Chapter 35: The Headless Horseman (5)
Now only one person is still alive, and only the scholar Zhang Bao is left, who is locked in a cell and protected.
"Now where are we going to find evidence?" Su Zimo asked.
"Now? We can only wait quietly for the murderer to be present, Miss Su, En...... If I told you that I need you to catch this headless ghost with me now, would you be willing? Di Renjie said.
"What? What are you kidding? Di Renjie, no...... Absolutely not! ”
"Su ...... There is no such thing as a ghost in this world, all you have to do now is face the fear in your heart, the headless ghost, which is the fear in your heart! Di Renjie said.
"No...... No...... I'm scared ......."
"Okay, okay, think about it again, now the murderer is still at large, and only by catching this headless ghost can more people be prevented from dying, so, Su Zimo, you are the daughter of the general, isn't it your responsibility to catch the murderer?"
"This............ But...... I remember that night and I was scared ............"
"Don't be afraid, I will always protect you and accompany your ............" Hearing Di Renjie say this, Su Zimo seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, and just nodded firmly.
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"Are you all ready? Be careful! Luo Yun pointed to a cart of things and said.
"Brother Luo, what is this?" Di Renjie asked, and as he spoke, he was about to uncover it and take a look.
"Eh, Huaiying Huaiying, these are some ordinary black powder, be careful!"
"Black powder? What is it used for? ”
"These are newly made black powder, I will send it to the warehouse, and we will send it to the capital together in a few days!"
"That's right, the imperial court has never allowed people to sell and hide gunpowder without permission, so be very careful Brother Luo!" At this time, Zhang Bao had been escorted out by the two yamen messengers,
"Let's go, you're free!"
"Huh? What the? Did you just let me go? Zhang Bao asked puzzled.
"Yes, otherwise what do you want, is it possible that you still want to spend the New Year in the prison cell?"
"No, no, no, okay, then thank you big brother!" Zhang Bao said happily and ran home.
In the early autumn weather, it was getting dark relatively quickly, Zhang Bao was sleeping at home, and suddenly heard a knock on the stairs!
Heavy footsteps, step by step, getting closer and closer, through the light, I saw a headless general outside the door.
"Come on, it's not good!" Zhang Bao shouted loudly. At this time, a little cold light was reflected on Zhang Bao's face, Su Zimo held the sword tightly in his hand, and General Yu began to fight around him, the headless general is not a vegetarian, although he has no head, he can move freely.
Thinking of the events of that day, Su Zimo had palpitations, in order to complete the task, and to see if this so-called murderer was a human or a ghost, she stabbed with her sword, but the armor was very hard, and she couldn't pierce it!
Zhang Bao was so frightened that he hid under the bed, Di Zhixun had already led the officials to surround this place!
"Say it! Who are you? Stop pretending to be a ghost! Su Zimo said.
"No need to ask, whoever is missing here, he is who, right, Brother Luo!" Everyone's eyes widened at this moment,
"What? What did you say? Headless ghosts are ...... Is it Luo Zhutou? Di Renjie walked over step by step,
"Will you kill me?" Di Renjie asked. The headless general moved, stretched out his hand to untie his armor, layer by layer, revealing a Luo Yun's face.
"Huh? Luo Yun? How...... How could it be you? Di Zhixon was surprised.
