Harrier forest in the west of the city.

At this time, the night is already halfway through, hundreds of insects are dormant, and the night is quiet and terrifying.

Han Yan was walking on the path next to the wild forest with a lantern in his hand, and suddenly, the mournful cry of an owl sounded in his ears, he squinted his eyes, and saw a flock of nighthawks flying endlessly, as if he had seen something terrible, and he did not dare to sleep peacefully on the top of the tree.

And at this moment, his eyebrows suddenly condensed, it was blood, and he smelled the blood.

Han Yan held his breath and walked carefully, only to feel that there seemed to be several figures hidden in the forest, and the murderous aura was terrifying.

He slowed down his pace, carrying the lantern and slowly moving towards the forest, and the shadows lurking in the forest also moved with him, and the atmosphere was terrifying in the treacherous.

Han Yan clenched his palms tightly, his eyes were slightly sharp, and he took three steps and two steps into the forest, and he was surprised to find that there was no human figure here, but there was a big pit seven feet long and three feet wide in the clearing in the middle, and the strong blood he smelled came from this pit.

"Hey! Giggle! ”

Suddenly, a sharp and eerie laughter came from the top of his head, and it sounded extremely harsh, as if the evil ghost showed its snow-white sharp teeth, which made people shudder.

"Who's here?" He scolded.

Han Yan's words startled a burst of birds and insects at night, and then the weird laughter disappeared.

There was a dead silence around him, which made Han Yan vigilant, he set his eyes on the big pit again, raised his feet and walked slowly towards it, the closer he got closer, the bloody aura became heavier and heavier.

Han Yan stood still beside the pit, raised the lantern a little, and slowly lowered his head to look, but he couldn't help but widen his eyes in horror, and there were two corpses of a man and a woman in the big pit.

Han Yan was horrified in his heart, why did there be two corpses here, could it be that the secret Qiao Chu said was these two corpses?

After thinking about it, he put down the lantern and prepared to jump into the pit, carefully measuring the corpse.

But before he could jump, there was a sound behind him, followed by the sound of something rubbing the ground.

Han Yan looked back vigilantly, and this glance really startled him, because there was a person behind him struggling to crawl towards him.

At this time, he could no longer be said to be a person, he had already lost half of his body, his hands were clasped on the ground and he was moving forward, with bloody intestines behind him, his head and face were full of blood, and he repeated a few words in his mouth: "What about my legs, where are my legs......"

Han Yan naturally didn't believe in ghosts and gods, and he was a little bolder than ordinary people, so he cautiously walked to his side and leaned down and said, "Brother, who harmed you?" ”

"Demon ......"

Before he could finish a word, the man tilted his head and swallowed.

Han Yan was in a lot of emotion at this time, he didn't believe in the demons, he just didn't know if all this was designed by Qiao Chu, but out of the intuition of the pusher, he knew that these three people were definitely killed, but he also had a hunch in his heart that this matter would never be so simple.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly got up and planned to leave, but it was too late, and suddenly there was a fire in the forest, and then a group of officials and soldiers came one after another, surrounding him and the three corpses.

Han Yan looked coldly at the extremely eye-catching soldiers in this group of servants, and couldn't help frowning.

An ominous feeling arose.

Sure enough, a man slowly walked out of the crowd, with a long sword at his waist, a red armor and iron armor, and a red robe hunting and fluttering in the wind, dazzling his whole person like a burning fire, stabbing people unable to open their eyes.

Han Yanden was sure that this person was the commander of Guiyang, the emperor's appointed dragon and tiger general, Duan Changge.

No, it should be Zhu Changge, because he had a meritorious role in saving the driver during Zhu Gaosui's mutiny, and Emperor Yongle gave the surname Zhu a knighthood, plus the soldiers he led were all descendants of 300,000 soldiers sent down to garrison Guiyang when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power.

Han Yan couldn't help but aim at the corpse of the man in the pit behind him, he was wearing Mingguang armor, although he had no token and no military rank, he was well-dressed, there was only one possibility for such a vacant warrior in the military formation, that is, the commander of the envoy, and he was also a confidant.

