Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 1 Headless Female Corpse
The sun is setting and the mountains are misty.

Li Canghai woke up from a coma, he sat up with difficulty, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head.

Subconsciously touching the back of his head, he was shocked to find that the back of his head seemed to have been hit hard by a hard object, and there was a big blood bag.

"Damn it, which bastard hit him so hard, it's killing people!" Li Canghai cursed angrily.

He got up unsteadily, scanned the surrounding scene in a daze, and suddenly let out a scream.

He found himself in the wilderness, running long distances in ancient costumes, with several corpses lying beside him.

"Damn, make a movie? Dude, you're such a professional corpse!" Li Canghai kicked the corpse next to him with his toe, rubbing the back of his head and said.

However, he soon realized that he had guessed wrong.

Several corpses had very deep wounds on their bodies. Judging from the situation, they should have been hacked to death with a sharp weapon.The blood on the body was still wet, and there was still a faint smell of blood in the air. These people seemed to have just died.

Smelling the blood left in the air, Li Canghai suddenly felt dizzy, and a huge amount of information rushed into his mind.

After a severe headache, many intertwined memories instantly appeared in Li Canghai's mind.After figuring out those memories, he was shocked to find that he had time-traveled!More precisely, he was reborn.

Li Canghai was originally the most outstanding student in the police academy. He has a double bachelor's degree in criminal investigation and psychology, and is best at reasoning and analysis.

After checking the surrounding environment and the information in his mind several times, Li Canghai finally confirmed this fact.

As an elite of the police academy, he would be knocked down from behind with a steel pipe when he acted bravely, and he would travel back to ancient times in such a muddle. Thinking of this, Li Canghai felt annoyed.

Fortunately, he did not die, but was reborn into a person with the same name and surname as him.Not only that, but all his memories were also fused.

This man had a more tragic experience than Li Canghai. He was hit in the back of the head with a stone and died.

By coincidence, Li Canghai took advantage of the loophole and was inexplicably reborn on him.

It took a while for Li Canghai to completely digest the memory of the original owner of this body.

At the same time, it also made him understand that the era he lived in was exactly the period of the famous "Golden Age of Kaiyuan" in history!
This made Li Canghai feel sad and happy. He was happy because he was still alive, but worried because he didn't know whether he could survive in ancient society.

Looking at the vast mountains, he slowly accepted this fact before continuing to check the memory in his mind.Today is the Tianbao period, the period when the national power of the Tang Dynasty is at its peak.

This man studied hard for ten years, finally passed the Jinshi examination, and was awarded the post of magistrate of Zhengyang County.

However, on the way to his post, someone killed him in this wilderness.

"You really are a very unlucky guy! After studying hard for ten years, you finally made it to the top, but you became someone else's soul." Li Canghai sighed a few words.

However, what surprised him was that he didn't remember the murder of this man. He searched through the package, but he couldn't find the official letter of his arrival.

"It would be great if you still have official papers, so you can earn an official position, at least you don't have to worry about food and clothing!" Li Canghai babbled for a while, and found a dozen copper coins from several corpses Put it in your pocket, and then muttered:

"However, from now on, I will be you. I will take care of you, your brother-in-law. Don't worry, I will definitely find the person who harmed you, so as to comfort your spirit in heaven. You can bless me with a long life."

After muttering for a while, Li Canghai quickly adapted to his new identity. He lifted his spirits, and then burst out laughing.

"Haha, Great Tang Prosperity, here I come! Oh, it's important to get some food to fill your stomach first!"

Touching his growling belly, Li Canghai limped down the hill.

Taking advantage of the sunset, Li Canghai came to a village at the foot of the mountain.

dong dong dong~
Li Canghai reached out and knocked hard on a wooden door.

"Who?"

An old and aged voice came from the room, asking very cautiously.

"Old man, I'm a passer-by. It's getting late, and I want to ask for some water..." Li Canghai recalled the way the ancients spoke in TV dramas, and wanted to get as close to Tang society as possible.

But before he finished speaking, he heard the voice shout: "There is no one in the room, you should go elsewhere!"

After speaking, the lights in the room suddenly went out.

Li Canghai touched his nose, is this an excuse?It really has no technical content at all!
However, since the other party didn't want him to stay overnight, he couldn't force it, so he went to the next house.

But he knocked on the doors of several houses in a row, but the result was the same. Before he could express his intention, he turned off the lights.

Shaking his head helplessly, Li Canghai had no choice but to continue walking towards the village.

