[Comprehensive Martial Arts] Daoist Mo's Whisk

The mansion said that the bodies of General Fuguo and Yushe County King had been frozen, and they really were frozen.

In the ice cellar, a large pool was dug specially, filled with water, and surrounded by ice-built pool walls, in which were frozen the bodies of the two deceased who had been specially preserved.

The ice cellar was already bitingly cold, and the light was not very good. The faces of the two corpses were strangely cut off, and they were twisted and deformed under the reflection of the ice edge, making them look even more terrifying, and——

"When you froze people back then, didn't you think about how to melt the ice?!" Lu Xiaofeng squatted by the pool in disbelief, looking at the big ice pool where two corpses were frozen.

The man from the government froze his face again: "The autopsy is your business, it has nothing to do with me."

Chu Liuxiang also felt speechless.

At the beginning, the mansion said that when the body was frozen in the cellar, Chu Liuxiang thought that the Liao people would have some way to melt the ice, but in the end, he flicked his sleeves and threw the problem to them.

Ji Bingyan said: "Forget it, first cut off the body and the surrounding ice, and then melt the ice after moving it out."

Gong Jiu frowned, seeing that Mo Qi was about to cut the ice by himself, so he grabbed Mo Qi, reluctantly drew his sword out of its sheath, and swiped a few swords at the ice pool.After the sound of the gang wind sword, the ice around the corpse was cut open silently.

Gong Jiu glanced at the people in the house: "Call someone to move your people out. We don't need to worry about such trivial matters as moving an ice cube for you."

The people in the house showed a trace of dissatisfaction, but when they saw Mo Qi's calm face, they immediately stopped talking, and buried their heads in trepidation: "I'll call someone here."

The body frozen in the cuboid-shaped ice cube was quickly carried out by a few foremen brought by the mansion.Chu Liuxiang and Lu Xiaofeng took the initiative to reach out their hands to melt the ice for the two corpses, but the assistants didn't leave, but they had no hostility towards these Song people who appeared suddenly, and they also offered to help them wipe the dripping corpses as soon as possible, so as not to be damaged by the water. preserved corpses.

The dried corpse, except that it was extraordinarily cold and stiff because it had just been thawed out of the ice, did indeed retain its appearance before being frozen.

With the lessons learned from the Ma Mitu case beforehand, Chu Liuxiang asked in the first sentence: "The corpses of General Fuguo and King Yushe County have been examined by the family?"

Wu replied: "I informed my family and asked them to come and see it in person. The body of General Fuguo was identified by his adoptive daughter, and the body of King Yushe was identified by his bedside person." .The body is right."

Lu Xiaofeng was surprised and said to the mansion: "Did you convey it wrongly? This coordinator said 'the person next to the pillow', not Madam?"

Because none of the people present could speak Khitan, the conversations with Wu Zuo after entering the ice cellar were all relayed by the people in the house.

The man from the mansion shook his head: "It's the person next to him. Although the king of Yushe County has married many concubines, the position of main wife has always been vacant."

Hua Manlou continued to ask: "The righteous daughter...?"

The mansion said: "The general of Fuguo has never married a wife in his life, and he doesn't even have a concubine. This adopted daughter is the daughter of a friend he adopted. She was brought up by the general of Fuguo alone with the king of Yushe County since she was a child. of……"

Ji Bingyan pondered and said, "The King of Yushe County was brought up by the General of the Fuguo? No wonder the news of the death of the General of the Fuguo angered the King of Yushe County, making him not hesitate to quarrel with the Liao Lord, but also to track down the identity of the murderer." gone."

The general of Fuguo is actually not young anymore. Many people at his age have already begun to enjoy the joy of having children and grandchildren.But he was still wearing a battle armor, fighting on the border between Liao and Xixia, killed the enemy fiercely in the battle with Xixia, and brought back victories for Daliao several times.

Lu Xiaofeng walked around the corpse, a little surprised: "The general is usually very particular."