"Arrest him!" Duan Changge flicked his robe, and his deep voice exuded irresistible majesty and anger.

The soldier behind him answered, striding towards Han Yan, and the coldness on his body made people tremble.

"Wait." Han Yan's voice was neither high nor low, but it was loud, and when Duan Changge heard this, Junxiu's face changed.

Han Yan had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he clasped his fists at him and said, "The lower official will see Commander Duan." ”

Duan Changge's dark eyes were empty, and the corners of his mouth hooked slightly: "Xiaguan? ”

Han Yan is neither humble nor arrogant: "Xia Guan is the new official Han Yan in Guiyang."

"A six-grade pusher?" Duan Changge's voice was not happy or angry: "Even so, killing someone should be beheaded to pay for his life." ”

"How can the commander determine that I killed him? Am I the only one who is next to this corpse? ”

"was arrested, and Han Tuiguan actually had a lot of words."

Duan Changge's words were a little heavy, revealing his tough aura that the dragon and tiger general could not refuse.

Han Yan was unmoved, and raised a pair of black eyes to look at him: "Lord Duan said with a smile, how can I kill three people in such a short period of time with my adult in front of and behind him?" ”

Duan Changge sneered: "Then how do you explain that you appeared in this wilderness in the middle of the night, and there were three corpses beside you so coincidentally?" ”

Han Yan pursed his lips slightly, but he had a plan in his heart, and he couldn't reveal anything about Qiao Chu in prison.

Duan Changge saw that he bowed his head and was silent, his face was cold, and there was a hidden majesty around him: "Come on, tie him up for me!" ”

"Yes!" The soldier who had just paused walked towards him again, Han Yan's hands in his sleeves were clenched tightly, and suddenly his body trembled slightly, and he actually laughed bitterly.

Duan Changge's face was gloomy: "What are you laughing at?" ”

At this time, Han Yan had already been carried behind him by the soldiers with his hands with ropes, he raised his long and narrow eyes and glanced at Duan Changge, his voice was still very soft: "It's just that I didn't expect that I would be the commander of the second grade of the Daming Dynasty, and the case would be so sloppy." ”

Duan Changge raised his legs and walked to Han Yan's side, staring at him condescendingly, and suddenly he raised his arm lightly and slowly loosened his restraints, and the corners of his lips gently opened a smile line: "No one has ever dared to point at the official's nose and say that the official handled the case sloppily, you are so bold." ”

"It's a matter of family life, and there is no room for the subordinate to be cowardly, can Commander Duan give the subordinate a chance to prove that the subordinate is innocent." Han Yan rubbed his hands and said respectfully.

"Why should I give you this opportunity?"

"If within half an hour, the subordinate can't prove that he is innocent, and he doesn't work hard to command the envoy to do it, the subordinate will kill himself in front of these three people."

Duan Changge looked at his confident appearance, and suddenly became a little interested: "Okay, this official has left you this opportunity, within a quarter of an hour, if you can prove that you didn't kill the person, this official will let you go, otherwise you will apologize." ”

Han Yan touched his wrist and raised his eyes to look directly at the bottom of his eyes: "Okay." ”

With that, he raised his leg and walked to the side of the half of the corpse, stretched out his hand and turned him over, the deceased's face was hideous, his eyes were slightly protruding, his lips were purple, and there were signs of poisoning, and the flesh and skin of his waist and abdomen were not flat, and it would not be injured by an ordinary sword. 3

Han Yan frowned slightly, opened his lips and said: "This person is about thirty, the time of death is not more than half an hour, he was stopped by someone and broken, and he was poisoned before he died, and the main cause of death was excessive blood loss." The skin and flesh at the fracture are turned out, uneven, the murder weapon should be iron wire and copper wire, etc., the murderer must have amazing arm strength and extraordinary martial arts, otherwise it is difficult to cut it in half. ”

"That doesn't prove that you didn't kill people!" The lieutenant in the silver armor behind Duan Changge couldn't help but question.

