Hearing Xie Yixiang finally ask about this, Master Chang immediately sighed and said, "Miss Xie San, this matter is indeed a bit complicated. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info said that this Heng King in the imperial court was originally ordered to be stationed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to defend against the coastal Dongying Japanese Invaders, but who knew that he disappeared for no reason three months ago. When everyone searched for no result, in the Sword Pavilion Post Station in Shudi, there was a small official who claimed to have seen King Heng, saying that King Heng had spent the night in the Sword Pavilion Post Station under his jurisdiction, accompanied by a personal guard, and the relevant identity documents were readily available. During the conversation, King Heng also asked this little official about the way to Longdong Mountain in Chengdu Mansion, and said that he was coming to Bifu. ”

As soon as King Heng and his guards left after dawn, the post official immediately reported the matter to his boss, and spread the word ten, ten and hundred, and in an instant, the entire Chengdu Mansion knew the news that King Heng was coming to Bifu, and spread the matter to the public. Early in the morning of the second day, more than 30 officials of all sizes in Chengdu Mansion rushed to the gate of Bifu early in the morning, saying that they wanted to visit Zheng Guogong, but in fact, they wanted to take the opportunity to honor King Heng. Who knew that this official opened the gate of Bifu, but saw Zheng Guogong's face was gloomy, and the whole Bifu was even more chaotic; under questioning, Zheng Guogong confided the truth, saying that there was a murder in the mansion last night, and King Heng had been killed. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Although Zheng Guogong insisted that King Heng had been killed, it is still uncertain whether the deceased in Bifu was King Heng or not......

General Song Shen next to him couldn't help but interrupt him, and said: "Master Chang, it's okay for you to protect the Bi family, why do you have to do it so explicitly? However, this time King Heng entered Shu and came to Bifu as a guest, this is obviously a sure fact, who in Chengdu Mansion does not know? The 30 or so officials you just mentioned came to Bifu early in the morning to see King Heng, including my old Song, who came with General Yu of Chengdu Mansion that day. ”

It seems that this Song Shen General is really the temperament of a person in the army, and he will speak so bluntly, this Chang Sense's words are indeed a little biased towards the Bi family, and a clear-eyed person can naturally hear it, but since Song Counselor is also interested in the Bi family, why do he need to break through Chang Adult's thoughts? But seeing that Chang Sen quickly shook his head and said: "Song Counselor's words are wrong. The so-called 'King Heng came to Bifu' is just the words of the little official of the post station. How could a post man the size of a sesame mung bean have ever met King Heng before? Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that there are people who impersonate and deceive themselves, and as for the so-called identity documents, they are also very likely to be fake. ”

General Song snorted coldly and said: "You civil officials, your mind is really dirty, how can there be so many conspiracies and tricks in the world? If everything in this has to be so complicated by you, then in my opinion, this case is destined to be unsolved." After a pause, he added: "If someone pretends to be King Heng to come to Bifu, wouldn't it be full of food? Not to mention that we have already carefully asked the Fu steward in the mansion, and when King Heng came to Bifu late at night, he was personally received by the Fu steward. You also know that that Butler Fu is General Bi's personal attendant in the past, and even the emperor knows him, so how can he misrecognize King Heng?"

Although Xie Yixiang doesn't know anything about the case now, she can roughly understand the dispute between Master Chang and General Song. If there was indeed a murder in Bifu that night, and there was also the body of the deceased, then just invite the autopsy to verify the identity of the deceased, and naturally you can know whether the deceased is King Heng, why should Lord Chang and General Song have their own words about this?

But I heard Chang Daren say: "No matter which dynasty or generation, any lawsuit involving human life must verify the identity of the deceased, otherwise it is a headless public case, and it is impossible to close the case." Right now, with just this headless corpse in Bifu, who dares to assert that this is the corpse of King Heng?"

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but blurt out and asked, "Headless corpse, what's the matter...... Could it be that the head of the deceased was cut off?"

Then Master Chang remembered that there was Xie Yixiang by his side, and hurriedly said, "Miss Xie San, please forgive the official for a momentary gaffe." Alas, it is not exactly like this, although there was indeed a murder in Bifu that night, but only a headless male corpse was left in the room, and the head of the deceased has not been found so far. Therefore, no one dared to confirm that this headless corpse was the corpse of King Heng, which was also the tricky part of this case. ”

Seeing Xie Yixiang's puzzled face, General Song next to him explained: "I don't know if Miss Xie San has ever heard that in my Shu territory, especially in the area of Chengdu Mansion, Emperor Guan's grandfather has always been extremely effective. It is common for villains to be beheaded in the middle of the night and put the heads of the deceased in the nearby Guandi Temple. Many local people have seen with their own eyes that the person who beheaded these villains at night was a general in green clothes and a red face, who was the grandfather of Emperor Guan. Therefore, today's Shu people, whether they pray for blessings and avoid disasters or seek wealth, all have to worship Emperor Guan's grandfather, and it is precisely because of this that many Guandi temples will be built in various places. ”

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but feel a slight chill, she heard about this matter in the teahouse in Pioneer Village, but she thought that someone was secretly eliminating violence and peace, but she pretended to be in the name of Guan Gong's manifestation. But when General Song talked about this at this moment, could it be that the person who committed the murder in Bifu that night was really as the world said, and it was Guan Gong who appeared to do it?

