Yu Qiong crouched on the ground and replied word by word:

"This morning, the news brought by Brother Ning himself."

At this time, Ning Ye, the head of the government sent by the county order, also arrived, he lowered his eyebrows and walked to Shen Mo's head, and said in a low voice: "This matter is indeed going to report it." ”

Shen Mo raised his eyebrows, sighed softly, and his tone rose.

Seeing this, Ning Ye continued: "The general doesn't know, in the past half a month, the county government has been receiving reports of corpse theft, this thief is cunning, every time the theft is completed, he will destroy the clues, and his behavior is irregular, even if he squats for a few days, he has not caught a hair. ”

Compared with the big families who own the land, the people of Pingtou rarely have cemeteries, and most of them randomly select some suitable feng shui and bury them in the public cemetery in the back mountain, but these places are redundant and redundant, and the management is not easy, so they are relatively loose, which makes the corpse robbery cases continue to occur but are difficult to detect.

Ning Ye knew that although the harm of this matter was not as good as the big case of hurting people's lives, it always gave the county Chen Chang a headache, digging people's graves has always been a taboo, and it often leads to scolding, not to mention that this person also stole the bones of others.

The case has been unresolved, so much so that rumors have spread that there are ghosts and monsters in Qu County, specializing in eating human corpses and sucking people's bone marrow.

Although this statement is absurd, some people actually believe that not only that, but yesterday some people even proposed to ask the general of the town army to personally go out and suppress the evil spirits with a battlefield spirit.

However, the county government officials, including Ning Ye, all believed that the matter should be man-made.

At the same time, they didn't think that this matter was done by Dr. Jiang, after all, Dr. Jiang had always had an alibi before, plus he was highly respected and hung to help the world, so he really didn't look like a criminal.

Therefore, Ning Ye asked the county order to help Shen Mo solve the case, hoping to find out the truth.

"If the general is sent, he will die in the next ten thousand years." Ningye cut the railway.

"Yatou has worked hard, and I hope you will cooperate more." Shen Mo nodded at him and turned to Xu Ban next to him: "Leave a few people to take care of Yu Qiong and Jiang Rong respectively, and you follow me to the Houshan Public Cemetery." ”

Xu Ban saw Shen Mo's slightly curved index finger knock on the hilt of the sword, and immediately understood, turned around and whispered to the sergeant:

"Separate the two, keep an eye on them, write down what they said and did, that is, they drank water, what they drank, how many sips they drank, and how fast they drank, as they did before, understand?"

Observing the other party's reaction through supervision is also one of the ways to determine whether a person is lying and whether he is concealing, these soldiers are all tall and burly, with fierce faces, if they have been stared at by such people, they will definitely react, and it depends on how they react.

The whole back mountain is the public burial ground of Qu County, very large, but much better than the mass grave, but there will be rough and polished stone tombstones every few steps, sparsely pulled, there are two or three together in a pile, there are also a large group of put together and lonely behind. Some tombstones are engraved with names, while some of the inscriptions have been worn away by the wind and sand, leaving only shallow imprints, which is a pity for the rush of time.

Ning Ye took Shen Mo and the others to investigate the recently stolen cemetery, while answering Xu Banti's question.

"Yatou must be familiar with both of them?"

Ning Ye knew that this was to sort out the facts of the case, so he answered in detail.

Shen Mo listened beside him, and gradually sorted out the incident.

Yu Qiongnai is a dart master, will do some punches and kicks but is young and has not broken into a reputation, so he still has not a family, his father died early, only his mother is the only one in the family, and the family background is not thick, but I heard that he is serious and diligent, and in the eyes of others, he will eventually have a bright future.

Jiang Doctor Jiang Rong, his father passed away two years ago, his son inherited his father's business, inherited his father's first-hand medical skills, has been practicing medicine in Qu County, and sometimes will scatter wealth and porridge to help the people, quite famous.

And yesterday Yu Qiong just came back from a dart, because of the long time of the dart, and the Chen County Order to cover the matter tightly, so I don't know much about the corpse robbery case that happened in the county, so not long after being notified by the official in the morning, the scene just happened just now.

The first case of the corpse robbery occurred 26 days ago, when the family went up the mountain to sweep the grave, it did not receive much attention at first, but later, almost every three days, a corpse was stolen and excavated, the stolen grave was artificially dug up, the culprit pried open the coffin nails, took the corpse away and put it somewhere, and put the funeral items back in place in a proper manner, and finally destroyed the footprints and traces around it.

The back mountain is too big, and the number of officials is limited, even if you know that the time of the crime is once every three days, but you don't know the exact time, it is difficult to contain it.

Moreover, the offender did not seem to have any requirements for the stolen corpses, neither men nor women, nor any money for burials, which was simply irregular, and this behavior was seen by the families of the stolen people as if they were evil spirits, who ate corpses and were hungry for food—but most of the people in the county government did not think so.

Now there are eight stolen bodies, but this person's caution really makes it difficult for the people of the yamen to squat.

Shen Mo stopped in front of his father's grave.

This is the latest case in front of him, he squatted down, carefully observed the scenery around the scene, dug out the scattered sealed soil from the ground with his hands, and stood up again after a while.

At this time, suddenly a servant hurried over, as if to speak, and his eyes involuntarily held back when he touched the head of the ya.

"Tolerance is straightforward." Shen Mo turned his head and glanced at Yatou.

Yatou thought about it and agreed.

The official breathed a sigh of relief and said, "My lords, there is another case, but this time it was Dr. Jiang's father's tomb that was stolen. ”

Ning Ye took a breath and pondered, "In this way, Doctor Jiang is basically not suspicious. ”

It's a serial case, after all, and usually no one digs up their graveyard for no reason.

Shen Mo squinted his eyes and suddenly said:

"Please lead the way, let's go and see."

Jiang's father's grave is on a shady slope, and there is a slender stream next to it, which should have flowed down after the snow melted.

Shen Mo squatted down next to the stolen cemetery and reached out to pick up a small handful of soil. The damp soil is small and sticky, and it sticks easily to clothes.

He stood up, his gaze resting on the small crude incense burner in front of the tombstone.

The incense inside had burned out, and only three sticks remained in the ashes.

Right next to these stolen cemeteries, the officials missed one thing, that is, in front of the tombstones in all the stolen cemeteries, there were at least three incense sticks in the incense burners.

Some have three, some have six, or some have fallen down, so they seem inconspicuous because they vary in number, but there are at least three sticks in each incense burner.

The reason is actually very simple, Shen Mo remembered the scene of worshipping his ancestors with his parents and sister.

Burn incense three times, knock three times and bow nine times, and scatter money with tribute fruits.

It was the three sticks of incense that were put on the worshippers.

The person who stole the corpse put three sticks of incense on each cemetery, and since he wanted to steal the corpse, he didn't have to be so respectful, unless he wanted to make up for it.

Shen Mo stood up, his eyes fell on the official who came to report the news, and smiled slightly.

Doesn't that mean that a body is lost every three days? So why did it come forward a day this time?