The third brother died, some people said that he fell to his death, and some people said that he drowned.

There is a stream that flows down from the valley in the town of Ma'an, and the water is no deeper than waist, mostly pebbled shallows. The creek is about two meters wide, with reeds growing on both sides, and the river is rich in a kind of frog, which is the thing mentioned in "A Bite of China".

It is said that the third brother went to the river to wash clothes in the morning, and he was seen carrying a basket. The wife is gone, the children all go back to work after the funeral, and they are all taken out with Doudou, and the third brother is the only one left in the family, and it will be his turn to do this work. This person can't be stopped from dying, and the children all say that the family has bad wind and water, and they want to take the third brother to the south together, but he refuses, he said that he will not leave until he finds the murderer for his wife.

After the funeral that afternoon, everyone broke up unhappily, and I heard that the third brother took a kitchen knife to his children, saying that he didn't need them to collect the corpses when he died, and he said that he would not leave this place where he had lived all his life anyway.

The creek is a place where rural people wash vegetables and clothes, there are several big stones to build a platform, away from the third brother's house across a road, a basket of clothes is half washed, when people find him is already lying face down in the water. It was found that it was a neighbor's aunt, so scared that the aunt lost her liberation shoes, they were having breakfast in the bun shop at that time, and some people rushed to the road in a frenzy, and after a while, they heard Director Liu come over and call Cha Wenbin to go to the scene.

When Cha Wenbin arrived, the person was still lying in the water, and after a visual inspection, the depth of the water was at most up to the calf, and a stone on the side had a long scratch, and there was a pool of blood on the sharp corner of the stone not far away. I heard that when he came out, it was not yet dawn, and there was a thin layer of ice on the stones by the river in the late autumn season, and the onlookers speculated that he probably slipped and fell, broke his head and fell into the water.

According to this inference, it is very reasonable from the scene, Cha Wenbin thought it was just an accident at first, but when the third brother's body was recovered, many people had already covered their faces and retreated in fright.

I saw that his face was covered with that kind of small snails, dense and so many people felt creepy, from a distance, the head looked like a stone covered with moss and crawling with snails, especially his mouth was almost filled with this kind of small frog, the whole person's eyes were still open, and his mouth was also open, except for the different places of death, he and his wife's expressions before death were almost the same!

"Do you still want to carry people away?" Cha Wenbin asked Director Liu.

"This is an accident, it depends on the wishes of his family, if there is a suspicion that he is going to be firm, we will accept it." Director Liu had already vomited out all the breakfast he had just eaten, and the snails on his face made him feel nauseous, and it was the first time he had seen such a death in decades of handling cases.

"It's not an accident," Cha Wenbin said: "If it's an accident, the snail won't climb up, only those who have been hooked will provoke these things." ”

A policeman on the side said, "And this statement? I've heard that the frogs here are famous. ”

"Believe it or not, I never eat snails in the river," Cha Wenbin said: "This snail is an extremely yin thing, it likes to attach to rotten things, inferred from the time, the third brother will not fall for more than an hour, how can so many snails be provoked in such a short time?" There was only one reason, his soul had been drained, and the resentment in his throat could not be swallowed, so the snails in the river were scrambling to get into his mouth. Usually if a drowning person stumbles, does his abdomen swell, swallows too much water before he dies, you see his belly is deflated, I bet you, he is neither drowned nor fell to death, if you don't believe it, you can ask a forensic doctor to identify. ”

The successive deaths have to make people suspicious, if it is an accident, then this family is too unlucky, the funeral that was dispersed yesterday continues again today, and even the things borrowed for help have not had time to be returned. The forensic report came out in the shortest possible time, and the result was the same as the cause of his wife's death a few days ago, which was due to a ruptured cardiovascular system, and the head injury was only a skin injury, and the deceased had obvious signs of excessive shock.

At present, a deputy director of the county public security bureau in Ma'an Town personally led a team to supervise the battle, and this incident has caused great panic throughout the county, especially the rumor that a madman left over from the leprosy village was killing innocents indiscriminately.

The deputy director's surname is Huo Mingshan, and he is in his early forties at the age of spring breeze, and I heard that this person was not from a professional class before, but had just been transferred from the position of a leading secretary. This new official took office with three fires, Director Huo naturally decided to fire the first shot of his fame in Ma'an Town, when Director Liu introduced Cha Wenbin to him, he was almost scolded for being bloody, saying that you, the director of the police station, have to be able to solve the case well here, and it is ridiculous to get mixed with a Taoist priest!

