You must know that Xie Yixiang once personally experienced the "ghost monkey" case in Lanzhou City, and witnessed the beggars' behavior of "picking and cutting" the rudder of Lanzhou, which was to cripple a good child in order to win the sympathy of the world, and did not hesitate to donate generously; or sewed the child together with all kinds of strange things, so as to stimulate the world's curiosity and achieve the purpose of defrauding money.

And in this "human kitchen case", regardless of the murder case of the family of the man surnamed Liu in Zhenjiang, assuming that all the deceased who were killed by the "human kitchen" were killed because there was a girl in the family who was five to seven years old and was adopted, so could it be that the channels for these people to adopt the girl at that time actually came from the same place? That is to say, behind the girl adopted by the victim's family, it is very likely that there is a gang similar to the beggar gang Lanzhou rudder, or a demon sect. A force that secretly manipulates these girls who were adopted by the deceased and uses them to commit these murders.

As for why this mysterious force behind the scenes wants to exterminate the families of these adopted girls and cook the dead on the spot, perhaps it is similar to the purpose of the "dust hermitage" on Mount Emei, and they want to practice some evil skills and secret arts, so they use the girl as bait to arrange for these five to seven-year-old girls to sneak into each family, and when the time is ripe, they will come to meet the inside and outside; or maybe these four families adopted the girl home, but in fact it was not the original intention of the mysterious force behind the scenes, so they wanted to use this method as revenge to bring the girl back from the deceased's home. Because of this, every time the murderer commits a crime, he will find a girl of the same age from elsewhere to be the substitute ghost, so as to replace the original girl in the deceased's family, so that the official handling the case mistakenly thinks that the family of three has all died, so as to cover up the truth of this fact.

Hearing Xie Yixiang's speculation, Yang Zhutou hurriedly thought about it from beginning to end, and felt that it was reasonable, and he could indeed explain this "human kitchen case" clearly. But he couldn't understand for a while whether there was really such a mysterious force in the world, and would actually use girls between the ages of five and seven to commit crimes, so he had to ask Xie Yixiang for advice.

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say coldly: "From ancient times to the present, isn't this kind of thing commonplace? There are countless gangs or forces like this in the world. It's like a beggar gang that 'picks and cuts' children to defraud money; Even in today's Jinling Imperial City, there are similar organizations secretly, which specialize in collecting those good-looking girls, cultivating their speech and behavior from an early age, making them well-read and reasonable, and staying until the age of twenty-eight, and then giving them a forged prominent birth and marrying into the mansions of those high-ranking officials and nobles in the court as concubines, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the court situation. Hmph, even the pro-military governor's mansion directly under the current emperor, as far as I know, is doing this in private, bringing those lonely and helpless girls under their command, learning the art of sex from an early age, and training to become spies or assassins. After that, she added, saying: "Besides, this 'mysterious force' I call may not be a gang or an organization, maybe behind these girls, there is only one murderer, and the murderer alone planned this series of murders." ”

It's a pity that although Xie Yixiang's analysis is the first to be true, what is the mysterious force hidden behind this "human kitchen case", and what is the real intention of its act of cooking human flesh, based on the existing information alone, it is far from enough to make a judgment. At that moment, she discussed carefully with Yang Zhutou, but in the end, she could only use the most stupid method, that is, to start with the daughter of Li Butcher's family in Yinshan Village who was not killed, and launch a comprehensive search of all the arresters, tolerances and officials, and find out this five or six-year-old girl no matter what. Later, I found out the mysterious force behind the scenes, which was the "human chef" who really committed the case.

At this time, the villagers who had been invited from Yinshan Village to identify the corpses were still in the yamen, so Yang Zhutou gathered all of them and asked his subordinates to draw portraits according to their descriptions of Li Butcher's daughter. When the portrait was ready, Xie Yixiang took it and took a look, but it was a delicate-looking girl, looking very cute, with a pair of phoenix eyes narrowed into two crescent moons, and a smile at the corner of her mouth. I don't know if it's a problem with the technique of painting and catching fast, the more Xie Yixiang looks at this portrait of a girl, the more she feels an indescribable weirdness, as if there is a strong demonic aura enveloping the portrait of this girl, almost wanting to break out of the paper.

Hearing that the villagers of Yinshan Village present said that this portrait was very expressive, like the daughter of Butcher Li, Yang Zhutou asked the catchers to copy more than 20 pieces according to the copy, and searched strictly in the entire Shaoxing territory, especially in the Zhuji area in the south. After two more days, the efficiency of the Shaoxing Mansion Yamen was not bad, and sure enough, the traces of the girl on the portrait were found in Dongyang Pass, south of Zhuji. According to the recollection of the garrison sergeant at Dongyang Pass, just three days ago, an old man and a young man went south from Dongyang Pass, and the old man was wearing a white cloak, at least sixty or seventy years old, but he couldn't see the appearance clearly, and there was a five or six-year-old girl beside him, who looked very cute, like the girl in the portrait. Then check the record book of entering and leaving Dongyang Pass, the old man claimed to be surnamed Xia at that time, and the girl accompanying him was his granddaughter, one old and one young said that they were going to visit relatives in Ningyi City in the south.

When Xie Yixiang heard the news, she couldn't help blurting out and asking, "One old and one young?" When the words fell, she was already "groaning" in her heart, and then said again: "Could it be ...... Could it be that this so-called 'human kitchen' turned out to be ...... Is it ......" Yang Zhutou and the others couldn't help but ask one after another when they saw that she wanted to speak and stopped, but Xie Yixiang finally shook her head and didn't say what she thought in her heart.

It turned out that hearing that there was an old man in a cloak accompanying this girl, it reminded Xie Yixiang of an old incident and two old people. It is said that in Yueyang City that day, the Liujin Venerable, the head of the Five Elements Protector of the Shenhuo Sect, assumed the pseudonym "Mr. Jin", didn't he also take a teenage girl around to swagger and deceive, and act as a traitor in the name of the "Dragon Girl" of Dongting Lake? But after the battle of Dongting Lake, whether it was the Liujin Venerable or the "Dragon Girl", and even the former sect leader of the Divine Fire Sect under the pseudonym "Fang Dongfeng", they had all been killed by the sword of Senior Brother Xian Jingyue, how could they appear here now?

Thinking of this, Xie Yixiang suddenly woke up. At the end of last year, the senior brother rushed back from the Western Regions and told himself about what happened in Yumen Pass. Although the Liujin Venerable in Yueyang City had been killed that day, now the Divine Fire Sect had promoted a new Liujin Venerable, who was in the Western Regions under the pseudonym "Jin Wanjin"!