Chapter 44: Murderous Nursery Rhymes (8)

When Su Yunkai came out of the courtyard, the villagers didn't know what he was going to do, Lord Xu greeted him, only to hear a sound of "digging treasure", and some villagers who were close to him heard it, and the two words quickly spread in the crowd, and the people behind didn't dare to ask Su Yunkai, so they asked the kind-faced little boy who walked behind.

Where did Qin Fang know this, he was entangled by the villagers and couldn't move an inch, his clothes were torn crookedly, and no one dispersed after he screamed twice. Suddenly, someone pushed aside the heavy human wall, grabbed his hand and pulled it out, and the cheer sounded, "Adults handle the case, don't be brutal." ”

Bai Shui's voice was loud and majestic, and the villagers didn't dare to entangle anymore, and they all retreated. Qin Fang's ears were also shocked, but he was happy, and he was pulled out by her, looking at the back of her neck with a smile. Suddenly, seeing her turn around, she glared and said, "Such a big person can't even push people away, and he was squeezed and screamed, are you made of soft mud?" ”

Qin Fang bent his eyes and smiled, not annoyed her, but he noticed that the palm on his wrist was a little rough, not at all like the girl's hand, and he was not happy. Come to think of it, in the past few years, she has been dressed as a man, she does not apply powder, nor does she apply jade cream, and it is strange that her hands are still tender and smooth when she handles cases everywhere.

Seeing that he was always staring at his hand, Bai Shui hurriedly pulled it back, and caught up with the footsteps of the person in front of him without saying a word.

The word digging treasure exploded in the crowd, which also puzzled Mingyue, and after thinking about it, she vaguely guessed something, and asked, "Do you think that there is a treasure hidden under the banyan tree?" ”

Su Yunkai shook his head, "It's not underneath, it's inside the banyan tree." ”

"But the banyan tree is so big, and the tree is there, it's solid."

"Do you remember the half-man-tall stone bricks around the trunk?"

Mingyue was stunned, "It's empty inside?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken."

While speaking, the group had already walked under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village. Su Yunkai and Mingyue stood under the lush tree, except for Zhu Changrong, everyone else was three feet away, and they could see Zhu Changrong's hatred, "Where is there any evil, it is clear that your heart is doing it." ”

Su Yunkai respectfully wished Changrong that he could still be upright after going through this half a year, and he didn't believe in those demons and monsters. He is just a passerby, but Zhu Changrong, who is the village head, has always been in this situation, but he is still not afraid and reprimands the foolish people.

"Tear down the fence."

At the sound of the order, Lord Xu was stunned for a moment, and he was very panicked, "My lord, this tree can't be touched." ”

Su Yunkai knew that Master Xu, who was a parent official, was diligent and conscientious, which could be seen from the case files of the inspection, but it was undeniable that he was really superstitious and timid, "Demolish." ”

Lord Xu couldn't, so he had to let the officials tear down the fence. Every time the official took a step, he made the villagers gasp and shout no. But Su Yunkai had already ordered that the officials would not stop at all. The fence inside was dismantled little by little, and finally the whole banyan tree reappeared in front of everyone.

Around the trunk of the tree, which required six people to secure, there were many roots that pierced into the ground, like a tight wall guarding the hinterland of the city. Some of the stones under the trunk were scattered on the ground, but they still tightly surrounded the bottom of the tree.

Su Yunkai raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Unload the stone bricks." ”

The villagers sighed again and again, did not dare to stop them, and did not dare to step forward, but gathered together and watched silently.

Zhu Ankang and the three of them also stood in front, not approaching, An Dexing smiled, "It's really true that you are not afraid of shadows, but isn't Master Su afraid of getting sick again?" ”

Su Yunkai heard the sound and turned to look in his direction, "I'm not sick, I'm poisoned, and I was deliberately poisoned." ”

Everyone was in an uproar, and there was humanity, "Poisoning is completely different from being sick, and the village chief is also half a Langzhong, why didn't he see it?" ”

"I asked the doctor to see the poison, it came from a kind of tree that grows deep in the mountains, and it is called a ghost to cover his eyes. Its poisonous juice can make people fall into a coma, and the symptoms appear as if they were infected with the wind. But this poison does not kill people, it is painful to attack, but in only two or three days, the poison will disappear on its own. Su Yunkai said, "Among the people in my office, as well as those who have been infected with strange diseases in the past half a month, the symptoms are all poisonous juice that covers the eyes of ghosts without exception. ”

Not long after these words fell, someone in the crowd suddenly said yes. For a while, everyone was skeptical and discussed.

Su Yunkai said again, "Although I don't know who poisoned it, what is certain is that the purpose of the person who poisoned him was not to want anyone to get close to the banyan tree. ”

"But my lord, illness is one thing, but what about the dead?"

