The leader of the caravan named Wang Tong lived near the Changzhou Prefecture Office and nodded and asked Bao Zheng, "Yes, Lord Bao, are you here to investigate the murder of the Prefect Liu?"

Lord Bao nodded. The prefect was named Liu Tian. He had just taken office for less than half a year and was originally from Changzhou Prefecture.

"Oh, this matter is all evil." Wang Tong told everyone, "That night, he suddenly heard screams from the yamen, and then someone called for help, and there was a lot of chaos."

A few accompanying people also nodded, "At that time, everyone on the streets near the Yamen came out, and saw a maid running out of blood, saying that the eldest lady was crazy, and then she fell into a pool of blood."

"Madam?" Zhan Zhao thought for a while and was curious, "I saw the case that Liu Tian's original wife suddenly went crazy. She came out with a knife in the middle of the night and killed everyone. She killed Liu Tian, ​​who was resting with the concubine in the family. Then she killed a few maids and a few generals in the mansion. After being surrounded by the yamen runners, she wiped her neck and committed suicide. Is that true?"

Wang Tong and others nodded, "We have heard of this too."

Pang Yu was quite gossipy and asked while gnawing on the buns, "Why did that original wife suddenly get angry and kill someone? Are you jealous?"

"It shouldn't be." Wang Tong shook his head, "The prefect is a descendant of a famous family, a scholarly family, and is usually gentle. Moreover, although Lord Liu has four concubines at home, he is elegant and handsome, and he is very nice to his wives. He has never heard of disputes or jealousy at home."

"Oh." Pang Ji sighed quietly, "Women, if you don't be jealous, you won't call a woman."

Those who do business seemed to have wives and concubines at home, and they nodded, thinking that Master Pang’s words made sense.

Bao Zheng glanced at Master Pang and said quietly, "So, please be more at ease."

The Master glanced at Bao Zheng, "Heizi, are you cursing me?"

Bao Zheng laughed dryly while drinking tea, "If your eldest lady gets angry, it's probably not as simple as killing a few concubines. You're so good at it."

Grand Master Pang made him so angry that he was breathless, and Pang Yu rubbed his father's chest.

Zhao Pu asked, "Well, Liu Tian's big wife can do martial arts?"

Several businessmen shook their heads, "It shouldn't be the lady from a family."

Everyone looked at each other - the lady from a wealthy family could kill dozens of people with a knife? She might not be able to kill all of them even if she gave her dozens of chickens, right? There was a problem, indeed.

"What about the previous prefect?" Bao Zheng asked, "Prince Shen."

"Oh." Wang Tong, "The prefect Shen is actually quite bizarre. He was strangled to death by his master."

"Master?" Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, curious, "That chopstick master?"

Wang Tong smiled and nodded.

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "Master Chopsticks?"

Zhan Zhao nodded while eating a bun, "That master is very thin. The old man should be in his seventies. His arms are limited by the thicker than chopsticks. I remember that he was so thin when I was a child, but later he grew up thinner, so everyone called him chopsticks master."

Zhao Pu frowned, "Where is that prefect Chen? How fat and thin?"

"Prince Chen is a fat old man." Zhan Zhao said, and did not forget to add, "As about the same as Master Pang, are you sixty years old?"

Wang Tong thought about it and nodded, "It's almost time to have it. Master Chopsticks is so sick. No one believes that he can strangle people to death."

"This case is quite evil." Ouyang wondered, "A 70-year-old sick old man who is as thin as chopsticks strangled a fat old man in his sixties to death?"

"Where is the master? Did he commit suicide?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Master is crazy." Wang Tong frowned and shook his head, "I heard that he was crying and howling in the dungeon all day long, saying 'no matter what he is doing'. Many people say he is obsessed with ghosts."

Zhan Zhao and others looked at each other. Both cases were so strange, and the ones who died were all prefects from the same place. No wonder there were all kinds of strange legends among the people.

Xiao Liuzi brought the newly-cooked wontons to Zhao Pu and the others, and came to Zhan Zhao and said, "Brother Zhan, there is something that may be useful for you to investigate the case."

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "What's the matter?"

"The murderer and Mrs. Chen were both in Lao Chou Valley and were photographed by bird shit." Xiao Liuzi said mysteriously.

Everyone here wanted to laugh, but Zhan Zhao touched his chin and frowned, "That's it..."

When Xiao Liuzi left, Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "Is there any direct contact between being slapped by bird shit and killing people?"

Zhan Zhao said softly, "There is a legend in Lao Crow Valley. Whoever is caught by the crow shit in Lao Crow Valley will be lucky."

Everyone nodded after hearing this, and that's right, they were hit by a piece of bird poop, wouldn't that be unlucky?

Xiao Sizi took a bun and fed Lin Yehuo's puppy and asked Gongsun, "Why is Daddy unlucky when he encounters bird shit, but he will be lucky when he encounters dog shit? Everyone comes from shit."

Gongsun stuffed a wonton into his mouth, "Don't let shit come and go when eating!"

The little Sizi chewed the wontons and looked up at the sky in the distance... and saw the grayish head on the valley in the distance, and large groups of black crows were hovering.