He has always felt that the life of a general like this who has spent his whole life rolling on horseback and bleeding blood on the battlefield should be very rough and informal.But General Fuguo is not like that. Although his hair is gray, it has been neatly groomed; although his beard is thick and fluffy, it has been carefully combed; It is very smooth.Not to mention the soldiers rolling around on the battlefield, even Lu Xiaofeng himself may not be as particular about him.

If he changed his armor and put on a rich man's clothes, it would be fine to say that he is a rich man.

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but questioned the people in the house again: "Did you really let the general's adopted daughter come to examine the body?"

The people in the house widened their eyes: "Why should I lie on this issue! Not only the adopted daughter of the General Fuguo came to see the corpse, but even the king of Yushe County. Otherwise, how could the king of Yushe County believe it? How can he be so angry that the general of Fuguo who has fought in the battlefield all his life will be killed for no reason?"

Chu Liuxiang had already taken off his armor: "The cause of death was that someone pierced his chest with a gun."

Mo Qi stared at the corpse with fixed eyes: "Why is there no gap in the armor?"

Hua Manlou couldn't see the appearance of the corpse. Hearing what Mo Qi said, he couldn't help but wondered: "The chest was pierced by a gun, but there is no gap in the armor on his body? Could it be that he was not wearing armor when he was killed?" ?”

Chu Liuxiang and Mo Qi removed the cumbersome and complicated belts that were wrapped around the waist of the general of Fuguo together: "...and he was castrated."

The corner of Gong Jiu's mouth twitched: "Why, people nowadays have this hobby of killing people?"

The last person who did this was Hua Jiang——!Mo Qi and Gong Jiuqiqi thought of this, and couldn't help but look at each other.

Could it be... Yelu Ruyu really cooperated with the shadow man, and this man was killed by the joint efforts of Hua Jiang and the shadow man?

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but fell silent, with a strange expression on his face.

Chu Liuxiang checked other parts of the corpse: "There are no other wounds." He put the armor in his hand aside, and concluded, "The gunshot wound on the chest of the corpse is the cause of death. This may be an attempt to vent anger."

Gong Jiu raised an eyebrow at the mansion and asked, "You Fuguo General, do you still have a habit of cutting off your sleeves?"

Wasn't it because those beasts who called themselves humans dared to humiliate the soldiers in the battalion that they "acted for the heavens" before Hua Jiang made a move.

The people in the government were shocked, and then they were furious: "How could the general of Fuguo be a broken sleeve?! He is such a serious and dignified person who restrains himself and restores courtesy—you don't want to spread rumors and tarnish the reputation of the general." !"

"You don't know anything about the military camp, so how can you judge? And... didn't you say earlier that General Fuguo had never been married in his life? If that's the case, it's reasonable to suspect that he is a broken sleeve." Gong Jiu didn't take the government's anger seriously.

The man from the government gritted his teeth and endured it for a while, probably because he thought of Yelu Ruyu's "exhortation", so he didn't dare to speak loudly in front of Mo Qi.After calming down for a while, he restrained his anger and said, "My elder brother is a soldier under General Fuguo. General Fuguo has been a soldier all his life and has made great contributions to Daliao. He treats the soldiers in the camp like brothers If not, how could the Fuguo army be so united and win the battles repeatedly! How could the Fuguo general do such a nasty thing!"

Chu Liuxiang was still waiting to ask, Mo Qi shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be Hua Jiang who did it."

Gong Jiu: "Why?"

Mo Qi: "When a flower general kills someone, he will definitely destroy the body and castrate it. The reason is to vent his anger. But apart from castration, there is another thing that makes him feel better."

Gong Jiukou was surprised: "...Go back instead?"

"...!" Lu Xiaofeng and the others shot Gong Jiu with looks similar to "噫——".

Mo Qi was also choked by Gong Jiu's bluntness: "...Yes. But there is no such trace on the body of the great general of Fuguo. The reason why the murderer castrated him may be different from that of the flower general."

