"My lord, what's wrong with you?" Zhen Chutian frowned at Gu Chenghan.

Gu Chenghan likes to see Zhen Chutian smile, because seeing her like this, he subconsciously stretched out his hand and smoothed her brows, "It's okay, I just can't sleep, I want to come and see you." ”

An understatement made Zhen Chutian very warm.

"Sleep, there is much to do tomorrow." Gu Chenghan wiped a smile on his face, patted Zhen Chutian's arm, and then left the room.

Gu Chenghan can be said to have come and gone in a hurry, but Zhen Chutian was confused.

And Gu Chenghan, who returned to the house at this time, did not look good.

Since I went to Lizhou, there have always been accidents along the way, and now I am finally going to return to the capital.

has been an official in the DPRK for many years, Gu Chenghan naturally knows that people are unpredictable, he has seen these things a long time ago, and he will not be afraid in his heart.

But I don't know when Gu Chenghan's heart began to become*, just now, thinking of going to the mass grave with Zhen Chutian before, she almost fell, thinking of the fact that she was too tired and unconscious before, this piece of work added together, so that he went to her house.

Back in the house at this time, after Gu Chenghan's mood stabilized, he felt that he was a little reckless, but he didn't regret it.

The smile that appeared involuntarily at the corner of his mouth seemed to indicate his heart at the moment, and soon Gu Chenghan fell asleep when he returned to the couch.

And the same is true of Zhen Chutian in the next room.

Early the next morning, Zhen Chutian and the others got up early.

At this time, the inn already knew that Gu Chenghan and the others were officials of the imperial court, how dare they slack off, and last night the prefect told them to prepare meals earlier, and to use the best ingredients in the store, because Gu Chenghan and the others had just gone downstairs, and they saw the store's smiling face.

"My lord, get up, let's eat, these are all prepared for you by the prefect." The shopkeeper looked at Gu Chenghan complimentingly.

Although Gu Chenghan didn't like this face, he stretched out his hand and didn't hit the smiling person, so he didn't say anything, just nodded slightly and then sat down.

With the aftermath, the group acted according to yesterday's division of labor.

Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian were taken by the officials to the scene where the bodies of the Twelfth Bureau were found.

Although there were twelve deceased, there were only three places at the scene of the crime, one was in a broken temple, one was in the open space where the Halloween was held, and one was in the back mountain, these three places were far apart, Gu Chenghan was strange, it stands to reason that the twelve people fled together, how could they be scattered around?

With such a question, Gu Chenghan made a lot of assumptions in her heart, although Zhen Chutian didn't speak, but she was also thinking about this question, when she was about to reach the back mountain, she looked at the official and asked, "Is there a shortcut to these three places, or can you go to these three places in one direction?" ”

Hearing Zhen Chutian's words, Gu Chenghan couldn't help but think of her heart, she was really consistent with her own thoughts.

The official who walked in front and led the way fell into deep thought when he heard Zhen Chutian's words, scratching his head and looking puzzled.

After thinking for a while, he shook his head and said, "Adult, the small ones are not from this town, and the small ones don't know." ”

"It's okay, I'll meet the villagers and ask you later." Seeing the worry on the officer's face, for fear that he would be condemned because he didn't know, Zhen Chutian replied softly.

"Thank you, sir."

"Your Excellency, did you think of that too?" Zhen Chutian saw that the officials couldn't solve their doubts, so he discussed with Gu Chenghan.

"I was thinking all the way, how did these twelve people get separated, and was the murderer one or several?" Gu Chenghan's face was not good-looking.

The same is true for Zhen Chutian.

Originally, they thought that they could answer questions at the scene of the crime, but just the location of the crime scene was enough for them to bother.

Fortunately, they were lucky, and on the way to the back mountain, they met a villager chopping firewood, and the official stopped him and asked about it.

"My lord, is it to investigate the dead man?" The villagers were still curious and looked at the officials.

There were still Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian standing behind the servant, he naturally didn't dare to say much, and looked at the villagers impatiently, "Ask you anything, you will answer anything, so many words!" ”

Seeing that the official was so impatient, the villagers didn't dare to say much, and looked at him with a hippie smile, "Actually, these three places seem to be in three directions, but do you remember the name of our town?" ”

"Defend the town?" Although the official was not born in this town, he still knows the name of the town.

"That's right, defense means surrounding, there is a river in our town, go around the town, as long as you pass through the waterway, it will only take an hour to go back and forth between the three places you just mentioned, and they are all on the west side of the river."

The villagers' words made Zhen Chutian suddenly brighten, "What about the mass graves?" Is it upstream of these three places? ”

"The girl isn't from our town, is she? How do you know? The villagers looked at Zhen Chutian with a happy face.

"That's right, my lord, those twelve came out of the mass grave by water." Zhen Chutian looked at Gu Chenghan with a smile.

Gu Chenghan seemed to be infected by Zhen Chutian, and he also laughed.

The villagers wanted to say something, but they were driven away by the officials.

After the villagers left, the three of them continued on their way.

