"Name?"

"Qiu Shaohu."

"Occupation?"

"Now I'm a handyman here, doing everything."

"Origin?"

"Actually, I'm from Kangjing, so I don't know about it now."

"Why?"

"My hometown is unstable."

Hearing this, the craftsman couldn't help but sneer, "Sure enough, it's because of the imperial court." ”

The loss of land in the north, the Zhao Kingdom crossed to the south, and it turned out that many large northern families also moved into the southern capital Kangjingzhong with the imperial court, squeezing out a large number of local resources, causing many locals to lose their land and could only be forced to leave their homeland and continue to go south to more remote places.

This is a well-known thing, and Qiu Shaohu's current words only further corroborate this matter.

The county lieutenant glared at the craftsman, dissatisfied that someone had accosted him at this time, and then sat on the table and continued to interrogate Qiu Shaohu: "Age? ”

"Twenty years old, just crowned this month." Qiu Shaohu replied honestly.

"Oh, so you're twenty." This time it was the ruffian who interjected, "I looked at your face and thought you were only fourteen or fifteen years old. ”

"I am indeed an adult, and as for the tender face, I can only say that I was born like this." Qiu Shaohu said flatly.

After being interjected repeatedly, the county lieutenant couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up directly and yelled at everyone: "You people, talking nonsense, what are your intentions? Is it possible to obstruct the government's investigation of the case? ”

"Don't dare," the sergeant said coldly: "But you asked for a long time, it is not clear how Boss Li died, and I asked a lot of irrelevant questions, is this what the government investigates?" ”

After discovering Boss Li's body, the county lieutenant detained all the people present and dragged them to the lobby on the first floor for interrogation one by one, and now Qiu Shaohu is the last person. And everyone's situation was asked by the county lieutenant.

In addition to the proprietress Chu Jieyun, the craftsman Qin Xiang, who was passing by the small town of Lizhou to find work, and the ruffian Wang Hu. and the sergeant Zhou Linchao, who had just returned to the field, as for the woman beside him, he called her Anu, saying that this was his "trophy" brought out of the army. Finally, Zhang Qi, a hawker who inadvertently came here to take shelter from the rain.

If you count the county lieutenant Meng Xiangping, these people, with different identities, also happened to be here together today, but they didn't expect to be involved in the same right and wrong.

It's just that the county lieutenant asked so much, but there was no information that could help solve the case.

"When was the last time you saw Boss Li?" County Lieutenant Meng Xiangping continued to ask.

"I think it's time for me to drop him off in the room." Qiu Shaohu replied.

"Should?"

"After all, there are too many guests tonight, and it is possible that Boss Li also came down later, but I don't remember."

"That means you're the last person to see him, right?" Meng Xiangping raised his tone.

"So what?" Qiu Shaohu was indifferent.

"What? You are the last to see him, and if no one else sees him after that, and then he dies, then you are the most suspected! Meng Xiangping looked directly at Qiu Shaohu, his eyes full of majesty.

The oppression of the official authority is condescending, and it is a great fear for ordinary people, but Qiu Shaohu just shook his head calmly and said: "I'm not, and you are wrong about one thing, that is, the last person to see Boss Li is not me, it's you." ”

With an upright heart, he is naturally worthy of fear.

"Enough!" Sergeant Zhou Linchao couldn't hold back for a long time, and said directly and loudly at this time: "Lord County Lieutenant, since you want to investigate the case, first, you don't go to see the cause of Boss Li's death, and second, you don't check when he died, but instead catch us and keep asking some irrelevant questions, can this catch the murderer?" Besides, all of us were in this lobby before, no one went to kill Boss Li, and we could testify to each other, which was not enough to prove our innocence? ”

"Testifying against each other may also be a concerted crime, and it is also possible to testify against each other." Meng Xiangping said coldly.

The ruffian Wang Hu sneered and said, "I said that the county lieutenant, when I was here at the most, there were at least a dozen or twenty people, and they can see hundreds of more people outside, and by extension, could it be that the people in this half of the town are murderers and suspects?" Besides, you hold on to a small house, how do you know that people are preparing to enter Beijing to catch the exam, when the time comes, Jinbang High School, that is the protégé of the Son of Heaven, don't have a good future, people and Boss Li have no grievances, why are you killing people? ”

"It is also possible for scholars to be shabby and kill people for money." Meng Xiangping did not relent.

"Then have you gone to see, did Boss Li lose something?" Craftsman Qin Xiang saw blood for a while, "I have never seen you go to the scene to do anything to check." After all, what are you here for? Why did he rush up as soon as he heard that Boss Li was upstairs, as if he expected that something had happened to him. ”

"I had an agreement with Boss Li to ask him to wait for me nearby, but I have been missing him for a long time, so I speculated if something happened to him." Meng Xiangping said, "As for the investigation of the scene, it is not my business, and there will naturally be a yamen here later, and everything can be investigated clearly." ”

Qin Xiang stopped talking.

