The two returned to the Chengshan Temple, and after a closer look, a group of people soon gathered outside the temple to watch.

The two of them checked the Chengshan Temple for a long time and there were still no clues, both of them couldn't help but be a little disappointed, after looking at each other, Li Mo said in a deep voice: "It's too clean here, either the murderer is very careful, or he has returned here afterwards to clean up all the traces, let's take a look elsewhere." ”

Guo Beitang sighed, the two turned their heads and walked out, there were already people watching outside the Chengshan Temple, Li Mo looked at the point, and suddenly saw a familiar figure flashing, he thought about it, and shouted at the person: "What person, come here!" ”

The man who had hidden behind the tree came out with a sneer, and said with a smile, "Lord Guard, you are looking for me." ”

Li Mo drank and said, "What are you hiding and hiding here?" ”

The little gangster in front of him was thin and thin, with slightly dark skin, he came to Li Moyi with a smile, scratched his head and said with a smile: "I didn't hide or didn't hide, but I got used to it........ Who called the two poor masters here? ”

Li Moyi was relieved at this time, and said: "Why are you hanging around here, could it be that you have taken a fancy to whose purse?" ”

The thug's eyes flashed and he said, "Lord Guard, look at what you said, I just came out and saw someone watching here, so I came over curiously to take a look." ”

Li Moyi said: "The curiosity is still so heavy, didn't Lord Song interrogate you enough yesterday?" Go back, be honest with me, and don't get into trouble, you know? ”

The thug promised, "Yes, Lord Guard, by all means........ That poor man, can I go........"

The gangsters looked like they were struggling, and their eyes kept glancing at Guo Baotang, as if they were looking for some savior.

Li Mo nodded at Guo Beitang, and Guo Beitang walked away as if nothing had happened.

Li Mo waved his hand and shouted at the onlookers: "It's all scattered, it's all scattered, what's the good thing about investigating cases?" ”

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Seeing that the onlookers were almost gone, Li Mo put his hand on the shoulder of the little gangster, "Did you see anything strange a few days ago?" ”

The thug frowned and whispered, "Lord Guard....... It's okay........ It's really nothing, this realm has always been very peaceful. ”

"No?" Li Moyi asked strangely.

The little thug smiled and said, "Really...... It's really nothing, Lord Guard, it's getting late, I'll go back. ”

Looking at the back of the little gangster, Li Mo shook his face vigorously, as if he was more sober, and read the panicked look of the little gangster when he spoke just now, he didn't believe it.

"Hey, that little, wait a minute, I'll come with you." Li Mo stopped the little gangster, and then the two of them walked towards an alley not far from Chengshan Temple Street.

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Soon, at the mouth of the alley where the gangsters were mingling, Li Moyi said to the two boys who looked at the wind: "Is your leader inside, tell him, tell him to gather the brothers, I have something to ask you!" ”

In this kind of years, if the gangsters want not to be bullied, they usually have to hold a group, and generally speaking, as long as the number of people in the group exceeds a certain number, in order to avoid a plate of loose sand, they will elect a leader to come out, for this kind of rule, Li Moyi also knows a thing or two.

Although Li Moyi is not their boss, he is now a guard, and the kid promised to fly as if he was going.

A moment later, in the open space in front of a thatched hut in the alley, a skinny man with a scar on his face greeted him with a few thugs, and when he saw Li Moyi, he nodded and grinned and said, "This guard brother, let's say, what are you doing today?" ”

Li Moyi said: "To put it simply, I came to you today to ask you to help me investigate the case." ”

"Investigating the case? Isn't the case of the murder of Chunliu Pavilion already closed? What other cases are being investigated? A thug rushed to say.

"No, you know what, there was a rotting corpse case in Chengshan Temple yesterday......" Scar Man said, and the thugs became excited.

Li Moyi said: "That's right, it's this case, do any of you remember what happened in Zhendong in the two days around the 20th of this month?" Especially in the evening, has anyone ever heard a scream, or seen a suspicious person walking in a hurry with a panicked face? ”

"Didn't you put together a wedding wine at Li Yuanwai's house in the east of the town that day? Firecrackers were set off for half an hour. A gangster said.