Chu Liuxiang sighed, confused and clueless.For the time being, he stopped looking at the body of General Fuguo, turned around and walked to the body of Prince Yushe, and untied the intact skirt of his clothes: "Huh?" Chu Liuxiang blinked in surprise, "There is also a wound on the chest, but the clothes are completely intact." No defects."

Ji Bingyan glanced at it: "Have someone directly attacked you? I don't know what he did to make the murderer so angry that he didn't even need a weapon, just hit him directly."

King Yushe's left chest has only a hole left, his heart is missing, and his right chest has a deep arrow wound, which was injured by his own golden arrow.

Ji Bingyan took a look at the accessories on Prince Yushe's body: "Ice Water Jade Waist Pendant, Gold Silk Coat, Agate Gold and Silver Rings... This County King is the only one who knows how to dress up."

Chu Liuxiang grabbed the palm of Yushe County King and looked at it. There was no callus at all, and it was polished clean. The nails on the ten fingers were trimmed and rounded, and they were even slightly powdered. It is obvious that the owner of the palm attaches great importance to this pair of arrows that he usually relies on for archery. hands.

Lu Xiaofeng was not interested in looking at the clothes, and only urged Chu Liuxiang: "Take off your pants, take off your pants."

Chu Liuxiang glanced at Lu Xiaofeng speechlessly, and still took off the last piece of clothing on the deceased's body graciously.

"Why was she castrated again?" Lu Xiaofeng's face was almost wrinkled.

Chu Liuxiang asked strangely: "What's wrong with castration?"

Lu Xiaofeng made a bitter face: "The group of shadow people who fled from Da Song, when I committed crimes in Da Song, only cut off people's faces, but they didn't castrate the dead!"

Why did it change when I came to Liao Kingdom?

Mo Qi looked at Lu Xiaofeng with some surprise, and the doubts about the flower general that had been suppressed rose once again.

Chu Liuxiang thought for a while, and said: "But the people who were victimized in the Liao Kingdom were not limited to the General Fuguo and King Yushe County. Apart from these two, there were also hundreds of soldiers guarding the border who were also killed by the Shadow Man. The Xijin Mansion did not keep their bodies here. If they had not been castrated, the General of Fuguo and the King of Yushe County were just an exception? Without the corpses of the hundreds of soldiers in the middle, would they have arrived in the Liao Kingdom? This group of shadow people has changed their habit of committing crimes, and we have no way of confirming..."

Lu Xiaofeng nodded with a sad face, and was worrying, but saw Hua Manlou gently sniffing his nose, as if he was smelling something: "Qitong, did you smell something?"

Hua Manlou nodded: "Although it's already very thin, the two deceased have been rubbed with light fragrance." He paused, and added, "It's not the same fragrance, it's a different smell."

"Are you wearing light fragrance?" Lu Xiaofeng was having a hard time understanding, "It's alright for Yushe County King to be so particular, but why does the General Fuguo still wear light fragrance?"

Hua Manlou approached the corpse of General Fuguo, slightly approached and smelled it again: "...it smells familiar, as if... I've smelled it somewhere before. But I can't remember it right away."

Chu Liuxiang was also a little puzzled: "The scent should be given to them by the deceased, right?"

Hua Manlou sighed softly: "It would be great if the corpses of those hundreds of soldiers were preserved here. First, we can verify whether these dead people were all castrated. Second, we can also check , Do those soldiers also have a light fragrance?"

The people in the government complex looked a little ugly.Because these Song people talked about it, it seemed that they were blaming the Xijin Mansion for failing to preserve the bodies of those soldiers, which led to the incoherence of the whole case now.

Suddenly, there was an older man in the work on the side, who said a few words to the mansion.

"What did he say?" Gong Jiu asked the mansion.

The government said: "He said, if you really want to examine the bodies of those soldiers...they know that there are several corpses that were not claimed by their families, and they were later buried in mass graves. If you need them, they can Take you to dig out those corpses."