"Yes, I did everything, but ...... But I don't regret it, they all deserve to die, not only them, but every prisoner, they deserve to die, they do a lot of evil, why were they released after only a few days? I will do the way for heaven and slaughter them, and I will miss one ...... I was just one short of my wish, but why is God so cruel that he can't even fulfill this last wish? ”
"Brother Luo, I didn't expect the murderer to be really you! I always thought you just hated those prisoners, but I didn't expect you to be a murderer! In order to confuse the investigators, you deliberately used the method of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth to kill people, and the first four people used them respectively, gold, wood, water, and fire, and the next one to be killed by the earth, we always thought it was Han Biao, but in fact it was not, it was Zhang Bao! I think the black powder we saw in the afternoon must have been used here! You're going to blow up this house and bury Zhang Bao alive! Luo Yun smiled and threw the armor aside,
"That's right, I buried these black powders underneath, these bastards, who don't have a few lives in their hands, they are just a bunch of garbage, no matter how serious the crime is, no matter how long they sit in prison, it is far better to let them die and be relieved. My father, eldest sister and second sister, my family all died at the hands of prisoners, I originally thought that coming to Bingzhou as a small head catcher would make me forget my hatred, but my wife was also raped and killed by prisoners! I swore in front of the spirit of my wife Ziyun that I would kill these beasts and kill them all, there should be no prisoners in this world, they should die as long as they sin! Di Renjie, you are very smart, but I think everything is seamless, how can you see through it! ”
"Because of your clothes, I remember that night when you were drunk and I went to look for you, we saw the headless corpse passing by us, I was curious, that headless corpse killed people on sight, but didn't do anything to us! Then we spent the night in the mountains, we all fell asleep, and when we woke up in the morning, they said that my clothes were wet with dew, but I found that your clothes were not wet with dew, and this kind of weather, it is more dewy, and it is normal for your clothes to be wet with dew, but your clothes are very clean, even dry. Later, we found the headless body of a homeless man on the mountain, a homeless man, who was actually beheaded and died in a ruined temple. Di Renjie paused and continued,
"Actually, that day you wanted to make evidence for yourself that you were no longer there, to kill the homeless, to put the homeless man's body under the armor, to drive the horse forward, although the homeless man was dead, but the horse was alive, and it kept going, and we didn't even notice it. Miss Jing can't ride a horse and her ankles are rubbed red by stirrups, and that tramp can't ride a horse, and he has the same red spots on his feet! ”
"That's right, that night, I deliberately pretended to have a recurrence of my old illness and fell on the roof, but in fact I arranged everything in the room, got on my horse, and then prepared tung oil, and burned it alive. After I killed Han Biao, I originally wanted to leave, but I was still unwilling, and planned to ignite the black powder tonight and die with Zhang Bao! ”
"You said that Han Biao asked you to build a door because he was afraid that others would make him sleep! In fact, you built the door yourself, so that you can commit murder, and after you kill someone, you hide behind the wooden door and wait for others to arrive before blending into the crowd! At that time, I knew that Luo Yun, you must have something to do with the murderer! ”
"Di Renjie, aren't you leaving? Are they all waiting for the gunpowder to detonate? ”
"What do you want to do? Brother Luo, don't be obsessed anymore, go back! ”
"Turn back?" Luo Yun said with a smile,
"There's no going back, Di Renjie, you are good people, you go quickly! Come on! At that moment, a figure kicked in through the window,
"Master Di, are you all right?"
"Jotty! We're fine! Luo Yun had already been taken down by the officials who pounced on him, and I saw him smile and say,
"The winner is the king, the loser Kou, Di Renjie, lose in the hands of you Di Renjie, I am convinced!"
"Brother Luo! Why are you so confused? Could it be that your parents and family desperately protected you from the robbers in the first place, didn't they just want you to live well? They are in the spirit of heaven and do not want to see such an ending! ”
"Hehe, it's too late to say anything now, Di Renjie, thank you, and be willing to call me Brother Luo! We, in the next life, will be brothers again! Luo Yun said, took a Yacha's knife and cut it on his head.
………… Chang'an, Imperial Palace.
"Wonderful! Di Renjie is really a master of solving cases, and in just a few months, he has repeatedly solved strange cases in Bingzhou! Li Zhi saw Di Zhixun's merger and state performance, and applauded.
"Your Majesty, Princess Changle has returned from Tubo, if she hears you praise Di Renjie like this, maybe how will she make trouble?" Xiao Anzi said with a smile.
"That's right!" Li Zhi folded the music together,
"Since Di Renjie ran away from marriage that year, Changle has hated Di Renjie in his heart, no wonder, the dignified princess of the Tang Dynasty, but was humiliated like this by a grass people, I want to kill him when I think of this!" In Bingzhou City, after the ghost knight case was solved, there was a peaceful atmosphere, Di Renjie was dressed in plain clothes, carrying a basket of paper money in his hand, and in front of him was a tombstone, which was the joint burial place of Luo Yun and his wife Ziyun.
Di Renjie burned the paper money to the two, which can be regarded as reassuring the heart of a good brother.