Liu Xiang is dead!
This was beyond Su Xiaopei's expectations. It's as if you've studied your opponent's situation and come up with various countermeasures. After you've practiced your peerless magic, you're waiting to compete in the arena, and your opponent has put on a stance that you're ready to let your horses go. . However, just as the battle whistle was about to sound, the opponent disappeared out of thin air.
just this.
Su Xiaopei never imagined that the other party's ruthlessness would be so quick, decisive and accurate. Liu Xiang is currently the best breakthrough point, but Du Chengming eliminated him. As long as there is the slightest mistake and error, he will deal with it. He got ahead of her.
Su Xiaopei stared at Liu Xiang's corpse and did not speak. But all the people around were fried. Liu Xiang was catching fast. This yamen was full of his brothers. His own good brother was killed by the wicked and arrogantly placed on the street. How could the brothers swallow this matter? .
Several arresting officials rushed to look for Lord Fu Yin, and when the Governor arrived, everyone knelt on the ground: "Sir, please be the master of Brother Xiang and punish the murderer!"
When the governor saw the situation in the courtyard, his face was also ashen when he saw the fiery red coffin. As soon as he raised his hand, he asked everyone to stand up, saying that the evildoer's action was indifferent to the king's law, and it was a provocation to the official family, which must not be tolerated. The whole ya, up and down, must be united to find out this villain and bring him to justice. The crowd shouted and shouted, and everyone was angry.
The governor called him for an immediate autopsy. Several yamen picked up Liu Xiang's body, put it on the felt cloth, and moved it to the post-mortem room. The other officials did not want to leave, nor bothered them, so they waited around the house from a distance. Su Xiaopei, Ran Feize, Qin Dezheng, Fu Yin and others entered the room and observed carefully. Zuo Zuo checked it carefully, and reported to the governor and the others that Liu Xiang died of a double-edged sword wound, both of which were stabbed in the chest. Other than that, there were no other injuries.
Ran Feize waited and stopped, and then went to check. After looking at it for a while, he said: "The murder weapon is a two-foot-long sword. The murderer is as tall as Liu Chukuai. He uses his right hand and is highly skilled in martial arts. When carrying the sword, he uses internal force. It was a big hit. There was no hesitation. The wound from the sword showed that he had twisted the handle of the sword. This should be the first strike. Liu Chukuai had not yet been lethal when the sword went down. He twisted the handle to intensify it. Liu Chukuai's pain also taught him not to shout. This is the second sword, this sword kills, and the technique is very neat."
For a time, no one spoke in the room, and everyone felt very heavy. The perpetrator was so vicious, killing people was not counted, and he was still torturing Liu Xiang when he was dying. Qin Dezheng had seen a lot of such murders, and his eyes warmed when he heard it. His heart was really uncomfortable when his brother suffered this bad luck.
Su Xiaopei walked aside, took Liu Xiang's saber and handed it to Ran Feize: "Look at the strong man, there are any traces on this saber, can you see that Liu Zhukuai can pass the murderer?"
Ran Feize drew out the knife and looked at it carefully. "There are no new marks. With the strength of the murderer, the texture of this knife, or the combination, will definitely leave marks."
Su Xiaopei nodded. The governor frowned: "Ran Zhuangshi is saying, from this knife, it can be seen that Liu Chukuai never made a move?"
"It can be seen from the knife and body that he did not make a move and has no defensive wounds."
The governor turned his head and glanced at Su Xiaopei, and asked, "What do you think of the girl?"
"It was done by an acquaintance. Liu Chukuai recognized the murderer, so he did not expect the other party to have murderous intentions. He did it at close range, because the attack was frontal. With Liu Chukuai's skill, if he attacked from a distance, how could he be able to do it? He drew a knife to block a few moves. His clothes were only half covered with mud, and he had never seen mud and dust all over his body. Obviously, he had not rolled on the ground. He fell to the ground after his death. It is the yard, so there will be dust and mud. There will also be dust and mud on the street, but killing people in the street is too risky, so it must be in the courtyard. Liu Zhukuai is willing to go with that person or find that person, It also proves that he knew the murderer. The murderer killed him with two swords. He was quite calm, and his emotions were calm and not violent. It was premeditated without a word or anger. But the first sword was deliberately torturing him. There is a lot of resentment among people, which proves that Liu Zhukuai knows this person, and it has been a long time, and there are still many opportunities to deal with each other, which is why such resentment can accumulate."
