Despicable Games [lower part]

"There is no doubt that the murderer in this case has an accomplice." Kang Wenwen was forced by Du Qianlin to hang his hands, so as not to be injured again.

"Wang Maoshi, the county magistrate, and Gao Xianren." Du Qianlin said.

"Although we can't identify the suspect, we can identify the accomplice." Kang Wenwen raised an eyebrow at Du Qianlin.

Du Qianlin said, "What's your idea?"

Kang Wenwen wanted to shrug his shoulders, but before he could move his shoulders, he spread his hands and said, "It's not that I have any ideas, they sent the loophole to me last night."

"I tripped over a branch last night when I was running. I was pretty sure the path I was on was clear."

"You mean, there were more than the three of us there last night? Then why didn't you come out and kill both of us?" Du Qianlin frowned.

"I don't know. I just know that I have something to do today." Kang Wen said.

"You go to the spice shop, I'll check who wasn't home last night."

"Go and check, are you going to pack yourself up and deliver it to your door?" Du Qianlin pointed at Du Qianlin's raised arm.

Kang Wenwen curled his lips, "Then you go and check, I'll go to the spice shop?"

"Can't we go together?" Du Qianlin asked.

"Uh..." Kang Wenwen hadn't thought about it yet.

"It's such a waste of time."

"Don't you know your current situation?" Du Qianlin really wanted to knock Kang Wenwen's brain.

Kang Wenwen really didn't know "what's the situation?"

"Yesterday, you were named and went to the outskirts of the city. You saw an ogre but didn't die. Do you think those people will let you go?" Du Qianlin said helplessly.

"Could it be that they will commit murder in the street again? I don't believe it." Kang Wenwen said indifferently, "Even if they really dare, I'm not afraid. Wouldn't it be better to know who the murderer was identified?"

Du Qianlin felt that he was going to be stunned by Kang Wen, "No matter what, I can't let you alone."

I don't know if it's Kang Wenwen's illusion, but the originally unfriendly eyes on the street today became more and more straightforward.

"Is that Gao Xianren talking nonsense again?" Kang Wenwen rolled his eyes.

"I didn't say anything." Du Qianlin also followed Kang Wenwen's example and shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. "I just said that when the flower sacrifice was late that day, the ogre would take the farmer away when he was a little angry."

Du Qianlin tilted his head and said in a low voice, "Many people have gone to Immortal Gao and said that they want you to sacrifice to calm the anger of the ogre."

Kang Wenwen laughed and said, "Didn't I just go last night?"

"Then you are still alive." Du Qianlin said.

Kang Wenwen was incredulous, "To be alive, doesn't it mean that my life is hard? Why is it wrong to live?"

In the yamen, Zhang Dengjin just got up and sat in the yard eating steamed buns.Du Qianlin had just entered the door and Zhang Dengjin rushed forward immediately.

"Oh, my good boy, let Dad see if there are any missing arms or legs..." Before he finished wailing, he saw Kang Wenwen behind Du Qianlin, with a white cloth tied around his neck and his arms hanging.

"No, Kang Wenwen heard about you... You can't be bitten by an ogre, right?" Zhang Dengjin held Du Qianlin and pointed at Kang Wenwen's arm with trembling fingers.

Kang Wenwen blinked, nodded and said, "Yes."

Zhang Dengjin's face casually turned white and green, then green and black, "Ah!!! There really are ogres!"

"What's it called!" Du Qianlin raised his hand and shuddered.

Zhang Dengjin didn't cry or bicker with Du Qianlin, but rushed to the other side of the yard, clasped his hands together, raised his head, closed his eyes and muttered something.

"Bodhisattva, Buddha, Jade Emperor, Queen Mother of the West, gods from all walks of life are above. In the past twenty years, they were small and blind. I didn't know you existed. From now on, I will definitely do good things and go back to the temple. Serve incense and tea, please protect me from meeting ghosts..."

Kang Wenwen was stunned, and said, "...he is this?"

Du Qianlin is not surprised, "He is most afraid of the dead, but the most feared are those monsters and ghosts. In reality, many people don't think he has been convincing himself that there are no ghosts in the world. This time, this script can be said to be a reflection of his worldview. It's all refreshed."

"The cannibal is not a ghost, but a human being." Kang Wenwen had a weird expression.

Du Qianlin patted Kang Wenwen's shoulder with a smile, "Wait for me to talk."

"Bulb, you are not sincere in worshiping Buddha like this, and the gods will ignore you." Du Qianlin said.

"Then how can I be sincere?" Zhang Dengjin asked aggrievedly.

Du Qianlin pursed his lips and thought for a while, "Well...at least, you have to burn all the films hidden under your bed first."

"Ah..." The flesh on Zhang Dengjin's face was shocked.

"Du Qianlin, you are kidding me!!"

Du Qianlin slipped Zhang Dengjin into the room, and Kang Wenwen smiled and handed him a glass of water to calm his shock.

"You are so panicked from wandering around all day, so go out with us more to investigate the case." Du Qianlin said to Zhang Dengjin.

Zhang Dengjin refused to accept it and said, "I don't want to hang out. I am taking care of Duan Qi, and I am also very useful."

