"Crescent Moon" Cheng Muyou silently pronounced the name in his heart, and at the same time, the rag doll appeared in his mind, it was a little worn, it must be the beloved thing of the little girl named Crescent Moon, she was inseparable from it, and she took it with her wherever she went, but now the doll is still there, but its owner is nowhere to be found.
She was not buried in this lotus pond with her family, so where did she go, and is she dead or alive now?
If she were alive, would she have seen the murderer's true face?
As soon as I thought of this, a mournful cry suddenly came from behind, "My lord, my poor cousin is really miserable, the whole family has died, and she is now alive and dead, and I hope that my lord will see everything and find out the murderer." ” Cheng Muyou turned around and saw Jiang Xixi with tears on his face, kneeling all the way to Qu Zhengkun, grabbing the corners of his clothes and begging bitterly, her crying made the onlookers also sad, there were those who shook their heads and sighed, and there were many people who wept gloomily, everyone usually received a lot of favors from the Liu family, and now they saw their whole family die innocently and tragically, of course, they couldn't bear it.
Cheng Muyou knew that Jiang Xixi's purpose in acting this play was to further confirm the identities of the four of them, and secondly, because he saw that this Quxian Commander was really not a person who was sympathetic to public opinion, so he was putting pressure on him so that he could solve the case as soon as possible.
Cheng Muyou sighed in his heart: her heart is good, but she doesn't know how much she can play a role, this Qu Zhengkun looks like an old fritter who has been in the officialdom for a long time, and he has done a lot of things behind the surface, even if he is now swearing to solve the case in front of the people of the county, he may not be lazy to shirk it after he goes back, this point, Jiang Xixi can't understand, but he can see it clearly from the muddy and sophisticated mung bean eyes.
He withdrew his gaze from Qu Zhengkun and looked at the more than 20 corpses next to him again, now, the officials have begun to pull people, and they are moving the corpses to the temporary board car in turn, preparing to pull them to the county office for further autopsy.
Cheng Muyou looked at the corpses that were removed from in front of him, and his back suddenly cooled: Something is wrong, these corpses are wrong.
He felt that something was wrong just now, but he had not been able to find out the reason, and now he saw these twenty or so corpses passing in front of his eyes in turn, and he finally solved the doubts in his heart.
The shapes of the corpses were all distorted: some of them were forcefully pulling at their necks with their fingers, some of them were torn up and their shoulders at a very strange angle, and even worse, they even opened their mouths wide to vomit, and they raised their legs and arms and stretched them upwards with force.
They seemed to be fighting, struggling, trying their best, only to be exhausted and crushed at the bottom of the mud-covered lotus pond.
Cheng Muyou's back was flooded with an electric current, he looked at the corpses that had been loaded onto the cart, watched them drive out of his sight, and sat down on the ground in despair: what is it, what is it that presses these people hard under the mud, until they are filled with mud and their mouths and noses, and they die of exhaustion?
The strangest thing is that this thing has not left any traces, under normal circumstances, if you struggle, there will always be some fighting scars and palm prints on the human body, but according to his observation, these corpses have no marks at all, so what is this thing that takes people's lives?
The people of the county government pulled the body and left, and the crowd of onlookers retreated to both sides with their noses blocked, making way for the board carts that the fish had passed through, Cheng Muyou glanced at the two officials, and the two walked to him with interest, "My lord, what do you command?"
” Cheng Muyou covered his mouth with his hands and said in a low voice, "You follow you to the gate of the county government, if there is anything, come back and inform me at any time." ” The two officials went down and quietly followed the team that had already gone away, seeing this, Jiang Xixi stepped forward, "My lord, what are we going to do now?"
” Cheng Muyou raised a thick eyebrow, "Looking at Qu Zhengkun's reaction, Shi Fei Shi Jin should indeed have never been to Liaoyang, so it is very likely that the two of them will encounter an accident halfway, what do you think is the strangest place along the way?"
” "The valley infested with Yin soldiers."
Jiang Xixi blurted out without even thinking about it, and her face changed slightly, "My lord, do you want to go to that valley again?"
” Cheng Muyou's face was solemn, "Let's go back to the inn first, we are in a hurry today, I didn't ask the shopkeeper to take care of Xu Ziming, he is injured, if we can't come back for a long time, we can't have no one to take care of him." ” Jiang Xixi nodded, "It's okay, by the way, I can still borrow the copper coin in his hand, the last time I was in the valley, the copper coin saved me, maybe I can use it this time." ” When the sun shone its strongest light of the day, Jiang Xixi and Cheng Muyou finally arrived at the Yin Soldier Tank, but the two were followed by Xu Ziming, when he learned that Cheng Muyou was going to investigate in the valley again, he insisted on coming over, no matter how Jiang Xixi persuaded him, he refused to listen, and even left a word to the two: if he was not allowed to go, he would wait for them to leave and then secretly follow, in short, he would never sit idly by.
At this point, Cheng Muyou had to let him follow, so along the way, Xu Ziming told them all the names of this valley and the origin of the name.
After Jiang Xixi heard this, she was quite surprised, she looked at the bright valley in front of her that was scorched by the sun, and sighed, "It turns out that there are three thousand white bones of the Liao army buried here, they died so miserably, no wonder they have to be peaceful, and now they have to come out to make trouble." ” Xu Ziming followed behind and smiled bitterly, "Miss Jiang, now these Liao soldiers are just ghostly, wandering in the valley all day long, but they won't hurt people, don't you know what it was like here when the battle was just over." ” "What does it look like?"
It was Cheng Muyou who answered, he looked at Xu Ziming, and the anxiety in his eyes was obvious.
Xu Ziming looked at the empty valley in front of him, and his face was covered with a layer of panic, "After the battle, several people disappeared in this Yin Soldier Tank, all of them entered and did not leave, but due to the small number of people, it did not attract much attention.
Later, a group of darts passed by this place, and disappeared without a trace, because of the large number of people and property involved in this matter, this attracted the attention of the government, and sent officials to search," he swallowed, "My lord, guess what, they searched for a whole day, and finally found an inconspicuous earthen bag in the valley, and after digging it up, they found that the missing people were all buried underneath, and what is even stranger is that they were all stoned to death by the army's iron thistles." ”