After breakfast and resting, everyone got up and prepared to go on the road. At this speed, they could arrive at Changzhou Prefecture in the evening.

...

Everyone left the station and stepped into Laochao Valley.

Looking around, the cliff was filled with large numbers of black crows, each with its head lowered, and its pure black eyes staring at the chariots and horses below.

"How many crows are there?" Zhao Pu looked up with his face, "How could there be so many?"

Bai Yutang saw crows arranged like countless black dots on the gray and white rocks. Suddenly, he felt uneasy and stopped riding a horse and got on the carriage for a while.

Zhan Zhao followed in and laughed at him.

Lord Bao asked Zhan Zhao, "Shan Guard, why are there so many crows here?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It's always like this, but... it seems like there are so many this year. I remember not that many in the past."

"quack……"

As Zhan Zhao spoke, another crow passed by his head.

At this time, Lin Yehuo suddenly jumped down cursingly, "Damn it! No eyes!"

Everyone looked at Lin Yehuo who was dancing outside and cursing, and saw a pile of yellow and white bird shit on his shoulder.

"Xiao Linzi?" Seeing that Lin Yehuo was hit by bird shit, Xiao Sizi handed him a handkerchief sympathetically.

Lin Yehuo was about to enter the carriage, Bai Yutang pointed at the door with the handle of the knife, which meant - don't come in.

Lin Yehuo looked at him with his eyes slanted.

At this moment, a "sharp" sound came.

Looking again, Lin Yehuo is left with his inner clothes.

"Ah!" Lin Yehuo hugged his shoulder and rushed into the carriage. When he turned around, he saw Zou Liang holding his red jacket in one hand, throwing it into the bag, and throwing it into a clean red dress to him.

Lin Yehuo changed his clothes while whitewasting Zou Liang, "A hooligan! A big hooligan!"

Everyone was also puzzled - Zou Liang is very experienced in taking off clothes for others.

Zou Liang suddenly stretched out his hand and blocked it with the bag containing Lin Yehuo's clothes... a piece of bird shit was blocked.

Zou Liang frowned and threw the bag away.

"It would be difficult to be photographed." Gongsun looked outside through the car window and saw crows circling in the air.

Bai Yutang patted Zhao Pu, "Where are the arrows you used for contact?"

Zhao Pu asked Ouyang Shaozheng to take two out, and then... shot two out towards the sky.

In an instant, a loud noise came from the sky... Two contact arrows exploded in the valley. The crows were so scared that they flew away and landed on the cliffs on both sides. They watched the crowd and dared not fly out any more.

The little Sizi lay on Xiao Wu's back, looked at the crows on the cliff, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Cat, can those crows understand us?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "It shouldn't be possible."

"But it is said that crows have yin and yang eyes." Bao Yan said, "Those evil spirits and resentful souls can be seen, and they can also convey the voice of the dead."

"What is the voice of the dead?" Xiao Sizi asked curiously.

"Don't crows all eat rotten corpses?" Bao Yan told Xiao Sizi what he saw in the book, "When eating corpses, crows always eat their heart first, so the last words of the dead and the wish that had not been fulfilled before death will be passed on to the crow."

The little fourth son opened his mouth wide.

"Oh, isn't it just a bird?" Pang Yu patted Xiao Sizi's head, "I'm so many starlings, and I can still talk."

"That's it." Xiao Sizi nodded, remembering the little starling raised by Pang Yu's family. He spoke so easily and would call him "Little Sizi". Pang Yu took him to Kaifeng Mansion to play with him, but there were too many cats in Kaifeng Mansion and were not suitable for raising birds, otherwise he would also want to get a starling to raise.

After walking for a while, suddenly, I heard a "click" sound, as if something had fallen on the roof of the carriage.

Then, there was another "click" sound, and several times in succession, as if something like a stone hit the roof of the car.

"Is this hail?" Zhan Zhao looked out.

At this time, due to the bumpy carriage, one of the things on the top slid down and fell on a pedal in front of the carriage.

Lin Yehuo, who was sitting in front, blinked, as if he was following a branch. He picked it up and saw it, and he quickly threw it away.

Everyone looked at him in confusion.

At this time, Xiao Liangzi, who was in front of the carriage, reached out to receive the "tree branch" thrown out by Lin Yehuo. At the same time, several more slid down from the carriage.

Xiao Liang picked it up and looked at it, frowned and said, "Finger."

"Ah?" Mr. Bao was shocked.

Gongsun quickly took out a quick veil, "Xiao Liangzi, put it in the veil, the color of these fingers is so strange."

Xiao Liang quickly put it down, and Gongsun took out the medicine powder and asked Xiao Liang and Lin Yehuo to wipe his hands.

Everyone looked at the fingers falling from the sky, and when they looked, they found that they had been air-dried. The nails were still very obvious, and it was a woman's finger. The skin had been air-dried, and the bones were exposed, and the bones and skin were all in a strange gray color. The other two finger bones had an almost complete bone and had no skin.

Gongsun squinted his eyes and looked at the finger bone, and he saw that it was completely gray.
To be continued...