The night wind swirled on the official road, and the dark night of the past was illuminated by torches.

Passing carriages are being inspected and released one by one.

Qiao Ran stood in the grass not far from the official road and looked at the situation here, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Xu Hexiu will not notify him for the time being, and let him search in the city first, after all, ......"

The rest of the words the girl didn't continue, but Zhang Xie on the side had already understood.

He said, "I know, things ...... Maybe it's just that we can't think about it. It's just that although he thinks a lot in his mouth, the expression on his face is extremely solemn.

The girl gasped, her eyes fell on the official road with a mistake, and she said slowly: "I have always been curious why the murderer instructed Hu Yuanzi to kill people so troublesomely, even if he used Buddhist scriptures to trick Hu Yuanzi into killing people, there is no need to add so many fancy punishments to it." ”

The more bells and whistles of the murderous methods, the easier it is to expose flaws. If the other party is just an ordinary person, it is not strange that he may want to use complex murder methods to hide from the world. But after a few days of maneuvering, the opponent is obviously very powerful, and he is a murderer who rarely feels "chess opponents".

This person was invisible to others in the shadows, and single-handedly contributed to this Que Lou case.

How could such a murderer abandon the ordinary method with fewer flaws like ordinary people, and use such a troublesome method to kill. Trouble is trouble, but there is a feeling of dragging mud and water in the handling of corpses.

"When we entered the door, we saw that the corpse was tied to the bronze pillar, and because of the bewitchment of this method of death, it was natural to think of the punishment of the bronze pillar, but in fact, this is not the case, but we have committed a preconceived idea."

The girl's voice seemed to be a little cold in the night breeze.

"For Hu Yuanzi to be able to kill so many people at once, then the spices that Yu Shihuan and others brought up the mountain must be lit at the same time. With so many spices, you have to find an incense burner that is big enough! As far as I can see, there are no other containers except for a few small incense burners scattered on the table. So, where are these spices lit? ”

Zhang Xie was silent, and said in a deep voice: "That hollow, copper pillar with holes in the wall. ”

Because the shape was too huge, she didn't think about the use of incense at first, but after she suddenly broke it, the copper pillar she remembered to see could indeed be used as a container for incense if it was replaced with the size of a normal incense object.

And it is not strange for Yu Shihuan and others to find such a large incense container to do this, so the copper pillar should be that Yu Shihuan and others looked for it from the beginning, and they should be able to find proof after this matter.

"The corpse was tied to a copper pillar and concave into a copper pillar to be punished, just to cover people's eyes and ears, so that we could not deduce what had happened in the Que Tower, after all, in the murderer's plan, it is impossible for a living person in the Que Tower to leave, and it is not easy for no witnesses to deduce this." The girl's expression was calm, even though these words were a little indirectly boastful, but she still calmly continued, "The most important use of those corpses is to confuse them with the corpses of the skinning torture, so that people cannot correspond the corpses to specific people. ”

"So whose corpse is this skinned corpse?" The girl asked rhetorically, and then snorted lightly, "Among the six people who can't distinguish their identities, Yu Shihuan, Zhu Zhicheng and others are said to have a good relationship in the past and are almost inseparable, and it is not strange that they encountered such evil deeds as not being able to distinguish their identities after their deaths, and the strange thing is that although one of them has a good relationship with Yu Shihuan and others, it is obviously not good enough to be so good. ”

"It's Xu Heming." Zhang Xie sighed and said suddenly, "Kunzhi's death is not only because he is afraid of leaking the news, but also because the other party wants to get out with the help of his identity. ”

"From the perspective of a bystander, Xu Heming's identity is also the best among them." The girl said lightly, "First of all, he is a dead man, and the government will naturally not post his portrait in a big way, and there are only a few people who can have the opportunity to recognize this second son of Xu after all, so the officials who are ordinary people who block the way do not know this legendary second son of Xu." ”

"Secondly, whether it is Yu Shihuan or Zhu Zhicheng, or even their fox friends and dog friends, in the final analysis, they are all ordinary magnates with status, but the power is not enough, and when they really go to a foreign country, whether it is the Yu family or the Zhu family, it is not easy to use. But if the name of the Xu family's children is reported, no matter where he is going along the way, there must be many local officials who will sell this noodle and let him pass. ”

After all, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, can you confirm it, and Xu Heming's death in the capital is afraid that many people have already guessed it, but after all, he has not crossed the Ming Road, so he is not a "dead man", and when the local officials went to the capital for verification, the people had already run away.

