Drunken and faintly dreaming

At the second watch, Xin Zhuihu, who was hiding in the shack, finally couldn't resist the strong tiredness and gradually fell asleep... At this moment, if the two raptors suddenly killed him...

, they should also seem to be able to really succeed?

However, Xin Zhuihu is still Xin Zhuihu after all, and his nickname of "Northern Tiger" is really not for nothing! Years of rich experience in traveling around the world have allowed Lao Xin to develop an extraordinary skill.

——Even if a person is asleep at night, the ears are still "on duty" intermittently.

At this moment, while he was snoring softly, his ears stood up like a rabbit. About half past the second watch, before the third watch, a faint sound sounded in Xin Zhuihu's ears.

There seemed to be someone speaking, and he immediately felt a strong sense of vigilance and immediately forced him to cheer up!

Xin Zhuihu stood up gently, took a breath of fresh air to refresh his forehead, and then began to listen attentively... His trick has a name, called "listening with the ears down". Now he really listened to something

It became clear: indeed, someone was talking.

At midnight, who would be coming in such a deep mountain and dense forest? Xin Zhuihu suddenly became curious.

Looking outside through the rags covering the shack, Xin Zhuihu immediately noticed that someone not far away was carrying a pair of lanterns and walking slowly along the Birdsong Stream. The two people were walking and talking, and they watched for a moment in the darkness.

It's not clear what they look like.

With such a swaggering and unhurried look, it is most likely an official from the yamen doing a routine inspection. Xin Zhuihu estimated: This must be related to the two murders that happened in this area before -

The search operation launched overnight showed that key progress has been made in solving the case.

"Old Qi, you have a good sense of smell. Take a quick sniff - is there any bloody smell around here?" A voice as sharp as a rooster spoke.

"Yes! I also tell you: this place is full of dead people!" A deep, rough voice shouted unhappily, deliberately trying to scare his partner.

"Hey, stupid fat man, what do you want to call me?" When "Rooster" became excited, his voice became sharper and thinner, and his tune suddenly jumped up.

"What do you mean... call you?" The fat man deliberately adjusted his tone of voice and said in a pretentious manner: "Okay, let me ask you - have you really seen a dead person?"

"Are you kidding? I can tell you that as early as when your brother, my--grandfather was still alive, I saw a man die on the spot in front of him!"

"You're talking about - your grandpa? Why don't you just say - that's what your grandpa's grandpa saw?" Thinking he had caught the other party's loophole, the fat man couldn't help but smile proudly.

"So I said, you are just a stupid fat man." "Rooster" was no longer annoyed or anxious now. He continued slowly and leisurely: "What I said is absolutely true. It was more than ten years ago.

, the time when I followed my grandfather to sell tofu at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain..."

What? More than ten years ago? At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain? - The speaker did not mean it, but the listener did. When Xin Zhuihu, who was hiding in the shack, heard about this past incident, he couldn't help but feel frightened! At this moment, like a ball of black

The only thing that lingered in Xin Zhuihu's mind for a long time was a terrifying name that specialized in curing children's cries at night in Sichuan—Coirin Clothes Guest!

So, could the person outside who was talking with a voice like a rooster actually be the grandson of "Rooster Xiao" who opened a tofu shop at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain? Xin Zhuihu quietly looked through the dim light of the lantern -

-Hey, my dear, isn't this just another "Rooster Xiao"?

Xin Zhuihu's vision was accurate. The person who passed by him tonight was none other than Xiao Shan, Xiao Wuwei's direct grandson, who was a capable general in the Zixia Guard of the East Hu Kingdom. That Xiao Wuwei had done all kinds of bad things before.

, was later "relegated" to the foot of Qingcheng Mountain on the outskirts of Xingqing City at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain by the great hero Murong Xiuli to open a tofu shop.

However, Xiao Wuwei, who did not change his bad nature, later hooked up with the "Qingyu Sect" that had sprung up in Qingcheng Mountain, and did some shameful things. And the "dead person incident" that Xiaoshan was boasting about tonight was Xiao Shan at that time.

Wu Wei deliberately provoked Liaodong bandit leader He Ba Yuanmu and suddenly took action - killing a disciple of the "Qingyu Sect" who came to inquire!

As for how Xiao Wuwei justified himself in front of the coir raincoat guest afterwards, that is still a little-known secret until now. These things were all revealed to Xin Zhuihu nine years ago when he went to Liaodong to hunt down Heba Yuanmu.

Overheard from the rooftop.

What puzzled Xin Zhuihu tonight was: Why did Xiao Wuwei's grandson come to Mangcang Mountain? And judging from his words and deeds, this Xiao Shan seemed to be a government official.

Indeed, Xiao Shan, who has a rooster voice, was ordered by Song Tuiguan tonight, and together with his partner Fatty He, they searched everywhere for the whereabouts of Zhong Ji. Regardless of whether their passing was intentional or unintentional, Xin Zhuihu

He felt that this place was not suitable for staying for a long time, so after watching the two of them go away, he hurriedly escaped from the old shack and stayed at a nearby mountain villager's home.

After the fourth watch, Xin Zhuihu quietly climbed out of the back window, figured out the direction, took a shortcut and went up to Xianglu Peak. He didn't bother anyone, and went to the place where he lived by familiarity.

He entered a guest room, got into bed and fell asleep with his head covered.

It was fitting that Xiao Shan should be in the limelight. Late at night, he and Fatty He followed the Birdsong Stream until they found a place called "Evil Fish Pond", and they really found traces of the missing commander Zhongji! However, they found

It was a dead body - to be precise, a dead body that "should be" a species.

When the body was discovered, the water where it was floating was the place called "Evil Fish Pond". In the Evil Fish Pond, there are thousands of extremely ferocious piranhas all year round.

If it falls, there is absolutely no possibility of survival.

It is precisely because of this that the floating corpse that Xiaoshan and the others were looking for could only be roughly identified - because its facial features were completely bloody and bloody, which was really terrible! Even Song Che, who rushed over after hearing the news, and

Those experienced police officers were unable to confirm whether it was the corpse of Zeng Ji.

A large group of people worked all night, and finally got something: they found an unrecognizable dead body. Song Che decided to summon the wife who came to breed and ask her to carefully identify the body.

"Perhaps, that is really the body of Commander Zhong? However...how could he be related to that suspicious case?" Song Che was still dubious.