The shadow of the moon was pale, and there seemed to be a place of silver snow on the ground, as if it was coming in winter.

Commanding the embassy, Bai Hanyan and Li Chengdu knelt at Duan Changge's feet again.

Bai Hanyan felt a little unfair in his heart, it seemed that this official rank could indeed crush people, and every time he saw him, he had to kneel.

"You say, the two of you are going to Wang Jin's hometown, Wangjiapu in Wuxiang County?"

Duan Changge reclined in the soft collapse of the study, his eyes were slightly closed, his chin was slightly tilted, his head was resting on the back of the chair, and he closed his eyes and asked softly, while Cangli behind him saw Bai Hanyan and became excited, and secretly beckoned to her.

Bai Hanyan ignored him, nodded and responded, "Yes." ”

"Reason."

"Lord Wang went back to his hometown to sweep his mother's grave, it has been four months, and he returned at midnight today, and he died in only one hour, so the lower officials suspect that Lord Wang committed suicide.

If Lord Wang wants to commit suicide, he will not bring his younger brother to the county government to commit suicide, and everyone knows it.

Xia Guan suspected that something might have happened in his hometown, and it was more likely that this was the cause of Lord Wang's death. Moreover, the identity of the woman who died in Lord Wang's bed was not found in the whole of Guiyang, so both Xia Guan and Lord Li suspected that she might be from Lord Wang's hometown. Bai Han said that he had doubts in his heart.

"You suspect he was murdered?"

Duan Changge slowly opened his eyes, got up lazily from the soft couch, Cang Li kept squeezing his eyebrows at Bai Hanyan behind him, Duan Changge turned his head suddenly, Cang Li's expression immediately stiffened on his face, and his tongue was still stuck out.

"You're excited."

Cangli withdrew his tongue and said with a smile on his face: "Aren't we on the way?" ”

Bai Hanyan immediately caught the deep meaning in Cang Li's words, and said suspiciously: "Lord Duan is also going to Wuxiang County?" ”

Duan Changge raised his chin, beckoned Wang Tu and walked in from the door, he saw Bai Hanyan and Li Chengdu was also quite curious: "Why are you here?" ”

After that, the robe knelt beside Bai Hanyan, kowtowed to Duan Changge, and said, "The subordinate has seen Commander Duan, everything has been arranged, and Lord Duan can send someone to set off at any time." ”

"The official will go in person." Duan Changge said lightly.

Wang Tu was stunned for a moment, and then immediately rejoiced, and the respectful team leader bowed three times and kowtowed, crying happily: "Commander Duan is merciful, and I am blessed by the people of Guiyang!" ”

Duan Changge smiled and didn't say a word, Bai Hanyan looked at Wang Tu and raised his eyebrows: "Lord Wang, what is this going on?" ”

Wang Tu raised his body and sighed, shook his head and said helplessly: "This is a strange news, originally I wanted to invite Lord Duan, and I didn't dare to bother Commander Duan, but I didn't expect Lord Wang to ......, alas, the lower officials had no choice but to ask Lord Duan to call the shots." ”

"Lord Wang, what is the matter, tell me quickly!" Li Chengdu was short-tempered, and he couldn't help urging with an impatient face.

Wang Tu nodded hurriedly, and hurriedly said: "Here's the thing, two months ago, Xia Guan went to Wuxiang County to check the taxes with a secret letter from the prefect, but he never thought that a bizarre and strange thing would happen there. ”

"What's the matter?" Bai Hanyan had a premonition in his heart, maybe this matter would be related to Wang Jin's death.

"Enforcer of the underworld."

"What?" Li Chengdu raised his face when he heard this, and sneered disdainfully: "Lord Wang is alarmist again, you and I, the executors of the yang world, still have unsolved cases, and they even pulled out the matter of the underworld?" ”

Wang Tu suddenly changed his appearance, his expression became serious, and even his eyes became gloomy, as if he was recalling: "The karmic fruit is long, the merit has been thin, the retribution is slim, and it should be returned to the dead city." ”

"What do you mean?" Seeing him look like this, Cang Li couldn't help but get closer to him with curiosity in his eyes.

Wang Tu's whole person changed in an instant, his eyes were dull, his expression was wooden, he seemed to be frightened by the memory, and even his voice became cold: "Wuxiang County, several strange things have happened in recent months, and there are people in the county who are crazy at night, crying or laughing, and the most bizarre thing is that they will carry a shovel out of the house in the middle of the night when the moon is thick, as if they are possessed by ghosts and gods, and the family can't stop it, and some bold family members secretly follow, so they see that they actually ...... went to the mass grave in the wilderness of the south of the city, and looked numb and lifted the pit with iron one by one. ”

"Could it be sleepwalking?" Bai Hanyan frowned and pondered, and said in a deep voice.

Wang Tu looked displeased, and seemed to be a little annoyed when he was interrupted by Bai Hanyan: "It's not sleepwalking, the Tao seems to be possessed by ghosts and gods, according to the family of the person who pouted the pit, they looked at him from a distance and there was a person standing beside him, no, I once heard a witness say that it was a ghost, he was dressed like a Taoist man, but he was born with a lion head and ringed eyes, a concave nose and a wide mouth, and his fangs were exposed, and his appearance was very vicious." ”

A light of fear shone from Wang Tu's eyes, as if the vicious Taoist was what he had seen with his own eyes, Li Chengdu looked at his appearance, and couldn't help but ask with a deep frown:

"And then?"

