The officers scattered and searched back and forth, but there was indeed no one in sight. After more than half a month, except for the side room where the old doorman lived, the other rooms have been covered with a thin layer of ash, and there really is no trace of living.
Gu Shun had already learned from Mu Xiyun the location where Hongyu found the body. After discussing it with Chen Chutou, he left a few guards to get the old man out of the gate, and put a seal on the door to seal the tooth shop. Take the others out of town and up the mountain.
Pingxian County is in the southwest of Evian Town. Together with Evian Town and Qingxi Town, the three towns stretch out their arms like one person and hold Cuiping Mountain in their arms. The group hurried to the foot of the mountain and walked along the mountain road for nearly ten miles. At the corner of a mountain road, they found the remains of several ox carts, and there were some soft and broken silver nearby. Due to the recent rain, there were no traces on the mountain road, but Gu Shun, who was careful, found dried blood on several leeward rocks.
"It can be speculated that Wang Ping, together with four nurses half a month ago, took a dozen or so children and was going to trade somewhere." Chen Zhaotou stroked his beard and said, "This road goes three miles north and east. You can go to Evian Town, and to the west, you can lead to all parts of the Central Plains." Before he could finish the words, the sound of hoofs came, and one person turned over and dismounted, and took out a stack of paper from his arms. It turned out to be a corpse portrait sent by Qingxi Town. Chen Zhutou saw the portrait and immediately recognized that the five corpses found in Qingxi Town were the four nursing homes of Ren Yazi Wang Ping and Yaxing.
Gu Shun frowned tightly and said, "These five people should have been dug up by the fox demon after they died here, but how did the corpses get to Qingxi Town?"
Su Yanjun said, "Maybe someone deliberately moved the body, what is this person's purpose?"
For a while, everyone was silent.
After a while, Mu Xiyuan broke the silence: "What is the purpose of the person who transferred the corpse, we can check later, according to the old man who guarded the door, these five people were on the road with a dozen children, regardless of the Feng family's How did the child get to Evian Town, and where are the other children now?"
Six hours ago, Gu Qing Bridge was dragged to a place by the bullock cart.
When he was put into the sack and put on the bullock cart, it was still in the middle of the afternoon. When the bullock cart finally stopped, it was already dark all around. Judging from the feeling of driving along the way, it should be a section of mountain road, a section of official road, and then into the town.
The bullock cart babbled and entered a house. Gu Qingqiao was unloaded into the hospital together with the goods on the car, but there was no sound. Zhang San, who caught him, said nothing, put the goods on the ground, and drove the ox cart out the door. The sound of the wheels gradually faded away, and Gu Qingqiao was lying in a pile of goods, only to hear a few cat meows on the street in the distance, but no one paid attention.
Lying on the ground for almost half an hour, Gu Qingqiao was curled up, his waist and legs were sore, thinking that Zhang San had made a mistake? But I felt the ground suddenly tremble, and then there was no movement.
Gu Qingqiao thought it was his own illusion, a knife slipped out of his sleeve, and was about to open the sack to go out to see, but suddenly heard slight footsteps.
Hearing more than one voice, still no one speaks, all seem to be moving goods. One of them mentioned Gu Qingqiao's sack, and immediately realized that there was a child inside.
A door opened with a creak, the Guqing Bridge was put down, and the sack was opened. He pretended to be in a daze, opened his eyes only a small slit, and found himself in a small room.
The room was not big, and dim candles came in from outside. Seeing that he didn't move, the visitor didn't bother to care anymore, and quickly walked out of the door, and then the door was closed. One person asked in a low voice outside: "Why are there children coming in? Isn't that enough?" The other person replied: "Didn't one die a few days ago? Who cares, maybe he's going to be taken away, by the way. "
The voices gradually became smaller, and it should be that the two walked a little farther away. Gu Qingqiao turned around and moved forward based on his impression. At the moment when the candle was lit up, he had already seen a large shop facing the door, with several children lying on the shop.
Gu Qingqiao touched the edge of the pavilion, climbed up quietly, and gently pushed the child who was closest to him. The child was pushed to the side, but there was no response. Gu Qingqiao reached out and probed under his nose. Fortunately, he was still breathing, but it was so weak that he could hardly detect it.
The four children on the bed were all in similar conditions, and none of them could wake up.
If it was the ancient Qingqiao fifty years ago, if you just push the door and go out now, no matter how many people there are outside the door, you can at least get out. But the medicinal effect of the transforming water was not over. Looking at his little hands and feet and the little spiritual power in his meridians, Gu Qingqiao sighed and slowly moved to the door, listening carefully to the movement outside.
It was late at night, and there was no sound from outside the door. Gu Qingqiao waited for another stick of incense before trying to gently open the door. The door was unlocked, and there was only a hook on the outside, presumably because he felt that a few frail children were not worth watching, and the people guarding the door had disappeared.
Gu Qingqiao quietly went out the door. Outside the door is a circle of corridors, and the yard is planted with flowers and plants, like the backyard of a large family. The whole house was silent, except for the light in one room. He walked cautiously along the veranda, and crept under the lighted window.
There was no moonlight tonight, Gu Qingqiao quietly tucked himself into the darkness under the window, and someone in the room said: "This time the movement is too loud, I have deliberately bypassed Moyun Mountain, how could it be disturbed? where?"
Another person replied: "Or you are not careful enough, isn't the child's body already buried? How did it appear in Evian Town?"
