I become a god in another world

Chapter 285 Killing in the Street

Chapter 285

"These villagers are really bold."

When Fan Bisi heard this, his face turned a little ugly:
"It is true that poor mountains and bad waters give rise to unruly people."

Liu Yizhen looked at Zhao Fusheng. She stood there coldly, looking in the direction of the village entrance, and did not say a word in response to Fan Bisi's words.

About a quarter of an hour later, the villagers came back one after another.

Some of these villagers were empty-handed, while others were carrying broken wooden boards of varying sizes and other items.

After a while, Cai Datou and Ge Daya each came back carrying a wheel.

The Fan brothers looked unhappy. Fan Wujiu clenched his fists and took a step forward, wanting to catch someone and beat him. Fan Bisi glanced at Zhao Fusheng, stopped his brother, and signaled him not to say anything for the time being and wait for Zhao Fusheng to speak.

"Officials, officials——"

Cai Datou stepped forward timidly, feeling a little headache:
"this--"

He was still carrying the wheel on his shoulders, and faced the silent Zhao Fusheng with some fear:
"The villagers don't know the seriousness of the situation and have never seen the world. I hope the adults will be magnanimous and forgive them."

This result seemed to be what Zhao Fusheng expected.

When Erfan was furious, she was not angry. When she heard Cai Datou's plea, she just smiled:

"My car has been dismantled like this? Where are the other panels of the car? Where are the horses?"

Seeing that she was not angry, but was talking and laughing instead, Cai Datou just thought that the matter was over, and he felt relieved and laughed out loud:
"Those bastards have no vision. When they see something good, they want to take it home. The adults' car was pulled into the dam over there."

While he was talking, Li Er came back, picking up a wheel in each of his left and right hands.

When Li Er heard this, he said:
"There's a dam deep in the bamboo forest over at Liutu Village. It should be used to dry some things. They pulled the adults' car over there and dismantled it."

After the wooden boards of the carriage were disassembled, some villagers hid them back home. There was no time to search for them one by one, so they only found four wheels.

As for the horses, they were nowhere to be found and were probably led out of the village.

"Ma - maybe it's the kid from the Bao family -" Cai Datou glanced at Ge Daya and finally said in a low voice:
"I haven't seen him before. This guy likes to steal and play around. He loves to be in a crowd."

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

With the situation like this, it was obviously impossible for her to go directly from Liutu Village to Lijiaao. She had to go back to Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division first, prepare the carriage again, and then set off again.

"Let's go back to the county first." She already had an idea in her mind, so she said lightly.

Cai Datou was originally worried about being punished, but he did not expect that the matter would be resolved so easily. He felt relieved and thought that this adult had a really good temper. He was also happy for the boy from the Bao family.

He said:

"Don't worry, sir. When this kid from the Bao family comes back, I will make sure his parents give him a good lesson."

Zhao Fusheng smiled but said nothing.

The group left the village under the gaze of the villagers. Fan Wujiu then said indignantly:
"How can you be so lenient with them, my Lord? These unruly people are lawless. First they destroyed the corpse and almost ruined your good deeds. Then you promised them a tax cut, but they still dared to steal the car and even took the horse away—"

After saying this, he secretly glanced at Zhao Fusheng again:
"Your Excellency should use the methods you used to suppress the bandits before and show them some of your power."

Zhao Fusheng said casually:

"These are villagers, not bandits."

"But..." Fan Wujiu wanted to refute, but Fan Bisi realized what Zhao Fusheng meant:
"Your Excellency means that this is under the jurisdiction of Magistrate Pang of the county government?"

"Yes."

Zhao Fusheng nodded and said coldly:

"After returning, have Li Er go to the county government to report the situation here to Magistrate Pang. The villagers who stole the horse, destroyed the finances of the Demon Suppression Division, and obstructed the ghost case will be punished according to law."

Fan Wujiu was a little angry at first, but after hearing this, he became happy again. He turned around and glanced at Li Er:
"What crime do you think your Excellency is charging?"

Li Er said:

"Horse stealing is punishable by death, and most of the villagers involved will suffer in prison." According to previous rules, they should be exiled.

But now Wan'an County has been exiled by the court in disguise, and no one knows where the criminals who should be exiled will be sent.

"Sent to hard labor."

Zhao Fusheng said something.

What she meant was that the matter of villagers stealing horses was finally settled.

Liu Yizhen is still thinking about the headless corpse case:

"There is no clue in this ghost case."

