They came from the north, Huanshui Town was on the west side of the official road, and there was a stone bridge twenty or thirty meters long and four or five meters wide, just enough to accommodate two carriages to cross by mistake.

Below the stone bridge is a small river, the water does not look very deep, there are a lot of lotus leaves and duckweed on the water, and there are people washing things on the stone platform by the water.

It should be limited by the geographical location, the area of this town is not large, and it is about the same as a relatively large village.

The market is not on the main street, but on a specially carved open field, just after crossing the bridge into the town, so it can be seen from the official road.

The houses here are clearly different from those in the north, mostly made of bricks and stones, and the adobe ones are almost never seen again, probably because there is too much rain and it is not suitable.

There are also poor families in the villages passing by, most of them are thatched huts, a bit like privately built shacks, and they can't be overwhelmed by the snow.

The further south you go, there is no snow, but the temperature does not rise again, and the vegetables in the fields are all frozen and wilted, and it seems that they are also affected by the cold snap.

They parked the carriage outside the bazaar and walked in, but the ugly did not follow, it stayed on and watched the carriage.

The main thing is that it has no interest in this small bazaar, and it doesn't need to be conscious, and it can see its head at a glance when it stands outside.

Jin Yang and Jin are relatively fresh to these, and Qian Yan has a common problem with women, so she likes to join in the fun and go shopping.

The stalls in the bazaar sell some practical things, unlike temple fairs, where there is anything to eat, drink and play.

Most of them are some agricultural and sideline products or home-made things, such as bamboo tables, chairs, benches, and even bamboo beds, as well as clothes and hats and self-woven cloth, shoes, and a lot of food, bacon, bacon, chicken, preserved fish, glutinous rice, fish balls, fish cakes and the like.

Qian Yan looked at the bamboo things and liked them very much, and bought some of them, such as bamboo beds, which can be placed in the courtyard of the space when the time comes, and it must be very comfortable to take out and use in the summer.

I also bought a set of tables, chairs and benches, this one is quite exquisite, and the bamboo chair is not high enough to bend your legs and sit.

I also bought one bamboo shelf and one cabinet box, which is easy to put things in and easy to move.

I also bought two sets of clothes and hats, which they don't really use, and they can make a show when there are people on rainy days.

The cloth woven here is also coarse cloth, but the color is more than that dyed in the northwest, so there should be more plants that can be dyed here.

Qian Yan picked up her favorite and bought two horses, which can be used as tablecloth curtains and the like when the time comes, which is also very good-looking.

Needless to say, they have bought a lot of food, although they are not short of fresh meat, but the cured meat also has a unique taste, and some people make it delicious, but they can't make it themselves.

Fish balls and fish cakes are the most bought, which is a specialty here, and can be eaten directly in soup, stir-fried, or eaten in a hot pot.

After buying these, they stopped, mainly because the carriage could not be loaded, and the set of tables and chairs and two bamboo beds could fill the cart, but fortunately other things did not take up so much space.

As soon as they were about to leave after shopping, they heard the sound of horses' hooves from far and near.

When she poked out her senses, she saw a group of uniformly dressed officers and soldiers coming from the official road to the north.

There were about fifty or sixty officers and men in this group, all of them were riding horses, and they didn't know what urgent task they had, and they were running very fast, but fortunately there was no one else on the official road now, otherwise it would be difficult to dodge.

The cavalry team quickly ran to this side, and without stopping at a gallop, continued on its way south.

Qian Yan asked Ugly Ugly curiously, "Let's see if there's something wrong over there?" These officers and soldiers did not know what they were going to do. ”

She used her divine sense to probe the limit of what she could see, and she didn't find anything, so she must have been further away.

The ugly nodded, and as he drove the carriage out of town, he poked his sense to the north.

They continued to walk south, and it was already past five o'clock, and they could go a little further and wait until it was dark to start looking for a place to rest.

After walking for more than 20 minutes, Chou Chou said: "It should be that there is an accident in Xiangyang City, and it is also closed like Xiangzhou City, and now you are not allowed to enter or leave."

