Hearing that there was a clue, Duan Feiden asked, "How old is he?" How is your health? Is there a son? ”

Li Yuying said dejectedly: "He is so old that he loses his teeth, and his body is said to be very weak, and he has not married yet. ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "It's not necessarily in vain, find this person and talk about it, maybe someone else told him to say that?" ”

Guan Xiaohan said: "Childe is very right, we also got another news, someone once asked the children in the village about Zhou Cong's news. ”

Duan Fei perked up and asked, "Have you asked about that kid?" Did he recognize the man? Even if you don't recognize it, it's good to be able to tell what you look like. ”

Guan Xiaohan smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that the son will be disappointed again, I found the child, and I asked, the child said that when he was collecting firewood by the river, another big child hid on the other side and asked him, he didn't see the other party's appearance, only knew that he was about ten years old, but he was quite tall, the child finally got a copper plate, and Zhou Cong died on this copper plate." ”

Duan Fei also smiled bitterly and said, "Probably his life should be like this." ”

Li Yuying asked: "Childe, I still can't figure out why the murderer wanted to kill Zhou Cong, can Childe be able to speed me up and why?" ”

Duan Fei sat on the chair and said, "The official is tired today, climbing the mountain and smoking, which of you will go and make me a cup of tea, and I will slowly tell you the reason." ”

"Okay, I'll make tea right away." Li Yuying said.

She was about to walk away, but Guan Xiaohan hugged her fragrant shoulder and smiled: "Sister, you listen slowly to the child's explanation, let me do this tea making matter." ”

"Oh, thank you, sister." Li Yuying didn't insist, she blinked her eyes and waited for Duan Fei's explanation.

Duan Fei put on a good hand for the old man, and then replied: "It's very simple, you can ask Guo Wei this question." ”

"Yes, yes, I know the ...... of the answer" Guo Wei grinned, Li Yuying glared back at him, and said, "I don't believe you, I only believe the words of adults." ”

Guo Wei smiled bitterly, Li Yuying turned around and urged Duan Fei again, Duan Fei had to answer: "This is very simple, the matter is so big, it was all caused by Zhou Cong who accidentally ran into the Valley of Unjust Souls, and the murderer hated him to the bone, so he naturally wanted to take his life." ”

"Just to vent your anger? Isn't that too risky? Li Yuying said.

"It's a risk to kill everyone else." Duan Fei said: "The murderer killing Zhou Cong under everyone's nose is also a deterrent, he hopes that in this way, no one will dare to seriously investigate the case, but unfortunately he ran into me, it can only be said that God wants him to pay for the lives of those who died unjustly." ”

"The person hasn't been caught yet, Childe, don't talk so much first." Xiaohuan said.

Duan Fei smiled: "Yes, the person hasn't been caught yet, but ...... Don't you think I'm deliberately giving the murderer some time so that he can survive three days before being caught? ”

Guan Xiaohan came over with a kettle and said with a smile: "Son, you are not allowed to cheat, otherwise Xiao Han will not accept it even if he loses." ”

Duan Fei smiled and was silent, but Li Yuying said righteously: "Sister Xiaohan, how can you make a bet like that, it's almost impossible for you to solve the case after three days." ”

"Who told me to have confidence in my son? Isn't that right, Childe? Guan Xiao smiled at Duan Fei.

Duan Fei's heartbeat accelerated, and he smiled: "It's hard to say, now that the case has been almost investigated, whether or not I can successfully catch the murderer and close the case is not something I can control, and it is normal that the murderer cannot be caught for ten days and a half months." ”

Guan Xiaohan said: "I believe in my own judgment, Gongzi will definitely be able to catch the murderer smoothly." ”

Duan Fei and her eyes met, staring at each other for a while, Duan Fei was finally defeated, and Duan Fei sighed in the laughter like Guan Xiaohan's silver bell: "I'm afraid of you, we will rush to Lushan County early tomorrow morning, hoping to catch the murderer's father and son." ”

Everyone nodded, Duan Fei touched his stomach and asked, "Have you eaten?" I'm dying of hunger. ”

The three maids were about to answer, when suddenly Yang Sen's voice came from outside: "Is Brother Fei back?" I've made a big discovery, Phineas, Phineas......"

