The village chief did things very safely, and called a few young adults in the village to guard the entrance of the cave, and he jumped down the tunnel with Wang Heng with a horse lantern, and two brave young men also jumped down.

Xiao Shu looked at the crack in the window, and when he saw his father jumping down, he couldn't help but nervously grab Xiao Feng's sleeve and asked, "Sister Xiao Feng, is that general very powerful?" You must be able to defeat the fox demon, right? ”

"Don't worry, Childe is very powerful." Xiaofeng comforted him in a low voice.

Wang Heng and the others walked along the tunnel with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and after walking for a long time, they saw a bright light appear in front of them.

"Sure enough, you can get outside!" A young man shouted excitedly.

After walking for a while, everyone came out of the hole. The village chief looked around and suddenly realized: "It turns out that the exit is in the Black Bear Cave."

The Black Bear Cave is a small valley in the West Mountain, because the legend has it that there are black bears infested and inaccessible. The exit of this tunnel was built very secretly, facing a huge rock, and there was a large bush of wild roses at the entrance of the cave, the flowers were blooming lively, and there were fine and dense small thorns on the stems, and the young man who came out finally rolled up his sleeves, and as a result, there were many thorns on his arms, and he cursed in a low voice while pulling them out.

This location, this layout, is really private enough.

"The murderer should have entered from here, and then took advantage of the thunderstorm to give birth to a child in the back room and scream, and he couldn't hear the situation outside, and the murderer was killing outside."

Wang Heng said.

"But why is there no trace of a fight at the scene?"

The village chief thought about it carefully and said: "I still remember the scene at that time clearly, Yaozu outside, Yaozu's sister-in-law You Shi and You Shi's cousin Gao Shusheng were killed. Gao Shusheng's corpse was sitting upright, still holding a book in his hand, and there was no trace of a fight outside, but it was a little messy inside. The delivery was You's aunt Gao Pozi, and the two disciples of Gao Pozi had obviously struggled, and the body of the dead Yaozu daughter-in-law was dragged to the ground, what was going on? ”

"It's clear that the killer may have eaten or drunk something for the three people in the outer room when he killed them. Do you have any impressions? ”

The village chief slapped his thigh and suddenly shouted: "I remember, there is tea!" There are three cups of tea! ”

"That's it. The tea was drugged. This was able to quietly kill two middle-aged men under the cover of a thunderstorm, and the inside were all women, and the murderer did not arouse suspicion at first after entering, she suddenly attacked. Probably killed the midwife all at once. Then the two disciples fought with her. Maybe she also had a helper who helped her kill two disciples, and then the mother. It's not a fox demon killing at all. It was a premeditated murder, and it was chosen on the day of the mother's delivery, also because it was a day when she could gather the people she wanted to kill, or because it was convenient to do so on this day. ”

"But the footprints, how do you explain the footprints in the middle just now? That kind of footprint can't be human, and the paw prints on those people? ”

A young man asks.

"You see, there are so many little thorns on his arm, if you don't know that they are the thorns on the stem of a wild rose, will you think that they are pricked by needles?"

Wang Heng pointed to the young man who couldn't stop scratching the wound, and the village chief nodded and said, "Indeed, these thorns really look like the eye of a needle." ”

"So the footprints and paw prints are really footprints and paw prints?"

After Wang Heng said this, the young man who scratched the rose thorn on his arm suddenly realized: "General, are you saying that the footprints may have been stepped on by a person with something similar on his feet, and the paw prints may have been scratched by something on his hands." ”

"Yes, this fox demon is a person, or a person you are familiar with." Wang Heng glanced at the environment of the black bear concave and said, "That fox demon is hiding in this mountain, I must be very familiar with the terrain in it, we are in the dark, people are in the light, I am afraid that the search will not help today, let's go back first." ”

The four of them returned along the way, and the village chief was silent all the way.