"However... You'd better not have too much hope. Those corpses don't have coffins, and they have been buried in the soil for at least two or three months. Although it is better than directly exposing corpses to the wilderness... But after all, it has been so long Now, looking at it now, it may be rotten."

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It doesn't matter how rotten they are, their main purpose is to check whether even these soldiers have been castrated.

Gong Jiu was smoked until his brows were almost connected together, Hua Manlou had a keen sense of smell, and at this time he was also covering his mouth and nose tightly, standing beside Gong Jiu with a pale face, far away from the dug grave.Not to mention Ji Bingyan, he even stood farther than Huamanlou.

"No, their bodies are intact. Apart from the fatal wound on the chest, there are no other wounds." Chu Liuxiang came out of the grave.

His face was as usual, after all, he didn't smell any bad smell.Lu Xiaofeng was in a more miserable situation, he was so smoked that he retched several times, and was teased by Chu Liuxiang whether he "had it".

Mo Qi was still squatting next to the corpse, except for his ugly face, but his hand to turn over the corpse was steady.With that serious look, those who didn't know thought he was looking for pearls, not a pool of carrion that was about to turn into mud.

"There is a problem." Mo Qi felt all the corpses carefully before coming out of the grave.

Lu Xiaofeng was almost smoked to death, seeing Mo Qi came out of the grave, he hurriedly crawled out too.

Gong Jiu made a "stop" gesture to Mo Qi who was about to come from a distance, covered his mouth and nose and said in disgust: "Finally, I found something wrong."

"..." Mo Qi stopped in a hurry, causing Chu Liuxiang and Lu Xiaofeng to look narrowly at each other, "The corpses of these soldiers are divided into two categories. Those who have been soaked in water and swollen. Soldiers who have not been thrown into the water have gaps in their clothes, which are consistent with the wounds on their chests."

Lu Xiaofeng continued: "In other words, when they were killed, they were wearing clothes."

Mo Qi nodded: "The other type of dead who have been soaked in water, their corpses are more decomposed, almost only bones are left, but their clothes are intact without any damage."

Chu Liuxiang said: "That is to say, when they were killed, they were not wearing their clothes. The armor they are wearing now was put on again after they were killed."

Hua Manlou laughed softly.

Lu Xiaofeng heard the laughter very sensitively, and said angrily, "Qitong, what are you laughing at?! Are you laughing at me now that I stink!"

Hua Manlou said with a smile: "It's not very stinky, it's very stinky. But I'm not kidding, I just think that the way you and Xiangshuai each answered a sentence from Daoxian just now looks like the second general hum ha."

Chu Liuxiang laughed, and joked with Hua Manlou in a very open-minded way: "Young Master Hua, hehe, the second general is from the Buddhist sect, and our Taoist priest is from the Taoist sect. If we want to say what we look like, it should be the bright moon and the clear breeze."

Hearing this, Mo Qi suddenly subconsciously glanced at Gong Jiu.

Lu Xiaofeng shouted: "Daoxian! What do you think Jiu Gongzi will do when you say this? Don't tell me you have to get Jiu Gongzi's permission to accept me and Xiangshuai as Dao boys?"

Mo Qi silently lowered his eyes: "..."

Isn't that right? After all, the name Qingfeng had already been taken by Jiu Gongzi when he was in Manli.

Ji Bingyan slowly walked back from the back path: "But why did the shadow man dispose of these soldiers separately when disposing of the corpses? What's the purpose?"

He brought the topic back on track.

No one can answer Ji Bingyan's question.There are so few clues now, with only these few corpses, nothing can be found at all.

Ji Bingyan thought for a while, and said to the mansion: "Please ask Wu Zuo, how many soldiers were there underwater? How many soldiers were there on the shore? This...you should have counted them at that time, right?"

The man from the government relayed Ji Bingyan's question to Wu Zuo, who recalled it for a while, checked with each other, and after confirming that it was correct, they spoke a series of words to the man from the house.

