Chapter 310: At the Cost of Life (2nd Watch)
They were all from the same village, and their living habits were similar, and they knew that each family would build a cellar in their house to store food, and they also knew roughly where that place was.
After a while, the villagers who ran in came out, their faces full of shock and incredulity, and said, "God, do you know what I just saw? There was indeed a lock on the door of the cellar of Wang Man's house, and the lock had been broken, and when I arrived, the door of the cellar was concealed, and it was opened as soon as it was opened.
When I went down, I found that Wang Man's cellar was different from our ordinary people's! There are two rooms in there! The outside room is the same as us, it is used to store food, and the room is a little bit inside...... Hiss! It was a cell with almost nothing but a bed and a tattered cage! The bed was rudimentary, but it was neatly clean, and the cages were full of half-worn clothes, and there was a pair of large broken straw sandals on the floor.
The most terrifying thing was that there was a chain of rust and blood tied to the wall next to the bed, and I saw that the chain seemed to be broken, and it looked like it had been broken......
And in that room, there were a lot of things that were used to beat people, whips, sticks, and planks...... Many of them were stained with dried blood, and several sticks and boards had been broken......
I can't imagine who lived in it before, and what happened to him there! ”
When the crowd heard this, their brows furrowed, their faces turned blue, where did they think that such an outrageous thing would happen in the village where they lived every day.
When Xu Jing heard this, she said lightly: "The murderer's murder weapon is probably the ...... brought out of the cellar."
As soon as the words fell, Cheng Xiao drove a carriage over and said, "Madam, the villain has already sent someone to Gaojia Village first, let's set off as soon as possible!" ”
Xu Jing nodded, looked at Huang Jinyuan and said, "I need someone who can recognize the two daughters of Wang Man's family, does Huang Langjun have time to run with us?" ”
Huang Jinyuan immediately nodded and said: "It's no problem, our family didn't suffer much this time, my children and daughter-in-law were only slightly injured, and it won't affect anything if I walk away for the time being."
And the goddess found me the right one, when the two daughters of Wang Man's family got married, I helped them marry, and I still have some impressions of the specific location of their husbands' families. ”
That's for the best.
Xu Jing didn't talk nonsense anymore, asked Cheng Xiao to bring the gold yuan, and quickly went to Gaojia Village.
To their surprise, they had just turned a corner, and before they had left the village, they saw several footprints mixed with mud and blood on the ground not far away.
The bloody footprints came out of the field next to it, indicating that the murderer walked into the field and quickly turned onto the road.
When he arrived, the blood on the bottom of his feet was probably almost dry, and the footprints he left behind were not very clear.
A little further on, the bloody footprints were completely gone.
Huang Jinyuan, who had been leading the way, took a deep breath and said, "This is the road to Gaojia Village, and that murderer really went to Gaojia Village!" ”
Xu Jing glanced at him and said loudly, "Let's go faster!" ”
It was not too early in the end, when they went to Gaojia Village, it was already dusk, fortunately Li Yuan's army did not pass through Gaojia Village, Gaojia Village was not attacked by Li Yuan's army, and it looked calm and peaceful.
Under the guidance of Huang Jinyuan, they went straight to the husband's house of Wang Man's eldest daughter, and there was still some distance from Wang Man's eldest daughter's husband's house, and they saw that the villagers were surrounded outside their house, and the faces of the villagers were all extremely panicked and shocked.
Xu Jing thought about it.
They're just afraid they'll be late.
Sure enough, as soon as she came to Wang Man's eldest daughter's husband's house, the person sent by Cheng Xiao in advance stepped forward to salute her, and said in a deep voice: "Madam, when we arrived, Wang Man's eldest daughter's family ...... Wang Man's eldest daughter, her two children, her parents-in-law, and her sister-in-law, who had not yet married, were all killed...... No, the death is the same as that of Wang Man's family, very miserable, and none of the corpses are intact......
