It was quiet outside, and occasionally there were only a few dog barks, where would anyone cry so terrified in the middle of the night?

Xu Chu didn't believe in ghosts, suddenly came to his senses, and subconsciously kicked his shoes out of the door. Just as she pulled the wooden door and wanted to rush out to see what it was, she saw a tall and straight figure coming towards her, and her outstretched right hand was directly grabbed by someone.

In the darkness, Xu Chu was shocked, stretched out his leg and kicked at the crotch of the visitor. Because of the horror, the force she used was naturally ten out of ten.

Who knew that before she could get it, the person who came deftly dodged away, only holding her hand but not letting go.

"Don't move, Wei Guang has already gone over to check." Xiao Qinglang's voice was clear and low, as mellow and bewildering as if it contained good wine that had been cellared for decades, which made Xu Chu unload his strength in an instant.

"Lord Wang, people are scary and scared to death."

The bright moon probed through the clouds and revealed, Xu Chu also saw Xiao Qinglang's figure a little clearly, at this time he was wearing the usual clothes of the day, not a cloak and robe, it seemed that he came out in a hurry. Thinking of his instructions just now, Xu Chu's heart warmed, is this for himself?

Xiao Qinglang lowered his head slightly, and then the moonlight looked straight into Xu Chu's eyes, and after a long time, he said in a hoarse voice: "There are still secrets in the village, and you must be careful when handling cases." ”

But after a cup of tea, Wei Guang came back. Seeing that his prince and Miss Xu were holding hands and were very close, he first paused, and then staggered. Therefore, the prince came all the way from the capital, I don't know if it was for the official business of the Three Law Divisions?

No matter how many thoughts in his heart turned around, they all disappeared in Xiao Qinglang's cold "how".

"Back to the prince, his subordinates chased after him with light skills, but he didn't see anyone, and there was no breath of anyone in the ruins on the south bank. Because it was too dark, and his subordinates were worried about the safety of the prince and Miss Xu, they didn't check too much. ”

Xiao Qinglang nodded, noncommittal about this result.

On the contrary, Wei Guang himself frowned a little and said: "The light skills of his subordinates are already among the best, and even the emperor has praised ......."

The implication is that the person who pretends to be a god and a ghost is above Wei Guang?

"In terms of light skills alone, it may not really be about how strong that person's martial arts are." Xu Chu looked at Xiao Qinglang, "Xu has a hiding place?" ”

"Impossible, I have been investigating for a long time with internal force, and I have not seen any living breath. Even if that person knows how to breathe, it won't be completely breathless. ”

"But what if that hiding place is underground?" Xu Chu didn't know this, she hadn't solved the case of the murderer with extremely high internal skills, and her internal skills had long been lost in her previous life, so she really didn't have common sense about it.

Wei Guang choked, thought for a moment and replied: "If it's underground, maybe I won't be able to find it." ”

When I went back to the house to rest, it was already dawn, and the terrible cry had long since disappeared. Instead, there is the sound of chickens crowing from time to time in the village.

Autumn mornings in the mountains are mostly cloudy with moisture, and the trails are full of dew, but you have to get some contamination whenever you walk through them.

The ruined ruins were full of barren and weeds, and the wood and mud, which were not clearly visible, looked like they had collapsed for some years. Xu Chu stood on top of the ruins, frowning and looking at a piece of cloth that was a little rotten.

"What's wrong?"

"This cloth has traces of being burned, and the key is that this cloth can still be picked up now, which shows that it is by no means only 20 years ago." As he spoke, Xu Chu twisted the remaining layer of hoarfrost on it, rubbing against each other, only to see that it was a little hot. "That's ...... so"

Xiao Qinglang looked at Xu Chu's ink Luo skirt and was stained with mud because he squatted down to check the scene, but he didn't feel that it was an eyesore, but calmly looked at her, sometimes frowning and sometimes shaking his head, silent.

It wasn't until she searched the ground for nearly half an hour that the doubts in her heart were completely solved, and she suddenly looked up at Xiao Qinglang, who had been standing behind her, and said, "Can the prince let Brother Wei go to the yamen, and then call some people to help?" ”

The sun gradually rose on the horizon, and the golden and warm light shrouded Xu Chu's body, making the surprise on her face completely fall into Xiao Qinglang's eyes. He only felt that the man's expression was really bright, even if he was standing in the ruins, he didn't know the geometric murder behind him, and he didn't know how cruel and terrifying the situation was, he couldn't stop her from investigating the case.

He stepped forward slowly, stretched out his hand to pull Xu Chu up, and sure enough, when he saw that her legs and feet were numb and her face was red when she stood up, he said, "Move first, otherwise it will be more uncomfortable for a while." After that, Xiao Qinglang turned to Wei Guang and instructed, "Go to the county government to call someone, and then go directly to the nearest local barracks to transfer people to help." ”

The two knew each other and seemed to have a tacit understanding in every way, and sure enough, he also guessed what was wrong.

As soon as these few people checked the south bank, they saw a young man in the village stumbling and rushing out of the back mountain with a panicked expression. His eyes widened, and his words were intertwined, as if he had been greatly frightened. However, from his intermittent words, Xu Chu still heard the word "dead man".

