"Really? Who is the murderer? Cheng Pu asked with some surprise.

"That's right, let's go back to the corpse, if I'm not mistaken, the murder weapon should have been left at the corpse as well." Lin Fan stood up, patted the soil on his body and said.

The two returned to the place where the body had just been found, Cheng Pu reached out and pushed the body away, and sure enough, under the corpse, he found the murder weapon that was suppressed, a short axe with blood. Seeing that Lin Fan showed such an expression, Cheng Pu picked up the head of the murdered woman, placed it next to her corpse, took off his coat and covered the corpse.

"Brother Lin, can you say it now? Who exactly is the murderer? ”

Lin Fan said apologetically: "Brother Cheng, it's too late today, let's find an inn to rest, I still have some things to figure out, let's go directly to the court early tomorrow morning and tell the prefect the truth." ”

Cheng Pu saw that Lin Fan was preoccupied, and he didn't want to ask too much, so he took Lin Fan to find an inn, set up two rooms, and after settling everything, Cheng Pu left Lin Fan a sachet to prevent mosquitoes, and left the inn to go to the government to find the official to collect the body of the murdered woman.

Lin Fan looked around, the room of the inn was very simple, there was a wooden table in the center of the small room, a few round stools were placed underneath, a candle lamp was lit on the table, and a teapot was placed on the tray next to it, and a few cups were upside down.

In the corner of the wall was a small bucket, which seemed to be a convenient night pot, and at the end of the room was a wooden bed. There was a peculiar smell in the room, Lin Fan was in front of the window next to the bed, picked up a fork pole to open the window, and took a deep breath of fresh air.

Lin Fan sighed, his heart is right, let's live in a theme hotel. Thinking about walking to the bed, he lay down tiredly, just lay down and quickly sat up, covered the back of his head and complained: "Why is this pillow also made of wood?" It's so hard and so high, you can't sleep all night without falling pillow? ”

As he spoke, he threw the pillow off the bed, rolled up the quilt at his feet, and took it to the head of the bed as a pillow, fortunately it was summer now, the weather was not cold, and there was no need to cover the quilt. Lin Fan lay on the bed, staring at the wall above, tossing and turning and never falling asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Lin Fan followed Cheng Pu to the mansion with a pair of bloodshot eyes, and Cheng Pu looked at Lin Fan's appearance, and he was not embarrassed to ask how he rested last night, and he knew that he must not have slept well last night without asking.

went up to the lobby, because of the preparation, the official knocked the ground with a fire stick, and the scene of shouting mighty did not scare Lin Fan, but the appearance of the prefect shocked him, with a black face and beard, and a tall man who seemed to be a military general.

The prefect asked with a serious face: "Lin Gongzi, I heard that Cheng Shaoxia said that you have found out the identity of the murderer in the city, but is there such a thing?" ”

Lin Fan followed Cheng Pu's example, saluted the prefect, and said, "Fortunately, I have investigated the matter clearly." ”

"Oh? Who is the murderer? ”

Lin Fan was a little speechless, silent for a long time, and finally sighed, and said with some regret: "The murderer is the eyewitness woman who shouted to catch the thief." ”

The prefect was stunned when he heard Lin Fan's answer, and then ordered someone to pass the eyewitness Miss Ma to the hall, and when Miss Ma arrived at the scene with a stunned face, she asked again: "Young Master Lin, people have also brought it, do you have any evidence?" How can it be assumed that the murderer is the woman who witnessed it? ”

"There are three evidences, the first is the shadow, this girl claimed that when she returned home last night, she found the shadow of the murderer on the ground, but according to our investigation, there was no light at the scene of the crime at night, and yesterday the dark clouds covered the moon and there was no moonlight, and she couldn't see the shadow of her five fingers? So this testimony is lying! ”

"The second is the corpse, we found a female corpse near the crime scene, and in the recent murder case, I only heard about the murderer's attempted murder, so I suspect that the woman shouted for help before she died, and the residents rushed over, so she had to hurriedly find a wooden barrel to hide the body, and then pretended to be the victim."

"The third is the murder weapon, this is the strangest point, when we checked the female corpse, we found the murder weapon in the bucket, after the murderer killed someone, maybe because of the emergency situation at the time, the murder weapon could not be taken away and thrown into the bucket, but why afterwards, when the body was not found, the murder weapon was not taken away, and the corpse was not destroyed? So the new machine is digging a black set..."

The prefect listened attentively, and was suddenly disturbed by Lin Fan's inexplicable words, and was stunned for a moment, tilted his head and said woodenly: "Wow?" ”

When Lin Fan saw this scene, he hurriedly smiled and said, "I'm sorry, this is my hometown, the dialect of a region, which means that there is only one truth." Then Lin Fan continued: "So there is only one truth, the murderer is this self-proclaimed eyewitness Miss Ma, because after the incident, in order to protect her safety, the yamen sent people to guard her near her house every inch, so there is no chance to return to the scene of the crime, destroy the body and get back the murder weapon." ”

"Childe, don't wronged a good person, how can I be a murderer with a weak woman?" Miss Ma said aggrievedly.

"Weak? I'm sorry, look at your hands, that's a long-term heavy work, or a long-term martial arts practice, and only the master of short-handled weapons will stay. Lin Fan sneered. In fact, the only thing I don't understand is your motive for committing the crime, why did you use such a murderous method to kill other women? Lin Fan approached her with a puzzled look on his face and asked.