After a while, Li Canghai found a room with an open door, and after a closer look, he realized that it was a small temple.

The candlelight in the temple is flickering, and a statue of a mountain god holding a steel fork stands on the main hall. Under the light of the candlelight, it gives people a sense of horror.

Tired and hungry, Li Canghai rushed into the temple, grabbed the snacks on the altar table and devoured them hungrily.

While eating, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door, Li Canghai hurriedly put down his snacks and hid behind the statue.

I saw a woman in a red wedding dress led by several villagers to the temple.

Several people worshiped the mountain god a few times devoutly, and an old woman whispered a few words in the woman's ear before closing the temple door and leaving.

By the candlelight, Li Canghai could vaguely see the woman's face.

Although the woman was not beautiful, she was pretty and pleasant, with a happy smile on her face.

This made him feel strange, since this woman is going to get married, why did she come to this mountain temple?

Could it be that, just like those ridiculous stories I heard in my previous life, is it possible for this woman to marry a mountain god?

Li Canghai really wanted to run out, and then told her righteously that this was all superstition, there were no mountain gods, and there were no ghosts, and she should live for herself.

But after thinking about it, those villagers might be guarding outside, and if he was caught as a flower picker, he wouldn't be able to tell even if he had a mouth.Thinking of this, Li Canghai decided to observe the situation first, and then make plans.

Above the temple, the woman was sitting on the ground, kneeling piously in front of the altar, and silently reciting scriptures with her hands clasped together, nothing unusual.

"What's this smell, it's so fragrant?"

Li Canghai stared at the woman for a while, and suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, which was very faint, almost inaudible.

However, due to his serious illness when he was young, his sense of smell has become very keen, even if it is ten times diluted, he can still smell it.

"It's...so fragrant."

After sniffing the fragrance a few times, Li Canghai's eyelids gradually became heavier, and soon the Sandman struck, and his eyelids drooped involuntarily.

This fragrance seemed to have the effect of calming the mind, Li Canghai soon fell into a deep sleep.

This time Li Canghai slept very deeply. During this period, he seemed to have a dream, dreaming that he was tied up by a group of people.It wasn't until a ladle of cold water was poured on his face that he woke up instantly, only to realize that he was not dreaming, but was really tied up like a pig!Li Canghai stared blankly at the extremely angry crowd surrounding him, feeling a little baffled.

"Kill him, kill this murderer!"

"Evil thief, give back my daughter's life, give back my daughter's life, woo woo..."

……

Li Canghai looked at the angry villagers in bewilderment, not understanding why they were so angry, as if they wanted to eat him alive.

An old woman in front of him kept crying and kicking him.

Li Canghai recognized that this old woman was the one who accompanied the girl into the temple last night, presumably she was the woman's mother, but what did she say to give her daughter's life back?Crackling fists and feet landed on his body, and Li Canghai struggled in pain, but the hemp rope was as thick as a finger, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free.

He twisted his body in a daze, and then he came back to his senses, struggled hard, tried to break the rope, and shouted: "Why do you tie me up? Let me go!"

The surrounding villagers were furious, and no one answered him at all, and they kept shouting.

"Burn this villain to death and avenge Jing'er!"

"Yes, burn him, burn him!"

"Shut up!" Li Canghai yelled violently after being dizzy from their quarrel.

"I just ate some snacks, and you are going to burn me to death. What kind of grudge do I have against you?" Li Canghai yelled out of anger.

"What hatred, what resentment? You murderer, I still want to ask you, what kind of grudge does Jing'er have with you, you used such cruel means to kill her?" An old voice came, and the people around automatically gave up. After opening a road, I saw an old man with white beard and hair walking tremblingly on crutches.

"Murder? Who killed someone?" Li Canghai grinned in pain and asked in confusion.

"Get out of the way, let him die in peace!" The old man slammed his cane vigorously, and the crowd in front of him suddenly parted.A strong and strong man grabbed Li Canghai's hair, pulled his curled up head abruptly, pointed to the distance and shouted: "Look what that is!"

Li Canghai ignored the pain, followed the man's fingers and involuntarily gasped.

The direction the man pointed was the mountain temple. There was a corpse on the altar inside the temple. The corpse was wearing a red wedding dress. The bright red blood was sprinkled on the wedding dress, making the original bright wedding dress a strange crimson red.

