Heifeng Ridge, Litou Mountain, is a mountain rush below the snow line at the end of the western part of the Qilian Mountains.

Litou Mountain is the head of this mountain, with snow on top and green grass below.

There is a mountain village below the snow line.

In fact, it can't be called a mountain village, because it is too high to live for a long time.

It took seven days for Xiong Chu to lead a small team to arrive, and then another two days to get here.

Of course, the bear prince thinks that this is not a village, not just because it is too tall, but because the dead people are too strange.

The first oddity: there were sixty-nine corpses in total, ranging in age from their teens to their forties, but none of them were women.

The second strangeness: in addition to the corpse that Li Qing brought back from the scout camp, the other sixty-eight corpses were gathered in one place, and the expression on their faces was terrified, and there were scars on their bodies.

The third oddity: the houses in this village are made of logs, and although there are pots and pans, they don't seem to have been used much.

The fourth strangeness: this village has no farm tools, only dozens of short bows, more than 300 bamboo arrows, and all single knives. These things were scattered all over the place, and the guys who killed these people didn't take them with them.

When Xiong Chu was bowing his head and pondering, Li Qing came over and said softly, "Master, the corpse has been put away according to its original appearance. Senior Brother Sima Cheng, they are examining those corpses, and there should be results soon. ”

It turned out that in order to restore the scene of the crime, Xiong Chu asked Li Qing and them to bring the body back.

It was precisely because of bringing back this corpse that the doubts in Xiong Chu's heart suddenly increased.

The room where the body was displayed was in the middle of a row of log houses.

There is no doubt that this man should have the highest status here during his lifetime.

After entering the room, Xiong Chu found that the man in his thirties had died in his bed, and the other sixty-eight people had all died in the open space outside the room.

At this moment, Sima Cheng came in and said, "Master, all the corpses have been examined. Although they were all stiff, before they died, they were all used by others to use their hands too much, and many children's collarbones were pinched off. In the end, it was fatal or poisoned. ”

Xiong Chu's face was cloudy, as if he was about to drip water: "Carefully search every room, and then start a search around this village to see what the murderer is looking for." To use the wrong hand on all people is to torture to extract confessions, and it is definitely to ask about the whereabouts of a certain thing. ”

Sima Cheng shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not simple, because we have already found out the identities of this group of people." ”

"Oh?"

Sima Cheng took out a small round hat: "They are from Dongchang." And the corpse that Li Qing brought back should be the steward of Wu Yuan. This hat was found under his bed, and it was the hat of the steward of Dongchang Wu. There were sixty-eight corpses outside, and there were thirteen eunuchs in make-up inside. ”

took the small round hat in Sima Cheng's hand and looked at it carefully, and Xiong Chu was even more suspicious in his heart: "It's really a strange thing, these people are really guys from Dongchang." How did Dongchang come here and be killed by others?"

Sima Cheng said with a smile: "Master, Dongchang and we are mortal enemies, they were killed by others, it is a good thing for us, maybe it was our friend who did it, do you still want to track it down?"

"You remembered for me: that's not how you look at things. Xiong Chu suddenly looked stern: "The person who killed our enemy may be our friend, may have nothing to do with us, and is more likely to be our enemy." He can't just become our friend because he killed our enemies. Hurry up and start a search!"

The team of more than 120 people brought out by Xiong Chu this time was the Shenji team of Sima Cheng's trapping camp. All the team members were all up-to-date flintlock guns, and the gunpowder and iron sand had been packed and carried on their backs in powder bags.

The squad is divided into 12 teams, each group of 10 people, and there are 10 birds. Each man carried forty-five parts of gunpowder and iron sand, and the intensity and persistence of the fire were sufficient for a general battle.

Seeing Sima Cheng leave, Xiong Chu turned his head to look at Master Chen, who was walking around the corpse on the bed, and said, "Master Chen, did you find any problems?"

"The old man can be regarded as having been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and has studied some crooked ways. Master Chen's face was full of doubts: "I have also seen all the corpses, only this Wu Zhu steward died of poison by himself, and the others were poisoned by others." Now there are two problems that make the old man feel incredible. ”

"Let's talk about it!" Prince Xiong's interest was finally raised: "What is there that makes Master Chen feel embarrassed?"

Master Chen's face was a little confused: "This noon steward must have died of poisoning after eating Bangga, there is no doubt about this." The first question is, the stalk in my hand is fresh, so why can't I find the whole Bangga?"

"The second question is that the sixty-eight people outside have all been poisoned by a shadowless poison, so they all look lifelike, and they don't have the symptoms of blackening, foaming at the mouth, and foul smell after ordinary people are poisoned. ”

"Okay!" Xiong Chu didn't expect Master Chen to find the core of the problem, and it seemed that there was hope for solving the problem: "Bangga aside, what's the matter with the Shadowless Poison? ”

Master Chen also bowed slightly: "The lord is right, the Shadowless Poison is indeed the key to this matter, because few people know about this poison, and as far as the old man knows, there should only be two sources." ”

Xiong Chu was a little impatient: "Which two provenances?"

