Shang Jingcheng sneered and said, "Who can testify that the river was dry at that time?" Then tell me, why did the dead man not check the murderer, but sealed the river? His voice was full of majesty, so that Shangguan Yang, who was sitting beside him, was so frightened that he immediately stood up, came to the lower hall tremblingly, and bowed down to him.

"The fifth prince, you listen to the lower officials, it really has nothing to do with me, this river is also to prevent anyone from dying, what happened here is too unbelievable, you won't believe it when I say it, but it's true, it's not that I didn't investigate the murderer, I checked, but no matter how I checked, I couldn't find it, you said that the five constants are so powerful masters, but they just can't find the end of this line, several times I thought I found a clue, but it was broken halfway, the most important thing is, The women who died were all killed in this river, unlike the first case! Shangguan Yang knelt there in fear and said.

He was so scared that if these five princes returned to Beijing, the emperor might suspect him if he knew about it, and then he would have to die of resentment.

Xie Chuyao saw that the fear on his face was true, and there were no loopholes in what he said, but why was this case so weird? Who is behind this, and what is the purpose of doing all this?

"Then you can send someone with us tomorrow to break the wall." Shang Jing Chengyun said lightly.

"Demolished, demolished?" Shangguan Yang looked at him dumbfounded, with disbelief in his eyes, "No, no, the fifth prince, that wall can't be demolished, I'm afraid that if it is demolished, I'm afraid that people will die again!" "It's not that he's alarmist, it's that this thing is so weird!

"What are you afraid of? Isn't it true that you're really as we guessed, so what's the secret in the river behind it? Xie Chuyao curled the corners of her mouth and sneered.

"Fifth princess, you have wronged the lower officials, what is this matter, what secrets can the river have? No matter what, it's impossible, it's a dead river, there's no water at all, what secrets can I hide there? Shangguan Yang had a bitter face, and he was almost about to cry.

Xie Chuyao's appearance was indeed not pretending, so he asked again: "Then you can tell us everything about the things in the river, every detail must be said, and there is really nothing to hide, you know?" ”

"Know, know, the five princesses, the lower officials will definitely tell everything they know, in fact, the beginning of the matter has to start with the last heavy rain five years ago, the rain that year was very heavy, it rained for a few days and nights, almost flooded the town of winter, the third day when the rain stopped, the water fell little by little, some villagers went to the river to fetch water, this time did not pay much attention to the beginning, and wanted to go back when the water was hit, but when she turned around, she just glanced at the corner of her eye, and saw that something was wrong not far away, and she realized it after taking a closer lookThere seemed to be a piece of clothing floating there, and when I looked closely, I saw a hand floating on the water, and the man was so frightened that he crawled back to find someone to retrieve the body. Speaking of this, Shangguan Yang's face turned a little paler, every time he thought about these things, he felt uncomfortable once, those years were really terrible. Every year people die, at least seven women die every year, and the more I think about it, the more numb my scalp becomes.

Xie Chuyao, Shang Jingcheng and Si Hao listened carefully, even Ah Yimeng looked at Shangguan Yang with wide eyes, waiting for his next words, this kind of thing happened in this winter town, it was terrible, she originally thought that the villagers here must be living here very peacefully, but the environment was a little harder, but she didn't expect that such a terrifying thing would happen.

"And then?" Si Hao and Shang Jingcheng asked in unison. As soon as these words came out, the two couldn't help but glance at each other and couldn't help but smile.

Shangguan Yang looked at the two of them, sighed and said: "What happened later is a bit suspicious, the day after the body was brought back, the murderer came to the door and surrendered, he was a flower thief, saying that he fell in love with the woman's beauty and wanted to use force on the woman, but the woman would rather die than obey, so he killed the person by mistake, and he was so frightened that he threw the body directly to the river, wanting to destroy the corpse, but he didn't know that the river was a dead river? If the river does not flow, where will the corpses be destroyed? It's just going to make the corpse leak out! ”

"It seems that Shangguan County Commander is very experienced." Xie Chuyao said coldly.

Shangguan Yang hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Where to talk, the fifth princess said this, but she scared the lower officials to death, the lower officials are only because they have made the county order, so they will be more careful about these things, even if they give the lower officials a hundred guts, they will not dare to do this kind of murderous act!" He was so frightened that his face turned white, and there was no trace of blood.

