Chapter 31: Clues
Wangjiagou is only five miles away from Tai'an Temple, and in the early years migrated to settle here, the main means of income was to grow all kinds of vegetables and sell them to Tai'an Temple to make a living.
When Lin Canglan arrived in Wangjiagou with three teams, most of the villagers in Wangjiagou were working in the vegetable fields, watering, fertilizing, and weeding.
Wangjiagou is surrounded by a river about a foot wide, and the whole village is built on the mountainside, and only one stone bridge is the only way to enter Wangjiagou.
The arrival of Lin Canglan and his party of ten horsemen immediately attracted the attention of the villagers who were working in the vegetable field.
"Phew."
Next to the stone bridge into the village, Lin Canglan pulled the reins and forced the horse to stop.
"This old man, is this Wangjiagou?"
Lin Canglan looked at an old man who was fishing by the stone bridge and asked loudly.
The old man was wearing a thin robe, his face was dark and densely covered with ravines, and his body was thin and thin, like old bacon that had been smoked for many years.
Hearing Lin Canglan's inquiry, the old man glanced at everyone and said, "This is Wangjiagou, who are you looking for?" ”
"It's Wangjiagou."
Lin Canglan continued to ask: "Do you know which family the village chief of Wangjiagou is?" ”
"When you enter the village, you will see that the tallest house is the village chief's house." The old man said.
"Let's go."
Lin Canglan got the answer he wanted, crossed the stone bridge with three teams, and swept towards Wangjiagou.
A group of ten riders stopped at the best house built in Wangjiagou.
It is said that the house is the best, but it is only that the house is built with bluestone bricks and the top is capped with tiles.
As for the houses of the other villagers, they are built with yellow mud and thatched.
This is the current situation of ordinary people's lives, and the hard work is only for three meals a day.
Suddenly, a group of well-dressed men on tall horses came to the village, and immediately a group of playful children came up and stood in the distance and secretly watched here.
"Official, what are you?"
A middle-aged man greeted him and said with a flattering face: "I am the village chief of Wangjiagou, Wang Qing, I don't know if the officials suddenly visited Wangjiagou, but what is the important matter?" ”
"Just last night, a murderer absconded, and His Majesty ordered the Zhenwu Division to make every effort to arrest him!"
"And the location of Wangjiagou may be the place where the murderer escaped and hid."
Lin Canglan looked at Wang Qing and said lightly: "Have any strangers come to Wangjiagou in the past few days?" ”
"Murderer?"
Wang Qing shook his head and said, "Back to the adult, Wangjiagou didn't find outsiders haunting. ”
"There is no best!"
Lin Canglan said: "However, the official still needs to order someone to conduct a thorough investigation from house to house, and you immediately call everyone in the village to come over and inform them of the news of the escape." ”
"This fang is extremely evil, if he is hidden in Wangjiagou, it only takes a cup of tea to make Wangjiagou chickens and dogs not stay!"
Hearing Lin Canglan's words, Wang Qing's face couldn't help but change, and he said in a trembling voice: "Don't worry, the villain will call people over immediately." ”
For ordinary people, they are content with the status quo and do not want to cause more trouble.
And Lin Canglan said that there is a murderer who absconds, and it may appear in Wangjiagou, which is undoubtedly a huge change for Wangjiagou.
On the rivers and lakes, from time to time, there will be warriors in the rivers and lakes who, in order to seek profits, sneak into rich merchants at night, slaughter their doors, and then loot all their property.
Therefore, Wang Qing was convinced of Lin Canglan's words.
Regardless of whether the prisoner was in Wangjiagou or not, summoning everyone to come over and then searching from house to house could ensure that nothing went wrong.
With Wang Qing coming forward, in just a stick of incense, a group of women, children, and children stood in front of the village chief's house.
It's daytime, and the young and middle-aged people in the village are working outside, while the women and children are busy with needlework at home.
"My lord, everyone in the village is here, except for those who are working outside."
Wang Qing greeted him and said respectfully.
"Hmm."
Lin Canglan nodded and looked at the three teams behind him.
"Ji Longcheng, your team searches the east end of the village, Gong Kaiwen, the team searches the west end of the village, Ou Wenjie, your team searches the south end of the village, and searches door to door, don't let go of any corner!"
Lin Canglan commanded.
"Yes."
The nine of them clenched their fists and headed towards their assigned areas.
Su Yu followed behind Ji Longcheng, and the three of them came to the east of Wangjiagou and searched one household at a time.
For such ordinary people, there are no valuable things at home, and almost as soon as they enter the house, they can see everything in the house at a glance.
