treacherous world

Li Feifan died strangely and suddenly.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to the corpse and felt something was wrong after a quick look - the scars on the deceased or the way of death were almost exactly the same as Qian Dayou!

If Qian Dayou met Yinshan at night, Li Feifan had no reason to meet Yinshan in broad daylight. No one else saw it. This is the official road, and there are many people coming and going. It is impossible that there are no witnesses.

"Did anyone see how he died?" Zhan Zhao asked the police who heard the wind.

But passers-by and gate guards who guarded the city all asked around, and they all said that they didn't see anyone who could fly, and no one saw the mountain that appeared suddenly.

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao frowned—how could it be possible to tear off the head of a living person in broad daylight when everyone could see it?Both of them are martial arts masters, and they looked at each other, and they both felt that this matter was not simple.

Wei Shaochang and Wei Yue'e also came after them, and they were even more horrified when they saw it. Wei Yue'e hurriedly grabbed her brother and asked, "Brother, is it haunted?!"

Wei Shaochang frowned and shook his head, also with a stern expression on his face.

Afterwards, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang ordered someone to carry the body back to the yamen. Gongsun and Zhao Pu were just looking at the faded body of the watchman and marveling at it. Unexpectedly, another corpse came and died in exactly the same way as Qian Dayi.

"Another one died?" Gongsun looked outside the door, and the ones who brought the body back were Xiao Sizi, Xiao Liang and the Wei brothers and sisters.

"Where is Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang?" Gongsun wondered.

"Miao Miao said she had something to do, so she left with nothing." The fourth son replied.

Gongsun and Zhao Pu looked at each other—maybe they found some clue.

What did Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang do?

The two of them went to find the singing girl... Bai Yutang had thought that this village girl was a little suspicious before, but now he didn't know if it was a coincidence or what, anyway, there might be some clues.

It's just that they went back to the inn and searched up and down, and the girl had already left.I found the shopkeeper and asked, and the shopkeeper said that this is the first time this girl came in to play the pipa today.She came early in the morning, and said that the old man in the family was sick and had no money to see a doctor, and wanted to sell and sing in the restaurant to raise some money, the shopkeeper immediately agreed with a soft heart.

Asked his name and where he lived, no one knew, even the guests who had dinner said that he had never seen this person before.

"This is so evil." Zhan Zhao wondered, "It stands to reason that the locals should know the customs, but no one knows them."

"The group of people also held a skeleton in their hands that night, does it matter?" Bai Yutang thought for a while, "When I entered the city, I saw that she was running out of the city. .”

"Let's let Liu Xie check it out. It's getting late, and there are important things to do tonight." Zhan Zhao winked at Bai Yutang, who knew that what Zhan Zhao was talking about was pretending to be a ghost to scare those grandpas. Son.

When the two of them left the restaurant, they saw a commotion at the end of the street. A large group of people surrounded a particularly fat old man and ran towards the city. The fat old man cried and cried, "Fan'er! Father Fan'er wants to avenge you!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, could this person be that Li Yuanwai?

At this time, I heard a few diners behind me who were also watching the fun on the side of the road whispering: "Oh, I did too many wicked things when I was young. Look, this will be repaid to future generations!"

"Exactly! This is called not reporting the time is not up!"

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Zhan Zhao heard it clearly, turned around and asked the two men pretending to be happy, "Brothers, isn't that the dead Li Feifan's father?"

"Isn't that him!" the diners chewed their tongues.

"We're new here, and I heard he's a good man?" Zhan Zhao pretended to be surprised, "How do you say he did a lot of evil in the past?"

"Pull it down!" Several diners shook their heads, "He is a good person now, but he was a real one before. Alas... It's useless to say, anyway, Li Feifan died a good death this time!"

"But it's strange." A few diners next to him seemed to be puzzled, "Didn't it mean that Li Yuanwai has two sons, wouldn't it hurt?!"

"I've also heard that this is the boss. There is also the second brother, Li Fei, who is handsome and good at business. He took over Li Yuanwai's business."

"Oh, it's hard to say. After all, father and son are united in heart. Although they are usually not up to date, they still feel distressed when they die."

