Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 121 Down the Mountain (Part [-])
Wu Chen frowned and asked, "You said you were killed by someone's design, the murderer must have had something in mind, and you had money with you when you were alive?"

"We have all traveled here, so naturally we have some money..."

"Aren't you from Yang'an County?"

"No, but here, even if the family members report to the authorities, it is difficult to find out. We, we can't even go back and have a look."

"Did that old Taoist design harm you?"

"do not know."

"I don't know?" Wu Chen's eyes widened.

"We all travel together in the Laojie Mountains, enjoying the beautiful scenery, drinking and composing poems. Suddenly, we become unconscious. When we wake up, we are separated by yin and yang, and our bodies are abandoned in the depths of the forest. Fortunately, there are no beasts in the mountains, and we have not been killed. gnawing..."

"You all have the same experience?"

"We've asked each other, and we've had the same experience."

"Where are the companions who are playing with you?" Wu Chen asked.

"We haven't seen their bodies, nor their souls, so we suspect that those friends may be the ones who murdered us. After our death, all valuables on our bodies are lost."

"Your friends... that's not right, you both died several years apart, so you couldn't be the same group of friends, right?"

"Probably not. We come from different places. I died earlier. When they were killed, I didn't see it. It's fine if I didn't see it once. I didn't see them all when they were killed..."

"Did you never see the corpse?"

"I've never seen it before. I don't even know how my own bones got to the depths of the forest."

"Did you carry any similar items on your body before your life?" Wu Chen asked.

"Jade pendants, we all brought family heirloom jade pendants."

"It's jade again." Wu Chen muttered, and then asked, "Do you guys know who killed those five hundred soldiers at the foot of the mountain half a month ago?"

"Who didn't see it, but saw someone remove their bodies from the carriage and throw them down the mountain, and they also sent a lot of horses."

Wu Chen's eyes widened and he blurted out, "They were not killed at the foot of the mountain!"

"Probably not. If so many people died at the foot of the mountain, there must be some movement, and we will know."

Wu Chen turned around twice, then asked, "It was already dark when they dropped the corpse?"

"Yes, near midnight."

"Can you see any special signs on the carriage transporting the corpse?"

"I didn't see it. It's just that the carriage is very big. It came and went, and came and went. It made several trips."

Wu Chen lowered his head and pondered for a moment, took a deep breath and said:
"In this way, I will first record your names, where you came from, and where you live, and then I will collect your bones tomorrow, send someone to notify your family, and then find out whether your friends are still alive. When I come to take you home, there will always be some clues about the cause of your death, and then you can decide whether to go back and have a look, then get rid of the dusty thoughts and turn into reincarnation, or wait until the murderer is found out before leaving."

Several ghosts nodded one after another, one ghost nodded heavily, and his head fell off, so he quickly caught it and put it back on.

Wu Chen looked at the old Taoist who was sitting paralyzed by the side and said, "Get the pen and ink, bring the desk, and hold the lamp."

Only then did the old man realize that it was already dark.

How can a dilapidated Taoist temple have pen and ink?But the old man still took it from the backyard, and there were a few people who dressed themselves as ghosts following him.

Wu Chen asked the sophomore to write the pen, Wu Chen said, the sophomore notes, this kind of thing has been done in the sophomore year, and the hand is not as shaking as the first time, and the record is completed quickly.

Wu Chen said to Gao Er and Xu Da: "Let the policemen spread to these counties as soon as possible. Don't confuse the names. Who is in which county must be clearly distinguished. Explain the case to the people in the county government and let them notify the family members as soon as possible. Come to claim the bones..."

When Wu Chen said this, he suddenly turned his head to look in the air, and asked, "You are all bones now, how can you tell who is who?"

"We know it ourselves."

Wu Chen scratched his forehead and said, "I can't tell your family members that it was you who said that this bone is Qian Chuan, and that bone is Lu Ming."

"This, how can this be good?"

"Hairbands, our hairbands are different!"

"That's right, there are also shoes! Several of us come here to visit in different seasons, and the thickness of the shoes we wear is also different. Although our bodies are bones, these things can still be recognized."

……

Several ghosts expressed their opinions one after another, Wu Chen waved his hand to interrupt them and said;

"Tomorrow there will be a scorpion going up the mountain. When your family members come to claim the bones, they will write down the year when you disappeared, and put the relics and bones together. I will let you confirm it, and then say that it was the scorpion's actions." I think your family members can confirm your bones only from the time."

Hearing this, the old man couldn't bear it any longer. He looked at Wu Chen's serious expression, slumped crookedly on the ground and asked, "You, aren't you acting? You, you can really see..."

Wu Chen looked at the old Taoist and said seriously, "So, you'd better tell me what you are hiding. If I find out, I will punish you severely!"

A person pretending to be a ghost hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "We, we just pretended to be a ghost to scare people and cheat some money. No, we didn't do anything to kill people."

The sophomore in high school hurriedly asked, "How do you cheat money by pretending to be a ghost?"

"If you faint from fright, you can take the money away..."

"Who will stay on the mountain at night?" Xu Da asked.

"We mainly go out at dusk, it's too dark and we don't dare to run around."

"The three of them are helping you find the way? See if there is anyone on the mountain, where is he?" Wu Chen asked.

The old man nodded.

"Take them all away, and go up the mountain tomorrow!"

……

Wu Chen thought that it would be very difficult to search the Taoist temple with only the three of them tonight and without torches to light them. He could search more carefully when he brought people up tomorrow during the day.

For Wu Chen, today's harvest is very big. There were some problems that he couldn't figure out before, but now he has figured it out. The five hundred soldiers were not killed at the foot of the mountain, but after they were poisoned elsewhere, they were transported back here in the dark and placed randomly. , so it was not seen by more people.

Why did Zhang Cai see it?Did you see the arranged corpses, or the process of placing them?Zhang Caiben is one of them, or is it really a coincidence?
The people behind the scenes did not choose to cover it up, but put it in another place, deliberately to let people find out. If they have time to transport it, they will naturally bury it on the spot. After finding clues, why did they insist on throwing the corpse at the foot of Laojie Mountain?

Wu Chen was walking down the mountain, he was the first one, his mind was thinking about these problems, but his eyes were looking around, looking for ghosts.

He wants to know more clues.

　Three shifts today

　　
　
(End of this chapter)