Cheng Pu hurriedly dragged Lin Fan aside and whispered, "Brother ask some important questions, and I'll explain the details to you later." Then he said to the official with some apologies: "My brother is not from the Central Plains, and he knows very little about the affairs of the Central Plains, so you can bear with me." ”

The official looked at Lin Fan's hairstyle, revealing a hint of abruptness, and then said: "Our Ling Yan from Jinyang caught the head and went to Suzhou to investigate the case, and the rest of us are generally acting on orders, responsible for cooperating with the arrest of the murderer, and solving the case is not what we are good at. ”

"When do murderers usually commit crimes? It can't be a blue sky and a daytime killing people on the street, right? Lin Fan suppressed his stomach and asked straight to the point.

"That's not it, it's usually at night, and it picks on lonely women." The official patiently explained.

"Hey, don't you have a curfew tonight?" Lin Fan blurted out and asked.

"There are curfews, and they generally start at the time of the child, and the murder cases mostly occur before the time of the unitary." The official replied.

"Isn't it true that a woman doesn't go out of the door, why would she go out at night and be .....?"

Lin Fan stopped halfway through his words, he said in his heart, who knows what era this is, it is obviously inappropriate to take the ancient common sense in his impression, and it is obviously inappropriate to force it up, and he is not an archaeologist, most of the ancient things are hearsay, or don't ask about it.

Thinking of this, Lin Fan changed his words, and asked the official to take himself and Cheng Pu to visit the eyewitness woman to see if he could get some clues about the murderer from the eyewitnesses.

Lin Fan walked out of the mansion, and after understanding the whole story, he felt as if he was in trouble, Jinyang City is so big, where can he go to find the murderer in the vast sea of people?

What's more, he has no power to restrain the chicken, even if he really finds the murderer, if the gangster is strong in martial arts and cuts off his head with an axe, thinking of this, Lin Fan shrunk his neck, and he still felt cold in the scorching sun.

No, he skimmed the eyebrow stick in Cheng Pu's hand with his eyes. asked: "Brother Cheng, if I help you find the gangster, if he wants to run, can you catch him?" ”

Cheng Pu thought for a moment and said uncertainly: "Well... It depends on how the other party's light skills are, my kung fu is average, if the other party has light skills, I really don't necessarily be able to take him. ”

Lin Fan continued to ask, "What if the murderer doesn't know martial arts, but is just an ordinary person who has practiced sprinting?" ”

Cheng Pu said smugly after hearing this: "That's easy, I'll be barefoot against the wind, let him run out of a mile first, and I can easily catch him!" ”

It's over, Barbie Q. Lin Fan was miserable in his heart, his plan to leave Cheng Pu behind and escape alone was in vain, so he could only honestly help investigate the case.

The three of them came to Jinyang City West Street, the eyewitness's home, and the messenger of the guard at the door said hello, and the group walked into the room of the eyewitness, which was the first ancient woman Lin Fan met after crossing, and couldn't help but look at each other a few more times.

I saw that the woman had a good face and good facial features, but the peasant woman's skin was poor, and her linen clothes looked a little more rustic, and there was a layer of calluses on her hands, which should be caused by often doing rough work.

Seeing Lin Fan staring at the girl in a daze, the official coughed lightly twice in embarrassment, called Lin Fan's soul back, and then asked the witness woman to tell Lin Fan in detail what she knew.

The woman was downright and generous, and suddenly saw several strange men walk into the house, and said without the slightest twist: "The little woman is lonely, and she lives by collecting medicine and supplying medicine to the drug delivery shop on weekdays. Thinking of the recent rumors, I was immediately panicked, I urgently called for help, but no one paid attention to it, and shouted that there was a fire! There was a fire! The dead city was suddenly full of people, and many people rushed towards me, and in the panic I was no longer in sight. ”

"So you didn't see the murderer's face? If you think of any important clues, please let me know in time. ”

Lin Fan sighed, and said this clue in his heart, what he said was the same as what he didn't say. Out of the eyewitness woman's home, the official and Lin Fan Cheng confessed the crime, and left alone, Lin Fan walked to the market aimlessly, looking at the endless flow of people, his heart was confused, the murderer killed people randomly, the motive was nowhere to be found, according to the modus operandi, it was roughly guessed that it should be a man with a strong physique.

But this street full of people, there are too many people who meet the requirements, and they can't investigate one by one, at first they solved the case in one day, but now it's approaching evening, and they still have no clue, they can't run and run, and they can't do it.

While Lin Fan was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the vendor next to him whispering to others. "Did you hear that? Miss Ma, who sent medicinal materials to the shopkeeper of Wang, almost died here yesterday, and she has been making trouble for nearly half a month, and she can't find the murderer. ”

"But isn't it, I heard that there is a scholar in the city, every time he meets Miss Ma, he will secretly look at others, could that scholar be the murderer?"

