The words 'do you know the guilt' were said lightly, and everyone didn't react for a while, and they were still praising them for their strong skills and fair judgment.

Only Liu Shanfeng subconsciously glanced at Wang Qilin with wide eyes, and lowered his head as if he was fine.

At this time, an old man squeezed out of the crowd, and he knelt down and kowtowed to Xie Toad: "Old fairy, old fairy, save your life, save me!"

Xu Da had just become a Qing official, and he consciously took it as his responsibility to protect the people, and he asked, "What's wrong with you, old man?"

Wang Qilin glanced at the sky and said, "Don't talk yet, old man, Liu Shanfeng, let me ask you! Are you guilty?!"

Liu Shanfeng shouted aggrievedly: "My lord, what crime has the villain committed? The villain has never violated the law and discipline, and has always been an honest man and a down-to-earth filial piety to Lao Tzu, which the people in the village can testify, and the whole village can testify!"

The onlookers nodded one after another, all looking at Wang Qilin in wonder.

Wang Qilin looked at Liu Shanfeng and asked, "The official only asks one question, if you can answer it, then the official will reward you with another fifty silver baht!"

"Where are all the almonds you peeled these days?"

Liu Shanfeng immediately said: "The villain asked by the adults doesn't understand, where has the villain peeled almonds these days?"

Wang Qilin pointed to the firewood pile and said, "There are still a lot of almond shells left there." ”

Liu Shanfeng smiled: "Oh, it turns out that the adults misunderstood, those almond shells were peeled by me before, haven't they been burned yet?"

Wang Qilin said: "First, you can see when the almond shell is peeled and you can see it through the opening; second, when the official asks you these questions, you don't have any stumbles, and you answer them immediately, why? You seem to expect someone to ask you these questions." ”

Liu Shanfeng began to swallow dryly.

Wang Qilin took out the demon knife and stuck it in front of him, squatted down and stared at him, and said, "You dare to play tricks in front of me listening to the heavenly eunuch with this kind of skill? This is called playing with a big knife in front of Guan Gong, and Confucius sells articles at the door!"

He gave Xie Toad a look, Xie Toad's sleeve flicked, a whirlwind flew up in the room, and the almond shells in the firewood pile suddenly flew out upside down and fell to the ground with a bang.

Liu Shanfeng hurriedly said: "Oh, these almonds, these almonds, I, I peeled them out, I forgot, because this is not for people to eat, this is for chickens......

"Almonds are poisonous, fifty can poison a person, ten can poison a chicken, whose chicken did you feed?" Wang Qilin pressed step by step.

Liu Shanfeng panicked, he licked his lips vigorously, and said: "It's the pheasants and wild birds in the field, it's late autumn now, yes, it's late autumn, many birds are flying south, I want to use almonds to poison the birds, so I sprinkle them in the field......"

"Take me to the field to look for it, can't all the almonds be eaten by the birds?" Wang Qilin didn't give him a chance, and as soon as he spoke, he immediately picked up.

It is normal for the people in the village to be ignorant and simple-minded, and many of them have been working on the ground and kang all their lives, and their brains are not very bright.

But they have life experience, there are many apricot trees in the village, and they are all bitter apricots, this apricot name is bitter not to say that its flesh is bitter, but almond bitter, this almond is poisonous, dried and ground into powder to mix into wheat sorghum can poison mice.

The old man who had scolded the three brothers of the Liu family said in a panic: "Shanfeng baby, you haven't been in the field recently, you have been serving your father at home for the past few days, I have seen it all." ”

The boss of the Liu family was shocked, he rushed up and grabbed his younger brother's arm and shouted, "You, you poisoned the old man?"

Liu Shanfeng shouted: "I don't, how can I be, eldest brother, you know me, everyone in the village knows me, I am filial!"

Wang Qilin pinched the old man's mouth and said, "Come and see for yourself, he still has chopped almonds in his mouth." ”

Liu Shanfeng shouted: "Impossible!"

Wang Qilin asked him with interest, "Why is it impossible?"

Liu Shanfeng said in a panic: "My father and my father have never eaten almonds, how can there be chopped almonds in their mouths?"

Wang Qilin said: "Then ask the county servant to appetize your father to see if there are any almonds, I don't believe he has digested all the almonds." ”

At this moment, Liu Shanfeng was stunned, he knelt on the ground and lost his strength, and slowly sat down.

Wang Qilin said: "You recently peeled a lot of almonds and mixed them with sugar water to cover up the bitter taste, and tricked your father into eating them, right?"

"Your dad died of poisoning, so his face was full of pain, he should have vomited before he died, you cleaned his mouth, so I said he had crushed almonds in his mouth, you said it couldn't be, right?"

