Relief

Xie Zhixu only slowed down for an instant, and Wu Li knew what he was thinking, and raised his long eyebrows that flew into his temples: "What's so embarrassing?"

Wu Li tapped the giant man's rock-hard arm with his fingers, and made a muffled sound: "Fourth brother, do me a favor and ask my junior brother for a ride, okay?"

The fourth child remained motionless, and the light in the crevices of his beard did not blink.

"He agreed," Wu Li said, extending his hand to Xie Zhixu, "Hurry up, hurry up and do things."

Xie Zhixu stepped on the hard palm of the fourth child with emotion, and was lifted up to the height of the top of the wall.

"Thank you fourth senior brother." Xie Zhixu bowed to the fourth brother before jumping into the wall with Wu Li.

The fourth child popped his head out from behind the wall, still facing the same position as when he fell from the sky, as still as a stone statue.

Wu Li clasped his hands together like a trumpet, and said to the fourth child with a low voice: "You stay here, don't move around." Then he gestured to Xie Zhixu to enter the courtyard.

There was no one in the backyard, it was quiet.

Xie Zhixu and Wu Li groped their way through the woodshed and stables by sticking to the base of the wall.

"Third Senior Brother," Xie Zhixu was still a little worried after thinking about it, "Fourth Senior Brother, can you really understand what you just said? What if he leaves alone?"

Wu Li poked his head around the corner and said casually: "No problem, you can rest assured."

"However, even if he doesn't walk around, that head is still very eye-catching. What if we are exposed?"

Wu Li stopped in his tracks, turned his head, and stared at Xie Zhixu with a pair of phoenix eyes: "I said, instead of worrying here for nothing, you'd better find the file and go back early. Do you know where the Yi County Yamen puts the file? "

"I know," Xie Zhixu said, raising his finger to the top of his head, "This is it."

There is a plaque on the head - "County Judgment Prison".

It is probably the office where Cao Shi handles lawsuits. There are bookshelves on all sides of the room, and a few cases are placed on the north side. The case is full of four treasures.

Another empty room.

Wu Li walked along the bookshelf to look for the file of the case of the living dead, and sighed: "You are so lucky, you didn't come across anyone in the backyard."

The fresh files were all put together in one place. Xie Zhixu had gone through a few searches and was very experienced, so he went straight to Cao Shi's desk case.

Xie Zhixu said: "Because I have made inquiries a long time ago, the county government and the supervisor's office in Yi County are not in the same place, and the chiefs of both sides check and fight each other, and the business contacts are unknown. They always pick a time to meet during these few days of the month. It is also a good time to sort out business relationships whose ownership is unclear. The county magistrate has a strong reputation and will take away most of the servants in the yamen."

Wu Li gave him a thumbs up and praised him sincerely: "Little Junior Brother, you are really serious. You have grown significantly after being released from the master's school for just a few days."

The file that Cao Shi laid out on the table was indeed the case of the living dead in the western suburbs of the county.Xie Zhixu found the target, breathed a sigh of relief, and said modestly to Wu Li: "It should be, each of the previous three cases was handled in this way, and anyone with normal intelligence has experience in handling it."

The case of the living dead, not to mention the well-known far and near, at least enough to give Cao Shi a headache for the county judge in Yi County.The roll paper was turned up with rough edges, and there were a few sweaty fingerprints on the edge.

It records the identity of the victim, family relationship and the events before and after the incident.

An old lady in her [-]s, with a son and a daughter-in-law at home, and the whole family are tenants to the landlord in the western suburbs.The family has no distant relatives, the neighborhood is harmonious, and life is peaceful.

One day the daughter-in-law got up to cook in the morning and brought the food into the room where her mother-in-law lived. When she opened the door and went in, she found that her mother-in-law had died on the couch.

The deceased's face was terrified, foaming at the mouth, bleeding from the seven orifices, and his death was extremely horrifying. It was by no means the end of life.After the appraisal by the county magistrate, there was neither trauma nor signs of poisoning on the whole body, and the cause of death was unknown.

The only doubtful point is that the deceased was clearly a stranger the day before yesterday, but his hair and nails showed characteristics that only appeared a few years after his death.

After reading the file, Wu Li stroked his chin and analyzed: "First it was the cook, then the bride, then the coachman, and finally this old woman. These four conspiracies spread all over the streets and alleys. Although there is no connection between the location and the victim, but Just based on this weird modus operandi, it should be done by the same person." His eyes brightened, and he became more and more excited as he spoke.

Wu Li asked Xie Zhixu: "You have handled the first three cases, but what did you find?"

Xie Zhixu was not excited at all, he was very sad, he found the victim's address in the file, and said to Wu Li: "Let's go to the scene of the crime first, and I will tell you slowly on the way."

The fourth brother of the giant man was still waiting by the back wall, maintaining the posture they had left before.

Xie Zhixu suspected that he might not even blink his eyes.

Fortunately, no pedestrians passed by in this short period of time, otherwise they would have been shocked by this statue-like giant.

Both Xie Zhixu and Wu Li didn't know how to do light work, and they walked too slowly, so they sat on the shoulder of the fourth child.I saw Wu understood the bamboo tube at his waist, stretched the head and tail back into a five-foot-long rod, and the tip was a little on the back of Laosi's instep, and said three words: "Xiyi point."

The fourth child was still motionless, but a stream of strong tendons erupted from the soles of his feet, carrying the two of them up to the highest point in Yi County.

"Chengxu Cave."

Wu Li stretched out his bamboo stick and clicked a position.

The airflow turned, pushing the three of them over the roofs of Yi County.

