It is said that the three of them left Wuwei County on fast horses and rode lightly, and ran all the way to Xiping County non-stop, out of Wuwei County all the way south to the Datong River, and then went all the way east along the Datong River, the original plan was to cross the Datong River and go south again, and march to Xiping County along the Huangshui River through Qinghai Lake, but considering that the road was too far, he was worried that the horses would run for a long time in a row and the load was too large, so Chu Mofeng had to temporarily change the route.

At this time, Xiping County is a panic, the four gates of the city are guarded by the city gate, responsible for checking the passers-by, the people on the street look hurried, from time to time there are officials will stop pedestrians for inquiry. It's all because of what happened to Xiping County half a month ago.

Legend has it that in the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a major event in Xiping County, when a young lady from a large family fell in love with a penniless scholar, the two met on the street, the young lady admired the integrity of the reader, the scholar admired the appearance of the young lady, and the two had feelings for each other, but the young lady knew that the family would never allow her to marry a poor scholar, and then the two decided to elope.

As everyone knows, Miss's every move every day has already been reported to the master by the people in the house, and the two fled to the bottom of the mountain outside Xiping County on the night of elopement.

Later, when the scholar woke up, he found that the young lady was not around, and hurriedly returned to Xiping to look for it, and when the scholar walked to the street, he heard that the young lady's family had died, and hurriedly rushed to her house, and when he entered the door, he found that the young lady was wearing a red wedding dress and hanged herself at home.

It turned out that after the lord arrested the young lady, he decided to send the young lady to the family of the person who had decided to marry overnight, and the young lady pretended to dress up, and then opened the maid, put on a wedding dress and hanged herself, in order to die to clear her will.

After the scholar knew what happened, he rushed into the mansion to take away the body of the young lady, who knew that he was caught by the family in the house, and the family reported the matter to the master, and the old man who was angry ordered the scholar to be beaten to death, and before he died, the scholar cursed viciously and said: "I don't regret dying, but I want to curse you who are filthy, and this ruthless city, don't walk in the dark in red clothes, because I will crawl out of the infernal hell to take revenge on you." ”

After the death of the scholar, he was thrown to the mass grave outside the city by the master, and no one cared about the curse of the scholar at the time, but after about two years, the little daughter of the master returned to the house in red clothes at night, and was killed and hung on the door of the house.

In the following time, this kind of thing happened almost every year, and after a long time, people began to rumor that the scholar's curse had been fulfilled, and since then, no one who lived in Xiping County would let the women of the family wear red clothes at night.

The picture turns back to the era of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, just half a month ago, that is, when Chu Mofeng and the three of them just arrived in Guzang County, Wuwei County, three incidents of women in red being killed were staged again in Xiping County.

It is said that in the early morning of half a month ago, Hu Shi, the daughter-in-law of Lao Liu, a horse dealer in the west of the city, was found dead in the shed where her horses were stored in the market, and when Hu's body was found, she was wearing a red small-sleeved high-waisted long skirt, and even the small-sleeved shirt and large-sleeved shirt on her upper body were red.

Asked the neighbors in the neighborhood and learned that at the end of last night, a neighbor saw Hu Shi hurriedly coming out of the house, wearing the current set of clothes, and there were neighbors who asked her what she was doing, Hu Shi said that her husband went to sell horses in other places overnight, and forgot to lock the stables in the market when he left, because there were two horses in it that the guests were going to take away the next day, and they were worried that they would be lost at night, so they hurried to lock them.

Immediately the government mobilized people to investigate, two days in a row without any results, who knew that in the early morning of the fourth day, the eldest lady of the Zhangfu family in the east of the city was found dead near the inn not far from the market, the body was still a bright red, and the investigation found that the time of death of the deceased was also at the time of death, and the cause of death was also pierced by a sharp weapon in the chest.

Zhang Jian, who received the news, hurriedly came to the scene, and cried loudly when he saw that it was his daughter, and then the official helped him up for questioning, and learned that no one knew about the young lady who went out last night, and the maid next to the young lady did not know where to go, and then the official and the Zhang family looked around, and found the stunned maid in the alley of a shop near the inn.

Immediately the maid was taken to the mansion for questioning, it turned out that Miss Zhang took the maid to the inn to meet people secretly, and on the way back to Zhang's house, the maid felt that someone was following behind her, and was about to remind the lady, but the back of her head hurt and she didn't know anything. As for who she saw, she couldn't say who she saw, because when the young lady met this person, she left the maid in the lobby on the first floor and went up alone.

The official then came to the inn to check, and quickly found the person who met with Miss Zhang, it turned out that Miss Zhang came to the inn last night to see two music and dancers from Qiuzi, and the two told the official that Miss Zhang admired Qiuzi music and dance, so he came to the inn to ask the two of them for advice, and arrived at the inn at the beginning of the unit, and left the inn at about seven o'clock. Later, the official messenger told the two not to leave Xiping for the time being, and to wait for the government to pass the word at any time.

Then the official sent the whole city to look for suspicious people, but there was no result, and the night before Chu Mofeng and the three arrived in Xiping, another murder occurred in the city.

At the beginning of the day, Li Bao, who lived in the west of the city, pushed his home-made flower folding goose cake and walked along the alley to the market, and when he came to the gate of the market, he found that there was no one inside, so Li Bao had to push the cart back and forth, hoping to meet a guest who wanted more goose cakes.

