the way, Di Renjie casually asked, "Liu Da, is your young master married yet?"

"Not yet, but we've had many matchmaking offers coming to our door."

"Oh, is that so?"

The spot where Liu Chuanlin fell off the cliff.

Liu Da pointed to a pile of rubble: "Sir, look, there's still bloodstains here."

Di Renjie stepped forward and took a closer look, and indeed there was a large amount of blood.

After careful observation, no useful clues were found.

Just as he was pondering this, Zhou Yi suddenly walked up to him and patted him on the back.

"My lord? Hmm?"

Following Zhou Yi's gaze.

In the jungle in front of the rubble, a piece of clothing was hanging.

Upon seeing this, Di Renjie immediately nodded.

Zhou Yi turned to Liu Da: "Liu Da, did you often come to Cuiping Mountain before?"

"Hey, I hardly ever come here..." Liu Da complained.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Di Renjie immediately stepped forward and retrieved the pieces of clothing from the jungle.

……

Liujiazhuang.

Inside Zhou Yi's room.

Zhou Yi and Li Yuanfang stood on either side.

Di Renjie took out the piece of clothing he had just seen.

Based on Liu Da's account of his journey up the mountain and the clues he obtained from his own on-site investigation, this leads to a comprehensive understanding of the situation.

Close your eyes.

A scene formed in his mind.

The three of them climbed Cuiping Mountain that day, with Liu Da walking ahead.

After passing a bend in the mountain, Liu Chali was panting heavily from exhaustion.

He waved to Liu Chuanlin behind him.

Just as Liu Chuanlin stepped forward and their bodies crossed, Liu Chali suddenly shoved Liu Chuanlin.

"Ah!" Liu Chuanlin cried out in surprise as his body veered off the cliff. Fortunately, a small tree happened to be growing alongside the cliff.

Liu Chuanlin stepped on it, and several tree branches immediately snapped.

Upon seeing this, Liu Chali stepped forward and pushed Liu Chuanlin.

Liu Chuanlin instinctively grabbed his wrist.

Liu Chali was shocked and struggled to break free.

Liu Chuanlin was violently pushed off the cliff.

The prayer beads in his hand flew out and landed on a small platform below the cliff.

During the argument, a piece of Liu Chuanlin's sleeve was torn off, fluttering in the wind and eventually falling into the jungle.

The scene in my mind has finished playing.

Di Renjie opened his eyes and a smile appeared on his face.

"Sir, you must have some ideas about this case now?" Zhou Yi said with a smile.

"You are the one who understands me."

"Indeed, combining Liu Da's account with today's on-site investigation, I think I have deduced the circumstances of Liu Chali's murder of Liu Chuanlin that day." Di Renjie smiled slightly and nodded.

Li Yuanfang frowned: "But, sir, based solely on this string of Buddhist beads and Young Master Liu's sleeves..."

I doubt I can convict Liu Chali of a crime.

"You're right, we can't decide on these two things yet." Di Renjie got up and paced around the room.

The two changed directions as Di Renjie moved.

"This case is different from previous cases."

Therefore, if we want Liu Chali to confess, we absolutely cannot use the methods of the past.

We cannot be bound by conventional case-handling methods.

Suddenly, Di Renjie stopped in his tracks, a confident expression on his face.

"My lord, what do you wish to do?" He had been following Di Renjie for so long.

The two were already familiar with his every move.

With just one expression or one gesture, the two of them immediately understood what he meant.

Di Renjie's actions clearly showed that he had already devised a way to get Liu Chali to confess.

"Atmosphere, I want to use the atmosphere to solve the case."

"Atmosphere?" Li Yuanfang asked, puzzled.

Zhou Yi understood immediately and stepped forward: "Sir, are you trying to scare Liu Chali?"

"That's right. Even the most cold-blooded and ruthless person would find it hard to remain calm about murdering their own child, right?"

Liu Chali was clearly not that kind of person.

I imagine he must have felt terrified and uneasy once he did such a thing.

And that is our opportunity.

"But, sir? Why are you trying to frighten Liu Chali?"

Li Yuanfang was still puzzled and didn't understand what it meant.

Di Renjie smiled slightly: "Having killed his own son, I reckon Liu Chali hasn't been sleeping well lately."

Since that's the case, let's give him a hand and make him restless.

Haunting is the simplest solution.

"Haunted?"

"That's right, it's haunted. The funeral hall is haunted, which makes Liu Chali believe that Liu Chuanlin died with his eyes open in disgrace."

Ghosts roam Liu Family Village, trying to disturb its peace.

We need to instill fear in Liu Chali so that he will reveal a weakness.

Zhou Yi chuckled upon hearing this: "My lord, leave this matter to me."

"Oh?"

"Have you forgotten? We obtained the method for making human skin masks from Hu Jinghui."

I made a human skin mask of Liu Chuanlin directly.

When it was late at night and everyone was quiet, he disguised himself as Liu Chuanlin.

"Won't that scare them to death?"

Di Renjie slapped his forehead: "I almost forgot about this."

Okay, this task is now yours.

However, you must remember to maintain a proper balance; you must keep Liu Family Village from having any peace.

But one shouldn't go too far.

Don't scare them to death.

Di Renjie was genuinely worried that Zhou Yi had gone too far.

Let alone in ancient times, even in modern times, some people are terrified of horror movies.

Even if you know that the ghosts in the movie are fake and impossible.

But with the music and the sound effects from the movie, the atmosphere was perfect.

I'm still terrified.

Superstition was prevalent in ancient times.

Some people have unwavering faith in the existence of ghosts and spirits.

Some people are skeptical.

Di Renjie, for example, didn't believe it at all, but when he came to the Bloodstained Eagle, he still had doubts in his heart, wondering if there really was a ghost.

In everyone's mind, Liu Chuanlin was already dead.

If Zhou Yi used a human skin mask to impersonate someone and appear in front of everyone.

Especially at night, people can be really scary, enough to scare someone to death.

"Don't worry, sir, I know what I'm doing."

After making a plan.

Zhou Yi immediately went out of the mansion to buy some materials for making human skin masks.

They began making Liu Chuanlin's mask.

In the past few months, Zhou Yi not only studied martial arts and medicine, but also learned how to make human skin masks.

They've become quite proficient at it.

Time quickly passed and evening arrived.

Inside Liu Chuanlin's mourning hall.

It was the same keeper of the coffin, Jiang Laosi, the gardener from Liujiazhuang.

He knelt on the prayer mat, half asleep.

Sometimes, late at night, a cold wind blows by.

The few white candles in the mourning hall were blown about and swayed by the wind.

But it never went out.

"Sizzle, sizzle."

Suddenly, a sound like fingernails rubbing something rang out in the mourning hall.