The scar man continued: "Yes, Brother Guard, many people went to Li's house to eat and drink that day, there were so many people, just pay attention to their money bags, and I didn't find anyone who was more suspicious." ”

Li Moyi didn't care about these irrelevant clues, and continued to mutter: "Li Yuanwai? Is it the famous Li Dashan person in Anqiu Town? ”

There is a Li Dashan person in Anqiu Town, Li Mo had heard the innkeeper and his partner arrive when he had just arrived at the inn, but this kind of news was too unimportant, and he had already forgotten it.

"yes, that's the old thing!" Scar Man said.

Li Mo snorted, "Well, are there any other people or things that are particularly eye-catching?" ”

A short thug on the side said, "Something special? Zhang Daguan in the east market hid in the firewood room with Wang Tongsheng's daughter-in-law who set up a rouge stall in front of Junlai Lou and didn't know what to do, and there was the chef invited by the Li family from Junlailou in order to have a better wedding banquet...... Gee...... It's like a fierce god! ”

"Oh? Why is Master Wen angry? Li Moyi asked.

The short thug recalled: "It seems that Master Wen's set of knives was stolen, he was furious, and the dishes at the wedding banquet left before they could be cooked, causing the Li family to temporarily go to Junlai Lou and Zhengxuan Pavilion to hire a few cooks at a high price." ”

Li Mo wrote down the name of Master Wen, and continued to ask a few questions, but there was nothing new to discover, these little gangsters all went to Li's house to look for business that day, and they didn't pay attention to the ordinary pedestrians on the road, so they didn't find anything eye-catching. Other than that, everyone is even less impressed.

After leaving the alley, the first thug followed him, and Li Mo turned around, "Are you just the person they said?" ”

"That Chef Wen who came to the building? Of course I know, he is indeed very tall and large, Lord Guard, are you going to arrest him for questioning? ”

Li Moyi shook his head and said: "The most important thing in opening a restaurant is to hire a good chef, since Master Wen is a chef, his income will naturally not be low, there is no need to rob money and harm people, and it is in such a murderous way, but the knife he was stolen may become a murder weapon, let's go to Junlailou to ask." ”

"Don't you go to Li Dashan's house to ask, the Li family is in front." The thug reminded.

"No, don't go for the time being," Li Moyi shook his head, "What?" Are you so interested in investigating cases? ”

"No, Lord Guard, I just like to mess around......"

The thug suddenly lowered his head, as if he was afraid of something.

"Why don't you come with me to investigate?" Li Moyi said.

The thug nodded hurriedly.

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The two inquired along the road, only skipped the Li family, the time of the case was relatively far away, and the people did not want to cause trouble, Li Mo asked all the way and found nothing.

"I hope Lin Wei's little guard has made some progress......" After walking for more than half an hour, Li Mo couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and sat directly under a tree on the side of the road, with a body of water in front of him, and after looking around for a while, he suddenly asked the gangsters: "From the north town gate to Chengshan Temple, this road should be the most secluded recently, right?" ”

The little gangster had a piece of grass in his mouth, nodded and said: "Yes, I am familiar with this road, there are two roads from the gate of Beizhen, either take Beimen Street to the mouth of the fish market, and then go east, Dongmen Street is halfway there, and then turn to the north Chengshan Temple Street will soon arrive, or it will be changed to Zhendong Street halfway on Beimen Street, and then south to Chengshan Temple, which is naturally much faster behind." ”

"It's much faster and much more secluded, along the way, this is undoubtedly the best place to do it......" Li Mo said to himself, pointing to the water in front of him.

Anqiu Town is located on the road of commerce and trade, waterways are vertical and horizontal, lakes and ponds are everywhere, there is a lake in the northeast corner of Anqiu Town that shows a few small islands, there is a path to walk into a long island where reeds are floating, although there are fishermen living on Long Island, but no one will know what happened in the reeds.