As soon as Zhang Dengjin talked about Kang Wenwen, he remembered that Duan Qi was still at his house before, but he was too tired to go back yesterday and forgot about it.

"Where is Duan Qi?" Kang Wenwen asked.

Zhang Dengjin pouted and said nothing.

Du Qianlin kicked him under the table, Zhang Dengjin glared at Du Qianlin, and muttered, "In a ruined temple in the west of the city."

"Broken temple?" Kang Wenwen frowned suddenly.

Du Qianlin looked at Kang Wenwen's changed face, and kicked Zhang Dengjin again, "How much money did you spend at Wang Maoshi's, and you can't even afford to open an inn?"

"It's not that I'm stingy, it's that he didn't go. He said he wanted to go back there." Zhang Dengjin shouted that he was wronged.

Kang Wenwen bit his finger, raised his eyes and said to Du Qianlin, "Do you still remember that they said that the county magistrate was not in the yamen to supervise the construction of the temple?"

Du Qianlin had no choice but to reach out and hold Kang Wenwen's hand, "I remember, the county magistrate here seems to be obsessed with repairing and building temples."

"Such a county magistrate who attaches great importance to the construction of temples, is so likely to let temples on the outskirts of the city be abandoned?" Kang Wen asked.

Du Qianlin also understood at this moment, turned around and asked Zhang Dengjin, "Where can you find that ruined temple?"

Zhang Dengjin nodded, "I sent him back, of course I know."

Du Qianlin looked at Kang Wenwen, "Go and see?"

Kang Wenwen thought for a while and nodded.

It only took more than ten minutes to walk from the Yamen in the center of the city to the ruined temple in the west of the city.

"It's so close, but it's still ignored by the county magistrate. This county magistrate is not stupid and dull, but a slippery and cunning corrupt official." Kang Wenwen said coldly.

Du Qianlin was also a little disgusted, "If he really knew about the ogre and helped him, then what kind of parent is he? He's an ogre who eats flesh and drinks blood."

Zhang Dengjin walked into the temple one step ahead of the two.

"Duan beg. Duan beg?"

Kang Wenwen and Du Qianlin looked at each other, "Aren't you there?"

"Duan beg!" Zhang Dengjin exclaimed suddenly, "Du Qianlin, come in quickly!"

Du Qianlin rushed into the temple quickly.

After seeing the stone Buddha statue, Zhang Dengjin squatted in front of Duan Qi and looked at Du Qianlin in horror.

"What's going on?" Du Qianlin stepped forward.

Duan Qi's eyes were closed tightly, his face was pale, and he seemed to have lost his breath.

"He, he seems...dead." Zhang Dengjin's voice trembled.

"What?!" Kang Wenwen also hurriedly squatted down to check.

Du Qianlin withdrew his hand and said to Kang Wenwen, "Indeed, I'm out of breath."

Kang Wenwen looked at Duan Qi and couldn't believe it, "Why? How could he..."

Stretching out his hand to pinch Duan Qi's chin, Du Qianlin said, "There is blood on the nose and mouth."

Kang Wenwen parted Duan Qi's hair, "It's also in the ear canal, and there's blood on the forehead and the back of the neck."

The two looked at each other for half a second, and at the same time reached out and untied Duan Qi's clothes.

"Huh—" Kang Wenwen sighed.

"He was beaten to death." Du Qianlin said.

"Why?" Zhang Dengjin didn't understand, "He is a beggar, why did you beat him to death?"

Kang Wenwen looked at Duan Qi's body and felt that these injuries looked familiar.

"Maybe I offended some people without knowing it." Du Qianlin said.

Kang Wenwen stretched out his hand and pressed on the bruise on Duan Qi's back.

"Is there any problem?" Du Qianlin asked.

"Look at this." Kang Wenwen pointed to a five centimeter wide blow wound on Duan Qi's waist.

"There is a little white in the middle, it is hollow, and the edges of the scar are neat. I have seen this scar before."

"Have you seen it?" Du Qianlin asked.

Kang Wenwen nodded, "In the bone forest, there was a teenage boy with bleeding from his mouth and nose, and he had such scars all over his body. He was beaten to death."

Du Qianlin frowned, "Is the scar the same?"

Kang Wenwen nodded, "It's exactly the same, both of them should have been beaten by the same thing."

"In the beginning, I always felt that this injury was a bit strange. It is a hard object with a width of five centimeters and a length of more than twenty, and it is easy to hold and attack."

Looking at Kang Wenwen's description and gestures, Du Qianlin also felt very familiar.

"It's very similar to the stick in the yamen." Kang Wenwen said.

"!" Zhang Dengjin looked at Du Qianlin, "Duan Qi was killed by the yamen servant?!"

Du Qianlin also frowned tightly and said nothing.

Kang Wenwen said, "It's not sure yet. Anyone who wants to make that kind of stick can make it. But if it is really made by the Yamen, then the county magistrate is the most suspicious."

"Go back now." Du Qianlin said suddenly, "Go directly to the county magistrate's house."

Duan Qi's body was too late to collect, so Kang Wenwen and Du Qianlin put it in a dry place and brought it away later.

