Chapter 169: Terror Path
"Of course Laifuzi is his pseudonym!" Wei Qing said to Zhao Yueru: "I'm not interested in finding his real name, but since Fuzi's skills, he can't even avoid my sudden blow, so how can he kill seven men with weapons at the same time, and how can he go deep into the well-guarded county yamen to kill the whole family of the county, especially, at the same time that the seven men were killed, the wife of the big head hunter was killed, they are by no means in the same place, then there is only one possibility: the murderer is more than one person!" ”
Zhao Yueru nodded, but she was secretly anxious in her heart, she only had one thing on her mind: to go to Lu'an as soon as possible to join her uncle: "I'm going to a place to verify this inference!" Wei Qing looked at Zhao Yueru, hesitated, and said, "Graveyard!" ”
Pestle Fang is bold and not bold at all now, he really doesn't know what Wei Qing is going to do?
He didn't know where Wei Qing found out that he buried the seven killed men, he was just staying at home honestly, but Wei Qing broke into the door and threw him ten taels of silver, asking him to dig out the seven killed men.
Fang Daring finally took the seventh corpse out of the coffin, side by side with the other six, he didn't dare to leave, it wasn't that Wei Qing wouldn't let him go, but he had to bury these seven people back, even if it was upside down.
After being buried in the ground, the coffin was opened, and it was checked by a stranger who didn't know where it came from, although Fang Daring was bold but his head was not big, if he didn't bury it back in time, it would be strange if the families of these seven men didn't beat his **.
The seven corpses were not buried for a long time, and none of them were decomposed, Wei Qing took the initiative to take on the task of autopsy, he looked through the corpses one by one, and it took a long time to stand up.
"None of them were killed with daggers!" Wei Qing's eyes lit up with excitement. Although Zhao Yueru refused to come to the cemetery with him, he was still talking to himself, as if Zhao Yueru was still by his side: "Two were killed by swords, three were killed by swords, and the other two were killed by people with iron rulers!" ”
No wonder Wei Qing was excited, the iron ruler was a unique weapon for the officers, and now they at least knew which crowd to investigate.
The county government has not been so lively for a long time, almost all the officers are standing in the open space in front of the yamen, and the prefect finally sent someone to send a head catcher to investigate the murder in Yong'an, and the officers not only hope to solve the case as soon as possible, but also hope to pay them a month's salary arrears as soon as possible.
Wei Qing stood in front of the officers, his heart was not at all stable, Wei Qing actually dared to openly pretend to be the prefect's special commissioner to catch the head, this was a method he didn't expect, but it seemed that this method was really effective, at least they would save them from kicking the officer's house one by one.
"We've found a murderer!" He cleared his throat and tried to pretend to be an official master: "It's the blessing of the inn!" ”
The officers let out a low exclamation, worthy of being sent by the prefect, and found the murderer as soon as they arrived.
"But there are still murderers who are now at large!" Wei Qing continued: "We know that at least one of the weapons used by them is an iron ruler! ”
Officers, you look at me, I look at you, their eyes are full of wariness for their companions, at least they understand that this means that one of the officers is a murderer.
"Hand over all your iron rulers!" Wei Qing ordered.
He had carefully measured the size of the iron ruler on the corpse, and whoever matched the iron ruler was the murderer.
The servants put the iron rulers in front of Wei Qing one after another.
Wei Qing measured them carefully one by one, and none of the iron rulers matched perfectly.
"And no one else, other iron rulers!" Wei Qing asked.
"No more!" The second catcher replied.
The crowd was silent for a while, and the servants all looked at this "head catcher sent by the prefect", not knowing how he continued to investigate.
"There should be another one!" One of the officers said suddenly.
"Zheng Laoba, how can there be!" The second catcher didn't believe it, he had already called all the messengers.
"The iron ruler of the big head catcher is not here!" Zheng Laoba said.
"!" The second head catcher was a little angry: "The big head catcher is dead, can it still be a murderer?" ”
A few of the officers burst out laughing.
"He's right!" Wei Qing interrupted the laughter of the messengers: "Bring the iron ruler of the big head catcher!" ”
The iron ruler of the big head catcher actually matched the scars on the corpse, and it was exactly the same.
When Wei Qing announced this result, the eyes of all the servants straightened, how could it be possible, could it be that the big catcher killed his wife with his own hands, and then committed suicide.
Wei Qing thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "This technique is really unique!" ”
"Where is the big catcher!" Wei Qing ordered: "Open the coffin for autopsy!" ”
"The home of the big catcher is in the country!" The second catcher replied: "His subordinates have transported the corpses of him and his wife to his hometown!" ”
"Somewhere!" Wei Qing asked, and the second catcher hesitated: "We don't know where it is, his subordinates only say that they are in the countryside!" ”
"Did the big catcher hire this subordinate and die after a short time!" Wei Qing asked again.
