"It's just too much!"

In the county office, Nie Hongshu was furious.

In just two days, seven lives were taken, which was clearly forcing him to a dead end.

Moreover, this is obviously just the beginning, and there is no doubt what kind of turmoil will arise in the future.

Because of the peculiar circumstances of the case, Nie Hongshu has already reported to the government.

At the same time, he also sent people to inform some squires in the suburbs to come to the county government to discuss countermeasures.

Gu Ming had already arrived first and offered his own strategy.

"Master Nie, the students thought that they could let a group of squires send people to spy on suspicious people.

At the same time, the adults also sent people to disperse and control, and once they found suspicious people, they immediately reported or even arrested them directly. ”

"Well......" Nie Hongshu nodded: "I'll wait for someone to arrive later, and then discuss it with them."

This time, the official vowed to find out the murderer, otherwise this official would not be right! ”

To put it bluntly, once the situation expands, I am afraid that I will not be able to do it.

Gu Ming couldn't help but sigh and said, "My lord, this matter is most likely secretly instructed by Shen Butong. Of course, it is also possible that Qin Shou's family launched revenge. ”

"That's right, besides them, who else has such a big enmity with this official?"

But it is useless to rely on speculation and inference, and the most important thing at the moment is to catch the murderer first and prevent the situation from further expanding.

After noon, a group of squires arrived one after another.

After some discussion, they took their leave one after another and went back to make preparations.

Strangely, I don't know if the other party was vigilant or stopped for the time being, and there was no homicide in the next two days.

However, the previous three cases have been in an uproar, and all kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky.

I don't know if these rumors are imagined by the people themselves, or if someone is deliberately spreading them, in short, they are quite unfavorable to Nie Hongshu.

For example, there are rumors that the new county magistrate is honest on the surface, but in fact he is a huge greed, so God will punish him and make Guobei County restless.

There are also rumors that the new county magistrate colluded with a group of squires to overhaul the previous county magistrate, but innocent people were affected as a result.

There is even more outrageous, saying that the new county magistrate is a monster......

At the same time, the government also issued an official document to put pressure on the case, ordering that the case must be solved within five days, otherwise the government will send someone down to take over the case.

If this is the case, it will have a great impact on Nie Hongshu's career.

Even if you don't lose your position, it will be a big failure.

Therefore, Nie Hongshu was so anxious that he didn't think about tea and dinner, the corners of his mouth foamed, and the whole person seemed to be a few years older.

Nie Xiaoqian was also worried, but she couldn't help her father solve the case, so she could only try her best to persuade her.

As for Gu Ming, he has not been idle in the past two days, and he has run several times in and out of the city to try to search for clues, but he still found nothing.

Just when everyone was helpless, a squire surnamed Shi came to the door and provided a clue.

He said that in the morning, he overheard a few subordinates getting together muttering, so he deliberately stopped and eavesdropped for a while, and he heard a general idea.

One of the long-term workers went out to pick up firewood, and because he was greedy for a shortcut, he dared to go through the cemetery outside the town, but he saw a black-robed man disappear in a flash, and he was so frightened that he lost two of his three souls......

Cemetery, man in black robe.

Such words immediately aroused Gu Ming's interest.

Then began to boldly speculate, if this black-robed man was the murderer, did it mean that his next target was Shi Jiachang?

So, he shared his thoughts with Nie Hongshu.

"My lord, it's better to send someone to Shijiachang tonight to set up an ambush in advance."

Nie Hongshu nodded: "Well, you can give it a try." ”

After all, there is no better way to do it at the moment.

As soon as it was dark, the eight catchers who had changed into people's clothes quietly arrived at Shijiachang and found a place to hide.

Gu Ming hid at the entrance of the field to facilitate monitoring the direction of the cemetery.

According to his thoughts, if the black-robed man was really a murderer, he would not usually show his head.

A graveyard is a gloomy place that is perfect for hiding.

In the absence of other clues, the primitive method of waiting for the rabbit can only be adopted.

The night is getting deeper.

The ground was covered with a hazy yellow moonlight.

Near midnight, there was a sudden movement on the path leading from the cemetery to the town.

Gu Ming leaned on the roof and looked at it clearly, and his spirit couldn't help but perk. At the same time, there is also some secret fright.

Because there is not just one figure on the other side, but two.

One of them was clearly not human: his feet were floating off the ground, and there was no shadow visible on the ground.

The other saw the innocent face, and was tightly wrapped in a black robe.

Dare to love, is it a charlatan?

The situation in front of him suddenly made Gu Ming guess the identity of the other party.

At the same time, he also deduced the other party's modus operandi: using ghosts to harm people.

As for why those ants form words, it must be this guy who used some small tricks.

Now that he had discovered the other party's intentions, Gu Ming no longer hesitated, and quickly slipped off the roof to notify a catcher lurking nearby.

"Go and tell the others to get ready, they've already appeared."

"Okay!"

The catcher quickly answered, and hurriedly ran to inform the others and others.

On the other side, the black-robed man swaggered into the market, as if he had already stepped on it, and in a flash, his figure jumped over the wall and into the courtyard of a family.

After entering, he gave instructions to the accompanying ghosts, telling them to get the people out of the house.

The ghost immediately turned into a puff of smoke and rushed into the house.

At the same time, the locked door creaked open.

An infinite chill hit, and the sleeping couple woke up suddenly.

When he saw a ghost in the house, he was so frightened that he opened his mouth to call for help, but he couldn't scream.

Then, the body moved outside the room in disobedience.

The couple looked so frightened that they almost fainted.

In the courtyard, the black-robed man raised his head, and finally faintly revealed a bearded and scummy face, with a cold smile.

It was as if killing people was a pleasure and pleasure for him.

At this moment, a fire suddenly lit up on the courtyard wall, and at the same time a loud shout came out: "Don't move!" ”

The black-robed man's face changed, and he subconsciously glanced sideways, only to find that several figures were leaping into the courtyard one after another.

"I'm waiting for the county government to catch fast, I advise you to be arrested obediently!"

The leading catcher shouted boldly and showed his waist card.

"Hehe, a bunch of trash!"

The black-robed man smiled contemptuously, raised his hand and pointed, and without knowing what kind of spell he had uttered, the ghost immediately waved its claws and pounced on the crowd.

"Heaven and earth have righteousness, the sun and the moon are bright, and ......"

In the night sky, the sound of poetry suddenly sounded.

Then I saw a scholar leap into the courtyard with a brush in his hand, and walked fearlessly towards the ghost.

"Huh?"

Seeing the ghost retreat in panic, the black-robed man looked shocked.

Then he hurriedly raised his hand and gestured, and muttered a spell in his mouth: "Ba Lu Gu ......"

As soon as the spell came out, the ghost's body shook, and his eyes slowly moved towards Gu Ming with a fierce light.

"Quiet as a hidden dragon, angry and uneven!"

"I sing ghosts and gods cry, I dance into the underworld!"

Gu Ming did not retreat but advanced, waving in the air, looking like the world would give up on me.

The handwriting faintly appeared with the edge of the pen, and the ghost was finally defeated, and the scream slowly dissipated into a wisp of smoke.