Liu Feifeng pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, his white and chubby face was full of coldness, and he strode towards the dozen kneeling corpses in front of the sacrifice table.

Crackling!

After only a few steps, he suddenly stepped on a shaking stone slab, blood and muddy water splashed on the upper of his boots and trouser legs, making him frown.

Immediately, Liu Feifeng's eyes were stunned, staring at the stone slab under his feet, but he found that there were four lines of words engraved on it.

Liu Feifeng leaned down, stretched out his hand to sweep away the silt and debris on the stone slab, stared at the four lines of words, and read out loud: "Ice and cold blood, sparse and dense wind, who wades into flowing water, relying on Shiqiaodong - what does this mean?" ”

There was a look of thought in his eyes.

"Liu Zhutou, these four sentences actually appeared with the rumors of the ghost cave, and they were all ...... two years ago." A tall and thin catcher said quickly.

"Huh? You know? ”

Liu Feifeng looked back.

Gao Slender nodded quickly and said: "It is rumored that these four sentences are also left by the ghost of Master Yuli, which involves the secret of a treasure, as long as you can decipher these four sentences, you can find the treasure." ”

"Treasure?"

Liu Feifeng raised his eyebrows, secretly wondering if the deaths of these dozen people were related to the so-called treasure?

He took a breath, got up and walked over to the sacrificial table, examining the kneeling corpse.

There were fifteen people in the dead, three of whom were women, each of whom had a lot of wounds on their bodies, their clothes were stained with blood, and the wounds were long and narrow, and the bones were deep and visible.

With Liu Feifeng's eyesight, he could naturally identify that this was a sword wound.

Liu Feifeng asked casually, "Have you figured out the identity of the deceased?" ”

The magistrate Xie Chengye shook his head, and the officials also looked at each other, and after a while, one of the officials hesitated and said: "Liu Zhutou, the woman in the middle seems to be the pillar of Caiyuntian, Miss Kangqiao, the little one has seen her performance, but she is not very sure." ”

Liu Feifeng was surprised: "Caiyuntian? ”

"It's also an acrobatic team." The officer hurried back.

Liu Feifeng looked at the woman in the middle, who was about twenty-seven or eight years old, her face was stiff and bruised, a narrow sword mark was cut at the eyebrows and eyes, and her skin and flesh were cracked, looking hideous and terrifying.

But I can vaguely tell that she should have a little charm when she is alive, no wonder the errand can't remember other people, but he can still have some impression of her.

The woman's kneeling corpse was also facing the sacrificial table, and when Liu Feifeng came closer, she found that there seemed to be something hidden in the shadow under the sacrificial table.

Liu Feifeng reached out and pulled down a black cloth, revealing a bronze box that was nearly two feet square and boxy.

He pulled the bronze box out, only to feel that it was quite heavy, afraid that it was not nearly a hundred catties, and immediately his wrist vibrated violently, lifted it out, and rested it in the open space.

"There's even a bronze box? What's hidden inside? ”

Xie Chengye's eyes widened, and he couldn't be afraid, so he hurriedly stepped forward to watch.

As soon as the county magistrate moved, the rest of the errand officers would not be idle, and they also rushed forward together, and the guards were on both sides of the industry.

The box was not locked, Liu Feifeng pressed his palm on the lid, and suddenly paused again.

Xie Chengye hurriedly said: "Liu Zhutou, why don't you open the box?" ”

"This box may be a murderer's trick, in case there is a hidden weapon mechanism in it, please take a few steps back."

Liu Feifeng said and waved his hand again, and there were several messengers standing in front of Xie Chengye.

Liu Feifeng slowly drew his knife, stood on the side of the box, and stabbed the bronze cover with a blade and pried it fiercely.

Boom!

The lid of the box was suddenly lifted, and a series of irrepressible exclamations suddenly sounded at the scene, and everyone's eyes lit up, staring at the contents of the bronze box, breathing rapidly, and swallowing saliva with difficulty.

Not to mention the ordinary errand soldiers, even Xie Chengye pushed the two errand officers who stood in front of him away, and hurriedly stepped forward to take a look.

"Golden Dragon?!"

Xie Chengye's eyes widened and he exclaimed.

Under the light of the fire, the bronze box shone brightly, the golden light flashed, and it was a lifelike, vivid, like a living thing, about two feet long.

On the contrary, Liu Feifeng was still able to keep calm, he swept his gaze, in addition to the golden dragon in the bronze box, there was also a piece of cloth, he grabbed it with his hand, and took it out.

