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Chapter 110 The whole story ten years ago!The hidden truth! ([-]-in-[-])

Lin Feng's voice sounded calmly and calmly in the mass grave under the night sky, and penetrated into the ears of everyone present.

The entire mass grave fell into an eerie silence.

This silence is not the silence that makes one's heart tremble with gusts of wind.

But I was shocked inside, and I didn’t know what words to use to express the silence of my thoughts at this moment.

Therefore, everyone could only express their emotions at this moment with silence and looking at Lin Feng with shocked eyes.

Sun Fujia looked at Lin Feng who seemed to be wearing a fire-colored robe under the firelight. He took a deep breath, suppressed the violent vibration in his heart, and said with emotion: "Zide, you are really... I don't even know How can I praise you?"

He quickly came to Lin Feng's side, looked at the dug tomb in front of him, looked at the opened coffin, looked at the nothing in the coffin, his eyes were still filled with excitement and surprise, and he said: " The body that was supposed to be in the coffin was missing, so..."

He looked at Lin Feng and said: "Is there really a problem with those corpses of the Zhou family!?"

After hearing Sun Fuga's words, the faces of County Magistrate Zhuang Yan and County Lieutenant Wang Pengcheng also changed suddenly.

Zhuang Yan looked at the empty coffin and frowned. He couldn't help but look at Lin Feng and said, "Lin Si Zheng, what on earth is going on?"

Wang Pengcheng also looked at Lin Feng with a solemn expression.

Lin Feng did not answer Zhuang Yan immediately, but ordered Zhao Shiwu: "Fifteen, go and count how many corpses are missing, what are the ages and genders of these missing corpses... At the same time, let Wu Zuo examine the other corpses. , to see if the age and gender of the remaining corpses are consistent with those in the household registration book."

When Zhao Shiwu heard this, he didn't hesitate at all. After saying yes, he turned and left.

Only then did Lin Feng look at Zhuang Yan and others again. He moved his eyes to Wang Pengcheng and said, "Wang County Lieutenant still remembers that I asked you in the afternoon about the murder of the Zhou family. On the night of the murder of the Zhou family, someone saw the body crawling out." Something?"

Wang Pengcheng nodded quickly: "Of course I remember... But I already checked it back then, and there are indeed no bodies missing."

As he spoke, he raised his finger to an dug tomb in front of him on the right and said: "That's that tomb. When the official dug it up, there was nothing wrong with the corpse in the tomb... And now, the corpse is still lying there." There. The lower officials dare not hide Lin Sizheng."

Lin Feng said: "Wang County Lieutenant, don't worry, I didn't say that you concealed anything from me."

Wang Pengcheng hurriedly looked at Lin Feng and heard Lin Feng slowly say: "Indeed, there is nothing wrong with this corpse, and it is still lying there, but the reason why he is lying there..."

Lin Feng and Wang Pengcheng's eyes met, and his voice suddenly changed, saying meaningfully: "It's not because he has never climbed out before... On the contrary, I feel that he has really climbed out, but he was hit by someone on the way out. I arrived, so I had no choice but to go back.”

"what!?"

Lin Feng's direct words made Wang Pengcheng's face change drastically and Zhuang Yan's scalp went numb.

Even Sun Fujia felt a chill lingering in the mass grave beneath his feet.

Although Zhuang Yan was not the magistrate of Zheng County at that time, he had still heard those weird rumors. When he heard Lin Feng's words, he suddenly said with horror: "Lin Sizheng, you said those corpses... are really you?" Climbed out? And then crawled back in after being discovered?"

Seeing Zhuang Yan's pale face, Lin Feng smiled and shook his head: "I'm sorry, I didn't explain clearly."

He looked at the tomb in front of him, his dark eyes flashing with sternness. In his eyes, it seemed that the scene of the mass grave on the night of the Zhou family's murder ten years ago appeared.

His voice was low and he said slowly: "What I mean is not that he crawled out on his own..."

"Rather...just like the empty coffin in front of me, someone helped the corpse leave the tomb."

"Is there anyone who can help?" Zhuang Yan's eyes narrowed, as if he had thought of something, and he looked at Lin Feng hurriedly.

