推理故事之诡镜

老袁死了之后,老钟自感愧疚,觉得对不起他的家人,他主动提出了自首:“小王,但我跟你说的有关镜子的话,可全是真的,没一句假话。”

“我知道。”我给老钟发了根烟,打算在他去警局前,告诉他当年马家的惨剧的真相。

“其实这事我也没有证据,但我想我的猜测应该八九不离十了。马先生儿子铭宇出事的那天,女佣可能是在擦镜子的时候不小心弄碎了它,因为镜子看起来像值钱的古董,而女佣又不识货,生怕马先生让她赔钱,所以她就把碎片照原样又拼了回去。

“女佣本想把打破镜子的过错嫁祸给铭宇,谁知巧合的事情发生了,铭宇经过镜子的时候,拼凑起来的破镜子突然倒了下来,酿成了惨剧。害死了主人的儿子,这一打击令女佣耿耿于怀,她永远也无法原谅自己的过失。所以每次只要在镜子破碎之时,她都会偷偷重新配好新的玻璃,和你一样,她也知道如何拆卸镜框,而马家上下没有人会怀疑痴癫的她,她以这种方式赎着自己的罪过。马先生的女儿也并非散了魂魄,而是这幢老洋房被抹在墙里,带有动物粪便的烂泥要了她的命,正是空气中带有细菌的病毒才导致了她的肺炎。至于马太太,则完全是场意外。”

听完我的推理,老钟竟然露出了不解的表情。

“那面镜子是在哪里砸死马太太的?”老钟突然问道。

我回忆了一遍马先生的话,答道:“是从阁楼上掉下来的。”

“不可能。”老钟从地上弹了起来,“洋房里挑空的阁楼是我拆的,依照阁楼门的尺寸,镜子根本放不进,更别说从里面掉下来了。”

难道是马先生在说谎吗?他为什么要骗我呢?不止骗我,还骗了很多人,从他太太死去的那天开始。

老钟再一次提醒我:“在我修那面镜子的时候,我发现那个镜子像是被人握住两边镜框,挥舞着砸过什么东西,所以裂痕才会很对称。”

“马先生说他在走廊里砸过一次镜子,可能是那时候留下的,也可能是他砸太太时弄坏的痕迹。”我试图站在马先生的角度思考他弑妻的动机,女儿因为妻子的迷信而耽误了治疗时间,儿子又因妻子执意留在家里而发生意外,比起女佣,马先生把更多的罪责怪到了妻子头上,利用所谓镜子的诅咒杀了她。

那么镜子第三次碎裂的时候,正发生着一起谋杀,而最后一次换玻璃的人是马先生。

这个情愿孤独终老,也不肯原谅妻子的狠心男人,比冰凉的镜子更冷酷。

老钟不舍地吸完最后一口烟,来回碾踩了几下,沮丧地低着头:“我该走了。”

“一起吧!”我默默走在他的身后,一起上世纪五十年代的凶杀案等待着水落石出的日子。

每个人都应为他的一念之差负责,往往是被贪念占据的头脑,才会变幻出那些令世人恐惧的故事来。

回眸深夜中的老洋房,告别了可怕的诅咒,它终于恢复了原本的恬静,如盼子归来的母亲般,等待着下一个家庭的到来。

我想我会竭尽所能,以我的专业为它和它的新主人营造一个幸福之家。

Introduce:I am a labor contractor that does a family to decorate, taking at hand one batch decorates labour journey north and south, although have not get rich becomes rich, but having however lots and lots of bizarre experience, these stories are us probably the money with the biggest project of these a few farmers. Once, I receive the project that left old foreign house to transform. Old foreign house has some of time, interior decorates the degree that had reached to do not have a law to look. Year long the corner of disrepair, the metope of refute of extensive yellow spot bestrewed mildew to nod, there is historical flavour in the house, although furniture decoration is dated, but it is the style with that rare moment, see so this often silvers coin not hard the host of the room, it is rich large family other people. In the rainbow mouth area of Shanghai, the old foreign house of the wall outside having a lot of red brick, this is in those days the Japanese Invading Army builds in occupational concession. Old foreign house is bearing the weight of historical disgrace, also under cover a lot of unbeknown stories. According to house advocate requirement, whole foreign room besides reservation its original structure, other part needs to demolish face-lifting entirely. Start working the first day, I arranged two workers to be in charge of breaking a wall to tear open old. In the midpoint of hall of first floor hall, having the fireplace that annatto does, not be contemporary the dynamoelectric fireplace that decorates place to use, however air door can lead to the true fireplace of housetop chimney, fireplace frame is manual carven peach blossom completely, this kind of craft looks now do not pass when, it is this uses the fireplace interior that lights charcoal warm oneself to had been sealed to die originally only. Decorate so much year, I am an one second see this kind of old fireplace, have an inarticulate however eccentric. Two workers hands or feet gives fireplace deftly was bungled. Build a house to return very tall without contemporary grade cement at that time, mostly wall is given priority to with mud felt brick, and the excrement and urine that the mud in this old foreign house still mixed puppy and remains, although work,appeared a few years, can look still disgusting. Sledge just broke a large deficit on fireplace, laozhong stayed a hand suddenly, resembling was what to discover. "Laozhong, how? " my gangmaster collect in the past. Laozhong always is oneself the beard shave on angular cheek is gotten clean, there is a gules sweater all the year round when he works, that body is strong muscle below garment unlined upper garment and his face very asymmetry. Laozhong is my hand next be in charge of technically tearing open old the worker that breaks a wall, the house of again dirty random difference he always is the first construction entering the arena, had discovered many buildings are old advocate the curious and strange thing that leave. He is experienced and knowledgeable, it is a very superstitious crops person however. He extends the hand that wearing a glove into the hole, gather up the brick with below a few ages ago time, gradually, fireplace is shown piece originally about comes. Within piles in grey earth brick, putting one side looking glass silently, half person comes one side tall antique lens. What take copper to fizzle out slightly is muddleheaded