111. Under the white cloth
happened to be cloudy and cloudy, and suddenly hearing such a sentence, Wang Qilin's heart beat a little fast.
He recalled the communication with Big Eyes all the way, but there was no communication.
And this big eye appeared strangely, as soon as they came out of the door of the Peak Building, he appeared.
It's like waiting for them.
He pondered for a moment and asked, "Does Deputy Yang know about Big Eye's death?"
Li Lao Bangzi said: "I know, how can he not know? Just Dou Zhutou, who left the yamen and went to other places a few days ago, doesn't know, everyone else knows." ”
There is nothing to analyze here, Wang Qilin said: "You take me to the small prison, I want to see his body!"
He suspected that there was something wrong with Li Laobangzi, but Xie Toad was not in front of him, so he dragged Eight Meow out.
Hachimeth burped and was sleepy-eyed.
The sky was dark, the ground was dark, and only the paper lantern in Li Laobangzi's hand emitted an immortal dusk light.
There was no light in the yamen, and there was no superfluous sound.
Wang Qilin and Li Laobangzi walked one after the other, and the footsteps sounded one after the other.
One crisp and neat, the other dragging.
The four fields are secluded, and the courtyard behind the hall is darker than other places.
Eight Meow looked at it, shuddered twice and then retracted his head.
This place scares cats.
The small prison is a series of side houses, made of bluestone slabs mined in the mountains, a house five steps long and two steps wide, the door is a fence door made of pine nails the thickness of an arm, and the window is an old window the size of a human face.
The sanitation is not good, and there is a smell of stench when I get closer.
Li Laobangzi held up the paper lantern and led him forward, from east to west, and then back again.
Wang Qilin held the hilt of the knife tightly and said, "What's the matter?"
Li Lao Bangzi was puzzled: "No, Big Eyes was placed in the Tianzi Geng room, but why didn't I see this house number when I came over just now?"
There are twelve rooms in the front and back rows of the small cell, the front is the number of heaven and the number of the ground is the number of the earth, and when Wang Qilin came over just now, he counted it, yes, it is twelve.
But he also doesn't remember seeing the Tianzi Geng room, and the room number is messy.
Li Laobangzi muttered: "It's weird, can this house still run away?" Lord Wang, wait a minute, I'll look for it." ”
Wang Qilin said: "I'll go ahead, you look for the room number." ”
He walked to the door of a cell and pasted a prepared mirage talisman, and after pasting four talismans, Li Laobangzi shouted, "Lord Wang, I have found a room." ”
By the dim light of the lantern, a palm-sized wooden plaque had four small vermilion characters on it: Tianzi Geng.
Li Laobangzi wondered while pushing the door: "I paid attention just now, why didn't I see this Geng room?"
Wang Qilin said: "Maybe the ghost hid it?"
Li Lao Bangzi smiled and said, "It's better to say that there is a ghost covering our eyes." ”
Wang Qilin also laughed, sneering silently.
The small cell space is small, and there are only two things in it, a wooden bed and a commode.
The bed in room Geng was covered with a white coarse cloth, and the white cloth was pulled down, outlining the traces of a person.
Li Lao Bangzi's heart was furious, and he snorted: "Lord Wang, I ...... it."
Before he could finish speaking, the demon knife in Wang Qilin's hand flashed, and the white cloth had already been picked up.
Under the white cloth was indeed a corpse.
A thin man was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, and the light was so poor that he couldn't see his appearance clearly.
Even if it was useless to see it clearly, Wang Qilin hadn't paid attention to the appearance of the person who showed them the way before, but it was indeed very similar in terms of body shape.
After thinking about it, he took out the eight meows, lifted his clothes and said, "Go, lift his clothes." ”
It's a bit scary to go down to the dead people's clothes in this environment, to be honest, he's a little scared, but Hachimeow is not afraid.
Yameow shook her head at him.
Wang Qilin smiled at it: "Eight meows are the most courageous, eight meows are not afraid, eight meows come on." ”
With his encouragement, Hachimeow retreated to the corpse and lifted the shroud with her slender and flexible tail.
The skin that begins to decay has bright red marks.
That's not right!
Wang Qilin has read a book that says that different ways of dying will lead to different colors of corpse spots.
Normal death is purple-red, bright red as if it was poisoning or freezing to death.
He didn't remember this very clearly, and he wanted to take a closer look, but Eight Meow had already drilled back.
