There was silence for a moment, but soon it became noisy again. It was Mr. Gong Qi and others who came with the scribes, guards, village chiefs, doctors and pharmacists from the town's medical clinic.
There were dozens of people cheering, more soldiers and horses than the soldiers and horses brought by Yang County Lieutenant.
Behind the team, there were also a large number of villagers from villages and towns. They were all afraid that their families would be implicated, so they followed, and there were hundreds of them.
Yang County Lieutenant looked at Chen Xiaoqi and said, "You saw it, not to mention arresting the murderer, it is difficult to scare the locals."
Unless the commander has thousands of troops, otherwise it is It's hard to catch any murderer.
Chen Xiaoqi was hit hard, but the county government only had so few manpower. If it weren't for the punishment of being sentenced to death, and if it weren't for the help of local bosses like the village chief, the government would not dare to go to the countryside to run errands.
Guan Shuli raised his head and looked at the villagers who were following with hoes in hand. He felt mixed feelings... He had captured several village chiefs in the countryside and had such people protecting them. Then he thought about what happened in the capital. It will only be more difficult for the new emperor to break the monopoly shackles of aristocratic families.
After a while, General Gong Qi and the others came closer, dismounted and said: "Lord County Lieutenant, bring all the members of Silifang of Xiangnan Town, as well as the village chiefs and village chiefs... The soldiers cut and wounded five Everyone was slightly injured, but none of our soldiers were injured!"
Yang County Lieutenant nodded, very satisfied: "Well done."
Such a large-scale arrest of the local snakes in Xiangnan Town would definitely lead to conflicts, but they were only injured. Five people, General Gong Qi is really good at running errands.
He also ordered Gong Zongqi: "Lead the troops into formation. I want to shout to them."
"Yes." Gong Zongqi immediately asked the soldiers to beat gongs and wave flags to gather the troops.
Soon, more than thirty soldiers in armor and swords lined up to stop the villagers behind them. They pointed their dazzling blades and sharp arrows at them, scaring them so much that they did not dare to move forward.
Dang, Dang, Dang!
After several gongs sounded, Yang County Lieutenant came to the front of the formation and shouted to the people: "I am the Baofu County County Lieutenant. I came here just to find out what happened in Fenfang Court." Son, I won’t arrest people randomly, let alone implicate innocent people. But if any villager is stupid and gathers a crowd with weapons to fight against the government, I will definitely kill him!”
After shocking the villagers with some cruel words, he then said: "There are many corpses buried underground in this Zhuangzi. I need your help to dig up the corpses. Dig out the corpses as soon as possible and settle this case as soon as possible, so that you can live a stable life soon." Days!”
“So this is considered a meritorious service? We are willing to help!” The people in Xiangnan Town were very happy, holding up the hoes and shovels they brought from home, and said excitedly.
Chen Xiaoqi was very angry... You guys came here with hoes and shovels, you clearly want to gather a crowd to hinder the Yamen from doing errands!
Yang County Wei said: "Very good. If you are willing to help, go to the official to register. After registration, follow the soldiers to dig up the corpse."
Some villagers asked worriedly : "Do you still need to register? Now that the registration is over, we won't be arrested, right? We are all poor people, but we don't have enough money to come to Fragrant Garden to be happy!"
At most, it is just knowing the information but not reporting it.
But there are a lot of troubles in the countryside, and Fragrance Court has many thugs, so how dare they report it.
Yang Xianwei knew the country people very well and said: "Registration is to record your achievements in the future, not to arrest you."
As soon as these words came out, the villagers were overjoyed and rushed to grab them. Register.
Gong Zongqi hurriedly led his troops to maintain order: "Line up and come one by one, don't rush!"
The official Guan Shuli had already taken out pen and paper to register the villagers.
After registering ten people, Yang County Lieutenant called Chen Xiaoqi: "Take this group of villagers to dig in the crop fields west of Zhuangzi!"