Yang Sen rushed in, ignoring the stench of his body, he said with bright eyes: "Brother Fei, I found that some dry bones have been cooked, and there are traces of gnawing on them, very similar to human tooth marks, I think the murderer may have cooked the deceased to eat!" ”

Duan Fei was sick to his stomach for a while, he was afraid of something, it was strange that he could still eat dinner now, everyone also showed disgusting looks, and Li Yuying even bent down unceremoniously and vomited.

At this time, everyone couldn't stand it anymore, and they retreated into the distance, Duan Fei also covered his nose and shouted: "Yang Sen! Look at your trouble, you will not be allowed to eat tonight! Go wash off the smell and come back! ”

Yang Senxing's face suddenly collapsed, he turned his head and ran away with a sad face, Guan Xiaohan supported Li Yuying, rubbed her chest and back a few times, and comforted: "Sister Yuying, don't listen to that guy's nonsense, drink saliva and rinse your mouth, take a break, sister, I'll tell you a joke." ”

Fortunately, except for Li Yuying, everyone's nerves have been exercised a lot, Xiaohuan commanded Shi Bin to clean the ground, and when the wine and food were put on the table, everyone seemed to forget the unhappiness just now.

Yang Sen didn't come back, Duan Fei asked Li Yuying to leave him some food, and when everyone was full, Duan Fei carried a small basket of food and found him by the riverbank in the south of the village.

Yang Sen sat there sullenly, throwing stones into the water, Duan Fei called him, he didn't pay attention, Duan Fei came to sit down beside him, and said, "Ah Sen, are you angry with me?" ”

Yang Sen said angrily: "How dare I." ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "Since you are not angry, let's have dinner quickly, without you at the dinner table, everyone feels very unhappy." ”

Yang Sen remained motionless for a moment before he said, "That's because you all take me as a joke." ”

Duan Fei said: "Don't talk nonsense, everyone admires you very much, but because of your work, everyone doesn't dare to approach you so much, if you remember this at all times, and when you appear in front of everyone, you are refreshing and clean, who cares if you are still fiddling with the corpse before a cup of tea?" ”

Yang Sen sighed, Duan Fei said again: "This time when I go back to Beijing, I will go to Baoruifang to customize a leather water backing for you, even the head is covered, and in front of you is a piece of transparent glass, when the time comes, you can wear that water back to the autopsy, after the inspection, it will be clean as soon as you rinse it with water, and you don't even need to take a bath, do you say okay?" ”

Yang Sen was silent for a moment and said, "Brother Fei, I don't want to be a fool. ”

Duan Fei's heart sank, it seemed that this kid's psychological problems were very serious, Duan Fei said: "If you really don't want to do it, it's very simple, you are so smart and have the ability, what can't you do?" But ask yourself, is this really what you're thinking in your heart? ”

Yang Sen fell silent, and Duan Fei said, "Do you know how much a good guy can help solve the case? If you weren't with me all the way, there would be no way to solve the cases I encountered, not to mention that if you hadn't secretly saved me, I would have been killed by the Japanese in Hai'an Town, Asen, if you think my attitude is wrong, I can apologize to you, no matter what, you eat the food first, and then tell me what you found, if you aspire to become the number one in the world, at least you have to start and finish everything, right? ”

Yang Sen's face looked a little better, and he said, "Am I really so heavy?" ”

Duan Fei slapped him with a smile and said, "Love is deeply responsible, I have great expectations for you, don't let me down." ”

Yang Sen cheered up and said, "Brother Fei, I understand, it's all my fault, and I will definitely not lose my temper again in the future." ”

Duan Fei brought the vegetable basket in front of him and said, "Then you can eat the food I left for you." ”

"Hmm." Yang Sen agreed, took out the food and ate it in a big gulp, and ate the food in three or five clicks, he burped, and said to Duan Fei impatiently: "Brother Fei, I found more clues on those dry bones, some bones have been cooked and eaten, this is just one of them." ”

"You say, I'll listen." Duan Fei said.

