167 Disappearances (7)
When Yan Cheng arrived, the onlookers in the alley were still not dispersed, and even the residents of the nearby alleys surrounded the water, and if it weren't for Mo Song's kung fu, he wouldn't be able to squeeze in.
Yan Yanzuo went to Shaoqing to salute first, "My lordβ"
"Let's get busy."
"Yes, sir."
Lord Yan not only brought apprentices, but also people, plus the original few catchers, nearly fifty people began to dig three feet into the ground like ants with lanterns.
Seeing that the matter at the scene of the crime would not be settled for a while, Bai Lang gently attached himself to his master's side, "My lord...... Or...... Let's ...... first."
Pei Jingning first looked at the black crowd, then at him, and gave a disgusted look.
Blanc:......
Could it be that if the case is handled overnight, the master will accompany Lord Ye all night? It's also too ......
Mo Song turned to the side of the grocery store proprietress and asked in a low voice, "Auntie, do you have a stool?" "Since the master wants to sit for Lord Ye, let's prepare a real stool for the master.
"There is a ......" god-like official can sit on her stool, the proprietress looks happy, it is estimated that the official sitting on her stool is enough for her to brag about for a lifetime.
Pei Jingning sat at the door of the grocery store, put his arm on the low counter, and pretended to sleep with his hand and face, and wanted to eat dinner with Yeats quietly lying on the carriage and gradually cooling!
I didn't eat Mrs. Shaoqing's dinner!
The night is getting deeper and deeper, behind the shadow wall in the courtyard, the sound of excavation and turning is particularly clear in the silent night, and the people outside the courtyard who listen are frightened, and some people can't help but speculate: "Could it be that the children who have disappeared nearby have been hidden by Bi Pozi in the past few years?" β
Once someone starts, the discussion can't stop, "Why is she hiding the child?" β
They can't figure it out, do they want to treat the child as a girl?
"It's possible, you see that she has bad eyes and is inconvenient to do things, maybe you want to catch a girl who doesn't spend money......"
The crowd rummaged through the ground, the corners tumbled, and the miscellaneous ones hidden, and found thirteen skulls.
After the verification of Lord Ye, ranging from three or four years old to seven or eight years old, most of them are girls, which can no longer be described as shocking, it is simply miserable.
Yeats stood in front of the bones and mourned in silence until he was in a good mood, and then walked slowly to the door of the old woman's room.
She still sat quietly like that, as if all the misery had nothing to do with her.
"Why eat these kids?" If it weren't for the case, Yeats would have been eager to cut this old woman with a knife, it would be terrible.
The old woman's beadless eyes finally rolled at Yeats's question, and suddenly, the cataract covering the eyeballs seemed to be skimmed off, revealing black eyes.
"Look, this is the result of eating tender baby meat and drinking fresh blood."
"You heal by eating human flesh and drinking human blood?" Yeats tried hard to hold back his out-of-control expression, resisted the urge to spit on her, and it was a shame that she could think of it, it was really ...... Her lungs almost exploded.
The old woman laughed, her eyes rolled again, and the whites of her eyes were mixed together, she was simply a zombie.
"You ......," Yeats strained himself to calm down, "who said to eat...... Can eye diseases be cured? β
The old woman squinted her eyes and smiled, as if she had fallen into some memory, "Of course it was my grandmother, at that time, I was only four years old, she said to me, the meat of the little baby is tender and delicious, and their blood can cure all diseases...... It's almost ......"
She suddenly got up and walked out!
Yeats grabbed her, "What's the ...... fast" On the one hand, he was afraid that she would hurt the people outside, and on the other hand, she observed her closer, she seemed abnormal?
"Of course, it is to ascend to become an immortal." After speaking, he shook Yeats's hand.
Yeats didn't let go, her eyes flipped again, revealing black eyes, red, like a man-eating ghost, "You want to stop me from flying to become an immortal?" β
Yeats stared at her coldly, to see if she was really crazy or acting.
"Do you know how many years I've been waiting, old woman? Thirteen years! β
A baker's dozen?
Is it difficult to eat one a year?
Yan Yanzuo looked at the children's bones placed on the ground, shook his head and sighed, he actually practiced witchcraft and wanted to be a god? How many emperors have begged in ancient times, but has anyone succeeded? A mortal old woman has become a murderer here.
It's horrible.
The old woman struggled to run out, Yeats couldn't tell whether she was really crazy or fake crazy, and didn't let go, "Teng catches her head, tie her up." "Bring it back to Dali Temple for retrial.
"Yes, sir."
The old woman was willing to comply, looking thin and weak, but the strength was amazing, at first the two catchers didn't restrain her, Teng Chong took the two of them to restrain her personally, and then took the dirty things on the ground and stuffed them into her screaming mouth, and she stopped.
"What now?"
Thirteen children's bones on the ground, as soon as this news is issued, the capital will not be able to turn the sky upside down!
Seeing that the sky was about to dawn and the murderer was caught, Yeats suddenly had no strength at all, "I'll go out and have a look first." β
Zhang Jin seemed to know what Yeats wanted to do, and he said, "The people in the front and back alleys are crowded into Pian Tile Alley. β
"......" The common people haven't slept all night?
Zhang Jin nodded, "Knowing so many people, why is it still so quiet outside?" β
"......" Yeats had been immersed in the case just now, and he really didn't know.
"Shaoqing has always been there." Otherwise, the people in the alley would have broken in a long time ago, and they would have been able to handle the case quietly.
Big...... Are the adults still there?
Yeats suddenly gained strength again, and hurriedly strode out.
Master Pei, who had been blinding, suddenly opened his eyes as if he knew who came out.
"Adult ......" I don't know why, Yeats is particularly fragile at this moment, and I especially want to have a hug to lean on, how can there be such a crazy old woman in this world, that is a living and lovely child, how can she do it.
Pei Jingning got up and stood in front of Yeats, "What's wrong?" He bent down and bowed his head and whispered softly.
"My lord......" Yeats couldn't help but shed tears.
Pei Jingning reached out and patted her shoulder, "You did a good job." β
"But I can't save them."
"That's the fault of the wicked, and the children know that you've done your best to give them a new day."
"Adult ......"
If it weren't for the black oppression, Yeats would have thrown himself into the warm and broad chest of the adult and wept to his heart's content.
In the end, Pei Ye and the others agreed not to release the truth for the time being, and immediately evacuated the crowd, until the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses came and surrounded all the road intersections that they left, and the people of Dali Temple dared to transport the remains of the thirteen children away.
It wasn't until three days later that Zhang Jin went to Pianwa Lane to ask the family of the missing child in the past 13 years to go to Dali Temple to identify the remains.
The Miao of the Hua family was killed three days ago, that is, the day after the disappearance, when the Hua family went through the entire alley to look outside, the old woman killed the person without hurry, and ate and drank for three days, until the moment Yeats found it.