Listening to the discussion of the people in the city, it seems that an official has been exterminated, it was last night, and he was only discovered at noon today, and the murderer is being searched throughout the city, these officers and soldiers should have come out of the city, but they don't know what they are going to do. ”

Qian Yan frowned, "The official's house was destroyed?" Is the security in Xiangyang City so bad? The family died, but no one heard the movement, and it was not discovered until the next day.

It won't be your own hands, you will be drugged in the well or in the food, and then you will solve it one by one when you have poured out the medicine. ”

In this way, there will be no movement, and if the family is dead, it is really difficult for others to find out.

Chou Chou nodded, "I just found the mansion, you guessed right, those people were indeed killed in their sleep, and there was no trace of a fight in it."

Now the arrest and the others are inspecting the corpse, because there is no living mouth, and it is not easy to check the specific number of people in this family, especially the next person, who has died a lot, and it is impossible to see if one or two are missing. ”

"It can't be ruled out that the inside should be combined with the outside, maybe it's the hands of outsiders and thieves who do it together, and they will go into the city to have a look, maybe they can investigate the case together."

Qian Yan likes this kind of guessing and solving the case the most, and she feels that this feeling of finding clues and finding the truth little by little is very fulfilling.

Ugly didn't even need to look at her expression to know what she was thinking, and said helplessly: "I'll keep an eye on that side, and I'll definitely tell you when the result comes." ”

Tilt Yan got out of the carriage and sat next to Chouhou, and the things they bought were taken into the space as soon as they left the town, so the carriage was empty.

"There's a lot going on here, do you think it has something to do with the disaster relief money? This tragedy is murder! ”

Ugly raised his eyebrows, "It's really hard to say, and it's not impossible, after all, this is a big deal."

The mountain bandits over there were arrested, and the Yu family and the Huang master were also exposed, maybe the person who wanted to fish in troubled waters behind him also had a sense of crisis, and he was afraid of exposing himself, so he simply killed the person who knew the inside story. ”

Tilt Yan leaned her sense forward, wanting to see if she could still see those officers and soldiers, and wondering what they were going to do.

If her consciousness was now stretched in one direction, she could see more than twenty miles at the farthest, and she soon saw those officers and soldiers.

Even if they speed up, they can't outdo them too much, after all, their side is also moving forward.

The officers and soldiers did not stop, they continued to move forward, and now it was almost dark, and I did not know if they were going to travel overnight.

When it was completely dark, she took out four torches, two on a carriage, and inserted them on the shelves that stretched out in front of her.

It had just rained here, and the ground was so wet that it would absorb light, and it was impossible to see clearly with a single torch.

There are quite a few villages on both sides, so they can't go into the space to rest here, and they have to walk forward until they reach a place where there are no people.

At this time, the ugly said: "There is a result in Xiangyang, and it is said that those dead people were indeed drugged first, but it was not a drug, but a poison that sealed the throat with blood, which means that even if the neck is not wiped later, those people are already dead."

As for the number of people, whether it is the master or the subordinates, there is no less, they have found the deed in the master's mother's house, and they can match the case of the government. ”

Qian Yan was very curious about this, "Is there a portrait of these people on the deed of sale in the government's existence?" Otherwise, how do you check your identity? ”

Ugly Chou said to her: "You don't know this, those deeds of sale have the most obvious characteristics of those people, not only the appearance of the face is described in detail, but also the height and weight.

Of course, some people are sold when they are young, and they will definitely change, but there will be some obvious features on the body, such as moles, birthmarks, scars, etc.

Of course, it is possible to be destroyed, such as burns or disfigurement, but in that case, there is no way.

It's just that the Nalin Mansion, that is, the official house that died, the people in it were not disfigured, they all died by cutting their throats, so their faces and physical characteristics are kept intact, and they can be checked.

How do you think those identity documents in ancient times came from, if you only write a place of origin, then how many people will be impersonated. ”

Qian Yan said with some dissatisfaction: "Isn't there anything on TV that replaces Zhuang Yuanlang as an official, or replaces people to sign up for scientific examinations, just like the female concubine, the female patrol, that is, Tang Seng's father has not been killed and replaced?" ”

Ugly shook his head funny, "Not to mention that it's all made up by literary works, even if it's true, the chances are very small."

