Li Xing has always believed that as long as he does bad things, he will inevitably leave traces.

When Li Gou'er was looking for traces in the house, Li Xing and Cui Tingcheng went to inquire about the situation with their neighbors.

Many ordinary people saw Li Xing on the day of the opening of the Taiping Taoist Temple and knew that he was the county magistrate.

In addition, everyone in the family works in the coal mine, and now they can eat enough.

So I have a lot of respect and enthusiasm for Li Xing.

Li Xing asked something, and they naturally would not hide anything.

After visiting many of them, almost all of them said that they were not familiar with the old five families.

After Li Xing inquired about the reason in detail, he learned that the fifth child's mother had tuberculosis.

In addition, the fifth wife went to dig wild vegetables for her children because of the drought and was taken away by wolves.

He was hit, and his already dull personality became even more withdrawn.

Even if it is a neighbor, basically they will not go to his house.

And in this process, Li Gou'er also chased after him and reported the situation: "Young master, that killer is very professional, all traces have been erased, and I haven't found anything useful."

"Let's not talk about these things first, let's go to Lizheng and ask him to arrange that the family will be buried first, and the funeral expenses will be out of the yamen."

After Li Xing finished speaking, Li Gou'er took on the responsibility of asking for directions.

Soon came to Lizheng's house.

Li was an old man in his fifties, and when he saw Li Xing, he recognized it immediately and hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Li Xing hurriedly helped him up: "Li Zheng is exempt, this official came to investigate a case this time, involving the fifth child in your village, but unfortunately the official came one step late, and the fifth family has been wiped out."

"Ah......h

When Li Zheng heard the destruction of the door, he couldn't help but shudder for a moment, and then asked carefully, "My lord, can you find out who the murderer is?"

"This official is here to find out the truth, who has been in the village recently?"

Li Xing just subconsciously asked casually.

Actually, there is no intention.

Who knew that Li was seriously thinking about it.

After a while, he spoke: "The people in the village have all gone to the mine, if you have to talk about outsiders, only Hu Xiaosan, a merchant from the East Village, has come."

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he felt as if he had lost his words, so he added another sentence.

"He has been coming to our village for almost ten years to walk the streets and alleys, selling some needles and threads, and he is honest, so I don't think it will be him."

"It's true that those who walk the streets are not outsiders."

Li Xing agreed, and then entrusted Li Zheng to bury the old five families, and asked Li Gou'er to give Li Zheng five taels of silver as funeral expenses, and then left.

Back near the carriage, the little foreman who had been left by the carriage had woken up, but he was a little sluggish.

It was impossible to go to work in this state, so Li Xing gave him a seven-day vacation and let him go home to raise him.

The little foreman hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him.

"Get up! Can you walk home? If not, let the dog drive you back first."

The little foreman is from this village, so Li Xing asked.

"Yes, the little ones can go home."

"Okay, then you can walk back by yourself, be careful on the way, and we'll go back to the county."

Li Xing replied and said to Li Gou'er and Cui Tingcheng, "Let's go back!"

"Yes, young master."

Li Gou'er responded and hurried to untie the tethered horse.

Cui Tingcheng didn't speak, but got into the car silently.

Li Xing did not enter the carriage, but sat outside with Li Gou'er.

When Li Xing was on the road, he saw the people greeting him, so he asked Li Gou'er to stop and asked the people if any outsiders had come to the village.

As a result, without exception, these people said that no outsiders had ever visited.

As soon as the carriage left the village, Li Xing said to Li Gou'er, "Go to the East Village and find the merchant named Hu Xiaosan."

"Yes, young master."

Li Gou'er is still the same

I don't ask why.

The young master told him to do what he did.

But Cui Qingcheng in the carriage heard Li Xing's words, and couldn't help but lift the curtain, looked at Li Xing and said, "Are you a little suspicious? How could a killer leave such a big flaw?"

"Miss Cui, you're right, it's impossible for the killer to leave such a flaw, but the situation of the fifth family, the killer can know so clearly, I'm afraid that the merchant can't get out of it."

"You mean the merchant has a connection with the killer?"

Cui Tingcheng asked again.

Li Xing shook his head: "There may not be a connection, but the merchant should have been in contact with the killer."

Cui Qingcheng was puzzled: "How did you arrive at this inference?"

"You forget, in addition to asking the neighbors and Lizheng of the old five families, we also asked the people we met on the way, and none of them had contact with strangers."

After Li Xing finished speaking, Cui Qingcheng suddenly realized.

"I thought you were trying to show that you were close to the people! It turned out that there were other intentions."

"Kill two birds with one stone."

Li Xing smiled and continued to return to the topic: "The killer has not been in contact with the people in the village, but he knows the situation of the old five families, and my mother can only come to see through the merchant, after all, he often walks the streets and alleys, and he knows the general situation of each family."

"Master Li, if your guess is true, I feel that the merchant is probably more than lucky."

Cui Chengcheng Bingxue was smart, and immediately thought of the stakes.

Spoke his guess.

Li Xing nodded: "Your guess is very correct, but we still have to go, in case that the merchant is lucky, or the killer is kind, this person escapes!"

"What the lord said makes sense, I hope that the merchant has a great life!"

Cui Tingcheng admired Li Xing's perseverance a little.

If his eldest brother is as persistent as Li Xianling, she is a little woman, and she doesn't need to be so tired.

After a stick of incense, their carriage arrived at the East Village.

As soon as I inquired, I inquired about the merchant's home.

Of course, when they inquired about the location of the merchant's house, they also got the unfortunate news that the merchant had died of an emergency.

As soon as he heard about the emergency, Li Xing guessed that it was mostly poisoning.

As long as you know what kind of poison is in it, then you can investigate.

The county government happened to intervene and used this case as a reason to completely roll out the case.

Thinking of this, Li Xing instructed Li Gou'er, "Go to the merchant's house."

When I was about to arrive at the merchant's house, I heard the heart-rending cry of a woman and a child.

Of course, there are also the voices of persuasion from the people around them, who can't be resurrected after death, and mourning and so on.

When Li Xing got out of the carriage and entered the merchant's house with Li Cui.

The people immediately recognized the county magistrate and knelt down and bowed.

"Folks, fathers, get up! This official is here to mourn the deceased, and you don't need to be polite."

As soon as Li Xing's words came out, the people below blew up.

They didn't expect Hu Xiaosan to be an old man with the county master.

Even Hu Xiaosan's crying wife, when she heard this, stopped crying, and looked at Li Xing in a daze.

He doesn't remember what the intersection between his man and the new county master is!