Lin Feng nodded slightly, clasped his hands behind his back, and said: "Just like these tombs in front of me, no accident, that night... the sound that the person passing by the mass grave heard should be the sound of someone digging a grave. , but when he came to check, the gravediggers hid, so the man saw that the dead man was half crawled... In fact, it was not that the dead man was half crawled, but they happened to lift half of the body out."

As he said that, Lin Feng looked at Wang Pengcheng and said: "As for why you later dug the grave and inspected it, you found the body still lying there intact... Obviously, the people who dug the grave were worried that you would find out that they had stolen the body. They were worried that you would discover their secrets through the missing body, so they had to put the body back."

"In this case, the people and your government officials will not know..."

Lin Feng squinted his eyes and said in a low voice: "These corpses have been secretly transported away long ago! The secrets they hide will not be discovered!"

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Wang Pengcheng couldn't help but widen his eyes, with a look of disbelief on his face: "So... that person didn't see it wrong at all, and he didn't shout wrong at all, and the official went to dig the grave himself. Confirmed, but fell into the thieves' trick and helped them suppress the rumors and hide the conspiracy?"

Lin Feng met Wang Pengcheng's shocked and surprised gaze and nodded slightly: "It's a pity, but the truth should be like this."

Wang Pengcheng's face was extremely ugly. He clenched his fists with both hands and gritted his teeth and said: "Xiaguan has been in Zheng County for so many years, and he has never been used like this! Don't let Xiaguan catch them, otherwise Xiaguan will definitely let them nice!"

County Magistrate Zhuang Yan frowned and said, "Why do these thieves want to steal the corpses? What do they want to do by stealing these corpses?"

When Wang Pengcheng heard this, he quickly looked at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng, on the other hand, looked at Wu Zuo and the others who were busy, and said slowly: "Don't worry, it won't be too late for us to talk after Wu Zuo and the others have completed their inspection."

When everyone saw that Lin Feng was silent, even though the curiosity in their hearts was as scratching as a cat, they could only suppress their thoughts and anxiously waited for the actions of Zuo Zuo and Zhao Shiwu.

This wait lasted for nearly half an hour.

After half an hour.

Zhao Shiwu and Wu Zuo came over.

"Father, the inspection is complete." Zhao Shiwu said.

Lin Feng nodded slightly: "How?"

Zhao Shiwu and Wu Zuo looked at each other, and then Zhao Shiwu said: "There are three bodies missing in total."

"Three bodies?"

"so much!?"

Zhuang Yan's pupils jumped, his face full of surprise.

Wang Pengcheng's expression suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but look a little pale.

Zhuang Yan was lucky. After all, the county magistrate ten years ago was not him, but the county captain ten years ago was Wang Pengcheng. In the place under Wang Pengcheng's jurisdiction, three corpses were lost, and in ten years, he actually responded to this Nothing.

If the court used this to question him, he would have no way to explain it. If the court wanted to punish him severely... he might even have to take off his official robes!

Lin Feng looked at Zhuang Yan and Wang Pengcheng from the corner of his eye, took in the changes in their expressions, and then said slowly: "Whose bodies are missing?"

Zhao Shishi hurriedly said: "These three people are all young men. They are 25, 27 and 29 years old respectively. The causes of death are different. Some died of serious illness, some fought with others in the street and were beaten to death on the spot. Another one slipped and fell into the water and drowned."

Listening to Zhao Shiwu's words, Lin Feng looked at the list of deceased persons in the household registration book and quickly found out the situation of these three people.

He took a closer look at the time and cause of death of the three people. After pondering for a moment, he nodded and said, "Well done, thank you for your hard work."

Zhao Shishi shook his head quickly: "It's all what we should do."

Lin Feng smiled, then looked at Wu Zuo and said, "Where are you? What are the results of the autopsy?"

Wu Zuo did not dare to delay and said quickly: "Back in Linsi Temple, among the remaining corpses, eleven corpses are consistent with the identity of the deceased in the tomb, but one corpse... does not match the age and gender of the deceased recorded in the household registration book. !”

"The age and gender don't match?" Lin Feng asked with squinted eyes.

Wu Zuo nodded: "That's the person named Sun Rong in the household registration book."

Lin Feng glanced at the household registration book and quickly found Sun Rong's record.

"Sun Rong, in September of the fifth year of Wude, was robbed by bandits on his way back because he went out to visit relatives. He was killed and his property taken away. He died at the age of 25."

