Although Wuxiang County is small, it is a very beautiful small city, but it is a pity that Duan Changge and Bai Hanyan came in the wrong season, if you come early for a month, you can see the peony flowers blooming all over the street, which is in response to the poem "Flowers bloom and fall for 20 days, and the people of a city are crazy." ”

It was May, the peony gradually withered, the petals of the willows on the street running fast horses, boiling pedestrians, shouting hawkers, from time to time there were bursts of thin cooking smoke, think about it, this world is prosperous is about to be so.

Duan Changge picked the largest inn in Wuxiang County, the best private room to eat morning meals, the blush on Bai Hanyan's face at this moment slowly receded, and he tried his best to pretend to be natural to eat and drink tea.

Duan Changge was silent, Bai Hanyan was silent, and the atmosphere became stagnant.

Xiao Er pushed open the door of the private room and walked in with a teapot, raised his hand to fill the tea for Bai Hanyan, looked at her handsome and soft side face, and couldn't help but peek at her a few times from the corner of his eye, until the tea overflowed, he still didn't know it.

Duan Changge raised his hand and slapped the table, the plates on the table did not move at all, only the chopsticks were shocked and jumped, he casually pulled a chopstick, raised his finger and flicked the chopsticks out, the chopsticks with the teapot carried by Xiao Er were stuck into the opposite wall, and the teapot fell firmly on the chopsticks.

Xiao Er was so frightened by the coldness that burst out of Duan Changge's body that he trembled, apologized repeatedly, and smiled with a smile on his face, and pulled his narrow sleeves to wipe off the water stains on the table.

Bai Hanyan waved his hand, he didn't care, he just asked casually: "Xiao Er, this Wuxiang County is an outstanding person, and it is peaceful, I think your county order must be to bow down to everything, and the law and order will be so peaceful, right?" ”

The smile on Xiao Er's face stiffened slightly, and he nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, Xiaoxian is very peaceful." ”

"Nothing major happened in your Wuxiang County?" Duan Changge held the chopsticks and picked up the dishes, * asked.

Xiao Er's face changed a few times, he shook his head, hurriedly gave a salute, and said "two slow uses", and turned around to leave.

"Wait a minute." Duan Changge put down his chopsticks and raised his eyes to look at Xiao Er, with a gleam in his eyes: "I'll ask you about something." ”

Xiao Er shuddered at his gaze, smiled stiffly, and replied timidly, "What does the guest officer want to inquire?" ”

"I have a pet that is lost, I wonder if you see it?"

"What, what pet?" Xiao Er stepped back step by step, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart.

"It's a little white fox, have you ever seen it?"

Duan Changge looked at him with a smile, Xiao Er only felt that his legs were weak, and he yelled and turned around and ran out, Duan Changge sneered, and closed the door of the private room with a palm.

Xiao Er collapsed on the ground in despair, Duan Changge walked towards him with his hands in his hands, and chuckled: "Enforcer of the underworld, everyone in Wuxiang County knows it, I don't believe you haven't heard of it?" ”

"No, no, I haven't heard of it." Xiao Er kept retreating, leaning on the door panel and retreating.

"Haven't heard of it?" Duan Changge looked at him condescendingly, and smiled bitterly: "When the prisoner who has been punished beheads is beheaded, can you go and join in the fun?" ”

Xiao Er seemed to recall something terrible, his face was like earth, and his body kept trembling: "I can't say it, I can't say it......"

Bai Hanyan put down the teacup at this time and walked over, squatted down and smiled at Xiao Er, and said in an easy-going tone: "Xiao Er, don't be afraid, we just inquire, if you know, tell us." ”

Xiao Er cried out all of a sudden: "This, I really can't say this." ”

Bai Hanyan frowned and wondered, "Why can't you say that someone is threatening you?" ”

Xiao Er hugged his knees and shrunk into a ball, crying so much that he choked and choked: "The things of ghosts and gods can't be contaminated too much, and they can't leak too much, the county master, the county lord has tried too many yin cases, so he can't think of committing suicide!" ”

Bai Hanyan was shocked: "What are you talking about, Wuxiang County Commander committed suicide!" ”

She looked back at Duan Changge, and when she saw him, she was also surprised, Bai Hanyan hurriedly asked the little er: "When did the adult's suicide happen, and was the adult also judged by the enforcer of the underworld?" ”

Xiao Er touched a handful of tears and choked up: "No, our master Cheng County committed suicide, he died early this morning, the master was innocent all his life, go to the blue sky and bright moon, what crime is there for that ghost to judge?" ”

Bai Hanyan couldn't help but be horrified, the Wuxiang County Order committed suicide early this morning, and it was only one day away from the death of Wang Jin's five people yesterday, would there be any connection between the deaths between them?

Wuxiang County Ya.

There were two teenagers standing at the gate of the county government, and one of the young men in green clothes gave up his hands to discuss with the messenger guarding the door: "A few messengers are convenient, the two of us are the servants of Guiyang Mansion, these days I went back to my hometown to visit relatives, and suddenly heard that the county lord was killed, and I came to worship, and I also have a skill, see if I can help ......"

"Go, go, don't care where you come from, our county lord still uses you to conduct an autopsy, go, hurry up, or I will arrest you!" The official messenger interrupted the young man's words, his face was full of impatience, and he was about to pull out the official sword.

