Liu Yan recognized this family as Wang Erlian's family.

Wang Erlian is less than 30 years old, his daughter is six years old, and his son is just over a year old.

His wife, Lu Shi and Wang Er, are both years old, virtuous and beautiful, especially good at running a family, and are recognized as good wives and mothers in the neighborhood.

The couple has been running a tofu workshop, and it is not much to say how much money they make, but it is absolutely no problem to solve the family's food and clothing.

Liu Yan always felt that the white figure fell into Wang Erlian's house, which was not a good sign, after all, his blood-stained face always made people not think about good things.

Facing the door in front of him, Liu Yan didn't know whether to knock or not, to remind the family? After all, in the middle of the night, Liu Yan was afraid to say anything about the white figure, and they would be unbelievable.

Liu Yan hesitated, so he had to ask Qin Xuan's opinion behind him.

When he turned around, but he couldn't find Qin Xuan, Liu Yan was depressed, Qin Xuan was obviously following behind him, how could people say that they disappeared when they disappeared?

Liu Yan concluded that Qin Xuanding couldn't withstand the horror of the white figure, and fled so early that he forgot to say hello to him...... However, there are some extenuating circumstances.

Since there was no Qin Xuan, Liu Yan simply followed his state of mind, after all, this was a good deed to save people, and he did not hesitate to reach out and knock on the door.

Two sounds, Liu Yan felt that the door was loose, and pushed hard, but the door was not tied to the latch, it was completely covered.

Liu Yan didn't have time to be suspicious, and was about to step into the threshold when he raised his feet, but at this time, the originally dark courtyard was as bright as day.

Liu Yan's eyes were suddenly stung, and he quickly blinked his eyes vigorously to recover his vision as soon as possible.

When Liu Yan searched for the light again, he found that it was a thick locust tree in the courtyard, and the branches near the center of the courtyard were covered with yarn lanterns, and the shell of each lantern was burning with a raging fire......

No, there were not only many yarn lamps hanging from the trees, but also four people......

Those four people were none other than Wang Erlian, Wang Erlian's wife Lu and a pair of children.

Each of them was barefoot, dressed in pajamas, with their mouths slightly open, their eyes wide open, and a white silk hanging from their necks......

The burning gauze lamp seemed to be full of stamina, and the fire not only did not weaken in the slightest, but rose up, and the firelight reflected on the faces of the four dead people was even more terrifying.

At this time, Liu Yan's face was pale, his heart that had been tense could no longer bear the scene in front of him, and he was suddenly frightened, and he couldn't take care of the yarn lamp in his hand, so he crawled and ran out of the courtyard that made him scattered.

At the same time, in the dark night, there were more heart-pounding roars: "Dead! Dead man! Dead man......"

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At midnight, the morning glow in the east has also penetrated the thick night, reflecting a beautiful and brilliant spectacle.

The county order and the arrest were all at the scene.

Outside the gate, it was crowded with people watching the excitement, almost overcrowded, all talking about this sudden tragedy.

There are different opinions, in the hearts of the people, the cause of death of Wang Erlian's family of four, if it is said to be murder, it is irrelevant, but when it comes to the charm of the ghost, perhaps more people believe it.

Wang Erlian's house has three tiled houses, which are sitting in the direction of west and facing east; The yard is not large, and a large grass shed on the north side takes up half of the space; In the southern half of the space, there stood the big locust tree that had a strange incident and hung four people.

At this time, the four corpses, large and small, had been placed flat on the bamboo mat that had been prepared on the ground, and a white cloth wall was also surrounded by the arrestees.

Zhou Qingxi, the county magistrate, frowned, paced anxiously back and forth in the courtyard, and looked at the crowded crowd outside the gate from time to time.

Suddenly, Zhou Qingxi's eyes lit up, and he finally saw the female servant he was looking forward to as Liu Ling.

Liu Ling had just passed his eighteenth birthday, wearing a pink embroidered gauze skirt, with a bun on his head that ordinary women often pulled, but there was no hairpin embellishment on it.

Liu Ling's face was covered with a white veil, revealing only a pair of black eyes and frowning eyebrows.

At this time, Liu Ling was out of breath and out of breath, obviously running a lot of distance.

Liu Ling covered his slightly aching stomach with one hand, and kept wiping the beads of sweat on his forehead with his sleeve with the other, and asked eagerly, "Master...... Brother, I'm ...... I'm still here...... It's timely, right? ”

Zhou Qingxi is the son of Liu Ling's master Zhou Fang, and the two haven't seen each other for two months, Zhou Qingxi is still the same, and he is two years old when he is still alone, obese, mediocre in appearance, wearing an official uniform on his body, swaying around, especially his ass as big as a millstone, more and more swaggering, every time Liu Ling sees it, he always has the desire to let her kick it.

The homicide case is the most important thing for the government, and the slightest mistake will overturn the development of the entire case, and the real murderer will get away with it.

Obviously, Zhou Qingxi, as the head of a county, is already crumbling with the black gauze hat on his head, where can he dare to slack off.

Zhou Qingxi didn't have time to talk nonsense, grabbed Liu Ling's wrist, and took three steps and two steps to the corpse: "Senior sister, hurry up and conduct an autopsy!" ”

Liu Ling shook her head, she was not in a hurry to examine the corpse, according to her usual habit of investigating the case, the first thing to check should be the clues of the murder scene, and finally combined with the autopsy, it will be more quickly deduced when the case is solved.

Zhou Qingxi was helpless, shrugged his shoulders, and could only follow Liu Ling, who was walking away.

Liu Ling first walked into the grass shed, and the cauldrons, stone mills, and wooden basins placed in it were all utensils needed to make tofu, and they were arranged very neatly in turn.

Liu Ling touched the utensils with his hand, and his fingers were quickly stained with a little dust: "Senior brother, it seems that Wang Erlian's tofu workshop has not opened in the past few days. ”

Zhou Qingxi was stunned: "Not open? Wang Erlian's family is not wealthy, and he has to support two children, unless there is a more lucrative livelihood than this, will this little tofu workshop go out of business? ”

Liu Ling shook his head thoughtfully, "That's not necessarily, maybe there is something else important...... Oh, by the way, senior brother, you should send someone to the neighborhood to ask, maybe someone knows something inside. In addition, according to Liu Yan's confession, he followed the route taken by the white figure and carefully checked the ground for dripping blood. ”

"Good! I'll send someone right away. Zhou Qingxi dragged his trembling fat body and ran out of the grass shed.

When Liu Ling turned to the main room, Zhou Qingxi quickly followed.

The main room is a three-bay room, with a simple living room in the middle, and a north and south bedroom separated by curtains on both sides, and the bedding on the bed is neatly spread out.

Zhou Qingxi is not good at solving cases, and with his inexperienced naked eyes, looking at the orderly room, he obviously can't see any clues.

Zhou Qingxi glanced at Liu Ling's contemplative demeanor, and asked cautiously: "The four corpses are all wearing pajamas, but there are no signs of messiness on the beds...... However, this reasoning is hardly convincing. “