Detective Case of Black Belly

Generally speaking, the width of a river is such that the upstream is narrow and the water volume is small, while the downstream is open and the water volume is abundant.However, the downstream part of the river in Qinghe County is much narrower than usual, and it has even gradually dried up in recent years.

"The place under our feet, in my father's generation, should still be part of the river. Now it is only narrowed into such a narrow strip." Wu Yuyan said to Fu Qingkai as he stepped on the soft soil under his feet.

"With such a narrow river surface and such a shallow water depth, there is no way for a boat to pass through it." Fu Qingkai picked up a stone and threw it into the river water, causing circles of water ripples.

There is a faint miasma in the forest, so it is not suitable to wait for a long time.The two led the horses and walked back. Wu Yuyan wanted to take a closer look at the river from the middle to the lower reaches, so he chose to walk.

The two of them came here on horseback, and they only took a quick look along the way. Now they are walking like this, observing the clues that may remain little by little.

The surface of the river gradually became wider, and the amount of water gradually became more abundant. It was not as inaccessible as the place where they stayed before.The surrounding environment gradually showed some signs of human activities, such as half shoe prints on the mud, broken branches and...

Wu Yuyan suddenly stopped for no reason, "What's the matter?" Fu Qing drove a few steps away, and when he realized that Wu Yuyan hadn't followed, he turned around and asked.

Wu Yuyan looked around, and walked towards the tree on his right, Fu Qingkai also followed.

I saw a circle of marks on the trunk where the rope had been deeply strangled, because the skin of this circle had been worn off by the rope, so the big tree now looked half dead and lifeless.

Wu Yuyan stretched out his hand to touch it, "It's so dangerous, I almost missed this clue. Please open it." Wu Yuyan motioned Fu Qing to come over and look, "Tell me, is it the traces drawn by the rope that moored the boat?"

"Nine times out of ten." Fu Qing said.

Wu Yuyan raised his chin towards the dense forest behind the tree, and the two of them walked in with one foot deep and the other shallow. After walking less than ten meters, there was indeed a boat with two pointed ends hidden there, which was randomly covered by dead branches. live.Probably because no one would come here usually, even if a passing woodcutter accidentally saw it, it would be just a boat and would not cause any big waves.Perhaps it was because of this mentality that the two of them discovered the boat so easily.

"Is it the boat that carried those people and the goods in Shen Tangsheng's warehouse that night?" Fu Qing asked.

Wu Yuyan pushed aside some dead branches, walked around the hull, and nodded. "Yes, it's this boat. Look, the dragon's head on the bow is missing a small piece." Wu Yuyan pointed to the half-broken hair on the dragon's head.

"Yu Yan." Fu Qing's eyes extended along the direction of the stern of the ship. Under the cover of some messy marks, there were two car marks that didn't look very fresh.

Wu Yuyan pushed aside the weeds that obstructed his vision, and looked carefully.

"Looking at the width of the wheel, it should be the same as the cart that night." Wu Yuyan stood up, "Would you like to go and have a look?"

"Naturally." Fu Qing said, Wu Yuyan hesitated a little, and took Pi Feng and Mi Zao a few steps to the side, walked to a place with fertile water and grass, and tied the reins loosely to a tree branch beside him.

"Stay here obediently, the two of us are going to do something." Wu Yuyan stroked Pifeng's mane.

Fu Qingkai also patted Mi Zao'er's forehead, Mi Zao let out a low cry, and raised his hoof on the spot, unlike its usual name, it seemed a little anxious and worried.Fu Qingkai thought it was because he didn't want to leave by himself, so he turned back and patted it again.He even ordered Pi Feng, "Pi Feng, remember to take care of the candied dates."

Pifeng snorted loudly, as if to signal that he knew.

Fu Qingkai and Wu Yuyan have long been surprised by the extremely human performance of these two horses. "Let's go."

Fu Qingkai and Wu Yuyan walked along the ruts. The deeper they went into the dense forest, the more lush the trees grew, and they tended to block out the sun.Wu Yuyan took Fu Qingkai's hand, and the two of them walked, the vegetation on the ground became more and more lush, the ruts were intermittent, and after a few more steps, they were almost invisible.

Although Fu Qingkai had already been more careful, he lowered his head and focused on finding the rut, but he accidentally stepped into a puddle of soft mud, missing half of his calf.Wu Yuyan quickly pulled him up, his soap boots were completely filled with mud.

"I'm afraid these shoes are useless, let's put them on first." Fu Qing poured out the mud inside the boots, and planned to move forward.

"The ruts are gone." They stood at a 'Y'-shaped fork, and Wu Yuyan reminded them.

Fu Qing was wearing a pair of heavy soap boots full of mud, but he still showed a proud face. "Look!" He took a few steps to the right, and plucked a thin piece of cloth from a bush full of thorns.

Wu Yuyan took it and touched it, "It's hemp, it's the fabric!"

Fu Qing pointed to the forked road, "It should be this way, let's go."

