Liao Zhai Great Kind People

Chapter 20 Headless Corpse
In the golden autumn season, the clouds are light and the sky is high.

Zhang Xiu was sitting by the pool under the waterfall in the back mountain with a fishing rod, ready to spend a leisurely and peaceful afternoon.

Although I agreed to the dean to go to Beijing to rush for the exam, it is impossible to study, and it is impossible to study in this life.

As for being admitted as a Jinshi and becoming an official, isn't it just enough to have hands?
While waiting quietly for the fish to take the bait, suddenly, a shocking shout sounded, startling the birds in the forest.

"Zhang Xiu, guess what good thing I found!"

Yan Feng's voice made his ears buzz, Zhang Xiu picked his ears helplessly, turned around and looked at him.

At this time, Yan Feng had already come to Zhang Xiu with swift steps, waved a document in his hand, and said gossipingly, "You definitely won't be able to guess what this is!"

Zhang Xiu said calmly: "It's probably the number one list made by the major casinos."

Yan Feng was slightly taken aback: "How do you know?"

Zhang Xiu pointed to the cover of the document and said, "The biggest difference between me and you is probably that I can read."

"..."

Yan Feng glanced at Zhang Xiu depressedly, but soon regained his spirits, with a sly smile on his face, he said: "Do you dare to bet with me, if you can guess who is the top three in their row? Who, I will continue to be your cowherd on the way to Beijing. If you can't guess it, you will be my groom!"

Zhang Xiu turned back with a bored face, and said, "Do you like to talk or not."

Seeing that he didn't talk to him, Yan Feng was so angry that he kept scratching his head, and finally couldn't restrain his instinct to share gossip with others, and said with high spirits: "Forget it, let me tell you. Among the top three in their ranking, one They are called Ma Wenbin, one is called Li Zijie, and the third person is someone you will never guess, but it is someone with the same name and surname as you, who is also named Zhang Xiu!"

Zhang Xiu: "..."

After being speechless for a while, Zhang Xiu looked at Yan Feng with weird eyes: "Do you think there is a possibility that I am the Zhang Xiu on the number one list?"

Yan Feng was taken aback for a moment, then laughed confidently: "Hahaha, I won't be fooled by you every time!"

Zhang Xiu smiled slightly and said, "Then you are really smart. You came all the way here to find me, isn't it just to show me the No. [-] list?"

Yan Feng slapped his forehead and said, "I almost forgot the business, the dean said he needed something for you and told you to come over immediately."

Zhang Xiu's eyes widened suddenly: "..."

You can forget about serious things, how much do you really want to win me once!
Half an hour later, Zhang Xiu and Yan Feng hurriedly came to a paddy field at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, a group of people were surrounding a ditch, besides the dean and Liu Jiaoxi, there were also several officials.

Zhang Xiu frowned and walked over, pushed through the crowd and looked into the ditch, and saw a headless corpse lying crookedly at the bottom of the ditch, in a very miserable state of death.

Liu Jiaoxi is a middle-aged man in his 50s, with a very handsome face and a melancholy temperament between his brows. When he saw Zhang Xiu coming, he asked, "Zhang Xiu, you have learned autopsy from me before. What do you think?"

Zhang Xiu looked carefully at the headless corpse in the ditch, and said, "First rule out suicide."

Liu Jiaoxi twitched his eyes, and continued: "And then?"

Zhang Xiu held his chin in thought for a while, and said, "It should be a vendetta."

Liu Jiaoxi showed a satisfied smile on his face, nodded and said, "Why do you think it's a vendetta?"

Zhang Xiu raised his face to look at Liu Jiaoxi, and tentatively said, "Because... because you are not an enemy and don't cut off your head?"

Liu Jiaoxi: "@#￥%￥#@..."

In the atmosphere of complete silence, Liu Jiaoxi took a deep breath, stared seriously at Zhang Xiu's eyes, and warned: "When you go outside in the future, don't tell anyone that I taught you."

Zhang Xiu defended herself with an innocent face: "I think you are clearly embarrassing me. In the past, all you showed me were dead rabbits. Now it's suddenly a dead person. I can see a ghost."

As he said that, Zhang Xiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and looked at Yan Feng with bright eyes: "Brother Yan, can you recruit this man's soul?"

Yan Feng shook his head and said: "This person's soul seems to have been broken up by someone, and I don't know how to summon spirits."

"The soul was scattered...could it be a monster?"

Zhang Xiu was startled, and then looked around vigilantly.

Yan Feng frowned and said: "It's not certain yet, it might be the work of the cultivators of the evil sect."

Liu Jiaoxi glanced at the two of them, sighed slightly, and said, "Based on the state of the corpse, this person has been dead for more than three days. There is no sign of a fight by the side of the ditch, and there are no other wounds on the corpse. It should be killed by one blow." .”

"Judging from the characteristics of the deceased's body, he should be a helpless scholar, most likely a student of the academy."

After Zhang Xiu heard this, she couldn't help feeling a little puzzled in her heart: "Then why are you all gathered here? After checking the missing students in the academy, wouldn't you be able to determine the identity of the deceased?"

Liu Jiaoxi glanced at him lightly, and said: "I have checked, and there is not a single student in the academy. I know a makeup technique that peels off the human skin to make a human skin mask. According to my guess, the murderer has probably already made up the dead man." He looks like he has sneaked into our academy."

Zhang Xiu took a deep breath: "Isn't it very dangerous in the academy now? Wait, since you all know everything, why did you ask me to come here?"

Liu Jiaoxi and the dean looked at each other, and sighed: "After discussing with the dean, I think you have offended the most people in our academy, and we agree that this murderer should be targeting you."

Zhang Xiu: "...Huh???"

Seeing Zhang Xiu's suspicious expression on his face, the dean said slowly: "In short, you are in a very dangerous situation now. Before you catch the murderer, you'd better stay in the room and don't go anywhere."

Zhang Xiu suddenly became angry, rolled up her sleeves and said, "I, Zhang, have been kind to others all my life, how could I have any enemies! This time I have to catch this murderer with my own hands, confront him face to face, and ask who is he targeting?" of!"

The dean showed a triumphant smile and asked, "Is three days enough for you?"

"Three days, three days..."

While speaking, Zhang Xiu reacted abruptly, stared at the dean, and blurted out: "Old man, you are bullshitting me!"

The dean chuckled, the expression on his face gradually became serious, his eyes showed a stern look, and he said in a deep voice: "If you dare to come to the academy to kill my student, no matter if the murderer is a human or a ghost, I will pay him with blood! "

Feeling the strong killing intent on his body, Zhang Xiu frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "I have a way to try, but you need to cooperate..."

(End of this chapter)