Otherworldly Merchant

When I got back from Europe, the first thing I did was call the T-shirt guy and ask him if he needed help.

He said that the matter had been settled and asked me how it was on my side. When I thought about it, I told him about the involvement of Longquan Mountain, and asked him if he knew what the purpose of Longquan Mountain was.

“It shouldn't have been intentional. ”

The T-shirt man quickly reacted to what I meant, but he thought that all of us were in trouble at the same time, and it wasn't the Longquan Mountain disaster, and said that if that were the case, the Jiangbei Zhang family wouldn't sit back and ignore it.

I didn't think about it anymore, and then I called Senior Mouse.

The old man, though shameless, helped me many times in times of crisis, and he himself was a member of the Zhang family, and he was also a part of the grandfather. So I didn't realize that I thought of him as my grandfather. I was afraid that he would be chased by his enemies. Something happened to him.

“Grandson, what can I do for you?” As soon as the phone was turned on, the filthy voice of Mouse Senior came through.

When I heard his voice, I knew he was in good shape. I relieved myself and laughed. Don't take advantage of me, but watch out for my grandfather to come back and beat you up.

When I finished, I closed my smile and asked him seriously how the situation was and if he needed any help.

“What else can they do? They want to find me, but it's not easy for me to get rid of them completely. So why don't I just ignore it? Running east and west is all about travel. ”

Mouse seniors had no heart and lungs to say, this optimistic attitude, I kind of admired him.

The two of us chatted for a while, and I was about to hang up, and the rat seniors kept their voices down and asked me if I was free lately.

“Hmm?” I frowned. I didn't think I'd take any business, did I?

Shake your head and say don't mess with me. It would be nice if I could come back alive this time. Try to get some rest.

“What do you call it, you're Yaoyang's grandson, what's the difference between you and my own grandson? ”

Senior rat hey hey smile, then tell me about it.

The other day he was hiding from his enemies and heard a strange thing as he passed through Linzhang County, Hebei.

It was said that a local people took heavy snow to catch rabbits in the field, which suddenly disappeared and came back three days later.

The night he returned, his wife and children died at home, even with their heads cut off.

But not only was he sad, he laughed at the corpse and cursed a few words from time to time, as if he were his own enemy.

The villagers knew that he disappeared for three days, so many people thought he had encountered something unclean and had been possessed by ghosts; others said that he was deliberately acting crazy and selling fools, and that he was the one who killed people.

But after the police intervened, he was found to be mentally ill, and he did not kill his wife and children.

Even without leaving any fingerprints on the scene, his wife's and children's heads were like falling off themselves.

Ultimately, the police had to close the case, but the rat seniors sensibly smelled the weird part of it and settled in Linzhang County.

Indeed, in the next few days, there was a series of similar head-on strange cases in the vicinity, and the police were too busy to get a clue about the rotten head, but found the same rat seniors who were following the incident.

After the conversation, the local director Liu wanted to ask Senior Mouse for help.

Unexpectedly, Mouse's predecessor's foot had just taken over the case, and his enemy's back foot chased him up.

“Jiulin, I have charged the police station a favor fee, you must make things beautiful, or my sign will be smashed!” Mouse seniors say pathetically, how cheap the voice is.

I meant to tease him, but I was not angry. “You took the money, but let me do it. That's a good idea. I won't do it, sir! ”

“Are you sure you don't want to? ”

There's a slight threat in the rat's predecessor's words. I said no. What can you do to me?

“Then I will go myself and be captured and killed by my enemies to see who will help you if you run into trouble later. ”

“I'll go, you're ruthless...” I said helplessly. I had no choice but to promise to deal with such an old reckless boy.

Senior Mouse then sent me Director Liu's phone number and asked me to contact him in Linzhang County.

Linzhang County, known in ancient China as the capital of Wei Guo during the Three Kingdoms, is also the most prosperous city in the north. Unfortunately, it has gradually disappeared over 2,000 years ago, and is now far less than the major cities in Shanghai, Beijing.

Since I promised Senior Mouse, I didn't delay any longer. I took Li Mazi and drove to Linzhang County.

Yin Xinyue and Ruxue were both Southerners. As soon as they heard they were going to the North, they were excited. They said they were going to fight snowballs and pile snowmen.

Finally, I stopped them because it was almost New Year's Eve and I needed to prepare them.

It has been night since we arrived in Hebei, where we stayed for the night, considering the amount of snow on the road.

I called Director Liu that night to explain my intentions. After listening, he didn't like it. He thought the rat seniors couldn't handle it, so he asked for a little apprentice to fool him.

However, I told him about the excellent results of the police investigation before, and his attitude became enthusiastic immediately.

Like human bone necklaces, killings, ancient paintings, all these big cases are registered on the police system's intranet, you can find them when you check them out, he has to believe it!

Director Liu then offered to let us go immediately. I said I was not familiar with the terrain road conditions until dawn. I didn't expect him to pick us up immediately. Li Mazi and I had to rush to Linzhang County Public Security Bureau overnight.

When I got out of the car, I saw a policeman with big eyebrows in his coat. He hurried over and said excitedly: “Finally, I don't know what to do if you don't come! ”

“Who are you?” Li Mazi hummed, deliberately pretending not to know each other.

