Dafeng Night Watchman
Chapter 67: Chapter 67 Case Analysis

Chapter 67: Chapter 67 Case Analysis

There are two counties attached to the capital, Taikang and Changle.

Song Tingfeng unfolded the file and read it. Xu Qian'an and Zhu Guangxiu stood on both sides, staring at the file together.

The contents of the file are as follows:

There is a Dahuang Mountain in the north of Taikang County. The main peak is more than a thousand meters high. The mountain range is more than ten miles long and contains rich limestone.

It feeds hundreds of thousands of gray households in the surrounding area.

Gray households are craftsmen who mine and make lime.

Since the middle of the year, a monster has appeared in the river in the Dahuang Mountain area. It often comes ashore to eat living people. Many gray households have died in the monster's mouth.

"Lack of detailed information..." Xu Qian'an, a veteran criminal investigator, made a judgment after reading the file.

This should be a case that has just been reported, so we need to investigate and complete the file.

Li Yuchun looked at the three people and said with a serious face: "Xu Ningyan, tighten the sword two inches, and the position of the gong is not straight enough, tilt it one inch to the left."

..... You are crazy, you are in the late stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Xu Qian'an said: "Yes!"

Walking out of Chunfeng Hall, just crossing the threshold, Xu Qian'an suddenly felt a lump under his feet. He naturally lowered his head to pick it up, but suddenly froze.

The silver... became heavier.

"Let's go." Song Tingfeng turned his head and urged.

"Oh, okay." Xu Qian'an put the silver in his arms and followed.

...

In the hall, Li Yuchun took out the purse in the box and hung it on his waist. Just as he was about to go out, he frowned suddenly.

He opened his purse and poured out a pile of silver coins. He counted them carefully and frowned immediately: "I lost three coins..."

As a person who was teased by his colleagues for "not being able to get along with money", three coins were enough to make him feel painful until dark.

The three of them met the constables of Jingzhao Prefecture outside the night watchman's office. There were also three people, the leader was a woman, and the other two were slightly younger.

Jingzhao Prefecture is commonly known as the government office.

The uniforms of the three constables were not much different from Xu Qi'an's uniforms, with a dark base and red piping on the collar and cuffs.

The word "Bu" was not embroidered on the chest, but a majestic beast Bi'an.

One was in the Qi training realm, two were in the Jing refining realm... Xu Qi'an observed the three people calmly.

The leading woman clasped her fists and said, "My lords, I am Lü Qing. I have ordered the horses to be led to the city gate. Let's get on the carriage and talk."

Riding a horse is to hurry on the road, while riding a carriage is to give everyone a space to talk without wasting time.

The night watchman has a high status, and the constables of other yamen are naturally inferior to the night watchman. However, although this woman in the Qi training realm called her lord, her attitude was neither humble nor arrogant.

A spacious carriage was parked on the street, and six people sat in it without feeling crowded.

The three night watchmen sat on the same side, and the three people from the government office sat on the other side, with a clear distinction.

Song Tingfeng introduced himself with a smile, and also introduced Zhu Guangxiao and Xu Qiyan.

"You should be familiar with this man. He was imprisoned in the government office during the tax silver case."

The three constables of Jingzhao Prefecture carefully examined Xu Qiyan.

The female head constable who called herself Lv Qing clasped her fists and said, "I have heard of your name for a long time."

The tax silver case was handled by the government office. As the head constable of the government office, she remembered Xu Qi'an.

At that time, I felt that this person was quite capable, and repeatedly persuaded the prefect to recruit him to the government office... Lv Qing saw that Xu Qi'an had become a night watchman, and sighed with regret in her heart.

Xu Qi'an smiled and said a few humble words, looking at the female head constable obscurely.

It is quite rare for a woman to be a head constable.

The women of the Dafeng Dynasty were not all raised in the boudoir. For some extremely talented women, each government office would give certain cultivation.

This female head constable had a beautiful face, probably in her early thirties, with thicker eyebrows than ordinary women, and a heroic appearance.

Her graceful figure was as agile as a female leopard. Her chest was swollen, probably because she was wearing a bra.

Speaking of which, Xu Qian'an only now knows why the tax silver case was not transferred to the Ministry of Justice, but the government office and the night watchmen worked together to handle the case. He was surprised at first.