Coming out of the tunnel, Xiaoshu rushed over and asked, "Adult, Daddy, have you caught the fox demon?" ”

The village chief touched his son's hair and whispered, "There is no fox demon, someone is making trouble." ”

"Who? also took Hong'er away, Daddy, you must catch the murderer! ”

Xiaoshu was indignant.

The village chief looked at Wang Heng and shook his head with a wry smile.

The son is too young, and he doesn't want him to face so many cruel things too soon.

The murder of Yuan Yao's ancestral family is already very clear.

The corpse of Yuan Ya'er in the cellar, who could not be suspected by anyone of the tea that was sent with medicine, quietly took away Yuan Hong'er after everyone died, and this qiē qiē suspicion pointed to the second daughter of the Yuan family-Yuan Qing'er.

But why was Yuan Qi killed? Why did Yuan Dalong's grandson disappear?

The place where Yuan Qi's body was found also appeared plum blossom footprints suspected of being canines, lips, nose and ears, these protruding parts of the face were gnawed off, and there were also scratches on the body, which were extremely close to the scene of the murder of Yuan Yaozu's family, and should be able to be dealt with together. But what is the connection between them?

Wang Heng looked at Xiao Shu's bright and hopeful eyes, and didn't want to disappoint him, so he followed the village chief to the ancestral hall surnamed Yuan. The village chief ordered a young man to gather all the men over the age of 16 from the village to discuss important matters, and the women and children stayed at home and closed the courtyard doors.

People from Yuanjia Village came to the ancestral hall one after another, and the village chief gave a general account of his findings.

"Sixth uncle, I've only been back in the village for a few years, and I don't know much about the affairs of Yaozu's family, do you know what the situation of his eldest daughter is?"

The village chief asked a white-haired old man.

The old man looked at everyone and sighed: "Now that I can't hide it, in fact, the eldest daughter of Yaozu's family is not Yaozu's own child. ”

What the? The village chief looked at the sixth uncle in surprise.

"More than 20 years ago, Yaozu's daughter-in-law was actually abducted from outside the village, and she was pregnant at that time, and she gave birth to a girl in half a year after coming to us, and it is not a glorious thing to kidnap someone's daughter-in-law, and no one has mentioned it over the years."

"The abducted daughter-in-law? Don't you care? ”

Wang Heng was also stunned, he saw the white bones in the cellar, and he had already considered why this woman was thrown there by her family, if it wasn't Yuan Yaozu's biological daughter, it would be easy to explain.

"Alas, general, we ordinary people, it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law, not to mention abducting other people's daughters-in-law, now there is a little widow, how many people are waiting to marry. When the man reaches the age and has no daughter-in-law, he wants to drink and fight and cause trouble, who can take care of it, although this abduction is a matter of conscience, but there is no way. ”

"Could it be that Yuan Qi's wife was also abducted?"

The village chief's voice trembled, and the sixth uncle lowered his head, sighed and said, "Unjust, unjust." ”

What about Yuan Dalong's daughter-in-law?

The village chief's family has only been back in the village for four years, and they don't know a lot of things in the past.

"Dalong's daughter-in-law was bought, I heard that she was a widow, she was sold by her mother-in-law, carried to our village, and when she visited the church, she hit the offering table head-on, and her head was broken and bleeding, and Dalong's father and son hung her for a full night, and then she was still beaten, and she gave birth to a son in the second year."

Yuan Dalong, who was hiding in the crowd, heard this, and suddenly cried: "Since it's all here, I'll say it all, my son should have been killed by that slut, and she didn't know what to eat for my son, the more medicine she took, the more sick she became." My son died, and I thought that the slut with a child by her side could hold on, but I didn't expect her to run away while I wasn't looking. ”

"How many kidnapped daughters-in-law are there in the village? This could be the connection between the dead! ”

Wang Heng looked at everyone coldly: "The fox demon's words are false, but your village has indeed suffered from heaven's curse." (To be continued......)

PS: In this village, there have been cases of abduction and trafficking of women for a long time, so Wang Heng said that they were punished by God.