After hearing this, the man from the government said to Ji Bingyan: "Only a dozen or so soldiers were thrown into the water, and the rest were thrown on the shore."

Chu Liuxiang asked in a low voice: "Why are you doing this? Did you think of something?"

Ji Bingyan shrugged: "No, I just thought that when the shadow people killed the soldiers who were thrown into the water, they had to take off their clothes, kill them, and then put them on again. It was so troublesome. Did they just have nothing to do? , still has a plan."

Ji Bingyan raised her chin and pointed to the grave: "Corpse soaked in water will swell and deform, and the traces on the corpse will probably be washed away or destroyed by the current. These corpses thrown into the water, Is it because there are certain characteristics that attracted the attention of the shadow people... and the shadow people threw their bodies into the water in order to destroy these characteristics?"

Chu Liuxiang sighed: "... What you said is very possible. It's a pity that this corpse has been buried in the soil for more than three months, and it is almost rotten. If we can come earlier..."

Maybe we can find some more clues.

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When they returned to the mansion from the mass grave, the mansion no longer followed them.They didn't go straight back to Yelu Ruyu's mansion, but randomly found a good-looking restaurant along the way, sat in the lobby, and ordered some peanuts and wine.

Lu Xiaofeng laboriously gestured to Xiao Er: "Hua... born!" He gestured in the air with his hand in the shape of a peanut.

Xiao Er cast an expression of shock and disgust, and said something in a very angry tone.

Lu Xiaofeng was inexplicably stared at by Xiao Er: "Why is he staring at me?"

Mo Qi, who was the last one to go to the wing room to take a shower, came down from the stairs, just in time to hear Xiao Er's scolding: "... What did you say to him just now?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "Hey, I don't know Khitan, so what can I say to him, I just gestured to him in the shape of a peanut!" He said, and gestured in the air again.

Xiao Er's eyes widened, and he cursed again in Khitan.

This time, even the guests around cast strange glances at Lu Xiaofeng.

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't stand this kind of chicken and duck talking: "What did he say!!"

Mo Qi pursed his lips, Lu Xiaofeng felt suspiciously that he seemed to be holding back a smile: "He said you...was obscene."

Lu Xiaofeng: "What am I?! Why would I be obscene if I want a peanut?! No, wait, Daoxian, you understand what he said!"

Mo Qi didn't answer Lu Xiaofeng's words, but said something to Xiao Er in a low voice in Khitan, and Xiao Er showed a sudden realization in his eyes, and murmured a few more words with an apology on his face, then turned and walked away, looking It looks like it's going to get peanuts.

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't understand it, he was still asking after Mo Qi sat down, he was bound to find out that he was ugly, he couldn't be scolded obscenely for nothing: "Why do you say I'm obscene!"

Huamanlou also showed an expression of restrained laughter, it was really funny that Lu Xiaofeng's tone of voice was aggrieved, dazed and angry.

Mo Qi coughed lightly: "They thought...you gestured...meaning that you want a girl to accompany you."

The two circles don't look like girls'... Cough.

Lu Xiaofeng froze by the table, Hua Manlou and Chu Liuxiang laughed loudly.

Xiao Er quickly brought up peanuts and wine, and as an apology, he also sent a small dish of beef.

Chu Liuxiang also finished laughing, and a cloud of sadness once again appeared on her face.He took a few mouthfuls of peanuts carelessly, looked at the center of the hall, and sighed: "Now, I miss the storyteller in the restaurant a little bit."

Unlike now, they are not familiar with the place where they lived in Daliao, and they can't collect any information.

Lu Xiaofeng was also very worried, but he was different from Chu Liuxiang. The more worried he was, the more he couldn't stop his hands and mouth. While knocking on the peanuts, he responded, "Yes. We want to know how much more the General Fuguo has. What is the relationship between Prince Yushe and Yelu Ruyu? You will definitely not be able to find anything if you ask the people. You want to ask the officials of the Liao Dynasty... How could they tell us this kind of thing truthfully? What about these envoys from the Song Dynasty? What can we do!"