"The theft of the Xu family's son's clothes and sundries also confirmed my guess, a set of waist cards of the Xu family's children is enough to make unsuspecting local officials not stop people."

Qiao Ran said, and couldn't help sighing: Da Chu is not a modern society, so naturally he doesn't have the ability to transmit information so quickly.

"What's more, it's okay for him to want to stay with Xu Heming's identity for the time being, although it is a little dangerous, but such a big thing happened in Que Lou, and at this time, he suddenly knew that there was a 'living mouth', which was unbearable for most of the powerful people whose relatives had an accident. However, if this 'living mouth' is an innocent and prominent mansion like the Xu family, how can it be difficult? ”

So, no matter how you look at it, Xu Heming is the best choice.

At the moment, I don't know if the other party will choose to stay or leave the city, but she privately thinks that if she is the murderer, even if Xu Heming's identity can guarantee her life, it is not a last resort. In the face of relatives who get along day and night, how sure are you that you will not be found abnormal? Therefore, if she is a murderer, she will definitely try to get out of the city, and it is really impossible to show her identity again.

The night wind was panicked, the two were quiet for a moment, and the girl suddenly said: "I have seen you wear a human skin mask before, you said that a human skin mask is worth a thousand gold, and it must be made with special techniques and materials, even if you can collect all the materials needed, you may not be able to make one in a few years." However, there is actually another simple way to make a human skin mask......"

It was this sentence that made her think of the possibility that the corpse in Que Lou was being used.

To be honest, this inference was so cruel that she couldn't bear to look at it directly, and even made her tumble in the stomach for a while.

But the rest of the skin was fine, only the position near the face was messy, and she couldn't recognize the appearance at all, so she thought of this possibility.

The murderer's methods were much more terrifying than she imagined, and in terms of the time of death, it was Yu Shihuan and the others who knew the existence of the spice and the skinned corpse that died first, several days earlier than others.

Therefore, she deduced that if the skinned body was really used, it must have died before the bridge broke, that is, on the night it was left in the tower.

And Yu Shihuan and the others knew about the existence of spices, in order to prevent unnecessary trouble, after all, Hu Yuanzi was only one person, if there were no spices, how could he deal with so many people by himself? Therefore, Yu Shihuan and the others must also die before Hu Yuanzi can do it.

This explains the problem of time difference. Because Yu Shihuan and others died that night along with Xu Heming, the people who stayed in the Que Tower probably thought that these people left first, so they didn't care, and they should eat and drink for the rest of the day, until Hu Yuanzi felt that the time was ripe and began to do it, killing all the people in the Que Tower in one fell swoop, and then Yu Shihuan, Xu Heming and others who had died were brought out and arranged as the scene they saw.

So it wasn't those horrible corpses that were placed in the lobby of the Que Lou in the first place, but they were brought in later. The so-called everyone should eat and drink, and turning a blind eye to the corpse is naturally not valid. Because people don't know that these people are dead.

The murderer did stay at the scene at the beginning, took away the needed human skin mask and solved the possible trouble with Yu Shihuan and others, and then handed over the follow-up task to Hu Yuanzi and completed the murder case in Que Lou.

One by one, the carriages passed by the official road, and few people paid attention to the two men standing in the grass not far away.

In the light of the torches, the officials who inspected and released the inspection looked solemn.

A carriage stopped on the official road, and looking at the people who came down from the carriage, the official raised his eyelids lazily and said, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go out to travel," said the young man who walked down from the carriage, folded the fan in his hand, looked around and said curiously: "Poor master, what's the matter?" Another thug in the city has escaped? ”

"Don't ask more questions if you shouldn't." The official sent to check the official spy in his hand, and after checking that it was correct, he returned the official spy to them, and then his eyes fell on the young man's face, "This boy looks a little familiar with this full dress." ”

The young man shook the folding fan in his hand slightly, and said with a smile: "Really? Xu is the face of my life. ”

The official didn't say anything, just stared at the young man for a while, frowned suddenly, and said, "I seem to have seen you somewhere, which big clan are you!" ”

The young man shook his hand with a folding fan, and his eyes were a little subtle: "Really?" ”

At this moment, a voice came from the side of the official road: "This seems to be the son of the Xu family." ”

The official who was blocking the questioning hurriedly raised his hand to the person who spoke up and saluted, and then called "Master Qiao".

