At that moment, Xie Yixiang left Mingyue Village, where Xuanwu Feihuamen was located, and traveled north along the island road, heading to the area of Mantou Mountain a few miles away, but it was the place where the beggars who came to the meeting this time settled in Xishan.

It turned out that according to the people of Xuanwu Feihuamen, Ouyang Cha, the "Taishan Divine Needle", was invited to participate in the "Taihu Lake Martial Arts" and had arrived as early as five or six days ago. It happened that the beggar gang also arrived in Xishan, and its gang leader He Jingzhi was seriously injured in his early years, so that he was sick all the year round, so he invited this Ouyang doctor to go to the consultation, and he has been staying under the beggar gang for these days to treat the old illness for the He gang master.

Unexpectedly, the night before yesterday, this Ouyang Divine Doctor was cut in the throat with a knife in his sleep and died on the spot. Even the two female disciples who came with him were not spared, and they were also cut off their throats. The beggars had no clue about this, they didn't know who the murderer was, and they were afraid of arousing suspicion, so they made trouble with Ye Dinggong.

As for Ouyang Cha's body, it has been checked by the Suzhou City Yamen, and it is still parked in the residence of the beggars, and a simple mourning hall has been set up for everyone to go to pay respects. You must know that the rumors in the rivers and lakes that "the east meets the divine needle, the west meets the immortals, the imperial doctor consults, and the king of Hades is difficult to be", which refers to the three major divine doctors of the world, "Taishan Divine Needle" Ouyang Tea, "Wonderful Hands and Immortals" hydration knife and "Iron Mask Imperial Doctor" Yu Chi Lingshu. Among them, the hydration knife master inherited Hua Tuo's "Green Capsule Book" and was good at opening the knife to remove diseases; Yu Chi Ling, the chief of the Guanju Tai Hospital, was the best at "Jin Kui Yaolu", and could not cure diseases if he was not a precious medicinal material; only the golden acupuncture point of Ouyang Tea did not open the knife or take medicine, and it has always won the trust of the people in the rivers and lakes, and the beneficiaries are countless. This time, when I heard that the "Taishan Divine Needle" was killed for no reason, all the heroes on Xishan Island were furious, and they came to the mourning hall one after another, saying that they would break the murderer's body into pieces.

When Xie Yixiang arrived, it happened to be Li Sijing, the head of the Baiyun Sword Sect in Nanyue, who led his disciples to pay respects, and the beggar gang leader He also led a group of elders and disciples to accompany him. I saw that the beggars' accommodation in the area of Mantou Mountain was built around a large open space, and now a new one has been built in the open space as a mourning hall for Ouyang Tea. Xie Yixiang once offended the beggar gang in Lanzhou City, and even indirectly contributed to the destruction of the beggar gang Lanzhou rudder, and now she came to investigate the case, so she didn't want to do much, so she immediately waited far away. But seeing that the Baiyun Sword Sect came to mourn the disciples, a cold-faced man in his early thirties looked back nonchalantly, and his gaze swept over her, which immediately made Xie Yixiang feel a chill in his heart.

Although Xie Yixiang didn't know this person, he immediately remembered that there was a second-generation disciple named Gong Zihan in the Baiyun Sword Sect, who became the first master of the Baiyun Sword Sect with his blue momentum, and his prestige was still above the head Li Sijing, and he was called "Lingnan First Sword" by Lingnan Martial Arts. The people in the rivers and lakes called him and the "Jiangnan Knife" who first competed for the moon, saying that he was the best sword among the younger generation, but he had never seen it, and he thought that most of it was this cold-faced man.

However, the Baiyun Sword Sect never greeted her, and when the memorial service was completed, the beggar helped the He gang leader to lead the crowd and went all the way north. Xie Yixiang saw that the mourning hall was empty, and only dozens of beggar disciples were left to rest in the surrounding grass huts, so he stepped inside. But in the mourning hall is a simple bamboo bed, on which is a corpse covered with a white cloth, which is supposed to be the body of Ouyang Cha, and behind it is the spirit card of the memorial. In addition, there was a soap-clothed man present at the corner of the mourning hall at this time, and when he saw Xie Yixiang coming in, he was shocked at first, and then said happily: "Is it Miss Xie San?" Xie Yixiang condensed slightly, and suddenly smiled: "It turned out to be Cheng Zhutou." ”

It turned out that this soap-clothed man was Cheng Zhendi, the head catcher of the criminal arrest room, and he was only responsible for some desk work on weekdays, because his brother "super mountain and sea" Cheng Shaotian died with Zhuang Haoming's life, and after the new chief catcher Situ Mingjie took office, he was classified as the former minister's faction, and took advantage of the Xuanwu Feihuamen to recruit masters from various departments, so Cheng Zhendi and Xie Yixiang and others were transferred together, not because of how strong his martial arts were. Seeing that Cheng Zhutou was here, undoubtedly meeting a colleague in another country, Xie Yixiang suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly asked him about the case.

That Cheng Zhutou usually deals with all kinds of documents in the criminal arrest room, but this time Ye Dinggong asked him to assist in handling the case, but he was crooked. He immediately said: "It is good to teach Miss Xie San to know that this case has been investigated for eight or nine years, if nothing else, the murderer of Ouyang Cha is a Jianghu assassin who has collected money to kill people in recent years, and is called 'throat cutter' in the file of the criminal arrest room; As for the motive behind the scenes, it is natural to hire a murderer, and it should be Ouyang Cha's enemy who spent money to hire a 'throat cutter' to commit murder. ”

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but be stunned, she had a variety of assumptions before coming here, and even thought that it was the leader of the beggar gang who deliberately set up a murder on the pretext of diagnosing a patient, but who knew that in the end it was a case of "hired murder". She didn't dare to be careless, and uncovered the white cloth covered on the bamboo bed, and sure enough, the corpse of Ouyang Cha, the "Taishan Divine Needle" that she had seen in Bifu, was cut by someone with a knife in her throat, but her expression was extremely peaceful, which showed that the murderer's methods were very old-fashioned.