The diners followed after gossiping, to see how the old man avenged his son.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also followed.

"What do you think?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Is there an element of acting in it?"

"I feel..." Bai Yutang glanced casually just now, without paying much attention, "Go back and ask Gongsun about the autopsy!"

"En." The two performed lightness kung fu and went back to the Yamen's office first.

Everyone was there, and Gongsun was frowning at Li Feifan's body.

Qian Dayou's corpse was next to him, and the two corpses were side by side. Gongsun's expression caught Zhan Zhao's and Bai Yutang's eyes.

"How is it?" Zhan Zhao asked as soon as he entered the room.

"Oh, you two are back." Gongsun shook his head quickly, "Qian Dayou and Li Feifan died in different ways! Li Feifan died pretending to be Qian Dayou, so he shouldn't be the same person."

"So sure?"

"His head was not torn off alive, but chopped off by an extremely sharp weapon!" Gongsun said, pointing to the wounds of the two dead bodies for Zhan Zhao and the others to see.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang leaned over and looked down carefully. Sure enough, Qian Dayou's body was uneven, while Li Feifan's body was straight.

"The knife is fast!" Bai Yutang was good at using a knife, and found out that the knife wound was indeed not something an ordinary knife could inflict...it should be a precious knife as thin as a silkworm's wing.

"Someone forged the corpse." Zhao Pu shook his head, "Who is it?"

"That's right." Zhan Zhao reminded Liu Xie, who was also frowning, "Mr. Li came out and cried on the road, saying that he wanted to avenge his son."

Liu Xie was obviously taken aback.

"Does Lord Liu also feel suspicious?" Zhan Zhao asked first.

Liu Xie nodded, "To tell you the truth, Mr. Zhan, this Li Gang has two sons, Li Feifan and Li Feifei. Li Feifan is a jerk to put it bluntly. Li Gang doesn't love him at all. On the contrary, Li Gang has an outstanding character. If it is a treasure, this is something that everyone in Xinghua knows."

"Oh?" Thoughts popped up in everyone's mind—could it be?It has something to do with Qian Dayou's death. Some people can't bear it and act first?

Sure enough, not long after, a yamen servant came to report, saying that Li Yuanwai at the door wanted to beat drums to protest his grievances, and that he knew who the murderer of Li Feifan was!

This time, everyone was taken aback.

Liu Xie looked at Zhao Pu and Zhan Zhao, both of them nodded, motioning for his promotion!

Afterwards, Liu Xie ascended to the hall and carried out Li Feifan's body and placed it in the middle of the hall. When the body was being carried out, Gongsun stopped the yamen servant, pointed to Qian Dayou's body beside him, and signaled—carried the body out, If it is found, it is said that the two corpses are headless, so there is confusion.

Liu Xie nodded in agreement, and his subordinates carried the corpse out.

The yamen servants on both sides stood up and shouted Wei. After Liu Xie was promoted to the hall, he ordered people to bring Li Gang in and carry the body out.

"Son!" Li Gang rushed over and hugged Qian Dayou's body and began to cry loudly, "My son, why did you die so miserably!"

Liu Xie frowned slightly, and asked, "Mr. Li, this corpse has no head. Take a good look. Are you sure it's your son Li Feifan?"

Both Qian Dayou and Li Feifan were quite fat. Li Gang cried and nodded as he threw himself on the corpse, "Yes, that's right, this is my son Li Feifan. You have gone... Father wants to avenge you!"

Liu Xie sighed, looked at Zhan Zhao and others standing in the inner hall, and everyone nodded to him.

"Snap".

The gavel fell.

Liu Xie glanced at Li Gang in the hall, "Mr. Li, do you think you know who the murderer is?"

"Yes, my lord! I know." Li Gang nodded quickly.

"Who is it?"

"It's a descendant of the Xu family!"

"What?!" Everyone was taken aback.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also looked at each other - didn't you say that the Xu family died back then?How come there are descendants.

"The descendants of the Xu family?" Liu Xie frowned, "Who is the last name, do you have evidence?"