Outside the door, Li Laobangzi chattered and said: "This is the big eye, alas, poor man, he has been a single for almost forty years, and finally met a fleeing girl to be a daughter-in-law, but he bought a wipe and sold his daughter-in-law's life, alas, as soon as his daughter-in-law left, he couldn't do it, and he hanged himself yesterday." ”
Wang Qilin asked, "Why did you put the body in the yamen?"
Li Lao Bangzi said: "Li Zhixian didn't believe that he committed suicide, and wanted to let him be dissected, so he brought it over first." ”
Wang Qilin closed the door, and he looked up at the night sky.
The clouds lifted, and the moon revealed.
The moonlight sprinkled on the ground like snow that had fallen to the ground, white and miserable.
He asked again: "According to Deputy Yang Catcher, there have been people selling in the yamen at night in the past few days, haven't you heard of it?"
Li Laobangzi took out two soft animal skins to show him, and said with a smile: "I sleep with this ear plug, I can't hear anything, and it has nothing to do with me, I am a poor man all my life, I guess ghosts don't bother to look for me, anyway, I haven't encountered anything." ”
"Seventh Master!
Xu Da's shout came from the courtyard at the south end.
Wang Qilin didn't know what he had discovered, so he closed the fence and locked it, and walked quickly in search of the sound.
In addition to the hall door leading directly to the lobby, there is also a main entrance in the yamen.
The door of the hall is not the main entrance, except for the afternoon when the county magistrate wants to sit in the hall to judge the case, the door will not be opened at other times.
Now Xu Da and Xie Toad are at the main gate, and after Wang Qilin arrived, Xu Da said: "This is the Pida Tiger Spirit Statue, how do I feel that something is not quite right?"
There are two Pixiu stone statues placed on the inside of the gate, one left and one right, all of them are the same, they are like tigers and leopards, dragon heads and deer tails, and there are a pair of wings on the shoulders, among which the wings converge, the dragon head leans back, the head is born with two horns, the shape is strong and majestic, and the demeanor is mighty!
Looking at these two spirit beast statues, Wang Qilin frowned.
He also felt that something was wrong.
Xu Da squatted in front of Pixiu and looked at it carefully, and then said sharply: "I know what's wrong, I've seen Pixiu tigers, aren't they one horn?
Xie Toad said: "This is no problem, the one who gives birth to a horn is called Tianlu, also known as Tianlu, which is said to be able to eliminate ominous, Yongsui Bailu, the most common, and one of the horns you see is them." ”
"Those who have two horns are called evil spirits, they can punish demons and deter sneakies, and now what the yamen needs is to ward off evil spirits, so it is a double horn on the top of the head. ”
Xu Da suddenly felt that Wang Qilin still vaguely felt that something was wrong.
But now he had a bigger question in his mind: "I just met another husband, and he said that the big man who brought us to the yamen is dead, and the body is in the back of the small cell. ”
Xie Toad said categorically: "There is absolutely no way, if the dead man led us all the way and was not discovered by the old Dao, then either the old Dao cultivation is bad, or the dead man's cultivation is Tongtian, and he can deceive the heavens and the earth!"
Wang Qilin said: "I'll take you to find a husband." ”
The three of them returned to the cell.
There was a shaking lantern in the small cell, but there was no figure of Li Laobangzi.
The lock of the fence gate was opened.
Wang Qilin's heart sank, and he suddenly had a hunch: there is still a corpse in the Tianzi Geng room, the corpse of Li Laobangzi!
Sure enough, looking through the fence gate, the body was still there.
Xu Da opened the door and opened the cover of the corpse cloth, but there was still the thin man below.
Xie Toad sensed a moment of confusion and said, "It's no problem here, it's just an ordinary corpse, there is no yin qi and no demon qi, or is the person you met really a watchman?"
"What about the big eyes, if the watchman is true, if his words are true, then who is the one who led the way for us?" Wang Qilin asked, "And which of you has paid attention to the appearance of the person who led the way for us?"
Xie Toad and Xu Da glanced at each other.
It was very strange, and the two of them didn't pay attention to his appearance.
Li Laobangzi is a key point.
The three of them went separately to find Li Laobangzi, but they didn't find it at midnight.
Then, Wang Qilin heard a faint voice: "Selling fur hats, selling foreheads, selling headscarves, clothes, flower skirts and long trousers, straw shoes and long boots, and thick robes with big cloaks, all sell ......."