"I can't figure this out either. I haven't had this kind of thing happen before. You said, could it be because of some enemies and being targeted?"
"It can't be ruled out. How many more days will it be here?"
"It will be almost tomorrow night."
"Okay, you guys should pack up tomorrow, and leave immediately when things are done."
The door opened, and a man in black walked out of the room and looked around. Under the window, Gu Qingqiao is no longer there.
The man squeezed a sword, summoned a weapon, and walked away with the sword.
The lights in the house went out, and after a while, Gu Qingqiao emerged from the flowers under the veranda and quietly returned to the previous room.
At dawn, the people in the courtyard received orders and began to clean up everywhere. An old servant with a sullen expression came to Gu Qingqiao's room. He was probably not surprised that there was another child in the room. After throwing a steamed bun to Gu Qingqiao, he climbed onto the bed and poured half a bowl of gruel for each of the unconscious children. out the door.
Gu Qingqiao was eating steamed buns and looked outside through the crack of the window. There are not many people in the courtyard, and there are only a dozen faces coming and going, and I feel a little at ease.
It was almost noon, and there was a sudden knock and noise at the door of the outer house. The people in the hospital paused, quickly piled the items to the corner, and each took out their weapons to be alert. The sullen old man walked slowly to the front hall to open the door. Gu Qingqiao felt the ground tremble again.
After a commotion, some officials began to search everywhere. The three yamen opened the courtyard door, walked around the courtyard, pushed open the door and entered various rooms to search, but they completely ignored the messy items in the courtyard and the people on guard in the veranda, turned around and left the courtyard again.
Gu Qingqiao frowned.
Judging from the expressions of those yamen just now, it doesn't look like they were bribed or colluded to deliberately let the yard go. Besides, unless all the yamen who came here were bribed, who would know who would come to search this small courtyard? Those three yamen really didn't see anything unusual.
Plus the two tremors of the ground last night and just now.
Gu Qingqiao suddenly realized: In this courtyard, someone actually opened a barrier!
The blinding barrier is different from the ordinary blinding method. Ordinary blindfolding is just to make people see different scenes, and then make wrong judgments. It is ordinary like the white fog outside the fox demon cave. If you know it is a blindfolding, you can walk directly through it carefully and you will be able to break out of the formation. The barrier of the eyes is different. Those who enter the barrier of the eyes are like entering another space, and the five senses are confused at the same time. If the yamen caught a bird in the barrier just now, but the caster wanted him to see a cat, then the animal in his hand not only looked like a cat, but sounded like meowing and touching. Up is also soft fur. Because of this, the ordinary blindfolding technique can be cast once, and the formation will remain effective all the time, and the caster of the blindfolding enchantment must stay on the ground. And because it consumes a lot of mana, it is necessary to cooperate with the pre-drawn spiritual array or use magic weapons, and at the same time, it also has high requirements for the cultivation of the caster.
Gu Qingqiao was surprised and happy in his heart. The happy thing is that if the traces of the spiritual formation or the magic weapon can be found, this barrier can be broken; the surprise is that with such a practitioner present, it may not be so easy to save these children. He carefully felt the little spiritual power in the meridians, and couldn't help frowning. Against a cultivator of this level, he may have only one blow.
On the mountain road, a group of people who had nothing to gain helplessly returned to the government office. It was getting late, so Gu took Mu Xiyuan and others to the Pingxian post house by the way. Several people had dinner, and gathered together to re-examine the existing clues. Except for knowing that another dozen or so children were missing, there was no progress compared to the previous analysis.
Mu Xiyuan was inexplicably upset and confessed, "I'm a little restless today, and I want to go out for a walk by myself." After speaking, she turned around and went out. Su Yanjun knew that he was worried about those children, but it was not surprising, but he stepped forward and told him to go back early.
Ping County is smaller than Evian Town, and there are no people on the street after night, only a little warmth from the dim lights in front of the windows of other homes. Mu Xiyun lowered his head and walked for a while, and when he raised his head again, he found that he had unknowingly come to the front of Yaxing's yard again.
There were two guards in front of the door. Mu Xiyun stepped forward and saluted: "The two officials have worked hard. Can you let me go in and take a look?"
The two of them had seen Mu Xiyun during the day, and when they saw him coming, they knew it would be related to the investigation, so they didn't feel embarrassed, so they opened the door and let him in.
Mu Xiyun walked slowly around the house. I don't know if it is because the body in this world is a spiritual thing, he seems to be particularly sensitive to spiritual energy. When I came to this yard this morning, I felt a little bit, and I always felt that some parts of the yard were different from usual. But during the daytime, there are so many people, and this feeling is not even clear to me, so I pressed it down and didn't mention it. The night was all silent, so Mu Xiyuan simply let go of her thoughts and experienced it carefully.
A faint spiritual disturbance came from the corner of the back garden.
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The author has something to say:
small theater:
Gu Qingqiao: The author is out! How did you arrange this timeline
Author: It's very simple. When you were loaded into the car, Ayun was in the fox demon cave, and then you went to the trafficker's place, and the next day, Ayun and others went too, that's all!
Gu Qingqiao: Then why don't you write in chronological order? The part where I went to the dental office should be in the front!
Author: Ah, do you want to adjust to the front? Then we must separate Ayun's play.
Gu Qingqiao: Oh, that's fine, my family is more important!
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