"My lord, not long ago, a man tried to enter my house in the middle of the night to assassinate!" Li Gang replied, "That man was masked in a black scarf, tall and burly, with a sharp knife in his hand. I, Qian Dayou, Chen Chong, Wang Yougui and others were all there at the time. That person claims to be a descendant of the Xu family, we killed his whole family back then, so today he is coming to take the lives of our whole family!"

"Could it be that the bloody case of the Xu family had something to do with you?" Liu Xie asked in a low voice, "Otherwise, why didn't the sufferer come to you for private reasons instead of declaring customs?"

"Absolutely not!" Li Gang quickly shook his head, and replied with a strict sense of righteousness, "My lord, although we did some idiots when we were young, murder and arson are heinous crimes, and we absolutely dare not do them! It's all because someone slandered us! Folklore! But believe me, that person must have listened to the slander."

"And then, he didn't say his name?"

"No, after he was stopped by my nursing home, he left a cruel sentence, saying that I will deal with you, and the mountain god of Yinshan will not let you go! Let the whole Xinghua County go." Li Gang said again Wipe away a couple of tears, "He left after that, alas... we thought he had a pitiful background, and he was the last bit of flesh and blood of the Xu family, so we didn't make things difficult for him, but it's a pity that this person was stubborn and killed him. My friend and son... my lord, you...you have to decide for our father and son!"

Li Gang burst into tears, if not for the people present who already knew what he was like and still had doubts, they would really feel that he deserves sympathy.

Gongsun asked everyone around him, "What do you think?"

Bai Yutang sneered, "A father who can't even recognize his son's corpse, I don't think he will be so angry and sad."

"Agreed." Both Zhan Zhao and Zhao Pu nodded.

Everyone didn't want to watch any more, so they all went back to the backyard.

"This time, Li Gang, maybe a thief came first to call for a thief." Zhan Zhao said, "We just invited the old man back, and then Qian Dayou also died... Now Li Gang brought up the case of exterminating the Xu family again. It can be seen that, It has something to do with the case back then."

"Did you notice that Li Gang said something just now!" Gongsun said, "He said that the man in black warned them that he would not let them go, and that the mountain god of Yinshan would not let them go... This is very strange !"

"Indeed!" Everyone nodded, "Why did you mention Yinshan? Could it be that they have a clue that the crime committed by the Yinshan monster has something to do with the case back then?"

In this way, everyone is in a difficult situation again. Should we take action tonight or not? !This group of people is obviously mentally prepared, and they may not be easily fooled, but don't pretend to be ghosts to scare them, and come here to scare the snake.

Therefore, it was decided that the frightening action tonight would turn into a dark sigh first.

After dinner, everyone sat in the courtyard and waited for the sky to get dark so that they could investigate secretly, but the case was so complicated that everyone felt depressed.

Gongsun went to look at the discolored body of the watchman. He didn't know why the discolored body had discolored, so Zhan Zhao went to help.

Bai Yutang felt that it would be wiser not to look at the corpse after having just eaten.

In the courtyard, Zhao Pu was testing Xiao Liang's kung fu, while Bai Yutang was doing nothing, he felt his clothes being pulled twice, and looked down, it was the fourth son.

"Bai Bai, do you want to go shopping?" the fourth son asked with his face raised.

Bai Yutang was taken aback, shopping with the fourth son?

The fourth son patted the little purse on his waist for candies, "There's nothing to eat." Bai Yutang smiled, and reached out to give it to him. The fourth son took Bai Yutang's hand, and one big and one small went out of the yamen. Go for a walk in the street.

When we went to the street, the night breeze was cool, and there were quite a lot of people, Bai Yutang was afraid of losing his fourth son, so he picked him up.

Normally, Bai Yutang looked hostile, his eyes were sharp and hard to get close to, but now that he was holding the youngest son, his vigor had weakened a bit, and he looked lazy.

The fourth son held up a candied haws, biting and choosing candies.

"Bai Bai, do you believe that there really are monsters?" The fourth son suddenly asked.

Bai Yutang shook his head, "I don't believe it."

