Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Even though he said that, Chou Chou still followed Qingyan's instructions and stretched out his consciousness in the space to check the nearby wells, ditches and whether there was any groundbreaking.

There are twenty-six wells in total. In addition to the one left by the Guiyi Sect, there are also some people who dug their own wells in their yards, mostly from families with better conditions.

The rest were shared by several families. Chou Chou looked at the bottom of the wells, although there were indeed some things in some wells, such as broken ropes and branches, that were not very clean.

There was even a house that had a rat that had been dead for a few days at the bottom of its well. It did good deeds and brought it out without leaving a name. No knife or anything was found.

There was nothing in the nearby ditch, but a few copper plates and a silver ring were found. I don't know who accidentally fell in.

The butcher said that he really found a family. It was in the third circle of the town, which was considered the outskirts. At this time, the man was killing a pig in the yard. A black pig was tied to a wide bench. Look at the neat way the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out. It should be an old trick.

It told Qingyan the specific location, and Qingyan also probed there with her spiritual consciousness. Seeing that scene, she suddenly felt that the murderer was not the butcher.

Just imagine, if the butcher wanted to kill someone, he should be able to kill him with one knife based on his experience. How could he stab the victim three times without affecting the vital part, and end up bleeding to death?

However, Qingyan still explored his house to see if there were any clues. There was a possibility in everything. If he just wanted to vent his anger and did not want human life, then Tian Lufeng might not have been treated in time because he was drunk. , that’s why they died, because they happened to arrive together.

She unexpectedly discovered that the butcher's family was quite wealthy. There was a box in a secret compartment under the bed, which actually contained a lot of gold and jade. Judging from the quality and style of the jade, it was not like what ordinary people could have.

It seems that this butcher is really suspicious.

She also told Chou Chou this discovery, and Chou Chou once again used his spiritual consciousness to explore it, and then said to her: "I took another look and found an underground darkroom in his pigsty. There are many things in it. Silver, and some bones.

I took a look and saw that they were all human bones. It seemed that this butcher was really not a good guy. I tried to attract the officer's attention to see if I could find out anything. "

They are not going to touch that family's property. Firstly, they are not short of money. Secondly, who knows where it came from. Judging from the human bones, they probably got it from murder.

The stolen money must be left to the government for verification. If there is any mark on it, it will be a clue and the key to solving the case.

Qingyan thought about the two things together and guessed: "Do you think it was Na Tian Lufeng who discovered something or knew something, and he killed him and silenced him?

There is another possibility. Maybe the two of them were working together because the spoils were not shared equally, or maybe Tian Lufeng wanted to quit and work alone. They had a dispute, and that's why they were unprepared and attacked by the butcher. He was injured and died because of delayed medical treatment.

If this is the case, it can explain why there are no signs of lock picking or fighting, and the property in the house is not lost, because it is known that Tian Lufeng's family has no property, and it is all stored with the butcher..."

The more Qingyan talked about it, the more she felt that it looked like her. Of course, the details would have to be investigated by the official.

The investigating officials left quickly. After all, it was just an inn in a town. Even if it was full of people, there were not many people there. There were only fifty or sixty people in total.

This should include the shopkeeper and the waiters in the store, otherwise there would be even fewer people.

Even Datongpu was not full this time. Because the weather was good and it didn't rain, many people would take advantage of the good weather to travel all night instead of finding accommodation in the town.

Unlike before when they encountered heavy rain, the inn in Heizui Town was packed all at once.

After the two officials left, they left the lobby directly. Those who needed to pack their luggage packed their luggage, and those who needed to pack their cars went to the backyard to set up their cars.

Qingyan and the others didn't do anything special. They went directly to the backyard with the others and hitched the car to the animals again.

After the waiter unlocked the courtyard door from the outside, they drove off one after another.

As for how to lead the officials to the butcher, that depends on Chou Chou.

