After a pause, he suddenly frowned puzzled, and said: "It's just that the lower officials can't figure it out anyway, the guard said that he didn't see anyone leave, so how did the three people who pretended to be Lord Wang get out?" ”

"They didn't go out at all."

Bai Hanyan whispered in a deep voice: "It's not difficult for a few people in the huge county to hide, they only left after we left." ”

Li Chengdu suddenly said: "I see." ”

Duan Changge waved his hand to signal him to step back, Li Chengdu glanced at Bai Hanyan, saw her frowning and silent, frowned without a trace and bowed out.

"What do you think, it is suspected that the king disciple is the third person hiding in the shadows?" After Li Chengdu left, Duan Changge suddenly spoke.

Bai Hanyan slowly raised his eyes, his eyebrows locked with suspicion, but he shook his head and said, "His suspicion is there, but at best he is just a small man." ”

"Isn't it easy to know the truth?"

Duan Changge chuckled, Bai Hanyan looked at him suspiciously, and saw him hanging his head and fiddling with the Ling Bo long sword at his waist, and there was a hint of chill between his eyebrows: "Don't you know if you have a good trial?" ”

Bai Hanyan paused slightly, his fierceness made her frown, nodded slightly, but looked elsewhere, and sighed lightly: "I do want to judge the king's apprentice, but before I go to Wuxiang County, I still have one more thing to do." ”

Duan Changge stared at her side face, seeing that her eyes were low, her expression was slightly gloomy, and the side face was clear, which made people feel that she was very similar to the clear jade pendant on his sword.

On the second day, the drizzly air seemed exceptionally fresh, and even the sun above was not so scorching.

When Bai Hanyan walked to Zhang Wang's house, he saw that Lian'er had already set up a spiritual shed in the courtyard.

To say that the funeral shed is nothing more than a coffin and a brazier underneath.

Lian'er knelt in front of the coffin in a plain body, her face was pale, her eyes were empty, she slowly lit the yellow paper in her hand, her fingers as pale as her face fainted a little firelight, and the fine silver dust fell all over her shoulders, she burned one by one, and the thick paper ash was tired into a hill next to her feet.

"Lian'er, you, have you stayed awake all night?" Bai Hanyan walked up to her, looking at her like this, and felt a little distressed.

Lian'er turned around when she heard the voice, hooked the corners of her mouth and reluctantly pulled out a smile at her: "When Xianggong was alive, he worried about his livelihood every day, and I don't want him to be poor in the underworld after he dies." ”

Bai Hanyan sighed slightly, as the saying goes, poor couples mourn everything, but in her, Bai Hanyan saw the four words of deep affection in the ten zhang red dust.

"Lian'er, you go in and rest, I'll burn it for you." Bai Hanyan made a gesture to take the paper money in her hand, but Lian'er shook her head stubbornly, looked at the coffin with a pair of eyes, and was infinitely meticulous: "Han Gongzi, let me ...... In the last meeting with him. ”

Bai Hanyan's hand slowly drooped, and she nodded.

Zhang Wang was buried on a small mound not far from her house, and under the mound was a creek, where vegetation flourished, and there were mountains and rivers, Lian'er said with a smile, so that he could watch her and their children every day.

Until Zhang Wang was buried, Lian'er didn't shed tears, Bai Hanyan's heart trembled, the painful smile on her face was the strength of fragility, Lian'er was a woman worthy of her admiration.

When he went back, Bai Hanyan couldn't help but take a look at the tomb he was looking at, and he only felt that his death was a little strange in his heart.

Wang Jiapu said that it is not big, and it is not particularly small to say that it is small, why did Lingji choose Zhang Wang, who had just returned home, and he was burned beyond recognition, is it really a coincidence?

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Yesterday, Duan Changge left first and went to Wuxiang County, Bai Hanyan was delayed for a day because he had to accompany Lian'er Zhang Luowang's funeral, and Li Chengdu said that he would stay and leave with her.

On the way to Wuxiang County, Bai Hanyan and Li Chengdu crossed the west of the city, she suddenly tightened the reins, the horse cried and stopped, she turned her head to look at the direction of the mass grave and frowned slightly.

Seeing this, Li Chengdu also hurriedly tightened the reins, looked at her sideways and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"The night you returned to Guiyang Mansion, the so-called enforcer of the underworld almost killed the old man of Wuxiang County here." Bai Hanyan recalled the man in mourning clothes, and he could still remember the strange voice of yin and yang that he deliberately disguised.

"Cheng Xiao wanted to kill him because the old servant mentioned that on the eve of Cheng Xiao's death, he asked him about the corpse after death?" Li Chengdu speculated.

"How do you know that the enforcer of the underworld is Cheng Xiao?" Bai Hanyan suddenly turned his head to stare at him and asked.

"Isn't it?" Li Chengdu was inexplicably asked by him.

Bai Hanyan frowned lightly, yes, even she thought it was Cheng Xiao. Suddenly, her eyes flashed brightly, she suddenly raised her head, and said to Li Chengdu urgently: "Master Li, the king disciple will be handed over to you, I have a step in advance." ”

After that, without waiting for Li Chengdu to speak, he raised his horsewhip and drove away.