This was Xie Zhixu's first flying experience, because of his special constitution, he was unable to practice lightness kung fu since he was a child.Thinking of Wu Li sitting on the shoulders of a flying man like this, crossing the Jialing River and traveling all the way to Yi County, he was even very envious.

"Tell me about the case quickly." The wind was strong in the high place, and the wind was fierce, and it was difficult to communicate, but Wu Li spoke into the fourth's left ear, and the voice came out from the right ear for Xie Zhixu to hear clearly.

It can be seen that there is really nothing in the fourth child's mind.

These four strange cases are like this.

The first person to die was a cook from a certain restaurant in a certain county.The business of the restaurant was quiet that day, and there was only one Dangtou in the back kitchen. No one saw the incident until the waiter came to the kitchen to serve the dishes to the guests.

Human fingers can be found in the marinated chicken feet, which are already cooked and marinated.A clump of hair was picked out of the seaweed soup, connected to a bloody scalp, and the blood had melted into the soup.There is also the fish head with chopped peppers, the big eyes are open, the white of the eyes is bloodshot, it turns out to be a human eyeball.

A meal like this, where did the cook go?

The county's clerks had a flash of inspiration later, and finally picked out the crumbs of human organs that hadn't completely melted in the black and greasy stains mixed with the smell of rancid water in the back kitchen.Because the color and smell were nothing like that, the waiter in the shop almost cleaned it up as spoiled water.

In the end, it was concluded that the cook had melted into a puddle of pus in the middle of cooking.

Those fingers, hair and eyeballs are the only proof that he ever existed.

As for the guests who are overwhelmed and want to complain, I'm sorry, there is no such person in the world.

The second deceased was a newly married bride who was sent to the bridegroom's house by the welcoming team all the way to the bridegroom's house, wearing a red wedding dress in the morning and being greeted by her natal family on a sedan chair.

As soon as he got off the sedan chair, he was booed by the groom's brothers and friends and lifted his hijab.The bride was not angry either, and smiled shyly.

The groom led her in by the marriage rope, and the bride was blushing and smiling.

After the worship, relatives and friends made a fuss to stay and drink. The bride was overwhelmed with alcohol and sat quietly smiling.

The groom hugged her and kicked her out of the bridal chamber. Amidst the noise of laughter, the bride put her head on the groom's chest and smiled.

When it was time for intimacy at night, the groom unbuttoned her clothes and felt the coldness of her body, and then he let go of the already hard body amidst screams.

In the layers of red mantle on the hi bed, the corpse is still smiling sweetly.

The third deceased was an old coachman who had been driving a carriage all his life. He was very skilled and never overturned his cart.

But that morning, his horse had taken some wrong medicine and went berserk in the street. It broke free from the reins of the harness and galloped wildly.

In order to restrain the crazy horse, the driver lay on the horse's back and was led out of the city.

For the next three days, no one in the city saw the coachman again, and the carriage that broke down on the street was confiscated by the government.

Until someone found the wreckage of the coachman trampled beyond recognition in the suburbs, with bloody horseshoe marks all over the grass next to it.

These three cases, because they happened recently, and all of them died in strange ways, people can hear people talking about them everywhere in the streets and alleys.

Xie Zhixu doesn't even need to ask people, as long as he sits in the room and eats a cup of tea, he can follow the clues to find Yi County.

"Therefore," Wu Li concluded after listening to Xie Zhixu's narration, "the cook, the bride, and the horse all suffered from strange poisons that are rare in the world, so they will appear abnormal. And because of the rareness, even the work cannot be tested. , then how did you discover the clue?"

The fourth child had already brought them down on the field road in the western suburbs of Yi County. Walking down the field ridge, there was a row of farmhouses, and the third house along the way was the victim's house, with conspicuous white lanterns hanging under the eaves.

An old farmer with his trousers pulled up at the edge of the field was driving an ox cart. When he saw the three of them, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

Wu Li waved at the old farmer and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid, fellow, this is my brother. He suffered from gigantism since he was a child, nothing else!"

The bullock cart drove the stunned villagers away.

Xie Zhixu took out a thin book from his pocket, the cover was "Tangmen Hundred Poisons Encyclopedia".

"This was given to me by my husband before I left."

"Okay," Wu Li nodded, "Sir, you always predict things like a god."

About to walk out of the field, Xie Zhixu looked at the fourth child apprehensively: "No way, the fourth brother will scare the villagers."

Wu Li looked around, Xie Zhixu guessed that he was looking for a woods where he could hide, but unfortunately there were flat fields nearby.

"You," Wu Li slapped the back of the fourth brother's hands vigorously to attract his attention, "go and squat in the corner of the backyard of Bai Lantern's house. I can't stand up without permission."

The fourth child dragged his huge body towards the backyard of the house where the white lanterns were hung. Every step he took, the ground trembled three times, and several groups of sparrows flew away from the trees on the field road.

Xie Zhixu couldn't help sighing: "Fourth Senior Brother is really not suitable to leave the division."

With his hands in his hands, Wu Li said in a dawdly way: "Open your eyes to everyone in the city and the countryside."

As if the sound of the earthquake disturbed several families, the one where the funeral was held also opened the gate to check. It was a peasant woman with curly hair and a skirt.

Seeing two strangers coming to her door, I don't know why.

"You two are..." Her face was sallow, her expression was haggard, and the corners of her eyes drooped downward.

There was a new funeral at home, and the master hadn't come out of the grief, Xie Zhixu also put on a sad expression, and said sadly: "Ma'am, we are the county government to handle the case, please help me."

Wu Li raised his eyebrows with his hands in his arms.

The peasant woman twisted the word "Chuan" between her eyebrows, with a sad face: "You have been here several times, and each time you are different, and what you say is also inconsistent. When can we be buried?"

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