"Motivation?" Miss Ma muttered, suddenly broke free from the servant beside her, rushed towards Lin Fan with a hideous face, stretched out her hand to choke his neck, saw her easily break free from the servant, knew that this woman had great strength, if she grasped it this time, I was afraid that she would instantly break Lin Fan's neck.

Lin Fan retreated in a panic, but it was too late, and at the last moment, Cheng Pu rushed up with an arrow step, twisted his waist with a shocking kick, and the Qi Mei stick in his hand swept away the thousands of troops, and broke her arm with a stick. The woman groaned in pain, took two steps back, and then was controlled by the servants who rushed up, and tied up the five flowers.

I saw that she was fierce at the moment, and laughed wildly: "Motive? Does killing require a motive? I eat when I'm hungry, drink water when I'm thirsty, and kill when I'm bored! ”

Lin Fan was just frightened, and his face turned pale and incredulously, "Is it fun to kill people?" ”

"Do you know the thrill of watching a human head hit the ground?" The horse girl smiled strangely.

For such an absurd reason, Lin Fan was speechless for a while.

"Don't believe me? Cut off my head. The horse girl spoke terrifying words in a flat tone.

Lin Fan couldn't hold back any longer, and stepped forward again, his face was full of regret, and his voice said with a slight trace of pain: "There is only a moment of pain when the head falls to the ground, but the sadness in the hearts of the relatives and friends of the deceased cannot be calmed down for a lifetime, and even if it is you, after this matter spreads, there will be people who will cry for you and regret it for you for life, do you know?" There is a scholar in the city who has always liked you, studying hard for you, wanting to gain fame and marry you, when he learned that you were in danger, even if he was afraid of death, he wandered around the city in the middle of the night, wanting to catch the murderer at the cost of his life, and no longer let you be in danger, and when he knew the truth of all this, how cruel it was to him! ”

"Is that him? Hahaha, it's too late, it's too late. Miss Ma said with tears in her eyes.

"A bold murderer, who dares to pretend to be an eyewitness to fool his own officials, who still does not repent when he dies, and who tries to hurt people's lives again, come on! Put me on death row. The prefect blew his beard and glared, slapping the table and shouting.

The truth of the case was finally revealed, Lin Fan walked out of the mansion with Cheng Pu, but he didn't have the slightest excitement in his heart, but felt heavy, and in the end, Miss Ma didn't say why she killed someone, the ins and outs of this matter, and whether there was any hidden secret, I am afraid that I will never know.

Cheng Pu didn't know whether he was open-minded or heartless, so he happily thanked Lin Fan and invited him to the restaurant to have a drink to celebrate. Lin Fan was not in the mood to celebrate, but at this time he really wanted to have a drink to relieve his mood, so he readily agreed.

After the two came to the restaurant to sit down, Lin Fan suddenly felt a little lost in his heart, in order to find a way to enter the city, the promise he promised to Cheng Pu had been fulfilled, but what should be the next step?

Even if you borrow some silver taels from Cheng Pu, there will always be a day when you will spend it and study business? Although he has advanced consciousness, he does not have the mind and talent to do business, not to mention that he knows little about the basic common sense of this era, and he is afraid that he will lose all his money if he goes to sea rashly.

Looking for a place to work? Oh my God, did I come here by mistake just to change the environment and become a social animal? Lin Fan, who was full of thoughts, took the lead in asking: "Brother Cheng Pu, the younger brother has something to ask for, I don't know if the elder brother can agree to the younger brother." ”

"What's the matter? You just say it, it's fate for the two of us brothers to meet here, you and I hate to see each other at first sight, since we are already brothers, what is polite to me. Cheng Pu said indifferently.

"Brother Cheng Pu, when we first met before, I told you that I am from outside the territory and I am not familiar with the life here, but I can't hide that I can't go back, and now that I am here, where should I go in the future, the little brother is very at a loss. I don't know where Cheng Pu's big brother is, the little brother wants to worship in the mountain gate, and learn art from your master, the little brother also feels that he is very close to Cheng Pu's big brother, if we can become senior brothers, and then accompany each other day and night, wouldn't it be beautiful to go into the rivers and lakes together? Lin Fan said sincerely, and almost squeezed out tears in order to beg for acceptance.

"This... Brother Lin, I really can't be the master of this matter, the family teacher no longer accepts apprentices, although I try to persuade it, it is not hopeless, but I have to let me go back, report to the master and then make a decision. Cheng Pu said with some embarrassment.

"In this way, then I will wait for the good news of Brother Cheng Pu." Lin Fan said with a sad face.

After a while, the store brought up the wine and food, Cheng Pu took the lead in raising the wine glass and toasted to Lin Fan, Lin Fan also picked up the wine glass, ready to drink it all. Cheng Pu was just about to drink the wine, when his nose suddenly moved, and he screamed hard that it was not good, and asked Lin Fan to put the wine down, this wine was wrong, but at this time Lin Fan had already finished drinking the wine.

Lin Fan put down his wine glass and was about to ask out loud, but he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and he was burning inside! He fell to the ground, rolling in pain, Cheng Pu ran over to check on his condition, and told Lin Fan that he had been poisoned, and this poison... Before he could finish his words, suddenly a strong wind hit behind him, and a dark shadow appeared behind him.