Queen's Detective

"Where is County Magistrate Cai now?" Yan Sanbai asked.

"The county government has something to tell him to go back first, and he will come back around sunset." Guan Qing said: "But his son is here, if you want to see him, you can call him."

Yan Sanbai shook his head, "Not for now, is there any progress on the first case?"

"The first person to die is Liu Fu. He is [-] years old this year. He is the only scholar in the village. He has to travel far every day to attend classes in the county school. I checked, and he doesn't have any enemies on weekdays. The day before his disappearance, he reported to the school in advance and did not give a specific reason, so he disappeared the next day. Later, he was found dead in the river, drowned, but with bruises on his body.

The place where the crime happened should be on the mountain. The source of the small river where the body was found was the spring on the mountain. The spring water turned into a stream and flowed down, and then merged with the underground river to form a wide river.Liu Fu was thrown into the stream after being drowned, and the stream on the mountain was shallow, and when he was washed down, he hit the rocks and caused injuries on his body, but in such shallow water, people cannot be drowned. This is what Cai County magistrate insisted He was the reason for being killed. "

Yan Sanbai listened carefully, "What about the later one?"

"The second one is Wang Li. He is the son of a hunter in the village. His family is relatively rich. His father is a rough man, but he hopes that his son can be a scholar like Liu Fu. As a result, Liu Fu died. Wang Li took the opportunity to tell his father I didn’t want to study, so the father and son had a quarrel, and Wang Li hanged himself when he went back.”

"Then the relationship between Wang Li and Liu Fu should not be good in daily life?"

"Yes, Liu Fu looked down on Wang Li, and Wang Li hated Liu Fu, and the two basically had no contact with each other on weekdays." Guan Qing resigned.

At this time, Zhang Yan interjected: "It is said that when he was mourning that day, Wang Li also said that Liu Fu deserved it. It seemed a little gloating."

"The third one is Zhang Qing. This person is the grandson of a clan elder in the village. The clan elder has a high status in the village, but Zhang Qing is an ordinary person. The three people have different personalities, except that they are similar in age, and they are all similar to that person. It is related to the black box." As he spoke, Guan Qingci shifted his gaze to the black box on the table, "The weirdest part of this case lies in this box."

"Could it be that the scorpion killed people?" Ling Ding boldly guessed, "Maybe Liu Fu was killed by Zhang Qing and Wang Li, and the scorpion appeared in the place where they died, so it must be related to Liu Fu's death."

Zhang Yan said: "After seeing the box, I was too scared, so I committed suicide in fear of crime?"

"It's not impossible." Yan Sanbai said, turned the black box upside down on the table, reached out and patted the bottom of the box a few times, then turned it over, and saw a little powder on the table.He rubbed some on his fingertips, then leaned closer to smell it, "It's ashes."

The box is still the same box, so how did it escape from the coffin?

Yan Sanbai was thinking, "What's the matter with the fox demon?"

"This involves the rumors in the village." Speaking of this, Guan Qingci couldn't help frowning, "Since Wang Li's accident, the rumors in the village have not stopped. At first it was the box that swallowed the soul, and later it was said that it was actually It's all caused by the fox demon. Whether it's Liu Fu or Wang Li, they died because of the fox demon's fancy. You should have noticed it when you entered the village. The young men in the village are afraid to come out now, saying It's just absurd to be afraid of being spotted by the fox demon."

Master Guan of Dali Temple certainly doesn't believe in these monsters, but these villagers obviously don't know what to say, they are strange and confused, and they can't beat or scold, so Guan Qingci has been completely stuck in the past few days. Heart and face have never been better.

Yan Sanbai knew this personally, but he was 'disfigured' when he first arrived.

But seeing that Yan Sanbai still had a big face, Guan Qingci's mood inexplicably improved, "I was rude just now, Zhang Yan, go and bring Lord Yan a basin of water."

