Daylight found the Nightwatchman's lantern on the west side of the village.

The lantern lay in the weeds, and the wick burned only a quarter.

It seems that this is the place where the three fingers of the sword found the murderer, and the night watchman first extinguished the lantern and then quietly followed.

Not surprisingly, the murderer also came in from this direction.

After sorting out his thoughts, Daylight glanced at the west and turned back to the village.

He went straight to the fireworks master's house.

The fireworks master had a close relationship with two of the deceased and hoped to ask for useful information.

When daylight came, the old man was in the yard with a homemade windmill to tease the baby girl in the cradle, and the little ones were giggling.

Daylight walked into the yard, and the fireworks master glanced at him. "Son of the sword, are you here to kill me?"

"What?" the day froze in place.

Master Fireworks laughed: "Haha, just kidding, I heard about you, it doesn't feel good to be surrounded by stupid people." ”

"It feels terrible. Daylight replied.

The fireworks master stood up and beckoned the juniors to carry the child into the house. "Son of the Sword, tell me what you came for. ”

"I want to ask you something. ”

"I'll only do fireworks, what's worth asking you for. ”

"I know you have a good relationship with the deceased, please mourn, I would like to know about the teacher and the old carpenter, it is said that all three of you have been elders of the clan. Bai Tian said.

The fireworks master sighed, as if he had suddenly aged several years. "That was a long time ago, and after we abdicated, we would occasionally get together to play chess. ”

"Do you know who they have a grudge with?" asked Daylight.

"It's a small place, and there are more than 30 families, living in harmony, and no one hates anyone. The fireworks master was suddenly stunned. "Probably only ghosts do this kind of thing. ”

Daylight was a little puzzled, and he saw a compromise of fate in the old man's eyes.

"You didn't think I was a murderer in the first place, why?" asked Bai Day.

The fireworks master smiled. "I've lived long enough to see the essence of human beings to some extent, you are just a child, and you have no enmity with them, and there is no reason to kill. ”

"And who has a reason to kill them?" Daylight felt like he was about to get the point. "Do you know about the Beast Tamer, why is everyone suspicious of him? ”

"The animal tamer is a poor child! after the death of his relatives, I took care of him with the carpenter and the reader, and the three of us treated him as our own child, and he would definitely not attack them, besides, he had many chances to kill us, and he would not wait until now, and do not blindly suspect others, you should go. The fireworks master was a little angry and turned to leave.

Daylight shouted, "Why can't he enter the village?"

The fireworks master waved his hand. "In life, who can be faultless, we are atoning for our sins every second, child, let's go. ”

"If I can't find the murderer, I'm the one who will die!"

"You are the son of the sword, no matter how much they hate you, they will not kill you, it is your foolish oath to make an oath. ”

Unable to refute, he glanced at the shed on the side of the yard and saw that there were a lot of half-finished fireworks. "Master, the birth festival is over, and the next festival is still far away, why are you doing so many fireworks?"

The fireworks master turned around and said, "A child is going to have a birthday, and that's for him to see." ”

Intuition tells Daylight that the fireworks master knows something.

He didn't leave the pyrotechnic master's house directly, but walked around.

What should the fireworks master do, most of the time in the yard to make fireworks, teasing children, everything is as usual.

In the evening, just as the day was about to give up, the old master seemed to be immersed in a heavy preoccupation, and kept pacing the yard, until at last he called the baby's mother, put on a coat himself, and went out of the house.

Daylight becomes a tracker, following behind the fireworks master and keeping enough distance from detection.

The fireworks master walked to the edge of the village and picked flowers in the meadow, and there were only a handful of flowers that were still blooming this season, so the master put the flowers together and walked in the direction of the sword mound.

When he arrived at the sword mound, the fireworks master came to a tombstone, his body suddenly stiffened, as if he saw something incredible, he knelt on the ground and trembled.

The day crept closer, and the trembling voice of the animal trainer was heard full of unease and guilt.

"It's really you, the three of us were too narrow and suspicious in our hearts back then, we didn't understand your righteousness, I only made this mistake in my life, we were all wrong, I have a granddaughter now, please don't come to me, don't blame me. ”

The fireworks master put the flowers on the tombstone, kowtowed three times, and struggled to stand up.

All this is seen by daylight.

The fireworks master hunched over, and his lonely back gradually disappeared at the end of the road.

Daylight walked up to the tombstone and saw the epitaph on it

The patriarch of the 736th generation of the Sword Clan, Jian Chongshan, died of righteousness and was chased down by the clan.

On October 4, 2017, the new world was established.

Seeing this date, the day's heart sank, October 4th, is it a coincidence that the three clansmen were killed?

Combined with the words that the fireworks master just said, it made the day feel creepy, could it be that the deceased had turned into a ghost for revenge after twenty years?

Daylight immediately overturned this idea, it was too absurd, and he vaguely remembered where he had seen the name Jian Chongshan, and he couldn't remember it for a while.

Forget it, it can be seen that the fireworks master is a superstitious old man, believing that the ghost asks for his life, and when he sees the tombstone, he is like being struck by lightning, what makes the master react so much.

During the day, I looked at the tombstone carefully, turned to the back, and found that there was a row of blood-red characters on the back of the tombstone: My sacrifice day, the blood sacrifice of Er, the person who harmed me will die in seven days.

Bai Tian rubbed it with his hand, the blood had not yet solidified, and not long after he wrote it, he sniffed it on his nose and frowned.

The murderer deliberately wrote a death prophecy for the fireworks master to see, and he will definitely continue to commit crimes.

And judging from the various performances of the fireworks master, the next target is him.

The biggest thing that the deceased have in common is that they were all elders of the clan, and that night, the person the murderer really wanted to kill was not the night watchman sword and three fingers, but the fireworks master.

The farmer who was patrolling the night only happened to see the murderer, and when he wanted to report it to the elders, he was killed, poor sword three fingers.

Bai Tian looked at the blood words on the tombstone that had not yet solidified, and knew that if he wanted to find a breakthrough, he must keep an eye on the fireworks master.

The murderer is waiting in the shadows! The target is the last of the three elders.

Leaving the sword mound in the daytime, he wanted to quickly check the matter of the ancestral patriarch Jian Chongshan, and know who the descendants of the monument were.

And what kind of story is there between the patriarch and the three elders.

The murder was most likely revenge.

Now that the direction has been determined, Bai Tian first went to look through the books and check the genealogy of the patriarch, but found that he had no children under his knees, which broke the clue of the descendants on the tombstone.

He asked someone about the patriarch, but the young man did not know about the past, and the old man deliberately avoided the question, and no one was willing to share information with him.

After eating countless closed-door soups, he could only hide near the fireworks master's house during the day, honestly waiting for the rabbit.

Wait for the killer to show up.

The blood on the tombstone reads Seven Days of Death, indicating that the murderer will still shoot.

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