There was no news of this a few days ago, but they only found out after they came.

  "I heard them say that it was stolen before the harvest, but some people say that it was stolen after the harvest, and my people found a corpse at the foot of the mountain......" Lu Zhe said with a solemn face.

  Gu Zhixing frowned, who was so bold?

  When Su Mian heard this, he immediately walked over: "Then what are you still doing in a daze?" Let's hurry over now. ”

  Then first check out what went wrong, is it an internal thief or an external thief? What does it have to do with that corpse?

  Lu Zhe led them to the clearing, where there were many ordinary people, some of them looked depressed, some cried, and some sat without a face (qíng).

  When they saw Lu Zhe and Gu Zhixing, they immediately stood up and said excitedly: "Lord Wang, General Lu, it's really not the grass people who stole the rice, and the grass people don't know what's going on. ”

  From the first day of harvesting, they did not notice anything unusual, until the next day, when they continued to harvest the grain, they noticed that something seemed to be wrong, but they did not take it seriously.

  It wasn't until three days had passed that there was still a little grain left that had not been harvested, and when they came, they found that it had already been cut.

  And where they used to pile up the grain, there was a lot less grain.

  This made them feel very strange.

  "Have you already asked people to start checking?" Gu Zhixing glanced at Lu Zhe and said.

  Lu Zhe nodded: "All the people in the Zhuangzi have appeared here, and I have asked people to search from house to house, but I have not found the grain ......"

  "Then it's not a thief?" Su Mian asked with a frown.

  Lu Zhe hesitated and nodded: "Yes, it was because we didn't find it, so we started to look for it from the foot of the mountain, so we found the body, and we found that there were traces of a carriage, which led to the entrance of the village." ”

  If they come over, they will ride horses directly, and they will only take the carriage when Su Mian comes.

  But the traces of the wheels of the cart were the same as before, so he suspected that they might have carried the grain away in a wagon, but he asked the villagers, and said that he had not seen any stranger or carriage.

  "Didn't you hear any movement at night after you fell asleep?" Su Mian looked at them strangely.

  The villagers sitting on the ground shook their heads, and finally they were in charge and took the lead in standing up: "Because our house is a little away from the field, if there is movement in the field, we can't hear it at all, but we arranged for someone to keep vigil, but the person didn't come to report back." ”

  Gu Zhixing looked pensive, this seemed to be very weird.

  "What about the people who are keeping vigil, let them stand up." Gu Zhixing said with a calm face.

  If the matter in this Zhuangzi (qíng) is not properly resolved, then other people in the Zhuangzi may do the same, but this is not the most important thing, the important thing is that human life is involved.

  When the people who were on vigil stood up, Gu Zhixing asked Lu Zhe to ask them separately and ask what happened during their vigil that day.

  Then Gu Zhixing's gaze fell on the steward's (shēn), and his sharp eyes made the steward feel a little frightened.

  But he stood there with a pretense of composure.

  "A body has been found at the foot of the mountain, do you know about it?" Gu Zhixing squinted his eyes and asked.

  The steward nodded hurriedly, and when the body was just found, he had already followed him to take a look, but the man was not from their village at all.

  It's a raw face.

  When the steward told everything he knew (qíng), Su Mian was completely confused, and the case seemed to be very complicated.

  "Gu Zhixing, what should we do now?" Su Mian asked worriedly.

  The grain in this village lost more than half at once, and these people were all hired by them, and the money should still be given, but there was no grain......

  Gu Zhixing looked around in silence, and finally landed his gaze on the villagers (shēn).

  "Ah Mian, don't worry, this matter (qíng) will definitely be dealt with." Gu Zhixing gently comforted Su Mian.

  Although Su Mian was still not at ease, she still nodded silently, after all, she couldn't help much now.

  Afterwards, Gu Zhixing said to the guards next to him: "Let the steward assist you to register the household registration of these people together, and if there is a recent appearance, you should pay special attention to it." ”

  "Lord Wang, are you suspecting us of stealing it?" The steward looked shocked.

  Even the rest of the mourning people stood up, and several of them were tall and strong men, and they shouted, "We are not thieves, and you can't let us take the blame because we are poor." ”

  "That's it, we're not convinced, this is what we have worked hard for more than two months to grow!"

  "If you can't find the murderer and come to suspect us, then you might as well kill us now!"

  “……”

  One person started, and the others shouted with them, and for a while, the originally quiet open space suddenly became noisy.

