My wife is beautiful

Not only can't escape, Mr. Zhao also wants to be trapped forever.

Mr. Zhao called more than a dozen yamen servants and searched the back alleys with many forks. Half an hour passed, but he couldn't find anyone.At the other end of the alley, Jin Haoxuan and Lin Ziqian walked over anxiously.

"I searched the entire alley, but I didn't see Wang Minglang."

Mr. Zhao simply put down the lantern, sat down on the stone steps in front of a house, stretched his waist and let out a long sigh, "I'm exhausted, let's take a rest."

Lin Ziqian became anxious, "Everyone is gone, Master Zhao still wants to rest?"

Li Qingshu responded coldly: "Instead of rushing around like headless chickens in a hurry, it's better to calm down and think about where the murderer will go."

Jin Haoxuan nodded, and persuaded Lin Ziqian: "Madam Zhao is right, Ziqian, we need to calm down now, and figure out what the murderer's purpose is."

Lin Ziqian looked a bit decadent, he had solved countless cases, and he had never been so ignorant about a case.And this murderer always kidnaps and kills people when he is unprepared, as if he is familiar with every step of his calculations, and is always dormant by his side, waiting for the moment of relaxation, kidnapping and killing people, Throw the body in Hanoi.After that, all traces were erased, and there was no trace to be found.

Mr. Zhao beat his tired legs while sorting out the case.

"This kind of scene seems familiar. The first time you came to report the case, you picked up the smeared Qian Li. Qian Shangshu didn't know that his son was dead, so we ran around the city with lanterns, looking for someone from door to door. The next morning, the body of another of your partners, Zhong Ming, appeared by the Qiaotou River again."

Li Qingshu didn't react when he heard it, and didn't understand much at first, so he just sat obediently beside Mr. Zhao, and listened carefully with his chin propped up.

Lin Ziqian continued: "After Zhong Ming's death, Uncle Qian gave an order to solve the case within ten days, but that night, Wang Minglang discovered that Rong Hui had suddenly disappeared, and the murderer might be the person who pretended to be the food delivery boy."

"Then you and the people from my yamen went out to look for people. Because the murderer has the habit of throwing corpses, we searched around all the river banks overnight, but it was still a step too late. Rong Hui's body was found near the abandoned Earth Temple on the outskirts of the city. , not far from the river bank, and the place where the body was found is definitely not the scene of the murder. Then why did the murderer throw the body there instead of following the habit of throwing the body into the river?"

Lin Ziqian was still thinking, and Jin Haoxuan first opened his mouth to speculate: "We have inquired that the fishermen there will go out to fish early at dawn, maybe they saw the fishermen passing by. The murderer was nervous for a while, so he hid first regardless of the corpse. And after a while, we also found Rong Hui's body, and the murderer may have fled after seeing this."

Lin Ziqian nodded, "It is indeed possible. It took only half an hour from when Rong Hui disappeared to when we set off to find him, and then we went all the way to investigate. It is reasonable that the murderer should have a lot of things too late to do. That time, we might almost catch him Stop him."

Mr. Zhao is noncommittal or not, there are doubts here.He continued: "At that time, I also deduced that the murderer kills as soon as he kills, but he always leaves some habits, such as whipping corpses, such as throwing rivers, like a special ritual, which must be completed. I asked who of you used it? Whip, Wang Minglang felt guilty."

"That's right, Wang Minglang suddenly became very strange, as if he was very anxious and flustered. I suspected that he had a ghost in his heart, so he was not allowed to return to the capital, and he was closely guarded. But he was still arrested after a hundred secrets. " Lin Ziqian lowered his head, a little guilty.

Jin Haoxuan patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "Don't blame yourself, it's time to get him back now."

Li Qingshu looked at the two of them, and suddenly said, "Then you haven't found the scene of the incident after searching for so long? The murderer likes to throw corpses in Hanoi, so is the place where he wants to kill and flog corpses far away from the river?" ? Where was the body found? Where is the water flowing? Have you ever been upstream?"

Lin Ziqian's mind was in a mess, but Li Qingshu's words were like enlightenment, and he understood everything.

"That's right, the murderer must have committed the crime not far from the river bank, so we never forgot to go to the river bank to find it. By the way, the day before we reported the crime, it happened to be raining. I asked the villagers in Wang Village on the outskirts of the city, It rained heavily that night, and the wind was also strong. It must have been blown to the shore by the wind and could not go down the river. Qian Li's body was left outside the city. When Zhong Ming's body was found, there was no wind or rain the night before. So he floated along the river to the bridge. This is why Qian Liming was the first victim, but he was only discovered after Zhong Ming."

