Chapter 122,
He only said a few words: "So everyone is saying that there is a commotion in there!"
This scared Su Guoer a lot.
"Making trouble?" This is much scarier than a human.
"So what's happening here is very weird?" Su Guoer thought about it and then went forward to listen to what the onlookers had to say.
Maybe she could get some other news. At this moment, she was no longer afraid.
The main reason was that ever since she left the Duke's Mansion, Bianjing City had been plagued by frequent incidents. Did it feel like an omen? Even she, who had always been insensitive, felt that... Bianjing was about to change.
Perhaps it was because of the jade pendant that always made her feel uneasy.
"Oh my, look, look, the body is carried out! It's just like what I said, right? The death was so tragic!" Someone said, pointing to the front.
Su Guoer plucked up the courage to take a look, and after taking a look she almost vomited. Okay, no need to look anymore.
"Hey, tell me what kind of sin this is? So many people left at once? And in this very vegetable market? How are we supposed to do business from now on?"
"This? The director has already said that everyone can set up stalls along the riverbank to sell vegetables in the next few days. There is no stall fee. They say it is to protect the crime scene or something."
"When will this case be concluded?"
"End? This is strange. The dead were all government officials. It wasn't a revenge killing, a murder of passion, or a killing for money. I guess this case will be busy for a while. It's hard to find the murderer."
"Tell me, what could this guy possibly be trying to achieve? He killed a few people in this shabby place."
"Maybe he ran into something?" The two continued chatting.
"I think so too. This can only be a riot. Otherwise, who would come here to kill people?"
It sounds more and more outrageous.
Su Guoer sighed, and when she was about to leave, she happened to meet Lu Ping'an's eyes in the crowd. After he gave a few instructions to the brothers beside him, he walked towards Su Guoer.
When he got to her, he said, "It's not safe here. What are you doing here?"
Su Guoer: "I came here to ask the vegetable vendor to deliver some vegetables, but I didn't expect to run into this."
Lu Pingan smiled and said, "That's good. If you don't have anything to do in the future, try not to go out too late, and bring someone with you when you go out," he reminded.
Su Guoer nodded and asked, "Are you very busy today? Do you want me to send you some snacks?" Both of them were busy and had not seen each other many times recently.
But Su Guoer thought he was a nice guy, so she wanted to spend more time with him.
Lu Ping'an: "I'm afraid it won't work today. Maybe the day after tomorrow. I'll come to see you the day after tomorrow when I'm resting."
After Su Guoer said, "Okay," she suddenly felt a little unnatural. But after looking around, she didn't feel anything was wrong, so she didn't think much about it. However, she had just talked to Lu Ping'an and turned around to meet the person she least wanted to see.
Su Guoer: ...a little bit awkward.
Pei Yan was looking at the two of them with a smile on his face. Seeing that they were chatting well, he did not speak, but only said: "Make way, you are blocking my way."
What are you talking about?
But Su Guoer still moved to the side.
Then she saw Pei Yan and a group of people passing by her and entering the vegetable store.
The vegetable market is a large open-air building with many stone slabs and stones placed inside. Each stone slab is a small stall, and there is no other shelter.
Looking back from the main gate, you can go straight to the back door along the Bian River and see the end at a glance.
"Have you checked the water?" Pei Yan asked.
Lin Zhao: "We checked, but didn't find anything. We didn't find any secret passages or anything like that. But from what people say about the people living here, the noise definitely came from this vegetable market. Many people heard it."
Pei Yan frowned and looked around the vegetable market: "What exactly is that sound? Have you asked anyone? Is it some rare beast?"
Lin Zhao: "That's strange. I asked someone to listen to them and they described the cry, but they couldn't tell what kind of beast it was."
"And we've searched everywhere, and there's no sign of any wild animals."
Pei Yan thought for a moment and said, "The sound wouldn't come from nowhere. It's either a mechanism or a beast. Just because we can't find a beast here doesn't mean the sound wasn't made by a beast. After all..."
He paused and said, "The back door of the vegetable market is connected to a river."
Lin Zhao understood: "Your Excellency, you mean that the beast might have run into the river? I'll send someone down to look for it right away!"
But Pei Yan pulled him back and said, "A beast that can't swim would have floated to the surface long ago after staying in the river for so long. Where are you going to catch a beast that can swim?"
Wouldn't he have swum away a long time ago?
Pei Yan added, "Instead of going down to the river to look for it, why not check carefully with the farmers in the market to see if they've seen any strange species, like... giant salamanders?"
As soon as these words came out, Lin Zhao immediately figured it out. He suddenly realized, "Oh! Now I remember, that giant salamander can make human-like sounds, right?"
He remembered that he had seen it in a county gazetteer.
Giant salamanders make baby-like noises.
"The adults are so smart!" He had asked people to investigate for such a long time but no one thought in this direction. As a result, the adults came and pointed out the direction, and this is the most likely answer!
Lin Zhao was extremely happy, but Pei Yan poured cold water on him immediately afterwards: "You are too happy too early. We are not here to investigate where that strange sound came from, but why these people died here after hearing that strange sound."
"The knife wound was from one of the yamen runners."
"What does this mean?" Pei Yan asked.
"That means there must have been someone lurking in this vegetable market last night. No, maybe more than one person. Who knows what they were doing? They were caught by a few yamen runners and night watchmen. To prevent the matter from being leaked, they were killed!"
He thought he was very clever.
Then he saw his master roll his eyes at him and said, "Then why did you make that strange noise in the first place?"
Lin Zhao: "Si, sir, do you mean someone deliberately lured them here? No, no, what's the purpose? What good is there in killing them?"
Seeing Pei Yan leave, he followed closely, chattering non-stop: "What is this man's purpose, to dare to kill government officials? Or is one of these people an enemy of the murderer? Sir, I will immediately check the relatives and brothers of the dead yamen runners."
But Pei Yan stopped in front of a floor tile. Without hearing what he said, he squatted down and knocked on the floor tile below with his hand.
The sound was 'dong dong'.
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