"Lu Tianqian came to visit the county magistrate." Du Qianlin said calmly to the boy who opened the door.

"Who are they?" The servant pointed to the two behind Du Qianlin and asked.

Du Qianlin said, "Zhang Zhengcai, the secretary of the yamen, and Wang Xingde, the servant of the yamen."

The boy looked more at Zhang Dengjin and Kang Wenwen, then turned around and went in to report.

After a while, the servant came back and invited them in.

"The three go to the side hall and wait for a while. Our wife is feeling unwell and the master is over there. I will come to see the three later."

Sitting in the side hall, Kang Wenwen and the three did not drink tea or talk, and the maids waiting beside them were a little nervous.

"What's the matter with Lu Butou coming to me?" Before the person came in, the voice came first.

Du Qianlin got up with Kang Wenwen, and bowed slightly to the county magistrate, "An arrester came to find the county magistrate naturally because of the case."

The county magistrate didn't expect Du Qianlin to block him directly, and his face turned ugly for a while.

"What case is that?"

Kang Wenwen sneered and said, "The county magistrate really forgets things too much. Five people died in the past two months, and there is a high probability that one of them was also a victim. Does the county magistrate know about such a big case?"

Seeing Du Qianlin and Kang Wenwen stabbing the county magistrate, Zhang Dengjin shut up and acted dumb.

"Hmph, are you here to question me today?" The county magistrate blew his beard and slapped the table.

Kang Wenwen and the others will not be frightened by the county magistrate.

"Yes." Kang Wenwen climbed up the pole, "Where was the county magistrate last night?"

"Presumptuous! In what capacity are you questioning me!" The county magistrate glared at Kang Wenwen.

Kang Wenwen didn't take it seriously, "Not only you, but everyone in the house was in the house last night?"

"You! You, you..." The county magistrate pointed at Kang Wen and said, "You are so audacious! How dare you run away from me to be presumptuous!"

Kang Wenwen walked forward with a sneer, "Yes, we are so bold, I not only want to question you, I also want to..."

"It seems that I came at the wrong time, magistrate." A voice interrupted Kang Wenwen's speech, and everyone looked back for the sound.

The magistrate's angry pupils instantly retracted, and he got up and greeted him with a smile, "Master Gao, rare visitors."

Gao Xianren exchanged pleasantries with the county magistrate, then turned to Kang Wenwen and the others and said, "These two friends look familiar."

Kang Wenwen smiled and hugged Gao Xianren, "Of course we have seen it before, the night you vomited blood to protect the city."

Gao Xianren didn't seem to understand Kang Wenwen's insinuation.

He smiled calmly and said, "The situation was really urgent that night, so I had to do it as a last resort. I am also very heartbroken by the death of that girl."

Kang Wenwen didn't want to make false claims with him, "Is Gao Xianren in the city last night? I don't know where Gao Xianren settled in the city?"

"Little friend asked Gao so straightforwardly, and I still don't know how to answer." Gao Xianren laughed and didn't answer directly.

"It's good to answer truthfully." Kang Wenwen said, "There is also this one behind Immortal Gao. I don't know which immortal it is?"

When Gao Xianren came in, he was followed by a man in black with his head bowed. It was going to be summer soon, and everyone was dressed lightly.But this man had a high collar, and the sleeves on his arms were tied tightly with straps, and even the palms of his hands were tied so that no skin could be seen.

"Here, this is my junior brother. He originally traveled around with Master, and this time he made a special trip to help me catch ghosts." Gao Xianren introduced.

"This little friend asked me where I was last night. Last night, I made plans for ghost hunting with my junior in the inn."

The man also raised his head at this moment, his complexion was dark and looked like he had been exposed to the sun for a long time.

"Then I don't know what to call this expert?" Kang Wenwen moved towards the man without any trace as he spoke.

However, when Kang Wenwen was only one step away from that person, Gao Xianren stepped in, "My junior brother doesn't like to be called by names, and I don't like to communicate with outsiders. If you have to find him, call him Senior Brother Gao." Bar."

Kang Wenwen took back his steps silently, and nodded with a smile, "I was the one who was abrupt."

The county magistrate snorted coldly, "I have a distinguished guest today, and we will discuss the matter of your yamen at another time."

Zhang Dengjin was frowning and was about to speak, but Kang Wenwen nodded against his previous attitude and said, "We offended you today, and we will come to the county magistrate another day to apologize."

As he said that, he gave Du Qianlin a look, and bid farewell to Gao Xianren.

"What's the matter with you?" Zhang Dengjin asked anxiously as soon as he came out, "Don't you just want to ask whether the county magistrate went to kill people last night?"

Kang Wenwen didn't care what Zhang Dengjin thought, and dragged Du Qianlin to the street.

"Did Wenwen discover anything?" Du Qianlin asked.

Kang Wenwen tilted his head and smiled at Du Qianlin, "I originally wanted to come here to see if I could meet a dead mouse, but I didn't expect to meet it."

"Although the county magistrate has no clue here, I know where Gao Xianren lives. They are here with the county magistrate now. Let's go and find out where he lives."