When talking about the ghost case, the Fan brothers showed a look of headache on their faces.

Kuai Manzhou has never been interested in anything other than Zhao Fusheng. Her attention seemed not to be on the topic of the few people, but to be looking around. She held Zhao Fusheng with one hand and occasionally stretched out the other hand to scratch in the weeds, and when she retracted her hand, she could catch some small flies.

"It is currently known that the evil spirit's method of killing is to take away the person's head."

Zhao Fusheng was not too troubled by this, but analyzed:
"Unlike the usual evil spirits that kill people one after another, this case's evil spirits seem to be happening at the same time."

Fan Bishi said:

"My Lord, what you mean is that the evil spirit in this case has the ability to clone itself into another person?"

"It's not clear now." Zhao Fusheng shook his head, "But judging from the time when the Yang family members died, the evil spirit killed people in the early morning hours-"

Most of the villagers got up early at this time, but the Yang family got up especially early because they had to go out for something.

"If there was no need to avenge Yang Guiying, would the Yang family still be sleeping when they died?" Zhao Fusheng looked thoughtful.

"How do you know, sir?"

Fan Wujiu asked curiously.

After Liu Yizhen was reminded by Zhao Fusheng, his mind became more active and he immediately thought of a point:

"Because the bodies of Yang Da's daughter-in-law and son were found on the bed."

"Yes." Zhao Fusheng confirmed his guess:
"Mrs. Yang and her baby are not going to Lijiaao, so she didn't get up early. She should be following her usual schedule."

When the ghost disaster broke out, she was still asleep.

Zhao Fusheng thought of this and hesitated again:

"So based on the situation of these two mother and son, we can also deduce the approximate time when the ghost disaster occurred."

This shows her meticulousness and caution.

The ghost case had been a mystery to him, but after her analysis, Liu Yizhen actually had a sense of relief that he had found the clues.

"Besides that, the Yang family lives in poverty and has simple social connections. The only connection and involvement they have is their children's marriages."

Zhao Fusheng said:

"We must go to the locations of the eldest and second daughters of the Yang family, and investigate them one by one."

In addition, the situation of Yang Da’s wife’s family also needs to be understood.

After she said this, Fan Bisi and Liu Yizhen both nodded.

"Secondly, the person the Yang family has been in contact with more frequently recently should be the matchmaker, so this can also be checked." Through such investigations, the relationships among the Yang family members can be sorted out more clearly, and it will be easier to find the reason why the Yang family was troubled by ghosts.

"It's a pity that the Yang family's belongings were almost destroyed."

Fan Bisi sighed.

"It's okay." Zhao Fusheng could understand. "It has already happened. Complaining again and again will not help. Fortunately, there are still other clues. We just need to continue investigating."

She is particularly clear-headed about major issues and does not dwell on them. Instead, she is very decisive.

Liu Yizhen felt particularly comfortable working with her for the first time - it seemed that no matter what kind of predicament she faced, she could always come up with a solution quickly and everyone just had to follow her steps.

Thinking of this, Liu Yizhen asked:
"You decided to start the investigation from Lijiaao?"

Zhao Fusheng nodded:
"Yes," she said.

"Although it seems that there are four relationship lines in the Yang family at present." They are Yang Guimei who married into Guomagou, Yang Guiying who married into Lijiaao near Huangquan Road, the eldest daughter-in-law who married into the Yang family, and the people who are currently discussing marriage with the third daughter.

But among these four investigation directions, Zhao Fusheng said:

"I think Yang Guiying's clue is the most suspicious. Let's start with Lijiaao."

She quickened her pace:

"Let's go back to the Demon Suppression Division first, wait for a while, and then set off after lunch."

"it is good."

The others responded in unison.

Fortunately, Liutu Village is not far from Wan'an County, so even if they don't take a horse carriage, they can still walk back quickly.

After about half an hour, we saw the gate of the county town.

The city gates were wide open. The soldiers guarding the city saw someone coming, stuck their heads out to look, and immediately recognized that they were from the Demon Suppression Division.

But they had clearly taken a car when they left the city in the morning, but now they seemed to be walking back. Their feet were covered in mud, as if they had walked all the way...

The soldiers guarding the city were a little confused, but they didn't dare to ask more questions.

Everyone returned to the city, but halfway through, Li Er suddenly said:

"My Lord, I will take my leave here."

