Man dies for money, and birds die for food.

Indulging in the extravagant and debauched life, Zhu Afu's desires were gradually amplified, and he went back and forth to the mountains many times to knock on the red lazuli, and then took the red lazuli to the black market for trading.

The first to attract attention were the Hu brothers in the same village, they accidentally bumped into Zhu Afu wearing gold and silver in and out of a luxury restaurant, and seized the opportunity to 'force' to ask, but Zhu Afu knew the depth and gritted his teeth and refused to say.

So, the Hu brothers first secretly went to the Zhou family to complain, saying that Zhu Afu's hands and feet were not clean, and he must have obeyed the Zhou family's things during his work, so that the Zhou family was caught and beaten.

After that, the more the Hu brothers thought about it, the more wrong it became, they were all together when they worked on weekdays, and they didn't look at anything valuable, what did Zhu Afu steal and make a fortune.

The Hu brothers kept an eye on it, and after Zhu Afu spent the money in his hand, he entered the mountain again, and they followed behind secretly, and finally discovered this big secret.

A gold mine was placed in front of them, and the Hu brothers were almost crazy about it.

Greed arises, and all evil is born.

The Hu brothers wanted to keep it for themselves, and they were angry that Zhu Afu acted too publicly, and after a long time, I was afraid that they would not be able to hide it, and they were ruthless, so the two of them killed Zhu Afu directly and buried the body.

In comparison, the Hu family brothers are a lot more low-key, neither going in and out of luxury taverns nor going to the party to spend a lot of money, they buy jewelry, plate shops, they think no one knows, but in fact, they all fall into the eyes of the Zhou family.

"A poor tenant suddenly became rich overnight?" Zhou Yao laughed mockingly: "It's better to believe that there is red rain in the sky." ”

Originally, the Zhou family beat Zhu Afu, but it was nothing at first, but after Zhou Yao learned about this, he became suspicious in his heart, and casually asked someone to check, and the suspicion was even deeper.

Money is not sinful, but evil is in the hearts of men.

The Zhou family wanted to find one or two poor tenants with little effort, and the Hu brothers didn't enjoy it for two days, and followed Zhu Afu to the underworld to line up to report.

"A gold mine, a gold mine, who can not be tempted." Zhou Yao's eyes were a little crazy.

Yu Fangjing put one hand on the shocking wood, calmly frowned, and said, "Where are the bodies of Zhu Afu and the Hu family brothers?" ”

Zhou Yao: "Zhu Afu's is not clear, who knows where he was buried, as for the Hu brothers, let the wolves gnaw it, and the bones were thrown in the eighteen moor, and it is estimated that they are still sinking at the bottom of the lake." "The tone is indifferent, completely disregarding human life.

Yunqi looked at the sky and counted the time, how to calculate the bones for more than half a year, but the bowl of whitebait tofu soup he ate was more than half a month ago, and his heart and lungs suddenly began to feel uncomfortable.

He secretly poked Lu Anran with a jade bone fan, and wanted to make eye contact, but saw that her eyes were slightly drooping, looking at the ground fixedly, in a rare daze.

Nangong Zhi's voice sounded, "Speaking of Eighteen Bo, Chen thought of one thing, in the Yaksha murder case, there were several cases, which were near Eighteen Bo. ”

"Good reminder from Shaosuke." Yu Fangjing opened his mind and hissed: "Every time Yaksha kills people, they are in the watershed area, and I didn't feel anything before, but now, it seems a little unusual. ”

When Yun Qi heard this, he almost immediately said, "Don't think about it, the Yaksha must have been made by the Zhou family." ”

In this way, the Yaksha murder solves the case, perfectly.

Yu Fangjing twitched the corner of his mouth, "Yun Shizi, this ...... Let's still be careful to verify. ”

Yunqi was disapproving, "Just because the Zhou family has a Zhou Pei who makes Yaksha crazy, it greatly increases the suspicion." ”

"Although the watershed is wide, if you draw a circle around the gold mine, the dead people happen to be outside the circle." Nangong Zhi agreed with Yunqi's words, but put forward a more reliable basis, and said to the prince: "The minister is careless and speculates that the Zhou family is to cover the existence of the gold mine, and he is afraid that another Zhu Afu will discover the gold mine, so it is falsely rumored that there is a yaksha in the forest." ”

Yun Qi grabbed the jade bone fan and slapped it three times, "Nangong Shaofu said it well, and this prince agrees quite a bit." ”

Zi Sang Jin glanced at him, "Except for this, Yun Shizi has nothing else to say?" ”

"Ah, that's it." He spread his hands shamelessly, "Nangong Shaofu said it for the minister." ”

Zi Sangjin smiled angrily at him, and instantly turned a cold face at the Zhou family's father and son, "This palace asks you, about the murder of the Yaksha, is it that you deliberately faked it, just to hide the location of the gold mine?" ”

Before Zhou Yao could speak, Zhou Hou shook his head at him, folded his hands on his forehead and kowtowed to the ground, then raised his head and said, "Yes." ”

Although Zhou Yao wanted to take it alone, Zhou Hou knew that this was not something that Zhou Yao could carry alone, and the only thing he had in his heart now was a little luck, and it would be good if he could leave the descendants of the Zhou family in the end.

The bloodline continues, and the Zhou family finally has hope.

Yu Fangjing hurriedly asked: "Zhou Pei pretended to be crazy, is it also the Zhou family to exaggerate the Yasha?" ”

Zhou Hou replied again: "Yes." ”

"What is the Zhou family doing so much for?"

