"Coo-coo-coo-coo-" A few nighthawk cries sounded in the distance, making the mountain village in the night even quieter. Wang Tiehan traveled all the way, and it was already four days when he arrived at Sunjiawa.

After seeing Zhang Yuanwai and Fu Bo and others during the day, and going to the tailor shop and the Huanhua Pavilion, Wang Tiehan decided to visit Sun Jiawa at night. According to Li Qing and others, the fifth woman broke her leg in Shanding Temple, but how did she meet Zhang Caiting on the street again a few days later, and sold pickles and embroidered clothes to her? After years of catching fast food, Wang Tiehan has an unusually keen judgment of things, and he always believes that people can only show their truest side when they are most relaxed, and late at night is the right time.

Walking along the mountain road, a few houses faintly appeared in the darkness in the distance, Wang Tiehan tied the horse to the woods beside the road, tightened his clothes, and touched the village through the cover of the trees beside the road. At this time is the darkest time of the day, it stands to reason that the villagers should be asleep, but Wang Tiehan is extremely cautious, almost to the entrance of the village, Wang Tiehan stopped, quietly listened for a long time, the village sounded a strange rustle, as if someone was dragging something to walk, in this quiet night it seemed very harsh.

Wang Tiehan walked lightly through the shadows of the trees and houses before entering the village, and the sound of Fang Cai disappeared, and there was silence all around. Wang Tiehan also stopped, looking at the village by the moonlight, and there was no one in the silence all around, and the outlines of the houses could be faintly seen in the distance, hidden in the dark, and it was not real.

Wang Tiehan relied on what Li Qing and others said, and slowly touched the residence of the fifth woman, and several dogs barked a few times along the way, and Wang Tiehan heard a rustling sound again, but this time it was behind him. Wang Tiehan stopped, the sound disappeared again, and the dogs barked a few times but suddenly turned into whimpering wails, as if they had seen something that frightened them.

Wang Tiehan held the shot in his palm with his backhand, held his breath, and looked around, no, nothing. Walking forward, through an alley, a turn, in front of you is a courtyard, through the fence wall can faintly see a large vat, presumably used for pickles. Wang Tiehan sneaked out of the wall, just about to enter the courtyard, suddenly saw a large vat moved, Wang Tiehan immediately lay prone on the ground, pointed the crossbow at the vat, held his breath, stared deadly.

"Squeak-" The door of the courtyard suddenly opened, and a girl came out, and the girl came to the courtyard with a shovel, and opened the vat in one mouth, and turned it a little clumsily with the shovel, and almost got rid of the shovel several times. It's just that there seems to be a strange aroma mixed with this sauce, like the body fragrance of a young girl, and it also looks like the smell of some kind of medicine. The girl walked to the big vat, stretched out her hand and lifted the lid, Wang Tiehan's heart suddenly lifted, and was about to stop it, when he heard the girl's exclamation, Wang Tiehan had no time to think about it, turned over and jumped up, and the crossbow arrow in his hand had already shot out.

There was another rustling sound all around, this time noisy and urgent, and in a short time the surroundings gradually returned to quiet.

Li Qing and Jian Xiaoxin followed the figure in front of them, and lost Wang Tiehan's trace in less than half an hour. Fortunately, Jian Xiaoxin has been crawling and rolling at the border with her father and brother over the years, and she knows some tracking methods, Li Qing has been crawling and rolling in the mountains since she was a child, and she has some experience. Wang Tiehan did not regard the two as enemies, and did not deliberately erase the traces along the way, but just wanted to throw the two away, so as not to be in danger with him. The two carefully identified the tracks all the way, stopped and walked, and simply led the horse on foot, and unconsciously a village appeared in front of them.

The morning in the mountains is quiet and beautiful, and in the hazy mist, a path winds into the distance, and at the end of the trail a few houses loom in the mist, and morning birds chirp all around. The two of them rushed all night, and they couldn't guess what Wang Tiehan was doing here without investigating the case.

After all, Jian Xiaoxin is a girl's family, no better than Li Qing who grew up in the mountains since she was a child, and she has long been used to being hungry and full, at this time she just wants to drink hot porridge and sleep beautifully, but she refuses to show weakness in front of Li Qing, and still looks energetic, but she walks faster and faster, thinking that she will hurry to the village in front of her, and she may be able to beg for hot porridge to drink.

