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"It's new." Pei Shuti stirred his sword in the ash heap, and his tone was a little disappointed: "It's already rotten." ”

The houses here are so badly damaged that many of the houses are only half left, and the paper ash is wet with the leaking rainwater, so naturally nothing can be found.

They delayed in the study for about a quarter of an hour and found two clear shoe prints, based on which Chen Ying preliminarily concluded that the owner of the shoe print was about 1.75 meters tall, and judging from the pattern of the sole of the boot, it should be a man.

In addition, Chen Ying also found a few fingerprints on the windowsill and stool, but in this ancient period where there was no fingerprint identification, these fingerprints did not have much effect.

After confirming that they could no longer find anything valuable, everyone left the study and searched the tea room, the gatehouse and other places, but found nothing.

After searching the outer courtyard, they marched towards the second courtyard, and Lang Tingyu still opened the way, cutting down all the vines and weeds at the second gate, so as to make it easier for everyone to move forward.

There were only three entrances in this village, and there were more houses in the second gate than in the first, and they searched as usual, but still found nothing.

The last to enter the courtyard is the back house of the female dependents, but the hanging flower gate is not on the central axis. They searched for a while, only to realize that it was hidden behind a large photo wall.

"It's a weird pattern." Pei Shu said as he walked inside.

Chen Ying agreed: "This wall is usually behind the Hanging Flower Gate, but here it is placed in front, and the Hanging Flower Gate is not in the middle, but deviates from it a long way, which is really strange." ”

As they spoke, they turned to look at the wall.

And when they saw what they saw, everyone stopped.

The vermilion lacquer on the hanging flower door is still there, the small bridge in the garden is still the same, the pavilion is still there, and the white stone paved on the cross road is also clearly recognizable.

The scene of this inner house is actually sweeping away the desolation of the first two courtyards, as if someone lives here.

Lang Tingyu immediately looked vigilant, raised the broadsword, Ye Qing also took out the iron whip, and Pei Shu was guarding in front of Chen Ying, the long sword in his hand was pointing diagonally to the ground, and the tip of the sword was dripping with water droplets.

The rain rustled and fell so quietly that you couldn't even hear your breathing, and there was a tense atmosphere in the air.

Chen Ying led her neck forward from behind Lang Tingyu, carefully observed the scene in the garden, and after a few breaths, she put away the dagger and said calmly: "There should be no one in this place." ”

Although the pavilion was relatively clean, the ground, including the verandah, was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, on which there were no traces of footprints, and those places that were not drenched in rain were also very thick with floating ash. In addition, the cobwebs under the roof beams do not look like they are newly knotted.

By all indications, it has not been visited for at least a year.

"That's true." Pei Shu said, shook off the rain on the sword, and said to Lang Tingyu: "Lead the way." ”

The crowd lined up in a column and slowly entered the garden.

The west wind was bleak, bringing the smell of decayed grass and trees, Chen Ying took a few steps and suddenly walked on the ground.

There was a familiar smell in the wind.

In her mind, the appearance of a cold morgue immediately appeared.

It was a place that Mr. Detective frequented, and the room filled the formalin with this indescribable aura.

"I'm afraid there are dead people in this courtyard." Chen Ying reminded.

When Pei Shu and the others heard this, their faces were all awe-inspiring, and after stepping on the verandah, they started from the room on the left and searched one by one.

Although the courtyard here is neat, the houses have not been repaired for many years, and like the two previous courtyards, most of them have collapsed, and you can see the inside from the outside.

The body was found in the ancestral hall.

There was a big iron lock hanging on the door of the ancestral hall, and the rust had rusted the lock to death, and even so, the smell still floated out of the rotten window, and Chen Ying looked out of the window, and saw bones on the ground, both human and animal.

When Lang Tingyu cut the iron lock and everyone walked in, she realized that all these bones had traces of being gnawed by wild beasts, and some of them were abnormally purple-black.

"Toxic." Ye Qing stood up from a pile of black bones and said in a deep voice.

She probably wanted to say that there were signs of poisoning on these bones, Chen Ying nodded, but she was a little uncertain in her heart.

The color of the bones alone could tell if they were poisoned, which she thought was arbitrary.

However, this inference may also be valid given the large number of animal bones in the vicinity, including a considerable number of medium and large animals, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why so many carnivores died here.

"If you eat poisonous dead human flesh, you will naturally die of poison." Lang Tingyu said, while being careful not to step on those broken bones.

Chen Ying carefully observed the situation in the room and said, "I just counted, there are nineteen skulls. ”

In other words, there were at least nineteen dead bodies here.

"You have to clean up all the bones to know how many people have died." She added.

It is likely that some of the skulls were dragged away by the beasts, and it is not accurate to rely on this alone to determine the number of dead.

Pei Shu did not speak.

He lowered his eyes slightly, looking at the white bones scattered under his feet, and his face was a little hideous.

However, the expression soon dissipated again, and he turned his head to look around, and frowned, "There are no young children. ”

The human bones in the ancestral hall were all adults, and Chen Ying did not see the corpses of children.

However, in the legend, Princess Kang took the little county king and the little county lord to hide in the mountains, and if they all died, there should be the bones of the children.

Could it be that the legend is wrong?

"Your Majesty is benevolent, but you have been taken advantage of by some people's evil thoughts, it is really contemptible!" Pei Shu's cold voice sounded, and Sen Ran was like a blade.

Chen Ying glanced at him.

Since entering Beizhuang, Pei Shu's face has been a little gloomy, and even more so at this time, as if he has a bitter hatred for this place.

"Let's look elsewhere." Pei Shu was the first to walk out the door, and the tall figure was embedded in the twilight, inexplicably showing a little gloomy.

Chen Ying looked at him and always felt that Pei Shu's mood had changed a little strangely.

The group searched the remaining places and found six pairs of bones, the color of these bones was different from the former, all of them were normal gray-white, and each bone had different degrees of external force injuries, bone cracks, broken bones, and so on.

Of course, these external injuries can also be caused by animals, after all, the age is old, the body has long been gnawed by animals, and there are countless traces on it, even experienced forensic doctors must use instruments to determine the origin of these injuries.