Chapter 31—Ten Years of White Bones (12)

Qin Fang wailed and turned around angrily, the bear was gone. He snorted heavily and rubbed his arms to go to the study. When he entered the door, he said, "Brother-in-law, when did your yamen raise a bear, fierce and bearish." ”

Su Yunkai, who was busy talking to Mingyue, didn't even raise his head, Qin Fang said a few words and no one paid attention, so he simply sat on the Taishi chair on the side, crossed his legs and took the book and fiddled around. When I pricked up my ears and listened, I was talking about the white bone case again.

"Check who in the village went up the mountain today, you should know who the murderer is, right?"

Su Yunkai replied, "Today is the market day, and there are a lot of people going out. There are more than a few hundred families in the village, and there are seven or eight roads leading to the mountain, and no one can see it once you go up the mountain, let alone anyone notices, so it is difficult to start from here. ”

"But what did you ask Brother Bai to do in Mojia Village? If memory serves, it must have been a small village we passed on our way down the trail. ”

Su Yunkai was silent before he said, "Do you remember what we saw when we came down from the mountain road and passed by the village?" ”

The bored Qin Fang interjected, "Seeing the dark paper on the ground scares people to death." You also went to see people digging graves, and your heart is really big. ”

Mingyue also remembered and corrected, "It's not that people are digging graves, it's people picking up bones, we are curious." yes, I remember when you hid in the car and didn't get out. ”

“…… I'm too lazy to come down! ”

Mingyue pursed her lips and smiled, "Oh." ”

Qin Fang didn't want to talk anymore, he wanted to go back to Kaifeng, everyone here bullied him, especially that bear! Now even the little bear who is on his hand is bullying him, huh.

Rao is two amused each other, but Su Yunkai never raised his eyebrows. Mingyue felt that something was wrong, "What did you suddenly mention that?" ”

"When Bai Zhutou comes back from Mojia Village, maybe I can be sure of one thing."

Qin Fang had nothing to do, so he also waited here with Mingyue. Su Yunkai flipped through the local county records again, this time he didn't look carefully, but directly flipped to the place he wanted to see in the catalog. Mingyue took a few looks, the local water conservancy?

What do you do with this, does it have anything to do with the case?

After waiting for more than an hour, Qin Fang had already fallen asleep on the table, his dream was melodious and very comfortable. Falling asleep, he suddenly felt earth-shattering, the table shook, and when he opened his eyes, a huge bear pounced on him, and he fell backwards in shock. This spirit opened his eyes again, only to find that he was still in a dream when he "woke up" just now. He rubbed his heart, scared to death.

"Your Excellency."

Someone outside the door hurriedly jumped in, it was Bai Shui, and Qin Fang was stunned, when did he have the ability to predict.

Bai Shui ran out of breath, and before the person could stand still, he said, "The matter of Mojia Village has been asked clearly, as the adults thought, they are now in the yamen, but they want to bring it in for questioning?" ”

"Let them wait." Su Yunkai's face was acute, as heavy as the sea covered by a cloudy sky, black and cold. Mingyue stood up, only to feel that he was angry, wrong...... It should be said that it is angry.

The chaotic threads in Su Yunkai's mind were smoothed out one by one, but they were still a little close, almost able to knead them into a line.

Ten years of white bones in a pine forest......

Yang Baijia, who was deceived by an acquaintance......

Hidden cave passages......

And also...... There must still be.

More than 20 years ago, more than 10 years ago, people disappeared one after another in Yangjia Village......

Corrupt officials, ruined bridges, villagers who can't survive, hunting ......

The more I think about it, the more I pull it together. Su Yunkai had closed his eyes and pondered, and all kinds of seemingly unrelated threads were quickly connected together, white bones, pine forests, bridges, caves, missing people, corrupt officials, good officials, villagers, hunting, footprints......

Hiss~

The chaotic clues flashed quickly in his mind, and a ray of light seemed to emit dazzling light, poking his head out of the chaotic clues, and was caught by Su Yunkai with his hand. Suddenly, the lines are connected in a circle, and there is no more gap.

Behind the ten years of white bones, there are more unjust souls.

He slowly opened his eyes, his face was cold, and he said, "Go to the pine forest." ”

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In the pine forest, the pit where the bones had been buried for ten years had not yet been buried. At first, the bones were dug up, along with the tattered clothes and shoes, and Mingyue couldn't understand why he went to the morgue again, and then came here now, and was still rummaging in the dirt.

She held a lantern on it and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

"Tail finger."

Mingyue rolled her eyes, "Have you forgotten, we have found it that day." ”

"Nope."

Su Yunkai focused on finding it, Mingyue stuffed the lantern to Qin Fang, and jumped down into the pit to look for it with him - he said no, it wasn't that he forgot about it, but he was saying, maybe here, there is another tail finger.

The two didn't look for too long, and Su Yunkai touched something that didn't look like a stone in the soil that wasn't deep. He picked one up, and it was a tail finger white bone. Mingyue knew that his judgment would not be wrong, but she didn't know why he knew that there was another one here, "How do you know that there is another tail finger here?" ”

Su Yunkai's face was gloomy, and he said slowly, "Because I know that the murderer's finger was almost absent when Yang Baijia died." ”

Mingyue was stunned, "Yang Baijia bit off the murderer's finger back then, and the murderer also bit off his finger?" ”

"Yes." Su Yunkai looked up at the outside of the grove, and seemed to be able to see the village outside the forest, on the other side of the river, "Let's go to Yangjia Village." ”

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The unitary time has passed, and the time has just arrived, and the people in Yangjia Village are basically preparing dinner.