Jin Haoxuan then deduced, "Then when we found Rong Hui's body, it was also in the earth temple upstream of Wangcun. The murderer didn't have time to throw the body away, which means that the place is already very close to the murder scene! Ziqian, let's go quickly The earth temple on the outskirts of the city!"

Lin Ziqian nodded excitedly, and turned to thank Li Qingshu, "Thank you, Mrs. Zhao, for your point, which made me understand."

Master Zhao glanced coldly, Li Qingshu waved his hand and said, "I'm just asking casually, Master Zhao's reasoning is better."

Lin Ziqian glanced at Mr. Zhao, then casually handed over his hands, and led people out of the city and up the mountain with Jin Haoxuan.Mr. Zhao was speechless, and after a while he spat silently: "Judging people by their appearance is short-sighted!"

Li Qingshu laughed, and asked him: "Will others be happy when they praise you? Then I'll praise you too. Mr. Zhao, you are not a thing in the pool. You are clearly a crouching dragon. You are the most powerful..."

Mr. Zhao heard that it was not the case. As of Li Qingshu's words, "Forget it, find someone quickly. If you don't go, go home and sleep."

Mr. Zhao left as soon as he said, Li Qingshu hurriedly followed, and said with a smile: "Go, why don't you go, it's rare to help you, huh? Why are you blushing? Could it be that I praised you and felt shy? ?”

Mr. Zhao pretended to be irritable and said: "Don't talk nonsense, go and go quickly, don't say you are tired after a while."

Li Qingshu smiled and remained silent.

After a stick of incense, at the foot of the mountain, Li Qingshu looked at Mr. Zhao, who was panting three times while walking in front of him, and Li Qingshu still felt relaxed, and thoughtfully asked, "Master Zhao, do you want me to help you?"

Mr. Zhao took a breath and refused sullenly, "Don't worry about me, go find someone!"

There was a gleam of light in the abandoned Earth Temple, and there was a jumping light inside. A young man was sitting on the ground, holding a short knife in his hand, sharpening it on a stone, the knife surface reflected the cold light.There was a person standing at the door, and he didn't look up. The other person's voice was a little hoarse, but he was definitely young, "Go quickly, the people from the government are here."

The young man stopped sharpening his knife, "Why is it you again?"

The person at the door didn't answer, but kept urging him, "It won't work this time, there's another chance, you go first, I'll leave behind, otherwise you won't be able to go."

The man sharpening the knife had seen this person before, and he reminded himself to go first when he was on the river bank last time.He bowed his head and thought for a moment, then nodded, "Thank you."

He blew out the candle like beans and went out the door, it was pitch black outside the door, he could only see the figure of that person clearly, it was a young man.He was familiar with the road on the mountain, so he didn't take the main road. He chose one side of the wild grass forest that was as tall as a man and walked through it. The young man behind him asked him again, "Where is the man, where did he hide?"

He stamped his feet and didn't turn his head. Under the moonlit night, he smiled sinisterly, "If you leave here, no one will find him."

Jin Haoxuan and Lin Ziqian went first, and they walked faster. By the time Mr. Zhao arrived, they had already searched half of the mountain. Lin Ziqian stepped forward and said, "I just found this in the west."

Master Zhao saw that Lin Ziqian was holding a rock with some cracks, but nothing unusual.Master Zhao asked: "What is this?"

Lin Ziqian said: "Do you still remember the cause of Rong Hui's death?" Then he took the stone that was as big as two fists and made a beating motion.

It matched the scene of the shuttle stuck in Zhong Ming's chest in his memory. Mr. Zhao took the stone and took a closer look. There were indeed spots of black and purple dried blood, and there was a small sharp crater in the center of the crack. When using the iron shuttle, there was a mark left by a sharp hook at one end, so the murderer may have killed people nearby."

Lin Ziqian nodded, and said a little excitedly: "Wang Minglang is probably hiding in a certain corner of this mountain, and he is still waiting for us to save him. Mr. Zhao, can we still save him in time?"

Master Zhao didn't answer, and he couldn't be sure.Asked back: "Where is Jin Haoxuan?"

Lin Ziqian looked back at the yamen servants who were looking for people around him, "Maybe I went somewhere to find someone... Hey, I'm back."

Jin Haoxuan hurried back from an unknown corner, Lin Ziqian hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Haoxuan, have you found anything?"