Especially for men dressed as women to go to the scientific examination, it is even more impossible, before the scientific examination is entered, they have to take off their clothes to verify their identity, and it is not easy for men to pass the test, let alone women, and the officials are not blind.

There is the impostor, at least the appearance must be very similar, the original owner must not have any obvious characteristics, and the appearance can match the description on the certificate.

Or be ruthless and get rid of those special birthmarks or moles yourself, but the face must not be destroyed.

You must know that in ancient times, if you were an official, you couldn't be disabled, it didn't matter if you had a scar on your body, if your face was disfigured or you were missing arms and legs, you couldn't be an official 100%.

The official is the face of the court, if it is any crooked melon and cracked date, then it will be repaid.

Not to mention being an official, the disfigured person didn't even have a chance to take a scientific examination, and he was brushed off at the first level.

Qian Yan nodded, I see, although she is okay with history, but this kind of minutiae is really not clear, and it really has to be an ancient beast that has been experienced ugly.

Although it said that it had rarely appeared in the world before, it was only a few occasional times, and it could know a lot by hearsay, after all, it had lived for a long time, and it knew more.

They walked on for more than an hour, and when it was about seven o'clock and almost eight o'clock, they stopped going on.

They were all hungry, and they happened to come to the junction of two counties, and they went directly into the space.

The officers and soldiers in front had already run out of the range of Yanyan's divine sense, after all, they were hurrying quickly, and the speed was still much faster.

I don't know where those people are going, and the ones behind can only rely on ugliness, so there's no need for her outside, just go into the space to eat and rest.

The ugly divine sense was collected from Xiangyang, and he kept staring at the people in front of him, "Those people really rushed overnight, but then they were divided into two groups.

Some of them went to a place called Thunder River, more than thirty miles away from here, and some of them went west, and continued to go west without stopping.

The people who went to Leihe Town went directly to a big mansion with the Lin Mansion written on it, and what they said after they went in should be the ancestral home of the official surnamed Lin who was killed.

It seems that this is to inform the victim's family, this should be the clan land of the Nalin family, this big night, many clansmen have come to the door, and there is an old patriarch who is asking about the matter.

Wrong! After those officers and soldiers said that the Lin family was killed, they actually started to search the ancestral house, and they didn't even let go of the patriarch's house, ah! They went to the ancestral hall.

There is a problem with those officers and soldiers! I'm afraid it wasn't the government that sent me to inform them, and it's very likely that they were sent by the murderer to destroy the evidence! ”

Qian Yan said excitedly: "Will they slaughter the clansmen of the human family's land?" That's to stop them, and we're accumulating merit. ”

After all, there must be many innocent people in the clan land, and since they have encountered them, they can't just watch them.

Chou Chou shook his head, "Those people are not killing people at the moment, they are just looking for something, but obviously they haven't found it, they have arrested the patriarch's family and the people in the ancestral house, and they are now being tortured."

I did use my mind to find something, and there was a dark room under the pond in the back garden of the ancestral house, and there were many gold, silver, and jewels in it.

There's also a secret compartment in the kitchen cellar with a lot of letters and a few books, huh? It seems to be an account book and a list, so those people can't be looking for this, right? ”

This family is really good at hiding, there is nothing in the Lin Mansion in Xiangyang City, and this ancestral mansion is really full of hidden mysteries.

You can't imagine that a big tree in the middle courtyard is hollowed out in the middle, and there is a lot of gold and silver hidden in it.

Thanks to the vigorous vitality of this tree, otherwise it would have been killed.

There was also a small chest under the stone table in the front yard, which contained some jewelry, and a few gold bricks under the trough of the stables......

This Lin family is really, after getting so much, he is definitely a big mouse, and with all this money, it is estimated that everyone above him will be red-eyed, if he doesn't die, who will die. ”

Tingyan's eyes widened more and more, which was really an eye-opener.