"Hmm." The fourth son nodded, "Daddy doesn't believe it either. In the past, there were ghosts in the village, and he always said that it must be a lie."

Bai Yutang picked out some sweets that children in Jiangnan area liked to eat for him, and made another one for Xiao Liang to take back... After thinking about it, he ordered another one. The cat didn't know if he liked it or not.

Passing by a silk shop, Bai Yutang thought that his sister-in-law's birthday was coming soon, and it was said that this Xinghua silk was one of a kind, so he should bring one back to her, so he carried his youngest son into the silk shop.

The shopkeeper of the silk and satin village knew that Bai Yutang was either rich or expensive when he saw Bai Yutang's clothes, so he hurried out to make a show enthusiastically.

"My lord, the silk from our Liji silk and satin shop is the best! Do you want to give it to someone else, or wear it yourself?"

Bai Yutang was stunned when he heard the man's words.

"Li Ji?" Bai Yutang asked, "I've heard of Su Ji, Yun Ji...but this is the first time I've heard of Li Ji."

"Young master is definitely from other places!" The shopkeeper said with a smile, "Here we are, Li Ji is famous!"

"Making silk, the one whose surname is Li..." Bai Yutang seemed to be thinking about it, and even wanted to leave.

"Oh, my lord, we, Li Gang and Li Yuanwai, have been in the silk business for many years! Our things are packed."

"Oh?" Bai Yutang smiled and nodded, Li Ji... said in his heart, Yuanwai Li is really in a good mood, his son is dead, and there is not even a white lantern hanging in front of the store, so he is afraid of affecting the business.

After finishing speaking, he went to the seat beside him and sat down, put the fourth son on the seat beside him, and waved to the shopkeeper, "I want to buy it for my sister-in-law to make clothes for, and take the best and most expensive one in your shop." take it out."

"Okay!" The man went in happily.

Bai Yutang waved to the fourth son, leaned over and whispered something in his ear.

The fourth son nodded, "Oh!"

After a while, the shopkeeper brought out a wooden box with a few pieces of silk inside.

"Look, son, we have the best silk and satin here."

Bai Yutang reached out to pick it up and took a look, then put it back with a frown.

The fourth son chewed candied haws and went over, grabbed a handful as well, pouted and tossed, "It's cheap!" Then he said to Bai Yutang, "Bai Bai, let's go, mother doesn't like this kind of cheap stuff!" .”

Bai Yutang sighed, looked at the shopkeeper, "Don't tell me this is the best in your shop?"

"Uh..." The shopkeeper stuck out his tongue, thinking that this old man has too high a vision.

Bai Yutang was about to get up and walk away with the fourth son in his arms. The fourth son made a face at the shopkeeper, "Stupid, if my father finds him, he can send it to the palace as a tribute." Alas! The shopkeeper quickly came over and stopped Bai Yutang, "Wait a minute, sir!"Wait a moment, our young master happens to be here, why don't you talk to him? "

Bai Yutang seemed unwilling to wait, so the fourth son patted him, "Bai Bai, sleepy, let's go home if we are selected."

Bai Yutang had no choice but to nod, and sat down not far away, and told the shopkeeper, "Hurry up."

"Yes! Go right away!" After finishing speaking, he turned and ran in.

Bai Yutang and the fourth son exchanged glances, the fourth son shook his calf, picked off the last hawthorn fruit, and stuffed it into Bai Yutang's mouth.

……

Inside the yamen, Gongsun peeled off a piece of skin from the corpse's hand and soaked it in the potion. After a while, the colorless potion turned black.

"What does this mean?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"This person became like this after being poisoned!"

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin, "Poisoned? This poison seems to be very rare."

"Poison is not necessarily rare!" Gongsun looked at the corpse with great interest, "It's because of his special constitution!"

"How to say?"

"The effect of the same poison after taking it varies from person to person. Some people have blue lips and purple lips after taking it, while others have ruddy complexion after taking it."

"Is it a coincidence... or was it intentional?" Zhan Zhao wondered, "If it was intentional...he is just a small watchman, why is it so troublesome?"