Jin Haoxuan replied with a sullen face: "No, there is no way to hide people on this mountain except this abandoned earth temple. The murderer may not be here."

Lin Ziqian's confidence was extinguished in an instant, "Then what to do, this is the last chance, Wang Minglang can't have an accident here...how can I explain to brother Qingyan..."

Jin Haoxuan was silent, as if he didn't like hearing that name very much.

Li Qingshu was also very displeased, and persuaded: "Don't be like this, no news is the best news, not to mention that the murderer is not here, it does not mean that Wang Minglang is not here either. And you are looking for the scene where they were killed?" ? Did you find it?"

Lin Ziqian shook his head blankly, "I found nothing but this bloody stone."

Lord Zhao also shook his head, and suddenly heard the master shouted in front of the Earth Temple, he was very anxious, "Come here quickly, there is something here!"

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay and hurried over.The master led them around to the wasteland behind the Earth Temple, held a torch to shine on a pile of messy stones, his old face turned pale with fright, "My lord, look, there's a lot of blood here!"

The master swept away the thatch that covered it, pointed to the jagged rocks, and under the dazzling light of the torch, he clearly saw a pool of black blood.Lin Ziqian looked surprised, and he pushed aside the thatch in the area himself. Under the cover of the thatch was a piece of earth tiles and square bricks that had been abandoned and collapsed from the original earth temple. The pile of stones was covered with black dried blood, as if paved A path of blood, very frightening.

Lin Ziqian showed an unbearable expression, "The bloodstains have been dried for a long time, and it hasn't rained in the past few days, so these bloodstains are... Zhong Minghe Ronghui's. The murderer is really worse than a beast!"

Jin Haoxuan was also a little shocked, full of regret and could not bear to sigh.Li Qingshu sighed: "May the dead rest in peace."

Master Zhao frowned, and suddenly asked: "Master, how did you find out here?"

The master was a little embarrassed, and after a while he said awkwardly: "Didn't I drink too much water at night? I have three urgencies, so I came here to solve it. I didn't expect to find these bloodstains..."

Hearing this, Lin Ziqian looked at his hands in embarrassment, and seemed to have the urge to chop them off every minute.The master hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, I was so frightened that I forgot to solve it, let's not talk about it, Mr. Zhao, you check it first, I will go behind the woods to make it easier!"

The master stooped and ran to the woods, Mr. Zhao spat: "Lazy people have a lot of shit and urine, keep looking, just look around here."

Detective Wang quickly led people to search the Earth Temple inside and out.Mr. Zhao and the others searched the small Earth Temple. The roof of the Earth Temple was gone, the entire back wall collapsed, weeds were overgrown and rubble piled up. .

Jin Haoxuan asserted again: "No one."

Lin Ziqian looked sideways at the candlestick on the wall, and found half a candle. He raised his hand to touch the top, and said affirmatively, "The candle is still warm and not completely solidified. Mr. Zhao, someone has been here before!"

Mr. Zhao also found something, squatted on the ground and touched it, "The blood is not dry, he just left not long ago."

Lin Ziqian said happily: "You should have found us, so you ran away overnight with people. If you can't run fast with people, let's go after us..."

"Wait a minute!" Master Zhao stopped Lin Ziqian and said, "The candles are not dry, the blood is not dry, how long has he been away? A stick of incense? A cup of tea? We have gone up the mountain to search for almost half an hour. With such an obvious target for a comatose person, how could it not be discovered?"

Lin Ziqian asked: "Master Zhao means that the murderer may have escaped, but there is no way for people to take him away. Maybe Wang Minglang is still hidden by him in some place that we don't know about."

Mr. Zhao couldn't be sure, so he could only say: "It's better to be cautious."

Jin Haoxuan thought for a while, and suggested: "It's better to send people down the mountain to look for people first, to see if there is anything suspicious, and the other part of the people stay on the mountain and continue to look for people."

Master Zhao nodded, "This is fine, it's safe enough."

Lin Ziqian nodded, Master Zhao sent half of his people down the mountain, and they were about to leave the shabby house. Lin Ziqian suspected: "Maybe they are hiding in the woods? Let's go look there."

Master Zhao nodded and said, "Let's go."

Li Qingshu, who was following Master Zhao suddenly, paused, grabbed Master Zhao's sleeve and said, "Wait!"

Master Zhao asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

Several people looked over, Li Qingshu pondered for a while, then stomped his feet towards the ground near the corner, the sound came out somewhat ethereal, Li Qingshu listened carefully, and said: "It's empty below."

