Chapter 87: Lanterns

Freud's Bazaar,

After coming out of the voyage tavern, a soldier ran over: "General, I found you, the princess is also there, and a corpse was found in the church over there." ”

Looking in the direction of the soldier's finger, it was the small church in the south of the city, where the third prince, Abulobi, had taken refuge.

When I came to the church, the walls were crumbling, the stones and wood were broken, and in the courtyard, several ancient statues were dumped in the middle of the road, crooked, and not far away surrounded by a group of soldiers.

Approaching,

It is a weed, more than a meter high. The person who found the body was an old farmer who came to pay his respects, otherwise it would have been difficult to find.

At this moment there was a man in the grass, gray-clothed and skinny, like a ball of black briquettes.

After the examination, Kas reported to Shenhe: "The deceased person was beaten by the city, called Liuzi, the time of death was after one o'clock last night, around two o'clock, the cause of death was a strong blow to the head with a blunt object, the skull was shattered, the seven orifices bled and died on the spot, the rest of the body, knees, and abdomen were scratched, which should have been dragged away, this church is a place where the body is hidden, and the place of the victim is not here." ”

Haimo knows a lot about the business of beating the watchman: "The watchman, also known as the changer, used to be to exorcise spirits, originated from witchcraft, not just anyone can fight, it needs to be done by a wizard." Later, social production developed to a certain extent, people rested at sunset, worked at sunrise, had the concept of time, and invented clocks. The night is blind with black lights, the moon is dark and the wind hits, and the husband is responsible for telling the time and reminding people of the safety of anti-theft and fire through the way of hitting the stick or gong, which can reduce a lot of losses, and there are five watches every day, each more is about two hours, the first half of the night starts from seven o'clock until zero o'clock, and the second half of the night is the early morning start, until the early morning five o'clock. I have an understanding in the south of the city, there are now six husbands, including six sons, three of them in the first half of the night, and three of them are on duty in the second half of the night, and the places where they move are fixed, we can ask the other husbands to understand, they are waiting over there. ”

Shinhyuk nodded.

After waiting at the entrance of the church for a long time, the five watchmen were brought to Haimo's side, and Haimo said, "Which of you is in charge of the same area as the six sons of the deceased!"

A thin man raised his hand, his skin dark: "I...... I am, my name is Sankan, I am the neighbor of the sixth son, the two of us are mainly in charge of the Freud residential area, yesterday I was on the night before, and the sixth son is worth the night after. ”

Haimo and Shenhe glanced at each other, Liuzi died at the same time as Ah Sen last night, and he was in an area, could there be any relationship between the two.

Haimo continued to ask, "Has the sixth son offended anyone recently, is it possible that he was killed for a vendetta?" ”

The third more shook his head: "That's not true, people like us, we can't fight back, we don't scold back, when we are bullied, we endure it and pass, in their eyes we are inconsequential rats, cockroaches, moths, no one will take a second look, let alone someone who wants to retaliate against us, because when they want to beat you, they will be beaten in person." ”

This sentence inevitably touched Shenhe, it turned out that there was such a deep contradiction at the grassroots level of Mokaben City.

Haimo nodded, what the third watch said was very reasonable, and continued to ask: "Then yesterday, did you find anything abnormal when you took over the shift, I mean the residential area." ”

The third watch shook his head: "That's not true, it hasn't happened for a long time, I don't know what's wrong recently, the city lord of Carl is missing, Count Xirui is killed, the medicine factory is destroyed, and the sixth son is also dead." ”

Haimo: "Pharmaceutical factory?"

The third watch: "In the west of the city, the Znau River Pharmaceutical Factory! It was also a friend who told me that he worked late that night, and the sixth son also knew that the Znau River Pharmaceutical Factory was burned by a fire, and it was strange to say that it was so close to the river, and no one rescued it." ”

Shenhe looked at Haimo: "You didn't tell me!"

Haimo: "I don't know, you should know about wolf fangs!"

Wolf Fang: "The west of the city is under the jurisdiction of Ino, and I can't go there." ”

Shenhe nodded: "He should have suppressed this matter." ”

Wolf Fang: "As far as Ino and their people are concerned, I can't get used to it for a long time, last year when the old city lord was trapped in Yaglo as a wallwatcher, I think he just wants to wait for the old city lord to have an accident, so as to take over the position of the city lord, seeing Carl inherit the city lord, although Carl is not a good thing, but now he is missing inexplicably, maybe ......"

Shenhe stopped: "Wolf Fang, don't say it. ”

The wolf's teeth shut his mouth, and what he said was actually exactly what Shenhe thought, from the suicide of the soldiers in the east of the city by jumping off the building one after another, to the sudden disappearance of Carl, from the tragic death of Count Ciri, the loss of the talisman, to the killing of the old tailor Asen, there seems to be a huge conspiracy behind all this.

***

After turning around, he turned back to the door of Uncle Asen's house, at this moment the place has been cleaned, and the blood on the ground is gone, at this time several children passed by, and the small lantern in the hand of a child attracted Haimo's attention, and Haimo stopped Daomo: "Children, where did you find your lantern." ”

The child looked like he was six or seven years old: "I found it at the gate of my house!"

Haimo: "Where is your home?"

The child pointed to the door: "This is my home." ”

It turned out that the child's home was diagonally opposite Uncle Asen's house.

Haimo took out a handful of colorful things from his coat pocket and handed it to the child: "Then, uncle, please eat candy." ”

The child was very obedient and took the candy: "Okay." ”

Haimo continued: "It's okay to change the lantern with me, I'll give you a good one." ”

Haimo asked the soldiers to find a beautiful lantern and give it to the child. The child agreed without thinking about it, and the lantern was tricked, and Haimo patted the child's head: "Let's play"

Haimo rushed to the people triumphantly, and met the hot eyes of the surroundings.

'Poof!'

Shenhyuk was the first to laugh, and the others couldn't hold it back.

"Haha, such an adult, and still eat candy. ”

"Haha......"

Although Haimo is in an important position, he is young and a hairy boy: "I bought this candy in Dunacheng, you can't eat it if you have money, I won't give it to you if you want to eat it!"

Shenhe: "Who is rare, why are you deceiving other people's children with lanterns?"

"Yes. ”

Haimo held the lantern in his hand: "Did you find anything?"

Wolf Fang spun around and said, "It's a little dirty." ”

"Poof! ha. ”

Haimo's face was not shocked: "This lantern is for the husband, the lantern used by the husband is different from ours, the base they use is large, it is easier to put, the handle is hollow, and it will make a sound when you knock it." Children's lanterns are picked up here. ”

Wolffang: "What do you want to say?" ”

Shenhe thought: "He said that the lantern of the sixth son is the one in his hand. ”