It didn't take long to arrive at the back mountain, and when he arrived here, Zhen Chutian asked the officials to prepare, and he would go directly from the waterway to the open space of the Halloween Festival, and follow the upstream of the river, so that it was the back mountain, the open space, the broken temple, and the mass grave.

According to the dossier, the autopsy found that the earliest deceased was the body that appeared in the ruined temple, and it is inferred that the twelve people fled from the mass grave, took the waterway, and met the murderer on the road, and when the murderer killed, these people were still at large, so they were dispersed to three places.

The time of death was within a few hours, and it was just right according to the distance.

came back to his senses and continued to look at the scene, Zhen Chutian was looking around the corpse, and Gu Chenghan turned his head nearby to see if there were any clues that had been missed.

Twelve corpses, three places, there are three corpses in this place in the back mountain, Zhen Chutian remembered that their legs were swollen, it should be because they had been in the water for too long and were soaked, the position of the corpse lying on the ground was nothing special, it was very random, and the surrounding traces were well preserved, the murderer was not afraid of being found, or the murderer felt that even if the people from the yamen found him, he couldn't do anything.

What kind of illness does such a confident murderer have in his heart?

Zhen Chutian has already closed the coffin and believes that the murderer has psychological problems, he only kills to vent his anger, there is no goal, and it is not that the deceased has a conflict with him, and even the deceased does not necessarily know him.

Zhen Chutian's face was very ugly, there was no blood on the location of the three corpses, but the messy traces around him could be inferred that this was the scene of the crime.

So taking the bones from the back can really leave a little blood?

Zhen Chutian only felt a chill in her back, and the feeling of being slashed hard made her feel a heart-rending pain.

"Chu Tian." Not far away, Gu Chenghan called out to her.

didn't prepare in advance, I didn't know that Gu Chenghan would suddenly call her, because her body trembled slightly, and then followed the prestige.

Gu Chenghan was not close to Zhen Chutian, he didn't want to shout, he stretched out his slender fingers and motioned for her to come over.

Zhen Chutian was strange, it was clearly not close, but she could clearly see his phalanges.

I have to admit that Gu Chenghan can't find any shortcomings in his whole body except for some flaws in his temper, of course, Zhen Chutian found out about this before, but he didn't deliberately look at it like this, and now when he looks at it like this, Yushu Linfeng doesn't seem to be able to describe his heroic appearance.

"Zhen Chutian......" Seeing that Zhen Chutian was slow to move, Gu Chenghan shouted loudly.

"Here we are, sir."

Knowing that he had lost his mind, he quickly got up and walked to him.

When he came to Gu Chenghan's side, he saw the object he found, it was a wine jug, which was very new and looked out of place with it.

It doesn't look like it was thrown here, it's like it was accidentally thrown here.

"According to the prefect's words, Houshan is also a forbidden place in the town, ordinary people will not come here, the first three days of the Moon Ghost Festival, the old people of the town will come here to worship, and they should not have thrown the wine pot here."

Counting the days, if they lost it, it would have been nearly a month, and no matter whether it was windy or rainy, the flask would not be so new.

Gu Chenghan turned the wine jug over with a stick, and what caught his eye was the tiny blood stains.

The wine jug itself is not big, and this blood stain is even smaller, if it weren't for Gu Chenghan looking carefully, he would really miss it.

"Yes, blood." Zhen Chutian also found out, squatted down, and only after seeing it clearly did he look up at Gu Chenghan.

"That's right, it looks like evidence." Gu Chenghan squatted down and looked at the wine jug as well.

Although he was a drinker, all those who were good winers knew it.

There are ordinary flasks, and there are special ones, and this pot in front of you is the kind that people can see at a glance.

Seeing Gu Chenghan looking at the wine jug thoughtfully, Zhen Chutian didn't dare to bother, and when he looked at him, he asked nervously, "But the wine jug has a clue?" ”

"Hello wine, you don't know, this wine pot is very famous in the capital, not everyone can have it." Gu Chenghan's face was extremely ugly.

Realizing that things were not simple, Zhen Chutian nudged Gu Chenghan's arm, "Master Gu, what's wrong?" ”

"This wine pot is in the capital, if you want to have it, you have to have Dong wine." Gu Chenghan went through everyone in his mind, no one he knew, no one would do such a crazy thing, the most important thing was that no one knew about poison, and no one would have such skills, just through the incision in the back, all the bones could be taken out.

"It's not from the capital, but this person's identity shouldn't be simple."

"Isn't it easy? No, according to the scene, it can be seen that he acted neatly, but he didn't think to hide himself, the wine jug at the scene, there were blood stains, and traces of fighting, of course, it was only the traces of the deceased's struggle, and he ...... Come and see! ”

Holding the wine jug, Zhen Chutian took Gu Chenghan to the side of the corpse and pointed to the grass marks on the ground, "My lord, look, the other party is crawling and trying to leave, and he is following Youzai Youzai behind, and he seems to appreciate this scene, but for some reason he suddenly moved and killed him very brutally." ”