In fact, looking at the police's shoulder stamp, it is obvious that Chief Liu, Li Mazi asked purely to dissatisfy himself, and I didn't stop him.

Indeed, after Li Mazi finished his speech, Director Liu stunned.

Then I embarrassed myself: “My name is Liu Jingyi, I am the Linzhang County Police Commissioner, and I welcome you on behalf of the parents of Linzhang County!” Reach out when you're done.

I thought about it. I smiled and shook his hand. I said softly: “Jiulin Zhang, a shady businessman. ”

Director Liu then took us to his office, and immediately after entering the door, he smelled intense coal. At first glance, he discovered that there was an old large iron stove in the corner, and the stove burned cellular coal. Apart from that, there was only one desk in the room with several chairs, and a thick set of documents on the table.

“The county is poor, it has never been heated, just enough to be able to work. ”

Director Liu smiled and asked us to sit down, and then pulled a file from the table and handed it over. I swept it and found that there were several households with strange cases and read it carefully.

The rabbit catcher Zhu Fengchun, whom Mouse told me about, ranked first. In addition to him, there were three similar incidents. The second, Wang Zhuang Zhuang, disappeared in the evening while taking photographs near the ruins of Copperhead Taiwan. He returned home a few days later, and that night his head and body were separated.

The third man, Li Tiansheng, was beheaded that night when he unexpectedly fell to the ground on his way home from work.

The fourth person, Zhang Yang, was also beheaded, but this person was an old bareback stick, and nobody knew what had happened in his life.

“In addition to this information, what else have you found in the police? ”

After I finished reading it, I thought about it and asked with a heavy face.

From all four incidents, someone was beheaded. It is not difficult to see that this was done by the same killer. Since the last three parties have been killed, Zhu Fengchun became an important clue!

Not to mention the fact that the other three had been beheaded and that he was the only one who had survived, which in itself was a case in point. However, the information provided by the police showed that Zhu Fengchun had no problems, and that even normal police surveillance was not arranged, and I doubt what was in it.

“These people died in their own beds, but we looked carefully at the scene and found no clue, excluding the possibility of his killing only from the scene, unless...”

Director Liu said that his expression turned pale in the end. I said with both hands that the three people behind him were dead. Only Zhu Fengchun was alive. Shouldn't you keep an eye on him?

I couldn't stop staring at Director Liu, but his eyes were always blunt. It didn't seem like something was hiding from me, which made it difficult for me to understand, so I just asked.

“Who says there's no surveillance, but he hasn't walked out the door since the crime, even if he went out occasionally, he bought something to eat and went home immediately, even we had a few surprise checks, but everything was fine inside. Later, three more such incidents occurred in a row. Our police force was limited and we could only withdraw our personnel..."

Director Liu suddenly reacted and looked at me with a big mouth: “You mean Zhu Fengchun was the murderer? ”

“The killer is not necessarily him, but it must have something to do with him, otherwise he will not survive now. ”

I told Director Liu to take me to Zhu Fengchun's house immediately. He nodded and then drove the police car. I thought about it and said, "Let's drive our car! If the police car enters the village, it is likely to spook the snake. ”

According to my experience and instincts, Zhu Fengchun must have been inseparable from the three murders that took place in the aftermath. Every raid by the police did not reveal a problem, and it was likely that the police car had exposed the target.

Director Liu Lian nodded and praised me for my ingenuity.

I smiled and closed my eyes to rest.

The road is heavily packed with snow. Director Liu drives very carefully. Sometimes I feel like walking faster than the car speed. Fortunately, Zhu Fengchun's family lives near the county town and arrives in half an hour.

After all, the police, Director Liu quietly turned off the lights before entering the village, only to feel slowly driving forward.

It's late at night, the whole village is dark, the sky is gray and the moon is invisible.

As we entered the village, several families of dogs woke up, good thing the cold breeze whizzed past and covered up the dog screaming.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Director Liu pointed to the house with the light on in front and said that it was Zhu Fengchun's house.

When I was done, I opened the door and the cold breeze suddenly filled our collar. I wrapped my cotton clothes around my body and got off.

I didn't realize it was a brick room until I walked in front of it. I couldn't help but frown. Li Mazi cautiously asked me what happened after seeing it.

“What age is this? They also build houses with bricks, so no wonder they get into unclean things. ”

I shook my head and said that it was almost certain that the beheading was not artificial, but related to something dirty.

After the reform and opening up, almost all the buildings in the north and south of Dajiang in China were replaced with red bricks, and few people built houses with blue bricks anymore.

But in terms of practicality, the durability and corrosion resistance of blue bricks is much higher than that of red bricks. The ancient Chinese Qin Brick Han Wa term refers to blue bricks, so why are people still using red bricks?

Because bricks are shady, Chinese people build graveyards with bricks or bluestone slabs, and some of the older brick houses are most likely to be regarded by the nearby orphan wildlings as houses for them to live in.

Zhu Fengchun's stay in the brick room is a big taboo in itself. It's just that he doesn't seem to have built the house for long. How could he bring such a powerful thing?