Demolition

Lu Chen's original plan was to pass through Hunan and Hubei to reach the border of the Northern Kingdom, but now he has to change his route to Ganzhou area, but Lu Chen is actually unwilling in his heart.To the south of Ganzhou is the territory of the sixth prince Yingxiuzhi. Although he is neutral in his position, most people still count him in the third prince's camp. Zhi Jinwu's departure from the capital is enough to cause people to discuss, but now he is in someone else's camp. In the territory, Lu Chen had to behave with his tail between his legs.

There are more than a dozen lower-level prefectures and counties in Ganzhou, which cannot be handled by Shen Jichuan's small-scale fake certificates. Once they enter any gate, the information will lead to the whole prefecture. Although ordinary people will only be checked randomly, once they are found, it will not end well. Now, a military officer stationed in the capital is running around in the territory of the suspected opponent with a fake document, and it is difficult to think about it.He didn't know if the emperor had passed through this matter, but he didn't want to leave Ying Yuanzhi with a handle. He calculated in his mind that the best situation would be to follow Ye Ji and the others, sneak into Ezhou from Ganzhou, and everything would be in danger in the southwest area. easy to say.

But, is Ye Ji still trustworthy?The smell of Linjia Dao lingered at the tip of his nose, and he was thinking that he would never experience betrayal, no relatives and no trust in anyone.

"Actually, it's good to follow them." Ji Chuan interrupted his train of thought

"?"

"You don't believe them, why don't you just go and see what they are doing?"

"I..." Lu Chen didn't expect to be guessed, and his expression was a little embarrassed

"They are your good friends, they won't sell you out blatantly."

"..."

What Shen Jichuan said made sense, no matter which side Ye Ji was from, he wouldn't break his face with him at this moment, but...how did he know everything, Lu Chen was depressed.But this person has a top-notch level of observation and observation, and he can see through Lu Chen's predicament at a glance.

"Don't ask me..." Lu Chen cried out weakly in his heart.

As expected, Ji Chuan shut his mouth tactfully.

The more we get along, the more strange Shen Jichuan is. He can understand what you are thinking, and he can also feel whether you want to talk about it. Although his attitude is very strange, he has to admit that he makes sense every time.This kind of frankness, no, to be precise, this kind of concealment made Lu Chen unconsciously trust the other party.If you listen to too many high-sounding words, you can deceive yourself by changing a routine.

Wait, Lu Chen glanced suspiciously at the other party, Ji Chuan was terrified by the speed at which his face changed

"how?"

I was really confused by this old liar, how could the phantom power of a crow support him to maintain his human form for so long?Before Lu Chen had time to ask the question, a scream attracted half the street's attention.

A man with clothes that had been torn into strips was half hung on his body, his hair was on his head like a bird's nest, and he ran towards them like crazy with bare feet, which made it easier for Lu Chen to notice his neck There was a horrific wound, the depth of which made one feel that his head was about to be separated from his body, and the blood was gushing out with the speed of his running. People on the street were frightened by this shocking appearance. Lu Chen and Ji Chuan, who were completely out of their wits but remained motionless, were like two different species.The man was getting closer and closer to them, and he could smell the blood. Lu Chen frowned, watching the madness in the man's eyes fall from the clouds to the bottom, and then he fell down in front of them embarrassingly.

The folk customs of Jiangnan water town are simple and honest. Although they are not closed at night, the seizure of land for selling breakfast can be regarded as the top priority of the government. The security situation can be seen. He was lying in the middle of the road, and there was no yamen guard. As an excellent captain of the security team, Lu Chen couldn't help thinking that he must read a book when he went back because of his occupational disease.

And Shen Daudao had already squatted down to examine the corpse, Lu Chen had no position to stop other people from contacting the scene, and now there were only the two of them left on the scene, and he consciously squatted beside Shen Jichuan.

There was still panic on this man's face. If it wasn't for half a street of blood dripping around him, he would really have thought that this man had been frightened to death. The head was thrown to the side, and the wound was more clearly displayed.

It was a knife wound, and the striker was extremely vicious, cutting the main artery with one knife. If it wasn't for the fact that this person had a grudge against the murderer for killing his father, wife and son, it would be that the murderer was so mad and inhumane. Lu Chen noticed that the skin near the wound was slightly It turned up because the knife was blunt.The murderer must be very familiar with this kind of operation, otherwise how would he kill him with a single blunt knife.

