Chapter 39: The Corpse of the Barren Slope

Everyone walked to a big tree, and Li Bing and Zhao Wan'er stopped.

"This is it", Li Bing said loudly, "Let's look separately and see if there is anything special." ”

All five of them stopped, and each looked around, but found nothing unusual. Li Bing instructed everyone: "Everyone, there are so many tourists passing by here every day, of course, it is impossible to find any particularly obvious signs. Keep your eyes open to see what doesn't seem to be in harmony around you. ”

Everyone looked around carefully, except for some blue and white rocks and ditches scattered everywhere, there were no traces left by artificiality.

Just when everyone seemed skeptical of Li Bing's words, they saw that Li Bing was constantly looking at the big tree beside him.

Li Bing thought to himself, since Zhao Yiming's diary book could miraculously appear in the bird's nest in the tree, would there be anything else on the tree?

After thinking for a while, Li Bing took off his travel bag and began to try to climb the big tree.

A few minutes later, Li Bing finally climbed the tree, rode in the tree with a large fork, and looked at the tree carefully, but still found nothing.

Li Bing was disappointed and was about to come down from the tree, but his eyes were attracted by a weed not far away.

It was a relatively flat place, overgrown with weeds, on this small hillside that was not too steep, it could be seen everywhere, and it seemed to be commonplace, but Li Bing always felt that there was a strange feeling that could not be explained.

After staring at it for a while, Li Bing suddenly let out a loud scream, startling several people under the tree.

Li Bing climbed down from the tree in a panic, and in a hurry, his hands shattered the branches, and a trace of blood appeared, but he didn't seem to feel it at all, and his eyes were full of fear and excitement.

"Found it, found it!" Li Bing shouted loudly, due to the remote location, there were no other tourists on the side at this time, only the four people in the same company looked at Li Bing with a flurry.

"What?" , Zhao Wan'er suddenly reacted: "Brother Li, you mean that you found out my father's whereabouts?" ”

Li Bing sat on the ground, took a cigarette handed by Qian Yiduo, and took a few puffs.

Li Bing froze, and his eyes scanned the crowd: "Do you know Shi Shilun?" ”

Everyone shook their heads one by one, only Shi Liya laughed: "Li Bing, why do you think of this person?" Shi Shilun is the son of Jinghai Hou Shi Lang, who recovered Taiwan during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and he is known as 'Shi Qingtian' among the people, and was called the first Qing official in Jiangnan by Emperor Kangxi. There is a widely circulated "Shi Gong Case" among the people, which is a legend about him. ”

Li Bing nodded to Shi Liya: "Yes, Sister Shi is right, it is this Shi Shilun." "Shi Gong's Case" is actually adapted and integrated from the story of Shi Shilun, a folk storyteller who is widely circulated and rapped. On the tree just now, I always felt that something was wrong, and suddenly thought of a case described in "Shi Gong's Case", and then I suddenly realized, and I didn't realize that I screamed, and I was really sorry to alarm you. ”

Although Shi Liya knew about Shi Shilun and "Shi Gong's Case", she didn't understand what Li Bing was referring to, and asked anxiously: "Li Bing, don't sell Guanzi, tell us what kind of case it is." ”

Li Bing said slowly, word by word: "I don't remember the specifics clearly, but I only remember that Shi Gong went out on a tour once, and it was spring, resting on a high ground and looking at the four fields. Suddenly, he told his entourage that there was a corpse buried in the wheat field below. The attendant looked at it for a long time and found nothing, so he sent someone down to inspect it, but there was nothing but a piece of green wheat, and he was very puzzled. Shi Gong pointed to one place and asked his entourage to dig up, and sure enough, a corpse was dug up. ”

Zhao Wan'er interjected in surprise: "Is there really such a god? Could it be that this Shi Gong can be as good as Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng? ”

Li Bing shook his head: "No, this is due to Shi Gong's keen observation and rich imagination. For he saw from a high place that although the wheat fields below him were all green, there was clearly one place where the wheat grew particularly vigorously, and the color was also dark green, which was obviously different from the surrounding wheat green. When he looked closely, he found that this special piece of wheat actually outlined a human figure. So he concluded that there must be a corpse buried underneath, and that the wheat on top of the corpse had absorbed the nutrients from the corpse, so that it had grown particularly lush and green. As he decided, an unsolved case was solved. ”

Zhao Wan'er's face twitched, and she said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, are you saying that you also found a similar phenomenon in the tree?" After thinking about it for a long time, you thought of the Shi Gong case, and then you realized that my father was really dead, and the body was buried near here. ”

Li Bing nodded, took out a pack of napkins from his pocket, and handed it to Zhao Wan'er: "Wan'er, don't be too sad, wipe away your tears first." It's just speculation, not necessarily facts. ”

Zhao Wan'er still couldn't help crying, and everyone couldn't persuade her.