The girl put her hand on the palm of the young man beside her, jumped from the grass onto the official road, and then walked towards it, and when she came closer, she suddenly stopped.

In the firelight, the peachy eyes had a different sense of depth.

She looked at the young man who was dangling the folding fan, and the young man smiled, covering the lower half of his face with the folding fan in his hand, and said with a smile: "This is ...... Mistress Joe? It's a good look! ”

The tone is a little flirtatious and merry.

The girl who "gave birth to a good look" smiled and opened her mouth: "Take it!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the young man's face suddenly changed: "What are you doing?" Is it not true that you have broken the law by speaking? Seeing that the official rushed forward, the young man beside the girl had already walked behind him at some point, blocking his retreat.

looked like a weak scholar, but the official robe of the Yin and Yang Division on the young man's body had already revealed his identity, and it was impossible to retreat at this time.

The finger bones of the young man holding the folding fan turned white for a while, opened his mouth, and blurted out: "What are you doing?" I'm from the Xu family, and I'm ......."

"I know you belong to the Xu family." A lantern appeared beside him, illuminating the face more clearly.

The girl on the other side looked at him with more and more unfathomable eyes: "Do you still want to say that your name is Xu Heming?" ”

The girl's chuckle sounded a little more mocking in the night breeze: "Then let the Xu family lead the people." With that, he waved his hand and asked people to take him away.

The young man glanced at her, did not say anything more, and after chaining his hands and feet, he was escorted down by a group of officials.

Qiao Ran then turned to Zhang Jie: "Let's escort people into Dali Temple first, in order to prevent people from running away, let's go with us!" ”

A dead man appeared here in a good manner, and if he knew the inside story, he would be stunned, but fortunately, the officials who stayed here did not know what had happened.

That's why she didn't poke this person on the spot, whether it was letting him run away at this time or letting him kill himself, the result was not what she wanted to see.

At this time, it's better not to startle the snake. Once he enters Dali Temple, he must be unable to fly with wings.

……

The night was deep, and even Miss Xu Shi, who had made up her mind to wait for someone in Dali Temple, had already returned to Xu's house, and as soon as she entered the door, she received the news that Master Qiao had come to Xu's house today.

"The tenth sister is really unlucky, as if she can't meet Master Qiao." A sister laughed and said, "She came to the Xu family, you went to Shangxiang, you went to Dali Temple, she came to the Xu family again, but she couldn't see this Lord Qiao." ”

Xu Heyuan pursed his lips, a little tired between his eyebrows, glanced at the smiling sister, and said, "People are always there, and they won't run, they will always see you." ”

The sisters in the family also knew the news of Chengze's accident, and there was always a careful idea of comparing girls. When I was young, I was more beautiful than my relatives, I was older than my talents, and when I was older, I was more beautiful than my relatives. She and Cheng Ze's family affairs have always been the envy of the sisters in the family for a long time, and at such times, it is not strange to take advantage of the good words.

Xu Heyuan was too lazy to talk to the sisters and walked towards his yard. She waited a day, and she was a little tired.

……

Zhen Shiyuan, who also waited for a day, was also a little tired, this person is missing, naturally the sooner he finds it, the better, but at the moment, Xie Chengze doesn't even know where the shadow of the person has gone, how to find it?

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhen Shiyuan, who was about to leave the yamen, ushered in an official errand who went and returned.

Also with her was the girl who had left the yamen during the day and didn't come back all day.

"What's going on?" Hearing that the officials brought back a person, Zhen Shiyuan hurriedly came over and asked.

The girl didn't answer him immediately, but turned to the person who had been escorted back by the official and said, "Caught someone." ”

The tone was light, as if it wasn't a big deal.

Zhen Shiyuan followed her direction and looked at it casually, and with just one glance, his face changed in fright.

What could be more shocking in this world than seeing a living dead person?