Cheng Qing and Guo Xifeng both looked at Cheng Guangsheng strangely.

Where is the silver at home?

When my father came over, he didn't bring anything except a change of clothes, where did he get the money? I don't have a silver ticket!

The two glanced at each other and wanted to speak, but were stopped by Cheng Guangsheng with a look.

Xing Junshi's glittering eyes swept around the coffin, "No, sister, a thousand taels of silver, you don't need so many coffins to hold it." ”

"Brother, good eyesight, indeed, the two coffins in the back are not filled with silver taels." At this moment, Mrs. Xing is not dressed as a woman when Su Wu met last time, but a short outfit like a chivalrous woman, which looks more Jianghu.

"Oh, what's that?" Bai Qun guessed that maybe it was something else that the county lord asked Mrs. Xing to bring?

Mrs. Xing is also a child who grew up in the cottage since she was a child, and Bai Qun still trusts her.

Madame Xing raised her arms again and made a gesture to uncover the coffin.

This time, Wen Peng still took the initiative to step forward and pry open the coffin that was relatively well sealed.

As soon as I opened it, I saw a corpse lying inside.

The mountain bandits are all people who have seen the world, but no one is frightened by the corpse in the coffin, and it is normal for the coffin to contain the corpse.

It's the weirdness of all the fuss.

However, since this corpse was brought by a happy person, Bai Qun felt that there might be something strange.

Xing Junshi stepped forward, touched a silver needle from his arms, and plunged it directly into the throat of the dried corpse in the coffin.

Bai Qun also walked over and asked curiously, "Old Xing, is there anything wrong with this corpse?" ”

Xing Junshi pulled out the silver needle, and the silver needle did not change color.

Most of the poisons in ancient times were mineral poisons, and most of them also used arsenic, and the ancient production technology was backward, resulting in arsenic accompanied by a small amount of sulfur and sulfide.

When sulfur comes into contact with silver, a chemical reaction can be initiated, causing a black layer of "silver sulfide" to be formed on the surface of the silver needle.

If modern people bring modern production of arsenic to ancient times, then the refining is very pure, no longer with sulfur and sulfide, will not make the silver needle black, the ancient people with such a primitive technology, can not find out that it is the poison under the arsenic.

And there is no sulfur in the egg, but if you use a silver needle, it will also make the silver needle black.

Therefore, the use of silver needles to test for poison is just a means of low productivity in ancient times.

However, Xing Junshi didn't know about this, and he also looked at the silver needle in wonder, "It's just because it's not poisonous, so it looks even stranger." ”

"What's so strange?" Bai Qun took a closer look and let out a surprised sound, "This person looks a little familiar." ”

Xing Junshi squinted and asked, "Is it Ah Fa?" ”

Xing Xiaorou nodded, "Yes, the owner of the village, brother, I encountered a little trouble before, so I found these unruly bandits, they didn't join the cottage, they did it alone, I asked them to do some things for me." ”

Both Xing Junshi and Bai Qun knew that she had done such a thing, so they both nodded.

Xing Xiaorou continued, "I spent money to ask them to settle a woman for me, but I waited for a long time, and I didn't see them come back to report the news, I just thought they cheated me out of my money and ran away. ”

At the end, Mrs. Xing said viciously, "This time, the county order asked me to escort the silver over, and I passed by the tea shed again on the way, and there were people in the escort convoy who were in a hurry, so I went to the jungle, and as a result, I found the bodies of the four of them. ”

"The strangest thing is this one, he was strangled by vines, and these days he has been dried in the forest to dried meat, and the other three have been ...... It looks like they're killing each other. ”

Mrs. Xing looked at her Xing Junshi, "Brother, I don't understand, although they are low-level bandits, they won't kill each other for a thousand taels of silver tickets, and besides, I didn't find the silver tickets on them, only the ...... Hadescoin. ”

Xing Junshi opened Ah Fa's clothes, and sure enough, he only had a large handful of dark coins in his arms.

"What are the other two coffins?"

"Open it all."

This time, Wen Peng was a little afraid to step forward.

Because, he noticed one thing just now, that is, the expression of Ah Fa's corpse.

That expression reminded him of the strange things he had encountered in the forest before, and the expressions of those brothers before their mysterious deaths were also like this.

However, when he returned to the lord of the village before, he had already said that the brothers had sacrificed so much because they met the guards who protected the county lord.

Otherwise, where can their efforts be reflected?

If you directly said that you were scared to death by a ghost hitting the wall in the forest, wouldn't you be laughed to death by the people in the village.

Therefore, although he didn't dare at the moment, he still held back the discomfort in his heart and stepped forward to open the remaining two coffins.

There was a coffin with a silver ingot underneath, but above it lay a corpse.

In the last coffin, two corpses were stacked.

Wen Peng, who was used to seeing corpses, felt that the picture in front of him made him shudder.

His face was pale, and a mountain bandit next to him who usually didn't deal with him laughed in a low voice, "Brother Peng, why, is it that you are so frightened by these four corpses that your face is so ugly?" ”

Wen Peng resisted the urge to have weak legs, and he had to hold on to it in order to fight for face, "These corpses, the death seems to be a little strange." ”

Qiu Fang, the mountain bandit who didn't deal with him, said loudly in surprise, "I didn't expect Brother Peng, you can still see that these corpses are actually dead, this time you are more powerful than our Xing Junshi." ”

As soon as he said this, it attracted Xing Junshi's attention, and he raised his eyebrows to look at Wen Peng and asked, "Wen Peng, tell me your opinion, what aspects do you think looks strange?" ”

Wen Peng could only step forward and ask the others to move all the corpses out and place them side by side on the ground.

"This Ah Fa's corpse, there is nothing abnormal on him, Xing Xiaorou said, Ah Fa was found when he fell on a vine, if he was put on it after death, then his tongue would not have been spit out, his tongue now looks like it was spit out, that means he was hanged."

Xing Junshi nodded frequently, he naturally knew this knowledge after working with him in the Yamen, and Wen Peng knew this, mainly because he had killed too many people and had experience in killing.

"But, you see, his expression, although he has become a dry corpse, the expression on his face can still be seen clearly, he is smiling, it is a smile of relief." He also saw this kind of smile when Liu Bing gouged out his eyeballs.

He couldn't help but shudder.

Wen Peng hurriedly looked at the other three corpses, the knife wounds on their bodies, Xing Xiaorou said that they killed each other, and Wen Peng did not doubt it, because Xing Xiaorou also picked up the knife they used.

"They killed each other, probably because...... Because of the evil. ”

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