Yang Sen said: "Duan Yu and I first sorted out the bones of the deceased, first sorted them according to the old and new bones, and then found a family of three, and finally sorted them out after a long time, sorted them into fifty-five groups according to time, and then we began to examine the bones and found many clues, among which the bones that had been boiled and gnawed were ranked in the twenty-ninth group, according to the year, about twenty-eight to thirty-two years ago, about the beginning of Hongzhi." ”

Duan Fei asked, "Have the bones of this group been cooked and gnawed?" ”

Yang Sen said: "Yes, I wonder if there was a great famine that year, and the murderer was so hungry that he ate all the people he caught." ”

Duan Fei bowed his head and said: "It's possible, go back and find someone to check, you continue." ”

Yang Sen said: "I found that the scars on these bones are inconsistent, which may be caused by the inconsistency of the habits and hobbies of the two murderers, and it is just bounded by the thirtieth group, there are fewer scars on the bones before, and the situation after the change is relatively large, among which the children in the thirtieth group are older, about fifteen years old, the bones on his body are very serious, and there are few intact bones all over his body, I suspect that he was beaten to death, and the adult skulls in this group have heavy blow cracks, obviously they were also killed, This is very different from other bones with a broken hyoid bone and being hanged. ”

Yang Sen paused for a moment, and seeing that Duan Fei was listening carefully, he continued with some smugness: "The situation from the thirty-first group of bones to the thirty-fifth group of bones can be classified into one category, these bones have broken their hands, feet and ribs in many places, and there are occasionally sharp tooth marks on the bones of the hands and feet of adult men, according to my opinion, it should be left by the murderer's dog. ”

"Didn't you find it before?" Duan Fei asked.

Yang Sen said with certainty: "Well, not before, and not since, just in the past few years, the murderer has let the dog bite the victim." ”

"What do you mean......" Duan Fei stopped and looked at Yang Sen.

"The murderer is a last resort." Yang Sen said: "According to my guess, what happened in the year of the thirtieth group of bones, it is very likely that the old murderer died, or was seriously injured, and now this murderer may still be a twelve or thirteen-year-old child at the time, and he is weak and weak, and it is impossible for one person to deal with a family of three, so he will use the power of fierce dogs to subdue the adult male of the head of the family, and the rest of the women and children will be easy to deal with." ”

Duan Fei said: "What you say is reasonable, maybe the murderer didn't hurt anyone in the past year or two." ”

Yang Sen said: "Well, I think so too, since then, the target of the murderer's abuse has changed from an adult male to a minor child, although the child has few broken bones, but the muscle damage can also be indirectly reflected in the bones, I can be sure of this." ”

Duan Fei said: "Well, generally speaking, the father's habits will be inherited by the son, the current murderer likes to abuse children, and the change in habits is very likely to be caused in the year of the change, maybe the former murderer was precisely because he neglected to prevent the child he caught from being seriously injured or killed, so the current murderer will hate the child very much, didn't you say that the child who was beaten all over his body and didn't have a few good bones was older?" At the age of fifteen, it's too easy to get the right tools to kill someone. ”

Janssen said: "I guess he may have used an iron hammer, because I found that his finger bones showed signs of cracking and growing in many places, as if he had been hit by a hammer more than once, and I thought, ah, it seems unlikely that the murderer made such a big project, and the people he catches every year will become cheap helpers?" Under normal circumstances, the murderer will detain women and children in the old den, and only take the adult up the mountain, but this year the child he captured was older and could go up the mountain to help, and he himself was not young, seeing that the project was far away, maybe he was a little anxious, so he gave the child a chance and was killed at once. ”

Duan Fei praised: "Your analysis is very reasonable, it seems that we can reduce the age of the target that needs to be arrested again, is there anything else to discover?" ”

Yang Sen said: "That's basically it, by the way, I have also examined the bodies of Zhou Cong and Xiao Yang, Zhou Cong was cut off with a knife There is nothing to say, Xiao Yang found a splattery of blood on his trouser leg, he should have been kneeling when he died, so the blood will spray on the trouser leg." ”

Duan Fei nodded and said: "In order to blame Zhou Cong, the murderer did not hang Xiao Yang to death, but he still adopted another method of execution, Xiao Yang is exactly the same age, which proves that the murderer hates children." ”

Yang Sen said: "Well, that's right. ”

Duan Fei asked again: "I brought back a corpse from the mountain today, have you checked it?" ”

