Nongmen Shenjue

portrait?

Wen Mingyu naturally took it.

"Is there something wrong?" He showed the portrait to Mu Qingyan.

Mu Qingyan opened the portrait, looked at it carefully, and asked: "Is this based on the narration of the servants of Prince Su's mansion?"

"Exactly." The responsibility of the God Detective Division naturally has people who are proficient in portraits.The portrait was completed, and it was recognized by everyone in Prince Su's mansion. They said that it was seven to eight parts and could be recognized at a glance.When asking the deaf elderly people in the village, they also verified the size and behavior of "Liu Sheng", and there was no big discrepancy.

Of course, one of Wen Mingyu's doubts is that someone might disguise himself.However, how many Zhu Yis are there in the world?Superficial disguises may be easy to learn, but "Liu Sheng" has appeared in Zhuangjun's palace and village for at least half a month, and outsiders have not noticed anything wrong, so the possibility of this is relatively low.

Mu Qingyan looked at the portrait, but didn't say anything. After all, it was drawn with brush and ink, not a real person.

He found an excuse, went to Prince Su's mansion, and saw Liu Sheng with his own eyes from the backtracking.

really!

This Liu Sheng is not that "Liu Sheng". Even though their body shape and appearance are quite similar, if they stand together, it is still easy to tell them apart.The two are about the same height, but there are two points of difference in stature width.Mu Qingyan examined it carefully, and found that Liu Sheng who appeared in Zhuangjun Wang's Mansion had slight modifications on his face, so that he was closer to the real Liu Sheng.The accent and manners of speaking are also deliberately imitated, which can be regarded as well-intentioned, and a lot of effort has been made in the details.

It turned out to be two Liu Sheng.

It is conceivable that the real Liu Sheng is probably dead.

This kind of method is not clever, and it is rare that the arrangement is meticulous and thorough. I am afraid that even the Prince Su's mansion thinks that Liu Sheng has been bribed.So……

"Young Master Wen has searched in the wild temples outside the city?"

Liu Sheng has completed his mission, and it is useless. According to the layout of the behind-the-scenes, instead of letting Liu Sheng hide all the time, it is better to release the body directly.When Liu Sheng's body was really found, Mrs. Qing's son must be by his side, which gave the world the feeling of "killing people to silence them".It doesn't matter whether the investigators believe it or not, the truth is whether they can find evidence to overthrow it.

If the investigator wants to get out, he may not be able to follow the trend, not to mention that there are behind-the-scenes pushes.

Smart people know that this is a trap set up against Prince Su, but if Prince Su can't break the trap, he will die.

I have to say that the organizers are vicious and cunning, killing two birds with one stone.

Naturally, Wen Mingyu didn't know what Mu Qingyan was thinking, but he trusted his judgment. Hearing what he said, he immediately ordered someone to search for it.

In the afternoon of the next day, news came that it was not Liu Sheng who had been found, but Mrs. Qing's son.

Although the God Detective Department has a lot of staff, it is impossible to find all the people by yourself.Wen Mingyu gave orders, and naturally the governor issued orders step by step, especially in the villages and towns around the capital, the Lizhengs prevented Min Zhuang from searching according to the area, but anyone who has seen strangers appearing in the past half a month must not hide it.

A lizheng reported that a family in Xiaoyangzhuang picked up a boy in the back of the village. He was six or seven years old and looked fair. He was dressed in blue cloth clothes that were probably new, and his left little finger had been cut off.

According to the description, it was Mrs. Qing's lost son.

The child was brought back to the village the evening before yesterday. The man from that family went into the mountain to cut firewood, and when he heard the cry of a child in the woods, he thought it was some naughty child from the village who ran in and had an accident.Waiting for Xunsheng to see, it was a face-to-face child who fell into an abandoned hunting pit.

At that time, the child's face was flushed, but he was not crying, but had a high fever.

That family happened to have no son, and had three daughters in a row. They liked the child when they saw it, took care of it painstakingly, and invited a doctor to see him. Naturally, they had some ideas.Of course, this matter can't be hidden, Li Zheng knows it.Li Zheng originally planned to wait for the child's fever to subside before reporting to the police, but he also thought that the child was weak, if he didn't make it through...

Now that the government is searching everywhere with great fanfare, and they want to strictly investigate strangers, they dare not hide this matter.

Upon receiving this news, Mu Qingyan and Wen Mingyu looked at each other, understanding each other.

The behind-the-scenes person let Qing's wife's son go, not because of being merciful, but because of giving the God Detective Division a specific coordinate.

If you search in the mountains near Xiaoyangzhuang, you will definitely find Liu Sheng!

"I'll go first." After discovering this, Wen Mingyu would definitely go there in person.

"I'll be there later." Mu Qingyan said.

It wasn't that he didn't want to go with Wen Mingyu on purpose, it was just because Wen Mingyu rode fast, and although Mu Qingyan had learned how to ride a horse, he didn't want to suffer like that.Anyway, it's not to arrest living people, nor is he indispensable, and it doesn't matter if he passes slowly.

Xiaoyang Village is five or six miles away from the capital, and the horses were prepared by the God Detective Department. Besides Jiao Li, Wen Mingyu specially left two people to follow Mu Qingyan.

When we arrived at Xiaoyangzhuang, the whole village was very quiet, and basically everyone stayed at home.

The Shenhunsi guarded Zhuangzi, and some of them followed Wen Mingyu to the back mountain.

Mu Qingyan went to see Mrs. Qing's son first.