Robbed and killed by bandits... Looking at this cause of death, Lin Feng couldn't help but recall what Sun Fujia said about the chaotic situation in Wude's five years. At that time, there were constant disputes in the world, bandits were rampant, and the people were miserable.

Now it seems that if this is the case, even if you go out to visit relatives, you will be robbed and killed by bandits.

Even now, even his body has been replaced.

Lin Feng raised his gaze and asked, "What became of the body that belonged to him?"

After hearing Lin Feng's words, Sun Fuga and others also looked at Wu Zuo.

Fortunately, this man was brought from Chang'an, and he has seen the world, so he is not trembling at being looked at like this.

He quickly said: "In Sun Rong's coffin, after inspection, I found...the body lying in the coffin at the moment is that of a woman, aged between 30 and 40 years old."

"what?"

"woman?"

"Not even a man!?"

The county magistrate Zhuang Yan was completely confused.

The corpse of a young man was now the corpse of a woman in her 30s, with her gender even changed... This shock to him was no better than if the body had been stolen.

Wang Pengcheng also stared wide-eyed: "What is going on? It's just stealing the body, why do you need to change people?"

The other government officials were also stunned at this time, feeling that this development was completely beyond the limits of their imagination.

I can't even turn my head around.

They couldn't help but look at Lin Feng, expecting Lin Feng to answer their questions.

In this way, torches gathered towards Lin Feng one by one. If viewed from a distance, these torches seemed to be bright stars, and Lin Feng was being held up by the stars, just like the focus of the stars.

Lin Feng was not in a hurry to answer everyone's questions. He gently rubbed the thumb and index finger of his right hand, and his brain quickly processed the information obtained at this moment.

Gradually, the messy clues began to fit together like a puzzle.

A complete puzzle slowly emerged.

That night ten years ago, at this moment, was finally completely restored by Lin Feng.

Lin Feng raised his head.

His dark and deep eyes swept over everyone present, and then, he finally spoke, and the first words he uttered made everyone in the Zheng County government office stunned.

"Actually, I lied to you."

Lin Feng looked at Wang Pengcheng and others and said slowly: "I did not discover some omissions in the Zhou family extermination case when I was sorting out the files in Dali Temple, so I came here to check and fill in the omissions."

"Actually, I came here specifically to investigate the truth about the Zhou family's extermination case. The reason why I want to investigate the Zhou family's extermination case is because three murders occurred in succession in Puguang Temple in Chang'an. At the crime scene, the murderer left three objects."

"Based on those three objects, I finally deduced that the murderer killed those three people in succession out of revenge! And the revenge he committed was..."

Lin Feng paused for a moment. Zhuang Yan and others, who were listening in rapt attention, subconsciously raised the stone in their hearts. They looked at Lin Feng nervously, only to hear Lin Feng say in a very low voice that could arouse people's nervousness: "... The Zhou family’s murder case!”

brush!
As Lin Feng's voice fell, County Magistrate Zhuang Yan's eyes widened instantly. He opened his mouth with a look of shock and surprise on his face.

County Captain Wang Pengcheng's pupils suddenly shrank, and his whole person had an expression of disbelief.

The expressions of the other government officials were not much better, and they could not hide the look of surprise on their faces.

Zhuang Yan couldn't help but said: "Lin Sizheng, you mean... someone is seeking revenge for the Zhou family's murder!?"

Wang Pengcheng also said quickly: "Who is avenging the Zhou family's murder? Doesn't the Zhou family have no relatives? Didn't everyone in the Zhou family die that night?"

"The three people who died...could it be that they were Xie Fang's family?"

"Xie Fang's family has been hiding for ten years and is finally found?"

After listening to Wang Pengcheng's words, the government officials also looked at Lin Feng, looking for answers.

Lin Feng said slowly: "Who is avenging the Zhou family? I can't identify him yet, but you said the three people who died are Xie Fang's family..."

He shook his head, met Wang Pengcheng's nervous gaze, and said, "Unfortunately, it's not them."

"Because the three people who died were all men and there were no women, it cannot be Xie Fang's family."

"What!? Those who died were all men, not Xie Fang's family?" Wang Pengcheng looked surprised and frowned, saying: "If it wasn't Xie Fang and the others, who else could it be? What we saw that night was indeed Xie Fang's family." Leave the family alone!"

