Wu Chengcheng saw that this headless ghost was terrible, and it was not terrible to listen to what it said, so he slowly calmed down and asked the headless ghost what his name was, where it was, and where the corpse was now, and the headless ghost did not answer so much.

That's because when entering the yamen, a door god pulled out the shiny sword at his waist, waved it and said, The god of Sheji only allows you to meet Wu Zhixian for one minute, if you exceed the time, you will tremble, and you will not retreat, don't blame me for rushing over and slashing you with a sword, so that you have no part in being a ghost.

Thinking of this, the headless ghost trembled and said, I was tricked into eating pasta with arsenic by the sunspot in Gaojiazhuang, Jiangnan Town, and died, and he also cut off my head and carried it to find someone to receive the reward.

Where is your body? Wu Chengcheng was not as afraid as he was at the beginning, and a righteous spirit made him feel compassion for this murdered headless ghost and follow the facts of the case to ask questions.

My headless body was carried by Kuroko to the hill behind Gaojiazhuang's house and thrown into a pit that had been dug and hastily buried...... The headless ghost's voice grew quieter and quieter, until the voice and figure disappeared together.

Wu Chengcheng woke up in a cold sweat, he woke up his wife who was sleeping soundly, only said that he had a nightmare, but did not tell it, intimidated his wife, and only asked his wife to light the lamp and bring a towel to wipe the sweat off his body. After that, Wu Chengcheng couldn't sleep, and the headless ghost and its crying still vaguely appeared in his mind.

Early the next morning, Wu Chengcheng called to catch the fast and make a good job, prepare the horse out of the city, and go to Gaojiazhuang, Jiangnan Town, along the way, he thought: The headless ghost cried in a dream to complain about the case, I don't know if it is true or not, let's go to check whether there is any new soil on the mountain behind the house of Gaojiazhuang according to what the headless ghost said, and whether there are traces of burial.

Everyone searched in the miscellaneous woods of that mountain, but found no new graves and new soil turned up, and was about to leave, Wu Chengcheng found that the red horse that served as his mount was raising its mane and fluffy neck to lick the green leaves hanging from the branches, and somehow, a layer of rotten leaves under its feet was kicked away, revealing new soil.

Wu Chengcheng immediately called a few arresters to inspect it, concluded that there was a situation, and assigned an accompanying officer to go down the mountain to borrow a pickaxe and an iron shovel from the villagers' homes to dig up new soil, and within a few feet of depth, a headless corpse was exposed. Wu Chengcheng thought that the headless ghost in his dream last night was the same as it, and he firmly believed that the dream was true.

At this time, many villagers came one after another on the mountain behind Majiazhuang's house, all of whom came to look at the headless corpse, and they were all stunned by their big eyes.

Wu Chengcheng asked a few villagers, which of you can recognize this headless corpse, and what is his name? Isn't it from the village? Several villagers repeatedly observed the headless corpse, and most of them shook their heads one after another and said that they couldn't recognize it, unlike people from our village, as if they were outsiders.

Wu Chengcheng remembered the name of the perpetrator said by the headless ghost in the dream, so he beckoned the two catchers to come and whisper for a while. The two catchers rode down the hill in quick succession.

At this time, a man wearing a mask and gloves and wearing a yamen uniform used a knife to cut open the internal organs of the unmanned corpse and take out gastric juice.

Wu Chengcheng also wore a mask at this time. The servant said to him, Wu Zhixian, judging from the cloudy color of the gastric juice, and judging from my years of experience in autopsy and autopsy, this headless corpse was poisoned by eating arsenic, that is, it was cut off after it died. Why did the perpetrator cut off the head of the deceased?

You'll be clear then. Wu Chengcheng remembered the reason why the headless ghost in the dream said that his head was cut, and said to the puzzled man with confidence.