Zhang Yuanshan looked at Li Bing: "Brother Li, why haven't I seen anything special?" ”

Li Bing pointed not far away and said slowly, "Have you noticed?" The place where I pointed to it, the outline of which seemed to be a small ravine, was now very flat. The occasional exposure of the soil is also very bright, and it is very different from the surrounding area. Because the place was flat and overgrown with a layer of weeds that were not overgrown. Now that the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the grass is turning yellow, but I can see from a high place on the tree, but there is a green weed growing in the flat dead grass. This means that there is more nutrition under that place than other places. Looking closely, there were a few people who looked like people, and in confusion, I suddenly thought of the record in "Shi Gong's Case". ”

Zhang Yuanshan stood up with a "Huo" and greeted loudly: "Qian Yiduo, the two of us will go and take a look at the place pointed out by Brother Li." ”

Qian Yiduo hesitated for a moment, but instantly regained his composure, after all, he had always made a living by robbing tombs, and he was used to seeing white bones.

Li Bing's eyes widened, pointing with his finger to the place he saw, and from time to time he commanded Zhang Yuanshan and Qian Yiduo to move their positions, slowly approaching the place he found. At this time, Zhao Wan'er also stopped crying under Shi Liya's persuasion, and the two stared at Zhang Yuanshan and Qian Yiduo nervously.

"Found it", Zhang Yuanshan let out a cheer: "Sure enough, some of the grass is still green and lush, it seems that what Brother Li Bing said makes sense." ”

Qian Yiduo had already taken out a watermelon knife more than a foot long from his travel bag and began to dig hard under the green grass.

Before digging a few times, Qian Yiduo suddenly stopped, and also let out a surprised shout: "Brother Zhang, go back quickly, don't dig." ”

Zhang Yuanshan didn't ask much, and immediately followed Qian Yiduo all the way back to the big tree.

Just when the two of them were out of breath, Zhao Wan'er couldn't bear it anymore and asked anxiously, "Two big brothers, what did you find?" ”

Qian Yiduo coughed, took out a cigarette, shook his hand to light the fire, and stammered: "Brother Li...Brother Li is right, there is indeed a person's skull there, let's report the case quickly!" ”

When Zhao Wan'er heard about it, she didn't know where she got the courage, so she ran to that place quickly, took a look, squatted down and couldn't stop crying.

Li Bing turned to Qian Yiduo and said, "Brother, you are a local, you hurry up and call the police, and I will go and pull Wan'er back." ”

Li Bing rushed to Zhao Wan'er quickly, and as soon as he arrived in front of him, he couldn't help but feel stunned in his heart. I saw a skull exposed in the sand pit that Qian Yiduo had cut open just now. The whole skull is Bai Sensen, really heart-wrenching, two black and huge eye sockets, facing Zhao Wan'er and Li Bing, and in the wide jawbone, several unknown but disgusting insects are drilling through the white Sensen's teeth.

Li Bing couldn't care about anything anymore, and ran back as soon as he pulled Zhao Wan'er up. The five of them were standing tightly together, and Li Bing had to hug Zhao Wan'er's trembling body.

After a while, the sound of police cars came from far and near, whistling. After stopping in the distance, a group of uniformed policemen quickly ran towards the small hill where Li Bing and they were.

A cordon was set up at the scene, the flash of the camera kept flashing, and a policeman was holding a notebook and questioning Li Bing and his party.

Not long after, the police called a few more people from the cemetery management office and began to excavate with shovels.

When the fourth skeleton was completely excavated from the mud and sand, the captain of the criminal police commanding the scene ordered all the bones to be brought back to the bureau for technical identification, and at the same time instructed another police officer to check the latest missing person records as soon as he returned to the bureau.

The captain of the criminal police finally came to Li Bing and said in a dignified tone: "Are you tourists?" Did you cooperate with our criminal police to make a good record just now? Register your ID and remember that you cannot leave for the time being, and you must cooperate with the investigation at any time. ”

Li Bing couldn't help nodding, and at the same time handed over the documents to a criminal policeman on the side to register one by one, when the police carried the four skeletons to the police car parked at the bottom of the mountain, Li Bing and his group of five people quickly trotted all the way down the mountain, leaving this terrible scene as soon as possible.