Zhuang Yan had never experienced what happened back then. He was a complete outsider at this time. He didn't know what to say. He could only look at Lin Feng and wait for Lin Feng's next words.

Lin Feng listened to Wang Pengcheng's words and said calmly: "Wang County Lieutenant, as a member of the government, I feel that we should be strict in what we say."

"Strictly speaking, what you saw back then were three people wearing the clothes of Xie Fang's family, and their backs resembled those of Xie Fang's family."

"You haven't seen their faces with your own eyes, so you can say with such certainty that they are Xie Fang's family. Isn't it inappropriate?"

Wang Pengcheng's expression changed when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "Lin Sizheng was right in teaching, but Xianguan was wrong. As a county lieutenant, Xianguan should not be so conclusive about things that he has not confirmed with his own eyes."

Lin Feng nodded slightly, and then continued: "Since the murderer of the Puguang Temple serial murder case pointed me to the Zhou family's murder case, and the three people he killed were not Xie Fang's family, we can judge... The Zhou family's murder case , there must be a secret, he deliberately left those objects in the hope that the court would re-investigate the case of the Zhou family’s extermination.”

"That's why I personally came to Zheng County to re-investigate the old case from ten years ago."

"But I also found out that the Zhou family has no other relatives. All the Zhou family members died tragically ten years ago. In other words, the people who avenge the Zhou family cannot be relatives of the Zhou family outside... So, just There is only one possibility - the murderers of Puguang Temple are the Zhou family!"

He glanced at Wang Pengcheng and other people in the yamen who had personally experienced what happened that year, and said in a deep voice: "In other words...not everyone in the Zhou family was burned to death back then, and some of the survivors escaped."

"Someone escaped!?"

Wang Pengcheng said in disbelief: "This... shouldn't be right. The corpses of everyone in the Zhou family are corresponding. There is no shortage of personnel!"

Lin Feng nodded and said: "Of course I know that there is no shortage of personnel. There is a record in the file. However, the file is written by people. There may be some mistakes, so I am going to use the simplest and most direct method to confirm."

When Zhuang Yan heard this, he suddenly showed a look of astonishment. He said: "So... as soon as Lin Sizheng arrived in Zheng County, he couldn't wait to dig the grave, just to verify whether the corpses of the Zhou family were consistent with those recorded in the file?"

"good."

Lin Feng nodded: "Only in this way can we verify it most intuitively."

Only then did the government officials suddenly realize. They asked how Lin Feng, the legendary detective who was so powerful, could be digging people's graves with nothing to do.

It turned out to be to verify the authenticity of the dossier.

Wang Pengcheng took a deep breath and said: "The verifiable result is that there is no problem."

Zhuang Yan also looked at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng said: "Indeed, the result of the grave excavation this afternoon is that all the corpses, their age, gender, and all aspects can correspond to the situation in the file."

"At that time, I was also very confused. I even doubted myself for a while, thinking that I had made some mistake..."

"But I thought about it over and over again, and after reviewing my previous speculations, I didn't realize that I was wrong, so I started to think about it and considered whether it was not me who was wrong, but the result of the verification before my eyes. Is there a problem? In fact, there are some possibilities in these so-called Zhou family corpses that I did not expect?"

As he spoke, Lin Feng looked at Wang Pengcheng: "And coincidentally, at that time, I suddenly thought of a rumor I heard before... Someone told me that something strange happened on the night of the crime. I saw a dead person crawling out of a tomb..."

Zhuang Yan's eyes moved and he quickly said: "So based on this rumor, Lin Sizheng concluded that someone secretly replaced the body?"

"Is that why we came here to dig graves?"

Lin Feng shook his head: "Not so straightforward."

"What?" Zhuang Yan was startled.

Lin Feng said: "Although I have some thoughts on this rumor, County Lieutenant Wang said that he had inspected the tomb and confirmed that the rumor was just a rumor and that the body had not been stolen at all. This made my speculation about myself again. Suspicion arose."

"But I have reviewed my entire reasoning process, and all the objects and files can be matched. There are no obvious loopholes. And the identity of the murderer of Puguang Temple is absolutely inseparable from the Zhou family, so I will Decided to look for some evidence that can verify my speculation."