Gong Jiu didn't touch the peanuts or the wine, and only slowly rubbed his fingers on the jade pendant on the sword around his waist. He said indifferently: "I've already sent secret guards to investigate. As long as this Daliao isn't like There is an iron barrel guarded like Yumenguan, and no news can be spread, and my hidden guards can always detect some clues."

Gong Jiu moved his buttocks.

Sit closer to Mo Qi's direction.

Mo Qi had just finished bathing, and the smell of the grave had long since disappeared from his body. The familiar, refreshing fragrance lingered on the tip of Gong Jiu's nose again.

Gong Jiu narrowed his eyes contentedly.

He was about to lean towards Mo Qi's direction again, when another group of men in white walked into the restaurant's gate.

It was the secret guard he sent out to investigate and came back.

When the hidden guards came to the table, Mo Qi said before Gong Jiu: "You didn't encounter any trouble, did you?"

The leader of the secret guard bowed respectfully with fists folded: "When you return to the teacher, you guys almost collided with Yelu Ruyu's people when we were investigating the news, but fortunately we fulfilled our mission and brought the information back."

Gong Jiu was impatient: "Say."

"Yes." The leader of the dark guard said respectfully, "Not all the officials of the Liao Kingdom are loyal. We have investigated some officials who have secretly dealt with the Song Dynasty in private, and we will know as soon as we press: the general of the Fuguo and the King Yushe County is not an enemy of Yelu Ruyu."

"The general of the auxiliary country has always been loyal to the country and not to the emperor. Whoever sits in the position of Liao Lord is loyal to him. So whether Yelu Ruyu ascended the throne or not has no effect on him. His position has always been neutral, Yelu Ru There is no need for Yu to get rid of him."

"It's even more impossible for Prince Yushe. He is just an idle prince. He never cares about government affairs and only concentrates on having fun. There is no need for Yelu Ruyu to get rid of him."

Mo Qi and Gong Jiu fell silent together, thinking about the same question in their hearts: Since Yelu Ruyu and the two deceased were not in a hostile relationship, does it mean that he really did not attack them?In other words, the two castrated corpses were not made by General Hua—the shadow man castrated General Fuguo and King Yushe County, but there was actually another reason?

But what could be the reason?

After the dark guard reported, he quickly withdrew.Such a large group of people in white suddenly poured into the tavern, which is still very eye-catching.

Lu Xiaofeng had already finished eating the peanuts and had nothing else to do. While thinking, he knocked on the table without any rhythm: "Tell me, why did these shadow people cut off the faces of those dead? Could it be that those dead Is your face of any use to them?"

Chu Liuxiang couldn't figure this out either: "Theoretically speaking, there is only one reason for the destruction of the face: to cover up the identity of the deceased. But these deceased have nameplates on their bodies, and after death, relying on the nameplates, there are corresponding family members who come to claim the corpses. It doesn’t make sense to cover up your identity.”

"Could it be the same as castration, but also to vent anger?" Lu Xiaofeng murmured with blank eyes, "Oh, this case is really clueless."

He knocked on the table a few more times, and suddenly said: "How can we be so dead? The Lord Liao set a deadline for us on this case, and now there are only five days left." He cheered up, " Seeing that everyone is not very interested, how about I give you a long song?"

The wine glass in Hua Manlou's hand hit the ground with a "crack".

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Everyone was kicked out by Xiao Er, all because of Lu Xiaofeng's terrifying singing voice that could kill him.

Lu Xiaofeng touched the position of his mustache in embarrassment, but found nothing - shortly after being kicked out by Xiaoer, his beard was cut off by Gong Jiu with a sword in anger.

