"It was my guards who lured the beast away for me, and I was able to survive. Gou Xianling's face suddenly showed sadness, and then tears burst out of his eyes, decades of old friends, sacrificed themselves for him, he was both moved and guilty in his heart, even if he has been an official for decades, it is difficult to suppress his emotions at this time.

Lin Zheng closed his eyes, his claws were black and red, although the information he got was not comprehensive, but a vague image of a murderer had already taken shape in his mind.

Li Yu drove and quickly took a few people back to the county mansion.

There was still a sea of people outside the county order, and several people had to jump into the courtyard with the county order, this time the county order lady saw the county order early, and immediately stopped the family who was about to do it, and walked forward quickly regardless of the wind and rain.

Gou Fugui and death passed by, and he was very excited to see his wife again, and hugged his noble lady and cried.

The noble lady had a stomach of pain to tell, but instead of wanting to be rich and noble, she hugged her first and cried bitterly, and she immediately understood that something must have happened, although she didn't know the specifics, but it was still comforting.

Seeing that Lin Zheng and the others were still drenched in the rain, the county magistrate's wife immediately called the family to take the few people to the guest room to prepare clean clothes.

"Clothes are free, we will continue to investigate later, let Gou County Order rest first, we will wait in the lobby." Lin Zheng was worried about the fierce beast, now that the fierce beast has not been captured, the more he delays for a while, the more dangerous the people will be, so naturally he can be as fast as possible.

The county magistrate's wife ordered a few people, and asked the family to take a few people to the lobby, and prepared a few pots of hot tea for everyone to keep warm.

Not long after, Gou Xian Ling hurriedly came to the lobby with an apologetic expression on his face: "I'm sorry Lord Lin, it's the villain who delayed." ”

Lin Zheng put down the hot tea and shook his head expressionlessly: "It's just human nature, it's not in the way." ”

Crossing the brink of death, no matter who needs to ease their emotions, so the county order was not blamed by Lin Zheng.

"Thank you, sir. Gou Xian Ling sat down with his fists clenched.

"It is impossible for a fierce beast to appear out of thin air, has anyone in this county said that they have seen a monster on a nearby mountain recently?" Lin Zheng asked Gou County Order directly.

"Yes!" Gou Xian Ling said firmly.

Seeing that Gou County Ling replied so quickly, Lin Zheng frowned instead, he thought that Gou County Ling would have to think about it for a while before he would remember these rumors, but he didn't expect Gou County Ling to be so sure that someone had seen a fierce beast.

"A few people have seen it, so why don't you report it?" Lin Zheng's voice was a little more scolding, and Gou Xianling, who had just sat down, faintly felt the pressure, and stood up from his seat and knelt in front of Lin Zheng.

"Lord Lin doesn't know, there is a well-known cowhide king in our county, none of the ten sentences is true, all day long idle stealing chickens and dogs to do everything, can only earn a few mouthfuls of food money for the farmer's sheep, a few days ago the farmer came to beat the drum, said that this person stole his sheep, this cowhide king was sure that the sheep was eaten by the monster on the mountain, but could not come up with evidence, I thought that this person was bragging again, I did not report. ”

Gou Xian Ling knelt on the ground, his voice was full of remorse, if he had been more cautious at that time, there would not have been so many tragic deaths, and even more so his close friends for decades.

"Alright. Lin Zheng shook his head helplessly, now is not the time to pursue the fault, since there is a reason for the matter, he will put this matter aside for the time being.

"Where is the cowhide king now?" Lin Zheng asked.

"In prison!" Gou replied immediately.

"Bring people to me!" Lin Zheng nodded, now that the beast was gone, he had to start from the lair where the beast appeared.

Gou County's order immediately called for someone to take the cowhide king out of prison.

Two officials walked into the lobby carrying a young man with dirty hair and a stinking body.

As soon as he saw Gou Fugui in the lobby, the young man immediately got up and scolded Gou County's order: "You stupid official! I said that the sheep was eaten by monsters, how can you blame me? Believe it or not, I asked my cousin to come from Luoyang to clean you up and remove you from this official position?!"

Lin Zheng turned his head and looked at Gou Xianling curiously: "Who is this person's cousin?"

Gou Xianling looked helpless, and glanced at the sloppy man, for fear that he would hear it and lean into Lin Zheng's ear: "He is an orphan, where does he have a cousin who grew up eating a hundred family meals? It's just that he bragged about it, but once others said that his cousin didn't exist, he would go crazy and beat someone." ”

Lin Zheng nodded with a sigh: "I am from Luoyang, and I am going to try this case anew." ”

"Are you from Luoyang?" The sloppy man glanced at Lin Zheng up and down a lot, and when he saw the faintly exposed clothes under Lin Zhengling's clothes, he nodded and said: "I don't care what kind of official you are, you must not be as big as my cousin's official position, so I advise you to try it well, don't be like this faint official, do you hear?"

Lin Zheng nodded: "Okay, as long as you answer my question truthfully, I will definitely give you justice, how about it?"