Although Li Qing has never been a fast catcher, he has often followed Huo Changfeng to hunt in the mountains over the years, and knows that a good hunter will not release arrows for no reason, so Wang Tiehan must have his purpose when he comes here, but the two of them don't know it. The girl followed closely behind, but the dagger was already in her hand.

After walking for a while, Li Qing called the girl in a low voice and stretched out his hand to point to the side of the road. Jian Xiaoxin looked in the direction of Li Qing's finger, a little unclear. Seeing Li Qing walking towards the forest, he had to follow suspiciously. The two entered the forest, and Li Qing was next to a big tree, leaning down and not knowing what they were looking for. Jian Xiaoxin's eyes followed Li Qing's figure back and forth, only to see that the bark on this big tree had fallen off, and there were many hoof prints on the soil around it, it seemed that a horse had just been tied here not long ago. Jian Xiaoxin couldn't help but admire Li Qing's meticulousness and eyesight.

Could it be that Wang Tiehan has already left? Why didn't he and Li Qing meet each other on this journey? Jian Xiaoxin was thinking about it, Li Qing had already taken something and walked over.

"Look at what this is?" Li Qing handed over the object in his hand.

"This is a bag that the county has brought with me to hold some evidence or records. Jian Xiaoxin looked at the cloth bag in her hand, and turned her head to look at Li Qing with some confusion: "Where did you find it?"

Li Qing pointed to the side of the tree, where a hoof print had been dug up.

Jian Xiaoxin looked in the direction of Li Qing's finger, her brows furrowed, the horses that Wang Tiehan rode were all military horses like Jian Xiaoxin. The Tianlong Dynasty is not as good as Shanjung, and there are not many good horses, let alone well-trained military horses. Therefore, the court ordered that those who lost their military horses had eighty rods. If Wang Tiehan had already returned on horseback, how could he have accidentally left his bag so carelessly? Moreover, looking at the hoof prints all over the ground, it was obvious that the military horse had struggled and was reluctant to leave. A hint of foreboding flashed in Jian Xiaoxin's heart.

Unfolded the cloth bag, inside was the record of Wang Tiehan's investigation in the tailor shop, Huanhua Hall and other places today, Jian Xiaoxin took it out and was about to see it, when suddenly a piece of paper fell from the cloth bag. Li Qing picked it up and glanced at it, and his brows furrowed. When Jian Xiaoxin saw it, she hurriedly reached out and took it, and looked at Li Qing with some suspicion: "What does this mean?"

"It seems that Wang Zhu knew that you and I were following behind, but he didn't want us to enter Sunjiawa with him, so he got rid of you and me, but I don't know why we want to be careful of the five women. Now that the military horse is gone, but the physical evidence bag has been dug up, Wang Tiehan must also be around, and seven or eight out of ten are in the village in front, so he must have encountered an accident. Since he was a child, Li Qing often followed Huo Changfeng to face the fierce beasts in the mountains, and understood that the more critical the moment, the more he had to calm down and deal with it.

"What should we do? Do you want to go back and report to Chen Zhutou?" Although Jian Xiaoxin has also participated in many cases over the years, she has followed other arrests to handle cases, and now she is in danger even if she arrests quickly, and she has lost her mind for a while.

"Let's follow Wang Zhutou to come, the road has been delayed, now Wang Zhutou doesn't know what danger he has encountered, if we go back to report Chen Zhutou, and then rush over, Wang Zhukuai's situation will not be even more worrying? You first rush back to the county with the bag and hand it over to Chen Zhutou. How?" Li Qing looked at the girl in front of him, thinking that his brothers and the girl were just in Pingshui, the matter of the White Lotus, the help of this girl before and after, how could she be put in danger now?

Jian Xiaoxin listened to what Li Qing said, but she didn't agree. She didn't know that Li Qing and the others had cultivation, but if they were ordinary mountain village boys, they would let him stay alone and take risks. The two argued for a while, but there was no result, so they had to read the records left by Wang Tiehan in detail, bury the physical evidence bag again, and walk towards the village together.