Chapter 31: The Headless Horseman (1)
Those who rushed to the morning market this morning will probably never forget today, in the street market, a headless corpse was lying in the middle of the road, with a scarlet wound on the neck, blood flowing all over the ground, the scene was extremely terrifying, and even Luo Yun, the knife head who arrived, was forced to frown by the smell of blood that penetrated into his nostrils.
"Who is this murderer, who is sacred, and he is so cruel!" Luo Yun said to Di Renjie.
"No other traces were found at the scene, the head was cut off with a knife, the wound was very flat, it seems that he is a master!"
"You guys, carry the corpse to the yamen morgue first!"
"Yes!" Saying that, a few arresters hurried together, put Zhang Yuanwai's headless body on a stretcher, and carried it to the yamen.
Di Renjie pinched his nose, and a line of horseshoe prints on the ground surprised him, so he used a handkerchief to stretch it down.
Dickinson sat in the lobby, flipping through the file, and at that moment, Taugan Marong came in and said,
"Master Di, another headless corpse has been found!"
"This is the third time this month, what did you find at the scene?" Dickinson asked.
"There wasn't anything left at the scene except for the shattered jar, oh yes, look at this horseshoe print!" Tao Gan handed Di Renjie's horseshoe print to Di Zhixun.
Luo Yun leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but interject: "This is the horseshoe print of the horse in the Western Regions, our Datang Dynasty, there is no such majestic and strong horse's hoof!" ”
"You do!" Taugan asked.
"Hehe, have you heard of Chang'an Luo's family?" Dickinson said with a smile.
"Although I am in the rivers and lakes, but the name of the Luo family in Chang'an, I have also heard of it, the Luo family has served as His Majesty's Imperial Horse Supervisor for generations, and they are all masters ......of horses, but unfortunately, ten years ago, they suddenly suffered a catastrophe and the family was wiped out."
"No, Tao Gan, you are wrong, the Luo family was not all destroyed, a woman fled with a teenager in the chaos that day, so not all the Luo family in Chang'an were killed."
"You...... How do you know so clearly? Could it be that you are ......" Tao Gan's hand was raised in the air, he had already realized Luo Yun's identity, and at this moment, it seemed that Luo Yun's scars for many years had been suddenly revealed, and he felt a little sad in his heart.
"Ten years ago, there was a earth shake in Yanzhou, not only countless casualties, but even collapsed the Yanzhou prison, which should have been to be beheaded death row prisoners were released from the prison, this is a group of outlaws, they began to burn and loot in the villages on the outskirts of Yanzhou, all kinds of evil, maybe it is the will of God, Chang'an Luo Gongchou family returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors, a total of 36 people with a family, except for a woman desperately escaped with a teenager, were killed by this group of robbers!" Dickinson sighed.
Luo Yun's lips moved, and a little tear oozed from the corners of his eyes, as if he had returned to that day, his father desperately protected his mother and him, fought his way out of the encirclement, and finally escaped, his mother was seriously injured and died, if he hadn't met his master, I'm afraid Luo Yun would have starved to death in the wild.
He sat alone on the rooftop, drinking in the white moonlight. Suddenly heard movement behind him, pulled out his saber, and put it across the man's neck, Di Renjie said with a smile,
"Eh, Brother Luo, it's me, Di Renjie!"
"Huaiying?" Luo Yun put the knife back into its scabbard,
"You're still resting so late!"
"Brother Luo, you haven't rested, today I listened to my father and suddenly realized, it turns out that you are from the Luo family in Chang'an!" Luo Yun waved his hand and said,
"Chang'an Luo's family, it's already history, it's like my last life, it's nothing, everything has passed, do you know why I aspire to be a knife head? I hope that one day, I can bring all the murderers to justice, so that the world will be clear! ”
"Brother Luo, I like to investigate cases, you like to catch thieves, we will cooperate happily in the future!"
"Well, happy cooperation, come, drink!" Seeing the two people on the roof talking happily, and Su Zimo below also had a smile, the capital, the General's Mansion, and here are a completely different atmosphere, she was very happy at this moment.
But soon, her face was submerged in deep darkness.
"Master Di! Master Di! Miss Jing is injured! Tao Gan and Ma Rong walked in carrying a stretcher, and Miss Jing was lying on the stretcher.
"Huh? What's wrong? Di Renjie jumped off the roof and ran to Miss Jingshu,
"Are you alright?"
"Not much, it's just that when I was collecting medicine, I was bitten by a poisonous snake on my foot, but fortunately, the poisonous blood has been released!" Miss Jing gritted her teeth,
"It's okay, fortunately, the venom of this poisonous snake is not very serious!"
"Didn't I tell you two to take good care of Miss Jing? Why are I bitten by a venomous snake? Di Renjie said to Tao Gan Ma Rong and the others, although the voice was not very eye-catching, but they could hear that they were extremely concerned about Miss Jingshu, so they blamed Tao Gan Ma Rong and the others.
All this was naturally seen by Su Zimo, and Su Zimo had a strange feeling in his heart, but he didn't know what it was, this was a feeling that he had never felt before.
In the morgue, three corpses were lying side by side, and the atmosphere was extremely terrifying.
"Have you found out who they are?"
"Check it out, the one who died before was Zhou Peng, a rice merchant, Han Ming, a salt merchant, and the one who died last night was Zhang Kai, a famous silk merchant in Bingzhou, but the cause of death was different, Qin Ming checked it, Zhou Peng was pushed into the lake and drowned, Han Ming was stabbed into his mouth with a wooden stick and died, and Zhang Yuanwai of silk was directly beheaded by the murderer!"
"Did you find the head?" Zhang Cambodia asked.
"Well, not yet, except for the horseshoe prints on the scene, nothing has been found!" In the sky above Bingzhou City, two figures flew by, one was elegant, he was a chivalrous man, but because of Di Renjie's life-saving grace, he stayed by Di Zhixun's side and became the guard of the Di family, and the other was also a young hero, with an official knife in his hand.
Qiao Tai said: "We have been out for a long time, and we have not found anything. ”
"Yes, is Master Di mistaken, it's such a cold day, why don't we go back first!" Taugan said.
Di Renjie and Di Zhixun, carrying oil lamps, were looking through the information of several deceased.
"Dad, look, Zhou Peng was arrested and imprisoned for manslaughter in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, and was released in the twentieth year of Zhenguan, Han Ming, in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, was imprisoned for the crime of robbery, and was released in the twentieth year of Zhenguan, and that one was opened, Zhenguan was imprisoned in thirteen years, and Zhenguan was released in twenty years!" Dickinson sighed and said,
"In the twentieth year of Zhenguan, the first emperor granted amnesty to the world, otherwise, he would rush to the crimes of these people, but I am afraid that they will not be released until now. It seems that the murderer is targeting the batch of prisoners released by Zhenguan for 20 years! ”
"Zhenguan for 20 years, I will never forget that day, I witnessed the bandits, and even insulted the body of my second sister, they cut off the heads of all the people in Luofu with knives, all 36 people were killed, and even a few good horses were snatched away by thieves, my mother desperately rescued me, which allowed me to escape." After Luo Yun finished speaking, he walked out alone.