The two catchers quickly jumped down from the mountain ridge, and when they arrived at the Gaojiazhuang house, they calmly and quickly did two things according to Wu Zhixian's instructions:

A squire who quickly found the village and said that there had been a murder in the village, and asked him to grind ink and lay paper to write out four notices, which were posted in four conspicuous places in the southeast, north, and west of the village, and roughly listed three matters:

First, all villagers who know the facts of the case must report the murderer, and must not harbor or secretly provide the murderer with a way to escape.

Second, men, women, and children in Gaojiazhuang, as well as those who have the ability to walk, must rush to the ancestral hall house in the village at noon on the same day, and wait for the county magistrate to interrogate the case before they can disperse.

Third, from now on, block the entrance and exit of Gaojiazhuang, people outside the village are not allowed to enter, and people inside the village are not allowed to go out, until the murderer is caught to lift the blockade of each intersection.

Another foreign catcher is beating his horse and whipping, and quickly mobilizes a security corps from the county government, carrying swords and other weapons to Gaojiazhuang, guarding the four entrances and exits in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and strictly prohibiting the entry and exit of personnel inside and outside the village.

About an hour and a half later, all the men, women and children who could walk in Gaojiazhuang gathered in the ancestral hall, which was not like watching a play or joining in the fun, they were all shouting.

At this time, everyone read the notice and understood that there was a case in the village, and they were all shrouded in a tense atmosphere, and no one spoke easily, although there were many people gathered, and the entire ancestral hall was silent.

A pair of eyes were wide open and looked up, behind the long row of tables sat a cadre from the county government, and in the middle was wearing a seven-grade official uniform was the county magistrate Wu Chengcheng, he looked at the villagers who were densely standing on both sides of the ancestral hall house with a serious expression, and finally glanced at an old man with a long beard.

There is also an old mother next to the old man, and the difference between the two of them is that they don't look at the stage with many eyes, and they bow their heads slightly, as if they have something in mind.

Wu Chengcheng glanced at the arresters sitting on both sides, and they were also like him, their eyes scanned vigilantly among the dense villagers, as if they were subconsciously trying to accurately identify and find out the murder suspect.

Look at the majestic appearance of a big man in the costume of a warrior standing on both sides, with a curved long sword pinned to his waist, and the scabbard of the sword is tattooed with a green dragon pattern that soars through the clouds, as if it is a kind of early warning secret: With my green dragon dispatched, you, a murder suspect, will never want to escape even if you go to heaven and earth.

Suddenly, Wu Chengcheng got up from his seat and lectured-

Fellow villagers, everyone should know that you were summoned to the ancestral hall house in Gaojiazhuang because there was a murder.

If the murderer is in the crowd and surrenders himself, we will consider mitigating the punishment as appropriate in accordance with the law. If you are obsessed, once you are arrested, the king will not spare you.

If the murderer is not here, there are villagers who know the facts of the case, and they should take the initiative to provide clues to solve the case, and if they know the facts of the case and do not report it or hide the suspect without permission, once it is discovered, they will be treated as harboring or co-criminals and will be detained and punished.

There is another thing, everyone heard clearly, there are more than 100 households in Gaojiazhuang, more than 1,000 people, have all the villagers who can walk arrived? If they do not arrive, their family members or relatives shall explain the reasons, otherwise their family members or relatives will not be allowed to leave......

Wu Chengcheng paused, only to see the villagers looking at each other, the atmosphere was tense and quiet, but no one came out to talk about the murder.

Expecting that the murderer Xu was not here, or that it was impossible for him to surrender even if he was here, Wu Chengcheng glanced at the arrester on the left when he sat down.

The catcher quickly stood up knowingly, and asked the patriarch of the hall to come to the hall to count the roster of more than 1,000 people in Gaojiazhuang, and click one, and he had to go to the front of the hall to appear, so that the magistrate and the people of the catcher looked at it carefully, and felt that there was no doubt about it, and they were allowed to return to their original positions.

For those who do not appear by name, their family members or relatives should take the initiative to explain the reason.

It's just that when he clicked on Gao Youneng, he didn't see himself appear in front of the hall, nor did he see his father explain the reason. Patriarch Gao stared at the old man with a beard and said, Uncle Gao, tell me, your son didn't come, where did he go?