The tragic incident that happened in the town of Soseki last night was bizarre and weird, and the ending was unbelievable. What many residents of the town and the surrounding mountain people did not expect was that the person who was killed and died tragically was actually Qiu Lao Liu, who was kind to others and kept to himself on weekdays!

Such a strange case as this mysterious case not only made the people talk about it, but even Song Che, the Junzhou magistrate who came to handle the case, also felt a headache. has been a pusher for so many years, and Song Che has really never been involved in such a difficult case......

So, how could Song Che, who is the magistrate of Junzhou, suddenly go to Shushi Town on the edge of this Mangcang Mountain to investigate the case? There's still quite a bit to be said about this.

Although this Shushi town is close to Mangcang Mountain in Jiaxing Prefecture, it is administratively subordinate to Yongan County in Junzhou, so once it is known that a major murder has occurred here, the Junzhou Prefecture Government must dispatch officials to inspect and try it.

Song Che, a magistrate who had just been transferred to Junzhou from other places to take office, had cracked many big and strange cases during his tenure before, and his reputation for investigating and handling cases was not inferior to that of his predecessor Song Ci. However, today, he felt helpless for a while about the bizarre and tragic death of the sixth man in Shanminqiu.

However, Song Che is Song Che, and in the face of such a bizarre and suspicious case, he quickly sorted out the idea of investigating and collecting evidence, and quickly took effective action. After ordering the placement of the dead body, Song Che immediately took a few arresters and visited a large circle around the crime site......

By questioning Qiu Laosi and some surrounding people, Song Che learned that the deceased Qiu Laoliu had a withdrawn personality and liked to live alone, and usually had little intersection with those people in the same village. In the past month and a half, Qiu Lao Liu has been in charge of taking care of a peach forest not far from the mountain road, and has been living alone in a small wooden house watching the forest.

"A lone forester" - in Song Che's view, this is a very important information. In the middle of the night in the barren mountains and wilderness, if you want to attack a lonely old man watching the forest, an ordinary strong person is enough. Who, then, is it—why would he be so desperate for such a lonely man?

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In the early morning, when the chickens were crowing, someone lit a small fire in the small cave on the cliff of the Misty Gorge. Three figures gathered around the fire, talking while eating dry food.

"Flatbread, did you really see it at that time - the Northern Tiger, who was once a good hand in the rivers and lakes, was so easily shot by someone with an arrow?" Lu Xi couldn't wait to ask.

"Well, that's true." Luo Yibing nodded again and again, and said in a very affirmative tone - he really had palpitations when he remembered the scene at that time.

"Brother Hammer, can you see it very clearly?" Lu Xi still didn't want to believe that the result was true.

"I didn't ...... Wrong, oh! Liu Xinghammer, who was burying his head in swallowing the baked cakes, almost choked in order to answer.

At this moment, a shadow that has been lingering in Lu Xi's heart is: the strange back of his cousin last night. "Why? What the hell is my cousin doing such a thing? Even Lu Xi, who has always been quick-witted, is puzzled by this.

For the three righteous men who formed the "Three Horses" Righteous Society, it was already a great shame that they didn't save the old man last night. For a while, there was silence in the cave, and only the sound of vigorously chewing the baked cakes was left.

A brilliant morning glow pierced the morning mist, creating a colorful scene outside the cave. After a whole night of tossing, the three brothers, who had eaten and drunk enough, began to sleep on the ground crookedly. After a while, there was already snoring in the cave......

From this cave up fifty or sixty zhang, after two more turns, is the small Taoist temple of the clogs road chief. At the fourth and third o'clock last night, Xiaodao Tong Xiaotong was ordered to visit the backyard, and he looked in through the window of the guest room, but saw that the bed was covered with a towering bed—obviously the guest was still asleep.

Half an hour later, at the fifth watch, Hitomi went to the backyard again to visit—only to see that the guest room was still the same. However, the attentive little pupil strangely found that the quilt on the bed seemed to be the same as before, and it had hardly changed!

"It doesn't make sense, people can't sleep so dead—how can they not move in half an hour?" Xiao Hitomi was suddenly full of suspicion, so she had to hurry to inform the master.

Who would have expected that in the reception room, the clogs were sitting on the couch, as if they were settled. And what about Minami Tsuruko? He was concentrating on studying a scroll he had brought with him. Seeing such a situation, Xiao Hitomi felt that it was inconvenient to disturb, so she had to stand silently outside the door.

It wasn't until the rooster crowed three times that the clog chief woke up from the "sitting sleep" in full spirit, and Nanhezi, who was in the same room with him, still looked like he was in the realm of selflessness, and it seemed that these two masters should be competing for the level of concentration.

"Brother Crane, this time you won!" The head of the clogs felt that as the master, he should take a step back first, so he readily admitted defeat.

"Why did Brother Mu Dao come here? This isn't your style! "Nanhezi is not only good and not behaved, but wants to take advantage of it verbally.

"Report to Master—" The obedient little pupil tasted Nanhezi's words outside the door, and hurriedly spoke to help play the round.

"Apprentice, what's the matter?" The head of the clogs immediately diverted the topic and raised his voice to ask.

"The guest in the backyard...... It seems to have disappeared for a long time. ”

"Oh?" The head of the clogs and Minami Hezi exclaimed almost in unison, and the head of the clogs groaned slightly, and hurriedly asked again: "Tell me clearly, what is going on?" ”

So, Xiao Hitomi told what he saw in the backyard last night, as well as his doubts.

"Okay, you second Xin, you didn't say goodbye." After hearing this, the head of the clogs said with dissatisfaction.

However, Nanhezi seemed much calmer, and he said refreshingly: "Those who are tigers in the north will return to the north." ”

It seems that such a result seems to be expected by his Nanhezi. So, last night's surprise visit by Nanhezi was also premeditated?

After waiting for a little half of the night, he finally got the exact result, and Minami Hezi himself felt satisfied. At that moment, he got up, politely declined the invitation of the clogs to have breakfast with him, and left the Taoist courtyard without looking back.

Soon after Nanhezi left, the morning light quickly sprinkled the entire courtyard, and at this time, a person also leisurely walked out of the backyard. Who is this person? He is the Xin Chasing Tiger who Nanhezi has been "squatting" for a long time in the middle of the night!

Xin Chaihu came out at the right time, just in time to have some breakfast with the head of the clogs. At the dinner table, the two old friends looked at each other and smiled, and even Xiao Hitomi, who was waiting on the side, smiled quietly......