When the village dog barked one after another, the villagers were vigilant, and they ran outside to take a look, and just stood at the door for a while, they saw that there was a catcher coming over, and only dropped a sentence "The adult has an order, quickly to the ancestral temple of the Yang family." When asked why, the official only replied that he didn't know.

The villagers thought that there should be something important, and the court officials did not dare to slack off when summoned and hurried over.

The ancestral hall of the Yang family is not very big, many villagers are standing outside, and only the elders of the clan and respected people can enter inside. The villagers looked in, not knowing what the people from the Criminal Division were doing here, and they called them from house to house.

There are about 30 people sitting in the ancestral hall, plus the official errand, there are more than 40 people, the ancestral hall is crowded, and even there are people standing next to the ancestral tablet shelf of the Yang family, so they have to pinch the incense, so as not to accidentally burn people, and they are afraid that everyone will be smoked by incense for a long time.

The people outside didn't know what was going on inside, and the people inside were also talking about what was going on, and they were talking about it, when there was a sudden commotion outside, and they heard someone shouting "Lord Su" and "Master Su", and immediately stood up to greet them.

Su Yunkai came in a hurry, he was not wearing an official uniform, he was upright, he was not angry and arrogant, and he saw that everyone hurriedly retreated to both sides and let him in.

Mingyue and Qin Fang followed behind him, and when they saw that he was not smiling, they called all the villagers again, thinking that they had sorted out their heads and were going to catch the murderer.

After entering the inside, Su Yunkai did not sit down, and asked the elders in the village to sit down. The crowd was embarrassed and did not dare to do so. It wasn't until Bai Shui coldly inspected the circle and said "sit down" that everyone sat down on the chairs together, and they didn't dare to come out. Seeing that Qin was relieved, no wonder no one found out that she was a girl's family, which girl's family would be so fierce.

Not even his brother-in-law, even her friend Mingyue—only he knew.

Seeing the silence in the lobby, Yang Fugui asked, "Why did the adults summon our people from Yangjia Village at night?" ”

Su Yunkai glanced at him lightly and said, "A white bone corpse was found in the pine forest outside the village, I believe you all know about it." ”

The crowd responded, "Those who know, those who know." ”

"The deceased's name is Yang Baijia, and he is from Yangjia Village. After the Yamen made an inspection, it was found that he had been severely hit with a blunt object before his death, and his internal organs were ruptured and he died. ”

The cause of death was known to only a few people, and it had not yet spread, but now when they heard it, there was an uproar. They all shouted that the murderer was cruel and lost his conscience.

Su Yunkai waited for everyone to calm down before continuing, "I think you have also seen the officers and soldiers blocking the back mountain, just because there is a cave on the mountain, and the murderer tried to seal the entrance of the cave in order to hide the cave, but by chance, it was still discovered by me and Miss Mingyue." ”

One of them hurriedly asked, "Why is the murderer hiding a cave?" ”

Su Yunkai's eyes were cold, and he replied, "Because you can reach Mojia Village from there." What used to take three days to get to is now only three minutes. ”

The bold man guessed, "Is it because the murderer has done bad things from there?" ”

Others couldn't help but say, "Then what does this have to do with the killing of the hundred families?" ”

"Yes." Su Yunkai said in a deep voice, "Ten years ago, on June 15, Yang Baijia went to the back mountain, maybe he accidentally found a rabbit, so he chased the rabbit, but he didn't want to enter a cave. He found that the exit of the cave was full of wild fruits, and when the wild fruits were in bloom, he picked many of them and distributed them to the children who always played together. Xu is because he is an idiot, so the words do not make sense, and it is said that he picked a lot of rabbits. When the murderer, who had always used the entrance of the cave as the connecting point, learned about it, he was afraid that he would expose himself, so he lured him to the pine forest outside the village and brutally killed him. ”

Everyone gasped again and again, and they were so shocked that they didn't know what to say. Suddenly came back to his senses, those who can go up the back mountain, and those who come and go freely, aren't they from this village?

Who, exactly, is that?

The murderer was around, and I don't know how long he had been lurking, and everyone suddenly became cold and shocked.

"Big, sir, who is the murderer?"

"My lord, what did Yang Baijia see?"

"What did the murderer do from that cave that he had to kill?"

One by one, in the end, there were many questions, Su Yunkai would explain clearly, although it was heavy, but the truth always had to surface, and the dead people would be fair, and a peace of mind, "I was also very strange at first, what secrets are hidden in that cave, and I want the murderer to kill the killer." But I soon discovered that it was not the cave that was hiding secrets, but the hidden secrets outside the cave. ”

Mingyue heard him mention the outside, Mojia Village, and the ...... The villages they passed on the road that day down the mountain...... She suddenly shuddered and looked at him in surprise, could it be ......

Su Yunkai continued, "I've been checking the county chronicles, local chronicles, and past disappearances here, and there is one detail that I haven't paid much attention to. It wasn't until I knew that the cave and knew that it could be connected to Mojia Village that I realized that the missing person was related to Mojia Village. ”

"What does this have to do with Mojia Village?"

"Could it be that everyone went to Mojia Village? But although it is far away, we still have to pass through it when we occasionally go outside, and we have seen thousands of them, but none of them are familiar. ”

"Of course you can't see it, because ...... They were buried deep in the ground and died. ”