Li Lingsu immediately left the room, asked the steward of the Chai Mansion for a horse, and walked along the main road to the gate of the North City.

It took only a quarter of an hour for the two to meet outside the North City Gate. Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian changed his appearance again.

Xu Qi'an nodded slightly, without explaining, grabbed the belly of the filly and rode away.

"drive!"

Li Lingsu waved his whip and followed immediately.

Approaching the village, Xu Qi'an slowed down his horse, threw a robe and hood to him, and said:

"Put it on, a murder has occurred in the village, you go to summon the soul and find out who the murderer is."

After Li Lingsu's disguise was over, Xu Qi'an got off his horse and snapped his fingers. The filly and Li Lingsu's horse obediently entered the forest by the side of the road and hid.

Tsk, the beast control Gu's ability is really useful, Li Lingsu thought enviously.

Heart Gu is also called "Beast Gu" and "Beast Control Gu", because Heart Gu masters often use it to control poisonous insects and beasts.

The two entered the village side by side. When approaching the destination, Xu Qi'an found that the small courtyard was full of villagers, and mournful cries came from the house.

The villagers stood in or outside the courtyard, pointing and whispering.

Xu Qi'an vaguely heard a few words:

"Has Wang Laosi's family offended anyone?"

"Who knows, even the children are not spared, the murderer is really devoid of conscience."

"Hey, could it be that Chai Xian did it? It must be him. I heard that he is a lunatic who even killed his adoptive father."

"Oh, aren't we in danger then?"

He and Li Lingsu squeezed the villagers away and entered the yard.

A simple wooden board was set up in the room, and a family of three lay on it, covered with a dirty white cloth, and an old man with gray hair fell down beside the board, crying loudly.

A young couple was busy in the house. They were dressed in ordinary clothes, their hands were rough, and their faces were dark. They looked like people who were used to rough work.

"who are you?"

Seeing Xu Qi'an and Li Lingsu coming in, the young couple was a little wary, especially Li Lingsu was wearing a robe and a hood.

"People from the government."

Xu Qi'an said in a deep voice: "Who told you to move the corpse without authorization? What if you destroy the clues left by the murderer?"

He came up to question, and the young man who asked was at a loss, thinking that he had made a big mistake.

Li Lingsu took the opportunity to enter the back room, which was the scene of the murder, and closed the door.

Without giving the young man a chance to respond, Xu Qi'an kept a straight face and asked again: "What is your relationship with this family?"

The young man looked back at the dead man, with sadness on his dull face:

"He is my elder brother, and my father is his uncle. At noon, the neighbor saw a stranger coming in, and then left quickly. He came to check the situation, but no one answered for a long time. When he came in, he found that everyone had been arrested. killed"

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Xu Qi'an didn't change his face, and said: "Call the neighbors around here."

The young man stepped out of the threshold, glanced at the crowd outside the courtyard, and said in dialect:

"The official has something to ask, come here."

He pointed to several of the neighbors.

Soon, two old women came in, they were neighbors.

The old mothers were a little afraid, but couldn't restrain their nature of troublemakers, and looked at the three corpses on the wooden board frequently.

"Has any strange person been here?"

Xu Qi'an asked, and got the answer "A strange man came here at noon".

"Did anyone come here this morning?"

The two old ladies looked at each other and shook their heads.

One said he hadn't noticed it, and the other said he hadn't seen it.

Although there are not many people in the small village, the advantage is that if a stranger enters the village, they will be very eye-catching, and they are more likely to commit murder at night. He thought to himself, at this moment, Li Lingsu came out of the house and shook his head at him.

"The soul has been scattered." Li Lingsu said via voice transmission.

Xu Qi'an's face darkened, and he nodded slowly.

The two didn't stay any longer and left the village in a hurry.

On the way back, Li Lingsu whispered, "What happened."

"I followed Chai Xian that day and found this place all the way. Chai Xian is hiding in this family, which is one of his footholds."

Xu Qi'an sat on the back of the little mare, looked into the distance, and said:

"That day we agreed to use this as a contact point to exchange information. I planned to encourage him to go to the Demon Slaughter Conference to confront Chai Xing'er and take the opportunity to lock his location. Well, that day I manipulated a cat to follow me with my mind. When the main body arrived, he had already left."

Why he is looking for Chai Xian's body is ignored here.

Although Li Lingsu was puzzled, he didn't ask carefully, and pondered: "But Chai Xian didn't appear at the Demon Slaying Conference today."

"Yes!"

Xu Qi'an nodded: "So I came here to confirm, only to find that they were silenced."

"Hiss..." Li Lingsu took a breath:

"The purpose of silencing is to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaying Conference? There is a problem here, that is, the person who silencing knows that Chai Xian will come tonight. Otherwise, if Chai Xian can't receive your note, he probably won't show up. There is no need to kill people."

This sentence awakened Xu Qi'an, and he said in a deep voice, "Maybe it's not to prevent Chai Xian from getting the note, but to scare Chai Xian away."

"How to say?" Li Lingsu asked.

"I don't know much about Chai Xian, but I know that this person is a bit extreme. He stayed in Xiangzhou to prove his innocence and find out the real culprit behind the scenes. Even if there is no note from me, he will probably borrow the Demon Slaughter Conference Time to avenge."

Xu Qi'an analyzed:

"The note is an extra insurance for me, but it's not the most important thing. Because I can't be sure that Chai Xian will definitely come last night, but how can the people behind the scenes be sure that Chai Xian will come last night?"

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