"The first one is the palace Ouchi, the emperor often gives a cup of poisonous wine to those who want to kill, and the highest level is this shadowless poison, which is called Crane Dinghong. In fact, Heding Red does not poison people, but melts this shadowless poison into wine. Then add rouge to increase the showiness and fragrance of the poisonous wine, so there is a saying of crane top red. ”

Chen Fuzi stopped at this point, turned his hands behind his back and began to spin in circles.

Xiong Chu couldn't wait: "You finished speaking in one breath, where is the other source?"

"Impossible!" Master Chen shook his head: "Impossible, this is simply impossible!"

Encountering such a pedantic old master, Prince Xiong couldn't help but laugh and cry: "No matter if it's impossible, you have to say it, right?"

Master Chen shook his head: "I am a Langzhong, after looking, smelling, asking, and cutting, if I can't grasp the symptoms, I can't prescribe a prescription." This matter is too involved, and the old man has no evidence, so he doesn't dare to talk nonsense. ”

Xiong Chu gasped and calmed down his mood before he began to patiently do his ideological work: "Master Chen, of course I admire your medical ethics, and I also respect you very much. But you complicate the problem, and you get into the horns. ”

"If you think about it, I'm not a government, I'm not sitting in the courtroom and asking about the case, and I'm not prepared to take people to ask for guilt based on your words. The two of us are just here to discuss the possibility of things, so what's wrong with saying what you think?"

Chen Fuzi did not directly answer Xiong Chu's question, but asked rhetorically: "The lord is the top master of the rivers and lakes, so you should understand which one is the most powerful poison in the rivers and lakes, right?"

Xiong Chu blurted out: "Shuzhong Tang Gate!"

"That's right. Master Chen's expression was solemn: "My lord, please think about it, the Tang Gate in Shuzhong was originally the peripheral force of Jinyiwei, that is, the force that belonged to the imperial court. Although there is a dispute between Jinyiwei and Dongchang, it is still not possible to make a dead hand like this. Once the emperor knows about it, all the people will be punished by the nine clans. ”

Prince Xiong finally understood what Master Chen meant, although he didn't say it explicitly, but he changed his angle and said it from the side: the second object that can take out the Shadowless Poison: Shuzhong Tangmen.

Because he was worried that his judgment would be revealed, causing the Tang Sect in Shuzhong to be punished by the Nine Clans, Master Chen was cautious here, for fear that disaster would come out of his mouth.

This is the principle of the old man in the rivers and lakes, and Prince Xiong can only respect it, of course, it is impossible to blame: "The old master's concern is reasonable, and I fully agree with it." Now we don't care about the identities of either side, and just assume from the point of view of inferring the possibility of things. ”

"The reality here is that one party kills the other, and uses the most brutal method of dividing the muscles and bones in the rivers and lakes to force a confession, which must involve a heavy secret. Old master, my reasoning is correct, right?"

Master Chen waved his hand: "The lord doesn't need to test me, because now I almost understand why the other party wants to kill." ”

Speaking of this, Master Chen bent down and took out something from under the bed: "Lord, please see, there is this kind of medicine hoe in every room, which means that the people from Dongchang came out to collect medicine." What kind of medicinal materials need to be personally produced by Dongchang, it must only be something used by emperors like Bangga. ”

"Judging from the death method of the noon steward, it should be that after he found out that the enemy surrounded here, in order not to reveal the secret, he committed suicide by taking poison in advance. However, the timing of his suicide by taking poison is very clever, and it leaves us with clues, which the lord should remember. ”

Xiong Chu nodded: "The clue that Master Chen said should be those two silk threads." ”

Master Chen nodded: "It can be inferred that when the enemy broke in, the noon steward should have been lying on the bed, and there was no chance to escape." And he knew that he would never survive, so he reached out and grabbed the other party's clothes before he died. ”

"This action is definitely not big, it is just a fingernail scratching the hem of the opponent's clothes slightly, and it does not even alarm the opponent. It can be seen from this that the noon manager of this East Factory is definitely a thoughtful and calculating guy. was able to mix errands in the East Factory, and mixed to the high position of the twelve major stewards, and it was really not an oil-damaged lamp. ”

Xiong Chu always felt that there were still some things that made sense in Master Chen's presume, but he didn't grasp the key points, and he didn't know where to start for a while.

Unexpectedly, Chen Fuzi quickly continued: "It can be imagined that if an old and cunning person like the Dongchang Wuzhu Steward can be restrained, the opponent he faces is definitely not idle. In that case, why didn't he destroy the scene after the killing, but left such a big flaw? This is another key point in the problem!"

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