"My lord, it's unlikely that she is a murderer."

Situ replied after pondering.

"Why? Because the weapon she used was a long whip? ”

The villagers were killed by the murderer with a knife or sword, which was far from a long whip, but Situ Jingping thought that if the woman used a sword, she would be able to commit the crime with the advantage of her footsteps.

"My lord, those who practice martial arts pursue specialization, and her long whip has made it perfect, and it is difficult to practice the skill of swords again to the point of killing hundreds of people with one blow."

The woman is still very skilled in using the whip, and Situ Zhizhi can see it, if it is only compared to the sword, the woman may not be his opponent.

Now Situ Jingping knew it in his heart.

On the other side, Ouyang Kai and the others returned to Baishengtang and put the horses in the stable, and Zhou Yi jumped out.

"Miss Zhou Yi, you haven't slept yet!"

Yin Ziyun turned around and saw that Zhou Yi was taken aback.

"Well, wait for my master."

"Then, I'll go to bed first."

Feeling that he would be the superfluous one again, Yin Ziyun hurriedly slipped away.

"Master, where have you been, why are you only coming back now?"

When Yin Ziyun walked away, Zhou Yi asked Ouyang Kai.

"Ziyun Mountain investigates the case, go back to sleep."

It's already hour, and in two or three hours it will be dawn.

"Is that the village?"

Speaking of Ziyun Mountain, Zhou Yi thought of the village where the whole village was killed, and he felt a chill behind him.

"Well, go to bed!"

"Oh, then I'll go to sleep, and Master will go to bed early."

After speaking, Zhou Yi turned around and went upstairs, originally wanting to come to ask Ouyang Kaixing about his guilt, but now she was a little glad that she was knocked unconscious by her master.

Back in the room, Ouyang Kai lit the candles in the room and took out the envelope that Zhang Yusheng gave him from his chest.

"Within seven days, the Valley of Hundred Flowers will be in trouble!"

There was only one piece of paper in the envelope, and there were only these nine words on the paper, Ouyang Kai was shocked, his master was still in the Valley of Hundred Flowers!

Leaving a note in the room, taking the baggage, Ouyang Kai rode on his horse and went out of the city again.

The city gate had already been closed, and when he came back, it was Situ Jingping's governor token who opened the door, but Emperor Xiao gave Ouyang Kai the sign of "Martial Arts Imperial History".

Out of the city, he hurried all the way to Yunzhou.

……

Early the next morning, everyone didn't see Ouyang Kai come out, they just thought they were overworked last night and were still resting in the room.

But after Zhou Yi finished practicing the sword, he found that Ouyang Kai hadn't left the room yet, and felt that something was wrong, so he went to Ouyang Kai's room to find out, and saw the note left by Ouyang Kai.

"Grandpa! Big things are wrong! ”

"Yi'er, don't be in a hurry all day long, learn from your master, and don't be surprised."

Murong Zhao said earnestly.

"Grandpa, my master is gone, and this is left!"

Zhou Yi said anxiously and handed the note to Murong Zhao.

"Don't worry, he'll be fine, he'll go to the Valley of Hundred Flowers."

After reading the note, Murong Zhao said calmly.

"Why did Ouyang go to the Valley of Hundred Flowers?"

Yin Ziyun, who was in the pharmacy, asked curiously, he only returned to Baishengtang in the middle of the night last night, and he disappeared at dawn.

"I said I was looking for his sister."

"Grandpa, let me see."

Murong Qianqian took the note, and sure enough, it read, "Baihua Valley is looking for a master, don't worry."

"Could it be that something is wrong, did he say when he will be back?"

Yin Ziyun asked again.

"I didn't say it, but don't worry, Xiao Kai is a measured person, and he will be fine."

In fact, Murong Zhao was also worried about Ouyang Kai, so he was in such a hurry to rush to the Hundred Flowers Valley, it was strange that nothing happened, but he couldn't let the rest of the Baisheng Hall also worry.

……

"My lord, Ouyang Gongzi went out of the city last night!"

As soon as Situ Jingping got up, he heard Situ Zhuzhi's announcement.

"When? Where did you go? ”

"When I was a child, not long after entering the city, I went north."

"Well, let's take people to Yunzhou and save those women first."

Although Situ Jingping felt that Ouyang Kai was a little afraid of absconding from crime, it was important to save people, even if Ouyang Kai was a murderer, he was not in a hurry to arrest people, not to mention that he was only a suspect.

