Wu Shiyin explained his suspicions to everyone in detail.

"The snake catcher, the Oiran in the city, and the sculptor who asked you to build a temple and add incense money, in fact, the three of them are the initiators of this matter."

The guard exclaimed, "How is that possible? How can a person who is already dead still do these things? ”

"Dead?" Wu Shiyin kicked on the mound of clothes, "No matter how stiff and brittle people are frozen, the bones and internal organs will not disappear, so how can there be only a pool of blood left?" ”

"This thing was a complete hoax from the start. If I'm not mistaken, the Orion catching the White Snake should have happened after the South City cooled down, right? ”

The guard thought for a moment and recalled, "It seems that it was what happened in those two days, and I am too clear whether it was before or after." ”

Wu Shiyin: "It's August, and the mountains of Nanqishan are high, and it is normal for snow to fall. ”

"When it snows on the mountain, the temperature below the mountain will inevitably drop, which is not a big deal in the first place."

"But combined with the mythical 'legend' of Orion hunting the White Snake, everything is combined with the so-called mountain spirits, which is even more confusing."

Shen Ciwei then analyzed: "If we are not mistaken, things should be like this. ”

"In the beginning, it was the sculptor who found Orion and Oiran, and then the three of them decided to work together to trap you."

"First of all, the Orion catching snakes, he himself secretly caught them and released them home, why did everyone know about it? Didn't he tell you that you knew? ”

"He told you the whole process of his snake hunting, just to make you think that he was blasphemous, to find a reasonable excuse for his 'death', and to make you think that there are really gods and monsters, so you are confused."

"Orion is a dummy carved out of ice by a master sculptor, with pig's blood inside and his clothes wrapped in it."

"You could have easily pierced such a clumsy method, but you subconsciously thought that this matter was the work of ghosts and gods, and you had a sense of awe in your hearts, so you were blinded."

"As for the later Oiran and the sculptor himself, they all used the same method."

Shen Ci's analysis was the head, but the guards didn't seem to believe it.

They still think that this matter must have something to do with the mountain god.

Wu Shiyi said impatiently: "Anyway, you don't listen to this, then find them out and let them explain everything to you in person." ”

Get?

Shen Ci glanced at Wu Shiyi worriedly, and whispered in his ear, "Where are you going to find someone?" We're new to this place, and we're not familiar with this place. They must have slipped away early in the morning after rolling up the silver, so are they still waiting for you to catch them? ”

Wu Shiyi glanced at Shen Ci worriedly, and said with a smile: "Do you still remember, on the day of King Jing's wedding in the past, how did we find King Jing?" ”

"You mean that weird bug?" Shen Ci was puzzled: "Didn't you say that if you are trampled to death, you will be gone?" ”

"Yes, my mother is gone, but there are cubs~" As he spoke, Wu Shiyi stretched out his hand, and a winged beetle came out of his cuff.

Shen Ci was nauseated for a while, "Yue, do you have this stuff with you?"

Wu Shiyin smiled and said, "Just in case~"

He bowed down, put the little insect on the clothes of the three people first, and then led everyone to follow the little insect all the way to find it.

The little bug made it all the way back to the city, crawled into an uninhabited room, and began to circle in the middle of the room.

Wu Shiyi asked the guards, "This place is the residence of those three people?" ”

The guard bowed his head and said, "It's the old Liu family who made sculptures." ”

Wu Shiyi nodded, and then squatted down very confidently and tapped twice on the ground.

Above the ground where the little bug stood, the sound of his tapping was distinctly echoing. It proves that the earth is empty.

He searched the room for a few moments, and found a mechanism hidden behind a bookshelf.

With a slight turn of the mechanism, the ground began to settle, revealing the entrance to a secret passage.

The guard was surprised: "How can there be a secret passage in this place?" ”

Shen Ci said worriedly: "It's very simple. When we entered the southern city, we found that the personnel at the gate were very close, and the south, east, and northwest city gates were guarded, and if we wanted to leave the southern city unnoticed, there was no other way than to dig a secret passage by ourselves. ”

Everyone entered the secret passage, and walked all the way in a dark and narrow environment for I don't know how long, and finally saw a glimmer of light.

After walking out of the secret passage, I found that I had been in a deserted countryside a few miles apart from the southern city.

There was a thatched hut not far away, and a woman in shabby clothes hurriedly walked out of it, and the guards hurriedly stepped forward to arrest her.

When I looked closely, it turned out that she was the Oiran who was supposed to be dead.

Oiran was shocked at first when he saw them, but he quickly pulled their sleeves and pleaded, "Don't ask anything else beforehand, it's important to save people!" ”

She led the group to the thatched hut, and found Orion lying on the bed, purple and black, dying.

The guard alerted, "What's wrong with him?" And what about Lao Liu? ”

Oiran cried and said, "He lied to us! It was night after we left the city, and we were supposed to rest here for the night and leave the next morning. But who would have thought that Lao Liu would secretly release the poisonous snake while we were asleep, trapping us and the poisonous snake in the thatched house, he locked the door, took the silver, and ran away overnight! ”

Oiran looked at Orion's deteriorating face and whimpered, "If he hadn't saved me, I would be the one lying here now!" Please, save him! ”

Wu Shiyi stepped forward to make a simple diagnosis of Orion, and after a while, he lowered his eyes, shook his head, and said, "He was bitten by a five-step snake, and the poison is too deep, and he has no way to recover." ”

Almost at the same time as he finished saying this, Orion suddenly grabbed his arm and said in a very small voice: "Lao Liu, he went to Qijun County and went to his cousin"

After saying that, the man died with a whimper.

The guards were divided into two groups, one group escorted the Oiran to Nancheng, and the other group went to Qijun County to arrest Lao Liu.

Early the next morning, Lao Liu was taken back to Qijun County.

He and Oiran confessed to their crimes, and all the money they had defrauded was recovered.

In order to thank Shen Ciwei and Wu Shiyin, those guards insisted on giving them a hundred taels of silver for them to accept.

How can they look at this hundred taels of silver?

Wu Shiyi said smoothly: "One hundred taels of silver is too much, and we didn't help much." Reactive power is not punished. But if you really want to give, don't give silver. I see that the snow on Nanshan Mountain is heavier again, but can we prepare two warm cotton clothes? ”

(End of chapter)