The only survivor was the husband of Wang Man's eldest daughter, who happened to be out of the house at that time and was not at home......"
Across the crowd, Xu Jing saw a man kneeling in the courtyard with a desperate and numb face.
She sighed secretly, went straight past him, and walked into the scene of the crime, which was more bloody and cruel than Wang Man's family.
The most cruel of death was Wang Man's eldest daughter, who was almost split in half by an axe, and when she died, she was still holding her own children tightly in her arms......
The guards who followed up couldn't bear it, and they couldn't help but feel a chill down their backs when they thought that such a murderous demon was still wandering outside at this time.
No wonder their wife kept saying that this murderer was very dangerous and must be arrested as soon as possible.
It's just that such a madman with almost no reason, how to catch it? Where can a normal person predict what this madman will do next?
Xu Jing probably looked around this house, looking at the leftovers that had been turned out in the kitchen as if they had been gnawed by rats, her eyes sank little by little, "After the murderer killed someone, he also found food to fill his stomach, and when I went to Wang Man's eldest daughter's room, I saw that there was a set of bloodied clothes that had been changed down, which should be the murderer's clothes, and the murderer was in this house, and he changed a set of clothes before leaving......"
The husband of Wang Man's eldest daughter is also in good shape, and his clothes, this murderer should be able to barely put them on.
Everyone was shocked that this madman knew how to change his clothes and fill his stomach before leaving.
The guards who came in advance said at this time: "The villain asked the other people in the village, and they said that around noon, they heard a terrible scream coming from the house of Wang Man's eldest daughter...... They were afraid to go in, and after the man had finished killing, he stayed for a while and left.
He had left through the back door, and his bloody footprints were still on the ground.
The villain had already sent people to follow the bloody footprints. ”
Although he had changed his clothes, he still didn't have shoes.
Xu Jing shook his head and said, "The blood on the murderer's footprints will always dry sometimes, and as soon as the blood is dry, the bloody footprints will be gone, and he can't be found with the bloody footprints." ”
It's like the bloody footprints they saw when they came, fading away.
Cheng Xiao couldn't help but said anxiously: "Then what should I do?" Can't you let him continue to kill? ”
Huang Jinyuan said: "If according to what the goddess said, the murderer likes to find familiar places as a target, he should go next to the husband's house of Wang Man's second daughter, but Lingshui Village is not close to here, and there are many roads leading to Lingshui Village, how do we know which one he will take?" ”
Xu Jing paused, his eyes raised slightly, and he chuckled: "Who said I don't know?" ”
Everyone was stunned, and then they heard her say coldly: "At the cost of the life of Wang Man's eldest daughter's family, I finally determined some things, and I also knew, how to find the murderer......
Before the words fell, a surprised female voice suddenly came from outside, "Why are there so many people?" What's going on at my eldest sister's house? Sister...... Brother-in-law?! ”
Xu Jing was slightly stunned, and when she walked out of the kitchen, she saw a woman in her early twenties in the yard, and next to her, there was a dark-skinned man who looked honest.
When Huang Jinyuan saw her, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Shu Niang? You...... How did you get here?! ”
Then he turned to Xu Jing and introduced: "Goddess, this is Wang Man's second daughter, we call her Shu Niang on weekdays." ”
At this time, Shu Niang also saw the tragic situation in the room, her legs suddenly weakened, leaned on the man next to her, and said in disbelief: "This ...... What the hell is going on! What's wrong with my eldest sister's house?! ”
Xu Jing looked at her and said bluntly: "Your eldest sister was killed, and the person who killed her was your younger brother who had been locked up in the cellar, and his next target should be your family." ”
They are here at this time, and they don't know if they are lucky or unlucky.
Wang Huishu's face turned pale, and he didn't even care about how they could know about this shocking secret of his family, and suddenly broke down and shouted, "How could he kill the eldest sister!" He kills everyone else and counts it...... But the eldest sister and A-Niang are the only two people in our family who still regard him as a person! (End of chapter)