Li Canghai's belly turned upside down. He had never seen a dead person before, but this was the first time he had seen a corpse with a severed head like this before him. The strangest thing was that the corpse was 'standing' on the altar!
His face turned ashes in an instant, and this corpse seemed to be the woman he saw last night.I don't know what happened, but he was beheaded overnight.

"What do you have to say now? You killed a weak woman with such cruel means, a villain like you deserves to be hacked into pieces!" The old man slammed his cane and shouted sharply.

"Village chief, talk nonsense to him, burn him to death to avenge Jing'er!"

"Yes, avenge Jing'er and burn him to death!"

The villagers were so angry that they wished they could tear up Li Canghai and feed them to pigs.

The village head waved his crutches and said: "Set up firewood, today we will burn this murderer to death, and comfort Jing girl's spirit in heaven!"

When the villagers heard the order, they immediately scattered to look for firewood. After a while, a huge pile of firewood was piled up.

"I didn't kill anyone, so why do you burn me to death? In the clear sky, the sky is clear, and you are using lynching! Don't tell me there is no king's law?" Li Canghai shouted angrily.

The villagers ignored his yelling at all, and several strong men directly put him on the firewood pile and tied him to the firewood pile.

"Wang Fa? Did you think about Wang Fa when you killed people? For a cruel person like you, you will be cut into pieces!" The village head was furious, and he slammed his crutches and shouted: "Set fire, burn Kill this murderer!"

Li Canghai saw a strong man approaching with a torch, and he cried out tragedy in his heart, he had just been reborn, he didn't expect to be burned to death so soon, God, don't play like this!

At this critical moment, a loud shout suddenly came from a distance: "Stop!"

Li Canghai, who had closed his eyes and waited to die, suddenly opened one eye and became ecstatic.

He saw a man in official uniform rushing towards with a few yamen servants, the stern shout just now came from the official's mouth.

"My lord, help me! They are going to burn me to death, please help me!" Li Canghai rolled his eyes and hurriedly took the opportunity to cry.

After the official arrived, everyone knelt down and saluted him, Li Canghai knew that the person in front of him was the magistrate of this county, Di Huai.

"What's going on here?" Di Huai asked in a deep voice, looking at the poor Li Canghai on the woodpile.

The village head hurriedly said: "My lord, this person stayed in the temple overnight and killed innocent girls. We are planning to burn him to death to avenge Jing'er's unjust death!"

"My lord, I didn't kill anyone, so I was wronged! They didn't know the truth and wanted to burn me to death. This is a private torture!" Li Canghai yelled righteously, recalling the lines in the TV series in his previous life.

"My lord, don't listen to his nonsense. It's only right and proper to kill and pay for life. You are the only one in the temple. If you are not the murderer, who is the murderer?" The village head trembled angrily and shouted sharply.

"Village elder, put him down first. I will find out if he is a murderer. If he is really a murderer, he will be dealt with by the yamen. If you use lynching to burn him to death, won't you also become a murderer?" Di Huai comforted him.

The village chief thought about it for a while, and felt that what Di Huai said had some truth, so he said: "Since your lord has said it, then follow your lord's will."

Di Huai ordered people to pull Li Canghai out of the woodpile, then turned to the village chief and asked, "Village elder, I'm going to inspect the site and hope to lead the way."

The village head was extremely respectful to Di Huai, and hurriedly said: "The scene of the murder is in the mountain temple, my lord, please come with me."

Li Canghai escaped from the fire, and immediately heaved a sigh of relief, thinking in his heart that he was really lucky, and unexpectedly encountered timely rain at the critical moment, otherwise it would have turned into coke.

Although he was pulled out from the pyre, he was still bound by the hemp rope, so he could only lie on the ground and look at the mountain temple from a distance.

From the whispers of the villagers, Li Canghai gradually understood the ins and outs of the matter.

There is a custom in this village. Before a woman gets married, she has to stay in the mountain temple for one night, praying for her mother's family.

Last night, the woman's name was Jing'er, and she was going to get married to a neighboring village today, but when her family went to pick her up this morning, they found that the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

Everyone thought that Jing'er had just overslept, so they watched the situation from the skylight on the roof, but they were so frightened that the person fell off the roof.

Everyone worked together to break open the door, but were shocked by the scene in front of them, they all stood there in a daze.

The headless female corpse stood on the altar, blood was everywhere, and the whole temple was like a hell on earth, full of infinite terror.

At that time, Li Canghai was still sleeping soundly behind the statue, and happened to be caught by the villagers, so he became the so-called 'murderer'.

(End of this chapter)