Yan Sanbai waved his hand, "Don't bother, you have to wipe it off after you wash it off."

As he said that, Yan Sanbai became puzzled again. Although Guan Qingci's face was cold, his appearance was also handsome. Why was he able to enter the ancestral hall?

"Master Guan, don't you need to paint your face?"

"No. I've been with the box for so many days and I'm fine. That fox demon must not have taken a fancy to me." Guan Qingci made a joke with a cold face and a serious face.

Zhang Yan twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling his teeth were a little cold.

Then Guan Qingci took Yan Sanbai to his room, where the box was lost the night before yesterday.Yan Sanbai looked at the simply furnished room carefully, and couldn't help frowning slightly, who could steal the box without alarming Guan Qingci?

With Guan Qingci's cautiousness, he must be in a state of vigilance all the time in the past few days, and the slightest disturbance can wake him up. This thief was able to take the box away from his pillow, it must be too skillful.

Zuosiyou couldn't think of a reason, Yan Sanbai checked again and found no secret passages, so he had to let it go, and resigned with Guan Qing to go around the village.

Remote villages are not visited by people on weekdays, but strangers are not necessarily welcome. Every place has its own way of hospitality.

I am amazed to see it alone, the famous Yan Sanbai who is ordered to investigate the case, no matter where he goes, everyone loves to see flowers blooming, but now walking in this remote village has turned into ghosts and sorrows!As long as a person sees him, he will walk away, and the eyes of those who see him will be wide open.

Yan Sanbai touched his nose, it was really innocent.Looking up at the sky, he was also speechless.

But who is Yan Sanbai, how can he secretly feel sad because of such a trivial matter? He was like the plague, and he was still as gentle as before, at most he shrugged and smiled.

And those black eyes like the stars are still bright, even though his face is painted with black ash, it is hard to hide his beauty.

Such a person always makes people can't help but want to get closer. No wonder the King of Luoyang is always with him, Guan Qingci thought so.

At this time, the flat ground was windy.

A yellow paper leaf was blown by the wind, blowing across the path in the village paved with scattered stone slabs.Fine dust and dead grass were rolled up and scraped past Yan Sanbai's feet.

The yellow leaf was the lightest, and it was blown up again, Yan Sanbai took it off from the wind casually, and after looking at it, he found that it was actually a piece of paper money.

He couldn't help looking up, and saw more and more paper money blowing up in front of him, gradually filling the entire country road.

Yellow paper money, white mourning clothes, and mourning music burst forth, playing a solo sadly in this dull and depressing world.

The low houses on both sides did not speak, the faint eyes revealed in the door quietly opened did not speak, and the sun that was gradually sinking in the west did not speak.

The strange silence here, obviously it is midsummer, but it makes people feel that the surroundings are gloomy, as if cold air enters the body.

Suddenly, several high-pitched dog barks broke the silence, and a yellow soil dog stood by the roadside, barking at the funeral procession.

It seemed that there were only dogs barking and music left in the world. The longer you listened, the louder the sound became, and even the sound of the wind was ignored.But in front of them, there were more and more paper money, thick enough to cover the moss on the slate, and the dim sunlight made everyone's faces seem to be hidden in the darkness, making it hard to see clearly.

Yan Sanbai looked at the sky in the distance, it was a sign that it was going to rain.Ling Ding stood behind him, the atmosphere here made him feel very depressed, "Didn't you just die? Why did the funeral take place so soon?"

"The previous one just died not long ago, so it's easy." Guan Qing resigned.

Listening to his explanation alone, he couldn't help but feel a chill, how weird this village is.But at this time, he saw the earth dog in front of him barking, but when the coffin passed by, it suddenly twitched a few times, its barking became distorted, and it staggered and ran away.

The leader of the funeral procession was the villager who was over seventy years old. Seeing this scene, his cloudy old eyes suddenly showed solemnity, and he shouted with trembling lips: "Go, go! Don't blame the demons, don't blame the demons, let's go now!" For the burial, let's go..."