Lu Xiaofeng didn't dare to shake his wit anymore, he was glad that Mo Daoxian was by his side, otherwise he looked at Gong Jiu's eyes before he drew his sword, it was clear that he wanted to shave off his whole face—not beard.

"Who would shave his face to vent his anger? Because he is ugly?" Lu Xiaofeng babbled, "Or is this shaving his face purely just the murderer's intention to leave a mark?"

Mo Qi said in a deep voice: "Impossible. The shadow people don't want their actions to be discovered. Leaving a mark conflicts with the shadow people's desire to hide their tracks. The murderer's slashing of a person's face must not be due to the shadow people's task. .”

Lu Xiaofeng sighed: "Then it can't be because he is jealous of his handsome parents!"

Chu Liuxiang laughed: "I've seen people destroying people's appearance because they are jealous of their beauty. But I haven't seen people who are jealous of their handsome appearance. If they shave people's faces, it's really because of this." The reason is, when I catch them, I must ask if they know Shi Guanyin."

Hua Manlou was quite curious: "Shi Guanyin? I also heard about it in Jianghu. I heard that Shi Guanyin was defeated by you Xiangshuai. But I haven't heard the specific story."

Ji Bingyan sneered.

Chu Liuxiang pretended not to hear: "Hey, if Mr. Hua wants to hear it, I'll tell the story again, so it doesn't matter!"

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Everyone came out of the restaurant all the way, and went directly out of the city, ready to go to the location where the body was found, that is, the Sanggan River to have a look.

Along the Sanggan River is a vast land, and it is also the place where herdsmen herd cattle and sheep on weekdays.But looking around here now, neither a cow nor a sheep can be seen.

Mo Qi frowned slightly: "Is the shadow man shaving his face just to frighten him?"

At least now the people really dare not approach the Sanggan River.

"It's also possible. But if this is the case, it means that the place where the shadow people live is near the Sanggan River, so they hope that the people can stay away from here." Hua Manlou pondered for a while.

Lu Xiaofeng put his hand on his forehead and looked around: "But there's no one to see here! Let alone people, I can't even see any tents!"

Chu Liuxiang hesitated for a moment: "Let's look for it? If the shadow man lives near the Sanggan River, maybe the people here will notice something unusual..."

Everyone felt that Chu Liuxiang was right, so they walked upstream along the Sanggan River.

Ji Bingyan said indifferently: "No matter how far the people retreat, they will never leave the Sanggan River. This river is the source of water for their survival. Without the Sanggan River, the water they drink and feed their cattle and sheep , you have to walk hundreds of miles, and you may not be able to obtain it.”

Gong Jiu nodded: "They moved away not necessarily because they were expelled or were shocked by these corpses, but because the water source in this area has been polluted by corpses. They will move in order to have clean water. But whether it is For some reason, they must have traveled upstream along the way, and it is impossible to go downstream where the corpses have been dumped."

Both of them said with certainty, and the facts were exactly as they expected. After walking for a stick of incense, everyone finally saw a snow-white and thick tent stationed together.

There is a large herd of cattle and sheep circled outside the tent, and they all get together to keep warm.Especially those flocks, from a distance, look like a large group of soft fluffy clouds.

Among the crowd, only Mo Qi could speak Khitan, so the questioning was left to Mo Qi.But they walked through several tents in a row, but they were all driven out by the herdsmen inside with extra vigilance and hostility. Even Mo Qi's invincible face was useless.

Gong Jiu was eager to give it a try: "You don't have to drink a toast. Why don't I just arrest a few people..."

Mo Qi frowned: "No."

Chu Liuxiang and Lu Xiaofeng turned their faces in unison, feeling that Jiu Gongzi might lose his temper with Mo Qi in the next moment, but they only heard a stretched "Okay———" in the end.

Chu Liuxiang's eyes were gratified: "..."

Lu Xiaofeng's eyes became enigmatic: "..."