"I have checked, and the three people who have died in the past six months are indeed because of accidents, and have nothing to do with the person who poisoned them. It's just that the man took advantage of the person who died unexpectedly and made up this nursery rhyme. Sister Ghost's nursery rhyme, coupled with the dead people, and the successive sick people, finally made you build a fence under the banyan tree, away from the banyan tree, and the purpose of that person was achieved. ”

Everyone still couldn't believe it, Su Yunkai said again, "Miss Ah Wan committed suicide here half a year ago, but the time when the nursery rhyme appeared and the person who had a strange illness was a matter of half a month. If it is really Miss Awan's soul that is not gone, then why did she come out to disturb the people after more than five months? ”

"Even if what the Lord said is true, then why did the man make so much effort to prevent us from getting close to the Banyan Tree?"

After saying this, I thought of what he said about "digging treasures", and suddenly someone understood, and even raised his voice - "There must be some treasure hidden in this banyan tree!" ”

A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the bold ones had already hurriedly stepped forward and stared at the banyan tree that was gradually demolishing the stone wall, wanting to see if there was really a treasure.

Mingyue saw that there was fear and expectation in their eyes, and suddenly understood what it means to die for money, and the heart that has been afraid for so long has no scruples for the unknown treasure.

"This banyan tree does seem to have a big gap, so in order to prevent it from collapsing, the old village chief used stones to build it."

"No, is there something good hidden in it?"

"yes, why don't you make up a nursery rhyme to scare us away?"

The villagers were talking nonsense, their eyes never leaving the trunk of the tree, staring intently, the tree without a hole was about to be stared out of a hole by them.

Boom~ The official used a hoe to dismantle the stone wall, and the stone wall that should have been strong was rumbling with a hammer. Su Yunkai heard the sound of this easy knock, his heart sank, and he had a premonition that he was a step late.

Inside the stone wall, which shattered with a blow, there was an empty hole in the tree, large enough to fit into an adult, but there was nothing inside.

The villagers were in an uproar again.

Su Yunkai stepped forward with a twisted eyebrow, and Mingyue also stepped forward to look, and saw the empty stump, but there was nothing. She bent over to reach out and knock on the mud on the ground to see if there was something buried underneath, but was stopped by Su Yunkai, turned her head to look, and saw him say, "There is nothing down there, there is a box inside, but it has been moved to another place." ”

Mingyue asked curiously, "How do you know it's a box?" ”

"Traces."

Mingyue turned back again, looked carefully at the empty stump, and then saw traces of dragging on the ground. The traces are quadrangular in shape, and it can be seen that they are dragged directly from the inside to the outside, and the thing seems to be very heavy, so it presses over the dirt and drags out a long, deep trail until it is dragged out of the tree hole, and the trail suddenly disappears. She looked up and asked, "Carried away?" ”

"Well, if I guessed correctly, it didn't take long to carry it away, maybe ...... It was last night. ”

"Why?"

Su Yunkai squatted beside him, grabbed a handful of mud and saw that the soil was still very dry, and the traces were still very clear, "There was a lot of movement when the stone wall was unloaded just now, and it was not a matter of time or a half to carry this bulky box elsewhere." But unknowingly, even in the middle of the night, such a big movement has to attract people's attention. ”

Mingyue's eyes were as bright as a full moon, "Last night, except for the children, all the adults in the village went out to look for me, so last night was the best opportunity to start." If it had been done before that, there would be no need for the suspect to continue singing nursery rhymes and make you sick, because he didn't have to worry about it. But because the box is still there, it wants to scare us away, and it never has a chance. Until last night......"

"Yes. And there appear to be at least three suspects. ”

Mingyue had to ask those three words again, "Why?" ”

"The boxes are so heavy that one person can't lift them, so you have to get two. But two people carried such a large mouthful of boxes and no one noticed them in the village, so there must be a sentry. So I guess, at least three. At least there were three boxes to be brought in, but last night's action, maybe only two were enough, after all, there was no need for people to sentry, so many villagers came back together, the movement was loud, and it could be heard from a distance. ”

The two of them whispered these words in front of the stump, and no one could hear them, let alone the villagers who were blocked out by the officials, but they could only see them crouching there and muttering.

Mingyue wrung her fingers and thought for a moment, as if she had a flash of inspiration, she couldn't help swallowing, and whispered to him.

The heat gently hit her ears, and when she heard it, Su Yunkai's ears were slightly itchy, and her heart was also slightly itchy, but after a while, she left her shoulders and looked at it with a pair of big eyes, waiting for him to reply. Su Yunkai retracted his thoughts and said, "Although I can't be sure, I think those people are not bad in nature. ”

"Hmm." Mingyue did not deny it, "If it's bad, it won't just make up nursery rhymes to scare people away, but the real killer, which is far more effective than using female ghosts to scare people." She cupped her cheeks and said, "Is there no clue about this?" You don't have enough evidence to prove who those people are. ”

Su Yunkai was not in a hurry, and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if you don't know who those people are, but if you determine what the things here are, it may not be difficult to find those people again." ”

Investigating the case from anti-thinking is another breakthrough.

"But it's clueless, how do you know what this thing is, and where do you have to start to find out?"

Su Yunkai's voice was slightly deep, and he replied, "I started investigating half a month ago." ”