Bai Hanyan knocked on the old man's dilapidated door, the wooden door made a dull sound, and after a long time, the old man's rather old and timid voice came from the house: "Who, who?" ”

Bai Hanyan said softly: "Old man, it's me." ”

The old servant gently opened the door a gap, squinted his wrinkled eyes to see the person who came, and then opened the wooden door.

"It's you!"

The old man welcomed Bai Hanyan into the door, walked into the house, poured tea for her, and said with an apologetic face: "Seeing that the son is safe and sound, the guilt in the old man's heart is also a little less, I should have died a long time ago, if I want to exchange the life of the son for me, a sinful person, it is really not worth it." ”

Bai Hanyan looked at the old man staggering, it seemed that he had aged a lot in the past few days, thinking of the crime he confessed in the mass grave, he didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to comfort him slightly: "Don't say that, old man, you still have a son." ”

"Son."

The old man immediately smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "He left, knowing that I starved her mother to death, and I am afraid that he will not be able to forgive me in this life." ”

Bai Hanyan pursed his lips and was silent, the so-called karma in this world should be true or false, not that he did not report it, but the time had not yet come, this old man, starved to death of his wife when he was young, and now he is old but he will die alone.

I can't help but sigh.

"Childe came to me, but what's the matter?" There was no expression in the old man's cloudy eyes: "If you arrest me and go to the official, I have nothing to say." ”

Bai Hanyan really wanted to arrest him as an official, but now there was something more important, she narrowed her eyes and said in a deep voice: "Old man, do you know why the so-called enforcer of the underworld wants to kill you?" ”

Lao Qizuo remembered the events of that night, his body still couldn't stop trembling, and he nodded and said: "I didn't expect that Cheng County Ling turned out to be the enforcer of the underworld who pretended to be a ghost, not only killed the family of the Wang Governor's Mansion, but also his wife and children, which is really ruthless." I think he killed me probably because he was afraid that I would say it, and the night before he faked his death, he asked me about the corpse, but unfortunately, it is useless now, and now everyone in Wuxiang County knows that he is a murderer. ”

Bai Hanyan stood up when he heard this, his face turned pale in shock, and asked, "Who said that Cheng Xiao is the murderer?" ”

Only she and Duan Changge knew the ins and outs of the whole thing, and even Li Chengdu didn't know anything about it, and who walked out of the news.

The old man looked at her with a look of surprise with his eyes open, and said: "Early this morning, the whole county spread that Cheng County ordered the murder of fraud, and now he has absconded in fear of crime." Isn't that the truth? ”

Bai Hanyan's eyebrows were deep, his eyes sank, but he smelled more and more of the conspiracy, what is the truth, now let's talk about it...... Nothing is yet known.

"By the way, old man." Bai Hanyan suddenly asked: "After Cheng Xiao's death, the nephew who handled his funeral, do you remember his specific appearance?" ”

The old man frowned, and looked at her a little helplessly: "Young man, this is the second time you have asked me about him, what's the matter, are he and Cheng County Linghui complicit?" ”

Bai Hanyan said anxiously: "Old man, I am also guessing, please think about it." ”

Seeing that she was anxious, the old man thought about it carefully and said: "I have only met that person a few times, the first time was the night Cheng County ordered me to go, he was also there, he was full of beard, short eyes, but he couldn't tell the specific appearance. However, he didn't speak at the time, and the second time was when Cheng County Ling died on the night of the autopsy, and I saw him again. ”

"Was there anything unusual about him that night?" Bai Hanyan asked.

"Anomalous ......"

The old man tilted his head and thought about it carefully, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "By the way, when I was performing the autopsy, the evening wind was a little stronger, and he was standing outside the door, I inadvertently raised my eyes and glanced at him, as if I was looking at his beard as if it was crooked, and at that time his appearance made me feel a little familiar, so I took a curious look at it, and he was still very angry at that time, urging me to hurry up and leave early." But then I looked at it again, maybe I was dazzled, how could a person's beard be crooked? ”

When Bai Hanyan heard this, a hint of joy crossed his face, and the corners of his lips were coldly hooked, and he said, "Sure enough, it's easy to disguise." ”

"You mean, his beard is fake, and I wasn't dazzled that day." The old man said in surprise.

"Do you think he's someone you might know?"

The old man lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: "I'm old, and my memory is not good, I just felt a little familiar at the time, but I can't remember who I look like." ”

After a pause, the old man looked at Bai Hanyan in horror and asked, "Could this be related to who is the murderer?" ”

Bai Hanyan looked at him deeply and said in a deep voice: "Perhaps, this is the real reason why you want to be killed." ”

The old man was pale when he was on the board, and he didn't seem to have come out of the fright, remembering that he was killed because of this inadvertent glance, and he didn't feel that the murderer was too cruel and terrible, and couldn't help but be afraid: "No wonder Cheng County Commander suddenly appeared a nephew, two years ago, when Lord Cheng was riding a horse, the horse went crazy and threw him out and broke his leg, almost lost half his life, and he never appeared, now think about it, he is indeed suspicious." ”

Bai Hanyan's heart moved slightly because of his words, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.