Two pairs of legs "looked" at Qin Ding for a while, then turned to leave, but the last pair of legs kept standing on the edge of the snow pit, quietly facing Qin Ding.
Qin Ding felt that the hairs all over his body had exploded, and he was stared at by a pair of invisible eyes, and the feeling was even more cold than being planted in a snow pit.
Suddenly, the legs took a step forward, slowly squatted down, slid along the edge of the snow pit to the bottom of the pit, and stood "face to face" with Qin Ding.
Qin Ding didn't want to sit still, he took out a handful of yellow talismans from his coat and threw it forward, while he turned around and jumped up suddenly, seeing that half of his body had jumped out of the pit, but his ankles suddenly tightened, and the whole person was dragged back to the bottom of the pit.
The force was so great that the snow on the walls of the pit slid in, filling the pit half-full.
Qin Ding's scream came from the bottom of the pit, and the sound was so terrible that it woke up all the hibernating animals in the forest.
A chickadee flew up from the branch with a scream, and its wings slapped off all the snow on the branches, and landed on the gorgeous robes of the Nine Wise Women, which quickly melted away.
She looked at the bottom of the pit quietly, her brows furrowed slightly, "Hey, it seems that compared to tribute, it seems that living people are more attractive to you, no matter what, no matter what."
She flicked her cuffs and turned to leave, Ren Qinding's voice changed from sharp to moaning, and she didn't look back.
When the rooster crowed for the first time, Yuan Qing woke up, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he felt a cold air rushing to his face, but fortunately, the nine sages immediately handed over a robe to help him relieve the pain of cold.
"Master, how is it, have the three corpses appeared?"
Yuan Qing's teeth fought straight.
The Nine Sages didn't answer, but their heads were a little towards the plate in front of them, Yuan Qing looked over and found that all the tributes on the plate were gone, and he couldn't help but smile, and kowtowed a few times on the snow, "Master's method is very wonderful, if the apprentice becomes an immortal one day, he will never forget Master's grace." ” The other apprentices also gathered around, and this one asked, "Yuan Qing, do you feel a lot lighter?"
The one asked, "How did you feel when the Three Corpse Gods came out?"
Yuan Qing answered their questions one by one, and several people talked about it with great interest, completely noticing that the faces of the nine wise women became cold and gloomy, and they were like the peaceful Dao Gu in the past.
Kuizhou When Liu Xuzhu and the two guards came to Kuizhou Mansion, the county commander Zheng Ronghua was already waiting outside the door, and when he saw the three of them dismounting, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Lord Liu, I can be regarded as looking forward to you, there is such a big case, I really have no master, I don't know what to do next, I can only ask the court for instructions, you are here, and most of my heart that has been hanging for a few days has been released." ” Liu Xuzhu raised his hand and signaled that he didn't need to talk nonsense anymore, a few people walked into the mansion, and before the tea came up, he looked at Zheng Ronghua with a straight face, "Lord Zheng, the saint only said that I should come to Kuizhou quickly, and I want you to explain the specific case in detail." ” Zheng Ronghua wiped his sweat, "After walking on the road for a few days, you have a cup of tea first" "No need, Master Zheng will talk about the case first, while the sky is not dark, we want to go to the scene of the crime."
"Yes, this year's Kuizhou has had a lot of rain, and a heavy rain last month actually caused flash floods, flooding several villages at the foot of the mountain.
Thanks to my timely response, the villagers and poultry and livestock were evacuated immediately, so there was no major loss.
However, when the flood receded a few days ago, when the villagers returned to their hometowns, they found that the cemetery at the foot of the mountain had been flooded, and many coffins had been washed out and scattered all over the ground, and some had been buried for a long time, and the coffins were rotten and the bones were exposed.
This is not a big deal, the cemetery of the ancestors was destroyed, and the coffin could only be resealed, and the relocation and burial was done, but when the villagers cleaned up the bones of their ancestors, they found that there were more than 20 more corpses in the cemetery. ” "I can understand less, there are also people who have been washed away by the water, but it's a bit strange that there are so many people buried in the grave, how can there be so many more people for no reason?"
Liu Xuzhu frowned and asked.
"Isn't it, Lord Liu, I thought they were mistaken, thinking that it was a family that moved out of the village, so I didn't come to claim the bones, but when I arrived at the scene, I knew that I had guessed wrong.
Because all of these 20 or so corpses were not sealed, but wrapped in turf, and the cause of their death was the same. ” "What is it?"
Liu Xujiao leaned forward.
Zheng Ronghua lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by others, "Their bones are blackened, and they are all poisoned. ” "What about the time of death?"
"The corpses have all been ossified, and the lower officials judge that they should be more than two years old."
"Can someone come and identify the body?"
"The notice has been posted, and no one has come to claim the bones yet."
More than 20 corpses were all placed in a vegetable shed next to the cemetery, as Zheng Ronghua said, these bones have been white and ossified, and the surface is black, looking at the past, as if they have been burned, which makes Liu Xuzhi feel extremely uncomfortable.
He put aside these bad associations, crouched between the bones to examine them carefully, and even ignored the dissuasion of his subordinates, picked up a shin that had been broken in two, and ran his fingers along the uneven surface.
"My lord, you better put it down, don't dirty your hands," Zheng Ronghua dissuaded on the side, "These bones are all black like this, the cause of death is obvious, it must be poisoning, I don't know who made the ruthless hand, poisoned so many people at once, and came up with such a vicious way to bury the corpse in the cemetery."
Liu Xuzhu interrupted his chatter, "Lord Zheng, does the blackened bones of the corpse necessarily mean that it must be poisoned?"
” Zheng Ronghe was stunned, "Isn't it difficult?"
Haven't we all judged this way since ancient times?
” Liu Xujiao stood up, his long eyebrows raised slightly, "It's because I always take the ancient law as the criterion and don't judge it, so many unjust cases have been created." ” He was not shocked when he said this, but Zheng Ronghe's heart set off a shocking wave, he hurriedly bowed and saluted, "It was the negligence of the lower officials, the lower officials are willing to hear the details, and please make it clear." ” Liu Xujiao picked him up with one hand, "I didn't mean to embarrass you, but I was afraid that you would make another mistake in the future case, so I want to clarify the facts to you now."
In fact, Lord Zheng is not wrong, these people did die of poisoning, but the blackening of the bones cannot be used as evidence of poisoning, because of the burial location and burial method, it is possible that the bones will turn black in normal death.
It's just that," he said, he brought the bone in his hand to Zheng Ronghua, "You see, there are a few blue-gray thin lines on it, and these thin lines are the evidence that they were poisoned and died." ”