In this way, Shen Lian, Yin Chen, and Chu Xi arrived near the deceased's house.

Next to Xue Guiqiang's house was an elderly grandmother, and when Shen Lian asked about Xue Guiqiang, her face was full of unhappiness.

"That stinky boy, just a brute, often comes to my house to steal things, and many people around here are taken away by him, but he has done a lot of bad things."

This answer was also confirmed from the mouths of many neighbors, Xue Guiqiang did often do this kind of thing, and he did some pranks when he had nothing to do, so the people in the neighborhood didn't have a good impression of him at all.

After learning about these situations, on their way back to the county office, Chu Xi said, "Could it be that the neighbors in the neighborhood did it?" Because Xue Guiqiang has been doing this kind of thing for a long time, they can't bear it anymore, so they have the idea of killing. ”

"Probably not, right?" Yin Chen interjected, "This Xue Guiqiang's house is quite far away from the firewood stack where he was burned, it shouldn't be possible to drag the corpse over from such a distance, right?" Shen Lian, who had been bowing her head in contemplation, raised her head and looked into the distance.

"It's not impossible, maybe the killing place is outside, not very far from there, so it will be much easier to haul the body, plus it will be night, and no one else will find it."

Originally, I asked Shen Lian this time to get some clues, but now it seems that many people may be murderers, and there are certain suspicions, which made her feel a little headache for a while, and she didn't know what to do next.

How many people Xue Guiqiang has offended, I'm afraid he can't remember it himself, and now that he has an accident, it is almost impossible to know more specific things.

However, even if he usually has some petty theft, the neighbors around him are dissatisfied, but he just talks about it and comments on it, he shouldn't be very good at doing it, let alone doing something murderous.

Shen Lian felt that he had to find the friends around Xue Guiqiang who often negotiated, maybe he might get some important clues from their mouths.

So they turned back again, but not to Xue Guiqiang's house, but to the house of one of his friends.

This friend was also provided by the neighbor just now, and his name is Mouton, and he is a reader.

However, the scholar who can become friends with Xue Guiqiang, you can imagine what level he is, he has taken the exam for several years in a row, but every year without exception has failed the list.

But even so, he didn't give up, and still took the exam every year, hoping to have a successful day.

When Shen Lian and the others arrived at Mouton's house, he was reading, and he was very impatient when he heard someone knocking on the door, so he was finally ready to read a book, but he didn't expect that someone would come to disturb him at this time, and he was naturally a little unhappy in his heart.

Originally, he didn't want to pay attention to it, but the knock on the door continued, and he couldn't settle down to study.

couldn't bear it anymore, Mouton didn't get up, but rushed to the door, scolding.

"There are dead people in the family, endlessly, if I don't have a way to win the champion this time, will you be responsible? It's really disgusting, and I don't know where it came from......" Because he didn't know who the person standing outside the door was, he didn't shy away from scolding all kinds of ugly words, and before he could say all the swear words he had reserved, Chu Xi outside the door was a little unbearable.

"Do you know who I am?" After hearing that it was a man, Mouton was still not polite and still insulted.

"I don't care who you are, even if your family is dead, don't come to disgust me, otherwise, I have you good-looking."

"I'm the prefect."

These words directly made Mouton who was sitting in the chair stand up instantly, his face was full of panic, he never thought that the prefect would come to him, and he was nervous for a moment and didn't know what to do.

After hesitating for a moment, he hurriedly trotted to the door, quickly opened the door, and then looked at the three people standing at the door, among them was the prefect Chu Xi.

Mouton hurriedly bowed and apologized, "I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't know you were here, if you are offended, please bear with me." ”

Even if he admitted his mistake, but the swear words just now, several of them heard them all, especially Chu Xi, he found such a big one, and he had never been insulted like this.

"You are at least a reader, how can you say such ugly words? Don't you think it's insulting? "Yes, you're all right."

Mouton nodded busily, regretting what he just said, but there was no way but to apologize vigorously, hoping to save his mistake just now.

It's just that he has always been in such a state, and if he wants to ask anything, he can't ask, so Chu Xi doesn't care too much about anything.

"Okay, forget it this time, you must pay attention next time."

After a pause, he continued, "We are here this time for your friend Xue Guiqiang's business, have you seen him recently?" ”

"Yes, he came to me the day before yesterday, but he didn't come yesterday or today."

"And do you know what he's been up to lately?" Mouton shook his head, "I don't know, he usually has nothing to do, so I don't quite understand, he came to me, we just went out for a walk, and then we went back to our respective homes." ”

After hearing such an answer, Chu Xi was a little disappointed, because this was not the answer they wanted to hear.

However, Shen Lian did not give up, but continued to ask.

"Then do you know if Xue Guiqiang usually sinned against anyone, or whether he had a conflict with someone, as long as you can think of it, you can tell us."

After hearing this, Mouton was a little puzzled, "What does this mean?" Xue Guiqiang usually offends a lot of people, often causes trouble to others, and it is normal to take him away, and besides, his hands and feet are not clean, and he often steals other people's things, and it is normal to be caught, I remember that he was caught and beaten a while ago, this should not be a particularly surprising thing, right? Several people who have a good relationship with him know these things. ”

After saying that, Mouton noticed that the faces of several of them were not very good-looking.

In addition, they came for Xue Guiqiang's matter, so they couldn't help but be a little curious, did he get into trouble again, so he invited the prefect to come in person? "He can't be stealing from someone else, is he?" After hearing this, Chu Xi shook his head, looked at him seriously and said, "No, he's dead." ”

"What?" Mouton was a little shocked and looked incredulous, "This joke is not funny!" "Do you think I'm joking with you?" Chu Xi looked at him with a straight face and said.

Now Mouton gradually began to believe in the authenticity of this matter, Xue Guiqiang is indeed dead, but how could a good person suddenly die? Just as he was thinking about these things, Shen Lian thought of an important person, the woman who came to identify the body today.

She definitely knows Xue Guiqiang, maybe it has something to do with his death, this Mouton is also very likely to know, no matter what, it's better to ask, at least grasp it.

"Have you ever seen a woman appear next to Xue Guiqiang?" After hearing this, Mouton shook his head, "How is that possible?" Where are there any women around him, they are all a bunch of gangsters, which woman is willing to follow him? "But I've seen a well-dressed guy who claims to know him, and he's pretty good-looking, and he seems to have a mole in the corner of his eye."

This made Mouton think, but soon, he wanted to hit who that person was.

"She's not Mouton's person, she's Boss Liu's person, called Chunjuan, how could such a woman fall in love with her?" Boss Liu? Chunjuan? The names of these two people, Shen Lian, recalled, since he came, the names of these two people seemed to have not been heard, and they were very unfamiliar.

But if the person who came to identify the body that day was Chunjuan, then the two of them should have something to do with this case.