She glanced at Xiao Qinglang without pausing, and followed the crowd towards the back mountain. At this time, there were already a lot of people gathered in the back mountain along the pond, and by the time Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu arrived, the road was almost blocked.

It was also thanks to them that they ran into Aunt Liu, so they were able to follow all the way to the front.

I saw that the pond was up and under the big boulder of the ditch, and a corpse that had been soaked for an unknown amount of time was pressed face down to the bottom of the water. The hair and clothes had long since spread out, fluttering in the water like aquatic plants. And there are many schools of fish swimming back and forth around the corpse, which looks pleasant and terrifying......

When the village chief beckoned the village's prime of life to fish people up, he heard a gasping sound. It was really terrifying that the corpse was soaked, swollen abnormally, and it was so white that it seemed as if the soaked skin was about to peel off and fall off in a few moments.

"Hey, isn't this Liu Dagui? Yesterday, I heard him happily say that Liu Dafu went to Yunzhou City and was about to become developed, why did he drown today? ”

"Shhhh Didn't you hear the village was haunted last night? I guess either he was killed by a ghost, or he died unjustly and refused to be reincarnated in our village. ”

"Oh, don't scare me."

"Why am I scaring you, the water ghost is the most important thing to find a replacement for the dead ghost."

When everyone retreated coldly, Xu Chu took the lead in squatting forward to check the corpse.

"The deceased, male, six feet seven inches long." Xu Chu's gaze swept over the deceased's body, untied the deceased's clothes, and continued after repeated inspections, "There are no obvious corpse spots on the body, no fatal injuries, and no obvious injuries. ”

"Bleeding spots on the eyelids, bluish lips, cyanosis of the nails, patchy bleeding at the pectoral muscles, swollen abdomen ......"

When the people in the village saw Xu Chu's house of a girl with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, they untied the man's clothes without shame, and pressed the dead man with their hands calmly, and there were words in their mouths, and they couldn't help but talk about it. There were also those who dared to raise their voices and curse or tease/joke at Xu Chu, but in the end, they were all silenced in Xiao Qinglang's cold gaze.

The autumn wind blew, seeping and seeping, as if with a dead air, so that those who gathered together couldn't help but shiver. There are those who are timid, and they have already retreated with weak legs and feet at this time, how dare they continue to watch.

"There is mud and sand in the nails, and there are ...... weeds" After a simple inspection, Xu Chu's eyes returned to the place where the deceased's mouth and nose were, and saw that at this time, the wet nasal cavity and the corners of the mouth were slowly oozing foam-like mucus, seeing this, she looked at Xiao Qinglang, and made a final conclusion with a solemn expression, "There is mushroom-like foam, and it is indeed drowning." ”

It's too strange, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, except for Li Jin, there are really people who died in the water. And before he died, there were ghosts in the village.

All the clues point to the south bank of Liulin Village. So how much secrecy is hidden on the south bank, which is worth the murderer's repeated killings? She thought it was for the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but now that thought was a little shaken, was it really just for the silver?

When the murderer killed, he used the words of sacrificing evil spirits. The word wicked, is it really just a disguise? Or is it that the few people who are now being killed by the "ghosts" have done heinous evil things for one thing and need to pay for their lives!

And the only major thing that these people have done together is nothing more than the siege and killing of the bandit leader and sending a group of bandits to the yamen twenty years ago.

Somehow, Xu Chu suddenly remembered the dream he had after reading the dossier the night before. In the courtyard of the house where I don't know, there is a river of blood, but the children who are staggering are crying heart-rending for their mothers, and it is indeed a blood-stained steel knife in front of them......

Now that four have died, and there is still one man...... If Wu Song is alive, who is the one who died, and who should be the murderer's next target.

Xu Chu didn't know if the murderer had guessed their identities, and he didn't know how the murderer sneaked into the village to commit the crime unknowingly. But now the conclusion in her heart is getting clearer and clearer, and now she is only waiting for Wei Guang to bring someone here.

A secret that has been hidden for 20 years, a bloody and tragic story, and a family that was originally good-hearted but was forced to do evil......

Her eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she didn't know whether to be happy or sad. So subconsciously, she set her eyes on Xiao Qinglang, who had not said a word.

"Don't worry, everything has a king." Xiao Qinglang stepped forward, gathered the cloak on her body, and whispered steadily.

Xu Chu shook his head, bit his lip and said, "If I guessed correctly, then the murderer's next target should be the county magistrate of Changping County twenty years ago...... Now he has been promoted to the prefect of Yunzhou Prefecture, Lord Sun...... Central/central soil, in addition to the yamen in Yunzhou City, where can it be called the most central/central? ”

Xu was because of Liu Chan's appearance, and Master Sun did not realize that the so-called evil ghost was here for revenge, and he was also the target. Moreover, several people have not interacted with each other since twenty years ago, and his official career is quite smooth, so he thinks that no one will ever talk about the past again, and naturally Lord Sun himself will not bring up the old things again. Raise.