Su Xiaopei said this and stopped for a while. She looked at the people in the room, and then continued: "According to what the talented and strong man said, the murderer is a male, a member of the martial arts."
"Wulin people?" Qin Dezheng was surprised, "I know about Liu Xiang. Few of the cases he handles involve martial arts."
Su Xiaopei didn't answer this, she just continued: "Yesterday when Liu Zhukuai left the government office, the gatekeeper saw him. He went east and never came back. The governor and Qin must know, because Liu Zhukui saw it. Almost yesterday, he didn't return to the yali, and everyone went out to look for him, but he didn't find him, and after asking many people, he didn't see him. Now that the body is here, I dare to say, if Liu Zhukuai can go. If it is far away, there must be a businessman who sees him in the East Market. If no one sees him, it proves that he has never gone far. Two or three streets to the east are quite quiet. If you walk quietly, you will not attract attention. , Your Excellency can send someone to search this area. The person has just died and the bloodstains have not been cleaned up so well. The murder scene will definitely be found. The place is quiet and unobtrusive. Dust and mud, but considering that there is no abandoned place near this market, it must be a yard. A small courtyard in a remote corner, please send someone to investigate."
The remarks were reasonable and reasonable, and the governor thought it was quite reasonable, so he ordered Qin Dezheng to arrange manpower to investigate each of the small courtyards in the remote alleys of Dongsantiao Street. He also said that this coffin is not an ordinary thing, and the color of the lacquer is also unusual, and then sent someone to invite the heads of the coffin shop and the artisan lacquer shop in the city to come to the government office to recognize, who did it all? Find out who bought the coffin.
"Sir." Ran Feize said: "Sir, please check the street, everyone, please pay attention to the people and stalls around the street. If you find the place of the murder, the people nearby may have seen the murderer, or it may be Someone who knows."
"I know." Qin De said righteously, "I will arrange it immediately."
Su Xiaopei looked at Liu Xiang's corpse and heard Qin Dezheng go out with a quick call to all the arresters, and everyone shouted that they would go all out and swear to punish the murderer. The meeting was lively outside, but it was a little cold in the corpse. Su Xiaopei looked at Liu Xiang and couldn't help sighing. Suddenly feeling warm on her hand, Ran Feize came over and shook her hand. She turned her head and glanced at him, and he whispered to her, "Although it's inappropriate, I still have to say, it's time to go back for breakfast. If you want to catch the murderer, don't go hungry."
Su Xiaopei was relieved by his teasing and nodded.
The two returned to the house, and some words could finally be said. "Could it be Du Chengming?"
Ran Feize shook his head: "I just received the news yesterday, he is in Gaofeng Town."
"That's not too far from here, right?"
"That's right." Ran Feize took Su Xiaopei to the kitchen and said to her while cooking, "Du Chengming is more ruthless than we thought. We overestimated the importance of Liu Xiang to him. This third murder case did not go as they expected. He couldn't take it any longer. At this distance, someone must have sent a letter to him with flying pigeons."
"Does God count?"
"It must be them. But Liu Xiang has never been on guard. Obviously he didn't expect things to change. There are small roles in the gate of God's calculation. Even if he is the manager of the branch, Liu Xiang must be very mixed with him. Familiar, have some friendship. Can you not take Liu Xiang seriously, and there is a grudge, I think it is Gu Kang. I received news before that Gu Kang left Wuzhen, and I think it has been not far from Du Chengming. When something happened here, Du Chengming couldn't come right away, but sent him to clean up the mess. The more Liu Xiang moved, the more flaws he revealed, so they simply killed him."