"If the evidence can be found, it means that my guess is correct! The thief is too cunning. He has anticipated what might happen next and made preparations in advance... But if he can't find it, then it may really be me. The officer was wrong. I must abandon all existing knowledge and reorganize the case." Sun Fujia's heart moved. He recalled what Lin Feng asked Zhao Shishi to do secretly, and said: "So... you asked Zhao Shiwu to do it in secret. What they are going to do on the [-]th is to look for evidence to verify your speculation?"

Lin Feng nodded.

Zhuang Yan hurriedly asked: "What evidence are you looking for?"

Wang Pengcheng and others also stared at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng said slowly: "If what that person saw that night about the dead climbing out of the grave was true and not a mistake, then someone was definitely smuggling the corpse secretly."

"Why smuggle the body?"

"Combining the possibility that the murderer of Puguang Temple is a Zhou family member, the mysterious disappearance of Xie Fang's family, and the fact that three monks of Puguang Temple were killed in succession... I have a bold speculation in mind."

As soon as he heard the word bold, Zhuang Yan couldn't help but swallow nervously.

Wang Pengcheng also subconsciously held his breath.

Lin Feng looked at them and spoke out his bold speculation in one breath, saying: "I suspect...the person who smuggled the corpse that night was probably someone related to the Zhou family arson case. They specialize in stealing people whose age is different from theirs." The corpses of small people are thrown into the fire and burned, destroying the appearance of these corpses and thus replacing their identities!"

"That's what I just said, a plan to steal the sky and change the situation!"

Brush it!
As Lin Feng's voice fell, the eyes of Zhuang Yan, Wang Pengcheng and others suddenly widened.

His face was full of shock and disbelief.

Zhuang Yan couldn't help but said: "Replacement? Lin Sizheng, are you saying...these missing corpses were actually replaced by the Zhou family?"

Wang Pengcheng said in disbelief: "The body that the official investigated back then was almost sent to the Zhou family?"

Even Sun Fujia was staring closely at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng said: "At that time, I was not sure about this. After all, I had not come here to dig the grave again to verify it."

"It's just that when I made this bold speculation, I felt that this speculation was very likely... Because if this was the case, many subsequent events would have reasonable explanations."

"The murderer of the Puguang Temple case was clearly a member of the Zhou family, but why were there so many corpses recorded in the file? Why did the Puguang Temple murderer kill three people in a row, but these three people were not the Xie Fang family recorded in the file? Obviously... Puguang Temple's Regardless of the murderer or the three people he killed, it is very likely that... they are all people in the Zhou family's mansion, and they all used the method of replacing the corpses to make themselves escape by pretending to be dead. "

Zhuang Yan and others thought about Lin Feng's words seriously, and immediately couldn't help but nod.

Indeed, even if they have not verified these yet, just listening to Lin Feng's speculation, they feel that the possibility of this speculation is too high.

After all, this really perfectly explains all the incomprehensible subsequent events.

Lin Feng said: "So, after having this speculation, I thought of one more thing."

"What's the matter?" everyone asked hurriedly.

Lin Feng turned around and looked at the town of Zheng County under the night sky.

In the dark night, the county town, with its gates closed, looks like a creeping wild beast, which makes people feel in awe.

Lin Feng raised his hand, pointed at the county town, and said: "There is a curfew in the county town at night, and after the curfew, the city gate will be closed. Without the order of the county magistrate, the city gate must not be opened."

"So, if, as I speculate, the people involved in the Zhou family massacre came to this mass grave to smuggle corpses, they will definitely have to enter and exit the city."

"But the body was smuggled out at night, when the city gate was closed. How did they enter and exit the city freely and smuggle the body away?"

Zhuang Yan thought for a while and said, "Do they have county magistrate documents for entering and leaving the city?"

Wang Pengcheng shook his head directly and said: "Impossible! The county magistrate did not issue any documents for entering and leaving the city that night, and the officials also asked the soldiers guarding the city. No one left or entered the city that night. It is certain that they could not have entered or exited the city from the city. Door in and out.”

Zhuang Yan frowned, shook his head and said, "How did you get in and out?"

Lin Feng said: "I have also investigated and it is true that no one entered or left the city gate that night, but they did come to the mass grave outside the city to smuggle corpses... So it is obvious that those thieves should have a clue. A very secret, special route in and out of the county."