The thug jumped up, looked at the complicated water in front of him, took a breath and said, "This is really a good place to harm people and rob money, but ...... Wouldn't it be better to throw the body in the water after harming someone? Why did the murderer drag so far and throw it into the Chengshan Temple? ”

Li Mo shook his head and said: "The water here is too shallow, and there are people living here, the corpse will be found if it can't be hidden for a day, but the Chengshan Temple is different, there are very few people coming and going, and after the collapse, no one will patronize it, occasionally there are children who go in to play, even if they smell the stench, they won't find the corpse, let's go, you follow me over and take a look, if you're lucky, you should be able to find some clues." ”

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At this time, there was an old man sitting on the shore fishing, the drizzle was fluttering, the old man was sitting there quietly with a hat on his head and a coat on his head, the lake and mountains were integrated with the old man, just like a beautiful picture, Li Mo and the two of them were mixed in, completely destroying the quiet beauty here.

Li Mo coughed lightly, the old fisherman turned around when he heard the sound, and when he saw the jade plate of the guard on the waist of the person who came, he was not startled like ordinary people and hurriedly stood up, respectfully avoided the side, just glanced at Li Mo lightly, and then turned his head and continued to look at the water.

The thugs understood the truth that the battle could be bullied, and said majestically: "Old man, has there been any strange thing on this lake recently? ”

"Eccentric? There is no more unreasonable and eccentric life to an old man. The old man replied lightly.

"You!" The little gangster was about to exert his might, but Li Moyi had already stopped him.

Li Mo stepped forward and politely said, "Old man, we are here for a homicide, may I ask if there is anything strange happening in this water area since the twentieth of the second half of this month?" For example, if you find a large area of blood or a suspicious person. ”

The old man turned around, thought for a while, and said, "This is like a human talk...... Well, you can go to the island in the south to see, five days ago the water was not so high, you can walk directly to it, I heard the children say that there was a monster there one night, crying and laughing for half the night, the brave people peeked and saw a pair of red eyes flying, the next morning when everyone went to see it in groups, they found that the island was like being coated with a layer of xue, and no one dared to approach the island so far. ”

As soon as he heard that there were monsters, Li Moyi immediately became energetic, this thing has not been seen for many days, and ordinary scattered cultivators will not be seen, if this is true, someone has indeed seen monsters, which means that there are bad demons there.

For some reason, Li Moyi was a little expectant.

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"Then why didn't you report to the police?" The little thug seemed to be learning very quickly, and after a while, Kung Fu had completely regarded himself as a petty official.

The old man swept him coldly, turned around and went fishing, Li Mo thanked the old man, pulled the little gangster away, and whispered at the same time: "I didn't see the corpse, do you think that even if you report to the official, Lord Song will take this case?" Maybe Guo will be more interested...... Send someone to collect some money, who do you say has nothing to do to report to the official? ”

The little thug laughed.

At this time, a young fisherman happened to pass by on the road, and the thugs grabbed the man and shouted, "Lord Guard, go and find me a boat, and if you dare to be verbose, you will send your whole family to see the official!" ”

The majesty of the guards is only the old man who sees through the world dares to ignore it, the young man quickly contributed his small fishing boat, but he didn't dare to take them over, the monster is more terrible than the guard, and the threat is useless, Li Moyi and they had to prop up the boat with a penny and lean on the island.

The island is no longer the scarlet that the fishermen say, but the fishy smell is completely different from the general fishy, many of the stones washed by the rain, the roots of the grass can still see the black-brown damp red traces, the range is quite wide, it can be seen that the fishermen's words are not exaggerated, at that time this small island with an area of about ten square meters, has indeed been covered by a large number of snow traces.

"Look, Lord Guard." The little thug quickly found something and showed it to Li Mo, it was unburned yellow paper, red broken porcelain pieces, and red burnt thin wooden sticks.

