After a while, suddenly there was a sound of a bowl breaking, and a big man stood up directly, dropped the bowl containing water in his hand to the ground, and shattered it into a piece of porcelain slag.

"Shopkeeper, what kind of water are you, why does it smell like a stock, do you want to fool me and others when you do such a black-hearted business?"

The others looked at him, there was no special look in their eyes, they didn't say anything, and then continued to lower their heads and do what they had to do.

The boss and the shopkeeper hurriedly apologized, the tea stinked or not, they knew it in their hearts, but they knew what, this person was holding a knife in his hand, and he was looking for trouble at a glance, and they couldn't do anything but apologize.

The man didn't buy it, and there was a posture of being unforgiving, "Do you want to be so easy to get away with drinking such water?" ”

The boss still apologized, and didn't dare to have the slightest neglect, he was just an ordinary person, how dare he offend these people.

"Ten taels of silver, it's compensation, I can't take it out, I see if the Sprinkle family doesn't demolish your broken shop." The man's big knife slammed into the ground, and the momentum was terrifying.

The boss panicked, and the voice of apology became heavier, silver is very rare in ordinary people's homes, not to mention that his family is not good, let alone ten taels, he can't take out one tael.

Xia Yanguo never said a word from beginning to end, he didn't even look this way, these swordsmen may have backers, so they oppress ordinary people like this, there are too many such things, he is not surprised, nor is he surprised, this world is always like this.

A discerning person can see at a glance that this person is just deliberately making things difficult and waiting for an opportunity to blackmail, and even the shopkeeper must know it in his heart, but these people represent the strong party, and the store is in a weak position, and there is no other way than to be blackmailed.

But now, the fire meteor in the sky is still there, and this group of people still dare to do this, it is really fatal.

This is also the reason why Xia Yanguo didn't make a move.

He wondered if the fire meteor, which had been disturbed by the woman's kite sound last night, would still notice what was happening here and react as it should.

The fire meteor was launched.

A little red firefly shot down from the sky, hitting the knife in the hand of the big man, the scabbard of the knife was immediately burned, and the blade instantly became red, the big man screamed, threw the knife to the ground, and there was a burnt smell on his hand, and the skin and flesh were obviously burned.

The gang dispersed in an instant, a farce ended, and everything around them returned to its proper trajectory again, becoming very quiet, and only the sound of water entering the throat could be heard.

Xia Yanguo thought about the case he handled again.

In fact, Xia Yan should have been given the opportunity to be promoted too soon, he was recognized as the best catcher in the county, but because he killed the prisoner by mistake when handling the case, he was forced to come out for five years. But Sun Hui made his fate take a turn for the better.

So Xia Yanguo worked very hard for Sun Hui. When this disappearance case, which was difficult to deal with at a glance, was put on the agenda, he did not hesitate to take it on, much to the admiration of his colleagues for his professionalism.

Disappearance is the most common crime in this land, and there are countless reasons that can cause a living person to disappear from the world for no reason. For example, many professional killers are the best at destroying corpses. The slain subjects were drugged, swallowed up by a large lake, or buried deep underground, leaving no trace, like wiping a picture on the beach with your feet. And because of the invasion of the Mongols in the north, the folk customs gradually became stronger, and it was possible for the two people to disagree and go to a secret place to duel, and finally the loser was buried in the bones. Not to mention the boring swamps in the Lianghuai Territory, which are like monsters with their huge mouths open all year round, devouring those who strayed into them mercilessly, and will not even spit out the bones.

However, there will always be a degree to all disappearances, and if they are too frequent, they cannot but attract the attention of the yamen. In the past six months, 20 people have disappeared without explanation in a few counties near Lin'an alone. Now, under Sun Hui's instructions, this hot potato was taken over by Xia Yanguo on his own initiative.

He perused the relevant dossier, page by page, and found that there was little in common between the missing persons. The eldest of them was eighty-two years old, an old blacksmith in his last years, who was seeking medical treatment in Chun'an County when he disappeared; The youngest is only seven years old, and she is a rich daughter who is preparing for her birthday. These missing people include people of the Han, Mongolian, Jurchen, and Khitan races, so it doesn't look like a racial vendetta. None of the families of the missing people have received any ransom letters, and the possibility of kidnapping tickets has been ruled out.

But it must have been done by the same person, Xia Yanguo had this strong intuition. All the crime scenes are too clean and leave almost no traces, definitely a veteran of crime. But what did he do with these people captive? Is it purely to vent the perverted desire to kill?

It's not, Xia Yan thought about it. If this is a madman who takes the pleasure of killing people for the whole time, he shouldn't have done it so inconsiderably. Because people who like to kill for fun will not be able to hide a certain show-off and challenge mentality, they will leave a little mark on the scene to show their existence. And this criminal ...... Leave nothing.

Xia Yanguo spent the night reading the dossier, but it was difficult to see the clues from the words on the paper alone, and he still had that strong intuition, he didn't believe that this clever criminal had no purpose in committing this series of skillful and exquisite crimes. What is his purpose? Xia Yanguo fell into deep thought.

These people must be of some use to him, there will be an invisible thread that connects them all.

And the two women last night......

A cold wind blew, and the weather that had just been sunny changed again.

Xia Yanguo hates cloudy days, but what he hates is not the drizzle or heavy rain, but the gloom of cloudy days. Whenever it was cloudy, he felt the pervasive smell of decay waft through the air, and the gray clouds in the sky seemed to hang overhead, ready to be pressed down at any moment. He still remembers once going to a small deserted village to solve a problem, and the road under his feet became narrower and worse at the sound of horses' hooves, and finally there was almost no way out. He set out early in the morning and finally found the village at dusk. The first thing that catches your eye is a few skinny, filthy pigs, looking for food in the mud at the entrance of the village. He walked around the pigs, who were unoccupied, and walked into the village, where he saw only a few dilapidated thatched houses that seemed to collapse at any moment. The choking smoke from the ignition of damp firewood and grass makes people's vision a little blurred.