Yang Sen said: "I have checked, the body was already dead before it was smashed by stones, she was scarred, she should have been detained and abused for many years, the cause of death was a bite on the neck, a dog bite, from the tooth marks can be concluded that this is a very large dog, the mouth is five inches wide." ”

Duan Fei sighed, "I killed her...... According to my estimation, she should be the current murderer who snatched it back to inherit the ancestry, and last night I was talking to a child, who was frightened by me, and when he came home, he killed his own mother, and then started the trap, put down the boulder on the mountain, and tried to smash us all to death, but unfortunately it fell short. ”

Yang Sen sighed: "Killing his biological mother, this child is really ruthless enough, if you don't catch him as soon as possible, I am afraid that he will be more vicious than his father in the future." ”

Duan Fei shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, maybe he doesn't know where he came from, his father is absolutely strong in the family, he is completely controlled by his father, these are not necessarily his father's orders." ”

Yang Sen smiled: "Brother Fei, it seems that you are particularly tolerant of young murderers." ”

Duan Fei smiled bitterly: "Is there any way?" A child is a child after all, alas...... Is there anything else you would like to say? Otherwise, I'll have to go back and talk to the village chief. ”

Yang Sen shook his head and said, "No, Brother Fei, what are you looking for the village chief?" I'll go with you, too. ”

Duan Fei nodded, and the two returned to the village side by side, and soon found the village chief and Li Zheng Lu Kang.

Duan Fei asked, "Village Chief, there is something I want to ask you, do you remember that there was a great famine in the neighborhood about thirty years ago?" ”

The village chief replied, "Thirty years ago? That's the end of Chenghua...... The beginning of the Hongji ...... Well, yes, in May of the second year of Hongzhi (1489), the Yellow River in Kaifeng Prefecture burst its embankments, flooded many places, and washed away many state and county granaries, and more people died of starvation than drowned. ”

Duan Fei and Yang Sen exchanged glances, and Duan Fei said, "What was the situation in Lushan County at that time?" Is there any cannibalism? ”

The village chief recalled: "Lushan was not flooded, but many people who fled poured into the county, the granary in the county was quickly eaten up, the people of the county government went around to loot rice grain, our village is relatively remote, everyone hid the grain, and the people of the government were helpless, so the village was okay, I heard that the bark of the tree was eaten up in other places, and there were many people who ate Guanyin soil and died, and the legend was that someone boiled the dead to eat, but I have not seen it with my own eyes, so I can't say for sure." ”

Duan Fei nodded and said, "Aside from this year, is there a great famine near that time?" ”

The village chief shook his head and said, "Just that time is enough to choke, if you come back a few times?" ”

Duan Fei nodded, and after thanking the village chief, he and Yang Sen left the village chief's temporary residence, and returned to the village chief's house Duan Fei gathered everyone together and said to them: "You brought everyone here because there is a new development in the case, Ah Sen, you tell everyone what you found." ”

Yang Sen perked up, he told his discovery again, Duan Fei concluded: "Now we can determine that the murderer's age is about forty to forty years old, in the past, it was his father who took him to run the rivers and lakes, thirty years ago his father died suddenly, he alone may be domesticated dogs to perform acrobatics for a living, his son is currently about fifteen to twenty years old, obeying the murderer's words, what we are looking for is a pair of father and son performing acrobatics, do you understand?" ”

Everyone nodded, and Duan Fei said again: "In order to prevent long nights and dreams, I plan to take a few people to Lushan County overnight, if any of you want to go with me, please raise your hand." ”

Everyone immediately raised their hands, and Duan Fei said by name: "Yang Sen, Shi Bin, Guo Wei, Hong Bang, Jiang Jun, the five of you will go to Lushan County with me, just in case, everyone else will stay here to cover up for us, is there a problem?" ”

"Nope." Everyone replied in unison.

Li Yuying, Guan Xiaohan, and Xiaohuan all wanted to go to Lushan County with them, but Duan Fei had already decided, Guan Xiaohan did not object, and the other two naturally chose to remain silent.

Duan Fei immediately changed into the clothes of ordinary brocade guards, and rode out of Shannan Village with Yang Sen and others, who had also been dressed, and galloped along the mountain road towards Lushan County, without even saying hello to the pawn Huo Qi.