The man in scarlet clothes behind him seemed to have an irritable temper, and he was about to pull out the long sword at his waist when he got up, but he was forcibly pulled away by the young man in green clothes, and accompanied by a smile on the officer who also drew his official sword, and pulled the man backwards.

"Han Yan, you are so bold, pull me to do something, these two people don't know how thick the sky is, they really should teach a good lesson." Duan Changge was dragged into a quiet alley by Bai Hanyan, his face was gloomy, and he snorted coldly, his tone full of resentment.

"Lord Duan, don't be impatient, the law enforcer in the underworld and the fox who can talk are still peeping in the dark, Lord Wang's case has no clue so far, and it is not the time for you and me to reveal our identities now." Bai Hanyan comforted him bitterly, and when he saw that his face was a little pale, he was slightly relieved, and then shook his head and sighed: "I just want to go and inspect the body of the county order, I'm afraid it's impossible." ”

"Why not?" Duan Changge sneered.

"Master Duan, is there any good way?" Bai Hanyan's eyes immediately lit up.

Duan Changge glanced at Bai Hanyan obliquely, with some undisguised mockery and sarcasm: "You won't sneak in at night while the yacha is letting down his vigilance. ”

Bai Hanyan silently despised him in his heart, and smiled tremblingly: "What Lord Duan said is true." ”

Duan Changge got up and left, suddenly remembered something, looked back at her, and said, "Since you can't reveal your identity, you should change your name for me." ”

Bai Hanyan was slightly stunned: "If you don't call Lord Duan, then what should I call it?" ”

Duan Changge raised his eyebrows, smiled and bent a pair of peach blossom eyes, teasing: "Don't I have a name?" ”

Bai Hanyan bowed his head in fear: "The lower officials don't dare to call adults by their names." ”

"Why don't you dare, you hugged me all night last night, and today you said that you were cowardly and didn't dare, Han Yan, you are really contradictory." Duan Changge looked at her with a smile.

Bai Hanyan lowered his eyes and gritted his silver teeth, this long song was not only vicious and vicious, but also resentful.

Tightening his fingers, Bai Hanyan raised his head and smiled at him, and said softly, "I know, Changge." ”

After that, he raised his legs and brushed his body to leave, Duan Changge's face changed slightly, as if he was a little flustered by her long song, raised his eyes to look at Bai Hanyan's back, snorted coldly, and chased after him.

It was night, the earth was asleep, and the moonlight stained everything a faint white.

In the dark night, there were two black shadows all the way along the eaves and ridges, moving and jumping, and the eaves and walls were also like walking on the ground, as silent as the moon shadows, until the county office, the two of them fell lightly from the ridge of the roof.

On the top of the largest hall in the backyard of the county government, a mourning hall was erected, and the whole county government was plain white as far as the eye could see, with white flags fluttering, and the middle door was wide open.

The mourning hall was much brighter, with a pitch-black coffin in the center, and the flickering candles on the wall were full of shadows, filled with faint sandalwood.

Bai Hanyan hid in the dark and quietly looked around the mourning hall, under the coffin was a horizontal six zhang vertical and three zhang high platform incense case, standing the tablet of the county commander Cheng Xiao, and the next was a woman kneeling beside the brazier, burning paper money one by one.

The woman was very tired, trembling and trying to get up, holding the table on both sides with both hands, drooping her eyelids, Duan Changge picked up a stone from the ground, and flicked it in her sleeping hole, and the woman fell headlong.

Bai Hanyan hurriedly flashed into the mourning hall, looked at the man in an official robe in the coffin, and couldn't help frowning.

"What's wrong, see what's wrong?" Duan Changge asked beside her.

Bai Hanyan shook his head, stretched out his hand to check the body, and saw that there were strangulation marks on his neck, his eyes were slightly open, and his tongue was slightly protruding, and he said: "The eyes and mouth are not closed, the tongue is slightly protruding, and the strangulation marks on the neck are inverted, obviously he died by hanging." ”

"You say, he was hanged too?" Duan Changge was surprised, for a while, there were two court officials in Guiyang Mansion who hanged themselves, where could there be such a coincidence in this world?

"Huh?" Bai Hanyan looked at the corpse and said in shock, Duan Changge hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What, do you see something?" ”

Bai Hanyan shook his head, Duan Changge was quite impatient, and sneered: "Then what are you doing." ”

Bai Hanyan frowned slightly, his deep pupils seemed to be deeper, and he said in a condensed voice: "It's just that Cheng Xiao's corpse is a little strange." ”

"How strange is the law?"

Bai Hanyan picked up Cheng Xiao's official uniform, revealing a miserable white chest, which was covered with corpse spots, she pinched his muscles with her hands, slightly stiffened, she frowned very high, and said suspiciously: "This Cheng Xiao hanged himself early in the morning, his corpse stiffness is not so obvious, but this corpse spot has spread all over the body, which is really strange and incomprehensible." ”

Duan Changge's eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a round of light in his eyes: "According to the time of death, it is only six hours from early morning to now, and there will be corpse spots within one to two hours after a person dies, and in six hours, his corpse spots should not spread like this." ”

Bai Hanyan put down Cheng Xiao's clothes, nodded at him and said, "Changge, I suspect that this Cheng County Order was also killed. ”

Duan Changge was flustered by Bai Hanyan's long song, waved his hand irritably, and said impatiently: "Then go to the scene of the crime and take a look." ”