The child's fever has subsided, but this time he was taken into captivity, he was frightened, his little body was buried under the quilt, he kept calling his mother, and he coughed from time to time, it was obvious that his illness was not fully recovered.

The person who stayed behind said: "Earlier, the young master also tried to ask, but the child yelled at strangers when he saw them, and no one was allowed to touch him, and he ignored everything he asked."

Mu Qingyan nodded, left the farmhouse, and went to the mountains to find Wen Mingyu.

In autumn, the vegetation is withered and yellow, the sun is mostly blocked by the trees, and the mountain breeze is blowing gently, which permeates the coolness.

Passing through the outskirts of the forest, around a low mountain, I saw Wen Mingyu and others.

"Young Master Wen!"

"Mr. Mu, this is where Liu Sheng hides Mrs. Qing's son. The previous analysis is correct, Liu Sheng is indeed dead." Wen Mingyu pointed at the corpse on the ground.

The villagers of Xiaoyangzhuang are basically only active in the outskirts of the mountains and forests, and few of them know how to hunt. In addition, each household is either busy with farm work or looking for other jobs to add income, so very few people cross the mountain ridges to go deep go.

The person lying on the ground is Liu Sheng, Liu Sheng of Prince Su's Mansion!

Judging from the traces of the body, Liu Sheng was suffocated to death by someone strangling his neck with a hemp rope from behind.There are no other scars on the body, and even the clothes are relatively neat, showing no signs of fighting.

Wen Mingyu said: "Initial judgment, he died for two days."

If he died for two days, it was the day before yesterday.

Mrs. Qing's son was discovered by the villagers also the day before yesterday.

Furthermore, it was also the night before before Mrs. Qing spat.

In view of the strict rules and regulations of the Department of Detectives, and the fact that Mrs. Qing is being held at a key point, the interrogation process is so detailed that it should be difficult for outsiders to inquire.However, it is well known that the God Detective Division took away Mrs. Qing, once Mrs. Qing was interrogated, it would be a matter of time before she vomited.

Mu Qingyan turned his gaze and saw a cave.

In the cave, a "bed" was spread out with pine needles, a quilt was thrown, and a pot was placed on the open space. There were two pairs of chopsticks, two bowls, and a few pieces of hemp rope in it, which obviously bound people up.Judging from the traces, it seems that Liu Sheng and Mrs. Qing's son are really living there.

Wen Mingyu said again: "After surveying the footprints in the cave, apart from the child's, only Liu Sheng left behind. Just from the remaining traces, there are only these two people in the cave recently."

Although there are footprints left in the cave, they are very messy, and the soil layer is not so wet, so the footprints are not clear and overlap.From the comparison of the size and shape of the footprints, it is consistent with the shoes on Liu Sheng's feet.

Mu Qingyan started backtracking, starting from the time of Liu Sheng's death.

The time went back to the day before yesterday. Before dawn, the fire in the cave was flickering.On the crude bed next to the fire, Mrs. Qing's son was huddled up and rolled up in the quilt. He seemed to be in a deep sleep. There was a man sitting next to him, similar in appearance to Liu Sheng, but with a lazy expression. While looking out of the cave, as if waiting for something.

"Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" Suddenly there were several rhythmic bird calls outside.

The eyes of the people in the cave lit up, they glanced at the child, and walked out of the cave lightly.

Not far away, there are two shadows hiding.

The man leaned over, and the three of them exchanged a few words in a low voice, and then the man returned to the cave.He extinguished the fire, inspected the cave, and retreated.There were thick and thick branches piled up outside the cave, and he moved them over to cover the entrance of the cave, which also played a role in preventing the children from coming out of the cave.

but……

The cover-up was too crude and perfunctory, the child was already seven years old, and he really wanted to come out, even though he pushed and pulled hard, he was able to come out with some effort.

This is true.

The man didn't come back after he left. The child woke up and didn't dare to move at first, probably because he couldn't stand the hunger, so he kept rubbing his stomach, crying softly, crying out that he was hungry.Seeing that the sun was rising, the man still did not appear, and the child turned over the cave without finding anything. He seemed to have an idea and tried to leave the cave.

The branches blocking the entrance of the cave are thick and lush, but there are still some sparse places.

The child was small in stature, and squeezed hard through a small gap, and finally squeezed out.

The child looked around, bewildered.

At this time, I heard someone talking, like a villager who went into the mountains to cut firewood: "Liu San, the harvest is good, the rabbit is fat enough, I want stewed meat today."

"It's okay." The other person replied with a smile.

The child hurriedly ran in the direction of the sound, but the sound kept moving until he climbed over the mountain ridge and fell into an abandoned prey pit, but he never saw anyone.The child was frightened and frightened, tired and hungry, suffering from cold and fever, and burst into tears.

Fortunately, the villagers who cut firewood heard about it and rescued him back to the village.

The voices that gave him guidance earlier were not villagers, but the two people who connected with "Liu Sheng" last night.

After leading the child away, the three of them returned to the cave last night with a comatose person with them.This coma is the real Liu Sheng!Poor Liu Sheng didn't wake up at all, and was directly strangled by the hemp rope, dying, and discarded in the cave.

From this point of view, the child who escaped by chance was a guiding stone to the outside world.

Of course, this is murder, but if there is no clue to break the situation, the behind-the-scenes will be safe and sound, and the one who kills and silences will be Prince Su's Mansion!

Even if Mu Qingyan could go back and track down those three people to find the person behind the scenes, it would be of little use.The important thing is the evidence, which can be proved to everyone, convincing the court and making the behind-the-scenes irrefutable.