Seeing him like that, Xie Chuyao couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm just talking about it casually, you continue, you continue!" ”

Shangguan Yang glanced at her, took a long breath and wiped his sweat and said: "Fifth princess, some words are not allowed at will, the things that follow this, I thought this matter would end like this, but I didn't expect that this was just the beginning, a few days after this incident, the daughter-in-law of the Liu family went to the river to fetch water, all of them were in autumn, because it had just rained, and the water in the river was quite full, and there were quite a few people carrying water in this river on weekdays, but since the incident of the daughter-in-law of the Li family, there are fewer people who fetch water, Many people try to pick up as much water as possible at once, so that they can't pick it every day. That day, when the daughter-in-law of the Liu family went to fetch water, there was no one around, and I don't know how the person fell into the river, and when it was found at noon the next day, the body floated in the river for a day and a night, and the whole person was swollen when it was fished up, and the autopsy was also drowned, so the daughter-in-law of the Liu family accidentally fell into the water and died. ”

"Wouldn't the people behind all of them stumble?" Xie Chuyao frowned, she felt that this thing was really weird, couldn't it really be a supernatural event? With such a thought, her body trembled, after all, she had traveled from the twenty-first century, so she had an attitude of belief in this supernatural event in her heart.

Shangguan Yang nodded and said: "At least on the surface, it's just that then I found out that every time someone dies is ten days apart, or half a month, the longest is half a year, a year, and there are many people who die in each year, and it seems that they are indeed drowning on the surface, but the post-mortem said that some people's bodies have toxins, which are drugs and other poisons, so some people are thrown into the river and drowned after being unconscious!" ”

"Who is so cruel to poison and kill people and then disguise themselves as drowning, it's terrible!" Ah Yimeng heard this, and couldn't help but take a breath and said.

Shangguan Yang sighed and said: "This is the most suspicious thing, every time there is a little clue, it is broken again, we have no way of knowing whether the murderer is a person or a ghost, the most terrible thing is that the women of this town are still dying, some people are afraid, so they moved away directly, and they dare not live again, so you see that there are few people here, not only because of the climate, but also because of these things that happened before." ”

Xie Chuyao frowned and glanced at Shang Jingcheng, and seeing that he was also thoughtful, he looked at Shangguan Yang again and asked, "Then when did you start thinking about using the idea of sealing the river to solve the problem?" Why would you want to use this method? "If the murderer cannot be found, the only way out is to stop loss.

Shangguan Yang closed his eyes painfully and said: "Originally, I was still investigating this matter, but then I died and I didn't dare to investigate anymore, my old mother, who was also in her sixties, would not go to the river to walk around on weekdays, but for some reason, she went out that day, and fell into the river and drowned." At this, tears welled up in his eyes.

Xie Chuyao couldn't help but say, "Mourning." ”

Shang Jingcheng also looked at him with a sad look, it turned out that his relatives were also dead, no wonder he would be so decisive not to investigate.

Shangguan Yang waved his hand, wiped a handful of tears and said: "Since my mother's death, every day I have been thinking about how to catch the murderer to avenge my mother's blood vendetta, but the final result was that she drowned, she was not drugged, she fell by herself, which made me lose all motivation at once." ”

Xie Chuyao, Shang Jingcheng, and Si Hao all listened quietly, especially when they heard about his mother, they couldn't help but think of Xie Nanchuan in their hearts, and their faces were full of sadness.

"My brother-in-law came to see me, and when he saw that I was so decadent, he gave me the idea to seal the river, so that the people of this town could be prevented from going there to fetch water, and no one would die." Shangguan Yang said, tears in his eyes again, "But I was unwilling to let those people die like this, so I thought about continuing to investigate, but then something happened that made me change my mind." ”

"What's the matter?" Si Hao then asked.

"I went to the river alone and stood for a long time, I don't know what was going on, standing there, I vaguely seemed to hear the cry of a person, and it was the cry of a woman, which made me feel very terrible, and I immediately went back, I didn't dare to go to the river again, and I even had nightmares at night, when my situation was almost crazy, the whole person lost a lot of weight, and I didn't dare to come out of the house all day." Speaking of the past, he was immersed in memories.

"So there's such a thing!" Xie Chuyao couldn't help sighing, no wonder this Shangguan Yang refused to say it at first, who wants to show his unbearable past in front of others?