"Could it be, there is a ghost ......" Zhang Qi, a hawker who had been in the corner, suddenly trembled, "I just saw Boss Li, his whole body was ...... There were no scars at all. And his face, as black as ink, that ...... That's how the average person dies. And his eyes are so wide, it's clear that he can't blink an eye! It's a ghost, it must be a ghost! Only ghosts can ......"

"What are you talking nonsense!" Meng Xiangping scolded: "In broad daylight, where is there any ......?"

Qiu Shaohu didn't say a word, suddenly got up, quickly pulled Meng Xiangping aside, and then grabbed his brush from the table and threw it to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Meng Xiangping was taken aback, and inadvertently knocked down Qiu Shaohu's inkstone, Qiu Shaohu's eyes were quick, and he caught it, so as not to let it completely overturn, but there was still some ink thrown on Meng Xiangping's soap-colored official robe, stained with black marks.

The moment they turned around, all saw it.

In the audience, there were a total of eight people, and the long lights flashing on the roof shone on everyone, and the black shadows were slanted on the ground, but nine shadows appeared!

A sudden black shadow appeared here at some point!

As Qiu Shaohu's brush was thrown, the extra shadow flickered and disappeared, and suddenly flew away in another direction.

This brush is used by Qiu Shaohu all day long, with the air of his book, heroic and upright, can destroy evil things.

The shadow was constantly dodging, coming and going, not daring to get close to Qiu Shaohu's body, and suddenly turned in a direction and flashed towards Zhang Qi, the vendor in the corner.

Among the present, he was the only one who was extremely frightened, his soul did not possess his body, and his yang energy was the weakest, and he was very easy to be taken advantage of.

"Ghost, ghost is coming!" During Zhang Qi's screaming, he was extremely convulsed, his eyes rolled white, and the whole person passed out. Now it is true that the three souls are gone, the seven spirits are still alive, and only an empty body remains. If you are possessed by a ghost, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Useless stuff!" Meng Xiangping rushed to Zhang Qi's body with an arrow step, and directly showed his official waist card in front of the attacking ghost. The big words "Tianli National Law" on the hot stamping plaque flashed with dazzling brilliance.

The imperial court is mighty, and the four sides are all laws, regardless of yin and yang, accept its jurisdiction, and there is no exception. Even if it is a yin spirit, like a flat-headed common people, it is most afraid of the majesty of the government.

The ghost was shocked by the breath on the waist card, and in a hurry, he dodged in all directions, and never dared to approach again. However, the strange shadow is still spinning in circles, looking for other opportunities to take advantage of.

"Humph!" Zhou Lin shouted loudly, and the whole person flew to catch up here, the breath of the martial artist, majestic and heavy with awe-inspiring blood, was tempered by the battle array, and with his punch, the shadow was in the middle.

The black shadow was like a lightning strike, and the spasms scattered and disappeared, disappearing into the shadows in the corners. I don't know if it will dissipate completely, or hide it temporarily.

At this moment, Zhang Qi had already been woken up by others. Wang Hu poured a bowl of cold water on his face but didn't see him awake, and then Qin Xiang directly helped him up and pinched his middle before slowly waking up.

The first moment he opened his eyes, when he saw everyone, Zhang Qi immediately cried and shouted: "I'll just say that there are ghosts, I'll say ......"

"Okay, I'll admit it," the proprietress Chu Jieyun said slowly, "It's been a bit unclean lately, so I recruited Xiao Qiu and asked him to help me suppress the evil spirit." Otherwise, I'm a woman, but I can't do anything. ”

Chu Jieyun is newly widowed, and the family has just suffered misfortune and the female flow yang qi is insufficient, so it is indeed difficult to deal with ghosts and evils. The scholar is young and strong, and he is upright, but he just complements each other and can suppress evil.

"There are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door." Wang Hu "bah" for a moment, only to feel unlucky.

"Knowing that there is evil, you still dare to open a store?" Zhou Linchao's brows furrowed, and the slave girl Anu trembled beside him.

"There is a plaque written by Xiao Qiu himself, which can deter Xiaoxiao. Usually there are a lot of people, and nothing happens, how do I know......"

"Stop arguing!" Meng Xiangping was in a complicated mood, thinking that this matter was really unexpected, and at the moment he seemed to call a few people first, and then make a decision.

While thinking, he opened the door of the inn, thinking of going out and asking someone to bring a message and find all the helpers.

As soon as he opened the door, the wind almost overturned his entire body, mixed with the rain of beans, and smashed towards him like a mountain and a sea. The torrential rain carried the mountains like a tsunami, and the whole world was in turmoil. The wind and rain rushed like a waterfall, rushing into the house along the door.

Several people immediately stepped forward and hurriedly closed the door completely, only to hear the sound of the wind outside hitting the door frame, with a noisy sound, and they were cut off. Roaring everywhere, like a behemoth roaming outside, making it difficult for people to move an inch.

At present, this small house seems to have become the only safe shelter.

"The wind in early spring and the heavy rain are like a pour." Chu Jieyun said: "We are all trapped here. ”

In the midst of the rainstorm, everything was as silent as death.