Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 39: Bring the Corpse to the Yamen (Please Collect and Read)
It was the middle of the night and it was raining heavily. Who would come and knock on the door?
Shang Lu stopped practicing and walked into the main hall with Sanniang.

Shang Mingqiu and Wu Guizhi were also alarmed and came out.

Although they had just returned to the house, too many things had happened today, which made them upset and unable to sleep at all.

Wu Guizhi listened to the knocks at the door and became a little nervous: "Lu'er, who could be looking for you? Is there anything wrong?"

Although Shang Mingqiu didn't say anything, his expression was also very nervous.

Shang Lu raised his right hand, pressed the void, and said soothingly: "It should be fine, otherwise he would not have knocked on the door and called for help, but would have rushed in directly. Don't panic, I'll go out and take a look."

While telling his parents to stay calm and not panic, he took the oxtail knife in his hand, walked out of the main room with an umbrella and opened the gate.

There was a yamen runner outside the door, leading two horses in his hands.

Seeing Shanglu, he was obviously relieved, and said in a crackling voice like pouring beans:

"Constable Shang, you are really here, but it took me a long time to find you. I first went to your ghost... ahem, your house in the county town, but you were not there. I asked someone and they said you might have returned to Shuanggui Village, so I borrowed a horse from the post station and rushed all the way here."

"Are you Lu Xing from the soap class?"

Shang Lu recognized the bailiff. Although he was not from the arrest squad, he belonged to the third squad and he had seen him in the third squad courtyard before.

Lu Xing nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I am Lu Xing. Constable Shang, please follow me. The county magistrate asked you to return to the yamen as soon as possible. He has something to ask you."

"What does the county magistrate want to ask me? Brother Lu, do you know?" Shang Lu asked, while looking behind Lu Xing to see if there was anyone lying in ambush on this rainy night.

The tacit understanding between the couple made Sanniang float away immediately.

Lu Xing felt a chill passing by, but he didn't think much about it, thinking it was just too cold on the rainy night.

He replied, "I don't know either, it seems to be related to the witch officer. After the county magistrate and the chief clerk entertained the two witch officers, they invited them to the yamen and questioned several groups of people one after another. The two captains of your police squad were also called over. Oh, it was after the two captains finished questioning that the county magistrate asked me to come find you, and also called over several of your unemployed constables..."

At this time, Sanniang floated back and shook her head at him.

There was no ambush. It seemed that the county magistrate and the witch officer sent people here on a rainy night to really ask him about the matters of Yunhua Mountain.

Shang Lu did not follow Lu Xing immediately, but invited him into the house.

"Brother Lu, please come in and sit for a while. Have some hot water to cool off. I'll pack my things and leave with you."

"Then hurry up and don't keep the county magistrate and the witch officer waiting for too long."

Lu Xing did not refuse. He braved the heavy rain and rushed all the way from the county town to Shuanggui Village. He was indeed thirsty and cold.

After entering the main room, Shang Lu spoke to Wu Guizhi and asked her to get some hot water for Lu Xing. Then he returned to his own room and quickly changed into his wet constable uniform.

It was completely understandable that my clothes were soaked as I hurried back to the county town from Shuanggui Village in the rain.

The reason why he put on the detective uniform was to avoid suspicion. Why did he need to change clothes when he went home?

Shang Lu then found a piece of paper and wrote down the details of how he had killed several hooligans from the Black Wind Gang who had come to his house to cause trouble.

What he wrote was all true, without a single lie, except that he did not write about the subsequent killing of Yuan Guilong, Zhao Hai and others.

After writing it, he looked at it carefully, put the paper into the food box that contained the spiritual fat, put it in his arms, put on his straw raincoat, and returned to the main room.

Lu Xing, who was drinking a cup of hot water, thought it was time to set off, so he got up in a hurry.

Shang Lu asked him to wait for a moment, turned around and went out to find the village chief Uncle Gong and several respected people in the village, and asked them to sign the paper.

Uncle Gong and the others had already promised to testify for Shang Lu, and the contents recorded on the paper were all true, so they had no objection and signed their names one after another. After doing these things, Shang Lu pushed the cart carrying the corpse back to his doorstep, and then went back to the house to call Lu Xing.

Lu Xing came out and was shocked to see the body on the cart. He quickly pulled Shang Lu aside and asked, "Captain Shang, what's going on?"

"When I was going home today, I saw these thieves trying to break into my house, kill people, set fire and rob. I shouted to stop them, but they not only didn't listen, but also waved their knives to kill me. I killed them all. I wanted to send them to the government office tomorrow to close the case, but the county magistrate and the witch officer summoned them tonight, so I took them back with me."

As Shang Lu explained, he took out a harness borrowed from a neighbor in the village and harnessed the two horses and the cart together.

This harness is for donkey carts. It's a little difficult to use it to harness a horse, but it can be used.

Lu Xing was a little confused. He was surprised at Shang Lu's ruthlessness, and curious about where this villain came from. How could he be so blind as to offend a constable who had achieved perfect bone-cutting perfection?

Shang Lu's calm look made him believe the explanation and he did not doubt the bodies.

After putting on the cage, Shang Lu sat on the cart. He didn't mind the corpse on it at all and called Lu Xing:
"Brother Lu, I'm not good at riding horses, please drive the carriage."

Lu Xing felt unlucky, but didn't want to walk, so he had to get on the cart and drive this temporary carriage back to Luoshui County.

When they were almost reaching Luoshui County, Shang Lu glanced towards Zhao Hai's farm.

Because of the darkness and heavy rain, I couldn't see what was happening over there.

The gate of the county town had been closed for a long time, but Lu Xing had left the city on an errand. He had told the brave man guarding the gate about this and when he arrived at the foot of the city, he identified himself and the gate quickly opened a crack to let them in.

The carriage galloped on the brick and stone road in the county town, making a "clattering" sound, and soon arrived at the county government office.

As soon as Lu Xing parked the carriage, a yamen runner came up and saw the corpse on the cart. He exclaimed in surprise, which immediately attracted more people to watch and exclaimed even more.

The screams woke up the county magistrate and the chief clerk, and soon someone came out to stop them and ask what had happened.

He happened to see Shang Lu and asked him to go to the lobby quickly.

"The two witch officials, the county magistrate, and the chief clerk have been waiting for you for a long time. Go now!"

Shang Lu nodded and walked towards the lobby.

When he was almost at the lobby, he saw two captains of police.

When Captain Niu saw him, he didn't react in particular. He just nodded, then pointed to the lobby and told him to hurry over.

Captain Ma opened his eyes wide, looking as if he had seen a ghost.

Although he quickly controlled his expression, the astonishment in his eyes did not diminish at all, and his heart was in turmoil: Why is Shang Lu here? Shouldn't he be caught and tortured by Zhao Hai? Didn't Zhao Hai take my words seriously?

Captain Niu noticed his reaction and looked at him scrutinizingly.

"Old Ma, are you surprised to see Shanglu coming?"

Captain Ma made up an excuse: "I was surprised that he came so late. If the witch officer gets angry, we will also be implicated."

"Haha." Captain Niu sneered and didn't believe what he said, but he didn't ask any more questions. He squinted his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking.

As soon as Shang Lu walked into the lobby, someone came quickly to report that he had brought several corpses to the yamen on a cart.

Hearing this, not only the county magistrate and the chief clerk, but also the two witch officials cast scrutinizing glances at Shang Lu.

"What's going on?" asked the county magistrate in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)