Zhou Hou was silent for a few breaths, his eyes were not as firm as at the beginning, his face was full of decay, and he exhaled turbidity and said: "As Huang Po said just now, with the gold mine, why can't the Zhou family open up territory in other places and break into another world." ”

As early as a long time ago, the Zhou family knew that the trafficking of women and children would be a hidden danger sooner or later, and later the profits were released and people were asked to take the handle, they were forced to threaten and had to cooperate with Xue Tai, but most of the profits were actually taken by Xue Tai in vain.

Especially a few years ago, the Zhou family faintly felt that someone in the government was investigating their family, as long as the evil they had done, it was impossible to completely erase it, although Xue Tai was there, maybe he could keep the Zhou family through interest negotiations.

But what if there is someone more powerful than Xue Tai?

And their Zhou family will always be controlled by others, and will they make money to support others in vain?

Therefore, when Zhou Yao discovered the gold mine through the Hu brothers, they planned the case.

First of all, Zhou Hou deliberately kicked Zhou Yao out of the house in person, but in fact, Zhou Yao secretly arranged it behind his back, including murdering the owner of the incense and candle shop.

He hid in the incense and candle shop and used folklore to release the news of the appearance of the Yaksha in the watershed, so that most people did not dare to approach, and also brutally killed the unbelievers, and forbade the wild wolves to eat the corpses.

"It's better for fools to fool you, just kill a few people, and they will spontaneously help you preach that Yaksha kills people." Zhou Yao said, with a little smugness.

Among them, the most difficult point is how to find more than 100 corpses disguised as the Zhou family.

In the end, Zhou Yao set his sights on Shangsi Village.

Yu Fangjing asked him why.

Zhou Yao said: "It's very simple, first, how can I determine whether Zhu Afu and the Hu family brothers have inadvertently revealed anything to their fellow villagers; Second, three people have already been 'missing', wouldn't it be more logical for something to happen again? ”

Yu Fangjing's anger was obvious, he tried his best to suppress it, gritted his teeth and said, "This is more than a hundred lives!" ”

How cruel, how mad.

"The rest of the Zhou family doesn't know, I only told them that the government has noticed the matter of releasing profits, and they need to go to the mountains to hide for a few days." Zhou Hou said.

Yu Fangjing said coldly: "How can this official believe? ”

Zhou Hou had already prepared his words, "Because there are one hundred and fifty people in the Zhou family, and there are many of them here." It was inevitable that the rest of the Zhou family found that there were fewer maids and servants around them, so they found one hundred and forty-nine corpses to disguise. "Otherwise, there are only their own people in the Zhou family, and there are only twenty or thirty people up and down.

"I can't believe how you can brazenly say such a conscience-destroying thing." Yu Fangjing has been in Mengdu for more than ten years, and the worst people he has tried are less than one-ten-thousandth of the Zhou family.

Zhou Hou asked, instead: "The head of the family, what's wrong with protecting the family?" ”

Yu Fangjing was so angry that he threw out the startled wood in his hand, made heavy contact with the bluestone slab ground, and smashed a small pit, "Then are you going to kill more than a hundred innocent lives?" He was shocked and distressed, "More than a hundred! It's all human lives! ”

The more than 100 people who died in vain became a number and were repeatedly mentioned by those present, but when they were alive, they were all fresh lives, and now they dissipated into heaven and earth, and were extinguished in the fire.

The mood of the people in the county hall was heavy, as if the shocked wood was not smashed on the ground, but in their hearts.

Qian Liang's face was even more pale, his legs and feet were paralyzed, and he silently finished thinking in his heart, this time it was really over, such a tragic case happened in his jurisdiction, and now the best outcome is to be cut off his official hat.

Yunqi secretly paid attention to Lu Anran, and she hung her head from the beginning, as if everything that happened in the hall had nothing to do with her, and it was abnormally powerful.

The interrogation that followed was more detailed, and Zhou Hou's father and son also explained one by one, but they always insisted that the rest of the Zhou family was innocent and uninformed.

Yu Fangjing once said to Lu Yun that the group of strong men raised by the Zhou family when they abducted and sold women and children were actually several masters of Panlongzhai and Golden Snake Gate, and they conspired with the Zhou family to do one case after another, and later the business was forced to end, but how could the Zhou family rest assured.

The dozens of biao-shaped men found in the barren water pool are the masters of Panlong Village and Golden Snake Gate, but it is a pity that the government at that time broke the clues and did not examine the bones in detail, otherwise it would be found that these people were poisoned and died.

In addition, about the book of profits, Zhou Hou naturally did not destroy it as he said, so a group of people were implicated.

The trial of the case was almost dark before everyone dispersed, and Zi Sangjin asked the guards to temporarily detain the Zhou family in the prison cell of the county office for a retrial tomorrow.

Lu Anran and Yunqi took the carriage back to the Yunfu Courtyard, and they didn't say anything all the way.

Entering the courtyard, Yun Qi grabbed Lu Anran, who was thinking about going inside, and pretended to be relaxed: "Yu Fangjing has done a good thing, and without any more effort from this world, the Yaksha case will be solved." ”

Lu Anran didn't turn around, turned his head, his dark eyes were dull, like an abyss, "More than a hundred lives, is it just like that?" ”

Yunqi let go of his hand, took two steps forward and faced her, and said with a feeling: "You are blaming yourself." ”

No doubt, see through at a glance.

Lu Anran half-lowered his eyes, feeling a little disgusted with the tacit understanding with Yunqi at this time, and he didn't know how to get rid of the guilt of the rampage.

As a puppet, she didn't even do the most basic to determine the identity of the deceased!

"Zhou Hou interfered with you, and no one would doubt the words of the 'housekeeper' in the victim's house." Yun Qi's voice was softened, and he comforted: "If you really want to discuss it in detail, the problem is me, as the criminal division in charge of this case, I actually let go of such a big suspicion." ”

After a long silence, Lu Anran asked in a calm and questioning tone: "Yunqi, am I really suitable to be a servant?" ”