The sloppy man seemed to feel that he had frightened Lin Zheng, raised his chin and glanced at Gou Xian Ling proudly, and sat on the chair: "Okay, you kid is sensible, I'll let my cousin promote you more when I go back." ”

Gou Xian Ling originally blew his beard and glared at this sloppy man, but when he heard that he was going to promote Lin Zheng, he suddenly felt funny in his heart, in the Zhou Dynasty, I am afraid that only the emperor has a bigger official position than Lin Zheng, right?

"You said that the sheep was eaten by a monster on the mountain, then let me ask you, what does this monster look like, and on which mountain was it encountered by you?" Lin Zheng asked when he saw that his goal had been achieved, and the sloppy man was willing to cooperate to tell the truth.

"I don't know exactly what the monster looked like, but he was standing in the woods, and all I knew was that it was very tall, as tall as three people, with black claws, and very long nails, like swords, and it poked out of the woods with its claws, and with one claw it could catch a sheep. The sloppy man stood up, tiptoeing his arms too high, trying to tell Lin Zheng the height of the monster.

"Oh yes, the monster's eyes were scarlet and shining, and they were so scary, just one look at me and it ran down the hill. ”

"As for which mountain it is......" The sloppy man thought for a moment, "I was bored and walked a long way with the sheep, I only remember that in the north, the mountain was very high, and the woods were so dense that I couldn't see what it was like behind it, and I don't know the rest." ”

After Lin Zheng listened, he made eye contact with Li Yu, and from the sharp claws and black fur and red eyes described by the sloppy man's mouth, the two of them could almost determine that the monster in his mouth was the fierce beast that was committing murder in the county.

"Gou County Order, do you know what kind of mountain the mountain in the north of his mouth is?" Lin Zheng asked Gou County Order.

"Yes. Gou Xian Ling wiped his sweat: "There is this high mountain near us, it is full of mountains and rocks, the woods are dense, and no one has ever gone there, I didn't expect this kid to be so naughty, and he ran there." ”

"You stupid official, who are you talking about being naughty!" The sloppy man immediately pointed angrily at Gou County's order.

"It's light to say that you are naughty!" Gou Xian Ling gritted his teeth and looked at the sloppy man: "Do you know how many people the monster you brought out has killed in the county? Hundreds of people! Hundreds of lives, just because you were bored to go to the deep mountains and old forests to provoke that monster, all of them are gone!"

The sloppy man was stunned by Gou County's order, and then he looked at Lin Zheng as if he was confirmed: "What this faint official said is true? Don't lie to me, be careful that my cousin cleans you up." ”

Lin Zheng didn't have time to pay attention to the sloppy man, and faxed Lu Menghua with Li Yuqi and the three of them immediately set off for the deep mountain and old forest.

The sloppy man watched Lin Zheng walk in front of him, but he didn't have the courage to pull Lin Zheng to ask what was going on, he grew up eating a hundred family meals, and the people here were like his relatives, such news was tantamount to a bolt from the blue to him.

"Alas!" Gou County Ling sighed, walked past the sloppy man, and chased after Lin Zhengyang.

"No, no, you're all lying to me!" The sloppy man ran out of the lobby in the rain, and when he saw many people guarding him in front of him, he climbed over the wall and went out.

The sloppy man ran for an unknown amount of time in the heavy rain, until his whole body was washed away by the heavy rain, and he saw several officials wearing masks and dealing with something in the rain.

Curious, he walked up and found that the officials were carrying the corpses into the car, and they didn't know where to transport them.

"Really?!" The sloppy man's eyes widened and he lost his center of gravity and sat on the ground, he struggled to get up, but as if he had been drained of all his strength, he just rolled in the rain a few times, and finally the man crawled and escaped from here.

Lin Zheng's side, under the personal guidance of Gou Fugui with the mentality of making meritorious contributions, he soon approached a high mountain.

Lin Zheng and the others walked in the woods, the originally narrow and difficult woods are now extremely spacious, the reason is very simple, around everyone are countless trees that have been knocked down, countless thick roots are exposed, and the soil on them has been washed clean by the rain.

Gou Xian Ling walked in front, his calves trembling constantly, and as he approached the high mountain, the urge in his heart to make meritorious contributions had gradually subsided, and all that was left was more and more fear.

Lin Zheng saw Gou County's footsteps swaying, and he already understood what was going on, so he stepped forward and patted Gou County's shoulder.

Gou Xian Ling instinctively screamed, but Lin Zheng immediately covered his mouth.

Gou Xianling smiled awkwardly, he was too nervous.

"What's wrong, Lord Lin?" asked Gou County.

"You go back now. Lin Zheng shook his head: "You are just an ordinary person, if you go in with us, it will only drag us back, and you won't be able to help us at all. ”

"This ......" Gou Xian Ling immediately wanted to go back when he heard this, but looking at Lin Zheng's young face, he felt that he would just go back like this, wouldn't he be empty for decades?

"You're just a normal person. At this time, Li Yu came up and said: "You can only drag us back here, fax the dream back, you take him back." ”