  Su Mian looked at Gu Zhixing nervously, she knew that Gu Zhixing had a solution, but if it caused public anger now, I am afraid that everything she had done before would be in vain.

  "This king did not say that you are the murderers, and the reason why this king registered your household registration is to protect you." Gu Zhixing's voice was not loud, but it was very favorable.

  As soon as his words came out, the people who were still shouting just now suddenly fell silent.

  What kind of protection does this count?

  Gu Zhixing saw that they were quiet, so he continued: "First of all, no matter who stole the grain, and what kind of way they transported the grain, don't you feel scared when it comes to the corpse found at the foot of the mountain?" Maybe when they'll find you? ”

  And the man who died was not from their village, wasn't that frightening enough?

  When the others heard this, their faces became very pale, who is not afraid of death?

  What's more, they have never done anything unreasonable, if they die like this, what will happen to their other family members?

  "Yes, because the murderer has not been found yet, everyone here is suspected of this, but this is also to better protect everyone, after all, the grain is not seen here, and you need to be responsible." Su Mian echoed.

  Su Mian's words brought them back to their senses a lot, and in fact it was.

  The steward, who had wanted to speak again, suddenly felt very uneasy when he saw that they were all quiet.

  However, he still stood calmly in front of Gu Zhixing, pretending that nothing had happened (qíng).

  Gu Zhixing narrowed his eyes, and asked the guards to register with the steward, while he was going to check the corpse, if he could find out when the corpse died and why it died, I believe that this case (qíng) will be investigated soon.

  "Ah Mian, you go to the carriage and wait for me, I'll go and see the corpse." Gu Zhi Xingzhuan (shēn) said to Su Mian.

  Su Mian was stunned, she just wanted to say that she also wanted to go with him, but then she thought about her guts......

  She really couldn't challenge, so she had to nod: "Then you pay attention to safety, it's best to bring a few more people with you, I'm afraid that there are other plans for this matter." ”

  As for the deeper (yīn) scheme, she couldn't think of it, but that didn't prevent her from feeling that it wasn't that simple.

  Su Mian's words made Gu Zhixing suddenly enlightened, that is to say, it is very likely that the person deliberately faked that the grain was stolen, and also threw a corpse, just to lure him to appear alone?

  But when you think about it, it doesn't seem to be the case.

  However, he still nodded, and it was not until he escorted Su Mian to the carriage that he followed the guards to the house where the body was temporarily parked.

  And on Lu Zhe's side, there is no progress at all.

  ……

  In the palace, the imperial study.

  When the emperor learned that something had happened in Zhuangzi, he was furious, and at this time, there was a human life and the theft of grain, doesn't it mean that the man wanted to do something with him?

  "Go, announce them to the palace, I have something to discuss with them." The emperor said with a small face.

  The old eunuch hurriedly bent down and said, "Yes, the old slave will go." ”

  He knew that the emperor was there at the scene, and maybe it wouldn't be long before the murderer could be found, but it was very likely that the whole country would know about it.

  At that time, I am afraid that no one will want to farm again.

  Half an hour later.

  Several Lord Shangshu and Yushi Qin Xiang came.

  Before they came in, they had already felt the cold and frightening aura in the palace (diàn), if they hadn't known that Gu Zhixing was still on the Zhuangzi at this time, maybe they would have suspected that the person in front of them was Gu Zhixing.

  "The ministers see the emperor's ......," several ministers said in unison.

  The Emperor waved his hand and motioned for them to sit down: "I'm sure you also learned something about this on the way here, right?" I asked you to enter the palace to discuss how to deal with this matter. ”

  "Your Majesty, the old ministers think that this is very likely to be a ploy of the enemy country, maybe they are lurking here, in order to wait for the right time." Sheng Genglong said what he thought in his heart.

  Qin Xiang twisted his eyebrows and disagreed: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this is very likely to be done by the people in Zhuangzi behind their backs, and the dead people may also be injured by themselves." ”

  "Lord Qin, what you said is too harsh, they are all ordinary people, except for farming, how can they have the courage to kill?" Sheng Genglong disagreed.

  Because the two of them had already quarreled fiercely, the other ministers began to think about it.

  It's really incredible that this kind of thing happened all of a sudden.

  "Okay, I'm not here to make you quarrel, but to hear how you solve this matter." The emperor said with a straight face.

  What is known is that they have only harvested half of the grain, the other half has been stolen, and of the half of the grain they have harvested, half of it has been stolen, and the people on the first page have no impression of it, and the corpse is even more unaware.