Because the Ministry of Justice and Zhou Shilang of the Ministry of Revenue had an

accomplice.

These details were not realized until now.

"The contents of the file are simple, and many details are not clear. The case was taken over by your government office first. Let's exchange ideas." Song Tingfeng said:

"When did the monster appear exactly?"

"June or July." The female head of the police had a slightly smoky voice and was very

attractive.

"Did anyone see the monster clearly?" Song Tingfeng asked again.

"At the beginning, the local gray households often disappeared. When their families were looking for them, they found the monster's claw marks and bloodstains by the river. After that, gray households disappeared one after another, and there were more and more claw marks on the river bank...

"The local village head gathered the gray households and cast a net in the river, intending to catch and kill the monster. But it didn't work, the fishing net was easily bitten..."

It's an amphibian! Xu Qi'an thought.

After listening, Song Tingfeng frowned and asked: "What I'm wondering is, why did you report the incident in June and July only now?"

"The monster only devoured the gray households that went into the mountains, and did not attack the villages, so the Taikang County Magistrate didn't care at first. It wasn't until more and more people died that he sent catchers to join the gray households to kill the monster, but nothing was found."

While talking, Lu Qing looked at Xu Qi'an frequently, but to her disappointment, this talent who solved the tax silver case frowned and remained silent.

"After a few times, the Taikang County Magistrate was unwilling to take care of it anymore,

or, as the Beijing inspection was approaching, he not only did not handle the case, but

planned to suppress it."

Zhu Guangxiao said in a deep voice: "Then why did you report it again?"

Lu Qing was silent for a moment, and said: "The ash households dared not go up the mountain to burn ash, but the taxes still had to be paid. There was no other way, so they took a long way into the mountain to avoid the river. As a result, an accident happened... "The more than 20 people who went into the mountain to burn ash never came back. The nearby ash households had no choice but to report to the government office." Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao looked at each other and said nothing more.

Knock knock...

At this time, Xu Qian'an knocked on the long bench, looked at the three people in Jingzhao Prefecture, and asked: "Do you have a map of Dahuang Mountain and nearby villages?"

"I brought it. Considering that the realm of the monsters is unknown, we plan to explore it ourselves first, without taking the local ash households, so as to avoid accidents and being unable to take care of them." Lu Qing looked at his colleague sitting sideways, and his colleague took out a scroll of atlas from the bag he carried with him.

Xu Qian'an took the map and slowly unfolded it. This is a geomancy map of the Dahuang

Mountains.

After carefully looking at it for a moment, Xu Qian'an said, "I have a guess, I think I should let

you know."

Everyone in the carriage looked over, and Song Tingfeng smiled and narrowed his eyes.

The female head of the police force's eyes lit up slightly, and she sat up straight: "Please

speak."

Xu Qian'an said, "It attacks the people in a regular manner, or in other words, it has a strong purpose. This may not be a simple monster causing trouble."

Lu Qing frowned his delicate eyebrows: "Why do you say that?"

"It started by just devouring the gray households near the river, and then the range began to expand, radiating outward from both sides of the river. Until it went into the mountains to devour the gray households. This is not simply for hunting.

"First of all, the Dahuangshan River stretches for hundreds of miles, and there is no shortage of fish and shrimp in the river. The choice of food for wild animals is determined by the environment, not their own taste. If there is no shortage of food around, it will never go far away to hunt the people in the mountains just to have a good bite.

"Secondly, if it is an intelligent monster, unlike wild beasts, it just likes to eat people. Then it will not turn a blind eye to the nearby villages. But it doesn't, it only devours the gray

households that enter the vicinity of Dahuang Mountain.

According to behavioral psychology analysis, this is a conscious expulsion."

Behavioral psychology?! Lv Qing pondered: "Marking the territory?" Without waiting for Xu Qian'an to answer, Song Tingfeng shook his head: "No, if it has

wisdom, it will definitely not mark the territory in this way. Marking the territory in the

suburbs of Beijing is no different from seeking death. And if it is just a ferocious beast, it will not act to drive away the gray households."

Lv Qing thought for a while, his pupils shrank slightly: "What is there in Dahuang Mountain

that makes it care."

The carriage fell into a brief silence.