Ji Bingyan glanced at Gong Jiu, and then reluctantly took out a pearl from her sleeve.Apparently when he first looked at Gong Jiu, he wondered if he could grab one of the pearls from Gong Jiu's body.Considering that no matter how much money you have, you have to live to spend it, Ji Bingyan made the next best effort to contribute her own pearl.

Ji Bingyan said: "Exchange this pearl with them for information. The Liao Kingdom does not produce pearls, and this pearl is enough to exchange them for a lot of good things in the market."

The speed at which Ji Bingyan handed the pearl to Mo Qi was so slow that one could see his inner struggle at a glance, not to mention his eyes that never moved from the pearl from the beginning to the end.

When Hu Tiehua called Ji Bingyan "dead rooster", he didn't do it casually.

With the pearl contributed by Ji Bingyan, when Mo Qi changed a tent and asked again, someone finally responded.

There were six people crammed into the tent of this family. Except for an adult man and a woman who looked sick, the remaining four were half-grown children, huddled under the quilt, not wanting to be cold. Get out of bed.

It can be seen that the living conditions of this family are indeed very embarrassing, no wonder they can't resist the temptation of Pearl.

After the man took the pearl, he said to Mo Qi, "What do you want to ask?"

Mo Qi glanced at the child who was coughing in the quilt: "...Why did you move here?"

The man hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Of course it's for the water source...The downstream water has already soaked the corpses, who would dare to drink it? Even if it is fed to cattle and sheep! If there is any disease, then the next year ..."

Can this day go on?

What the man said made sense, but seeing his hesitant expression, Lu Xiaofeng always felt that he was hiding something.

Ji Bingyan didn't want her pearls to be wasted like this at all, and asked directly: "Isn't it because of something strange that you moved?"

The children in the quilt all showed expressions of fear and shrank together.The coughing child was so frightened that he coughed harder and his face flushed.

Hua Manlou felt very sorry when he heard it, so he walked up to the man and took out three gold leaves: "You just say it, we won't talk nonsense after we go out."

After holding back for a while, the man lowered his voice and said, "We... used to herd sheep and cattle downstream. Several families lost their cattle and sheep."

"At the beginning, we thought that some family had dirty hands and feet and stole it. But after calling everyone together and counting them, no one family had more cattle and sheep..."

Lu Xiaofeng: "Could it be boiled and eaten..."

The man shook his head: "You have also seen that we live so close to each other, who cooks beef soup or mutton soup can't smell it? No one slaughtered cattle and sheep at all. Those cattle and sheep just disappeared inexplicably." .And...they are all from mothers."

Chu Liuxiang rubbed her nose: "They're all female? Could it be that the thief wants to drink cow's and goat's milk?"

The man was helpless: "How do we know what the thief thinks?"

He continued: "After the cattle and sheep disappeared seven or eight times in a row, everyone couldn't sit still, because every family had stolen. So, we got together and said that the two families took turns to watch the night, so that You can know who stole the cattle and sheep in the middle of the night."

"Have you caught anyone?" Chu Liuxiang stood up straight, as if she had expected the result.

The man shook his head quickly, his face pale: "That's not human! That's clearly a ghost! A ghost that eats human faces! And there's not one or two! They floated over from the sky, grabbed cattle and sheep, and then threw things down from the sky , turned around and floated away again. At night, none of the night watchmen dared to check what they had thrown down. It was not until morning when everyone woke up that they gathered together to see what the ghosts dropped. s things--"

Lu Xiaofeng: "It's a soldier's body."

The man was speechless and could only nod his head repeatedly.

Everyone exchanged glances: From what it sounds like, those ghosts should be shadow people who know how to do light work.

What is the purpose of stealing people's cattle and sheep, but also stealing cows and ewes? It doesn't make sense!

Everyone came out of the man's tent in a daze, and the cold wind outside made their hearts even colder.

Mo Qi whispered: "Since they will come to Sanggan River to steal cattle and sheep, at least it means that the place where they live is indeed quite close to here. Otherwise, they will return back and forth with adult cattle, sheep and corpses."