I began to understand the myriad things by chopping wood

Chapter 167 Passing by
The captain of the police looked to be in his early thirties, which was not very old for a constable job that relied on experience, so no one paid too much attention to him squatting alone on the long street to look for clues.

Many yamen runners came and went today, pretending to have watched and cleaned up. The whole process of the murder was carried out in front of Ban Yunzhao, and everyone could tell the whole story. What was so good about it?
Only the constable's uniform seemed a little unique, different from Yunzhao's, which made people take a few more glances and then look away.

After a while, the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and a large group of yamen runners came running over to the young captain, bowed deeply and said:

"Your Excellency Su Shenfei has come to Yunzhao. I am sorry for not coming to greet you in person. Please forgive me!"

The captain stood up and said calmly:

"You don't have to be so polite, magistrate. I am just a constable. I am here only to investigate a case. You are welcome."

The county magistrate insisted on bowing to the ground, with a very humble attitude:
"The famous detective Su has come in person, I believe this case will be solved soon!"

Su Xing glanced at the faint bloodstains on the ground again and said calmly:
"I just happened to be there. There is no such thing as a case that can be solved. I can only try my best. Mr. County Magistrate, are the previous eyewitnesses here? I have something to ask them."

"Of course! Detective Su, please go to the county government office for a chat. It's right next to us."

The county magistrate stood up, pulled up his robe sleeve, and led the way.

The group entered the county government office in a mighty procession, causing people on the street to look at each other in bewilderment and start discussing Su Xing's identity.

Su Xing sat in the county government office and asked several yamen runners, common people, and Yu Chunsheng's family about the situation at the time. He also took out the file of Xie Yuan recorded in the county government office and looked at it:
"Xie Yuan, a native of Xiaoshi Village, made a living as a woodcutter when he was young. Later, he entered the Iron Clothes Sect of Panlong Town to learn martial arts, and then joined the Longteng Escort Agency..."

The preceding part was extremely brief, until after Lai Yunzhao joined the escort agency, several major events that shocked Yunzhao were recorded in detail, and the speed of the breakthrough was also shown in them.

"He's also a talented murderer."

Although he said so, Su Xing's eyes did not waver. He had hunted down countless evil villains and evil geniuses, and in the end, they were all captured by him in prison. An external practitioner was nothing.

He asked again:

"Does the Longteng Escort Agency have a grudge against County Magistrate Yu? Have their chief escort come to the county government office. I have something to ask."

The county magistrate coughed and whispered:
"Longteng Escort Agency is gone. Some time ago, there was a fight between masters, and Longteng Escort Agency was involved..."

After hearing this, Su Xing raised his eyebrows slightly, a little surprised.

Are things still coming together?

When he was tracking Deng Wan from Yanzhou to Yunzhou that day, he was a few steps behind when he passed Yunzhao. He saw that Yunzhao was in chaos and many local warriors were killed or injured. However, tracking Deng Wan was more important, so he did not investigate further.

It was not until he saw Deng Wan's body and learned that he was related to the Mu family that he went directly to Beidu Mountain and went deep into the mountains to investigate the Mu family. He took great effort to find the Mu family's ancestral land, but discovered that it was a dead place!
The Mu family was in an unknown place in Beidu Mountain, and only Deng Wan and his caravan found out about the destruction. However, Deng Wan found out about the Black Book, and after returning, he killed all the caravan members who were present.

It has been so long since the Mu family was destroyed, and apart from the few parties involved in the pursuit, Su Xing was the first outsider to discover it, so he was naturally shocked.

He explored the Mu family's ancestral land for a long time. Although he found out a lot of things, he lost the clue of the Mu family's master, so he had to retreat and sort out his thoughts.

Su Xing had reasons to track down Deng Wan, and he also had things on him that needed to be retrieved; since the Mu family connection was broken, he wanted to get some information from the other person who killed Deng Wan at that time, as well as the other master who traveled with Deng Wan.

Thinking of the chaos that the two masters had caused in Yunzhao at that time, he wanted to come and investigate, but he happened to receive a report that someone had killed the county lieutenant in the street, so he killed two birds with one stone and came here on the way.

It turns out that the murderer was a member of the escort agency that was involved in the previous fight?
Su Xing's brows moved slightly, feeling a little coincidental.

This could be just pure coincidence. After all, the person who killed the county lieutenant must be a local tyrant. It is also normal for a local tyrant to clash with a passing master and be implicated and exterminated.

But for Su Xing, any coincidence is worth thinking about more.