"This is also a disgrace for me, so I don't think I'm smart. Teach me to know, what I'm thinking, they all know."
"Really?" Ran Feize took a piece of egg in the soup and handed it to Su Xiaopei's mouth, motioning her to open her mouth. Su Xiaopei took the egg with an "ah", frowned at the breakfast made by Ran Feize, and did not look at the corpse until early in the morning. Is it really suitable for him to make these yellow-yellow-red soup with steamed buns? That is to say, she doesn't care about being able to stand it, so if she changed to another girl, she would have packed up her baggage and fled.
Su Xiaopei sighed inwardly, what if she leaves and leaves him alone? She leaned over and hugged his waist.
"Well, this egg is so deliciously boiled?" Ran Feize also tasted it himself, and thought it was really delicious.
"Yeah." It's delicious. Su Xiaopei continued to hold his waist, she didn't dislike his craftsmanship, but she didn't want to tell him. "At this point, the third case is no longer interesting to Du Chengming. We are mainly guarding against the fourth case. We hope those arrangements will be useful. This time, we can't teach him to take the lead."
"They thought that the more Liu Xiang's actions, the louder the flaws, but they didn't think that the more they moved, the same. It's easy to blame others, but it's not easy to do it yourself. From that yard, from that coffin, there must be something to check. Xiaopei, Liu Xiang's death means that they themselves are in disarray, and it may not be a bad thing for us. The fourth one can definitely be stopped."
"I'm thinking about the end of the third one. Guess Du Chengming's other tricks? It's not his job to end this silently. He probably won't be able to throw the corpse at the gate of the government office, because he has already thrown it away. I've given Liu Xiang a warning. I guess he would have a broken limb or some bloody arrangements before, but now these are not deterrent. Strong man, I can't guess what he can do, so I feel really uncomfortable. ."
"Yeah." Ran Feize patted the arm she was holding, "Then you can hold it." Hold it until he feels comfortable.
Su Xiaopei didn't speak, her head was resting on his generous back, and she really held it like that for a while.
By the time I could eat breakfast, the soup and steamed buns were cold. But Su Xiaopei and Ran Feize didn't mind.
At noon that day, the arresters found the yard where Liu Xiang was killed. The blood on the ground was cleaned up and some dirt was covered. However, because the arresters searched with all their might, they were very careful. After looking carefully, I finally found it.
That yard is the place where Liu Xiang, who Ran Feize knew yesterday, went in and never came out. He and Su Xiaopei never talked about it before, just to avoid suspicion, but the inference based on the evidence also led everyone to the correct address. flaw. And the fortune-teller who set up a stall on the street did not set up a stall today, but everyone who was there yesterday was brought back to the government for a detailed examination, and the fortune-teller was no exception. .
Of course, Su Xiaopei's focus was to examine that Gualang carefully, but at this time he received news that two bodies were found under a plane tree on West Street. To be precise, one is a corpse, and the other is the corpse of a little girl.
In extraordinary times, when he heard that it was the little girl's body, Su Xiaopei immediately decided to go there with the officials to see it.
The place where the corpse was abandoned was not too far away, and Su Xiaopei arrived quickly in a carriage. Although there were a lot of people gathered at the scene, there were enthusiastic people who stopped the good people, so the corpse was not turned over, and the scene was maintained well. Several officials arrived first and asked the people who were watching on the roadside. In this clear sky and on the street, no one saw how the two corpses appeared.
"At that time, Ergouzi and Tao Si were fighting. Tao Si said that Ergouzi stole his purse, Ergouzi said no, and the two started fighting. Everyone knew that Tao Si was a bad guy. Ruthless, he took out his knife, Ergouzi shouted and called his brothers to help. This is Tao Si's land, and of course there are helpers. Before the fight was over, someone screamed suddenly, and the big guy turned his head and saw that there was a corpse lying here."
I asked several people in a row, and they all said the same thing. The officials had no choice but to detain Ergouzi, Tao Si and others who were fighting back for retrial.