Xie Toad slowly closed his eyes and sang: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, no wonder when the old man released his last breath, he felt that this breath was cold. It is necessary to know that people's bad breath is strangled in people's throats, and if it is joy and mourning, then this bad breath is smooth and weak. If it is a horizontal death, this breath is fierce and rapid. Your father's breath is cold and gloomy, this is an unjust death!"

Wang Qilin said: "Yes, but people are not as good as heaven, when my colleague released this bad breath, he also brought out some food residues blocked in his throat, I smelled the bitter almond smell in this breath and felt wrong, and when I saw the almond residue in his mouth, I began to doubt you." ”

"But I don't believe that you, a filial son, would do such a thing," Wang Qilin said gloomily, "So I just asked you what medicine the doctor prescribed to give him a pass, if there are almonds in the medicinal herbs, then everything can be explained, but unfortunately there is no one in it." ”

"Later, my colleague said that the reason why you couldn't find the copper baht and silver baht was because the old man was too picky, so there was a ghost hiding treasure. But I don't think it's right, whether it's the people in the village or your brother, they all say that your father promised to give the money to your brother when he dies, so why does he still hide treasures?"

"Then I had a guess that he probably didn't want a person to find out where his money was hiding. ”

"So who doesn't want him to know? Of course it's you, the unfilial son who killed him......"

"Enough!" Liu Shanfeng stood up angrily, "I'm not filial, I'm unfilial, if I'm not filial, who has served him all these years when he broke his body and bones?"

"I cook for him, cook soup for him, wash and bathe him, serve him feces and urine, all these are in the eyes of the whole family, who is not moved?

"This old stubborn didn't take good care of our brother before, but now he is crippled and scared, and he thinks of us again. But what's the use of him remembering us? I am the only one of the four sons to serve him, and my three brothers will at most come to bring him a meal on weekdays, clothes and and urine, have they taken care of it?"

"What happened to the result? In the end, he even thought that the three of them were good, and said that I didn't serve well!"

"I didn't come back to serve him because of a few broken money! I carried a big bag in the county seat, and I still haven't earned enough 50 silver baht in a few years? He just thinks that I came for his money! At every turn, he will threaten me with money, saying that if I don't serve well, the money will be divided among my three brothers and will not be given to me!"

He was really wary of me, carefully digging at the foot of the bed to hide the money, and eating the sawdust for fear that I would find out. In the end, it was unfavorable!"

"Isn't it ridiculous? After he got it, it was unfavorable, and my three brothers ran far away, or only I served him, but he was still not satisfied, I picked for him, he still disliked me, it was too important for me to go to the clan elder to accuse me of being unfilial!"

"Hahahaha! He actually said that I was not filial?!"

Speaking of this, Liu Shanfeng was already a little crazy, he looked up to the sky and laughed, and gritted his teeth fiercely: "Then I'll let him see what an unfilial child looks like!"

There was a sudden silence at the door of the house.

The clan elder and several old men were all stunned.

The three brothers of the Liu family were also overshadowed.

Xu Da was silent for a moment and said, "If it were me, I would have left a long time ago, why should I stay and suffer from this bird's anger?"

Wang Qilin said: "His feelings are pitiful, and his heart can be punished." How to punish is decided by the clan elder and the county master, and the official will report the case to your county truthfully. ”

He looked at the sky and hurried out to continue his journey north.

The clues of the scholar's disappearance case are the most important thing!

At this time, the old man who came out to shout injustice pounced again, stopped him from kneeling down and kowtowed: "Help, master!

The old man was unkempt and clothed, and he leaned forward with a smell of sheep coming to his face, and he shouted tremblingly: "The official master, the old fairy help, I was entangled by a four-way ghost, this ghost wants to pull me to die for it, so that it can go to the underworld to be reincarnated!"

Wang Qilin paused and said, "Xu Da, you stay and listen to what he has to say, Dao Chief, you go north with me!"

The old man shouted: "Don't go north, sir, there is a ghost in the north!"

The four-dealing ghost is a relatively rare ghost, not as common as hanged ghosts, starving ghosts, and water ghosts.

This kind of ghost is because there are robbers who block the road and rob and commit sins before death, and if they escape the punishment of the Yin Division after death, they will wander on the road and become a ghost of the four intersections.

The robbers are ferocious when they are alive, and they are not easy to deal with after death, so the ghosts of the four intersections are more harmful, they will wander in the dark or dangerous places of the traffic arteries, and they will only use the tricks of ghosts covering their eyes and ghosts hitting the walls to tease passers-by.

At night, they will be arrogant, they will charm a person to go around the road, and then when there is a carriage or ox cart or something like that, they will be confused by the horse-eyed bull's-eyed donkey's eye to hit the dead person, in order to collect the souls of the dead for cultivation.