The funeral procession immediately sped up the pace, everyone's faces were frightened, and the atmosphere became more depressing in the haste. The people who sprinkled the paper money were also chanting words and desperately sprinkled them out. There were people in front of them holding buckets and splashing them from time to time. red water.

Yan Sanbai frowned slightly, "Come on, let's go and see that dog."

Far away from the funeral procession, the sound of the music gradually diminished, and the surrounding scenery finally became less depressing.It's just that most of the people in the village have gone to the funeral, and every household has their doors tightly closed without any candles. Under the dim sky, the whole village looks like a ghost village. "There." Following the dog's paw prints, Guan Qingci saw the dirt dog lying in the weeds by the roadside at a glance. It stuck out its tongue and rolled its eyes, its limbs twitched, as if suffering from some kind of disease.

Yan Sanbai squatted down to check, there was not a single wound on the dog's body, it really looked like bewitched.Yan Sanbai couldn't bear to see it, took out the pills on his body and wanted to feed it one, the dead horse was treated as a living horse doctor, but just as the pill was stuffed into the dog's mouth, the dog suddenly stopped smoking and stood up abruptly , yelled at Yan Sanbai a few times, and ran a long way. "My grandma Xipi, is this dog okay?" Ling Ding couldn't help but marvel, and Zhang Yan was also dumbfounded.

Yan Sanbai and Guan Qingci looked at each other and immediately chased after them.

The dog ran faster and faster, and in the end it was walking like flying, without the cowardly appearance of falling to the ground and twitching just now, which made people wonder if they had read it wrong just now.

After chasing for a long time, Ling Ding took a breath and looked at the Daqing Mountain not far in front of him, "Isn't it going to run into the mountain?" In the blink of an eye, he was behind the dog.Seeing someone chasing him, the dog was chasing him so fast, it was crazy like a dog, and it ran so fast that its tongue came out.

Soon, a group of people left the village, and they were about to run to the road leading to Daqing Mountain, but the dog suddenly made a sharp turn, and ran to a fence along a path full of dogtail grass. In front of him, he knocked open the fence gate very familiarly, and ran in happily shouting. "Wow, woof!" "Tudou, you know you're back! Where did you go for a stroll just now?" A clear and clean young voice sounded, as if he hated iron and steel, cursing the dog like an adult.

Yan Sanbai stood outside the fence, looking at him in surprise.

In the fence, he raised his eyebrows and saw Yan Sanbai, "Why is it you again? Haven't you been captured by the fox demon yet?"

This person is the young man who was smashed by Yan Sanbai when he first arrived. He is holding a piece of dogtail grass in his hand, with his hips on his hips, looking at the uninvited guest like a master, and saying The words are also impolite.

Yan Sanbai smiled, "Incense ash is very useful." "Aren't people in your government unbelievers?" said the young man. "Do as the Romans do." Yan Sanbai asked him questions and answered them, standing outside the fence in no hurry.This obviously won the boy's favor. He shook the dog's tail grass in his hand and said, "Tell me, why are you looking for me? But don't ask me about those messy things in the village. My mother and I live On the edge of the village, if you don’t join in the fun, and no one calls us, I don’t know anything about them.” “Okay, I don’t want to ask you about those things. I just want to tell you that your dog seemed to be dead during the funeral. After some problems, he collapsed on the side of the road and twitched a few times, maybe he ate something poisonous by mistake." Yan Sanbai said.

The young man looked down at the lively dog, raised his eyebrows, and didn't believe it, "My potato never eats outside things, how could it be poisoned, it is probably just to tease you."

As he said that, the boy turned his head and looked at the sky not far away. Under the layers of dark clouds, paper money was floating all over the sky. He frowned, "Tsk, that's really bad luck." Then he turned to Yan Sanbai and the others , Said: "Go back, I don't welcome guests here."