Chapter 33: The Headless Monk's Case
The matter came to an end, and Hu You naturally returned to Yingtianjian to report the job, but before leaving, he did not forget to go to the county government to go around and told Li Dashan bluntly that Wang Ming had been guarded and arranged a free job for him to treat him well.
In fact, Hu You is not the Virgin who is so proud that he can just see someone and give money and help him. Naturally, he has his own ideas. Perhaps he can take advantage of these two yamen runners to take advantage of their private work.
Then, under Wang Ming's gratitude, he summoned the paper horse and headed straight for Hedong County.
The Demon Dang Yao Department has a manager who specializes in recording case files. Whenever the lieutenant returns to report, he must first register and record it.
The manager of Hedong County is an old man named He Changpu. This old man is also considered a veteran of the three dynasties. It is said that he has been engaged in this job since he was young.
He had never seen anything before, but when Hu You threw half a pound of demon flesh secretly cut off on the table.
The old man was still confused and said in confusion: "Boy, what is this? Are you going to bribe me with pork?"
After listening to Hu You's explanation, He Changpu took out a crystal clear "Huo Qi" and closed one of his eyes and observed it carefully.
After a while, he threw away Huo Qi and affirmed: "Yes, this thing is indeed surrounded by a faint demonic aura. It can be seen that it was obtained by the monster. This mission is considered to be completed!"
Hu You wondered, this old man could actually see the demonic energy like Ning Caichen? The ghost energy? Is it his own ability? Or the effect of the seemingly ordinary fire qi?
It seems that we will have to make more friends in the future and try to find out what is going on.
Of course, completing the task will not give Hu You any special rewards.
He just asked Hu You to take out his waist card and register it. Hu You took a peek and found that the document was recorded in detail, including time, date, name, case, etc.
Finally, he recorded the task success behind his name and won a little success.
It seems that this task is not difficult. As Hu You expected, he had long felt that monsters were strange and strange. If they had to take them back to complete the first level, wouldn't it be ridiculous? After all, many monsters have no heads at all.
If that's the case, I'll kill a fart monster in the future and blackmail it first. Wouldn't it be nice!
In the following days, Hu You was idle and still practiced boxing and martial arts every day. He occasionally read the thin book that he couldn't understand at all. When it was late at night, he secretly practiced the "Tiangou Food Moon"
Unfortunately, my martial arts have increased rapidly, and the plum blossom gun also looks like it, but... I still can't understand the book of the thin book. There is no so-called verses thousands of times, and the meaning is revealed.
The old dog taught him that he didn't practice the kung fu. In the end, even Hu You thought, could it be that this thing can only be practiced by dogs? People cannot practice it at all?
Ten days later, just as Hu You was wondering whether he would take the initiative to ask to go out for the task, the delegation came to the top.
This time, the distance was a little further, and what happened was even more bizarre.
The case was reported from Nanshan County, saying that there is a temple called Liugou Temple in the suburbs.
This temple is located in a remote place and has little incense. There are only a dozen poor old monks who can cultivate some food and vegetables on the mountainous land they have cultivated, and they can be self-sufficient.
Occasionally, there are passersby who often come to sleep there, and the old monks are compassionate and do not take any money.
The cause of the incident was that there was a scholar named Sun Taibai in Nanshan County. When he passed by Liugou Temple, he saw it was getting late, so he planned to go to the temple to spend a night. However, he thought that he had knocked on the temple door and no one responded.
Then he found that the door was not closed, but a gap was left, so he pushed the door open and entered.
The huge temple that came into his eyes was like the Shura hell, and now it had already broken its arms and was full of devastation.
For some reason, all the monks in the temple lost their heads and limbs; there were even blood holes as big as bowls in their chest and abdomen, and they all died in the temple.
Sun Taibai, a weak scholar, had never seen such a scene before. He was so scared that he ran to Liugou Village, not far from the temple.
Then he spent money to hire a donkey and rode back to Nanshan County overnight. The next morning, he reported the matter to the county government office.
The magistrate sent a yamen runner to investigate and found that it was true. But something was strange, and it was probably not done by humans, so he reported it to Yingtianjian, Hedong County.
This mission was obviously even more strange than last time. The Demon Dang Demon Division also sent four Renyong Captains, including Hu You, to work together to check the truth.
The other three people are actually Hu You's seniors. They all came in with the ability to expand their enrollment more than a year ago when they passed the assessment.
However, they did not use the paper horses of Zuo Zhengwei, so they had to go to Yingtian Supervisory to receive the war horses and set off.
This war horse is actually similar to a paper horse in essence. The difference is that the war horse is a living creature after all, and has a temperament. It has to be taken care of by eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.
Not to mention this, if you encounter a powerful monster, the war horse will probably run away first, and you will have to pay out of your own pocket to compensate the horse.
There was no harm in comparison, and Hu You realized that he had finally accepted the favor of Zuo Zhengwei, and this paper horse was more than a little better than an ordinary war horse.
It is simply a magical tool for traveling at home and killing people and robbing people... It is just not eating grass or food, not afraid of being scared, and can be carried with you, which is simply incomparable to ordinary war horses...
Of course, knowing that other people don’t have this thing, Hu You certainly won’t show it out. As a result, it’s unnecessary to offend people if you are innovative.
Secondly, every man is innocent, and he still understands the principle of guilt that he is guilty of possessing a treasure. After all, he has watched so many movies in his previous life, and it is very normal for his colleagues to fight among his colleagues.
The journey of Nanshan County is thousands of miles away from Hedong County, which is considered to be the edge of the Hedong County system. Several people ran for a whole day before they arrived at their destination when it was dark.
Fortunately, the magistrate of Nanshan County was not so ignorant. He didn't dare to do such things as going home early to find a concubine to warm the bed. Instead, he waited there early and set up a banquet to welcome everyone.
The same routine was the same at the banquet. First, they flattered them politely, and then took out a hundred taels of silver prepared in advance and respected them to Hu You and others.
The magistrate seemed quite generous in his actions, but in fact, this case was different from Li Dashan's time. Li Dashan was more like an intermediary that time, and the actual report was his brother's family.
So he just wants to be honest, but this time it is completely different. Cases like Liugou Temple are headless unsolved cases.
He has no official position and no place to benefit, but he cannot ignore it. If there is no explanation, it is a dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty. Although he may not lose his official hat, he is at least a major failure in his resume.
So he could only bleed heavily and had to take out real money and silver to reward these lieutenants. Otherwise, if they didn't work hard and couldn't find out any results, the account would still be counted on him.
This kind of case has always been a case of no money and danger, and is generally assigned to newcomers for experience.
The magistrate of Nanshan was called Liu Fengzhi. As his name was, he was indeed quite kind and honest. He was considered a good official, otherwise he could have used resources to force his efforts to suppress such things.
Or just want to cover up the truth, just let the officials and officials define them as bandits and robbers, and then find a painter to make some false thieves. Over time, it will be left alone.
But he didn't think so, but instead felt worried. He had an inexplicable premonition that if this case was not investigated clearly, there would be more people who would die in the future.
Now he chose to save money from his teeth, or report it to Yingtianjian and requested to send someone to investigate the case.
Chapter completed!