Han Yan turned around and saw Duan Changge clasping his hands on his chest, looking like he was watching a good show, Han Yan slowly straightened up, and his lips curled with a hint of provocation: "Yes, although I can't clear my suspicion, adults can search my body to see if I have a murder weapon on my body." ”

The deputy general was angry but he looked domineering, and he was about to search his body when he raised his leg, but Duan Changge stretched out his hand to stop him, he raised his eyebrows and squinted at Han Yan, but said to the deputy general: "It's just a gadget, where to find it if you throw it away, you let him continue." ”

Han Yan ignored him, and jumped straight into the pit and walked to the corpses of a man and a woman.

He walked up to the two of them, and a strange feeling came to him, but he couldn't tell what was weird.

Looking at the two of them dying peacefully, their faces were pale, and their clothes were neat, as if they were asleep, it made people have the illusion of being a mandarin duck with the same fate.

Han Yan stretched out his hand and touched the bodies of the two, his body was not stiff, he pulled up his clothes and looked at them, and found that the woman's corpse spots spread to his back, while the man only had a few pieces on his arms, twisted his eyebrows, and opened his lips and said:

"The two of them died at different times, the woman about two hours ago, and the man one hour ago."

Han Yan stretched out his hand to touch down, his abdomen did not rise, he frowned without a trace, opened the eyelids of the two respectively, and found that there were petechiae in the eye membranes of the two people, a small amount of mushroom-like foam on the mouth and nose, and there were no bruises on their faces.

But the strange thing is that the clothes on these two people are neat, and they are not wet and dizzy, and they can't help muttering: "Strange." ”

"How strange?" The deputy general of the silver helmet had already squatted beside the pit in his robe at some point, and when he saw that Han Yan's autopsy was a method, he couldn't help but look at him curiously.

Han Yan's eyes were slightly deep: "The two of them died by drowning, but the clothes on their bodies were neat and not wrinkled, and there was no goosebump on the surface of their skin, which means that they did not fall into the water and drown, this kind of death is really a bit weird." ”

"Is it possible that someone held down and drowned in the water?" The lieutenant scratched his head and speculated.

"If you die like this, your head will be down, and your blood will flow back to your head, and your face will be flushed, but your skin will be pale, and you won't die like this."

"After all that, you still can't prove that you didn't kill the person?" Duan Changge's deep voice sounded behind him, with obvious impatience.

"Two hours ago, the official arrived here, and now the luggage is still in the Ning'an Inn, although the adults went to check, and when I checked the bodies, I found that the two people had dark red scratches on their bodies, which were obviously caused by the blood flow after death, and the lower official guessed that it was the murderer who moved the corpses here and moved the bodies of the two people vigorously, as long as the traces on the lower official and his two bodies were compared, the results were clear at a glance."

After that, Han Yan walked in front of the two of them, picked up the clothes of the male corpse, and compared them with the traces, sure enough, the palm marks were a little longer than him, he turned around and raised his eyebrows to look at Duan Changge, and said, "Commander Duan can see clearly?" ”

After Han Yan finished speaking, the deputy general of the silver helmet couldn't help but look at it, and if it was really as Han Yan said, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Lord Duan, it's really as this person said, so I'm afraid this person is not a murderer." ”

Duan Changge's expression did not change when he heard this, and the corners of his lips rose slightly, but he sneered: "But you still can't show evidence to prove that you didn't kill the person, and this official has to remind you that a quarter of an hour is coming." ”

Han Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at Changge, seeing that there was a bit of banter in his eyes, he couldn't help but be angry, this long song was clearly making things difficult for himself, and he just rushed into him, so he was so eager to report it, his slightly narrowed eyes smiled coldly and said: "I didn't expect that the dignified second-grade commander was not only sloppy in handling the case, but also not brainy." ”

"Presumptuous!" The deputy general held one hand on the hilt of the knife, and was about to step forward to scold Han Yan, but was stopped by Duan Changge, only to hear Duan Changge look at Han Yan condescendingly, and said softly: "You seem to be very confident?" ”

Han Yan raised his face and looked at Duan Changge, and his momentum did not lend off: "I can naturally prove that I have nothing to do with this half of the people, not only that, but I also know who moved these two bodies here." ”