"We need to ask this person carefully." Xu Tian pointed to the direction where Lao Lai had gone.

"His house is near here, I'll take you to find him after seeing the corpse." Lao Gao said.

Xu Tian and Teacher Jin were taken to the mason's house, where several people were wandering around the courtyard, as if guarding the coffin, an old woman was crying in a muffled voice, and a man about fifty years old was sitting on the bed smoking a pipe in a daze.

"The old masons have been hit hard, let's not talk to them." Lao Gao suggested.

"Just look at the corpses." Xu Tian said.

Lao Gao said hello to the people in the courtyard, and two young men pushed the lid of the coffin down, and the legs of the corpse inside had been neatly sawn off.

"It's kind of like a machine, but if it's a machine, it's going to make a lot of noise." Teacher Jin said.

"I don't remember last night at all, it didn't snow last night, right?" Xu Tian asked.

"No, it was sunny yesterday, and you can still see the moon!" Teacher Jin said.

"Didn't you leave footprints in the yard?" Xu Tian asked.

"Almost every house's yard has been trampled on, and it's impossible to tell whose footprints it is." Lao Gao said.

Xu Tian found that there was something black on the broken leg of this corpse, Xu Tian just wanted to reach out and touch it, but Lao Gao suddenly grabbed Xu Tian's arm.

"Don't! This is not allowed, and we better not cause trouble. Lao Gao said.

Lao Gao also has a point, the deceased is the greatest, and if there is something disrespectful to the local customs in the deceased's house, I am afraid it will be difficult to end in the end.

Xu Tian and Teacher Jin had to follow Lao Gao to the next house to have a look, and walked to four families one after another, and there were some black things at the root of the thighs of the four corpses, and when the last family checked the corpses, Teacher Jin handed everyone a cigarette one by one, Xu Tian took this opportunity to rub a little black thing on the severed limbs of the corpse with a tissue.

"It's not a big discovery, every family has parked their coffins in the yard, and there is no surveillance here to view, if the family of the corpse can't provide what they heard last night, then we can't find any other clues at all." Xu Tian said.

"Don't worry, I think the problem is still in the ancestral hall, don't you feel this way?" Teacher Jin asked.

"The ancestral hall must have some connection with these five cases, but it is clear that the altar in the backyard of the ancestral hall is certainly not the scene of the first crime, at least under the table will not be the place where the deceased was beaten to death." Xu Tian said.

"Of course, the deceased must have been beaten to death outside the table, but why did the murderer stuff the deceased under the table? This move must be investigated to help track down the killer. Teacher Jin said.

"It seems that this time we are going to play psychological tactics with the murderer, the criminal psychology is very delicate, and every criminal's inner thoughts are unique, beating the deceased to death, and then stuffing the deceased under the table one after another, why did the murderer do this?" Xu Tian analyzed.

"This kind of case happens from time to time, you should have seen it in the detective, sometimes it may be that the murderer deliberately did this to disguise it as a serial homicide, it is possible that the first case was done by one person, but the deceased in the back was killed by another person, and the murderer of the later crime is to make the case look like a serial homicide done by the same person, this possibility is not impossible." Teacher Jin said.

"There is also a crucial piece of information, these five deceased are all grooms-to-be, let's go and ask about the five brides-to-be!" Xu Tian said.

"I'm afraid that's a bit wrong." Lao Gao said.

"Why? Can't they see people? Xu Tian asked.

"No, you should also know some rural traditions, after these five bridegrooms-to-be were killed, the five brides-to-be had a hard time, the villagers are spreading the word that they have the appearance of Kefu, which will make the five brides-to-be probably annoyed at home!" Lao Gao said.

"What Lao Gao said makes sense, but we can't go without asking anyone." Teacher Jin said.

"Then find the most sensible bride-to-be and ask!" Xu Tian said.

"That's fine, but it's the most sensible...... That's Xiao Wu's fiancée. Lao Gao thought for a moment and said. She shouldn't have come back yet, though. ”

"Isn't it in the village?" Xu Tian asked.

"I went down the mountain a few days ago, and before leaving, she seemed to mention something at the entrance of the village, saying that she was going to visit relatives in Lijia Village, and now that the snow has closed the mountain, I guess she won't be able to come back." Lao Gao said.

"Then ask her family, a sensible girl, her parents will not be bad." Xu Tian said.

"Her parents should be back, I'll take you there." Lao Gao said.

The girl's home was a little far away, and there was a detached house in the woods in the back mountain, which looked out of place in the village, and the architectural style was a little strange.

"Their family is an outsider, I remember they moved here in 1995, when Yingfeng was just born, Yingfeng's father used to be a hunter, and then the country banned hunting, so he switched to making fur. Yingfeng's father is a craftsman, when he came to the village, he had some savings, and he was very kind to the villagers. Lao Gao led the way and introduced it.

"Then this family should be very prestigious in the village, right?" Xu Tian asked.

"That's inevitable, everyone originally recommended Yingfeng and her father to be the leader of the villager group, but Yingfeng and his father refused to do it, I had nothing to do with Yingfeng and her father, but I don't know what's going on, he suddenly recommended me to be the leader of the villager group." Lao Gao said.

The group walked to the house, a middle-aged man was in the water at the well, that should be Yingfeng's father, but Xu Tian felt that this middle-aged man was too young, Yingfeng was born in 1995, and the man should have been less than twenty years old at that time.

"Lao Gao, I knew you would come, sit in the house first, and I'll bring this bucket of water up and then entertain you." The man said.

"Yingfeng's father, don't drag it, the two guests I brought were recommended by Mr. Xu, and they helped investigate the case!" Lao Gao said.

"Is it Mr. Xu's guest? That's the guest of our village, and it's right to put down the work in hand. The man said.

only heard a bang, and the half-dragged bucket fell into the well, and Yingfeng and his father modestly invited Xu Tian and his party into the house.