Zhuang Yan frowned and said, "How is it possible that there is such a way? I have been in Zheng County for three years and I have not found any other ways out of the city."

Lin Feng said slowly: "Magistrate Zhuang, so far, only those involved in the Zhou family arson case have walked on that path, so it's normal that you don't know."

"But just because you don't know, doesn't mean there isn't one."

"And don't forget, it was the fifth year of Wude, and Zheng County was included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty only a few years ago...not to mention, before that, it was the most turbulent era in the late Sui Dynasty."

"At that time, there were many warlords. A city owned by one person one day would become the territory of another person the next day. The people were exploited by this person one day and might become prisoners of the latter person the next day."

"In such a turbulent era, some people are active and want to fight for more opportunities for their lives... Therefore, it is not impossible to secretly dig a secret passage from home to the outside of the city."

Zhuang Yan and others were stunned for a moment when they heard Lin Feng's words.

But after they thought about it carefully, Zhuang Yan had to admit that Lin Feng had convinced him.

He nodded and said: "If it was the turbulent era of the late Sui Dynasty, indeed, anything could happen at that time."

Sun Fujia also nodded. As someone who had experienced that era, he had the most say. He made the final decision and said: "In fact, this kind of secret passage has been discovered in many cities. However, it is difficult to dig the secret passage after all. Unless you have the strength, Many people can't do it, so more and more people dig a hole at home and hide in it themselves, trying to avoid the soldiers' searches in order to gain a chance of survival."

Lin Feng nodded: "So I conclude that there is definitely a passage leading to the outside of the city that others don't know about. I just don't know whether the passage is inside the Zhou Mansion or outside the Zhou Mansion."

"In the Zhou Mansion? There is a great possibility. After all, the Zhou Mansion is located to the north of the county, not far from the northern city wall, so it is relatively not that difficult to excavate."

"And outside the Zhou Mansion? It's not impossible... After all, you said at the time that you were chasing those three people, but they escaped easily. In the end, the whole city searched but couldn't find them. It's possible that they sneaked through the secret passage. I left, I have already left Zheng County."

Everyone thought for a while and then nodded in agreement with Lin Feng's inference. Lin Feng thought very carefully and took all possibilities into consideration.

"Therefore, since both situations exist, I can only let Zhao Shiwu use stupid methods to investigate bit by bit."

After saying that, Lin Feng looked at Zhao Shiwu and said: "I will first ask Zhao Shiwu to search the Zhou Mansion carefully, and check step by step without leaving any blind spots... If nothing is found, then according to the report of the Wang County Lieutenant that night, You pursue the route of those three people and search from house to house along the way."

"I have specially transferred experienced officials from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment. Their cooperation with Zhao Shiwu will only take some time at most, but if there is really a secret passage, it will never escape their eyes."

"So, if they can finally find the secret passage, they can verify my inference from the side, and I can boldly and confidently come here to dig the grave again for verification!"

When Zhao Shiwu heard Lin Feng's words, he suddenly realized.

He said: "So this is what my adoptive father meant, so I asked why my adoptive father gave me such a bizarre task for no reason."

Lin Feng smiled and said: "Even if this task is very bizarre, you still do it seriously."

Zhao Shiwu scratched his head and said with a smile: "My adoptive father is so wise, what he asked me to do must make sense. I don't understand that it is because I am stupid, so I just need to do what my adoptive father told me to do." Enough."

"result……"

Zhao Shiwu looked at everyone and said: "We are lucky, we found him in just two hours."

Hearing what Zhao Fifteen said, Sun Fuga, Zhuang Yan and others all looked at Zhao Fifteen. The county magistrate Zhuang Yan couldn't wait to ask: "Is there really a secret passage? Where is it? In the Zhou Mansion or outside the Zhou Mansion?"

Zhao Shiwu looked at Lin Feng, saw Lin Feng nodded, and then said: "In the Zhou Mansion."

"The entrance to the secret passage is very secret. You will never guess where it will be."

Lin Feng smiled and said: "Fifteen, don't be tempted, just say it directly."

Zhao Shishi nodded hurriedly and said: "The entrance to the secret passage is in a ruined house in the backyard of the Zhou family. After judging that house, I determined that it should be the bedroom where the head of the Zhou family lived. No surprise. , there is a mechanism in the bedroom of the head of the Zhou family, and when you open the mechanism, you will find a secret passage."