Su Xiaopei stared at the two corpses, and the more he looked, the more strange he felt. The corpse had long since decayed and only bones remained. Ran Feize told her that it belonged to a man. And the little girl had a broken arm, her hair was cut short, and her broken arm and blood-stained hair were randomly thrown beside the corpse. Su Xiaopei could understand the reason why the little girl had her hair cut off, it was aimed at her. The broken arm and blood-stained hair, she suspected that Du Chengming's group planned to throw them at the gate of the government office or to scare her, implying that she didn't find someone on time, so she meant to take a good look first.
Now this third case has not achieved the desired effect for Du Chengming. She can understand even if he throws out the corpse, but what does it mean to have a pair of male corpses
The official came over and wanted to take away the two corpses, but Su Xiaopei stopped him. There must be some meaning to this placement, and she still needs to think about it.
The man's corpse was placed sideways under the tree, while the little girl's corpse was opposite him, supported by something in her clothes, making her sit in a sitting position. Ran Feize looked over and said it was a bamboo pole. Why sit with her on it? And her eyes were still open.
Su Xiaopei's heart was beating wildly, she walked over, looked carefully, and found that the girl's eyelids had been cut off. Su Xiaopei resisted the feeling of nausea, squatted beside the girl's corpse, followed her gaze and saw the male corpse lying sideways under the tree, does it have any special meaning? Why don't you force her to watch? Could it be that she would let her watch Ran Feize die
But using the corpse to express this is too ineffective. It would be more meaningful to kill a tall man wearing the clothes that Ran Feize was used to wearing.
At this time, the official brought an aunt to identify the corpse of the little girl and let her see if it was the missing person from the Orion family.
The aunt was startled when she saw Su Xiaopei squatting next to the corpse, Su Xiaopei stood up and moved away. The auntie trembled and was so frightened that she looked over cautiously. After taking a look, he suddenly backed away and said, "It's her, it's really her. It's too miserable, how can she be so cruel, her parents died early, she was only fourteen, and she was like this when she was only fourteen. How can those who kill thousands of knives be so ruthless?"
Su Xiaopei didn't listen to her cries carefully, she was still staring at the corpse, she always felt that there was something she should remember, but what was it
At this time, Ran Feize came over and said to her: "The official said that they went to the girl's mud house and found that the girl behind the house had dug up her father's grave. Her mother's is fine, but her father's was dug up. opened."
Her father's grave
"Strong man." Su Xiaopei suddenly understood. She began to tremble and began to be cold. Really shaking, she reached out and grabbed Ran Feize, she needed someone to help her.
"How old is that girl?"
"Fourteen." Ran Feize was frightened by her reaction and hugged her.
"Then, that tree..." Su Xiaopei pointed to the tree beside the corpse, and his words were incomplete.
"It's Wutong." Ran Feize frowned, very worried. "Xiao Pei, what's wrong with you?"
Wutong Street, male corpse.
She had seen pictures of her father's body many times, lying on his side, covered in blood, under a tree by the side of the road. She lost her father when she was fourteen years old.
"Xiao Pei." Ran Feize had to use some force to hug her tightly.
Su Xiaopei stared at the male corpse, then turned to look at the corpse of the fourteen-year-old girl who was forced to stare at her father's corpse, she seemed to hear Du Chengming sneer in her ear: "Do you think you are smart? Knowing you better than you can imagine."
Su Xiaopei's eyes turned black. Dad, Dad, Dad. Her father, she went to study psychology for him, and she embarked on the path of criminal investigation for him.
dad!
Ran Feize took Su Xiaopei back to the carriage half-embracing, he pinched her face and patted her cheek.
Su Xiaopei came back to his senses and said pitifully to Ran Feize, "I want to go home."
"Okay, I'll take you back."
"It's not this home, I want to go back."
"Xiao Pei." Ran Feize frowned.
"He is not Cheng Jiangyi, a strong man, I was wrong, I was wrong, he is not Cheng Jiangyi."
"Then who is he?"
"I don't know, I don't know who he is. But he knows who I am, he also knows about my dad's death, he knows who I am." That feeling of being stared at by the devil.