I only heard Cheng Zhutou next to him say again: "Miss Xie San has not been in the torture room for a long time, so I don't know the method of this 'throat cutter', I deal with the case file on weekdays, this case must be done by this thief, and I can't make a mistake! ”

Xie Yixiang nodded slightly, immediately re-covered the white cloth of the corpse, and put a stick of incense in front of Ouyang Cha's tablet, and asked Cheng Zhu to lead her to see the corpses of Ouyang Cha's two female disciples.

It is said that Ouyang Cha's two female disciples came to the meeting with the master this time, because Ouyang Cha stayed in the beggar's dormitory, they also lived nearby, in a private house half a mile away from here. Also on the night of Ouyang Cha's murder, the murderer cut his throat, and the two bodies were still parked in the house at this time for the yamen to conduct an autopsy.

Xie Yixiang once heard Ouyang Cha's apprentice Bingtai reveal that in order to facilitate the consultation on weekdays, the four female apprentices under Ouyang Cha's door shared the name of "Heavenly Needle Lock" Bingtai, and most of the two female disciples killed this time were also "Bingtai", but they were not the ones they had seen in Bifu that day. Seeing that the wounds on the bodies of the two female disciples were exactly the same as those of Ouyang Cha, it was obvious that they were committed by the same murderer, and no new clues were found, Xie Yixiang was also inclined to the conclusion that Cheng Putou "hired a murderer", so he asked about the progress of the arrest of the murderer.

Cheng Putou couldn't help but sigh and said: "This time, the 'Taihu Lake Martial Arts' has made such a big noise, and hundreds of gangs from the rivers and lakes have gathered in Xishan, which can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, and a miasma......

Speaking of this, he hurriedly lowered his voice and muttered in a low voice: "If you want me to say that from the night before the incident, at this moment, most of these 'throat cutters' have not had time to leave Xishan, and now they are hiding among these martial arts people who have come to the meeting, but who dares to search the major gangs here one by one?

Xie Yixiang knew that what he said was reasonable, if he couldn't pass Ye Dinggong's level, it would really be difficult to act here. She asked Cheng Zhutou to cover the body and prepare to go back to negotiate with Ye Dinggong. But I heard that Cheng Putou asked again: "Miss Xie San's investigation of the 'face-tearing demon' case back then can be described as a famous Jinling, and not long ago, she solved the unsolved case of 'human kitchen' alone, and the whole of the criminal arrest room admired it very much. At present, Ouyang Cha's case seems simple, but there is one thing I have never been able to understand, and I ask Miss Xie San for advice. Let's ask Ouyang Cha's enemies to spend money to hire a 'throat cutter' to commit murder, obviously unwilling to do it himself, so as to avoid his own suspicion. That being the case, of course, the smaller the movement, the better, but why did you choose to commit murder in front of the martial arts and the pro-army governor's mansion at this time when 'Taihu Lake is stressing martial arts'? Isn't this a contradiction?"

Xie Yixiang was stunned for a moment, she had just come into contact with this case today, and she didn't think so far-reaching for a while, so she had to ask rhetorically: "In your opinion, what is the reason?" Cheng Zhutou shook his head and said tentatively: "Maybe something happened to the 'throat cutter', so I can only choose to do it at this time, but according to the previous case files, this 'throat cutter' is extremely cautious, and it should not be so risky...... Or maybe it's Ouyang Cha's enemy, who just formed after coming to Taihu Xishan this time?"

When Xie Yixiang heard this, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and blurted out: "Maybe there is no enemy at all, the reason why Ouyang Cha was killed here is only because he came here." ”

Cheng Putou didn't understand for a while, and hurriedly asked, "How can Miss Xie San say this?" However, Xie Yixiang couldn't explain it clearly, but such a vague thought suddenly popped up in his mind, and he didn't know if it was the residual sanity of Yan Sidao. At that moment, she just shook her head, and walked out of the house with Cheng Putou.

As soon as the two of them stepped out of the house where the bodies of the two female disciples were parked, they saw that more than a dozen beggars were lined up, waiting in line with broken bowls and bamboo sticks. One of them, an old beggar with disheveled clothes and white hair, opened his mouth and sang: "I have a cold steamed bun for three days, but I see a noble person eating wine and meat." If you can enjoy the food with righteousness, you will accumulate virtue and increase longevity!" Cheng Shaotian immediately scolded: "The torture and arrest room is ordered to do business, and beggars don't want to make trouble when they help their friends!"

When the words fell, a group of beggars did not retreat but advanced, knocking on the ground with bamboo sticks and singing in unison: "There is no food and drink in the poor countryside, and the red mouth and white teeth sing a song." Miss Guanjia rewarded the big silver, a group of people called Huale hehe!" Xie Yixiang knew that she was coming at herself, so she didn't move at the moment, and asked lightly: "I don't know how many silver taels do you want from your friends?"

The old beggar led by him suddenly smiled, handed out the broken bowl to Xie Yixiang, and said with a smile: "Not much, no more, no more silver, enough to rebuild a rudder!"