And here, Shen Jichuan has already lifted up the almost non-existent clothes on the corpse, Lu Chen's eyes tightened instantly, there are traces of the man's arms being bound by ropes or the like

"Hey, it must have been torn apart." He raised the arm of the corpse with his hand while speaking

"Don't touch it!" Lu Chen sternly stopped him.

Lu Chen took out a white handkerchief, wrapped it carefully around his hand, and then went to check the scar on his arm. The scar had turned purple. I don't know if it was caused by the corpse. That piece of skin was as hard as a callus. He wanted to take out a knife to cut his skin, but he heard the footsteps of a group of people. He immediately put away the things in his hand, pulled Ji Chuan and stood aside

"Hey, who are you? How can you touch the corpse privately?"

It's Yawei, Lu Chen didn't explain, but a figure emerged from the crowd

"Look at the corpse first." It was Ye Ji

The yamen guards didn't feel embarrassed anymore when they saw this, and started to examine the corpse. Ji Chuan thought that Lu Chen would stop them, but he kept silent and watched those people rummage through the corpse.

"Achen, why are you here?" Ye Ji leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice.

"Just passing by."

Ye Ji glanced at Jichuan uneasily, then at the empty street, opened his mouth and said nothing, and Lu Chen didn't ask him, and waited for the Yawei to collect the corpse, and came over and asked Lu Chen and Jichuan to go Check in the yamen, Ye Ji wanted to stop him, but Lu Chen readily agreed and gave Ji Chuan a wink.

Ji Chuan thought to himself that this kid was not afraid of tearing him down. Fortunately, those lawsuits just now fell into Ji Chuan's eyes, so he followed suit.

"Where are you from? What do you do?"

"Cao Min Yang Cantonese, this is my young boy. I came to Ezhou to see the tea business by the order of the elders in my family." Lu Chen told a lie according to Ji Chuan's fake letter, and Ji Chuan was by the side. Secretly slandering this person is really sanctimonious, scolding himself as an old liar all day long, and he is not jealous when he talks about panic.Thinking about it, on the surface, he is still a servant of the young master who is doing his duty conscientiously.

Yawei asked a few simple questions, and Lu Chen was able to do it with ease.

"Do you know that lord just now?" Ya Wei casually mentioned

"How can a grassroots climb high? The lord asked me some questions, but the lord told me not to talk nonsense."

Ya Wei nodded, and let the man out with a wave of his pen.

Lu Chen walked out of the yamen and turned into an alley, and led Ji Chuan around the small town with ease. Ji Chuan was not stupid, he saw that he wanted to get rid of someone, and followed him up and down without saying a word. Until the two came to a small door.

"Is this the place where that person ran out just now?" Ji Chuan finally seized the opportunity to speak, Lu Chen showed an expression of "you're not stupid", and felt that Ji Chuan had taken these twists and turns when he first arrived. Curiosity was so clear that he suppressed it and went back.

Lu Chen wrapped the white handkerchief around his hands as usual, Ji Chuan thought he was afraid of leaving traces, so he asked himself if he could not go in

"It's up to you." He left such a sentence indifferently.

Ji Chuan sighed, and followed in resignedly.

This door should be the corner door for the servants of this house. Once you enter, you will find the firewood room. There is an inexplicable smell in the air. At first Ji Chuan thought it was the smell of blood, but the more you walked in, the more strange the smell became. It seemed that a hand was touching his heart, not the gentle kind, more like, boiling a frog in warm water.

Lu Chen stopped occasionally, touched the floor tiles with a handkerchief, and stepped on a certain place repeatedly. Ji Chuan didn't know what he was doing, but he felt a little difficult to breathe. Did that hand finally start to steal his heart?Not only that, there are countless small hands entering the internal organs along the pores, they entered the enemy's territory like a group of arrogant soldiers, holding their spears and shields, waiting for the general to give an order to conquer their own city.Ji Chuan was in a daze, only seeing Lu Chen dashing over to catch himself who was unconscious on the ground.