"This thing is also strange, a good yellow flower girl, if she doesn't take her captive, she will have fun and be happy, and she will cut off her head alive, which is really a tyrannical thing."

Lin Fan patted his head, yes, what can he come up with behind closed doors, ask from the city, maybe he can find any clues, as for the truth or falsehood of the clues, at least there is a goal, seeing that it is getting late, there is not much time left for him.

Lin Fan turned his head and asked, "Brother Cheng Pu, haven't you found anything in the past three days?" ”

"I can't say that I found nothing, since the murderer specializes in the night, I think he must have a legitimate reason to go out at night, when looking for a target, even if someone sees it, he can prevaricate. I heard that there was a butcher in the city, who went out to work every night, so I followed him for a few days, and found that he sold meat during the day, closed the stall and went home in the evening, and then came out again when he got home, went to the farmhouse where the pigs were raised, bought pigs and killed pigs, and then carried half of the pigs sold tomorrow home. I've been following him for the past few days, and there's nothing unusual about this butcher, so I gave up following him. Cheng Pu explained.

"Young man, do you buy groceries?"

While walking, Lin Fan and the two were suddenly stopped by a stall selling vegetables, Lin Fan hurriedly waved his hand to say that he didn't need it, and the vegetable seller kindly comforted: "It's not early, we'll close the stall in a while, you should go back quickly, it's not peaceful recently, there are strong people at night, like last night's dark clouds covering the moon, isn't it the day of the moon and the dark killing, the wind is high and the sky is on fire!" ”

"Thank you, auntie, I..." Lin Fan was just about to open his mouth to say thank you, when he suddenly thought, why not do the opposite, wait until the evening to come out to inspect again, in case he happens to bump into that murderous demon to commit a crime, wouldn't it be to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to go, and it will take no effort to get there. Lin Fan told Cheng Pu his thoughts, and Cheng Pu also thought it made sense, if he hadn't followed Butcher Zhang last night, but was patrolling the city, maybe he would have been able to capture the murderer when he attacked Miss Ma.

Lin Fan and the two left the bazaar, found a wine shop and ordered some food, ready to eat and drink enough, wait for dark to go around the city, after entering the table, Lin Fan found that the wine of this era has many impurities in it, according to Cheng Pu, this kind of wine is called turbid wine, because it is easy to perish, it needs to be boiled before drinking, otherwise it is easy to get sick to the stomach when drinking.

The ancients liked to cook wine for disinfection, no wonder Guan Erye was willing to drink when he came back from cutting Huaxiong, if he went after drinking, and he had a stomach trouble when the battle was in full swing, then it was not warm wine and Huaxiong, but...

Lin Fan couldn't cry or laugh a little, picked up the wine glass and drank it, and found that the entrance was not spicy, but had a faint aroma, and the degree was not high, it didn't seem to be as good as beer, almost the same as drinking water.

"Brother Cheng, the official said that a reward was issued, so how much reward can we get if we find the murderer?"

"I read the five taels written on the notice, the murderers killed some ordinary people, and they didn't attract the attention of the imperial court, not to mention that no one has seen the murderer, and I don't know what his skills are, if the martial arts are strong, the reward will increase."

"Five taels? Let's risk our lives to arrest the murderer, that's all? Anyway, your master asked you to help, is it for chivalry or for rewarding silver? ”

"Of course, it's for chivalry, but it's really for the reward, after all, you have to eat in the rivers and lakes. When we were fine, Master would let us go down the mountain and do some bounty tasks, or help with darts and so on. ”

"It's... It's really down-to-earth. Lin Fan's admiration for the martial arts master shattered in an instant.

After being full of wine and food, chatting with Cheng Pu for a while, it was already completely dark, the two saw that it was almost over, ready to check out and leave, Lin Fan found Cheng Pu at the counter, took out a broken silver and handed it over, and then quietly waited for the shopkeeper to find money, only to see the shopkeeper take the silver and look at it, cut off a piece with a pair of scissors, the already small broken silver, suddenly became almost slag, and then weighed it with a small scale, and returned the rest to Cheng Pu after confirming that it was correct.

Lin Fan saw Cheng Pu solemnly and put away the remaining silver slag, feeling a little embarrassed, and asked: "Big brother, as knights in the rivers and lakes, shouldn't we raise our hands and throw out a large ingot of silver, and then say that we don't need to look for it?" ”

"Do you have a mountain of gold at home? With such a generous shot, Brother Lin, you should be able to save money when you go out, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, not to mention that your wealth is not exposed, like you said, aren't you afraid of being targeted? Cheng Puyi preached with words.

The shopkeeper sneered and said with a smile: "This little brother must not be deeply involved in the world, and he has heard a lot of dramas from the restaurant, so he will have this kind of thought." ”

Lin Fan's face turned red, and he hurriedly rushed out of the door, repeatedly telling himself in his heart, I am dumb, I am dumb! Isn't he fragrant when he's dumb?