"Lord Situ, don't come unharmed!"

A voice came in from outside the room.

Situ Jingping's voice made his heart happy, and he hurriedly got up to greet him,

"Master Guo is here, it's a long way to go, don't care, haha!"

The person who came was Situ Jingping's old friend Guo Wei, known as the first detective of Xiao State, Dali Siqing, who used to be the left and right servants of the Criminal Department with Situ Jingping.

Later, shortly after Situ Jingping was promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department, Emperor Xiao added Dali Temple and appointed Guo Wei as the first secretary of Dali Temple.

"Haha, Situ's words are out of sight, who are the two of us, talking about these bells and whistles."

Guo Wei patted Situ Jingping's shoulder and said with a smile.

"Isn't Brother Ziwei cultivating, how can he be in Dangzhou?"

Ziwei is Guo Wei's word, after solving a big case some time ago, Emperor Xiao gave him three months off to recuperate, and so far it has been less than a month, and his appearance in Dangzhou also made Situ Jingping a little surprised.

"Your Majesty won't let me go to Dali Temple, I have nothing to do, I'm in a panic, I heard that you went south to thoroughly investigate corrupt officials and corrupt officials, so I came over to see if there was anything I could do to help, why, I just came to Dangzhou and was leaving, what happened, let's hear it."

Just a few days after coming to Dangzhou, Guo Wei didn't hear the verdict of Chen Suyuan and others, why did Situ Jingping go to Yunzhou.

"Isn't this a relatively urgent case at hand, thirty miles away, ......?"

Next, Situ Jingping told Guo Wei about the massacre of the village and his investigation of the scene and the discovery in Panlongguan.

"That's right, I'll go to Yunzhou with you, and let's go to that village by the way."

After listening to Situ Jingping's narration, Guo Wei already has a relatively large understanding of the case, but some details still need to be seen at the scene.

"Okay, time is pressing, let's go now!"

Situ Jingping didn't have any opinions, he couldn't ask for help from Xiao Guo's first detective.

……

"Situ, you almost wronged people, look at these footprints, the size and wear of the shoes are still completely different."

After the last investigation, the scene was already very chaotic, but Guo Wei still found several footprints in key positions, which were completely incomparable to Ouyang Kai's footprints after comparison.

Ouyang Kai's shoes are thanks to the ultra-wear-resistant soles that Ouyang Qing found, and they have been worn on Thundering Mountain for two years, and they have been worn since they came down the mountain.

Under the collapsed wall, Guo Wei found another waist card with the word "Panlong" written on it.

"It seems that the murderer is ready to be called."

Picking up the Panlong waist card, Guo Wei said excitedly.

"Brother Ziwei, how can you conclude that this waist card was left by the murderer when he committed the crime?"

Situ Jingping asked puzzledly, "Couldn't it be left before and after the crime?" ”

"No, what do you see on the waist card?"

Guo Wei shook his head and gave the waist card to Situ Jingping.

"Blood!"

Although there is dirt attached to the waist card, the blood stained on it is still eye-catching.

"That's right, after the fight and rain washed outside, there is no trace left, but the wall must have collapsed when Ouyang Kai and Yin Ziyun were fighting.

You look at the buried grass and fallen leaves, and the blades of grass are white, indicating that this wall has fallen down for some time.

However, in the case of leaf decay, the last fallen leaves have not changed substantially, indicating that the time of burial is not too long.

In addition, the blood stains on the blades of grass were wiped away by the soil without completely drying up,

Contact this waist card, you know that after committing the crime, the murderer turned out of this place and accidentally dropped the bloody waist card on the ground.

In the evening of that day, the fight between Ouyang Kai and Yin Ziyun knocked down the wall and buried the waist card under the dirt, and the murderer had already returned after committing the crime. ”

Guo Wei put his reasoning and judgment together and completely overturned Situ Jingping's previous judgment.

"The murderer has returned!"

Situ Jingping was shocked in his heart, he couldn't see it in all the investigations.

"You see the footprints outside and the fence over there, when the wall falls, the fence is brought down, but in general, the direction of the fence should be the same as the direction under the knife of the wall.

But the fact is that the fence fell in exactly the opposite direction to the wall, indicating that someone had touched the fence, and then looked at the footprints outside, he tried to dig up the dirt but gave up for some reason.

Later, the rain covered his footprints, and there were only these puddles......"