"But now the house has become a ruin, the mechanism is no longer there, and the entrance to the secret passage is covered by the ruins."

"And when you crawled in through the hole, you were already outside the county when you came out."

Zhuang Yan's eyes widened and he murmured: "There really is a secret passage. I have been the county magistrate for three years and I don't even know about it."

Seeing this, Wang Pengcheng comforted him: "Xia Guan grew up in Zheng County, and he still doesn't know about it even after so many years. He has only been the magistrate of Zhuang County for three years, and he has never been to Zhou's house. It's normal that he didn't find it."

Zhao Fifteen nodded and said: "Yes, if we hadn't had the order of our foster father, not even an inch of the place should be spared, and we wouldn't have known that there was a secret passage hidden under the ruins."

Zhuang Yan handed over to Zhao Shiwu and expressed his gratitude to Zhao Shiwu for enlightening him.

Immediately he looked at Lin Feng and said, "So after learning about the existence of the secret passage, Lin Sizheng had already confirmed that the corpses of the Zhou family had really been replaced?"

Lin Feng said: "There is at least an [-]% probability, but if you want to truly confirm it, you must find actual evidence."

"The reason why I borrowed the household registration book from you is to confirm who died in the county within one month before the incident... Although as long as the body is destroyed by fire, there is no basis for it. You can tell who it is by its face.”

"But if the corpses have been dead for too long, even if they are burned, it is easy to see their abnormalities."

"Therefore, if those involved in the Zhou family massacre want to hide the truth, they must find the nearest buried person."

"But they can't just find a corpse. They have to find a corpse that is not much different in age from them. Otherwise, if someone does an autopsy in the future, they will immediately find that the age of the corpse is wrong."

"So, based on the time of the incident, I slightly extended the period forward and determined that the people who died within this month all matched the age characteristics of the people who died in the Zhou family, and then finally determined the scope."

After everyone heard this, they nodded in understanding.

They didn't expect that Lin Feng had so many considerations in choosing these graves.

This made them unable to stop admiring Lin Feng.

They believed that when they got Zhao Shiwu's confirmation and made such a big breakthrough, they would never be able to analyze it calmly and rationally like Lin Feng. They would definitely dig it out first.

But Lin Feng, plan first and then move, don't move, he will never go wrong if he moves!

Zhuang Yan sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that even these tombs, Lin Sizheng had so many considerations... So now, there are problems with four of these tombs, which should be able to verify Lin Sizheng's inference, right?"

Lin Feng nodded.

Zhuang Yan looked at the empty coffins, thought for a while, and said, "The three empty coffins and a replaced corpse mean that on the night of the Zhou family fire, a total of four people cheated and hid the truth from the sky. Did you use this plan to escape?"

Listening to Zhuang Yan's words, Wang Pengcheng couldn't help but his eyelids twitching: "Unexpectedly, we thought that all 25 members of the Zhou family died tragically, but in the end, four of them escaped!"

Sun Fujia looked at Lin Feng and frowned: "Four people escaped and an avenger from Puguang Temple was found. This means that there were three people who assassinated the Zhou family that night!"

"And now three people have been killed..."

He raised his eyebrows and said, "This means that everyone who harmed the Zhou family is dead..."

"That's not right!"

Sun Fujia's voice suddenly changed, his brows furrowed, and he said: "Zide, you said that the murderer of Puguang Temple killed according to the Five Elements method, but now only three of the Five Elements are used, and there are two left... It means There were others, but now these corpses prove that there are only three thieves."

Zhuang Yan and others were stunned for a moment when they heard this. After understanding what Sun Fuga meant, they all looked at Lin Feng in confusion.

But who would have thought that after listening to Sun Fujia's words, Lin Feng shook his head and said, "Dr. Sun, you are wrong. It was not four people who escaped, but at least five people... or even six people! "

"What!? Five people? Maybe even six people!?"

Everyone was stunned.

They looked at the coffins. It was obvious that only three coffins were empty, and one coffin had been replaced. That was four corpses!

Why do you think there are five or even six people running out!
Lin Feng said slowly: "Don't forget... Xie Fang's family was still there on the night when the Zhou family burned down."