The burned incense, the yellow paper left over from the burning, and a few empty wine glasses, these things are familiar to Li Mo again and again, but together, Li Moyi doesn't know what they do, but he quickly thought of a possibility, his scalp suddenly tingled, and he blurted out: "This is ......"

The thug said with a solemn expression: "Sacrifice heaven and earth, burn yellow paper, and drink wine...... I'm afraid this is some kind of program of the Left Gate Gang, no wonder those fishermen think it's a monster. ”

Li Moyi didn't expect the Left Gate Gang, he fixed his mind, "Look and see what else, if it is the program of the Left Gate Gang, there should be some special markers." ”

The two searched again, and even found a wooden stick with a tip to dig into the ground, and successively found all the dishes and chopsticks, wine glasses, fragrant wood, straw rope and other things, and the broken porcelain pieces just pieced together four large porcelain bowls, but there was no murder weapon at the scene, and I don't know if they were thrown into the lake.

"It seems that there are at least four murderers, they are here to sacrifice heaven and earth, and Liu Liyi is the thing that dies......" Li Moyi's heart was a little heavy, whether this was the Zuomen ceremony or what Li Moyi thought, this was extremely cruel to Liu Liyi, the ferocity of these four murderers aroused the strong anger in Li Moyi's heart, and he was determined to capture them as quickly as possible!

The two of them found a sack, packed up all the evidence, and as soon as they walked out of Long Island, they saw Lin Weixiao's guard running out of breath and called to him: "Brother Li, Guo Beitang told you to hurry back to the official residence, that servant Liu Da has been caught......"

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On the way back to the official residence, Li Mo learned what happened, it turned out that the servant Liu Da suddenly returned to Liu's house somehow, and Mrs. Liu, who had just returned from the official residence, immediately ordered someone to beat him violently, and then tied up and carried him to the mansion of the governor.

Li Moyi hurried back to the governor's mansion as quickly as possible.

Came to the court, only to see a strong man in cloth clothes in the hall was being tortured with sticks, his two ankles were sandwiched between three wooden sticks, wrapped in ropes, two guards stood on both sides, holding ropes, tug-of-war like a tug-of-war to pull to their side, this seemingly simple thing is very powerful, Liu Da clamped his ankles miserably, desperately howled a few times and fainted.

Li Mo took a few steps and approached Guo Beitang's side.

"I actually obeyed the splint punishment, it seems that Lord Song is planning to torture to extract a confession." Guo Beitang whispered.

"I don't know if you have any credentials?" Li Moyi said suspiciously.

Guo Beitang hurriedly said: "No matter whether there is evidence or not, Liu Da can no longer be allowed to continue to be punished, once he can't bear it and admits his guilt, it will be difficult to overturn the case!" ”

One of the people in the hall was asking Lord Song for his life, whether to wake up Liu Da and continue to carry out the execution.

Guo Beitang waited for an opportunity to take Li Mo and the others forward.

Immediately, Li Mo arched his hand and reported to Lord Song: "My lord, we found the first crime scene on a small island in the northeast corner of the town, and found incense paper, candles, wine glasses, straw ropes and other items, we suspect that there are four murderers, this is not an ordinary homicide, it may be committed by the Zuomen gang!" My lord, this is evidence, please judge clearly! ”

A sack of evidence was presented, and Lord Song looked at it dizzily for a while before nodding and saying, "Take the straw rope and compare it to the ......, Dabai."

Li Moyi looked at it at this time, and it turned out that the person who had just proposed to continue the execution was Song Dabai.

Song Dabai had already thought of a countermeasure, he stepped forward and said angrily: "My lord, not long ago I suspected that this was a murder by the Zuomen gang at the scene, and it was denied by Guo Baitang and Li Moyi at that time, and now they say that it is the Zuomen gang that harms people, my lord, this is clearly that they saw that I had caught the murderer, in order to rob the merit and confuse the public to forge the evidence, please be aware of it!" ”