Master Zhao pushed Li Qingshu away, knelt down and knocked on the dusty thatch-covered floor, immediately got up with a serious face, clapped his hands, and called: "Wang Catcher, pry this place open."

Wang Butou and the two policemen cleaned up the thatch first, and they saw the difference when they took out the floor. This piece had obviously been cut open. Although it was a stone slab, there was a groove and a long gap on it. It looked like it had been pried open by something, and there was a lot of dust, so I couldn't tell how big the stone slab was.

Mr. Zhao and the others took a few steps back, but after a while they saw the policemen struggling to pry open the stone slab. The stone slab was as square as a manhole cover, five fingers thick, and looked a bit like the entrance of a cellar.Lifting the stone slab, there was a dark space below, not too deep and not too big, inside squatted a person who kept moving, it was Wang Minglang who was tied up, gagged and still struggling, with a bloodstain on his face .

Master Zhao stretched out his hand and pulled the cloth off Wang Minglang's mouth. Wang Minglang took a breath, and cried out loudly, "You guys are finally here..."

Everyone: "..."

A big man was crying so much that his nose was running down with tears and snot, he couldn't bear to look directly at him.The rope on Wang Minglang's body had been loosened, and he sat huddled at the threshold by himself, looking pitiful. Li Qingshu found a handkerchief on his body, and handed it over, "Wipe your face."

Wang Minglang had already stopped crying, feeling a little ashamed, wiped his face hastily, he was a fair and clean young man again, but the scratch on his cheek was swollen, and the corner of his mouth raised to reveal his sharp canine teeth, he said: " Thank you Mrs. Zhao, fortunately you didn't leave, so you saved me."

Li Qingshu shook his head amusedly and said: "It's okay, I'm also sharing the worries for Mr. Zhao. It's just that you're okay."

Wang Minglang sniffed, then lowered his head and said nothing.Master Zhao, Lin Ziqian, and Jin Haoxuan searched the mountains and forests again to no avail, and the stars in the sky have begun to fade away, "It seems that the murderer has long since left, Wang Minglang, what can you say?"

Hearing this, Wang Minglang trembled, his head tucked into his knees.Lin Ziqian wanted to ask clearly, but Wang Minglang obviously didn't want to talk about it, so Li Qingshu persuaded him, "Forget it, it will be fine if the person is rescued. Don't be in a hurry. It's getting late, let's talk about it when we go back."

Lin Ziqian had no objection, but Wang Minglang asked again, "I want to live in Mr. Zhao's house!"

Mr. Zhao didn't like Li Qingshu speaking for others at first, and when he saw this kid push his feet, he became angry, "Why do you live in my house? My house is not a yamen!"

Wang Minglang shrank his neck, and mumbled: "I... I'm afraid, Jin Haoxuan and the others won't be able to protect me at all! I want Mrs. Zhao to protect me!"

"You have a good idea!" Master Zhao scolded, Lin Ziqian also agreed with Wang Minglang's words, and said: "Then I will thank Master Zhao, it is our fault for not protecting Wang Minglang well, I hope Master Zhao will take care of him."

Jin Haoxuan also said: "That's fine, how about I go and look at him too, so I won't make trouble for you?"

Master Zhao resolutely refused, "That's enough! My family has no money to buy food, so one room is enough." What's more, you kid is still coveting Li Qingshu all day long!

Jin Haoxuan could only give up.Wang Minglang insisted on pestering Li Qingshu and really moved into the Zhao residence, but unfortunately not only the owner of the Zhao residence, Mr. Zhao, didn't like him, even the servants didn't like him.Li Qingshu personally arranged a room for Wang Minglang, "It's getting late, you should take a rest earlier after washing up and get a good night's sleep."

Wang Minglang felt aggrieved, "I didn't expect that in just two hours, I would go through life and death, and come back after turning around in front of the gate of Yan Luo Temple..."

Li Qingshu said: "Stay well, and remember to cooperate with Lin Ziqian in investigating the case, otherwise the murderer will come to you."

"Ma'am! What are you doing here if you haven't returned to your room!" Mr. Zhao shouted at the door very unhappy.

Li Qingshu looked at the door with a smile, and there was a tenderness in his eyes that could drown people, "Stop talking, go to rest early, by the way, I put the wound medicine on the table, remember to wipe it, I'll go first."

After Li Qingshu finished speaking, he was taken away by Mr. Zhao who was urging him to return to his room at the door. Wang Minglang, who was not comforted, rolled up the quilt and thought aggrievedly. In fact, Mrs. Zhao seemed to have a good temper. Very indifferent.