When he woke up, it was already late at night, and he was lying on the bed. Not far away was Lu Chen staring at the white cloth in a daze. Ji Chuan struggled to sit up, but Lu Chen heard the movement and ran over to hold him down. I felt for his pulse, looked at his pupils, and felt relieved after confirming that there was nothing serious, and then turned on the mocking mode

"I didn't expect you to be quite weak."

"That's why I asked the young master to take care of you." Ji Chuan was not ashamed

Lu Chen didn't continue, his complexion looked not much better than his patient's, and water could be squeezed from his brows.

"Is it related to that Jiang?" Ji Chuan asked softly. He could see that he was testing Ye Ji just now. There must be something weird about that corpse, so he didn't let himself touch it. If Ye Ji also spoke to stop it, then Ye Ji must know something. Of course, it is also possible that Ye Ji has a deep palace and did it on purpose.

Lu Chen didn't respond to his guess, but took out a pill from his bosom,

"Eat this, get some sleep, there's still a lot to do tomorrow."

Ji Chuan didn't say anything else, he obediently took the medicine and closed his eyes.Lu Chen was in no mood to rest.

Of all the surprises, he was most concerned about the fact that Shen Jichuan was a crow.Although he verified it and the other party admitted it, after getting along during this period of time, he didn't feel the difference in identity at all. He can cook delicious meals, tease himself, and help him fight crows. He has a strong magic power Maintaining a human form is even barely considered empathetic.But today he fainted, in that place where a lot of mulberry air was left.

The Xiaoxiao class will let students experience the simulated version of the process of dismantling crows, but for humans, this process is nothing more than nothing, you can't see any changes and you don't feel anything, maybe there will be a warm current at your fingertips, but that is more likely to be caused by tension Yes, but the teacher said that the crow will have a violent reaction, and dismantling the crow does not take the life, but the soul.

The last chapter of "Wan Wu Zao Jian" once said, "In ancient times there were hibiscus, and there were crows living on top." soul.

Crow removal may not necessarily leave clues, Lu Chen just tried it, but Shen Jichuan's fainting made him confirm that there had been a thorough crow removal there, and even after the end, the mulberry spirit lingered for a long time, that person was Suicide, after making offerings to such a powerful Sangmu, his end was to cut his own neck severely with a knife.

It's just that the redness and swelling on his arms, the scars that quickly scabbed after being bound after death, are exactly the same as the unknown corpses in the suburbs that he handled!

Two months ago, a dead body suddenly appeared in Gaoguohe on the outskirts of Yangguang City. The villagers on the bank of the river immediately reported to the police when they discovered it. , the two yamen guards who moved the corpses hanged themselves at home, and there was no progress on the identity of this person or the target suspect. The case was transferred to Lu Chen.

Because the corpse had been soaked in water, the wounds were not very obvious, but Lu Chen found that the places that had been bound were covered with calluses, and black blood flowed out after the wound was cut open. The old man next to the prison confirmed that he had made offerings to Sangmu before his life, and he was insane due to the removal of crows, so he hanged himself to death.

So who threw a suicide man into the river, and why did the forensic doctor and Yawei commit suicide?Later, Lu Chen found out that a watchman found the deceased, and he was afraid that he would be suspected of throwing him into the water. The forensic doctor had been complaining to his family that the daily work was boring, and his family also agreed that he might commit suicide due to pressure. , Yawei has a debt and the other has been bullied by his peers, and both have sufficient motives for suicide.Case closed.

Lu Chen originally wanted to continue the investigation, but the criminal department had always wanted to close the case as soon as possible due to the bad influence of the case. After the two corpses were soaked in water, there was no evidence left, and they quickly decomposed, burned and buried.He had no choice but to give up and write down the doubts in the case file and hand it over.

And the appearance of this corpse made him connect some incomprehensible things.What made an identical corpse appear in Nan'an Mansion thousands of miles away?

He confirmed that these things were the reason why Jiang Ye Ye Ji was here, maybe something important in that house had been taken away by Jiang Ye.No, there were no chains that bound people there, which means they didn't find that thing either.It's just that they didn't expect that they would easily know the secret there with a crow with them.

Lu Chen glanced at Shen Jichuan who was already asleep, and sighed.He put away the white cloth on the table and fell asleep on his own.