As soon as he heard that there were four ghosts in the north, Wang Qilin wondered if the disappearance of the scholar could still be related to the four ghosts, so he grabbed the old man and asked, "Okay, then you tell me what's going on in the north?"

The old man said in a panic: "My surname is Yi, and I make a living by shepherding sheep, so those who know me well call me Lao Yi, but I used to herd cattle, and then I herded sheep, and now I am a lonely old man, all rely on herding sheep and raising sheep to live, and I drive sheep around on weekdays, where is it ...... to go."

Wang Qilin looked at the sky and said amiably: "Old man, can we talk about it?"

The old man said: "Baby, no, Master Guan, listen to me carefully, there are ghosts!

"You say, you say. ”

The old man said, "I came here a few days ago, and then there is a lot of grass in the wasteland here, and I want to put autumn fat on the sheep." Then yesterday I heard the sheep bleating, and I thought there was a thief stealing them, so I hurried out to look, and I saw a ghost!"

"I saw a crossover ghost at the intersection!"

"The ghost knelt at the intersection, and then a terrible ghost flew from the sky, and the ghost of the four intersections asked the fierce ghost for relief, and the terrible ghost told it that after dawn and noon, there would be a young man in a white coat riding a horse from the south, and the young man would be drowsy, and you would hide at the intersection and push him off the horse, so that the horse would run forward in fright, and he would suddenly fall down, and he would surely fall to his death!"

So I drove the sheep to the south, and sure enough, at noon, a young man in a white coat came running on a horse, and he was almost asleep with his head down. ”

"I hurried the sheep into the road, and then the horse was frightened and stopped, and the young man came to his senses, and then he did not fall asleep any longer, and rode across the junction......"

Wang Qilin said vaguely: "The official understands, then the official will go to the intersection to destroy the ghost of the four intersections later!"

Yesterday afternoon, I met an old Taoist priest again, the old Taoist priest was hungry and fainted, I fed him a piece of dry food to wake him up, and the old Taoist priest woke up and thanked me, saying that my Yintang was black and entangled by ghosts, and he must have provoked ghosts. ”

"He drew a palm thunder on my hand and said that if a ghost appeared, I would shoot it with this mine. But I can't shoot it, I can only blow it up for a night and dare not follow me again, and then let me run to this village, saying that this village will meet a master when the time comes, and the master can destroy this four-way ghost!"

Xie Toad said, "Wait, you show me your hand." ”

Lao Yi raised his palm to show him, and a black word was written in the palm of his hand: Lei.

It's very exquisite, and a circle is drawn outside the word thunder.

Xie Toad smiled bitterly: "Little brother, you have been deceived, Immeasurable Tianzun, what kind of palm thunder is this? This is just a word written with an ink pen, this person is really, to fool people to write a cinnabar word, it turned out to be an ink word!"

Lao Yi said firmly: "Impossible, that Taoist priest is a master, this is the palm thunder, last night the four intersections of the ghost came to me, I palmed up, it exploded, was blown up and fainted to the ground, and then I ran to this village overnight, and then I met you today, you see, he is definitely a master!"

Xie Toad said: "But this is an ordinary ink character!"

Wang Qilin leaned up and sniffed the sheep Lao Yi, in addition to the smell of sheep, there was also a faint smell of gunsmoke.

So he said: "Uncle, have you ever thought that it was not the palm thunder that exploded last night, but that Sijiao ghost put a firecracker on his body, and he lit the cannon as soon as you raised your hand?"

Lao Yi, a sheep herder, said: "What does it do with firecrackers on its body?

Wang Qilin was helpless, and said: "What kind of four-way ghost! It's a human pretending! You haven't thought that the four-way ghost, the horse-riding youth, and the Taoist priest are all impostors? Are people pretending to fool you before and after? Think about it, the Taoist priest you meet can palm thunder this kind of Dao method, how can he still faint from hunger?"

The old man was stunned: "What are they pretending to do?

Wang Qilin sighed: "Scare you away, and then steal the sheep in your sheepfold!"

The old man was completely stunned.

Then turn around and run out.

Wang Qilin handed over Liu Shanfeng to the clan elder, and also stepped on the horse and ran north.

Xie Toad let Lao Yi get on his horse, and the two of them rode together.

Running out for at most six or seven miles, another village appeared in front of them, and the sheep herding old Yi pointed to a dilapidated house outside the village with his hands trembling and said: "There, that's there, I've been living there with sheep for the past few days, it's over, the sheep are gone!"

Wang Qilin was even more depressed when he saw the village, and said: "Master Xu, you continue to walk north, write down who you meet on the road and what villages you meet, and I will check with the Taoist chief in this village first." ”

Xu nodded and whipped away.

The two rode to the dilapidated house, and the broken door was unloaded, and Lao Yi cried when he saw this.