He raised his head slightly for a moment, then suddenly sat up straight, took out the file and took a look at it:
"Xie Yuan, from Xiaoshi Village, made a living as a woodcutter when he was young..."

woodcutter……

Su Xing's eyes flashed, and he thought of the axe wound on Deng Wan's waist.

But this is just a four-trained martial artist.

Su Xing shook his head again, but he was obviously interested.

He thought about it and asked about the scene on the day when Longteng Escort Agency was destroyed.

A yamen runner answered in detail, and Su Xing closed his eyes and listened. When he heard that the escort team was coming out in full force, with four teams traveling together, his eyes suddenly lit up.

His mind raced, and a light bulb suddenly lit up in his head, and he suddenly understood:
"I see!
"Longteng Escort Agency acted this way to conceal their tracks. Who were they performing this for? At that time, they could only perform this for Deng Wan and another Grandmaster outside the city! And these two people were tracking the Grandmaster of the Mu Family.

“This means that the Grandmaster of the Mu Family was hiding in the escort agency at that time, and it was she who forced the escort agency to do this.

"The escort agency was destroyed, and the Grandmaster of the Mu family took the opportunity to escape. He teamed up with another person in the mountains to kill Deng Wan and escaped completely. This other person is most likely someone from the escort agency... Xie Yuan!
"Then the two escaped, and Xie Yuan sneaked back to Yunzhao and killed his enemy Yu Chunsheng! This vendetta was just a sequel to Deng Wan and his men's passing by. It seems I came to the right place."

It has to be said that Su Xing is worthy of the title of God of Detective. In such a short period of time, he was able to guess the whole picture of the matter almost accurately, which was not easy at all.

After all, in his view, he came here only because of the Yanzhou horse bandit case to track Deng Wan. He knew nothing about Deng Wan's purpose, the whole process of the pursuit, and the other master. He didn't even know the identity of the other master now.

Su Xing immediately asked about the feud between Yu Chunsheng and the escort agency. Among the yamen runners at this time was the person Yu Chunsheng had sent to monitor the escort agency and report to him in the north of the city. After asking him, Su Xing became more certain of his speculation.

But there is still one thing that is strange... Judging from the aura of the place where Yu Chunsheng died and Xie Yuan's identity file, Xie Yuan is indeed a fourth-level practitioner. Although he is indeed stronger than the average fourth-level practitioner, he can never reach the level of seriously injuring a master.

Su Xing pondered for a while, but he still had doubts about this matter, which was about Xie Yuan.

However, the evidence in the case of killing the county lieutenant was solid, and Xie Yuan should have been arrested; and as long as Xie Yuan was found, the things on Deng Wan's body or the whereabouts of the master of the Mu family would be clear.

He asked the county magistrate:

"Do you have a picture of the criminal?"

The county magistrate sent someone to look for him, and said with some shame:

"These are originally managed by Yu County Lieutenant, and they are well organized, and no one else can interfere. Once he leaves, the county government will be in a mess, and things will have to move more slowly."

Su Xing didn't care, he just stood up and said:

"No problem. Please sort out the files first, sir. I'll be out for a while."

Without waiting for the county magistrate to answer, he immediately stood up and disappeared in a flash.

Xiaoshi Village.

Wang Lei and Li Lan sat at the table, looking at each other in silence around the stack of banknotes. "One, two, three... so many hundred-liang banknotes, not to mention sending Hu Wa to a private school, it's enough to buy a house in the city and find a wife for Hu Wa!"

Li Lan said somewhat at a loss.

Wang Lei smacked his lips:
"Yuanzi has made great progress, but how can we use such a big ticket?"

Li Lan rolled her eyes at her man:
"Yuanzi, don't you want to talk? This is the receipt he exchanged! When the time comes to move to the county town, there will be people he knows at the escort agency taking care of us, so it won't be a big problem!"

"If we really enter the city, what will I do with my two acres of land?"

Wang Lei was a little hesitant.

Li Lan rolled her eyes to the sky:
"Can you grow 100 taels of silver from these two mu of land in your lifetime? If you settle down in the city and have some food stored, you can find any job. Isn't that better than farming? And Tiger Boy, it's better to be in the city than in the village."

She was somewhat disappointed with the man who only knew how to farm, and then she took the banknote and said with some concern:

"Yuanzi took out so much money at once, I wonder if he still has any use for it."

"Yuanzi has great potential, but I don't know how long he will be away. He looks like he has committed a crime. This money..."

Wang Lei frowned.

