This year's Zhengyang Festival, the weather is really average.

The lead-gray clouds combined with the mist that perennially permeated the city of Changyi made the sky extremely overcast, and a heavy rain seemed inevitable.

However, in the end, it is a more important festival every year, and it is one of the few holidays throughout the year, and there are many pedestrians on the street outside Qichunfang early in the morning.

There are groups of women chatting and walking with wormwood and five-colored threads that they have just bought from the shops, there are also middle-aged men carrying a small bag of glutinous rice, followed by children who use glutinous rice leaves to make umbrellas, and more people on both sides of the street who are decorating their homes.

Everyone was doing their thing, and few noticed a figure wearing a black gauze hat standing in front of a sign on a street corner.

Looking at the wanted notice on the billboard, Lu Jiu had to admit that the man in the portrait was nearly eight points similar to himself, and the remaining two points were still the painter's problem.

He didn't choose to take it further last night, not because he didn't want to, but because the timing was not right.

The information given by the middle-aged man is too rough, not to mention the details of the crime, and even the location of the crime only knows a Qi Chunfang.

Therefore, Lu Jiu needed someone who could answer his question more carefully, this person had to know Qi Chunfang, and it was best to know the identity of the deceased.

You can't find this kind of person in the middle of the night, plus the streets outside are full of officials from the Inspection Department and the Jingye Division, so if you go out rashly and be found again, Lu Jiu doesn't want to play the game of the police catching the thief with someone at night.

Therefore, after the people of the Jingye Division and the Inspection Division evacuated the Ningxin Inn, he returned to his room in the Ningxin Inn to rest with the hook and lock of the mechanical armguard.

The house money has been paid, and he is not a prostitute for nothing.

After waiting outside Qi Chunfang for a while, Lu Jiu saw a young man carrying a bamboo basket and yawning coming out of the workshop, going straight to the location of the billboard, and when he arrived next to Lu Jiu, he said: "Brother, borrow a light, I have to post a new notice." ”

Not surprisingly, it is the latest new notice about Lu Jiu issued by the Inspection Department, and the content is nothing more than to make the public more careful.

"Are you the head of Qi Chunfang?"

Lowering the hat and taking a step back, Lu Jiu asked.

For example, in this kind of residential area, most of them have a neighborhood association, which is similar in nature to the neighborhood committee, and is also responsible for some miscellaneous affairs in the neighborhood on weekdays, and if the government has any requirements, they will also convey it on their behalf.

"I don't have that kind of qualifications at this age, the head of the workshop is my father, he can't get up in the morning, I'm just a helper. ”

The young man who was smearing the paste didn't look back, and focused on the paste.

"So you should know a lot about the things in Qi Chunfang, do me a favor, this silver dollar is yours." ”

took out a silver dollar and threw it into the young man's bamboo basket, Lu Jiu said bluntly,

"A few days ago there was a homicide in your neighborhood, take me to the scene, and tell me about the deceased on the way. ”

Picking up the silver dollar in the basket, the young man looked back at Lu Jiu with some surprise, but because of the black veil, he couldn't see the face inside.

However, this did not prevent him from decisively giving up the task assigned by his father, this is a silver dollar, which is enough for him to have a good time in Changyi City these days!

"On the day of the accident, I remember that it was noon on the 18th, and it was the two families in the workshop who died...... Two families gathered a total of eight people, one did not survive, all of them were disemboweled, and they were thrown at the door, I heard that the murderer was still sitting at the door waiting for a group of officials, and killed many people before leaving, anyway, I didn't dare to go over at that time. ”

The young man walked in front and led the way, frowning and recalling the situation at that time, as long as he had money, he didn't care who was following him.

"Why do you think the murderer found these two broken houses?"

There must always be a motive for killing, and "oneself" specially exterminated these two families, which must be entangled in some places.

"If you want me to say that eighty percent are seeking revenge, the two boys of the Zhou family and the Zheng family don't have a good reputation on weekdays, and they do some dirty things like stealing chickens and dogs all day long...... Speaking of which, they were always sneaky during that time, and they couldn't even see a figure during the day, but I don't know what they were doing, and the people in the workshop looked down on the two of them, and it was too late to meet them on the road. ”

Playing with the silver dollar in his hand, the young man walked to a junction and stopped, raised his hand and pointed to two old houses built side by side not far away, and continued,

"Well, that's it. ”

Lu Jiu stood at the door and stopped for a while.

Because they were the scene of the murder and are now uninhabited, the two houses have been locked by the inspection department at this time, and there is also a seal at the main entrance.

Although the traces of the scene have long been cleaned up, Lu Jiu still decided to find a way to go in and have a look, not to investigate the murder, but to find out what the two families came from.

Bypassed the main entrance, found a window on the left side of the house, and after confirming that there was no one nearby, he was ready to pry open the window with the short sword that came with the armguard, but as soon as the blade of the sword stretched out, Lu Jiu suddenly found that there were obvious scratches in the location of the window he was looking for.

Not only that, but there were also some scraped wood chips scattered on the window frames.

Judging by the degree of newness and oldness of the traces, it should not have been caused today, but the time of appearance is definitely not long.

Someone has entered this house in the way they have come up with it!

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Jiu quickly pried open the window and entered the hall on the first floor of the house, the dim light made the already dilapidated and silent room a little gloomy, Lu Jiu stepped on the floor that was not even paved with floor tiles, and his eyes wandered everywhere, looking for abnormalities.

The people who entered this family in this way were obviously not from the government, and it was impossible for thieves to target this kind of dilapidated household, as for the wild mandarin ducks who were looking for excitement...... Nobody likes to mess around in a place full of dead bodies, right?

Then there is only one possibility, someone has something to do with something in the house, and this is the way to sneak in after they die.

And this undoubtedly pointed out a clear way for Lu Jiu, since the person who came before knew the secret of this family, he must have turned over this family for Lu Jiu in advance, so that Lu Jiu only needs to find the place where he has passed.

There was nothing unusual in the hall on the first floor, and Lu Jiu was not in a hurry to go upstairs, but walked quickly to the side of the inner room, opened the curtain and walked into the kitchen at the back.

This family still uses a primitive earthen stove, which is still quite simple, with only one hearth, and there is not even a place for the stove on the stove, so it is no wonder that others say that they are broken, but Lu Jiu's eyes stopped when he swept the empty place behind the hearth where someone was sitting on a fire on weekdays.

There were a lot of straw scattered on the low stool over there, and the bundle of firewood in the corner of the stool was laid out horizontally.

Someone moved!