And then ...... And then even spookier. Wang Tu swallowed and continued:

"Those who were possessed by demons and gods, all of them surrendered to the county order on the second day with charges in hand, because they had all committed crimes, or stolen, or prostituted, or murdered, some were just petty thefts, some were extremely evil, and even more were beheaded for crimes, and those pits they had dug with their own hands became their burial grounds."

"It's a little weird, indeed." Bai Hanyan lowered his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, and said, "What do those who committed crimes have in common? ”

Wang Tu glanced at Bai Hanyan in surprise and said, "Lord Han is worthy of the position of an official, and he will say the key thing with one word. ”

His back was straight, but his lips couldn't help but tremble and hook up a sneer: "According to the county order, the crime books handed in by those criminals are a little dirty, as if they were dug out of the ground, and the crime books of these criminals are all from the same person, not only that......"

Wang Tu paused, his eyes were a little empty, and the chill that could not be concealed seeped up from his back, as if someone was blowing a cold wind behind him, he shook his body, and his voice was hoarse and difficult to hear: "According to a person who was sentenced to death, they heard a fox fairy accuse him of his crimes with himself at night, and the person who really convicted him was the one who stood beside them and watched them dig a pit, he was called the enforcer of the underworld. And the charges that were handed in were dug out of that pit. ”

"Could it be that someone deliberately pulled out all the guilty people one by one, could it be...... It will be the people in the yamen who use ghosts to try cases. Li Chengdu speculated that the credibility of this ghost and god matter is not great, after all, everyone is also cloudy, and I don't know what the words that come to my ears have become.

"No, it's true, it's true, I saw that fox with my own eyes, and it laughs, it laughs!"

Wang Tu suddenly seemed to be crazy, but suddenly he put his head on the ground, and stopped speaking, Bai Hanyan frowned and looked at his strange appearance, always feeling that something was wrong.

No one in the room was speechless, and there was silence.

Cangli swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the root of his tongue was slightly numb due to excessive tension, his eyes inadvertently skimmed out of the window, and the moonlight spread on the window lattice, as white as the face of a dead corpse.

Suddenly, a hoarse scream suddenly sounded, as if someone had been choked by the neck, everyone was shocked, Duan Changge looked back at Cangli in displeasure, and said, "What are you shouting?" ”

Cangli trembled and stretched out his hand to the window, his big mouth opened in shock, and he said in horror: "I...... See, a fox, it, it smiles at me. ”

Everyone hurriedly looked, the moonlight was like autumn silver frost, and there was nothing outside the window.

Duan Changge ordered to leave for Wuxiang County overnight, but Cangli knelt on the ground and would rather be hacked to death by Duan Changge than go.

Duan Changge flicked his sleeves and got angry and walked away, but after a while, he sent someone to give another order, asking Cangli and Li Chengdu to take a guard with them in the morning, and he went with Bai Hanyan overnight, and Cangli reluctantly agreed.

It's just that Wang Tu said that he wanted to keep vigil for his mentor Wang Jin for one night and go back the next day, and Duan Changge agreed.

Before leaving, Li Chengdu secretly stuffed Bai Hanyan with a pack of things, she opened it and took a look, she didn't feel a little funny, Li Chengdu's face was immediately gloomy and very ugly, and he threw a sentence of "You are so self-conscious" and left.

Bai Hanyan looked at the peach wood sword in the package, the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, her eyes turned, and the cold light flashed, she never believed in ghosts and gods, this person's heart was much worse than ghosts and gods.

Perhaps, the mystery of Wang Jin's death is on the so-called underworld enforcer, she clenched her palm, she was curious, this underworld enforcer is really so effective, can find out the secrets of people's hearts.

When the time is right, the waning moon squatting on the treetops seems to be particularly bleak, and the front is miserable and hazy, even if the waning moon is in the sky, ten zhang away is still dark.

Duan Changge let out the hunting sound of the crimson wide robe being blown in the night wind, he tightened the horse rope with both hands, raised his eyebrows and stared at the white cold smoke, and chuckled: "It seems that I am not wrong, but Han Tuiguan has a bit of courage." ”

"Isn't Lord Duan also a believer in ghosts and gods?" Bai Hanyan sat on the horse's back, leaned over slightly and held the horse's mane with his palm.

"I only believe in myself." Duan Changgexuan raised his eyebrows and lips, raised his horsewhip, and the sweaty horse under his crotch galloped towards the boundless night.

Bai Hanyan raised her eyes to look at the gray night, and sighed softly in her heart, in this world, she only believes in herself, and she ...... Only herself, the future is bleak, and her idealism is firm.

Seeing that the red sweaty horse ran farther and farther, leaving only a vague red shadow, Bai Hanyan shook the horsewhip, clamped the horse's belly, and chased after it, and a piece of dust gradually rose behind him.

After the two of them walked by, the dust gradually dispersed, and a pair of short eyes in the night were filled with the cold light of the waning moon, staring at the person who was about to disappear in front of him, and the murderous aura in his eyes was cracking, like a wild ghost shouting injustice, which looked particularly mad in the night.