After Liu Hua's voice fell, he paused slightly, and then continued: "Lord Prefect, it's too late to go to the back to collect evidence, and when it dawns tomorrow, please send someone to check on the peach grove behind the Wu Mansion to see if there are any traces left by people or horses there?" ”

Nian Qianyao heard Liu Hua say that the clues were hidden in the peach grove behind Wu's house, and he wanted to send someone there to find the clue now, but when he saw the area of the peach grove, he had to extinguish this thought.

Huang Baishan knew that Nian Qianyao was anxious to crack the case, so he could go to the fourth master to ask for credit, so after taking Nian Qianyao's expression in his eyes, he persuaded a little and ordered Tong Zhen to send someone to guard the scene, and he went back with Nian Qianyao, Liu Hua, Sun Shidong, and Li Tou'er.

After arriving at the prefect's yamen, Huang Baishan praised Li Tou'er a few words, sent him away, arranged a house for Liu Hua and Sun Shidong from the back hall, and told the two to rest early, and then he and Nian Qianyao also went back to their rooms to rest.

Liu Hua and Sun Shidong were also a little tired after a day of running, and after Huang Baishan and Nian Qianyao left, the two looked at the room, and then lay down to rest.

Early the next morning, after having breakfast in the house, Liu Hua and Sun Shidong were called to the main room of the back hall by Nian Qianyao, asked about Sun Shidong's origin, and exchanged pleasantries, and then Nian Qianyao invited Liu Hua to go to Wu's house to investigate the case.

Liu Hua was also worried about this matter, so after hearing Nian Qianyao's urging, he didn't say a word and invited Nian Qianyao to go to the scene with him.

Half an hour later, Nian Qianyao, Huang Baishan, Liu Hua, Sun Shidong, Tong Zhen, and 30 catchers and more than 40 servants, came to the peach blossom forest behind the courtyard of the Wu house, this peach blossom forest covers a huge area, more than 20 acres, after arriving at the peach blossom forest, Liu Hua let everyone disperse, and searched with a stall-style method to see if there were any traces left by people or horses?

When Liu Hua explained the task of this trip, Tong Zhen looked at Huang Baishan, and after seeing Huang Baishan nodding, Tong Zhen led his subordinates to disperse into the peach blossom forest, wanting to find such tiny traces from such a large peach blossom forest, all this is no less than looking for a needle in a haystack.

An hour has passed, the catchers in the peach blossom forest, still have not found any clues, seeing this scene, Huang Baishan and Nian Qianyao couldn't help but be a little secretly anxious, and when they saw Liu Hua next to them, he was calm, as quiet as an old monk, the two couldn't help blushing a little, and secretly said "ashamed", and then calmed down.

In fact, the reason why Liu Hua was so calm at this time was because he was pondering the bronze tripod in his mind, I don't know why? Liu Hua just couldn't make that bronze tripod active in his mind, so he couldn't experiment with the ability of that bronze tripod.

But Liu Hua firmly believes that since Tongding was able to exert the ability to pause time before, as long as he pondered the law thoroughly, he could also continue to exert that magical power in the future.

Once you master the laws of this, you may be able to manipulate the bronze tripod as you like, and maybe at that time, how long can the "time pause" be cast? Then it's up to you.

Just when Liu Hua was thinking hard, more than half an hour had passed, and suddenly, Tong Zhen ran over from a distance: "Lord Qiqi Mansion, the inferior people found an abnormality more than 100 meters away from Wu's house on the south side of the peach blossom forest.

On the peach blossom trees in the vicinity, there were traces of being strangled, and on the ground of those peach trees, there were feces left by horses, judging from the strangled peach blossom trees and the horses' hoof prints at the scene, there should have been at least five horses staying there at that time.

The traces of strangulation on the peach tree had been dried, and the horse manure left at the scene had also dried up, judging from these two phenomena, this should have been a few days ago, and it was determined that someone had stayed in this peach blossom forest a few days ago. ”

After Tong Zhen's words fell, Liu Hua and Nian Qianyao all rushed to the place where they found the suspicious points, and came to the peach blossom trees, Liu Hua took a closer look, and then Liu Hua whispered to Nian Qianyao: "There are a total of eight horses at the scene.

You see, there are traces of strangulation on these five peach trees, but three of the five peach trees have two traces of strangulation, and there is more droppings left near these three trees than near the other two.

It is supposed that there were eight horsemen who came here and took a fancy to the seclusion of the place, so they hid their horses here, and they tied their horses to these peach trees, some of them tethered their horses to a tree alone, and some of them used a tree together to tie their horses. That's why they left such traces on the scene.

Presumably, those people also knew about the Wu Mansion, and when they came, they explored the path in advance, so they chose this place as a foothold, they hid the horses here, but the people were hidden in the Wu Mansion, according to this phenomenon, it is not difficult to see that the group of people is afraid that they came here to do some unsightly deeds. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Hua seems to have thought of something? After a pause, he said in a somewhat uncertain tone, "Perhaps...... I've met with the killers before. ”

"What? Is there such a thing? Hearing Liu Hua's words, Nian Qianyao and Huang Baishan all felt a little incredible.

After recovering from the shock, Huang Baishan looked at Liu Hua with some puzzlement: "I am tired of Liu Gongzi to explain the reason for this, and solve the doubts of the old man and Lianggong." ”

"No problem, but we can't talk about this here, let's find a quieter place." Liu Hua was worried that there would be a lot of people here and there would be leaks, so he did not explain the doubts of Huang Baishan and Nian Qianyao at the scene.

After seeing the surrounding catchers and servants, Huang Baishan and Nian Qianyao also understood the key, Huang Baishan found Tong Zhen and asked Tong Zhen to issue a gag order to those catchers, and stay here to deal with the aftermath. And he returned to the prefect's yamen with Nian Qianyao, Liu Hua and Sun Shidong.

In the back hall of the prefect's yamen, Liu Hua was in Huang Baishan's room, and told him and Sun Shidong about the robbery of money when they met eight middle-aged men in Shuixiang City.

After listening to Liu Hua's description, Nian Qianyao, who was sitting at the top, couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and after a while, he frowned and looked at Liu Hua: "Strange? The eight people you just described, I have some impressions of old age.

Especially the fierce-faced man who wielded the "Iron Claw" weapon, where did I wonder if I had heard his name? It's just that I can't remember it for a while, oops...... My brain, it drops the chain every time it is critical, and it really me off. ”

After hearing Nian Qianyao's words, Liu Hua was a little surprised, he didn't expect Nian Qianyao to have some impressions of those people, seeing that Nian Qianyao was a little annoyed because he couldn't remember those people, after thinking for a while, Liu Hua took out an object from his arms: "Lord Nian, please look, this thing was found by me on those people, I don't know if Lord Nian recognizes it?" ”