The fat man wanted to reason with him, but he didn't expect that Director Huo would actually command his subordinates to arrest Cha Wenbin, but fortunately, it was Li An who coordinated to avoid this conflict. Seeing this situation, Cha Wenbin had to withdraw temporarily, but he insisted on staying in Ma'an Town, and adopted a set of tactics of you doing yours and I doing me.

"Cha Ye, his grandmother's!" The fat man was so angry that he didn't fight, he had been handcuffed just now, and several policemen were twisting his arms behind him, and it still hurt a lot. "What do you do with such a thankless task? In the end, he sprinkled anger on our heads, and let those-eating things catch them by themselves, I don't want to serve them. ”

"What are you for?" Cha Wenbin asked: "We are not here for money, and for the sake of fame, I am half a monk, and it is the unshirkable responsibility of a Taoist priest like me to do the Tao for the heavens, and the evil demons are doing it, how can I stand idly by?" The monks of all dynasties and dynasties had to keep the world in mind, and they only knew that the so-called masters who hid in the deep mountains and old forests to ask for immortals and ask questions, even if they got the Tao, what was the use? If you learn the Tao, you have to use the Tao, otherwise this ability is just for yourself? ”

"Anyway, I can't swallow this breath," the fat man said angrily: "What kind of thing is that playing with Lao Tzu, I will definitely make him half-paralyzed a few days ago, people are now treating us as magic sticks, and smashing the basin in our faces, let's help them solve the case?" ”

"How do you help them?" Cha Wenbin said: "It is our folks who help, and it is also us who help, the so-called Tao is not the same, everyone has the right and freedom of belief, he is atheist and he goes, we just need to do our own, don't do anything now, just sleep, and you two go out with me in the second half of the night." ”

Being ridiculed in front of others, this is a very humiliating thing in the eyes of the fat man, but Cha Wenbin finally calmed down the turmoil, cultivators, cultivation is worry-free, if a person is easily provoked, then it is impossible for him to endure the loneliness and loneliness brought by cultivation.

All afternoon, Director Huo was visiting and investigating, and he firmly believed that it was the crazy woman who was behind the scenes, and more than 20 policemen turned the small Ma'an town upside down again, but they still found nothing.

When he opened the door, the cold wind outside was blowing in, Cha Wenbin tightened his shoulders, and the wind was so cold that it only drilled into the marrow of the person.

"It seems like it's going to snow this day," he muttered, "and it's time for snow, how can such a big grievance not snow a little?" ”

Out of the door of Bao Dafu's house, the fat man turned on the flashlight, and was stopped by someone after a corner, two policemen were patrolling, they both came down from the county, and their speeches were naturally not so polite.

"In the middle of the night, what are you doing sneaky?"

This was already holding back the fire during the day, and seeing that the other party was so rude in his speech, the fat man immediately choked back: "You have a clean mouth, Lao Tzu is walking here openly, which of your eyes is sneaky, is this road repaired by your family or what?" ”

On weekdays, I have always been respected, and now a few gods dare to speak like this, those two policemen are naturally on fire, and they have long wanted to behave in front of the new director, and you guys deserve it tonight! As soon as the two looked at each other, they immediately rushed up and said to the fat man and Cha Wenbin with a baton: "Raise your hands and squat down, don't move!" ”

Cha Wenbin didn't want to add any conflict here, he explained: "Comrade, we are Taoist priests invited by the locals to do funerals. ”

"Why did you come out in the middle of the night after the funeral? Do you need to do a funeral now? I think you guys are very suspicious, don't talk nonsense, put your hands up! He glanced at Ye Qiu, who was still holding a black short knife in his hand, and immediately took a step back, and immediately took out a pistol and put it in front of him and said, "Still holding the murder weapon, put the knife down for me, quick!" ”

Cha Wenbin immediately gently put the seven-star sword on the ground and explained: "They are all magic weapons that we practice, not murder weapons." ”

Where will Ye Qiu take care of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, Cha Wenbin knew that he was going to make a move, and hurriedly pulled Ye Qiu's sleeve to signal him not to mess around. Seeing this, the policeman didn't listen to the greeting at all, and immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Support support, there are three suspicious people with weapons holding against us!" ”

At this point, the fat man was really impatient, he took two steps forward with his bare hands, and scolded: "Damn, Lao Tzu you!" ”

"Bah" A crisp gunshot sounded across the sky, and the men and horses of the brigade came as soon as they said they were coming, and a continuous roar sounded behind them: "Don't move, put the knife down, whoever dares to move will be killed!" ”