Wu Yuyan pulled Fu Qingkai to the other side to prevent the bush's thorns from scratching him.They walked for about a stick of incense, and there was no fork in the road after that.It's just that within their field of vision, a mountain wall appeared.

Fu Qingkai and Wu Yuyan stepped forward, Fu Qingkai groped on the mountain wall, "How could it be a dead end, it can't be a dead end."

Wu Yuyan looked at the lines of the ravines on the mountain wall, and suddenly remembered the huge boulder in the backyard of Shen Tangsheng's private house that was connected with the back mountain. The lines on it were indescribably similar to the lines on this mountain wall.

Wu Yuyan told Fu Qingkai what he was thinking, but Fu Qingkai hadn't paid much attention to the big rock in Shen Tangsheng's backyard, and couldn't tell why for a while.

"According to what you said, on this mountain wall..." Fu Qing hadn't finished speaking, he watched Wu Yuyan stretch out his hand to outline on the mountain wall, and some lines that formed the shape of the doorway could be faintly seen in many ravines.

Wu Yuyan stretched out his hand to buckle the buckle, he knew it would be futile, if he could pull it off so easily, it would be hell.

"There must be a mechanism." Wu Yuyan said, and Fu Qingkai immediately searched nearby.But the two searched for a long time, but they still couldn't find any trace of the relevant agency at 01:30.

After walking for a long time, Fu Qingkai felt a little sore in his legs, so he sat on a big rock to rest his feet.The bottom of the stone was not smooth, Fu Qingkai sat on it and kicked it with his feet, shaking unconsciously.

Suddenly there was a slight sound from inside the mountain wall, Fu Qing got up and stood up together with Wu Yuyan to the front of the mountain wall to listen.

The sound disappeared again, Fu Qingkai and Wu Yuyan stood stupidly in front of the mountain wall for a while, and both of them turned their eyes to the boulder that Fu Qingkai just used as a stool.

Wu Yuyan lifted the boulder all at once, and the ground under the boulder was hollowed out, leaving a hole, which was connected to the top of the boulder through a copper rod, and some mechanism structures could be vaguely seen in that hole.

Sure enough, a piece protruded from the top of the mountain wall along the pattern of the doorway, and it was slowly pushed away to the side.

Wu Yuyan pulled Fu Qingkai behind him, "You go in behind me, be careful."

As soon as the cave was entered, it was a turn. Fu Qingkai followed Wu Yuyan in, pulled the handle on the wall, and the mountain wall door slowly closed again.

Wu Yuyan looked back after hearing the sound, and motioned Fu Qing to follow him closely.

The two of them passed the corner, and there was a long downward wooden staircase below. Wu Yuyan stepped on it lightly, stretched out his hand behind his back, and Fu Qingkai quickly grabbed it.

The two walked down slowly, and they could see a warehouse-like place below, with layers of high boxes placed underneath.I can't tell the quantity at a glance, it seems that there are dozens of boxes.

There was no one holding hands here, so Wu Yuyan stepped up his movements, the two of them opened those boxes, and inside were actually full of silver casting discs, one about the size of a thumb.Fu Qing opened and opened another box next to it. This box also contained discs, but there were too many of them, about the size of an egg.

"Beting chips." Wu Yuyan suddenly said.

Fu Qingkai was puzzled for a moment before he understood what Wu Yuyan meant.He was saying that the silver casting discs were used as chips. Where else in the world are there so many chips used?Is this still worth thinking about?Only the casino!

Wu Yuyan looked at the empty space next to the box of silver chips in his hand, and caught another movement in his ears.

Wu Yuyan hurriedly hugged Fu Qingkai and hid behind the 'city wall' made of boxes inside, and said softly and quickly in Fu Qingkai's ear: "They won't leave these chips here unattended. I sent a box elsewhere and will be back soon."

Sure enough, footsteps sounded from far to near, and the sound of another box of heavy objects being moved away.Wu Yuyan looked out from the gap between the boxes and saw two people carrying the box to a small door not far away.

Fu Qing was happy to make a plan, Wu Yuyan shook his head, he felt it was too dangerous, if he was here alone, he would not have estimated so much, but now there is another Fu Qing driving beside him, let alone Fu Qing Kai's strategy was clearly to drag himself into this danger.

When Fu Qing saw Wu Yuyan's refusal, he also understood the reason. "Yu Yan, although I have no martial arts skills, I am still a man. Don't always think that I am weak, okay? Besides, with you by my side, don't worry so much. When will you be able to solve this big case by looking forward and backward like this?" ?”

Wu Yuyan had no choice but to agree, and he asked Fu Qing to hide here now, while he ambush outside the door.When the two porters came in again, Wu Yuyan knocked them unconscious from behind, took off their clothes, tied them up, and gagged them.After changing clothes with the two of them, he carried the box full of silver chips and walked towards the small door.

Wu Yuyan tensed his nerves, not knowing what would happen behind this door.