Chapter 12: Demon Trail!
"Ah~ another good day!"
On the three poles of the sun, the slightly hot sun sprinkled all over the county, and the warm sunshine shone on the people, driving away the slight cold at night.
On the chimneys of the houses, smoke gushed out, and with the breeze blowing, it was like thousands of gray dragons, circling and dancing, slowly dissipating between heaven and earth.
The early risers in the alleys start their day's business with their burdens.
The lively shouting and the sound of greeting guests are endless.
At the stall selling breakfast, the early children looked at the hot buns, the fragrant fritters, and the gluttonous drool.
"Anzi, let's go... After a busy night's work, go get something to eat. ”
Just as Ang Lee was enjoying the street scene in the early morning, two prisoners walked out together and invited Ang Lee to have breakfast together.
"No, my sister-in-law said yesterday that she would prepare breakfast for me today, let me go to the county government and eat with my second uncle, you guys go!"
"Alas, I really envy you, someone hurts! It's like two of us old bachelors, who are busy with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and no one cares when they are sick. ”
"That's it, Xiaoyue, this girl is also handsome, you, blessed."
The three of them talked and laughed for a while, then said goodbye to each other and went to breakfast.
Last night, as Master Li An said, the yamen tortured Zhang Wen.
The executioners in charge of the action are those two prisons.
Ang Lee was in charge of the prisoner's confession.
Li An completely adhered to the words of the second uncle and the master, did not say a word from beginning to end, silently watched the execution, and was ready to record the confession at all times.
It's just that the result is not as good as everyone imagined.
In everyone's mind, a timid reader like Zhang Wen, as long as he scares and scares, may admit this crime.
But the result is a big surprise.
Last night, the two prisons were busy with most of the night, tiger chairs, leather whips, clamping sticks, pulling nails, washing, and all kinds of punishments. Zhang Wen, who everyone thought was a coward, was stunned and didn't say a word.
As a result, from the beginning to the end, Li Angan waited for half a night with a brush, and was stunned that he didn't write a word.
After fighting for most of the night, Zhang Wen passed out several times in a row, and the interrogators sent by the two prisons and the yamen saw that they really couldn't interrogate.
Seeing that Zhang Wen was about to lose his breath after being beaten, the three of them discussed it and decided to let Zhang Wen raise it first, and then interrogate Zhang Wen when he recovered a little.
Without a prisoner to interrogate, Ang Lee, a clerical officer, is naturally useless.
Li An wanted to go home, but today's words from the second uncle and master have always reminded him not to be arrogant and ignore the rules because of his background.
So he cleaned up the small wooden bed, found a clean quilt to cover his head, and began to sleep and fish.
I slept until dawn and didn't wake up until I was hungry.
Yawning along the way, Li An staggered to the yamen.
When Li An was on a business trip last night, Du Xiaoyue had already told him that he would send breakfast to the yamen tomorrow and let him go directly to the yamen for breakfast.
"Woo woo woo ~ you ruthless person, why did you leave our mother and sister away... It's easy for you to walk like this, how can you let us two live? You bastard, hurry up and get me up......"
"Fourth sister-in-law, don't be like this, fourth brother, he's gone, you have to be strong! Woo..."
As soon as Li An walked to the door of the yamen, he faintly heard a woman's cry, mixed with Du Xiaoyue's choked voice.
Hearing Du Xiaoyue's cry, Li An thought that his sister-in-law was being bullied, so he suddenly became angry and rushed in stride.
"Who the hell bullied my sister Yue, why don't you want to live? Believe it or not, I'm going to kill ......"
Li An, who strode into the yamen, saw the situation inside clearly, and his roar stopped abruptly in an instant.
I saw that in the yamen compound, the officials and catchers sat silently on the ground, with a trace of sadness and complexity in their eyes, looking at the three corpses placed in the middle.
Next to the three corpses, a woman was crying on top of a corpse, and Du Xiaoyue was beside her with tears in her eyes, holding the woman and whispering comfort.
At the main entrance of the lobby, the second uncle was holding a three-year-old doll at this time, looking at the corpse held by the woman with red eyes.
Li An arrived and yelled, and everyone just glanced back at him, and then looked silently at the three corpses lying there, without saying a word.
"This..."
Seeing the three corpses and everyone's expressions, Li Anxin tightened his heart and understood that something had happened last night.
"An'er."
Just as Ang Lee was about to step forward to check, a very familiar voice sounded beside him in his memory.
Li An turned his head to look and saw an old man looking at him with a sad face.
"Dad, why are you here? Is there something going on at home? ”
This old man is the father of his predecessor, Li Youfu.
"Alas!"
Hearing his son's inquiry, Li Youfu sighed, pulled Li An to the side, pointed to the three corpses in the middle, and whispered: "Yesterday afternoon, these three officials came to our house and said that your second uncle sent them over to check on your second uncle's death." ”
Li An didn't know about this, but he still nodded and motioned for his father to continue.
"After these three officials came, they had dinner at our house, and then went to the orchard where your second uncle had an accident."
"In the first half of the night, there was nothing, but in the second half of the night, I heard a shouting and fighting from the orchard."
"When I heard this, I knew that something was wrong, and immediately called out to the young man in the village, and rushed over with the guy."
"When we arrived, we saw a monster with red eyes and a body like a piglet, lying on the body of the catcher and gnawing something."
"At that time, many people were taken aback, but that guy, maybe he saw that there were too many of us, or he was full, turned around and ran away, and the three officials ......"
Speaking of this, Dad sighed again, "It's all good young men, it's gone." ”
After listening to his father's story, Li An frowned tightly.
From his father's narration, Ang Lee analyzed two important clues.
The first and second uncles died unnaturally.
Second, it was not a human being who killed the second uncle and the three officials, but a beast, or a monster.
Thinking of this, Li Anxin tightened, he felt that this world was not as simple as he imagined.
When he first met the reading ghost, Ang Lee thought that this world was a world where ghosts were running around and demons were everywhere.
As a result, after absorbing the memories of the predecessor, the demons and monsters are all myths and legends, and the bizarre stories circulated among the folk have never been seen in reality.
Ang Lee thought that there were no ghosts in this world, and the appearance of the reading ghost may have been made by his golden finger.
What happened last night, and with his father's narration, Ang Lee felt that the world was not as simple as he imagined.
However, Li An is not sure for the time being, if we want to understand the real world, only by catching the guy who killed the second uncle and the three officials can we make the final conclusion.
"I'm going back to the countryside for another trip, even if it doesn't confirm the existence of demons and monsters, this hurtful guy can't stay."
With a decision in his heart, Li An first asked his father to wait, and he walked to the three corpses.
After bowing three times to the three corpses, Li An nodded to Du Xiaoyue, who came over, walked to the corpse in the middle, and slowly lifted the white cloth.
As the white cloth was lifted, a bloody corpse with a broken neck and a scratched face appeared in front of Ang Lee's eyes.
"Fourth brother, you can go with peace of mind, I will avenge you, as long as the fourth sister-in-law and Xiaobao have a bite to eat, they will definitely not be hungry."
Although the corpse's face was blurred, Ang Lee recognized it at a glance.
The body that caught Kuaiai was the apprentice of the second uncle, the fourth brother who was still handling the case together yesterday.