A group of people rode horses all the way away, and after walking in the direction where the sound came from for a short while, they saw Gu Changqing's moon-white clothes fluttering in the cold wind.

"Hey, what are you doing alone at the top of the mountain?"

Yan Mu walked over with a smile, but Xie Ling kept following behind a group of officials and refused to move.

It's the first time I've felt so incompetent.

"Why did you come along?" Gu Changqing still saw Xie Ling and couldn't help asking.

"Why do you say? Of course, I don't worry about the two of us, I look so heavy. How could she not have a sense of crisis. ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Gu Changqing stopped Yan Mu's nonsense.

Then he returned to the position of the corpse and began to examine the scene with a group of people.

Several officials first took ropes to make a fence on the side, but Gu Changqing decisively refused, and asked, "Do you think there will be a few people in this barren mountain and wild mountain to break the ring scene, or do you think this thing can stop those mountain beasts?" Have this time to find out if there are any useful clues on the side. ”

A few of the servants put away the rope in a foolish manner, and searched for things on the side with sticks. Is it possible that the murderer threw the murder weapon here in a hurry?

He was inspecting the body, and Gu Changqing also squatted down to examine it carefully.

The clothes this man wears are very ordinary, the kind that grabs a lot on the street. The silver bags on his body are also there, and he can't see any signs of bulging.

But something was wrong anyway. Gu Changqing couldn't say it.

The posture of the deceased is also strange, and the whole person presents a kind of forced downward pressure. If it is a normal death of a sudden illness, he will at most sit on the ground, or fall forward and backward, but if he falls, he will fall, and he will not appear to be buried deep in the ground.

But if he killed, there would not have been a single superfluous footprint around the entire corpse. Except for a pair of footprints that were exactly the same as those of the corpse, there was nothing else on his body, and there was not even a wound on his body from a sharp weapon.

At this time, the old man seemed to have discovered something, pointed to the back of the corpse that had been turned over, and said, "Master Gu, look here." ”

Gu Changqing immediately leaned over and looked at it, there was indeed a trace of a snake bite on the deceased's waist, a small mouth with two tooth marks, and there was faint black blood on it, "You mean to say that he died from the mouth of a poisonous snake?" ”

He shook his head and nodded, "It's uncertain whether he died of snake venom, but judging from the wound of the corpse, this mark of being bitten by a snake should be after his death." ”

Gu Changqing motioned with his eyes for him to continue.

"Normal people, blood is flowing, if bitten by a poisonous snake, the venom will flow with the blood until it invades the heart and lungs, but a dead person, he first stopped the operation of the heart and lungs, the blood has stopped flowing, and this venom will not be the same as when he was alive. Most of the venom will accumulate in the wound. He pointed to the edge of the corpse's wound and said, "Look here, my lord. ”

Gu Changqing looked over, the wound of the corpse was indeed as he said, the red spots and bruises on the wound were very obvious, and he then inserted a silver needle on the side of the wound, and the silver needle gradually turned black, so he replaced it with a silver needle and inserted it into his chest. But it turned out that the silver needle on that chest did not turn black, which proved the guess just now.

The man was bitten by a snake after death, so the venom did not invade the heart and lungs, but only accumulated near the perimeter of the wound.

He took the silver needle and tried it on the rest of the corpse. Whether it is the legs, feet, face, neck, heart, lungs, or palms, there is no sign of darkening.

From this point of view, it seems that he did not die of poisoning.

But what was the real cause of his death, and he fell into shackles for no reason.

The work of the corpse was almost done, and Gu Changqing asked someone to carry him back, but the inquest at the scene needed to be more detailed.

Xie Ling had already gone to the cave when they were still performing the autopsy, the injured little fox was sleeping, she went in and gently patted its buttocks, and when it woke up, it saw what Xie Ling said in surprise.

Xie Ling just waved his hand and took out the medicine he brought and the cloth needed to bandage, "Okay, don't say it, I don't understand what I said." ”

The white fox ghost didn't know if he was walking or not, but there was no sign of him in this cave.

It is also something that does not belong to this world, has it long since left like Shen Lanxi.

When he gave the little fox the medicine, it screamed in pain twice, and Xie Ling then remembered something and asked, "There was a murder case in this mountain, do you know who did it?" Did you see anyone? ”

The little fox opened his mouth and chirped for a long time, and his head didn't know if it hurt or how, and he kept pulling it out desperately like a stiff neck.

Xie Ling looked at his painful appearance, "Forget it, I know that you don't know, this person's heart is black, you must remember to stay away from the crowd in the future, don't let others treat you well, you just believe in others, and don't give you a little food, you just follow them, and me, we are all counted, you animals can't fight people." ”

The little fox still maintained the action just now, screaming desperately, Xie Ling looked outside the entrance of the cave and said, "Okay, it's almost time, I'm going back, you pay attention to yourself, I'll change your dressing in a few days." ”

The little fox immediately stood up and bit her trouser leg fiercely the moment she turned around, Xie Ling squatted down and touched her hair gently, "I'm really leaving, it's time to treat me coldly when I go back, you don't know, I can't wait to kick him twice as soon as he has such an expression, but people are under the roof, they have to bow their heads, I will come back next time." ”

As he spoke, he reached out and pulled the little fox's mouth off his trouser legs, "Take care of yourself, don't get water on the wound." ”

After saying that, he left, and the little fox whined for a long time, with tears in his eyes, and he was very pitiful.

When she returned to the place where the body was found, Gu Changqing was the only one left, and the rest had already left.

She walked over and said, "Why didn't you go?" ”

Gu Changqing didn't say anything, his eyes kept staring at the ground, and it looked like how much silver was waiting for him to pick it up.

Xie Ling knew that he was thinking about something, so he simply sat aside and waited for him to come out by himself.

He walked back and forth on the ground over and over again, trying to restore what had happened at the scene, trying to find something in it, but finding nothing, and shaking his head again.

Seeing him walking towards him, "How is it, have you found anything?" ”

"Nope."

During the presentation, he also deliberately looked at footprints and snake traces that might have been overlooked.

But there was not the slightest useful finding.