Shaking his hand in front of him, there was text on the cloth, Liu Feifeng glanced at it a few times, and his face immediately changed.

"Look, my lord!"

He immediately presented the silk book to Xie Chengye.

Xie Chengye withdrew his gaze lingering on Jin Long, took the silk book and read it suspiciously, and after a while, his face changed.

"I see! I see! ”

Xie Chengye was so excited that his whole body trembled, and he didn't know if it was because he was afraid or excited.

"It turns out that this golden dragon turned out to be a tribute from the king of the Western Regions to the saint, this case ...... The case...... What a big case! ”

Two years ago, there was a big robbery in Jiangning Mansion that shook the government and the opposition.

Chen Yongshou, the general of Ningyuan, was ordered to escort a batch of official silver and a golden dragon presented by the king of the Western Regions to the capital, but was robbed and killed by murderers on the way through Jiangning Mansion, Chen Yongshou and his two hundred generals were all killed, and the tribute was also looted.

When the matter reached Beijing, the court was shaken, and Emperor Long Yan was furious, and ordered Jiangning Mansion to investigate the case thoroughly, but there were no clues to be found in two years, so that more than a dozen officials were affected and removed from office.

It was because of this incident that he had the opportunity to make up for the vacancy in Guangdezhi County.

And now that the golden dragon has been found, this is the credit of the heavens.

Xie Chengye read the silk book carefully, his face gradually turned from excitement to anger, and he said sharply: "Bold thief, rob official silver, kill people and kill people!" It's really a crime that deserves death, robbing the family and destroying the clan, and dying like this, it's also cheaper for them. ”

According to the silk book, the fifteen kneeling corpses in this ghost cave are the thieves who looted the tribute at the beginning, namely Kang Qiao, Lei Shi, Xiong Yan, Ren Zongyuan and others.

These people were originally from the original Yuli acrobatic class, because Chen Yongshou was an acrobatic fan, he met them on the way and invited them to go to the capital together, and they took the opportunity to kill them in the middle of the road and rob the tribute.

It is also mentioned in the silk book that Yuli was killed by them because she did not want to be in the same stream with them.

Xie Chengye read it, put the silk book in his sleeve, but snorted coldly: "Of course, this group of thieves deserves a thousand cuts, Chen Yongshou is also self-defeating, not worthy of mercy, the saint ordered him to escort the tribute, what a secret secret, but because of his own preferences, he invited people to accompany him, so dereliction of duty, it is really damned." ”

As a civil official, he is contemptuous of a military general like Chen Yongshou and has no sympathy.

Liu Feifeng had already closed the bronze box again, stepped forward and said, "My lord, according to this opinion, the death of these people should be someone who is avenging General Ning Yuan or Yuli, we may be able to check whether these two people still have relatives ......." ”

"Not bad!"

Xie Chengye nodded in agreement, and then snorted: "Even if these people deserve to die ten thousand times, they will be judged by the laws of the imperial court, how can the people next to them be qualified to kill them?" The murderer acted so recklessly, it was simply lawless, and if he didn't put the law of the king of the Great Song Dynasty in his eyes, the official must bring him to justice to set ......an example. ”

Before Xie Chengye's words fell, an exclamation came out, and only one catcher shouted: "Lord Xie, Liu Zhutou, come and see ...... here." ”

The voice was rapid and sharp, revealing an irrepressible tone of shock.

Xie Chengye, Liu Feifeng and the two hurriedly looked over, only to see two catchers standing on the left side of the stone cave, looking up with torches.

At the height of the cave wall, a deep palm print appeared.

Liu Feifeng rushed over, staring at the palm print, his pupils were already contracting, and his face showed an unprecedented look of horror.

It was a palm print nearly a foot deep into the cave wall, and in the center of the palm print, it was a token made of bronze material.

It looked like someone had pressed the bronze token into the cave wall with a palm.

Liu Feifeng's face sank, and with a low cry in his throat, a knife slashed out and fell on the wall of the cave.

"Dang" sounded of gold and iron, the echo in the ghost cave sounded, the steel knife and the cave wall collided together, splashing a brilliant spark, and then a huge anti-shock force pushed Liu Feifeng's figure backwards.

Liu Feifeng's face became more and more ugly, and even his breathing seemed to have frozen.

The walls of this cave were all hard rock, and the texture was not inferior to that of gold and iron, and he slashed it with all his strength, leaving a shallow knife mark on it, but now someone struck it with a palm, directly into a foot, and pressed a bronze token into it.

If this man is the murderer, what an incredible master?