At the beginning, Chu Qingsong still had a lot of complaints about the queen, and always felt that it was the queen who bewitched his children, so that his son and daughter seemed to be crazy and listened to the queen's words.

In the end, this led to the fall of his military power, but now, he suddenly thanked Zhao Qiujin a little, because looking for Qiujin made him see another way of life.

Even if he doesn't need to work hard and don't need careful planning, he can have a good future.

Just when the country was in good weather, and the people lived in peace and contentment, as if everything seemed to be perfect, at this time, a major event suddenly appeared.

There was a serial murder case around the capital, and overnight, five families in a village, a whole twenty people, were all killed.

The incident quickly caused a very bad reaction, and the local county magistrate immediately sent people to investigate, but the entire village was completely dead, and not a single witness knew about it.

No one even knew what had happened that night, and the whole village was bleeding, which quickly attracted the attention of the imperial court.

Leng Lingzhe knew that if this matter was not handled well, it might bring panic to the people.

It's dangerous to live at home in a good way. This has obviously proved that there is a problem with the security of their Cold Moon Country.

Now, the matter of the academy has finally been dealt with a little, and Leng Lingzhe immediately sent Zhang Yunfan, the minister of the Qin Mission, to Qingshui Town directly to investigate this matter.

The place where the incident happened was in a village in Qingshui Town, called Shanshui Village, this village was originally a very peaceful small village, no one knew that there would be an accident in this village, and no one knew that all the people died overnight.

I don't know if this was done by one person or a group of people, but if it was one person, it is estimated that he would not have such great ability.

Leng Lingzhe met with him before ordering Zhang Yunfan to go to Shanshui Village, and when they discussed this matter in the imperial study, Zhao Qiujin happened to be there.

She immediately asked Zhang Yunfan to investigate all the population in this village and check whether all the people were really dead and whether there were any witnesses.

This is a very important thing, if you can't even find the eyewitnesses, it's not thousands of years from now, and there are cameras, so there is no way to verify it.

After Zhang Yunfan got the emperor's decree, he immediately took his men and horses directly to Shanshui Village, but when they arrived in the village, the whole village was desolate.

The villagers of Shanshui Village, who had gone out to work, all came back, and when they saw the bodies of their families, they all cried silently, and kept asking the county magistrate to investigate the matter and avenge their families.

Okay, your emotions will stabilize a little bit, and the official will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly, and he will definitely give justice to your family.

But in the face of the wailing village, no one knew what to say.

Zhang Yunfan immediately asked the county magistrate to bring the village's population booklet.

He then checked the population of the village, including those who lived here and those who had gone out to work.

However, in the end, it was discovered that all the people were dead, and no one in this village could survive.

This means that what happened in the village that night is now impossible to verify, because there are no witnesses.

If no eyewitnesses can be found, then the only way to do this is to work on the bodies of the dead and make them speak.

This trip to Qingshui Town, Zhang Yunfan also specially brought two servants over, and he immediately asked them to go to the autopsy, which is very heart-wrenching is that these people died very cleanly and neatly, and they were hacked to death with a knife.

There are no other extra wounds on their bodies, which shows that the martial arts of this person are not bad, and he can kill all the people in a village, which shows that he is indeed very powerful.

Not only that, but judging from the shape of the wounds, they should have used the same knife, or the same weapon used by a collective organization, or the same person.

"You must examine the body carefully to see if there are any other possible injuries to the body other than this stab wound."

Zhang Yunfan frowned, now that such an important thing has happened in Qingshui Town, all the nearby villagers are panicked, and no one dares to stay in the village.

This happened in Shanshui Village, and several nearby villages were worried about whether they would become the next villagers of Shanshui Village.

Therefore, everyone moved out of this small village one after another, and no one dared to stay.

For a while, all the villages around this village seemed to have become deserted villages, except for some old, weak, sick and disabled, there was really no way to leave, so they could only stay where they were in fear and stay behind.

However, the county government also sent officers and soldiers to guard this place to prevent more accidents, but Zhang Yunfan shook his head, feeling that the county order actually did not have much effect.

"Lord Zhou, have you thought about it, now that person will definitely not come back after killing so many people in Shanshui Village, if he dares to come back, he should also consider how risky this matter is.

It's just that it's a bit strange why he chose Shanshui Village, but it's not somewhere else, it just happens to be Shanshui Village! ”

After Zhang Yunfan checked here, he rushed to the imperial study the next day and reported the progress of the case to the emperor.

and explained to the emperor some clues they found in this case, as well as other evidence, but all these evidences were linked together, and there was no way for them to solve the case.

The only thing that can be known now is how those people died, and the death was very clean and neat, and it can be judged that the murderer should have some martial arts.

Zhao Qiujin sighed and asked beside him, "Isn't there a single living mouth, everyone is dead?" ”

Zhang Yunfan sighed and nodded, today he got all the personnel manuals from the county, and checked them one by one, and the names and corpses all matched.

So, it should be that all the people on the roster are dead.

However, Zhao Qiujin also thought of another possibility, if some people just passed through Shanshui Village.

"This palace has also seen the topography map of Shanshui Village, and knows that the village is in the position of a transportation hub, and there should be a lot of people coming and going, not only that, but there seems to be a Luofu Inn in that village, and the usual business of the Luofu Inn is not bad, so there are no outsiders living there?"

Zhang Yunfan heard the queen say this, and nodded, there were indeed a few outsiders, and they also found out that the outsiders who passed through Shanshui Village that day.

However, none of those aliens stayed alive, but the number of outsiders was not easy to count, after all, they only stayed there for a while.

Therefore, they can only check the information of those who live in the inn from the list of inns, but it is not complete, and it is not excluded that some people happen to pass through the village and do not have time to settle down.

Zhao Qiujin sighed, with a serious expression on his face, and instructed Zhang Yunfan to say: "Since this is the case, then find out if there is anyone who passed through Shanshui Village and did not stay on the personnel roster, and it is very likely that they escaped." ”