Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 117 The Hut (Part [-])
Wu Chen wanted to find some clues from the clothes and belongings of the three of them, but unfortunately the three of them had nothing on them except the long knife in their hands.

Looking at the black bodysuits the three were wearing, Wu Chen took a closer look at the hands of the three. There were rough calluses on the thumb, index finger and the lower part of the palm, obviously caused by holding knives all year round, but the nails were clean. There is no dirt on the body, even the neck, ankles, and elbows are clean, which shows that the three of them do not usually stay in the country, and even often take a bath.

Wu Chen stood up, picked up a long knife next to a dead body, and said, "One of you will go to the village with me, and the rest will find a way to transport the dead body back to the county government. I will make my own arrangements later."

Several people discussed and left one who knew the way to accompany Wu Chen to continue on the way, while the others dragged the corpse and left.

……

Wu Chen came to the outside of the hut with a long knife and frowned. Gao Er and Xu Da had already greeted him. Seeing Wu Chen's complexion and holding the knife again, Gao Er asked, "But what did you encounter on the way?"

"Someone wants to kill me." Wu Chen said flatly.

The sophomore and Xu Da were both shocked.

The second year in high school quickly said: "From now on, the two of us will never be able to leave your side. Even if there is an extremely important matter, we must leave one of us behind."

Xu Da also said: "It should be so! I'm afraid after thinking about it. If something happens to you, neither of us will survive."

Seeing this, the yamen servant who followed Wu Chen hurriedly said, "Mr. Wu just waved the rope lightly, and those three people died."

The sophomore opened his mouth and turned to look at Xu Da who also opened his mouth.

Wu Chen waved his hand and said, "No one can kill me, but I wanted to keep alive, but if I didn't, what's going on inside?"

Wu Chen put his hands behind his back and walked into the hut.

Inside the house, two corpses were lying face down at the entrance, with blood all over their bodies.

Wu Chen's legs were a little weak. Ever since he knew that blood is precious and cannot be regenerated, he would feel uncomfortable seeing the blood even if it wasn't his. The three of them were beaten into a sieve just now, and they haven't had time to form such a large piece. A pool of blood, he is better.

Wu Chen handed the long knife in his hand to the second grader and said, "Two brothers, please check if the cuts on their necks match this knife."

Senior Two took the long knife and looked at it, then handed it to Xu Da, Xu Da also looked carefully, then the two of them squatted down, carefully looked at the wound on the corpse, Senior Second got up and said, "It's this kind of knife."

Wu Chen went out of the house, stood in the courtyard and looked around. The villagers in this village lived not close together, and it was impossible to tell how many families there were.

Xu Da came out and said: "We have already asked the villagers to identify them. The villagers don't know these two people."

"Is this Zhang Cai's home?" Wu Chen asked.

"Yes, Zhang Cai has a family and children, and also has a brother, but it's not these two people."

The second year of high school also came out of the room and said, "If you want me to tell you to interrogate Liang Kuan carefully, I'm afraid these people in the Yang'an county government are not clean."

Wu Chen asked, "Why did they kill the reporter's family?"

"Are you saying that Zhang Cai's family is really dead?" asked the sophomore.

Wu Chen looked into the distance with his hands behind his back and said:
"What Zhang Cai saw may be different from the scene that Chen Wuzhao brought people to see, and this difference can directly expose the lies of the Yin soldiers, so they can't let me see the real Zhang Cai, and Zhang Cai After returning home, he must tell his family members what he saw, and his family members will not be able to live, this is just my current inference, and I have to find more clues."

Xu Da asked:
"Although this village doesn't live close by, there should be quite a few people. How could it be that Zhang Cai was the only one who saw five hundred soldiers die at the foot of the mountain? Are there still people who have nothing to do and want to go up the mountain to visit? They killed Zhang Cai What's the use?"

Wu Chen nodded and said, "That makes sense! Do you know what other uses the five-color jade has?"

The two shook their heads.

Wu Chen looked at the yamen servant again and asked, "Lin Duzhi has been here for a few days, did you come down to the foot of the mountain to take a look? Or meet Zhang Cai?"

A yamen servant shook his head and said, "That senior official rarely leaves the house, and we don't see anyone he wants to see. It's our county magistrate Chen who goes to the house every day to answer questions, but we always see people brought by that senior official. Out of town and into town."

Wu Chen nodded lightly and said, "They're all old foxes!"

The sophomore came over and asked in a low voice, "Do you think Lin Duzhi knows something?"

"It's not just Lin who knows, I'm afraid Si Zun also expected something." Wu Chen said.

The second year in high school hurriedly asked: "Then why didn't I explain it to you first?"

Wu Chen shrugged and said:
"The person who just wanted to kill me may have a better life than you and me. What kind of person can treat his subordinates like this? This is the first, and the second is that the person who wants to kill five hundred soldiers, don't care what method he uses , No matter what you have in hand, there must be a hundred or 80 people, or even more. Weak... bandits don't dare to rob officers and soldiers, that's why they came up with the rhetoric of shady soldiers robbing Dao, who are they trying to deceive?"

The sophomore in high school lowered his voice and asked, "Official?"

Wu Chen asked in a low voice, "Does the official family want to be deceived?"

"Of course I don't want to."

Wu Chen shook his head and said, "I might not be sure at first, but later I don't think so. This is why after Lin Duzhi came, he only worked hard on the bandits nearby, and it took so many days after the incident to think of calling me here for investigation." , who am I? I’m just a beggar in a remote place, what can I understand? Not knowing is an opportunity.”

"I don't understand." The sophomore replied sincerely.

"If you use Brother Wu to check, there is still room for maneuver." Xu Da said.

Wu Chen nodded and said to the yamen servant beside him, "Bring these two corpses back to the county yamen."

The sophomore snorted and said:

"It's as if someone else came to investigate, and they can find out. Besides, you were attracting the ghost gang before, and Si Zun couldn't do it even if he wanted you to come over. But when you feel all right, don't you come right away?"

Wu Chen scratched his forehead, but didn't speak.

"The murderers who killed these two people may have done it by the group who wanted to kill you, but why did they kill these two people?" Xu asked in bewilderment.

"They might have been in the same group." Wu Chen looked at the corpse that was carried out and said, "These two dared to impersonate, it was planned by someone, and no one in the nearby villagers knew them, so how dare the two of them act like this?" A play? Only the two of them will die."

After Wu Chen finished speaking, he walked towards the gate of the courtyard, followed closely by Senior Two and Xu Da. Xu Da was even more puzzled. He asked:

"You said if they were part of a group, why should they be killed? Just leave here, how can we deal with it when we go back? This is for us to see? How do they know that we will kill back?"

Wu Chen said: "Yeah, I'm also thinking about this question. Why did you kill him? You want to set fire to the house, and go through all this trouble just to let us know that Zhang Cai's family is gone?"

As Wu Chen spoke, he stood still and looked up at the mountain.

(End of this chapter)