Master in charge of the case: Our county magistrate has a black belly

Chapter 23

Lu Yu asked the police officers to form a circle to prevent anyone from entering and destroying the scene.

"It seems that the time of death was less than half an hour." Han Quce felt the temperature of the corpse gradually fading.

"I think Ami was strangled to death by the prisoner first and then tied to the fishing net. Looking at the large and small footprints on the mud, the small footprints should belong to Ami, and the big ones should belong to the prisoner." Lu Yu mentioned Looking carefully with a lantern, there are still footprints on the ground because of the rain.

"It's a terrible death." Axiu has not been frightened these two days. .Never seen these before.
"Look here, there are traces of stepping on the mermaid's arrow. It is very likely that Amei dropped the arrow on the ground while fighting with someone and accidentally stepped on it. Later, the prisoner took the arrow away." Lu Yu looked at the arrow-shaped mud prints on the ground.

"My lord, look this way." Xia Yan looked at the row of footprints next to him. "Yes. Leading to the sea."

"Really... and there seems to be something very bright." Xiang Hua held the lantern, but saw something flickering on the ground, picked it up and looked, "It turned out to be fish scales."

"A Mei also has fish scales on her body." Han Quce heard that Xiang Hua had found fish scales, and he also held up the lantern to shine on A Mei, and found that there were also several fish scales.

"Is it really a mermaid..." Axiu was terrified, who would go to the sea?
"How is it possible. Do mermaids have footprints?" Xiang Hua thinks it's impossible, idiot Axiu, even she knows such a simple truth, is she praising herself...

"I think Ami and the prisoner must have made an appointment in front of the fishing net. The prisoner walked along the waves, killed Amei, and then walked back in the same footsteps, just like the prisoner walked to the sea." Han Quce had no idea at all. I thought there was such a thing as a mermaid.

"Did anyone see Ami just now?" Lu Yu asked the islanders who were watching.

"No, I didn't see it when I came," Nayue said.

"I didn't see it. I came a long time ago." Mo Nu's father was still drunk.

"Is the prisoner who killed Amei and Xiaoyu the same person?" Feng Luo was worried, and both of them died in two days.
"And the mermaid's arrow is gone too." Xiang Hua said casually.

"What. The mermaid's arrow is gone. It's because the mermaid's arrow was lost. That's why Mo Nu is... missing." Nai Yue was very worried when she thought about Mo Nu who hadn't shown up and A Mei now.

"Maybe he has been killed." Han Quce said the possibility.

"A stranger? I saw her at Mermaid Waterfall yesterday morning." said an uncle.

"I also saw her dangling in the forest near the waterfall from a distance." An aunt also talked about this incident nearby.

"Is it really her?" Han Quce didn't quite believe it.

"It's her. She is the only one in the village who often likes to wear that powder blue dress...with a bell bracelet on her hand." The aunt recalled Mo Nu's usual appearance.

Han Quce thought that Mo Nu must be avoiding something, so she didn't dare to show her face rashly, maybe she saw the truth about Xiaoyu's murder.
Axiu remembered Luo Po's words. That girl, you have to keep that arrow well. Once you lose it, you will become a mermaid who can't speak.Axiu couldn't help being frightened into a cold sweat.
Everyone went back to the inn and asked for dinner in the lobby of the inn. They happened to meet Nai Yue sitting together, and the drunk who happened to be drinking was sitting at another table with Feng Luo.

"A Qu... What do you think...?" Lu Yu gave you Han Quce a piece of meat.

"Xiaoyu, Ami, and Mo Nu all believe in the legend of the mermaid and the curse of the mermaid's arrow." Han Quce ate the meat Lu Yu picked up.

"It would be nice to see who gets the number." Xia Yan took a sip of wine.

"Everyone has a record of the number paper, why don't you go to the ancestral hall with me?" Nai Yue said with a smile.

"Really? Okay." Lu Yu thought that if he had a numbered paper and knew who got it, it would be easy.

Nai Yue was about to go to the ancestral hall with Lu Yu and the others, but was stopped by Feng Luo, "Nai Yue, I want to talk to you."

"Okay, then." Nai Yue looked at Lu Yu and the others.

"We'll just wait for you at the door." Lu Yu smiled slightly, and turned to the door with Han Quce and the others.

"Feng Luo..."

"I know it's not the right time, but can you think about that matter? I'm serious." Feng looked depressed.

"Don't be like this, this is not only sorry for the dead Xiaoyu, but also, I have a great-grandmother to take care of, I can't leave here, I'm sorry." Naiyue left after finishing speaking, leaving Feng Luo alone.

(End of this chapter)