But when they entered the door, the yard was full of sheep, and the first sheep stood at the door to block the way of the sheep, and the other sheep were lying on the ground in a daze.

Lao Yi smiled suddenly, he hugged the head sheep and counted them, and said happily: "Sixty-seven sheep, Mumada!"

Wang Qilin was puzzled, he and the old Taoist priest glanced at each other, and they both saw small question marks on each other's faces.

"What's going on? Isn't that just a sheep stealing routine?"

"Immeasurable Tianzun, it's weird!"

The old Taoist priest asked Lao Yi to raise his hand to show himself, tugged at his beard and pondered: "Could this really be some kind of palm thunder?

Wang Qilin asked, "Did the four ghosts come to this room last night?"

Lao Yi, who herded the sheep, would be a little distrustful of them, pouting and muttering: "The master of the Narausch that your master said, I have to go, I am not here." ”

He waved the word 'thunder' that he carefully wrapped around his hand with a piece of cloth, and with a whip he took the sheep away.

The head sheep is strong and mighty, with two horns as straight as a sword, and eyes are bright and muscular.

When Xie Toad saw it, he said, "Old man, can you sell us the first sheep?"

Lao Yi, who was herding the sheep, looked at him vigilantly, drove the sheep away, and muttered as he walked: "Not a good person." ”

Wang Qilin didn't have time or mood to entangle with him, and when he saw that he took the initiative to leave, he didn't ask, he entered the village to investigate whether there was anything related to scholars in the village.

Still very disappointed, there was nothing abnormal, that is, the son of the clan elder saw that the heavenly supervisor came to inquire about the things related to the scholar, and he trembled and knelt down to admit that he had a leg with the gentleman of the private school in the township......

But it has nothing to do with those sixty-four scholars!

Wang Qilin took a look, he encountered a lot of things when he came to Osmanthus Fragrance this time, but nothing was found about the death information of Yang Zuo and Feng Liang.

Wang Xiaobao said the names of Yang Zuo and Feng Liang, but he had nothing to do with them.

I knew that the other sixty-three missing scholars were not dead, and I also knew that there was something strange about the second lady, Yu Shanshan, and this strangeness was related to her ghost.

They converged with Xu Da and returned to the village, Xu Da was very angry and said, "Why don't we go to the underworld tonight?

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "No, it's not a good thing to go to the yin, the two of you can go safely once has been blessed by the Three Qing Dao Ancestors." ”

Xu Dadao: "Hey, what's there to be afraid of in the underworld? It's just a road like a tomb, and there are murals on both sides of the road such as the Ascending Immortal Diagram and the Evil Ward Off Diagram......

"How can there be murals on the Yin Road, there are no murals!" Xie Toad said, "On both sides of the Yin Road are the blessing of fairies and ten thousand ghosts! That's why I asked you not to leave the range of the rune light, and not to walk around!"

Wang Qilin and Xu Da glanced at each other: What they saw at the beginning was not a mural?

Xu Daxin suddenly pulled out the cold: he was frightened by a hideous grimace last night, and thought it was a mural, and spat at the grimace......

They stayed in Osmanthus Township for another day, Xie Toad taught Wu Dasan to practice Wulang gossip sticks, Xu Da went to negotiate with the Wang family to let them move the ancestral shrine, and Wang Qilin was thinking about the case.

There was no useful news here, so he decided to go back and take a different path, directly to the house of the dead scholar Feng Liang, and make an incision from him.

When he was resting, Wu Dasan came over and said, "Seventh Master, I am now mixed with you, because the world regards me as a grass and tree, but you see me like a green mountain......

"Wait, what nonsense are you talking about?" Wang Qilin felt that it was okay after listening to the first half of the sentence, but was stunned when he heard the second half of the sentence.

Wu Dasan said: "This is what I just asked Xu Ye, and Xu Ye taught me." ”

Wang Qilin's heart hurts: "Don't be empty, come to something real, have something to say." ”

Wu Dasan said: "It's that I'm messing with you, Seventh Master, so I'll tell you anything and never hide it." ”

Wang Qilin nodded, and Wu Dasan continued: "You know the seventh master, my Ah San once mixed in the yamen of Fucheng, although he is a soap who is not in the stream, but the news in the yamen is circulating, so I know some gossip, I will give it to you, you can think about it yourself, there may be some fake news." ”

Say. ”

"I first started with Yang Tiewei, Yang Tiewei is tough and domineering, he has a ruthless temperament, so he offended the martial arts family very early, and then the two sides are incompatible, he served in Pingyang Mansion for five years, and the Yamen in Pingyang Mansion and Tingtianjian were inseparable for five years. ”

"But I've heard a news, in fact, Yang Tiewei didn't really fall out with the martial family, he was an enemy of the martial family on the surface, and secretly, hehe......"