Chou Chou was very simple and crude. He transformed into a middle-aged man with a look that would be easily forgotten. Then he sat in the restaurant next to him and waited for the officer to interrogate him. Then he pretended to be a passerby and directly I made up a story that I had an urgent need to urinate last night and when I peeed against the wall, I saw three rows of Butcher Zhang walking past here.

Butcher Zhang lives in the third row of the town, and secretly said that people should not appear in the center of the town at night, so it must be very suspicious.

As for whether it is true or not, these officials don't care. They will investigate as long as there are clues.

And it's not like in the future. If you provide evidence as a witness, you have to make a record, go to the police station with you, etc. You can leave after explaining your findings, and then you can transform into the passerby. Face, the official turned his head and forgot who it was.

Of course, the officials don't need any witnesses. As long as they have this clue, they can investigate and find evidence.

Moreover, even if there is no evidence at this time, civilians like Butcher Zhang will be arrested at will. After the arrest, many of them will be tortured to extract confessions. This is the consistent routine of the current government, so there is no technical content.

The two officials did not go directly to Butcher Zhang. Instead, they ran back to Tian Lufeng's house and met up with other officials first.

Changshou Town is so big, and there is only one inn. Once the investigation is done, there are a total of five official officers on duty in the town, which is quite a lot. Some towns only have two.

Of course, arresting people is not an official mission. They are organized and organized or hired by the mayor. The mayor's people are the kind of people who are not on staff, just like the auxiliary police in later generations.

Officials take the lead, and when they go there they just act as thugs, beating wherever they tell them.

One officer was left to continue to guard Tian Lufeng's place. Four officers and a group of six people gathered together ten people, plus the crowd watching the excitement, and went to Butcher Zhang's house in a mighty manner.

Chou Chou had found out this surname beforehand. There was only one butcher in this town, so it was easy to find out.

By the time the officials arrived at Butcher Zhang's house, Qingyan and the others had already left the town. They went out in a straight line, so it didn't take them much time.

Jin Yang and Chou Chou stayed directly. Both of them turned into very ordinary-looking middle-aged people. They did not live in the inn or find a house to live in. Anyway, they could return to space at any time, so There's no need to go looking for trouble.

One of them stayed here to see what happened to Butcher Zhang, and the other wanted to investigate the situation of the case.

They planned to go down to the well at night when no one was around, and to the underground dark room in the square to have a look. The well was easy to find, as the mechanism could be seen on the surface, and even if there was a formation, Jin Yang could try to crack it.

If it can be cracked, you can see if there is any secret method left behind by the Guiyi Sect.

After all, the mayor's record said that all the people in the Guiyi Sect were killed by the dragon, and even the monsters were not spared, so they probably didn't have time to transfer those skills or things.

Furthermore, there seems to be only the ruins of the Demon Suppression Tower here. This small square is the ruins of the Zhenyang Tower. It is impossible for that sect to have only one Demon Suppression Tower. There must be other buildings.

Although it has been a thousand or two thousand years and should have weathered a lot, there are quite a few thousand-year-old buildings from later generations.

If nothing else, the Great Wall, for example, has existed for thousands of years and is still standing, so even if it was in ruins at that time, it should have a foundation.

And this small square is very flat, and the underground darkroom has not been excavated, which shows that the Guiyi Sect still has some background. Maybe there is some shielding formation nearby to prevent them from seeing the location of those buildings. maybe.

Otherwise, the square would not remain there forever. I always felt that there should be remnants of the Guiyi Sect there, but they were not on the surface and could not be seen with the naked eye, nor could they detect them with their spiritual sense.

You must know that some formations can hide or fold space, just like the one they encountered in the woods to the northwest.

Usually there is an ordinary forest there, and the official road can pass through there normally.

But the formation loosened over time. Once you reach a specific time and location, you can enter the formation. It is another world, as if it is separated from the outside, so there may not be that kind of formation here. Law.