Li Moyi retorted: "Song Dabai, it's a bit unauthentic for you to say this, isn't this nonsense?" These evidences are all from a source, I don't believe that Lord Song can send someone to investigate, we are divided into two ways to investigate the case by ourselves, it is also with the permission of Lord Song, it is beneficial for everyone to solve the case as soon as possible, Song Dabai, why do you say that we are robbing the merit? In my opinion, you are in a hurry to punish Liu, this is to steal the credit! ”

Song Dabai snorted coldly, "Li Moyi, I asked Lord Song to punish Liu Da, but there is real evidence, there is a fist mark in front of Liu Li's body, I have tested it, it is consistent with Liu Da's fist, Liu Da was arrested with a huge amount of money, he has also admitted that he had a quarrel with the boss, and after injuring the boss, he grabbed the money and fled, the evidence is conclusive, Liu Da is not a murderer, who else!" ”

Li Mo frowned, clenched his fists and said, "My lord, where did Liu Da confess that he injured Liu Li?" ”

Song Dabai's face moved slightly, and he said unhappily: "He said that he was outside the town, so he was tortured, after this kind of evil person harms people, he naturally has to try his best to deny it, Li Moyi, you have only been a guard for a few days, and the case is not as simple as you think, you can catch the murderer with a dead pig?" It's really whimsical, don't forget that you still have suspicions that have not been washed away, if the murderer is not Liu Da, is it you? ”

Song Dabai's ridicule tone was extremely obvious, Li Mo's face couldn't help but change, he hadn't seen him for two days, this Song Dabai disappeared for no reason, and when he returned, he actually changed his ambition and deeds, completely ignoring the truth, it seemed that he only wanted to close the case hastily as soon as possible, and went against Li Mo who wanted to investigate in detail everywhere, and even did not hesitate to serve with a big punishment.

On the side, Lin Wei's little guard saw that his previous master was so ambitious, but he couldn't help but say: "My lord, it's easy to confirm Liu Da's words, ask the watchman on duty in the evening in the north of the town that day, and you will know whether Liu Liqi entered the town alone or with Liu Da." ”

Song Dabai shouted angrily: "Shut up, you don't have the right to speak here!" After such a long time, the one who played the watch still remembers so much, and he asked in vain. ”

Guo Beitang said: "This is not necessarily, Lord Song, I propose to temporarily detain Liu Da to wait for retrial, and I will immediately send someone to the duty office to find Niu Baihu to inquire." ”

At this time, Li Moyi stepped forward and said, "I don't think I need to, Liu Da is a fool?" I don't think he dared to go back to Anqiu Town after robbing money and harming people? Unless he's crazy, Mrs. Liu, you tied up Liu Da, I ask you, is Liu Da crazy? How the hell did he come back? And why did you come back? ”

Mrs. Liu had been kneeling in the hall for a while, and when she saw that Lord Song did not stop her, she replied: "When the housekeeper told me that Liu Da had returned, I thought I had heard it wrong, but when I saw that it was really him, I believed it was true...... There are a lot of silver ingots in it. ”

"When Liu Da saw me, he cried and said that he knew that he was wrong, it was his disobedience that hurt the adult, I was angry for a while, so I ordered someone to beat him, and then sent it over, now think about it...... Maybe he didn't kill the husband...... He is a servant brought up by his husband since he was a child, even if he is lost in wealth for a while, he will not poison him after robbing the money, and besides, the money will be brought back by him without moving......"

Mrs. Liu said something a little slurred, but everyone understood.

Song Dabai snorted and said stubbornly: "That's not necessarily, maybe he was obsessed with money that day, and he had a gust of epilepsy, but he completely forgot about it after harming others." ”

The head of the Song Mansion twisted his beard, looked at his son Song Dabai, and then at Li Moyi and Guo Beitang, squinted his eyes and thought about it, "Everyone's words are a little reasonable, human life is at stake, we still need to be careful to verify it, Guo Beitang, you still send someone to the duty office to find Niu Baihu to check, and temporarily put Liu Da in prison and retire from the court!" ”

Everyone sent off the elder, Song Dabai looked at Li Moyi and Guo Beitang and snorted lightly, brushed his sleeves and left.

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