Each family built a firewood house to store a large amount of firewood.
For Jingzhou, which is located in the north, firewood is needed for heating in winter, otherwise the cold in winter can freeze people to death, and firewood is the best way for ordinary people to heat up.
Even when there is a shortage of food, many people will carry firewood to the street to sell food to make a living.
In the year of the Great Famine, there will even be two villages fighting for the right to cut firewood in the mountain......
There are about 30 households in the east of the village, and it takes less than a stick of incense to complete the search.
"Cousin, you say, where will this Chu Xuan flee to?"
Coming out of a villager's house again, Chen Beijiang couldn't help asking.
"I don't know."
Ji Longcheng shook his head and said, "As long as it doesn't appear in Wangjiagou and Shilipu that we searched, then thank God." ”
can live well, he doesn't want to provoke this kind of character with Heavenly Dao Jade.
During this time, there was a lot of uproar on the rivers and lakes, but this Chu Xuan was still alive and well, which shows how amazing his wrist is.
Especially every time it is rumored that he has been seriously injured in the rivers and lakes, but every time he can escape.
It doesn't matter if a character like this is seriously injured.
If a town martial guard like them meets Chu Xuan, it will definitely be planted.
Maybe those guys on the rivers and lakes deliberately walked out the news, misleading Chu Xuan to be seriously injured, and then let others believe it, and went to search for Chu Xuan's whereabouts, and then got the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
Chen Beijiang rubbed his hands and couldn't help but say: "Cousin, didn't Master Huo say before, as long as Chu Xuan's traces are found, and then launch a signal flare, once Chu Xuan is arrested, we can get a fifth-level meritorious service and be promoted to a hundred households ......"
"Smack!"
Before Chen Beijiang could continue to be whimsical, Ji Longcheng slapped him on the head and stopped him from continuing to fantasize.
"Cousin, what are you hitting me for?"
Chen Beijiang cut his hair and looked at him with a resentful expression.
Ji Longcheng glanced at him and said lightly: "If you want to die, don't drag your cousin and me to bury you, your cousin hasn't lived enough." ”
"It's not a good thing that we have met a character like Chu Xuan."
"Do you believe that you found out about his whereabouts last second, and before you could take out the flare to notify the others, you would be killed by him?"
"I really don't know what to say about you, but you still dare to dream of going to 100 households."
"Do you think you're a big man like the third princess?"
"Looking at the entire Zhenwu Division, have you ever seen a person who has been promoted to a hundred households by a martial artist in the Body Refining Realm? Why do you think you can sit on it? ”
"At this point, you have to learn like Brother Su, he will never dream!"
Su Yu, who was walking out of the firewood room after searching the firewood room, heard this, and the corners of his mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything.
Ji Longcheng is timid and afraid of death, he can understand.
What rich man is not afraid of death?
It's just because I have money that I don't want to braided my hair when I haven't spent all my money.
For the poor, the main reason why they are not afraid of death is because they are poor, and they suffer to live anyway.
But if the poor enjoy the fine clothes and food, he will also be corrupted, and then he will be greedy for life and afraid of death.
People are like this, when they don't have it, they don't look ahead and look back, and they are timid.
But once you have it, you will become greedy for life and afraid of death, afraid of losing.
"Cousin, what if, I mean, in case, if this Chu Xuan appears in the scope of our search and is found by us, then what should we do?"
Chen Beijiang couldn't help but say.
"What if?"
Ji Longcheng was stunned when he heard this, and immediately shook his head and said, "Your assumption is not valid. ”
"In case this Chu Xuan appears in the scope of our search and is found by us, then in order to prevent us from reporting the news, he will definitely kill the three of us, as well as the other town guards who came to search together, and strive for the other town guards to escape before they come."
"In front of a martial artist who has Heavenly Dao Jade and is himself in the Iron Bone Realm, the three of us almost don't even have any chance to resist."
"Of course, even if you say that if it really appears, then let's turn a blind eye and treat it as if we didn't find out, let's just come out to make up the number, and there is no need to put our lives on the line."
When Chen Beijiang heard this, he nodded thoughtfully.
"Let's go, there are still two families, and you can go to the errand after checking."
After Ji Longcheng finished speaking, he went straight to the next one.
"Huh?"
Just as Su Yu followed Ji Longcheng to the next house, a bamboo tree outside the firewood house attracted Su Yu's attention.
Because of the sunlight, the leaves of the bamboo tree glowed with a hint of red.
"That's?"
Su Yu's pupils contracted violently, and a huge wave was set off in his heart.
"That's blood!"