Sure enough, I only heard General Song Shen say in a deep voice: "On the night of the murder, someone in Bifu saw with their own eyes that the green-clothed and red-faced grandfather Guan Di walked out of King Heng's room with the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand, still carrying King Heng's head in his hand, and then disappeared into the night for no reason. However, this time Emperor Guan's grandfather appeared differently from the past, and the severed head of King Heng never appeared. In the past three months, we have searched every Guandi temple in Shudi, large and small, and even dug the entire Bifu three feet into the ground, but we have not found the head of King Heng, so Chang Daren has been entangled in this. ”

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but take a long breath, and finally understood why Master Chang always insisted on the view that "King Heng's life and death are unknown", but it turned out that the head of the deceased was taken away by the murderer, and it has not been found yet. However, Chang Daren's words are not wrong, in the laws of this dynasty, if the identity of the deceased cannot be verified, then the case cannot be closed, and it is indeed difficult to determine whether the deceased is the king of Heng based on the corpse of a headless man.

Although many of the details of this Xie Yixiang are still unclear, according to the simple statements of Chang Daren and Song Shenjiang, roughly speaking, if the murder that happened in Bifu that night is the same as the plot of Guan Gong's apparition that often occurs in Shu, then most of the perpetrator is the same person - the serial murderer who has been pretending to be Guan Gong and pretending to be Guan Gong's apparition.

However, why did this murderer who pretended to be Guan Gong always cut off the head of the deceased? It should be said that although Guan Gong during the Three Kingdoms period was brave and had countless beheadings, he did not necessarily have to cut off the other party's head. I think it's because the drama of "Beheading Yan Liang" is too famous, saying that Guan Gong looks down on Yan Liang, a famous Hebei general under Yuan Shao, and laughs at him for "inserting a bid and selling his head", Cao Cao's generals don't believe it, Guan Gong took a knife and rode his horse, and beheaded Yan Liang in the midst of the army, and was "shocked" by everyone. So unconsciously, once the world mentions Guan Gong's murder, they always feel that Guan Gong will use the Qinglong Glaive to cut off the other party's head.

From this point of view, the reason why this murderer who pretended to be Guan Gong cut off the head of the deceased and put it on the offering table in the Guan Di Temple may be just a symbolic ceremony, to warn the world that Guan Gong appeared to punish the villain, or maybe it was just the murderer's personal preference. But why did Guan Gong's apparition that happened in Bifu last time fail to find the head of the deceased afterwards?

If we exclude the factor of "Guan Gong's apparition" for the time being, according to the experience of the criminal arrest room in handling cases for many years, if the murderer cuts off the head of the deceased and destroys or hides it, there has always been only one reason throughout the ages: that is, the murderer wants to hide the identity of the deceased.

Therefore, Lord Chang's speculation is actually not unreasonable, although King Heng has been missing for three months, whether he really came to Bifu or not, in the final analysis, is just the judgment made by the little official of the Sword Pavilion Post Station with the identity documents presented by "King Heng". The headless corpse found in Bifu after the murder may not be the "King Heng" in the post station; even if it is really the "King Heng" in the post station, it may be fake.

Thinking of this, Xie Yixiang only felt that the whole thing suddenly became clear, and she completely understood what Master Chang meant. If the headless corpse was not the corpse of King Heng, or even King Heng had never been to Bifu at all, then the current murder case in Bifu was at most a serial murder case pretending to be Guan Gong's manifestation.

Just as Xie Yixiang was thinking about it, she suddenly heard a pleasant woman's voice coming from outside the hall, and asked lightly: "But the Xie family's sister Yixiang is here?"

Xie Yixiang saw that this woman was about twenty-six or seventeen years old, dressed in a purple-red Shu brocade tulle, with red lips and bright teeth, and picturesque eyebrows, but she was dressed as a girl, and she was obviously unmarried. Her heart moved, she quickly stood up, and said respectfully: "Sister Xiao, don't come unharmed, it's Yixiang who is here!"