The problem now is that although Qingyan and Huang Huang are also quite curious, they actually want to stay and investigate. However, they had said they were going to Tonggu County before, so it was a bit bad to suddenly part ways with them.

Although they were just people who met by chance, even if they found a reason to separate, she always felt that something would happen if they went together, so it was better to follow them.

This was Qingyan's feeling. She couldn't tell why, but she believed in her intuition, so she just continued to follow him. Maybe she would encounter something else.

Just like before, if they hadn't followed them, they might not have encountered these things along the way. After all, if they walked by themselves, they wouldn't just go into the town and stay overnight. They usually just find a deserted place to enter the space at night.

Even if you enter the town, you will only need supplies and buy some things before leaving. Therefore, following others also has the advantage of following others, and this is reflected in it.

Although they had left the town, Qingyan's consciousness was still there, looking at the situation in the butcher Zhang's house, preparing to wait until he could no longer see it.

In her consciousness, she saw the four officials and their men coming to the door of Butcher Zhang's house in a menacing manner.

The courtyard door of his house was open, and the pig inside had been killed and was being shaved.

Butcher Zhang was not alone, his father, his wife, and his son were all involved in the battle.

Butcher Zhang and his father were in charge of shaving, his wife was constantly heating hot water, and his son, who was just in his early teens, was helping to pass the things. The whole family looked at it happily.

When the official led the people in, the four people subconsciously stopped what they were doing and looked at the official.

Qingyan used her consciousness to carefully observe the changes in the expressions of the family of four. Only Butcher Zhang and his father's eyes flickered, but their expressions did not change. They wiped their hands on their aprons very calmly, stood up, and asked about the official duties. What's the matter?

His wife and son, on the other hand, had puzzled faces and a little bit of fear. They were the normal reactions of ordinary people when seeing official officials, and they showed no signs of guilt or fear.

I guess I don't know about those things. After all, the fewer people know about this kind of thing, the better.

The four officers didn't say anything about subduing the person. After all, they didn't resist. They put down the razors, had no weapons in their hands, and didn't have any posture to attack, so they calmly stepped forward to ask.

One of the officials came forward and asked Butcher Zhang if he had passed through the center of the town last night.

Qingyan originally thought that this was just made up by Chou Chou. Even if he had really been there, the butcher should deny it.

Unexpectedly, Butcher Zhang actually admitted it, saying that he had been there last night, and that the pig he killed today was reserved for the restaurant there, and he went to collect the deposit yesterday.

There is a discrepancy in the time mentioned by Chou Chou. Chou Chou said it was Hai Shi in the evening, which was ninety o'clock, while Zhang Butcher said Xu Shi, which was seven or eight o'clock when it was just dark.

This is not the point. After all, the witness may have misremembered the time, which is normal, and Tian Lufeng was not necessarily killed in the middle of the night. After all, he died of excessive blood loss, which also takes time.

When I took them to examine the body in the morning, the blood stains had dried, indicating that he died at night, and it made sense that he stayed there all night.

The old man said that Tian Lufeng did not seek help immediately because he was not very conscious after being drunk and was injured.

Who Tian Lufeng drank with yesterday is the key.

So the official then asked Butcher Zhang whether he knew Tian Lufeng and whether he had seen him last night.

Unexpectedly, Butcher Zhang nodded directly and said: "I know him, he worked with my father together, and we have a good relationship.

Yesterday I happened to meet him when I went to the restaurant to collect the deposit, and we said hello to each other. He invited me to have a drink with him, but he didn't agree because he had money on hand and was in a hurry to go home. "

Seeing that what he said was fair and aboveboard, the official had a moment of trouble and just detained him. Moreover, there was no loophole in what he said. If he didn't admit it, they could still check it out. They only needed to go to the restaurant to check these things. Ask out.

The other party readily admitted it and said they separated immediately without drinking together. That should be true. After all, it would be easier to find out if it was a lie.

(End of this chapter)