The face of the second catcher turned white: "Yes!" ”
"You don't know what this subordinate's name is, do you?" Wei Qing immediately asked.
The forehead of the second catcher began to sweat: "Yes! ”
Wei Qing sighed: "You should always know which direction he is going!" ”
The second catcher can finally answer the last question: "Over there!" He raised his hand and pointed.
Wei Qing's face changed.
"That direction" is to the north, that is, this vicious murderer has fled into the sphere of influence of the Jin.
Wei Qing was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed: "Okay! The case can be closed, unless we can reclaim the northern lands, and then slowly go to find this murderer! ”
On the morning of the third day, Wei Qing and Zhao Yueru finally came to Lu'an.
Lu'an, one of Zhao Yueru's uncles lives here, but they don't live in the city, but in the countryside, they don't have time to go into the city to have a look, because the road has been delayed for too long, Wei Qing is in a hurry to return to the barracks.
Zhao Yueru still vaguely remembered the approximate location, and she led Wei Qing all the way onto a path with half-human tall weeds on both sides.
Before entering the path, Zhao Yueru suddenly stopped and said to Wei Qing seriously: "Don't leave this road, otherwise I won't be able to save you!" ”
Wei Qing smiled, who saved whom.
Zhao Yueru saw that Wei Qing didn't believe it, so she picked up a branch and threw it into the grass next to her.
With a "click", the branch was cut into seven or eight pieces at once.
Wei Qing's eyes were round: "What is this?" Bagua Array! ”
"When my uncle was young, there were still bears here!" Zhao Yueru said: "Uncle paid attention to the protective intersection in case the bear attacked, but one day, the bear did not take this path, but walked through the grass into the uncle's house, at that time the uncle was not at home, only the sister-in-law was at home, and the result was ,,,,,! Zhao Yueru didn't say any more.
Wei Qing sighed: "It's been arranged like this since then!" ”
"It's not!" Zhao Yueru looked at the grass, and there was a trace of fear in her eyes: "This is the result of the arrangement year after year, every year my uncle puts all kinds of the latest beast traps into it, and at first I can walk into the grass, but then even my uncle doesn't dare to go in, so I can only use a long bamboo pole to pick it up and put it in, now, no one knows how many beast traps there are!" ”
"Then we will never leave the path!" Wei Qing said very firmly, and you would be so firm if you were the same.
The road was narrow, and it was already difficult for the two to walk side by side, so they had to walk one after the other.
What to do if someone is coming in front of you, it's very simple, you can pass it with your body sideways, unless you stand there and don't let anyone else go, there is always a way to get through.
But there are always unreasonable people in the world, and now, Zhao Yueru and Wei Qing have met one.
This man may be a scholar, maybe, maybe, about a scholar, or he himself is pretending to be a scholar.
He set up a table horizontally along the road, and a chair was placed behind it, and he sat on the chair, leaning forward slightly, and writing on the table.
This narrow path actually blocked him like this.
But Zhao Yueru and Wei Qing didn't dare to force it through, because he might not be a real scholar.
Have you ever seen a real scholar write with an iron pen? It's not an iron pen as thin as an ivory pick, the pen is much thicker than an ordinary brush, and this is not ordinary iron, it is an extremely rare black iron, this kind of iron can't be cut even if Wei Qing's Chixiao sword can't be cut, holding such an iron pen, hanging his wrist to write, the tip of the pen does not tremble, a few people can do it, this wrist strength, whether it is Zhao Yueru or Wei Qing are not as good as themselves.
Wei Qing slowly approached the scholar: "What are you writing?" Wei Qing asked.
The scholar glanced at Wei Qing: "Haven't you even read the surnames of the hundred families?" I'm writing people's names, and I can't even tell it! ”
He was indeed writing people's names.
The wood on the table was written with a name: Wei Qing.
Wei Qing carefully admired the name he wrote: "It's really good!" "It's really good, the dragon flying and phoenix dancing in the words are very skillful, but this name is written upside down, not only is it written upside down, but it also has a big cross on this name, as if he was sentenced to death.
"Of course it's good!" When the scholar heard someone compliment, he was very proud: "I have sentenced so many people to death, only this name is the best!" ”
"How can you have the power to sentence people to death!" Wei Qing asked.
"Because I'm the judge!" The scholar replied.
It turned out that he was not a scholar, but a judge, but the judge had always worked in the Yama Palace, and today he actually moved to this path, and he worked so hard without even a cover, I have to say that the work attitude of the officials in hell is very worthy of learning from the officials in the world.
Wei Qing sighed: "It seems that that name is my name!" ”
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