When strolling all the way to the Lianyun Temple opposite the bazaar, Li Bao parked the car on the side and took out a sweat towel to wipe the sweat, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach, so he ran into the bamboo forest outside the gate of Lianyun Temple, and was about to squat down to go out of Gong, and suddenly found a person in red clothes lying in the bamboo forest, thinking of what happened a few days ago, Li Bao was so frightened that Li Bao hurriedly ran out of the bamboo forest and ran to the government office across the two streets from Lianyun Temple to report the case.

As soon as the Yacha heard that there was another murder, they rushed to the bamboo forest with Li Bao without saying a word, and found that the man in red that Li Bao said was still lying motionless in the bamboo forest, and then everyone carried the man in red out, and found that the person was already dead, and then called the person to come to the autopsy, and after the scene was the emergency inquest of the body, it was found that the cause of death of the person was also pierced by a sharp weapon in the chest, and the time of death was probably around the end of last night. Since he didn't know the identity of the woman, the painter immediately drew the woman's head, and the whole city asked one by one.

At this time, the monks of Lianyun Temple who came out to investigate the movement outside the door recognized the woman, it turned out that the woman was a pilgrim who came to Lianyun Temple with her family to incense, and yesterday she temporarily lived in Lianyun Temple because she listened to the monks explain Buddhism, who had wanted to die innocently overnight.

Three murders occurred in succession, and the Xiping Mansion quickly posted a reward, hoping that there would be a high-ranking person to solve the case, and at the same time ordered the official to search on the street, and instructed the city gate lang of the four gates to strictly investigate the people who passed by.

At the beginning of the morning, Chu Mofeng, Gu Zhen'er and Liu Feiyan arrived at the West City Gate of Xiping, and at this time, there was a long queue of people entering the city, and Gu Zhen'er said puzzledly: "Why is it so troublesome to enter the city today, wait for me to go forward and ask." Then he drove forward to the city gate.

I saw Gu Zhen'er take out a few pieces of money from her arms and throw them to Chengmenlang and said, "Excuse me, is there anything going on in the city?"

Chengmen Lang, who was in charge of the inspection, took the money thrown by Gu Zhen'er, and then told Gu Zhen'er what happened, Gu Zhen'er listened to Chengmenlang's narration, and then turned around and walked towards Chu Mofeng and the others. After retelling the incident, Gu Zhen'er said to Chu Mofeng: "Brother Feng, why don't we go into the city, people are so afraid." While saying this, Gu Zhen'er pretended to be a little daughter and flirted coquettishly at Chu Mofeng.

Chu Mofeng sat on the horse and listened to Gu Zhen'er's words, then frowned, and after thinking for a while, he turned his head to Liu Feiyan and said, "I think we should go in, I also think that we will meet this murderous maniac, what do you think?"

Liu Feiyan glanced at Gu Zhen'er, who was committing a nymphomaniac, and said to Chu Mofeng: "Okay, since there is such a wicked person here, then it is necessary for us to get rid of him." Liu Feiyan immediately supported her forehead, pointed at Gu Zhen'er, who was still coquettish, and said to Chu Mofeng helplessly: "But before that, can you not let her become a nymphomaniac." I'm going to go crazy if I keep going like this. ”

Chu Mofeng looked at Gu Zhen'er and smiled ghostly and said, "Sister Zhen'er, can you accompany Brother Feng into the city? ”

Hearing Chu Mofeng say this, Gu Zhen'er's cheeks turned red and her heart beat faster, and she replied shyly: "Okay, then you have to protect others." ”

Then the three of them drove to the city gate, and when the city gate lang saw that it was Gu Zhen'er, he smiled and said to her: "Girl, are these two your companions? ”

Gu Zhen'er nodded, and then led Chu Mofeng and Liu Feiyan into Xiping County together, as soon as they entered the West Gate, there was an inn not far away, and the three of them entered the inn and asked for two guest rooms, and then came to the lobby on the first floor to ask for a table of food, only to see that there were several tables of guests in the lobby, and there was no shortage of discussions about the recent woman in red.

After the three of them sat down, Chu Mofeng whispered to the second daughter: "I'll go to the street to find out the news in a while, and then we'll sum it up in the evening." The second daughter nodded yes when she heard this, and after the three of them finished eating, Chu Mofeng immediately went to the street to inquire about the news, and asked Liu Feiyan and Gu Zhen'er to go back to the room to rest.

Out of the inn and came to the street, I saw that officials could be seen everywhere on the street, and from time to time stopped a pedestrian and began to ask, Chu Mofeng found a passerby to inquire about the location of the mansion, and then walked in the direction of the mansion.

When he came to the door of the mansion and found that many people were gathered near the notice board at the door, Chu Mofeng hurriedly squeezed in to take a look, only to see a big reward order posted on the notice board, which said that a reward was offered for the capture of the red-clothed murderer, and the reward was one hundred yuan.

Chu Mofeng carefully recalled the whole process of the matter, then stepped forward and took off the reward, turned around and left the mansion and walked towards the inn, but he didn't know that there was a pair of evil eyes in the crowd, which had been staring at Chu Mofeng, and when he saw Chu Mofeng unveiling the reward, he smiled disdainfully, and then walked out of the crowd and disappeared into the street......