In the city, there is no sleep all night. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info is full of crowded scenes, panicking and running away. Fortunately, the rain slowly decreased, and by the time it was ugly in the early morning, it had turned into a light rain.

Su Zhuo was soaking wet, and worked with all the officers and soldiers to rescue the victims, and was busy all night. Tens of thousands of guards stepped up the dredging of waterways outside the city, and the high terrain of Licheng made the water in the city slowly decline, and it was not as turbulent as it was at the beginning.

Su Zhuo stood on the side of the road, stretched out his already sore arms, looked at the busy crowd, and sighed slightly. At the corner of the street in the distance, Qiu Gongren was directing everyone to set up a cauldron and light firewood, not knowing what to cook.

Su Zhuo stepped forward and saluted, "Lord Qiu is still busy now, it's really respectable!"

When Qiu Gongren saw that it was him, he smiled and said: "Didn't Liu Zhutou also rest all night! It's just that he is pitiful for these disaster victims, who have been displaced, and their wives have been separated...... He suddenly lowered his voice and said: "It's also thanks to those chivalrous men last night! If it weren't for them robbing the rich and helping the poor, I don't know how many people would have died last night, maybe they would have provoked a popular uprising, and the losses to Licheng would have been even greater! In fact, I have long seen that those profiteers who are unkind to the rich are not pleasing to the eye, and this time they will also suffer a little!"

Su Zhuo also smiled secretly in his heart, he couldn't imagine that Yan Linglong and the others had worked hard all night, and it was not in vain, and they were appreciated by Governor Qiu, which was really unexpected. He suddenly felt a little strange, and thought: "It's already dawn at this moment, the people of the Four Seas Alliance should have dispersed, why didn't Hua Ping and Yan Linglong show up?"

He was secretly surprised, and asked again: "Governor Qiu, what are you doing here?"

Qiu Gongren said: "After the great calamity, there will be a plague. There are some herbs for disease prevention and healing in this pot. I have just instructed my men that this medicine must be distributed to everyone to avoid an outbreak of the epidemic. ”

Su Zhuo nodded, and said: "Lord Qiu is admirable to take precautions! If there is still a place where it can be used, just command!"

Qiu Gongren said with a smile: "Liu Zhutou has been busy all night, and he has helped us a lot!"

The two were talking, when they suddenly heard a scream in the distance, and someone shouted, "Corpse...... Corpses!"

Su Zhuo frowned, and was about to go to see, but turned his head to find that Qiu Gongren was also full of doubts, so he said, "Lord Qiu, let's go and have a look?"

Qiu Gongren nodded, sighed, and said, "It must be the people who fell into the water and drowned, and the corpses were washed by the water......"

Su Zhuo also thought the same way. The two walked to the north gate, only to see that after such a while, there were many people around, pointing and pointing, and sighing. Qiu Gongren ordered the official to separate the people, and the official had scooped up the floating corpses in the water and placed them side by side on the open ground. There were five or six people in all, old and young, but all men.

The corpse emitted a foul and disgusting stench. Su Zhuo's brows furrowed and he didn't say a word. He crouched down and examined the mouths and noses of several corpses, and then his hands, feet, and limbs.

Qiu Gongren covered his nose and did not mean to approach the corpse. He sighed and said, "The corpses are all stinking, so let's bury them quickly." coincided with a catastrophe, and it is estimated that no one will come to identify the body. Don't let it go, start a plague!"

One of his officers replied loudly, "Yes!" and ordered everyone to move the corpses.

Su Zhuo suddenly said loudly: "Slow!"

Qiu Gongren was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "Liu Zhutou, what's wrong?"

Su Zhuo got up and said, "These people didn't fall into the flood and drowned, but were killed!"

Qiu Gongren was taken aback and said, "Where did you come to this conclusion, these people don't have any wounds on their bodies?"

Su Zhuo said: "The Yellow River only broke yesterday, and it was only a few hours before it rushed to Licheng. But the bodies of these men had begun to decompose, and they had been dead for four or five days. But whoever drowns will inhale a lot of muddy water, leaving mud and sand in his mouth and nose. And there is no sediment in the noses of these people, indicating that they did not drown in the water at all. ”

Qiu Gongren didn't care about the smell of the corpse at the moment, so he stepped forward to check it out in person, and it was indeed as Su Zhuo said. He wondered, "According to you, they are already dead?"

Su Zhuo nodded and said, "These corpses are all men, although two of them are not young, they are both very strong. Lord Qiu, there are many elderly and weak women and children among the victims. You said that even they escaped, how could these sturdy people not escape?"

He paused, and then said, "There is a faint bruise on the necks of these people, it is impossible that they fell in the water. Although there was no mud and sand in their mouths and noses, their hands and feet were full of mud from the bottom of the river. If my guess is correct, someone strangled them with a rope and buried the body!"

The onlookers couldn't help but talk a lot, and Qiu Gongren was also taken aback, and said, "No! This flood actually rushed out of a murder case!"

Su Zhuo muttered: "Yes, this is a homicide case! And these five people died in the same way, and they were washed here by the water together, so they must have been killed by the same person." If the murderer had dug a pit and buried the body, it would not have been washed out by the water. Unless ......"

Qiu Gongren also followed Su Zhuo's train of thought, and suddenly exclaimed: "The murderer buried these people in the embankment! Only in this way will the corpses be washed out after the flood breaks down the embankment!"

Su Zhuo said loudly: "That's right! And according to the time when the corpse was washed here, the embankment of the corpse should not be far from here." Judging from the muck between the fingers of the corpse and the mud in the mouth and nose, the river embankment must be filled with mud, which is why it is so vulnerable!"

Qiu Gongren nodded and said, "So, Cao Liyi really cheated on the embankment project? Then who killed these people? Why did they bury their bodies in the embankment?"

Su Zhuo muttered: "Only by verifying the identities of these people can we know why they were killed......

He fell silent, his eyes never off the legs of the corpses. These people's legs are not small red, swollen and blistered, which is very strange. Su Zhuo looked at it carefully for a while, and whispered to himself: "Who are these people? Why do several people have blisters, redness, swelling and ulceration on their legs?"

When a common man heard this, he shouted: "They are either fishermen or sailors, and only if their legs are soaked in water for a long time, their feet will fester!"

Su Zhuo frowned, lowered his head and pondered. Qiu Gongren looked at his contemplative appearance, and somehow remembered someone in his heart. He didn't think much about it, and said loudly to the official: "Carry the body back, post a portrait notice, and let people identify the body!"

The man took the order and left, and Su Zhuo suddenly said to Qiu Gongren: "Governor Qiu, I'm afraid that this matter will not be related to Cao Liyi." ”

Qiu Gongren nodded and said, "I also have a general idea. It's just that now Cao Liyi is nowhere to be seen, and he can't spare his hands to hunt down ...... for a while."

Su Zhuo said: "Do you remember those little officials last night? I think that if you want to find Cao Liyi and find out his crimes, you have to fall on those people!"

Qiu Gongren suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly ordered: "Come on! Go and arrest those Cao Liyi's subordinate officials!"