"As I said, the three people killed by the Puguang Temple murderer do not correspond to Xie Fang's family at all. This represents two possibilities."

Zhuang Yan subconsciously asked: "What are the two possibilities?"

Lin Feng held out a finger: "Either the real culprits in the Zhou family's massacre are not Xie Fang's family. The Xie Fang family was used as scapegoats by the murderer. And the Xie Fang family who was at Zhou's house that night was already with the rest of the Zhou family. died."

Then he held out a second finger.

"Either the real culprits in the family massacre are the conspiracy between Xie Fang's family and others. The three people you saw, Wang County Lieutenant, may really be Xie Fang's family... And the murderers of Puguang Temple killed people who were related to Xie Fang's family." Others who conspired.”

Wang Pengcheng and others nodded repeatedly.

Lin Feng was very cautious and told all possible situations without making any subjective assumptions.

Combined with the facts of Puguang Temple, there are only these two possibilities.

"but……"

At this time, Lin Feng's voice suddenly changed. He looked at a few people and said, "Don't forget the clues we just got."

"A corpse was replaced, and the corpse that was replaced... was a female corpse in her 30s!"

"The corpse named Sun Rong, as expected, is lying in the tomb of the Zhou family at the moment, acting as the person who was burned to death in the Zhou family. Then the question arises...the female corpse that replaced Sun Rong is... who?"

"After those thieves stole Sun Rong's body, they put this female body inside. Why? Why did they send another body in? Where did this body come from? What is its identity?"

Everyone was stunned.

Sun Fujia's eyes flashed. He had a tacit understanding with Lin Feng and instantly understood what Lin Feng meant.

He looked at Lin Feng and said: "So, Zide, you are saying... that this female corpse was secretly transported out of Zhou's house by those thieves? And there was only one extra female corpse in Zhou's house that night..."

Zhuang Yan's scalp went numb when he heard that. He felt that the hair in his bun was about to stand up. He lost his voice and said, "Xie Fang's wife!?"

"Is that female corpse Xie Fang's wife?"

Listening to Zhuang Yan's words, the government officials' eyes widened, and everyone looked in disbelief.

After all, they have always believed that Xie Fang's family was the real culprits all these years, and they had fled long ago, and they didn't know where to go to enjoy their happiness. But now, they were told that Xie Fang's wife died that night.

Not only did he die, he was buried in a man’s coffin and was paid homage to by that man’s family every year…

This, is this true?
They were busy looking at Lin Feng, nervously waiting for Lin Feng's reply.

Then, they saw Lin Feng slowly nod his head and said: "They stole Sun Rong's body, so this female corpse must have been released by them. And the female corpses they had in their hands, except for the Zhou family, were all dead that night. It can only be Xie Fang’s wife.”

"And it is recorded in the file that Xie Fang's wife was 34 years old at the time, which completely matches the age of this female corpse."

Zhuang Yan was shocked in his heart: "She is really Xie Fang's wife!"

Lin Feng continued: "The body of Xie Fang's wife is there, so what do you think, can Xie Fang and his son have a good ending?"

Everyone's pupils shrank violently, and their expressions suddenly changed.

They all understood what Lin Feng meant. Xie Fang's wife was dead, how could Xie Fang and his son survive?
Lin Feng took everyone's expressions into consideration and said slowly: "So, if everyone in the Zhou family died that night, and no one was left...then the corpses should not be 25, but 28. ah!"

"We found the body of Xie Fang's wife, but where are the bodies of Xie Fang and his child?"

"You know, since the thieves buried the body of Xie Fang's wife here, they should also bury the bodies of Xie Fang and his son here. After all, there is a risk of being discovered wherever the body is thrown. It is the safest to be buried in a coffin that is meant to contain the dead! From the fact that they buried Xie Fang’s wife’s body here, we can see that they had this idea!”

"But, there are no bodies of Xie Fang and his son here... So, where are the bodies of these two people?"

"Is it hidden somewhere we don't know... or..."

Lin Feng looked at everyone.

Sun Fujia's brows were furrowed, County Magistrate Zhuang Yan was vomiting, Wang Pengcheng's face was solemn, and other government officials were rubbing goosebumps and looking at Lin Feng nervously.

Then, they heard Lin Feng slowly say: "Or...they, like those stolen corpses, replaced...some two people in the file who should have died?"

(End of this chapter)