Li Lan's thick eyebrows immediately raised:

"Pah, pah, pah, what nonsense are you talking about..."

As we were talking, she suddenly pricked up her ears, was quiet for a moment, and then suddenly walked out the door.

As soon as she went out, she saw a man who looked like a constable standing at the door of Xie Yuan's house next door. He was more imposing than any man she had seen before.

Li Lan's heart skipped a beat, and she asked cautiously:
"Sir, who are you looking for?"

"Sister, is this Xie Yuan's home? Are you his neighbors?"

Su Xing said quietly.

In fact, with his hearing ability, he had heard all the conversations in the room just now.

"Yes, yes... He hasn't been back for a long time!"

Li Lan gritted her teeth.

Su Xing had a blank expression on his face. He just walked around Xie Yuan's courtyard, carefully looked at the firewood that had been chopped but not taken away, with his eyes slightly narrowed; then he walked straight into Li Lan's house, waved his hand, took the silver bill that Wang Lei had hurriedly put away, and examined it carefully.

Wang Lei was stunned when he saw this magic-like scene.

Su Xing looked at it for a while and found that these banknotes had been specially exchanged by Xie Yuan and were not the ones that Deng Wan had.

But from the money shop and the date, Su Xing still had some understanding in his mind.

"Is this really Xie Yuan? How could he hurt Deng Wan? Even the top-level martial arts passed down by the main sect may not have a killer move that can allow an outsider to hurt a master."

Su Xing frowned slightly, glanced at the nervous Wang Lei and Li Lan, and said calmly:
"He just came back this morning, didn't he?"

"No...no!"

The two men looked at his official uniform and gritted their teeth.

"It's okay, it's only half a day, he can't get away."

Su Xing didn't need their confirmation. He turned around and disappeared from the house.

The couple was stunned for a moment as they watched this scene that was beyond their imagination. Li Lan patted her apron and ran out of the door, but there was no one there.
"Oh no, he's chasing after Yuanzi!"

Wang Lei looked at the banknotes on the table and murmured:
"What crime did Yuanzi commit? Did he steal so much stolen money that such a powerful detective came after him?"

"What stolen money? Didn't you see that no one took it? There must be a misunderstanding!"

Li Lan gritted her teeth and looked at Wang Lei. They were both extremely worried.

Su Xing walked around Xiaoshi Village and showed up at the entrance of the village with a look of surprise on his face.

How come this breath is cut off here...

He expanded the range and walked ten miles from the village entrance to the east, south, west and north. With his physical skills, it didn't take long.

However, after walking around, Su Xing still didn't find anything, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

"It's this Xie Yuan! This method of hiding his tracks is the same as the one in the forest... Is it that the Grandmaster of the Mu family is following him?"

Su Xing couldn't believe that Xie Yuan had such ability.

But if the Grandmaster of the Mu family helped, then it would mean that it was Xie Yuan who hurt Deng Wan, without a doubt!
Su Xing's face became serious. Finally confirming his decision, he instantly raised Xie Yuan's evaluation by countless levels.

This is not a murderer with decent talent, but a mysterious genius who can seriously injure the master with his external body and unknown methods!
He took a step and quickly returned to Yunzhao, ready to check the detailed information compiled by the county magistrate.

Not long after entering the city gate, Su Xing was rushing to the county government office when he suddenly noticed someone looking at him on the side of the road.

He turned his head and glanced, only to see the man sitting at the table, holding a bowl of noodles. He glanced at him several times, as if surprised, then retracted his gaze and buried his head in eating noodles.

It was not surprising to be stared at, but the man eating noodles was handsome and had an extraordinary temperament. He was probably the son of a wealthy family in the city and he liked small roadside noodle shops.

Su Xing's thought flashed through his mind, but he didn't take it seriously and quickly rushed back to the county government office. He immediately asked the county magistrate to hand over the detailed files he had compiled.

This time, the file contained a lot of information about Xie Yuan, including what Yu Chunsheng had looked up himself and what he had found out from the escort agency's initial investigation. It recorded Xie Yuan's growth in Xiaoshi Village, his interpersonal relationships, his martial arts training in Panlong Town, his joining the escort agency, and a series of events that followed.

After Su Xing finished reading it in detail, he had a much deeper understanding of Xie Yuan. He then took out the drawing and prepared to memorize this person's appearance.

As soon as he took out the portrait, his eyes suddenly fixed:
"this!"

The man in the portrait was extraordinarily handsome and heroic. He was the man who had just passed by in the noodle shop.

(End of this chapter)