Zhao Fusheng stopped, turned his head and looked at him, and said:
"I went to Dahe Village to check the household registration today, but I rushed over because I heard that something happened in Liutu Village. Now that I have finished my work, I have to go back to the county government to report to Mr. Pang--"

Zhao Fusheng nodded, thinking of what Wang Hun mentioned:

"You made an appointment with your father-in-law to go out for a drink?"

When Li Er heard her say this, he showed a complex expression of embarrassment, awkwardness, and guilt:

"Yes, my brother-in-law is of marriageable age. Recently, Taishan's family found a matchmaker and introduced him to a girl. Tomorrow, they are planning to invite both parents to meet and set up a banquet. My father-in-law invited me to accompany him."

He said this and sighed:
"My brother-in-law has a hard life. My mother-in-law died early, and my father-in-law has to run the business alone. So he needs my help. I had no choice but to discuss with my fifth brother and go our separate ways."

"Alas——" He sighed again:
"We were supposed to go to Liutu Village together, but because of this, we split up and let Fifth Brother run into such bad luck. I am sorry for him, and I will have to apologize to him later."

Zhao Fusheng nodded, and Li Er asked:

"Fifth Brother, he is now——"

"He should be fine for now." Zhao Fusheng said:
"But he had close contact with the bodies of the nine members of the Yang family and had touched the things of the Yang family. We are not clear about the evil ghost marks and the rules of killing, so we cannot let him go home for the time being. We took him to the Demon Suppression Division."

When Li Er heard this, he felt even more guilty, tears welled up in his eyes:
"I am sorry to Fifth Brother. If anything happens to him, I—"

He couldn't say any more.

Zhao Fusheng said:
"This is an accident that no one wants to happen, but it has already happened, so we just have to face it."

"Yeah." Li Er nodded:
"I--"

He had just uttered the first syllable when an accident occurred.

As Li Er nodded, his head connected to his neck seemed like a chain that was about to break, and his face quickly lost color and turned sallow.

The eyes that were originally filled with tears lost their luster.

Under the gaze of the three people from the Demon Suppression Bureau, his head disappeared out of thin air, as if it was instantly swallowed by an invisible big mouth.

A small stream of blood spurted out from the broken cervical vertebra, gurgling like a small fountain, splashing all over the left arm of Fan Wujiu who was unaware of it.

"..." He didn't notice Li Er's accident at first, he just felt something sticky sprayed on him, and he was immediately dissatisfied:

"Who spit on me?"

When the warm blood splashed on Fan Wujiu, he thought someone dared to spit at him. When he turned around angrily, he saw a headless corpse.

The broken neck was facing him, the flesh around the broken neck was slightly burnt yellow, the bone in the middle was white with red, and blood was still oozing out.

"you--"

This scene had a huge impact on Fan Wujiu.

Even though he had prepared himself mentally to solve a ghost case, he was still frightened speechless when he suddenly saw the headless corpse standing in front of him.

"..."

He dodged behind Fan Bisi, and the two brothers stood on Zhao Fusheng's left and right.

Zhao Fusheng was also shocked by this sudden accident.

Li Er was still talking to her normally a moment ago, but suddenly his head seemed to be plucked off by an invisible hand.

After Fan Wujiu finished shouting, Li Er's body seemed to lose support. His knees softened and he slowly fell down.

Before he died, he was standing next to Zhao Fusheng, and now he was falling towards her.

She instinctively reached out and held his shoulders.

The body was still warm, but a living person lost his life in an instant.

Zhao Fusheng supported the man and after a while he finally suppressed his shock.

After all, she had experienced several ghost cases and witnessed many cruel separations of life and death. At this moment, she finally adjusted her mentality in a very short time and shouted at the still horrified Fan brothers:
"Come over and hold him up."

"Yes Yes Yes--"

Er Fan finally came to his senses and hurried forward to hold Li Er's arms from both sides.

His broken neck was still bleeding, and the blood flowed down around his neck, soaking his clothes in an instant.

"Sir, what should we do?"

After holding the body, Fan Wujiu still felt a little numb on his scalp and asked:
"Did a ghost appear just now?"

"No!" Zhao Fusheng shook his head solemnly, then turned to look at Kuai Manzhou:

"Manzhou, do you sense the breath of the evil spirit?"

A red light flashed in the child's eyes, and a layer of hair fluttered gently. A faint red mist surrounded the place where the Demon Suppression Division was. When she heard Zhao Fusheng's question, she shook her head:

"No."