Li Kuanzi and the others only vaguely knew that Dogou and his men killed people and buried their bodies. , but I don’t know exactly where it is buried, so I can only dig it out in Zhuangzi.
"Ten of you, follow me." Chen Xiaoqi took them to a crop field to the west of the farm and said: "You just dig here, don't dig around, so as not to destroy the evidence... First use a long Drive the wooden pillar into the ground and pull it out again Come and smell the soil. If you smell a rotten smell, there may be corpses. If there is no rotten smell, try again on another piece of land. Don't waste your efforts."
"Hey! "The villagers responded and did as Chen Xiaoqi told them.
After people in Xiangnan Town heard that they could come to exhume corpses and perform meritorious services, many people came to sign up one after another.
So in just half a day, more than a thousand people gathered in Fenfangyuan Zhuangzi, all digging through the land looking for corpses. In the middle of the afternoon, a team finally found it: "We found it, there are corpses, two!"
"There are three here!"
"There is one here. Tools! ”
Six lives were lost at once. Yang County Lieutenant and others hurried over to check the bodies.
There are five corpses that have turned into white bones: "Look at the color of the bones, they have been dead for at least five years."
The other corpse has insects in it, so it is estimated that it is dead. About half a year.
But it is a pity...
"All their clothes and shoes have been taken off, and there are no clues to find out their identities!" Yangxian Lieutenant scolded Dogou and the others: "These men are... So damn clean ”
The people in Xiangnan Town were very happy... It would be best if their identity could not be found out, so that they would not be involved in other major cases. After a few months, this matter would be over, and they could continue to live a stable life. On the contrary, to solve the case, we have to investigate endlessly, which is annoying.
Yang Xianwei suppressed his anger and led Chen Xiaoqi to inspect the body.
Chen Xiaoqi was still a little scared, but there was nothing he could do. Mr. Gong Qi was escorting the village chiefs back to the county office for trial. He could only bite the bullet and go to check the body.
Guan Shuli was silent, registering the body next to him, but in the end he could only write down the words 'male, killed by hammer'. There were really no useful clues at all.
Yang County Lieutenant shouted again: "Keep digging and see if we can dig out new corpses!"
"Hey." The villagers continued to dig, but before dark, they ran away: "So many people have died, and the place is dangerous and evil. We can't spend the night here."
Yang Xianwei and the others did not leave. , continue to stay in Zhuangzi.
Guan Shuli thought about it again and again, and told Yang County Lieutenant that Jiang Dalang suspected that the leather-faced man was doing it carefully.
Cang Dang!
Yang County Lieutenant was so shocked that the pottery bowl in his hand fell to the ground, and he didn't bother to pick it up. He hurriedly asked Jiang Dalang: "Brother Jiang, do you have any evidence that the man is a careful craftsman?"
Jiang Dalang shook his head: "No. I just think that person is very mysterious and strange. In addition, Northeast Prefecture is a borderland, so I have such suspicion."
Yang County Lieutenant praised him: "You can have such suspicion , Already better than ninety-nine percent of people in the world, he is worthy of being the grandson of a scholar, but if he were an ordinary person, he would be worthy of being so. Don’t you know what a fine work is?”
He also promised: “I will report this matter to the government army... But a lot of the government army has been transferred away, and the south is not yet settled, I’m afraid it will happen. We can’t spare any manpower to track down that person.”
Where can we go after everyone has disappeared?
So Jiang Dalang said: "Maybe I think too much."
Yang County Lieutenant said: "It's better to think about this kind of thing too much than not to think about it."
He also suggested: "Let's go to those secret rooms to search after dinner. Maybe we can find something new." Something is coming. "
Secretary Guan also had this intention, so after eating dinner, he followed Yang Xianwei and Chen Xiaoqi to several secret rooms.
Although there are several secret rooms, they are not big and you can see them all at a glance.
More than a dozen of them searched the secret room with torches until midnight, inhaling the musty smell, but did not find any new evidence.